skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From this person's perspective the right kinds of people already control those institutions. This entire article boils down to someone discovering they wish the entire internet was Twitter and YouTube because then people with the same ideology as him would control everything.

Well, the web (which is already decentralised) isn't like that.

Ironically, his blog is not hosted by these social media firms he praises so effusively. It's self-hosted on OVH and uses a privacy guard on WhoIs data. Apparently he wants to benefit from the web's decentralisation whilst preaching against it. This type of hypocrisy seems very common amongst those who rail against imaginary dog-whistle enemies like "Nazis" (of whom there are virtually none in today's world).
You don't have to use the terminal for fast workflows.

- Many programs offer intuitive quick-action- or quick-search-fields. For example: double-shift in IntelliJ or CMD-Shift-O in many Mac apps like Fork, Things and IA-Writer.
- System wide search tools like Alfred and Launchbar will allow you to quickly access Files and execute Workflows
- _Every_ Menubar in MacOS is searchable. Just press a shortcut and type what you want to do.
- ...and let's not forget that keyboard shortcuts exist.

The great thing is that you get all the power of a keyboard workflow, without losing the accessibility of a GUI.
A good example of the hypocracy of facebook is, while they censor content for the good of all, they run an onion site-- facebookcorewwwi.onion to evade censorship by others.
Obviously, there are various reasons why you can't "just use python or JS" for a particular project.
Your thought is correct. In fact big tobacco used to do exactly what You said and it resulted in people smoking more when they reduced the nicotine and then they continued to smoke more even when they increased the levels, resulting in a greater addiction to the drug.

I think they same technique is or was used by heroin dealers too.
You can make a model of any size with deep learning.

If your concerns are about over fitting there are lots of regularization techniques used in practice like dropout, weight decay, and data augmentation.

There's nothing preventing you from sharing weights across layers, and would be interesting to see some research about that.
I find that Linux devotees often leave out the compromises they've made in their computing choices. Thank you for stating yours, it helps contextualize the reasons for choosing Ubuntu!
This is true, but it’s not symmetrical. If they actually have privacy/ethics concerns, those can be presented publicly. In many cases of employee performance etc, it boils down to subjective issues or he said/she said.

In this case, it seems like the technology review article supports the idea that there are real concerns being raised, and elsewhere it has been suggested that the reasoning for the firing is not credible.
Sure, if we could improve the driving of those at the bottom then safety would be even better. I think the point the article is trying to make is that it’s already pretty good.
>>Yikes. If this is the level that you're at, I really hope that you are trolling.

Please stop trolling. Comments like this are extremely pretentious, and qualify as trolling someone else.

>>Is the massive BLM protests just a massive misunderstanding - nostalgia of former injustices rather than current ones?

Is the massive Tea Party protests just a massive misunderstanding? How about the massive pro-Trump protests against the results of the election? How about the massive anti-lockdown protests?

You're acting like it's absurd to reject the beliefs of protestors.
Depends on how many followers the author has on Twitter and her history of Twitter use. After what I've seen, I think it was a good call.
It’s less that they’re explicitly doing the same thing while not citing existing research; and more that they’re constantly inventing new and different ways to do foundational things, rather than taking some of the things that have already been proven to work and “moving up the tech tree” to doing more interesting things.

(Imagine if you will: everyone constantly doing research into new lightbulb technologies — so we’d get the LED a century sooner! — but nobody ever researching the implications of evacuated incandescent bulbs [vacuum tubes! CRTs!], nor into the implications of miniaturizing/printing LEDs, etc.)

It’s kind of like where fusion research and ML research were during their “dark decades” — everybody doing breadth-first searches of the possibilities, nobody digging much deeper into the implications of research that showed promise.

In all three cases, it’s because it’s hard to model those implications without a real experimental prototype; and because, in all three cases, costs to do real experiments (for reactors; for training datasets; etc.) shoot up exponentially as you “go deeper” — as you need to do those experiments in the context of a working example of everything you know so far.

The true issue is one of team size dynamics. Particle physics has figured this out: to continue foundational research, you need a few large teams with huge grants/budgets (to build particle accelerators), rather than many small teams (that can’t individually afford to build particle accelerators.)

But other fields haven’t managed to have the same epiphany, and so in those fields, small teams just continue to explore the parts of knowledge-space they can “reach” with a small team — which isn’t really too productive.

(ML got going again because large companies figured out basic research into ML could be a loss-leader for renting out time on specialized ML-accelerator hardware. Nuclear science never slowed down, because governments were doing the basic research with huge teams+budgets from the start. Etc.)
Exactly. Most polticial elites go to the same snazzy colleges as their forebearers where they read Homer and Thucydides. One of the big differences is the kind of public image politicians want to project.

Even still, a lot of this is just our perception. We don't dwell on the history of pugilists that slept in meat lockers or boys sloshing their father's pale of beer as the retrieve it up the street or the thousands of petty riots or the vulgar theater which was always popular. We ignore the masses and read exclusively of the elites or again of the most organized and well written of non-elites.

Yet we must live our present lives without the many professors and researchers having filtered life for us already. So it is likely we see a fairer sampling of common ideas.
So her criticism #3 of essentially my second paragraph is that you can't assume anything, because we don't actually have a superdeterministic theory to evaluate. Maybe there's a dynamic law we haven't figured out that could make it work without initial fine tuning.

Fair enough I guess, but I'm not convinced it's a good answer to say "I think a theory with property X is the answer, and you can't criticize it because I have no actual theory with property X." I think it makes more sense to give little credence to superdeterminism until someone comes up with a plausible superdeterministic theory.
That isn’t really possible, though: CDNs mean that blocking by IP just doesn’t work. The most effective method I’ve found is transparently redirecting all traffic on port 53 to a DNS server I control. DoH means that I might as well setup a transparent HTTPS proxy.
Anchoring bias is a better name for this flaw. Either way, the handful of examples provided here are.. random? This post has poor depth and breadth, akin to a listicle
This is very cool. Something similar can be done by using pandoc and exporting to revealjs or beamer, but it's less straightforward.
This is top notch flattery. You’re sure to get the job now.
Eliminating tabacco products from nicotine deliver could help millions of smokers avoid the toxins and carcinogens present in tabacco.
Aren’t all tv dumb TVs if you don’t connect them to the internet?
Lack of social distancing but that is put on the visitors to maintain 6ft. In reality no one does because muh apples.

I see the same behavior in supermarkets too. It’s like we can’t be inconvenienced even temporarily because apples..
Do governments have 2 options? They either fail, or become so successful that they work themselves out of existence. Thoughts?
There's large variance there depending on demographic factors & income quintiles. Life expectancy is going up for some, while down for others:

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44846.pdf

"Their most relevant finding for Social Security reform is that life
expectancy increased continuously with income and that, according to them, “[t]here was no
dividing line above or below which higher income was not associated with higher life
expectancy.” At increasingly higher levels of income, they report that an increase in income of a
given dollar amount produced positive but smaller gains in life expectancy. "
I might not be familiar enough to understand what you mean with „subset“. Care to elaborate?
Edit: I was very wrong. Please disregard.

Or breathing air without oxygen. You get the sensation of pulling it into your lungs but it doesn't fulfill that deeper desire. You try to suck in more to no avail. Your desperate gasps intensity as fear grows uncontrollable.

At least with smokers they'll just be angry and uncomfortable instead of actually dead.
> Beyond the ergonomics, `std::variant` is horribly outperformed by basic type erasure mechanisms or inheritance.

uh, I have yet to see variants beaten by inheritance in practice - in particular as soon as you have type erasure all your containers have an additional level of indirection (which can be solved partially by Boost.PolyCollection but that adds its own layer of complexity) and that has been a much bigger perf-killer - with variants memory is nicely packed when iterating over your array of values and that's by far the biggest performance thing you can do. You also need to allocate memory dynamically everywhere which is a no-go in a lot of cases.
this is just me, but I'm honestly way more interested in this design post than I am about the product itself.

love the design - it's honestly something I've never seen before (at least, not in the context of software). I love how it rejects the tired old aesthetic of the "software tool front page" and goes in a totally different direction while still getting the point across.
As mentioned in TFA, configuring a firewall to redirect DNS traffic from broken or malicious software is also trivial. Or are you talking about hardcoding IP addresses?
Or you could just give them any of the number of fairly safe nicotine products available. Korean energy drinks, gum, snus, nasal snuff, etc etc. Nicotine is fine -prevents a number of diseases -maybe even the 'rona; lighting shit on fire and breathing it is obviously bad for you.
Most Islamic extremism is spread through mosques and prisons, at least in Europe. I can't remember the last time a terrorism investigation tracked the original radicalisation back to the internet. It's a non issue.
However, I noticed the tone changed everywhere somewhat. I think I witness the pandemic's toll on people's capacity for empathy by the impulsive rudeness creeping into every niche subreddit I frequent.

Reddit became a shit show with Trump vs Clinton, but now people attack their own for every little sign of life.

We really need a better social network. Twitter, Reddit, HN, Facebook, ... They add little, but break a lot.
Thanks for the feedback, I agree. I updated it to 'crash'
Abuse? How? And how do you know this? Where is the history of the entire world has this been attempted?

I'm tired of hearing how people think it will go. Pre-critics and naysayers. I want action, drastic action that has never been done before to solve problems that have never been solved before. Offer a solution or go back to work.
I can tell you from first hand and second hand experience that this is exactly what a lot of smokers will do.
Uh huh, and taking the alcohol out of beer will make alcoholics stop drinking it...
Sadly that is already happening, luckily there are ways to defeat cname cloaking.

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloak...
>Traffic crashes are fixable problems, caused by dangerous streets and unsafe drivers.

I suppose we could ban streets and cars... if they're all so dangerous?
I'm not who you replied to, but I hardly ever need to use tilde escape sequences to quit ssh. I just terminate the session from inside itself with the `exit` command.
binoculars on tripod, if youwant planets then 7cm basic refractor
I don’t think any of the approaches in this article are appropriate for the stated problem. Specifically, parsing data from an INI/JSON/text file (or TLV-like encoding, predefined format/protocol, etc.), the parser can produce appropriate structures for the underlying data. This is the phase when you analyze (and likely validate) the input data, so you’d know the appropriate type after parsing.

You may want your parse tree to produce objects instead of fundamental C++ types (e.g. with functions like isNull(), isValid(), etc.). A common approach might be to produce a simple AST where each node includes just the fundamental type you’re interested in. Then you can simply follow the visitor pattern and write visitors for things like serializing/deserializing, generating/traversing/executing trees/graphs/code, etc...

Perhaps I’m missing something though? A more concrete definition of the problem would be helpful...
For kicks, type in "import antigravity" in the VS Code Interactive tab and hit Shift-enter ;)
You don't _need_ a client secret for authorization_code though, do you?

This part of the premise didn't make sense to me, and especially people opting for implicit as an alternative instead, because it still has this 'intercept' problem, except instead of a 1-time code, you get a long lived access token.
Global hidden variables are the predestined effect. The argument against global hidden variables is that it requires a godlike meddling in the whole universe to populate an infinite amount of arbitrary asymmetric details.
We evolved to think the way we do over millions of years. We should not just dismiss a pattern of thought as a flaw because we don't understand its usefulness. It might be a flaw - the world today is different in many ways from the world our thinking evolved for - but at the very least we have the burden to explain why this pattern evolved, and why it's harmful now.
That's a good point, i still consider dumb when no smart os is installed.
Have you ever considered the possibility that China has "less people in prison" because their government just kills any dissident and "troublemaker" without any semblance of due judicial process?
Hand-picked No-Code tools – Uneed No code
Eliminating heroine from heroine could help dope fiends quit.
I mean my Sony a73 is not Alexa or Red, but doesn't stop it being a high quality camera :)
Repl.it (YC W18) Is Hiring
> The answer to this mystery was obvious, but only in hindsight. There are far fewer black people in FFHQ than whites or asians. I found a classifier, got it to identify an order of magnitude more black faces than I had before, retrained my model, and the result was instantly so much better: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1209749009092493312

Ironically, that exact observation about that exact dataset was what got Dr. Gebru so mad at Yann Le Cun in the twitter thread that people brought up. So maybe you're just lucky with who saw your tweets.
Amazon drivers seem to be some of the worst drivers I've seen - speeding, stopping on blind turns, and trouble backing up or negotiating driveways.
> you don't know the initial state of the system

It's not just that you don't know, it's that you cannot know. The initial state includes the state of the wave function, and you can't know that because of the no-cloning theorem.
I also wrote a book with more detail: https://gumroad.com/l/KBBhm
Open Blockchains Book of the Year 2020 Award Goes to... Libra Shrugged
a system that simultaneously depends on the opinions of the populace (consumer choice, voting) to make good decisions, and can't trust those same people to make a well informed choice is kind of at odds with itself
I don't know the date it changed but you didn't used to need a passport to go to Mexico or Canada. (Technically you just need a passport card today but birth certificate is no longer enough.)
She said to stop doing your job.

Re: Damore, I agree. He was pushing a bad agenda that tried to draw more than is reasonable from some academic research on gender disparity.

Very, very similar to what Gebru did as well. First by pushing agendas in a publication leading to its disapproval, then in her follow up email.
There's probably an overlap, i.e. your dickhead boss probably has a bunch of reasons being immoral is the greater good, lesser evil, or ends justifies the means.

Of course, some people seem to just be dicks with nary a care in the world, but in my experience, most openly anxious folks are nice. They tend to be too anxious not to be.

Personally, I guess I'm an anxious person _sometimes_ ( can panic attack but tend to forget about it if I don't think about it ) and it doesn't make me act dishonest or an asshole. Not even saying I've never been an asshole, but stabbing someone in the back just isn't my style and goes against my working class Scottish stoic upbringing. As does being openly anxious, it's not something I tell folks.
At risk for what? We literally don’t know what damage is inflicted to a body that recovers from COVID-19, or how that may affect near and long term health.

Too many people think you can get this disease and get over it like chickenpox. We just don’t know if that’s remotely true.
> This clash is so strong that I predict that if I again try to program professionally in php and its frameworks, the interaction would again have a disastrous impact on my mental health, my livelihood, and my marriage

> Let's suppose you enjoyed baking bread, but someone rejected your work and told you that gluten gives them terrible intestinal pain

Both these examples are ones where the problem isn't the tool, rather, the person using it. It's not really PHP (or the bread) being critiqued is it?
Three in alignment is called a syzygy. Apparently this occurrence in the house of Aquarius is particularly bad. There’s an X-Files about it.
>Fortunately, with a few simple firewall rules, you can intercept these hardcoded DNS queries and redirect them to your PiHole. These instructions are for pfSense

I can see running pihole instead of a pfSense+pfBlocker rig.

But if you've already got pfSesne at the edge, why not just polish it off with pfBlocker/DNSBL instead of erecting a separate pihole machine?
The problem isn't that humans don't know how to use totally unrestricted speech civilly. It's that we're vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution attacks, and those who attack us in that way prosper.

We need an environment that disincentivises such things; that's the only way (known to me) to escape perverse incentives. An empty playing field is not such an environment.
She's not a victim. She was an employee who sent in her resignation/ultimatum letter and then blasted an unprofessional message to a bunch of her colleagues.

She is obviously doing good research, but I could also see why she wouldn't be a good fit for Google (or really any other large tech company).

I really don't see why this isn't a win for everyone. She said she didn't want to work there under current conditions, now she's not. I'm sure she'll get a job in academia or at a think tank where she'll be able to be much more critical of Google and big tech. The world will better off because her voice and research won't be toned down by a Google internal review. And Google gets to get rid of a problematic employee. It's a win-win-win.
I suppose this is reasonable, but then, why'd they wait until after the general?
Ok, 100M miles until death. How many miles until injury?
I agree, but is it possible to delete at all on ARWeave? Let’s say someone accidentally puts their full name and address in a repo.
Why fire them? Put them in sales.
No joking, just this morning outside my house in a residential neighborhood it’s raining heavily and a fully loaded prime van is gunning it and peeling out and fish tailing. I thought the driver was gonna crash for sure!
> Korean energy drinks

I wasn't aware that there existed foodstuffs containing nicotine. I tried searching for Korean energy drinks containing nicotine, but couldn't find much information. Can you please post some examples?
The post doesn’t substantiate the claim: “The software adds a 30% performance penalty on top”. It shows performance on an extremely narrow test which clearly doesn’t represent general performance.

As to your claim about iOS. There is literally nothing to substantiate it.

You are simply lying and hoping nobody checks.
Conservativism (sic) is a flaw (in human thinking) because what it means is "resistance to change"... and as Heraclitus said, "change is the only constant in life."
I didn't mean politics, this is a dirty field to do science/logic. Conservatism bias is a real thing, but this doesn't mean that we should throw off our past. Just reconsider its weight in our decisions.
>Every homeless person on the streets of SF is cut a welfare check by the govt courtesy of the tax payers.

I don't think that's true. Welfare as commonly understood doesn't really exist any more in the US. The closest is TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) but that requires you to have children and is time limited. SNAP gives you food benefits but that is limited to 3 months unless you have a job or are in workforce training. For the most part, your random homeless person on the street isn't eligible for these and doesn't get benefits. The loophole is disability but that's a pretty tough process to go through. Not likely that many homeless can muster it.
If you can block those ip addresses, you can also redirect those ip addresses to other ip addresses.
There is meta RFC for enums

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/adts

That links to this rfc

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tagged_unions
Maybe this isn't react-specic, but the places I usually work at have "react experts" who turn the frontend into an multi-gigabyte abomination of dependencies, unpredictability ("Just blow away and npm install again"), and multi-minute "compiles" of an interpreted language.
Keys probably aren't the best example. What about PII, accidentally committed "test" data, documents, nudes, whatever..
The web already provides this: people or groups can publish under semi-stable names, linked to their real identity or not, and people can hyperlink to each other's content. The link graph is the web of trust and Google famously uses it to rank content. What is it really missing?
> I refuse the premise that we tech workers know best

The only people worthy of wielding power are those that are humble enough to know they can't be trusted with it.
https://askubuntu.com/a/299489

> No, it will not fail. In the worst case, from the viewpoint of a programmer it will work as expected: it will be reseted to date 1901-12-13 20:45:52:
Stop giving him such a hard time! China's execution rate is a state secret, so no one really knows how high it is, but it's estimated to be significantly lower than that of peer countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran :)

And besides that, who cares if some troublemakers are killed off? The Han "collective" is not bothered by such minor things as individual rights and due process
Awesomely put together with great menu!

Does something similar exist for AppUIs?

Maybe dribbble.com, but

1) I think that dribbble it is mostly about imaginary designs (cool actually, but I don't get to see the best UIs that do actually worked / went in to "production")

2) the menu in dribbble lets you choose mobile/print/... instead of TitleScreen/LoadSave/SettingsMenu/...
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