skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interesting ethics discussion here, because FB could, for example, tune their algorithms to avoid polarization by presenting users with extreme views content that wouldn't validade those views, but show them a more moderate view and bring them to a more moderate, fact based, scientifically sound and politically correct view.
But would it be ethical? Who would be the one to choose what "the correct view" is?
Right now FB is doing harm because it is being somewhat fair by showing people what "they want to see", so their behaviors are telling the algorithms want they want, not a third party, even if what they want is wrong/toxic.
I'm all in favor of scaling down deep learning. Also, recently I published a paper on DNA compression that shows that deep learning is still quite easily beat in terms of time and compression ratio by using specialized models and simple MLPs.

Open access to the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa119
Arnold Sommerfeld
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize 84 times, more than any other physicist (including Otto Stern, who got nominated 82 times[52]), but he never received the award
The House represents the people. The Senate represents the state. Without the balance, highly populous states would determine the fate of the entire nation, leaving less populated states behind.
Remember that outside the valley AI bubble Gebru is primarily famous for having publicly whipped up a mob against Yann LeCun and chasing him off Twitter by constantly claiming he was a racist sexist white man with no clue. Given that, it's maybe not a huge surprise that the tweets you're finding are more pro-Timnit than actually exists.

Another obvious problem: she keeps being described as a highly respected AI researcher, a leader of the field etc. Er, no. I read a lot of AI papers. I don't respect Gebru or the sub-field of AI ethnics much at all. What's happening here is simple: criticising a black woman in tech is impossible to do under your own name in corporate America, as radical leftists will immediately set out as a group to destroy you. The only acceptable position is to praise her and claim she's a genius. On HN and Reddit you can see what people really think and it's very far from that.
Geospatial awareness: how to add geodata to Google Earth Pro
I find the opposite True.

I imagine you watch lots of Apple ads.
Are we not going to talk about the TV uploading 60 mb/day?
Why would they do that when they can force you to update your firmware by setting the expiration to a year or even less. This way you are guaranteed to be communicating with the mothership and the devices will incorporate any new malfeatures the manufacturer conceives.
Or misconfigured CONFIG.SYS.
As opposed to? I thought you had to specify your DNS server as an IP address. How would it resolve itself?
Oofa doofa
Focusing on the individuals is WRONG. Stop doing it! People are people, and - as far as capitalist societies go - money is success, and "skimming" is unfortunately the dominant and easiest strategy to get it. Blaming the individuals here gets us nowhere. You could swap low and high society at an individual level and likely be even worse off because there is at least some chance that those who are currently rich did so by producing large social value. But it is not the fault of skimmers that they skim. These people born in a society with different incentives would produce social value instead of taking it from others.

Attacking "Billionaires" is easy to do, but its the wrong target. A "wealth tax" will probably make a pretty good bandaid, but for a real solution here, we need to think harder about fixing the root cause - that skimming strategies are dominant in the first place. In other worse, say we pass a high tax. Great. Except it doesn't change the best action for people(rich or poor): make money by skimming. So now instead of having an unequal society of skimmers, we end up with a more equal society of skimmers.

Way too much capital right now is devoted to skimming: marketing/advertising, legal/accounting, real estate, and finance have ballooned. The largest tech companies in the world are ad companies. Lawyers and accountants spent significant time on tax avoidance. Real estate is run on speculation and bubbles. Finance is now more about about the short term rather than long term value investing. It didn't used to be the case, but in the modern world, the margins on these departments make them better ways to spend our time and resources to get money. I wish I had a mental model of things good enough to suggest what the right fix would be, but as a random guess, I'd rather see taxes on the industries above than a tax on billionaires.

Edit: in retrospect this rant went overboard. Wealth tax/higher taxes on extreme wealth are probably still needed as part of the plan. Easy to get carried away with rants lol!
The problem with student loans is that they are rooted in "need-based" formulas which define how much a student should pay in terms of their parents' wealth. And for upper-class students the gap between what their parents are willing to pay and what the formula says they can pay often is substantial and is made up with loans. This ends up being something resembling a real hardship for upper-middle-class families, since tuition for two kids can easily be 50% of your household income. If someone is paying off a mortgage on a house, it's easy to imagine their only option to pay the tuition without loans is to downsize the house, which is a huge investment of time and money on top of getting a child ready for college.
To add to that: there are several major stablecoins on Ethereum: USDT, which is backed by BitFinex and has $12 billion in circulation, USDC from Coinbase/Circle with $3 billion in circulation, GUSD, from Gemini, BUSD from Binance with $700M in circulation, and DAI, which is decentralized and has $1 billion in circulation.

These are all ERC20 tokens so easy to integrate into Radicle, and offer a way to allow developers to get paid peer-to-peer while completely avoiding the price volatility of typical cryptocurrencies.
Reading the complaint (thanks for the link), the action in 15(a) is part of describing what happened as part of a larger whole.

I'm talking about 15(a). IANAL, but it's not clear to me (even reading section 16) that NLRB is saying that any amount of sabotage and circumvention of access systems is authorized in order to spread information about workers rights. Nor do I hope a court does (imagine the precedent, well you don't have to because I've already given examples), and I can't understand how anyone would think it's remotely ethical.
Physicist Reviews Black Mesa Research Facility [video]
What about Signal / Whatsapp? What about Matrix / Discord / Slack? Looking for the line you'd like to draw.
Ask HN: What Linux Desktop Environment do you use on tablets?
Currently, I use GNOME on my tablet. While the general UI/UX and features are really good, its on-screen keyboard is inconvenient, buggy and not usable in terminal.

Is there any better alternative Desktop Environment (with Wayland support) primarily for browsing the Internet, reading e-books,... and occasionally typing in terminal?
I don’t understand the downvotes. Google has a long history of killing projects. Of all the public DNS to trust, why does anyone have confidence in Google? Because they’re big?

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me 1500 times...
RG3D v0.16 – feature-rich game engine written in Rust
Beginner's Guide to Rebasing and Squashing
NASA Puts the Kibosh on VSVN
The Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act of 1975 ensures that’s not the case in the US. I suspect something similar is true in EU.

For the manufacturer to avoid a warranty claim due to a modification or aftermarket part, they must show that the defect was linked to the part or modification.

They might have to show that it was caused by, but in any case, if your paint fails prematurely, they can’t say your warranty is void because you disabled the cell connection.
That's not even the full content of the frequency cell. What you also need to know are the people who left or were dissuaded because of what they ran into. Eg the mRNA researcher made it clear she almost left; you can be guaranteed if she didn't, others did. It's not the papers that were rejected, it's the ones never written.

We still have this sort of just world narrative about science that I no longer see as warranted. Maybe it was true in the past but not anymore.
I agree but I am talking about the consequences on third world countries of a slowing economy.
"What is BosonSampling? You must be new here! Briefly, it’s a proposal for achieving quantum supremacy by simply passing identical, non-interacting photons through an array of beamsplitters, and then measuring where they end up."

Would this be like passing sunlight through a pin hole carmera into a series of prisims eventally landing on a matrix of photo sensors and studying how far from the center of each wavelegnth's beam the photons landed?
For those interested, I believe you're referring to Fable.Remoting https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Fable.Remoting/src/basics.html
Maybe deeper knowledge of the issues at hand than in Twitter. Or maybe different interests. Why would they agree? There is a reason why I don't use Twitter and I read HN.
I suspect that they're alluding to the fact that DOS was more of a program loader than an OS and that once it loaded your program it was your program that was in the driver's seat. BUT there are subtle issues with drivers and networking still.
I think you meant to say that you don't actually need a Pi. It's unfortunate that they named it that way. Never name things after the technology involved in making them work, because if your thing is any good, it'll spread to other devices/languages/operating systems.
That's one way of doing exactly what I describe - but it's horribly slow and wastes a tonne of CPU resources so is far from the ideal option.
How do you do this? Wrapping it in grounded tin foil? Ripping out the wifi module?

Do I need to void warranty and dissect a new piece of consumer electronics to remove the spy organ? Is that really an acceptable situation?
> As opposed to?

As opposed to the IP addresses that your DHCP server told you about.
In one sense yes, but not the one that matters here.
I think the backend directly emits HTML. Some JS (without libraries if I'm not mistaken) is used on the client side for things like voting. I don't know how it does persistence or what its infrastructure looks like.
I like the observations you make, and I think you are correct in them.

I object to this though:

"Collective failure of imagination"

There is so much wrong with that statement, I barely know where to start.

Government is a collection of individuals. Individuals do have imagination. But in this case, no imagination is even required - as you point out there is the previous 9 months of data.

What we find is no interest in improving the situation of those in the worst position. Have you considered the possibility, that it is government that creates these situations in the first place?

More broadly, I object to the commonly held idea that government is there to help us at all, despite that being what we are taught in its schools. It is there to rule us.

You can confirm this if you can break down the word 'government'. 'Govern' (has root as kyberenetes) means rule with authority. '-ment' means relating to minds, like 'mental'. The word literally means 'rule minds'.
Unpoly is pretty good and complete. What I don't like is loading page specific JS/CSS via javascript. Turbolinks manages that for me and turbolink still executes inline JS.

Turbolinks falls short in providing a "framework" in how to use third party libraries - how to initialize them and how to tear them down. I finally glued together a mini-framework with hints from stack overflow, but Unpoly and their concept of compilers[1] is much more consistent.

[1] https://unpoly.com/up.compiler
That probably depends on the target population as well.

Alcohol seems to be very destructive in Native American communities.
Slipping in unrelated stuff into bills has been par for the course for ages now if I am not mistaken.

What about he is trying to get as much stuff through in the time he has left?

For example, the various troop pullouts : as a non-US citizen I am very pleased with the past 4 years of foreign policy.
I like it. Thanks, and I hope that it goes well.
You're right, I've corrected.
Here is the real nuclear research facility that I've compared Black Mesa to: https://soygul.com/tac-control-systems
>Which videos or Masterclass did you mean specifically?

This one:

>David Mamet's Masterclass on "Screenwriting"

I watched Aaron Sorkin's one, not the same feeling. Sorkin wants dialogue to be smart and fast and impressive. He wants characters who speak similarly to his perception of his smart friends' conversations.

Building product with David Mamet's advice will get you product market fit.

Building product with Aaron Sorkin's advice will get you funding, then put you in jail.
The (wide) conjunction has been clearly visible with the naked eye for months now. I live in an area with very severe light pollution, and the planets and a few of the brightest stars are all you can see.

Is it worth getting a telescope? Probably not just for this. Cheaper scopes are disappointing and - unless you're doing astrophotography - non-disappointing scopes are ridiculously expensive.

But you can get a good view of Saturn and Jupiter's moons with basic binoculars on a tripod, and spending more will give a clearer view.

No need to spend a fortune - a couple of hundred pounds will do very nicely. You can also view other astronomical standards like the Pleiades, Andromeda, Orion, the craters on the Moon, and so on.
Thanks for pointing me to the concept of bit mix functions, very interesting.
> Is the average american more in debt than the citizens in the rest of the world?

Sorta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...

However, I don't know how good of an indicator debt is for one's circumstances, or for the consequences of indebtedness. I suspect not very.
> 5 cars worth of carbon emissions is not a lot given that it is a fixed cost. Very few are retraining BERT from scratch.

It's not a fixed cost though, it's just how much was spent on this year's iteration of the model. The overall point being made is that model training costs are growing unbounded. Next year it could be 30 cars' worth or whatever for BERT-2, then 600 cars' worth for BERT-3 the year after. That's what it's warning against. At some point it isn't worth it.
the industry aggressively seeks centralization. One browser always ends up taking huge amounts of market share. A small number of sites end up being hubs for large amounts of activity. We then spend forever trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube - federated social networks and chat, stuff like this.
My wife gave me my Christmas present (a telescope) a little early this year so that I could practice and hopefully be ready for this event. I've had a few sessions already and it feels really special out in the cold night looking up at Mars and other planets whiz by. It does need some preparation though. I've got my site on a hill selected with no obstructions, the telescope has been collimated (calibrated), red dot finder is alligned, I've learnt how to setup the equatorial mount and polar align it, and I have my blue filter for clearer visuals of Saturn and Jupiter. Meanwhile I'm out in the back garden checking for clear skies any chance I get.

One thing to know though, you won't see the planets as they often appear in pictures, those are usually made from hundreds of long exposure shots stacked and processed to bring out the detail. You pretty much just see small bright spots in the sky with a little surface detail if your optics are good enough. There is something about seeing far away planets with your own eyes however which feels magic and photos can't compare to the experience.
I find the tips better than the blog post, to be honest. I do like the tips on the blog post as well.

I was wondering: is there a canonical man page on how to read the synopsis? Nowadays, I know how to read it, but I've never found a canonical place that explained it.
quick hand raise for the IPFS community, which is yes p2p, no blockchain. I'm working a "git for data" project atop IPFS and aren't hawking a coin.

I'll readily admit there are very few yes-p2p and no-blockchain projects out there, but we exist
I actually have a reversed view of what you say about good/bad faith. I think bad-faith communicators are a group small enough that if enough people actually had the ability to have meaningful discussions (which requires being able to focus on the communicative intent behind the words), then bad-faith communicators would be left without targets. I don't think the biggest obstacle to meaningful discussion is a lack of good faith or excess of bad faith or available technologies, but rather that communication is hard and most people suck at it, making it basically a game of confusion. I mean, for most topics we only come up with "rational" arguments in order to try to validate our own perspectives, but rarely think rationally about them. We have feelings and impressions, accumulated through our life experience, which help us develop our "intuition"... and I value intuition very highly, but it's also very often very wrong, and I personally find that almost everyone practices communication as a very lousy rationalization game of attaching bad arguments to honest intuitions. Large scale consensus is not possible under this situation, and in my opinion, changing this requires far more than good faith.
In this point in time everything is compromised. It is a business function not user oriented design. If you affect the bottom line you actively making a statement in this. Don't buy smart IoT shit, don't buy new phones, don't use entertainment services. This is how you will make a difference. Waiting for legislation to remove corporate malpractice is absurd. Politicians are fighting who will get "retirement" benefits. The only voting mechanism in our disposal is money, voting with your money always counts.
Link to git-remote-gitopia source hosted on Gitopia:

https://gitopia.org/#/z_TqsbmVJOKzpuQH4YrYXv_Q0DrkwDwc0UqapR...
Not the OP, but "crime" covers a lot of things and there are victimless crimes out there.

Is it immoral to grow and smoke weed in prohibionist parts of the USA? Is it immoral to have out-of-marriage sex in Saudi Arabia?
You're not the only one.

What we're seeing here is a simple problem spilling out into the public: a lot of AI research is being done at a small number of companies that are in turn dominated by a tiny minority of people with politically extreme views. Those people consider control of language and expression very important to achieve their goals of a racialist and gender-biased society. But they're building AIs which require training on huge language corpuses, and thus inherently learn the way people writing language actually think.

Meanwhile the techniques to do "mind control" of AI aren't that good, at least not yet, so this leads to a lot of tensions when AI learns something true but unacceptable to the woke mindset.
Aptera – 1000 mile range EV with solar charging
$26,000 for a 250 mile range, up to $45,000 for 1000 mile range.

https://www.aptera.us/product-page/250-miles-per-charge
Granted, 3 months in the pandemic and you get less than 1% growth after a big budget launch? Yeah, I’d kill it too.
Lobsters have pretty good implementation of this, see this merged advent of code thread, for example: https://lobste.rs/s/3uxtgb/advent_code_2020_promotion_thread
Likewise, I am astounded at my inability to watch most modern media, because the scenes are too short and the story unfold too quickly.

I feel that the most in the Simpsons: same characters, but it feels so different than the early seasons!!

My absolute favorite sci-fi show is Star Trek TOS. It's not from my generation, but I relate far more to the way the story is told - without 3 different plotline unfolding at once in the same show, and without 1 of them requiring me to remember perfectly what happened in the last 3 episodes.

I want self contained episodes and slow action.
Unfortunately, PG is of the opinion that he "finished" HN over a decade ago, which is why we don't get any iteration on the feature set here, no matter how useful it might be. I agree that this would be a good addition but I don't see it happening with this mindset.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18183822
Right, "don't do it" is imperative mood, not indicative mood. If it were indicative mood, the clause would need a subject but in a casual internet forum I can see why people would omit the subject anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is one of the reasons why I don't use getopt_long() -- I don't WANT short flags to be combined, for most commands I write. Fortunately, getopt_long() is one of those library functions that is truly trivial to reimplement and not something that has arcane behavior or edge cases.
The entire course of action you suggest could have happened were not for Timnit going public by her own volition, accusing her employer and coworkers of unethical behavior in the process, and encouraging sympathetic colleagues to apply external political and judicial pressure on Google. What for, so she can publish a review paper disregarding relevant internal feedback?

She made a lot of fuss and burnt a lot of bridges. Nobody forced her to do so.
The Strubell paper which is the origin of this "5 cars" number isn't even in the right ballpark for this stuff. What they did was take desktop GPU power consumption running the model in fp32, extrapolate to a 240x GPU (P100) setup that would run for a year straight at 100% power consumption.

Yes if you do run 240x p100s at literally 100% 24/7 for a year you get the power consumption of 5 cars. This run never happened though, this all ran on TPUs at lower precision, lower power consumption and much lower time to converge.

If anything this tells you that electronics are ridiculously green even when operating at 100%. I've never profiled world-wide carbon production but something tells me if you wanted to carbon optimise you'd be better served trying to take cars off the road and planes out of the sky.
And have a cigar!!
I personally find coding to be a mental exercise that, at least for me, allows me to time travel. If I am engaged in the design of an algorithm, or set thereof, time passes very very quickly and my perception of it is non existent.

I have gone for 12 hours without even noticing any time passage, much to the chagrin of my wife and ride-home-needing-daughter.

Side effects? Since it’s meditation for me, it’s a relaxing retreat without any visible (at least to me) issues.. I guess I don’t see how long bouts of concentration can be damaging to the psyche.

I’ve also noticed that if I narrate my development (as if recording a tutorial) that a I am unable to achieve time travel. Been doing it for 40 years... yikes..
> and ISP provided DNS is almost universally terrible. They’ll ignore TTLs, rewrite NXDOMAIN responses into the IP address of their ad-laced web search, and occasionally just highjack every single query to send you to a page saying you’re approaching your bandwidth quota

Universally? Perhaps in the US? But IoT devices are sold worldwide.

While I do run my own recursive resolver I checked my ISP's and they're behaving fairly reasonable and do none of the above and I have a direct (contractual) relationship with them and we reside in the same jurisdiction so at least in principle I could apply pressure to them if they do something shady. The same can't be said about google or cloudflare.

> Just be aware DNS over HTTPS is a thing now, and while the devices I’m responsible for aren’t going to try and evade your redirects, the companies that are trying to make sure ads get delivered will absolutely switch to DoH which will be much more difficult to work around.

I'm sure google had only our best interests in mind when unleashing that on us.
Do not expect any Bluetooth improvemnt in PulseAudio