skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I agree that old.reddit.com is the only way to use Reddit. Let's hope it lasts.

2. They have made some high-profile mistakes, like banning /r/gendercritial. However, they are legally allowed to remove subreddits that they find don't align with their values (or their advertisers' values).

3. I don't think that routine opposition to extremism viewpoints is "leftist". The defining qualities of the post-Trump Republican are gullibility, anti-intellectualism, and immorality; these are not really political viewpoints. Outside of the Trump bubble, who respects these values? If there were a political party that housed all the rapists, it would not be a political statement to deny their voice on your internet forum.

Again, it is important to understand the lack of symmetry between so-called "conservative" and "liberal" viewpoints. Trumpists are 20-30% of the country and are largely insular. People opposed to Trump and his takeover the party are a clear majority of the country, even if a huge number of those are moderates or even right-leaning.

In other words, mainstream platforms that discriminate against extremist/immoral views are not echo chambers. Echo chambers are echo chambers.
Hear hear

I would offer up the subreddit on liminal spaces or the video game Marathon as places for discussion that could not otherwise exist without Reddit.
It's just a matter of focusing on the motivating principles. I've had lots of good, productive discussions about why "you can get very rich if you make something lots of people want" is a win-win deal for society, or why a system where only the government can finance large projects wouldn't be good. If someone wants to talk about billionaires, I just say that the precise dollar amounts aren't the point.
Well if we’re going to go that route, maybe it should be called “synthetic chicken”.
High IQ people probably still reacted better to covid on average.
This topic, over the past couple of days, seems to me to have become fraught, polarised and argued to distraction and faction.

It's not a stretch to say that the world has a problem with discrimination, or that big personalities can rock the boat when they go against the grain. Or that corporates have interests to defend.

I'd like in this case, though - not to say that all the other factors aren't worthy of examination as subjects in their own right - to see this paper. The authors/collaborators are leaders in the field. There are legitimate concerns about AI/ML; the validity/reliability of data from which, nowadays, consequential outcomes are derived.

Please, let's ignore - at least for now - the corporate politics, the heat of the race/gender politics, the PR machines weighing in (look at all the news outlets grabbing this atm), and take a look at what the paper says. The right people (those in the field and qualified/able to do so) should be listened to.

As for the politics of this, and the posturing and politicising and agenda-building on all sides: that doesn't help.

AI and ML affect us all now. This is a trend. Let's at least expose the findings of acknowledged leaders in the field - let's see this study - before we descend into the sideshows of politics and factionalism. Please.

Edit to clarify: tl;dr - I've not seen/read this contested paper. Whatever its contents, I want to see them, and imo that is more important than the current controversy blizzard etc.
That's great news. I will be the last person to give up eating meat willingly but if I could happily replace 95% of the meat I eat with a good substitute I'd do it tomorrow.
When they are sold to international distributors instead, do they still make it to end users? Or do they land in some sort of recycling process for feed stock back into raw materials for new clothing?

I ask because, as much as I think US consumers can benefit from them, my greater concern is that they simply don't go to waste.

Either way, it's the first I've heard of your service, and it sounds fantastic. How do I get you my old clothes? Or is it aggregated and sold on to you through the network of goodwill stores and other thrift shops?

This is the sort of problem I love to hear being solved by tech & advanced logistics, rather than the latest startup that hopes to catch a piece of the advertising pie.
I'm not sure why you've assumed I can't do this on my own
basically, washed up player is angry that she/he is getting rolled on their own live stream and ridiculed by their audience.
Wait a minute here...I was writing realtime multiplayer games for Galacticomm's MajorBBS in thr late 80's and we just pushed ANSI and made VERY interactive games without the need for a rich client...altho we did envy AOL's bitmapped graphic capabilities at times...
This quote was questioned and outright called a fabrication or misinterpretation by three other Nixon aides who worked alongside John Ehrlichman.

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-nixon-drug-war-john-e...
USD, Phoenix, Harkins after Pandemic lockdown relaxed...

I remember the ticket being around $14 and the popcorn and drink being around $20, just for myself... It's been a few months, so I may be off by $2-3 on each portion, but the sticker shock was real... I'd be more open to $20-30 and staying home.
By peer review, I mean review by fellow academics, not Google management.
(grandparent here, different throwaway)

> Maybe it’s because Google doesn’t actually have a desire to work with her, in which case, the ultimatum (or whatever it truly was) is just a convenient out.

There's almost no question about that in my mind. Maybe google didn't see her work as useful. Maybe she was just an asshole and they didn't like working with her. I have no idea. But if you are already on thin ice (or your company even feels just neutral about you) and you give an ultimatum, prepare for them to use it against you.
There is an emotional appeal here, which complains that ivory tower types are too goody-two-shoes to accept mother nature doesn't ship the wine and pate we thought we deserved. It's a Trump like whining session about the entitledness of the realist camp. It's not compelling. I too personally rather doubt the wave function is real, however, much remains to be learned.

For example (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72817-7): where NPRF means non-preferred reference frame:

"Herein, we make progress on that front by extending NPRF to include the measurement of another fundamental constant of nature, Planck’s constant h. As Steven Weinberg points out, measuring an electron’s spin via Stern–Gerlach (SG) magnets constitutes the measurement of “a universal constant of nature, Planck’s constant”3, p. 3 (Fig. 1). So if NPRF applies equally here, everyone must measure the same value for Planck’s constant h regardless of their SG magnet orientations relative to the source, which like the light postulate is an empirical fact. By “relative to the source” of a pair of spin-entangled particles, we mean relative “to the vertical in the plane perpendicular to the line of flight of the particles”4, p. 943 (Fig. 2). Here the possible spin outcomes ±ℏ2 represent a fundamental (indivisible) unit of information per Dakic and Brukner’s first axiom in their reconstruction of quantum theory, “An elementary system has the information carrying capacity of at most one bit”5. Thus, different SG magnet orientations relative to the source constitute different “reference frames” in quantum mechanics just as different velocities relative to the source constitute different “reference frames” in special relativity. Since NPRF leads to the counterintuitive aspects (“mysteries”) of time dilation and length contraction in special relativity, it is perhaps not surprising that NPRF produces a “mystery” for quantum mechanics associated with the measurement of h as well."

There is yet room to grow in QM. I definitely agree with the the original paper's argument on how and why the focus has moved away from foundations, and why the Copenhagen interpretation gets more emphasis than it should. Since this is a very hard nut to crack, the human organizational impulse is to shut up and do. And for new comers who can't do, all they can do is verse themselves in Copenhagen so at least they can do that.
It hasn't been true for over 20 years. If it were, the NSA would've done a much better job backdooring crypto [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
it's the downside of reddit still being a relatively federated, open platform. You have to dig yourself to find good content and niche subreddits, but I vastly prefer it to the centralised, 'overlord AI', algorithmic stuff on every other service.

You can't have it both, if you have decentralisation and pretty free expression you get a lot of garbage and responsibility is on you to find what's worth looking at. I also don't see politics as bad. Sure the level of discourse is abysmal, kind of the norm for politics anyway, but I'll take people at least talking about politics than cat videos and bikini pictures and 'pranking homeless people' videos.
It's not there. Maybe that settings isn't on the Mobile UI (which goes back to my point about frustration and apathy being measured as "engagement")
>I normally think of scientific programming as something involving lots of large matrices, but that isn't the case for everything.

It typically is. If you have the right libraries, it's only a few lines of code to do a lot of math. C = A + B could be matrix math, not just single variables being added.
Do they call Chicken Sandwiches “Chicken Burgers” somewhere?
> It's really the only way to negotiate, pretty common.

As I point out in another comment[1], not only is this not true, negotiation experts universally criticize this as a way to negotiate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25309003
Except you can’t, right? Figuring out where we expect them to be involves finding out where they are in the first place.
one would think a consensus amongst several verifiers would be more appropriate, given this is a blockchain solution after all
Sugarcane dungarees are your best bet, here.
Comments like this are useless, bc you're declaring someone is wrong without any explanation of (a) why they're wrong, and (b) what's actually correct.

The result is that I have no reason to believe you, or to even understand your point. Because you've essentially made no point.
Then you probably have to get hired at a corporation that never puts its own well being above the rest.
You are right about the feedback loops that make it hard to escape poverty. The most uncomfortable one to talk about is basic social network effects. Two people meet at some prestigious college and get married - are we shocked they have children who are predisposed for success? Besides from having god-given IQ, they are likely some combination of ambitious, punctual, respectful of authority, long-term oriented, hard-working, etc. But would one of those parents have ever been interested in marrying and having kids with some high school dropout, someone from a vastly different social place and lacking those values? It's pretty rare. Society organizes itself around this stuff and it's extremely powerful. The two high school dropouts end up hooking up and having kids and it's often times (though obviously not always) the opposite cycle. And yeah there are plenty of societal biases that are real, but I really don't think anything will ever be as powerful as this self-organizing dynamic of how people marry and have kids. It's cold and depressing and uncomfortable but it's reality.
Surprised no-one has mentioned Vollebak. Their clothes are (claimed to be) pretty indestructible. Ceramic t-shirts, kevlar hoodies, dynema jackets, ...
I disagree.

Germany has a pretty comfy welfare state, compared to the US and still 300k are cut off from electricity.

Regarding energy cost burden: Germans pay the world’s highest price for electricity, whether it is in nominal dollars/mWh or in relative purchasing power parity/mWh [1]

[1] https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ea2f7700-2b1e-4611-... figure 7
Agreed — don’t use the default subreddits. They’re cancer. But I’ve had a great time at the Formula1 subreddit and people are crazy at MechanicalKeyboards. I’m sure you’ll love a knitting group if you enjoy that. Go by your specific interests and really just say no to the generic or huge ones like funny, pics, askreddit etc.
And if, say, Jeff Bezos hired his warehouse workers as employees, paid them an inflation-adjusted minimum wage (eg about $25/hr), and offered real benefits, he and his company would still be making massive profits. That’s what makes it unethical and exploitative: They don’t actually need to be paid so little or treated so harshly for the company’s economics to work!
Please go read the link first. Jeff clearly states that Google has a review protocol for journal submission which requires a two weeks internal review period.

Timnit shared the paper a day before the publication deadline, ie, no time for internal review, and someone with a fat finger apparently approved it for submission without the required review.
They mention that (in the US) pets consume a significant quantity of meat, understandably. An interesting datapoint: our dog will eat Beyond Beef, and of course my wife's actual beef, but shuns Impossible Burger. I wonder why. I've repeated the experiment across numerous dinners.
You can turn everything into something it's not intended to be if you want to. This is a quote by a woman who was the First Lady.

Intent matters legally to.
Sure, then they should have a 2-step process. The first step should be approving writing the paper, and any high selectivity should happen at that point.

The second step should be approving the final contents, and that process should not reject a high fraction of submissions and should allow resubmissions with changes.

It would suck to spend 200 hours figuring out how to fight to position figures in LaTeX only to be rejected by some dudes who think the figure is confidential.
> Now that cycle is breaking down. Fashion trends are accelerating, new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones, and poor countries are turning their backs on the secondhand trade.

New clothing isn't cheap, there's an appreciable gap between new and used prices that allows an intermediary market to thrive. A t-shirt that's $35 new could be found at Goodwill for $5.
David Sinclair talks about this work in his book Lifespan, in case you are interested in the current state of anti-aging treatments.

It's very exciting that we are beginning to unravel a general mechanism that drives aging across species.
And wider hips
Is there a good comparison summary of the major JS frameworks available somewhere?
If one of my engineers emailed me saying they would quit unless I conceded to some set of demands then I would very likely have HR accept that resignation on the spot, terminate their access, and deal with any contractual separation concerns.

If you weren't serious about resigning, you shouldn't have made the threat.
You brought it up.

"Effective today" has legal meaning. It's an issue because it shows Google acting in bad faith.
<quote>Dunno what it will accomplish as those users just go elsewhere,</quote>
That's irrelevant. If they go somewhere else, then they're not Reddit's problem.

Consider that most "purges" happen to coincide with bad PR and you'll understand that's what their motive is.
yes, i had a plastic one growing up
Apparently not very consistently, at least if you're Google Brain CA

https://twitter.com/le_roux_nicolas/status/13346019609729064...
Oui, l'Metro-ghetto.
I've been biking year-round in Denver for decades. The winters here are relatively mild, but we do get blizzards now and then.

I tried studded tires, but found they didn't help much. Black ice is rare here compared to layers of snow and slush, which don't give studs much to bite into. For me, three inch tires with an open tread pattern at low pressure -- plus an upright riding position that distributes weight evenly between the wheels -- gives me the most confidence.

Regarding the cold, I'd say windproofing is most important, and expedition-style mittens are well worth the investment. You won't need much insulation (except maybe at the extremities) once you start generating body heat. Multiple top layers, each with their own full length zipper, will let you regulate your temperature without getting off the bike. That's especially helpful if you have long climbs and long descents.
This is not correct. There are six bases for processing personal data.

Consent is only one.
Yup! In the UK generally they are known as Chicken Burgers, AFAIK.
This article is hard for me to follow. Basically, players were happy to lose when they thought it could be due to people being better than them, but aren't happy to lose when it's someone who's at their skill level playing.... better than them?
I generally agree with this, but I think there's also a real issue of what to do about people that just can't do this.

This requires some threshold level of intelligence.

It requires knowing that it's possible and not making stupid decisions along the way that inhibit it. You're less likely to be exposed to knowledge of how or where to start when no one inside your network is successful.

There are some issues with learned behavior (children from poverty that eat one marshmallow in the test because they've learned adults are unreliable and one now is better than the promise of two later). People from poverty tend to spend money quickly when they get it because having it is scarce/rare and there's learned behavior to use it right away.

I think a lot of the arguments from the left that "it can't be done", "social mobility doesn't exist", etc. are both wrong and really harmful because it confuses people into thinking they can't improve their situation when they can. It takes away agency.

I think the truth is messier though and not everyone has the capacity to do this and our society is definitely skewed for intelligence, but arguably so is any society with living things that need to adapt to their environment.

The solution is probably some sort of complex policy and iterating on it to try and make things better and protect the lower bound of society, but that's boring pragmatic neoliberalism and doesn't really rally the troops. People prefer to argue the extremes.

I think the key is you can protect the lower bound of society without taking from the rich or disincentivizing wealth creation and growth, but I also think wealth inequality in a society when it comes from wealth creation and growth is not that big of a deal and we want to reward this kind of thing (less true when it comes from other places like inheritance). Basically protect the lower bound, don't worry about capping the upper bound. Worry about inheritance and leveraging wealth into political power.

Tyler Cowen's book makes a pretty good case for growth in this kind of way being the best way to help the most people the fastest: https://press.stripe.com/#stubborn-attachments

I think that gets less attention though because it's easier to 'hate the rich' than it is to focus on policy issues that affect the lower bound.
Another interesting area that has a similar story is of Norman Sicily after being conquered and ruled by Roger II. He helped turn the city of Palermo into a very cosmopolitan city where Greeks, Normans and Muslims all had to live and work together. You can hear about it from the Norman Centuries podcast: https://normancenturies.com/
Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN. If you know more than others, the best way to respond is to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. If you don't want to do that or don't have time, that's fine, but in that case please don't post. Letting the internet be wrong about everything is the primary survival skill we all have to work on anyhow.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Summarization of the article:

Meta-learning: one must learn how to most effectively learn before they can effectively read.

1. Learning is a combination of recall and understanding. One must have the ideas in their mind before they can process them and put pieces together. Use mental models to effectively partition articles and integrate bits of information.

Effective reading: using active learning processes results in enhanced information processing.

1. Know why you're reading.

2. Actively reading is a combination of adding information to existing knowledge branches and picking information which is relevant to you.

3. Approaches to do this: mind mapping, [question, evidence, reflection] -> asking questions about the stuff you're reading and answering them.

4. Remember through active recall/repetition.

It's a decent guide but quite verbose. Most readers are better off learning how to speed read and use memory palaces. Effective reading is built off those 2 pieces.
When Knuth wrote TeX he based all of its mathematical calculations on integer arithmetic. Its one of the reasons that software remains accurate and consistent regardless of platform. Using the corresponding stdlib approach in javascript is not so crazy, if your goal is accurate, consistent results across platforms including future not-yet-released platforms.
This is a cool idea, smart to develop this. However, it isn’t as effective as it could/should be.

My problem with all these apps that remind you to move, watch notifications, etc. is that they fail for two reasons…

First, they alert me too late. It turns out that after only 3-5 minutes of sitting, we begin to do damage to our spine. The reason is kind of cool. It turns out, spinal discs are the largest structure in the body with no direct blood supply. It relies on increasing and decreasing pressure on it to ‘breath’ / get blood to diffuse through it. How do you consistently increase and decrease pressure on the spine? You got it, movement! (check out this cool illustration: https://www.movably.com/chart-2)

Second, they disrupt my train of thought, focus and ultimately my workflow. I wanted something that could give me natural and need movement throughout my entire workday without interrupting it.

The trick is how do we get movement in our lower spine every 3-5 minutes during our workday without disrupting our focus and workflow? That is the exact problem the startup I work for tackled. We have come up with a super cool, effective and non-ridiculous smart chair that works with your body to get the movement we all need. Our chair was easily adopted and highly praised by initial users.

If anyone is interested, we are looking to learn from a wider audience through customer discovery calls. If you are interested and have 15 minutes to chat, I’d love to connect: https://movably.typeform.com/to/y5NPOA2U
If everyone in the world was made to tour their nearest factory farm, technologies like this one would be fully funded and accepted overnight.
I like that, I'll give it a try. Thanks for the tip
Under appreciated BSG reference. Well done!
There was no disagreement. Yann didn't say anybody about harms nor did the guy he was replying to (who talked of dangers). In particular Yann did not suggest in any way a) there are no harms or b) that harms are only related to biased training sets. Yann was commenting on the outcome of a particular research project and how they used a biased training set resulting in the outcome that was observed.

Timnit brought up harms first, then pretended Yann did marginalize such harms and attributed them solely to a biased training sets. And then viciously attacked that strawman. That's a bad faith argument.

I can appreciate that she might have been indeed generally sick and tired as she writes, and can appreciate that sick and tired people will not always manage to be nice or overcome their own biases and assume good faith all the time from the other party; we're all human after all. But that doesn't change anything about her argument being made in bad faith.
Copyright infringement? She doesn't own the paper, even though she signed it.