skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case you can't really separate the political, not that you probably ever can. Also, here's a good question, why is it always conservatives that seem to want "politics" to be separated from "real life"? A question for another time.

Back to this article. PG's entire worldview centers around an assumption that wealthy, powerful people are inherently good and a benefit to society. I don't think he believes all of them are, but that generally they are. Except for the ones he doesn't like or got lucky.

This is, of course, obvious retroactive defensiveness of his own wealth and influence and once you know to look for it, you see it in many of his essays. In PG's worldview, successful founders (Himself included ofc) just have "it", some kind of natural talent and ability for creating wealth and value, and we (everyone else) should get out of their way and let them fix things. "It", by the way, can be anything from resourcefulness to intelligence, to determination, depending on what PG feels like writing about.

Whenever one of these great men runs into adversity and is unsuccessful (Arc for example), then it is clearly the fault of others who simply Do Not Get It. Perhaps they are stupid, perhaps he has simply failed to make them see. He isn't sure yet. But he is sure it is definitely not his fault. It cannot be, because he has "It".

In spite of having worked with hundreds or thousands of startups, there is no curiosity in his worldview. No desire to dig deep into the data and understand why some people succeed and others do not. No analysis on the opportunities some have that others do not (what a remarkable privilege it is to be able to take several years off to start a company in your 20s and have the resources to do it). There are so many interesting things he could try to learn from the data he has.

But there is no need. Great founders just have "It" and the world is definitely a better place for them. Nuff said.
Google removes some IAC browser extensions for 'policy violations'
I’ve seen some phony YouTube Videos of people claiming to do this.
I didn’t say it was. I challenge the need to censor comments from some random anonymous poster vs taking the comment with a grain of salt but leaving it up.

This pretty much mirrors the national debate we’re having about social media and censorship. I’m not in the group where I think something that can’t be definitively verified should be banned from a website. People should be skeptical, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to read something.
> A lot of us I imagine wanted to be in Tony's position, yet would you still want to be him with how it all went down?

Yes. A lot of people who don't have this type of success like to discredit the lives of those that do in order to protect their self-image. On average, wealth and status increase your quality of life.

I do think there's a lesson to be learned here about the problems that come with wealth and status. To dismiss the net benefits of wealth and status is the wrong lesson.
When I worked in public sector with a strong union, we didn't do crunch, we accepted that deadlines are malleable and my project managers always anticipated and resolved deadline problems before they became a problem.

Now I work for IBM, and I am expected to work late as much as it takes to ship on time. "On time" is of course completely arbitrary and determined by people who have no understanding of the technical tasks required to ship the project (and most pertinent, don't listen to me when I provide my expert opinion that the timeline is not viable). And they expect to not have to pay me for that overtime.

Not being able to exploit your workers encourages realistic deadlines.
It's always funny/wonderful in hindsight, but largely because it didn't end in tragedy.

But in 1975: funny news article.
In 2020: it's a meme on tiktok/twitter, public officials scurry to figure out how to deal with the myriad of copycat 'bucket challenger' types posting their 'coming out of the box selfie vids to millions of waywards likes' on social media.
Correct, and no one has spread more of it in 2020 than leftist and mainstream media.
How do you quantify?

I also never claimed it was a monopoly in the first. Looks like a few people are arguing against their own projections.
From the perspective of the device maker, a network causing a DNS lookup to return something other than an accurate result is behaving strangely. That may keep a device from working, so the device maker guards against it. A quick scroll through this thread reveals good reasons for device makers to do this, mostly ISPs behaving badly.

I'm generally inclined to think an "always use this manually-configured DNS" option is desirable in that situation. Of course, many devices may have a financial incentive (ads) to actively resist the network owner's attempts at filtering.

Filtering is inherently adversarial, and I expect a reasonably sophisticated user on your network could find a way to access some proscribed content. I also expect the users of concern on your network are under five years old and that most of them lack advanced knowledge of networking. Is there an established standard for what qualifies as a reliable-enough filter?
You can read flagged comments, you just need to opt-in to do so. HN gives you that escape hatch if you don't want others saying that something isn't appropriate for HN get in the way of seeing it.
The issue for me is that I'd love to have an ARM laptop but I also love playing with the hardware and measuring it, trusting the hypervisor makes that a lot harder.

If I was a web developer I'd probably buy one (not a knock on web developers, if I was any good at it I'd do it), but I like playing in the grey area of the Venn diagram where microarchitecture, compilers, and kernels meet.
I thought the last song, the goodbye, was great.
Flights were very different back then. I had a hospital room mate once that told a lot of stories about how in the 50s (maybe 40s? He was serving in Korea at some point, probably 40s now that I think about it) he and his friends would just sneak in amongst the boarding crowd on flights from NY all the way to Japan. They’d hang out in Japan, then do the same thing to get back to NY. The crew didn’t really check tickets of small kids. They’d literally just mix with the crowd and waltz in.

As for where they sat on flights, it was mostly in the some kind of luggage area. Apparently the flight staff had a routine where they all had a meeting in the front of the plane at the beginning of the flight, and that was when they’d sneak to the back.

It was one of those stories that was too crazy to be bullshit.
For sure! I've been putting random magenta drum and melody generations through this free synth Vital ( https://vital.audio/ )

Second step is choose a lead preset based on random letter generation (whatever is closest). (I believe this is the hard part as far as generation goes ... but there are patterns to oscillator presets)

Third step is import the generated MIDI into your DAW like Logic or Ableton.
Fourth, pick a key and quantize the notes.
Finally pick a pad and match the bass notes.

I'll generate one right now ... all AI/randomized except for the design of the preset. Be back in 5 minutes.
I figured out how to do it :)

Repetition is key to people being able to latch onto music, but you can still deeply randomize things. What I'm doing is driving everything off Music Thing Modular Chord Organs, with firmware I programmed. Everything's based off a chord (or note) choice within one of twelve keys, and the secret is that you've got to modulate by circle of fifths, not chromatically. Also, chords are better arranged off pentatonic roots, rather than diatonically.

Do that and you can go to challenging jazz chords, but things hang together in a logical/musical way. I've been evolving this system for years: here's a jam with heavy reliance on procedurally-generated chords and arps:
https://soundcloud.com/airwindows/therefore

And this one's more recent, but set to wander a bit more far afield as far as the random range goes. Chords and roots and arps generated procedurally, plus other playing on top.
https://soundcloud.com/airwindows/fogbound-2020-11-03
It reminds me of the story of stowaways, although those stories are often much more sad for the people involved.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33199985
Sorry I misinterpreted. Isn’t this a reflection of the primary markets for both companies, though? When Intel is trying to sell chips for HPC clusters and expensive workstations, impractical vector units can make sense. Clearly Apple is not bothered by that and has a more balanced micro architecture for more common use cases.
You've created a heuristic that scores people as "not smart" if they are your political opponents or if they have different views on religion.
The Invention of the Chilean Sea Bass
Optimizing for the wrong metric: Microsoft Word
The US system has many corner cases because it’s not centralized. Since the ACA banned lifetime maximums a decade ago, out-of-network fees are the most common reason for high out of pocket costs. But the aggregate data suggests those large sums aren’t typical.
Yet, eventually, they are going to be an adult who has to contend with issues of motivation and responsibility. If not during childhood, when would be the time to learn those skills? It seems like the stakes in childhood, both for the individual and for society, are lower and the consequences of failure less dramatic.
I noticed a link for distributed/peer-to-peer. https://github.com/arewedistributedyet/arewedistributedyet

I am working on a Node/browser app that solves for this. The idea is to invert the web, which is inherently public, and you get an experience that’s inherently private. With privacy you can do things that aren’t possible or healthy on the public web.

It works out of the box if both end points are IPv6 but IPv4 will require some additional service support to work outside of private networks, due to NAT.

The application is currently just a file sharing tool but soon it will have a text message component. It’s about to achieve fully distributed test automation in the browser, which is a necessary maintenance tool to test the application using user events and DOM navigation across multiple computers for distributed end-to-end tests. If I modify the architecture of the application to support loading and unloading of external components then the application becomes a micro operating system, but this requires many security considerations I have not explored.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

Please keep in mind this application is highly experimental.
I only know how to program "computer"-computer apps in Python and C (and some web stuff). Could someone explain exactly what's so bad about developing for Android using only words someone who doesn't know Java would know? Apologies if I should know who Eskil Steenberg is ahead of time.

Naively, I would guess there's a bunch of free libraries you have to import provided by Google or whoever owns Android, and those expose things like `AppWindow()` and `Input()` and `Camera()`. Am I even close? Is this nothing like what one actually does to make an Android app? Is iOS somehow better?

I have no reason to make an app, but I'm considering just looking for a "Hello world!" tutorial and following through just to understand what makes it so notoriously challenging.
And particularly the complaint from the thread that focuses on "program name, orientation handling, icon, permissions"... these are all things that are always done as part of separate languages if not separate files (whether it be .rc files on Windows or Info.plist files and plist entitlements on iOS/macOS).
> The examples above where families become financially ruined by healthcare cl probably happen rarely, if at all, in a country with socialized healthcare.

Sure, but the scenario where a family has extra money in their pockets because they don’t get sick also happens more often than in a country with socialized healthcare.
Wow, the thought never crossed my mind. My family works in construction, one of my family members owns a myriad of mostly low income properties, and I wouldn't have fathomed this was an issue to the extent that it affected actual construction materials. The world is indeed diverse.
These articles are personal philosophies you might take up using the principles of CS. So while not technically rigorous, I think they are like chicken soup for the hackers soul...I found these two articles to be both interesting and inspiring:

The Single Responsibility Principle Revisited -

https://thevaluable.dev/single-responsibility-principle-revi...

Climbing the wrong hill -

http://cdixon.org/2009/09/19/climbing-the-wrong-hill/
Well, it's good to know that Brian Armstrong seems like a good guy. Clearly nothing to see here.
BTW: "goes GA" is General Availability.
On the kitchen thread, try Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, which describes his experience as a dishwasher in 1930's Paris.

For an interesting study of casual labor in the gig economy for house painters in the 1910's, see The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell,
Weaving a Menger Sponge
Stop implying that anyone is suggesting threatening devs is ok. GP in no way implied this at all.

You can point out the delays are do to incompetence without agreeing that death threats are ok.
Most definitely, what I meant though is how do we know mental attention is not essentially a big softmax (over some context, e.g. short or long term memory)?

The eye physically focusing on one thing at time seems like a special case (and this fact isn't even true of all animals, e.g. many prey species), and not a part of the brain's attention mechanism.
Riffing off of this:

A better heuristic that can accommodate both the observation and necessity of change in how books are appraised could be: "What is the oldest possible correct book for the given topic, that continues to be read today?" If new books come for new topics that's fine, read them if the topic matters. Else older books might be better to use given the previous argument.
Sure, uhhuh.

Disinformation like adding a tag about robust safeguards on footage of election fraud?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7E-71Av0k

Or how about calling murdering a 16 year old for joyriding “peaceful” — as the post’s article has done?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8480819/Homeless-16...

How about the time the media engaged in cheap gender-baiting by spreading disinformation about the US women’s soccer case?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z59Dk2JIcs0

Oh — or when the media lied about the victim of harassment because he was a white man?

https://nypost.com/2019/01/21/case-of-the-covington-kids-is-...

Or when the media lied about domestic violence because he was a man in general?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7947733/Amber-Heard...

I agree — we should talk about disinformation and where it’s coming from.
December 2020 VPS Showdown
I hope this COVID pandemic will not become a zoonosis.
Sure. I have been discussing your amazing product internally, but I hope I can promote it next time I go to an accelerator conference or workshop.
This is great, until I need to run two Jupyter+Pytorch instances (say I want to test two library versions side by side, a very common task).

...on docker, I can do this in 20sec:

"docker run .... -p 8888:8888"

"docker run .... -p 8888:8889"

Enter k8s. Jupyter does not appear to allow path prefix-based url schemes, so the above wont work. That means, you can use "/" and the default-host, and you're good for your first instance. But what about the next instance? Now you need two different domains somehow supported. Unclear how this works, because unclear whose "problem" it is. It isnt clearly an NGINX problem, or a Jupyter problem, or a k8s problem, but a problem nonetheless. NGINX docs on multiple distinct host based ingress is thinner than that for base usage cases.

I do appreciate your post, but I think my point is that solving 80% of the cases isn't sufficient to make the case for adhoc k8s-usage-by-default on desktop. I'm sure I can make the above work (e.g. for group or Prod usage), but to make that effort worth it, there has to be a reason to do it. When I have an alternative of running two "docker run" commands for adhoc usage, i'm not sure if it is.
Although for loops might all be while loops at heart, I think the distinction is more than just syntactic. Properly used, the use of a for loop conveys particular information: the code block is intended to run a set number of times or over a particular group of objects. This allows while loops in general to be used specifically for running the code block an indefinite number of times until the criteria is met. (Certainly both types of loops can be misused and abused.)

It also splits apart two different kinds of criteria. "Has this run ten times" is a different sort of question than "is the error within the given margin" or "does the temperature now read 60 degrees". (At least, if you're intentionally running the thing 10 times. If it's running incidentally so you don't even know if it will run 10 times then it can be the same sort of question, but in that case I'd argue you should use a while loop….)

> You save 1 or 2 lines and have ambiguity on wherever "each" is.

Like the sibling poster, I'm not certain what you mean by this.
Why is there an assumption that I'm going to distribute my program using an app store? Why is there a assumption that all app stores want the same information in the same format? Submission should be a completely separate process from software development.
I think you're projecting a lot onto this. All the author of the OP is pointing out is that PG's political writing is often very naive, in a way that makes it clear he doesn't do even the most basic research on the topic before pontificating. This is something worth calling out because PG is offering himself as an authority on these subjects. He's also a skillful writer, so his plausible off the cuff impressions sound reasonably smart if you don't do any research yourself.

None of these observations on PG's blogging are particularly new, and I've had the same criticism of much of his startup specific advice as it essentially attributed success to nebulous concepts like "pattern matching skill."
Don’t forget that M1X is coming in half year. It will be the only competition for Zen 3. I’m planning on waiting for that.
Of all the various internet pundits who are totally full of shit, MC is definitely my favorite. At least he has the decency to be funny.
That does not answer the question why other businesses don't receive compensation for their sacrifice. This is grossly unfair and will have long-term consequences for the economy as well as the welfare of individual citizens.

That's leaving aside the question of what the actual health risks are from the businesses California is forcing to shut down. Newsom has been very evasive on that topic.
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Algorithmic music has a history stretching back at least as far as Mozart. His algorithmic music sounded good. His non-algorithmic music sounded good too. Not a coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel
Well that certainly explains Kanye West!
Reminded me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_(The_Velvet_Undergr...
Which is also the same as O(1000000000) for which data would have different significance.
> Apple didn't have all these issues, because it is in their culture, to provide software that works, without much bloat and with great hardware

It's funny you write this when the linked article specifically calls out Apple's software for a few "warts" and even agrees with Moorhead's and Gruber's take that the software is not yet fully baked.
Skip connections have very good motivation (see one of my other comments in this thread), and attention is decently well motivated, especially as an improvement in the translation space where they were first introduced. I don't think there's any formal proof that attention >> than convolutions with a wide receptive field.

It would be fantastic to have better measures of problem complexity. My thinking at this point is that huge parameter size makes it easier to search for a solution, but once we've found one, there should be interesting ways to simplify the function you've found. Recall above: there are many equivalent models with the same loss when the learning slows down... Some of these equivalent models have lots of zeros in them. We find that often you can prune 90% of the weights and still have a perfectly good model. Eventually you hit a wall, where it gets hard to prune more without large drops in model quality; this /might/ correspond to the actual problem complexity somehow, but the pruned model you happened to find may not actually be the best, and there may be better methods we haven't discovered yet.
(1) is explicitly spelled out:

> If you create a LAMBDA function in a cell without also calling it from within the cell, Excel returns a #CALC! error.

For (2), I think what they're saying is that if you need to test the function with different arguments, for example, it may be more convenient to reference the cell with the lambda.
areweconsolidatedyet is clearly missing from the list
And that tolerance is represented by how loose you make those exemptions.
It was just after this that they were trying to get their server products compiled (SMS included) for PPC. But the tools were not ready for everything. They put on the brakes not long after I pointed out the problem with the register not being set properly for function calls using pointers into the DLL from the EXE.
This isn't going to go well for anybody above you, since you are only equipped to judge in one direction. Some ideas though:

1. generating new and unusual humor

2. spotlessly logical grammar, aside from interruptions like changing an argument mid-sentence

3. understands a huge vocabulary (note: doesn't necessarily use it)

None of those is going to get you very far. It's also very verbal-oriented.
The pdf Jean-Louis Gassée links to in the 2nd paragraph is an excellent source for the evolution of Apple silicon up until the A12X:

> An Hungarian researcher by the name of Dezsö Sima offers an exhaustive history of Apple processors [1] that shows the transition to homegrown cores clearly started with the A6 device.

Extrapolate what a hypothetical 4+4 big.LITTLE A14X with 8 GPU cores would look like compared to the 2+4 A14 with 4 GPU cores and you don't need anything other than the progress of past Apple silicon SoCs to predict the characteristics of the M1.

Apple Silicon is outpacing the competition on all fronts. Qualcomm, Samsung, Intel, and AMD are not keeping up. Huawei has been knocked out of the competition, mostly by geopolitics as far as I can tell. The only question was the timing of the MacOS pivot. The A12X was good enough for a MacBook Air but a compromise for a MacBook Pro. The M1 is a no-compromise SoC for MacOS and the only question is the execution of the software transition; the focus of Gruber and Moorhead's spat.

[1] https://users.nik.uni-obuda.hu/sima/letoltes/Processor_famil...
It's an example of a law in one country changing what a company does in another country to access the market, without a global mandate. I read that as the main point, not trade secrets.

In your example, a company with trade secrets may want to (and be allowed to) keep circuit diagrams or charger designs secret in country A, but have to open them up to be allowed to sell in country B. It becomes a choice that carries a cost without a global mandate.
In those years, NY to Japan would not be a direct flight, but would have multiple stops. Then there are the issues of meals and the language barrier in Japan. I think he was pulling your leg.
So it takes 8-10 years to grow a tree to maturity, and the profit margin for the farmer is $8-10 per tree. A farmer grows a tree for me to make a dollar per year. This is staggering to think about to me. Unreal.