skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely was - I'm not negating the fact that the discovery and implementation of printing press was a giant net positive for human civilization as a whole.

I'm just not really sure about the omnipresence of the Internet. Too much of a good thing, you know; the sheer volume of information is insane, usually unless someone actively and awarely combats it. Then there comes the questions of whether and how much pieces of that information are meritorious and beneficial.
Reddit links and comments can be edited by the admins so no trust can be put there either
There are several ideas about why caloric restriction might be working. There was one study that implicated human growth hormone in combination with zinc, dhea, vitamin d, and burberine in telomeres lengthening. Human growth hormone is produced in response to ghrelin, which is released when we are hungry. So it might be that it is the hunger, not the lack of food that slows aging.
Decentralization of the web (has also come to?) mean that we shouldn't centralize everything to FAANG. And I think it is important to keep those notions separate.

And I don't necessarily see how decentralized has that much to do with the issues described regarding IPFS. The issue there was more with it being more anonymous and resilient. And I do agree with the author on the downsides, I haven't really been a fan of IPFS but it is a neat idea.

Though I do believe that keeping internet open and away from google et al. is paramount.
The large files transition was quite painful and took a long time, and informed the time offset changes.
Her previous papers look pretty serious to me, along with her resume. I see nothing to suggest she's not qualified.

https://ai.stanford.edu/~tgebru/
Funny how so many "free speech" advocates like yourself cry that people with different opinions should not express those opinions.

Edit: hilarious this is being so heavily downvoted, when it's exactly what the poster was doing. Did I offend a HN VIP?
On the other hand, the fact that 8chan exists and that it does not rely on technology to be censorship-resistant shows how this worry is misplaced.
Let me tell you a story of a society which built a liberated but centralized information system.

The main TV and radio stations uncritically report the progress of an unprovoked foreign war until one night, one man on one station uncharacteristicaly editorializes against it.

Media organizations through their leiason with foreign intelligence report falsely the atrocities of one side of a conflict, ensuring support for the other side which is actually committing atrocities.

The most heralded media organization in the nariona suppresses a story through an election which provides irrefutable proof that the state executive is running an illegal spying operation against the citizenry.

Is this Soviet Russia? Communist China? Tito's Yugoslavia? No, it is the United States prior to ubiquitous internet news.

Respectively I refer to Walter Cronkite's turn against the Vietnam war at the Tet Offensive, the misinformation campaign levied at the Nicoroguan Sandinistas and the New York Times decision to hold the warrantless wiretapping story until after the 2004 election.

I'm not sure that is a better world. I'm not sure if we aren't just looking at trade-offs, moderated media having its flaws and virtues, unmoderated having its own.

It is no wonder we shrink at the trials and tribulations of unmoderated information. They are new. But I think there is a tendency recently to overlook the costs our gatekeepers previously imparted to our society.
Yes, that's crazy.

In Europe, and most of developed countries in Asia, you can't even have gas in an apartment building made of concrete.

That moreover strange how it's not banned yet, given how militant building codes are in America.
Now you want to limit their freedom of speech? Because you don't like what they say or how they say it? You're free to skip the parts you don't like and focus on the ones you find valuable.

(I was thinking whether to end this post with /s or not, and strangely, both ways provide valid context for this post; therefore, I'll end this with a Heisenberg /ß.)
You have to point the alternative costs though.... if non AI trained search, returned worse results, would that waste more energy?

She didn't... which are the hallmark of bad research.
I've got even greater hopes for the NEW MAGIC that @dhh has been hinting about

Apparently Stimulus 2.0 is part of that directional change

Tweets: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1334916143010680833?s=20
What Apple Teaches Us About Web and Product Design
I sincerely think that your CEOs of large companies are much less powerful than one would naturally think. They have money and power, but much of it is based on a group of people sympathetic to some pretty extreme views approving of you.

We call it “FU money,” but these guys aren’t satisfied with being able to say “FU” and still live comfortably; they want to be in charge of things that are seen as significant.

I believe it will always take more than money to get thousands of largely independent adults to do what you want.
Some studies have shown that taking tylenol and ibuprofen together has equivalent pain reduction to oxy.
Concrete, blocks, panels, steel frames... and plain bricks after all?
In the last 25 years I've experienced the voyage from a staff count of 6 to a staff count of 100 three times in different companies (service provider, professional services, software editor).

Your first hires determine largely your culture. The people that end up creating teams, and that eventually hire and influence people themselves, make your culture.
You are exactly right about the hobby and niche interests. On the other hand, the larger subreddits that represent groups of people (such as a city, sports team, university, etc.) will have that echo chamber effect.
Is it? You can sell plasma right now, so it seems straightforward to let people sell blood every 2 months if they want to.
cool idea, it reminds me of the https://imgur.com/secretsanta which is slightly more complicated then just submitting the present on the blockchain
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/15282/quantum-en...

And here is some experimental data

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.0614v1.pdf
1. Samsung Silicon uses Samsung Foundry, there is a yield / quality / capacity / performance issue.

2. Qualcomm patents on CDMA and having much better modem.

3. Qualcomm's GPU being better than ARM Mali and CPU being better than Stock ARM ( Samsung ) implementation.

But All of these are changing and Samsung wants to succeed in these areas. Foundry is catching up a little bit, so may be a little more than 1 year behind in TSMC in terms of league edge and capacity. ( Forget about their goals and Roadmap as well as investors notes they are even worst than Intel ). They have signed a partnership agreement with AMD bringing RDNA to Mobile. Their Modem is improving with each generation, and the patents issues has been sorted out recently. ( Which is pretty much the same deal as Apple )

It will take some time. 2021 Exynos may be a little too early so 2022 seems like a safe bet. Although Qualcomm isn't sitting still either.
If you aren’t signing on for the whole ride and are not guaranteed any more work after the deliverables then this is just a regular contract. When you get paid cash for a regular contract the cash doesn’t vest, so I see no reason why equity would. That’s some next level bullshit. The equity should vest on written acceptance of the deliverable or you should walk.
hmm... not sure what you are talking about, but you are an anonymous person, with no history... retorting to bullying and name calling... not sure how you are contributing to the conversation.
That enum methods cringe me, IMO they should try to make enum as dumb as possible, more like key-value pair, let the class/function handle the implementation details.
Another thing related to tire pollution is asphalt dust. Road surface gets used up, too, especially in places where studded winter tires are popular, and it's a significant source of airborne particulate matter: https://grapevine.is/news/2020/11/30/winter-tires-have-huge-...
People like that will returns us to the dark ages, every year propaganda for censorship is getting stronger and if in the past censorship was limited to actually published works, this time around it will be ubiquitous.
> Who cares what a bunch of teenagers say on the Internet?

Because it gets to the point where it becomes young adults planning mass shootings on the Internet.
> They will happily loan you that much and more to go college even if you are, because they know you'll just be in debt forever no matter what.

They also give you income-based repayment programs and forbearance if you lose your job. I have never seen similar programs for car loans, or credit cards, or rent, or mortgages.
as if the regular web doesn't make illicit activity easier. as if the telephone doesn't make illicit activity easier.
as if the telegram doesn't make illicit activity easier
as if the printing press doesn't make illicit activity easier
as if the trained pigeon doesn't make illicit activity easier
as if the ink quill doesn't make illicit activity easier
as if the smoke signal doesn't make illicit activity easier

the man is shell shocked, needs a break, thank you for your service, lets keep moving forward!
Popularity and influence are not necessarily the same though. The toxic waste we all have to live through is quite overwhelming despite all of that.
"...musicians and composers are usually quite ordinary people with special gifts."

Right. It's not only musicians and composers but I'd suggest that many great and famous people have stains on their characters that 'proper' society would rather disdain or not know about.

For example, Einstein's personal life was anything but harmonious given his misogynistic treatment of his wife and others. Despite the fact that we're likely not to agree with the way he conducted his personal life, those facts do not lessen any objective analysis of his scientific works.

https://medium.com/@editors_91459/turns-out-einstein-was-a-c...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/13...
When police error in identification can mean getting shot, black people deserve to be identified as accurately as individuals of any other race.
"Islamophobia", that term which criminalizes religion criticism ... Can't wait to live in a world where blasphemy is forbidden again !

I guess nowadays: diversity is great, except for opinions. Can't wait to see the left crashing itself trying to compose with opposed sides, against homophoby on one hand and against islam criticism on the other, but islam is like christianism and probably other religions: homophobic.

Oh, shouldn't I be allowed to state that anymore ? Funny world you want to live in, but I guess that's what it is when you get confused and believe that your CS degree is worth a pol sci or law degree.
Yes I agree. A substantive analysis of carbon emission should look at multiple countries, multiple industries, multiple companies, and all the outputs from those companies to give a good picture of what types of outputs are the most inefficient w.r.t. carbon emission.
It's interesting how often I underestimate how people can have an entirely different interpretation of the same thing I read a moment ago.

I am going to re-read the article to see if I can recognize your interpretation of it.
> That's just outright false. She was terminated, effective immediately.

Without taking sides (I don't know the full story to understand who is objectively in the wrong here), that's not completely true.

She basically gave an ultimatum - meet my demands or I can work on a last date.[1] It is quite common at big tech that once you resign - officially or unofficially - you could be asked to leave effective immediately. Usually happens when you work in critical areas or moving to a competitor or a disgruntled employee.

Could this have been better handled? Maybe, but no matter who was in the right or wrong, she wasn't technically fired.

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334343577044979712
>So, singletons. That way you end up with more global state, with all its consequences.

As you point out, the lack of properties solves that. The use of a singleton probably relates to the identity issue

> at this point you may just as well skip the entire object part as I don't see why exactly it's needed for an identity check.

PHP only has 8 types (string, int, bool, float, array, null, resource, object) and they're not likely to be added to (resource is largely deprecated).

Given that, object is the only one that's not likely to be abused by relying on the actual scalar value. Keeping it as a singleton ensures that === will still work (it requires 'same instance')
Tell that to Depop
No it’s not. AlphaFold is a huge advancement on all the other solutions. Solutions that were based on the already massive improvement that DeepMind brought in the previous edition.
Then graduate, and major in something that will help you get a job.

I needed loans, and I made good decisions with my education, and I graduated -- should that opportunity have been taken away from me because other people did not handle it well?
Sure, I agree. The temperance / prohibition movement wasn't made up of crazy people who just wanted to ban good clean fun between consenting adults. The problems they saw & wished to fix were very real.

I'm just surprised how seldom this connection gets mentioned. It seems that, having repealed prohibition and decided that it didn't work, we to place it in the "bad things" column, and are very happy to tie it to other bad things (like the mafia). While suffrage of course lives in the "good things" column. But forcing things into black & white doesn't help us see clearly, and the reality of temperance / prohibition was much more complicated.
Controlling human thought at scale, shouldn't be decided by humans. Too much responsibility involved, considering we're all subject to biases.
...and this actually happens how often? Say, in comparison to the consequences of suppressing speech (easily observable throughout the 20th century)? Or even just other causes of death or violence? It's minuscule, so little that it's almost absurd to even be worried about it.
I am still focusing on Google, in this case the only reason it can IPO is ad revenue.
Pitter Pattr: Like GIF's, but Sounds
I read this as: why should it be in product A (which we are working on) and not in product B (which someone else is building)?
Is this AI-generated? And that's why it's called "Deep Literacy"?
I "think" I do, if I care about reading a book, I always buy a physical copy for this particular reason.
Workarounds are not official support and won't fly for many customers deciding what to place in production when picking technology stacks, so the choice ends up being C#, VB, C++, Rust, JavaScript and Python.

The official set of programming languages getting UWP support as part of Project Reunion.
As I grew into my mid-late 20s I was confronted with what was then a shocking realisation that the people in my life who were the most vocal and activated on matters of "compassion" and "empathy" towards minorities and the less well off, were very often the ones who could be the most cruel towards/about others in our social group, including people who were ideologically aligned with them. (I guess part of what was shocking was I realised it applied to me, as well as others I was close to).

So these days when I come across someone who makes a lot of noise about those kinds of topics, I pay close attention to how they treat people or why they say about people they know. It's often very revealing.

Related to this, I often find it interesting to note what certain people on HN say about particular causes, and then observe how they behave towards DoreenMichele.

To be clear, I don't in any way believe that everyone who cares for the needy is actually likely to be an asshole deep down; plenty of people sincerely care about these issues, demonstrate this sincerity through their actions, and are great in their treatment of other people.

But it's often those who are the most vocal and self-aggrandising whose private actions are very different to what they seek to signal with their words.
i don't like the fact that you can see the gifts already, since everything is publicly on the blockchain. The design is neat tho
There's been more than a few terrorist incidents connected to forums like 8chan. In terms of the physical damage these attacks are not a threat to society but that's true of all terrorism. The argument normally is that the psychological damage to society as a whole is worth throwing everything we have at it.
The mock should display the same behaviour as the real thing.

So I don't think sharing one is bad.

The ideal fake is one that shares the same behaviour as the real thing. And you have tests that run across both to validate this.

Quite frankly mocks become the bane of large code bases.

I don't know how many times I've seen tests that are basically useless because the mock behaves nothing like how it behaves in the real world. Like throwing an exception for not found rather than null.

Keeping those contracts in sync are much easier with fakes.
> Has she calculated the oposite alternatives? People driving to libraries, to search for something?

What has this got to do with anything? How is driving to a library the "oposite" of AI?

We had very effective search engines for decades before AI.
“If you do not deep read, you do not cultivate a capacity to think, imagine, and create; you therefore may not realize that anything more satisfying than a video game even exists.”

Hence universal public education. The author, though, is talking about making additional effort, as though schooling alone didn’t achieve these basic ends. Glad I didn’t go to his high school.

Given a finite amount of time (albeit a near-infinite amount of easily accessible material to read), there must be a trade off between deep reading and broad reading. No explicit mention of “broad reading” as the alternative in the text, assumedly because having a broad reading experience is viewed as a fine thing.

And for good reason. Consider the most deeply read (non religious) texts in the 20th C....Little Red Book, Communist Manifesto, Ayn Rand, Mein Kampf. Throw in religious cult classics of your choosing. One could argue less deep reading of those texts would have been a very good thing, and millions of lives could have been saved.

Silent sustained reading of political and economics texts, if you don’t swallow the arguments made book, line and thinker, can be a good thing. Cliff Notes and simply reading summaries/critiques of those classic works instead are better, and allow a breadth of reading in limited time that provides context and perspective.

Losing one’s self in a deep read is an act of trust and faith, an act that too often in the 20th Century led to betrayal, abuse and death via the distorted view of reality that resulted. Even in non-political texts, the assumptions underlying popular novels, from Bellows and Mailer to bodice rippers, can have profound renormalizing consequences in the lives of these who lost themselves in these alternative realities.

Sometimes having the attention span of an over-caffeinated golden retriever puppy is a good thing.
A tale of Template Haskell and cross compilation
I wonder if there will ever be an answer to this question, at least in regards to free services on the internet[0].

Centralized services will always have incentives that are orthogonal to their users, because anyone who isn't paying for a product with cash is "paying" by allowing their data to be harvested. They may provide strong moderation at their discretion, but that will never be one-size-fits-all (see: the bipartisan section 230 repeal arguments in the US) - there's not a balance here that people won't find a way to politicize.

Federated protocols create perverse incentives to lock in users so they can't switch providers and to differentiate their service from neighbours using non-standard protocol deviations. These moves create insular communities where self-hosted participants are left out to dry through entirely defensible actions such as spam prevention systems (like big email providers junking/refusing to deliver mail from "untrustworthy" sources). Even relatively new protocols are wrestling with this problem - Matrix recently put out a document discussing a federated reputation system for servers to judge other servers. This will inevitably turn them into pseudo-centralized protocols, like email is today.

Decentralized protocols, like the ones in the article, are filled with all the people who've been banned from the centralized servers and kicked out by federated server admins. It's not surprising to me in the least that decentralized servers host objectionable content; without any meaningful form of network-wide moderation you have no way to cut out the bad actors from your network's discovery mechanisms. Anything approaching network-wide moderation would rely on some kind of network topology approaching a federated system.

I think part of it might be that humans are just inherently horrible. Not all of us, and not all the time, but enough to ruin the experience for everyone. I suppose it was easier when our ancestors lived in tribes of a couple of hundred individuals, but now that the entire globe is a text message away we're coming to grips with the fact that there's far more "objectionable" material out there than we previously thought. As with other problems of human nature, I don't think the problem or the resulting solution will come from tech alone. Rather, I imagine it'll take society as a whole a few decades to come to grips with the fact that everything is public for everyone, and power in the real world doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot on the internet.

[0] Paid services obviously have a different calculus ascribed to them, but with the way the internet has evolved there's a prerequisite discussion to be had about whether paid services will be able to catch on in the world today. Social networks, for example, rely on network effects, which are (to my understanding) a non-starter if your service isn't free. This is especially true if prices aren't adjusted for the developing world where people have even less discretionary income than in, say, California.
I think you’re making a weaker version of this argument than you need to, because you’re framing it in terms that oppose the politics of half of the public, when you really only need to argue against a much more specific set of ideas.

For example:

> Ok, basically she is pissed as AI is picking normal language, that people use, and not using the vocabulary that is in vogue on certain political circles. Basically censure, and forced speech.

I think a stronger version of this argument, which can appeal more broadly, would be: an automated system that is constantly being trained on data from social media can more quickly pick up new trends in human speech than a manually-programmed expert system. Furthermore, even if humans are constantly updating an expert system, the biases inherent in the composition of the company-hired set of experts will limit the representation of minority trends in the data. On the other hand, a model examining the entire data set can pick these up automatically. For example, I can easily get AI Dungeon (powered by GPT-3) to communicate using language and concepts that are only present in a minority community that I’m part of that I’ve rarely seen represented in literature.

When arguing against Timnit Gebru or their ilk, you don’t need to just give them the support of liberals. We actually make up the majority of techies, so it’s a bad position to put yourself in if you want your cause to succeed.