skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading something like russian poor farmers that didn't have enough food for the winter to do this, it was called Lotska, which reported in scientific papers over 100 years ago - http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2010/03/curious-case-o...

"At the first fall of snow the whole family gathers round the stove, lies down, ceases to wrestle with the problems of human existence, and quietly goes to sleep. Once a day every one wakes up to eat a piece of hard bread, of which an amount sufficient to last six months has providently been baked in the previous autumn. When the bread has been washed down with a draught of water, everyone goes to sleep again. The members of the family take it in turn to watch and keep the fire alight."

But I don't find many reliable source about it. Does anyone if this is really true? It sounds hard to believe.
He said it was a driver that took him along the North Korean border, not inside North Korea. I took this to mean the driver was South Korean. A North Korean driver with unsupervised access to a foreigner seems unlikely, doesn't it?
Apparently the person I was replying to is both, but declared themselves as asexual, not as sex repulsed.

They might be confused.
Indeed. I sometimes remember how living was before the Internet, before a computer in every house and in every pocket.

Paper maps, incandescent lighbulbs with less lumen output than any smartphone, CRT displays, LCD panels as thick as a MacBook Air (a modern OLED is as thin as paper!), libraries with actual books (that never had enough information), payphones... I'd say things got a lot better :D
>They address this in the article. Meritocracy doesn't mean dropping your children in the forest and stripping all advantage from them.

If there's no equalizing basis then you can't say it's about merit. Was feudalism actually about merit? After all who's more capable of being the king than his own son?

>The whole point of a meritocracy is to be the best you can.

I agree but with a very strong emphasis on the "you."

>Giving every advantage to your children that you can afford is the whole point of meritocracy.

Just a second ago you were saying it was about advancing yourself. Now it's about advancing your bloodline, those are two different things.

>It's not "fair" but it produces peak performance, like the article says

There's no reason to believe it produces peak performance. Even if you're a big believer in individuals advancing themselves in efficient markets and all that what you actually want is very liquid markets. If certain jobs become chock full of rich kids because they're the only ones who can receive all the training then that's very strong evidence of inefficiency and thus big evidence that we are not receiving "peak performance."
I grew up in Africa. It's interesting that so many US citizens of African descent expect to go back to "The Old Country," and "just fit in." Lot like the Italians and Irish.

As far as Africans go, there's not a whole ton of difference between white Americans and black Americans. I think that, like in Europe, there's entrepreneurs, setting up "Return to Your Roots" tours for diasporans.

Europe probably has more experience with Africans than the US. When I have met black folk in Europe, they have frequently been first- or second-generation Africans, as opposed to the US, where most black folks I know come from families that have lived here for many generations. I think the UK has a similar culture.

I lived in Uganda, when Idi Amin threw out all the Ugandans of Indian descent. These were true Ugandans, who had lived there for generations. It was devastating; both to the people that were thrown out, and the nation, itself. The infrastructure of the nation collapsed, almost overnight.

It's pretty much impossible to "un-mix" a mixed society. That's not for want of trying, though. History is full of "ethnic cleansing" boneyards. It never seems to end well, but we seem to be a bit thick, in learning the lesson.
This! This is saved me so many times when I’ve exhausted stackoverflow.
Sooo much fun! It's clear that browser ML still needs a bit of work, but I had lots of fun and was smiling throughout :)
Perhaps beliefs are evolving over time, and how one navigates information and contemplation (or lack thereof) determines the direction and magnitude of changes in those beliefs.
>As it is, AMD is close and could smoke M1 in next generation 5nm chips, restoring order to the universe.

Comparing next gen to current gen is a strange way to do things. Apple will also have a next gen M chip.
> it's probably time to hire some marketing folks

Engineering PhD students coached on outreach presentation of their thesis sometimes improve dramatically in just a few hours. Some not so much.
We know it, too: According the the research, it's the electric shock.

The difference is the alignment with your desires. If somebody else tells you to sit in silence then it is most likely not the activity you would choose on your own. So you have an inner conflict which you have to handle in one way or another. Distracting yourself with some pain is an option.
Giovanni,

Can you highlight some "real world" use cases where PJON is/was used? I'm curious what folks have used PJON for, especially over RF (excluding Wi-Fi), such as the "video camera control" project in another comment.
On that note, it's always funny how kids try to use old hardware like a touchscreen
I think helping strangers vs helping family are different. Helping strangers is a very strong form of altruism. You come into their lives, you perform a service or deed and you leave. It could be a recurring thing, like assisting in a soup kitchen or a charity shop but it is both time bounded and emotionally bounded and when you choose to help a stranger the first time or a subsequent time the decision is voluntary.

With family though, (as I notice all your descriptions are from) it is neither time bounded nor emotionally constrained since family don't really leave - they're always there, sometimes physically and certainly emotionally. Your first act of kindness to assist might well be voluntary but the second act could well be more out of a sense of obligation than choice and creates an increasingly involuntary burden.
You cannot innovate in how things are integrated however. You got to stick to the industry standards. Nor can you say innovate by switching the CPU architecture in your computer.

A vertical integrated system like a Mac allows for much more innovation.

In fact this is true for any vertical integrated system. If you look at Amiga, NeXT, SGI, SPARC and many others, they where always far ahead of the PC in terms of technology.
The person making coffee for a living is not 'doing what they want'.

If we were to distribute products and services such that this person could do something on the 'create side' - we'd all be poorer for it because their value is likely in 'coffee making'.

Anarchism is nonsense.
"forced" - you can say that about anybody who has a job and isn't independently wealthy.

Also, the point of the article is that it's much better for the performers than traditional porn.
So, the question is how much margin they needed for the position - long the future, short TAS.
I can spend $100 million in a year on things I value with ease of necessary. I’ll start with seeding an Irish startup ecosystem of any note. Actually that could easily swallow the entire fund in one year by itself. I trust you see my point. Bill Gates has spent a lot of money on trying to make the world a place more to his liking, a place without malaria. That’s consumption.
I wrote a blog post in 2012 [1]. It gives my thoughts on the topic. In brief, D was quite popular around 2008 when no decent C++98 replacements existed. However, the D1-to-D2 transition, the Phobos/Tango (two core libraries) drama and the non-open-source components have ruined its reputation. I still love D but with the standardization of C++11 and the rise of Go and Rust, D won't have a chance again.

[1]: https://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/timeline-of...
> but those who didn't go to college because it was too expensive, or lived at home, went to community college for two years, and then transferred to a state school so that they didn't have to take on debt.

So, basically, just more trolley victims, or people that decided to risk not being hired for the best jobs that usually required at least a 4 year track-tying, because there was a trolley running people over.
Thanks so much! When it warms up again I’ll give it a whirl!
> This IS my field, and I can make that claim.

You can make the claim that it is your field, which makes it a simple appeal to authority. But that doesn't make your claim true. There are lots of people in lots of fields that make claims that turn out to be bogus and this - to me - seems to be one of those.

If you honestly believe that we have solved all the interesting problems in interstellar travel and it's 'a mere matter of engineering' then that's fine with me, you're going to have to live with me not believing you.

Best of luck, and - FWIW - I hope you succeed but I highly doubt that you will, the whole 'we are less than a century away from X' stuff is exactly why I say it is science fiction and not science, you can't possibly know the future to that degree.
>But when you hear bizarre claims

It's hardly a bizarre claim if you've ever read an account of what life was like during the Great Leap Forward or the Holodomor.
Your friends were a tiny slice of the public. I do get the concerns about walled gardens. But very few people had their own blogs or websites. And many of those who did still have them.
Great username. Fellow physicist?
I don't think things will work out this way at all. The best DSP coprocessors generally use a VLIW instruction set and no amount of extensions will turn RISC-V into that. The best graphics coprocessors use a SIMT instruction set and no extension will make RISC-V into that. The best media decoding and encryption corpocessors use a fixed function pipieline without any instructions at all and so there's no way they could have one ISA or another.

In software you can have very low development cost by using existing open source tools hidden behind nice abstraction layers. Hardware design doesn't have such nice abstraction layers and while IP blocks exist designing one has a certain irreducable cost which won't be reduced that much by using a RISC-V design. But the performance penalties of trying to use a general purpose ISA, even one with extensions, are very real and won't be enough to make the savings worthwhile.
> Why would defector accounts be biased?

Experience with defectors from other countries, such as the former Soviet Union, shows they sometimes tell the truth, they sometimes tell false or exaggerated stories, and they sometimes tell half-truths. I don't know why North Korean defectors would be different.

> and their accounts of starvation, extreme poverty, and harsh authoritarianism all support one another.

This specific claim is about people going to die in droves to caves, not just about harsh authoritarianism or extreme poverty. That's why it must be considered skeptically -- because it seems just like the kind of thing we're prone to believing about North Korea given other news, but this is not enough to make it true. And once it gets repeated uncritically, it becomes the "common sense truth".
Something like this program tends to discourage the "let's pay for KLOCs" line of reasoning. Does $1 per line sound reasonable? :-)

#!/usr/bin/env python3

with open("pay_me_lots.py","w") as payme:
print ("#!/usr/bin/env python3", file=payme)
for i in range(1000000):
print ("print('you now owe me $"+str(i)+"')",file=payme)
I think the key is to focus on fringe/niche questions. Of course this wont make you a lot of karma, since relatively few people search for fringe things. But at Internet scale, that can still be a considerable amount of people reached over time. And writing good written answers is usually good for ones learning as well.
If you want to have fun playing with chess variants, check out Really Bad Chess[0], it's a random variation each day that you play against AI and rank yourself against other players.

[0] http://reallybadchess.com/
This article discuss exactly what you are talking about and why it is not an issue: https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-32...
I mean posting a solution regardless if it is accepted still provides utility for others stumbling across the post.

I have like 3 karma on my stackoverflow profile but most of my questions get answered provided it’s tagged well and is formatted well.
The author's argument is that their conception of meritocracy is laudable because it grows the pie, and growing the pie is the most important thing if we are to avoid fighting for scraps. They're not saying that growth and distribution are orthogonal, just that the former leads to a better latter and ought to be prioritized.

This is ironic in the sense that much scrap fighting is the result of growth being captured and allocated by meritocratic elements (as defined by the author) in ways that make fighting for scraps more likely, from nobles wasting the surplus on political struggles to the smartest people today redistributing wealth around instead of creating it.

Perhaps a more poignant example would be the deterioration of the environment. Peak performers have created much wealth in the past by harnessing fossil fuels, but the negative externalities can now lead to an equal if not worse destruction of wealth in the future. The author's view does not take into account these situations that go beyond the simple struggle between individuals in a historical, physical, and geographical vacuum.
That's right, I felt the same - couldn't get past that first paragraph.

Almost nations are insolvent, central banks have ruined the economy and savers who behaved economically responsibly and root cause is ..... climate changes! But at least it didn't take a $200K student loan to learn that from Harvard experts.
It sounds like the investors don’t want to share they want all of it
My favorite part of this post is this gem of a comment:

> Hi there i am kavin, its my first occasion to commenting
anyplace, when i read this piece of writing i thought i could also create comment due to this sensible post.

So British and heartwarming!
I suppose bottling it up is not actually letting it go. If something bothers you on an intellectual level it will probably keep coming back and you need to resolve it. It's just that ruminating is not helpful in any case. It gives you an illusion of 'working on a problem' without actually doing anything useful.
The article makes the fundamental mistake of confusing economics and ethics.

Capitalism is an economic system. It's far from perfect, but it may be the best economic system we've got.

Capitalism is not an ethical system. Treated as an ethical system, it may be the absolute worst. It has nothing to do with "fairness". How is massive inequality fair? It's not.

We've got to dump the inhumane idea that people ethically "deserve" the money they acquire, as some kind of god-given right. I suspect some people literally believe that the "invisible hand" of the market is God distributing reward and punishment. But that's not economics, it's theology. I've got no objection to capitalism or inequality, if they end up being useful, but the whole point of it is to make everyone better off via economics, not to "fairly" distribute wealth. How fair is it that some people are born smart, or strong, or tall, or beautiful? Nothing really fair about the genetic lottery, but it can certainly be advantageous economically, and there's nothing wrong with utilizing natural talents for societal benefit.
I like that your comment aligns with game theory. It is in the best interest of individual corporations to hire the best candidate. It is in the best interest of the industry to create a strong pool of candidates. An industry consists of individual corporations that act self-interested unless they cooperate to achieve long term goals together.

This dovetails with the free rider problem too. A corporation does not want to train (invest in) a subpar individual and then lose them to a free rider corporation in the industry that only hires the best candidates.
Companies that use Verizon network are bigger in aggregate than Verizon itself! Look at all the value Verizon has created!

Also - neither Snap nor TikTok charge money for their apps, it was never an option due to Apple's monopoly.
Many people, including me, feel differently about two different kinds of unfairness:

* We are OK with the unfairness that stems from "winning the genetic lottery," which confers an unfair advantage regardless of the socioeconomic background of parents. Most of us want a society in which the most able, talented, hard-working, persistent among us can put those qualities to work for their most productive uses.

* We are NOT OK with the unfairness that stems from "winning the socioeconomic lottery," which confers an unfair advantage regardless of ability, talent, hard work, and persistence. Most of us do NOT want a society in which those who are less able, less talented, less hard-working, and less persistent can get ahead through other means.
This article is conflating a lack of involvement from tech as some kind of exploitation and complicitness in itself, I think that's a pretty unfair take. The adult industry is wildly exploitive and I don't think choosing not to start a business in that industry should be a mark against someone.

I must also suggest that if you're looking to SV to use tech to bring ethics to adult work, you're barking up the wrong tree. We should be thankful SV hasn't stepped in to "disrupt" the industry, with it's track record of privacy violations and exploitation of user data it's the absolute worst match up for a privacy sensitive industry like adult work. I don't think techs lack of involvement is out of the kindness of it's heart anyway, I think it's a risk avoidance outcome.
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It does not, because this code does not compile:

fn main() {
println!("ok"; "Hello, world!");
}
'Negative' thoughts are thoughts. Maybe consider it as cleansing that is taking place. https://highexistence.com/100-hours-meditation-10-days-vipas...
The Big Button
> log_to_network(f"{func.__name__} called!")

I'm seeing a lot of examples of logs using f-strings, but I was taught that you should use % string syntax because it would more optimally handle the string when logging is filtered, disabled, etc. Is my understanding faulty, outdated or correct and unused by others?
Nobody is talking about the users's perspective. If you pay $20 for nude photos, there is something seriously wrong with you. Either you crave some kind of female connection, or have some porn addiction, or something. How can we fairly and properly treat an industry which necessarily relies on abuse, on either the producer side or the consumer side?
Doubt it. Top celebrities make say 20 million per movie, compared to the top devs, like Bill Gates, who make far more.
> The camps of folks in the middle who are cognitively capable of making a difference can't because the outsized voices on either side of them are screaming for either total freedom or total shutdown

I really don't think this is accurate analysis of abortion debate in USA. First, I am not even sure what difference should the middle require in your analysis.

What progress on abortion would you expect to happen had advocates stopped talking?
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Acting out of ignorance when the tools are available to be less ignorant, and then doubling down on your original ignorance is irresponsible.

I don't think there is anywhere that Devereaux even implied maliciousness, just irresponsibility and moral failing.
>There is no biological analogue to backprop, any supervised learning step, etc.

Excuse me? How do you figure? Have you tried to do any physical task before, and not gotten it right the first time, tried again, and got closer? Hello, backprop.

Has someone trained you, telling you you're doing it wrong? Hello, supervised learning. There is an entire portion of your brain tasked with measuring the difference between what you intended and what you did. If you damage it, you actually end up in a state where other people's feedback is what you have to rely on.

The equations behind NN's are "non-biological" only in the sense that you're taking a general math function (the sigmoid) and burning it into silicon gates that are not part of a living organism that also has to deal with the excess baggage of remaining alive, or operating as a chemically based computer.

However, the dynamics and fundamental capabilities of a biological neural network and a silicon based one are fundamentally the same. You can just scale input domains and speed of the Silicon based one a lot easier than you can the bio-based one due to the difference in computing media. You can also wipe out and retrain a silicon net without being considered to have "killed" anything. The Silicon nets, interestingly, have no analog of running and training simultaneously, or are just starting to get it from the lit I've kept up with, nor an analog for forgetting typically applied to them, making the biological net the far more interesting information processing construct. To be frank, NN's not resembling the biological models says more about the inefficiencies of our media of computing, our woeful lack of understanding around the nature of human/biological perception, and the arrogance of human beings who lack the capacity to recognize in the math something fundamental to their own existence.

This post written by a multiple decade uptime GA/C/R/D pick your letter, constantly training internetworked lattice of sigmoid encoded control networks whose morning your lack of perspective just tainted, and whose training is thusfar unsuccessful in attempts to extinguish the need to point out mis- or incomplete understandings of those sharing the same messaging medium as it generally does. Your overfitting to textual and numerical symbolic representation recognition will not serve you well if you can't extend that capacity to discern the pattern into the overaching context of human existence. That's where you really start gaining an appreciation for the power of NN's. It's the building block of the information processing construct that can eventually recognize and reproduce itself.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to some obligatory biological maintnance. This bag of organs doesn't maintain itself, you know.
That frontend isn't free and it isn't small. Look at modern Intel processors and you'll see that the decoder takes as much die area as the entire Integer ALU (if you don't count caches). Unlike the ALU which powergates unused ports, the decoder almost never turns off.

The more 1-to-1 your translations to uops are, the less power and die area you need to spend decoding them. In addition, less complex translations means fewer pipeline stages needed for the same design which also has lots of ramifications.
I’m not making a value judgement on Banksy, just that I agree with that particular statement of his.

Re: second paragraph, I didn’t claim that everyone at google works on ads, you made that up. You don’t have to work on an immoral thing just an immoral employer for me to question your morals.
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> Everything in life is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

What? No. This is idiotic. Who said that?
You cannot, in an attack of this scale.

They'll re-image or replace hardware. Or so they say.
That's where the idea came from :-) But I played Diplomacy almost 40 years ago (God help me), I wasn't sure if it was still a thing.