skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its simple. Humans are addicted to blame thinking. People instinctively expect a just world, where bad things are a consequence of some form of sin from bad people and good things are a consequence of some virtue from good people and all problems are some sinners fault. A large fraction of people can't comprehend a world where bad things happen to them and nothing/no one is to blame. In the absence of reason they invent one. My kid got autism? I bet it was the vaccine shots. School shooting? I bet it was those violent video games. Internet connection went down? I bet it was because I just tried to scan a document (yes this is a real example). Any explanation, no matter how spurious, is more palpable to the human mind than "this is random and out of our control".

Throw some confirmation bias on top of it. The easiest group to blame for bad things is the group you already disliked. Traditionally this means foreigners, other races, and heretics. Blaming China both let's people have their imagined just world and vindicates whatever pre-existing hard-line stance they had on China. It's no secret that a lot of people already had a hard-lie stance on China for unrelated reasons (Eg the trade war).

In conclusion the human logical apparatus is bugged, no one is releasing any patches, and the whole issue is emotional because who you blame is tribal signaling dressed up as rational interest.
When comparing leadership that (mostly) works (in the military) to leadership that (mostly) doesn't, I notice a few fundamental differences:

1. Flat hierarchies. In SE, there are officially only very few levels between a grunt and the CEO. In the military, hierarchies are deep. You have squad leaders, platoon leaders, sometimes even more staff, company staff, and so on. That means the gradient between a leader and someone being lead is rather small. Ideally, everyone can step up to a higher position immediately (useful because of the, ahem, high fluctuation).

2. Planned career advancement. The military has always agreed that leaders (that is, officers) require special training. But that training comes after they have learned the fundamentals. In SE, most managers come from dedicated management backgrounds. If an engineer becomes manager that is considered unusual and difficult.

3. Strategic training. Officers have wargames and even colleges dedicated to improve their decision making. SE Managers have what? A few books on amazon? It's not just the how that is important in great leadership, the what should not be forgotten.
I think we were on the right side of the law since we sere not taking any side of the bets. Just charging for the service. The pool participants probably were having their own bets between each other, but we would not take any cut of those.

We stopped because there was a lot of competition, we saw a short term gap in soccer in the US market. But fairly quickly we would have been crushed. Spending a lot of time on something that would not have brought in much money was not that interesting, since it was not fun enough beyond the novelty of the experience.
It's reasonable to expect that the first generation or so of fully autonomous vehicles will be rented out and must adhere to a manufacturer-mandated update and service program or they can't be driven. You won't own them.
Maybe a "perfect" autonomous vehicle would've reacted better... But, I'm pretty sure that lady with her bicycle walking across the street in Arizona would say differently in regards to Uber's program. I mean, it was a perfect test case for such a system. The guy whose Tesla drove into the side of a semi-truck might feel differently too. Oh and the one in a Tesla who was driven into a barrier in Mountain View and the car caught fire... He died too.

A perfect autonomous car sure sounds nice - but will it ever arrive? Would it have just hit 1 of those pedestrians instead? Would it just go, ding, and suddenly you're in control? Would it kill 1 and then the company would have the data to know to not kill pedestrians in that one specific example? How many people would have to die as test subjects before the system would be better than people? And what if it never got there but you still killed all those folks anyway?
Serious question to you, what do you think happens to Joe Schmoe when he leaks embarrassing and/classified info about Putin or a Xi?

In the US, you become a best selling author:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/books/trump-books.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/17/mary-trump-and-john-bolton-b...

https://www.thewrap.com/michael-cohen-disloyal-book-amazon-b...

Our culture and protections(1A) allow an environment of leaks. Obama’s war on whistleblowers barely made a dent:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obamas-whistleb...

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/obamas-crackdown-w...
It's in a human's interest to not kill him/herself.

The interests aren't aligned at all with self-driving cars. Do you think any executives, engineers or salespeople will go to jail if anyone dies? Think again.
MAME may be a better choice. Despite its reputation as an arcade emulator, it is more accurately described as an emulator construction kit, which is logically necessary since most arcade games differ on the hardware level at least to some degree.

That said, MAME drivers for most home consoles and computers already exist since the MAME and MESS projects merged.
This is a great encapsulation of the Amazon experience these days. Spot on. You buy the top selling, thousands of five star reviews, Aliexpress piece of junk that doesn't match the description. The seller tries to bribe you to leave them another 5 star review and Amazon customer service tells you to leave them alone and stop messing with their business model.

I very much fail to see how this is supposed to fit in with their "customer obsession".
It's a direct quote from the comment I replied to. They've since edited their post.
curious, have you had any successes ? (respectfully)
I get what you’re saying, but I’d argue it’s not “religious” in the normal way we use the word.

In Sagan’s book a scientist uncovers evidence that the universe was built and she’s working to leverage the scientific method to understand it. In that universe that appears to be what’s going on, but it’s the evidence that leads them in that direction.

I don’t buy that the “creator” cared about her feelings. In the book, the aliens she meets are just a more advanced inhabitant of the universe, they don’t know its origin either.

Religion usually does away with evidence to rely on faith based reasoning (which is basically what the movie does). The reason I don’t like the movie is it distorts the book’s point to be the opposite of what it was.
This is my favorite hn handle to date.
Is that possible? There's a channel i just don't want to see. Ever. I've blocked the channel but it regularly shows up in recommendations.

I actually have a todo item to see if i can't force the issue with a uBlock Origin rule.
My best managers were experts at that. Didn’t realize how good they were until they got poached. It helped that they were able to push back on things above them they knew to be harmful.
The description of the job in OP's post sounds like it's largely a project management role.

I ended up in a similar role during my first job out of college, with a fancy title, managing people who all had more experience than me.

I was chosen for the role because I was very detail-oriented and was willing to do the organizational work to make sure everything was running smoothly and on schedule. Not everybody enjoys that work; sometimes it can feel like secretarial work. But if you can do it well, it's a good way to start out your career.
Not an expert here, but there probably are many other strains out there with fewer mutations (and some with more). Most of them residual because they don't provide a clear advantage. The reason we know about this 17-mutation one is that this specific one turned out to have such an advantageous infectivity that it's displacing all other strains and becoming the dominant one.
Well, now we've transferred the responsibility: Now the programmers of the car's AI must never be intoxicated, distracted, or emotional while creating it. Also, the business people managing the programmers must not be greedy, callous, or incompetent, which is a tough sell.
Putting low income brackets into mass transit isn't a great vision to have.

No wonder Norway had an uptick of suicides and drug related deaths in 2018
The funny thing is that I find this headline to be impactful regardless of it's credibility.

A self proving headline
A 'project' can easily be led by a very young person, with super experienced techies.

Think: bathroom/kitchen upgrade.

But if it's 'direct leadership' ie the kid was to literally work on the project with them, leading the details, then it's just ridiculous.

In the former case, don't even think of it as 'giving orders'. Think of it as 'setting project parameters'. The team will fill in the blanks.

At 20, there's nothing you can do but trust them. You don't have the experience to know when/if they are screwing you over. You definitely won't know if they are not even aware themselves.

A cynical manager might assume nefarious/lazy when none is there. A too easy-going manager might get walked over.

But with 6 months experience the only thing you can do is trust them to do their jobs.

Basically frame the job as 'helping them do their jobs'.
What's a bod?
Not really, the Wuhan lab received funding for the studies into gain of function for bat coronaviruses from the NIH (via EcoHealth Alliance). The incentive to bury the origin (if this was the origin) would be high for the US and China both.
New York City has a project with Oysters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9oUGWuKRwg
You got me thinking.. "manager" truly means someone who should be managing resources and process, smoothing out the kinks and letting his team work like a well oiled machine. Unfortunately most managers are rarely this, they thrive on micro-management and road-blocking initiatives.
My guess is it's much easier for the public to understand the risks and liability of human drivers than AI.

Humans often get distracted or misinterpret signals. And their errors stop with the driver. AI could react in more unexpected ways when it goes sideways. Humans too can get weird when chemically impaired but the liability is much easier to attribute.
I’m still trying to be a small market gardener/farmer.

I’ve accepted that I’ll never reach my goal of financial independence.

But I do believe I can supplement my diet enough to make it a zero-cost hobby. And that’s alright with me.
Sure if you want to derail it. But the Actual post is about an American company taking advantage of essentially Chinese prison labour.

You think drawing a parallel to American companies taking advantage of American prison labour is unrelated to this discussion preferring to focus on the race of the 'prison labour' rather than the nature of the labour.

What ever helps you sleep at night ;)
Stories are the native format of the mobile era
Someone else may have nabbed the app name, but "Original Hexadoku" by kbelder, author of Hexadecimal Sudoku Puzzles, is surely a selling point in the (admittedly presumably small) market space. Go for it :)
>after spending years saying that the relationship with Google regarding search royalties was a serendipitous one that involved getting paid for a decision that was the right thing for users whether money was changing hands or not, and that the default search engine spot wasn't actually for sell.

What? The default search engine is unambiguously for sale, that's what Google (and other companies depending on your country) are buying. And it was the right decision to sell it to the highest bidder to fund development, when Yahoo bid more than Google they sold it to Yahoo.

I genuinely have no idea what point you are trying to make.
I'm one of the most senior/revered software engineers at the company I work for, and my manager is just a few years out of school. He's interested in developing his management skills, whereas I and many others on the team are not. It seems to be working well. Our company culture highly values servant leadership, though.
A “body”/a person. I suspect the OP is from the U.K. or Australia or similar, it’s slang there. I suppose it’s kind of a gender neutral version of the U.S. “guy”.
You're gonna get instantly undercut by the insurers that can accurately price the risk rather than insist their customers jump through hoops.
Haskell purity and now linear types (since GHC 9.0) are better suited for the consequences of quantum effects for computation. For example, the "no-clone" principle. Thus, languages like Quipper[1] are better positioned for such modelling.

[1] https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/
> A government known for its austerity measures is going to mitigate its citizens' financial issues?

At least it’s possible. Last I checked death was impossible to mitigate.
If someone is more capable than yourself as the developer then do not lead. Let him/her do their part and try to learn.

If you are a manager then your duty is not to lead but to facilitate development, help them organizationally and in this case your experiences are orthogonal and are not subject to comparison.
Sure, I get what you are saying, and yes, perhaps we should also include screenshots. I'll see what we can do.

But keep in mind that the showcase page isn't there to sell the games. It is there to show that professional games have been released using Defold. And to show to that you can be productive and release games when you use Defold. Screenshots or illustrations does not matter in this case. Neither says anything about the quality of the engine. And we opted for illustrations as that works better on a showcase page.
Maybe the plants are grown in a CO2 rich environment, so that extra O2 isn't wasted where it's not needed.
Alchemist Camp 2020 Year in Review
Please clarify your date format. Is that 1st of March or the day before 4th of January? According to my European sentiment it's the 3rd of January, is that correct?
Why exactly does a megabyte matter, unless you're trying to run on a 90's watch or embedded?
You see, we have these things called power lines, and, along with the substations, transformers, and other transmission equipment, those make up power grids. We have 3 of them in the US alone.

Now, when electricity is generated, you can transmit it over those power grids, even to places that aren't right next to the dam. You can even store a limited amount for later use.

Ever kWh that gets redirected away from frivolities like BTC can go toward something that would otherwise be powered by fossil fuels.

I thought you were "educated" here? Please do keep up.
The goods inside often can't wait, even stuff that doesn't spoil has often a contracted delivery date
That's why I said it seems to be a blatant ripoff. I don't know the whole story but I see a similar blog post (but with a lot of corporate self-agrandizment) about a similar design and disagree with the take that I replied to.
Even with the massive advantage of being an island, in order to achieve that Australia had to close their borders back when the WHO and the press in every Western country was insisting that doing so was xennphobic and counterproductive, lock down strictly for months (two weeks would not cut it here), they imprisoned a bunch of their poor in tower blocks under conditions so reminisicent of these cruise ships that it was apparently a human rights violation... and in the end they only got a short-lived success out of it, because now there are new outbreaks which are leading to new lockdowns there yet again.
The Flash EULA[1] contains language about updates re:

If your Computer is connected to the Internet, the Software may, without additional notice, check for Updates that are available for automatic download and installation to your Computer and let Adobe know the Software is successfully installed. The Software may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Adobe. These updates may take the form of bug fixes, new features, or new versions. You agree to receive such updates from Adobe as part of your use of the Software.

I could see an argument that a self-destruct mechanism is a "bug fix" or a "new version". I could also see an argument that it's not.

I'm coming around to the line of thinking that another poster mentioned-- that this could be considered Adobe criminally exceeding the access to my system that I've granted them. I agreed to updates. Not to removal of functionality.

I can't do a damned thing about it, but it pisses me off, and I want other people to be pissed off about it to. Taking away functionality in somebody else's computer is unethical in my moral framework. Normalizing that idea is dangerous and wrong to me, too.

[1] https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/licenses-terms...

Edit: Would it be your contention that all software developers have the right to remove functionality in their software at any time? Does consideration paid factor into that? What if it's expeditious for my business model to disable my older software to get you to move to my new software? Does such disabling constitute an "update"?
You are assuming that power used by the network is directly proportional to the rate of transactions processed. I doubt that is a sound assumption.

For example miners use energy to compete for the mining reward which is awarded every ten minutes. I can think of many ways of modifying the network to increase the rate at which transactions can be processed that do not increase this mining reward. (I do not understand why none of those ways have been adopted.)

One of the primary reasons that reward is not lower is probably because the amount was set when Bitcoin was created, and people worry that changing it would set a precedent making other changes easier.
The Unbearable Pathos of Thomas Mann (2016)
I've been interested in your project. I don't think you're realizing the potential of the parent's suggestion.

You motivate the work through bottom-up construction, but I don't think you have a clear explanation for who the users are. They must be:

1) Sure they are only going to use models that are supported by NN-512. This is a big jump for me and many people who want to do transformers, LSTMs, etc. and not just what NN-512 costs.
2) They have to be price sensitive. But if you want larger companies, they will rarely just have one use-case that NN-512 supports; they will probably have a ton of use-cases that NN-512 supports.
3) They want to target AVX-512. If they are a medium or larger company they probably want to have tooling around this, to support model development and later deployment.

Those are my thoughts in general.

I currently need to be able to target and deploy on PC and Mac CPUs from the past 10 years. (I know, this is specific.)

I think parent is saying that individual devs are more likely to try NN-512 if they don't have to learn a new API, since most of them want to have the flexibility to fool around before committing to a new tech or bringing it in-house.

I guess my suggestion is really try to specifically define who the user is for NN-512 and what NN problems they are trying to solve, and let that shape the roadmap.
Archived link: https://archive.is/ftHs0/image
There is a huge difference between the speech of sharing exact copyrighted material, and the free speech of sharing methods of running whatever software you want on some hardware.

If the later is not allowed, this very comment might be illegal, as I'm telling you that such a thing is possible.
If you want something like this on your site, here are the resources. As a company that built a rotating globe years ago to visualize our growing user base around the world using our apps, I wanted to share a link to the demo here. Being that we did this years before WebGL became available in all major browsers, we used canvas rendering and shapes of countries from open databases. It is supposed to work across all devices so try it whatever browser you are on now:

https://qbix.com

Please scroll down to where the globe image appears and click/tap it. Feel free to switch countries and click around. I would love to hear your feedback.

PS: We have open sourced all this stuff, so if anyone here wants to put a globe on their website, just load our Q.js from https://github.com/Qbix/Platform and then render the Q/globe tool and Places/countries selector tool with your own options. Unlike the GitHub globe, you can also have users click on countries in the globe to select them, and if you need you can pull in the flags, languages and all the other stuff per country.
The team leader/captain is a player not the coach. At least in “soccer”. Not sure about American Football.
Isn't the bottom part of the display where people start scrolling though?
wow, that taxation is horrendous. And I thought German wasn't too good (compared to whatever paradise I had in mind in scandinavia, france or whatever). To clarify: i don't really mean high taxation is the problem (I'm pro high taxation). I just think someone who earns 60% of the median income shouldn't pay nearly 50% taxes [numbers not representative, those come now]. If I can trust this calculator[1] then someone who earns 24k€ in Belgium has to pay around 40% in taxes (Germany: 30%). That's really tough. And here I am sitting in Germany waiting for my opportunity to protest that the marginal tax rate is over 50% for people above the average income (income class 1, single, between 3800 to 4500€/month I'd have to pay taxes of over 50€ per 100€ raise) but if you get above a certain threshold (especially after you don't have to pay any additional taxes for healthcare) you're good... as I said, compared to what low income earners in belgium have to pay in taxes, I now see that my complaints are negligible.

[1] https://www.icalculator.info/belgium.html
It's true that's a similar problem with humans. Yet when it occurs to the same person often they may face restrictions on their driving privileges.

When AI goes bad it could impact whole fleets simultaneously. And for all the many ways we know software can unintentionally go bad the liability can be a rabbit hole.
Fault in driving accidents is well established, by law. No need to look at the algorithm at all - if the car was at fault under law then it's done.
How is journalism such a sad joke that things like that are "normal"?
Yeah, I get that. It's ironic that not knowing all the answers is the key to managing well. More specifically, not believing that you have to know all the answers. That's part of why you have people on a team.
I have a subscription. The first two seem to be more about tenants feeling that an operator raises the quality of life. The third one talks of several deaths of children. Apparently in these cases there was a gap of 8 to ten inches between the car doors and the landing doors which accidentally trapped the children and then the car was requested from someone on another level. An ordinance had been proposed to require operators, but opposition claims that rules requiring doors to be flush will prevent such cases.

So this would likely be in the category of cases that would probably never happen with a manual operator. Two solutions were proposed: keep manual operators, or improve the safety of the automatic system.
Well, smartphone sales have saturated at 1.5 billion while PC sales are around 75 million.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone...

The original proposition was that desktop sales would rise with mobile sales (with a lag time), and that's clearly not the case to this point, and there are no indicators that will ever be true.