skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. The Google brand is a kiss of incoming death as far as I'm concerned. They were in fact one of the primary motivators for my beginning to work on a personal archive last year. I'm glad I did, not a few months after I bought some hard drives, google photos announced their service changes with no longer allowing unlimited storage. I really think they made/buy some great products, their management just makes it crazy to me to have a dependency on something they own.
> It's social media for middle-aged conservatives

Are you sure about that? When I sign on to Facebook, it appears to be social media for middle-aged liberal minded people. Facebook is a bit of a mirror in that sense.
In-the-Wild Series
What I found endearing about the guy being interviewed was that he would often start off his sentences with "Ahhhh".
Why should we listen to this person? Is he famous or well known person in the semiconductor industry? Seems to be a college kid.
Does that explain the two slit experiment, with a single particle inferring with its own wave function? If you consider it to be a particle, then you probably need to make the interact of the many-worlds be wavelike. At that point you probably have a more complex model than admitting the photon was not a particle.
So "she/her" and not traditional "Mrs."? Because the latter does not fit many people these days?

Note edit: my native tongue Finnish doesn't even have gendered he/she. Quite an uncommon thing in languages.
It always blows me away to see so much brand loyalty about cpus.

I really couldn't care less what architecture my chips are, or who fabricates them. All I care about is price and performance.

I write application software, the underlying hardware is pretty irrelevant to me and most of my peers too.

I think that as we lost national sources of pride and community structures at a local level, people transferred their loyalties to brands. LETS RISE ABOVE!
In the article it states that the memory is burned every time a car is booted up and put in drive, that means if you drive many times each day,it's going to burn up faster than if you say, drive from LA to Vegas once a month. This is according to the Feds research.

Sorry if my statement wasn't clear.
"Legal" is both local and can change over time. America has been in an unusual situation because it allows far more speech, especially speech right up to the boundary of "incitement to violence".

However, the police have far too much to do, so in practice millions of blatently illegal death threats get sent every day and do not receive any police response. Hence the demand for a non-police response that can far more cheaply remove the death threats or threateners.
The first graph includes "Apple Intel", which is not mentioned anywhere else in the post. Any idea what hardware that was, and whether it used the accelerated TensorFlow?
400K is the folks doing things like med school. I doubt the average is anywhere near that. People getting loans for more than just tuition can easily hit 100K, though. IIRC the university I went to, which is a state institution, lists the average cost at about $28K a year including room, board, tuition, books, etc. So if someone wants to pay for the whole thing on loans and not work any kind of part time job, they're going to end up with a mountain of debt.
> their policies are left up to them. That’s not good for democracies.

I think many economists and many people from all political parties would argue the exact opposite, that companies having enough freedom to set their own policies (as long as they’re legal) is very much one feature of the United States that has been supporting democracy in the last century.

Why should a private company not be allowed to establish their own rules on their own platform? Does your opinion apply to all private companies?

Does Facebook have a history of limiting legal speech? There are many types of speech that are not legal and not protected as free speech by the constitution. Surely Facebook should be free to limit such speech on their own platform, so they don’t become liable for it? False statements of fact, incitement, commercial speech, fighting words, threats, obscenity, among many other types of speech, are not protected free speech in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
What the New Administration Should Know About Tech, Innovation, and Modern War
> > since everything done in the lecture is better done in the textbooks.

> Strongly disagree.

You are agreeing with the author. He is presenting his opponent's viewpoint, with humorous exaggeration.

> It's just not the case that students can absorb new material five times faster

That isn't his claim here. It's hard not to agree that books can be more polished. But his viewpoint is that "50 minutes of mathematics occupying 50 minutes of exposition" is actually a blessing, both because it limits the author's temptation to squeeze in one more thing, one more generalization. And because it puts the experienced speaker's thought process on show, not only the final tidied-up result. He does go into these points later but I'm lazy to find quotes.
Case in point, alt-right communities who champion “free speech” like Parler and in Reddit often ban people who express opinions they disagree with.
> We really need a safe, unobtrusive device that can record body's micronutrient intake on a daily basis.

Impossible.
That's false. Please don't spread false information, whatever your politics. Parler had very similar terms of service to other content companies prohibiting illegal, violent, or copyrighted content. They also paid a team of content moderators to adjudicate flagged posts. They worked happily with their reps at Apple, Google, and AWS right up until the Friday Night Massacre. They were a small company experiencing massive user growth because if Twitter policies during the past year and especially the past months. There was not a peep about their content until from their reps until 1/6. Was it the riot or the senate flipping? My intel may be false, but my understanding is that they successfully cleared their backlog of flagged tickets before the deadline, working like hell to save their company, for nothing. The fix was in. This was a hit. We should all be very alarmed by this.
I like to hope that leaking all their data is what ruined them and not the hosting issue.

But the hosting issue will get resolved for these services. The demand is there. A solution will be found.
This isn't failure of anything. It's targeted advertising. They meant to do that. The system is working, "as advertised."
Technically it should be the same. In practice manufacturers make certain assumptions.

1. most SD card devices are battery powered

2. SD card failure is acceptable because they are replaceable

3. SD cards are not used as main storage for a computer

That leads to low quality SD cards.
>I feel like it obligates me to work and support people

Couldn't you just make it very clear that any donations are only endorsements of the work you've already done and independent of any work you may or may not do in the future?

That way everyone is on the same page and you don't have to feel like you owe your donors support or continued development.
Per TV show, it's not one big chat room, however there is a default "general" room that is use to that effect. It's very much like Slack/Discord channels. Users are able to essentially create topic rooms within a show.

Think of each TV show as it's own Discord server and within the show are user-generated topic rooms.

My hope is that users basically self-silo into topic rooms that interest them in regards to whatever show their watching.

For example: the Yankees are playing the Marlins. Users can create a #yankees room, a #marlins room, a #umpire room, etc to create chat rooms around a given topic in regards to whatever they're watching. In each room, a user has the ability to block, filter words, etc...so they can tailor their chat experience in whatever way they want while watching any given show.
I don't think that the gateway drug theory holds any water. With that said, I do think a lot of users end up trying harder stuff because they're with the wrong crowd.

For what it's worth - I don't use anything. But I have friends who are regular users. Some use a lot of different stuff.

I've been told that whenever cannabis (here in Europe, that's usually hashish) dries up, there's always going to be people that turn to harder stuff. Apparently after COVID hit, hashish became very difficult to get, and people started dabbling with speed, etc.
Swimm helps developers share knowledge and understand each other’s code
Respectfully, this is bullshit. As mentioned above, the question was about dollars, cents, and optics. Parler costs nothing to cut & there's little PR hit (probably a benefit), Cutting Facebook would cost the platforms money.

The "terms of use violations" or whatever BS they're referencing for booting Parler doesn't even enter into it, the action is based at least 99% on cost/benefit to the platform, not some sanitary inflexible set of rules.

Dorsey showed Twitter's rules mean nothing. Trump violates rules: "oh well he's an exception because he's a head of state [and he's the best thing that ever happened to engagement!]." Trump is losing power & allies are fleeing him: "sure he's still a head of state but this is the exception to the exception, so we're booting him [plus the tides just turned against him and dumping him is more palatable]." Soon we'll have the exception to the exception to the exception.

So let's not play dumb and assert that this is about some fixed set of rules, the tech chiefs are clearly making the rules up as they go along based on "who is in power at the moment, what speech is unpopular at the moment" and above all "what will this cost us in dollars."

And the minute your speech is unpopular (I'm looking at you, anarchists, communists, and libertarians), out the door you go.
> Those private companies don't have the right to censor content on their premises 'as they see fit' without giving up protections afforded to them in law as 'platforms'.

Not only do they, but there’s no such thing as “protections afforded to them in law as ‘platforms’”: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

> The question is at what level of moderation and/or bias do they become a 'publisher', not a 'platform'.

This idea of “publisher vs. platform” has been entirely made up by people with no understanding of the state of the law. [1] “Bias” doesn’t play into it – they can do what they want, in good faith, on their website. Hacker News (via its moderators) has a bias against low-effort “shitposting” and posts which fan racial flames. It’s so frequent and well-known that it could become a tagline, “Hacker News: Please Don’t Do This Here”. At what level of curation of non-flamey posts does it become a publisher due to this bias?

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
A Week with Plan 9
No. The common refrain of "but publicly-traded corporations have to maximize shareholder value" is a myth, not a law.

There are bits in the law about management having a fiduciary duty to shareholders, but that mainly means that they aren't supposed to be stuffing their own pockets at the expense of investors. There's a wide birth for management to decide what kinds of profit are and are not worth it.
They already do. https://www.elastic.co/about/press/elastic-partners-with-ali...
This hits me at a personal level.

This is how I imagine programmers must have felt in the 80s and 90s.
You sure Amazon didn't patent that yet?
Sure! Start broad, trying to determine what may be interesting and then design stricter and stricter experiments.
Your challenge seems misplaced. It isn't that one or a few tweets or likes is clearly responsible for a significant shift of opinion (usually). Your question is like asking, "Has anybody seen the bucket of water which caused the flood?"

In 2016 there were Russian accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers. They maintained accounts on both sides of contentious issues and pushed inflammatory stories simply to increase divisiveness.

Stories they wanted to promote, whether they created it or not, they could use bots to push to higher visibility. It isn't as if any one vote made the difference.
App Config, Version 2
It means that any “derivative work” will need to also open the management layer under SSPL. The management layer is AWS, so this puts OpenDistro in a tight spot. I’m not sure forking would work - as Elasticsearch evolves Amazon would not be able to copy features anymore. In the search space, this would be a very hard pill to swallow.
Gutenberg’s Faster Performance Is Eroding Page Builders’ Dominance
"What you should have learned in the last decade is that social networks designed around virality, engagement and "influencing" are awful for the society in the long run."

Yes, and don't forget the 24 hour news cycle with its focus on getting outrage and attention through fear. I did not know who Marshall McLuhan was until now- thanks for the tip!
How to Know When You’ve Found a Great Business Partner
I wonder how many dollars have been spent on bombarding you specifically with shit you're (probably) not interested in, instead of just randomly doing so (with a chance of success).
It isn't just the data people fear. It is the product support, hardware decisions, and lifetime of the product. One, they have been become known for not making great hardware quality (See recent Pixel line issues). Besides Pixel lineup, there have been multiple hardware issues so they are not known for quality. Two, they have been known to screw up hardware features and do their own thing, see Nest lineup. This can be seen as a good thing and as a risk. An example of this is they like to 'beta test' new features on the customer to try to get an edge on the competition. But it can backfire and provide a worse user experience. I am referring to the Pixel 4 with Soli sensor that killed the battery. There have been other instances where they add a new feature on Android or WearOS to only drop support later. Look at the Google Cardboard, dead. Even WearOs they had to rebrand. Third, they are known for dropping support for a product after what 3 years? Just look at https://killedbygoogle.com/ I use to be a huge Google fan in terms of both software and hardware. Their software is still great. But the competition is catching up. So where does that leave Google in the market? I realized that the Android phones from other hardware vendors are a lot more impressive and cheaper. So will I buy a new fitbit after the first 4 I had broke before Google? I don't think I will any time soon until Google's reputation has changed my mind when it comes to hardware.
Exactly. Later in the article it's mentioned that the researchers believe the DNA evidence will move the dire wolf out of the 'canis' genus, which by implication will leave them in the 'canidae' family. However I think the author could have been more clear.
Google = 0 customer service, 0 help. They are an ad agency and a B2B company. Good luck solving any problem as a singular user.

Also enjoy the paperweight when they kill your Google account for whatever random reason (we won't even tell you why and no appeals, have fun!)
That does not sound different from what Windows does. By default all programs running under the same user can access all windows of other applications (except UAC elevated ones). It's a relic from when OLE and Clipboard in Windows 3 just was (very simplified) a pointer to RAM.
Ugh, all this gets you is being mediocre at all of this.
Minus the lulz, what is the point of this? It seems there's some possibility of remotely disabling malware... and then some more possibility of malicious piggy backing on already installed malware.

It's an interesting point that malware is typically poorly developed, but not sure what the point of this research is.
My favorite of these was the discussion section of a popular lefty blog where any mention of "socialism" or "socialist" was routed to moderation and had to be unblocked manually. Not because of profanity, but a particularly pernicious spam problem at the time.
I rather meant government taking measures to stimulate IT business and venture capital, like it's done in certain Eastern European countries, for instance - mostly by tax exemptions and concessions.

Regarding bonuses - here in Spain they are subject to personal income tax...so yeah, it's only good for employers.
To lose your password in Bitcoins could be risky
I think the ads I always used to see before terminating my use of Facebook for Christian Mingle say otherwise.
> Especially people in the managerial caste, as the reigning dogma there is that management is a universal skill. Details are for the little people.

Exactly. Machine learning is the perfect ideological duel. It's "universal labor" for "universal management", and both sides are equally illiterate in the ways of the world.
> It's a good thing for Allies to do

As someone who's part of the LGBT community, "allyship" is dumb. I have friends, family and acquaintances.

I've got allies if I'm elbowing through trenches dodging gunfire.

What is this, Casablanca or Yalta?
Getting Started with OpenAI Gym
People who keep a personal "gun collection" should be put under permanent sourveilance. A weekly psychology test included.
> In our language, the Georgian language, there is just one pronoun for all genders, so we don't care.

That's a nice feature! As mentioned elsewhere, some languages (e.g. German) gender literally every noun, which makes it very complicated to adapt the language to these new conventions. English is comparatively lucky in that for the most part only pronouns are gendered. In English, gendered words for professions, like "actress," went out of fashion some time ago.
Speaking of Brazilian flags, I really like São Paulo's one.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ba...
Reddit still relies on human moderators, admins, etc. What I'm talking about is a purely community driven moderation scheme where, through various algorithms, the community dictates what is and isn't acceptable.
>We've been in an exciting deep learning craze for a while, but it's silly to expect it to last forever. Back to the grind now.

This was effectively my response to hardmaru when this topic came up on reddit [1]

Basically 2010-2018 was an open field for ML/DL research with old(ish) methods being rapidly applied to low hanging fruit and large datasets with newly cheap compute.

Deepmind and others are actually making new methods but by and large are remixes of those same old approaches.

The majority of different research out there trying other approaches (Numenta, OpenCog, Causal Calculus, anything Schmidhuber etc...) don't really get any love because it doesn't fit within the mass tensorflow/torch framework.

[1]https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1349387455552745473
Peter Mulvey Performs Vlad the Astrophysicist
Ahem. A couple addendums, if I may:
LSD has no measurable long term side effects - the myth that it makes people go crazy came out of the fact that our can make you feel crazy.
Kratom is not an opioid. to qualify as an opioid, you must be derived from opium.
Cocaine is not nearly as dangerous as alcohol. It is, perhaps, easier to indulge in cocaine to excess, but people on it are not nearly as likely to do things that will kill them. take a look at DUI vs DWI deaths. Also, long term alcohol abuse is more toxic than long term cocaine use.

Generally, though, you're kind of on the right track. Alcohol is the absolute worst. I might also add to the conversation that making something illegal doesn't reduce it's use.
> why Facebook is continuously given a free pass

Because there's good (or at least neutral) stuff mixed in with the bad stuff. The problem with every free-speech alternative to a heavily moderated forum is that it always ends up being 100% anger: there's never anything lighthearted to point to to defend it.
That doesn't sound very impressive, my Fitbit Charge 3 lasts a week or two easily.
That's not what happened with Parler. They were boycotted by their vendors.
propaganda is the oldest trick in the book, goes all the way back to the first civilizations.

I once found this stellar talk on YouTube about the history of the NSA up from the cabinet noir days in ww1. What was particularly interesting to me is that you can look at ww1 propaganda efforts and show hard numbers that they're extremely effective at changing viewpoints.
Of course you can. In fact, the user included a not- particularly upgradable or reparable Intel Macbook in the comparison.

Compile times and upgradeability/reparability are not mutually exclusive.

It is not wrong to highlight the tradeoff. But people are allowed to decide "I want to give up reparability for nearly 5x faster compiles." Which is what the person got when comparing to the prior generation Macbook with the same compiler.
Your post resonates so much with me that I created an account just to reply.

I also have trouble building meaningful relationships with people. I know exactly what you mean when you say that it makes you feel alone even when you're around people and that it saps all color from life. Recently, I have also made the connection to me moving around a lot as a kid. I think this might have subconsciously taught me that people come and go and so it's not worth it to invest time and effort into building relationships with them. I was also an outcast in middle school and even though I didn't really mind then I now believe that I built up a thick shell around myself during that time.

Can you say more about your efforts to be more forthcoming and open? I have tried that, but I'm constantly worried about oversharing. I have to consciously assure myself that I'm allowed to talk about myself. Part of the problem seems to be that I can't help but feel like the people that I think of as good friends see me as more of an acquaintance.
Maybe my sense of terminology is warped, but I always thought of

DataEngineer = DataJanitor
∪ MlEngineer
∪ MlOps
∪ BusinessAnalyst

Data Scientist is more like some combination of statistician, "whatever ML is if it isn't statistics", lighweight mathematician, data janitor (yes there is overlap), business domain specialist, and code monkey.
I think what the OP had in mind and what is actually common in Europe is "contracting". It's basically a full-time position, but you're brought in as an independent company (mostly to circumvent labor laws and sometimes tax laws as well) and not an employee. It's all basically a widespread scam to work around dysfunctional laws. BTW job sites in UK even the the "permanent employee/contractor" toggle for searching through full-time positions.
Do you have any references to those materials? Would love to read up on some more academic takes.
The Republicans killed the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017 after the Democrats killed the filibuster for all other judicial nominations in 2013.
Would make a really neat desk clock too!
I bought my Tesla used. They still make the battery.

Longer term, I don't think that the economics of ICE cars will beat battery cars any more than the economics of horses beat cars. It is no more difficult to continue to make batteries available than transmissions.

We're still in the first decade of practical electric cars, and the 11th decade of ICE cars. It won't happen for a while.
But also "The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."