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I think the important thing to take out of this situation isn't so much, "Every family needs to have a father," as it is, "Every community needs to be able to respond to the realities of its constituent family situations." Women's liberation ends with a net positive for a modern economy, but whenever norms are roiled, you have people caught in the confusion who fall through the cracks. I was a victim of a similar situation, where the leadership and curriculum of my major at my alma mater was in "transition" while I was attending; this meant spending entire courses on outdated technology or learning current standards from older professors who barey understood them themselves. There was nothing wrong with the new paradigms, but getting caught between the old and new was what squandered the potential of a lot of us.

Ideally, you forecast these shifts and make preparations, rather than being dragged into the future, as seems to be what happens with institutions responding to these civil rights social movements.

But I agree that support systems, rather than "grit" or "personal agency", are almost always the most important aspect of healthy development, in pretty much any arena. Teaching, job training, child rearing, legislation development, entrepreneurship, on an on, the failures happen when people decide or are expected to go it alone.
On the topic of intermediate variables, when I'm forced to use c89 I'm really shameless about introducing extra code blocks in the middle of other blocks. For example,

{int i; for(i=0; i<N; i++){
/**/
}}

Still bothersome but better than having to declare everything at the top of the function, IMO.
> I hope parents can be considerate, prepared, loving and financially stable before having children.

That's neither ethical, nor is it possible since reproduction is such a strong biological drive. However, what is possible, is having the government rethink social support, making sure that each member of society has a safety
net, and doesnt need to worry about getting his basic needs met (food, water, shelter etc). Basic income seems to be the best fit here.

This won't completely solve the problem, because food, shelter will not heal the attachment problems of some people (people also need companionship), but it will provide a stable base, that is a radical improvement on today's
status quo.
I've upvoted you. Your link is very slow, but seems useful as someone who doesn't want to mess around with js settings on the browser.

Is it slow because this site is, on demand, scraping a web page and returning it without js or something? That's pretty cool.
I cheaped out on some LEDs bulbs ("edison" form factor) and my biased opinion is that they mostly lasted about a year.

Bought some brand name ones recently and so far (~2 years) they are doing ok; I can't recall having replaced any since I bought them, but I only replace them when they're out. If there's room, I write in sharpie when I do it so I can see how long they go. My CFLs are often in the 5-8 year range.
Seems like the main trick is the return false in the shouldComponentUpdate. Effectively making it so that all HTML writes are banned.
> there are places for people with social brilliance, with both, and with neither. That's healthy

There are lots of socially brilliant people out there, it's what many of us spend at least 20 years of our lives practicing.

Why would being a brilliant socializer command the same salary that a brilliant engineer does?
Indeed, the Julia autodiff implementation linked above would look very similar in Nim as well.
Does compiling with cython decrease the ffi overhead of the calls into native code? My problems with numpy have always been that I have to make a lot of calls on small bits of data and the ffi overhead eats all my performance gains. If I put more logic on the native side and made fewer bigger calls it would be faster, but that often doesn't make sense, or is a slope where putting the logic unto native pulls a data structure over or another related bit of logic until I just have a tiny bit of python left.
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LED lights are quite reliable, it's their power supplies which die many times quicker than LEDs themselves.
I think Go is the closest. It's missing a consensus batteries included framework. At least, the last time I looked. But everything you need is there even if you gotta get it from multiple places. It will take longer to get started but what you end up with will be way better.

Java/Spring's magic is just as bad with annotations and XML, but you do get better performance and types. It'd be my second choice.
When taking a group of hundreds of millions of people with the same trait (such as their nationality), it’s easiest to compartmentalize and expect them all to think the same and behave the same. So when inevitably individuals or subcultures in that group have differences, it’s easiest to call it hypocritical.

I’ve been a European in American companies where saying “I don’t like that VP” in public would raise serious eyebrows, and I’ve been part of other American companies where saying “the VP Product is a fucking idiot” in public would make everyone laugh. It’s not the first time I hear GitHub fancies itself to be a bit edgy in culture, and I’m personally not into it, but it doesn’t make them hypocritical because some other guy you know, and you need to put in the same bucket, is different.
Blake Patterson has a beautiful tribute to No Man's Sky[1] done on an Amiga 1000 if anyone wants to see one in action. I really love his more recent Amiga retrospective[2] and he has a great Amiga 1000 photo album[3] too.

[1] - https://bytecellar.com/2018/03/14/a-planetary-anachronism-no...

[2] - https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-a...

[3] - https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/7215762159627...
1,000 is really really low. Could it be something to do with your socket position and how they dissipate heat?
whataboutism nothing more if you think the blm protests are the same as literal nazis marching the halls of our capitol you are lost.
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That is amazing and disgusting.
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When some of the first edison style LED bulbs came out by Philips (looked like bug lights since the bulb looked yellow when off) they cost $40 a bulb. I did purchase one and is still being used.
I'm not from the US so I thread hesitantly here.

But it seems to me that there is still a lot of energy from the population at large being devoted to politics, such as with the higher turnout in the last presidential election. When that starts to decline, such as when people just can't be bothered to vote, will be the real sign they no longer have faith in politics.

I think you are right regarding creativity – but that is the case across the West it seems to me.
As part of my research into AGI, which I believe hinges upon conscious reasoning and therefore conscious experience, I’ve read extensively about “Tulpas”, and interviewed a few people on a Tulpa discord.

First thing — this phenomena is predicted by the Attention-Schema theory of consciousness, which explicitly postulates that our brains generate not only our own consciousness, but also generate and attribute consciousness to external entities (whether people, animals, or as humans often do, inanimate objects whose activity seems deliberate).

Second thing — this phenomena has many analogues in other realms of human experience. Writers, particularly Stephen King, speak of how they let their characters do what their characters want to do, as if those characters have taken on agency in the writer’s own mind. There’s also the well known mental disorders of schizophrenia and dissociated identify disorder (formerly called multiple personalities). To the person experiencing a Tulpa, it is a feeling of having a sentient other inside your mind, with a mind of its own. They aren’t “parroting” imaginary friends, putting words into the Tulpa’’s mouth like a ventriloquist.

Last thing — Tulpas seem to have access to all a person’s memories and to be incapable of having their own separate ones. They do not seem to run as a “parallel” process. Moreover, practitioners often talk of “switching” who is “fronting”, i.e., of which consciousness is guiding concrete behavior of the body.

In short, this phenomena is real, and it is a fascinating topic for those interested in how the brain generates consciousness. Our brains seem hardwired to generate and attribute consciousness to not only ourselves, but to others. This “Theory of Mind”’ isn’t so controversial. What is more controversial is the claim of AST and the Tulpas, that these generated consciousnesses are just as real as the one we experience.

In other words, Frodo really is alive, even if only Tolkien spent enough time with him to develop into a short-term consciousness.

It won’t be long until we do the same with machines, and then GPT-3 is going to look laughably dumb.
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> If there's even a 5% chance of such an outcome, then we should be taking it seriously.

Even if it's 0.1% we should be taking it very seriously, given the magnitude of the negative outcome. In expected value terms it's large. And that's not a Pascal's mugging given the logical plausibility of the proposed mechanism.

At least the rhetoric of Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis suggests that they do take these concerns seriously, which is good. However there are far too many industry figures who shrug off and even ridicule the idea that there's a possible threat on the medium-term horizon.
Of course, but being single is also difficult without a job. Having two people gives you a second option.
It's relevant that has also been essentially 10 years of stagnation on the frameworks that Sketch is built on, i.e., AppKit, as Apple focuses on UIKit. In this case specifically Apple hasn't added best-in-class collaboration features to AppKit (or UIKit). I'm not sure whether it would have made a difference in Sketch vs. Figma, but the fact that they haven't has made it difficult for Sketch to compete, as Sketch's MO is leveraging Apple's built-in technologies.
A not-stale bot is needed here, that reacts on stale notifications. /s
This is exactly an area where government efficiency standards could help push the market forward (similar to CA in autos).
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Edit: Looks good now!
> Well, the problem is not some "open source culture", but GitHub. Github's specific open source culture, if you like.

Agreed.

But GitHub is also slowly fixing this.

For example the "Discussions" beta feature is enabled for specific repos. Here's it in action for the ImageMagick repo at https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions.

It's only available on a small subset of repos tho and it's something you can turn on and off at the repo level. I was given the option to enable it in my one of my repos, but it's a fairly new project with no discussions yet https://github.com/nickjj/flask-db/discussions.

I hope the Discussions feature becomes generally available soon.
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As it gains more followers, more investors and a higher value per coin, the media and regulatory assaults will continue to increase.
Does the author seem reasonable from this rant?
Kids who grew in foster care don't have dad nor mom. They are not product of divorce as much as lack of any parent at all.
There are plenty of junk LED bulbs on Amazon for instance. I got some Amazon Basic LED bulbs and a couple of them didn't even last a year.
> Even fact checkers are not immune to this and brand other news as true or false not based on facts but based on the political spin they favour.

Could you give an example?

> There are a few patently false lies on the internet which are taken as examples of fake news - but they have very few supporters.

How many do you consider "few"?

I can go to my local news site and read a story about the novel coronavirus and the majority of comments below the article are stating objectively false facts.

"It's just a flu"
"Hospitals are empty"
"The survival rate is 99.9%"
"Vaccines alter your DNA"

...and so on.

There is the conspiracy theory or cult called QAnon, which "includes in its belief system that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media."

One QAnon Gab group has more than 165,000 users. I don't think these are small numbers.
What does the future of open-source large neural nets look like? My understanding is GPT-3 takes ~600GB of GPU memory to run inference. Does an open source model just allow you a choice of a handful of cloud providers instead of one?
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How do you return them? Through the manufacturer or the store? Wouldn't the return window be passed so it is now a warranty claim, right?
It's also spyware, transmitting your usage without consent:

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/telemetry/
I also found the community active and welcoming. I also got a t-shirt. All of my issues were tagged. Unfortunately they weren't fixed, and the stale bot kept marking them as stale. It seemed to me like Gatsby developers were focusing the majority of their time on writing "fun" new features rather than fixing all the sharp edges and broken pipes of the complicated pile of old features.
I've just started using Eleventy for our site. For someone completely new to this it was bit difficult to start but once off the ground have started to love it. The best thing is if any feature is missing you can quickly write a plugin in javascript.
And this story gives an extra argument in favor of dynamic libraries as they make it easier to fix some bugs in compiled applications (except for games which check if someone messed with LD_PRELOAD).
Good. Bitcoin needs to die. It is destroying the planet while helping criminals, extortionists and scammers.
Without having measured it, I get the impression that LED lamp failure follows the typical "bathtub curve" and that all mine that have failed so far have been on the downhill slope at the start. These were various brands and odd shapes when LED bulbs were still immature.

Current "Feit Electric" bulbs - outfitted the house with them top to bottom when they were about 30 cents/bulb due to a government rebate + deep discount at Lowes, actually seem to live up to expectations. I'm not sure when I've last replaced one, and a big box of them bought later for spares (at about $1/bulb) is so far mostly unused.

The other thing is that even crappy LEDs with low efficiency and reliability save so much electricity that you come out ahead, compared to a 1000h incandescent, even if they do fail after 1000h as well. Maybe not better for the environment, but microeconomically OK.
Sure, I think there’s a lot of validity to digging into the psychological roots of this.

When we say it’s morons trying to feel smart, it’s really no different than what we say at the more civil level where we invalidate their concerns as a group and call them uneducated (the really dismissive ‘white college uneducated’ label). It’s a Scarlett letter that devalues your opinion or your existence.

In other words, calling them a moron (which I’ve done already) for believing in qanon is no different than calling them ‘not so smart, look no college degree’ when they bring up immigration policy concerns. What difference does it make to them at this point, or further, to us? They’ve been exiled from the discussion and they feel that way.

This will manifest in some way.
I think calling this a "wild-ass guess" undersells it a bit (either that or we have very different definitions of a WAG).Very well though-through and compelling case.

My biggest question is whether composable models are indeed the general case, which you say they confirmed as evidenced by the shift away from non-profit. It's certainly true for some domains, but I wonder if it's universal enough to enable the ecosystem you describe.
Show HN: Paint.wtf, a drawing game judged by OpenAI's zero-shot image classifier
We're really excited about CLIP[1], OpenAI's new zero-shot image classification model. We think it's going to power a ton of creative new products. But being inspired isn't as fun as being inspiring so this weekend our team[2] (and a friend[3]) built a drawing game powered by CLIP.

The concept is simple: you draw a prompt, we feed it into CLIP and calculate a score[4] based on how close it thinks your drawing is to the prompt, we keep track of a leaderboard for each prompt. Your goal: draw the best representation of the prompt, as judged by CLIP.

*Why it's so cool*

Two weeks ago, if you wanted to make a game like this you'd have to collect a huge dataset of images matching each prompt and train a custom model to learn what drawings of each of them looked like. This meant you'd need to limit it to simple concepts like "apple" or "fish" that you could find a sufficient number of images for. And adding in new prompts ones would be just as hard; you'd have to collect more data and train another model.

With CLIP this is unnecessary. We can feed it any prompt eg "a raccoon driving a tractor" and it performs marvelously without having to be trained on custom data at all. This is because, unlike traditional image classifiers, it uses the information from the text to sort the images into buckets (not just the pixels from the image) and like GPT-3 it has already seen enough text and images to be able to generalize to new combinations of those things.

It's a bit like vocabulary: if you know what a "drawing" is, you know what a "raccoon" is, you know what "driving" is, and you know what a "tractor" is, you don't have to have seen any "drawings of a raccoon driving a tractor" before to be able to identify them.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/clip/

[2] Roboflow, https://roboflow.com

[3] Erik from Booste, https://booste.io

[4] Full technical writeup in progress; check back later this week
That makes the very big assumption that the density of other things to hit doesn’t massively increase.
*Neat things we learned*

We posted the minimal working version on twitter yesterday afternoon and discovered a few things that led to v2 late last night:

* Surprisingly, CLIP can read! It was doing a good job of ranking the initial drawings but after a couple of hours of people poking at the model they discovered that the best way to get to the top of the leaderboard was to write the prompt with the paintbrush (or add text labels to their drawing). This wasn't the behavior we wanted so last night we updated our code to also compare each image against CLIP prompts like "handwritten text" and apply a penalty to their score based on how text-heavy CLIP thinks the image is. The leaderboards look a lot better after adding that feature and recalculating the scores.

* The Internet will be the Internet. If you put out a drawing tool there is a not-insignificant minority of people who will just draw dicks (and worse). Luckily, we were able to use CLIP to help with this too! We now run each image through a variety of prompts like "Illustration of racist symbols" and if the image scores highly we put it behind a [nsfw] blocker. We don't penalize their score but they tend to naturally end up towards the bottom of the leaderboard anyway.

* People have been spending a lot of time on it! We already have over 500 drawings in the first 12 hours and some people are creating some artistic masterpieces[5]. Follow @paintdotwtf on twitter; we'll be highlighting cool things we find over the next few days as people continue to experiment.

[5] https://twitter.com/sylviafysica/status/1351159548099391495?...
Other states are doing fine. CA already has the vaccines.

Thanks, Trump.
> - INSANE obsession for health. I hear that Americans are obsessed with health, but oh boy, have they looked into Japan. Small clinics are everywhere and they're always filled with anxious patients because they have a benign stomach pain or something. Physical checkup is mandatory for most companies. I also read that the fear of COVID in Japan is the strongest in the world, despite a relatively low infection/death number here. People are always talking about their health, and so is the national media. If you watch the Japanese TV, you'll also feel sick, simply because there's so much fear! Maybe this is good for public health overall, but I bet there's a certain mental toll.

Ah, this explains how the rapey, but criminally attractive, bisyounen love interest in my favorite Japanese love fiction always rushes the protagonist to the infirmary in schools at the slightest cough, missing valuable lessons, and at the approval of the teacher, for merely walking their on one's own ambulance would be too much of a risk, if one have recently caughed.

From what I understand, in the U.S.A. and U.K. schools also have an infirmary and a licensed nurse that works there. — here in the Netherlands, no such thing existed, and a simple cough or headache was certainly not a reason to miss lessons.
Because different patents might have vastly different value. If someone has invested a billion dollars to develop some new technology, they might want to benefit from it longer than someone who invested $10k. Yet, this scheme still allows the $10k investor to keep protecting his invention in case it's wildly successful.
Maybe you feel like you are being inclusive and warmhearted for praising soft skill vs 'teh codez skillz', but please also consider that tech and programming jobs is like the last refuge for people with high technical aptitude and perhaps less social soft skills regarding the meta political and expectation games, eg people somewhere on the autism spectrum.

Perhaps such interviews are overused but if the interview is purely soft, and about "sell yourself to me", you will also be biased towards some people.

I mean of course it's important to be able to work together in a pleasant way, but when someone's main strengths are in the technical aspects, they may like to be able to showcase that too. And yes of course in the age of high level frameworks and glued CRUD pruducts, some programming jobs are more social than technical. But not necessarily all.

And I'm seeing lots of this sentiment nowadays on social media, that all "allegedly" merit based nerdy "gatekeeping" is merely about white male privilege and hence not inclusive.
> The real problem isn't that space is getting full of our junk, but that our junk is in a very narrow band of orbits that we use for very specific missions: Sun synchronous polar orbits used by imaging satellites.

What's the significance of these orbits?
Question for people in the tech factory industry:
who has the coolest factories?

I love the Intel museum at their campus, but have
never been inside a Fab or even a computer assembly
factory (or automotive factory, etc). Closest I've
come is the place where they make all the Cape Cod Potato chips.

If you were to put together a world "most advanced factories" sightseeing tour, what would be on the list?