skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt very much the face-value interpretation here is accurate, but it's also a good reminder about the eggs vs. baskets rule.

I use a lot of Apple products and services, but if Apple did this to me it would be at worst an inconvenience. Nothing existential requires my Apple account. They don't, for example, handle my email; I prefer Dropbox to iCloud; etc.

It's not just an Apple thing. Google chicanery could hit someone much harder, given how many more folks depend on Google for email. It's a great time to review your own services and products, and figure out if you have any "portfolio killer" dependencies.
So you do understand taboos, you just wanted to signal how rational and strong minded you are, unlike me for example, by claiming it’s so bizarre you don’t even get it.

You sound like a really great person.
I understand there is a difference. I’m saying I think the ideas being cancelled are actually just the kind of garbage ideas that don’t have merit but do cause harm. Do you think that anti-trans beliefs are going to be a source of intellectual progress? Because i’d argue that the deconstruction of the gender binary IS the kind of transformative idea that some people in this thread are saying is being stifled. Is the group of young people refusing to buy jk rowling’s next work the ones crushing an idea to maintain social order, or are they the iconoclasts breaking down the old ways with radical ideas? I’d say the latter, but...
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c
> But he obviously misjudged his audience and caused them more harm than good with his words, even if he had the best intentions behind them

He said that people should not punish 15 year old for something she said said offhand, when she was 12 years old. How is that causing more harm than good ?
I've known people who received huge bills where it was the billing companies fault (such as a bad meter for utility service). On autopay, it would have been a real chore to claw back the amount overpaid.
What is very funny is that he was the architect of the laws that allows police to tap phones lines with very little oversight and proof.

This guy did very bad to lead us to the current privacy hostile world we are in, profiting of his power for personal gain.

So it is well deserved, and sadly probably too little!
agreed it would be nice if the markdown just generated a standard svg that you could then edit, or even just an html canvas where you can drag them around a bit more and add some color before exporting as an image
You're being sarcastic, correct? (these days it's hard to tell)

Dicaprio plays a brutal slave owner in that movie.
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probably more than I'd like to think. I'm sure there are a lot.
I suspect vcpkg is the choice they made, it will/does have support for private and binary repo's too
The best teams IMO have about a 10/10/80 split between people who do great work and know it, people who do great work and don't know it, and people who don't do great work (caveat: they should do ACCEPTABLE work) but are aware of their limitations. There's only so much work that you want your talent to be doing and you can try and keep the major touch points to your power players, and then you try to silo off the drudgery to the folks who are happy to have something hard to fail at. The personality type of the good-and-knows-it tends to need to be offset by the humble good-but-unsure types. Heaven forbid you get even one worker who can crank out productivity like no tomorrow and claims to be doing good work because in a vacuum everything is functional but they optimize only to close tasks and leave the system in total disrepair. It takes literal years to clean up some messes, and from experience I tend to prefer working with people who adhere to N > quality(output) > 0 over those at |quality(output)| > N.

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> Shouldn't that be a huge red flag? Any time someone offers something too good to be true, it never is

does that include the free tiers that many US companies are offering?

For example: Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
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The shuttle required refurbishments on the thermal protection system. Every single one had to be inspected.

The engines also required refurbishment.

The boosters had to be fished out of the ocean. Those same boosters that used solid fuel and that could not (and cannot) be shutdown in case of issues. And the Shuttle happened to have two of them, with a decent moment arm on each, so a solid booster failure (even a partial one, with less thrust than expected) meant a mission failure. They had to be highly scrutinized. Given that the Shuttle was also a jobs program, they were built in segments, to allow for transport across long distances. So the o-ring seals were also problematic.

All in all, the Shuttle was very brittle. If they could have been mass-produced, it would have probably been more economical to just throw them away on every flight and rely on economies of scale. At least, that way, one would only have to account for manufacturing issues, not every conceivable stress that could happen during a mission.
> There were 1,619 registrations of Tesla’s battery-electric vehicles in 18 key European markets in January,

1600 cars? In an entire month? Across most of the EU? Isn't that a tiny rounding error for a continent with 280,000,000 cars?
Then this article becomes trivial. Imagine we discussed running, no one would argue that your running speed is fixed, most people agree that one can vary the speed at which they run even though it is perfectly well understood that there is a maximum speed they can do so and a minimum speed. And just like running, the maximum speed that I can run is not a single well defined value. It depends on whether I am running a marathon or a sprint.

Similarly with thinking, I can vary the speed at which I'm thinking depending on whether I am playing bullet chess, speed chess or standard chess. Certainly when playing bullet chess, just like running a sprint, I am operating at my peak speed, but that speed is not sustainable for long periods of time and it's inefficient in terms of energy use, so I get burned out if I have to engage it for a long time.

If I'm running a marathon or thinking about a problem that requires deep and intense focus, I stop operating at my peak speed and instead operate at a long term sustainable speed.

This is the kind of variation that this article misses when it says that our thinking is fixed. It's anything but fixed, it's a fairly complex and poorly understood trade-off.
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Let him (or her) who is not sometimes an asshole cast the first stone...
Someone from outside the US will probably worry more about its history of backing coups than the domestic problems you mentioned. If the US puts a Pinochet in my country and their algorithms say I'm likely to be a communist sympathizer, am I at risk?
It's much more sophisticated! It might be very powerful to have some wordsmith support in the authoring of the text, for example, in the org-mode of emacs, especially, the collapse (folding) of sub-trees.
> I think it's presumptuous to assume "it's okay to backslide" was part of that comment.

I wasn't assuming or presuming, I was asking.

> What/when are we backsliding from? There was never some 'golden age' where comments anathema to the culture at large wouldn't have consequences.

We're not just talking about comments that are "anathema to the culture at large", we're often talking about comments that offend only about 10% of the population. Things like "citing a celebrated academic's work on the efficacy of nonviolent protest" or "quoting a black man who wished more attention was paid to other issues in his community [besides police violence]" or "accidentally making the 'ok' gesture". With that out of the way, to answer your question more broadly, it has been rare in my life for people to be terminated even for quite controversial speech, and certainly not due to explicit pressure from large, often coordinated groups of strangers. If you were the public face of a company you were expected to steer clear of controversy, but ordinary people didn't need to fear a loss of income or access to healthcare.

The worst of it was during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars when it was controversial to be seen as unpatriotic, but even then I think ordinary people were mostly insulated from the effects (i.e., it was "punching up"), the effects weren't especially chilling, and society quickly rallied around shared free-speech values and righted itself. For what it's worth, I don't think conservatives 15 years ago were morally better than today's woke progressives; rather, I think the difference is social media (notably, conservatives canceled Colin Kaepernick almost immediately after social media cancelation came into existence).

> It's called sensitivity, not censorship.

I didn't call it censorship?

> Pursuant to the article, I don't really consider it backsliding if authors are now having second thoughts about writing from cultural perspectives other than their own.

I've never found "ends justify the means" arguments to be very compelling, personally.

> And you may miss the mark, and there will be consequences

One problem with cancel culture is that there are consequences even if your speech is perfectly correct and moral, e.g., advocating for nonviolent protest. It turns out people with few scruples about canceling also tend to lack scruples about whom they target. And to be clear, "consequences" aren't "you've offended someone and now they won't speak with you"; rather, they're "you've offended someone and now they've rounded up a hundred people to harass your employer into firing you with the express purposes of making an example out of you for other would-be non-conformists".

> I would contend consequences now are the weakest they have ever been.

I strongly disagree. Worse by far than any time in my memory.
I understand taboos that make sense. I have no idea why some of these taboos are a thing.

I also don't have idea idea why im supposed to care about an attack on my person.
>Why is it not OK to expect that everybody does great work?

Because the ways in which this usually manifests is "hurry up" culture. How is "great work" measured and what is the manager's responsibility for assigning/distributing work that is appropriate to each employee?
> So in the end, he still blamed those teenagers. Has he learned nothing?

What should he have learned?
Ah, sorry, I meant ARM
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60ish sounds right, though with Ethernet it's going to be padded to a minimum 64 bytes regardless. Might not matter depending what your bottleneck link actually uses though.
But it's not just those under the drinking age who were offended. If you read the whole story it sounds like he was fired in part because some of his black colleagues at the New York Times also said they were offended and that they would no longer be willing to work with him.
The US and China pretty much covers the mobile market (and what's not covered is still not European).

Remember when this was the other way around? How did we come to this in ~two decades?
If society agrees to give $100 to the military you have no say in how they spend it.

If society agrees to give $100 to Steve then you have no say in how that move is spent.

If you think it's better not to give to Steve anything and you lobby to change the law and are successful. When Andre is affected by this change he decides to make up the difference by breaking into your place and killing you. At least Steve doesn't have his hookers right?
The Lyra examples are way harder to understand than the rest of them though. It injects sounds that wasn't there.

It sounds like he said "Someuve" instead of the "Some" clearly audible in the other versions.
So... your strategy to achieve detente is to inflame and justify hatred of people in rural areas? You're extrapolating a personal anecdote in order to stereotype millions of people. It's hard to see how that is anything but destructive.

I'm sorry that you've had to go through those experiences, but not everyone rural or Christian is like that, and it's very harmful to characterize them that way. It's not accurate to stereotype Christians as hateful any more than it's accurate to stereotype Muslims as supporting terrorism. They are extremely diverse groups with some truly bad subgroups, but also some good ones, and most subgroups are in-between. The extremes aren't representative of the group as a whole.
That's the nowadays common association, yes.
Figured it out! That was not super intuitive, but I've got it now.
I don’t think this is true. I personally think of it as “going sicko mode”, and it’s the difference between writing as fast as I can for 2 hours straight during an exam, and putting in half as much effort during an entire work day. I can think way harder under pressure. One of the most influential things anyone ever said to me was pointing out how much slower I am during normal work than a high pressure situation. I could write 1000 words in the time between waking up and getting out of bed if I could go sicko mode at will.
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Apart from the external dangers described (social, environmental), which I'm sure many will disagree with on multiple grounds, the article in general raises some very good points about the internal dangers these models pose to the field of NLP itself:

> The problem is, if one side of the communication does not have meaning, then the comprehension of the
implicit meaning is an illusion arising from our singular human
understanding of language (independent of the model). Contrary to how it may seem when we observe its output, an LM is a system
for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms
it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic
information about how they combine, but without any reference to
meaning: a stochastic parrot.

> However, from
the perspective of work on language technology, it is far from clear
that all of the effort being put into using large LMs to ‘beat’ tasks
designed to test natural language understanding, and all of the
effort to create new such tasks, once the existing ones have been
bulldozed by the LMs, brings us any closer to long-term goals of
general language understanding systems. If a large LM, endowed
with hundreds of billions of parameters and trained on a very large
dataset, can manipulate linguistic form well enough to cheat its
way through tests meant to require language understanding, have
we learned anything of value about how to build machine language
understanding or have we been led down the garden path?
honestly, if you aren't able to write an accurate perspective on something - I would rather see someone not try and write on something they don't know then make a half-assed attempt from info off the top of their head. at best they just write something inaccurate, at worse the perpetuate harmful preconceptions

not saying don't write about things only you have experience with, just do some research before
Sibling comments are talking about "good types need fewer tests, yada yada" which is somewhat subjective (although I happen to agree with it).

More objectively, a dependent type system (like Idris, Coq, Agda etc.) is a test framework, since it can run arbitrary code.

Instead of writing tests as booleans, with 'true' for pass and 'false' for fail, we write them as types, with the unit type for pass ('()' in Idris) and the empty type for fail ('Void' in Idris), e.g. see this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567404

Of course, we can do the usual monad/effect-system tricks to implement a 'throw TestFailException' API on top of that, if we prefer.
the 3kbps example here with the 'bread with chocolate filling inside' video is frankly amazing, how good it is compared to the original.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-...

It is unfortunate that for now this appears to be proprietary, closed source and being treated as a google competitive advantage over others, unlike opus which is fully open.
> But the constant drumbeat of unfairness and victimhood is a counterproductive tactic in the policymaking process.

I don't get it, do you think the system is fair? Do you think it's fine to have so many homeless people in the US because they were given a fair chance? Do you think it's fair that you can go bankrupt due to a medical issue?
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There was a British guy called Tim Berners-Lee who did something in that field ... just can't remember the details now.
The price sounds good for the spec. But what do I do with 8 GB RAM and 200 GB disk to run an irc client, a minimal Web server and maybe an ssh jumpbox? They happily run with 1 - 2 GB RAM and 10 GB disk.

On the non-quantitive side I really prefer to run ARM over ugly Intel.
scary to think of the carbon emissions this bug has generated over the years.
Security is not a feature of the language or tool. Neither Rust nor C++ are fully secured even though the former could find more memory safety problems at compile time (but not all of them).

Security is the process. It contains continuous risk assessment, penetration testing, fuzzing and using various other tools throughout the product development to eliminate attack vectors. Only then you could build a secured product. Just rewriting everything in Rust won't make it.
Knowing that hckrnews.com exists helps me, too. I use HN's built-in "no procrastination" feature to prevent checking too often throughout the day,
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std::sort is the poster child that is supposed to demonstrate the power of C++ templates. When in fact it is awkward to use (as an infrequent user of C++, why can't I never seem to remember how to wrap / make the comparison object?) and more importantly, sort performance is most often completely irrelevant to the performance of a program.

And when it's not irrelevant, it's almost 100% certain that std::sort is not the right thing to use. Where it matters, it's probably possible to examine the context a little more closely and come up with a custom sort that runs in O(n) or at least faster than std::sort.
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What will they remove next, "Uncle Tom's cabin"??!
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That certainly is the most recent attempt. They've had projects of one sort or another going back at least as far as 2013 from mentions in public blog posts but so far none of them seem to have got much traction with the community. Here's hoping it works this time?
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But how can one prove whether a third party stores something? Especially if it's the IP address that it must receive anyway.
Microsoft also just announced a 6kbps advanced audio codec:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
This situation is very similar to what caused the chief communications officer at Netflix to get fired: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/business/media/jonathan-f...