skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a farce. Everyone with a pulse can see the damage that Facebook has caused to our democracy and around the world. Facebook employees have a black stain on their resumes that they will need to answer for for the rest of their careers.
How about “fuel for the fire”
Other numeral systems existed before the Roman. Etruscan for instance.
There's a lot of diversity in software. Windows is quite different from GNU/Linux, for instance. There's quite a lot of diversity in the major programming languages.

If you want something really different, whether in operating systems or programming languages, you have it. KolibriOS and Haskell, say.
In the beginnings and first few years the revolution was supported, but relations cooled by 1984.

https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-soviet-union-and-t...
It's ok to kiss your spouse but not a stranger. It's ok to punch someone who punched you but dont go to a kindergarten and start punching kids.

"Arbitrary criteria" describes all norms.
The free and opensource https://inkscape.org/ is a great altrenative to Illustrator. More here - https://logosbynick.com/illustrator-vs-inkscape/ for those interested.
Look at Canada, we're spending tax $ on health care per capita each year, yet wait times & outcome success has plateued.

This is about more than 'free markets', it's arguably more about regulatory capture by the major entities in health care.

The health care industry is hand in hand with education as top of the 'scam index' industries.

Yet criticism of health care is relatively 'off limits', and there's low competitive incentive to correct/draw attention to this.

'e.g. you're evil for wanting more efficient health care: why? doctors/nurses are already overworked & efficiency will mean jobs cuts of those at the lowest rung'
it's centralized in both directions. Small development team and small group of powerful miners.
I truly love this exchange.

Any rational person, upon hearing a suggestion that Jews are responsible for starting forest fires by using laser beams from space, would quite naturally dismiss the claim as nonsense. And the claim is so ludicrous on its face that a rational person would, quite justifiably, assume that it could only ever be offered as a strawman.

Yet, here we are--with a duly elected congresswoman of the United States House of Representatives subscribing to (or at least passively entertaining) said strawman.

There are, perhaps, too many well-intentioned, good-natured, level-headed people out there who are simply far too sheltered from the outright insanity that is permeating throughout our society. They are far too quick to assume that human nature tends toward the same pursuits of truth, justice, and liberty which they value--and that merely offering a level playing field for ideas to compete will inevitably result in the triumph of those which are most noble.

While this bright-eyed and bushy-tailed approach to life is certainly tempting to adopt, it is quite disconnected from the world around us. Rationality and competence are under siege by people who do not adhere to an evidence-based view of reality. One cannot be reasonable with unreasonable people. Moderation and ostracization are perfectly valid tools for dealing with such individuals.
>the damage that Facebook has caused to our democracy

What damage is that?

Edit: Examples of causing damage to democracy would include things like stopping people from voting by force, hacking voting machines, etc. Facebook has not done anything of the sort. Or is it that when you say "our democracy", you just mean "the United States"? If that's the case, well... that's a big argument that probably inevitably boils down to preferences rather than anything people can agree on for logical reasons.
This is surprising. I'd have thought execs would claim FB is indeed root cause. And then in repeat of vigorous e-protest employees would again skip desserts after finishing off company provided gourmet lunches.
Of course, and my point is that it's perfectly fine, and even desirable, as better models lead to better outcomes.

Of course, for cases where explainability is needed, either required by law (such as banking), or by common sense, then black boxes will not be deployed.
Cardano is a whole slew of different issues lol
China urges Australia to close offshore detention centres
When your "counter-culture" comprises the ideology of half of your country, is based on a traditional religious and cultural status quo, and is the doctrine one of your two political parties, it is not in any conceivable way counter-culture. It is simply the death-throes of the establishment desperately trying to maintain its credibility and relevance in the face of changing demographics.
If you can do a LEFT OUTER JOIN I don't see that there's any benefit in being able to do RIGHT OUTER JOIN - surely you can change the table order yourself?

It looks like you can emulate FULL OUTER JOIN by doing a UNION between two LEFT joins, see https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-full-outer-join/
If the creator of VSCode Pets truly wants to embrace the goofy-90's-desktop-toy aesthetic, they should add a "Boss Button" that immediately hides the dogs and replaces it with a complicated-looking fake YAML.
Korean shop keepers that had to defend their shops with guns during the LA riots.
> Social media is no longer authentic

Has it ever been? Well, maybe before it got called 'social'.
He's referring to the Korean population in Los Angeles who took up rifles and went onto the rooftops of their businesses to defend against the looting, rioting, and murdering mob. This happened during the L.A. riots, 30 years ago.
No. Process isolation still works, assuming your CPU is not broken. The real mitigation is that going forwards, you have to assume that any attacker-controlled code always has full read access to the entire process it runs in, and you need to architect your systems so that this does not result in any bad things. It is entirely possible to do this.

You can still have branch prediction and caches, which is a very good thing, because not having those would cut the performance of modern CPUs to less than 1% of what it currently is.
Hertz finally able to exonerate man of murder due to 'advances in data search'
How are you distinguishing causation from correlation as it pertains to wealth inequality and monetarty policy?
Do you think pure nitrogen would work in this situation?
Why are you guys saying put off
Horse chestnuts and chestnuts are different genera, though both have "American" and "European" species. The American horse chestnut is often called the "buckeye". The nuts are vaguely reminiscent of each other, but the horse chestnuts and real chestnuts aren't closely related.

This may seem pedantic, but it's sort of important, as real chestnuts are edible (and delicious), while horse chestnuts are toxic to human beings.
> that the developers have very significant control on the blockchain

The case for BTC in this regard is no different from ETH. In both cases developers put together an upgrade, then miners can either upgrade or not.
Yes, exactly.

(The Triangulum Galaxy, M33, can sometimes be seen; at ~ 3 million light years, it’s further away and thus an even older “snapshot” than Andromeda.)
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads...

Asians defending their shops from their shop roofs with guns during the LA riots.
because the author of this article didn't cite the source:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/11/eabd1239
What is going on with the incredibly hostile tone in the article? As far as I’m aware, cosmologists are working hard to actually find answers and would be happy about any result that holds up.
I'm always confused by this discourse, because my Facebook feed is stream a bunch of vacation and baby photos, while my Twitter, no matter how hard I try to curate it, is a toxic cesspool of political vitriol. Why are we even talking about facebook?
GPT-3 has a habit of repeating its input. GPT-2 had the same problem, as did all language models before. LSTMs were really bad in this respect and would often get stuck in single word loops. GPT-3 just does it less often, and tends to repeat sentences or ideas, rather than single words.

A larger corpus and more training seemed to have helped reduce the issue, and I think they tweaked the temperature algorithms as well (I think top-p is an option now, whereas most language models used top-k historically).

In my experience GPT repeats itself more often when it doesn't understand the prompt. I mean, if you don't understand _anything_ about an input sequence, what is the most likely next word? One of the previously used words.

It's likely that the following occurs: Given the phrase "1+1=? ", the first layer assigns a baseline probability to "1", "+", "=", and "?", because those occur in the input and its a good fallback. But then the layers after recognize the input as a math equation and quickly assign a high probability to "2". Since the probability on "2" is so high the temperature algorithm always picks "2" as the output token.

But if we imagine GPT doesn't understand math, then all the layers after the first have no clue what the input is. They can't assign higher probability to anything. They might make a few weak guesses, say "duck". But it isn't confident in them, so really "duck" is as likely as "1". The temperature algorithm then has a fairly decent chance of selecting "1" as the output token. Now GPT is given "1+1=? 1" and it seems like "+" is the next logical token. "1+1=? 1+". And so forth until it GPT is stuck in self reinforcing a loop saying "1+1=? 1+1=? 1+1=? 1+1=?" etc.

Funny thing is, it's not like humans don't do this. When you get asked a hard question that you don't have an answer for, don't you find yourself repeating the question to yourself over and over again, hoping you'll better understand it? I'm not necessarily creating a parallel between that behavior and GPT's behavior. Just food for thought, I suppose.
because LAPD is famously corrupt and racist. They took an equal opportunity stance during the Rodney King riots; they couldn't beat up the Koreans so LAPD decided to go MIA and not defend taxpayers' property.
I'm no physicist but it seems like large things like galaxies should tend to rotate simply by the universal expansion analog to the Coriolis effect. Is there a pattern to the rotation that could confirm or reject that?
I'm not an expert in Computer Theory but other people proved Bitcoin and Bitcoin Script are Turing Complete:

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3160279

[2] https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-script-is-turing-complete-scryp...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6j-11H2O7c
For cases like this I think consistent enforcement is the most important thing.

In the short term it may sound great that a lot of companies are erring on the side of caution and not using the data, when perhaps they could.

But if there's no enforcement this gives a huge competitive advantage to companies who just don't care at all. They might crowd out the former set. If such companies were not erring on the side of caution, and using some data in a natural way like they used to rather than avoiding it like the plague, they may provide competitive pressure against this dishonest set.

It is a lot like paying taxes. If I am an honest small business owner who pays my taxes but my competitors in the field are known for underhanded cash schemes that dodge tax, I'm not going to last long. I need the law to go after them or I'm done unless I start playing the same game. After dabbling in a small business compliance can be a real killer and it's my honest opinion a lot of people just play it dumb except where they know it matters, and hope for the best.
Yeah I got the 2014 MBP and was thinking of getting a new battery for it rather than replacing the whole laptop. Very nice machine.
It absolutely happens for some organizations. There's industries around it.

And anyway, seems like good practice, and shouldn't be hard to do, and should fit with workflows already familiar from work.

What would be bad practice is to give less-trusted devices (e.g., Linux development phones, or some disposable PC on which I had to install some sketchy software) access to all my files and backups.

Using git this way might be a simple (given we have to know git anyway) way to give the goodness of backups and selectively syncing various kinds of files both ways with the less-trusted devices.
If you spend enough time in physics grad school its very easy to end up feeling that way. I personally loved the tone of the article.
I agree. I also have had a strange feeling my last few travels though. There is a pervasive sameness. Even in more traditional parts of India, Mexico. Obviously in places like the US, Western Europe, Canada. Once I step out of the temple, or get off the horse in the remote village, there’s this familiarity. I think an example is what I now think of as “the uniform”: sneakers, jeans, a t shirt with a brand on it. 9 to 5 jobs and democratic governments. Many similar problems, relationships. Obviously there are huge differences in so many fundamental ways, even the ones I mention. But it’s the thread of truth you find in controversial books like The End of History. Globalization is real. The conquest of capitalism and the dream of liberal democracy is far reaching.
> You're setting me up in judgement of you, and I decline.

No, you can have whatever beliefs you want. But Christianity's beliefs are codified in the bible, and you seem to disagree with what the bible says.

In my mind, you're not really a Christian, but obviously in your mind you can be whatever you want.

> John 1:9-1:11

> Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

This is in the bible. According to Jesus, you should not greet me and by doing so you have taken part in my wicked works.

> Revelations 21:8

> But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

This part of the bible says that since I am faithless, I am as bad as a murderer or rapist, and I belong in lakes of fire and sulfur.

You clearly denounce these parts of the scripture. How can you call yourself Christian and still disagree with these core beliefs of Christianity?
It does for less regulated markets, which is why you get those promotional mailers with promotional prices on LASIC or teeth whitening.

Medical lobby benefits from high barriers to entry, suppressed competition (from foreign doctors or medical tourism companies able to fly their customers abroad) and opaque pricing. Uninformed consumer forced to shop locally is rarely able to extract best pricing.

You can look at the annual fear-mongering fairs where medical lobby has been attempting to insert itself as a rent-seeker into kidney dialysis services in California. It's not like those industries are run by altruists, but on TV concerned serious faces in white coats would tell you in alarmist tones how those centers are run without professional supervision and people with no medical training, but when you vote properly, some [highly paid] individual with medical credentials would make things so much better [albeit more expensive in the long run].
Finders keepers
It's not about making it deflationary, that's just a side effect of needing to burn the fees for the fee stabilization mechanism. I forget the details exactly, but if you don't burn them then miners can still do funny business.
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you quickly submerged the burning metal into a very large body of water?
I think anonymity or pseudonymity is the differentiator here. Things like Facebook have never been authentic because they're so welded to your personal identity, if your colleagues and family can find you then I think you're always going to be posting through a mask.
Magna has no ‘intrinsic value’, 1941
Well yeah if I said "bacon was made to be eaten" in disdain to vegetarians, Hindus, Muslims, and Jews that would get essentially the same reaction because it is essentially wrongly invalidating others by deliberate exclusion.
> if you buy the right ones

No offense but that's true of everything and incredibly unhelpful. As others have pointed out, you can't rely on name brand or even product line.

This isn't an issue isolated to Pis either, GoPros, among other devices, are notorious for eating microSD cards as well.
Probably because Twitter has actively wooed journalists by giving them easy access to verification, greater prominence on the platform, and helping to supply them with an endless source for stories (helped by the fact that it's inherently much more public than Facebook posts). Also, a lot of the political vitriol on there is in aid of causes the journalists support.
any approach that is so obviously alien to it is unlikely to be a good approach

Computers very frequently do not solve problems the same way humans do, so I'm not sure that's a significant point against any particular modeling technique.

Otherwise, if you're waiting for language models to understand language he same way that human minds do, you're probably waiting for AGI, not any particular breakthrough in NLP alone.
Speech is action, the whole point of many words is to perform an action.
It is not a 'broken mess'. It is an 'engineered mess'. The difference is in intent.
All countries underestimate the health and environmental impacts of their military actions and experiments.

There is a part of secret because they are military operations and they are not keen on realising information (that's very true in France). Another aspect is to avoid political and public backlash against military actions and experiments. And, of course, the last aspect is financial because acknowledging the impact and its scale might be very costly in compensation.

Apart from underestimating another tactic is not to look into alleged issues at all. If there are no data there is no need to underestimate anything! A good example of that is the so-called 'Gulf War Syndrome'.
Maybe you overestimate the amount of time you save? Ive definitely noticed that when i get a something thats a time saver, i tend to overestimate how much time it saved, maybe its more that mental load of not having to worry about it.
It addresses the rate of galactic spin, but does that explain the bullet cluster?
That kind of thing happens no?

US based companies are subject to EU privacy laws if they want to operate in EU. Facebook and Google both had to make huge infrastructure investments to comply with the GDPR.

The US fined US based tech companies for not complying with US age restrictions in the past as well.

There isn't anything controversial here. US government makes laws for US citizens and US based companies. Same with every other country on the planet.
It's really unfortunate. People hate elitism so much they will frame any achievement by somebody "humble" or in any way outside a perceived circle of experts as a triumph against assholes
"What is missing in the Parrot Paper are three critical elements: 1) acknowledgment that it is a position paper/advocacy piece rather than research, 2) explicit articulation of the critical presuppositions, and 3) explicit consideration of cost/benefit trade-offs rather than a mere recitation of potential "harms" as if benefits did not matter. To leave out these three elements is not good practice for either science or research."

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2101/2101.10098.pdf
> So how do they quote that when the complications can be unpredictable?

Then they should be ones buying “price insurance” to compensate them potentially exceeding the quoted costs. That also has the pleasant effect of aligning incentives so they can keep their costs accurate.
This response is fascinating to me, primarily because my personal preference is almost completely the opposite.

One thing that strikes me though: of the things you mentioned that you like about the touchbar, many of them don't necessarily need to live in that area of the keyboard.

I should also clarify one thing: I do like that the touchbar can visualize things in context (and I find the things you mentioned cool), but I wouldn't choose that over the physical keys.

For me, the perfect middle ground would be a bar above the function row that doesn't try to be both things. Or perhaps somewhere else entirely (to the right or left of the trackpad?)

> Perhaps those with larger hands can reach the function keys without disrupting their positioning. For me it is not possible.

This could be part of the issue as well. I can reach without issue, but I can understand why this doesn't work for everyone.
They have to reveal their prices now. It's part of a bill that the Trump administration passed in 2019: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/trump-releases-rule-requirin...

From the article:

> As of Jan. 1, hospitals must publicly reveal the negotiated rates reached with insurers for services, a landmark shift in the sector notoriously opaque when it comes to pricing. The data offer a peek behind the curtain, exposing prices long kept a secret.

The catch is that they can't guarantee what services you'll receive. If you have complications after your inpatient surgery, the price is going to be higher than the estimate due to additional services.
Yeah, but discord is centralized and comes with all the related problems. IRC you can host yourself and it's not really dead, being a protocol.
Absolutely! The more value you can provide the customer the better.
Except by that point you're dealing with a full laptop with proprietary drivers and, well, Windows itself.

There's a reason a Pi took off as the SBC of choice: How open it is and what it still can do without adding things to it.

If you're only looking at price tag when it comes to adding an SSD and a hat to compute module, the compute module concept was never for you in the first place.
Australia is very apathetic in general. "She'll be right" is basically our national motto and while it can be good for overcoming external adversity and natural disasters, I don't think it's serving us too well when dealing with internal human and political factors.
Yup, which shows that the healthcare system in the US is not even remotely a free market.
I know what the commonly used F-keys do for tasks I perform often. They are just as context-sensitive as the touch bar, except they don't display the action on the key. You're trading that display for tactile feedback that there's a key there you can press and that the key press was registered. Seems like putting a screen in the keyboard would satisfy both, but wouldn't satisfy the slider use cases.
I think we have more than ample proof of Big Tech companies blocking people not for abuse/bots but for expressing viewpoints that the platform management deems politically unacceptable. So let's not pretend that fighting bot abuse, spam, violent threats, etc. is the same as political censorship - the platforms can do one without the other, and actually have been doing it successfully up to about 2019, when they started increasingly censor by political views. And now political bans are pretty much commonplace. Once can pretend that it's all "fighting disinformation" and "preventing violence" but nobody is buying it anymore. It's political censorship, sometimes openly partisan censorship, and nothing more.
Honestly it's not really surprising, if you tell someone who's making 100k/year that starting from date X he'll make 10k/year he will most likely tell you to go to hell.
That's what this article is about. The prices must be revealed now:

> As of Jan. 1, hospitals must publicly reveal the negotiated rates reached with insurers for services, a landmark shift in the sector notoriously opaque when it comes to pricing. The data offer a peek behind the curtain, exposing prices long kept a secret.