skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subtitle is

> Neurons might contain something incredible within them.

but the HN title right now is

> Neurons might contain something within them

I guess there's some intensifier filter that removes "AMAZING" and "INCREDIBLE!" and "10 REASONS YOU'LL BE SHOCKED". But I like to imagine that people previously thought that neurons were entirely hollow
Not if you treat automation as a first class citizen.
Reading this makes me happy. I almost read this as the door is open for more people to apply and work remote. That to me means someone who would have never considered working for SBA or moving to work there, can now be employed from anywhere there is internet.

Maybe this is how we revitalize towns that were wiped out by outsourcing the labor pool (read China manufacturing)?
>On their own though, right?

Yeah. When I ran a startup, you look for customers, but you also look at partnerships all the time to complement whatever you're doing. Sometimes the partnership finds you, and sometimes you find the partnership. You attend tradeshows and conferences. Sometimes your customers will point you at another company you should work with. That's all part of the market. People behind innovative technologies (inventors, and investors) are constantly looking to find ways for their tech to gain traction.

>They wanted someway to track things that would work really well together and bring bigger benefits than things could on their own.

OP is advocating for a top-down system where they can get a list of innovative technologies and just put them together like lego. It doesn't work that way. It's why a top-down command economy with a central authority doesn't work. There's a lot of trial and error (and failure) that happens at the bottom level and from the top, you just don't know what ultimately is worth expanding effort on and what is a waste of time. Any decision you make about what should go with what is going to be wrong. That's why the market is so powerful for innovation.
This is a very interesting claim. I find it credible because it stands to reason that projects like DeepSpeed[1] and TorchScript[2] wouldn't need to exist if inference performance of research PyTorch models was satisfactory for production, but often case it isn't.

It appears as though Flashlight is built on ArrayFire. I haven't seen how gradients are managed in arrayfire-ml, but perhaps it is the case that the autograd implementation in PyTorch was a bottleneck and this is a ground up approach.

Editing as I didn't address your second point. I can neither confirm or deny the motivations for creating Torch being related to FB's desire to depend on an Alphabet-managed codebase. I know there are lots of reasons why programmers prefer the UX of the PyTorch Python API (I do as well), and there are probably other reasons I can't recall off the top of my head. I am only saying that PyTorch is contributing to the ML ecosystem already by the sole virtue that it isn't a Google product.

[1] = https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed
[2] = https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/jit.html
Surely they'd be happy to opt-in to FLoC.
Q2 2020 through Q1 2021 achieved the specified goal.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/715421/tesla-quarterly-v...
The house is obviously overvalued in dollars, compared to that same house to a world where construction was happening.

Unless you mean to tell me that the cost of housing is the same regardless of whether or not construction is happening... (Which would be a truly odd claim.)
That assumes the potentially chaotically turbulent, expanding blast of exhaust gas propelling these rocks only imparts a single instantaneous linear impulse. It's possible some rock fragments might be kicked up from the surface, and then accelerated laterally away from the landing site by the gas cloud.
Cmon, this is as backward as the "do not track" header... asking websites to explicitly opt out... in order to protect users from the users's own browser!?

No, just don't build stupid things into browsers.
This is not the site for jokes, sarcasm, snark comments etc. I learned the hard way. Only serious facts and discussions...
FBI cleans web shells from hacked Exchange servers in rare active defense move
I feel like this ship sailed many many decades (centuries?) ago. Pretty much any store aside from small mom-and-pops will have their own brand of commodity items that they sell alongside third-party brands. Complaints about those seem to be pretty rare.

I think the difference is that the playing field is more level. Most stores that I've seen won't make it harder to buy the name-brand version or easier to buy the store-brand version (aside from the store brand often being cheaper). They tend not to really market the store brand, so the name-brand version generally has advertising behind it and is often seen as superior, even when it really isn't. The two versions sit side-by-side on the shelves without preferential placement to either.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon gives preferential treatment in search results to stuff that gives them a better margin, regardless of whether or not it's a better product or a better value.

I don't necessarily agree that they wouldn't sell outside their own store, though. I generally look at the store brand as the usually-cheaper "generic brand". For example, if I'm looking for cold medicine, I'll never buy NyQuil, because the equivalent store brand is more or less the exact same thing and is cheaper. But I don't really care which store brand. If the CVS-branded version somehow ended up in a Walgreens, I'd still buy it. (Obviously CVS would never sell the Walgreens version, but... yeah.)

(Speaking of mom-and-pops, I actually find it annoying when I need cold medicine, walk into my local corner store, and only find NyQuil rather than the generic CVS/Walgreens/whatever store brand. The corner store usually sells NyQuil at an even higher price than the chain pharmacy would, and there's no alternative.)
If most of the bytes are indeed cruft, can't you just send binary diffs around? I imagine they should change that much between compilations? It seems to be an issue for db developers but not for users.
There will always be improbable sequences; with a fair coin, every possible sequence of length N is equally improbable, after all; if you flip a fair coin 64 times, the sequence is guaranteed to be a 1 in 2^64 event.

OTOH, the probability of some other explanation besides a fair coin isn’t consistent among all other possible sequences, so what the actual result does to your estimate of the likelihood of a fair coin depends on the actual sequence, and your basis for believing the coin was fair going in.

Things are only slightly different with, say, a coin you’ve been told has a 60% bias.

EDIT: For instance, if there is a 1:1,000,000 chance that you would be given an underestimate of bias and a 1:1,000,000,000 chance of the outcome you actually receive being true if the coin had only the bias you were informed of, its a lot more likely that you were lied to than that you just got an unusually consistent set of results.
The article says:

>With one caveat: whatever it looks like, it has to be apparent that its form gives it the functional properties of the polypeptides (the class of molecules that DNA belongs to).

But DNA isn't a polypeptide.
Sure, and this is all true even if cryptocurrencies didn't exist. I'm old enough to remember the days before Bitcoin, where there was similar pearl-clutching about cloud computing.

I'm calling for people to separate the problem of CO2 emissions from moral arguments about the nature of downstream electricity consumption. Mother Nature doesn't give a single flying f*ck about our moralizing; the CO2 emissions are just as bad either way.
Don’t confused the cost of production with the value to the user.

(Fwiw I tried squarespace and found the UX awful)
theres also "docking." a sex act between two men of which the details I'll let you refer to google at your own discretion.
Great work by the team, I like that they re-used ArrayFire instead of Yet Another Tensor Library feels refreshing to use native code again to build ML Pipelines for these kind of tasks.
I’ve experienced the opposite - as others have noted, making communication just a bit more structured and accessible to others in our org helped get clearer on what/how/why AND incorporate voices often left out because they are not the loudest in the room (or don’t want to speak up in a large public setting). Just on the merits of inclusion, video conferencing has been a big win for me.

Yes, there are adjustments and downsides, but net net, I feel a lot more confident that my team are being heard and no one is overlooked because of social tendencies, etc.
> Sure, but you can't actually use an example from Google to deduce what's going on at Epic Games.

It was illustration of though process - that seems to make sense to me.

> It's just noise because, as you've pointed out, we're not internal.

Yes, it is noisier than direct info from inside but you may learn something.
yeah...right... ;)
in the U(-1.0, 1.1) case you mentioned, kelly says not to bet.

optimize the value of the bet size over the expected value of the log of bankroll + betsize*outcome. you can do that for any probability distribution of outcomes.

if you can't write that in 5 minutes, then i already did half your homework for you.

> each bet has a roughly normal distribution outcome

hahaha.
In a situation where someone has indeed done some fucked up stuff - they need to prove that their moral compass has been fixed in order for them to be trusted again. I don't think you get a pass because you've been quiet for a couple years. So I disagree with you.

You should probably go read up on what he did - pretty messed up power dynamics. (https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/what-about-the-careers-of-lou...)
There's an interesting intersection of monopoly and The Tech Recruiting Problem which Cory Doctorow highlighted in a Exponential View (HBS) podcast.

Acqui-Hiring is the new recruiting model.

Very roughly paraphrased, assessing tech talent has become so painfully difficult that the most effective model is essentially to assign a class assignment to a set of founders, along with a few million in seed capital, to build some Minimum Viable Proof of Talent. The seed funders act as matchmakers to the buying (typically: tech monopoly) firm, and take a finder's fee. The project is shut down (it's done its work of demonstrating competence), and the team is brought into the acquiring firm.

https://hbr.org/podcast/2021/01/big-tech-and-a-decade-of-ant...
Yes early Starships for Artemis were planned to be one way and maximize cargo payload to the Moon but that was before SpaceX was accepted for crewed Artemis missions.
> Out of memory means, your system is simply not designed for the task at hand.

You seem not very familiar with the memory "management" behavior of Linux and the wonderful ecosystem it has engendered. For example no matter how much physical memory you have, Chrome for example will just crash all the time if you turn off Linux's insane "lie about memory allocation succeeding" default.
Or the most extreme zebra.
Uh oh, better upgrade the neural networks, and quit using all the GPUs to mine Ethereum, otherwise we’ll never get the AI overlord we deserve!
We really are an innovative species!
> you spent 95% of your time to think about: "what is the kind of think I can from this method call and how can and should I use it and what should I return in the end". Writing down the result of your thoughts takes almost no time in comparison.

The issue here isn't static vs. dynamic typing, it's API documentation. In cases where static type declarations work out to be sufficient as API documentation, sure, use them as API documentation. But the "time to think" issue isn't being solved by static typing; it's being solved by having good documentation for the APIs you are using (or writing good documentation for the APIs of the libraries you are writing).

> A good example are functions that return lists. Often you always have an element in the list. Using a good type-system, it will be indicated, so when I get the list, I know that I don't have to handle the case that the list is empty.

Same comment here: whether or not the function can return an empty list is part of the API. The API needs to be documented somehow. A static type declaration might be enough, or it might not. Either way, what's solving the issue isn't static typing, it's API documentation.
If they said P(heads) is 60% and you get 4 tails in a row, you also might think the people running the experiment lied to you, especially if it happens near the beginning. But there’s a 13% chance in any sequence of four tosses.
What? The announcement here was the result of three different bids from three different companies. The exact opposite of a sole source contract. This is textbook competitive bidding.
Hm. One can do awesome CS research without having to make tons of money. One can also make money with other people’s/universities’/countries’ CS research while doing zero CS research in-house.
Research and money making are pretty much orthogonal.

With research I refer to fundamental CS research, not how to squeeze 0.00053% more out of imagenet or making photos of young people look old, or solving problems of logistics in driver scheduling.
I'm just going to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwS4e1P1yF4
“Joke” is in bad taste. I remember that day.
A good Moon base should for sure be bigger than an orbital outpost; unless we have an awful lot of traffic there, on the orbit around the Moon... but we're not there yet.

However, to completely avoid having a Moon orbiting facility would be to err to the other direction. Suppose, for example, you have an emergency on the Moon. If you need to fly to Earth, it's easier to meet an Earth-bound ship in the Moon orbit than to have that ship landed on Moon; reminding, SpaceX lunar ship isn't intended to fly to Earth, with good reasons. Or if you need an urgent delivery of something unique from the Earth, it's easier to deliver to the Moon orbiting outpost, rather than to have it with Moon landing capabilities. If you need delivery of materials from the Moon, a convenient place is to accumulate them in orbit; Earth's history of sea shipments suggests that. Of course there could be other reasons.

Size of Starship doesn't really matter - Gateway could be smaller, and still quite useful.
I used to do like $5000 wordpress websites on a side hustle just throwing up edited pre-bought templates and would always feel really dirty during it "thank god they don't know about squarespace".
That's why there is a salt?
As someone who used Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS through Visual Basic 4 (VB5 did not run well on my i80486), I wonder if there is a lot of value in being so compatible with VB6 at this point ? Admittedly I have been out of the VB scene for a while but I assume all the VB6 code that exists doesn't justify this.

Other projects that promise a Visual Basic like RAD experience might be better, such as GAMBAS [0] and vTcl [1].

[0] http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

[1] http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/
Additionally, well. the BKA, similar to the FBI, looks for security experts. However, since they would be employed by the BKA, they have to go through mandatory physical exams and drug tests. That's just dumb. I'd be able and interested to do that work, but I'm medically unable and not allowed to do that test. So that's that topic done. Can't do security due to asthma.
You say that like there's another option.
> In python I would often have to think _more_ about it and look into the documentation or maybe even the implementation to understand if it could return an empty list or not.

In many cases in Python, you don't have to care. For example, if you're going to iterate over the list, Python will iterate over an empty list just fine: it will execute zero iterations. No need to check anything.
What does burner mean here?
That is due to Uber corporate misunderstanding ratings and penalizing drivers who get anything less than a perfect rating.
Thanks for all your insights today :-) Have a nice rest of the day!
> it wouldn't surprise me if YouTube had orders of magnitude more video than all other video sites together

How about quality vs. quantity?

If you wanted to recommend a video platform with video content where all of it is suitable for under-18s would you really pick YouTube?

(Full disclosure: I have three under-18 kids)

I wouldn't pick YouTube. It's about signal-to-noise.

Just an aside: a random video of some random person unwrapping something random that happens to be fascinating to small kids ... keeping them glued to the screen, and quiet... is not good content
It is intuitive if you are familiar with "argmax" and friends.
In my observation at my company, it can vary wildly. Some senior engineers are primarily organizers and communicators; others are primarily skilled programmers and software architects. I think it kind of varies with what you personally like to do, and what you personally are good at doing.
End Central Planning for Parking
Previously discussed when the project was a few months old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20449427
Or compare it to how much has been spent on SLS, which has yet to net any return aside from keeping people employed (which probably could've been accomplished on a much smaller budget).
Nothing surprises me anymore... Last year I did a bit of freelance writing on equity markets with a focus on some more interesting stocks. During the period I did read lots of SEC fillings, other articles on various website, etc. It looks like the bigger piece of crap it is, the bigger the valuation. There are tons of companies out there that shouldn't be trading more than a kebab kiosk,yet the stock price is like they are doing missions to mars. Absolute bonkers.
The sex toy came after flashlight the portable light source.
So this article is saying something like: modern neuroscience thinks that the "storage" mechanism is based on connections but maybe there's more like "secondary memory" on each neuron that can also store "facts"?

I can see the connection thing. It's like

circle -> ball -> -- -> lightbulb
white -> light _/

Here circle and white come from a group of neurons firing when the electrical stimuly from the eye hits them and that particular group from a lot of lower level "concepts" fires the white and the circle.

Is someone saying that maybe a single neuron can "store" something like "white"?
Like others have said, having short stays at previous companies can be perceived as negative. The same applies to bypassing filters, even if your intentions aren't malicious, although as usual YMMV.

Many companies want to see that you can continue to work and transition away to other better jobs as opposed to leaving, although that's easier said that done in many cases.

In terms of healthcare, Medicaid can be incredibly frustrating. What are you looking for that isn't available through it?

At this point in time I think it's much harder than normal to get a job because of COVID/etc. My feeling is that lots of companies are waiting for the other shoe to drop in terms of the economy/COVID.

You also may have a lot more trouble going directly into Tech. It might be easier to get there by first getting hired in Finance, Health, etc... Things aren't permanent, and sometimes you'll have opportunities that aren't present in other sectors.

Last but not least, your perception of the world might be on the binary side. Does Bill Landreth think he ended up in a bad place? Sometimes having a seat at the table is better than doing your own thing because you might be able to change more at the table. Also, nothing's permanent. If stuff doesn't work out, you can leave.
Porsche’s Electric Taycan Sales on Course to Eclipse Iconic 911
The way I see FLoC is that it's nothing more than a compromise.

This isn't a web standards feature like WebMIDI or WebHID that fulfills the (ever expanding) requests for features from web developers. It isn't a feature that the average user would ever ask for. It's simply a way for Google's ads business to continue functioning in spite of a web community that is gradually becoming privacy-conscious.
We're definitely overdue for a major consumer tech introduction.

* Late 30s: Radio

* Late 40s: Vinyl Records (Edited: Atomic energy isn't a consumer product)

* Late 50s: TV

* Late 60s: Transistors / rockets

* Late 70s: Microcomputers.

* Late 80s: Desktop publishing

* Late 90s: Internet/Web

* Late 00s: Smartphones/tablets

* Late 10s: VR? Streaming media? Electric cars?
Cryptocurrency?

It takes a while for a new technology to spread to widespread adoption. For example, the 2007 launch of the iPhone lead to a decade of mobile adoption a few years later. But it seems there's been no new tech paradigm shift lately that's equivalent to the massive influence of previous innovations. Or at least I'm not seeing it yet.
It's still too many passes.

https://scala-ci.typesafe.com/grafana/dashboard/db/scala-ben...

The Scala 3 compiler has much fewer passes though.
Does it matter if the last release was six years ago as long as there's no security bugs? It's not like FTP servers need new features or anything...
All of the Tensorflow underlying libraries are implemented in C++ and nowadays usable from almost any language with native interop.

As for Dex,

> Research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family

> This is an early-stage research project, not an official Google product.

Where is Python?
It is a statement about the dire state of so much of the news media that standard disclosure of potential conflicts of interest is seen as some kind of weird spin.
"The Salt Key is the combination of lowercase letters, uppercase letters and numbers. For SHA512
hash which is 64-bits, the recommended salt key is 64-bits."

And the salt itself appears to be private, and I assume, unique per user.

So, I'm in no position to say whether that's "good enough", but it's at least not something you're going to brute force in a few seconds.
Yeah, it's stupid, but the only option we have right now if the user does not disable FLoC in Chrome. We also honor the DNT header btw :)
Google earns money with advertising. They also do some kick-ass CS research, but that’s not what makes the money. In fact, ad sales fund Google’s research.
No, but it's a polymer. From the context, I guess that was the word aimed at.
Can someone knowledgeable break down into simple terms what the tweet means?
In an About Face, Ferrari Will Unveil Its First Fully Electric Car in 2025
Okay, let me rephrase this: The current strategy is great for individual researchers - when they become successfull they can get a great $400k/year job in the US. It sucks for the europeans who paid for them to get there though.
Focusing on the budget is doing the wrong thing.

1. Ambitious space programs require solving unknown unknowns. You can't accurately budget for that.

2. Well, yes, you can budget for that by adding a large fudge factor to the cost of your program.

3. Which will mean that your program will not get funded.

NASA generally does a good job of being in the ballpark of its budget for its ambitious goals. Which, ever since Apollo, have been its unmanned programs.

The manned space shuttle, and the ISS, as well as all the hoop-a-la around getting people to the ISS are on the other hand not particularly ambitious, and are also a bottomless money pit (Ballpark cost of ISS was ~160 billion dollars. The ballpark cost of a rover mission to Mars is less than 3 billion dollars.)
No, nothing about being open-source or a non-profit fixes the technical flaws in a system's design choices. It just makes this a poor design with an ethically pleasing organization behind it.
"Finding numbers in the brain" by C.R. Gallistel: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...

Edit: also see his article on this from 2015 "Here's Why Most Neuroscientists Are Wrong About the Brain" https://nautil.us/blog/heres-why-most-neuroscientists-are-wr...
Russia and Ukraine 'on doorstep of war with half a million troops on move'