skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once you learn the propaganda techniques, you start seeing it everywhere in the mainstream media. I used to think about 10% of the mainstream media was propaganda, now it seems like about 90%.

It was fascinating to watch the most recent interview Putin did with NBC during the summit last week, knowing this and being able to recognize the tricks. He came out of the gate with every tactic imaginable [0]. The first question the reporter started out with was a hard hitting question about a specific policy regarding Russia's selling of satellite technology to Iran, and he pretended not to hear the question at first. Then he laughed, mockingly, at the journalist and completely brushed it off as a total fabrication.

[0] https://youtu.be/m6pJd6O_NT0?t=21
I used to always try to be productive during my workday, and would feel extremely guilty for getting distracted. Over time, however, I have drifted steadily towards the bare minimum because I feel like I was always doing the most by far. Now I consider it productive time spent if I learn something new or work on side projects. I still feel guilty, but not nearly as much as I used to.
Remove all parking spots instead of those for disabled people and your issue is resolved. No one will drive into the center unless they're disabled because they won't be able to find parking. So you can massively reduce car lanes, speed limits, etc. and thus effectively pedestrianizing the area.

It is possible to have it both ways. Look at some of the city design in the Netherlands. The YouTube channel "https://youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes" is a great start.
I think it shares aspects of defense-in-depth with your example. I am not sure the other details are quite as similar, since testing your immunity response with vaccination also typically strengthens your response, while getting into once accident doesn't much change your future probability of an accident.

To offer another example inspired by recent news, some companies were recently attacked by ransomware (a "virus") which cost them money and time. Many companies advocate for regularly simulating attacks on themselves periodically (a "vaccine" trial), though that test also carries a risk of real damage to their company. In theory, the company might have already been making backups to protect against that risk (a "natural immunity" assumption), but until that was tested, they didn't know. Hence taking a slight risk, by getting a vaccination shot, to test your body's protection measures, gives you a slight edge in the reduction of the potential for harm from later re-exposure.
You might look at how And Bible does it - https://github.com/andbible/and-bible/wiki/FAQ#please-add-mo...
What do you think the home ownership rate is in America then?
PSA: Anyone can publish just about anything on arxiv.org. Doesn't mean that it has any merit whatsoever.
If you want to use NNs on tabular data look up the work that's being done on point clouds. They both share the same major symmetry over permutations.
Effective dose of saffron is much smaller than that of gold :)
Sixtyforgan – A Commodore 64 Organ
Thanks for taking the time to expand a bit more, on your experience with the code and the community around it. I'll have a look.

Right now I'm more interested in the chaining aspect than raw performance but I know some of my high-throughout network workloads behave far better in latency with the complete syscall removal on recv and send though keeping up with the completion queue is hard-ish. I still prefer dpdk right now for this kind of network stuff but just because my use case is perfectly adapted for it (no fragmentation, no complex protocol, constant data stream...) and dpdk ain't no party either.
cough dotcom bubble.

Seriously, investing money in a bubble is nothing to celebrate. That’s why it is called a bubble. It pops and many people loose their money.
It’s about in the low 60’s and projected to be in the high 50’s soon. It’s consistently dropping.
Every time Brave comes up on HN I search the comment section for "Eich" to see if this is still being mentioned. It always is. That's how I found your comment. You just haven't really been looking.
I agree. Absolutely haunting.
We can't say the truth/opinion about certain topics because it will offend certain people and the mob will exert its power to take something from you by threatening you or an employer.

Could it be considered blackmail to get someone fired from their job for outing something they said to an employer?
And the landlords already used those.
The issue is not other identity information in the DID, it is the identifier mandate itself is antithetical to privacy.

Having a global identifier as you go about the internet means that parties can correlate and share information about you.

Trying to solve that by isolation (using a DID per party you want to interact with) negative affects their usability and privacy properties with verifiable credentials.
We can relate the two efforts as each project addressing an aspect of ‘trusting trust’ problems, albeit in different ways.

Stage0 is awesome, and it'd be cool to see Nix's bootstrap seed shrink
Yes, and this is the fourth or fifth paper I see copying that format. The attention paper was pretty damn significant. This won’t be, because it just shows that hyperparameters are important. We know that.
The issue here isn't the value of the property going down.
I am proud of my belief in Philosophy of Liberty[1], and the principle of self ownership[2].

You are also correct as I am inflexible in this belief, as they are foundational ethical beliefs for which there can be no new evidence for me to change my mind over

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9srplWe_QQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-ownership
How would you even apply layer normalization or SWA to XGB? These methods are neural net specific.
*Ukrainian

Edit: misread context- kneejerk Ukrainian > Russian correction. Although I’d still want it clear that this is Ukrainian history more than Russian.
I used to do this, but at some point I just stopped. Google is not better than DDG. More SEO spam and much more hostile UX.

Brave has a culture of user-hostile UX too so I don’t have any big hopes for this. I like the idea of paying for a search engine, though. I would seriously consider that if DDG offered it.
people are missing the point

the author is talking about constraint optimization in physics vs ml/ai

constraint optimization is easier with a well defined prior vs the guess work in ml algos.

dl models in physics can scale and emergent phenomena will depend on scaling parameters -- this is coarse graining in physics.
Surface is already ~$8B of revenue/year business, not sure how or why you think a business of that size is unnoticeable or nobody would notice that if it were to wither away. Not sure how specific revenue figures I'm allowed to express here publicly but Dynamics and Hololens have also been big cashcows lately.

Research, sure it isn't a direct revenue generating group but their patents portfolio is immense.

Heck, even LinkedIn is $10B/year business now. Maybe you're living under a rock?
I made a dev tool into a small business. Came hear to rant: invest in ui upfront.
At the end, customers visit your site and you have very little time to make them go wow. Your spending a lot of attention capital when you don’t have much
Github repo:
https://github.com/Bohooslav/bain/
nobody has proved the conjecture "things are only influenced by things nearby" this is one of the largest ongoing arguments in QM (locality: https://web.mit.edu/asf/www/Press/Holmes_Physics_World_2017....)

We also don't know for sure the "constants" are constant throughout the universe (spatially and temporally) This is assumed for now, and seems almost certainly true.

I think it's unsafe to assume the above are Absolutely True and that that's why physics is simple.
To make a stab at the question posed by the title:

We've known the principles of Newtonian physics since, well, Newton.

We'll need an Isaac-Newton-level of insight into intelligence before we can make it so simple.

Nevermind that we can't even seem to agree on the definition of intelligence.

As to the definition, I have an objection to calling the current big-data stats we do nowadays "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence". There is no intelligence there.

Rather, to allude to the article, I consider it more "machine muscle memory" or "artificial intuition". The algorithm can tell you, "I have a really good hunch about this based on the zillions of examples I've seen" but it can't derive underlying truths to reason about why.

Perhaps we are recapitulating phylogeny when it comes to artificial neural systems? We have something like an autonomous nervous system, and a brainstem, but we need so much more to get to intelligence.
PTO can also mean Personal Time Off. e.g. contractors usually aren't paid during their time off.

I've also worked at places that didn't pay out accrued time when you left.
More machine than man
I can't stand developing for Safari anymore
Sure, emailed
Yeah - I agree, I don't like the default behavior of subprocess.run either. As another commenter pointed out, passing the check=True argument makes subprocess.run raise an Exception if the underlying command doesn't return 0 (would have been nice if this was the default).

Those are two good use cases (using the lower level subprocess.Popen + process group signaling) that the book does not cover---thanks for bringing them up.
Does this still matter if you can work your way up to a cross compiler, though? Do you actually need to go all the way down to ‘native’ hex monitors for a bunch of architectures or whatever?
Very fun to read how the assumption to aristocratic power in 19th century comes from ancient kingdoms, celestial objects and religious figures.

- ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt;

- brother of the sun and moon;

- son of Muhammad; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; grandson and viceroy of God, trustee chosen by God Himself;
I think serif type fonts works better for let say professional or financial services.

For tech companies it doesn't seems to rhymes with me.
...I laughed.

Billionaire Jerry Seinfeld can't seem to relate to the kids these days, blames the kids.
Generally, I agree you. In engineering orgs, it seems like the social dynamics of the org distribute who is perceived to be creating that value in a non-average way. e.g. the engineers improving reliability are probably perceived as less valuable than engineers putting out user visible changes. This seems to be what happens by default, unless leadership is self-aware enough to mitigate.

Attributing revenue to the short order cook is a lot easier than the engineer. (Sales people are also easier to quantify.)
Thanks, that is the first I have heard of the rolling grant/vesting schedule, and that makes a lot of sense.
Saw the ping on Twitter, will DM you Joe!
An overlooked advantage of the MLP is that it is differentiable. Essentially, one trades the extra CPU for a classifier that one can pipe gradients through. That can be extremely useful in larger NN architectures.
> Johnson's opposition was not a huge surprise. Last year, she and then-US Representative Kendra Horn issued a joint statement expressing concerns about NASA's plans to rely on a "commercial" provider for a lunar lander. NASA wanted to issue a fixed-price contract for the lander instead of a cost-plus contract. NASA explained that it had used fixed-price contracting as part of its Commercial Crew program, and it proved to be a cheaper and faster method. The agency seemed justified in this, as SpaceX Crew Dragons now safely ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

> However, many in Congress have opposed this approach. They cite a desire for NASA to have more "oversight" over these contracts as a rationale for favoring cost-plus contracts. Yet an often unstated rationale likely has more sway over Congress. Under a cost-plus contract, Congress retains some control over who gets space jobs and in which states. Under fixed-price contracts, these decisions are left up to the contractors themselves.

> After Congress appropriated so little funding for a lander in last year's budget, NASA said, 'Fine, we'll take the lowest cost option,' which was SpaceX.
This is the last time I’ll mention this here as it’s getting not only repetitive but it feels like I’m the only one discussing in good faith:

1. I’m not trying to cancel anyone

2. I’m not trying to start a flame war

3. I haven’t actually stated any “sides” in this discussion at all

4. I’ve wondered about this for years now and hadn’t personally seen it brought up at all, thus prompting my question.

Sheesh.
So how about 'le mot de cambronne' or the reply from the battle of the bulge? ("nuts")
Well the title is "The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server" so it's unsurprising that it's describing completely the wrong way to do things.

The concerning part is that the author seems to have learned the wrong lessons from doing things the wrong way.
> Even dictators need to prioritize their actions.

A bastardization of Andy Grove's famous words: "Only the paranoid [dictators] survive".

You'd be surprised at how paranoid dictators get. Every little sign of disobedience is magnified into a "threat". This is the reason why almost all autocratic systems end up devolving into police states with (usually) multiple large intelligence agencies keeping each other in check.
Susan Jacoby[1] made the case that the lack of a federal/national education system (the constitution makes it a state responsibility) historically results from Americans' fears of indoctrination by such an education system -- specifically that their children would not be properly indoctrinated into their religion, or worse, be indoctrinated into someone else's religion.

[1] Age of American Unreason
i'm the only one that is using Brave?
Privacy and getting paid for all the ads you want to see in crypto, to me haas been a game-changer.
https://brave.com/
Why are you including federal loan programs and stimulus checks when we're talking about a CA program that benefits only landlords?

These are also programs that landlords would have already directly and indirectly benefited from.
Show HN: I built a WhatsApp Clone in NoCode under 3h
Hard agree. I will never have a job as hard as the summers I spent working food service or cleaning pools. You had to be on your feet all day for pennies, working fast to handle annoying customers.

Software is no comparison. You get to sit in a nice chair and listen to music all day while you essentially do puzzles.
Are people on college campuses generally clamoring to see a standup routine from Jerry Seinfeld? As the article points out, he's 66 years old and his humor is self-described as "observational". Maybe today's college students just don't connect to the observations of someone two generations older than them?
Physics might be simple, but a physics engine is extremely complex.
The whole thing seemed very weird, so none of what you said is surprising. Glad to have that background info.
The best external Phoenix API tutorial that I've seen is https://lobotuerto.com/blog/building-a-json-api-in-elixir-wi... (which the author has done a great job of keeping up to date), but I think many people would have a hard time finding this blog post. And I 100% agree that it would be great to have a "Building a Phoenix-powered API" section in the official documentation (and I believe the Phoenix team would accept such a contribution).

> 4. I haven't written extensively about it, but you can read my journey at my Twitter account (link in profile). I haven't been too active though, taking a break.

Cool, just followed you! Although I'm not really very active on Twitter either, I mostly just interact with whatever @elixirlang retweets (which I read via the Elixir Slack).
Alright, I should clarify, as my first post was a bit sloppy.

We know the eye has highly nonuniform resolution, with the high resolution region moving around all the time to cover areas of interest. I agree this system has something like 10 Mbps actual bitrate.

But we don't know how to make such a system for computer vision. Our CV systems all have uniform resolution. And thus a CV system needs to match the peak resolution of the human vision system. That requires a ~500 megapixel resolution at 24 bits per pixel and ~50 frames per second.
Tell that to all the electron apps out there. ;)
Bitcoins scaling problem was solved by removing PoW/PoS and by removing the incentive structure (block rewards).
As soon as this is gone there was no reason anymore why it would not scale like similar systems. Its basically limited only by how fast data can propagate trough the network.

PoW/PoS was replaced by FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement)
Its not a coin its technology used by several systems and based on BFT (which is way older than bitcoin and bitcoin actually is based on BFT as well although maybe unintentional).

FBA just adds the federated part so a decentral system can be build. While bitcoin instead used a work-reward lottery system (PoW) to decide who can write the next block rather than finding a block everyone agrees on.
Its really not that hard to figure out which of these solutions probably works better and scales somewhat like a distributes system is expected to scale.
Does the wonderful bicycle analogy have grounding in the experience of Python?

Are there things about Python that make it great as a general programming languages, but not for mobile.

Perhaps the ease with which people reach for libs that wrap C? I dunno.
some context from TFA:

"Please note that the notion of simplicity to which we are appealing is not at all meant to suggest that physics is trivial. Instead, we mean it as a compliment: we have the utmost respect for the work of physicists. This essay is an apologia for physicists doing machine learning qua physicists; it is meant to interrogate what it is about the approach or perspective of physicists that allows them to reach so far in explaining fundamental phenomena and then consider whether that same approach could be applied more broadly to understanding intelligence"

edit: added quotes
Social media is dangerous. What you say in public can and will be twisted, distorted, and held against you. Many people are easily offended and always on the lookout for targets for their anger.
If you must post comments on controversial subjects, tread very carefully. Better yet, don't post at all. You probably aren't contributing much to the discussion, and you've just painted a great big target on your back.
Seeing as your title managed to land under the same publishing umbrella as (one of my own favorite programming books as well) The Pragmatic Programmer, do you have insight as to whether your title will also be made available on the O'Reilly platform?
But they are through CCTV
Progressive propaganda is insidious not just in schools, but big tech, social media, at NASA and the military, virtue signaling at every opportunity.

Completely unchecked and uncontested. I’m fine with the motifs, but what’s not acceptable is inability to criticize aspects of it without people calling you names and gaining moral superiority over you. It alienates people and is dangerous for the society.

I have a deep philosophical opposition to progressive causes and it’s not stemming from the issues themselves, but the simple fact of mob mentality and unable to listen to all sides. No, all sides doesn’t mean listening to bigoted and unsubstantiated nonsense, but ones who have good points to make and we silence them. Fuck everything about this.

I have voted for liberal causes my whole life (a couple of local exceptions), but it’s getting harder to get behind liberal party for me. It’s a bunch of propaganda in my eyes. Convince me otherwise.
Is it dishonest for reporters to report factually-accurate on sensational crimes if the reporting leads people to believe sensational crimes happen often? Which circle of hell do I end up in for posting about Shark Week on social media?
Nice looking UI.
“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”
Nope, no blockchains _in_ DIDs. But do give reading the specification (draft) a try yourself to verify.
In reality it's probably more like 0%...
You know, just 10 short years ago whenever someone had a problem with an AMD chip, the overwhelming response from the tech community was "dude, just get an Intel. They are way better."

So pardon me, but from a lifelong AMD enthusiast, you all deserve this...

"Hey guys, why are you still running Intel? That shit is like 2 generations behind my AMD in performance and reliability."

Damn, that felt good.
This is very similar to my path. I grew up poor and had a bad time in school, so I didn't make it in college as well. Once I started working in the industry though, I went all in all the time. Made myself the kind of engineer that people from startups around. Became a manager, a co-founder, a director, and was incredibly close to accepting a CIO/CTO role. With each goal I found I was less and less happy, eventually I took a boring job at a consulting firm that works with boring industries and Fortune 500 types. I'm a principal engineer and architect and it's boring as hell but it pays incredibly well, is super stable, and I get to go train bjj for 2.5 hours twice a week during the middle of the work day. I'm happier than I've been since I landed that first programming job.
While it’s a good point, it doesn’t really explain anything here.

I don’t have the details, but isn’t there a way to apply for an asylum, say, in neighbouring Georgia, Ukraine or Finland (by walking into an embassy or even straight to a land border)? Is he being held against his will? Does he not desire to move? Is it because he’s thinking those countries would be likely to deport him at the request of the US? Is it because he doesn’t believe living in a country which regime is closer to one’s own philosophy is worth the hassle of moving there? Or he doesn’t consider those countries any better than Russia in this regard? Etc.
Cocaine has a similar appetite suppressant effect. I wonder if anyone has looked at the long term health of models (where use is, apparently, common) to see if there are benefits.
Know how I can tell you didn't finish it?
Experience with humanity? Dunning-Kruger, Peter Principle, hubris, and just plain laziness compound nicely to make 20% seem like the right ballpark. There are a lot of people out there who are not very well suited to what they do, often through no real fault of their own. I don't think it's toxic to recognize that.
I think the psychoactive effects of dietary ingredients are really interesting, and an area of research that deserves more attention.

"Even in their usual intake range, a variety of spices including vanilla, black pepper, cacao, chili peppers, cloves, saffron, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and turmeric have been described as having mild effects on mood"

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.0059...

I think we have relatively little understanding of how these psychoactive effects interact with co-ingestion of other ingredients. Certain ingredients can alter the metabolism of other ingredients (ex. black pepper and tumeric both inhibit MAO, potentiate each other and potentiate other ingredients). I find it plausible that some sort of 'spiced stew' consumed at a particular frequency could have clinically significant levels of therapeutic effect.
Conversely though, if you're afraid to express an opinion that may be incorrect, then you're likely to hold that opinion much longer because nobody will be there to tell you you're wrong.
Working longer and less vacation isn't buying into that belief. Many are doing this because it's what's required to make a living. Work shuns vacation and you don't want to get canned regardless of how much you hate your job because you need the money and many places don't even have paid vacation so it hurts you to take time off.