skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Dad was telling me some story how there's a secret military base in volcano in Antartica built by by Nazis. I'm convinced he was retelling a movie plot line. Anyone see a movie like this?
(To reiterate: I'm not very learned in this domain. This is just an amateur impression).

For English it's pretty solid from what I've seen, and the way it presents etymologies as coherently written readable articles is more accessible than Wiktionary, which is a lot rawer. It's nice that it goes back before written sources to reconstructions of older languages (which OED doesn't do IIRC, but Wiktionary does). On the Proto-Indo-European language front Wiktionary is slightly more luxuriant in this regard because you can search through non-English languages as well and explore etymologies a bit more freely because of this.

It seems to lacks citations as to where the info comes from, which is a bit unfortunate, but I guess it's part of its friendly vibe? But it also obscures how people know this stuff, and makes it harder to fact-check. (I'd be surprised if they didn't have the references stored somewhere that's not getting published - I imagine they're something you'd want to keep track of as you're writing the articles).

[I don't use Etymonline very much because I'm mostly looking at relating etymologies between words of different (Indo-) European languages I'm learning/know right now, rather than plumbing the origins of single English words.]
Artificial neural networks can be either deterministic or non-deterministic.

Biological neural networks are non-deterministic.

(You can debate philosophically whether apparent non-determinism is actually fundamentally non-deterministic or ultimately reduces to some hidden determinism. It depends on one's choice of interpretation of quantum theory – many worlds and hidden variables both claim that reality is fundamentally deterministic, other interpretations do not. But, whether or not non-determinism ultimately exists, it certainly apparently exists, both in biological and technological systems.)
I’m down with a “Viking funeral”. Yes, I know that the Vikings didn’t actually float their dead out to sea on perfectly good boats that were set on fire, but it’s still a cool idea.
The Epic Privacy Browser Team is integrating uBlock into Epic in their next update and didn't find a significant degradation in performance from any Chrome limitations, nor a significant performance improvement in Brave's implementation.

Epic's mobile browsers were built on Brave/Chromium, but now that Brave has endpoint and other dependencies as mentioned it doesn't explain, it isn't possible to continue to build on them or even test them since Brave features don't work in outsider builds.
I’m sorry to hear this has happened to you and I do hope you’re only going to get better.

State of diagnostics is indeed very poor, esp. in a field like Immunology. It took 2 years and 4 doctors to find what was wrong with me and how to treat it. I had to scour medical journals for treatment suggestions and then press on my doctors to try it. Sigh.
Yeah I think in general “ML engineers” are building models (can include feature engineering) and then deploying them into production.
Same. 15+ years of continuous Aeron use in various offices. Lockdown came, I spent £75 on an Ikea Markus and it's the best office chair I've sat in. YMMV.
I read "tub chair" and thought of Dalton Trumbo in his bath office. I'm sure it's not ergonomic, but I bet it's comfortable and relaxing.
Aeron. Find a gently used one in good shape from an office liquidator for less than 500$
Fusing video with IMU for navigation is called VIN (visual-inertial navigation) or VIO (visual-inertial odometry) and the field has made enormous progress over the last 10-15 years. It's the same technology that the iPhone uses for all its AR features.

Dropped frames are one of the easiest things to handle. Yes, the visual feature tracking depends on frames of video but even cheap phone IMUs these days are good enough to dead-reckon for a second or two, especially when embedded into a sensor fusion framework, so the prediction errors resulting from a single lost frame should be very minimal and not enough to throw off the tracking.

That's why I find it hard to believe that the VIN in use by the Mars Helicopter (part of a multi billion dollar program) wouldn't be able to deal with a dropped frame. It just doesn't add up. I suspect that the situation is much more complex than what the article suggests and that more things went wrong than just a dropped camera frame.
Philippines has a third of the US population size by now, or well it would be one fourth of the US population size if it was included

but in 1900 it had 6.5m while US had 76 million. So it would be 8%, not insignificant but nowhere as wild as you would think at the time.

in 1960 this proportion would have ballooned to 14%

Just some additional perspective
With doctors, you are your own doctor and the doctors you see are subcontractors. First appointment is a job interview. That’s the best way to think of it IMO. I guess I’m privileged to have the money to do this.

Google helps you know what it could be, but you need to do a fair bit of research and critical thinking.

Unfortunately if you are sick this is the last thing you want to do!
Yeah, I think you have to actively engage the 'system 2' analysis part of your brain when reading media stuff, and consciously try to extract the facts from the outrage and triggering, even from traditionally 'reliable' sources. It's kind of hard work but otherwise you just get manipulated too much.
Paying your respects to the vultures? That is quite romantic.

You could move to Tibet in order to have it eventually, though.
The Wikipedia entry on First Normal Form also uses this kind of construction, which I suspect means it was written by the same person.

I have never seen terms like domain and attribute used as if they were plurals (the way "data" is), but even were that correct, "a domain have" would be contradictory, so I think it is just a linguistic quirk of the writer.
Also love the Ikea Markus chair. Even upgraded it with new wheels (they are ball-bearing rollerblade wheels which run smoothly, quietly and are good for hard floors). Its simple in design (which i prefer over most other office and gaming chairs) does have a nice ammount of things to adjust and it does not cost a lot of money.
Alternatively, typing '?share' at the end of the URL works too. Quora is awful these days though so I rarely use it anyway.
Start a timer for 10 minutes. Sit upright on a normal chair, hands resting in your lap, one palm nestled in the other. Eyes closed, chin slightly down. "Look" (behind eyelids) about 45deg down. Breathe through your nose. Keep your attention on your breath. Count them (breathe in... breathe out... "1"... breathe in... breathe out... "2" .... up to 10, then back down to one, and back up to 10 etc.

If/when thoughts arise, as they will, be aware that that's what's happening ("ah, I'm thinking about work") and return to the count. If you lose count, just start again at one.

Practicing this directing of your attention, and learning to gain even a small amount of separation from your thoughts, takes time, but for many people (including myself) it's transformative. Let me know if you try it, or even if you want to sit zazen together remotely (eg on zoom or jit.si).
It might be related to the hostility of the environment. The chips aren't radiation proof, so it is expected to have some bit flops due to radiation.
Or if the people buried at sea aren’t wearing anything too buoyant, such as sneakers.
We call that role ML Ops at our work. It's a mix of data eng and dev ops.
I've told this a few times and people seems to think I'm joking. The best chair I've had at home --better than one Aeron I had once at work-- was a cheap plastic garden chair. They key was that it fit perfectly my anatomy. I sat and everything came into place. I think the moral is: look for a chair that is adjustable. Unless you find a cheap plastic garden chair that perfectly fits you, that is.

A couple more personal observations: if the chair can rotate over the horizontal plane, I don't really want it to have wheels. I can turn away from the screen and stand up, no need to displace the chair away from the desk. Actually, the possibility to do that is extremely uncomfortable for me, it's like trying to walk with skates on.

And of course, consider that the chair isn't the culprit, at least not the only one. Squats and dead lift make wonders, can confirm.
This feels like a really silly question, but why are these sorts of scientific discussions happening on Facebook and YouTube instead of, like, a journal or conference or mailing list or something?

Like, independent of the particular thing they're blocking, YouTube is not a scientific repository and their financial incentives are not aligned with supporting science. Why are we relying on them? Do we want to watch a Grammarly ad interrupt a scientific presentation every few minutes? What do you do if you're a scientist who got banned from YouTube because of copyright strikes or something?

It seems possible that the Substack crowd can push back against this particular culture-war issue with enough public shaming (and friendly legislators), but it seems like very much the wrong path. If you want a scientific presentation to be watchable by other scientists, why isn't a university or an academic press hosting the video? It is, I hear, possible to run a video hosting site of your own. YouTube isn't the internet.
I think you're still missing the idea that after the growth phase which triggers a boom in population, that sustained prosperity after the growth spurt is when TFR starts falling off.

Look at any given developed society today (characterized by long-term peaceful stability and general prosperity, development of professional classes, liberalization of gender roles, shifts away from field work) and you'll see TFR falling below replacement levels. This isn't a "western" phenom, you can see it in Korea and Japan as well, for example.

It's simply practical economic decisions by individuals - kids cost a crap ton of attention and money, and when the risks of them dying have decreased (lower mortality due to medical care, less war/violence) and the obligation to reproduce is lowered (changing gender roles, birth control availability, women having options for professional careers), and kids are less useful as labor units, you get fewer of them. Predictably. Across hemispheres.

I suspect your examples are all "developing" countries, not "developed" but you've thus far only referred to nebulous regions and continents. Interested in a specific example of a developed country that has not exhibited this pattern.
On further examination, this is both spam and a blatant rip of copy from O'Reilly's old material:

https://ed2592press.com/author/the-proposal/

vs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100122143802/http://oreilly.co...
Running ZFS (FreeNAS/TrueNAS) on 2 home made NAS devices for years and years, I can say it is rock solid without ever using ECC RAM due to lack of choices. I can bet there were many soft-errors in all these years, but so far I never had problems that could not be recovered; the biggest issue ever was destroying the boot USB storage in months, but that was partially solved lately, I moved to fixed drives as boot drive and later I moved to virtualization for boot disk and OS, so the problem completely went away.
Loads of third party apps have shell extensions that use control panel and there's 20 years of settings to migrate over. It's getting there.
"does a company need money?"

the answer is yes.
I think they were quite efficient designs. I grew up using a lot of paradigms, from 3.1, 95, RiscOS, Workbench and dabble of Mac 9/10 later on. I gave gnome 3 a good go, but while I really enjoyed the visual appeal of it, I found I wasn't as productive - trying to switch Windows was hard as the windows didn't stay in the same place like they did with a taskbar. Unity was more productive for me. But I'm happiest on MATE.
Rimworld (and Dwarf Fortress, for that matter) desperately need a better onboarding experience. In Dwarf Fortress' case, the best tutorial you'll find is the one online, because lord knows you'll die immediately if you waste time messing with the wrong stuff. Rimworld has a fairly good documentation system and a decent tutorial scenario to accompany it, but the "first game" experience is still crushingly brutal: new players will often lose their first few colonies, which can be a pretty soul-sucking penalty.
I'm sorry to hear that; that's so sad.
>Have I always been bad at finding things? Maybe? There are limits to how well an injured brain can scrutinize an injured brain.

This is something I've worried about ever since I was a teenager. If something happens to my mind, how will I know? The answer I've come up with is that I can't fully know, but my best bet is to "reason on paper".

Externalize the facts and opinions (write them down or say them out loud) and then run logic on them using some explainable algorithm. Basically, do it like we do math: the numbers and figures on paper will allow anyone to continue where you stopped. Even if you forget what you were doing or you can't do large scale abstract reasoning, because you've written it down, you can do it piece by piece.

When I suffered what seemed to have been a "ministroke" (basically a stroke that solves itself) my cognitive abilities were obviously affected. I seemed to operate basically only on short term memory - several seconds at a time. Anything that happened before that seemed to fade from memory. Saying out loud what I wanted to do and then continuously repeating it out loud enabled me to do more complex tasks. Unfortunately, I had no sense of danger from it.

Writing (typing), however, was not really possible. I knew what I wanted to write, but it became "slurred". I hadn't considered that before. I even recognized myself that what I wrote was difficult to decipher, but somehow I just couldn't type out the words correctly.

I still think that reasoning on paper or out loud is your best bet in these situations.
Microsoft Now Brings Next-Gen Games to Xbox One Through Cloud

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"I have seen unpstanding guys rub magnets over hard drives over pure apathy."

Open up a spinning rust hard drive and you will find two very strong magnets inside, positioned opposite each other.
More generally, listening and detecting human speech and intent has plenty of military uses, and they are the main buyers of drones. It seems quite common for technologists to come up with humanitarian justifications for what is really new military hardware.
I agree, I don't get the comparison of Facebook to like YouTube or tiktok they're all different things... While YouTube and google may try to add features similar to Facebook and Facebook may add features similar to them I feel they're not in the same category... There's almost "personal social media" with Facebook and Instagram than just "social media" like tiktok, YouTube, even this site... I guess things like Twitter fall somewhere in the middle.
texas is behind in realy future tech if you consider theres _no such thing as external costs_.

they are ahead if you think maximizing the value of the social construct
Actually putting in into nuclear waste solves the problem forever
> I think he contradicts himself and confuses the data with the information.

I would say he is confusing the physical representation with the logical model.
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Every percentage is a fraction so that statement doesn't mean anything. But Tim Cook has said Apple sold more M1 Macs than Intel-based Macs. This is an indication that fraction is over 50% already.
Going to offer a slightly different opinion here...

Used a Herman Miller Aeron, yes...pretty decent. Is it worth retail though? No. If you can pick one up cheap, then fine. But I had some backpain/shoulder issues with the office chair I had, looked for an Aeron. Couldn't find one. So I bought a SIHOO off Amazon, as good, back/shoulder pain gone, and can now put in a 10-hour shift no problem (iirc, Gamer's Nexus had a review on this chair, there are other Chinese clones of it). It is as comfortable as any chair is going to be.
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Let's say you want to clear out part of a snapshot of /home, but keep the rest.

So you clone it and delete some files. All good so far, but the snapshot is still wasting space and needs to be deleted.

But to make this happen, your clone has to stop being copy-on-write. All the data that exists in both /home and the clone will now be duplicated.

And you could say "plan ahead more", but even if you split up your drive into many filesystems, now you have the problem that you can't move files between these different directories without making extra copies.
Are you qualified to evaluate competence in that field? What specific criteria did you use?
Addendum. More tests. I see. Would you then lead the algorithm along a trajectory. If you can pass this simple test you would probably be able to pass this as well then this... Babysitting it along the way. Ideally you wouldn't need to, but maybe to make it possible..
When you say you don't exist are you referring to your sense of self identity? i.e your ego, the feeling that your mind and body and all of your senses, emotions, thoughts and memories are a distinct entity?

This idea is very interesting, and not considered strange in philosophy (ego death) and is also prevalent in Buddhism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatt%C4%81
I don’t know that we’ll escape that completely. I mean, for every true spiritual guide there are charlatans, for every shop owner there are thieves, for every great artist their imitators.
What is the alternative then? How would you have created a new Windows desktop application in 2015? 2018?

And yes, since 2012 there were no major changes to WPF. And even these changes were small. The last truly major change came with .NET 4.0. So there was a decade of almost nothing, even while XAML evolved with UWP. It truly doesn't get any more dead than that.

Of course I'm salty. WPF promised a lot, delivered some then died. Xamarin wasn't even part of Microsoft back then. UWP is a joke. Microsoft neglected the "Win32" desktop for way too long. Now it lets the community do what it should've done ages ago.
> poor science and poor scientific understanding of people on the M.D. track

Definitely a thing. At least historically, research is not a big part of a MD program in the US. MD/PhD programs are where its at -- Basically you do a few years of med school, then PhD, then finish MD. Its a very long haul. After which you usually go into Postdoc research or medical residency.

The best doctor I ever had was incredibly perceptive and compassionate. What did she teach in med school? How to work with patients (i.e. bedside manner). She moved on to head palliative care, another area where empathy is key.

Like any other profession doctors span a range of competency. There is an old joke: What do you call the person who finished last in medical school? Doctor.
I've happily used the Bambach saddle seat for many years. It's uncomfortable to slouch in that chair, so upright sitting happens naturally. https://www.bambach.co.uk/
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Sorry I phrased it wrong. I meant to say "not because". That "only" is extraneous.
I would say, some combinations of:

- Helping with feature engineering at scale

- Putting models into production

- All of the environmental stuff (Framework versions, security patching, etc)

- Monitoring models and model drift

- Supporting hot/swapping models with zero downtime

- Model persistence, A/B testing and evaluation in production

- Distributed hyperparameter tuning
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I remember former fellow students telling how they corrected medical students' practical physics internship assignments. Apparently the statistical rigour is much lower. On the other hand, I guess in pure natural sciences you work with much more indirection and have zero results nowadays unless you use a lot of tools. Probably there aren't that many medical conditions that can be treated in-depth based on first principles but I think concluding that whole medical science can be replaced by an AI assistant might be a bit far-fetched. Compassion is probably under-estimated indeed. Some people with serious conditions prefer to be treated at objectively less sophisticated yet less industrialized facilities.
> . Like any other industry, 90% of medical “experts” are totally incompetent.

100% correct. I’m dealing with some serious health issues the past year (multiple worsening chronic conditions, in and out of hospital, lost 30 lbs in 3 months, etc). And yeah, the vast majority of them are idiots who know nothing more than to pull out a (often dangerous) pharma that addresses a single symptom. And forget treatment - I was just hoping for a firm diagnosis. But they hem and haw, and don’t seem at all up to date with the latest research. You’re on your own.
I suspect he is doing that on purpose, to highlight how dangerous this kind of scientific censorship is. He also has been a proponent of discussing the possibility of a lab leak for a long time, and has faced a lot of backlash for it, so this isn't exactly new to him and he's had a lot of time to get pissed off about being told what he can and can't discuss.
Two things: look up machine learning stuff on YouTube and you'll find millions probably of sciency videos. Like it or not, its definitely a place where scientific content is present.

Secondly, the article talks about things like testimony before Congress. It's not just that people use YouTube to upload conference presentations (they do) but it's also a general platform for excerpts from tv, other proceedings, etc. So I think it doesnt lead anywhere to just dismiss is as "why are they posting on YouTube anyway"
The only thing better than well written code is well written code with well written comments.

I am especially fond of the way how Ruby and Ruby on Rails documents their standard libraries. Every single method (even if it is only a stub) has a comment above it that documents the method. That comment is then used to generate the documentation itself. Unit tests also ensure everything is operating as documented.

This methodology ensures that the code, comments, and documentation are all up to date and in sync with each other.
Seconded. I like how simple and light they are. The chair uses your body weight as a counter-lever to reclining. It's a well-designed piece.
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It is odd that you would make two different names just to talk up the article, yes.
Or was Lunix confused with Linux? All satire anyhow.
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Among gamers? /s
You should go to a Comicon =)

When I speak of the old gods, I throw Yaweh (God or Allah depending on the sect) in there as well. A 5000 year old run counts as an old god in my book.
I'm going to suggest something strange and almost embarrassing. It's not for the office, unless you have a very relaxed work environment. Get a cheap, folding "zero-gravity" lawn chair. This sort of thing (...though perhaps detach the beer can holder):

https://www.amazon.ca/Goplus-Folding-Gravity-Reclining-Outdo...

You'll need a monitor mount to give enough space.

If your tastes are more haute couture than mine, or indoor patio furniture doesn't match your decor, there are more elegant version of the same "zero gravity" idea. Versions with wood and leather and padding and so forth. But my tastes are simple, my aesthetic sense is stunted, and it is the most comfortable I have ever been working at a computer.