skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird escalation on this comment. I asked an honest question. I read the book and I mostly enjoyed it, but based on Graeber's comment it sounds like he blames someone else for writing that sentence. If someone else wrote it, does it mean that he just gave a general idea for the book and there are parts he didn't write? If he had written and had taken responsibility for it, I wouldn't have to ask that question and your comment would be his answer. But that's not what his comment says.

Why can I not ask that question, without the fanbase turning this into an ideological war?
I’m not saying AI isn’t impressive I’m saying we don’t know the limit… is your point that chess mastery is a sign of superintelligence and driving is not?
I would imagine it could be slightly easier to manage models deployed on their servers, but Adobe manages to package and ship its tools so they run natively.

My best guess is that the web can be a path of least resistance and that’s why this launched on the web, but as soon as they have available resources, they could package and ship a native app (hopefully one that can take advantage of modern chip ML tech)
Where I grew up in a liberal big city, the only home-schooled kids I met were super well-educated children of professionals, and were way ahead of both public and private school kids. I was a lot like you - always finished my homework before class was over, read all the materials and was bored in school most of the time. I was jealous of the home-schooled kids. My parents would say, "well but it's good to be around people your own age," but the home-schooled kids had plenty of friends. That gave me the idea that homeschooling was a better way.

That was before I met home-schooled kids from the rest of the country, where it had nothing to do with giving them a better education; it had a lot to do with limiting their education, and forcing them into a fundamentalist Christian or Mormon ideology. Those kids really didn't get out to socialize much, and they didn't get a good education, either.

I think parents have a right to homeschool their kids, and a government ban on that scares me. But I also think the parents need to meet or exceed the qualifications of the teachers who would otherwise be teaching, and [edit][strikethrough]the government[/strikethrough] *society* has some interest in preventing someone from having 48 children and forming a cult.

So like a lot of other stuff extremist wackos do, "this is why we can't have nice things." The goal is to walk a fine line in the center where government can stop crazy people from using freedoms to do crazy things, while still allowing sane people to have the rights and privileges they need as free individuals within the framework of society.
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Yeah, I would LOVE it if I can actually snag detailed datasheets and examples without signing NDAs.

Why do companies sometimes try to hide how their components work?
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“Tech-savvy” teen exploits the supercharged resale market for scarce goods
> Keep this in mind, and anyone reading HN should know that circumcision is quite possibly the least effective way to reduce HIV transmission

Not knowing why it works != it doesn’t work
if you know the number of the person you are trying to contact, and they have service still. and you have to pay for service which you won't need most of the time. CB lets you talk to anyone else with a CB within range of your signal without needing to know their number first. Odds are in a emergency you wont know the phone number of every first responder within 3-20 miles of you (depending on terrain weather antenna and transmitter power) but you can communicate with them over cb radio
I assume by "life", you mean post-industrial revolution humanity which shouldn't be treated as the norm, for either life nor even human history.

It's also irrelevant, water is incredibly abundant in our solar system and we don't even have the largest oceans on Earth, they're just the largest ones on the surface.
> No, it is neither absurd nor false.

Alright, because you don't seem interested in making an argument about this, and merely responding with a "no": provide a commonly-accepted definition for "private information" that fully substantiates your claim.

> That's your choice. But your choice should not be imposed upon others.

Nobody's choice is being imposed upon anybody? I never said that people shouldn't be able to opt-out, and I don't believe that, either.

> I don't want others to know whether I use Audacity or WinAmp or Clementine or VLC or Firefox or Chrome or Vivaldi or Opera or Emacs or vi or vim or TextEdit unless I specifically choose to tell them so.

This is a fallacy - not all of these programs have telemetry.

> I didn't say anything and everything IRL.

That's the real-life equivalent to your unfounded claim about the digital world.

> If you're in your own home then everything you do in your home should be private. Likewise when I'm using my own computer then everything I do in that computer should also be private.

I reject both your analogy, and your claim that things that you do on your computer are always "private" without further qualification. Instead, I ask you to tell me: what is the possible harm that can come from the Audacity developers (not the world in general) knowing that someone, somewhere is using Audacity, and what buttons they're clicking?
I’m not sure how that would be a benefit without massive partnerships with the custodians of those assets.
That last one (Tom 7's executable x86 paper) is incomplete without the video where he demonstrates running the paper (or running the paper yourself).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
Interesting outcome of imperialism…
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I'm unaware of any evidence consistent with this version of how things work there. By all accounts, YouTube are unlenient with bans and blacklistings. Can you please cite a source?
> Now, it depends a bit on whether we're talking about "modern" Nazi propaganda or 1930's Nazi propaganda - the latter one can be pretty clearly categorized as historical interest, while the former might a bit more problematic. I don't want to say that showing countering view points is generally a bad thing, but in this case it's clearly crossing a line.

In this case, it was modern Nazi propaganda. This particular incident was a few years ago, but the title implied that it would be going through the history of a particular dogwhistle. I naively assumed that the history of that dogwhistle would be used as an example of the early steps for de-humanization of Jewish people, how to recognize those early signs of racial hatred, and what can be done to best combat that hatred. Instead, from the outline in the first 30 seconds of the video, the speaker was going through different atrocities committed, and lamenting how limited each atrocity was. It was pure Nazi propaganda, disguised as a lecture, and should not have been recommended to anyone.

A human could have recognized it as such, had a human been within the decision-making loop for recommendations.

> Would YT be able to determine the policy violation, the video would probably be already taken down long before it reaches recommendations.

I think systems tend to proceed based on the incentives and rules that are set up within that system. Youtube's recommendations are designed to increase engagement, regardless of societal cost. I agree that if a human had seen the video, it would have been taken down. But that will rarely be the case, because there are minimal incentives for having good recommendations, as compared to the incentives for having engaging recommendations.

Much of this is due to the push for automating everything, even if that automation results in poor results. I am of the opinion that if something cannot be done correctly at large scale, then it ought to be done only at small scale.
They're becoming more and more essential. The last time I applied for a passport, the only working way to check the status of my application was via Twitter.
It’s a tricky issue to track down because it only adds latency on the first request to a new domain.
Sure it's hard, bit I'm not really even proposing anything new. Labeyrie has proposed such a fleet, but raw economics have put it off, not technology -- I'd hardly call him a slouch in astronomical interferometry.
Still much less lockdown and fewer deaths than e.g. the UK. On the whole it think the cost was worth it, both in lives and economically
The root problem is that the SK government is forcing unreasonable regulation on game developers - you won't escape it by developing FOSS games, as long as you live in Korea and/or develop games for the Korean market.
Reminds me a lot of stochastic computing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_computing
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Even if this computational photography vision is years away, JWST might still become obsolete quickly.

SpaceX's Starship would be able carry telescopes than JWST as a single piece. This would dramatically simplify development and increase optical quality.
The most critical battlefield maneuver is the return to civil life. If you look at wars, they do not end because one side is defeated. They really end because people learn there's nothing there but death and focus their lives somewhere else. The USA has the vaccine. There you go. Just give it to the people we like. It's the US Civil War ending transcontinental railroad of today. Don't worry. It's a very low threshold seeing our tolerance for mass murderers and looters. Namely, you don't want to burn the world because you're not bossing everyone else around from far far away. Perfect. Seeing how bin Laden is in the Indian Ocean because of vaccines, and now the entire world is spooked by them. Develop more vaccines, things like cancer and diabetes, and once again, only give it to the people we like while the diseases ravage the germ filled fools and liars who start horrible fights and run away. War horses retire to the field. Swords and shields are forged to plow shares, spears to pruning hooks. If there's anything that's natural law, that's it. Whoever does that the best wins.
While some part of the issue is some homeowner's financial interest, I believe that it is mostly lifestyle/neighborhood preservation. They moved there because they like it exactly as it was when they moved there (or otherwise they would've moved to a more developed place), and over years and years things change because our world is dynamic and increasing population-wise.

I characterize it as "alt"-right because the right has largely been taken over by Trumpian issues. And the right is generally anti-density and all that it comes with like, rural and suburban areas, cars, and keeping the undesirables away. Trump even had that bill that was about preventing zoning fixes that would "invade the suburbs."[0]

[0]https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/23/trumplow-income-hou...
Exactly correct. And Labeyrie has a design in place for the exact type of fleet I'm talking about.
Why do you need to charge? Are there alternative benefits that can be derived from an audience on a free publication? Are there personal benefits if you only ever attain a small audience?
A handy list of political excuses for teenagers to never get a job
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For decades Taiwan has designed sections of its highways to be converted to military runways in the event of an attack by China. Here's a review with photos of a training exercise a few years ago:

The [Taiwan] Air Force sent four types of aircraft to participate in the exercise: a F-16V Fighting Falcon, a Mirage 2000-5 multi-role fighter jet, and Taiwan’s own Indigenous Defense Fighter. The jets took off and landed with weapons onboard—the F-16 carried two Harpoon anti-ship missiles, two AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missiles, and two AIM-9 Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missiles. The same jet or another jet later landed on the improvised airstrip, minus the two Harpoon missiles.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27633093...

Surely other countries have similar provisions in place, considering some of the first military facilities to be taken out in the event of a surprise attack are military runways.
“ You live in a community, if you take actions generally frowned upon by the majority of people, like it or not you will possibly receive some negative consequences, especially if it involves children. ”

This is the logic used by people who call the police on children walking to the park without an adult. These are commonly people who watch a lot of news (and are therefore more misinformed according to multiple studies) and who would fail basic knowledge tests on actual risks of various activities.
Timely, I just updated our pdns recursors to the latest version yesterday and was staring at that config line. I think I'll hold off for a few months.
The challenges in building a mirror that size is enormous and take years.

It is not only fairing size that is limiting
I don't have to read it because I can measure it. Guess what the measurements say?
I have no idea. I'm pretty sure YC funded companies all have to be incorporated in the US. But just to repeat the important point, that has literally zero to do with how we moderate these threads. How am I able to say that? Because I'm the one doing the moderation, and I can tell you that "gosh I'd better tell HN commenters not to post flamebait about the great Xi because it might affect some investments I don't know about" is not going through my head.
That's fascinating reasoning. It makes sense, but that's the same sort of logic where employers will give hourly employees 39.5 hours a week because if you give them 40 they become "full time". Has that kind of short sighted thinking really invaded the software engineering industry? That's scary.
Probably something in your system or network. The page loads fine in Firefox mobile, at least.
As discussed in the article.
>I stream YouTube in the background while working on projects around the house and I can't recall the last time I was recommended a strange video that was somehow policy-breaking.

I have a fairly curated stream of videos due to years of Youtube use. I never see objectionable content in my recommended segment. I mostly have videos related to my career area and a few creators who focus on games I play.

However, I've logged in on other computers, or via VPNs on different devices and found that if I just started with a random folksy video (let's say a bandsaw restoration), I would be recommended objectionable (overtly anti-black or anti-Semitic material) very rapidly. What's more, this random walk would then seed my recommended videos with a high proportion of similar videos. I'm not sure how much directed viewing would need to occur to re-adjust the recommendations. This was such a large issue that at certain offices I worked at, I'd pre-seed my youtube history with a few 'chill cafe background music' videos first to prevent a re-occurrence of the time when I walked away from my computer after logging onto a new terminal and opening up what I figured was some decent background noise, then coming back to a pro-hitler historical documentary.

This may be because of my location, demographic, activity on the network or the selection of initial videos. My experience is nothing more than an anecdote, but it leads me to think that extreme content does well with respect to engagement, and accordingly is promoted by an engagement focused process. Is this correct? I don't know. I just know it isn't far fetched.
What I am saying is, where are the postmortem, timeline, “data pack”, summarized thread logs, written by offenders as events occur?

Like “04/01 15:00 target posts a picture[link, deleted] location[link] verified from vegetation, angle of sun and buildings in background. 19:34 A member discovers that face in reflection matches photo[link] taken by target’s acquaintance A”.

From logs like that, defensive sides can learn that you shouldn’t upload a picture with features that can be correlated from satellite imagery, that you generally should not upload your friend’s face, that you should also check reflections before uploading, that it’ll take few hours to analyze a photo, etc. (btw these are why I don’t do Fb/Ig or TikTok — it goes against every fucking best practices I had accumulated)

Or maybe this could be a new business idea…
Its shocking to me that anyone believes numbers reported by China. They reported stopping at 80k around the time America started lockdown, and the total number is around 90k today. Absurd lies.
Hmm... Remote, yes, but wouldn't describe it as a small island.
It's actually a collection of island, of a similar land mass to Great Britain or Japan.

But yes, being remote, and being islands surrounded by lots of ocean definitely helps.
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For those who don't anything about the Taliban or Islam:

- Afghanistan is in a strategic location bordering Russia and Pakistan. It has trillions in natural resources, mainly minerals

- Taliban means student of the Koran

- during the various wars in Afghanistan, many orphans were created. They were "adopted" by religious schools that taught them the Koran, and only the Koran. Often this means chanting scripture in ancient Arabic, which they may not actually understand. So you have indoctrinated young men with AK-47s and only a rote religious understanding of the world - the Taliban.

- Islam started in the 7th century CE. The Koran commands converting, killing or taxing non-Muslims, plus other brutality. Most of the medieval horror stories you've read in the Western press are normal, accepted and practised under Islam, including beheading and slavery.

- the Taliban took over the country. The citizens on the one hand support Sharia and law and order, but on the other hand it's too relentless to enjoy daily in the 21st century.

- Pakistan is wary of occupying Afghanistan because the Pakistani's lower-ranked army members are easily influenced by the Taliban's Islamic fervor - military leaders are afraid of a resulting coup, essentially

- Russia wanted to maintain order along their border with Afghanistan, which is their doctrine (to maintain vassal buffer states). But Muslims in that region have waged war since the 7th century (see above.) Russia started to engage in genocide to clear the population, but ran out of money and motivation, along with the US arming the opposition.

- the US should not have gone into the country without clear and realistic goals, if at all. It has been reported that the White House doesn't listen to mid-level civil servants with regional expertise, and those are few. So here we are.

Corollary: When Rep. Ilhan Omar ("a frequent critic of Israel") says something, understand that the words she says must follow the Koran or she faces execution for blasphemy. For that reason, she should not be a US House member, and certainly not on House committees. Islam and the US constitution are opposing ideologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhan_Omar
They will if they want you enough. Even Google can be talked out of the 1-year cliff. Doordash doing this means other employers will have to in order to compete if an employee has a competing offer from Doordash.
Sure, and they do. It’s best to avoid that incentive by having stock grants vest frequently and fractionally. It’s essentially treated as salary, it might as well be paid out fractionally at the same frequency as salary so that no perverse incentives exist.
What's to loathe about Yarn? I only used it briefly buy in comparison to NPM there were less surprises.
Read as: tough, that company says you need to do the work so I demand you do the work.
Great thing to teach teenagers. Thanks, Teen Vogue. Way to lessen inequality.

I was forced to start working at 15. I went through the yellow pages until I found a job for $7/hr making classified ads. Which led to a job building a website. Which led to my career.

> "The free market loves competition, right? Then businesses should be able to compete with unemployment benefits from the government."

I know this is a willfully twisted, snarky statement (because who do they think pays the government?) But if you apply the same logic, why don't we just let free enterprise replace the government completely?

> "We shouldn’t be required to be workers. Working in the labor market should be an option we can choose to opt into — granted if we determine it is worth our time and added income."

Hilarious. So much for a socialist workers' movement. I don't know why workers have fought so long to own the means of production when, plainly, no one has to work and things can just be magically produced. Don't you know 19th Century slaver-owners are sitting on a giant stash of Playstations and freezers full of steaks that we can raid forever?

I just posted this because it shocked me to see such a volte-face in our national discourse, and to see a magazine dedicated to giving lingerie advice roll out the full frontal assault on meritocracy and capitalism as virtually a list of "what to tell your dad when he tells you to find a job".
I'm not saying Google makes horrible offers, but I'm not sure how their recruiters marketing matches up with their internal calculations of target comp. I have read complaints on blind that Google is using it to show higher first year offers or to compete with other offers.

100k with frontloaded vesting at (33/33/22/11) is much better than 100k vesting at 25% a year. But 100k frontloaded wouldn't equal 132k vesting at 25%, only the first year would be equal.

So that answer would not be sufficient if I had a competing grant at 132k, and was worried a second year comp drop. It may be true that Google gives really good refreshers and my above average performance will increase my comp. But I think of that like depending on a percent bonus, it's less reliable than base and my initial equity grant. And if I start using refreshers, raises, and stock growth with Google, I should also use it when looking at competing offers.

> you don't ever feel like your compensation has flatlined.

Emotionally that may feel bad, but I think it's caused by employees getting lucky. I don't think it's a problem that needs to be solved.

1) It's objectively bad if I have a cliff because my employer hasn't increased my comp as my market value increases. I should probably look for a new job.

2) It's objectively good if my cliff is because the value of my initial grant exploded. The drop will be bad. But if it's such a noticeable difference I'm probably sitting on hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in profit from my initial grant.
This is very similar to BMI. It is really a general measure that's broadly useful at the population level, but on the individual level can be wildly off.

This isn't to downplay the usefulness of this measure though! It's simple, fast, non-invasive, relatively safe etc
There's also a book on OS, right?
I feel like proton pumps have been used by life for billions of years already and everything is mostly fine?
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This rocks. If the US never invaded, this is the kind of thing we'd hope for. Oppressed people fighting for their own liberation without the intervention of people like Pete Buttigieg hanging a map of Afghanistan's natural resources on his wall.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/pete-buttigieg-cia-afghan...
But there’s no computation a quantum computer can do that a classical computer can’t. In that sense, it’s still a Turing machine. It can do some class of computation faster (in principle).
Check out Larry Harris' Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners. Might be somewhat dated by now, but I bet still very relevant.