skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever It Is, It Ain’t Aliens
“A diamond is metastable, just like your marriage and our cartel”

-de beers

...possibly
It's a joke about GitHub Copilot.
That depends. The heat might be used in a heat pump for all we know.
By uploading the licensed music in the first place, are we not breaching copyright law?
Wow. And it's entirely client-side, too! Impressive.
Retro. With move semantics, it's all about the Rule of 5 these days.
It would be hard to recruit that many volunteers and staff to run a dozen trials, and reducing the study group size would mean less confidence in the results. Already we have seen blood clots and heart inflammation show up at rates that won't be caught even in larger scale trials.
100% of the population with 70% immunity results in far fewer deaths than 25% of the population with 90% immunity
I think short- and long-term predictions are wrong in different ways. Short-term predictions often fail to come true, leading to the diagnosis of slowness. Long-term predictions often fail to even come false, because the world has changed so much the prediction is no longer applicable. In these cases, change was faster than expected, but not in a way that settles the original point (often pertaining to progress or some other value judgement).
All the EEs of my generation knew how to solder.

Interestingly, no electrician I've used knew what inductive coupling was. :-(
Fragile steel bars/Tofu-dreg project in China/Shaky building/Collapsing building
In case you don't get it, view the source :)

It's just a bunch of a sleep(random()) and visual changes on viewport and you download the exact file you uploaded
Musk's submarine was a joke. The video of it shows it was clearly too large and too rigid to maneuver through the caves. Musk said they would make a video showing the submarine going from point a to b, but never did. Watch these videos of Unsworth both after the rescue and the trial and compare them to Musk's response. It was absolutely sickening.

https://youtu.be/uDP6_4jUmiQ

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-50698294

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHJZGcj5KHU
You might also be interested to learn that Easter is a fertility festival!

Christianity was a hard sell back a couple thousand years ago, so it was often simpler to just coopt existing pagan holidays.
I think they meant, "why the notion that it's one-sided is wrong". I.e. they are explaining their reasoning for the assertion that it's both sides - not explaining why each side is doing it. Emphasis in the title is on the word "and", not on the phrase "free speech is under attack".
> “Hearing, honoring, and respecting dissent, even when inconvenient, can sharpen one’s own position, expand one’s knowledge, and help us see that “conflicting doctrines share the truth between them.”

That won't work if the opposing side believes you have bad intentions and even engaging in debate with you is giving a platform to bias and discrimination. They won't debate, they think even science and math are racially and gender biased. Logic is no good, 'telling stories' (anecdotes and emotional appeal) is the new logic.

They also do not care about individuals, just the group identities. Similarly the army only cares about winning and the church only cares about purity, individual thinking among their members being considered irrelevant or even harmful.

Please use comments to explain the downvotes.
> The pricing model is admittedly a bit complex,

Maybe you can answer this question I had below:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27786051

If at any given second of the course of a month I have somewhere between 500 and 2000 vcore’s worth of AWS vms running with Java SE, how do I figure out how much I owe Oracle?

Amazon, a competitor to Oracle, publicly provides enough information to figure this out.
Wikipedia has a good summary [0] and [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_KFC#Heublein_and_st...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders#1930%E2%80%931...
There are a number of county sized public utilities districts in Washington state which are doing essentially the same thing. These particular ones are also the last mile electrical grid operator connected to some of the big hydroelectric dams in the region.
I have never been a part of a group that never was accepting of the fact that if you weren't out to get hammered, they weren't okay with it. What you're insinuating about the social aspect just sounds like a very shitty friend group to be around. Like people who you hang around with that encourage you to get into heroin basically. If you can't say no to that, maybe you have some self confidence issues and it's not the alcohol that's the problem.
Pretty sure the $ is left out where the unit is BTC, this guy is small time but one of many.
There is a difference in how large a set `array_agg` would need to process, since `LEFT JOIN` may produce a very sparse relation and NULLs still have to be scanned over.
He's stated previously regarding just the bunker, that it'd be sold as a bunker with a house, not a house with a bunker. That arrangement is apparently more valuable as that makes the house much more desirable for the type of person interested in bunker-digging.

I'm not sure if the tunnels change anything, but assuming they're up to some sort of code, probably nothing.
Thank you for formulating precisely what I felt, but could not describe in detail.

Calling someone else's opinion basically outside any rational Overton window is usually meant as a veiled insult.
This is one of the things that depresses me the most… rich countries don’t even need to be altruistic here. Be entirely selfish: send vaccines to worse off countries to cut down on the number of mutations that will inevitably arrive on your shores.

The really depressing part is that the exact same logic applies to climate change, so I’m not exactly full of hope for the future right now.
There is a bit more to it. Chia "plots" are large files that act as bingo cards. You need an enterprise-grade SSD to generate a card but not to play bingo once you have it.

The files being expensive to create but not to reuse is what makes it proof of space, since it makes caching the data much cheaper than generating a new card.
It might be more that they are acknowledging that both things exist, not asserting that both things are equally destructive.
I spent about 2 years using 1:1 THC:CBD weed. I do this by mixing THC and CBD strains/edibles since it's cheaper that way (because CBD is federally legal so it's cheaper to get online from Oregon etc).

After quitting alcohol and started getting high regularly with my friends, I got used to THC. Now THC doesn't give me anxiety/heart palpitation/paranoi etc. I think it's so worth it! The way I see it, getting used to THC is a life skill. I spent way too much health drinking alcohol in parties and getting wasted. Just take an edible before the party and you're all set; fuck hangovers. I'm so happy I'm not wasting my 20s on alcohol.
I think that's the joke. It literally takes the exact same song unaltered but it says it's "using machine learning", "fair use" etc. to give the pretense of it being legitimate.

This is most likely a commentary on GitHub co-pilot and how the authors of this joke think that GitHub co-pilot is violating copyright and does not fall under fair-use.

I just confirmed the "processed" file has the same SHA256 sum as the original.

EDIT: I incorrectly labelled at Google co-pilot instead of GitHub co-pilot. Fixed.
Reading it that way is your right, of course, but the headline states that the Left is attacking free speech, and it also says "both sides in their own ways have begun to emphasize why government authorities, private businesses, or college administrators should more tightly regulate, if not suppress, certain kinds of public speech" but gives no examples of this happening on one of the sides. The only "attacks" they can mention for the Left are that certain university faculties might not invite some people to speak at their campus, and the ACLU might decline to defend you if you are literally an Illinois Nazi. Even the latter example is critically weak because while that article says that "internal tensions" existed at the ACLU over defending neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, the fact remains that the ACLU did defend the right of Nazis to assemble in Charlottesville!

So again, I reject this both-sides-ism. On the one hand, a minority of ACLU decision makers will whine about defending Nazi parades, but the ACLU will still do it. On the other hand, Republicans in 30 states will throw you in jail for assigning the reading of a Ta-Nahisi Coates article. These two things are not similar.
> if not $15 or $21/hour like it would be if we adjusted for overall productivity growth

Why would you ever consider doing that? Livable wage discussions are about what’s livable, not how much value the job provides.
Fire tornadoes are not uncommon in wildfires and there’s a long history of them (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl). Why is that an “extreme weather sign”? That seems like an alarmist stretch to establish a connection to climate change.

News media needs to be intentional and precise in how they are covering this particular fire whirl. For example the LA Times used the phrase “fire tornado” in their headline (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-08/powerful...) but the body of the article used the correct term, “fire whirl”. A tornado is a much more severe event and comes with ratings and requirements for classification. A fire whirl is closer to a “dust devil” and is a relatively minor event by comparison (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind).

Unfortunately the few articles I read aren’t clear on what the measured severity was or why it qualifies as a tornado versus whirl.
Github Copilot.
I think that calculation will vary depending on age and at risk groups. If those 25% in the second option are older folks and/or obese/diabetic, deaths might be lower in that scenario.
Aha - got it, thank you :)
Yeah if every harmful thing constituted the "true character" of someone, we'd all be sinners. Granted, if a lot of harm is done, then it might be fair. (Cue the knee-jerk "isn't dragging a hero's name through the mud a lot of harm?"; I don't know, can you tell me what wouldn't qualify as a "lot of harm" under your worldview? Everyone knows the diver was a hero and if you have evidence his life is affected, pls share)

It's just negativity bias; considering the negative to be "more true" or accurate than the positive.
Strangely, a lookalike of a music hit is nothing like the original, and it’s worth analyzing!

- Music is a vehicle for a common experience. Everyone knows the next notes of some Lady Gaga song. We feel like learning the lyrics will make us able to sing together if we were in a club, and share something with other clubbers. Any AI who would reproduce the voice and instruments would still not make you feel like you are sharing a common moment with the rest of the auditors,

- Hits are hits because we hear them a thousand times. It’s been proven that people don’t necessarily like it the first time. It’s the familiarity with the song which make us like it (or hate it when we’ve heard to too much).

- Even worse: We like some songs even more because we love the author. Be it because they are politically involved, have a cute face, has a nice life story, or seem to hide answers to life in the lyrics of their work - But an AI producing the same exact notes wouldn’t trigger similar affection from us. It’s like hearing our kid singing: Very cute, but we wouldn’t like the same song by another kid. Audiences have a genuine emotional attachment to the authors. It’s especially visible since the MCM revolution: Before MCM, music mattered; Now the image matters way more, bands have a face, a graphic style, a story to tell - and music could be as crap as possible, if we like the band it can still have success. MCM changed music forever, proving that AI can’t replace that feeling.

Can it?
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I don't disagree but he wasn't a dick in a vacuum - someone was a dick to him, he was a dick back. Your expectations that musk should just take it on the chin without responding in kind are your expectations and honestly nothing to do with musk. This guy was rude to him, he was rude back, you're disappointed in musk, musk doesn't care, you're still fixated on the response rather than what set the tone - the original rude message.

I don't see why musk should care about being nice to someone who started off being rude.
Drinking from a paper straw is unpleasant.
Nitpick, I have a great deal for respect for Derek but he isn't a journalist (and nor does he claim to be).

It's just a column.

But that's not to say the reactions from journalists weren't critical. Adam from Stat had some choice words about the decision.
Damn, I read this as "Tool, the band, is converting all of their copyrighted music into fair-use music." and got excited.

But this is funny too I guess
Finding the optimal dose is done in phase II, where various dose levels are tested on different groups of people. Phase III happens after the dose level is confirmed, and then you roll that out to tens of thousands of people. I think the main point of phase III is to test the final candidate, so you're not really experimenting with the formula at that point.

If you check the papers for the mRNA vaccines, you can see that they did run several different dose levels and got pretty clear feedback that some were too high or too low, before moving on to phase III.
It's not just cronyism, it's flat out corruption. I took a 2-3 year detour from tech to work in construction.

The industry is rife with corruption and misaligned incentives. Kick-backs are common. Bids are often not truly competitive, and when they are, people find ways like change-order abuse [1] to subvert the system. There are so many ways to rig the bidding process (bribing someone to find out competitor bids so you can undercut them) and the execution (cutting corners that you don't expect someone to find out about, or just bribing whoever is overseeing quality who might detect the corners you cut).

Even the US Army Corps of Engineers has had massive corruption cases. When I was in the industry this was an open secret, which surprising to me given the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act... eventually this would be cracked down upon [2], but as far as I've heard, still common.

[1] https://guide.iacrc.org/potential-scheme-change-order-abuse/

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-us-army-corps-engi...
I was hoping this was crackdown on the recent influencer-coins, but it’s just basic wire fraud, offering to buy BTC over market price and then just not wiring the money. Wonder how he expected to get away with it.
Could this have more to do with the fact that pre-school aged children have the attention span of a puppy because their brains aren't fully developed yet?
100% of the population is unrealistic tho. In the US were looking at realistically somewhere around 65-70%… stronger immunity is desirable here
Same, and the strongest reason why I stopped using GA altogether.

People don't talk much about that, I suppose, but to me it's clear GA is completely dead as a product.
Great way for the owner of the site to build up a library of free music!
For security patches?
Personally I prefer using Apple Maps when possible because the app is a lot more fluid, it has a dark mode, and it feels better about privacy.
> by definition you wouldn't realize a change in identity due to change in grounding.

Neither then would anyone else, including the OP.
audiophiles gotta try this! it makes the music soo much better
I tried to play the original and downloaded music a bunch of times to try to figure out any differences...
I’ve been using Apple Maps in Canada, and I’d say it’s decidedly better than the competition. Navigation is at least as good as Google and Waze, and the UI/UX is far superior. Biggest deficiency is search and POI information. I’ll usually search a location on Google Maps to get general information about it, before using Apple Maps to navigate there.
It would still only be the same number of people per trial. They wouldn't have gotten trouble finding volunteers.

And even if they just prioritized starting the first one ASAP - they didn't do any dosage testing until after it had been released to general public for months. Even if not ideal they could have started dosage trials in November after all the data from the original was done. Instead, they waited six months before even considering this.
Technically, Starbucks is food service, not retail.
I don't think pre-school aged children even know where to look for the data yet.
It's temporary on a generational timeline.

When I think of young and old PhDs alike, I don't think of high status individuals. I think of people who spent too long in academia. Most of them don't contribute breakthrough insights to their field in their lifetime, but rather make indentations to broader collective knowledge. That's not high status to me.

I think more highly of someone who owns their own plumbing business. An employer has more status to me because they command labor. A PhD graduate will most of the time be contributing deep narrow insight to a larger organization, not using their studies for entrepreneurial pursuits.
> The hottest I ever felt was 114° in the DFW area in Texas. I cannot even fathom another 16 degrees. Even with low humidity, 130° is a killer.

Humidity makes a bigger difference than you might think.

Death Valley at 130F and 6% humidity (the current Death Valley humidity) has a heat index similar to somewhere at 100F and 50% humidity (common humidity for DFW, Texas).

Heat index isn't perfect, but 114F with DFW humidity might have felt significantly worse than 130F with Death Valley humidity.
Have you tried Github co-pilot? It's not going to copy paste the Linux source code, like Dungeon AI is not going to copy paste a Tolkien book.
So when are neural nets trained on images or text going to be confronted with the same copyright concerns? At the point that GitHub has forced the issue into the spotlight with Copilot I feel that it's only a matter of time before this reaches the courts. Nobody seemed to care about copyright at the time people were having fun creating AI dream collages or nonexistent anime girls from a model trained on the Danbooru imageset. In the latter case it's not clear that 100% of the original Pixiv and Twitter creators gave their consent to have their work rehosted on a different site in the first place, much less be involved in ML experiments. That data was from 2018.

I'm almost tempted to believe that the people at GitHub knew this was going to blow up as much as it did as some kind of a challenge to the status quo of copyright and licensing, if only so that everyone would start talking about the issue. Why did the GitHub representative plainly state that Copilot was trained on all of GitHub's codebase without seeming to care about the pushback on Twitter and HN that was bound to happen as a result?
I wish there was a way to flag behind pay wall links.
I have to disagree with a good chunk of this article.

The article completely misses the main advantage (to me) of reinforcement learning:

Reinforcement learning allows you to optimise on non-differentiable outcomes.

I can't differentiate real life, but I want to optimise a process within real life. This feels tantalisingly close to AGI. If I can figure out a reward function, I can use reinforcement learning.

Yes, this requires a reward function to be defined. Yes, this is a challenge to AGI. But to say that the big labs are not aware that this is a challenge to AGI is unfair. DeepMind is actively investigating open ended learning: https://deepmind.com/research/publications/open-ended-learni....

Just because the labs haven't tackled all the questions doesn't mean that they're not busy tackling difficult questions.
100%

The problem is on the government side. They should have paid for this. It would have saved them money too - if it turned out they only needed to give out one shot of the mRNA doses or that they could cut down on dosage.
> I have no desire to understand the experiences of the most part of the humanity anyway

Nobody is arguing that a common language wouldn’t make mundane everyday transactions more convenient.

The argument is that a significant range of expression, nuance, culture and even experience would be lost in service of your goal of easier to use public transport, shopping etc.

It’s fine for you not to be interested in the experiences of the most part of humanity. Let’s just not pretend that there is a trade-off that many people do care about.
Congratulations. That's got to be a 100% accurate algorithm.
Yes, that was his excuse, "back home calling someone a pedo was just a normal insult", but Musk did a bit more than "was rude back". Hiring a PI to dig up dirt? Sending further lies about the guy to media?
The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work
Cisco didn't "realize" this was happening, they specified, had manufactured, and sold the very SFPs the GP post is describing. SFP slots in routers are designed with this thermal load in mind.

Which is also why plugging a large amount of DWDM optics into a datacenter switch is a bad idea. Datacenter switches are _not_ designed with this in mind. You run into risks of both overheating the switch as well as overloading the PSUs. A small number of high-power optics ain't gonna break the switch though.

And: 10Gbase-T SFPs have horrendous power consumption, even worse than DWDM SFPs. At these speeds, the signal over copper is mostly mush, and the PHY contains a none-too-trivial analog & digital signal processor. Which, again, is where limitations for 10Gbase-T SFP usage come from. If at all possible, avoid this shit — there's absolutely no reason to have 10Gbase-T inside a rack, for example. Just use DAC cables or SR optics.
Obviously machine learning is fair use, so it supersedes copyright.
Maybe the solution is to overproduce on things with longer shelf life, which can be stored and transported without refrigeration, so any excess past the target 150% (or other figure) can be donated easily to other parts of the world?
POSIX sockets aren't portable, period.

Putting aside the super obvious problem that there's no common way to use them asynchronously across platforms, and that file descriptors are the wrong abstraction for TCP connections, they are riddled with more obscure issues:

- Linger behavior varies by platform

- Even simple non-blocking behavior varies by platform.

- Common options like enabling TCP keep-alives, or setting buffer sizes, varies by platform.

- More often than not, in modern times, you also want TLS... and that's not available portability across platforms either, and is a whole new awful API to learn (if you choose to use OpenSSL directly).

- No RAII, means resource leaks (in C++).

Using the raw BSD sockets APIs as a starting point for any portable application in 2021 is fucking insane. There's a reason why Python has the 'asyncio' module now and Go has the net module and goroutines.