skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that the very notion that we're somehow dealing with a nefarious, shadowy era of exceptionally pernicious misinformation is itself a form of misinformation. I strongly suspect that the current media and associated tech company obsession with misinformation is largely rooted in a certain very disagreeable politician winning the U.S presidency in 2016 despite all the best efforts of major media sources to convince everyone of what was supposedly best for them, and because these same media/tech interests share a political bent that's currently more dominant in the social sphere, suddenly, misinformation is a boogeyman as never seen before. Evidence to the contrary be damned.

Humans have been misinforming each other and creating echo chambers of rigid thought for as long as we've had culture. On this little has changed except for new additions to the mediums through which we can communicate ideas.

Censorship and restriction of opinions to those that are "verifiable and correct" is such an obvious hole for bad decisions and misuse that support for it should be laughable after decades of seeing just how badly governments and other major authorities can fuck up their notions about what a correct stance on anything really is, and this not to even mention the many, many, many historical examples of official narratives deliberately being manipulated for the sake of control or special interests... Those of you who think modern democratic institutions are somehow immune enough to such things that we should have public free expression monitored and restricted due to misinformation dangers are absurdly naive.
Right there with the 'both sides are the same' false equivalence... In case you're wondering why.
I’m sure glad we don’t have a rhetorical bombthrower in the whitehouse any more.
Do you know of any meaningful evidence pointing to him being connected to a different intelligence agency?
Are there any providers similar to Hetzner that are a bit closer to the US? I have a view vps instances with them, but the high latency is a major bummer.
Blend Labs stock will begin trading on the NYSE in latest fintech IPO
Great to see Dr. K getting the recognition he deserves. Love his content
Film is actually interesting because I think you'll find that many of the most respected directors, editors, cinematographers, etc. in Hollywood didn't go to film school.
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Except that taking someone's DNA without their consent (or the consent of their guardians) is nothing like making girls (and women) be accompanied by a chaperone.

I always find it fascinating that many American people believe very strongly in individual freedoms, the same people often believe these freedoms do not apply to children (or teenagers) and parents should have unconditional ownership over their children.
So if I buy a bunch of candybars and sell them for a profit, and someone buys some of my candybars with money he made selling cocaine, have I laundered his drug money?

He still needs to sell those candybars to get clean money. Using illicitly obtained money to buy something that can then be resold for clean money is a very common money laundering technique. But it's the person buying and reselling assets who is committing the crime, not the entity initially selling goods. Otherwise Walmart would be the biggest "money launderer" in the country.
Northrop Grumman already have the MEV-2, which does just that: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/22380581/northrop-grumman...
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“ acts as a short term antidepressant”

No, it’s very definitely a depressant. Some might get ecstatic momentarily, but they’re likely to be crying within minutes, or maybe even trying to commit murder or rape — one of the worse side effects of alcohol is criminal behavior.
MFA programs in creative writing are the most worthless. In my experience as an editor, writers with MFAs were not as a class better than those without.

At least with some graduate programs—in areas of actually value—you might qualify for an RA or TA subsidy. But it’s not worth paying full freight.
Could someone explain what exactly is new here? WDM and DP-QPSK isn't new.

>The new system begins its transmission process with a 552-channel comb laser

> The signal runs through two novel kinds of fiber amplifiers, one doped in thulium, the other in erbium, before it continues on its way, in a conventional process called Raman amplification.

I am guessing the 552 channel is a new record, and the Amplifier is the new thing here?

I would also like to know what are the current speed per single core of fibre in use for long distance under sea cables? Most only quote the whole undersea cable without mentioning how many cores. And without it, it is hard to tell whether 319 Tbps is comparatively speaking a large increase. For example the purposed Pacific Light Cable from LA to HK is 144 Tbps.

I am also far more interested in the Ultra Low Latency Cable where light travel at close to max speed rather than 2/3 of its speed within fibre. Unfortunately it seems nothing much happening in that area.
No, you could wrap the whole function body in an

if (!base_case) {
// one more indentation level!
...
}

if you adhered to the belief that early returns decrease readability.
Don't improve debugging. Kill it
Etherpoetry – The new literary movement on the blockchain
I think immigration laws play a big role too, a lot of people seem to use a masters as a way of getting a visa - I believe having a masters improves the chances of getting an H1-B, and also being in school in the US makes it much easier to apply to US companies.
"Intellectual property" means corporations owning the products of human minds, often to the detriment of the humans themselves. That's actually a perfect analogy for the plot of The Matrix.
> Carnival Cruise Lines, AirBnB

sounds more like someone with strong financial interest in saying that the pandemic is over, if we want to play that game.
Do you mean RAII?
I ran an image / file hosting service off an old computer in my parent's basement when I was in high school. You can do more than you might think with ~1mbps upload even.
Neo learns martial arts in seconds from digitalized records. Not discussing intellectual property, but introducing a scenario that justifies Li’s worries.

I bet that they told him: you’re a computer freak on the movie, but once you left the Matrix you became a martial artist by… and then Li though: WOW! An all my training??
Get rid of grid in web design
Peary harbour was the site where the confederate forces of Robert Peary, in 1909, fought the communist forces of Franz Ferdinand. Ferdinand's forces were armed with revolutionary fire-arms, fitted with sights known as "Cross-hairs". This was immortalised in the song "Take Me Out" by the band "The Beegees", famous for their Delta-Blues sound, in 2067.
I've trained on and off for the years. Probably only 100ish hours of mat time. I'd rolled with mainly white and blue belts, the occasional purple, and maybe 1 brown. Even with that, I understood that there are some serious levels to this.

Then last year I rolled with a black belt. It was like a different game. I'm a big dude, but I could not move this guy. It was like trying to move a car, it just rocked a little as he looked at me with amusement and pity. He did the same stuff I know, just better. And he knew what I was thinking before I knew it. He's got top half guard, and Im fighting for an underhook. As I think, "Ok, he cant choke me with 1 hand, he won't go for the brabo", he goes, "You know I can still sink this with 1 hand, right?".

He did, and he looked bored doing it.
As far as I’m concerned, the print spoiler shouldn’t be a systemwide service at all. Unless a computer is serving a local printer for use by others, just printing a document can be done entirely in the context of the user doing the printing.
> Is it a good start for starting new project in tech world?

The answer is yes, You are skilled in a trade (software engineering) and want to sell what you make as a business, the motivation will always be money.

For example, A carpenter might be very passionate about woodworking but not necessarily about the TV cabinet that they are building. They build it anyway because there is a demand and they want to make a business out of what they know. Maybe you should start with small and manageable projects and see what clicks before going big.
> It turns out that "discipline doesn't scale", and programmers have not been able to write substantial amounts of reliable and secure software using pointers. Not Linus, not the BSD maintainers, not the OpenSSL team, not anyone. Not even with C++20 and a tool bag full of fuzzers and linters.

Well, Google has 100s of millions of lines of C++ that power much of the internet. They certainly have no intention of getting rid of this code, and have deemed the tradeoff worthwhile. Yes, in theory this C++ codebase might not be the most reliable or secure, but their practices are certainly scalable and battle tested. Not saying it is easy, but it is certainly possible to build an ecosystem around C++ with fuzzers/linters/whatever to reach an "acceptable" level in practice.

> Meanwhile, huge amounts of quite safe Java and C# code keep happily ticking along -- exposed to the internet -- often needing patches only for the C/C++ modules that they include as a part of some framework!

Not necessarily. Plenty of null pointer exceptions in production Java code that bring down systems. Yes, they are "safe" but I don't think the tens of millions of customers affected appreciate such subtle nuances: the consequences are the same for them.

I agree that there can be more severe consequences due to the lack of "safety" from exploits, privilege escalation, and what not. But with stuff like sandboxing, the broader ecosystem, etc the decision isn't as simple as your argument might suggest.
Translation: Google implements censorship policy.
Unless hugely motivated, I would not considering getting a Master degree. Masters and Docs are mostly for research.

There are course-based Masters and I consider them as a convenient solution to get around the unnecessary electives in Undergraduate studies. I recently transferred to a graduate diploma which serves the same purpose.
> One of the arena's managers later called Lamya’s mother to discuss the issue. And in a statement, the biz said: “The software had her daughter at a 97 percent match. This is what we looked at ... if there was a mistake, we apologize for that."

A combination of low skill management and poor algorithms is bad. This seems like stupid managers that don’t understand what 97% means.

Also funny that they “apologized” but didn’t say the teen was welcome to come roller skate. And they weren’t able to figure out it wasn’t her at the event.

So this statement seems to be “the computer says 97%, so you can’t come in, sorry that sucks for you.”

I think we need some sort of Uniform Commercial Code for how automated systems hose customers so there is a consistent adjudication method.
Because bachelors don't know shit, and you don't need a degree to do bachelor stuff.

Ie you need to gauge people based on their skill not their degree for bachelor level stuff anyways so instead of some mid degree that's useless we should get rid of it and push people to actually complete something useful, like a master's degree.
I wouldn't call black holes "emergent". They do behave very similar to other gravitational objects -- just more "extreme".

Another example are atoms: Most of their properties are easy to predict from the properties of their constituents and from the physical laws: The mass of atom is the sum of the mass of the constituents, minus the binding energy, which we can easily predict.

But, for example, nucleon mass is emergent. Most of it is created dynamically by QCD, and we cannot easily predict it. We can, for example, not easily predict how the mass changes if we change properties of quarks or gluons. A brute-force lattice calculation is required.

Weather is a similar example. We understand the basic rules, but weather patterns are only predictable with limited success and a lot of forward simulation.
the long road to ranting about how some “snowflakes” had issues with RMS
Then, of course, there is China, where practically everything you can see around you was imported from. So, communism is also not an explanation.
I like Linux just fine, but I could never get by with just Linux. There are too many other applications that I want to run that aren't available on Linux. Also, I'm a developer and none of my users are on Linux. That means I use Linux just for infrastructery-type stuff.
We feel that we (and life, consciousness) must be special, but it's just thermodynamics.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-life-and-death-spring-fro...

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.10...
My grampa was stationed in Iraq at this time. I bet he would have seen this manual.

I remember him telling me about hunting Warthogs in the desert. Bullets were in short supply so hunters were given one bullet and knife. You had one shot, and then you had to go slit the animals throat with the knife.

They gave the gun to my grampa a lot, he was an country boy who grew up target practicing on the range. He was always a solid shot.

Thanks for the memory!
It's a similar paradox that today's DTC brands face, especially those selling digital products or consulting services. They usually have to give away a lot of IP upfront...for free.
It wasnt over Bizarre Anti-Anti-Semitic Rant.

It was over publicly confirming Google hires and tolerates Anti-Semites.
One of the most valuable things you get from a degree in the US is access to internships.
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005)
They should just auto approve all complaints, and randomly audit some of them. That's effectively the system today, just less convenient.
How bleak are our prospects as a civilisation when we reduce the value of a higher education in the arts, such as literature, to something as rudimentary as a waste of tax money. It is short sighted to think that since a "degree in poetry" won't yield a substantial dollar-value return economically, that it therefore has no value. Especially when several of recent history's social and political movements were in fact born of literature, writing and the kind of written articulation that characterises such academic fields.

And to your point about "free" education in Europe. The act of decoupling the pursuit of education and knowledge, from a high financial cost, is a crucial mechanism to ensure that institutions retain the freedom to pursue knowledge for its own sake, and to not be (solely) steered by the industrial interests of the status quo.
I think if you are willing to ignore 50% of the population, well, I don't know what to tell you other than that history does not look kindly on partisans.
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> The system weighs evidence and determines whether the preponderance of evidence

A formal process of examining evidence marshaled in the service of arguments supporting/refuting a claim sounds practically equivalent to most forms of determining truth. Because it is.

Not only that, but there are segments of the law where truth is explicitly invoked, ie "truth is an absolute defense against defamation."
Yes i agree caricaturing is clearly wrong. But i am saddened by this group think that all groups of people should be given even standing as all having positives and negatives. People should be given standings based on verifiable evidence with regard to their actions. If your group is composed of bad actors, your group is bad. We don't have to treat you fair and balanced.
Indeed. One wonders how much of this threat of misinformation is being pushed by the mainstream media who at one time was the authority on truth.

Nothing is more dangerous than someone being striped of power they considered rightfully theirs.
What are some non-ML benchmarks? Or put another way, what domain are you referring to? Some examples I can think of are bit error rate for communication and full width at half maximum of the point spread function for image resolution.

BER is a much more objective benchmark (even if alone it might miss power or some other factor). FWHM has it's own set of problems, because unless your an astronomer, the thing you're imaging probably isnt a point source. So you get into more subjective resolution phantoms, e.g. in medical imaging, or comparisons in how some part of Lena looks under different treatments.

But mostly,these benchmarks are all much simpler and objective than something like imagenet that has so much randomness in it, and no real underlying principle other than it being diverse enough to be general. I'm curious if there are other similarly random benchmarks used in other domains?
A friend suggested we try do this after seeing stack-overflow-import (https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import), which queries stackoverflow for some matching result and loads it. For small functions, it's surprisingly effective. You still need Copilot access to use this, unfortunately.

Some other examples:

>>> from copilot import rock_paper_scissors
>>> rock_paper_scissors('Rock', 'Scissors')
'Player 1 wins'

>>> from copilot import get_current_git_commit
>>> get_current_git_commit()
b'29c7e9b138a9247c598b613ca378d103de878e2a\n'

>>> from copilot import answer_to_everything
>>> answer_to_everything(1)
42

Practically, it works through two separate copilot calls. The first one asks copilot to predict the arguments a function would take, then the second one asks it to predict the body of the function. The returned code is then parsed, both to ensure that it is actual valid Python (it almost always is, although it sometimes spits out Python 2 or cuts off due to length limits), and to remove any extra statements that are not part of the function (sometimes it likes to include an `if __name__ == "__main__"` for example).

The function is then wrapped in an error handler that will attempt to include a module if the snippet references an undefined variable. Copilot tends to use the correct libraries, but forgets to import them so this step is necessary to get most things working. We experimented with prompting an `import ` inside the function body, which worked decent but delivered some wonky results when the code needed more than one import or when it needed none at all.
Hmmmm, yeah except
https://worldbeyondwar.org/50-oppressive-governments-support...
How, exactly? I don’t see any claims to equivalence in GP’s comment at all.
I sit corrected, I don't know how I missed that on their page.

EDIT: s/stand/sit/
The middle ground is something along the lines of a co-operative/charity.

These are organizations that can and often do operate as a business selling things, providing services, and paying their suppliers, employees and landlords at commercial / market competitive rates, but don't aim to distribute surplus profits to their shareholders.

For a traditional co-operative, the shareholders are the customers, so the incentive is that they get whatever service they need reliably and without price gouging or increases. The flipside is that the co-operative itself isn't incentivized to increase efficiency or lower prices.
I’m perplexed that a roller rink in Michigan is using facial recognition tech. Wow.
The only thing meaningless here is your attempt to be poetic.
Disclaimer: Rust fanatic

Sidenote, i think a lot of the tech crowd forgets how much industry will lag behind popularity, for a whole bunch of good reasons. My shop uses Rust, and all our hires are aimed at Rust, and it's still not easy - there's not a ton of people who know Rust. We would have a ton of candidates in Python, JavaScript(Node), even Go. Hell even PHP.

The fact is that applicants tend to follow jobs, so you get a chicken-egg problem. New languages have a huge hill to climb in adoption and it takes years for companies to build up large codebases in new languages to result in a large job pool.

Take any previously popular, old and uninteresting language and know it well - and you can get jobs for years and years and years to come. There's just a ton of code out there written in it that needs support, extension, etc.

I always recommend learning Rust but it is certainly not a must.
Can people in the EU chime in on this? My understanding is that is how France does it (just go to a website, pay what the gov't says you owe because the gov't has all the details).

> I'm not holding my breath.

Yeah I assumed back in the 80s this was a no brainer.

Edit: I see below that many from Sweden, UK, Germany have chimed in and basically said only the US is this stupid when it comes to federal and state income taxes. Thanks for the info.
The project is only 6 years old... This entire industry is still very young, lol. We've got smart contracts, that's an amazing idea and it works, the next step is to solve scalability issues. But it's not an easy task and needs time.
One reason that often gets glossed over (including in this article) is how (non-online) Masters programs are huge moneymakers as a ticket to working in the US.

I've seen that in CS programs at University of Buffalo and Yale, a majority of Masters students are from abroad, especially from Asia.

Basically, if you wanted to work in tech in the US, you could either:

- Find a multinational company in your home country, work for them for a year, and request a transfer (highly competitive)

- Find a job for a company in the US while abroad, ask them to sponsor you for a H-1B, and hope you win the visa lottery (unlikely, since companies don't like their chances on the lottery)

- Get a Masters degree. Sure, it's $50,000, but you're guaranteed a 3-year work visa (OPT with STEM extension) during which you can apply for the H-1B multiple times (it's a winner!)

This is actually completely rational, and benefits both the students, the school, and arguably the US since it gets some highly skilled workers who did not take out loans.

Are Masters degrees outside of STEM (and online ones, like the OPM-managed ones this article mentions) that cater to local Americans in low wage sectors a scam? Maybe!

Are Masters degrees in STEM (which definitely are cash cows) a scam? Almost definitely not; in fact, they're a great workaround until the US reforms its immigration system
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I love the idea of this, but it also plays poorly with

> Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the difficulty of debunking false, facetious, or otherwise misleading information: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."

But I guess, to be fair, giving the other sides a fair chance to make it's point doesn't mean you need to provably debunk it if it's wrong.
What would your pick be?
They are definitely still rigged. It's just that IMO the prizes and challenge still make it decently entertaining for me. But don't get me wrong, many 100y coins are lost in the pursuit of trying to win.
Google is upset about him telegraphing to the world his previous views were actually approved during hiring process, and tolerated all the way to the moment of firing.
There are a lot of alcohol apologists in this thread. Its one of the most dangerous drugs in humanity and we have people claiming it can be beneficial under the right circumstances.

Even if that were true, it does orders of magnitude more harm than good, and should be considered a poison.

We absolutely do not want to propagate the idea that it can be heathy if consumed responsibly.
MBA are mostly for connections and maybe an advanced degree (in some countries it's considered as equivalent to a Master's degree and salaries adjust for that especially for government positions). Occasionally, if not sponsored by companies, they serve as a convenient place to find a proper mating partner.