skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Says people who don’t watch joe rogan. Joe rogan has two kinds of guests: experts/scientists and show biz people.

As someone who has been listening to Joe (on and off) for ~5 years, it's hard to believe that you haven't noticed a trend in the type of guests Joe has on in past year. I really feel it used to be that Joe would have on a wide range of people but now it seems that he's created an echo chamber. For example, at the start of the pandemic, in March, he had Michael Osterholm on his show - a top epidemiologist. He took it seriously at first, but once he was tired of lock downs, he has had several more "alternative" scientists to appease his world view and is pretty much antagonistic to anyone else.

I was listening him talk to Rhonda Patrick this morning (who's been on the show multiple times) and I was completely flabbergasted about how incredulous he seemed to be then Rhonda talked about vaccines. Think about that - this is one of his most credentialed friends and now he's incredibly skeptical as he's gotten even more dogmatic in his views.

And I'm sorry, diet fads are as old as America. You can pull up medical papers justifying almost anything when it comes to gastronomy. I hate this idea that has creeped further into the American psyche that people are pushed out of the mainstream because of the liberal boogeyman. You have quacks that are backed up by as much data as Saladino saying that going vegan will give you super powers. Some people are just wrong, and I'd be critical of the praise Joe gives a guy like Saladino given that Joe also has a vested interest in Saladino being correct as well.
Are you rendering a large area? OSM data can be big...
Strictly speaking, this is not "Newspeak" by Orwell's definition. However the underlying assumption seems to be the same: ambiguity is to be ignored, or eliminated. Fewer words are used; often they are made-up words. Details are hidden. Objectivity, i.e., how something works, is replaced with subjectivity, i.e., what something "is".
You don't need a driver in the car for level 4. That is level 3 and below.
> This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.

Do the people who are refusing a vaccine because they were already infected have a good point now?
Suppose you persuade a fly to have fewer children, perhaps by killing it.

How much lower will the fly population be thanks to your intervention?
I think it’s important to distinguish expected privacy vs actual. The fact that I allow it to send my queries to Amazon isn’t a privacy issue.

If the network behavior showed it was sending data it’s not supposed to do, that would be noteworthy.

So this paper is helpful in this regard (in addition to other material).
Lex Fridman does the same thing for non-robotics/AI issues. It's wild how someone so brilliant in one area can be so naïve in another.
This makes me wonder… would Spotify allow ads in music? Can I upload a music track that has an ad in the middle? Hmm…
Being Poor Is Expensive
The situation isn’t much better on desktop; I don’t think they’re specifically neglecting Apple.
Looks absolutely beautiful
I’m glad parents didn’t do that after jackass came out
The best antidote to burnout is to do more of what you like. Of course you first need to have a passion. Good luck if you don't (drinking is not a passion)

De-prioritize whatever is boring or stressing you out and don't feel guilty about it. It will benefit everyone
When playing podcasts, Spotify skips 15 seconds forwards or backwards. When playing music, it skips to the next track or the start of the current track. But you still have to actively skip ads, which is annoying.
Plan B: Use the mobile apps.
> The claim by the experts was that the vaccines were 95% effective at stopping the spread.

No, vaccines are not expected to prevent infection or spread, and almost none do. For example, flu vaccines don't keep you from from getting infected, and the virus still spreads successfully even when vaccination rates are high. What the flu shot does is (hopefully) cause you to have less severe symptoms.

Vaccines are designed and tested to prevent disease in spite of infection. This is a universally understood principle in the field of immunology, regardless of the CDC's confusing messaging.

The current evidence indicates that the vaccines are doing a good job of preventing hospitalizations due to covid.
> ... though iirc you had to take the G4s apart completely to access anything ...

Powerbook G4s (at least, the titanium one I used for about 10 years) had a keyboard you could lift off to access some of the guts. I found it quite nice.
Well... Has it been studied what happens to people with natural immunity who also get vaccinated? Is it better, worse, or the same?
If the second hash is just another version of neuralhash it's not that unlikely that the same image could match both.

It's photodna, people could make images that match both.

You really can't say anything about "unlikely" when the other algorithm is a secret. Perhaps it's just "return true". Apple failed to disclose[*] that neuralhash could be adversarially matched until the public exploited it, what else are they failing to disclose?

[*] I say fail to disclose instead of didn't even know because I believe there is just no way they didn't know this was possible. I generated my first match with almost no experience with the machine learning tools in about an hour, most of which was spent trying to figure out how to use python neural network glue stuff. It should have been expected by design, and other that getting lucky with some parameters basically the dumbest thing possible works (not for every image pair, but enough).
Very astute comment
Thanks; I’m glad to hear teachers have a choice.

I didn’t communicate well re: Sesame Street. I didn’t mean that your show is actually like Sesame Street, rather that the model is to use the entertainment value of the readers/actors/action to engage students until they start to read well due to other factors, rather than to directly teach those fundamentals and rely on the students’ delight in their fledgling skills to pull them further into good habits and teacher-guided reading.
Does relativity apply also to rotating reference frames?
Not quite, there are roles I could get. But I am mostly referring to FAANG/Some unicorns in terms of matching comp. None of which will give me the benefit of the doubt, despite my experience. But again, I am quite burned out, so in some ways its in their favor to put me through a rigorous interview process.

Leetcode often filters out burned out employees
I have to say this seems utterly un-noteworthy. "Person whose content was free now reaching a smaller audience now that their content is behind a paywall".
Not according to Pfizer executives.
It doesn't really even sound sci-fi, or rather, it would make for some bad sci-fi. What we are at risk of, is having deterministic model artifacts trigger complex unintended consequences from being fetishized as decision-making agents. Considering how few CS and AI people I've met who even know that e.g. pragmatics are a critical component of sentence meaning, I sense the most proximate AI dystopia is a lot closer to this latter scenario.

Conceptually the possibility of an AGI does present a real challenge (& one worth grappling); in practice, we haven't made any progress really toward realizing that problem. We've become good at feeding "large" datasets into algorithms that are many orders of magnitude less advanced than a lizard brain. Then we get to the issue that our large datasets are only large when thinking of classical statistical sample sizes. They nonetheless are lacking in redundancy, interactivity, stakes or any centered perspective such that there is no chance of anything resembling intelligence, agency, or plain old intentions arising.
This note about vacation is something I can relate too. Vacation never refreshes me. Going back to work after vacation feels so good.
Plenty of working class folk take months off at a time.

If you work in the movie business, that's pretty much required.
I'll add that one thing is for sure: it took a while, but I've slowly started to feel like my old self again -- or at least the self I want to be. I'm also infinitely more relaxed now when it comes to handling traditionally stressful events.
I agree. He used to have interesting guest, and I felt the conversations were more organic. I quit watching a few years back because I did not enjoy the direction the podcast was going in.
"The only thing in my head is a conviction that our fascination with modern technology and the internet may go very quickly. It doesn't mean the internet will disappear - but it will just become suddenly seen as mundane. And not threatening. And quite a lot of it a bit of a con." - Adam Curtis
HGV driver shortage letter to industry [pdf]
Podcasts without RSS are not podcasts. Sure you can have several distribution methods, but if not one of them is RSS ...
Was a healthcare.gov plan not an option? I don’t know how the coverage compares, but 1k-2k for 1-2 people seems like way more.
You're the only one bringing the Government into this.
Romark waiting on FDA approval of tablet treatment against Covid-19
I took the day off to do manual labor, outside all day in a heat advisory. I’m absolutely filthy and still not finished.

I love my tech job.
Your OP:

> I guess it's because there isn't a huge difference but 0 definitely is slightly more elegant than 1.

"0 definitely is slightly more elegant than 1."

Totally subjective. You like it more.
I actually think Rogan's approach is exactly the opposite of Stewart and Colbert (S&C). S&C would critique news organizations for failing to provide counterpoints. They would also earnestly advocate for their own views without feeling the need to provide counterpoints. Their justification was that they were entertainment - they believed what they were saying and didn't feel like they needed to properly inform on every element.

Rogan feels like he wants it both ways. He wants to pick the people for his show and get credit when he picks well, but if people dislike one of his picks he would suddenly like to be seen as 'mixing it up' or a "cage fight commentator." He won't really own a view (or the idea of wanting to expose people to particular thinkers), but he would rather bring people on in a way where he's seen as minimally responsible for the uncomfortable content he produces.
Worldwide holidays and workdays computational toolkit on Go
Oh that must be new but it looks so useful. I had eye laser last year and looked a lot for exactly something like that for my 3-4 days of literally just laying down and not doing much, but couldn't find anything like this. My plan was to open the Gutenberg project HTML books (or plain text) and have the browser read them, but nothing satisfied me (specially since there was no "pause/scrub" in the ones I did find). Ended up listening to audiobooks in youtube and that was good enough.
Not surprised this degenerated immediately into a mass ranting session about pandemic science with pretty much the entire catalog of cognitive biases and logical fallacies on display.

I guess that's interesting to some, from a sociological standpoint, but for me, there's more than enough of this on literally every other social media platform.

I'm interested in a discussion about the actual dynamic of spotify vs youtube dissemination and whether the claims made in the article are valid. Because the entire premise is backed by the "secondary metric" of how many Twitter followers a guest's account grew by -- this seems pretty ripe for confounding variables, like the appeal of the guest, auxiliary appearances elsewhere, the news cycle at the time overlapping with the guest's subject matter, and other things.

Curious what others think of this.
Vaccination and natural immunity seems to add to the protection according to the study.
CDC knowingly lied about masks, though. They knew internally they should be used to mitigate spread, but publicly discouraged their use.

There was no new information. There were only lies.
When You Are Envious of Young People
I'm almost tempted to buy one for no other reason than to try writing a few games for it.
Jeff Geerling! I'm excited for the video that I know is forthcoming, I'm haven't even looked at Turing Pi's official release because I want to hear your take on it :)
Yeah that's Joe's classic defense. He's part of the "Intellectual Dark Web" (lol...) and he tries to have serious discussions and opinions on important matters. But as soon as someone points out how stupid and misleading some of his takes are, he falls back on the "I'm just a comedian" excuse.

Like someone else pointed out, Bill Burr is exactly what you describe. He's a comedian that discusses these topics but never gives the illusion that he is somehow qualified and someone that should be listened to. Joe does.
Cardinalities of sets do have sensible operations like less than and greater than though - |A| <= |B| if there exists an injective function from A to B. One has to check that this inequality behaves in the ways that you expect, but it is a well-defined concept.
> During a longer trip to Japan my battery started to swell, significantly. ... once I returned to Sweden

He took a swollen battery on an aircraft?!
High performance requires high maintenance. If you are burnt out or have symptoms or even suspect, I strongly urge to get a team together to help. It's something you have to actively watch out for (at least for some people) and actively treat. Here are two data points: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28119229/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29057125/
I was wondering about the parenting angle. How do you work through burnout when quitting is not an option?
I don't have Spotify, but check if The Who Sell Out is there since that has ads in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_Sell_Out
I did the same with my 2015 MacBook Pro, and I'm still amazed that a $5 adapter and an Intel SSD are super fast and don't cause any problems at all. The machine sleeps, wakes, hibernates without any issues whatsoever.
Also, I sold the original, well used Apple 1TB SSD for more than I paid for the brand new 2TB Intel SSD.
But the events and background would not be significant unless the events happened.
that cheap? where?
I can't see how you can content Waymo has more data, they had around 600 cars on the road last year. Sure they have some more sensors but Waymo only operates in select cities and select routes, the diversity of the data is very limited. They won't have seen scenario's like a snow storm for example since they've only been testing in CA and AZ. Meanwhile Tesla has a robust framework for collecting clips of specific scenario's as needed by shipping a small model to roughly match the scenario.

Simulation is important for sure, and Tesla even talked about that as much. But you can only simulate the scenario's that you've thought of, it can't replace real world data, which again Tesla has several orders of magnitude more of than Waymo.

As for the comments about Dojo I think they're unfounded. Tesla has already proven that they can create their own custom chip and have shipped it to hundreds of thousands of cars. I don't see any reason to think they can't get the system running in the next year or so. But even if they can't do that in time they still have NVIDIA to fall back on. Elon even said in the talk that maybe it might not work out, and if that's the case they can always buy a solution.
Because capitalism and private property and free will.

Berkley doesn't get to tell you to live in a cheaper appartement.

In return, you don't get to tell Berkley where they can open a new campus.

I get that in this case the Judge decided to stop the expansion.

I'm just responding to "Why are we expanding Berkeley" bit.

There's no "we" here. There's only UC Berkley and they get to decide how to conduct business.
Aren't they still available on YouTube / elsewhere?
Because it is unfair to gatekeep the most reputable school in the UC system while California's population is growing?
The trees have been refuted but the forest remains..
If you don't feel imposter syndrome on a new job, you're probably doing it wrong. :-)

I don't know how long it usually take to fully recover. I've found that a new job changes things around enough that I feel better so I can at least function again. Normalcy comes sometime later.
> To give some perspectives on the GDP contributed by different sectors

This is not the correct measurement of loss, since it's only first order. Second order includes the industries involved in the entire supply chain for each, the shortages that would be created, and spending for a significant portion of the population going to zero (or, with previous government assistance, not nearly enough).
I see a ton of recommendations that invite you to blurt out all your thoughts and capture them, but after you do that for a while... what tools/processes help you know what you can delete or let go of?

I have kind of a home-grown anti-todo list system that is hooked up to my life principles, such that if an "oh, I should do this" idea doesn't actually line up with them, I just don't add it to the list. But that's pretty manual and home-grown.

I don't know, it's just that the "capture every thought" genre of software was attractive in my 20s, but after a point it just gets overwhelming.
Best option is to force encryption on all bittorrent traffic. Most clients support full protocol encryption (PE or MSE) these days, so forcing it shouldn't be an issue. For libtorrent, you'd set in_enc_policy and out_enc_policy to pe_forced.

Whether a particular client exposes this or not depends.
In the case of this project... looks like upstream github.com/anacrolix/torrent does support encrypted connections. Not clear how to force it to use _only_ encrypted connections though.
Maybe the sound quality could be improved by recording the flickering LED while a known sound is played and using that information to undo the introduced distortion? I imagine something that does not require inside help, like a default start-up, error or notification sound.
You had good arguments, this is the weakest one of them. The child pornography aspect of this civil suit is just to settle it faster, in order to add gravity to the situation, but it would be counterproductive in actuality.

Although likeness is regulated only at the state level, and is the only aspect of this lawsuit, copyright is regulated at the federal level and is the basis for the commercial licenses to exist at all - if this actually was child pornography which requires a category of something considered obscenity, it would be ineligible for copyright which would mean the existing licensors would have no reason to pay for the license at all, and there would be no value to give for the likeness settlement.

The rest is your feelings and that is not relevant here.
Plenty of private companies restrict beach access. Power plants, water treatment facilities, harbors.
Yeah, you can be so open-minded that every piece of drivel just slides easily through your mind. That isn't being well informed. You actually need good filters and know what they're based upon.

Props to Bernie for taking the battle to the middle ground though and not preaching only to the choir. He kind of got shit on for that as well.
I took about 4 months off a few years ago and it was great, but I always had the nagging feeling of, "you're cash is getting lower."

I'm saving up to do it again in a few years.
Spotify and Rogan is a key example of how centralization into walled gardens is detrimental. I enjoyed easy, uncensored access to Joe Rogan's interviews and clips from them previously. But without that ease of access, I basically forgot about him. This is despite me being a paying customer of Spotify.

Spotify has also demonstrated that they cannot be trusted, neutral stewards of information ecosystems like podcasts. They've censored/deleted lots of Joe Rogan's interviews, and their left-biased progressive employees have repeatedly protested against Rogan and asked for him to be booted off the platform. There is absolutely no way I will patronize podcasts on Spotify since I don't want to hand such a group the keys to the castle.
I find myself listening to Lex much more, and Joe much less. Overall, I'm very glad that the format exists, and we're able to hear from experts / academics who otherwise wouldn't have a platform to really get into the details of their work.
I was in high school and that was the first time I've ever seen a live CD. A full functioning OS running on a CD? School PCs were running XP and most things were locked down. But lo and behold the magic live CD made you do a lot of things otherwise were not allowed. Good times. I always had a live CD with me for years (and it was actually really useful)
Indeed, but the GP excluded the very next sentence from their sizzle quote:

"Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and
given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta
variant."
Even the podcasts that Spotify owns and produces have ads. So in that case they are putting ads in their own podcasts for their own paying customers.
> memoryholing

Who talks like this??
Respect for needing only a few months.

I got burned out so bad a few year back (2015-my fist and only time) I was not able to focus on anything for almost 14 months.

Still feels surreal thinking about it. Had parts for rebuild my rack and everything in it and was not able to gather my thought to set anything up. I failed to install even a basic ubuntu server in 1-2 tries.

Apart from tending to the flowers in the garden, cutting grass and cooking... I was good for nothing. Watching a movie? Autoplay on youtube was it. Just sit there until 2AM watching <random>. Shopping for groceries? good joke. Sleeping? I was dreaming I'm in the office half the time. I had a flipping server chasing me down the rail track a few times because it didn't like the transcoding settings. Eh. Not pleasant but I'm counting it as a lesson in life.

I digress. What I'm trying to say is that I envy people that can get out of it so fast.
Mine was SUSE Linux. It came in a magazine CD, and I installed on my clunker PC then. Had to ask a week off work because I couldn't stop playing with it.

It was an eye-opening experience compared to Windows because you weren't just allowed to tinker and even recompile the OS, you had to if you wanted to make things work like they effortlessly did in Windows, and then take it to some weird extreme. It was a lot of learning.

I'm just happy there are user-friendly distros now, because nowadays I can't devote hours just to setup my VGA card and a mouse with five buttons :)
Electronic Circuit Simulator
The hivemind is always right. Conform or suffer.
Any Android-based device.

Potentially in future, Linux-based devices which can run Android apps.

I'm not a particular fan of Android. Its application ecosystem is a bonus though.

Again, this is installable through F-Droid.
If you invite me for dinner at your house and I spend 4 hours forcing you to convince me the Earth is round, even if I emerge with changed views, are we really going to be good friends after that?
Perhaps if you negotiated, you could have gotten substantially more?
> The SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are a "political wedge issue" not because of the "conspiracy nut in every village", but because the scientific literacy of the general public is astonishingly low, and the second and third order consequences of public health policy are tremendously complex.

This seems disingenuous. We eradicated smallpox and scientific literacy just as low then. Why is it different this time?

Because public trust in institutions has been destroyed. It's also a main reason why Trump was elected. The people in charge of these institutions destroyed this trust over decades, and they have continued to do so throughout the pandemic.