skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with sibling that TPTB in USA might not actually want what they pretend to want in China. Even if they did, however, in any PR effort it helps to be preaching from a position of perceived authenticity and integrity. USA isn't really in that position anymore, even if we imagine we somehow did occupy it at some point in the past.
There are plenty of existing cities and towns that simply could use some revitalization.
Intentional or not, the outcome is all that matters.

In every aspect of your life
Classic strawman, atleast the second link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28426181
AI doesn’t build itself in a vaccuum. The very people who train it are likely to be biased in one direction or another and if left unchecked their mastetpiece will be biased as well. Now, if these algos were staying in a lab or something it wouldn’t be a problem but as soon as they hit the real world they should be held up to some standards, don’t you think?
Richen the dataset it’s trained on enough so that the model is correct before you release it to prod.
How is it 70% popular opinion? He's speaking for the draconian ~20% Texas rule.
You start work like that with assumptions baked in, and you use change orders to make a formal modification to the iron triangle, otherwise the whole initiative falls apart. That’s a project.
yes, Youtube's recommendation algorithm got very bad. The front page always shows more or less the same videos - many of which I have already watched...
The problem is Intel makes chips for Intel and nobody else. Sure they are starting to open up again.. but there are only so many use cases for x86 cpus.

Like literally every single chip that is in shortage is something Intel does not and will not make.. well they do have Altera but still..
Let's put it into context: the current batch of covid vaccines are spectacularly effective and compare favourably to vaccines we have for other diseases that are the result of decades of research. It really is hard to overstate how shockingly effecttive these covid vaccines are for being 'gen1' ones. They were genuinely a shock to the scientific community when their efficacy results were first announced, especially considering that other attempts at coronavirus vaccines had been relatively ineffective.

For example, Varicella is 85% effective against any infecttion and approx 100% against severe infection. [1]. Polio is about 90% with 2 doses. [2] Influenza vaccines sit at about 40-60%. [3]

Of course, it's also important to point out that they are improving them. Work is already underway to produce vaccines targetting the Delta strain more directly, in an effort to resolve some of the effectiveness loss that gen1 vaccines have against it. Indeed, this is one of the major advantages of mRNA vaccines - the iteration time from new design to new drug is a matter of weeks, so overall iteration for boosters is similarly shortened. This is extremely attractive for use against influenza and coronavirus which mutate fairly rapidly.

The incentive for pharma groups to do this is twofold: 1) the US/UK and other similarly vaccinated populations will want boosters and will pay for them, and 2) that the vaccine status outside of the US/UK is radically different, with most countries barely scraping 10-20% of their population vaccinated. There's still a lot of people needing vaccines.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/varicella/hcp-effective...
[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-dur...
[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
I wonder how people in China use these identifiers? Perhaps by calling them 'last names' (even though they are first names), we embed a lot of assumptions that they are conceived of and used similarly.
The training set had more primates than dark skinned humans? Unlikely.
Assuming you already know what a rational number is, the next step is to tell you what a real number is. A real number is defined as the equivalence class of all sequences of rational numbers that converge to the same value. For example, every sequence of rational numbers that gets arbitrarily close to the square root of two as you go to higher terms is considered "the square root of two."

If you don't know what a rational number is, it's the equivalence class of every pair of integers that can be simplified to the same fraction. For example, (4,6) and (2,3) are both rational numbers, and in fact are the same rational number: two thirds.

If you don't know what an integer is, it's the natural numbers, but with negative numbers.

If you don't know what a natural number is, it's either zero, or a number that follows a natural number. For example one is the number that follows the natural number zero, and two is the number that follows the natural number that is the natural number that follows zero.
I don't see the strings "Taibbi" or "strawman" at that link? That's just some sort of "blog-on-HN" post by you? How is it relevant?
People need to learn to cope with the difference between innocent mistakes and expressions of genuine feelings of contempt/etc.
> Something tells me as soon as most people see the name, they will refuse to sign up.

Wouldn't even need to see the name to refuse to sign up. Assuming it's not Switzerland, all the other options seem bad.
> Top last names of authors are bascially top Chinese last names

Those aren't "last names".
I can agree there is a greater level of scrutiny on public figures. I'm simply surprised because this is a fairly generic tweet supporting a mainstream political position.
I don't know if this is necessarily true. We have separate charges for murder and manslaughter for example.
That's sort of obvious. How do you know that wasn't attempted?
Under this idea, most likely the U. S. would have never existed [1].

[1] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/anony...
I also am concerned that the principle of CEOs not speaking out on issues is not being applied consistently.

CEOs are allowed to publicly state their opinion if it is in favor of left leaning positions but not conservative leaning positions.

See also the book Woke Inc.
> For one thing, having higher density...

My concern was around our civilization's poor understanding of the interplay between ecosystems, high density, energy flows, authority flows and fiscal flows. I'm a proponent of organically learning by building in incrementally higher densities in both cold and hot-dry deserts; it frees up more arable land elsewhere, and might have the least environmental impact of other build patterns. "Might" because that is a pure supposition based upon the lower densities of life supported by those climate zones. But small, rapidly iterative experiments because I think we need lots of time and small failures to understand how to maintain sustainable, equitable high-density urban cores over long durations (hundreds to thousands of years), that do not exacerbate the centralization of socioeconomic power and authority which seem to plague lots of large-organization decision matrices.

I've been looking for many years for literature that studies these kinds of inter-relationships. Our civilization seems to have a pretty good grasp of how to start building an urban core area (see China as the latest example, and many currently less-developed nations in elsewhere I expect will follow suit in the coming decades). But the wheels start to come off when land and improvements speculation (driven by the unique leverage+asset treatments real estate enjoys in law) drives up the pricing of a successfully started urban core, and emerges suburban and other anti-pattern responses when no other solutions to stay within high-density urban come forward.

In the context of the desert builds, I'm reasonably confident after looking into the patterns I've researched so far, that absent some pretty fundamental changes in how high-density urban cores are maintained after they are started, even successful starts will rapidly (within two generations, say 40-80 years) dilute and falter from their original excellent high-density-driven metrics as the expected anti-patterns emerge again.
I had the same suspicion. However, he says that his son and his ex's father both talked to her in separate phone calls. When multiple people have to keep their story straight, lies don't hold up. Thus, I believe it. Additionally, the CCP would have heard about the impending book from the surrounding press flurry, so the timing isn't strange.
This reminds me of a favorite tweet from 2013: "Then Google Maps was like, 'turn right on Malcolm Ten Boulevard' and I knew there were no black engineers working there" -- https://twitter.com/alliebland/status/402990270402543616

Facebook, like a lot of tech companies, has long had problems with diversity in engineering. Here's an article from April that discusses specific incidents and the broader background: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/06/faceboo...
Hypothetical, but I doubt the response would have been any different if he endorsed a post-12 weeks ban.

Fair to point out that the Texas heartbeat law seems like it could have an effect similar to the 20% view (although it and the Supreme Court decision that the developer praised doesn’t apply to RU-486 abortions, which Texas is currently attempting to ban separately[1]. Therefore, even in Texas law, abortion remains legal under some circumstances for now.)

[1] https://19thnews.org/2021/09/texas-restrictions-abortion-ind...
Which is exactly why everyone must oppose dictatorships with maximum possible force.
We don't actually know how to do that, or how rich is "rich enough." It's an open avenue of research to be able to extrapolate how well-tuned a neutral net is on data not in its training set.

Not to imply the problem is unsolvable, just that if an institution has zero tolerance for this mistake, the fix your describing is no guarantee it won't occur.
They're allowed to state their opinion if it does not negatively impact the finances of the company. That is the life of a CEO. You get the big money and you get the responsibility of being in charge.
I don't agree with this Texas law, but nor do I support how he lost his job as CEO.

I think it is important that employees should have the right to express their non-work-related political opinions on social media, and no one should lose their job for doing so.

It is justifiable to make an exception to that right for really extreme political opinions, such as praising Hitler or the KKK; but not for politely expressing mainstream political opinions, and agreeing with a recent action by the US Supreme Court is mainstream by definition.

I know some people argue it is different because he is CEO, but I don't agree. I actually think it is important that the rule applies to CEOs too. If lower level employees see the CEO speaking their mind on politics and getting away with it, that makes them feel more confident they can too. If the CEO loses their job for doing so, that makes lower level employees worry they might meet the same fate, and arguing that "the rules are different for CEOs" is unlikely to reassure them.
It reminds me of some of the explorers' tales of people who were half-human, half some other animal, or of people covered in hair, the first of which may have originated from seeing people riding animals, and the others to various (actual) primates. If humans can make such mistakes, certainly Facebook's AI can be excused for its confusion.
Personally, I think Gelsinger ran VMWare into the ground. He completely missed the boat on cloud. Now he's taking over a company steeped in bureaucracy that's several generations behind on chip fabrication. They are still trying to ramp up 10 nm while TSMC is unveiling 4 nm any day now. I want to see Intel succeed because we need large US-based fabricator if China gets more aggressive on Taiwan, but it's going to take a lot of housecleaning.
If it was we wouldn’t expect this problem to occur, correct?
I worked at Intel for several years. The problems are self made, through years of control in the hands of number crunchers, complacency, and arrogance. I sat through leadership meetings where the only strategy discussed was - we're Intel, they would be fools to not listen to us. There is talent but it is working with its hands shackled to its feet and keys thrown away. There is zero morale. During the years i was there, my memories are marked with bigwigs threatening people to leave with the offered severance lest they are forced to leave empty handed, while the bigwigs cashed out in tens of millions. Egos stoked at the expense of the company's future, short term metrics tied to substantial bonuses, that clearly paid a few top execs 10s of millions optimizing for those and leaving the ruins for others to clean up
This title seems misleading, unless the full video is more informative than the text. The text seems to imply they are testing a technique for fMRI imaging to detect it early, and trialing a vaccine to see if it is good at removing one particular compound that may be associated with Alzheimer’s. Which sounds like amazing work, but not yet demonstrating ‘effective’ results.
TLDR - it is implied that a convicted fraudster named Monica Main either coerced an old (and possibly feeble / demented) romance author (Judith McNaught) or stole her identity to fleece wannabe writers out of money. I applaud the author for digging this deep, what an odd scam. It is affinity fraud, except the group is struggling writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_fraud
I don’t think any algo should be in the business of labeling any people period. What you call sensitive is offensive to others as much as you being labeled stupid by the look of your face. It is wrong in your case and it is also wrong in the cases you perceive as sensitive. I actually find it quite insensitive of you to dictate what others should feel based on your experience. And selfish too
Sending cash through the mail is not normal human activity, unless you count the five dollars from grandma for your birthday. It’s pretty stupid to send anything over $20 as you will likely lose the cash to a theif.
That makes it sound even worse that they knowingly released it without fixing it.
The US is the one of the more long-term stable democracies in world history. I would challenge you to produce the list of democracies (and yes, of course the US is a democratic Constitutional Republic, not a majority rule democracy), spanning merely the past 100 years, that have been stable the entire time. It's an exceptionally short list. The two party system in the US produces a high degree of stability at the cost of increased rigidity. Compare that to the not infrequent chaos of N party systems across Europe (as in Greece, Italy), or the way eg Australia has turned over its leadership in such a rapid fashion as to make governance nearly impossible.

If you go back a hundred years, Europe was still governing like it was stuck centuries in the past, ruled by monarchies. The rest of the world was even more backwards.

This says it all: https://i.imgur.com/4QhaQkn.png
Poor countries would have rich people too!
It's rather simple, if you're the CEO then you're going to get flak for saying things that make the company lose money. The online response to the tweet was to blacklist the company and block it on steam. If you do then you may be fired for it. The title and salary come with responsibilities.
I wonder why this was downvoted. It's an interesting hypothesis.
This sort of system has long been in use for missile guidance, though obviously using images of much larger features. Look up Terrestrial Guidance Systems if you're interested in learning more. Interesting that the linked paper makes no reference to such systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM#DSMAC
So the amount of matter and energy exchanged in the average economic transaction tends toward zero?
People have to keep in mind that the trades have generally been pretty sexist and not all that professionally run. I would not want my daughters to go into most trades because of this.

It's a lot easier for men to find a decent paying job that doesn't require a college degree and where you won't get regularly harassed.
Yes they did. See the linked article below.

Note I said minuscule chance. That would be at the moment of detonating the bomb. If the assessment was earlier, the fact that they had to run calculations proves they considered it as a possibility.

It’s a strong claim to say they proved it couldn’t happen when they didn’t even know the bomb would work for sure.

I’m sure the bbc is hamming it up a bit, but the account of the scientist who freaked out when the bomb worked seems credible.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210217-the-moments-that...

There, a source to back up the original statement. Got one that disproves it?

Some scientists believed it was a minuscule possibility at the time of the test, others didn’t believe it would happen. What was wrong about that statement?
Mattermost and rocket.chat don't do voice themselves. Discord does, in the client (no jitsi, etc) Matrix with coturn also does localized voip (i.e. confined to the homeserver) if configured correctly.

When I hear discord I generally think of voice/video chat and screen sharing, and less about text chat; this may be a side effect of all the bridges, though, as I tend to chat on IRC and all three of my primary discord channels are bridged.

I run matrix, mattermost, and rocket.chat. I like the api/whatever of mattermost but I really like the overall feel of matrix the best.
> why can he not voice his opinion on his personal social media

He can, and did, voice his opinion on social media. He was not prevented from doing so in any way. Other people read his opinion and decided they didn't want to work with him anymore. Also their right.

Because enough customers and partners decided they didn't want to work with him anymore, he felt like the only way to save his business was to step down.

> Should this very large group of people not be employable because of this opinion

It's not just an opinion, but legislation that puts millions of women at risk. If you support things that are harmful to women, I don't see why I'd employ you. :shrug:

For what it's worth, this is what conservatives have been pushing for decades, the ability to discriminate based on skin color, sexual orientation, and political beliefs. I am all for giving them their wishes on this one.
How? Does it involve a 3rd party plugin? If so that’s DOA for any org concerned about security.
We don't have enough information to root cause the problem
Why not simply more quickly free memory of every dying process?
This is what amazes me. Given this exact thing has happened in the past and resulted in public humiliation of the companies involved, how did they not notice this? Why didn’t they check for it?
> Russia spent less money [Citation needed]

You have no idea how much money they spent. What we do know from sworn testimony is that they reached 126 million users through Facebook alone [1] We also know they funneled millions into NRA to influence our elections with dark money.[2] They also had an army of social media influencers working at the IRA with a $1.25 million monthly budget. [3] And, what is the value of the influence from their state sponsored hackers that stole data and leaked through WikiLeaks? [4] No megachurch can do that.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/technology/facebook-googl...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-troll-farm-spent-mil...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
Speak for yourself. Intent is one of the key factors in crime investigations. Even in 'every aspect of life', intent plays a critical role in greasing the society's abrasion. It helps us understand each other better. Did you accidentally bumped me or did you try to push me out of the bus?
You are absolutely right there. I first read that in an article an EE wrote. He said what you care about with power inverters isn't the efficiency but the inefficiency. Small gains in efficiency you wouldn't care about translate in to large reductions in heat and smaller cheaper power devices. Power devices don't follow Moore's Law and aren't cheap.
Because Tabibi is intentionally confusing #1 and #2 in the examples in that link.

Fake news isn't a marketplace of ideas, it's the opposite. NPR is calling for roadblocks on fake news and misinformation. Many intellectual people who should better seem to intentionally promote the right to spread fake news and facts as something good for society because it is primarily helping their side politically. Whereas free speech is being able to speak your mind freely. We already have some limited laws restricting free speech like in cases of fraud and libel. Why shouldn't they be extended to news sources making up bullshit that never happened like NPR was suggesting?
I currently use Twitter this way. I stay logged out (deleted the password from my password manager) and visit Twitter.com/username directly for a few folks I want to read. It’s indeed way less addicting.

(Twitter really wants you to log in and view your feed but they’ll still let you read the site this way)
I don't get why people keep saying vine should have been popular. Myspace beat facebook and look which survived. Myspace was never going to be like facebook. Why should vine have been as big as tiktok just because it was first? Theres plenty of examples of being first not being the winner.
nothing important in the world should RELY on a AI/nn/ml.
Work smarter, not harder.

Understand and acknowledge your limits, and give up on efforts when you realize they aren’t working. Only don’t give up on uncompromisable stuff. If you want to accomplish something, find another way, or ask yourself why.
In fact, since there are only a countably infinite number of symbolic representations but an uncountable number of irrational numbers, nearly all of them cannot be written down at all!
> Frankly, widespread social instability in China isn't in the US's interest any more than it is in Xi's.

It is! The more time, and resources Xi has to spend fighting dumpster fire at home, the less it has to destabilise USA! A very simple truth.
This isn't the kind of slur that you can just run a dictionary search for. There are totally valid contexts to tag a gorilla in a picture if it contains gorillas. I'm sure there are other words it could also mistakenly classify with that might be insulting on accident but arent slurs (maybe tagging an athlete as a statue, for instance, like "that quarterback is a statue in the pocket"). This tech isn't perfect so you either need a human editor or you have to learn to live with mistakes. IMO the fact that this was unintentional and an AI mistake makes me think the outrage is more performative than genuine.
This isn't a problem with diversity. Everybody knows how to pronounce Malcom X. And it's not like just because a google engineer was black that he was like "oh, let's try and see if Malcom X is pronounced correctly because he's black and I'm black too". This only happens in white people's brain.
Tough to beat, so long as you stay out of the comments section for anything non-related to tech, it's the best source for almost everything to bootstrappers, solo founders, etc.
In the context of autonomous driving, I've bumped into "HD maps" and "AV maps" which use this or similar techniques on a global scale.
Not sure why the timing is suspicious since the book publishing and press tour is literally the catalyst for everything.

Also these aren't especially novel allegations. Interesting to have such a cynical take on the individual but not towards the police state.
Intent can and will influence the outcome.

Does not change anything about my original statement.

The end outcome of “oops I bumped into you” is basically nothing. The end outcome of an intentional shove is quite different (maybe lack of trust develops, etc)

The end outcome of punching someone in the face while drunk and saying “hey brah I didn’t
mean to” is still gonna feel shitty no matter the intent