skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State pays for our degrees, and ensures that are actually market worthy.

Also not everyone and their dog gets in unless they prove their skills.

Most private university are seen as scams.

You should start by shooting down all the university scams in US to start with.
> All of which is to say that the work load of graduate school is not like an extension of the undergraduate experience, but a quantitative change massive enough to be a qualitative change; the work-load is massively heavier.

It's a massive change IFF you didn't spend part of your undergraduate experience gaining genre literacy in the given field.

E.g., compare a grad experience of:

1. Weekend's assignment: annotated bibliography of the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven.

2. Weekend's assignment: annotated bibliography of articles about Native Americans from the Journal of Ethnomusicology since its inception in the 50s.

Your subjective experience of either of these depends on your own history with the topic. If you've site read most or all of the Beethoven sonatas, it probably feels like a gift to be getting paid a stipend to document your own formal analyses of them (or whatever we define "annotate" to mean in this context). If you spent your childhood reading everything you could get your hands on in the local library on tribal politics, annotating those Ethno articles is going to be a breeze.

Btw-- #1 is probably much more difficult and time consuming than #2-- it's over ten hours of music if you listened to it continuously. I write it there because I've done both #1 and #2, and #2 felt like so much more work because a) I didn't have genre literacy in ethnomusicology and b) even though it was a valuable experience, at the time I would have rather been analyzing Beethoven sonatas.
> I have another customer undergoing mergers, where renumbering their IPv4 RFC1918 ranges is going to cost them on the order of $10M.

i suppose that is way less than what a switch to v6 would cost?
Of course it does. But, because violins don't have frets, that's only relevant when you're playing a string open.
That's a transparently poor argument because it assumes that Mary's knowledge is complete.

Of course it isn't. We have a very poor understanding of brain states. So all we can say is that Mary will learn something new today. But it's not reasonable to extend this to an assumption that a physicalist explanation of qualia is impossible in principle and will become available in the future.

As it happens I'm not a physicalist, and I suspect - but can't prove - that physicalism won't solve this problem.

But I also don't like poor arguments, and I think the Knowledge Argument is not a good one.

The problem is more fundamental. Qualia are definitively subjective and the only way to prove that physicalism explains them is to somehow make them objective - with some kind of qualia-ometer. Or consciousness-ometer. Or something similar.

That doesn't mean finding correlates - neural states, chemical processes, quantum uncertainty, whatever. It means being able to measure experience itself.

Without that you can build simulacra that show all the correlates, and possibly behave as if they're conscious.

But all you've done is built a robot. You can't prove it actually has experience - including self-awareness - unless you can measure experience with objective instrumentation.

This is a nice paradox, because it requires science to measure subjectivity itself.

It may or may not be possible. But clearly it's not possible now, and is unlikely to become possible any time soon.
From what I see, from the other side of the big pond, there is a party that cares about that stuff to some degree at least. At least for those, caring about Instagram and teen mental health is just a logical consequence.
The problem with models like GPT-3 is that they are unable to differentiate between information sources with different "trustworthiness." They learn conspiracies and wrong claims and repeat them.

It's possible to feed GPT-3 prompts that encourage it to respond with conspiracies (i.e. "who really caused 9/11?") but it also randomly responds to normal prompts with conspiracies/misinformation.

A recent paper[0] has looked into building a testing dataset for language models ability to distinguish truth from falsehood.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07958
>> We don't even need clinical reporting to tell that instagram has a bad effect on teens. Just observe a teenager of your family to see the values that are being taught through it

I wonder why Snapchat is never included in any discussion regarding behavioral experiments.

Facebook/Instagram to Snapchat stories is like Time/Vogue Magazine to tabloids. (This is not to defend FB)

I’m just curious why Snapchat and its stories is never mentioned.
Agree, and this quote from the OP's link is humorous in that regard:

"While blockchain is best known for its association with cryptocurrencies, it has applications beyond this field."

This sentiment is just thrown around without evidence. Either a blockchain has an internal reward mechanism to account for the increased costs associated with it's execution or it is simply a more complicated and expensive database looking for a problem to solve...and also is likely not decentralized.
Thanks for sharing - I didn't know about the royalties, if that works then that's sensible. I'm afraid I don't quite understand why NFTs would be necessary for the rest though, other than just being a contingent catalyst stimulating the creation of generative art. If it's purely the fact that you're buying something from them, them sending you an autograph, or a video in which they say "thanks X6S1x6Okd1st for buying this video" seem to have the same effect (though with the "downside" of you not being able to resell it to make money off it yourself).
Thats fine though, you're an outlier (I am too). But general action on climate change is good for people who cycle and use public transport and want to live in livable cities, so its all good. No need to stress over a minor political compromise on the way there. Just enjoy the cleaner air the next time you are out cycling.
At least here in Europe most wood that is being used is farmed.

Paper and wood are not good long term carbon stores. All paper and wood will release its carbon back at some point, so they are only temporary stores. Good long term store would be something that lets a large amount of carbon be buried deep and never reenter the cycle.
Yes. You are making the same wrong assumption that many people do. Just because it's a website and some code doesn't mean it's easy.
All of those are desirable, but in no sense do any imply the necessity of fusion. They don't even imply the overall desirability of fusion, since one must also weigh the negatives, like cost.
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AIUI, the integration of linear types (or substructural types in general) with dependent typing is still a matter of research. Even "simple" type system extensions like higher-kinded types come with a lot of added complexity.

There is also what's arguably a deeper obstacle to "efficient" implementation of dependent types because dependent typing does away with the phase separation between compile-time and run-time. We do have "program extraction" features in many DT languages to mitigate this, but they're still ad-hoc additions, there isn't yet a principled approach to the issue.
> Recently, a lot of advertisers (e.g. Proctor & Gamble) quit spending ad dollars on 2nd and 3rd-tier ad exchanges because their A/B measurements showed they were a waste of money.

Can you share a link? I work in digital marketing and would be super interested in more info on this.
Taiwan's air defence identification zone actually overlaps continental China, so I assume mainland planes enter it on a daily basis simply by flying on 'their' side of the straight and even over land.

Now, the activity as reported in this article takes place over the sea, at the margins of the zone. It's just a game to test the other side and not really newsworthy.

It's a shame articles almost never publish the maps of these activities that the ROC military publishes because they are very informative.
All players in the US system are corrupt and take advantage. Insurance , hospitals, doctors, ambulances, drug companies, medical device companies, various middleman, construction companies and more. No need to point out a single player.

I think you would have to work hard if you tried to build a worse system if you decided to build a system that’s more opaque , unpredictable, bureaucratic, cruel and expensive.
In some regions - like Saxony - mono-culture reforesting to spruce forests had already started in the 18th century (after the Ore Mountains had been pretty much deforested by centuries of mining operations). Thankfully the forests are now slowly transitioned away from the mono-cultures. But I guess spruce forests are overall better than no forests at all.
Facebook is an out-of-control system bent on surviving at all costs
Interesting. I probably would. Though I haven’t knowingly done so, so far.
Could someone living now in Paris comment on that? The car lobby is still very powerful and I take all such articles with a grain of salt.
I was approaching the problem from the financial/business angle of it. Facebook and similar businesses work on the basis of "engagement" - the more you get people to "engage", the more they look at ads and the more money you make, so your incentive is to maximize this engagement by any legal means possible. This isn't specific to Facebook.

Whether there are more sociopaths in Facebook than a typical social media company is another question on which I don't have an answer, but if you look at it purely from a financial angle the problem would apply to any social media company.

> If you want to defend Facebook, please provide context — and any conflicts of interest.

My intent is not to defend Facebook and I don't have any conflicts of interest, but I just wanted to set the record straight because I believe the proper way to solve the Facebook problem is to outlaw/make unprofitable the underlying business model, otherwise if you kill Facebook something similarly scummy will simply take its place and you're back at square one.
add to the list the KaiOS phones (firefox48), major f up.
Net neutrality is dead. Greed killed it.
Naturally there are hardly any games, that is consequence of WebGL killing the market and everyone left for mobile, where APIs actually exist for modern hardware.

I really would like to see what such wonderful tools are those that beat Adobe's professional tooling for Flash.

Specially the stuff Shockwave was capable of, including native compilation and C++ stuff.

VSCode with a couple of plugins?!?
Yes and the exceptions are historical cases where counting is impossible. The Mongol invasion and various plagues come to mind; when whole villages are wiped out we have to talk about proportions because even the total population is an estimate.
Yes, that is the book. I was so excited when I was writing that book, but I received very little feedback from readers (a metric for evaluating my writing) compared to other books I wrote. After writing that book for Apress (a wonderful publisher to work with, BTW), my 10th book with traditional publishers, I switched to writing eBooks on leanpub. This is more fun, since I can write about very niche topics and I can instantly update books with bug fixes and new material. Off topic, but writing is a lot of fun, and I never work with people who I don’t try to talk into writing at least one book.
i disagree that it would have efficacy, china already is trying to build parallel economic system if needed with cultivation of economic relation in south america and africa. china setting herself up to be to those continents as we were to her, will survive without any carbon membership.
Who Censored Marie Antoinette's Letters?
On other words it's a question of money (as in:do we make more by using said data ourselves vs. selling it) and a way to change course without loosing users (an uproar is OK, as long as churn is to high).
I can relate to this: "At the Bastille, a once-enormous traffic circle that was partly appropriated from cars, a tangle of bike lanes weave through traffic. Cyclists who respect signals can take up to four minutes to cross." and later: “[Cyclists] think the rules apply to everyone except them.” There's an intersection that I used to pass twice a week for years where cars waited eight seconds on average, I waited two and a half minutes. How do I know? Well, I had ample time to count ;)

Peel's second principle says that the police (and IMO the laws and rules in general) are "dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect." Traffic rules depend on public approval, too.
> He was assassinated for his role in leading the Iranian nuclear weapons program, not for his scientific achievements.

Recall that America withdrew from the anti-nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that Iran's Ayatollah has declared a religious prohibition against nuclear weapons and that while Israel does have nuclear weapons, Iran is instead pursuing a nuclear power program for civilian energy.

> According to Gareth Porter writing in Foreign Policy, Iran's aversion to nuclear and chemical weapons is sincere because of the "historical episode during its eight-year war with Iraq", and Iran never sought revenge for Iraqi chemical attacks against Iran, which killed 20,000 Iranians and severely injured 100,000 more.[2] According to Khalaji, the fatwa is also considered to be consistent with Islamic tradition.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei%27s_fatwa_against...
It's not just the healthcare industry.

You also have to factor in competing industrial lobbying interest who'd lose money (or at least need to fundamentaly retool and reorganise): agriculture, processed foods, retail food distribution, chemicals, etc.
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The loss of purchasing power implied by those extra zeroes is a huge problem. Inflation is basically a constant unconditional tax on everyone holding the currency. This is absolutely a problem that needs to be solved.

No it's not. It's perfectly fine if universal "you owe me"s cannot be held back indefinitely only strike with even more force when unleashed. And I say that as someone who is hit harder by inflation than most because I enjoy liquidity far more than I should, I'm very bad at converting into assets (or even taking up a loan)
There was an Ontario/Quebec crew that was breaking into shopping malls at night with acetylene torches to cut into the ATMs:

https://youtu.be/eerQydNx-WU?t=43
Well, thing is the alternative is absolutely possible, and we’re seeing it: people getting more expensive energy prices, mosquitoes appear in regions where they traditionally weren’t, causing health issues, insurance premiums increasing, coverage decreased for some types of events (here in Chicago insurance don’t cover for flooding of your basement). Small steps are certainly being taken by nature to make everything significantly more expansive and less comfortable than they should be. But hey, people who could influence this have the money to cover for that so let’s remain on the status quo a little longer.
There are two different assertions that should be distinguished:

1) most online advertising doesn't work

2) the revenue from online advertising will soon decline, perhaps precipitously

I believe (1), but not (2), hence it isn't a "bubble". If you tell a CEO "hey, you're not going to be able to solve your problem with advertising", then you are in effect telling them, "there's no easy solution to your problem, you must do the much harder work of making your goods or services better".

Not many CEO's will want to hear that. They will continue, I think, to spend money on advertising, including online advertising, not because it works well (it only occasionally does), but because it's easier. It's like selling someone a diet aid that says they can lose 50 pounds without having to work hard. Regardless of whether it works or not, people want to believe it does, so they will keep buying.
EV subsidies seem to be set at roughly the amount the country will save in various related costs, health from pollution, importing oil, carbon abatement, supporting green grids etc. I'm not sure if thats a coincidence or not, but either way it massively shifts the impact from being benefit to rich person in new EV car to poor person outside EV (or any) car.
ATMs getting blown up is a pretty common occurrence here in Brazil, didn't know it was a thing in Europe as well.
> A recent paper[0] has looked into building a testing dataset for language models ability to distinguish truth from falsehood.

Isn't this a massive category error? Truth or falsehood does not reside within any symbol stream but in the interaction of that stream with observable reality. Does nobody in the AI world know Baudrillard?
Sure, being selfish is good trait if yiu want to be successful. Especially if you are good at convincing others with “facts” that are beneficial for you.
Postmortem for Siempo: A humane tech startup
I don't disagree - but being user-hostile aligns perfectly with their business model. The problem isn't a given implementation, it's the business model itself.

IMO it should be outlawed to profit off intentionally wasting people's time and promoting inflammatory content for the sake of "engagement", but drafting a law that would effectively cover this would be a major challenge (you could argue that the people doom-scrolling Instagram want the engagement-generating inflammatory content they are being fed), so my next alternative is to simply strengthen privacy regulations to make this kind of business unprofitable.
This winter I was riding my bike at -6°C (21.2°F) with my phone mounted on the handlebar. After about half an hour of riding, I stopped to take a picture with it.

The picture alone made the battery drop by around 3%, and after a minute I turned the screen on again for a very short time, afterwards the battery dropped from 80% to 8% in less than 5 minutes.

I had this phone on my handlebar for a couple of times at down to -7°C (19.4°F), as well as another one (I have my daily driver mounted for podcasts and photos and another cheap one as a Garmin replacement for tracking) and had never seen this before nor afterwards.
I'm a great fan of mathematical achievements in medieval Middle East, India and China. However, it does not explain why the Martians of Budapest were Jews, not Persian or Chinese, in the context we are discussing in this thread, that is "the end of smart-male line by means of celibacy."
Did you even read my post? I cited two things that I think have a bad effect on teenagers.
Licensing computer engineer and scientist - I was wondering when this idea would surface. I mean, that is a great way to strengthen monopolies and consolidate existing players. I didn't expect such a suggestion would come from a Freebsd core developer.

Licensing is about compliance. It helps better control who has access to a certain set of skills, and who can make a living off such skills.

License could require you to be certified for certain technologies, which mean whoever has the best lobbying power win (Hint, it's not Freebsd). It's a great way to keep market shares for specific interests. Not sure how this is good for the industry.

Licensing means you can put barriers to entry for specific demographics (ineligible if born in a specific country...)

Licensing means you can create an entire business model just around licensing fees and licensing bodies, which usually mean some people are left off the game.

You want to increase professional liability and overall responsibility, they are other ways.

First, you have certifications. They already exist and can give ad-hoc solutions for some specific niches, and is the closest that we have to a license today. You can create a mechanism for someone to lose their certification if they commit a professional fault (even if this would totally be used in some case for internal politics and pressuring people in doing they don't want, irrelevant of any actual professional issues).

Second, you have transparency. Company can publish internal explanations of any disaster and if people are terminated because of it, they can make this public. Not that I like the idea... but it is a middle ground - where others are given an opportunity to decide if they to take the risk hire people with public failures, while not removing someone from exercising one's profession because some project went to hell and someone made mistakes.

Anyway, overall, I get his point that he want more responsible engineers on the job, but gatekeeping an industry with licensing sounds like a recipe for an even worse shit show.
For a popular magazine that seems fine... analgesic as strong as morphine + fewer side effects = better overall ... no?
Well that’s not true, they do accept changes that negatively impact their lives, it just has to come from Mother Nature.
This seems very likely extrapolating from current trends.
Boiling Lobsters alive is cruel and should be entirely banned.
Yeah, it must have been a call to a contract. My son wanted to buy an NFT on opensea for the first time. Initiating his wallet or something like that.
assume you do not have damage to the planet as any inherent value. assume also that in rich nation like America we will probably muddle through. this is case of higher risk tolerance, i am unwilling to make a reduced quality of life now for a hedge against the future.
I’m using DDG as my default search engines on all devices and browsers for 5+ years. Lets say that about 15% end’s up being sent to Google via g!. I already know in advance when I will need g!.

I’m very disappointed with Goggle search results and AMP was a final straw.

EDIT: I was talking about english language. When I’m searching on mine language then I need Google more than 50-60%.
The idea "everyone should be their own bank" is a great idea, and most should endeavor to do that, but it fails often for a variety of legal and regulatory reasons.

Suppose you are a company, with a myriad of shareholders, do you: (a) Setup a crypto wallet and give Frank and Bill the keys, or (b) Outsource to reputable 3rd party.

I can tell you which your shareholders would prefer.
Any experts on here know whether it'd be possible to create a synthetic version? It would've expected that issue to be mentioned in the article tbh
it’s because snapchat is a fraction of the size of facebook, a rounding error by comparison
Let's see. Maybe we start with a 90% tax above 100K income to pay for climate change costs? Will that be acceptable inconvenience to folks here.
I dont get the framing of facebook as master manipulators of women. Kids feel bad on instagram because they can compare themselves to other.
Science doesn't tell you what to do, only what (probably) is as can be observed and deducted. I can believe in science without believing in your call to action. These past two years have been all about another natural disaster where two sides see the same statistic and come to different conclusions about what to do about it while accusing each other of being anti science
How to build a healthy forest:

Step1: Fence off 100000 acres in a proper climate zone.

Step2: Wait 1000 years.
it happens to be one that i m familiar with, and i see the narcissistic behavior that it encourages. it s also more public afaik
Yes exactly. Bacteria in probiotic yoghurt come in from the guts... no one says “fancy like eating your own shit”?
I’m glad that someone with a large audience is pointing these things out, and in such a forceful manner. She’s right on every point. The misinformation has to stop.