skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube always lures you back to mainstream content. Pick an unusual genre of music and let it autoplay. Come back after a few hours and you will hear pop music. This has a self-reinforcing character as my views will make those videos even more popular. Youtube now also tagged me as liking pop music.

Pretty sure you could even call it distortion of competition. I doubt legislation can improve the net much but there is an economic significance for less known artists.
Then ask them what's interesting for them, or get in contact with other engineers at their company, read their blogs, and find out what they need that you can solve for them or contribute to.
You think Uber doesn't provide a good service to the world? You are in favor of Taxi/Medallion monopolies?
Well, autonomous cars are able to detect obstacles on an narrow lane. That is nowhere near general intelligence.
I wonder if the Ph.D. made his writing worse? This article is much better:

https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/the-cuban-revolution-ex...
That's a good question, I wonder how that will play along with their Video Streaming service. I guess this wouldn't be hosted streaming, but a downloadable video file, so they'd have different use cases.
We don't know yet if there is anything special about human intelligence, or what the limitations of general intelligence might be. Are animal and plants a slower form of the same intelligence, or is there something qualitatively different? Can rocks and liquids be considered intelligent since it led to life, which eventually led to us?

Current AI/ML does not appear to have any properties of "life intelligence" - for example you can put an animal or even plant into an unfamiliar situation and it will often figure out a way to survive. AI/ML in the evaluation phase is often pretty dumb, and needs new training if anything changes. Reinforcement learning is probably the closest but still seem pretty limited.

I don't think the current approaches will lead to general intelligence. However, I do suspect that when the right theoretical breakthrough is made AI will rapidly become superhuman and humans will not be in control of what it does - it will simply iterate too quickly for us to compete in any way intellectually.
I don't think there's a valuable heuristic. I would propose to go low (2 tasks in your case) and if you feel extremely motivated do some tasks from the next day (and consequently finish your week early if possible). Leftover time can be filled with hobbies and household to make you a better human being.
This isn't a very fair take. Investment banks do the same. How many companies ask Goldman to help with their IPO? How many are competitors? Plenty.

The company has firewalls to separate different work products and have way more to lose by violating company confidentiality than by leveraging it.
The cost of networking infrastructure is proportional to the maximum data rate, not how much you use.

When Cloudflare builds egress points to improve latency they are also increasing the capacity of their network, so it may be that, right now, extra utilization is "free" for them, but that might not always be the case.

Metered billing has another function, which is controlling abuse. S3 doesn't have a problem with people hosting pirate content because people can't afford to host pirate content on S3. When Napster was a big deal, Cornell started metering residential internet use, and the only kids who were sharing on Napster were the ones who let Daddy pay their parking tickets on their Bursar bill.

It reminds me of the kid who, in the 1980s, programmed his computer to call roughly 100,000 phone numbers around Manchester, NH looking for modems. His parents had a metered service for which each call cost a few cents. I'm sure that the people in security said, "We'll let the billing department take care of this."

His parents took his modem but we got to keep the list of modems.
> It certainly isn't anything that would lead the Russian people to lose faith in him.

Well you can't say that. Attacking a male leader because he has sex more often (or with partners which are more attractive) than his subordinates is one of the oldest tool that people who are vying for that spot try in order to dethrone the person who is currently occupying it.

Sooner or later it will work.
How often does someone, let alone your potential employer, actually know (or care) the name of the person in some embarrassing viral video? It seems like a rare exception for someone to face meaningful blowback from this scenario.
I think you're implying significantly more magic behind Option than there is.

> Having an array of Option<...>s is a non-trivial operation for the compiler

This is just not true. Arrays are always a number of values laid out in memory, exactly like in C. There is no magic for an array of options. It works the same as an array of any other value: you put N of them in memory, one after the other.
I was only talking about pointers and interfaces, not primitive types. Yes A and B can't be nil, but I was only talking about C. Pointers (C) are what cause crashes in Go programs when using them without checking if they're nil first.
By "constrained low-level programming" you mean things like the interfaces exported by CPUs and VMs?

If so, yes, that makes complete sense. But if it's on the level of system languages, well, Rust is a perfectly capable low level system language, and constraints nulls only to where they matter.

At the end of the day, null is a value for pointers, and a system language does need pointers. But if you have a reasonable type system, not everything needs to be a pointer, and the type system is a compile-time feature, so it doesn't matter for your code target.
Please wash your hands.
It's a business gamble that unfortunately has more than just financial consequences if the second-hand hardware fails to continue performing as "reasonably" expected.

>Amplify Energy Corp. is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploitation and production of oil and natural gas properties.

All the actual work is expected to be performed by contractors, so the company can co-exist in the same space as cowboy oilmen who don't have to have great engineers on their staff as long as the contractors have the credentials.

Looking at the Amplify portfolio at this early stage in their business, it can be seen that a good number of their properties consist of oilfields where many or most of the wells are not actually producing any more, even though the remaining subsurface reserves are significant.

These could be expected to be value acquisitions requiring the lowest possible up-front investment. A rise in the oil price might be what is anticipated before the additional cash could be raised that could be used for refurbishment and to bring non-producing wells back into production.

The offshore California play however does have all wells listed as currently producing, plus they ended up with the associated pipeline that goes with it in that case.

They may not have as much experience at operating a subsea pipline compared to their efforts getting into the oilwells themselves.

Either way, once an asset sale is in the works, expensive maintenance would be deferred from that point so the acquiring operator can bear the costs. This would be figured into the negotiated price.

To some extent you get what you pay for, even on the industrial scale.
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The fact that USB-C is a bloated and complex standard does not imply that other solutions are better. Magsafe is only nice to the extent that all Apple laptops used it, so if you were in the apple world and never lost your $50 charger it was fine.

But in the end it was Yet Another Laptop Charger, and it made travelling a pain for anyone with multiple laptops of different make. The current status quo is not perfect but it is much better than it was.
In 1979 Douglas Hofstatder wrote Godel, Escher and Bach in which he predicted that computers would eventually be able to beat humans in chess, but that those computers would say, "I'm bored of chess now, I want to talk about poetry." The history of AI has been the hard work of really describing a problem like playing chess or reading letters or recommending songs and then applying AI techniques to it, but I don't think anybody's ever trying to work on a computer that discovers new problems to solve.
> In order for prices to rise generally, there has to be an increase in the money supply relative to the goods and services it represents.

That's not true, even with simplistic models like supply and demand curves. Prices can rise across the board with a fixed money supply, and you'll have a corresponding reduction in amount of goods traded.

Yesterday 1000 people each bought 2kg of potatoes at $1/kg, and 1 kg of meat at $10/kg. Today, potatoes cost $2/kg, and meat costs $15/kg. So, 800 people buy 3kg of potatoes and 0kg of meat, and only 200 people keep buying both potatoes and meat. Meat producers adjust their production down to account for the new conditions, firing extra staff and sending the spiral ever downward.
It almost sounds like you want a diff tool for code reviews, but I can't tell if you want an IDE instead (you mentioned edit code, after all).
Sure it does not, but it does not say that it was not from the vaccine as well.

I am also very distrustful of our government influence in investigations after covid vaccines. The government wants the vaccine to work so that it can go back to normality and not have to worry about the impending financial crisis that would come faster if there was no vaccine.

How do I know that other people that died after getting the vaccine were not from a side effect of it? How can I be sure that these numbers are 100% correct? How can I be sure that all those covid deaths are really from covid and not something else unrelated to it? I am not saying that the vaccines are responsible for 20, 30% of the deaths or something like that, but there is the incentive from the government to not provide the real picture of these numbers (if they are not ridiculous numbers of course).

As in tech, be very distrustful of everything version 1.0. It always has some bugs to iron out ;)
What's gonna happen when having social media accounts in good standing is required to open a bank account, or take a loan or get an insurance?
If you sacrifice yourself to have an orphan out of an Ideal of selflessness or protection of the weak, the idea of benefits doesn't make sense since you'll never reap those benefits, being dead and all.

If you look at the individual level, with a purely rational 'Homo economicus' rational actor, ideals don't make a lot of sense.
And, just like the tobacco companies, Facebook has

- deliberately sowed doubt and misinformation about the harmful effects of their productt

- hired in-house researchers to produce bad science to counter the legitimate research finding the product is harmful

- insisted that "the science isn't settled" while hampering study into the harmful effects
Something occurred to me with this whole green transition. I'm also considering a reversible heat pump when I replace the furnace. What's the backup home heating source? It's not such an issue in the UK, I suppose. But over here, sometimes ice pulls down the power lines in the middle of winter and it can be out for days (or sometimes weeks). People sometimes freeze, or more often die of carbon monoxide poisoning when that happens. I have a natural gas and wood heating stove with proper venting, mostly for when the power cuts out. A big battery isn't going to cut it, obviously. Methanol-burning stove for heating maybe?
Lets turn this around: Can you produce a record of him being actually racist, not just throwing around critical humor?
...which is currently a multi-billion dollar effort at FB (Facebook Reality Labs)
I think your comment illustrates well why treating "warnings as warnings" is counterproductive. People who treat warnings as warnings haven't taken a caretaker approach and so they have accumulated and are now so numerous that bulk disabling them is the only practical option!
That Archimedes story is great Comms.

Outing a crown (King) as a fraud by the displacement of water (Info).
Well, offline discussions between people you know and trust is the modern Samizdat. But it is crazy that we got there without a repressive state.
You could say the same about Tesla.

But cloudflare is able to scale fast at least.
> In summary, hermit programmers who only write code for themselves are dead because:

> As they don’t plan, you never know when (or if) they are going to finish a task.

>As they don’t document, their code is not reusable because nobody knows how it works.

>As they don’t test, chances are the code they write is full of bugs.

>As they don’t refactor, the software cannot evolve.

>As they don’t handle infrastructure, their code has only been executed on their machine, and only God knows what will happen when the code runs in production.

>As they don’t have good communication skills, they do not know how to sell what they do to the market, which is why they are always behind the competence.

>As they don’t diversify their skills, powerful AI will take over their workplaces.

What does any of this have to do with being a hermit?

I’d also argue that good communication skills are subjective. For instance people in different regions communicate differently, and some skilled people have disabilities affecting how they communicate. In my view it’s important to be open and accepting towards diverse communication styles. There is no “good skill”, that if you don't posses makes you “always behind the competence”
I think the smoking analogy is a pretty bad one, because smoking is an empty activity with little redeeming value. Once you quit you actually become sort of repulsed by the activity. There's very little at the core of smoking that's worth keeping.

But the core of what Facebook does is very good. Everyone I care to still be in touch with from high school, college, and multiple past jobs is there. That core feature is good, not bad.

And it's not at all obvious that those people are ever going to go somewhere else. Sure, teenagers are going to keep adopting new, fun stuff, but none of that new, fun stuff replaces that core feature of Facebook.

"Teenagers hanging out" is a different use case from "adult who wants to stay in touch with people he knew a decade ago." There's no competition for this latter use case.
The issue is that people think that neural net technology is AI when, in fact, there is 0 Intelligence there. Which is fine, except when you have people like Elon Musk, Google and others thinking that there is I there, just need to throw more processors and data at it, and I will magically emerge. We now face a growing number of non-I cars on the road starting to kill people, so it's a real urgent problem that all who use neural nets need to, at minimum, understand that that tech will never give I and to communicate that fact to their customers and their goals with using it.
Indeed, code gets too much focus in these sorts of discussions. The bulk of a programmer’s value is in their way of thinking and solving problems, and code just happens to be the most capable and complete manifestation of those skills.

Someone with a programmer’s mindset is going to continue to have a solid advantage when building software, regardless of the tools used in building.
I had an entirely different interpretation of the article. It seems to me that it's mostly centered around evidence: the WSJ articles based on Facebook's leaked research. The author isn't saying FB is in trouble because kids think its uncool. He's saying FB itself thinks they are in trouble as evidenced by their own data--"internal researchers predicted that daily use would decline 45 percent by 2023"--and by the desperate attempts to remain relevant like trying to target the pre-teen audience.

I think the point of the article is that while FB might look strong to outsiders, if you look at internal communications and efforts, they sound pretty worried about becoming irrelevant. What stronger evidence could you want than that?
Does Goldman sign contracts promising to disclose all potential conflicts of interest when they help with an IPO? Does Goldman have a history of violating those contracts and paying $30 million to settle the case? Does Goldman have a very recent documented history of corrupting government officials and leveraging them to make money?

I guess it wouldn't surprise me, but all those things are definitely true of McKinsey.
If new technology X saves 100 lives for each person it kills, it will be banned.

Because the dead person has a name, a tragic story, and grieving relatives, which will make the news.

The 100 saved people are anonymous, don't know they were saved by X, and this will be unreported outside of obscure research journals.
Well what if the economy works like all the tigers in the world - very likely to go extinct in the not too distant future without careful conservation.

99.9% of species that have ever lived have gone extinct. Choosing one species that happens to be doing well at the moment (especially one that is doing well specifically because of human intervention) to use as an example doesn't indicate that species in general are robust.
me too :-(
Used to deal with romance scammers a long time ago on a big dating website. We ended up with a unique solution that solved our problem quickly.

Our twist on ghost banning was that they could all see and message each other. We gave them full functionality like paid accounts, just only usable to connect to other scammers. So they were in scammer hell trying to convince each other to send money due to various made up catastrophes.
I would not call such a programmer "best", or even "good".
Maintainability is almost as important as code actually performing its task.
I only lurk on Twitter and recently have been paying some more attention to such numbers.

One thing that indeed sticks out is that if you take a particular topic and inspect the leaders in that topic, many have more than 100K tweets. That's over 270 tweets per day if you'd compress it to a year.

A quick glance at these leaders' timelines shows that they tweet all day every day, you need to scroll endlessly to just catch up with a few hours of their activity. It's basically all they do.

On the other end of the spectrum are indeed people that never tweet or hardly ever tweet.

And there's an important in-between category. People that do use it frequently, mostly commenting on those extreme leaders, yet for some mysterious reason, they can never get above the magical number of 2,000 followers themselves. They are basically the cannon fodder for the Twitter elites. It is them that like, retweet and comment, all to boost people already winning at the game even further.
the problem is the unboundedness of the failure modes of (the current generation of) AI, not with how well it can approximate hard functions within regions of interest (which is essentially always a small subset of the range of said hard functions).
If you don't know the person, why do you care? Unless it's a politician why do you care? What does it bring to your life to criticize someone on twitter for a bad joke?
Treating a stylistic warning as an error is completely different than a semantic error being an actual error.
I've been reading it at least a couple of times a year since I started coding professionally in 1991.
The board shown was camera-ready and would be photographed like that, though maybe after cleaning off some glue with a rubber cement eraser. It's a monochrome camera that will only pick up blacks and reds, the lines are drawn with blue pencil so they won't be visible. It will photograph cleanly.
There are some companies that are set up to make money. Most of the banks in existence exist to make money and they won’t hesitate to say so, and they will say that they want to make you money too.

Facebook was not created to make money. It came about from the era when people thought, just grow really big and figure out how to monetize later. It was not yet established that you could monetize something after making it big (which was a thing in the dot-com bust of 2001). It seems targeted advertising like a given today but back in 2011 (a decade ago, and not long after DoubleClick was bought by Google), this was still being established. It took a long, long time for FB to monetize.

To that end, you need to have been there in the thick of it. Back then it may have seen like it was fun and games. Playing silly “viral” “games” was a big chunk of how people were spending time, back in 2008.

But more than FB’s specific case, founder’s personas can be a bit unappreciated as the guiding hand in what happens with the company. We know that founder disagreements are a large percentage of startup failure. It really come down to the people, and their base impulses. Which is so trite and petty, but sometimes life just is.
Could also be a site named after what came first, before the chicken. Those folks are quite happy to keep scam sellers on their platform.
To bundle, or not to bundle, this is the answer
At people being harassed or even losing their livelihoods. Generally people who don't put themselves in the spotlight (and the scrutiny that comes with that) shouldn't end up facing disproportionate consequences of what tends to be a few moments of bad behaviour on camera.

I recently read about a story where a woman (who happened to be white) said to some black guys "you should go back to the hood" when some sort of argument occurred between them and her. Of course it was filmed and then she was doxxed because one of the guys filming had a social following on twitter and was a "influencer". From how I interpreted the interaction from the video it seemed she didn't even really know what she said and was just exchanging words after a disagreement. Of course she lost her job after her employer was found (and probably hounded) because she said something stupid in the heat of the moment. You can argue that she shouldn't have said that and maybe she shouldn't have. However her being doxxed, harassed and losing her job because of a mob is totally disproportionate to the wrong doing.

People get flustered, nervous and say things they don't mean or they don't really think through all the time. Especially in the heat of the moment. The same happens with jokes. Someone says something that they think is funny and goes down like a lead balloon. Sometimes is embarrassing (for all involved), cringe-worthy and awkward. In the past most of this was brushed off and forgotten about. Now if you happened to be filmed and it goes viral, people will harass you and possibly have you lose your livelihood over what at the end of the day is an dumb argument or a poor sense of humour.

It is best not to have a social media presence at all IMO.