skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is some weird dual usage that makes them either mass or weight depending on the context. For example, torque is in ft•lbs or N•m so the pounds there are lbs force.

Though checking wikipedia again, it actually specifies that torque is measured in as lbf•ft. I take that to mean that 1 ft•lb is the torque of 1/2 oz (1/32 of an lb) at 1 foot. I expect that's a test question almost everyone would get wrong, myself included.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound-foot_(torque)
They're just trying to create some vorticity so that in the event an updraft forms right under the computer, they'll get a very nice rotating thunderstorm. Great for cooling!
Huh, I wonder if there's any relationship to the Hairy Ball theorem. They appear to describe similar situations, but on different dimensions.
So do I understand correctly: This is a new head on top of the AlphaZero model?

That is, in addition to the usual evaluation and policy heads, this takes the intermediate board representation and outputs a seed vector that is fed into a transformer text generator?

Or do other things go into the seed? Like the search tree somehow? Otherwise I suppose the commentary will not be able to comment on deeper tactics?

Or maybe this doesn't work using a seed vector at all, but with a custom integration from the board into the transformer somehow?
It should appear only once, I can't reproduce your issue. What browser version / OS are you using?
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> Studies pretty reliably show an effect correlating how much someone watches violent movies and how much anxiety they have around experiencing interpersonal violence.

Care to share? how can I search this?
I don't wholesale disagree with everything she has to say. As I've stated multiple times on this thread, I believe Facebook should be liquidated and its executives, including Mark Zuckerberg jailed.

I am referring to these points of the testimony:

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/FC8A558E-824E...

> The result has been a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization — and undermining societies around the world. In some cases, this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence that harms and even kills people. In other cases, their profit optimizing machine is generating self-harm and self-hate — especially for vulnerable groups, like teenage girls. These problems have been confirmed repeatedly by Facebook’s own internal research.

While she is correct that facebook has allowed people to talk that's led to violence (some of it very justified... see the arab spring, etc), and that facebook contributes to division, I don't believe the government should be in the business of regulating the speech of individual users of these websites. Ultimately, that just means the government just gets to squash dissenting voices. Ending the 'dangerous online talk' may today mean stopping violent extremists, but may tomorrow become "Don't discuss anti-government policy messages because it may inspire some people to commite violence" which is a slippery slope.

For example, the whistleblower claims that some online talk amplifies extremism which 'undermines societies around the world'. Some societies deserve to be undermined. Few would batt an eye if Facebook were used by North Korean dissidents to organize around toppling that country's dictatorship.
Vegetative growth and forests are long-term carbon sinks, even though they reach a carbon neutral equilibrium once matured.
>I haven't polled HN, but I get the sense it's more about regulating formerly black market drugs, rather than deregulating pharmaceuticals.

That's called cognitive dissonance. Pharmaceuticals already have the shit regulated out of them and it obviously doesn't work.
> extreme hardship or just plain impossible.

Waah, sniff.

Woke me up before you go go.
They still claim that. The change isn't limited to one implication or effect.
I'm actually planning to get a backhoe for a couple years to build a large basalt greenhouse, then do aquaponics - combine growing fish and plants in something that removes most of the downsides of aquaculture and hydroponics. Done properly, it's a synthetic pond ecosystem that doesn't require flushing the water ever.
No it doesn’t. His loan is the same no matter what SPY’s value is. He pays it by depositing money he earns from his day job, not by selling shares. If SPY crashes very hard his broker may force him to pay the loan very quickly, either by adding more money or by selling off his shares to cover the loan.
Where did you source the commentary dataset?
It’s just another story to keep the con going a little longer - they failed as currency, payment system, asset tracking, app platforms, smart contracts, and now this.

None if it makes any sense, nor does it have to as long as it convinces new marks that their ‘tokens’ are going to the moon because they are the future of x.
Consumer behavior is the wrong animal to fight when its these massive industries that are polluting the world, wasting our water, and things like cryptocurrencies that consume as much electricity as a nation of consumers. Unplug your chargers, stop eating meat, stop flying, and its not going to change much when factories are still polluting the air with fossil fuels and industrial agriculture is selecting the most profitable and water intensive crops they can because they aren't paying what they should for their water rights. I want significant change to happen and it means going after these signficant targets like industry and cryptocurrency and not me forgetting I left my phone charger plugged into the wall.
What makes it unfortunate that it used masculine pronouns? If it had used purely female pronouns would that make you feel better?
Naïve take, just use it? Even if it ends up back there by escaping as a gas, better that it was 'used' in carbonation or for some other purpose than merely converted to something storable?

Or do the quantities just not work out, and (to the non-naïfs) that's too obvious for words?
I agree, and further it smacks of Manufactured Consent. First, notice the surge in specifically anti-facebook stories over the past month.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

While twitter and the corporate media are largely absent from the same scrutiny, as you note. They are just as responsible for eroding democratic norms, eroding trust and whipping up the public into a frothing, misinformed rage.

Now this culminates with an impeccably credentialed, rich, Harvard elite `whistleblower` who is largely repeating what we've long known? And who just started a twitter account and web site while on a whirlwind tour. And who is roundly supported by the corporate media and government. This doesn't strike me as speaking truth to power. It's the opposite.

Contrast with Snowden, who came out with new revelations and knowingly took on a great amount of risk to do so. There was no anti-NSA media surge leading up to his appearance. He was not embraced by the ruling class. Rather he infuriated them. That is speaking truth to power.

What we are seeing is the ruling class desperately trying to reassert control over the flow of information. Using facebook as a mechanism to take back control is smart, clearly. Both sides of the aisle want to regulate them. Mark is not a sympathetic character. People want to see a powerful corporation and CEO finally get more than a slap on the wrist. We thirst for a hanging. It appears they are going to give it to us, but I fear we will regret it in the end. As the response will reach far beyond the walls of facebook.

To understand the dynamic we are seeing play out, the book `Revolt of the Public` is worth reading.

“All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my #1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the Internet.” --Marc Andreessen

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millen...
Now the year of the Linux Desktop can come in 2022.
Looks to me like Bob would end up with Lisa's item and a tax-deductible donation when he nukes the contract.
The issue for me with this scenario is that it's already so contrived that yea - of course you're not going to be arrested for eating all the cookies from the cookie jar. But only for that action - if you scale that action up to a significant level then you absolutely might be breaking a law. There are lots of things that are legal (or at least looked the other way at) on certain small scales and a lot of penalties escalate with the severity of the offense. If the US had a $1B jar of cookies and you ate all of them (aside from now being diabetic) the government would definitely pursue you for theft.

I suppose that's the truth of the matter - it actually might be illegal to eat all the cookies in the cookie jar (assuming you're not given express permission to do so) it's just that nobody cares because of the scale of the action. It's also usually a domestic affair - but just because you live in the same house as someone else you don't have a right to all their things (it's just that usually all the people are in a family and then property laws get a bit weird).

If your roomate in college had some super rare cookies valued at $10k and you ate all of them then they'd definitely be able to take you to court. It's just that nobody cares if an oreo goes missing.
Not only does it maximize the impact of the leaks, now those defending themselves against the leaks must be very careful not to create a new set of lies that could be disproved by further leaks.

As a hypothetical

FB: we only did that once!

Leaker: in fact you did that many times (shows papers)
I have to shake my head when reading some of the replies the parent poster is getting. It is sobering to see so many who have no love for their profession and are trapped into staying solely for money; that's a recipe for an unhappy existence, as can be seen from the bitterness evident in their words.
Oakland did this in 2020.
> It trounces the majority of either of those - which something a revolutionary product would do.

This isn't even remotely true. Computers are really good at doing more than one thing at a time. I find it mind-boggling that there is such a focus on the performance of a single core. This hasn't been all that relevant for the last 15 years. As for what this matters, the difference for single core isn't all that big regardless (one M1 core performs about the same as one 5980HS thread). When you want to know how powerful the computing power of a CPU is, how about comparing .. you know... what it can do?

And, what it can do when it is asked to do everything it can, I can reiterate that the M1 is nowhere near the competition. The 5980HS mobile CPU will get the same multi-threaded job done in half the time, which is a huge difference. Which is why discussion threads like these feel... chilling. Like as if I stepped in to a cult meeting, where we praise normalcy as revolutionary. It's not even close to the last generation of CPUs in terms of compute power. It just a step up from the Intel CPUs apple used in the previous MBPs.

And, it's not that the M1 is a bad CPU. It's actually pretty good for what it does, and it is exceptionally good at power efficiency. The 5nm and low thread count does contribute significantly to the power performance, so it will be interesting to to see how future M1 processors perform.

Imagine if the M2 doubled core count, and thus doubled multi-core performance compared to the M1. It would then be just as powerful as the current 5980HS. Another revolution no doubt.
Mature forests are carbon neutral because new growth will take the place of growth that dies and decays.
No, I think the degree has great value. I like the feeling of knowing a lot. I'm just less and less convinced that I really do.
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"Why South Dakota?" is the really interesting question here. There are 49 other states. The question was quietly raised and lowered a couple of years back.

Unsavory? SD politics over the past 50 years are way entertaining for those of the darkness persuasion.
Your proposal would make HN-style comment ranking illegal. Do you really want to live in the world you propose?
"Motion before emotion" is a great little mantra to get you started on whatever - waking up, exercise, writing, working, etc.

Emotions are sometimes helpful, but in the case of starting things they're usually wrong.
I agree completely. I've had the chance to slowly grow up with video games and witness their evolution, and still it's really hard to withdraw myself from the allure of 'just one more round of Apex Legends' and the like. And why should I try so hard, they are great games, after all!

It's decades of development in 'addictiveness tuning' unleashed upon the brain as a stationary target... I really feel sorry for the kids that never knew anything else.
If you don't use the regular definitions of how things are defined, you can get surprising results. If I define + as -, it might be surprising if I said 1 + 1 = 0.
Yep I agree.
Fun fact @akira2501, 2501 happens to be my exact karma right now. Which will probably dive a bit tonight. ;)

I don't see doing radical things to try to improve the earth as "exactly how we got where we are now." I see exploitation and capitalism & lack of governance & steerage as how we fucked shit up wicked bad. I see a lack of trying bold ambitious things to try and help rectify our situation as causing a colossal negative impact on earth, already, against our cloud cover, against our ocean oxygenation, against our planetwide survivable temperatures, against our more-moderate weather.

We need some big projects. The earth is huge, massive. To begin to have a real effect, we need to start, start making, start experimenting, start scaling. We can assess & learn as we go. We can adapt. With hope, we (Earth) can find sufficient leverage to not become another Drake Equation casualty.

What we cant do is what you propose: refuse to adapt. To gently seek peaceful global consensus, to reach unanimity before we start.
I like converting it to soil and wood. Forests and grasslands store hundreds of gigatons of carbon. It can't just be planting trees, it has to be cultivating rich ecosystems: the more living things the better.

I've been converted by Charles Eisenstein's book "Climate: a new story" - he makes a strong case that we're only obsessed with carbon because we don't have good ways of measuring anything else, and that while of course the greenhouse effect is real, the negative effects of climate change including unpredictable weather and stronger storms can be mitigated by restoring forests, coral reefs, marshes, barrier islands, anything that lives will act as a buffer to fast changes in weather.

There's some good stuff in there too explaining the feedback loops between life and the weather, such as forests releasing aerosols that act as cloud seeds that bring moisture toward the forest.
> if enforcement could be sanely and fairly dealt out then there are lots of things that we'd appreciate being laws

I'm hearing a hypothesis - that if enforcement was cheap and easy, we could make a better legal system (and a better society) by regulating far more human interaction. Presumably we'd have AI systems monitoring everyone at all times, and issuing automatic fines if you snipe someone's parking spot.

"Citizen #421 you have been found guilty by AI of the crimes of eating the last cookie, and failing to call your mother while overseas. Please proceed immediately to the nearest reeducation facility for behavior correction"

I agree that there is often marginal (and proximate) benefit in having more laws. I'm in favor of FB being regulated somehow. But my point is that more laws - even when restricting antisocial behaviour - can still create a worse society. The reason is not just because enforcement is arbitrary.

Another example of this is the controversial Canadian bill C16, which sought to make it essentially illegal to misgender someone. Critics of the bill argued that despite everyone agreeing that its extremely disrespectful to misgender someone, it still shouldn't be illegal. This is a subtle argument, but its an important one if we want our societies to stay free and healthy.
Agreed. These two ideas would be killer features! I want to analyze a game, not from where I am at now, but where I was 10 moves ago when everything started to go sideways. I want an AI that can tell me where my instincts or intuitions are off and the reasoning why. e.g. attacking the middle is generally good, but did I focus too much on that and missed some important lines in other places.
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I mean, sure? mumblemumble is still right though. If you're looking for a cynical reason for everything FB related, then, sure, it's true that a human error looks bad.
From the article: speed is mach 9, range is 1,000 km.

In a recent video lecture, Sabine Hossenfelder argues that hypersonic missiles would not be faster than ballistic missiles at intercontinental ranges. this criticism misses the fact that it appears hypersonic weapons are designed for sea or submarine launch, at relatively close range. Given the speed and range of the missile tested, time from launch to target is on the order of 5 minutes 40 seconds, as compared to about 30 minutes for ICBMs and 20 minutes for most SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles). Boost and reentry phases involve enough altitude gain and loss to greatly increase overall flight time from that of a lower, slower, dynamic flight path.

Discussion begins at about 11:30 (specified in link):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fTEhG8zzftQ&t=11m31s

Hossenfelder is citing Tracy and Wright, "Modeling the Performance of Hypersonic Boost-Glide Missiles" (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08929882.2020.18...) (https://sci-hub.do/10.1080%2F08929882.2020.1864945), which assumes an 8,500 km flight path.

Chopping 25 minutes off the detection-and-response time profile of an attack is quite militarily and strategically significant. A country with its major population and political assets in coastal regions would be particularly vulnerable.

At best, one hopes that the principle goal of such a weapons system would be as a bargaining chip seeking to induce concessions elsewhere for not deploying such systems.
> But what do we do next when we're running out of these low hanging goals?

Housing insulation retrofits next, and then metro-area roading and zoning reform to heavily encourage walking, with neighborhood shops, cafes, and communal spaces every few streets, and public transport to get between neighborhoods.

The first hangs lower than restructuring built-up areas, true. The second has great public health benefits though.

But I agree about political will. The political way to deal with climate change is not in policy documents, it's to produce policy documents.
I don't think you can bypass it with SMS so if you get locked out you need to call them. Not sure how easy it is to bypass by calling them. But Schwab doesn't support hardware keys.

Morgan Stanley is the only bank/financial company I know supports hardware keys.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that all successful online sites are damaging to mental health, and have destroyed our collective attention spans, if nothing else. What sets FB apart is simply that it holds the top spot.

Cut off FB's dopamine dispenser, and people will just rush to the next one over. And so on and so forth.

Even Hacker News... I refresh front page several times a day, looking for another hour I can throw away in my short life, making comments like this that I will then check every hour to see how many upvotes I got from total strangers.
I just used an utility like this a few days ago to generate s suitable banner for a chainloader I'm developing for my RPi3. Makes it look all professional and hacky! ASCII art, love it.
Crypto world has also co-opted the word ‘metaverse.’ I always thought that term meant some cool VR future, but I guess I’m getting NFTs instead.
Web3 enabled browsers like metamask, coinbase wallet, trust wallet, brave.

Safari and chrome mobile browsers are not compatible with web3 or dapps.
I would like to see this on coke, pepsi, fast food and air travel
This is the topic of "clone theory": the study of which (multivariable) operations can be created by composing together a starting collection of operations. Post's lattice is a complete description of which gates can be generated from which other gates in two-valued logic, but the subject becomes much more difficult in multivalued logic.

If you are just interested in whether a given gate would allow you to generate all possible operations in a multivalued logic, then there is a nice result called the Rosenberg Completeness Theorem that says, roughly speaking, that any operation which doesn't have a nice property (from a certain explicit list of nice properties, such as monotonicity, linearity, etc.) will generate all other operations. To answer your question, NAND is special because it isn't monotone, isn't linear (in the sense of not being a linear function modulo 2), isn't self-dual, doesn't send all-0s to 0, and doesn't send all-1s to 1.
I'm not convinced that forests are carbon neutral, once they are mature they can continue to support ecosystem growth where more and larger animals can exist: keystone species are made out of carbon too ;)
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I distinctively remember that bubble sort was presented later. We started with this naive double loop (and the naive simple sort as a sort into a different copy alternative) and incrementally added optimisations to reach the various named algorithms
So, are there any popular or commercial games that make use of intransitive/non-transitive dice? That seems like it would be fun to break out with friends over.
No, the primary argument I made was around the ideology with which she to my estimation seek to apply censorship. If she and whom she ally with succeed there will be further asymmetry in what viewpoints are censored. That is also Glenn's concern. Her associations and donations are just corroborative facts.

If people find a friend to be polarizing and rude they can just unfollow them, that is their business and choice.

> IMO a reasonable goal for what ails Facebook is not to increase moderation, but to reduce polarization by stopping incentivizing people

This is an interesting discussion. How do you see facebook doing this without moderation?

So far Facebook and Twitter algorithmic approaches, e.g. shadowbanning and flagging, are often applied through moderation with an ideological tilt. The people programming and running the systems are after all people as well.
"Flatmappable"
Makes sense. If I’m paying to be late anyway I may as well not rush there.
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> Trump was elected because he was an oligarch,

Can you source this or is this your personal opinion of him? I'm trying to understand why you're defining this as a purely oligarchal issue where there are many other such instances of oligarchism in history whether it'd be politics or tech/FAANG.

> ..not because of his political experience.

Well he's certainly no Reagan given his class(ism) progression or upbringing, as described on Wikipedia. Is that really the issue here though, because he lacked "political experience" upon entry into the presidency?
"Sink" is not the right word for something you can have back at any time; it is not a "sunk cost".