skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chiming in as a happy Rainforest user. This tool has been a huge benefit to our startup. It is a great way to maintain ongoing QA at a minimum cost of hours while iterating your product, and the built-in ability to get your test fixed by Rainforest for a few bucks or to have certain tests done by hand at an hourly rate is extremely useful and makes it simple to quantify the cost of outsourcing to rainforest vs doing something inhouse.

This tool makes the benefits of a well-built automated testing setup much more accessible and less costly.

We had previously been using traditional automated QA tools like selenium when someone suggested Rainforest and I am very happy we made the switch. Nothing but praise and well wishes for this team - you are en route to massive success.
Abiogenic origin of oil in the Earth's crust. There's no strong scientific evidence for it, so I can't bring myself to believe it; but I can't bring myself to dismiss it, either. It somehow strikes a cord in me as a reasonable thing.

I have to keep telling myself "It's probably not true," but if it ever turns out to be proven, I'd be shouting "I KNEW IT!"
(OP here)I’m very familiar with Twitter, as I’ve been using it for quite a long time, I just came back to it a few months ago.

Probably should have been more accurate in the post, sorry about that.
Could Roku start distributing New Pipe[0] or similar? It works ok-ish on my android TVs.

[0]https://newpipe.net/
The work of the "postmodernist" historian Michel Foucault (quotes cause that term is usually a red herring) is precisely about specifying a framework with which to understand how this 'virality' works, why some ideas are minoritized and others hegemonized, which has something to do with figuring the 'conditions for truth' over time.
Or how about we allow only Nobel prize winners to be president?

If they're bad at being a president, then at least they contributed to society.
People are obsessed with Einstein because he made three fundamental breakthroughs in physics in a year, then beat everyone else to general relativity. They were real contributions, and they were pretty creative. He wasn't a computing machine like Von Neumann, but Einstein was a clever guy. Don't know why you're judging based on political contributions.
Haha. I remember having exactly the opposite experience about a year ago. I was debugging serial communications with a scope and everything looked perfect. Couldn't understand why it worked at power up and stopped working a few seconds later.

However, looking at the data on a logic analyzer and being able to see several seconds of data at once showed that the external module I was trying to interface with was buggy. Turned out that the unit we had was a preproduction prototype!
Yes, you have to make that choice. That was my point: choose better over worse.

The "more damaging lies" part is just trying not to be too rosy-eyed about any particular party. Your choices are imperfect, but that's the world we live in.

ETA In case it was unclear, I think political behavior aimed at your self image is vanity and thus self-defeating. Even if your chief goal is thinking better of yourself or getting others to think better of you, forsaking a choice to do good for the world at large in the interest of your own vanity will not achieve your goal. If you want a better image, you should still choose better over worse, not pretty and pointless over ugly and effective.
What? You're suggesting we pay politicians upwards of $1 million are year? Absolutely not.

I don't want people making careers out of politics. Nothing good comes of that.
typo in the title: mimetic != memetic
Climate mitigation depends on patent reform, sounds like.
Many of the responses here are missing the real reason that Twitter is preferred: time. The amount of reading to do is vast, the number of minutes in the day are few.

We can bemoan the extinction of blogs, long form journalism, etc. all day long but there is an information density problem that is going nowhere.

Along the same lines, a lot of written material is a lot longer than it needs to be. Those insisting on prose might ponder the old maxim, "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

Maybe there is a comfortable medium somewhere between Twitter and prose. I enjoy long form writing sometimes, but I much more often don't have the time to read it.
Deliberately getting rid of "big government" just leads to even more unaccountable megacorps filling the void. That's been the lesson of America for the past 40-50 years.

If you want any chance of competing on the global stage in the 3rd millennium, the solution is to embrace big government and do it right. It is possible to implement anti-corruption mechanisms. Like any security measure, they will never be infallible, but they will certainly increase the friction required to be corrupt.

Otherwise, your country will be a sickly host to parasitic & transnational megacorps. Like America and many smaller countries today.
This is awesome y'all. Can't believe this didn't exist before
It's relevant because it would put some substance behind the "both sides do it" claim.

People commonly make this false equivalence, but as of 2021 it's fair to observe that it's just unequivocally false with respect to the question of respect for scientific consensus. If a lot of republicans disregard science (e.g. believe incorrect things about covid) and a few democrats do it (e.g. believing incorrect things about nuclear safety), people take these unequal examples and proceed claim it means both sides are the same, and believe that they are expressing a sophisticated position.

It's precisely this kind of illiteracy in the ability to assess the relative merits of differently weighted examples that makes the false equivalence possible. This which is why demands for substantiation are relevant and necessary.
Are there any moral or ethical qualms about letting a population / culture die out via lower than replacement rate birth rates, and just importing immigrants to fill the void?

For instance is it problematic to just import Africans to Japan until there are no more ethnic Japanese left?

It seems like what you are proposing would just lead to the most developed nation's peoples just dieing off and being replaced with groups that are slowest to educate and provide a high standard of living for their women, which would be awful for human cultural diversity in the long term
>Maybe it is not clear to some people that sex is first and foremost a means of reproduction, and not just pleasure?

Shut the fuck up you fucking loser
A few weeks after all this beef started, Google emailed me with an offer for a free "Chromecast with Google TV" device. I thought it was weird, as the email (and the offer) was completely unsolicited. The email mentioned something about thanking me for being a YouTube-TV customer. I'm sure Google knows I watch YouTube-TV from my Roku-enabled TV, so I figured it was related to the beef. I just though it was weird at first (like, what's the catch here?), but now I get it - and it was a brilliant move. The Chromecast/Google-TV device is better, much more responsive than Roku on my TV, which was always my biggest complaint with Roku (too slow!). So now, I've pretty much abandoned Roku, and use my Chromecast/Google-TV device almost exclusively. Well-played, Google. Your move, Roku - send me free shit! LOL
Title needs a correction. It is AGPLv3, not GPLv3.

I suspect this was posted today because Trump's new social network was outed as using Mastodon, likely illegally.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-masto...
This has literally nothing to do with labor rights. Increase the supply of something and the cost goes down. Illegal labor gets here faster than legal labor and in uncontrollable numbers. You're right that you have to pay legal immigrants more, but given the ready supply of illegal immigrants it's not hard for an employer to look the other way.

If one wanted to control wages, one would want to ensure the unskilled labor supply was somewhat limited. Otherwise an employer can drive down to minimum wage rather easily.

One might do that by better securing the borders. I'm purposely leaving out the antiterrorist wish of at least getting some idea of who's coming in and out of Disneyland so to speak.
When there is a gold rush, the surest way to make money is to sell shovels.
>> be willing to interrupt
> Quite cultural, depending who you are talking to, people will avoid talking to you all together.

It can be done in various ways I guess. One thing I've been doing for some time now is to not directly interrupt but just start making "noise". Like for example going "Mhhh", accompanied by a "thinking gesture" and maybe murmuring "interesting" or some such.

Some people are able to pick up on those things and will give you an opening to then actually ask your question or reply. Thus it feels way less like interrupting, especially as it can give the other person a chance to finish the immediate thought but then let you "interrupt".

Some people don't pick up on this though and you might need to interrupt but what I try first is to write down what I wanted to say. Some people have a way of just talking and talking and jumping from one topic or area of a topic to another without so much as taking a breath. I make a point of then going through my list and proclaiming that I will go back to the first point they made, then the second one etc. Sometimes that helps.

Sometimes it doesn't and I literally have to stop them then and there and actually saying it like that too "Sure that's a great topic but let's stay focused, we were gonna discuss X".
You probably mean "hard water"?
Writing a piece called “Beyond Smart” where you literally equate yourself with Einstein in the first paragraph is a special level of arrogance. His essays used to quirky, interesting and surprising. They have increasingly become predictable rants about how he’s uniquely great, and (ironically) contain less and less actual new ideas.
More control, always more. It's a game and a cycle as old as recorded .. As old as time?
So physical representations of digital tokens meant to represent physical objects?
People who live in normal nations laugh at both the people subject to the China authoritarian monstrosity and the people subject to the USA authoritarian monstrosity. Building and subjecting oneself to such a giant voracious parasitic automaton is obvious folly. They don't laugh too loudly, however, because they've read The Jakarta Method. China is actually less of a threat (except to close neighbors like Vietnam) because they have millennia of tradition and scholarship encouraging them not to care too much what barbarians say.
No. Newer versions of Tesla's software disable the radar on cars that shipped with it.[1] Vision has gotten so much better (thanks in part to training from radar data) that radar adds noise to their model of the outside world. Andrej Karpathy explained the issues in a talk this summer.[2]

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1447588987317547014

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrc&t=589s
You get new ideas from that place in Schenectady.

Seriously though, the best and simplest way to get new ideas is with hypnosis. Go into trance and give yourself a post-hypnotic suggestion to come up with new ideas.
The senate was also originally chosen by the state legislatures, the federal government wasn’t able to levy income taxes, DC wasn’t given federal representation, etc.

It can both be true that the senate was “designed” to represent different interests and at the same time we can critique it and say that certain states are “over represented” as the society the senate was originally designed for no longer exists. we have different needs and values than we did in 1789 and the system we live under today is already radically different than the one that existed in say 1800.
The higher ups in the fed, under the plan reported in the article, will still be able to do things like invest in a mutual fund. Applying that rule to elected officials would seem to be a good first step toward getting or obviating the type of transparency you are looking for.
Or - run for President!
You'd think that, but YT engineers solved this challenge using two methods:

1. Build an efficient "browser" (HTML5 runtime) that can run a web app.

2. Write a webapp specifically targeted towards TVs, includes 10 foot interface, etc.

Source: https://cobalt.dev/
Other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923008 [2015-01-21] (89 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/comments/2t8ctb [2015-01-22] (182 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/2t6mjz [2015-01-21] (663 comments)

All discussions: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/https%3A//www.theguardian.com...

Discussions with similar title: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/Why%20can%E2%80%99t%20the%20w...

Archive: https://archive.md/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/scienc...
A mentioned use case is twitter logging requests on server side.
Sorry for the meta post, but it's quite funny how HN's legendary skepticism towards cryptocurrency manages to get even Sam Altman's project flagged on his own (former) board.
Please can you provide (and direct people to) some mechanism other than mentioning you in a reply to tweets? I’m now at the point where I’ve muted the term “unroll” because any thread with some traction is swamped by people requesting the unrolled option.

Ideally, get bought by Twitter and added as a button in the UI.
Perfect, thanks for the recommendation. Looks like I'll have quite a few videos to watch.
can't seem to use it without an email oh well
Please, please keep doing this and encouraging this behavior. The more senior on the ic track you get the harder it is to find time to mentor. The reality is that is a core tenet of our position and we may be staying silent to not smother the room. If you need help and you have a competent senior they should encourage your questions or delegate to an appropriate senior if they are too busy.
Not in Dijkstra's time it wasn't.
This. $10 a month isn’t unheard of but when commodity VPS hosting is $5 a month (if not less) and stuff like WordPress.com is $8 a month and Netlify and GitHub Pages exist, I don’t know how broad this market is. Especially when you’re talking about the lock-in imposed by using this sort of thing.
Are new ideas inherently good?
NIH corrects untruthful assertions about funding gain-of-function research
There are three things in tension here.

1. It is usually combinatorially impossible to answer all the questions when solving a problem - people just choose some random walk over the problem space and it doesn't always lead to ideal results.

2. It is socially unacceptable for "senior" people (who usually have better mental model of higher level concerns) not to project smug confidence in front of less "senior" people, so they pretend to know things they do not.

3. People have evolved to be lazy as fuck, so unless they absolutely must know something and can't do without it, they mostly won't even bother. Some won't bother even _if_ they can't do without.

I don't have solutions to #1 and #3, and I doubt #3 can even be solved at all. But I do have a solution for #2 - it's the Socratic method (or as they call it at Microsoft "precision questioning"). It lets you save face by asking pointed, outcome-oriented questions of someone who likely knows more about the problem, without necessarily making your own lack of knowledge obvious. Besides that it also surfaces the assumptions, some of which routinely turn out to be wrong, and it's the easiest method I know for getting people to change their mind on things, because they feel like they've arrived at the answers using "their own" thought process. It is difficult to master, so it too runs into #3, however, but I think all engineers, senior and junior would benefit from learning this. Another upside of learning it is it makes it harder for unscrupulous others to manipulate you maliciously via Socratic questioning, since you know what they're trying to do.
Another foreign company buying out a US company
TIL about the AGPL license, thx for the tip.
Just as the monopolistic Google hopes you'd do. Would you be interested in a Google product instead?
Hey! Thanks for the question. Potion is really for those that love Notion. Notion is really great for certain kinds of sites. A wiki, help center or those that just want to have their portfolio site through Notion. Pretty powerful to be able to edit your notes and site in the same place. Instead of going back to your website builder where you are rusty and haven't touched for a couple of months.
What about tasks being common makes a light-to-moderate understanding of machine learning sufficient?

Processes initiated by data scientists during the execution of their role will tend to fail silently. What is meant here is, throwing an inappropriate model at otherwise good data produces unreliable (catastrophic in certain situations) results, but produces results nonetheless. Without the proper discernment of the reliability of the results, we have an unequivocal failure to execute the role. This is the oft-unmentioned companion to, but decidedly more insidious than, the "garbage in, garbage out" (i.e., right model, wrong data) aphorism.

It is up to the person performing this operation to deduce whether or not the conclusions are trustworthy. I don't see how someone can be confident of this without either relying on a pre-defined workflow verified by someone else qualified to assess the consequences, or to have those qualifications themselves.

What follows is a contrived example, but illustrative of the problem:

Consider e.g. user privacy: it is by now well-known that e.g. embedding vectors (or even merely the relationships between them) can leak a lot of information about the person or object it represents. It is not enough to understand how the forward pass of such a model commences, but also what is stored in those representations, which, having gone through a master's with quite a few people who now call themselves data scientists, I am not confident is commonly understood.
Of course it doesn't have any privacy implications if they don't know it was you who made the purchase. That's what "aggregate" implies.
I'm not sure banning is the answer. I think a better solution in general would be for officials to have to report all trades in real time.
PGO requires a runtime profile, so I doubt they've enabled that by default :-)

Rust has had LTO for quite a while, and it's normally a source of longer compilation times rather than shorter ones (since LTO in LLVM-world involves mashing all of the bitcode together and (re-)running a lot of expensive analyses to further optimize across translation unit boundaries.

OTOH they've been making continuous improvements to the incremental compilation mode since 1.51/2, so that's probably among the sources of improvements here.
Are you hiring PM's? :)
What are some of these broad statewide problems in California?
pretty sure scala (and most FP) has a well-defined "what to do when you leave off the return statement", not one that "is up to the compiler"
OK, those are horrifying and fascinating, and they basically break my brain.

Is there a explanation somewhere of why the first one "works"? The second one I think is the compiler assuming the default case will never be hit since it'll result in infinite recursion, which is UB under C++, so it's basically assuming 0<=x<=3 and optimizing from there. Is that correct?

The first one I'm less certain about. The only thing I can think of is that the compiler deduces an upper limit of INT_MAX - 1 to avoid signed overflow, and then somehow figuring out the true/false pattern from there? Still a bit of a gap in my understanding there.
Library for PAKE (but not OPAQUE specifically) in Go: https://github.com/schollz/pake
What makes you think CH doesn’t like joins?

Having used Redshift, Snowflake and CH for similar workloads, I’d much prefer ClickHouse to the other 2.

Snowflake is hideously expensive for the subpar perf it offers in my experience and Redshift is mediocre at best in general.
Most of the sources for this stuff I have found sell it as deck boards.

https://store.us.kebony.com/pages/samples
Who was she? Asking for a friend
I'm surprised they don't have a couple of separate clusters that they roll things out to and monitor. Seems like you could have a very stable "high paying customers" cluster that is at the very end of your deployment cycle after a ton of canary checks on the way get through.
yeah, that makes sense. Potion actually recreates all the Notion blocks from scratch and then hosts it statically. Thats how we get around that issue.
Wow, so that actually deters me from libertarian ideals. It sounds like your logic is something like the following:

Government is corruptible, so we should have small/weak governments.

But, a small gov. doesn't solve the root problem, it just make it easier to corrupt what little power is left. Isn't the real solution to have some group responsible for providing oversight and enforcement to elected officials?
Folks are doing it manually: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039313011/tiktokers-are-trad...
There was a foreign student in my CS classes who asked lots of questions at the end of class while everybody rolled their eyes because they wanted to leave. I assumed he was having issues with the language barrier or was just slow.

Turns out he was the top student in the program and I would guess this was due in part to his willingness to ask questions and lack of fear in asking them in front of a room. He helped me get through an Operating Systems course the next semester.

More importantly, he showed a young me that asking questions is actually a sign of maturity and intellectual honesty and that what the peanut gallery thinks is of little consequence. That lesson has served me well in the last decade. He's now a PhD at a major research university and a close friend.
I like Intelligent Design sort:

> The probability of the original input list being in the exact order it's in is 1/(n!). There is such a small likelihood of this that it's clearly absurd to say that this happened by chance, so it must have been consciously put in that order by an intelligent Sorter. Therefore it's safe to assume that it's already optimally sorted in some way that transcends our naïve mortal understanding of "ascending order". Any attempt to change that order to conform to our own preconceptions would actually make it less sorted.

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/intelligentdesignsort.h...
Here is my situation. You decide if I’m stupid. We’re evaluating an alternate database for our product already on prod. I sat in along with my manager for meeting with 5 folks from mongodb. They presented the annual cost for a licensed usage of mongodb enterprise for 500 gigs of ram at $132k annually. So my question in the end was - “If I were to simply install mongodb on our server with more than 500gigs of ram allocated across the mongo cluster by aws, how would you police us down for the extra usage? Is your server recording ram usage and sending it back to you?” Everyone was silent and the account t manager from mongo said : “Well it’s an honour system, we trust a big company such as yourself to use the product accordingly , we don’t police or check”, my manager followed up with a jovial remark “I don’t know why you ask such questions “. End of the day, I felt super stupid. Point being - I’m not a hidden genius or anything, sometimes I just ask in haste without thinking through.
The layout of this writer’s website certainly proves their point, but I’m not sure how it helps them.