skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It might be considered unkind to make fun of the dead and dying but arguably such examples are made after the persons own stupidity killed them and the point of the example isn't merely to glory in their death but prevent others from joining them in the grave

You're talking about a virus with a 99.99%+ survival rate in healthy people under 40, not the damn plague. And I know we're not allowed to discuss it, but can you explain why cases are as high as they've ever been in, say, Israel and England, when they're 70-80%+ vaccinated, if these vaccines are so safe and effective? Why does media continue to push the lie that the majority of deaths are in the unvaccinated when official UK data shows vaccinated and unvaccinated death rates at approximate parity with vaccination rate? I.E. the DATA clearly shows that vaccines are not nearly as effective as claimed.

Don't you think it's a little ridiculous that there is effectively no platform outside of 4chan where such questions can even be asked? How is that good for society, to unquestioningly follow the same institutions that have repeatedly and massively blundered while pursuing their own personal financial interests? Do you deny that the authoritarians making this policy are humans like you and I, subject to the same errors and temptations as anyone else?

Informed consent is predicated upon freedom of discussion, of which there effectively is none, because suddenly citizens across the western world are cheering on mass censorship and suppression of the very dissent that is required for a functioning society.

And just as you don't need to be an expert in astrology to understand that it is bunk, you don't need a PHD in virology to see the glaring institutional issues in academia/industry/regulation which cause incentives to align perversely. If it is in fact true that the vaccines are innefective and/or dangerous, there is now the momentum of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of careers and reputations on the line, potentially keeping this fact under wraps. It's not a conspiracy, its emergent pressure. In such a case it is up to laypeople to hold their governments accountable, but instead we are welcoming our own censorship. Something is going to break.
-You don't have to turn them over halfway through

-you can't hear the previous groove play through into th current one
Awesome to see open and independent reproductions of Codex/Copilot being worked on!

It seems like this must be in fairly early stages? The HumanEval numbers in the README seem to indicate the pass rate with one sample (pass@1) on the benchmark is at best 0.06%, whereas the Codex paper reports up to 28% (for the Codex-12B model). I'm actually kind of surprised by this, since even the very small Codex models (e.g., Codex-12M) manage 2% on that benchmark.

I also don't see a lot of recent activity – anyone know if the project is still alive?
I don't want trash news articles. They establish nothing. Read the first one, it's not good. Want modelling from someone reputable like the IPCC that balances the offsetting forces and quantifies what to expect on net.

"50 percent more extreme cold weather events under RCP8.5"

Not

"This is how a polar vortex works, therefore there will be more cold weather events"

(which is obviously faulty logic since that doesn't account for an increasing mean temp, which is why modelling is needed to balance out these offsetting considerations)

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28963266
Somewhat similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrS52sM3Zs
What do you suppose has changed between when they did, and today, that could lead to a different choice?
And build pipelines that fail due to the size of the repo.
well we should definitely only consider the “default” of every dimension of human being. says whoever is default in that particular trait.
The funny thing is that now, many smaller shops are catching up to what Shopify, Lodify etc do, and offering niche solutions to problems which people are actually interested in paying for, so while a lot of these players were first to take over many smaller players / individuals. People had a lot of time to sit around and tinker and build alternatives.
They had that ($10/year, one address, fairly small storage limit) but they eliminated it a few years ago. That disappointed me.
Headspace Health: Do it well
i miss google+, the world's preeminent social network for google employees to announce to the world their intentions to leave google.
The Genius of Spirit Halloween
Is copilot just a search engine over function and variable names with some filters and transformers (like a transcompiler)?

I just got into the preview today, and it seems like that is what it is to me.
34.5 bln cash 40 bln debt.
Ah, interesting. Thank you. My info about the hiring process came from a friend at Google. But in hindsight, they were probably relaying what their own path had been like, rather than making a statement about the process in general.
So you are really just buying the cover art.
> Second, management was spread way too thin. My last manager had around 25 reports

It would be rude to describe my anatomical response to having 25 reports, but suffice to say it wasn’t good. I generally consider 6-7 the ideal max, and 8-9 the “I’m dropping all the unimportant balls in order to keep juggling” line. 25 is so far beyond the pale I can’t imagine how any manager of managers’s worth their salary would let it get that bad. 10 reports is “you put this off a bit too long” territory, 25 is in the “someone up the chain should be fired” territory.
I don't know if this counts, but I did write https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285793 a while back.
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The tricky part is that it’s hard to be sure that people will keep caring about the same things for a long time to come. As you said, most of what was written in Anglo-Saxon is gone, even though some of it besides Beowulf probably had “epochal importance” to those who lived at the time. Similarly, many works that were highly esteemed in the Greco-Roman world were eventually lost. Cultures change, religions change, languages change. And they all do so unpredictably.

The hardest part isn’t writing something that millions of people find critically important—it’s ensuring that society will continue to find the same things important for centuries. A temporal value-alignment problem.
Check out "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" which is long form footage from the clips used in "Triumph of the Nerds" and "Revenge of the Nerds". Two fantastic documentaries that chronicle the history of personal computing.
That resonated a lot more than I expected it to do. Not the Google parts but the burnout parts. I exited my job during summer and am still not looking for something new and this article and the one by Maya linked in it really helped me put words on it
> When you have one big system and no competition, you get status quo solutions.

GPS, moon landings, space stations, space shuttles, and most of the rest of the history of space are hardly status quo solutions! It's not like space has been stuck, waiting for Elon Musk to save the day.
Look at that, he's younger than I thought. In my head he was in his 60s, where "transition from leadership to 'consulting leadership' at a major company" sounds like a step towards a quieter life.
I was working slightly above minimum wage in a shop, and before that as a complete minimum wage worker in a warehouse. Now, almost 15 years later working as a fairly well paid software dev, yes, I would (and am) more assertive. In that kind of position; the dynamics can be rather different; it's not the kind of dynamics where you can "just" push back to your manager (depending on the person, not even gently) and losing your job is a big deal since you don't have a lot of financial reserves.

I was actually fired for declining some night shifts at a different job once; and that was actually because I had obligations as a scout leader. These people were right assholes though for this and various other reasons (but I did manage to hack the barcode scanning machine there so I could program some toy programs on that when there was nothing to do during the night, hah!)

This is probably some context I should have added to my previous post.

> Easy way out here: schedule something after the typical end of the workday, even if it’s meeting friends at a bar.

So becoming alcoholic is the solution? haha
That's just survivorship bias. Ransomware attacks are very low-tech and mostly rely on social engineering. (Unless you think the average hospital IT department is going to use an open-source patient tracking program and recompile it from source to pull in the latest openssl patches...)
And Jacksonville on a mattress factory.
It was not the same last I looked: income tax rate was 20% vs 10% (though with 20% flat deductions, it was effectively 16%), and the gross calculations are done against is smaller even if percentage numbers are the same (taxes that employer pays come out on top of the gross, whereas when you self report they come out of the gross: eg. 20% on 100 is 20, but 20% out of (100+20) is 24). It's not that simple, but it's ultimately the worst way to get taxed.
But isn't this exactly what makes Silicon Valley so effective? A willingness to challenge the status quo and rapidly iterate.
I guess it depends on which organization you're part of. I've never really been told what to do in my 5+ years at Google. I usually just have an idea, say I'm going to work on it, and then do it. Most of my peers also work this way, and while more junior ones usually need some assistance with coming up with ideas which align with priorities, it's not like management is telling them what to do - usually a senior team member helps them. PMs help set higher level goals and priorities, but not unilaterally. Managers provide incentives to align to org level goals and priorities but balance that with bottom up driven ones. This has been true for both teams I've been on in two separate orgs, but I'm sure it's not universally true throughout Google. Prior experience at companies previous to Google gave me almost no autonomy.
You actually posted the answer.
Jack is left liberatarian, Thiel is right liberatarian. I've studied Thiel quite a bit, haven't studied Jack as much. It's also possible that they are both left in pre-2015 era, but the left has moved further out today (likewise, the far right is unrecognizeable today). I consider them all intellectuals and interesting.
Anyone have a Haskell version? This or quantum computing seems like you could really just package up with some fancy monad, instead of just a single state it encapsulates a distribution, and you just apply abstract transformations ontop as usual.
Truth is likely to be the most defaced, DDOS’ed, and otherwise desecrated site on the web. I pity the fools who try to keep it up.
From what I read at the time, she wasn’t fired for the content of the paper (though she initially made it sound like this before more details became public). She gave the company an ultimatum to reveal the name of an anonymous reviewer or she would quit, and they took her threat seriously.
SPOILER ALERT

Two Guild Navigators are in the Emperor's party on Arrakis when he confronts the "upstart duke". They are not mutant freaks, they look like normal humans, but their eyes are so blue from spice use that they appear black.

The weird fish-baby in a tank is all David Lynch being David Lynch.
We came, we saw, he died
>blowback from the Butlerian Jihad.

Which itself is a reference to Samuel Butler's 1872 satirical novel "Erewhon" which featured a culture that had banned all complex machines due to an experience with machine intelligences revolting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
Also news at 11: reality tv shows are scripted

And cats don’t actually exist
I wish you got to write more headlines.
A year ago, GitHub attempted to preserve a snapshot of all public repositories in permafrost in Svalbard [0]. It's hard to say whether the data stored in a public repository on GitHub is going to remain accessible. Still, as far as preservation goes, personal pages stored on GitHub at the time of taking the snapshot might be saved for many generations ahead.

https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/
Time to familiarize yourself with the Tenth Amendment.
I don't think we can assume one model or another, government or business, would work better; do we have any evidence? GPS has worked out pretty well.

> if you replaced tax-funded model with, say, a markup on each receiver, Americans would pay less than they already do

What is that based on? Americans pay a few dollars per year.
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This author needs to check their premise.

>>The question, though, is whether everyone implicated in slavery is ipso facto ineligible for public celebration. That standard doesn’t only exclude Jefferson but virtually every major figure in American history before 1861.

Yes. And why is that so bad? I'd rather live in a society that truthfully acknowledges its history rather than one that clings to a false hero myth.

>> That’s why attacks on Columbus Day are as misplaced as removal of the Jefferson statue. The holiday and memorials in many cities aren’t really about the Genoese explorer who served a Spanish king. They are confirmations of the presence of Italian-Americans in public life, to say nothing of the courage and adventuresome spirit that led to the discovery of the New World.

It's a darn big jump from Jefferson to Columbus. In fact, this paragraph feels like it reveals the author's real intentions - lead with Jefferson to create sympathy with the reader, then redirect to Columbus. As I've stated publicly in my own community (in which Italians were a significant early immigrant group) do you really want to be represented by such a monster? Even in his own lifetime he was charged criminally. Plenty of better ways to celebrate the contributions of Italian-Americans.
I always keep one on top of my Zune™
Stupid question
C-c C-c is a natural "do it" binding in many emacs dialogs, as opposed to C-c C-k. I understand you might prefer C-x # if you often use emacsclient as your EDITOR, but I would venture to say that most people might not.
All that matters is the result.

Most users would be okay with having these features only available through the Apple App Store.

Instead, the result is none of those features on their phone.
> The sound quality is worse, but that doesn’t mean it’s not preferable. If you listen to music with a decent dynamic range and has some breathing room, then the sonic qualities of vinyl can enhance that.

So it’s a lot like taking photos with Instagram filters. You are distorting the signal but you think it looks/sounds better.
Cool, so they are simply falsely advertising a much larger number of really supported countries than they really have.
I joined in 2010 and left in 2019. The company I joined was very different than the one I left. Every single one of Google's problems can be traced back to scale. Loss of trust, distance to top leadership, tone-deafness, repeated failures, escalating surveillance dystopia, perf management overhead, leaks...all of them are fundamentally due to scale. And scale is simply because greed. Gotta make that 23% YoY revenue growth. That is Google's true mission. Eat the world. It's now $180 billion in revenue. In five years, that will need to be $400 billion. And five years after that, it will need to be pulling close to a trillion.
There's something about using Vinyl that's unique among the physical media. I abandoned all physical media early on, I'm thinking like early early 2000s, but the past few years I've been collecting Vinyls. I find it soothing to throw on a record and eat dinner or put together some legos. I can't explain it and I don't think its better in any way other than the comfort it provides me. lol
- steals cookies and browser data on windows: this means your browser cookies and all logged in accounts might be compromised. Maybe even passwords saved in browser. I'd even extend to password manager extensions.

- crypto miner on both platforms

- maybe: changes registry for existing crypto miners
No disrespect but first 5 years of a child’s life is critical to their development- it can be very noticeable how enriched a child’s environment has been -
The old companies were pushed over by technological or organizational disruptions. A major disruption was paying significant premium money for premium talent, often more than twice the market rate for a given experience level and do that to everyone and not just to poach hires. All of the biggest tech companies do that today, but 20 years ago that was a huge disruption and caused many giants to fall from grace since they could no longer source quality talent. So unless a new similar disruption occurs there wont be something that pushes Google or Microsoft etc from their current positions.
It's not. It's basically the same model as GPT-3 (though smaller), and generally speaking the vast majority of its outputs should not be anything in its training set. The big exception is code that showed up many times in the training data (like the famous inverse square root function).
I've always wanted to ask. Wouldn't putting a standard UPS between the outlet and the equipment solve the problem by powering the device from a battery?
I will say as companies grow the appetite for huge ambition shrinks. It’s natural for a few reasons.

- you’re established, no longer a startup, you prioritize the momentum in the current cash cow.

- your hiring pool changes. Instead of people who want to come build the “next big thing” you tend to attract folks who value the security of a big name. And they will tend to hire folks like them, and so on..

- you’re publicly traded. Holding an asset that reliably produces steady growth, creates very different incentives than trying to hit some kind of hockey stick unicorn growth
It’s been a while since I’ve considered Google a pinnacle of anything. I think the executives of google might be a bit delusional about how far that propaganda is effective.
That's kind of the point of a trademark, and you'll want to talk to an IP lawyer about it. It's important to distinguish the three vastly different types, but trademarks are the one that requires you enforce it, or lose it. (I'm not a lawyer.)
> The conversation and showing the "other" side why and how it could benefit them, as well as addressing any concerns they have about any one-sided proposal, is vitally important to a healthy and productive process

That is great, but has a requirement: Both sides operating in good faith. That's just not happening now and hasn't happened in many years. We need to deal with that reality or keep suffering dire consequences, including a possible end of democracy.
it's very common for professors to do contract work (not for lesswrong though, lol)
Thank you for putting this so eloquently.

Something like a "Proof of Carbon Capture" would align the incentives of polluters and society. The problem is implementing it in a way that couldn't be gamed.
They used to support MHTML prior to the Quantum update, via the Mozilla Archive Format addon or the superior UnMHT addon (which captured pages more accurately than Chromium's MHTML support did in direct comparisons I made).

Not sure why they dropped support for it entirely since, given it was supported for the longest time and it's the most convenient single file format for web page saving. It's a major reason I couldn't continue using Firefox as my main browser.
Leadership to fix this crisis doesn’t only have to come from the POTUS, but Biden has assigned a chief to deal with this as far back as July and that guy is already negotiating some of the solutions (extra shifts at the ports, UPS/FedEx, and large distribution centers like WalMart).

Part of it is a lack of investment in the ports for decades. This isn’t donor class; it’s voters complaining about too much spending.

Part of it is a lack of government will to impose any basic regulations on transport companies to be more efficient when their communication/planning for fear of being anti “free market”. There is no shortage of plebs screaming “SOCIALISM!!1!” at any suggestion for minimal regulation.

The only “huge profits” I see here are international shipping companies who can’t legally be campaign donors in a US election. The reason I see why Biden or Newsom haven’t done something significant to fix goods transport is that half of the country is busy calling them tyrannical for masks and vaccines while claiming they shouldn’t be in office due to unverified claims of election tampering. It looks like we are one spark away from a civil war and appearing to nationalize shipping or trucking companies is a delicate proposition.

I suspect both don’t yet see the supply chain issues as their top priority, but I’m increasingly thinking they should. I think it’s a significant contributor to inflation over the next few months.
> I couldn't work anymore, and it was time for an extended break. From speaking with other people that have gone through this, it seems like the only thing that really helps.

Maybe changing teams or company can get you working again. 1 year seems too long to me
Yeah, but you could just store uncompressed files on a few hard drives and you'd save even more space
I don’t regret linking the issue, I hope someone who isn’t going to be as emotionally impacted by it will recognize the risks it introduces. But I regret the energy I’ve spent even trying to get past my own physical pain from nearly two years of burnout being dismissed this way even as I’ve tried to discuss the problem in good faith.

I don’t have energy for this. You, like the people in the issue, are welcome to explain away the similarities between different attack vectors and refuse to imagine how this might present different opportunities. I frankly can’t engage in it anymore. The link is there for people who can.
I think the language re "machines" in the Dune context refers more to thinking devices, computers, than to mechanization.
10% for the big man
There is certainly risk, but what kind of company would Intel be if they couldn't reliably deploy 9 bln in capital improvements over the course of the year to meet a quickly changing competitive landscape? Not a company I'd want to invest in...