skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to blame it on Stereophile magazine losing their mind as digital sources of music took over. Turntables / cartridges etc you can pretty much make up what you want about how they sound due to the sheer amount of noise and medium speed integrity issues involved, making it very hard to call them out on their subjective biases.

Digital isn't perfect but compared to what an analogue playback system does, it might as well be considered as such. It gave them nothing to write about when a $120 disc player could reproduce audio as well as a $2000 player. They seemed to have doubled and tripled down on the nonsense ever since.

Not sure why audiophiles fall for it, other than the general "tweakiness" aspect of some audio enthusiasts who are always looking for the next thing to spend their money on. It's tough to have a hobby when if you buy the gear, you have little to complain about until it's made obsolete.

I'm on the opposite side of finding it interesting though. There is a lot of "your ears aren't good enough" dog piling going on to shout down any doubts about cables and whatnot.
The people shilling crap AI should bear some responsibility in my opinion.

If your garbage AI powered car can be tricked easier than an 8 year old, who's fault is it?

We wouldn't let an 8 year old drive, but your garbage AI is fine?
Fascinating. TL;DR: What we think of as the Asian/Confucian/Tiger Mom school model of cramming every minute of your day actually originates from Prussia, while Western universities are rapidly going in the opposite direction and de-emphasizing book learning in favor of public demonstrations of virtue -- only it's not Confucian virtue, but wokeness. Is Europe the only stronghold of sanity left?
Many PC magazines of the late 80s/early 90s had program listings (in Asm) for small utilities that you created by typing them into DEBUG, the very basic debugger that came with DOS. The C64 and ZX ones had similar listings, although I believe they were more commonly in the platform's variant of BASIC. Unfortunately, I don't think this culture existed around Apple's machines since the Macintosh and the Lisa that came before it.
> Not sure why you say that; while obviously the facts require trial the slander/false light charge seems to make all the necessary claims to establish the tort.

Defamation generally is a difficult charge to prove, although I doubt that the plaintiffs qualify as a public figure which makes actual malice (the most difficult element) irrelevant. I don't have a strong sense of how much of the elements of defamation are necessary in the pleading stage, especially the degree to which a pleading statement is fact versus conclusory allegation. In particular, paragraph 49 seems rather conclusory on the nature of damages actually suffered to reputation.

In that sense, if the allegation is deficient in the complaint, it's deficient in a way that an amended complaint would easily fix.
> Since Google wrote the contract, their interpretation tends to govern.

Contra proferentem (Latin: "against [the] offeror"), also known as "interpretation against the draftsman", is a doctrine of contractual interpretation providing that, where a promise, agreement or term is ambiguous, the preferred meaning should be the one that works against the interests of the party who provided the wording.

Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem

Note that CA has adopted this.

I don’t think “don’t be evil” was part of the employment contract, but if it was, Google would likely wish it weren’t in this case.
I only use Brave for Google properties like gMaps and Google Translate (which never work quite right in FF for me), but you don't have to turn on any of the crypto stuff if you don't want to, I keep it all disabled.
How off-base is the idea of functional voting? Form a bloc that pledges to vote for the party that will do something about their key issues, ignoring the normal party split. If their bloc has a substantial impact on the outcome, next election they have a touch more ability to influence the incumbents.

So form an explicitly disloyal "party" from within the existing system. If it catches on...
Ig Nobel Prize right here
This is naive.

> researchers shouldn't be distributing them with the intent to cause harm

It could be used to cause harm and publishing your work is distributing it (by definition). Similar laws have been (and are) used to target people for unjust reasons.

Defacing street signs is already illegal.

Making various abstract drawings illegal to wear on your clothing (or print on a sticker) is a terrible idea. If the algorithm used by a product can't handle a pedestrian wearing a sweatshirt with an adversarial example on it then that product simply isn't suitable for public use.
It's a reference to a popular saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule

The logic of which is, if something is an exception or so exceptional that it's called out as an exception, that implies the existence of a rule.
There are a whole lot of frat boys gonna take a drink when their letters come up
It can get worse results for example if the prompt is biased towards the worse part of the data.
You address this by taxing at the fiat on/off ramps. The ones with access to the deepest liquidity also happen to operate in jurisdictions that have functioning governments that are amenable to passing taxes on PoW. And if that doesn't work, you impose sanctions and tariffs on the countries that permit limitless PoW mining, up to and including black-holing their IP blocks.

It can be done. We banned CFCs after all.
I've never heard of this. There are plenty of companies that add each and every engineer, developer, and r&d person on the insider list. I've been to two, and haven't seen any such guidance.
After reading this I actually opened up my notebook and jotted down a quick outline for a possible project of my own. Thanks for the inspiration!
So Edge doesn't have any telemetry? (Honest question)
4chan's /pol is probably the largest neo-Nazi discussion forum on the Internet. I'm actually unsure as to what could even be more toxic than that.
What does this have over vanilla cluster-autoscaler?
>Further, maybe this is one of those California things that lets you get out of arbitration

Probably this?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
> “These things move around in the dish and make copies of themselves,” said Prof Josh Bongard, of the University of Vermont, a co-author of the research.

> But there is a hitch. “It turns out that these xenobots will replicate once, one generation, they will make children. But the children are too small and weak to make grandchildren,” said Bongard.

So, not copies of themselves, after all. Since the offspring lack at least the ability to make offspring.

I bet Bongard would love to demonstrate evolution of xenobots. He needs sustainable replication with heritable traits to get it going. Then he can select for the behavior he wants.

Thus we can discover interesting/valuable cell assemblies to either make by (eventually robot) hand, or if the xenomorph ecosystem can support replication factors above 1, farm.
There are a lot of strawman arguments here. I've never heard feminists say any of these things because they are antithetical to the concept of equality for all. I'm a feminist, and asking for men's spaces is something I do. Feminists want spaces for men. Feminists want people to bring up male issues. Feminists don't want men to be stoic.

> If they really wanted men to cry more then they should encourage women to handle that burden rather than totally drop the ball and shame men who dare to cry.

There's some truth to this, but it's also omitting something that's extremely important (and therefore changes the entire tone of this argument): we should also encourage men to handle that burden rather than totally drop the ball and shame men who dare to cry. It's not men vs. women. It's men and women together. That's what feminism is.
They are men. This issue is about women's rights.
Good thing nepotism is pretty easy to fix in alternative systems of government.
To be truly robust they should be able to draw from pretty much any resource in the environment as feedstock for their growth and reproduction.

The images also makes them look a little grey and gooey, so the public will probably latch onto something like "grey goo" as a nickname. What could go wrong?
government and democracy and unions, omy
The trust is in different areas. The risk that Google would ship something that steals your passwords, addresses, or credit card information and does anything harmful with it besides ad targeting is basically zero. You know what you're getting with Google for the most part. The risk in the case of downloading random binaries is they may actually steal your information and cause real harm beyond ad targeting.

If you want chromium without Google there are several options such as Edge, Opera, Brave and probably a dozen more I've never heard of.
How did YTMND teach kids html? I thought it was just a site that hosted a soundbite from 'Finding Forrester' and had a wacky colored background.
It’s really quite simple. Spatial memory is a viable system when you have tens of folders and hundreds of files. Once you have thousands of folders and millions of files, the metaphor rapidly becomes a hinderance.

By analogy, think of the contents of your pantry versus the contents of your local supermarket. You can comprehend the former spatially, whereas the latter is mostly navigated hierarchically. Sure, you can usually remember where the bread aisle is — and then someone updates the operating system and bread gets moved to the other side of the store.
Hmm. So both western and eastern education systems are turning away from their cultural roots, trying to find some magic in the other's approach.

> The situations of Asian countries and the United States differ sub­stantially in the details, but both face the same core problem: how to offer as many people as possible a decent job with a family wage.

This is the heart of the (rather length) article. Elite competition is so intense because the consequences of not making it into the elite are so stark. (Related: Even getting the elite degree doesn't mean that you get a decent job. The elite competition doesn't end when you get into college, or even when you get out.)
> "Was it just my memory"

Yes. There were 3 top ads and 7 right-hand-side ones in 2008. The top ones had a colored background to clearly distinguish them from search results.

As many others have pointed out, the color's gone, and the ads have run wild.
"dummy load", specifically "50 ohm dummy load", because that's the standard impedance of most antennae. (Oddly enough, the TV antenna is engineered for a 75-ohm impedance, but that's beside the point.)

However, even dummy loads radiate a little bit. It's common to test handheld radios a few feet from each other with dummy loads screwed onto the antenna ports, because when you've got 115dB of link margin and your dummy loads are only eating 50dB on each end, that's still plenty!
They don't have to predict the future. In any case they are protecting life.
I don't remember where I had the suspension from, but I definitely had it from somewhere else. I may have bought a few missing pieces, though, or improvised. Details from 30 years ago are fuzzy :)
i think youre assuming collusion where modern society just need them to identify the same self interests.

i know we see collusion, but its not needed if you have near perfect transfer of media.
Wonder if a CPAP with a heated tube could help? You could control the temperature and humidity in your sinuses.
> important pieces of communication are non-verbal

That can't possibly be true for actual information (in the Shannon sense).

When you say to someone "go to the grocery store and buy a soda", these words can't be just 7% of the total information. Or put another way, what exactly do you communicate in the other 93% (13 times more information)
>wearing it in public is endangering the public.

Only because you're driving a car that was programmed by monkeys and sold by PT Barnum.

If your car can't tell the difference between a street sign and a T-shirt, it's really not fully self driving, is it?
I don't think this is right.

Carbon taxes on energy used to mine bitcoin will cut into profitability, leading to some proportion of the least-efficient miners turning off because they are no longer profitable.
Using Firefox has not hindered my experience one bit, so I'm fully in agreement here. Not sure what the OP comment is talking about.
someone should setup some bare shell sandbox called "build your own chromium"

/nerdsnipe
I can't say for sure, but I would doubt it. They tend to have some other official "cause."
Family offices become serious rivals to VC firms for funding startups
From one point of view, housing is a service landlords provide to the society. It's still rent though.
wow, that's an incredible amount of work
The moon is not far away in terms of meters but it is far away in terms of meters per second. It is easier to intercept a near earth asteroid than it is to land on the moon.

The Apollo-style mission where you land on the moon and return is particularly difficult. They were thinking circa 1970 that Apollo hardware could flyby Venus!

There is an old Bob Heinlein quote to the effect that getting from the Earth’s surface to LEO is most of the work and it is easy to get around once you are there but it is just not true. Making big changes to the orbit you are in takes a lot of fuel. Ion drives, solar sails, and such things spend forever fighting Earth’s gravity near LEO and are not really effective until you get far away.
I'm currently living in a nice house, and have previously lived in a nice apartment. I've lived in places where you needed a car to live, and in places where using a car was a huge hassle compared to the alternatives.

There is far more variability in "good living" than most people realize. Cooking "as a pleasant activity" is a nice luxury to have, and I currently do a fair bit of it, but I'd gladly give it up for other luxuries.
Bought 55" Sceptre about 2 years ago, still works extremely well. Sceptre was the only "dumb" tv maker that I could find https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.htm.... Some outdoor tv makers provide some but not a decent indoor viewing experience. Downside with Sceptre is their stock on the website is out at the moment. I've seen Walmart's occasionally carry them dependent on size your looking for in stores just depends on what part of country your in just keep your eyes out. Buyer beware though, you will want to pickup a sound bar/ set of speakers as their built in ones are tinny , but is usable.
Not going to mention the other options as appears comments have covered them, good luck
Since we are talking about cyberwar against civilians, shouldn't these be treated as war crimes?
NixOS has it packaged, reproducibly I presume?
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8a308775674e178495767d...
Wish they offered complete package - remote machines, deploy pipelines, actual compute, all enveloped with best practices.
Quantifying the energy per transaction of fiat is hard. Yes, changing a number in a centralized database is cheap, but the cost of maintaining trust in that centralized database is immense and has far-reaching tentacles.

Ex. How much of the energy budget of the US military should be included in the cost of a dollar denominated transaction?
Came here for this... there isn't anything clearly "inherent" about these limitations, except to the degree that they are part of how some folks define the label "GPT-3".

If one packed GPT-3's structural architecture into a reinforcement learning system to grant memory, or pushed it through a compression system that made it cheaper to train or run, would you say GPT-3 had transcended its limitations, or just that you created something new? The fact that this question is semantic and uninteresting is why "Method / Model X doesn't do everything" posts don't progress the scientific conversation.
If your only special move is "You're wrong!", it's going to be hard to talk to you. What do you think is debatable?
> By "better" he means exactly more positively stimulating. He's not saying it's morally superior.

Maybe. Yet I think he contradicts that with his own words: "This...suggests that music is not a superstimulus in the sense of music being a "better speech than speech". But, what if we suppose the opposite? What if we suppose that music is a "worse speech than speech"? What if we suppose that music is a superstimulus for some aspect of speech perception which involves a negative perception of the quality or usefulness of perceived speech?" [my emphasis] Here he seems to be directly equating better/worse as quality and usefulness judgments, not just in terms of the amplitude of the stimulus.

> but the whole point is why? Why don't we attend parties with no background sound?

My personal opinion is that it is basically a secondary channel of stimulus, something that provides people a baseline of entertainment value irrespective of the foreground conversation, and papers over the awkward or boring moments. To refer to it as a superstimulus for speech, whether normal or "negative," is a complete red herring in my opinion.

> He's asserting that music lyrics without music (i.e. spoken word) encourages the user to listen to it and think critically about its truth value instead of just implicitly taking it in.

Is that true? When I was young I'd spend hours trying poring over and deciphering the meaning behind various music lyrics. But plain poetry? It had to be assigned to me and even then I often found it boring and inscrutable. I'm sure others are different, but that's my point. I don't know how he can assert the universality of his own experience here.

>Songs (and limericks) are not meant to be forms of spontaneous communication.
> Right. And if they aren't that... why do they exist?

As persistent forms of communication, for one. Just like writing and poetry, music can persist for generations and spread easily throughout preliterate civilizations. Anyway, my understanding is that as far as we know, music and speech processing developed in parallel in the human brain, and complement each other. That's why: 1) People who use tonal languages tend to have better musical pitch perception 2) Children who are taught music at a young age tend to have somewhat better language acquisition skills and 3) Musical training given to older folks can slow linguistic cognitive decline.

So I think if anything, the available knowledge indicates that music helps with linguistic understanding instead of detracting. He needs to give more than just his own bare assertions. For example, in the recent TV version of Asimov's "Foundation" there's a scene where a color-blind character has an advantage in hunting due to his lack of color perception. I believe that's drawn from reality. If there were a study that analogously showed that people with amusia (inability to process music) had an advantage in speech comprehension or in detecting falsehoods, that would be solid evidence in favor of this blogger's hypothesis.

Anyway, you gave me a great deal to ponder over, thanks for the detailed response.
Sigh, what isn't biased these days? No need to poison the well, the article is clear and sound (to me at least) regardless of who wrote it and why. Do you have any arguments against it? Or your own better analysis of the two studies?
It's funny how the author tries responding a complaint about Bitcoin's environmental impact by reframing the conversation to be about how much that electricity costs...
Thanks for the review. Unfortunately knowing universities this read a little too much like a puff piece. Of the same article was on a news site I'd then go looking for their dept website. When they publish this themselves my reaction is a little more sceptical and glib unfortunately.
>> Coupled with an increase in food delivery efficiency, kitchenless flats could become the norm in densely populated areas.

I remember Silicon Valley managed to sell the vision of "Cloud Kitchen" to VC.

As someone who has some experience with Restaurants I am extremely skeptical of LV 5 Robotic Kitchen. For the same reason why Foxconn Robot still cant replace human workers. I do imagine it may work in a larger scale Tesla like manufacturing operation.
Yeah, it's just goofy. I find it interesting only for the novelty aspect of it I guess. Maybe that was the wrong word to use. Maybe horrifying. My hobby, photography, doesn't seem to be nearly as bad though. It has a lot of the same problems, as the Guitar speaker industry, arguments about the art, and coloration, but it's really missing the $3000 IEC cable aspect, that seems to thrive in the audiophile community.
There are two huge hurdles that no hobby operating system can realistically overcome, without major tradeoffs (like being 100% POSIX-compatible): accelerated graphics, which in this day and age are required even for basic 2D rendering, especially if you have a hidpi monitor, and a web browser. Everything else, compared to those two problems, is easy stuff.

Graphics is just incredibly complex, opaque and obtuse kernel-space logic with tons of corner cases.

Web browsing for normal day-to-day usage is about a million lines of code, +/- one order of magnitude.
Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement
I did it, and it's equal parts terrifying and awesome. My company's going to do six figures of revenue this year, which is amazing, but I'm having to figure out things like scaling fulfillment and manufacturing that are entirely foreign to me (my background is in enterprise software, now doing ecommerce). Never a dull moment!
Personally, if I'm at the point where I'm considering my technique at all, I'm probably also going to be using that brush after regardless.
Bitcoin isn't just a replacement for the centralized database: it also replaces the government which administrates the financial system, the courts which enforce rules, and the military which enforces dominance on the rest of the globe.
centrzlization will occur during any popularization.
There is also Type 3, which is both Type 1 and Type 2, alternatively, or at the same time.
Key quotes from the article:

Where once VC was seen as “patient capital”, in contrast to public markets and their obsession with quarterly earnings, now it often looks like some of the most impatient. Public market investors are content to let founders dominate their companies through supervoting shares that allow them to screen out short-term demands. Endowments and family offices are designed to husband wealth for generations. Meanwhile, VCs can be so focused on the exit that they bounce companies into an IPO for which they are not ready or, worse, sell out themselves and forego untold future potential.

.......

Family offices are planning to significantly scale up their start-up investing in the coming year, according to an SVB Capital/Campden Wealth survey published in October, and the effort is being led in many cases by next-generation family members, suggesting it is a trend that will endure.

As more investors build their expertise and track records, they can also build a powerful network effect, eroding traditional VCs’ main advantage — “access” to deal flow.
I have a 3900, no X, and 32 GB of RAM. I used to use a tmpfs, but I found that the build would run out of memory.
> "If Google was able to fire workers for being evil"

Are you treating that as fact?

Obviously I haven't looked at the paperwork for every fired employee (and probably no one will ever get to), but I think they have some other pretext. "<employee> was fired for being evil" is not a phrase you'll ever find.
This feature is exciting, but ultimately a complete non-starter for us because of no Docker Hub support.

Are there plans to add it in the future?