skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the customer service rep case may become problematic, if the entity they represent is not adequately prepared to comply with the law. Then the rep's decision of how to respond to a difficult and awkward inquiry could potentially impact things like their criminal or civil liability, employability, or reputation—things that the regulations are concerned with.
I'm not really trying to 'read past that part quickly'. I don't really have a personal 'horse' in this as I'm neither black nor white. I'm not even suggesting that they're rejecting capable people for 'dullards'. I've seen that argument used often so I can understand why you'd think I'm saying that, but I'm aware that usually it's more like choosing between two equally qualified candidates.

I just don't really see how that changes the fact that it's unfair to the person rejected because of an immutable characteristic. Your argument about having a student body that reflects the broader population has that same 'disconnect' to me, is it fair for an equally qualified candidate to be rejected just because they don't fit a statistic that they're powerless to influence?

That same point is also exactly why I think the focus should be on bringing everyone to a similar level in high school, so given equalizers for class differences like sufficient scholarships specifically targeted at poorer families (and similarly preventing the rich from paying their way in), every group has an equal chance of admission, which, along with a purely merit based admission criteria should naturally result in a student body representative of the population.

It's my mistake for not clarifying that I'm not saying that the SAT is somehow important in this. I'm solely talking about this idea of intentionally applying racial bias to the system. Personally I'm quite happy that these standardized tests are going away for the same reason that they aren't particularly objective and success in them depends on the guides and coaching you can get access to, and how many times you can afford to try.
The racial gap is almost exactly as big on the SAT Math as it is on Verbal. Do you think SAT Math is also culturally biased? If so, do you think it is exactly as biased as Verbal? That is, why is the Math gap not, say, half the Verbal one, if the cause for disparities is cultural bias?
When Stroustroup created C++ it was a superset of C. In fact, the earliest compilers for C++ were a pre-processing pass that generated C code to be compiled by (then) K&R and soon ANSI C compilers. Since then C++ has grown massively and has specialized compilers that optimize the many new constructs. Many C++ programmers only use a subset of the current language. A common team situation is that every team member uses a different subset of C++.

IMO since C is the ancestor of C++ as well as ObjectiveC/Swift, C#, JavaScript, Java by learning pure C, you gain the foundations from which to learn not just C++ but those other languages.
> Most nuclear incidents do not involve stuff blowing up

Actually, massive hydrogen explosions are common when nuclear reactor control systems fail, as seen in Fukushima.
Be grateful you have a review process and people willing to review your changes. I am working in a Wild West, so I would love to have that kind of rigor.

The grass is always greener.
Chinese companies operating in the U.S. are subject to U.S. copyright law.
Who are the usual people? The researchers said they submitted it to Princeton's IRB.
To an extent, it depends on what we find. What kind of biology does it have? How many species are we talking about? Can we throw it in a bio-bank somewhere and move on? Will it outcompete any Earth life we try to seed? Could it be dangerous if it colonized the Earth?
A major issue I have with these ergo keyboards is the impossibility of trying them before buying them.

Any solutions for this? I guess it is pay to play or stick with normal layouts.
well it can just be decided by your birth instead then?
Review “..opposite of awesome”, Movie “awesome”
My hope is that sufficiently rich language models obviate the need for a lot of robot-language grounding data.

LfP (https://learning-from-play.github.io/) was a work that inspired me a lot. They relabel a few hours of open-ended demonstrations (humans instructed to play with anything in the environment) with a lot of hindsight language descriptions, and show some degree of general capability acquired through this richer language. You can describe the same action with a lot of different descriptions, e.g. "pick up the leftmost object unless it is a cup" could also be relabeled as "pick up an apple".

That being said, the LfP paper stops short of testing whether we can improve robotics solely by only scaling language - a confounding factor and central to their narrative was the role of "open-ended play data". We do need some paired data to ground (language, robot-specific sensor/actuator modalities), but perhaps we can scale everything else with language only data.

Thanks to the pointer on the Andreas paper! This is indeed quite relevant to the spirit of what I'm arguing for, though I prefer the implementation realized by the Lu et al '21 paper.
There is way too much cheer pressure[1] in favor of [Biden, Democrats, vaccines, Wuhan lab] from the moderators of Facebook and Twitter.

1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cheer%20Pres...
I guess irrigation can be "damning" to rivers :)

Jokes aside, everything's a tradeoff and while flood control / irrigation is helpful to farmers, it can also introduce a resiliency problem in quake zones, since a dam breakage can cause devastating floods. Actually, it doesn't even have to be an earthquake. Exhibit A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam_crisis
> baseload

You have no idea what baseload means, do you?

It means a reliable output at any time of day or in any weather.
Use websites like JSFiddle & co is probably the way to go.
So is Megashark vs Octogator
Shame that domestic dogs are treated this way, and I don't mean by the monkeys. It is a deficit of that individuals of the town, and any place, that does nothing about stray and feral domesticated animals. It doesn't take long to eliminate the problem humanely with simple trap, neuter (or spay), and release programs. I'm not at all worldly, but India, an ancient society that invented Chess and discovered Fibonacci numbers, and a vast number of other discoveries and inventions (I think fibre optics were invented in India). Anyway, my point is that India has been, since ancient times, a giant of literature, mathematics, astronomy, music, medicine, architecture, social revolution, and India has produced countless notable and even pivotal intellectuals, academics, engineers, doctors, spiritual leaders, etc. etc., and yet there is heartbreaking widespread poverty, overpopulation, horrific crime (way too many reports of children being gang raped and murdered), it just doesn't make any sense to me, nor does the animosity between India and Pakistan, which must cause massive waste of resources for defense that could be far better spent. And there is no need to reinvent the wheel, every problem there has known solutions that are at the very least reasonably effective. There are enough educated and capable individuals there that it just seems like all the issues should have been solved long before the British arrived, maybe even before Alexander arrived. I sort of understand why we're not all speaking Hindi (a different philosophy and ethic would prevent imperialism), but it is now, nearly 2022, and it just seems like the sad stories from there should have ceased generations ago.
If you read fiction books that way, you're not going to enjoy the book very much. In fact, you likely won't finish it.
None of those things have the addictive and distraction power of the Internet. Along with the Internet has come ubiquitous things like laptops, tablets, and cellphones. It is an actual problem, not one for people to merely "worry and kvetch about".
HN represents a wellspring of deeper reading than is generally afforded by the current entertainment cruft portals of the web - reddit, FB, insta, USA today, financial times, etc etc down to the SEO hellholes of recipe sites, youtube product placement; you get the idea. Let's appreciate HN for the quality of reading material and its curb on our drift to the rest of the 'popular' web. And I don't think I'm alone in always keeping an eye out for the next serious hub of real reading material!

That said I don't read nearly as many books as I did in high school. Books are wonderful things and can be a portal to a novel frame of mind. But then again my life is much busier these days and there are more demands on my time which are not responsibly ignored... So I cherish HN as a flourishing intellectual community, in easily digestible chunks. A bit like the "periodical" era of newspapers a century or two ago.
I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet
I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet (ropsten). https://twitter-eth.vercel.app/ All tweets are automatically minted as NFTs. What I learned from building this is that it costs so much gas that it's useless. It costs $10 just to tweet, like, or RT. Deploying it costs over $100. Is this normal in Web 3.0?
> it leads to greater equality and happiness.

"greater equality" is tautological when you have instituted equality of outcome, but does it produce greater happiness? I don't believe it to do so. It reduced overall outcome - as those who are forced down will not produce as much as they could've.
> this is clearly not an exempt study, which is a category of its own that the IRB reviews and makes a judgment on. The authors would immediately have been able to point out the protocol number of the exempt study if it were exempt. Rather it's not considered human subjects as the authors clearly state on their FAQ.

Please don't use such circular logic. We're debating whether the research properly qualifies as human subject research; we're not debating about what the IRB actually decided on that question, because they may have gotten it wrong.

> then we would be in agreement, and it'd be more obvious that the subject is, in fact, the website's policies/procedures.

The policy itself is certainly the intended subject of the research. But the methods they've chosen mean they are also collecting and analyzing information about the responses of real live humans to their interactions and interventions, and that qualifies this as human subject research irrespective of the naive intentions of the researchers. Having a non-human subject does not preclude also having a human subject.
Well if we want memes, let's go with smash mouth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT3BFzSD6YY

The years start coming and they don't stop coming

And they don't stop coming

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And they don't stop coming
Long form things? The longest things I read on the Internet are articles, blog posts, and papers, which are all at most 30 pages.
Sure, but it’s a different dystopia than Gibson or Dick our Paul Verhoucen (sp?) predicted.

They reflect common, primal human fears and are not indicative of insight. Just as my fear of heights does not provide wisdom against constructing/operating tall things - whether it be buildings, pyramids, or airplane flights.
The idea of getting more people sick, seems counter intuitive as a goal of a vaccine.

Correct me if I'm misreading your comment.

Scientists made a vaccine that was by "design" to get:

a) "more people sick with new milder variants."

b) "more people sick with stronger variants"

You're claiming a) if it turns out true. b) makes no sense as a vaccination goal. a) really seems unethical gamble if it turns it's false and we end up with b)
To the extent they stay out of "editing" the newsfeed, sure. When they algorithmically (and silently) promote or demote certain things, all bets are off
I do see your point about test prep taking over the entire curriculum. And I can agree that's an issue as well. I guess I just find a test in an actual subject to be less BS than a general "aptitude" test, whatever that means.

With AP tests, I can say "I tried learning chemistry, so I studied chemistry, and took this standardized test, and here is my chemistry score." With SATs I'm studying random "aptitude" stuff and I'm not even sure what I'm really demonstrating or what is really being measured.
That was a great post and I feel similarly. I try to do the right thing because I care about this stuff. If I didn’t care, I would’ve deleted the email and moved on.
Check out Raptor Supplies. In general, look at B2B MRO distribution-scope suppliers. Be prepared to pay commensurately, or go low-tier and apply the heuristic already mentioned in this discussion: first time around, buy low-tier; when it breaks in an unfixable way, go B2B tier.

I personally go straight to B2B for anything safety-related like my PPE.
Yet Another Backpropagation Tutorial
Open Source Foundations Must Work Together to Prevent Next Log4Shell Scramble
You go to the next book to read in the same way you click on the next link on the web.
Microservices requires lots of forethought, design, and highly qualified engineers.

You spent the same amount of forethought, design, and talent on monoliths - you’d might not need microservices.

The real issue is scale.

A well designed micro service mesh will scale. A well designed monolith might scale.
They are radically evolved means of consumption, too. If you go back far enough, even back to single cells, it's all been consumption this whole time. The more modern means help us select for specific types and amounts of energy via stimulation. Which is pretty amazing really.

That helps put it into perspective for me. I can watch the stimulation and consumption from the outside, so to speak, and get a helpful picture of what's going on in my life.
I agree with your comment "In many languages, if you choose any of those supposed rules you can probably construct an algorithm to generate odd, but understandable words that defy that rule." - it comes many forms, from Goodhart's Law to the "hot dog vs. sandwich" debate.

I do mention this in my blog post - although I think Generalization is Language, I don't think it's possible to create a formal framework of language, for precisely because of "adversarial examples" that can be supplied for any formal definition.

Natural language itself, ignorant of formality, is able to account for these exceptions insofar as language is sufficient for people to convey a bare minimum of meaning. I am proposing to define language and generalization via the implicit understanding of large language models, in the same way you might use an image classifier to define "cat images" or "hot dogs"
I feel like RF is the wrong term. RF is short for radio frequency. That implies an oscillating EM field at a frequency which is practically useful for radio transmissions. This is a transient EM field disturbance. Same mechanism more or less, but it's not really 'radio'. I'm sure many will disagree but that's my opinion on it.
Wasn't TV viewed in the same light?

I imagine a large segment of humanity has always looked for addictions.
Hm, they use https://tranco-list.eu/ for top website list and not alexa.

Whatever happened to Alexa ratings?
Pretty sure this API has been around for 8+ years and is likely at risk of deprecation. No, nobody used it, no it didn’t destroy the internet.
You misunderstand the research in question. To quote from the researchers website

> When the system has even higher confidence, it sends up to several emails that simulate real user inquiries about GDPR or CCPA processes. This research method is analogous to the audit and “secret shopper” methods that are common in academic research, enabling realistic evaluation of business practices. Simulating user inquiries also enables the study to better understand how websites respond to users from different locations.

They are not just asking for the existing privacy policy, they are actively attempting to put the subjects into a realistic environment and seeing how they respond. The focus is the behavior of the individual. This should also be evident from the fact that they felt the need to lie to and threaten them...

https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/
It's like saying we have a driving addiction or a going to work addiction. Not everything can or should be couched in that kind of language. I've always found articles about internet and game addiction to be incredibly myopic, assuming that the "normal" of the 60's or 70's or 80's is somehow universal or worthy of being preserved, and that any deviation from it is an illness.
> Anyone can practice and improve their score

Sure, as long as they have the free time to devote to that (which they may not, if they have to work through high school). Alternatively, they can hire an (expensive) tutor, which can help.

If scores are an important factor for admission, then that selects for people who:

* are good at standardized testing
* or, have the extra time and/or money to improve their score

The latter has strong correlation with socioeconomic status (and by extension, race). If their goal is to broaden the range of students attending, then eliminating the test as a factor helps.

There are, of course, many other things at play here; but it's a start!
There was a bit of a public debate a few years ago (maybe more than a few years ago) whether belief in God was necessary for Unitarianism. IIRC, there was a smallish schism as a result of the debate between the deists and atheists.

From the little that I know of Quakerism, I would think that at least some level of deism would be necessary, but who knows.

Graham Greene had a short story, “The Last Word,” (the title story of his final story collection) which posited a world in which atheism had become nearly universal and the military dictator summoned the last believer, the Pope who had become senile with age to assassinate him. After shooting him, he began to have doubts about his atheism and faith continued.
This is a long and polite way to say: We'll keep private about that issue.

Which is what all companies do. It's part of the politics that is going on there. It's just that a higher expection has been set by the Rust team that they follow higher goals.

One thing is clear, however. Whatever happened, it was not a banality.
'this is coming for everyone.'

I was so-called critical infrastructure when the panic started. After a few days of consideration, it became apparent that everyone would be exposed in time. I made peace with myself, my God, my family and kept living. I kept an eye on healthy eating. I did get it in early 2021 and got through it at home. While I am sad for the scared obese carbohydrate and sugar eaters, I am happy to live. And I am happy I could vacation with family this year, without masks, in Florida and Texas.

I wish everyone gets as healthy as they want to be to fight the inevitable virus exposure.
I think individuals in a research group in a department in a university in a city in a state in a republic know organizations contain individuals.

Your interpretation would make most of the definition redundant. They could just say any individual an investigator interacts with. IRBs don't interpret it like that.
4 standardized test scores before your senior year seems like plenty of information for a college to evaluate a student on. I don't think a college should need 11 standardized scores to conclude that you can probably do college level work.
"e-mail address was for professors what the cellular phone was for their students: a sign that they were ahead of the game."

What tech flair these days makes you look "Ahead of the game?".

For me it's either:

(a) using an MCU for a substantial project that isn't an Raspberry PI or Arduino (hello STM or NXP).

(b) a github repo that proves I know how to use Jest, Nuxt, ESLint, Grunt, Gradle, Gulp, or some combination of the latest CI/CD/UI frameworks.

(c) being followed on twitter by someone famous.
Wow nice little project.

Try using polygon (layer2) or a cheaper blockchain like Solana or Fantom
I actually read more books now. I download them and load them up on my phone and read them like crazy.

Also discussions on sites like this have expanded my articulation and understanding of many concepts and topics. I spent a lot of time, years, dedicating a significant potion of my life to reading educational material of all sorts.

I don't know if I use the internet differently, maybe, I don't use Facebook or twitter or tiktok or any of that. We forget the access to information we have, it would be unimaginable 30 years ago. I can delve into literally any topic I want as deep as I want to go, I can read any book I want right now, for free if I were so inclined.
Why not use disk encryption for this threat model?
An AI could be said to understand language if it used language as one of a selection of tools to operate on itself, a peer or other being, or its environment. The idea of "meaning = co-ocurrance" overlooks things like need, cause, and effect that appear when language is used as a tool to operate on its environment.

Most of what I read about ML and AI is about creating these monolithic models that treat networks and clusters of neurons as a single entity, but that would be like treating a species of individuals with lifecycles as a single entity. The comment in the article about how GPT models are like a shadow compared to a 3D world suggests the bottleneck to evolving them is really us, as we're trying to make just one that emmulates many of us, instead of letting one loose on the internet to divide and proliferate to evolve millions where the best few will be exponentially better. Right now we're building expert systems that are individual specimens without an ecosystem.

There isn't yet a botnet of GPT nodes compromising machines and harvesting compute for training and evolving through participating in forums, but then again how would I know? (There's nothing worse than failing a modern catchpa and having a flash of existential dread at the stark possibility I may have indeed been a robot all along. Now I do them at random just to be sure.)
do you have any source for this ?
We dont have 200 millions years to wait for Mars reforestation, so plastic > wood
Counterpoint:

With the right perspective the internet is the ultimate medium for books (ebooks and audiobooks) and it's easier to read hundreds or thousands of books than it has ever been in history.
From the very first sentence of the article:

> This is an essay on the phenomenology of DMT. The analysis here presented predominantly uses algorithmic, geometric and information-theoretic frameworks, which distinguishes it from purely phenomenological, symbolic, neuroscientific or spiritual accounts. We do not claim to know what ultimately implements the effects here described (i.e. in light of the substrate problem of consciousness), but the analysis does not need to go there in order to have explanatory power.
Here is my comment.

Cisco != China
Wait until you get a smartphone and install Whatsapp then the real fun begins
I was told a story about someone who applied to a school of engineering somewhere or other, in the latter part of the 1950s.

She had a sterling high school record, but they wrote a rejection letter explaining that they already had a woman attending the institution.

The punch line, as it were, as I recall it, was that "a woman" did not mean one undergraduate woman, but just one, period.

So, she went to a much less prestigious and well-known school, majored in math, and ended up being a programmer instead of an engineer.

I am not sure if she was bitter about it.
Frankly I wish I could do that with Android. If I use my decade-old shitty bluetooth headphones I get no perceptible lag and I can game with them.