skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish so much to label OP as simple bored troll, since its so glaringly wrong on so many fronts. Then you go out in the woods (doesn't have to be literal backcountry trip) and you actually meet this kind of people who think like that.

And you see some have pretty respectable jobs and are actual part of society, not some outcasts hiding with tin foils in corn field. Any society in this world in some way. But you can't talk to them about simple, factual matters. Forget persuasion, even discussion is all but impossible.

That part is to me scary and I struggle with it.
Also, the louder they whine the better off they are. A company that's really in trouble wouldn't whine so loudly for fear of losing trust of shareholders and customers.
Okay but I've never said we should stop using practical effects. I don't see any point in trying to limit artists in what technology they can or can't use.
Agreed, and they aren't isolated in terms of seminal studies that probably won't be replicated. No ethics board is going to allow us to strap down a seal and put it's head underwater, but that's how we learned a lot about mammalian diving physiology.
Alvin Kernan wrote an excellent memoir of his WW II enlisted naval service, Crossing the Line. His first boss stayed slightly drunk all day on alcohol meant for cleaning gun sights. (The US Navy had been officially "dry" at sea for many years.) In James Jones's Guadalcanal novel, Thin Red Line, the first thing the GIs do when the fighting is over is to start making home-brew with canned fruit. Given that service in a war zone is divided between boredom and risk of imminent death, one understands the attraction of alcohol.
Their $5 billion / year ad business in the App Store, News and Stocks. The one where they track you by default in many Apple apps, build a cross-app ad profile based on your behavior, demographic information you are forced to enter to even reate an account, geographic location, and so on. And then they allow ads to be targeted against you using fairly high granularity user segments (minimum 5k users).

See https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin... for the details.

Want to opt out of this? It's a OS-level setting in an obscure place, rather than what Apple requires from 3p apps.

Now, Apple isn't uniquely bad in the level of tracking they do. They're just the same as all of these companies are. The place where they are unique is the incredibly brazen self-dealing, using their control of iOS to boost their own tracking ad business over the competitors.
I’m curious how many portals and oculus devices have sold. Especially portals: having one of those in my house seems unimaginable to me.
Yeah same here, the only thing I see are posts from the groups I've joined which are mostly field of work related, the occasional corporate promotion and maybe a friend post about someone's holiday or something once in a blue moon.

When people say "I deleted facebook because of all the hate" it just makes me wonder what kind of assholes they're friends with. Removing their facebook posts from your view just hides who they are, they don't stop being assholes. What they really need to fix is their damn social circle.
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Her generation uses TikTok.

They did use IG ~2y ago, but then it went out of vogue. Same fate for SnapChat. It is very likely there will be something new next year end they will all move on from TikTok.

Fascinating to observe how they have zero product loyalty. And I realized FB can have a problem, unless they want to spend billions on acquisitions every single year. It’s good for everyone that their monopoly is crumbling a bit.
In the interest of openness and accountability you need a transaction to turn the engine on, or to activate the brakes. They say that it takes a few milliseconds but never really tested it so who knows. Gives a new meaning to “gas fees”.
If the person who was "robbed" involves the law, the executive might compel the "robber" to return the "money". This would be extremely bad looks for the "robbed" in the Crypto Community and unless the identity of thief is known it is impossible.
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Are we talking about 1/3 of the population is susceptibile to motion sickness in general, or specifically VR motion sickness? Because those are 2 different things and I doubt a significant number of the population was trialed with modern VR in order to get a such a clear cut result.

My Quest 2 doesn't give me motion sickness at all but I am susceptible to motion sickness when someone is driving/flying or on a boat. Still, two very distinct things that make a very different statistic.
Some people claim, without much proof, that ads without tracking are less effective. We don't care and would prefer to see their business model fail than to maintain the status quo. That is the point here.
So the (most likely) order in which we lose jobs to AI, as it stands:

1. artists (deep dream, etc.)

2. cab/truck drivers (self driving cars)

3. call center operators (robocalls)

4. programmers (copilot)

5. mathematicians

who is next?
To be fair, it's a watch, a heart rate monitor, an EKG, blood-pressure, oximeter, step counter, Star Trek TMP communicator, TV remote, voice-activated AI assistant and a couple other things that also connects to (nice) phones and (luxury) computers.
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They’re not using IG either.
I think you forget that only US schools buy their students computers.
Cool idea for sure, but as others have pointed out, it's not great yet. How would this work though? Wouldn't you need to have some meta data about the base lib, like for example "web framework", so that you can search for other libs using the same language (if that's even relevant) that also has been tagged as "web framework"? Seems tricky to me, but I don't know.
This is fascinating, but it seems like a specialized profession in and of itself to remember all of these questions. Maybe you can look it up a during a bathroom break...
That "Our European visitors are important to us" message though...

(immediately followed by what is effectively a "but screw you guys")
I hate dealing with dealers but there is no other way to get weed. Shady dark corners, pushy paranoid characters, just to buy a bit of herb that grows wildly on slopes of himalaya for millenia.

Once dealer tried to push cocaine to me instead of weed pretending he didn't understand, sent him away. That's the only gateway situation I can actually imagine for weed, otherwise its nonsense in same vein as alcohol is.
#deleteFacebook

I'm praying they are forced to sell WhatsApp
>Who in their right mind would buy a device from Facebook

I completely agree with you on this, yet a lot of people are buying Oculus sets
> That Mississippi of all places legalizes marijuana means that it will probably be legalized in all 50 states within a year or two.

They did not legalize marijuana. At least not in the context of what legalizing marijuana means in 2022, which I think should be that you can walk into a marijuana store and buy marijuana like other states.

The important part being that cops can still bust you for simply having marijuana or buying marijuana, or even suspecting marijuana. Which was the big problem in the first place.
Still, it's an island of sanity in the middle of Texas.
The main problem with 3D tv was the content. 3D really only works with bad movies like resident evil. You are not going to have need or want 3d in a movie that is an oscar contender.

(Avatar as the single exception)
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I’m the same. Fountain pen + notebook, and neovim + markdown. I think in markdown, now, and get annoyed when I have to compose (e.g. emails or whatever) in a crummy rich text editor.
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Perhaps under a different name. Lots of people bought Oculus.
Given that 68% of people in the US are deficient from the other electrolyte, magnesium, I maintain that potassium deficiency is rare(r), and certainly is scarier to supplement that Mg is.

https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2005/9/americans-magn...
or use openbsd which made the transition to a 64-bit time_t for all architectures.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=137637321205010&w=2

in 2013...
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Kind of impressive but as a painter I don't really see the point

I guess if you really wanted to recreate the look of actual paint this would be useful but it would take so much effort to get a realistic look you may as well do some actual painting
> [Apple] build a cross-app ad profile

Citation? I'm not saying your wrong, but I haven't heard anyone make this claim before.

> rather than what Apple requires from 3p apps

For the sake of argument, even if we assume your prior claim is correct, this is still incorrect. Apple does not require third party apps to notify users or provide an opt-out mechanism from tracking user activity across the apps of a singular developer.
That isn't true. I know of many schools in Norway and Sweden that buy iPads or Chromebooks for their students. Although it is admittedly not universal
NTT data. Is a japanese consulting firm.

They have strong presence in asia, Spain, Portugal, and South america also.

I don`t know how this new department is doing, but I will inquire about. I was in the last newsletter we received.
Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app
High-THC cigarette paper would be a very successful product in a number of markets.
That's just a software issue. OpenBSD has been using 64-bit time_t on all their architectures for almost a decade now:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=137637321205010&w=2
Sorry for being pedantic but the State of North Korea does not claim to be communist but rather "socialist Juche" which is very different from Marxism-Leninism and other "communisms".

http://naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/politics?arg_val=leader3
Ads are a problem as well, just not quite as bad as tracking. They are still useable as an attack vector, an incentive for websites to get less and less accessible, and just a general nuisance. When most news websites are more ads than content, there is a systemic problem.
Higher.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.
The last thing I want to do is to start a flame war, but I know a lot about this field and it’s been my observation that it’s both important and kind of opaque.

I would be happy to answer questions (within some fairly broad guidelines of proprietary information) in as much detail as anyone would like.

Everything from the technology to the organizational imperatives to the competitive landscape is actually quite complex and nuanced.

I have no ambition of informing folks’ moral judgements (I have my own), but on average it’s probably better if moral judgements are informed by detailed understanding.
Turns out it was easier for the fields of biology and medicine to rename human genes

https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_151346
Aurelien Pierre, one of the lead developers on Darktable has been publishing lots of details on color theory and how it is applied in Darktable for things like the new Color Calibration module and how that relates to the white balance. His youtube channel is worth following if you are interested in this: https://www.youtube.com/c/Aur%C3%A9lienPIERREPhoto

Recent versions of Darktable include some amazingly powerful ways to deal with tone mapping, perceptual saturation, etc. that he implemented.
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This is not the first time someone points me in this direction. I shall dive into it and see if it sparks interest. Thanks!
> But the fact that a company can do this to another company at the flick of a switch by changing the rules of the game on a whim is still kind of scary, even if I think it's for the better in this instance.

They did not flick the switch, the users did. They merely pointed out the existence of the switch.
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, 68% of US people are Mg deficient, 3% are K deficient. And considering how many are hypertensive, K supplementation, which is already tricky, needs an even bigger caveat, as many hypertensive medications are potassium sparing, thus supplementation should _not_ be done without medical supervision. I agree that it's tricky to test, and the science around potassium metabolism with HTN medication is confusing and contradicting: you can find studies for the same medication that say it's potassium sparing and another that says that hypokalemia is a common side effect.

You can have vegetables containing potassium, sure, but it's a bit of a stretch to say that potassium deficiency is widespread, in general and supplementation of it is discouraged.
It's already known that CoVID can be eliminated in individual countries. A number of countries got rid of it all the way back in early-to-mid 2020: China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong), New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Singapore, and several other places.

The places that eliminated CoVID-19 in 2020 did far better than those that didn't, both in terms of preventing death (no cases means no CoVID deaths) and keeping society functioning more or less normally. Once CoVID is gone, you can reopen bars, restaurants, etc. without having to worry about the virus spreading.

The main challenge after local elimination is preventing the virus from getting back in and reestablishing itself. The first line of defense is border quarantine. Behind that, you need ongoing surveillance (e.g., test everyone who shows up at a clinic with a fever or sore throat) to detect new outbreaks early. Once you detect an outbreak, you need to use tools like contact tracing (with mandatory quarantine and isolation), mass testing and, when absolutely necessary, local lockdowns to end it.

The question is why more countries didn't follow this strategy. For any country able to pull it off, it was obviously worth it. China reopened in April 2020. Most people haven't experienced a lockdown since, life has been mostly normal, and there hasn't been any large outbreak since (the largest one was about 2,000 people in total). The main cost is that international travel is difficult, because you have to quarantine for 3 weeks when you return, but that doesn't affect most people.
> I don't think it matters if teenagers are ignoring the platforms as long as they age into them

During my elementary school days, we had a small course to teach us about economics and corporate values. The examine two old companies: Nintendo and Reader's Digest. Both companies predated our grandparents and they asked if they would both outlive us as students. The "correct" answer for the assignment was that Reader's Digest would continue on into the 22nd century while Nintendo would be out of business before the 21st. The reasoning was that Nintendo markets to children, who are both broke and fickle, while Reader's Digest markets to mature professionals, who are loyal and wealthy. No one would continue to play video games after the age of twelve and everyone with a college degree who hit thirty would subscribe to Reader's Digest

For those who are unaware, Reader's Digest declared bankruptcy in 2013 and was solve off for £1. Nintendo is currently worth $55 billion.

I always remember that lesson when people talk about how children will age out of enjoying the things that they currently enjoy and age into caring about the things that their parents care about.
My experience with VR is that there is a period of acclimatization. At first it is tough to go 30min. I got up to being able to use it for an enjoyable 3 hours or at least the full duration of the battery for watching and gaming. I find when I come back from a long vacation with no screens, looking at a monitor for 7 hours is tough.
Isn't bookmarking == hoarding? Somehow I have the feeling that sure, maybe one day that niche bookmarked piece of information will be useful (or fun), but it gets buried by many other useless bits, so there's a chance it'll never be actually used.

So no thanks, I don't want to pay to rent an extra organisational unit, and feed my obsession.
Same here. I like how relaxing Wordle is.
To clarify, which part of my comment do you think is "almost certainly untrue"? What I describe above is how their approach works. It's summarised in the paper. See Section 4. ("Approach"):

1. Pre-train a transformer-based language model on GitHub code with standard
language modelling objectives. This model can reasonably represent the space of
human coding, which greatly reduces the problem search space.

2. Fine-tune the model on our dataset of competitive programming data, using
GOLD (Pang and He, 2020) with tempering (Dabre and Fujita, 2020) as the training
objective. This further reduces the search space, and compensates for the small
amount of competitive programming data by leveraging pre-training.

3. Generate a very large number of samples from our models for each problem.

4. Filter the samples to obtain a small set of candidate submissions (at most
10), to be evaluated on the hidden test cases, by using the example tests and
clustering to pick samples based on program behaviour.

>> Since you're claiming this feat by Alphacode is comparable in difficulty to writing bubblesort (which you could write in 5 minutes), it shouldn't take you a lot of effort to produce something comparable.

What I meant was that the way they announced AlphaCode is like claiming that bubblesort is a novel approach to sorting lists. Not that the effort needed to create their system is comparable to bubblesort. I think if you read my comment again more carefully you will find that this is the first interpretation that comes to mind. Otherwise, I apologise if my comment was unclear.
It’s been my experience that historical user CTR and historical ad CTR can already produce a really high performing P(click|impression) classifier.
> Like those people who were proud of not buying a mobile phone

What motivated you to post this?
This is such good advice!
Thanks
I equate it to people who spend a lot of money on the lottery and become millionaires. It's not like they know something we don't, they took a financial risk and it paid off.

If you could be sure the Apes are going to rise to 50 ETH, why not invest in it? The reason is because there's an equally likely chance the Apes will fall to half or less their current value, right? The same could have happened with Bitcoin.
“Tech” women interested in retaining their ability to get medical services they might need would still have a reason to not move to Austin.
Why are there no decent Go or Rust alternatives to Ansible?
I finally started automating some or my bash functions and scripts with Ansible. I have found chezmoi to be an incredible tool to manage your dot files, but it isn't made to really manage files outside your home directory and run scripts. While you can still do it their FAQ recommends against it, and it becomes semi-obvious why.

I've worked with Ansible in the past both professionally and in my free time. I found it to be incredibly useful, but I have been burned many times by poor playbooks, documentation, etc.

Running a bunch of plays in Ansible can feel like you're submitting a job to a CI server. If you're used to running them in scripts, you'll notice that what used to take a second or two may now take 15 or 20 seconds.

The thing that also baffled me is how slow it can be, especially running modules on localhost. File operations where you may want to delete some temporary paths is insane how much slower it is then a simple shell script.

chezmoi is different though. It is pretty much instantaneous. What is even more incredible is that with templates, includes and more, there is no noticeable slow down.

Having used Hugo as a SSG and creating Helm charts, I got used to using Go Templates. While I am not a huge fan of Go templating, the functions seem equally as powerful as Ansible, even more so because it is fast.

Which brings me to the point of all this, why has no one replaced Ansible with a Go-based tool? Sort of like a hybrid between Ansible and chezmoi.

Are people just using CI now for automation and if so what can you recommend that is lightweight?
The great Amazon land grab
True, they also run such a trains here in Finland, an overnight trip from south to north (Lapland). The train tickets for our family of 5 plus a car are so expensive (total 1200 eur) compared to minimal marginal cost for using our EV (150 eur), that we always choose the car.
Which part of that require tracking? You search for Facebook, they show you a TikTok ad as the first result (granted, quite annoying more often than not). Same business model as DuckDuckGo.
Femme is from French, it means “woman”. I believe it is used in English to say “a very feminine woman”.
> AlphaCode's solution the "inner O(n) loop" is actually a memmove(), which is optimized to be insanely fast.

Again, it is not. CPython does not do these things.

The web page says, and this is corroborated in the paper,

> Solutions were selected randomly, keeping at most one correct (passes all test cases in our dataset) and one incorrect sample per problem and language. Note that since our dataset only has a limited number of test cases, passing all tests we have cannot completely rule out false positives (~4%), or solutions that are correct but inefficient (~46%).

The “54th percentile” measure did use estimated time penalties, which you can see discussed in Table 4 in the paper, but 1553D was not part of that.
Would you sweat on Arrakis? I've never been to a dry desert, but I've heard that sweat can evaporate there very quickly and it's very hard to become sweaty.
Facebook bought Oculus and although their hardware is still good, they are being beat in the software and overall hardware experience by Valve. A far smaller company but they built - Valve Index and Half Life Alyx (widely considered the best game in VR).

The Index isn’t perfect, but the actual story of Oculus is just them making a cruddy MVP, Valve taking the time to show their far superior prototypes, and allowing them to copy them, and then Oculus and part of the Valve team selling out to Facebook (ie Michael Abrash). Virtually all the innovation in VR was made by Valve, the only innovation Facebook has added is inside out tracking.

So Oculus is really just another Instagram /WhatsApp - they purchased a solid team and product, but they’re not out innovating even smaller players in the field.
Australia’s latest export is bad media policy, and it’s spreading fast