skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last bullet point is something folks on both sides of the aisle should appreciate:

> Thus, we ought to be skeptical of social scientists’ ability to reliably inform public policy, and of policymakers’ ability to evaluate social-scientific research objectively, particularly when it is “policy relevant.”

Think of how much we’re debating what’s causing the current inflation we’re seeing. That’s one number in a field that’s quite amenable to quantitative analysis. I think we have pretty much zero credible scientific evidence to justify most policies involving public welfare. There’s a handful of exceptions—e.g. the tremendous work done studying the benefits of the clean air act, for example. But that was rigorous research done by the EPA over literally decades.

I think we should give poor families with kids money because that seems like the morally correct thing to do. But this sort of thing is just scientism: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Quality tends to be top-notch too.
Yeah, I know. But I'm pretty sure if Twitter'd gone this way and here we had the open-source clone using the name "twitter", we'd all be writing about how hopeless their branding is because it's very easy to make "twit" jokes about it.

[EDIT] nb I don't use Mastodon and don't expect it to take off, but I don't think "toot" is at all the reason for that.
> Sociopaths are attracted to places where they can wield power and domineer over others.

One of the failure modes of the systems we build is when they provide leverage for bullies. Any system that wields power (which is basically all of them) needs oversight baked in from the beginning.
Thank you! You jogged my memory. It was NOS/VE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS/VE - and I see no mention of it being written in Algol68, but it used Algol68 semantics for some things (at least).
Are large tech companies fulfilling the original promise of cloud?
If you need a name for your new startup, you might find something useful here.

In the past, I have found out that no matter how cool a name I pick for my new project, there is a high chance that the .com is already taken. Although there are other domain extensions, .coms are still the most recognized ones.

So, I have listed short .com domains (4 characters, 5, 6, and 7 letters), made them searchable, and created an algorithm to calculate their value (take results with a grain of salt).

Let me know if this is useful, or if you want to see some features added.

Or just say Hi, that is good enough :)
Yes, you just have to serve in the military to fulfill your duties as a citizen in order to access them.
It could potentially have been interesting if it grew organically - a good but unpolished MVP, core user base, then expansion and growth. Even if it went like this, it would end up like reddit, where too many rules, complaining for the sake of complaining, monetization attempts, and the eternal September effect ruined it, but hopefully that would happen over a long enough arc that something cool existed for a while.

My impression is that the facebook metaverse is jumping right to the end state, with rules and bureaucracy and casual users, with no actual core fan base or community. If it succeeds at all, it will have all the baggage that comes with the exposure of a big platform, without the core aspects that made it successful, because it wasn't forged from market success, it just got made up one day.
Easier cloud networking.

I don’t use Tailscale, I use a competing and currently arguably better product (Netmaker).

Imagine you’re a business building XYZ software product. You build a k8s cluster in one region, but now you need your system also to exist simultaneously in another region for failover reasons. Now you need region A to be able to have replicas in region B in real-time amongst many other requirements and those two networks from each region need to be able to understand and talk to each other with minimal setup and headache. Perhaps network A is set up on DigitalOcean and network B is on AWS or GKE for financial or technical reasons. Example: it’s cheaper to have surplus machine needs on AWS/GKE but you don’t want machines running there all the time because it’s expensive.

Enter Wireguard mesh networking. Ever since kernel Wireguard made it into Linux this is where the endgame has been for cloud deployments. It’s a huge improvement over the previous solutions. Netmaker and Tailscale are two offerings of that solution.

Note that I’m not affiliated with Netmaker at all. Just a quite happy customer.
You can see the lights on Google Maps street view, for example: https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.9359362,138.550496,3a,75y,3...
But the white-label stuff is so popular because it’s a ready-made product. Benefits (compared to DIY) include:

+ No RnD costs (staff and space, failed designs, prototyping)

+ No plant and equipment required

+ Smaller number of units required initially (no other outlays, so the number you have to sell is smaller)

+ Smaller time between investment and return

Negatives:

+ No innovation in the product

+ No control over manufacturing (quality, methods & materials used)

+ Higher risk of returns from customers (can’t control quality)

+ Higher risk of hurting or killing customers (product malfunction)

+ Loss of reputation due to the above three points (well deserved)

+ Inability to update design based on feedback

+ No control over price. You are at the mercy of your people in China after you’re established.

+ more. It’s a shitty practice if I’m brutally honest.

My point is: those upsides are appealing to both big and small players. No big upfront costs? I can just whack a label on a shiny piece of shit and make 2x ROI? Sweet! Reputation? Couldn’t care less, I’m small-time and can switch up if anything hits the fan.
It would have been intellectually dishonest because actual youth suicides were not up in 2020 compared to 2019, were down considerably from 2018, and among the focus of this article, urban youth in New York, were in fact way way down, by over 50%.

Personally I would have chosen to focus on the nihilism of consumer materialism, starting with this poor child's list of empty "goals".
I can't think of any other major platform where avoiding illegal pornography is something users explicitly have to think about and take actions to protect themselves.

I find it worrying that this is even an issue, but then again it's not surprising - if you build a platform explicitly against witch hunts, you'll end up with 1% principled legitimate users that use it to make a statement and 99% witches.
Free will and responsibility can be mutually exclusive, this is what most people have a hard time understanding.
I don't think it's a goal (it's not mine as a user), but I'm sure you can ask Mastodon gGmbH for their OKRs when it's funding time.
>Why would population decline be a problem?
If doomsday predictions about population growth are to be dismissed because technology has always kept up with the increasing needs of humanity, what is the argument against technology keeping up with the needs of a demographically shifted smaller population?

Is there not an aggregate level of people required to sustain the complexity of the technology required to keep all of it functioning below which critical links in the chain begin failing causing a chain reaction where it all completely breaks down?

Am I alone in thinking that? It's mildly obvious if you do a thought experiment where you reduce the population down to a ridiculously small number you can see such a scenario is indeed possible. The question is where exactly is that threshold?

I live in New Zealand and a good example of a weak link in the chain that got exposed by Covid when we completely shut our borders was that we couldn't get the seasonal workers required to operate some of the high tech farm equipment required for harvesting. I recall seeing on the news members of industry and government saying "it's not simply a case of just trying to hire more people locally as these machines are not simple to operate and require specific skills that take a non-trivial amount of time to train up on" etc. So, as we increase the complexity of the technology in order to boost productivity outputs it makes the system more and more fragile to such shocks. So, if we're relying on future technology we're by definition relying on even greater complexity meaning that critical threshold of people needed to maintain it goes up, which is a problem if the population is going down.
Why can't you just build a special GraphQL query with the SQL query you want? I mean having something like

query {
myCustomQuery(...params...) {
id
whatever
}
}

backed by

async function resolver(ctx) {
const rows = await db.query(sql`SELECT yadda as id, badda as whatever FROM dabba JOIN dada ON ...`);
return rows;
}
Good one.

But if you really do want to get the maths onto firm footing, maybe you should be working to encode it all under Lean.
AMD Acquires Pensando for $1.9B
What do you mean “earn less”? If anything they might earn more.
I will have to better qualify what a developed country is in the future. Mandatory military service directly contradicts a citizen’s freedom.
What work can be done from home? What work needs to be done at an office?
Algos run the world.

"In bioinformatics, BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) is an algorithm and program for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA and/or RNA sequences." - could it be used to identify and group similar structures in NNs? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(biotechnology))

I've been thinking of some kind of visual representation of weights, graphs etc. Images and evolving images as the substrate of the neural network. Pixels on a plane, planes affecting each other, activation recorded as brightness/color. Then we can use visual algorithms like SIFT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transf...) to do cool stuff and grow better and better graphic-based NNs.
There's a difference between not knowing what your are supposed to be doing during a tornado in your home, and what you're supposed to do in an Amazon warehouse. In Illinois, commercial warehouses aren't required to have tornado shelters.

If you grow up in Illinois or anywhere around the midwest, there's a high likelihood you've been through a tornado drill in your childhood.
The typical problem is the ~30mm retical dimension limit. Unless you want to have the same pattern copied ~100x over the wafer you'll need to have more unique masks... A LOT of masks, and many more mask steps (because they can't step the same mask). For reasonable (finfet) geometries that is much too expensive, even if you could buy the required aligners.

I suspect stacked wafer is much more cost competitive, and you get to use appropriate (RAM, CMOS, Flash) processes for each layerso long as their sizes match. Via size and density are such that speed is less of an issue than going to package and the yield hit isn't more than 2-3x.
> they tap you for a conflict which you have ideological differences with, YOU ARE GOING irrespective of your convictions

Your statement is not entirely true, it is not irrespective of convictions. A conscientious objector is defined as either:

A member who, by reason of conscientious objection, sincerely objects to participation in military service of any kind in war in any form.

or

A member who, by reason of conscientious objection, sincerely objects to participation as a combatant in war in any form, but whose convictions are such as to permit military service in a noncombatant status. Also referred to as noncombatant duties or noncombatant service.

Yes there is an application which can be denied. Here is a GAO report on the rates of that. In an all volunteer force the numbers requested are pretty small.

Text version: https://www.gao.gov/assets/a267698.html
PDF version: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-07-1196.pdf
It is relevant to the OP’s point though.
I often use the same approach except I lock the weight to rank with unique numbers. I.e. 5 weight items?, can’t use a rating of 5 twice. This forces me to further itterate the criteria selection. Using the same principle across further helps to pick a clear winner but depends on the # of items on the list and how far you want to think without overthinking it.
'This is inhumane': The cost of zero Covid in Shanghai
Ask HN: What's a good self introduction on a VC call?
I'm doing a bunch of pitches for my company and trying to improve my self-introduction part.

I'm a tech founder and I'm totally comfortable talking about the actual business, product and tech, but I feel like I struggle with the first 1-2 min. self-introduction.

I've been trying to boil it down to these three points:

- why am i doing startups
- abridged work history
- something light, like an interest

It feels to be this part is a shot in the dark, am I thinking too much? Is there a playbook I don't know about? Should I just focus on one thing?

I'll take any suggestions!
When I called them about this exact issue what they told me is to register the second contact with your name reversed (last name as the first name and first name as the last name). Also use a different business email with the same domain for the second contact.

That seemed to do the trick.

One thing to take note of though is be very careful if you set up managed IDs and a verified domain through Apple Business Essentials. It locks devices down pretty heavily. I'm not familiar with this area of IT and didn't know that, although it might be pretty obvious to those who work in the space.
I don't think anybody implied it was the sole reason.
If the universe was as deterministic and predetermined as to exclude free-will, then all debate itself, including one as to whether "luck determines everything", would be pointless. Whether you were right or wrong would be both absolute and predetermined. And so pointless to argue about. I'm not sure there's even room for concepts as "true" or "false", just "is".

So I cannot prove whether free-will exists or does not. But I believe it's quite logical to say that to argue otherwise would be pointless and irrational.

And I do understand that the downvoters feel that they were clearly forced to do it by a complex and indelible series of events going back at least billions of years. :)
Yeah my Lenovos had or developed the same problem, also not considered something to fix by them. Probably all of them except the really old 4:3 ones I had, which had the oldschool IBM keyboard.
"I see the vehicle you are running our software on has four wheels. Since we license our software per wheel at $10k a wheel, that will be $40k for the vehicle. Let us know if you want to add the support and/or upgrade packages, which are an additional cost. There is a discount that starts at five wheels."
Gather textbooks and work all the problems, and you will do fine.

Most of us need to be set straight once in a while.
LMAC (2003) @ https://research.utwente.nl/files/5427399/VanHoesel_INSS04_0... seemed to target energy efficiency on bursty, short messages on fixed topology wireless networks, whereas we were discussing the potential for ad-hoc mesh for a general use case using existing wireless chipsets.

To take up the tangent, it seems to me that the graph coloring problem can either be (1) solved universally (any local mesh will have distinct boundaries which make absolute coordination feasible) by adding some sort of explicitly negotiated or progressively developed shared state to act as a coordination layer (2) solved temporarily, for example by implementing a best-effort failover/fallback (CSMA/CD feeds back to "color") (3) Ignored.

Solution class 1 is obviously challenging to apply to for mobile and ad-hoc mesh networks. Solution class 2 seems more realistic for this category of use case. Solution class 3 works well if you have full control of the application layer (eg. wireless sensor network is push-only with short packets with high temporal tolerance for retransmissions).

Feels a bit like "Energy optimization / throughput / ad-hoc topology / traffic generality. Choose any three."
I think that's a bigger problem, though maybe still not a grave one. I wouldn't be surprised if a very high percentage of people write "mastAdon", without autocorrect to save them.

We're also all missing the bigger problem here, which is that "mast" is rooted in the word for "breast". ( /s for the concern, but it in fact is)
Funny thought. But I imagine they'd find some way to make a charge stick.
There are some mistakes on the board in the scene where Abelman pounds his head into it but I assure you other grad students in my department and I enjoyed the movie immensely nonetheless.
The conundrum with Nvidia drivers on Linux
Calling unremovable* spyware (the term is accurate, no matter how insane you think it sounds) a "technical support issue" is like calling surveillance cameras installed in your home an "improper furnishing issue".

*Edit: sokoloff may be correct, and the spyware is not unremovable. Still, the analogy holds.
This is a great understanding of how to keep your sanity as someone that just wants ro get sh*t done.

This cannot be accomplished in a largecap company. Too many politic layers. Cant be done in a startup that is professionally backed - too much window dressing for investors.

However, small privates are the sweet spot for honest workers. Get stuff done, or make sales, and ownership doesnt care if your hair is blue or your style is brash. In fact, most savvy owners will hire exactly that "rough" worker precisely because what they see is what they get.

That worker is not an apiring manager, but an artisan, with no patience for nonsense, and ready to call out BS when they see it.

That is management-repellant
Well, you don't need an account on each instance you want to interact with, but you might need multiple accounts (but it's not clear where) if the instance you choose has defederated (or defederates in future from) another instance for reasons which may be known only to the moderators of your instance, who are not bound to share those reasons or even the instances from which they've defederated or in future choose to defederate. "Defederation" is like blocking on Twitter, except it's more like a Twitter block list, except block lists and the automated propagation thereof are actually a hugely divisive issue within the community of fediverse users, oh and speaking of which it's more correct to call it "the fediverse" instead of "Mastodon" because Mastodon is really just the most widely known implementation of the underlying ActivityPub protocol, and this is also divisive because... [three hours later] ...and that's the short intro to what's important to know about the fediverse! Now, let's get you an - wait where'd you go?

Most folks I know who still believe in the value of any of this for its own sake have moved on to considering that this kind of refractory opacity is actually good because it prevents entry by anyone who isn't likewise invested. Ironically, those who preach the value of investment are also almost universally those who don't need to worry about leveraging a social media presence into any form of income or, y'know, social life. Almost everyone who does care about these things has likewise moved on - in this case, back to Twitter.
That's pretty cool.

Been learning a lot of rust recently. Can't say it'd be my first choice for application or web server stuff when there's GC'd langs available. But I'm over enough of the learning curve that I prefer it to C or C++.
> Because they actually CHARGE for their services, including a 30% cut of sales on app store, they don't need to sell you out.

It also means they can do both and reap double the profits. Like how they use their position as the exclusive distributor of apps to sell targeted ads to people on the App Store.

> The weird thing is folks on HN have a hard-on for destroying Apple

The weirder thing is how many folks on HN have a hard-on for defending Apple, despite the fact that they're pretty much the largest company in the world, full-stop. If they're not deserving of criticism for having hundreds of billions of dollars in liquid cash and hundreds of unsolved problems, I fail to see how the plight of Vizio or Zynga really matters by comparison.
New Raspberry Pi: Compute Module 4S
Yeah, I don't think I'd ever call it a perfect solution. FWIW though, I think most of the implementations I've seen leverage the preexisting I/O controllers on the laptop itself, which means the only added cost is whatever the proprietary docking connector costs on the BOM.
There has to be more to this story. You don’t walk away at 17 because you are annoyed at having to do the paperwork required to get someone properly punished rather than doing whatever you think is best.

For reference, I’m a 21 year Chief with time at Squadrons, Ships Company, USMC commands, and a few other places.
I think at least in American companies, it's hard to tell whether your co-workers are actually happy, or if they are putting on the expected corporate ExcitedToBeHere persona. You ask 200 co-workers "How's it going?" and you're going to get 200 variations of: "You know, really busy, but it is super-exciting to be meeting KPIs and synergizing the latest roadmap with our external stakeholders, blah, blah, blah." Ain't nobody saying "Well, you know, Bob, things are pretty shitty for me because I spent the last quarter working my butt off and Lumburgh gave the promotion to that idiot he's been banging in the conference room every evening."

Being honest opens you up to having that honesty used against you, so people just put on a cheerful saccharine smile and lie.
Bethe Ansatz solutions too if you like condensed matter stuff.
It doesn't grasp the world at all, there is no intelligence. It's just statistics about word use.
>or at risk of being revoked when the government changed hands.

This is happening now. Everyone is focused on getting to "net-zero" and switching to natural gas as a "transition" to cleaner, more sustainable energy sources. This has resulted in nuclear/coal going offline and being switched out for natural gas and natural gas prices shooting up like crazy, then war breaks out and natural gas imports are at risk and people still need power, so policy makers turn to "well maybe its time to switch the nuclear power plant back on?".

When things shift such that the short-term incentives shift away from the push towards the sustainable, renewable direction then it goes back the other way and it can and will happen.
> AFAIK no laptop supports both modes

Are you sure? From what I've seen, it seems common for laptops to support the combination of Thunderbolt and DisplayPort Alternate Mode. (Both my MacBook and my Thinkpad T480s have ports like this.)
I've always had this question, so I figured I'd ask it here: these large models are trained on enormous quantities of text - here, 780B tokens, which corresponds to around 1-2 TiB of plaintext scraped from all over the web, using their tokenization scheme. How careful are researchers about making sure their test datasets don't end up in the model? How specifically do they ensure that this doesn't happen?

EDIT: It looks like they specifically address in the section "Dataset Contamination" on page 35 of the paper - it appears the performance on the clean subsets of certain tasks, "clean" because that data was confirmed not to be in the training data, is similar to the performance on those tasks when all the questions, including those in the training data, are included. I'd need to have an ML research comment to know if this a valid way to control for the effects of memorization.
In this tutorial, we look at various methodologies that facilitate and aid the interpretation of several computer vision models, including LIME, SHAP, Grad-CAM, Guided Grad-CAM, and Expected Gradients.