skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. The crackpot side of me is trying to create intelligent tools to augment my own intelligence, so that I can get smart/fast/wise enough to understand / predict / control enough biology so I don't die of something boring before having a good long time to figure out how to get to a Neutron star or something. Beginning to realize that biology is more complicated than physics (the models, not the scope).
Only problem I saw in there was this:

>> Sociologists have long tried and failed to draw a line between science and pseudoscience. In physics, though, that ‘demarcation problem’ is a non-problem, solved by the pragmatic observation that we can reliably tell an outsider when we see one.

My issue isn't with the apparent arrogance of the in-club. It's with the certainty she expresses that there isn't any pseudoscience going on inside that club.
Space Force will be ramping up hiring as it takes over AF roles it's inherited.
Wow, something very similar happened to me when I first came to America to study from Ghana and landed in NYC. Struggling with my luggage up a flight of stairs from the subway station, a young lady grabbed the other end of my heaviest bag, helped me up with it, and left without saying a word.

Cool to hear this is not uncommon. This incident is indeed also one of my most enduring memories of NYC.
Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims
Google has paying customers for its office suite. They charge for individuals storage beyond the free tier, and their business users pay a per user fee.
Yeah, me too. I guess investors get this, although there's usually spin.
I don't think it is efficiency, we had no way to step up and step down DC as we can do AC
“This post contains product placement”
Augustus' daughter Julia was married to Agrippa and despite their age difference the marriage was a happy one, as far as history remembers. Agrippa was a man of wide ranging culture and abilities and Julia was a vivacious leader of the cultured noble Romans. She also understood that messing with royal progeny is treason in monarchy, so when she was asked why her two sons both looked like Agrippa when she was widely suspected of adultery, she answered that she never took on passengers unless her cart was full.

Julia was banished later when she was married to Tiberius, the second emperor, by Augustus because Julia abandoned all pretense and Tiberius was a hard soldier and able administrator but lacked the refined tact and cultured grace of Agrippa. Tiberius' familial tragedy contributed to his isolation and insane persecution in the last years of his reign.
That works great until the seller wants you to ship it back and PayPal finds this acceptable.
Easy, wipe the system and install Linux on it.
The point of a graph is to illustrate a number that fluctuate and changes over time. Nuclear waste production does not.

We could graph how much money Germany is funding the Russian military by buying gas, coal and oil. We could also graph how much radioactive particels get released into the environment through fossil fuel combustion. However both would just correlate directly with how much fossil fuel they consume which would then follow the graph of CO2 emissions. One line is plenty enough to describe all those things without having to be too explicit about the trade offs being made in Germany compared to France.
> flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which your friend would only see if they also flagged it.

I've had this idea for indicating along a series of steps of being willing to advance a relationship without harming it by expressing your desire for the next step too early for the other person. It would have real value I think because there really is potentially ruinous cost to being perceived as jumping the gun.
How edgy. You first, m'kay? Together with the telephone cleaners, middle managers etc. Don't wait for us, we need clean telephones when we arrive.
> Though AFAICT Russia still has enough land based ICBMs to level every major city on earth...

I learned the other day that there are two main strategies for targeting nuclear weapons, counter-force (nuking military targets) vs counter-value (nuking cities). The former requires a lot more warheads for an effective deterrent, and the large stockpile of nukes in the US and Russia implies that they're doing a lot of counter-force targeting (though I suppose that doesn't mean they won't also attack counter-value targets as well).

IIRC, according to this an exclusive counter-force nuclear attack against Russia would use far more warheads, but kill less people than an exclusive counter-value attack (~10 million vs 50 million deaths).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2968/057004008
This is a terminological question which has nothing to do with whether a textbook in the 80s was right or not in calling neural networks a crockpot theory.

The terminology is now fixed and anyone who has more than a passing acquaintance with these things knows that neural networks have almost nothing to do with biological neurons.
Well this is a discussion about trees. The post I replied to suggested we start chopping down trees when we run out of other resources. Hence my suggestion that this may not be a good idea.

I don't understand where you're getting the cannibalism from.
Some info about the new game here: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/4/23009951/ron-gilbert-retur...
I'm not for decentralized solutions since I don't think their UX can scale. Theoretically maybe they can, but in my eyes it's a P=NP hard problem right now.

I'm also not for absolute free speech, so yes, users should be banable in case of abuse.

The main thing I'm against is the fact we're taking for granted various methods of online communication (Twitter like broadcast, Reddit-like centralized forums, plus I'd actually put WhatsApp like instant messengers here). And they should just be dumb pipes.

They shouldn't try to add a ton of smart features they sell to <<other companies>>. Because their incentives are out of alignment with their direct user needs. They will serve whoever pays them instead of whoever uses them.

The classic enterprise software dilemma which in that case creates functionally horrible software. For online software it creates morally horrible software, instead.
No, you can care passionately about more things if you don't let the world influence you.

The philosopher Rene Girard talks about it better than I ever could. Basically, when we reach a certain age, we start to want to fit in with the world. This is a natural and important process -- for a while. We'll often choose attributes of ourselves to extol and expand, in order to fit in with our selected strategy. We will imitate behaviors and attributes of those in that group. And during this time, we will find that subgroup that we're integrating with will want certain things -- and we will in turn want those things. He says we subconsciously start to desire what others desire because we imitate their desires. He calls it "Mimetic Desire."

The problem is that as a bunch of us are all desiring the same things, we become rivals, reaching for the same objects. Worse, we may not ever really want what we're reaching for.

I'm saying, "Divorce the world" -- an amicable, emotionless divorce. Just as you moved into a group, move out. Just as you imitated, stop. And that will free you to find your true passions, your true desires, your true opinions, your true self. And what's shocking is that now attaining things you desire will often be a million times easier because everyone isn't hunting these same things alongside you.
https://www.rand.org/news/press/2018/04/26.html

RAND found that the VA typically also provides higher quality care.
Big tech hasn't bribed hard enough to maintain their monopolies.

Also the big tech boogeyman is low hanging fruit for culture war conservatives.
And I hope someone has finally found a way to enhance photogrammetry with depth sensor data because i'm pretty sure both combined has the potential to produce better results than either alone.
So following the original Author's Nice (optics over results) vs Kind (results over optics) IDK how Mean (optics over results) vs Evil (results over optics) actually works.

I don't believe many (any?) people think they're doing Evil with the goal of harming others as the ends. It seems most likely that people think they're doing something for a greater good, but that requires sacrifices (e.g. "Yes, we have to murder/imprison all the Jews/Asians/Gays/Whatever, but that's because they're ruining our country").

And I don't know how many people are trying to be be Mean but not doing a small Evil. What does a Mean act that doesn't harm the other person look like?

Also as someone who regularly engages in identity politics, I think your last point is just a "No True Scotsman" but also sort of proves my earlier point: being kind is doing good without regard for the optics, and everyone thinks that's what they are in their head.
That's fair. I would say a person is defined by what they do next.

I think what you're saying is that you should be careful telling someone that they 'are a baby' or 'are dumb', because they might believe you.

I would also be careful of telling someone they are 'acting like a baby' or 'acting dumb', because most people won't appreciate the semantic difference.

In the context of this article, though, I'm not too bothered since the article is about how one can change their baby-like habits. But it is always a good reminder.
Pretty much all device in a household can function using only DC and now we can also generate DC directly DC at home, thanks to Solar. So we can cut the losses switching to AC and DC.
Dev dependencies and release dependencies are distinct. There would be no sense in complaining about hypocrisy if a zero-dependency C project uses clang-format or valgrind, and similarly for a python project using black or mypy.
German regulator takes over Gazprom Germania to ensure energy supply
If only the M1s were compatible with CUDA....
This ignores the cult-like attributes of many companies. You've decided to leave, therefore your critique may no longer be considered reliable - "obviously a disgruntled employee who did not appreciate our efforts to improve the world" - that's going to be the thinking in some quarters.
Our government will find some way to use it against us.
They already record metadata relating to all our activities online I'm sure this will be used to pry into our lives even more.
While the word choice feels awkward, what the author is trying to say about generalized east coast culture versus generalized west coast culture is SPOT ON. I've lived in five states, on an island, and outside the USA as well, and I would absolutely use these kinds of examples to differentiate NYC from LA, or Philly from Seattle, etc. Most of the mid-west and southern Ontario fall into this "east coast" cultural norm as well (even more extremely on the kindness side).
I believe French foreign Legion, YPG, and possibly the Georgian National Legion (operating in Ukraine) accept non-citizens, although none of these are in the US. There is at least one foreign legion protecting Yazidis that does as well.
> The point I'm making is that it if we are trying to find a solution to these problems, the easiest one would be to take the billions in wealth - more wealth that can be spent in hundreds of lifetimes - away from the people who hold it and redistribute it to those who don't.

After you take that stock, who do you sell it to? (Simply confiscating it doesn't move resources around.) What are they not buying so they can buy this stock? More to the point, why are they going to buy that stock if they're not buying it today.

I could buy Amazon, SpaceX, Facebook, Google, stock but don't. Under this system, AWS will be less expensive but what are the odds that it will appreciate significantly? I ask because I buy stock to make money.

Who is better off if I buy SpaceX instead of living on that money while I work on my startup? (If I buy said stock, I'll need to get a job to cover living expenses. Maybe that stock will go up in value so I can live off it later, but I'm eating this week.)
Tech is big enough and experienced people have enough hiring power that I've never heard of anyone skilled that couldn't get another job even if they were as asshole, much less gave honest feedback.

I consider it part of my integrity that I try to bring to every job to give honest and direct criticism about things I found lacking, especially if I'm leaving because of those lacks.

Perhaps they fix them, perhaps they don't, perhaps it helps other people on the team, but I can't imagine an actual downside outside of highly specialized niches where one could actually be cut out of further opportunities even with competitors
DevCycle (YC W14) is hiring feature flag automation engineers
540B parameters means ~1TB of floating bytes (assuming BFLOAT16). Quadruple that for other associated stuff, and you'd need a machine with 4TB of RAM.
Counter-example: Motors consume >= 25% of all electrical power, and the majority of household and industrial motors are AC. Think air conditioners, fans, compressors, etc.
Since we are discussing ways of saving the world :-) This method would help to identify status:

"How to dismantle a nuclear bomb" (2019)

"MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction."

https://news.mit.edu/2019/verify-dismantle-nuclear-bombs-092...
That site gets mentioned in the article:

> As we’ve previously discussed, IVM Meta has some curious traits: it resolves to the same IP address as hcqmeta.com as well as c19legacy.com. HCQMeta uses the same kind of purported real time meta analysis to recommend for the use of hydroxychloroquine. C19 legacy has claimed to count the “unnecessary” deaths caused by doctors not using hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat COVID-19. All of these sites refer physicians to the FLCCC for “treatment protocols” and also promote the World Council for Health, a faux public health consortium that’s made up solely of ivermectin advocacy groups.
Oh good, I will give it a try in that case. I just found a couple of issues and a merge request that was later reverted so I assumed the dependency was still there.
They are so light that you can easily just block them without getting hurt with your arm, so to me seems something to avoid at all, instead of de-escalate the "aggressive" usage of a stick seems to be a method to call for physical fight.

Also for dogs, being long, they are far slower to move than the animal, witch means that they can only be used with the intention of trespass the dog skin with the tip, a thing typically not lethal (unless you are a dog killer with exercise) but very painful who likely get more aggressive then before...

If I want to de-escalate with someone much depend on the situation but in general remain calm and clearly indifferent works far better then appear threatening and aggressive. If I need to push aggressive docs I can just ignore them continuing my root OR if they come close enough hit them hard with a single kick, that's far less painful then being pierced by a pointed stick but also far more threatening for them, they feel "throw away" by a so superior force that's no point in keep attacking. If that's not enough hit their head will stop them anyway, if you have no choice a stick will be of no help...
I generally agree and here is something a little more fleshed out.

1. Postulate positive intent.
2. Verify intent when outcomes are negative.
3. Don't ignore a pattern.
4. Intent stops being relevant and strength of desire becomes more import with repeated negative outcomes.
5. Outcomes have to be evaluated separately when a dark triad person is involved.
In my experience both go hand in hand. 3D scanned meshes aren't particularly detailed and texturing them is far from simple.
Can we just fund the SEC and FTC and force them to do their job?
You're not responding to the point the OP is making though. They (and I) are aware that the military isn't making these decisions, and I'm not blaming the military for them. But who gets the blame isn't the question being asked here, it's whether we as individuals should join, and for that the question of blame is irrelevant. I would also serve if there was some kind of guarantee that I would only see deployment in self-defense or against another Hitler. But what I absolutely will not do is be cannon fodder in another imperialist war like Iraq or Afghanistan, and part of serving in the military means you don't get any choice in the matter. So I don't join.
I'd really, really want to have that.

The problem is, companies know these and they subtly sabotage these standardization efforts.

Look at the web. Desktop UI toolkits have had solid components since the start. From the late 80s and early 90s. The web is maybe getting them universally in 2024.

I mean, it's great that we have standards, but can you really afford to wait 30-40 years? I'll be frank with you, if you're a professional in our field, 30-40 years is your entire career. Many people in IT actually retire even earlier or move up to management and basically out of regular IT, after 5-10-15 years.

And people can only care so much. Heck, many Open Source hackers move on after 5-10 years. Only a handful last 30 years.

Faster moving standards are a sort of utopia, it seems.
It's Antitrust Day and the stakes are incredibly high
My point was that if your language has a dedicated facility for case analysis, you don't really need to use if statements for that purpose. You just use case. That's one answer to "why don't more languages have flow typing".
> Some men see things as they are and ask why, I dream things that never were and ask why not

-- George Bernard Shaw
> Assuming Perimeter worked as intended, it would finish the job automatically eliminating the fear that no one would be alive to fire a retaliatory strike. Moscow would not longer have to fire their nuclear weapons in a panic.

> ...This created a situation where the US and the Soviets were incentivized to fire at the slightest provocation: if Moscow thinks Washington launched a nuclear strike, Moscow better fire before American nukes come down.

> With the Dead Hand, Moscow could activate Perimeter which would listen for certain indications of nuclear strikes and if it was determined that a nuclear strike occurred, automatically launch Soviet nuclear weapons in retaliation.

If the Russians developed Perimeter to address these concerns, what did the US do? I'd assume it built more resilient command and control infrastructure with more delegation, because Russia seems less comfortable with decentralization than the US, but I don't really know.
> Nuclear power strike prices usually do include much of the long term costs

In theory yes, but given that they aren't able to predict correctly the cost of building a nuclear station, I don't see why we should trust them on predicting the real cost of dismantling them..
Minitorch is intended to be both an engine and high quality didactic material, from Cornell University, for the course 'Machine Learning Engineering'.

> the full student code for minitorch. It is designed as a single repo that can be completed part by part following the guide book

> Basic Neural Networks and Modules ; Autodifferentiation for Scalars ; Tensors, Views, and Strides ; Parallel Tensor Operations ; GPU / CUDA Programming in NUMBA ; Convolutions and Pooling ; Advanced NN Functions

See: http://minitorch.github.io/
“Upper class starts at $65k/yr” is peak Heritage Foundation.
I'm not sure I understand what "the game" is, and I'm in my mid-50's. I don't know whether I'm so good at the game I don't know I'm playing it--because nothing bad has happened--or, I'm not playing it at all--and nothing bad has happened. And I've been in this since the late 80's, through IBM, Microsoft, and Intel, not to mention two startups and contracting.

Can you elaborate what The Game actually is?
No :P

LaTeX is something that absolutely does not work for me. I've waste too many hours, days, maybe even weeks by now, fiddling with LaTeX oddities. I am done with it.
my thoughts exactly.

one of the biggest problems in contemporary times is politicians who pat themselves on the back (and encourage everyone who voted for them or who supports their party to also pat them and themselves on the back) for accomplishing something politically that Sounds Nice And Good On Paper but in reality doesn't change anything about anyone's situation. this problem long predated social media of course but it's pretty obvious that social media has only exacerbated things, because advocating for something that Sounds Nice And Good On Paper gets lots of user engagement (likes, retweets), which only goes to further the illusion that it's any sort of solution to any sort of problem.

why spend lots and lots of money to actually attempt to fix institutional, structural, or otherwise endemic issues for any group of people, when hollow PR-friendly gestures get you reelected just as easily?

in fact, it's even better to do make hollow, PR-friendly, Sounds Nice And Good On Paper-type gestures than to actually do anything, because in the process of promoting such maneuvers, you get to convince everyone "on your side" that you're doing something Necessary, Right, and Just, but, more importantly, anyone who disagrees with the empty gesture or calls you out for making hollow PR-friendly gestures to begin with can be easily dismissed as some kind of -ist Political Adversary! then you get to posture yourself against them and their -ism which leads to further back-patting (or, if you prefer, circlejerking).

it's hard to see a way out of this mess—where would one even begin to try to change this metastructure that prevents the change of further structures by incentivizing ineffectual bullshit gestures over Actual, Measurable Change That Improves Peoples' Lives?
If that rabbit hole appeals, the ITRS reports (now called IRDS[2]) are very good mid-level, year-by-year summary of the state of the art in chipmaking, including upcoming challenges and future directions.

> Being able to print something in nanometers is an overlooked technical achievement for human manufacturing.

IMO, a semiconductor fab probably is the
highest human achievement in terms of process engineering. Not only do you "print" nanometric devices, you do it continuously, in a multi-month pipelined system and sell the results for as little as under a penny (micros, and even the biggest baddest CPUs are "only" a thousand pounds, far less than any other item with literally a billion functional designed features on it).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Technology_Roadm...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Roadmap_for_Devi...
This is the correct take on it.

This isn't some call for seizing the means of production.

This is the right being upset that it doesn't have as good a grip on the web as it does with traditional mass media (radio, television, print).
My latest job is like that - from home with just a laptop. I used it as a secondary monitor (chat, email). At end of day i simply close it and turn on the desktop.
I, for one, genuinely miss Solaris--though when I think hard about it, I miss Sun hardware with SPARC in it more than Solaris itself.
Ah. Thanks! Interesting!
The author appears to be Gregory Reed, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh who focuses on grid things. He's also the Chief Science Advisor for: https://www.emergealliance.org/

Definitely seems like someone who would have appropriate knowledge to make statements like those in the article, though maybe with a vested interest in things.