skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my point is more that there are tons of various requirements that people have that are at best unreasonable and as a society we don't indulge every request that people make. One day someone comes in and says I must now refer to them as xe or emself after years of knowing them without mistake is not reasonable. I still refer to lots of women as their maiden names because that how I remember them. It isnt out of meanness or vitriol. That is just the label my brain still applies to them because I knew them for many years as that.

I dont care if you are male or female or whatever you want to be. I just want everyone to be happy to the extent they can be, but be tolerant of those who remember you as you were to them as well. It isnt just a switch you can turn off instantly.
The speed with which society is moving is also a factor.

Tacitus or Voltaire are variously credited with the notion that in any
epoch, to know who is in power, ask who you may not criticise.

I think Graham is slightly missing the point about our period. It's
not that heresy is on the up, so much as it's on the move. Outrage is
a homeless beast. We're in an Orwellian age where it changes with the
seasons, so what is heresy in one place and time is a tepid platitude
only next door the following week.

Also it is no longer power that metes out punishment, but the fanboi
acolytes or loyal minor apparatchik. It would have once been
"dangerous" (at least in a fairly pedestrian job) to say that Google
is a crappy old search engine, Facebook is a threat to democracy and
Microsoft are corrupt criminals. Today it's practically de rigueur
to cock a snook at jaded icons. It's practically a credential.
I agree, but if we're talking about the Jewish people who OP was talking about (in relation to overrepresentation), that's white Jewish people.
Well, I understood your post, but I have not seen any evidence for that. Is "high density urban" something that does not exist in the US? I've lived in several big metros and everywhere people seemed to love their cars. In case it's not clear, I am doubting your "most" qualifier, I am well aware some people don't like and don't want cars, I just think they are a tiny minority.

Also I don't understand how the car market is as same as the mandatory insurance market. There is a race to the bottom on the, say, auto-insurance market while the vast majority of car promotions do not mention price at all, at most advertising preferable financial terms.
The op only mentioned cryptographic checks, not signed and encrypted. Even then, the signature and encryption algorithms used are important and you should still have a MAC to detect alteration of the cipher text. Hence my AEAD suggestion.

Given the nature of the comms- to a device in the expanse of space- securing the transmission from malicious users seems like the last thing they should worry about. It’s more the accidental corruption of data, hence something like a CRC or simple MAC are sufficient for the circumstances. Why waste energy and CPU cycles on something you don’t actually need?
Manchester-London is 180 miles and takes 2h20, which isn't great, certainly not high speed, but that's being rectified. Pre covid it was 3 trains an hour for the majority of the day.
The only one of these that could fit Graham's definition of a heresy is the first one, and even then it would depend on what exactly you mean.
America went through something similar about a century or two ago before birth control was prevalent.

Because breastfeeding mostly delays the return of fertility, formula popularity resulted in a huge spike of babies. (Ancient societies would often breastfeed for more than two years).

As society gathers more data on the huge health and IQ impact of breastfeeding, it will become the norm again as it is in the west (for the fewer mothers that do exist…).
Recently I needed to reorder my network devices priority & I yarned for macOS over Linux in that moment. I don’t have to Google how to change network priority on a Mac.. it’s literally drag & drop.. vs Linux requiring the CLI.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Cats are often used in gory neurology research. The research is unnecessary and wasteful, most of it just grant-farming. [1]

https://www.peta.org/features/uw-madison-cruelty/
> DALLE-2 has and will likely for a long time have a lot of imperfections

Sure.

> that will never be fixed.

Less sure.

> Due to the inherit way that these GANs

Not a GAN. DALLE-2 uses a diffusion model for generation and a transformer/diffusion to convert CLIP text embeds to CLIP image embeds. DALLE-1 used a variational autoencoder, not a GAN. I mention this simply because both diffusion and VAE's seem to be more robust than GAN's (at the cost of slower inference times).

> It will probably take hundred of thousands of images at the least to create a decent looking image.

A little confused about this. DALLE-2 took hundreds of _millions_ of images to train, but it doesn't need even one to generate an image now. Having said that, finetuning requires small datasets like this and is perhaps what you meant?

> Each of which mind you is copyrighted.

I hear you on this - as it's a little devastating not to be even attributed for your work if you're a hard-working artist. However, training on datasets that aren't explicitly public domain or an open license is not a violation of copyright. Nor, at least presently, is releasing the weights of that model to the public. It would only be a violation to distribute the media itself - a problem which has been trivially circumvented by just releasing the URL's of the dataset for other researchers to download. In the case of smaller datasets, releases come with disclaimers that the data is not to be used for anything other than research. OpenAI of course has not even released the URL's for their web datasets.

> As Machine Learning Models are intellectual property

Hm, I think I agree that this could become an issue. You can see this in the licensing terms in StyleGAN2/3 already, for instance (typical nvidia, they basically own your outputs last time I read the thing).

At least in terms of what I've been seeing lately however, this won't be a very effective regulatory moat for AI companies. Research tends to be replicated rapidly by lots of brilliant open source developers. Sometimes, the paper even comes out long before the model is released giving plenty of time for a clean-room implementation. There are also of course great institutions like in Heidelberg doing bleeding edge, state of the art work and releasing _everything_. See e.g. latent-diffusion.

Machine learning requires lots of hardware - that's the best moat these companies can have. NVIDIA GPU's and Google TPU's are what's to be concerned about here.
> The reason the current wave of intolerance comes from the left is simply because the new unifying ideology happened to come from the left.

This is an (aggressively?) conventional idea that I have an (I guess) heretical opinion about. I'm somewhat persuaded that there is a recent outbreak of intolerance for differing ideas and ideals (though I suspect every generation expresses a version of this opinion as they get older and become out of step with cultural evolution), but I don't think it has any particular political valence. I have to watch my tongue just as much around "aggressive conventionalists" on either side, they just have different conventions. It's just as disqualifying as the x-isms from the left, if you care about staying in the good graces of convention on the right, to express opinions like "immigrants are good", "the 2020 US presidential election ran smoothly and had a clear victor who was duly inaugurated", "gender is a social construct", "people who are attracted to others of the same sex are normal and should have the same rights as anyone else", etc. etc.

Honestly I think this whole thing is as simple as, people just have different views and lots of people of all stripes don't want to agree to disagree with the people they spend most of their time with.
If you like the book, you’ll love the audiobook. Same content, but Andy reads it. It’s a great listen, especially if you haven’t read the book before.

That said, the book is simply presented and somewhat repetitive, so the material doesn’t exactly stand up to repeated listens much. But it’s still fun :)

The Headspace Guide to Mindfulness & Meditation audiobook by Andy Puddicombe
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/andy-puddicombe/the-headsp... (can be found on Audible, Kobo, Audiobooks.com etc.)

Has a few guided meditations at the end of the audiobook, though you might also get some value from the various ones posted for free by Headspace on their social media: https://youtube.com/c/headspace
Getting an HTTPS error in Firefox:

https://archive.ph/Mbufh
Because the compiler probably doesn’t have a stdin it can use at that point so you’d need to thread a feedback mechanism through the entire build process. You’re better off building that as a protocol that can be used by IDEs or LSP clients.
> does it use any stolen ip?

> The bigger question is, does it violate any patents?

The former implies the latter.

On the other hand if the IP isn't stolen but would still fall afoul of the patent then I would argue that the patent is wrongly provided. Patents don't exist to protect obvious implementations.

I'm not a lawyer but we all know patent law is all kinds of fucked up.
I've always thought of ASI as more "statements are separated for you but if you need them to be separated in a special way you can add semicolons to manually control separation behavior" than a "you forgot semicolons, let me fix your code for you". Pretty much the same as the argument for optional braces being a language feature not an auto-correction.

That said when you look at either in terms of how they are implemented it'll seem like a correction feature. I think the real difference between auto-correction and optional syntax is simply whether or not the language spec designed it to be optional.
> I don't understand what zones are here.

Cool article.

I setup a wireguard tunnel back to a mail server hosted at home once, gotta have that PTR and my ISP isn't giving me one. I cobbled the instructions together from 3 or 4 different blogs to get exactly what I needed in my particular situation. There was all this stuff about source NATing which was like a foreign language to me and I was in "get it to work" mode so I just kind of blew past it. It seemed interesting and I got the gist of it but in the end I had a script full of iptables commands and I'm not really sure what they did, other than that they did what I wanted.

I love that he mentions something like that here. There's a real temptation to sweep that kind of thing under the rug to puff yourself up and look more knowledgeable, and it certainly would have gone unnoticed by me if he chose to do that. Props.
Who cares? Intellectual property frankly makes no sense if you don’t worship money.
Well, that was a cheerful Sunday morning reading. It was shocking how devastating even <1 percent of the world’s stockpile being used, much less most of it.
And EA
Why don't you want to do the IDE-style parsing in a compiler?
I was assuming OP wasn't that clueless - but even if they are (and I know there are people like that, and I get the frustration), snapping at the junior person directly is really counterproductive. Especially in the context of the rest of OP's situation, it's clear that they're not getting any structured instruction, and if you throw a lot of stuff at someone in a haphazard way they're not going to retain it. My current job had a really disorganized onboarding process, and 18 months later I do occasionally still have to ask for reminders about basic Jira processes or test/deploy setups that I don't use every day.

My response would be to answer the question when they ask it, then wait for a calmer time and ask the process questions if you need to (or better yet, ask the junior employee's manager first):

* "Hey, it feels like we've been through X a few times now. I'd rather you ask if it's not clear, but is there something that isn't clicking for you in my explanation?"

* "I was a little surprised when you asked me about X, because that's something that we usually cover in first-week or first-month onboarding. Was it not covered then? Is there something unclear in the documentation from then?"
Somewhat related: https://maddy.email and the libraries it's built on such as go-smtp https://github.com/emersion/go-smtp
Chemistry labs, companies that want to get rid of expensive to dispose of chemicals? A lab I worked for was caught decades ago (before my time) because bottles of chemicals were found in a rogue landfill with the name of the lab on them that allowed to track the origin. Turns out the chemical waste company didn't do the job it was paid for.
> Today, your tribe is literally global.

What's worse is tribes also have strongarms inside corporations. If the Internet mob wants to get someone fired for saying something, they just reach out to the local chapter of strongarms and make demands/walkouts against the company until they get their way.
OK so we're talking about affirmative action then?

I'm talking about interpretation. I think that conservative pundits try to get people to interpret diversity initiatives as an attack against white people. I think people can also come to those conclusions by themselves too of course. But that's why I wanted an example: there's like a dozen programs you might be taking offense to but given that I don't take offence to them myself, I'd need an example.
I've resorted to downloading and using the legacy version of Evernote. I find this version is more stable.

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Ins... (Windows/Mac)

I've archived this install package in case the URL dies.

Edit: This is version 7.14.1
Sounds like you might’ve gotten a counterfeit. This can happen even if you buy from Amazon, because they commingle 3rd party goods and their own. I ordered some incense samplers, and some of them were clearly fake. Who would fake something so cheap? At this point it seems almost anything is a candidate. Amazon feels like a gamble every time you buy now.
Honestly I try not to. It's better for my mental health just to comment and leave it. I'm not perfect at this but I'm working on it.
That is a great point. Eclipse in Java in the past 5+ years has started auto completing beginning of expressions. As someone who started programming in vi, it's really enjoyable. It doesn't do everything, but strings, statement completions, loops and scopes, even variable naming and selection, etc all autocomplete. I realize that's not quite the same as autocorrect, but it works well. Second, with the OpenAI GPT-3 stuff, it does generate syntactically correct code, though I haven't learned to trust it enough to generate semantic instantiations of what I'm thinking.
There is an ocean of difference between "teaching children about sexuality in an appropriate manner" and "grooming".

Comparing teaching to grooming and considering the two the same is a bad-faith argument.

Anything that could realistically be considered grooming would NEVER appropriate, even with your so called "parental consent". Even with adults.

Just because you call something "grooming" doesn't make it so.
Sarah, OP: What a great summary! I learned a lot from these two long pages.

Appreciate with some reservations this lead:

“I personally consider these experiments cruel and gratuitous (their medical benefit to humans is too often dubious) and though some such experiments are referenced here, Messybeast.com does not support this form of experimentation.”

I understand the political context of starting this way, and as a cat lover it resonates too easily even with me.

But in essentially all western-eastern-northern-southern societies (modern or ancient) that routinely kill and eat such clever beasts as cows, pigs, monkeys, horses, sheep, goats, bunny rabbits, octopi, and all manner of birds, I wonder if “gratuitous and cruel” are the right words. And this wuestion is especially relevant when, as you admit, so much of your cool overview relies on that scientific work. This is cognitive dissonance at its best—-well intentioned but still unrooted. Too “woke” for me.

I would say no: You cannot have this particular cake and eat it too!

And definitely not true the this “gratuitous and cruel” work was either gratuitous and cruel or that it has not contributed greatly to clinical care of humans. It has. Half of what we know (a bit rhetorical) about brain plasticity and repair following brain damage comes from exactly this type of work.

It is intellectually disingenuous to be squeamish, even if a cat lover, if you then use these finding.

And if one is NOT also a strict vegetarian, then please stay silent—-you have no standing in this court of ethical conundrums.
> mirrors are not truly a natural phenomenon

That's true of course. Mirrors (looking glasses) are a human construct made to please human psychology.

> So there is a chance that something more fundamental and novel is going on in the cat's mind.

The cat's reaction is interesting, I fully agree. It's a mammalian brain.

But humans will inevitably imagine much more. As part of modern inevitability, social media (another kind of mirror) will be monetised with the wildest speculation.

Next we'll have Feline Blockchain. (Please don't tell me... there is already a subreddit for it?)
It’s not, and random commenters don’t mean anything.

Amtrak is a state owned enterprise. It is for profit, but it’s understood that it’s an economic multiplier.
Provable identity: you get an email, hi i'm a hiring manager from company X, can we get in touch about job Y, could you please send me your (secret) phone number?

It should be possible for you, the receiver of the email, to check if the email originated at company X.

Digital Notary: this came up in several data privacy discussions. You (A) are in contact with B, but you don't want to send B something like a scan of your passport (e.g. for age restricted services). So you disclose the passport scan to Notary and he sends B the message, the passport was disclosed to me and the person is >21.
They are on the next phase already. Take your hands of the keyboard right now, we sent agents to prevently arrest you:

"Crime prediction software 'adopted by 14 UK police forces'"

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47118229

"The dangerous rise of policing by algorithm"

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/th...
> Also, the whole premise of warheads burning up on reentry is a bit ridiculous.

Is it? These warheads have to reach a significant fraction of orbital velocity. North Korea's test isn't really relevant here, as we have very little details on the actual test. There's a reason the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty existed. If it was possible for any missile to target europe, then it wouldn't have been necessary in the first place (and would have been nonsensical). When you're travelling that low, at that speed, the only option is really going to be hypersonic glide vehicles.

Now the hypersonic missiles are a recent development, and it's not clear how many have been deployed or even constructed. I'm in agreement that they could easily target europe though.

The question with Iskander is how many are currently deployed with nuclear warheads, and how long would it take to increase that number? They seem only useful in a first strike, but any attempt to load them with nuclear warheads would likely be seen by NATO intelligence.

Gravity bombs, if they're used in a first strike, it won't be a decapitation or even a strategic strike; it'll just be a demonstration of force.
> Therapy doesn't "solve" anything by itself, you must see it as a tool to help you put your mind in a better position so that you can solve your problems.

One part of mediation is resisting the temptation to try and solve anything. You improve being able to notice each thought, acknowledge in a non-judgemental way and then allow it to continue moving through the station. The next thought will be arriving shortly. Mind the gap please.
we use our in-house baked engine - open sourced here https://github.com/varchar-io/nebula

Yeah, Tinybird has lots of similarities, I will do more research on it, thanks for the reference.
I'm thinking the ISP in upstate New York misunderstood the situation in a way similar to the comment above you.
Probably missing. I respond to the post that explains that people drive expensive cars they don't want because they are big and well marketed with an example of cheap big cars and a request for a referral to a marketer able to oversell tens of thousand dollars of useless goods.
A statement, on its own, isn't "x-ist".

Choosing to make a particular statement at a particular time, in a particular context, in order to promote an "x-ist" agenda is "x-ist".

That's the same whether or not the statement is true.
Evernote does a lot more than text. For me, the first killer feature was taking a picture of a whiteboard after a meeting. The photo metadata is indexed (date, time, location) and all the text in the photo is recognized as well. Evernote’s text recognition works better for me than any other solution I’ve tried, although Apple is getting pretty good at that too.
This. Embrace the quiet!

Was strange at first to me too but makes a lot of sense and I appreciate HN not consuming more of my time and adversely impacting my mental health because of it.
> the "Moore" of Moore's law?

I don't know why I find this so funny, but "Moore's Law" is Gordon Moore, founder of Intel...
If there's above-ground electricity, there should be rules about getting pole access. And from what I understand those poles, and anything underground, work by getting easements rather than negotiating separately with every individual property owner.
That can be desirable but there are a few challenges:

- The compiler code becomes more complicated, making correctness harder

- The compiler might become slower to run

- Introducing new languages features may become harder, again due to code complexity
Not probably exactly what you're looking for but autohotkey can act as a typo-corrector, you can maybe search for "ahk autocorrect".
It's baffling that there are no open-source implementations of proper swipe typing, at least for Android. AnySoftKeyboard has it, but it's not nearly the same as Swype and such, and is prone to mistakes. It could use some kind of a better approach.

Notably, with Swype and OKeyboard I could drag my thumb just in the vicinity of the target letters, and they tended to guess the word right, basing the guess mostly on the turns in the swipe (at least it felt that way). ASK requires me to tap the first letter precisely, and is sensitive to me hitting the subsequent ones, while the corners of the swipe aren't so useful.

Using a closed-source keyboard app feels very icky. OKeyboard was fine and advertised that it's secure because it has no permission to access the network—until it suddenly added that permission in an update, without changing the app description.
Oh I definitely believe you -- just confirming my read of your statement was correct.
> Is there an alt-right

It's a nicer form of the term fascist.

Here is more information to start with, as well as several linked sources, compiled by people for your benefit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
I’ve seen products get replaced with something completely unrelated as well. These scar removal sheets used to be Listerine floss according to my order history: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00NHWZ17K

I find myself ordering from Amazon less and less, in part because I am tired of wading through all the crap and fake reviews. I’ve been a Prime member for years, but I’ve decided not to renew it. The recent price increase doesn’t help, nor does all the negative PR around how they treat employees.
I usually just don't. The UX is just terrible. Sometimes I get a reply while still browsing the same thread and will respond but otherwise don't bother to check.