skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entire post can be summed up as "this is my answer, here is me rationalizing correlation=causation without any empirical evidence".

We could dissect the entire thing but really, if that is how it works for you, fine. Just don't push it onto others as the absolute truth. If this stuff was really so great, empirical research would've hammered it home decades ago. But it doesn't, and continues to struggle finding any meaningful correlations between these "whacky fun strategies" and actual job performance.
That was me who posted that :) seems unrelated, but still hoping to get that figured out anyway.
That seems like a very unlikely scenario which can be handled with a timeout.
> For RL, all we need ask is, "what will the machine do when it encounters an object outside of your pregiven disjunction?"

> The answer, of course, is fall over.

There is no reason to think humans are qualitatively different in this regard, it is just that it does not happen very often. One case where it does is that humans pilots, no matter how competent, are incapable of flying without external visual references or instrument proxies for them.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/4Q420
I'm not a security expert, but if you're reading this and wondering what to do, a good start could be to just assume your repo was accessed, and so to run a tool like gitleaks against your repo. If it detects anything sensitive, I'd see about revoking/deleting those secrets right away.

In general, it's good practice not to check anything sensitive into source code for precisely this reason (if your code is compromised you don't want your secrets to be as well). So it'd also be good practice to add something like gitleaks into your CI/CD pipeline for the future.
I wonder if things are too centralized nowadays - you are either on Twitter or not on Twitter. Whereas in the case of a BBS or IRC, you could be ban from one board/channel/server but not another, so everyone can have their own standard of free speech.

I guess this is still kind of the case for reddit? But given how concentrated moderation power is on reddit, and reddit's ability to de-platform whole communities, I don't know how true it still is.
These people for the most part arent actual artists. They're great looking narcissists - who can sorta sing.

A real artist creates art whether its recognized or not, for the love of creating it.
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There is no middle. Only outsides.

Like a klein bottle but also not.
Note: My terminology was wrong: What I argued against, and called “land-value tax”, is more properly called “real estate property tax”. As the article did not advocate for this, my argument is irrelevant to the article, or possibly in agreement with it.
Living presidents are controversial, human, figures. Dead presidents are saints, almost martyrs to the cause of democracy irrespective of how they actually die. America builds temples to them (aka presidential libraries) to which some followers make pilgrimages. It is downright strange.
Yeah this is exactly right. In my hometown, we have a beautiful view, but people are always pushing for taller more dense housing, because they say it’s unaffordable. However if they win they will destroy what makes this place great in the first place.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to keep a town smaller and more simple. If the residents were there first and exerted their way into the community they have that right.

I don’t really understand any other argument. There are lots of up and coming cities nowadays, you are free to live there, you are also free to be creative and make more money.
Putin’s Ruble Standoff with Europe Risks De Facto Gas Embargo
Truly do not understand this point of view. The strictly chronological presentation is too easy to flood with unwanted posts.
In its time they said the RC 2000 was the worlds fastest paper tape reader.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnecentralen#Peripheral_bu...
I meant what I said, but I was wrong, thanks.
There's a case to be made that he's better off.
OH! I've clearly misunderstood then. Rereading, it does look like this is just a hypothetical to illustrate the tension between allowing pointer-int-pointer round-trips and foiling analysis based on pointer provenance. OK I'm caught up, thank you haha.
Why not make the ban evident in a log of changes to a user's feed and allow that user to personally unban who they like? For a wide-swath of use cases from the recent past, the posts that incited the bans were not criminal in nature.
Is this data speaking, or your personal biases speaking? Because if the first, I'd love to look at said data.
I did some patent research on alternative keyboards about 30 years ago. Frankly, even then, there was an unusual density of innovation in this technology. To be clear, there was about 5X more variants on the keyboard than I would have expected prior to my deep research.

As a former patent attorney, working in various industries, a good rule of thumb is that only 1 in 3 inventions ever get implemented commercially. Back in the 1990's, in the keyboard field, it was about 1 in 10. The chief problem with keyboard innovations, even ones that are demonstrably more efficient, is that its a little like asking people to reverse driving on the right-hand-side (here in N. America), and go to left-side-of-the-road driving. You have to break a lot of ingrained 'finger memory' -- and, to some extent, be sure that your peers are doing the same.

I think, then, for that reason, such keyboards never amounted, as a whole, to be more than 1-2% of the entire market. Literally, 100 different keyboards (than QWERTTY) are outsold, by a factor of 100X by QWERTY
> I wouldn't put too much weight into any sort of imputed probability from the price.

It's absolutely fair to impute a rough probability of deal closure from the stock price. The whole "merger arbitrage" industry works around that premise.

Sometimes the market doesn't think a deal has a 100% chance of closing (like MSFT and LinkedIn) and it still closes. There were valid antitrust concerns circling that deal, e.g. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/298573-salesforce-rais...
The discussion is about whether people can see what the algorithms are doing. Read only access to the code so they cannot manipulate people into their belief system or arbitrary shadow-ban rules.

You’re right about human judgement but that’s not the topic. The central point, I repeat emphatically, is about transparency, not governance.

Twitter can continue exactly the same way but just be transparent. The intense pushback is because they’ve holed themselves into an untenable position? Not sure why people are so against transparency. Maybe they lied in congressional testimonies?
This - this is important!
You have the same belief that you are now lampooning libertarians over. That is what your initial comment implied:

>>Don’t wear seatbelts either huh?

The implication here is that someone who on principle, opposes mandated health care, may as well oppose seatbelt laws.

In fact I saw many proponents of mandates prohibiting private citizens from providing a wide range of services to unvaccinated people, cite society's acceptance of restaurant sanitary permits, to justify these mandates. So this belief - that there is
no principled difference between any restriction on private interaction - appears to be widely held among anti-libertarians.

>>That is why there isn’t much anti-libertarian ideology

Anti-libertarian ideology is the belief that we as a society have a right to impose our will on peaceful people, and in doing so deny them the right to their person, property and liberty, for the greater good.

To give a mundane example, it means restaurants having to meet mandatory minimum health standards, even if there are patrons who are willing to dine at restaurants which don't meet those standards.

Once that principle is accepted, then anything can be accepted, even locking 150,000 elderly people in their room for over a year, for their own safety:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-covid-...

Or taxing people of 50 percent of their income.
IIUC, brk and sbrk have been removed from POSIX, and using mmap() just to allocate memory is a pretty weird way to use mmap(), and probably not what you would want for a implementation of malloc().
For me, the worst is this:

"As for Go itself, there is no tracking per se but the go command does by default connect to a Google-run module proxy and checksum database, as is noted on the home page below the download button as well as at the top of https://go.dev/dl/. That page in turn links to https://proxy.golang.org/privacy, which explains exactly what information is and is not collected, and for how long"
They are clearly joking. They start off with conspiracy theorists not being real.
"Github System" removed the Heroku Dashboard key and a personal user account of someone that seems to work at neither GitHub nor Travis removed my Travis CI key (????)
He may have started with less than the median American when he emigrated. Rich parent doesn't always equal rich kids. The ones that are mostly just consume. It's plainly obvious he's not some rich trust fund kid.

Which is why so many people are threatened by Elon's success and project their own insecurity onto him. Unresolved personal insecurity and envy are a potent combination. I promise this is unhelpful and it's better to resolve one's own insecurity than to spend time projecting it.
> inheriting the role is not seen as a full president

Just in the 20th century, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson directly contradict your statement.

Your statement does describe the most recent case, afore, but it’s such an oddball case it’s not surprising it’s an outlier.
I wish they'd just let me control what I see. Sure, throw an occasional ad in there to make money. It would be hard to blame them for the nastiness on Twitter if they didn't control it.
Cuprous oxide produces Rydberg polaritons, hybrid particles of light and matter
Sounds like a bad idea. Bad actors would immediately exploit it and figure out how to most effectively flood everyone with spam, same as if Google's exact algorithms were public. Not everything has to be open.
so your solution is to make the microplastics smaller?
I guess that settles it. You know a 20 something guy. Why even bother mentioning falling real wages, increased housing prices, rising student debts, etc. it’s TikTok’s fault.
> allow the users to spin the dials

If I could pick something to regulate about recommendation algorithms, probably a big part of it would be mandating consumer controls over the algorithm. Complete transparency might be hard when sometimes even the programmers of these systems don't have the ability to see why they recommend what they do, but there should definitely also be mandatory oversight by consumer protection agencies that have full ability to audit the code and report on it.
> That isn’t accurate, the CPC (let’s use the correct acronym at least, even if the word order is different in Chinese)

No thank you. The English web is still wholey organized around the term CCP. I'm not going to switch my terminology because the party wants me to, no matter how nicely they ask.

> doesn’t dictate, they just tell the private companies “don’t allow anything that will make us mad”,

You are aware of the definition of dictate correct? So, you can see how that is what that is, no? Vague, sure, but that's still a command, and still carries legal consequences if you do it wrong. Just because Xi doesn't feel the need to create a formal list everytime a new meme pops up doesn't make it less of dictation.

> The internet companies would of course be in a much better place if the government just did all the filtering for them

Cost savings for the party I suppose.

> the government simply maintains a list of what to block that all ISPs (most state owned) plug into.

Wait, I thought it was vague? Sounds like it's absolute, just ever changing. That's not what vague means.
Was it clear to anyone in what way it's stronger than steel? The article mostly talks about applications where it's used as a coating. At the same time it says the sheets can be layered and create very strong bonds. Why can't I make the entire object out of this polymer? Is it hard to tear but not very rigid/too floppy? It sounded like it won't bust the bank either.
This comment is making a "slight of hand" itself: how do we define the metric for kNN? That will directly impact kNN performance.

Using Euclidean norm over pixels on imagenet will not get you anywhere.

By recasting classification into a kNN lens you're basically (in the large data regime) recasting the problem to kernel learning under some underspecified RBF kernel with an unknown "proximity" metric instead of Euclidean.

In grad school, someone in my lab actually tried scaling kernel methods directly to imagenet too. I don't think that ended up working naively (an interesting neural variant worked for CIFAR10, though [1]).

If all NNs are doing is efficiently learning an appropriate kNN metric (or, more idiomatically and generally put, learning kernel parameters for some implicit neural kernel), that's still really powerful and all we've done is just renamed "learning representations."

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02237
Your comment is a bit misleading, I doubt you looked for more than 30 seconds at that lib's documentation given the lack of detail in your response.

Just to be clear; I would never use that lib in any circumstance right now, I'd always prefer async/await for idiomatic reasons.

But please have a look at http://caolan.github.io/async/v3/docs.html#controlflow

Forever, queue, series, times, retry, until, waterfall, whilst, etc etc... these are patterns that can all be achieved with promises too but I am sure most devs will do a google search before they do. In fact; some patterns are better served by a library.

Only just yesterday I added https://www.npmjs.com/package/p-limit to get concurrent promise limitation behaviour; one of the many features of that async-lib as well.

Don't misinterpret this as me suggesting these features should be added to the standard; far from it. Community libs do this job quite well.

I moved on from async, I moved on from Promises and embraced async/await.

Do I like it? No, I much rather use Golang's channels. But async/await is idiomatic and plenty of libs out there to handle complex use cases.

Almost everyone has moved on, and anyone writing promises at this moment is just creating legacy for anyone who is going to maintain it. Is that a good reason in itself? No, but it is a very valid one, that is my point.
At least one state wants their tax money from illegal income. North Carolina has an Unauthorized Substances Tax, where you buy a tax stamp covering your possession of the items (various drugs and/or moonshine).

https://www.ncdor.gov/taxes-forms/other-taxes-and-fees/unaut...

From talking to folks I used to know at the Department of Revenue, they have never sold any stamps to people in advance of the cops arriving on the scene. Only to stamp collectors.

The tax rate for marijuana is $3.50 for each gram (or fraction thereof) above 42.5 grams. Bulk spirituous liquor is $12.80 per gallon.
So, I'm not entirely sure what this post is describing. It doesn't seem like there is a "kernel.org transparency log" in general, but it's something that the blog author is maintaining?

However, a "Git transparency log" does sound like a good idea at several levels. Is anyone else looking into this?
It's just a warmup. Tells me how the candidate thinks about such things. In production code of course the max size is limited to avoid DoS. My bug in Samba was missing the behavior of the zero case.
Recommender systems like Twitter are as much about data as they are about code. Without the dataset and the derived statistics and models that are used for ranking and recall, the code is not going to help much with transparency.
> Those companies have often been sink or swim though and if you don’t make the grade you’ll be kicked out pretty quick. My last company had a reputation for new starts disappearing and not great that way, but the team was probably the strongest bunch of people I’ve ever worked with as only do good survived.

This is not what I would call a "strong" team. This is what I would call a developmentally stunted team. By that I mean they've reached competency as individuals, but they have limited ability to level up fellow developers. As such, they are not a producer of talent and rely on actual strong teams for their hiring pool. In my experience, these teams are best avoided if you actually care about growth.
transparency would mean that every action they take gets scrutinized to absurdity, there’s no way they’d open that door of their own volition
> My point is that building code coming from my local drive is much less problematic than automatically downloading the code from some random website.

How does the code get on your hard drive? I'd imagine from downloading it from some random website (arguably _more_ random since it's less likely to be a centralized place like crates.io). Or you could vendor the dependencies so that they're included when you get the source code for the thing you're working on, but as mentioned throughout this discussion, cargo lets you do that too.
The absence of something like a land value tax, and/or the current zoning/tax regime, can cause distortions in the market when things change, also.

San Fransisco is a good example, where new housing is not being built to satisfy demand, causing property values to increase, and property taxes are prevented from increasing.

Children can't afford to live in the neighborhood where they grew up because housing costs too much, older people can't downsize because they'll loose their tax breaks, teachers and police officers can't afford to live in the neighborhoods they service, the character of the neighborhood changes as it gentrifies as only the rich can afford to move there, increasing income inequality as the rentier class grows richer through their subsidized investments, etc.
Given that he just stated in this thread he doesn’t believe in Solaris/SmartOS ecosystem - probably not then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31052035
I think it mostly exists at the level of folk lore right now, with preliminary bridges. I’ve spoken some with people at, eg HoTT 2019 or Topos Institute speakers, but I think the state of publishing is that the other direction is being worked out fully — since it solves problems in the math community like accelerating proof engines via GPUs. (Maybe, I hope.)

There’s three approaches to seeing the connection:

1. If the manifold hypothesis is true, then the semantic information between the original manifold and reduced manifold will be in the topology of that map — and your TT is a relabeling of the synthetic topology description.

2. For the convolution comment, take a TT statement, view it as a CuTT structure, and draw the construction diagram of that “shape”. Project that into a matrix encoding and… convolutions are right-side type division! Eg, finding a submatrix that matches “Line(…)” in your overall matrix. But it’s right-sided division since you can only remove the “innermost” factor in a product that way. (There’s also a left-handed, but it’s less relevant here.)

3. The paper on ML via hyper plane splits to create data coverings also suggests that what we really want to know is the topological relationships between kinds of data. This is furthered by, eg, “animal” in word2vec ideally being the centroid of the open ball covering animals, as they’re embedded.
Researchers discover new cell type in human lung with regenerative properties
Why Twitter shareholders should sell out to Elon Musk
yes, the american dream being "born rich" is the postmodern satire re-enactment of the original. It features a white african for diversity.
Simple solution, unfollow the spammers.
An unmoderated chronological feed would simply be a running list of every tweet from every one.

A screen full of this feed would just be tweets made at the moment the data for the screen refresh was fetched.

Is that what you or anyone wants?
Not matter how much will be repeated, both claims are still false. Had been debunked here extensively before.
Hmm, birds are fake, birds are dinosaurs, dinosaurs look like lizards, therefore lizard people are fake.
My father had a Mac at home, for work. I used it for games. But i was much too young/inexperienced to really understand or enjoy Hypercard.
Nowadays I use and love Obsidian for personal knowledge management.
I wonder the philosophical gap between both tools.
I think Zig prefers explicit memory management, because allocations may fail and should be handled explicitly, and because automatic deallocations lead to hard-to-predict lifetimes (excess memory usage, and bugs for resource handles that are destructed at hard to predict moments).

These are things that a "systems language" programmer should put in the work to do correctly/near-optimally, and not ask the compiler to just do something "good enough", like Python would.
How does this work if they only have coded as part of jobs? Do you assume everyone is working on some side project or open source?
Or the NSA commits illegal massive surveillance at a global scale, and an NSA analyst reveals it then gets asylum in Russia and US citizens shrug and move on forgetting it ever happened.
Oil refinery workers in remote areas get paid a fortune and live in low cost centres, they work for a few years and retire early.

That does kind of sound like a punishment of the future: you have to do 'manual labour' - which people are so unwilling to do, that it also happens to be the highest paid.

White collar workers make TikToks for lattes, Blue Collar workers are the high income earners.

It's already kind of happening.
Nope... just your computer. Still ransomware.
Perception in animals changes the structure of their bodies as they are coordinating with their environment, such that they acquire motor techniques and hence new ways of structuring their perceptions.

Perceiving the world isnt a passive activity in which facts strike your eyes. The world doesnt have these facts, there is no data, and nothing from which to simply "average to a template".

When light strikes your eye, there is no "keyboard" in it. Nothing in it from which derive even a template of a keyboard.

There are only templates in datasets we prepare -- and we dont prepare them by actually "encountering datasets in reality". Rather, we arrange reality and measure it so-as-to-be-templateable.

What animals have is the ability, with effort, to engage in this dynamic -- to arrange the world to make it knowable. It is this process of arrangement which requires intelligence; not "taking the average after it has happened".

There is nothing in the world to be "percieved" in the ML sense, as in: ready for analysis. That's an illusion we construct: we make "perceiable data".

It is our bodies, and our concerns, which make the world itself perceivable. The world itself is infinitely dense with infinities stacked on infinities. There isnt "data" to be templated.

And this isnt theorertical: no ML system will ever work. All that works is our data preparation.
I think it’s part of the joke (and by consequence of real life conspiracy theories) that you will never know for sure what is the true. Good, lasting CTs are by definition impossible to disprove completely. It is up to you to decide what is real without anyone telling you. It is a good exercise.
Exactly. “Here’s the code for our matrix multiplication, dot product, and sorting; you’re welcome to check it for bugs.”
I understood parent as: The unnecessary deaths count in China since the Great Leap is obvious and provides the learning opportunities. But sadly none are taken and death toll is ongoing. But hopefully someday learning and philosophy can take place as it did in the West after the war. If I read that right, what in there is so inflamatory to you?