skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As part of Derw, I've added an English output generator[0], with the idea that the output could be used to improve error messages or help developers understand unfamiliar syntax, particularly for those more used to Javascript rather than ML. Similar concept to cdecl

0 - https://mobile.twitter.com/derwlang/status/15057099820246712...
> we have also seen China systematically destroy its Tech industry in favor of more materially-productive enterprises.

Could you elaborate more on China destroying it's tech industry?

My understanding would suggest it's better phrased as the US is destroying it's tech industry by doubling-down on unproductive enterprises. Too much of our tech industry is focused on building walled gardens and inventing new ways to be a middle-man or nickel and dime people.

China is actually taking a strong stance against the current wild west of getting children addicted to gambling with microtransactions.
Well, I can't count myself as a community since here I'm almost alone in IT physical community terms, but I'm an ex-urban (from a big city) person who decide to go rural, not much rural, in the sense that I'm still "near enough" to have a certain level of services, good enough connections etc, but still rural in a low-density area (French Alps, ~60Km from Sophia-Antipolis though)...

I do not really live a pastoral life, behind very small scale personal vegetable garden behind the house, but around here there are few agricultural enterprises with some carrots, potatoes, chickpeas, lentils cultivation and (small) herds of cows, sheep, goats, with limited milk, meat and cured meats products. It's still far more a tourist place with a big golf (the highest in the region), crag, canyoning, paragliding, a small aeroclub with gliders and small STOLs etc.

Respect of the big city, downsides:

- less services, even if there are enough they are not as near and 24/7/365 available, it's not an issue in ordinary life but might be in some cases, like something broke and you need a replacement Saturday afternoon and Christmas Eve or you need to go to the nearby hospital, urgent but not as urgent to justify a chopper transfer, or just an unexpected desire to go to a Chinese restaurant/pizzeria/* and there are almost none nearby;

- little variety of neighbors witch means a still "intensive" social life, since people are far more social than the city, with continuous invitations for lunch, dinner, ... but near-zero "cultural social life" in the sense of meet up with people of similar cultural/technical interests, you can just go to the nearest city/agglomeration for that;

- some services (electricity and connectivity) are aerial so outages are a bit more frequent than the substantially zero I've experienced in cities. That's not a real issue if you are equipped (I have a small p.v. with lithium storage and my connection have a good enough 4G/dummy 5G (700MHz) backups, no data/speed/* caps), they are actually burying many lines but so far I've experienced around two/three time/year 1-10' power outage casually one of few hours, half-a-day casual connectivity outage the new buried FTTH should solve that before next winter.

pro:

- far more relaxed life, commuting when needed is of longer range, but faster, without queues, accidents, parking issues, on still good and well entertained roads (winter included);

- vast selection of activities in nature, if you like them like me: going climbing means just going nearby, hiking? Potentially there is even no need for a car!

- available services are less, but of better quality, like when you go to the Drive supermarket you are the first or at maximum the second served, you can even phone "hey, I see an impromptu offering of climbing strawberry plants, can you put 4 aside? I'll be there tomorrow!" etc

- more freedom of movement by any means, even if for many activities you are tied to a car and it's not "rural" enough to own a cheap old STOL or mosquito chopper to goes around (well, at least for 99% of the residents, very few have small choppers to connect them with the shore).
> XML is needlessly complicated

For messaging purposes, it is absolutely identical to JSON in this regard. Once you have many existing implementations out in the wild that need to interact with each other, you'll need namespaces or their NIH analogue. And JSONs with namespaces will be just as bloated as XML.

Understand this: xml is meant to be read by computers, not humans.

> The criticisms linked are all valid, and there are good reasons it's being abandoned

It's 2022 and there is still nothing better for federated messaging.
>> can you not see how staggeringly self-centred it is to insist that if readers have to Google your idioms that's the beauty of language

You know what's self-centered? Telling the whole world that they're writing the right or wrong way. Believing everyone reads the way you do. Believing you know what words they should use and what their aims are in addressing a reader.

>> Honestly, the word privilege is overused, but I can't think of anything more apt to describe a cohort of people so far removed from any real threat that the most tyrannical thing they can think of is a clunky grammar check feature.

The grammar check feature is the thin end of a wedge. Who's more privileged than someone worried one of the world's largest companies is setting policies that restrict or nudge private language in billions of documents? I guess "more privileged" would be the people who have no understanding of the history of political suppression of language and think that using the word "landlord" is a form of "harm" or "violence" which entitles a company to involve itself in the content of people's letters (and here, any comparison to spell checking is totally disingenuous). Anyone who believes language is "violence" and supports policing it is either a totalitarian or so privileged themselves as to have never seen violence.

It's not a question of being able to turn the feature off: It's the sheer monomaniacal hubris of people who think they have a right to be the voice in someone's ear or on someone's text document, trying to dissuade them from using words you arbitrarily don't like in a bid to control their behavior. That is exactly the nature of tyranny and totalitarianism. Only people with such extreme privilege as to have grown up far away from those things can pretend it's simply promoting "inclusivity".

BTW bro, have you looked at that photo of yourself at Machu Pichu on your website? You're the poster child for privileged people misusing "privilege".

>> whingefests

This also betrays your kind. "Quit whining" is a favorite line of most bullies. You're the kind of bully who gets their hands on a leftist idea instead of a fascist/racist idea, but show precisely the same lack of thought. They do try to make these virtue signaling behaviors and speech patterns easier for frat boys these days - makes you guys easier to switch off whenever they feel like turning accusations of "privilege" against you.
You say failure but this is yet another successful grift. Most of them bought homes decades ago and are cashing out at 3-5x without putting any money into it. They're retiring very well off, hence the cost of retirement communities. We will get through housing painfully only to have to deal with retirement costs after that.
Thanks. I will read this paper.
"Increases in productivity accrue benefits" refers not the material benefits of new technology, but the increased profits that arise from reducing the amount of labor (and/or other forms of energy) required to make something.

I'm not saying that it's not better to be more efficient at how we make things - it absolutely is. But the benefits of this process ought to accrue to a whole society, because ultimate that's supposed to be the point (for most of us). That might mean working less hours for the same salary, or it might mean UBI or both or something else. But what it shouldn't mean is that a larger and larger fraction of GDP goes to capital, and everybody gets a nice toy.
The challenge with anything above a gig is the LAN. 10gig+ switches and SFP modules are expensive for consumers. So is the client hardware. We use thunderbolt 3 on our macs with ATTO Thunderlink to get 40Gbps locally and they’re kinda the only option and their hardware is bulky, expensive and their software sucks.

Also config on Mac is awkward.

There’s also some weirdness when you upgrade to that speed into a backbone with sub 10ms latency where, for example, Teamspeak’s servers kept booting us because a security mechanism thought we were doing something naughty. We had to use a VPN to connect to add back latency.
The reason no particular task needs to be specified to invoke DK is exactly because they argue that their initial selection of experimental tasks is so general, that the effect must apply to everything.

It feels like you and danbruc are inverting causality here. You start from the assumption that DK is a real effect and then say, because it's real and general, it doesn't matter what tasks they used to prove it. But that's backwards. We have to start from the null hypothesis of no effect existing, and then they have to present evidence that it does in fact exist. And because they claim it's both large and very general, they need to present evidence to support both these ideas.

That's why they explicitly argued that their tasks reflect general attributes like wisdom and intelligence: they wanted to be famous for discovering a general effect, not one that only applies in very specific situations.

But their tasks aren't great. The worst are ridiculous, the best are unverifiable. Thus the evidence that DK is a real and general effect must either be taken as insufficient, or you could widen the argument to include studies by other psychologists that pursue the same finding via different means.
The architecture is a big reason people take vacations in cities like Prague or Barcelona. It makes people feel good. Mainstream modern architecture is boxy (because of the next point), "efficient" (measured in cost to produce, mostly) and not even remotely built to last. It has no character, and doesn't consider the emotional value of living in a unique space.
This is the result of years of coddling employees. Something as basic as tracking their attendance - a standard workplace Practice for generations - is now resulting in “panic.”
Yes. Even taking the Kentucky study at face value, the estimate odds ratio (probably similar to relative risk, given reinfection is fairly unlikely) is 2.34 (confidence interval 1.58 to 3.47), not "over 5-fold higher chances".

However, as they say, "...persons who have been vaccinated are possibly less likely to get tested. Therefore, the association of reinfection and lack of vaccination might be overestimated."
I find this very hard to agree with, I would say someone like Alexander Fleming the inventor of penicillin has saved lives on the scale of which he has harmed.
>> Western culture still lauds virtuosity playing and "skill" over most other things

It was my understanding that everyone had heard.
As someone who has studied GR (at the grad school level) and music, no, that's a terrible analogy.
Me too, there is a gnome app I would love to build, but I earn my living by contracts too and cannot set apart time for my own projects.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but someone could fork Eth, and write code to "release these funds" back to their "owners" right?

Adoption of this fork would be the critical factor, but if enough money gets locked up, it get more and more lucrative to "unlock it all" will be with your eth-unlocked fork.
Primarily we need investment in a battery chemistry that doesn't have 'self-sustaining exothermic runaway' as a normal failure mode when overcharged, or charged too fast, or discharged too fast, or discharged to too low a voltage in a pack without a proper BMS, or charged after being discharged to too low a voltage, or physically damaged, or due to random manufacturing defects. It's not just hoverboards and escooters, it's those exploding laptop batteries years ago, exploding samsung phones, and now in nearly all EV's. Recently I've been seeing more LiCo packs powering wheelchairs.

The RC community are more often selecting to use LiFePO4 batteries in their controllers, regardless of what's in the remote device. Boat builders prefer LiFePO4 for safety reasons. Lithium iron phosphate batteries don't have an exothermic failure mode other than standard flammability of the materials. LiFePO4 or similar should be a standard for any large-capacity battery powered device a person holds, wears, or occupies.

My main concern now is what's going to happen as these batteries age. Ebikes and escooters in general are going to earn a reputation that should be earned by a specific battery chemistry. EV's will too as more of them age into the backyard mechanic resale price range. People are going to get hurt, and leaders who don't know better will hamstring lithium batteries in general.
One thoughts I had when first I skimmed the paper is that it should be straightforward to train a small, fast DNN to approximate the technique, and then use the DNN for applications that have more stringent performance requirements, including games.
What is a CRDT? The link gives me a
Heroku server error.
XMPP working on multiple devices is a problem long solved. Not losing messaging is a solved problem too. I can schedule you a demo if you wish.
It's fascinating to think that our theories on everything around us are based on everything near us enough to be measurable and experimented on. Black holes are so far away and so outside of our normal observations of mass and energy that we can't observe them well enough to do experiments.

It's like we've come up with two theories of how the universe works but and the universe is like "you guys are like 90% there but here's a case where these don't work.". It's fascinating to think that there's gotta be some one theory that can account for everything in the universe both big and small from black holes to quantum stuff. It's like we've dug ourselves in two very deep holes over the years and maybe we need someone to come along with a new hole that encompasses both things that see the whole picture. Anyways now I'm just speculating.
The books in question aren't about sexual content (which was never available to schoolkids anyway). It's a bunch of stuff about racial discrimination and alternative gender presentations and orientations that's being censored. The attempt to liken books about "two mommies" or "it's hard to be black in the USA" to porn is exactly the kind of disinformation that led to this travesty.
Perhaps I’m missing some advanced theories or contradictions, but it seems to me quite intuitive or at least reasonable that there exists some very efficient generators of entropy, i.e. black holes. Even if not having fallen into a black hole, such water would have decayed to heat and fundamental particles eventually.

Why is it contradicting that it happens much faster in some places in the universe? It may be surprising but what does it contradict? I’m asking sincerely.

Regarding the water thought, if you recite a poem inside a chamber, it turns into heat. If you are outside and can only measure that the room slightly increases its temperature you also can’t recover the poem.
> Network activity is quite significant for battery drain

It's not activity itself but what app does in background in reaction to incoming packets. Clients I used (Bombus and Xabber) didn't support that XEP with no problem. App may just ignore some stanzas when not needed.
Americas anual GDP was $21t in 2020. Federal COVID relief funds were 4.6t over the span of 2 years according to https://www.usaspending.gov/disaster/covid-19?publicLaw=all

That's just over 10% of the GDP. Not a small amount by any measure but our numbers are rather different. What am I missing?
There's a wonderful textbook, I think by Griffiths, that starts from the premise that if you learn the math of quantum mechanics first (i.e. how to actually set up and solve relevant systems of equations) then it's much easier to learn the meaning and implications after. It gives you a lot of problems up front to give you a rock-solid grounding in numerical examples, and only in part 2 does he delve into what it all means.
Except the extent of the taxing and borrowing is not constrained because you can just mint new cryptocurrencies. The world you're talking about is wholly imaginary. The only way this works is if you ban all other cryptocurrencies and enforce some kind of capital controls...
I enjoy reading Cage a lot more than listening to his music (for that matter, he was fine with not being called a musician if people deemed his work not worthy of that, I can’t recall exactly but I believe sound architect is the alternative job description he proposed).

I don’t relate to most of his music but I do think he was on an honest quest for something. In fact, I think it could even be fair to say he was a philosopher using sound as his medium, instead of a musician.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that basically what Archive.org has been doing for years?

More resources and attention are always great, but I'm not sure this is exactly novel.
I'd say this selfishness extends even to average people who make it. Most people are selfish, prestigious schools or otherwise, we need to build systems which take this fact into account.
Take a Walk Through Frederick Law Olmsted’s Creations
Looks like the speed tests revealed test providers with 10G connections, the 25G connection could fully saturate the test host. It is unusual for a single client to have more bandwidth than some services.
M1s are quite affordable, quality laptops from other suppliers are not much cheaper if at all.
And the M1 has no match currently.
> there is no deposit account ACATS equivalent

There sort of is: wires and EFTs.

The simple answer may be, for many savers, the spread is irrelevant. If you're saving for a home over a year [1], the difference between earning zero and 80 bps on e.g. $100,000 (quarter of the median home sales price [2]) is no more than $800. If these are your only savings, having them at an institution you know and trust may be worth sacrificing $800 over. (I'd argue it isn't. But I can imagine someone getting stressed over it.)

If you're saving for the longer term, e.g. in a rainy-day fund or for retirement or broadly for asset accumulation, you're thinking like an investor and out of the domain of basis-point yields.

[1] More realistically, if you're a median household earning $67,500 [a] saving 10% a year for a home, deposited monthly, one would have $100,027 after 168 months (~14 years) at 0.8% and $100,125 after 178 months (~15 years) at 0%. That's a difference. But not a practically meaningful one.

[a] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
The resources are as expected very enacts oriented. I use slimv with vim. And in particular under iOS Textastic to a ssh tmux instances, it is much easier due to its modal approach. Anyway a good resource but need some adjustment to me.
Just to add that not all ML positions are Deep Learning. Still good info to know though.
It wasn't fun being an Adolf in the beginning of the previous century =)

These things tend to happen.
you mean 640GB of RAM ought to be enough for anyone. 640k wasn't cutting edge at the time, it was meant for personal computers.
I think Intel would rather we all forget about netburst.
Fun fact: Tips are subject to income tax, donations are not.

That may be relevant to people seriously monetizing their hobbies.

(Whether something is, for tax purposes, a tip or a donation is determined by the reason the money is given, not what you call it, but if it's truly a donation then I'd be inclined to call it one just in case that influences some judgement further down the line.)
Oh yeah, missed the "cable" part. But I've seen the same thing with fiber in the UK and Germany. So the ISPs upgraded to fiber but kept the old (very) asymmetric speeds... I mean, at least have it be something more reasonable like 1000/500 :)

But I'm spoiled, growing up the only ISP in town spoonfed everyone higher and higher speeds even though no one asked for it. They're laying fiber to villages seemingly just 'cause. People are choosing 4G over fiber because it's cheaper (even though data is limited), go figure.

Well, actually there was a bit of government initiative (with no funding or enforcement) to boost the IT sector. The US would benefit much more heh.
Why not post the twitter thread instead of Business Insider's spam?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517702987359133696?s=20...

Funny how half of journalism these days is just a 500 word wrapper of BS around a tweet.
It's clear the public and lawmakers like the idea of knowing how the algorithm works, but what you posted is about as deep as people can reasonably understand at a high level. I don't think they realize how complex a system built over 20 years that's a trillion-dollar company's raison d'être can be.
> The future will combine these tool with data about you

I'm not sure anyone has let you know yet but this future you're imagining was cancelled a long time ago.

We're going to start seeing more global food shortages this year, it won't impact you yet (except small price increases). But in a decade expect your quality of life to be noticeably worse than it is now.

The world you're imagining living in is a world powered by tremendous amounts of fossil fuel energy. But either a.) we run out of fuels, or b.) we don't and cook the planet.

The mass delusions we're living through right now when people start talking about the "future" is just a bit too much for me to let go any more. We need to stop pretending for all of our mental health.
I do actually think about this sort of thing quite a bit, and work with a bunch of people who have thought about these kinds of issues far more than me. I’m firmly of the belief that C style type syntax is never going to not be confusing, and changing the pointer to postfix just changes the places where it’s confusing. Personally I think a core problem is that declaration and use are different, and while I agree that dereferencing is generally much clearer as a postfix operator it doesn’t solve the confusion on the declaration side.

When reading your examples I found myself having to constantly second guess the precedence of arrays and pointers, and I’m not sure how I would declare the type of a function that returns a pointer to an array, or an array of pointers. I’m happy to accept the extra noise of let because it reduces the overall time needed to understand what code means, and we end up reading code so much more than we write it.
Well, you shouldn't just take advice from a random person on the internet. But neither should you just take advice from medical experts and official government sources. There is no substitute for thinking.

One thing to think about is that "every nations medical experts" are heavily committed to a narrative that vaccines are good, and hence may be disinclined to admit there are exceptions to this (such as healthy young males who have already had covid). They may think that the vaccine is good for most people, and that they should therefore pretend that it's good for everyone to avoid "confusion"...
Go ask a Drive Recovery service about the things they've recovered from units that have been treated like suggested here.

The methods you folks are suggesting are not nearly as secure as you think.
Are there specific advancements in statistics that you’re thinking of? An explanation or link would be great!
You can, and you should buy short dated govt bonds (up to, say, 2 years). This is what I do for savings. And you can "draw down" quickly by selling them, perhaps at a modest loss of rates go up in the meantime. If not they will deliver exactly as advertised.