skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a little shocked at how aggressive it is, my takeaway:

Wanna view that tweet? Well, too bad, it's more important that you register first.. because reasons.
These are engineering marvel! This is engineering at it's finest. Applied math at it's finest. So it's not a failure.

The way people hype AGI/AI/ML whatever undervalues the actual effort behind these remarkable feat. There is so much effort being made to make this work. Deep learning works when it is engineered properly. So it is just another tool in the toolbox!

Look at how graphics community is approaching deep learning. They already had sampling methods but with MLPs (NeRFs), they are using it as glorified database. So it's engineering!

I want to underscore that AI/ML/DL research requires ground breaking innovation not only in algorithms but also in hardware and software engineering.
In theory the consent and privacy concerns are preventing that. Those concerns are practically non-existent for the military.
What is the chance that the ammonia itself would damage parts of the computer? Surely few, if any machines are rated to deal with liquid ammonia immersion with direct PCB contact.

Also, afaik Ammonia dissolves zinc into zinc hydroxide, which is a semiconductor, and liquid ammonia may also be electrically conductive even if gaseous ammonia is not. There's so many things that could go wrong with that in my mind, but I would really like to know where you heard about this or if you're doing work with this somehow and fill in my own knowledge gaps if you will.
I'm thinking here of ill-fated robot kitchen startup Zume's pizza robots. You can probably still find videos of them in operation on YouTube. The things that most struck me when I watched one were how slow they are at what they do, how much space they took up, and how much human intervention they required to operate.
Pattern matching can solve everything, if given enough storage and training data. Memorizing trillions of sentences is basically what makes GPT3 amazing.

You're absolutely correct that patten matching AIs won't ever be truly intelligent. But then again, many humans also never exceed what can be simulated with good pattern matching. And an AGI household robot only needs to be as smart as the maid that it's replacing.

I'm optimistic that pure pattern matching will get us to usable AGI AI.
To me, outside of this world, it feels like when one of the guys at a shop just like ours wins the lottery a few cities over. Everyone's just dreaming big for the fun of it.
I read the OP's "compare" as the judgement-filled comparison, where one measures their self-worth based on where others are at relative to themselves / relies on external yardsticks for definition of identity.

The compare you're talking about—seeking excellent people (internally defined) and wanting to learn from them (without judgement)—is an extremely important thing.
eSports trends last long time if the game developers care.

League of Legends still kicking it.
Dota2 still kicking it.
CSGO still kicking it.

These three been the top eSports games for over a decade now.
Major throwback, this was the (keygen cracked shareware) audio editor of 199x as far as im concerned. I tried to throw them $20 but the page failed.
Man Claiming to Be John DeLorean’s Long Lost Son Says Taliban Wants to Hire Him
The make content they don't stream, but license it elsewhere?
> a highly-compensated professional job. It’s a given with such jobs that professionals are expected to spend some of their free time on their own career development.

Except most highly-compensated professional jobs don't expect people to get continuing education on their free time. The state bar and medical boards not to mention engineering certifications all require continuing education. Everyone I've known in those fields is paid for the continuing education credit time.
>Yuo cna reda tihs raedliy btu teh copmtuer cna't.

Why can't it? Isn't that basically what current AI research is doing? Using massively parallel systems to make quick inferences based on existing data sets?

>the machine doesn't know jack about text. It knows arrays and sequences of numbers according to the rules we've defined them by, for it.

If you want to be pedantic and define a computer as the hardware only, sure. The operating system (which contains tools that can in fact parse text) is an essential component in the vast majority of computers in existence. So when I'm discussing computers as a complete, usable unit, then yes, they parse text.

>Our machines are beautiful, well designed levers. But they don't move anything, they leverage our movement.

Well said.
Mellosouls posted a link to a toxic source, and the article doesn’t even have anything in it except empty speculation based on nonsense. Brutal. Either the psyops have reached HN or the level of intellectual honesty about these topics is trash. Or both.
If He restores RSS access I'd follow some guys
Seems like the most reasonable take. This move feels in-character for Musk.
It seems more like a symbolic gesture.
I can’t speak to the CEA, but we do teach kids about Japanese internment. Let’s assume that we focus more on black and gay issues though. The parent answered his own question as to why we might focus more on black and gay issues

> Because Asians are “overrepresented”

It makes more sense focus on underrepresented groups than overrepresented groups when trying to address systemic issues. It’s more efficient.
The average person on twitter isn't a software engineer. They won't know what python is. They don't know what an algorithm is. So let's be clear about what the baseline is here. There's no point talking to them about how you distribute queries using micro-services or whaever bullshit twitter's engineering team bought into this season.

This idea that "the algorithm" is something you can just "publish" is a pernicious lie told by people like Musk - who knows it isn't true - to the general public who don't know better. The "algorithm" in reality is probably farcical calls to cusotm APIs that no current employees understand well enough to modify which is why Twitter hasn't changed anything in coming up to a decade - which is when all the engineering talent left.
I mean I'm sure Google has somewhere a UML chart of the entire process of ordering results. Your insistence otherwise is disingenuous at best, either that or you've never actually worked on any sort of major software, at least with any level of reliability/dependability.
Some companies have rediculous titles though. I've worked at a school district, the job was being an IT lackey (configure cisco switches, install said switches at schools, prep and install computers for instructors, front office, computer labs, debug all of those, basic computer instructions for adult users, etc), but the job title was something something classroom helper (not instructional aide, but similar) because it was too much bueracracy to get a new position classified into the system, so they took one close enough and called it a day. If I put that title on my resume, it would be most unhelpful for everyone.

When I worked at Yahoo!, my title was Technical Yahoo!, then Technical Yahoo!, Senior... etc. That's fine if an ex-y! is reviewing my resume (and there are a lot of those), but for other people it would be helpful if I wrote (Backend) Software Engineer.
> Has there ever been any actual indication of twitter shadow bans being a real thing

Please stop living in this bubble. There have been plenty of reports of Twitter shadow banning speech it doesn't like. It has even suspended accounts multiple times only to reinstate them by saying it was an "algorithm error" or it being "wrongly flagged". In India we regularly see Twitter suspending accounts that have not violated any Indian law.

All because it doesn't align with the left-leaning ideology of Twitter. Even trends are boosted to favor left-leaning news portals over right-leaning news portals (which is visible in the trends section).

An example: https://www.freepressjournal.in/viral/bringbacktrueindology-...

^ This account specifically was suspended a total of 3 times. Ultimately the anonymous account owner decided to come out in the open and open a Twitter account in his real name. He got banned again very recently. In all those instances, there was not even one tweet of his that "crossed the line" when it came to anything illegal. Be it speech, instigation of violence or even a curse word. Nothing at all. The suspension was purely ideological.
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Every house bought to rent to someone else is a owner occupier denied. It doesn’t matter if it’s big or small.

15 houses ain’t small time. You could house a small army. If you could sell them to your tenants, would you? Or do you need their blood?
I have worked in the classical management structure a good chunk of my career. And a couple of times (including mostly right now), I have worked in something that feels more like a basketball team with zero or little management. Competent engineers play the court together and get the job done. I prefer (greatly) this second model.
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Hopefully :). If it is long and severe enough snoring can physically damage all sorts of stuff (nerves, blood vessels, airway) similar to occupational vibration exposure. Changing sleeping position can help and can sometimes be enough in less severe cases (both apnea and snoring).
> DD results in disastrous consequences if the public is not informed and media is owned by corporations or worse, by the state

The problem is more fundamental in a way that is relevant. Direct democracy's failings predate the concept of the corporation. (The concepts of democracy and statehood could be argued to be contemporaneous.) Independent of the media environment, the crowd autocorrelates and devolves into self-extinguishing mob rule.

The issue is that autocorrelation. People aligning for the sake of alignment and then torching perceived opponents. That last part rapidly degrades into tests of ideological purity at which point we're back to mob rule. Modern social media, including Twitter, thrives at facilitating this process (alignment, amplification, zealotry).

That's what we're trying to get away from. Moderation is one solution. It appears to have gone too far.
That quote doesn’t imply anything about Twitter being ran “by the people”
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How do cures propagate? For example, is there a database of "best treatments for disease x"? How much time does it take for treatments to become widely available?
Is Ruby "ruthlessly productive" for building a fast, highly concurrent program that can be deployed to X platforms with minimal fuss? No.

Is Golang "ruthlessly productive" for interfacing with complex relational databases? No, not even with generics.

Tradeoffs, every language has 'em.
Two years ago, I personally complained to EFF folks that I knew about the censorship of Twitter users like the NY Post. They said nothing. They seemed to have chosen sides. Long ago they cared about censorship and free speech. Now I just don't know.
The problem with this binary thinking is that centrists as well as moderate progressives and moderate conservatives play no role in any of this.

I'd say quite a few, if not most, moderate progressives are not at all on board with extreme wokism. Similarly, moderate conservatives may not be too crazy about Trump or "alternate realities".

This massive group, which is most people, and pretty much all sane and reasonable people, have no place in social media like Twitter. The silent majority. They can't even express a single critical thought about their own "side" nor engage with political opponents. They're scared.

Rather than doubling down on this battle of which side should be censored, the very point should be to reduce extremism and its reach on both sides. Not just "your" side. Sane people should dominate conversation.
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Meta: please consider adding "exploit" to the title, very unclear and confusing now. Thanks.
The last place I worked had an explicit clause in the RSU agreement that essentially said "if we get bought the price per share for unvested stock will be given to you as cash".
> You said you don’t like people in power arbitrarily freezing accounts of people they don’t like, and cited what appears to be a completely made up story from a fringe candidate.

What are we discussing here? Because your response to me was that "the other side is much worse" and you cited the military bayoneted a child in 1990.

This Mark Stahl fellow is a sitting MP not a fringe candidate.

> Temporarily freezing funds of enablers seems like a pretty reasonable solution to an unlawful protest, all things considered.

Well, if they are willing to bayonet children to build golf courses imagine the pandoras box you've now opened for when they get back in power. Won't seem so reasonable when they freeze your bank account in turn. Not a hard concept to grasp.

Try to imagine a carbon copy of yourself who fell into the other echo chamber and has similarly low opinions of your politics. There will be no shortage of justifications for why you must be punished.
It effects your heart, brain and general health. It makes it harder to lose weight, store memories and generally live a fulfilling life. It sapped all of my energy for years. I had it as a young guy, starting at 18, only slightly overweight. I treated it by working towards a healthy BMI, getting rhino-septoplasty, using a CPAP machine and finally mouth-taping. Mouth-taping has replaced CPAP for me. It’s discussed more in James Nestor’s book ‘Breath’. Good luck to you and your husband.
>Given San Jose's proximity to the the San Andreas Fault, it was critical we ensured an earthquake wouldn't take Dropbox offline.

>Given this context, we structured our RTO—and more broadly, our disaster readiness plans—around imminent failures where our primary region is still up, but may not be for long.

IMO if the big one hits San Andreas, the SJC facilities will likely go down with ~0 warning. Certainly not enough time to drain user traffic.

It's interesting to note that Dropbox realistically can probably tolerate a loss of a few second to minutes of user data in a major earthquake, but cannot tolerate the same losses to perform realistic tests (just yank the cable, no warning).

If the earthquake hits at 3am in SF, it'll likely take both the metro and a significant number of the DR team out of the picture for at least a period of time. Surviving that kind of blow in the short term with 0 downtime is a very hard goal.
We've had anonymous speech for a long time, at least in the West, and things haven't exactly fallen apart. Quite the contrary, the last 50 years have seen unprecedented reduction in poverty and violence. You could easily gesture at the world, and say it wouldn't have been better had anonymous speech been suppressed.
well LFP is the old school way of lithium, it is dirt cheap and you can order it very cheap. also much more reliable, tolerant etc. only thing is low energy density. Quality depends on moisture level at fabrication process.
I use lists by subject matter, including a list of personal contacts.

I then use tweet deck which shows a column of tweets per list.

As these are separated by subject and are chronological, it makes it far easier to follow.
No matter how fast, malloc will always cause a performance knock-on effect by wrecking locality.
It seems like the neighborhood retailers are getting it from both sides: Competing for space with luxury brands, and competing for sales with delivery services.
When/why did Netflix start compensating employees in the form of stock options?

Some spot checks at levels.fyi shows mostly N/A or low (<30K) listed for stock compensation.
Normally in civilized society we don't go around abusing, insulting, and offending random strangers. "Wokeness" is the desire to treat others with some respect in public forums and the belief individuals have the right to disassociate themselves from those that do not abide by common decorum.

I felt like I had to say it because the people complaining the loudest about "wokeness" have no clue what they're talking about. It's just a label they co-opted for some other behavior they don't like, and they need to get more specific about it because they're arguing using a totally different definition of "woke" than everyone else is using.
those modern lefts.. just look at russia. censorship is how it all started there.
Where does this end ? If twitter is not a public square but a megaphone, then a public square is also not a public square but a megaphone, technically speaking I (possibly with the support of a mob) can ban you from entering the public square and you can still stand on the roof of a nearby house and shout your ideas. Your internet connection is also not a public square but a megaphone, your electricity is not a public square but a megaphone, and your mobile connection is not a public square but a megaphone. I can lobby gas station companies to never service you and that wouldn't be harrasment, you just need to find another gas station not controlled by all the ones I lobbied, or possibly start one of your own :).

Anything that is afforded to the public (for whatever price) is a public square, any ban or deprivation from it amounts to censorship and exclusion. This is unremarkable on the micro scale (e.g. a golf club or a coffeshop) because alternatives are plenty and easy to find, but when a huge corporation with effectively monopolistic control of a huge slice of some market does it it's worrying. And it should worry you even if you happen to like the effects of one particular incident, because the same machinery that allows such incidents to happen is bound to impact you someday.
Results would also become an absolute cesspool. Say what you want about how they are now, but if the people gaming it could see the exact rules, it would become completely useless.
Can you please explain the irony?
I have seen the videos of Hunter nude and engaging in sexual intercourse. You are telling me that what I saw is fake? The emails are legit as well. What exactly is "not true" except for your assertion?

Even the laptop has been proven to belong to him.

The onus is on you to prove it isn't Hunters laptop.
> Next thing, you'll see announced a platform for reusable container services that can be dynamically linked from other containers - to avoid including them multiple times in your application containers that share the same version, and we'll have come full circle.

That unfortunately already exists; Kubernetes namespaces and Helm Charts.
You can dynamically link one service from another container. Choose wisely.
Secular organizations don’t need to “earn” 501(c)(3) status. They just need to show that they need to apply and show they meet the applicable criteria. For churches, that exemption is automatic. Obviously there are a much wider range of possible secular organizations that may or may not meet the criteria, compared to religious organizations.

Ministers are exempt from withholding but they still have to pay it, and they pay FICA taxes like self employed workers: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc417
depends what you're reading. fixed-width fonts make some inputs easier, like code, and data. So if the word "read" means solely flow text, I can buy an argument the pretty fonts have value which goes to character recognition, kerning, ligatures and the role of caps and serif.

If the word "read" includes "do a rapid scan of a column of data to confidence check it makes sense" or "find the longest number (==longest string) in a list of unsorted numbers" then fixed width will score higher than almost any other quality in my opinion.

My reading of the history of fonts suggests some people thought italianate styled writing was a mistake. florid, and hard to read. to my eyes gothic is sometimes impenetrably hard to read.
I think it's more along the lines of material goods or things like "success" or what have you.

It's an adage that's been repeated over and over in many ways: "Comparison is the thief of joy".

For some people, it's not enough that they have something good, they must have something better than someone else. "What good is my iPhone 12 if you have an iPhone 13? Why don't I have an iPhone 13?" And so on.

But. Last year, they didn't even have a phone. So they're better off, yeah?
I'm a firm believer in the horseshoe theory.

If you listen to the intolerant wing of the right, the parts that would legitimately support overturning elections and arresting political opponents, they sound eerily similar to your sentiment.
> introduce malloc/free and stack allocation at the right places

Will it? malloc/free are slow; gc can allocate faster and free faster. And problems are often dynamic and can't be statically determined.
Huh. I remember when the left had Maxine Waters saying to publicly harass voters of the opposite political party, and during the 2016 election when they tried to harass and dox the electors in hope that would prevent Trump from being elected.
yes, after finishing PhD, people who want to become professor should get a postdoc position as soon as they can, and finish work as more as they can during it...
Honestly I'd ditch CRA and hit up Vite nowadays. You will have to deal with a few poorly made packages (e.g. from Amazon) but it is a breath of fresh air.
It also seems like 99% of management advice is about how to manage down. Not topics like how to set expectations with stakeholders, how to fight for budget, how to get your team positioned for highly visible work.
Water? You mean like in the toilet? What for?
I lifted the source indirectly from Google's own results (it was linked to from the Mail online), I have no idea of the general toxicity or otherwise of the website itself.
I meant taylor-greene. that's a swype typo. I was multitasking and didn't catch it
It's been that way for a long time, IME.
In my experience, if someone's use cases would be well-suited by Chromebooks or ChromeOS, then desktop Linux will work just as well, if not better, for them.

Reliability-wise, desktop Linux is boringly stable these days as long as you don't insist on the bleeding edge by using Arch or Debian unstable.

The MS Office situation has gotten much better with the rise of online office suite web apps, including Office 365, as well as professional desktop software like SoftMaker's closed-sourced and misnomered FreeOffice[1] that has great compatibility with files written in MS Office's formats.

Lack of Photoshop is a problem, but if you're doing animation, special effects or video editing work, Linux has you covered because companies release Linux versions of their workstation software like DaVinci Resolve, Houdini, Autodesk Flame, Blender, Lightworks etc.

[1] https://www.freeoffice.com/en/
He is absolutely not merely the "public face" of SpaceX, not even close.
The fact is that humans are not smart enough to reliably detect fact from fiction. Half of this website would just as soon look the other way at trumps track record.

Something needs to be done. Free speech maximalism is a threat.
I am very anti-lockdown and anti-covid measures, so at some level I support the narrative because I believe the overreaction has done more harm than good.

I'm still suspicious of this though. If this was something that had increased, sure, but isn't this essentially a new phenomenon? Pre-covid, wouldn't chance or germapobic parents, or some other circumstance have led to this happening from time to time? Or was it just so rare that is was under the radar. Anyway, the story presented didn't convince me the lockdowns are the cause.
We have a leak revealing a "trends blacklist" at the very least. Some of their measures are detectable too: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/
> It will never be fair

But couldn't it at least be better?
"imply" is a rather strict term from logics, and you're right, no it doesn't imply that.

"suggest"/"insinuate" is a less strict term, however, and that definitely applies here!