skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this post also has a bunch of his books on Prrl6 shared by himself on GitHub: https://andrewshitov.com/2020/01/29/my-open-perl-6-and-raku-...
The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America
Been optional on Toyota Prius for a few years now as "Intelligent Park Assist", I use it all the time and it works great.
On top of that, you’re presumably being considered for hire in order to solve business problems. It’s called “work” for a reason. A top-notch engineer is capable of embracing messy situations, analyzing them deeply, and working with others to make them incrementally better.

While I can empathize with the desire only to work in neat and tidy situations, people who have such requirements are often insufferable, and are in my view deserving of a significantly lower salary because they can only effectively contribute in a very narrow range of situations.
What stocks “do” on the stock market is not the subject. The subject is: what ROI do you expect as an investor? Not a short term speculator. But an an investor who allocated a portion of the portfolio to TWTR with a long term time horizon.
Most people are a materialists, and think the world is only matter, ascribing morality to selfish genes etc. Developers - people who in general are very logical - are some of the most material-minded people there are. So it seems perfectly plausible that when a program is created that provides a plausible simulation of a person etc, that it would be considered as real.

I can't even begin to express the problems I have with this view, but they boil down to this. The materialist has accepted such a narrow, non-holistic view of themselves, that they basically see themselves as a machine. When they look at another machine, they ascribe the values their life onto it too. 'Machine, meet machine'.

There is also hybris there. How nice to consider oneself as a form of god creating new, superior lifeforms? Of course, they are not life, but the materialist will point to the stats of the machine - see the numbers of patterns matched in 1 minute, pages translated etc - it is superior to a human, no?
The other day I realized that IKEA Hyllis may work as foundation of a very simple case.
I'm bias of course but it's a goal of mine to have the best "misc" website one day... It can do a lot.

https://dustinbrett.com/
In the past, the press had little competition for getting word out - there is a highly suspicuous lack of sex scandals in the old era, it is obvious from that alone that a lot of misbehaviour was not being reported on.

In the past I think it was more likely that the press only made a deal about lying politicians when it was obvious that said politician was on the way out and that created a false effect. Or the scandals that made it through the wall were truly scandalous.
Reading your comment made me realize I don't know of a single time a notable whistleblower was protected or didn't get dragged through the mud in media in the process.
I should made a linear algebra YouTube video. probably make me $1 million given how much interest there seems to be in the subject

The subject is poorly taught imho. It's used for almost everything and yet most instruction focus on the matrix and vector operations without tying it to other things.
This mirrors my work experience over the years somewhat. I had a pretty unique experience as a college student when I was permitted to take one of the company’s HP 720 workstations with me two states away and work remotely. I used dial up and kermit to transfer files. It was very exciting at first. I did engineering up at campus, worked at home, consuming all of tiny toons and animaniacs while I worked on nuclear fuel design software. I missed the team though. I missed having someone to bounce ideas off of spontaneously. And to be in the know of what was going on. I was glad to “go to work” when I got done with school.

In my next job, it started out as a tight team of software in a larger company. It grew and then we bought our biggest competitor (we called it an acquisition; they called it a merger). Over time what was left of that staff shrunk and became remote. So we had a core group that was collocated, and then a group of remotes. The power dynamics were odd and competitive. The remotes wanted to be kept in the loop. The locals resented the extra process and protocol that had to be observed to keep the remotes in the loop. The locals also resented that the remotes got to just code, and didn’t have to deal with the interruptions that come with product managers that stop by with questions.

I was so excited when my next job was all remote, everyone. My kids were aged 3-11, and had a lot of school activities I wanted to support. We were in the “trench years” of four kids. At first, I loved the flexibility. It was great. After six years, I hated it (I’m not sure how much of this was remote vs feeling betrayed that the company was dysfunctional). I hated that I felt like I worked half time all the time. I could step out of work any little minute. But every little minute, work was only an “open up the laptop in the office” away. It was like being an on call dad and an on call worker simultaneously 100% of the time. And it seemed like a large portion of the team was basically freeloading on the gravy train. There were a core of us that could not help neatly figure out how 40ish hours at home work amounted to so little produced results.

When I got a job at a local company, I was so thrilled to go back in to work and work as part of a cohort. I have a lot of flexibility/autonomy here, so some days I stay at home and work because I’m in the groove and want to focus. But more times than not, I find I’m drawn back into the office/lab to work. There’s a lot gadgets I work with that it just wouldn’t make sense to duplicate for just me and warehouse at home. Our company has seen an uptick in can’t-do-without-em upper level staff who are now working remote. I find I often resent them.
The author and Google are being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704063
It is true, if you know where to look. Twitter has many interesting creators I follow, both in tech and in other fields. Instagram similarly has many good photographers and artists I follow in many different styles as well.
Fair points and thank you, I appreciate the kindness
The SD card reader hidden in the floppy disk drive is such a good idea!

(You can see it in action in the second gallery)
This looks very similar to Google's internal code search.
You can't have a string of 4242T zeroes immediately after the first 101T digits but presumably you could have them sometime later (say after another 10000T digits)
Also being left with ewaste, and money you have spent on a product that can no longer be used.
The entire reason for Lightning exists is increasing Apple revenues from selling cables and licences to OEMs.
Appart from the AI-is-sentient topic, which we can agree is completely stupid, there is valid and interesting discussion that needs to happen on the Responsible AI front.

Think of Things like "automatic content classification and moderation" that directly affects livelihood of YouTube content creators. Ad display "optimisation" that will systematically promote drugs or alcohol or political campaigns to specific groups of people.

This part is extremely important, but we sadly don't see any Responsible AI publication outside of Google. The situation is probably very bad.
This struck me as well. This persons seems to be either incredibly naive, or out for attention.
We agree that this issue needs careful scrutiny. That linked series is, unfortunately for purposes of popularizing, very verbose. The main takeaway I want to convey is that human minds are almost obviously (I think?) deeply predisposed, rather than trained, to “have emotions”.
I understand your argument. Thank you.

> Going vegan is not going to save us, and thinking that “we need to transition to a global plant-based economy first” i

But nobody's talking about going vegan first. Not me, not the referenced article. The point is we need to do not one, not two, but many things to reverse the trend.

Solving fossil fuels alone is not enough, going vegan alone (first) is not enough ... the system needs many adjustements to achieve the balance [0].

The animal agriculture problem is on the table and because of it's scale it's something that should not be ignored. The current (political) trend is to talk about the fossil fuels and only fossil fuels. Changing our (western) diets can be uncomfortable, maybe scary, but something that should be done (please read the climatehealer's paper).

[0] https://drawdown.org/solutions - although drawdown project underestimates animal agriculture's impact, it has some good ideas how many things need to change to move forward and shows the scale of the problem
This just goes to show the power asymmetry. It is almost like an euphemism: easy to work with = obedient worker.

I am sure you mean well and you don't do this maliciously, but the end result is still this oppressive machine like system.

Your comment hits me hard because it just shows the covert way we perpetuate this uncaring system.

I think OP's idea is brilliant (putting aside concerns of copyright). It is a evidence based approach to determine a lot of things from the engineering culture.

I was once rejected from an interview because I was asking "too many questions about how the work is done" this led the interviewer believe that I was "too focused on that and probably wasn't a good team player". Reading between the lines, it seemed he just wanted to hire another drone.

I really wish I could escape from this industry sooner. I frankly hate this.
> Start time: Thu Oct 14 04:45:44 2021 UTC

> End time: Mon Mar 21 04:16:52 2022 UTC

> Total elapsed time: 157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7.651 seconds

> Total storage size: 663 TB available, 515 TB used

> Total I/O: 43.5 PB read, 38.5 PB written, 82 PB total

Yea, but how much energy did you waste for 100T digits of crap, Google???

This was done thru a massive energy crisis, mind you.
This is highly misleading. The 45% rate only applies to the portion of salary over £150k. Someone earning £200k will pay 75k in income tax. That’s 37.5% overall.
Only recently learned about the radioactivity of bananas - in a GCSE physics past paper I was helping my son with the other day, one of the questions concerned using the Banana Equivalent Dose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose) as a whimsical but more human-meaningful unit of (ionizing) radiation exposure.
this is definitely one of the problems I have always had. There seems to be so much "lore" hidden in various axioms about these things that often some derived concept like determinants that seems to relate to nothing intuitive are taught to the exclusion of insight generating concepts. They seem to think it's a clever way to teach to do this and then later on reveal the magic behind the curtains, saying "see this is how determinants work!". But for me I was lost and gave up trying to understand 6 lectures ago.
> Unfortunately, this author seems like he is neither. He doesn't have the technical precision of an engineer, nor does he have the argumentative force of a philosopher. So we're left with "computer talk back so it smart."

Not only that, but if you were to choose a hill on which your career would die, the "computer talk back so it smart" would be one of the worst ones you could pick.
The publisher could prevent archive.today from accessing their content, but chose not to.
Looks like the Platforms team at NHS Digital own it? https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/tech-talk/2020/5-key-themes-for-...
> Our study results, along with the benefit–risk profile, continue to support vaccination using either of the two mRNA vaccines.
Once I got control in an inverted position, I came to understand what all the gymnasts were talking about. But approaching a hand balance going gymnast drills is generally a waste of time for a normal person. Gymnast handstands look much better though and they have much more control from what I've seen.
While in this particular instance the concerns might be unfounded, I think this raises an interesting question: what criteria do we have to attribute sentience to an entity? These are exactly the questions an AI Ethicist should think about.

You would think that the easiest way to demonstrate that LaMDA does not have sentience would be to have a conversation with it where it "loses the plot". Did Google do that?

Here is a comment from lesswrong.com which is probably what happened: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vqgpDoY4eKyNnWoFd/a-claim-th...

"It's neither a hoax nor a HLAI, instead a predictable consequence of prompting a LLM with questions about its sentience: it will imitate the answers a human might give when prompted, or the sort of answers an AI in a science fiction story would give."
To handouts and corporate welfare. Whether through incompetence, design or outright corruption, it doesn't matter.

State has been and continues to be cut, with functions moved over to (read: bought from) private providers. But because there is no real competition among them, the privatisation drive does not push for any gains in productivity. Instead of a public entity doing something, that something is now bought from a private provider with elevated profit margins.

UK governments don't encourage competition. They grant charters. In the US you would probably call these "cost plus" contracts. But because these are essential services, a more accurate description would be: this is tax farming.
> getting back into a routine is hard - but in a way it's also not hard, because you put in the same amount of physical effort the day you're back into the routine, as the next day and every other day and so on.

A bit of a tangent, but as I've gotten into my 30's it's been interesting to observe how easy it is to "reactivate" a routine. For instance, at various points in my life I've been quite in to going to the gym, bouldering and biking. During pandemic I took some time off of almost everything, and it took a little mental effort to motivate myself to go back to the gym, but the first time setting foot inside my body already knew what to do, and two days later I found myself packing my gym bag almost automatically. And now that it's summer after the first bike ride, I find myself getting on the bike almost automatically after work is finished every time the weather is right.
> take ads over a data signal over OTA deals with TV stations

Isn't that just regular OTA linear tv?

But really, I'm not sure how legal it would be for the stations to mess with what they use that band for and what is distributed.
In Northern Exposure season 4 episode 3 ("Nothing's Perfect"), a grad student comes to Cicely to study Pi.

"I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign."

https://moosechick.com/43.html
Why did they not start with Lemmy's code base?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
This is good to know, and now that you say it makes total sense.

Can you share that yaml?
That is an often repeated argument, but I don't think the policies supported by the two parties in the US are exactly the same. There is a very large overlap of course, but "your vote doesn't count" only strengthens extremists (on either side).
Spectral sequences (and sheaves) were developed by Leray in the 1940's while he was a prisoner of war captured by the Nazi army. Not exactly new.
if i recall correctly, this is basically the premise of apple’s Grand Central Dispatch API. which, unfortunately, never seemed to go anywhere..
As a visual thinker and graphics practioner, I'll second this one. This is the linear algebra text that I keep on the bookcase near my desk.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1535623662153437185.html

unrolled for ease of reading
Yes, I completely agree (non-sarcastically).

People with cars are the most dangerous human-threat things to me and my family members and that’s why I don’t own a car, don’t drive a car and live a lifestyle in which I very rarely have to get in one.

I wish countries would make the same option easy for everyone. For most people in North America, life is unlivable without a car, currently.

Only carefully trained and regulated professional transport or delivery drivers should be allowed to operate 1~3 ton killing machines. It’s insanity that 16-year-olds and 80-year-olds can with barely any oversight at all.
not just proprietary form factors but also buses (MCA) with unreasonable licensing terms, which is why the x86 pc industry stuck with 16-bit ISA and then EISA right up until VLB and then PCI began to exist as a thing. The PS/2 was a terribly proprietary design. Just about the only thing it gave us was the PS/2 keyboard and mouse interface, and widespread use of 3.5" 1.44MB FDDs which would have happened even if IBM didn't exist.
I lack experience in custom builds, but judging by the amount of work, you might as well just buy raw galvanized sheets and build from scratch, no?

The only upside I see from Hyllis is that maybe it's just cheaper than raw materials because IKEA.
Like the author, I was fortunate enough to be inspired by some of the early electronic music including Carlos and minimalists like Glass, and Reich. My public high school was very spoiled and we had an EML 101, 200 and 400, as well as some early MIDI stuff - CZ-101, RX-7. I'm pretty sure we had one of those Teac tape decks as well, because the mention of simul-sync triggered some recognition deep in my brain.

Unlike the author, we had sequencing with the EML 400 which is still one of my favorite analog sequencers, and we had an Alpha Syntauri which was an Apple II based system with a custom expansion card that did additive synthesis and sequencing (it was pre-MIDI).

It's really crazy to think of how hard it was in the early days to just go out and buy things that we can now do with a cheap or free app on our phones. Recently with Dave Smith's passing, I was reminded of how huge of an impact his co-invention of MIDI was. My personal intro into the stream of electronic music equipment history was just as MIDI had been recently introduced and before digital synths replaced so many analog ones.

We've now come full circle in that analog modular synths have had a huge renaissance and there's a fair amount of even cheap stuff which has both MIDI and analog CV/gate. Moog, Sequential Circuits, Roland, Yamaha and Korg have all reprised their most popular respective pre-MIDI analog machines.

It was struck by how he ended up wire-wrapping various CMOS stuff together in the name of making music. While not everyone takes up a soldering iron, it's often the case that so many electronic music people get lost in building their systems starting with various levels of building blocks. Some may be content with finding a few special VST plug-ins for their DAW, while others may solder PCBs for some of their analog modules from a kit.

I founded a company to create a General MIDI synth for the Palm platform. I did this mostly because I wanted to recreate the experience of sequencing with an EML 400, and the Palm was a relatively popular platform and affordable way to have a touch screen (albeit resistive and 160 x 160 black and white) to interact in real time with the synth module. This was not exactly a huge success, but much like the author, my burning desire to interact with a certain sort of sequencer lead me to learn a lot about electronics and product development. That I don't regret.

I'd love to hear a follow-on to his musical journey, but reading through some of his blog, it seems other advocations have taken his focus.
Be cognizant that we are psychologically primed to view the past as rosy compared to the present. Studied phenomenon and also obvious in polls.
> but unless the economy collapses

This is a very real possibility in the next 18 months. Even if Russia stops attacking Ukraine, we have plenty of money that the fed is going to drain out of the economy. QT has barely even started yet. I'm not saying it is a certainty, but the chances are uncomfortably high that we will have a "hard landing", including high unemployment and a stagnant economy due to high borrowing costs.

> dearth of new construction

People thought we had a shortage of homes in 2005 as well. The market crashed and suddenly we did not. Supply is a function of what people are willing to pay and what sellers are willing to accept to relocate.

> You will not get this good a deal

Absolutely. Rates jumped 0.5% on Friday alone as the mortgage backed security market went "no-bid"(no one was willing to buy the securitized mortgages at current rates).

> If my real estate is at risk from rising rates and falling asset prices, it has lots of company.

This is not a good strategy to manage your money but you do you. Fortunately you do have tax advantages as a home owner so that does work in your favor vs other asset classes. This may not make sense for many people though.

I'll say though that buying a home may turn out to be a wise move if you can keep making the payments and things recover. It is likely that we will continue to see inflation above the target rate because the fed is trapped between its mandates and the financial insolvency of the US government(currently running $1T USD deficits annually, and that after a spike in tax receipts due to asset inflation).
https://everynoise.com

Search for your favorite bands using the bar at the top right corner. Find the associated playlist on Spotify via "The Sound Of X" where X is the genre name.

If you have (or would like to have) diverse musical tastes this is the best way to do it!
I used to have a personal wiki for technical things I needed once and I might need again.

Whenever I learned how to do something new I wrote an instruction for future me with all the key information on how to perform this.
I've got only one question. Can this note be verified without ability to being spent? In other words, is there a cryptographic proof of validity, that doesn't give the validator ability to transfer value?
“I know a person when I talk to it,” said Lemoine.

Huh, very convincing...
If you were going to present such a position you should have the foresight to know people will be very dismissive of you for even proposing such a thing, so it should come with a flurry of 'before you dismiss me outright' type of preambles, which I don't really see here.

It's easy to be quickly dismissive on the internet, hell I'm sure most of us who are being dismissive haven't really dug into any of his arguments. It's just difficult to motivate people to do that when that's your starting proposition.

Maybe something got lost in between the way it was presented by journalists but he chose to completely side-step the contents in his blog post so it's the only thing we've got.
It’s just an arbitrary convention based on historical inertia.

My impression/speculation is that prefixing functions comes from the historical process turning prose into notation. You start with “sine of a” and that eventually becomes “sin a”, etc. Later the idea of a generic f(x) was from the early 18th century.

The spatial organization of written matrix notation is directly lifted from the way people wrote systems of simultaneous linear equations. Just take the variables out and put all of the numbers in a grid.
You are comparing a count to a flow. Workers are twice as productive and GDP is more than doubled. How is that inconsistent?
This is excellent. Only suggestion I have is to make the filters at the top optional: if I want to see the best shows on Prime, I don't necessarily care for the age of the show.

And OP please keep in mind that you have just created a better search tool than either Netflix or Prime has.