skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What part of the goo makes "intuition" so unique?

I think about this a lot. I'm guessing it is the brain, and specifically the part that allows us to create "original" thought, or derive conclusions from unperceived input.

When I task a machine with solving a problem, it stays within the confines of the data supplied to it rather than the totality of the state of the system and its peers, which is what humans do; we make decisions often not knowing why, but we are compelled, based on imperceptible inputs like pheromone impulses or subsonic frequency.
I'm similarly confused. And with the shade Biden has been throwing at Tesla I'm concerned it may be politically motivated.
Truly fantastic and well made!

At the end, concludes with:

> Mechanical watches are not as accurate as digital ones. They require maintenance and are more fragile. Despite all these drawbacks, these devices show a true mastery of engineering. With creative use of miniature gears, levers, and springs, a mechanical watch rises from its dormant components to become truly alive.

And to an extent, I can agree that figuring out and building such a tiny mechanic is truly genius. But so is figuring out the digital electronics devices, even if they seem much less sexy.

What we should really be thankful for are those geniuses who figured out all those technologies and put their powers in the hand of the mere mortals.

I don't need to be able to understand the inners of the computer, but can still make use of its power to the benefit of others.
Thank you for the links. I added them in the lambdaway project's homepage.
Europeans are generally not aware that US houses are nothing like European ones, much as USAns are not aware of how much richer and better paid they are than Europeans. Most builders would not be aware. Why would the mass public be?
Might as well link to an open source alternative: https://riju.codes/

Fun fact: Whenever I want to remember the name of this project, I just look for it on the front page of https://hn.algolia.com thanks to one of the most upvoted HN posts of all time, "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
>and tie object's lifetime to where it keeps its state

What's the objection there? I want the state to be freed when the object's lifetime ends. For something only needed during a function, a local value variable makes sense. For something that needs to last longer, either give it a move operator, or put it on the heap and use unique_ptr.

If your point is that people sometimes use unique_ptr<std::string> instead of std::string or std::optional<std::string>, then yeah I agree, that's generally not good.
Short answer, yes.

Long answer, you'll need to really jack up the power consumption. Replicating a thing that in itself an energy source needs waaaay more than just a 60W light bulb.
What? Github is far from the only code review tool, and possibly not even the best one available.
"Schwarzenegger was elected well after the California Republican Party had durably stopped trying to appeal to California voters"

No, but his tenure helped to foment their internal confusion about where to go. Arnold himself refused to play a party line game, and that in turn led to ever larger fissures between the national RNC and the State leadership.
> I'm a firm believer that a "ghost in the machine" doesn't exist, will never exist, and is impossible to create.

If that's true, there is no ghost in us, just the meat machine that verifiably exists, so there is no reason to dismiss human-equivalent AI.
I agree - in a UK open office I’m maybe 2 metres from a coworker if we both squeezed to opposite ends of our desks.

Headphones are the only way to get any work done. Our US colleagues have acres of space in comparison.
Most modern cities would collapse as well.

Cities have much more to offer than office work. Restaurants, entertainment, shops, museums, sights. People that choose to live in the city often choose for those amenities, not a nearness to the office. Getting rid of offices might actually lead to a city that is denser with those attractive activities and therefore more welcoming for people to move there and enjoy those activities.
All the good jobs are in 6-8 cities because large cities have agglomeration effects that make them inherently more productive.

The homelessness is simply a result of high housing prices [1] which in turn are the result of restrictive zoning. Remove restrictive zoning laws and most of the homelessness will go away.

[1] https://twitter.com/aaronAcarr/status/1515774019685036033
It might be that any activation of immune system has an effect of additional risk of myocarditis.

If billion people caught a cold rougly at the same rate as covid vaccinations were rolled out we might probably easily see additional risk of myocarditits from that.

https://blog.getwellue.com/a-common-cold-may-cause-viral-myo...

We are seeing now weird cases of hepatitis in children when 3 years worth of common colds and flus got compressed into one because of lockdowns in 2020, 2021.

This additional risks are so low that we can't measure them when they are spread randomly over of period of time but noticeable if we pay close attention to relationship between the event (like cold or vaccination) and the severe rare symptoms.
One possible solution to lying politicians is to recognise they lie (mostly) not to hide a scandal but to appeal to everyone.

This is the big fear behind facebook / cambridge analytica - the problem was that a computer could generate different policies for each cohort of voters, essentially lying to everyone so that the same politician seemed to be on everyone's side.

There are two solutions - a clear single manifesto that everyone has to read, or we stop voting for politicians manifestos together - instead we vote for dozens of individual policies and then vote for the people to implemtnthen

it's a terrible idea inthink
Bach, as well, used to write pieces to teach his kids music.
I wonder if going back to the roots and simplifying the craft had something to do with their creative process.
It's quite rare. I know someone who specializes in representing federal whistleblowers (IE folks who actually have some force of law that should be protecting them) and even then it's a tough gig when it shouldn't be.

At least in the US, most real whistleblower protection is for federal government employees or related to federal government functions (IE waste/fraud/etc that costs the government money, or reporting on people who violate various federal agency acts, like wildlife or environmental protection, or cheating on taxes, or ...)

Here's a quick rundown of the largest federal laws: https://www.whistleblowers.org/major-u-s-whistleblower-laws/

You can see they mostly are not about "person discloses something about private corporation".

To the degree it's protected, that kind of thing is often just a side-effect of other laws (IE labor relations laws, environmental laws, etc).

So like, if you were to disclose something that isn't a crime, but is bad for society (chemical company knows it is killing honey bees or whatever), it's not really going to be protected that well. Particularly if it's about private corporations.

It would have to probably be something like "chemical company is dumping honey-bee killing chemical in the water" to be protected (under some environmental act they are violating or something)
From chicmath (https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm), Halmos' Finite dimensional vector spaces:

> But this book was where I first learned about tensor products, and why the matrix elements go the way they do and not the other way (Halmos is very careful on this point).

I haven't read the book, but it sounds like the answer may be there.
Let me replace the word religious with racial:
"In this article, the author doesn't provide any concrete example of the racial discrimination that he's allegedly experienced, or how it's impacted him in any way. It seems that he's very eager to play the victim."

Sounds familiar now doesn't it? Claims like that have been dismissed for decades. Don't be so quick to get on the dismissal train.
Here you go: https://arxius.io/f/e9c469eb
Ah, maybe I wasn't clear. In the part you quoted, I was talking about what it would be like in the US if you could get a 5Y fixed mortgage (wherein you'd have to repay it in full after 5 years). The closest thing is a 10Y fixed mortgage, which is indeed only amortized over those 10 years; you do have to pay the entire thing back in 10 years, and the monthly payments reflect that shorter time span. My point in making up this fictional loan type was to compare it to typical Canadian loans, which, as you say, are quite different.

For Canada, what I understand is that you have a 5Y (well, something between 1Y and 7Y) mortgage. The monthly payment makes it look like your amortization schedule is over 25 years, but after 5 years (or whatever 1 to 7), you'll often owe a big balloon payment, though most Canadian homeowners will end up either selling their home or refinancing at that point.

I think the closest thing to what you're talking about (in NZ) in the US is an adjustable-rate mortgage, usually offered as a "5/1" or "7/1", which means that you get a fixed rate for 5 (or 7) years, and then your rate is reset to the market rate every year thereafter (still for a total 30 year term). In practice, though, most people in the US who do ARMs choose them because they expect to sell their home in under 5 (or 7) years, or end up gambling that interest rates will be more favorable after the fixed-rate period, and can refinance with a 30-year fixed (or perhaps another 5/1 or 7/1 ARM) with a more-favorable rate.
Yes, I guess that was with daily practice and a coach. I’d say a year is probably more realistic for most people, or even more. It certainly took me longer than that.
But too much sunlight will cause retinal damage. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573353

US gas prices hit a new record high as more states pay $5 or more per gallon (businessinsider.com)

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> Mysticism within the Abrahamic religions should not be such a strange thing to encounter that people would literally question my sanity for holding such beliefs

I think the author misses how rare it is to find highly educated, rational people who literally think they can talk to God. For most Google engineers, talking to the author would be the first time they encounter a person like that.
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Nah this is bad. It's like you stop watching Tom Cruise action movies because he's a Scientologist.

Yeah if you're part of some cult I may think you're crazy but I'm unbiased enough to judge your claim without judging your crazy background which has nothing to do with your claim.

You should read the conversation he had with the person pretending to be a chatbot. It's pretty convincing evidence if a chatbot actually responded the way the human pretending to be lambda did, don't you agree?
Bruh.

When are people going to stop expecting large public companies to cater to their every whim?

It seems these days people are expecting every possible form of accommodation and bending backwards.

People have forgotten in these companies you are there to give your time and get paid for said time given. Period.

Companies will do things to help employees spend even more hours and be more loyal to their workplace in the name of kowtowing to some kind of social or special interest group.

But one should never look upon that as a right.

One should always look on it as what it really is. A way to get more hours and loyalty from the employee.

So long as the company is not nakedly abusing anyone (and companies are not so stupid) - we should go ahead, give the hours, get paid for said hours and do social activism in personal hours far away from the precincts of the workplace.
I've heard that suggestion a few times - just plan for documentation in your sprint. It's a nice idea. I've never seen it done though.
You think a vision system cannot detect that something is there at all unless it can also correctly categorize the object? In other words, you think if the object just happens to be one which the system wasn’t trained on, a vision based system will necessarily report “nothing there”?
On the contrary, victims of racial discrimination often have no problem giving concrete examples.
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Is that zk thing required by the soulbound tokens?

Ah. No. All Vitalik is saying is that you could use it, but it's not a requirement. So it's on the person/organization who's attaching that irrevocable token to not expose that information.

So yes. He is brushing this issue aside, and so do you.
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I wouldn’t call Samsung a no-name seller, and they introduced smart tags a few months before Apple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SmartTag, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTag)

Also, I think Apple thought harder about this kind of problem than Samsung. They mad their tags beep every now and then because of that.

It doesn’t seem to be enough, though. I don’t see an easy way out of this. They could put a human in the loop when a user asks for a given AirTag too frequently, but that may not be enough, and would make some users unhappy because of the added friction.
Same, and to any reader, make the switch to neutral grip on your presses _before_ you have wrist pain.
Working in one place for life is very economically inefficient for any intellectual work. Eventually there will be a company that would get more value out of you, and therefore is willing to pay you more, but you won't be able to take the job.

Clusters of companies already exist. One is Manhattan where finance jobs are concentrated, another (like you say) is Silicon Valley where tech jobs are concentrated. In both, the workers choose to live across a vast area.
IIRC, the poorer parts of the UK are where the car factories are, and they used to export a lot — might still do, but the investment in that sector is down due to Brexit, and that's because the cheap imports included parts for manufacturing cars.

As for labor, again IIRC, the (fruit?) farms are labor intensive and locals aren't interested, at least not at the wages that the farms can afford given what they get paid by the supermarkets, who can't meaningfully pay more without raising prices, which they can't do without hurting more people: even before I left, I was seeing "donate food to the food bank" baskets at the doors to supermarkets in well-off areas like Cambridge.
This reminds me of the discussions in the book "Linear Algebra done right" by Sheldon Axler. He has a beautiful series for videos on YouTube that can serve as a companion to the book.
I'm open to believing anything, with appropriate evidence.

The author makes specific claims about being judged by their manager for their religious beliefs. I'm not sure that's going to be enough to win a discrimination suit, but I wish them the best of luck. Religious discrimination at a workplace is (and should be) against the law.

I hope they find the appropriate lawyer who can navigate this for them! (For what it's worth, I'm an atheist, and I don't think anyone should be discriminated for their religious beliefs, no matter what they are. We're all atheists of some religions.)
If you were to replace the religious belief with gender in his story would your assessment stay the same? You can use this method for example in this quote: "...VPs of research laughing in my face to HR representatives questioning my sanity based on my sincerely held religious beliefs...".
"Linear Algebra done right" by Sheldon Axler. He also has a beautiful series for videos on YouTube that can serve as a companion to the book.
Can you give an example of these? The only example I can think of is where you loose some child benefits when entering certain income levels. Even when you go above the £100k income the effective tax rate becomes 60% until £125k. You still get 40% of the income?
https://acko.net

It's a personal website, but is full of amazing visualizations, educational content, and it basically has a demo scene demo to music on the front page, all hand coded in WebGL. It's just cool, in a delightful, personal, artistic way, and I love it.
Obviously wikipedia.org. Nothing better has been invented in 20-some years. I honestly feel relief when I research some topic and it has Wikipedia page on it, so I don't need to dig through some sh**y blogposts

Edit: I mean: it's one of the very few websites that actually provides sources of information. It's insane it's that rare these days. And most important facts are just placed in visible and easy to spot place, no need to dig through author's life story, thanks for subscribers etc. before getting to the point.
I'm more of a descriptivist myself
I'm really forgetful to the point I'm starting to worry about its impact on my career. I also ruminate like hell even about things that happened in high school, constantly feeling bad about things I said, did or didn't do.
Do you feel the same way about people who believe their deity is a soul that was a person?
Yep, heard some kids (like highschool age) in the Bay Area saying this last week in a park.
Wouldn't you want to preserve it rather than gut out the internals?
You're assuming that FSD is a software problem, and that there is any realistic chance that the feature will be available in the lifetime of any of the cars they sold including it.

Both of these beliefs seem unwarranted: FSD as described in the advertising is most likely much more than 5 years away, and will almost certainly require LIDAR to achieve any kind of safety.

People pay for a pre-order based on the promise that the item will be delivered. If I pre-order a game and it is later cancelled, or even delayed for many years, I will get my money back, I won't just be told "well, you knew it wasn't ready at the time".
Massive context is omitted from the cited articles. This post is worth the paper it’s printed on.
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it would be helpful to start designating whether window managers or desktop environments work with X11 or wayland (or both).

berry appears to be for X11.
You can't be scientifically objective about sentience.

First of all sentience is a loaded word it's not even fully defined. Is a mouse or a bug sentient but this AI clearly is not? It's not clear, but that an artifact of the word "sentient" which itself is just a word that is ambiguously defined.

Second, what exactly is the scientific test you would run to judge if something is sentient? It's hard to test, especially given the fact that the word isn't even formally defined.

>What I find really odd though is that, given his background, Google actually assigned him to such a task.

This would be a form of discrimination and is illegal if they assigned him jobs based off of his religious background. They assigned him jobs while ignoring his religious background which makes sense.
There is entropy in everything. We will never create anything but our best attempt at a digital humonculous, an effigy to our distorted self perceptions. Machines will never be human, but they may succeed in fooling humans into believing that.
I've yet to experience a painful Node.js update. Backwards compatibility has been very good.
I am not sure what the difference between “execution based” vs “innovation based” is. I could easily of describe the situation right now as a lack of execution, due to oversharing and too many teams trying to “connect” themselves like the blue aliens in avatar. Unfortunately “X based vs Y based”, and other terminology like that doesn’t really capture anything specific and I think is moreso how technology-detached middle managers try to put their thoughts into words.

It was illuminating to hear other orgs might not be so miserable. I really think the company priorities are not well suited for what RL is trying to achieve.
I can’t find the article atm, but read about a school who is trying that out right now, I think they started in the pandemic.
But what if you really are crazy? Not a dysfunctional schizo type of crazy, but just talking to invisible deities in the sky and sincerely believing they are there type of crazy? Which is literally what the author (proudly) claims to be, no? Are we supposed to take such beliefs seriously? Being unable to tell people they're full of shit, in a respectful manner, is much more of a serious problem here. You want to hold certain beliefs and to express them, then you should be ready to be challenged. The more peculiar the beliefs the stronger and more immediate the challenges. Alternatively, you can, you know, just shut the fuck up and keep working on those wonderful products of yours and not pollute your social surroundings with religion that has oppressed and killed millions of people throughout history.
My Mercedes E-class has a setting where you can change between strict och relaxed (whatever the names were.)

In strict, it very closely keeps in the middle of the lane. That's not how I normally drives, so it feels scary. I usually bias away from oncoming traffic. It's probably fine on a wide highway, so this is more about me not feeling in control.

However, in relaxed mode, it seems to have the issue you're describing where there's too much slack, and it looks like it's playing pong between the lane dividers. Have the exact same worry about what this looks like to others...
This is an interesting question. Has there been much uptake of such accelerators/coprocessors? One concern is that by the time the HW is ready, SW wants to do something different, perhaps fusing some other step with the sort. Another is deployability: everyone has SIMD/vectors on board, but even GPUs aren't quite everywhere nor so easy to scale out.

Also, there are now several RISC-V CPUs with 512-bit vectors, and it seems fair to call them little cores especially compared to x86 and M1/M2. Perhaps 512-bit is more feasible (and sensible) than is widely believed?
Any vaccine triggers an immune response, so it's not surprising that there's some small risk to people in taking them. But people are really bad at doing the math when it comes to the risk of serious complications or death from covid vs the risk of serious complications from vaccines. It's a difference of several orders of magnitude.
This is a political move. Just like the “electric car summit” in the White House where Tesla wasn’t invited.
When do we see "Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W"?
Science is at odds with religion anyway. The two things are fundamental opposites.

You can set moral standards to not discriminate. But when you judge the situation dispassionately without polluting the logic with "morals" the discrimination makes factual sense. Religion is the opposite of science.
The last sentence in the article explains that they compared the tools to others collected from Australia, which must have been used for similar purposes, and found much more variation between African and Australian than between African tools from different places.

I.e., this is not a question of convergent evolution. There is more than one way to skin a cat or thylacine. What we see here is path dependence. Tools were made a certain way because one's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather made them that way and reproduced successfully, and not because that was the only way to make such a tool. And, people who had previously made tools differently, or did without, adopted these, and maybe abandoned others. Maybe these were superior, or maybe people using them had more social cachet, prompting emulation; either way, the design was learned, so communicated.
If an AI were hooked into cloudflare and sensing things like correlations in lost packets due to planetary electrical interference couldn't it be just as good at "intuition" biased random behavior?
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