skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait till you get ML based compression and you get replacements with entirely different but plausibly looking alternatives that go beyond single character substitutions.

"A new research report demonstrates the connection between the rising amount of mass produced housing featuring a dedicated sex dungeon and biased content in the training set used for the compression algorithm in a popular line of architectural plotters"
>I assume that Sesame Street must have received a significant amount of public funding over the years, from governments, while it was being broadcast on public television.

The Republican party has been battling to keep that significant amount of public funding as close to zero since PBS was founded. There was the famous Mr Rogers testimony in Washington DC (where the Corporation for Public Broadcasting managed to prevail) and there was the Gingrich era where the stated goal was to shut down CPB:

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/17/us/gingrich-foresees-a-wo...
Right.

At some point, some school is going to have to take the kids who don’t bother applying, since we can’t put 100% of schools behind an application and preserve its benefits, and we should not be surprised that such schools do worse, if the ones who do apply happen to be better.
While we are comparing years. There were probably less people with senior age in 1955 than there are now.
>> It's a damn shame the media producers didn't just put all their shit on Netflix for one low price

Steve Jobs was able to pull this off for music (iTunes).
Netflix folks should have tried harder to become the default streaming platform.
Thinking back to shows like Lost and Walking Dead as examples. The community aspect of episode based shows is better IMO.
Administration seems to be entirely manually based and has lots of positions that should be consolidated or automated.

For example, each school in my county has at least one person dedicated to managing iPads and tech equipment. This isn’t the networking and server support or even desktop support, that’s done centrally. This is just a human who hands them out, collects them, and processes warranty claims. The person knows nothing about the equipment and is basically just an asset manager.

That’s one of many examples of people who don’t perform much value add and take resources from higher priorities. Why not hire a dedicated librarian who also manages devices but can help with organizing information, research, etc.
Apple must remember that it's a lifestyle brand. If their customers start seeing ads it will damage the brand substantially.
And to be fair he's been a professor for years, not a developer.

When I took my undergrad roughly a decade ago, github was already a thing but our courses were still using subversion.

Academia is slow to adopt new tools.
You’re pro-censorship if you think the solution to misinformation is censorship.

By definition.
Well I have a Gl.inet mango router which I think supports 3g USB modems, so you could hook up that and power the router with a power bank. You can use it traveling, but not when driving as you would need some sort of Wi-Fi hotspot in the car. You could setup one on your phone though this is where everything gets complicated and not for the average user.
Can you explain this a bit further? I don't think I understand the point, but I've been using docker more lately and this sounds like it could possibly be something I could use. It sounds like I could do something like:

docker build --iidfile .dockerid && \
docker run -it /bin/bash --cidfile .dockerid

Without needing to copy and paste the image ID? Is that right? Why wouldn't I just tag the image?

docker build -t myimage && \
docker run -it myimage /bin/bash
I "want" to teach. It's just that, teaching as a profession is not sustainable for me.

I am sure a lot of teachers are in the same boat as me.
The fact that Blair helped privatise the NHS doesn't show anything about "both sides of the political divide". It just shows how right-wing Blair was.
Drivers are the worst parts of Linux, the realm of drive-by contributions. Go read e.g. VFS or networking/TCP internals.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that lavish employe salaries are taxed more than for profit corporate profits.
Autopilot has basically been shelved for the past 2 years as they've been working on FSD, which will replace the current AP stack. Go have a look on Youtube, there are thousands of videos where you can see the visualizations, it's night and day.

To save you the click, here's one released today with the latest version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTssX2VdKA
It is of course up to the coder, what platforms they want to support.

But it isn't always easy to install new software. GNU make is so widespread that it probably doesn't matter. But for example, if you are on a shared machine where you might not necessarily have root. Or, if somebody requires some obscure build system that isn't available in your distro repos (of course you can build from source, but the need to check the source of the build system is going to increase the barrier to entry).
The point is that I don't know when I have the time or the will to watch a series. I watched the sixth season of The Expanse only this month. I think it was released close to the beginning of the year. While I was writing this comment I had to think about who streams the show. It's Amazon. In a perfect world I'd go to YouTube or any other similar service, look for the series at any time and watch the episodes by paying them 1 Euro each (or whatever.) Who cares who makes it, it's like gasoline's brand.
My wife's family is also Christian (but Catholic, in comparison to my Baptist family) and so my kids get incidental exposure to Christian ideas. But I don't tell them that the ideas are true. I kind of hope they see them like all of the other stories they know: as stories, with useful ideas.

I try to as much as possible demonstrate humanitarianism in how I treat them and others. I try to teach them self-reflection and gratitude, which I think are some of the most important aspects of prayer. I also try to give them perspective on differentials in privilege. But this is all a lot to try to create and teach independently.

We have a lot of friends and relatives we see often, but I wouldn't say we have anything quite like what you get with a church. I've considered trying out a Unitarian Universalist church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism). But there's not one that's close enough to me to motivate me to make it part of my routine.
Isn't it weird that CERN and high energy physicists develop things like C++ interpreters and the world wide web?

I'm really glad these things exist (well less so with cling, as I'd pick a different language if speed wasn't my top concern but I understand how useful this is to play around with code you later plan to use at a larger scale).

Anyway my point is that I'm not sure this was how it should work - this isn't really physics? Why does it the up being paid for with physics funding?
The article says:

> They found that it’s 99% accurate in letter recognition from the MNIST dataset, 85.7% accurate on image classification from the CIFAR-10 dataset, 84.7% accurate on Google speech command recognition and showed a 70% reduction in image-reconstruction error on a Bayesian image recovery task.

These are all small scale models that run on very low power, on edge devices. Not gonna load GPT-3 on it soon. It's for wake word detection and security cameras.
Right, I think I agree with you.

Re science - I am using it in a generic sense. In the sense that I think most people use it, where they will often contrast it to religion.

But!!!

Do you not think this applies to people who hold that science is not like religion. Another comment mentions 'falsifiability and testability' which I think this is key.

The key point I would add is that no one (NO ONE) is testing or falsifying the 'science' information they receive! When they look at science papers online, they may as well be sitting on a pew! Especially when you consider the Replication crisis. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis)

Knowledge and knowing is NOT a group activity. It occurs in an individual's brain. You can know if you have personally verified, or you can assume/believe/hypothesise. Most people who would argue for the primacy of science over religion, are actually in a state of belief - their knowledge is theoretical, hypothetical.

The scientific method only has any meaning when it is applied personally, rather than assumed.
In most cases, I don’t want the service to send me emails (spam)
> which means you think that your tests are not deterministic

This would be relevant if the command was saving some test report somewhere. But then the target would just depend on the report, and there would be no need to add guard files.

Looks like that `make test` just does the normal thing that is run the tests and print the results to the screen. If so, people would want to repeat it any number of times.
How does this point to a special failing of the media? Judith was let go and prosecuted, was she not?

What other system of publication would have prevented these things?

How is infowars protected from things like this, and how can anyone argue that it has an overall better track record?
With all due respect, probably you just have to look harder. I managed to track down a clean scene release of an 18 year old PC game[0] just a few hours ago with the help of Yandex and the offline translator plugin for Firefox.

[0]: https://predb.de/rls/Wings_Of_War_DVD-HOODLUM
Then why does society allow someone to reduce their tax liability for “charity”?

Of course, it would be better if there were no deductions in the first place, and the government just paid for content if it wanted to pay for content which was then automatically in the public domain.
Good point. I'm pretty sure every example I've seen of this exercise has been worded more in line with what you suggested, as well.
I’ve been assuming when I see those promotions that the content creators involved have pretty minimal real involvement signing off and maybe making suggestions. It is at the end of the day just an ad
Journalist Alex Berenson was banned from Twitter for saying the covid vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission.

He was correct.
I don't believe in luck. There are mistakes in strategy and timing. People look at stats like "90% of startups fail" and associate it with casino odds. It's deceptive. You don't just get one shot at this. Learn from your mistakes and never give up.
I totally understood that you tried to define valuable in such a way to exclude cryptocurrency mining, as you can see below however it's not easy to create a definition like that. It also begs the question why that arbitrary definition of valuable is more correct than another arbitrary definition that excludes something else instead...

> valuable, i.e. relays no additional useful information about the world (e.g. the boiling point of some new liquid or something)

Theoretical mathematicians don't provide anything useful according to your definition.
Same position here, though I realized it a bit later in life. Currently mid 30s and hoping to be out of tech by 40.
I don’t view it as such, and am open to anything experts could suggest, much further than cat vs human difference, and not even on the line where these two reside, but a sci-fi level different. The fact that human intelligence is seemed as special bothers me too.
How is that different than ads in a newspaper? …or on radio? …or on television? — all of which have been used by elites to spread misinformation.

Why is the solution censorship rather than better analysis and consensus mechanisms?

I think you’re ignoring the second-order effects of mass censorship eg, the Thailand study [1] suggests vaccine censorship and failure to address concerns may have been a catastrophic mistake. We need to seek consensus through discussion and debate — to avoid lying to ourselves and thus engaging in horrors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekTR0w2M9-U
I was not aware that they had started offering this, and probably ought to have researched a bit before posting. That being said, I think my critique of the non-transferable upgrade still stands. Thank you for sharing the link to the subscription page!
> teachers work more in 9 months than most professionals

I want to understand this more and think we need to measure this well.

As a software dev, I’ve always struggled with measuring the amount of work performed and usually disregard measures of intellectual output as misleading measures (eg, lines of code, story points completed, whatever).

What makes you think teachers work more in 9 months than a typical professional (engineer, attorney, healthcare worker) does in an entire year? Wouldn’t it then make sense for these teachers to change professions? Or other professionals to teach? Or is everyone just stupid? Or just really dedicated to teaching as a passion?

I only have my own experience but I’ve always had a stack of work after hours- training, mentoring, networking. And I assumed all professions have this kind of additional metawork that is unpaid. Is it harder to tutor a student than to mentor someone?
The same Tories that wanted to increase NHS funding by 350 million per week? What ever became of that?

(excuse the gallows humour)
I think that this is one of actually nicer articles about using Make (and I think that developers should use it in more roles than a glorified task runner. It can do more, look at buildroot!), but the pontificating headline is quite off putting.

I know that Twitter and Medium popularized this style a lot. I wish we used it less.

The tips in the article are interesting, and the text is humbler than one would expect from a preamble like this, though. Go read it, give it a thought.
> We are better than you is a potent drug.

You don't think this applies to science?

Do you see that even your (carefully worded) comment, would be seen as an example of ego, from the other side of the pew?
Am not a censor, I agree with this. What people call “free speech” is really “free mouth utterances” with basically no consideration of whether or not what is being said is actually a sincerely held belief being expressed in good faith. Because the belief that current public discourse is anything at all a marketplace of ideas or some collective Socratic circle is also extremely naive and juvenile.

By making no distinction between (picking an obviously repulsive view) a post that outlines someone’s argument why they believe black people are predisposed to be thieves and some photoshopped stock photo of a black kid stealing watermelon and fried chicken with the caption “ni**, right?” [1] we just let hate, and the irl consequences, spread while choking off actual speech. You kill the very thing you wanted to protect with free speech in the first place.

Free speech should be measured in “freedom as in liberty” instead of “freedom as in anarchy.”

[1] This was, not even exaggerated, real content you could find on some now banned subreddits, one of them rhymes with moon town.
I'm pretty sure you can have both if the tax bubbles up. You pay the local tax. That tax money then goes and pays the city tax. The city tax pays the state tax, the state tax pays the country tax, the country tax pays the global tax.

You are responsible for the improvements on your land, and you pay for the unimproved value of that land that comes from all higher levels. The local government on the other hand is responsible for local infrastructure, and pay for the city+ based unimproved value.

A landlocked country would pay less tax, a city at the mouth of a river pays higher tax, a locality with a beach pays higher tax, etc... this ensures that each level has some accountability and is incentivized to improve.

At each level is money left over after paying the tax(I hope!), and can either be invested or can be returned as a dividend.

One of the main unresolved issues with Georgism is the Disney World problem, and I believe that if you structure the tax in this way that problem goes away. Disney would simply be labeled not as a household actor, but as a city level actor.
but the article is not even advocating censorship.
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Nitpicking. Milk and blood are both opaque, compared to the clear red jello on that picture.
The thread above has mentioned a very real problem with snap running on OpenVZ. It requires either squashfs as a kernel module or FUSE+squashfuse. Many OpenVZ hosts will not provide either and docker/k8s is obviously out if you are already operating inside a container...

Like, squashfs is great and all and packaged app images are an acceptable way of delivering desktop apps... but there's so much lossage here when certbot indirectly requires both just for an install.

(I ended up going with acme.sh instead.)
It's high precision of a flawed view (in my opinion, of course) that should only be taken for what they are, an opinion.

For any readers that want to learn make, look at the makefiles of big projects and see how they set things up. There's a huge difference of one person's opinions vs. a working system for a real world project.
I'm the dinosaur that still watches most content on a DVR. The fast-forward button never fails.
It could be done multiple ways. You could pay into a government insurance scheme or you could pay into a private one. The main point is that the payment of the insurance premiums is decoupled from the service provision. Right now the two are tightly-coupled and you can't realistically choose either of them. Look at the French model as an example.

On a small scale, there is some degree of separation. Sometimes the NHS pays for treatment in private facilities, and sometimes private insurance pays for treatment in NHS facilities.
Definitely untrue.

s/always need/often want/
It’s not just about on demand online services. Inflation is sky high everywhere, that will eat up a lot of convenience in daily life. There is a small chance that this will reduce wealth inequality but it may be only temporary.
I do own one, but it's a luxury.

I could totally lives without it.

Almost all of my needs can be covered at feet distance, or with public transit.
Still in education, but now I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the charitable sector.
Except that's not exactly true either, depending on how you look at it. At the population-scale, they do prevent infection and transmission, and they prevent it very very well.

This particular individual has said many other things during and about the pandemic, and this was part of a much broader line of messaging that was, broadly speaking, both incorrect and harmful.

(I'm a biochemist, and immunology and extracellular vesicles are my areas of expertise. No conflict of interest.)
For some reason RECIPEPREFIX has gotten really popular lately. Has OS X finally upgraded their version of Make, or are people no longer using the default Make on OS X at all?
Neither the article nor grandparent said they think the solution to misinformation is censorship.
MBAs:

- do not improve

- output
- investment
- employment growth
- sales
- profit

- do

- reduce employee wages

Source : https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29874/w298...
Free speech is a tenant of functional society but it is not the only tenant nor is it the most important one. The Internet tends to focus on it because free speech is what it’s best at. And while that focus is important, it’s time we changed its primacy so that we can see its effect on other critical, more subtle, tenants.
> Education is a money pit.

How exactly do you mean this?

The U.S. spent $90.5 billion for "Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education" in 2021* (a subset of "Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services"), which is 1.3% of $6.82 trillion in total 2021 government expenditures. Compare to $696.5B for Medicare, $754.8B for National Defense, etc.

If anything, this illustrates how relatively unimportant a base level of education is in the U.S.

* https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...
Israeli spyware company NSO Group CEO steps down
I think this was very important for the success of Games of Thrones. If everybody could watch it at any time and at any rate, we would have had not only spoilers but there wouldn't have been all the chatters at the coffee machines the day after the show and no buildup of expectations for the next episode. Probably nothing changes for not great series.
Indeed, I'll admit my tone can get quite peevish after reading for the Nth time about how people are being silenced (note the irony there). It's nothing other than trying to create a victim/persecution complex to sell your point of view and it's an intellectually low tactic.
> I know the most ardent antivaxxers are going to explain every death in the next 30 years by the vaxx

In same vein the "every death" (or hospitalization) during the covid pandemic was due to covid and/or lack of vaccination.

I add quotation marks because in both cases I do not believe it's true.
Credentialism is bad, yes. It’s important to get over prejudice that less education is worse, yes. Saying that an ms student with the same gpa (adjusted for graduate grade inflation) from the same university as a rule is worse than a bs is ridiculous. You’ve gotten things twisted past overcoming prejudice. It’s great that programming as an industry has lots of room for people who go without education, but your logic is delusional. Of course a 4 year student who accomplished the same as another who took 5 is better, but that doesn’t justify your statement that started this.
Google is also paying for things like Calico which are pretty speculative and unconnected with AI/ML.
Reasonable skepticism based on the facts presented.
Key takeaway from this I think is: technology alone cannot solve problems engendered by policy.
I’d like to build following and alerts for commenters I like here… is it possible on top of this or Algolia?
I thought most people use ninja through CMake? Do people actually write ninja scripts directly?
The question wasn't about the cost, is was 'who is responding'.
Yeah, that's exactly it. Talk about a great example of me failing to know why I know things. I think I encountered that on Rational wiki years ago. I subsequently "smushed" that idea into a bunch of science fiction, Frankenstein's monster and the aliens in Ender's game have a similar flavor - in my mind anyway.

It's great that's an active area of research. from the outside, it seems extraordinarily difficult. Persuading a person from a similar cultural background is tough enough. I can't imagine the challenges of persuading an AI. I realize I'm taking "persuasion" and "agreement" as a given here, and those are ideas we might not share with an AGI. Seems real hard.
Totally agree that nonreligious people can be just as factional. But I see organized religion as a catalyst of sorts for factionalism and objectification of outsiders. It's not the only such catalyst.

I'm always interested in learning more about the history and spirituality of different religions, but I believe I'm permanently over thinking that anyone has the best or most correct religion.
You incorrectly assume that all power users wish to modify their operating system and hardware, and in doing so exclude professionals who prefer to use the tool as it was sold to them. There are many reasons why professionals with the capability to modify software and hardware behaviors might choose not to; conflating “power users” and “professionals” disregards that distinction, and by doing so ignores why Macs are successful among those professionals who are not, as you label it, “power users”.
Agreed. The jury isn't out on Austrian v/s Keynesian economics. We've not had the former play out organically in recent history without Govt. intervention transforming it into the latter. I remain hopeful that there is change enough that technology imposes hard rules (fixed supply, fixed issuance, only taxation no printing etc.). Rules that nations earlier used to comply with (~approximately) with the gold peg but no longer do.