skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this when I was 20-something too. A while ago now, as I am 45.

UK TV back then had subtitles on teletext page 888. (And maybe it still does? I don't watch TV any more.) My flatmates and I would always switch this on when watching TV, as it meant we could talk, while still being able to keep track of what was going on in the programme.
"Everyone knows that nearly no engineers use calculus in their day job. Therefore, the purpose and measure of success isn't whether an engineer uses calculus in their day job. It is a great signal of technical problem solving ability, it is really powerful having a large pool of people who are trained in working with rates, areas and margins."

I'm not saying that calculus is useless in an engineer's education - far from it.

I'm arguing that knowing the algebraic tricks required to take the limit of (x^2)sin(2x)/sqrt(x) as x->0 is useless. It's just a display of the mastery of very intricate algebra, exactly the same as all the other displays of mastery of intricate algebra she has had to master and will continue to be required to master.

What she actually needs is a solid understanding of the physical meaning of derivatives and integrals, how we arrive at them via numerical approximations, the fact that the velocity of a rigid body can be described as the integral over the forces that body is experiencing, etc.

That connection is literally never made in calculus.

The connection is of course made in the parallel calculus-based physics class she is taking. Which has its own problems, but is far superior as an introduction to calculus than the actual calculus class is.
> If social media wishes to be immune from lawsuits regarding the content it publishes, section 203, then it should not have the ability to censor such content for an explicit commercial revenue model.

It's a bit more insidious than that, as they can still go and say "we don't censor it, see, it is not removed", all while the content is blacklisted from recommendations.

Still works essentially as censorship as nobody can see it until they look at channel directly but it is not technically censoring.

> I understand why people hate that opinion, because they want civil discourse and nearly free access to media online. Uncensored content pushes normal people out.

Nope. It pushes ad revenue out. Youtube, aside from not allowing porn and other 18+ stuff was for long time basically uncensored, you could post anything and algorithms wouldn't punish you.

Got to be biggest video platform regardless of that.

They started with demonetizing or lowering monetization for "controversial" stuff because of ad money, and companies not wanting to see their ads on the more controversial stuff for fear of being associated with it. But it wasn't for people, it was to please other corporations that gave them money.

Recommendation system makes sure that generally if you don't search for something and don't watch it, you won't get it, so the fact some content that might offend them is on the platform is irrelevant.

And after Trump won, the companies just used same systems to push the topics they don't want on the margins of search results
Lisp gives you a programming language in which you don't have to write a cryptic 42 page one-liner to have an implementation of lambda calculus.

Lisp gives you a way to talk about lambda calculus, in a way that executes. For instance, papers about lambda calculus may talk about "beta reduction" and things of that nature. Those concepts are not in lambda calculus; they are about lambda calculus.

In lambda calculus examples you have terms like \x x and whatnot. But lambda calculus doesn't explain what x is; x is an identifier and that is part of the description of lambda calculus, and not in lambda calculus.

Lisp has the batteries included for describing languages, such as lambda calculus. It has an answer for what is x: it's a symbol, available as a data type. It has an answer for what is "beta reduction"; it's a function you can write, and execute on some piece of lambda calculus.

Lisp closes the circle; the stuff you talk about in a paper can become code, and code which is not far from what the paper talks about.
> giving a five

I've never heard it said this way. Or "slap hands". It's always "high five".
Doesn’t seem like there are any notable new trends the last few months: Nvidia still dominates GPUs and AMD has slowly gained a full one-third market share of CPUs. Based on product roadmaps and rumors from the big three (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) none of these trends are likely to change with Intel still somewhat fumbling CPU roadmap and utterly failing on their GPU desires (with a rumored end to their consumer GPU business following shortly [1]).
The only noteworthy trend is that the portion of 8-core CPUs is going up.

[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88393/intel-arc-gpu-effective...
Portable abstractions for SIMD aren't very useful, because if you're writing SIMD you want performance, and the things it abstracts over (specific SIMD capabilities and weird performance quirks of different instructions) mean the results of using it aren't predictable.
Costs have dropped an order of magnitude since that study. Many of which scale with energy.

4 years is now a massive overestimate. Depending on how much you include (frames, inverter, grid tie in etc) 0.5-2 is more realistic.
That article quotes the opinion at length, and I think does a good job of pointing out how bad the opinion is on its face.

For example, just look at the section where the opinion argues that the platform is bringing up "hypotheticals" it talking about curbing pro-Nazi or terrorist posts. I kept re-reading the quoted opinion again and again thinking "Is this judge a complete idiot?" To be clear, I'm not basing this on the commentary from the article's author (though I agree with him). But trying to argue that pro-Nazi and terrorist speech on tech platforms are "hypotheticals" makes me wonder if this judge has ever seen the Internet.
There is on some shows. For those the choice is between "English" and "English [CC]" or similar; the former omits descriptions of noises. Most don't have this, probably because it's not provided by the producers.

Agreed on timing issues. This also seems to vary by show/producer.
This guy seems to not understand the current context.

Wood is cheap and readily available. You know what isn't for this next winter?

I don't even have to answer my own question...
I just get tired of shows with poor audio normalization and having the "what the heck did they just say" moments. Or one of my kids decides to randomly scream at the top of their lungs. And there is the whole blowing my ears out with rap music in my car because I thought it was cool growing up. I'm getting old.
Yea I love getting the actual paper magazine too, nice not having to stare at a screen.
This is called a "suicide cord."
Congrats on launching! I'm personally a huge fan of pharicator, having used it at FB and realizing how much I missed stacking, the review queue, and herald after leaving.

We built Graphite (https://graphite.dev) to bring a lot of that goodness to developers still stuck on Github for one reason or another (after finding that we ourselves were locked into GH). And I'm glad others are championing that as well.
does anyone else get intensely annoyed when a) the closed captions misspell a word (or use the wrong word entirely) or b) when the captions don't match the spoken words (often on translated materials)?
Is it really diverse if 99% of the population is dirt poor, 0.999% of the population is middle-class, and 0.001% of the population is ultra-rich?
Pfft, you can just cut the male ends off a couple old extension cords and twist the wires together, then wrap it in duct tape. Just don’t reverse the hot and neutral. /s
> Primates are not humans

Those specific primates weren't human, but humans are primates [1].

Here's a quote from the Boyalife CEO, before the ban in China [2]:

> The technology is already there," Xu said. "If this is allowed, I don't think there are other companies better than Boyalife that make better technology."

> The firm does not currently engage in human cloning activities, Xu said, adding that it has to be "self-restrained" because of possible adverse reaction.

I don't believe laws have the ability to stop greed, or the desire for longevity (organs [3] without lifelong immunosuppressant therapy is very appealing). They just add a risk factor. This is why criminals still exist in the world.

1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-are-humans...

2.https://www.mtv.com/news/43bwd7/chinese-scientist-clone-huma...

3. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
I agree that much of the motivation comes from real world imperatives, but, for example, P=NP is of deep mathematical interest in its own right, and if/when mathematicians solve it, they will move on and let us sort out the details.

We can actually build stuff (beyond some somewhat blessed prototypes) often only when we've understood the mathematics behind it - edit: or is that the other way around??

I'm not sure that any rigorous discipline can consider itself outside or unbound by mathematics.
Hoarding isn't like collecting where you have a good category system of finding your things, select objects to add to one's collection, maybe even curate the collection ie. getting rid of things no longer needed. Hoarding is a compulsive disorder that is irrespective of someone's capacity to manage their objects. It's someone who cannot stop acquiring and cannot manage their own collection of items, not even long enough to organize their space or their collected objects.

Consider the example of someone who is unable to throw away food long after it's expired, even if it's clearly no longer good to eat (like a molded over fruit). Or someone who is unable to stop acquiring clothes, not even only for the length to categorize their current clothing collection into something more reasonably organized.
"always"

When they started measuring these things climate had already started.
Lenovo issues emergency security patch for hundreds of models
40yo here. I turned the subtitles on the help my little kids learn words as they watch. Now I love them. I’ll watch old movies - ones I’ve seen dozens of times - with the subs on and pick up things I never heard before.
I guess it depends on how you do it. Depending on how I've set things up, I've found that more samples isn't necessarily better (usually just different). I suppose it's an optimization problem. I have found that I can pretty reliably look at a 1 sample image and kinda guess where the earliest iterations are going to go, and that might be the most appropriate workflow, actually, but beyond that it seems a couple of samples can drastically alter outputs, and likewise with prompt editing. Whereas with img2img there's a lot more control, I pick an input, I can force it to strictly abide to the image and the parameters I want, and as someone else said in- and outpainting are nice as well.

I guess I'm just manipulating probabilities in my favor?
I suspect it’s this model or something similar:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01604

Question Answering is a rich area of research in NLP - this is a good place to start:
https://paperswithcode.com/task/question-answering
Would love to support you on this journey! I'm on the team at Fifty Years, we've backed teams like Noya (carbon removal) and Solugen (Carbon negative chemical manufacturing). Would love to chat! Feel free to email me at peregrine at 50y.com
I am very happy to see this. Phabricator is an incredibly well written and deeply thought-out tool (even if people may disagree with some of its philosophies regarding e.g. patches and code review) and it had a tremendous influence on my career and the way I thought about managing and contributing to software projects. I say that as someone with a few patches in Phabricator itself.

I hope Phorge is just as successful and retains that levity and unique polish that Phab had; looks like a lot of the old guard contributors are around as part of this, so I'm very hopeful. Maybe I should spin up some of my old patches for things like WebAuthn support and re-submit them...
> I want to help them get their business online but they have made it nearly impossible

And you think you are qualified to do this because...why exactly? This is stunningly arrogant. Meetup and any other reasonably sized site at the very least is monitoring their HTTP response codes and some random person on the internet telling them "hey, your site is down" isn't helpful at all.

Frankly, you don't even realize that a lack of contact page is by design and that nearly every business does as much as it can to minimize the cost of support interactions with its customers as much as possible. Many SaaS companies have so little per-user profit margin (if there's a profit margin at all) that they simply cannot afford to have people calling, emailing, and snail-mailing them. Generally speaking you see customer support start out as being fairly good if informal as a company grows, and as time goes on, the company locks down more and more of its customer contact.

Uber is a great example. They went from having a hotline listed on the website for 'emergencies', to only providing the number in-app if you had a ride in progress or recently completed, to then implementing a system where the app would trigger a call to you...again, only if you'd recently been on a ride.
LC is only computationally foundational; it describes recursive functions. It's just another universal turing machine.

LC has a great disadvantage: it's difficult to write a LC interpreter in LC. This project shows exactly what that means. To write an LC interpreter, you need a data structure for representing expressions. You need a symbolic data type.

LC does not know what a LC expression is. Papers about LC know what that is, but they are not executable.

In Lisp we can say, okay, lambda calculus can be represented sort of like this:

(lambda (x) x)

and so on. That's a nested list. It contains symbols. We can use an assoc list to associate symbols with the terms that are their values. And so on ...

Lisp has the programmatic vocabulary to talk about lambda calculus formally, in a way that is executable.

I don't suspect there is a significantly easier way for LC to interpret LC than to use the 42 page expression to create a Lisp, and then write the interpreter in that lisp.
I will never forget the day i logged into Full Tilt Poker on Black Friday to that white fed screen - wondering, what now?
What about ~2.1 kids? As that is how many kids people need to have to at least maintain a replacement rate population.
Exactly. People keep ginning up false analogies to justify censorship.

If you create a service deliberately designed so that anyone can sign up and start posting things without so much as an employee approving their registration, then you've deliberately created what amounts to a public square.

To then selectively censor people on such a platform is tantamount to a bait & switch. You promised people a public square, and then revoked that mechanism for people you disagree with.

And if you think big tech doesn't all have the same bias, take a look at this graph: https://i.imgur.com/Si183zE.jpg

Social media like twitter and facebook aren't a newspaper. They're not a podcast. They're not a TV show. They're a digital public square. The sooner we collectively admit that, the better.
Personal bank account? You want to get audited, sued and loose everything you own?Because that is how you can achieve that.
Yea, this is our family too. Volume button up and down, up and down, for 3 hours. I don't recall this being a problem with older movies, either. I feel like maybe modern moviemakers have access to sound pipelines with crazy vast dynamic range, and audio engineers feel they have to use every setting from "mouse quiet" to "nuclear bomb" in order to do their jobs right.
What's starting to be creepy is how easily people are ascribing meaning to statistical models. Loab is essentially a single image that resulted from statistical noise and her creator iterated on. It reminds me of the researcher from Google who thought their models were sentient
A single player game still accesses the network. Consoles that trust their game code regularly get jailbroken through eg overflows in a game's save file formats.

Plus it's only single player until they decide to add multiplayer…
I don't have the impression that people who are against insider trading have a clear definition in their heads, agree with others on a definition, or know what the law is now in the US (let alone other countries, which can be notably different in law or principles).

Why would you ever buy or sell anything unless you thought you knew something other people didn't? But, if that's not insider trading, then what is, and why?

When I write "what is", I mean both as a matter of current law, and as a platonic ideal.

When big investors talk to company management, what are they doing if not getting inside information? Why is this legal? Is it legal? Should it be legal? Isn't it kind of peculiar if someone that supposedly owns something can't talk to the people managing it?
I'm a little confused here, but I thought 2fa was a combination of something I know (A password) and something I have (A authenticator). So a attacker getting access to your computer is same as them getting access to your authenticator?

Or do you mean that this leaves the secrets vulnerable to spyware and stuff? Cause in that case as the other comment says, one could use the TPM.
There's not enough sunlight per day in the coming months in most of Europe. How's solar going to help?
To clarify: Relative to Google and Facebook, which have built up immense c++ codebases that span the entire companies.

I spent 8 years at Apple, mostly working in C and then rust, both even smaller pieces of the Apple language pie.

But I also did a little c++. I have commits in swift for eg (though I wasn't on the team and they were pre-oss, so you'd have to dig real deep to find them now).

Most of the services side of the company, which is where I was, was java ime. A lot of shift to Go in the last few years though. And that's a very quickly growing part of the company where you can't do a local check to find out language use. It's also the only part where rust is viable, because the product side of the company has much stricter limitations on what they'll build for distribution and as of when I'd left, adding rust to that mix was not even on the radar there.

But the places where rust was gaining were small but important, which is the main thrust of what I was saying.

But anyways, with how siloed apple is experiences can differ a lot, even beyond normal for bigcorps. :/
The EFI partition doesn't have to be RAIDed. All you need in the EFI partition is a stateless, RAID-aware bootloader that is hardcoded to look for a RAIDed volume matching a generic label (such as "rootfs") and then chainloading the actual bootloader from there. Then you can just install this "shim" bootloader into each disk's EFI partition once and you don't need RAID or to even mount it ever again.
Not sure what you think that has to do with my point?
> Oof... ADL scares me, but I don't know which load(...) you're referring to. src/serialize.cpp has a single such function call

Yup that's the one I mentioned. It was just an example though, there are lots of others.

> am I supposed to avoid using the name `load` or qualify it with the namespace path

The latter. i.e. you should write serialize::load() (or ::serialize::load()) unless you intend ADL to occur.

> Everything seemed to compile and work fine the last time I touched this codebase.

Yeah I wasn't claiming it wouldn't compile right now. The problem is that it has a higher risk of changing behavior in the future. In this example, if this function is ever introduced:

namespace kj { auto load(InputStream &stream) { ... } }

then suddenly that function will get called instead of yours, which may or may not result in a compiler error.

It's not exactly the biggest footgun in C++, but "well-written" C++ code tries to be careful about pitfalls like these.
Yes but isn't it beautiful? But seriously, instead of seeing lots of brackets, see the whole as a texture, a texture that has some importance (per Lisp advocates). See it in context with other textures, indeed all possible textures.
Does your TV have dynamic range normalization (may be called "sound leveling" in the menu)?
security.txt file in the well-known?

Anybody really use that?
1) The reason TikTok etc. have closed captions on is that audio is off by default. If you want people to listen to your words but audio is off, put it into closed captions.

2) With closed captions you can watch a movie on low volume without disturbing others and still understand every word even of the girl in the corner of the room barely utters a word.

Source: I'm a "20-something".
If a product is inherently unsafe for use like this, why does Amazon continue to sell it? Or better, can the government intervene and better regulate its sale so it’s not so easy to purchase?
It's more than that. A market without competition isn't much of a market. We've got more than a few decades of antitrust law and research, and multiple government agencies, focused on preserving competition.
I read most SCOTUS opinions, and even relative to them I found this 5th circuit opinion to be an easy read.

Which also makes it even more obvious who has or hasn't read it, or even the first few pages.
Multiplication is generally done in O(n^2) of the number of bits so I'm not sure what you mean to say. Do you mean O(n^2) of the size of the operands?
Moderation is double edged sword sadly, you need it else the extremists will do exactly that, interpret the ideas of community in the extreme all while pushing out people that they think are not extreme enough.

But on other side... good luck looking for one. The people that volunteer to have a bunch of power over a community and decide who's allowed to stay and who have to go are usually exactly the type you don't want to moderate anything, or have any power whatsoever over anything.

I've seen few times where self moderation mostly worked but it was due to established culture there and any newcomer that misbehaved was just scolded by the more veteran members and that was usually enough. You can see it on smaller subreddits too.
It's definitely better but I still find mixing inconsistent enough that I have to cycle through profiles on my AVR(denon)/system(performa3) to find a mixing that works. Mostly seems to be an issue with stuff in the last couple of decades.
It doesn’t seem that hard to me to say that what Facebook does with millions of messages flowing through its pipes every day is “conduct” not “speech.”

A better foundation for this seems to be property rights—it’s facebook’s pipes, and their business what they do with it.
> First, nothing in constitution talks about abortion

Abortion is a question of fundamental body autonomy (Can my state use my body in order to preserve the life of another person[1][2]), and all the other rights enumerated in the constitution aren't worth a rat's ass without body autonomy.

[1] It pretty immediately follows that if the state has the power to do so, it should also have the power to take you apart for your organs, because I will die without an organ transplant.

[2] Or, as the case may be, another person-to-maybe-be.
This aligns pretty well with McLuhan's concept of cool and hot media [0]. The younger generations prefer it cool - perhaps their hotness is found in newer forms like video games.

[0] https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/MIDDMedia/Hot_versus_cool_m...
It legally applies to everybody. The limits depend not on who you are, but on the contents of the speech.