skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO it became plainly a good idea to have the US Post Office provide email service no later than a decade ago.
Not if only one US state is doing this.

USD is a MASSIVE global currency.
All types of HPC; I'm a sysadmin/consultant. I don't think the problem with the cost gap is overestimating cloud costs but rather underestimating on-prem costs. Also, failing to account for financing differences and opportunity-costs of large up-front capital purchases.
The largest models have 10 ^ 9 parameters? There is still a lot of "scaling" to be done if we want to reach 10 ^ 18 parameters, the number of synapses in the brain.
Reading the age ranges in that post already underline the point I made earlier about this kind of thing becoming much less common in recent decades
Where I suffer everyday, somebody had the idea of implementing SAFe: We have 10% more people to help with the "cermonies". That is, for every 30 people, there are 1 Scrum master, 1 Product manager, and 1 SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC) that help to implement the method (all external people costing 2x the normal employee cost) plus courses and certification for some internal employees.

Dailys take 1 Hs, where people try to show off. Retros take 3Hs and is all about finding "who is guilty". PI plannings take 2 day, and consistently in the first week after planning we realise the whole planning cannot be realised for whatever reason. Backlog is always 100+ entries, that we leave there "just in case". PO does not work in the team, he is just the BOSS. We goes every day behind you pushing that you fill in the status of the task in our Track-n-release. The track and release tool is there to supervise the work being done, so there are very specific guidelines on how to fill the comments and when. The "velocity" is used to evaluate the people.

Great place to work!!!
More evidence how different groups in society have no idea how the other groups live.
This is different, because I think often those pages are written by the individuals themselves, or representatives for the companies.
Explain. It is generally not possible to use hashing securely on finite sets like phone numbers.
Yeah it was. I play OW with my friends to stay in touch now that I live in another country. Smurfs (high level players creating new accounts to dunk on low level players) are a really big problem in the game.

But yeah this has been handled poorly by Blizzard, with pre-pay users having problems and my wife not being able to play as they don't let you change country without sending in a photo of your ID.
> The notion that the drug war is a pretext for racism is utterly ridiculous

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

-- Former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman

> The PM’s cabinet in my home country

The drug war didn't start in your country, so you have no claim to what the initial and subsequent motivations were of those who started it and popularized it around the world.

> It goes without saying that Black people aren’t inherently more likely to be drug dealers or drug users

Black people in the US are less likely to be drug dealers, however they are searched and arrested at a much higher rate.

> There’s lots of other laws that have discriminatory enforcement, but nobody accuses the proponents of those laws of being motivated by racism.

Sure they do. Just as one example, the law that felons cannot vote has frequently been cited as racially motivated. Another example is stop and frisk.
“How DBT Fails”
A bit weird that suddenly there a lot of sentiment around "how [MDS company here] fails" when 12 months ago it was "MDS is the only future"...
Ignoring the very controversial topics, like Israel and Palestine or the current war in Ukraine, Wikipedia can be a very good starting point when it comes to history.

The entries are not exhaustive nor are all of them very scientific-sounding, but at least the basic facts which we sort of know of are there.
> If you're doing JS development, just use React.

I totally agree with your sentiment, but there are more frameworks out there with sufficient maturity to be considered enterprise-grade on the scale of react. Angular is certainly there, Vue as well at least in my book.
> You need money to staff people with security knowledge that constantly keeps product up to date with latest malicious signatures in all codebases.

Of course; it's just funny to think about how much money gets spent detecting and fixing things downstream instead of fixing it at the source.
>What "different click substrates" are you talking about?

I can click on a strep tag, or a his tag, or a fluorophore of any different color. See: https://clickchemistrytools.com/

Yes, they are all the same chemical addition, but I can label them orthogonally. I can incorporate an azo-amino acid, and click a green alkyne. I can incorporate an alkyne nucleotide, and click a blue azide, etc.

>This is crazy labor intensive, I feel like if you are at this point in considering using this to understand a biological you have really burned through a lot of simpler, more established, and easy to calibrate techniques.

I don't think you are understanding what I'm saying here. What are you saying is labor intensive, purifying protein? That's an incredibly common technique. Yes it's labor intensive, but it's the only way to do huge amounts of experiments. If you're saying click chemistry is labor intensive, well, you're wrong, it's a couple hour experiment, most of which is waiting for incubations.
1) Signal uses phone numbers to generate your social graph. They don't know it.

2) Usernames are pretty close. In fact, you can build the beta and use them now. [0] So your worries will be over soon. I really think you're exaggerating the simplicity of replacing the identifier in a way that is not personally identifiable. I mean my name here is only semi-anonymous but it would be a grave mistake to think one couldn't figure out who I am fairly easily.

3) What alternatives do you have? Yeah there are some that don't require this but also haven't had as extensive of audits, open sourced code, or the proof of time. Personally it does matter who analyzed protocols, safety measures, ciphers, etc because I can recognize that I'm not an expert in everything AND even if I was that dual verification is better than singular. With something as important as this, N-verification is important. IMO.

[0] https://community.signalusers.org/t/usernames-in-signal/9157...
I've never worked in this space, but I'm curious about the need for massive egress. What's driving the need to bring all that data back to the institution?

Could whatever actions have to be performed on the data also be performed in AWS?

Also while briefly looking into this I found that AWS has an egress waiver for researchers and educational instiutions: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/data-egress-waiver...
Yes except for that.

Well most people don’t use Telegram. So maybe their stuff isnt encrypted either. So what? If you want to use it it’s available.
The instrumental (ha HA) utility of the "kink" seems to me a natural consequence of compounding constraints:

some musing:

the number of strings is constrained to allow for chord voicing across all the strings,

and to provide range,

open chords with minimal fingering complexity radically increase accessibility,

duplication is critical to support those,

capping with the double octave of the lowest note makes up-and-down strumming work,

if you're going to break pattern to coerce the highest string, it's extremely useful to also provide its dominant (5th) which makes sounding those top strings together just "work" (especially: with a bass note on the lowest string), with the side benefit that it allows learned scale patterns to work across those two strings, where most melodic playing will be up-an-down and third- fourth- or fifth- jumping or stopping,

...add all this up and it's a collection of mild but clear wins that together really strongly entail the current system.

Robert Fripp's 500 page book on guitar playing no doubt explains why this is Wrong and his preferred all-fourths tuning etc. are Better though. :)
"Hobby projects can make up to 3000 API calls per month for free."

How many API calls on a page view? One? Many?
Biden warns Putin is 'not joking' about nuclear weapons
Well nobody can keep up a sprint pace for 30 mins let alone a marathon distance, so those people will burn out before they get that far.
Yes, I think we agree. That would fit within my definition of "things" in "make things easier". They can only do more/better with computers if the software is built to support them in that. If instead we insist that people focus on understanding the computer rather than doing the things they want to do, then they will do less and/or worse.
i don't think you understand whats being said or you are misquoting me intentionally in poor faith
That’s insane. I remember the Sony Rootkit scandal from 2005 and Sony’s reputation started to tank around then but I didn’t know it was the successor to another piss poor attempt to copy protect CDs.

TIL. Thanks!
Time to write it down yourself somewhere?
If you have not yet read the Scrum Guide, please read it. It does not tell you in detail how to do Scrum, but the framework is there. https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html

My favorite method of story pointing is throwing some chicken bones at a grease stain on the wall. It's as accurate as anything else.
Google Docs is owner-visible by default, whereas Notion is organization-visible by default.

Google Docs (until recently?) doesn’t really do links between docs that well.

The slash-based (/) UI in Notion is huge for onboarding. The different content types you can insert are super discoverable compared to Google Docs where you have to dig through the menus.

You can’t fuck with the styles in Notion that much, which prevents people from becoming “format astronauts.”

Notion has an organization-global index (like most wikis) which makes document discovery a bit easier.

Notion has document metadata, which lets you get something like a simple database out of a set of documents. You can have a set of docs with custom fields (due date, point of contact, whatever)

Notion gives you an inbox for notifications when you’re mentioned/stuff gets edited.

Google Docs is catching up on some of this in the last couple years, but IMO they have been sleeping on this space since pretty early in Google Docs development.
That's an interesting claim. Where's your evidence?

I'll also note you must have missed my question, as I don't think you have answered it.
Do you know the difference between an expert and a non-expert? An expert knows more than you about something.

Well, it's not quite that simple of course. But the point stands. You can do a lot of good well before that 10,000 hour mark. Think about dedicating just 1 hour to something. How much more will you know about it than your peers?

I think it's a mistake to divide the world into pre-10,000 hours and post-10,000 hours. Mastery does take time. But you can do a lot for yourself by first becoming more knowledgeable and then becoming more practiced at something. You don't need to be a master before your life improves noticeably.

> Any advice?

What were you put on this planet to do? If you've already done it, then great. No need to change course. If not and it doesn't sit right, why wouldn't you change course? Time is always "running out" and it won't be any better at 53.
If I go from product management into software development into some sort of technical marketing or sales role or even to certain types of consulting, there's a fair bit of overlap in the IT industry related to general knowledge of the market, practices, etc. I've changed jobs substantially twice and significant training to transition was never needed at all.

And, sure, if you want to change to a completely different area with much less overlap, that's not to say you shouldn't do so. But I certainly couldn't walk right into an unrelated engineering job at this point even if it were related to undergraduate coursework. In fact, it would be probably be easier for me to do a software job today even though I did essentially no programming in school.
> as I believed early baldness would negatively affect people’s initial impressions of me

I hope you know now, this is a mistaken belief. Also in romantic context.
Morale is plummeting in Putin's private army as Russia's war in Ukraine falters
The counterpoint to that point is that a significant percentage of scientific computing doesn't care about any of that. They are unlikely to have enough hardware to cause a fire and they don't care about outages or even data loss in many cases. As others have said, it depends on the specifics of the research. In the cases where that stuff matters, the cloud would be better option.
I haven't but it's definitely an interesting option! Cockroach is another option if you're looking for Postgres compatibility.
The idea I’m trying to explore is the appropriateness of all the presidential pardon decisions. I agree with you, both deserve pardons.

Listing the pardons by appropriateness is just one component that may help analyze the issue. That’s what I meant by asking the question.
You can kind of compare the amount of lint you get, but often that is caused by the washing machine and not the dryer.
> ...and a security nightmare where everything is pulling in tons of random NPM packages with 4 GitHub stars.

To be fair, this happens with React too (all the time). It has more to do with the JS ecosystem than with the framework of choice.
This is the part where I also started laughing, because the troll finally made themselves self-evident. Everything prior was pure artwork as I was on the edge and trying to figure out if real/troll
"The apparent accuracy of a Wikipedia article is inversely proportional to the depth of the reader's knowledge of the topic." – Kozierok's First Law
It's a slippery slope. If there's one guy that gives a 3 minute update, he'll look more productive than the guy that gives 30 second update. So the next day 30s guy will fill his update with unnecessary details to look as productive.

The cure is constantly being aware of that bias. And remembering that main audience for standups is not your manager, it's your peers. Talk about things you want them to know.

There's a lot of subtle tricks that people don't even use/remember at this point. Like doing standups while actually physically standing. This creates a negative feedback loop instead of positive: if someone talks too much, the whole team will pushback.
Are you talking about going 30 days without connecting or using the app? I've had the app on my machine for years and never once had to relink. I do use it almost every day though.
Concrete Mathematics is in fact an elaboration on the chapter covering the prereq in TAOCP. It was well worth it considering how great this chapter is.

The best part of TAOCP for me is how incredibly good the exercises are. The gradual difficulty is perfect and from 20 onwards you always get some interring insight from solving them. I am especially M and HM ones which are amongst some of the best maths problems I have seen despite being in a CS book.
It seems clear this was always about data harvesting. The scuttlebutt about cheating was just the excuse.
McDonald's is considered a low skill job, but in reality it is high skill, but they have done very well into breaking those skills down so that with just half an hour of "class room training" (on a video), and a couple hours with a trainer you can be productive. Repeat this for a new area a few shifts latter, soon you have a lot of skills with minimal investment.
+1 actually yes I noticed the email after I submitted this post.
There is no way to get that number unless the person who no longer owns it accepts to relinquish it?
> The veracity of the quote has been challenged.

The outcomes however are a matter of historical record. Jails filled to the brim with black people. Even though white people deal drugs and use drugs at a higher rate than black people. You don't even need that quote to see what Nixon quickly "achieved".

And we also know Nixon was a racist. That's on tape. Referring to Jamaica:

“Blacks can’t run it. Nowhere, and they won’t be able to for a hundred years, and maybe not for a thousand ... Do you know, maybe one black country that’s well run?”

-- Richard Nixon
Contribution of Climate Change to Increasing Extreme Ocean Warming Around Japan
There's a deeper more troubling problem being exposed here - deep learning systems are at least an order of magnitude less data efficient than the systems they hope to replicate.

GPT-3 175B is trained with 499 Billion tokens[1]. Let's assume token = word for the sake of this argument[2]. The average adult person reads at a rate of 238wmp[3]. Then a human who reads 24hrs/day from birth until their 18th birthday would read a total of 2.2B billion words[4], or 0.45% of the words GPT-3 was trained on.

Human's simply do much more with much less. So what gives? I don't disagree that we still haven't reached the end of what scaling can do, but there is a creeping suspicion that we've gotten something fundamentally wrong on the way there.

1. https://lambdalabs.com/blog/demystifying-gpt-3/

2. GPT-based models use BPE and while we would dive into the actual dictionary of tokens and make a word-token relationship, we both agree that although this isn't a 1-to-1 relationship it won't change the conclusion https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/tokenizer_summary

3. https://psyarxiv.com/xynwg/

4. 238*60*24*365*18=2,251,670,400
I think it's good that someone in an executive position (or at least presumably able to influence others who are in executive positions) is realizing this and writing about this. If only workers are pushing the idea of flexible work arrangements, and all executives are still on the "come to an office 9-5 or else" train, it's not going to go very well.

And I don't think she was trying to speak for individual contributors. She was focusing on the concept that, for a business, the "what" and "why" of what gets done is what really matters, not the "where" or "when".

It was notable to me that she also mentioned leaving the "how" to employees to figure out, and that it's widely understood already that managers who micromanage don't have successful teams (not saying there aren't still terrible managers, but...). Management also needs to recognize that the "where" and "when" should also not be micromanaged.
> JSX doesn't end up bringing much value over vanilla html, but can lead to a lot of strange and difficult to reason about states.

This is just plain wrong. Like, unbelievably wrong.
Blogged Answers: A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior
A know a fair amount of Fedi folk who have moved instances. The move feature means we haven't lost touch, that they haven't lost their network. Some have even moved to start their own instance, or chose to move elsewhere. Whilst I am sure many lament not being able to bring posts to a new account, they can be exported and it's one's network which is most important.

I myself moved off mastodon.technology when I didn't agree with a change to the ToS, and was banned from mastodon.social without reason or redress, and neither event meant I had to start from scratch.
I think the general idea is that living in a high rise is better than sleeping in your car or on the street...
Your last point resonates with me. In objective reality, Donald Trump publicly asked Russia to hack Clinton's emails. I'm told this could be evidence of collusion or a joke, and honestly that does track because I often have trouble telling if reality is just an elaborate prank on me.
> Sorry but anonymity is security.

I'm actually with you here. But anonymity is HARD. Way harder than people give credit. We're not anonymous here on HN. But Signal is doing this step by step and I think that is the right way. Yes, the wrench attack works, but it doesn't always work. It would be better if it was hard to use the wrench attack, but protecting against it is surprisingly difficult. Signal seems to be taking this into account and also working on this in steps.
> the same or better quality [...] direct from digital distributors

Not wanting to object fundamentally, as enough of my recent music purchases have indeed been digital downloads, however I'm still glad that at least for now CDs still exist and provide an alternative option:

- Some digital releases have been somewhat mangled in a very minor (the mouse squeak at the end of 3:47 EST is missing) or somewhat more major (several live albums/albums with live content of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series are missing the pre-gap material between the individual tracks) fashion. Okay, in the former case I've simply grabbed the squeak off a Youtube recording and edited it back on, but in the latter case just getting the CDs is the most sensible option.

- Cover art beyond the front cover and liner notes are mostly missing. Okay, sometimes they're forgettable anyway and after all the music is the main thing, but sometimes it's still a bit of a shame to miss out on those things. In principle at least Apple/iTunes does have facilities for including a PDF booklet together with an album download, but in practice at least for the kind of music I'm interested in, encountering such a thing seems to be the exception rather than the norm. The Bootleg Series again is being a culprit here – personally I find the liner notes definitively interesting to read, but online you're getting none of that. (On the other hand kudos to whoever made sure to include the booklet for the Traveling Wilburys Collection on iTunes!)

- Occasionally (not often, but definitively sometimes), the (new, not used!) CD turns out to cost noticeably less than the digital download.

- Remasters are par for the course (though in some circles even those can provoke heated discussions about whether a certain remaster is really better or not), but with remixes the difference is more immediately noticeable even to someone like me. Sometimes remixes are being offered as an alternative version, and you can still buy the original version if you prefer that, but sometimes the remixed version is replacing the original albums. Online that means that subsequently piracy is your only choice of still obtaining the older mixes, whereas with CDs you've still got a chance on the second hand market.

- Where live albums are mastered with a pre-gap between tracks, it turns out I sometimes (e.g. especially when there's some stage banter related to the upcoming song) prefer the pre-gap to be tacked onto the beginning of the next track instead of the end of the previous track as seems to be the usual standard. When ripping a CD myself I can easily adjust that, when buying a download less so. (Having the pre-gap at the start of a track does have the trade-off that the music doesn't start playing immediately, but on the other hand during shuffling it means that any preceding stage banter remains together with the track it belongs to, and personally I find the latter more important.)

Though I guess you can classify some of those objections as somewhat "hobbyist", too… :-)
This doesn't even feel worth learning.

Feels like Economics in undergrad, listening to professors repeat broken, oversimplified models that are so hilariously wrong in their assumptions that they have to invent entirely new definitions to deal with their own failings.

Who put the statistics nerds in charge of AI? Is this really the best we got? Chained probabilities? Gradient descent?