skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Please explain your reasoning. I think this is getting to your fundamental misunderstanding about what tolerating speech and opinions you disagree with means.

Levine and USA Today (I mistakenly said WaPo before) are using a definition of women that includes trans women. The Babylon Bee disagree with them. There are a few different ways the BB could react.

The most tolerant way would be to not say anything because Levine and USA Today's definitions don't impact them.

A less tolerant way would be to denote their disagreement through a related article that doesn't directly address Levine or USA Today. They could have had a cat winning at the Westminster Dog Show or whatever. That gets their point across without confrontation.

They chose an even less tolerant response. They directly mocked Levine and USA Today with derision and indirectly made Levine a target for future harassment. That behavior isn't tolerant.

Compare this to a scenario in which the tolerance debate is about a more discreet moral/immoral issue. Imagine I am anti-Semitic and hated when Bernie Sanders ran for President. The most tolerant response would be to keep that hate to myself and just vote for someone else. The less tolerant response would be to maybe write some webcomic in which the Happy Merchant meme disastrously runs for President to indirectly mock Sanders. The most intolerant response would be to name that webcomic character Bernie Sanders and reply to all his tweets with a link to the comic. That is what the Babylon Bee effectively did by directly promoting Levine as a target for ridicule to an audience that they had to know would harass her.

>This is not a correct use of the meaning of tolerance. You could say they didn't tolerate twitter's terms of service or moderation demands, but not that they didn't tolerate twitter's "definitions", so it's just muddying the waters here I think because of the asymmetric positions of the two parties when we're talking about speech on twitter's platform. So we should focus on how BB is not tolerating Levine or WaPo first.

Twitter's ToS on this issue use a definition of women that includes trans women. Otherwise, misgendering someone wouldn't be against Twitter's rules.
Marketing always overrides engineering on final copy
You should do whatever you deem necessary to fullfil your responsibility to care for your child and ensure that they are safe. I personally don't go that far, nor do the authorities.
in previous comment threads I have expressed disdain that short-term optimization has long-term costs, and really, always takes away from future collateral.

people like to argue with me about that.

the problem described in this article is a perfect example of what I mean.

Apple can A) take money for gambling ads, and place those ads at the expense of losing trust sometime afterwards, or B) not take that money, costing some short-term gain and leaving the long-term stuff like brand integrity and trustworthiness untouched.

it is always wiser and more difficult to do B. sometimes it is a little more difficult, sometimes it is a lot more difficult, but it is always, always, always the wrong move to make a decision based on revenue generation and/or expense minimization potential alone.

the long-term stuff is real, and it exists now. you can't use it as a resource today, but you can make decisions today which change its size and shape dramatically. the more you optimize for revenue generation today, the smaller your long-term resources become.
On the flip side, the common maneuver for the pole vault is relatively new, and few realize someone basically invented it.
I scrolled all the way down, collapsing all the top level comments just to find your question, so thanks for posting it!!! This part of the discussion is what interests me the most.
The obvious one is that it ruins the car, at the end of the video you see his car is stopped on the track, presumably he broke some control arms and can't drive it back to the pits.

So it works once, then you're out, and you have to hope you pull it off safely. It was a massive risk, not all courses have a wall that wouldn't have wrecked the car. He mentions that part in the video.
Drops efforts
How is it implemented?
So you see, it is not only birdsong being lost but now whale song too.

Awful. I heard a video of what an Active Sonar Ping sounded like underwater, and I must say - It made me glad not to have the hearing of a whale.
“They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say, let them crash.”
Reminds of Scotty of Strange Parts doing his series of building iPhones from scratch (as well as enhancing them), from all the "spare" parts he found in the back alleys of the Shenzhen electronics district.

His bio [1] may be a little dated though.

1 -- https://www.strangeparts.com/about/
The top competitors of any sport tend to inherently filter for those who are willing to go to extreme lengths to win.
I’m not quibbling anything.
This graph in the article is pretty fascinating:

https://i0.wp.com/semiengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/Pic...

(not really a png, apparently, but a webp file)
I have a tangential thought similar regarding simulation theory, that perhaps there is no other aliens because we're the only one 'simulated', and the purpose of said simulation is because in order to train AI (we're already seeing this) an AI needs a physical body, of course a simulated physical body could probably suffice, it needs to be nurtured by a parent, and experience the world with all it's senses/sensors.

Perhaps we're just ai-babies, and when we're done here we move on to being ai-butlers to rich people in the 'real' world.
Camera Hardware, Psychology, and Advancements
Ha - thanks for the correction! That example with the table on the right is sure to be relatively fragile markdown? I am considering implementing a database representation of simple documents. Hierarchical nesting (even with NoSQL) seems like a complexity worth avoiding if possible, so I do really appreciate your example. You don’t seem to use tables in your previous ten articles. The benefit versus cost of the two examples within your article are good to think about, thanks.
I can empathize with being older and wanting to just relax and have a quality experience. I used to try to thoroughly immerse myself in daily life of a city but that is exhausting after a while. I am more content to just hit the highlights now.

But it also sounds like you were a little burnt out on travel. I have lived abroad and found most regions of the world are quite different and have something unique and worth experiencing. Different countries are not just different themes on the same OS in my experience. People do live in meaningfully different ways. Out ability to take in new experiences that is finite and needs recharging though.
I ride without a helmet and essentially never go beyond about 12 MPH, and more often in the 6-8 range. I take sidewalks generously, stay out of mixed traffic, and frequently stay in low gear, and this is still over twice as fast as an average walking pace.

I think it's all relative to how much you're approaching it as "road cycling" vs "urban commuting". If you keep the seat high, lean forward, and pedal near your limits, you definitely need protection even if the road is empty. But if you're going at a pace and a posture that lets you stomp your foot down easily, the dangers come down to total loss of control(e.g. downhill, failing brakes) and unpredictable traffic.

The biggest danger with electric mobility going forward lies in blurring of the distinctions. When they're brought up to highway speeds, what you have is an underbuilt motorcycle with no safety features or licensing requirements.
I think it a bit different actually - while you’re correct that there’s always been an aesthetic churn, the author is arguing that rather than having lots of pockets around the world churning with their own tastes, now social media (or 2016) created a single global taste. Whatever that may be at the time, I think it’s reasonable to lament the lack of lots of people experimenting with ideas more independently. Of course, that ship has sailed, and perhaps the pushback on airspace or whatever is hot now will drive addition search for orthogonal differentiation.
Yes, the timezone issue will be painful at begin, which country are you live in? Do you need a Java developer?
Deploy ML models to K8s and SageMaker with a single line of code
I would be very interested in a set of benchmarks and intermediate goals for safe AGI (i.e. AGI that is aligned with human interests) rather than just AGI itself.
The average person hasn't even put on a VR set and most of those who have don't have one laying around. Only a small dedicated amount of people use Virtual Reality and it;s mostly for gaming. Investing so much into Oculus and later on Horizon Worlds to somehow reinvent how we interact socially is idiotic.
Doesn’t matter. This is like asking where the other 21st century humans are in the universe.

Ants are co-existing with beings beyond their reach. They effectively have alien contact for the purpose of this analogy. The absence of other ants is just because ants are not tech savvy.
Dune got it right and Paul Atreides received the ultimate education
Dune is a book about education. Sure, it’s also a space opera novel about drugs, genetics, and oil politics. But what defines the characters are their education, and Paul’s education makes him the ultimate mentat-warrior-diplomat-godhead. In this article, I deconstruct his education and propose an education program that will prepare learners for the (inevitable) near sci-fi future.
Arthur Whitney is like the Ramanujan of programming. This quote from Hardy about Ramanujan could easily apply to Whitney as well:

"The formulae... defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before. A single look at them is enough to show that they could only have been written by a mathematician of the highest class. They must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them."
Recursion finally clicked for me after learning induction where you assume you already have a working solution for all cases below n and your only job is to implement the nth case
> I don't think I've ever met an engineer who is, by themselves, 1000x more productive than even the least productive person I've ever worked with

I guess that all comes down to how you measure it. I've worked with people who screw up the code base, suck time and productivity away from other team members, and require frequent management attention. So their productivity is negative or zero. Which makes me infinitely more productive than them.

I demand infinity dollars!

Just kidding of course, but the point is people aren't and can't be paid exactly mathematically proportionally to their productivity. About the best we can expect is for pay to be correlated with productivity. Or maybe monotonically increasing with productivity?
No problem. Good luck with your convo. I'd bet that homie has been burnt out for a while and might have some personal shit going on.

As someone who's been a founding partner CTO a couple times, I'll tell you that sometimes you put everything you have into the initial run and then the growth finally happens and then something else happens and life attacks. You're having issues sure, but his history with the company probably means he's entitled to bum out for a while and come back. Likely his partners don't know how to bring it up and hope he'll just sort it out, not realizing that it would be more effective to just tell him to bow out for a month or few and come back when he's ready. Maybe he has a personal issue where the only thing keeping him going is showing up and half assing this job some times.

It might on the surface appear to you that he should just quit, but if he's burnt out that means he probably isn't ready to go do another thing and very likely he likes and is proud of what he's built. You very probably don't know the details of his terms in his partnership contract as well. He might be entitled to do whatever he wants. He could even be doing this on purpose to fuck with the other founders for some reason. You are walking into a complex situation nearly blind. If there's internal founder stuff, no one aside them would know aside from spouses and maybe lawyers. It might even be a contractual breach for anyone to inform you.

If I could offer just a little advice. Do your best not to put yourself in too much judgement of him. The initial run for startups is really hard. He's been in a foxhole with the other founders. Sometimes the most important thing isn't absolute max productivity. But handled correctly, if you talk with him and do your best to understand who he is and how you can help give him enough space to re-engage without risking his livelihood, you'll do well. Tread lightly though. Coming between a man and his meal is a good way to get wrecked. You could very easily step in some shit and end up the perfect scapegoat for.... whatever. I've seen a lot of weird stuff go on with founders. In fact, startups this size without really crazy internal C suite shit would be abnormal.
If you're in the US, the federal government actually created one one of the most widely used EHRs and set of clinical applications in the world, called VistA. It was made for the VA but is used outside of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA

It's actually public domain and open-source. Unfortunately the VA is in an ongoing project to replace it with Cerner Millennium.
If you change it instead to be a subset of the working age population, does the percentage look higher?
All you need is someone's social media handle to silently accuse them of some sexual offense without need for proof or evidence. So a few dozen women could coordinate an attack on Elon Musk or basically anyone they want who they know on social media.
For my writing it's both really. I write so that I can better present my ideas and thoughts Ina coherent manner that make sense to other people; not just myself. At the same time I am not writing FOR anyone else. I don't want feedback or commentary. I write to help my own thought process, making sure I understand the topic well enough that I could explain to someone else. I don't write for audience engagement, or for someone else. But I do try and write what someone without my knowledge or expertise can understand. I write for peers and practice.
I think he emphasized his leaving for other reasons (eg: NYC being not "small business friendly" or becoming). Why else had he travelled up and down the eastern sea board in his quest to bringing awareness of his own R2R ethos?
> GDP is a concrete measure that is difficult to fake.

I’m not sure how true this is. There are international standards, updated over time, with variable adoption by per-country agencies tasked with measuring GDP.

These agencies typically rely on surveys of industry specific activity to measure different metrics and at times imputation and inference of unmeasured or missing values to form a picture of overall economic activity, from which a single GDP figure is derived.

All of which is to say “measuring” GDP is nothing like measuring a concrete physical quantity such as temperature, and there is ample opportunity to fiddle with the standards or fudge the statistics, either innocently or nefariously.

See for example how incorrect construction data cleansing lead to Japan overstating its GDP for several years.
No. Let's not.
As with many (most?) countries the key is to have a local guide. There are cities in America you’d not want to be caught in the wrong part of at the wrong time - the locals know this stuff.
I've thought the Gini coefficient was better than GDP ever since I learned of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
I left just as we were developing GPL. Even with a good force-feedback setup, pedals, and a high frame rate, that game drove home* just how hard those GP cars were to drive.

* pun unintended
How I Write – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Part of the problem is I think we’re largely on our own to try and put words to feelings and patterns that aren’t pathological. People don’t like when someone says “I’m totally OCD” when describing a behavioral difficulty because it can minimize the sick, but whether it’s OCD or mania or attention, it seems like we need a DSM of the moderate. Ways to think about ways the brain works and how to cope.
> If that's truly the case, then it is gonna be a complete nothingburger for most devs.

Maybe. It might also let devs pre-filter companies that are salary heavy or salary light. Some companies let you choose how much compensation is equity vs. cash, but most don't.

If you have dependents or other standards of living, certain cash can be king over variable equity or potential bonuses.
Personal hours are not fungible. You can't replace a bit of cleaning time throughout the week with an additional $600.

Also there are plenty of costs to employing others besides the hourly cost. Large organizations have huge fixed costs to cover them. Consider:

- liability

- maintaining of knowledge and training to hire help

- skill to source and hire people
Wow, that's some atrocious grammar.

Stunts? Stuns in order to? Does something stunning in order to?
Maybe they're trialling tweaks after the buyout, and want full participation? :)
Mexican food was invented in San Diego. And sadly the Mexicans don’t know how to make it.

(Mostly a joke but actual Mexican food is not what people usually expect or want.)
Yes, I agree it’s good to sprinkle them in, but not for every slide, like the OP advises. I think the challenge is that evergreen content, by its nature, is general and can come across as irrelevant to the specific topic at hand (and easily trend towards cliche). The OP describes all other slides as obsolete, but I think that’s okay in many circumstances.
Reading this list makes me think if an AI can just make an income without being told explicitly how to do it, is it an AGI? This metric seems reductive on the surface, but takes quite a bit of intelligence to understand how society works and how to provide value.
It's amazing how well it works.

E.g. to test context I asked it "what is EtF"? There is no such acronym in the paper, but they mention English-to-French and that was the answer.

So how do you use GPT-3 for that? Do I understand correctly that the papers are to big to fit into its input window but you need to still take it as a whole into consideration? Is part of creating such service engineering some input prompt which is concatenated with what user writes? Using the playground I always found the input window size to be a huge limitation.
> Many religions say that the times when a person should be born and when a person should die are up to God's purposes and plan for that person. By this reckoning a murder causes a person to die BEFORE the time that God appointed for them to die.

I can't see how to reconcile this belief with an all-knowing and all-powerful God. If murders were disruptive to his plan, wouldn't he just prevent them from happening? Are all non-murder deaths part of his plan? If I am hit by a car while in the crosswalk by someone who looked down at their phone, is that part of God's plan for me, but if the driver maliciously ran me down, it isn't? What if it was an accident, but they were drunk? Is God somehow frustrated or annoyed when a murder happens? Does it surprise God?
Would you be willing to share the preschool? I would like to avoid sending my kids to a preschool that pretends asymptomatic spread of diseases doesn't exist.
> Expect a -turbo- script doing this and the first real complete replacement for typescript compilation, probably in go, not rust, tho!

There is stc which is for now just a PoC (from the developer of swc who is on Vercel's payroll) which is shifting from Go to Rust
This is a decent portion of MRI image processing, and the progress being made by software engineers at the moment is nothing short of spectacular.
What's wrong with in-game cosmetics as a funding model? They don't purport to be a stand-in for currency or anything useful at all, and thus are purely for cosmetics. What's worse is buying something that does matter to the game AKA pay-to-win; compare to Diablo where you pay to beat other players.

This is just a "pay what you want" model in disguise, and not surprisingly some people pay nothing and will face no competitive disadvantage in the game.
You can learn more about OSS.Capital at their site, Joseph Jacks leaded the Remix funding a little less than a year ago, this is their first exit.

He has a really cool concept on how Open Source Software will eat Software.

https://twitter.com/JosephJacks_/status/1586507090096312321
We do an initial 15 -20 minute screening interview. One of the questions we ask is what is your desired salary range? If it is out of range of what we are willing to pay for you experience and skill set level, we don’t do a follow up. Process closed.
i agree but timing is too suspicious to not see it as political
Socially, I am an extrovert and it has been tough adjusting. Almost all of my friends in my current location were tied to my previous job that was not WFH. It's already hard to meet new friends in your ~30s when living in place that you are not from - not seeing humans at work really compounds that.

Physically, going from a very physical previous career field to sitting for the past year and a half really took it's toll on me. I have recently gotten into a routine of going to the CrossFit gym early in the morning before work. It makes me feel a bit more 'alive' and more like what I used to call 'normal,' it also puts some of that socialization back into my life. I also stand up much more after reading some of Dr. Kelly Starrett's "Deskbound," which quite frankly scared the crap out of me.

Professionally it has been great. The new management I work for is much more like 'leadership,' and truly promotes growth even though that eventually means moving on. My workload is very much seasonal and I've been able to study new things and pursue different certifications.
So the next step is to remove the drivers and have a more exciting race. I feel like there's a missing league of F1 autonomous driving cars.
Nuclear energy: past, present and future
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZ67YQBFCk
https://www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-Laws--Standards/Statutes/Th...

Actually, there are national regulations requiring that products made for toys must be tested in the manner I have described. No, "the authorities" don't do the testing, but they do define standards, certify laboratories, and require toymakers to get their products tested. Is it all 100% trustworthy or failsafe? Of course not. But I don't buy my kid sketchy shit from overseas because taking all of that responsibility upon myself is frankly ludicrous: I suck at chemistry and I trust a professional way more than my own abilities.
What you need is a remote controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys: https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/
I have never seen anyone say that only Catholicism is actually Christianity.
Is this why Argo AI (legacy funded startup from the ranks of CMU, system set them up for success) just shut down their entire company and Comma is still selling devices? No? Ok.
no carrot -- before people thought if they worked hard just for little longer they will escape the trap, now with housing doubling in 2 years, it's become hopeless. With no end goal, only thing left is acceptance and survival, and survival as is doesn't require me putting in 200%, or even 60%.
As a dev who avoids build steps entirely in web stacks, hearing that 1.1 sec startup is excellent, or 10-700x faster than the norm seems strange - I've gotten so used to stuff being instant.

If you haven't tried coding a little closer to the "metal" (vanilla js/css/html) I definitely recommend it. Browsers give you a lot out of the box now, and life without builds is sweet - fast iteration time, perfect in-browser dev tool support, and vastly reduced codebase complexity.