skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed you were stating that no-one believes the second point not that no-one believes the first point.

Yes, she takes the view that individually some people are smarter than others due to purely random factors, a combinations of variants, she also takes the view that the important variants for intelligence are basically equally distributed among races. Thus the inter racial group differences must be due to racism. The book is an attempt to split the difference and in doing so spells out the explicit biases that must be taken on faith. Which is what makes it interesting. The book as gotten quite a bit of push back on the "some people are smarter than others" aspect which demonstrates that there exist people that believe that some people are not inherently smarter than others. I should have been more explicit on my second message but your response was trite and I assumed in bad faith.
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So they can incinerate the poor?
Maybe "smart" people have learned how to be passionate and/or motivated about topics, rather than have some increased capacity for learning.

And maybe "great" leaders have figured out how to make a boring topic interesting for their ICs.

One thing I've learned over my time in tech is that it's a lot easier to tap into someone's ego than it is to tap into their inherent interest in their job. People might be interested in preserving their ego more than they like the actual work involved in building/maintaining a random service.
10 thoughts on data visualization best practices and tools:

1) For interactive visualizations of data on 3D globes, I use a mix of C++, Python (for data cleaning), and Unreal Engine (with a plugin called Cesium). An example of this is at https://youtu.be/9i-tQ8Sr80o.

2) If I am trying to put together a 3D globe that has less quality but that can be accessed by the web, I use Mapbox GL JS, D3.js, and React. An example of this is at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/blog/2022/10/14/real-estat....

3) I have seen others use Three.js for developing 3D data visualizations on the web. An example of this in a data science context is at https://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2019/04/29/visualizing-acti....

4) If you are trying to do 3D population density maps in R, there are a lot in the community that say you should use https://www.rayshader.com/ with R.

5) If you are really trying to push the limits of data visualization, follow https://twitter.com/Arti_AR_video . He is doing data vis in AR. Robert Scoble had a good tweet the other day (https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1620498790653501440?) showing Arti with 3D bar charts sitting on a table.

6) If you are doing data vis for urban planning, odds are they are already using ArcGIS, and odds are you will be using something like that.

7) If you are trying to do data vis that relates to architecture, I would actually suggest starting with Twinmotion (which is part of the Unreal Engine ecosystem).

8) If you are trying to do data vis for simulations, it may be worth looking at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/omniverse/ .

9) If you are wanting to show some high end maps fast, use Geolayers 3. There is a YouTube channel called "Boone Loves Video" (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXyGw2OkrAzLhq1r7hyDZkA). Boone explains Geolayers often in his videos.

10) I personally believe that if you are trying to get to next-gen data visualization my best guess is that you would use a mix of Blender, Nuke, Houdini, or After Effects. I personally have only used Blender and After Effects so far.

Also, if you have any data visualization needs, I am currently on the job market. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralphbrooks has details about me.
should I switch to using the browser version instead?
The difference between humans and computer algorithms is that humans don't run on software.

Computers are tools and neural networks only resemble human brains on a surface level. The human learning process is a lot more involved than just interconnections and weights, there is an entire array of biological concepts that neural networks don't even try to simulate in their approach.

The comparison between neural networks and the human brain is the same as the comparison between a hard drive and the human brain: the recollection may be automatic and similar, but the concepts behind it and the legal implications aren't.
Check out "The Dental Diet" by Steven Lin.

He summarises the research by Weston Price nicely.
How long after the chess computers of the 60s did it take to beat a human?
This is the most excited I've ever been sequence models! If the claims the H3 (and S4) authors are true then we are on the cusp of something very big that will provide another quantum leap in LLM performance. I worth that the claims may come with a hidden catch, but we just have to work with these systems to know.

I'll venture that once truly long range correlations can be managed (at scales 100-1000x what's possible with current GPTs), all the issues about logical reasoning can be answered by training on the right corpus and applying the right kinds of human guided reinforcement.
I think you mean "why is everything online so long-winded". Geez, look up any video on nearly anything simple, they all follow the same format:

* 10 mins of nonsense and irrelevant background into how great you are
* 10 mins of setup
* 10 mins of drama build-up
* 1 min of the actual event
* 10 mins of closing comments

Oh, wait, I forgot, it is not about the content, it is all about how long I can get you to watch so I get more nickels. Dang, now I made myself sad...
Such a good blog post, had a blast reading it. Thanks for sharing this!
Slack stopped support for IRC and XMPP gateway in May 2018.

Still makes me sad sometimes.
Those are "assume a spherical cow" levels of bad assumptions. That's why we all assume you've never been there before.
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Absolutely beautifully written.

Bishop, Christopher M., and Nasser M. Nasrabadi. Pattern recognition and
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> until I have made enough money

Does this ever actually happen? Like have you made 'enough' by the time you become CEO of ExxonMobil?
The tone of your comment reads as if you're disagreeing with my comment but you're in fact agreeing? I'm a bit confused. :)

A slight disagreement FWIW,
> Frankly this is the key failure point of many suggestions for how to resolve these issues and why we have decades or centuries of attempts that result in failures. Because we aren't looking at the complex causal chain of events (which we can't even know beyond a certain level of accuracy and is constantly changing).

I believe that is true in the West more than anything. It's hated on HackerNews (an obviously neoliberal culture) but there is a reason any good economics program teaches Marxist thought.
I think it is a fair criticism. Individual consumers surely have some culpability, whether they are buying a stolen iPhone or a stolen kidney.

I think the mistake people make is treating responsibility as if it is a limited resource and can only be applied to the consumer or the producer.
Toastmasters - easy to spot who goes through that program. Similar to Dale Carnegie acolytes.
I think we need both, and that will be true indefinitely. The Netherlands is a great point. Cars aren't cheap, this is true, which is a strong indicator that they provide a lot of value. Otherwise people would just stop buying them.
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Bad article title. The entire contents of the article that answers the question is: Milk, somewhat.
The aspects you mention mostly make things easier for the developer side, not for the user side, which get only the indirect advantage of a more feature rich app.

If you want to do things properly, you hire separate teams who do native development for each platform, or you hire one Qt team for desktop and two teams for the two app platforms. Of course that's expensive, but again developer vs user side. That's what I mean by cutting corners.

And regarding electron there are different kinds of apps performance wise, like Atom vs VS Code. Discord is more on the Atom side of things, sadly.

Discord is also so big, that interested people develop lean third party clients for it. It's possible, but Discord rather bans them and forces users on the worse electron/web alternative.
There are no updates since Sept 2022 at least. ReactJS repos has curious pull request that proposes to replace RCA with Vite, checkout:
https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/pull/5487
I've spoken to many IT professionals over the years that have been frustrated with BetterCloud.

I've just been waiting for someone to launch BestCloud as a competitor.
My bad for not being clear, I was really talking about the comment saying 429 means “too many requests”. By all means comment to say that service X has a rate limit of N req/min but a comment saying 429 means too many requests is exactly one of those things that’s better expressed in an enum.

301; 302; 401; 429; 504; I shouldn’t need comments to tell me what they are, nor should it be expected that anyone touching the code knows them off the top of their head.
>> blocking other programs using desktop integration for file dialogs: latency of several minutes, sometimes dialogs never appear.

I think HN may have solved one of my most annoying technology mysteries... Definitely taking discord out of automatic startup. Moving back to teamspeak or some other system is quickly becoming a thing for me. I used to run a TS3 server for years.
Way I remember, the message was that it was too hard for most devs to be careful enough in their Backbone.View.render code to consistently write fast DOM manipulation that scaled. That may not be whats in the cited talk but that's my recall from the various bits of early marketing by Facebook Engineering. So the sell was alievating that burden.
What if I have the model on my computer and I generate (2,1)? Do I still infringe?

After all that's exactly what my computer does in case of images that it downloaded from the internet which I open up later from local drive to view them again.
Inferno.js uses VDOM https://github.com/infernojs/inferno and is faster than Svelte according to these benchmarks https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2023/table.... Sooo, VDOM can improve performance?
> By definition this ... stifles progress.

This conclusion does not at all follow from the premise. The myth that more competition means you get a better result absolutely does not hold and needs to die. There's a fundamental equilibrium shift when you spend more resources competing than you do on progressing.
I suspect that in 15 years that or something similar will be a compile target for typescript or similar.
We use 'noodle' for thinking here, too. It's just more fun to think of a catfish finding app.
Bikes, bowling balls, and the balancing act that is modern recycling (2018)
And why would catastrophe not be a valid reason? How do you suggest we store nuclear waste for thousands of years? What if an accident happens (and they will happen, just like Fukushima and Tschernobyl) and huge amounts of land can't be used for ages? That might be an option for some sparsely populated areas but not for Europe for example. Also, renewables are an order of magnitude cheaper than nuclear.
I like to approach the world from as rational of a lens as possible but there is something so calm and peaceful about the 90 or so minutes up to sunrise. Going out for a run just as the sun is rising has been such a great way to start my day. I’ve made a huge change to get to sleeping by 11p and it’s changed my life and energy levels for the better.

Of course I wonder if the fact that I can perceive changes to me energy levels is a sign that I’m getting old now.
SEO.

That's it. Done. No need to read another article about it.
It's funny, when I saw the picture of the dodo on their website, I almost immediately thought, that bird looks tasty.

Also, there is a fun movie by Aardman Animations about Charles Darwin and a band of pirates whose captain keeps the last remaining dodo as a pet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates!_In_an_Adventure_w...!
On the opposite side, force clicking on a word in MacOS opens a dictionary popup with the definition, I couldn't live without it.
What is "a follower"? Is that another term for Muslim? Your accusation doesn't make sense to me.
Yeah but don't tell that to management. If they end up reducing the work hours they'll reduce the pay too. Because "you're working less". But not really; I'm working probably the same amount, but now I don't have to pretend to be working for 40 hours.
>Trad chads: men pursuing lives of purity at any social cost. Staunchly opposed to todays hookup culture and LGBT influences.

I see this becoming the norm in the future. Hook up culture is simply too dangerous (for both men and women) to be sustainable long term. It's a cultural hangover from the days of "free love" that simply does not map to the modern world anymore.
Awesome, thanks for sharing those links. The more the better!
How can you have a coherent narrative if you can't link things across very large contexts?
All costs are externalized by the premature heat death of the universe.

And I mean really, if this is the bar you want to set then no product is going to meet those goals, so no huge point in pointing out electronics, versus say just about anything you eat on a given day, or the clothes you wear.
> I wonder if it's taught to them by professional public speaking trainers.

Totally is, as part of "use your hands more... but not too much more... but also don't rest them at your sides!" stuff. The steeple thing is an improvement for people who aren't good at public speaking, but awkward as hell compared to someone who's actually-good (they may do it too, but you won't notice because it'll seem natural, and they probably won't do it nearly as much)

At this point it may actually have come around such that the awkward-steeple is a desirable signal of some kind, just because every corporations seems to have done the exact same training, so that doing it, even awkwardly, gives off a "this is official" vibe.
Serious answer? SEO and accessibility. HTML lets search engines crawl pages and screen readers read pages (which can often be a legal requirement).

If we're rethinking the web stack I'd advocate for htmx with wasm-based web components for more complicated stuff like if you needed to polyfil in some new image format, or run a terminal emulator, or do webrtc calls with your own fancy custom noise reduction algorithm.

Yes I realize I'm essentially advocating for jquery with java applets, but it could really work this time! (I think a lot of the issues originally were political)

Make htmx like attributes part of the HTML spec, keep working on web components. Still don't know why web components haven't taken off.
> If you want alternatives to be more popular

I don't especially want alternatives to be more popular; I want less carbon and fewer cars. If that means making cars shittier (than they already are), then that's good in my book.

> Make it private, without the need to be crammed into a box with strangers

People who can't stand "strangers" should pay a special tax for being antisocial. Society is nothing if not sharing space with strangers.
Not really. There’s a difference between not “don’t pay the human responsible for making this work despite their objections” and “don’t pay a human because we don’t need them.” The former case is how these models came about.
Looks like you're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism

>Judaism considers some names of God so holy that, once written, they should not be erased: YHWH, Adonai, El ("God"), Elohim ("God," a plural noun), Shaddai ("Almighty"), and Tzevaot ("[of] Hosts"); some also include Ehyeh ("I Will Be"). Early authorities considered other Hebrew names mere epithets or descriptions of God, and wrote that they and names in other languages may be written and erased freely. Some moderns advise special care even in these cases, and many Orthodox Jews have adopted the chumras of writing "G-d" instead of "God" in English
Take a look at what the AI lab Ought is working on building https://elicit.org, a research assistant for searching and parsing published papers.

Under the hood it composes many calls to GPT-3 and other models in a big DAG workflow, parses things like "is this an RCT", "what was the effect size", "what critiques have other authors made about this paper".

Not affiliated, just think that it's a promising direction. You can read more about their motivation here: https://ought.org/elicit
Can you make an example of a hyperfocused authistic high achieving leader person who you don't consider an asshole? (As a counterexample)
Perceptual hashes are reasonably robust to small perturbations. Scaling and converting shouldn’t be a problem, though applying filters that change the colors or blur the lines might.

If it’s been changed enough that it hashes to a different value, then it might be reasonable to treat it as a different image. At some point a human is also going to say “that’s not the same.” You can always change your hashing algorithm if you find it’s missing too many dupes.

Regardless, for the domain we’re talking about (deduping training data), a few false negatives should be acceptable.
That's insane. Then by just copyrighting a single point you make infinite number of math functions infringing on your copyright.
I don’t think it’s limited to religious people or republicans. I see it on both sides.

I do agree that it’s partially due to programming. If you look at movies for example you’ll see this black and white thinking. There’s a good guy and a bad guy and it’s all very simple.
Most recipe pages also include links directly to the recipe right at the top. The blog portion is annoying, and also leads to some funny memes, but it's easy to bypass.
http://archive.today/gK6jb

If you don't know him already, Kenji is a well-known chef and food writer, who famously social-engineered his way into reproducing McDonald's french fries at home: https://www.seriouseats.com/perfect-french-fries-recipe
This has much more to do with Russia than the UK. Not mentioned in the article is that the IMF revised it's 2023 predictions from -2.3% to 0.3%, citing strong government spending on the war.

In other words, this is where GDP figures aren't great. A country that is deficit spending to buy weapons to get its own people (and others) killed looks like a great economy on paper, but not really in actuality.
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I think we should just all adapt the Stanley Parable style of corporate portraits:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/59141243346687544...
> Canada also has prior non-military liquid-fueled rocket engine development worthy of note:

Non-military... for Canada only, not necessarily for it's allies and partners like China. The Canadian government is known to close it's eyes to dual intent technology transfers to China[0]. Good thing here in America there's ITAR[1] keeping these technologies from the hands of such bad actors.

Canadian universities are also known to host and subsidize degrees for a significant number of Iranian nationals studying aerospace and nuclear engineering, for peaceful purposes I suppose. The Iranian drones currently used in Ukraine by the Russians seem to point toward technology transfers from Canada[2].

> Indeed. This marketing copy is spectacularly over-reaching.

From the tittle and skimming the article I assumed they were claiming to be the first student-led group to reach the Karman Line, completely ignoring USC's record in 2019. Then, I realized they meant with a liquid fuel engine, thus making it a real first (albeit on a technicality). Then actually reading the article I realized the rocket doesn't actually exist and the funding for is hasn't even been secured. They did perform a static test for the engine, but that's not the same as a real flight by any stretch.

Then the article gets really weird, with statements like:

"With the ability to deliver 65 kilograms of scientific payload to over 135 kilometres in space, Starsailor is in the same class as United States suborbital launch companies' rocket-powered vehicles."

Which sounds true except some of these rockets are actually flying. I guess if Starsailor does liftoff and performs to spec it'll be of the same class. Also why aren't they naming any of the companies? Fear of lawsuits?

And then there's the name dropping at the end "The student-led team has scored an impressive number of wins since its inception in 2014, beating other universities such as Stanford, MIT, Caltech and McGill."

I wonder why they went with that list of Universities (to get the right keyword in the article?). I mean, I don't think MIT or Caltech talks about Concordia in it's press releases... And no mention of USC who accomplished a similar goal?

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-chinese-mil...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...

[2] https://montrealgazette.com/news/canada/iranian-drones-canad...
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