skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are framing it as if money is the root of the problem. But it's not the case. It would be cheaper for Youtube to not ban anyone. It would be cheaper not to spend money on algorithms and people that post something they don't like. They don't make money - at least not directly - by controlling the narrative of public discussion and distorting it to their liking. They get something which is very important to somebody who already has the money - power. With power, they can ensure they keep the money, and also enjoy all the benefits of being rich and powerful. If you think getting the government to rule it would be better, you are deluded. Government is concentrated power, so it would only multiply the problems, and since the government can not be replaced by something else (at least not without very much unpleasantness and shooting and other bad things), they would have zero interest in sharing their power with anybody else. And if you think you will be able to control this power by just voting once in two years, you are double deluded.
> would have to communicate and/or work with other autists as competently as neurotypicals mesh with each other

Not at all. You're judging by the standards of neurotypicals.

Suppose we discover a genotype that correlates with extremely high social competence, people who are just naturally much better at communicating and working with others. (This isn't much of a stretch; we know there are people like that; we just don't know if it's genetic.) If we document this new, higher level of social functioning, does that mean that neurotypicals are now also defective, diseased?
WFH has nothing to do with people not working, people don't work in offices just as much. Tons of people love to come in at 9am, make coffee, stand around talking, go for a smoke at 10am, meetings, out to lunch for 3 hours at 11am, back to work for 2pm, meetings, smoke break at 2:30pm, make some tea, go back to the desk for 30 mins, go to the washroom and back to the desk for 10 and now home.

It's not exactly like adding "remove" to it and now suddenly everyone is a slacker. Sure perhaps there may be a higher percentage, but that is not proven (at least I've not seen any studies) so only a guess.
How long do you feel that environmental assessment should have taken?

What qualifications/experience do you have that help you make that claim?
Don't know about you, but I generally don't speak loud enough that people outside the conversation generally overhear things. Also, word-of-mouth is a absolute horrible strategy to make sure things are shared across a team.
I think that's because Obsidian is designed for individuals over teams. It uses a local folder structure for organizing MD files and keeping them portable, although the backlinks mean everything can stay in sync. They aren't set up as a SaaS in the way Notion are, and that has a big impact on the design and intended audience for it.
> was the loss of auto-binding, not that its an inherent part of prototypes

It is, because classes are a thin wrapper over prototypes, but the whole "classic C++-like" class shenanigans translate very poorly to Javascript. And yet, with maddening bravery browsers have spent 10 years trying to make them work in some capacity (and don't get me started on the whole private members thing, or the autobind proposals, or...)
Few years ago, the author of KataGo tried to solve one of the hardest handcrafted problem in Go using AI[1]. In the article, he pointed out that the engine had noticeable weakness of solving large scale fight and resolving odd shapes.

I think the study confirms that weakness, and I am surprised that the tactics (to setup the circumstance for exploit) are easy to understand because those are actually being commonly taught to be strategic blunders to avoid. E.g. allows a group to be completely surround in early game is highly inefficient, even if the group survives with 2 eyes, it's only netting 2 points.

[1] https://blog.janestreet.com/deep-learning-the-hardest-go-pro...
My wife and I seem to disagree who is the beneficiary of this configuration. She seems to like driving. And she likes that I live close to home.
How are phytoplankton constrained by this law?
If there's an increase in productivity you should be able to point to it. Otherwise you may just be interpreting "I see people talking" as being "I'm seeing collaboration happening" - essentially experiencing confirmation bias or similar.
One of the authors of the paper here! David Wu (aka lightvector), the creator of the KataGo AI system that we target, is actually doing a training pass now initializing self-play games to start at adversarial positions found by our adversarial policy. It does seem to have improved things significantly: our adversary's win rate goes down from >99% to around 4% against the latest KataGo checkpoint. However, the real question is whether KataGo has started properly understanding the cyclic groups, or has just learned some heuristics that saves it most of the time. In other words, if we repeated our attack again against the latest checkpoint, could it learn to reliably repeat the 4% of winning cases?

We're looking into doing our own adversarial training run to see if we can get to a point where the KataGo agent is robust. My personal suspicion given how difficult adversarial examples have been to eliminate in image classifiers and other ML systems is that although we'll be able to train particular vulnerabilities out of the system, there's still going to be a long tail of issues that can be automatically discovered and exploited.
Care to share some of your favorites?
Yes, just use tippecanoe to create your tiles, and serve them up via s3 or howerver else you want. Then client side render them with maplibregl
My last day at the office was almost 5 years ago, and I was one of the lucky ones with a closed-door office in a sea of "open floor" cubicles. As I walked in to the roughly 12x18' room which was occupied by 4 other people (only 2 in the year prior), I was met with a cacophony of noise as all four of them were participating in their own separate video calls, mostly with staff on the same campus (there was a massive meeting room shortage).

It dawned on me then how emotionally and psychologically draining the entire routine experience had become and I turned around and went home at once. This ended up being the best decision I had ever made for my career, my family and my personal well being. I hope to never return to an office space again.
totally agree

""Using composite types is mildly annoying since you must wrap the composite column in parenthesis to access the field"""

^ yeah that is frustrating

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if you create domains over jsonb frequently, check out pg_jsonschema[1] as a way to express the constraints more concisely

[1] https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema
where did they claim to be healthy?
I got an offer from them (in the Alexa/hardware group - UK), but the place looked like a cult - with all their mantras to learn for interview and stuff. I mastered it for interview and just told them some nonsense rubbish. Still went on the other phases and got an offer.

After all steps, somehow I felt $ would be life changing. It wasn’t, so I did the right thing and didn’t leave the current place to go there.

Looking for something slightly more normal.
I run a team that went remote with the COVID restrictions and have not gone back to the office.

I observed:

- Working from home is _different_, but we still have the same work throughput

- Communication is slower, but more considered

- Personal boundaries on DnD time are more closely held

- Needless communication was reduced

I wouldn't go back to an open-plan office for anything. Even when we were in the office, most communication was on Slack because everyone had their sound cancelling headphones on trying to control the intrusiveness of the environment.

Until these managers mandating that WFH ends show some actual evidence of the benefits of being in the office, i'm going to assume this is a manager's ego not doing very well without overlooking their team.

I'm sure if your job is a bit ... needless ... it feels even worse when you work from home. In the meantime, some of us have work to do.
Remote work, when done correctly can be amazing. Most employers I've been with the last 6 years have been remote first and my personal experience has been very positive. My team, even those not in the same timezone, had a pretty good overlap on working hours. Communication via Slack/Zoom/Meet was near instantaneous. We got together once or twice a year at an offsite.

I also think it depends on the type of work you do, your team, and personal discipline. Not everyone is suited for remote work. So I hate blanket statements of "WFH is the future" or "WFH is the worst thing ever."

Remote work requires trust from management, but also personal discipline from remote employees. Some absolutely abuse it. Some companies are just not setup for remote work. And some jobs, even if possible remotely, aren't well suited for it.

But yes I agree with your last point, guidance is necessary on how to work remotely.
I grew up in that area. Opioids destroyed the lives of my family and countless others. The health care industry in Appalachia is entirely corrupt.

If any significant number of people are afraid of opioids now, that's good progress.
Cars are both bigger and more efficient. A modern Corolla is physically bigger and heavier than a 30 year old one, but gets better fuel mileage.

The statistics on emergency funds are sketchy at best, at least here in Canada. I recommend you look at who is funding them and their methodology.
"At very high A/C voltages, the magnetic field created by the alternating current “pushes” elections away from the core of their conductor. "

Thats a frequency effect and is addressed in power-lines. The line cores are of steel cable to provide strength, but is a poor conductor. The inner core supports the Al "shell" that actually carries the current.
Really? I thought it was abandonware… I used it all the time back in the day, but I thought it went the way of the Disco app.
"I can't find a room, can we talk tomorrow instead?"
'Man makes machine to help man beat man-made machine at Go’
Oh, god, the “you can call it with one arg, but it really has more, and then you tried to use map, you poor fool” trap.
This is not unsurprising - Hikaru Nakamura in the chess world is well known for beating chess computers while doing funny things, entirely based on analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the bot.
There will always be people who figure out how to coast in or out of the office. Companies aren't that great at identifying hyper-productive employees in any sense. Great team members and management do that all on their own without regards to location strategy.
BigCos missed the AI revolution because success required minimal convolution.

I like it
Not sure if this has been replicated or is being scaled up, but it looks promising at face value.

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/publications/from-b...
That’s true, because ChatGPT has been extensively coached to do better on a lot of the tasks GPT3 was criticised for doing poorly on.
PC Face: Bitmap arrays for rendering CP437 glyphs using IBM PC OEM fonts
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Amsterdam is not that busy. Here it's usually 6-10 minutes, depending on the time and the line. It makes sense that larger cities have to move more people and therefore need a lot more trains. Amsterdam isn't that big. Toronto is, though. And yet public transport is terrible.
I almost treat it as the damn specification!
A lot of crazy sounding physics theories involve some non-trivial tweak to the laws of physics as we know them (e.g. the Alcubierre drive, many exotic dark matter theories, ...) so I usually dismiss them as unlikely. However, from what I have read about this so far, it seems to a natural consequence of black hole solutions in an expanding spacetime, no new physics needed. Am I missing something? If that's really the case, the odds of this being real are much higher than most typical hyped up physics fare. Would love an expert take.
I would say consumers should organize, and target a few of the biggest companies supporting this bill and boycott their products until the bill gets changed. If nobody buys another iphone for 6 months, I don't think they'll have any choice but to get the bill undone. right?
Sounds like you experienced a particular company's flavor of WFH, which sounds mostly worse than all the ones I have.

I've also seen situations that start to go bad like you describe, but in some cases we were able to nudge it back. For example, someone tries to schedule a meeting for a week away, so you push for a quick ad hoc call in a few minutes instead. (Not that different than in-person, when someone says "let's schedule a meeting".)

I've also seen experiments in WFH communication and team-building that aren't done well. For example, starting Monday morning with a ineffective all-hands that, rather than getting people on the same page and energized, sucks the life out of any refreshed start of the workweek. (Again, similar to if you'd herded everyone in-person into a large physical room, for the same content and delivery, only in-person is poorer view and harder to hear.)

Also, in the worst situations I'm aware of, it wouldn't matter much whether the people were in-person. You might figure out more quickly that there's a problem, or where the problem is originating, but that's not been the hardest part.

What in-person is best at is humanizing/personalizing people and forming bonds easily, with all the little cues that we've known since the '80s aren't conveyed as well through computers, and still aren't. (Well, for many people; other people are less comfortable in some in-person contexts, for various reasons, and tend to be more comfortable and themselves in other modalities.)

There's also the occasional high-bandwidth highly-interactive collaborative design, but there's no reason most of that can't happen mostly WFH when your timezones overlap and you have good tools (e.g., effective shared whiteboarding/diagramming that's actually better than a physical whiteboard).

Personally, my ideal is WFH, but being in-town or an easy commute away, for occasional high-value in-person interaction. With in-person emphasis on humanizing/personalizing/bonding (but naturally; I've seen these done in well-intentioned but miserable ways that people just try to get through, and it can be counterproductive).
Or as we learned in electromag physics, why stranded wire can carry more amperage than solid (because it has more surface area).

Note: Generalizing and making a lot of assumptions. This statement is not encouragement to ignore AWG markings or limits in any way, as the effect isn't that large.
Liquid crystals cannot switch from 0 to 100% in less than 10ms, never mind 250ns. They’re electromechanical devices that need to physically twist/untwist to affect the polarization of light.

Contrast that with a CRT which uses a 25kV acceleration voltage to drive an electron beam up to 30% the speed of light (takes about 3.3 nanoseconds to travel 1 foot from the back of the CRT to the screen), which then strikes a phosphor that glows due to its valence electrons falling from excited states (which takes a few nanoseconds).
Just Googled it and it looks like you’re the one who’s wrong… did you actually Google it yourself before posting this?
Has there been significant progress in Go in terms of AI strength after AlphaZero (like there has been with chess), or has Go AI stagnated because of lack of interest and/or resources?
I don't mean to downplay the disaster, but just because there's a sheen that appears when disturbing the creekbed doesn't indicate it's a result of the contamination from the disaster or even petroleum-related contamination at all: for instance, bacteria can form a similar oil-like sheen on water. I don't think it's possible to conclude anything without sampling the water, and definitely not from a video of someone just stirring up the water.

(as also mentioned in the Reddit comments, the fact that the Twitter poster is a staunch North Korea supporter should make people evaluate the context of this video a little more critically -- I don't mean they can't be right, but they are at least pushing this with a certain agenda)
The people of Maine would disagree (obviously, since they did). Forests don't exist to build over. New Englanders like their forests.
Acoustic signalling for control (which would have to be done very carefully to account for echo, motor noise, etc), with a great deal of onboard navigation via LIDAR and onboard cameras. Signalling would be high-level.

It's entirely possible data couldn't be delivered back to the parent machine until a physical connection could be established; not sure if acoustic signalling can be made high-bandwidth enough for video. Line-of-sight laser modulation could be used for high-bandwidth once the ROV is out of the bulk of the ship.
I never have much trust in the time on page or time on site numbers. In your screenshot, the number sure looks like it is meant to be a total.

I use Matomo for my analytics. I think their little Javascript doodad attempts to report back time information after 15 seconds. Anyone who clicks away before that timer goes off is recorded as a zero.

I get a sort of warm fuzzy feeling when I see high time on page numbers, but zeroes never bother me. There are a huge number of reasons why a time can't be captured, but when a time is captured, it is almost definitely someone who had eyeballs on your page.

You're doing a good job, Simon! I would be thrilled to see a million clicks from Twitter on one of my posts. I am just more excited about your 50k clicks from Hacker News!
Yeah, for real.

the whole "I'm smarter cause I'm jaded" schtick is old as hell. We tried it in the 90s. it was just as dumb then.
The way that I understood it is that what you call an 'ordinary' black hole this paper claims is actually a 'naive' black hole, and that more nuanced solutions to general relativity allow for things that act like black holes that we know but that don't contain singularities.

I only point this out because we haven't been inside a black hole, so we don't really know what an 'ordinary' one looks like.
Based on https://reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qwp9db/i_have_compared_b... seems like AppCleaner is the more thorough one?
A quick skim of eBay shows bits for sale - whether or not they are real is a different matter though.

https://www.ebay.com/b/Titanic-Artifact/35965/bn_57670677
There is no free lunch but money is not a constraint. Physical resources are a hard constraint. Labour is a hard constraint. Money is not.

Inflation caused by excess money supply (NB: not inflation caused by excess money velocity) cannot survive taxation. Taxation destroys money supply.

It’s no more (or less) complicated than any of the thousands of other fiscal decisions a government makes every year.

There’s a fallacy alluded to in the statement “it’s a very complicated problem” - the allusion is to one of inaction being a safer default choice but nothing about inaction in the face of a complex problem guarantees against making things worse

By qualifying with “complex” problem i mean a problem that’s as complex as choosing what to fund in a national budget. A problem for which no answer can be proven correct. A problem which can only be addressed by taking a considered view on risk. A problem with unresolvable uncertainties.
I knew guys working from home who worked 10 hour weeks for years. Yeah, eventually they got laid off, but it was a mostly paid vacation for a long time.
Not everyone is like that though.
News to me! Apparently I haven't used it in quite some time.
Honestly, the type of execs having huddles like that likely don't need work/life balance because they're 100% corporate cult company men anyway.

Normal people, with normal life priorities and who find joy in many things outside the workplace seem to enjoy WFH. Their work doesn't define them.

This kind of sweeping policy change without consultation of the people it affects would be an immediate resignation from me.
There are only like 15 of us using Firefox mobile. It is safe to say that if you are using Firefox mobile, you are technically savvy enough to go "Ah, I installed some extensions and now Firefox crashes a lot".

Let extensions claim whether they work on mobile or not, and open the flood gates.
The biggest problem with this is that the geography doesn't really make sense. A line from the east coast US to Europe goes right over Quebec which provides a large portion of the east coast's electricity through hydro already. Instead of spending billions on a trans-atlantic cable, you can just build a ton of renewables in the US and use Quebec's hydro as a giant battery.
It’s incredible how many people here are ok with forcing people back into environment-destroying soul-crushing commutes so their co workers will be somewhat more productive and make the majority shareholders of their companies (which 99.9% of you aren’t, let’s me honest) a little more cash.
I’m on a similar situation - managing a small team and got very similar perceptions.

If my company tries to enforce more than a couple days in office, I’m jumping somewhere else.
AC is never more efficient than DC. AC was easier to step up and down than DC 120 years ago. That's the only reason we use it*, despite worse efficiency.

* Motors are the other reason. Big electric motors in 1900 ran better on sinusoidal AC than DC. We have much better motor technology today, plus power semiconductors to control them. So motors are no longer a reason for the grid to be AC.
That seems inefficient. Just throw beds in a couple of conference rooms.
In-person people tend to at least see "oh s/he's super-focused on something, I should probably not interrupt them if it's not important"
A lot of Google documentation I find hard to follow. Partly the material design styling. Partly that it is very focused on what and not why/how.
“on most normative questions for which there is a wide range of lawful human opinions” this clause actually makes it quite tractable.

The request is for some representation of “views differ” for those topics on which a reasonable person might disagree. Which is honestly not all topics by a long shot, it’s closer to a fairly narrow window.
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> By using something like Godel numbering

Can you elaborate?
But do you update the kernel without rebooting? Previously transactional-update can update the kernel and call dracut to make a new boot image. I suppose this still needs a reboot?
You could impress me more if you told me a human Go player beat an AI Go player without the aid of AI
shiny plastic has smoother reflections, pleasing mathematically.. reality is noisy and full of exceptional things
Thanks for the info, and for the fun! Was definitely one of the nice parts of the day. Hope things work out for the museum.
Plausible, like many other client-side analytics packages, by default only measures time on page for people who view more than one page. The time they report is the time between clicks.

So for big viral social media moments, the stat is basically worthless, since the vast majority of those visits bounce off the article page.
The healthcare system is corrupt everywhere. It's just a matter of degree.
Yes, but it's more unusual to find an adversarial attack that can be described in human terms and successfully executed by a human against two different models
> I think the ship has sailed for fixing that (at least in the image processing community)

no - if you relent like that perhaps
Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy
DX == Developer Experience? Thats a new one.