skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s even more difficult to wrap your head around should be the poor response to the pandemic; the lack of regard for the vulnerable (citizens) and the poor (nations).
I don't think it's essential. I think it can be a reasonable choice, but there are other patterns that can accomplish the same thing, with some upsides and some downsides: https://gist.github.com/oconnor663/b0b32f25301ed5a1af4d07053...
SwitchTube: POC “Adaptable Commitment Interfaces” as Tool for Digital Wellbeing [pdf]
That was Steve Prefontaine's opinion, too. And it got him 4th in the Olympics.

Pacer or not, you still have to run the run and that's not nothing.
I've found sorting by most recent reviews to be quite effective (works well for Amazon too from being burned on product quality cliffs). Recent reviews are a better sample than an average from everything, and give a better intuitive sense of what the place is like. IDK how some stays can have great ratings and the last 10+ reviews are all 1 star. Learned that lesson the hard way.
I remember buying games that would come with a huge "don't copy that floppy" booklet. I remember it even argued selling the game when I was done with it was unethical and would likely lead to jail.
Thank you for providing a perfect example of my point.

I am not saying people need to be silenced, rather that which amplifies misinformation is problematic.
The book "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" was mentioned by one of the co-inventors of Usenet, Tom Truscott. "He decided it would be neat to have a homework machine." [1]

1. http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/book-pdf/CHAPTER%2010.pdf
I called it semi-coordinated and shading the truth above. I think they privately and in small groups decided to shade the truth or keep silent while their colleagues were doing so. All for “the greater good.”

Specifically, the talking point put out to the media that lab leak is highly unlikely is wrong and was unreasonable based on what they knew at the time.

I think that shading of the truth was arrogant and pernicious.
> The core issue is people without familiarity with how non-native (to them) script can function - in the English centric world it means assuming one letter == one visual glyph, and the visual glyph won't get a different rendering depending on context.

English has cursive and I think most English speakers are at least aware of cursive. We have script that is designed for print as well, though, while Arabic script does not; it is always cursive.
It would be interesting to have an Olympics where every race each runner runs the race alone
I tried to order an espresso to go when I was visiting the states recently, and the person running the place had literally no idea what I was talking about.
A review of Time To Think
It doesn’t. Infinite recursion is just an infinite loop, which a program that records a screen is in.
The question should be more precise. Is this Arabic script?

There's a half dozen languages at least that are not Arabic but use Arabic script, such as Persian or Urdu. The typographic rules mentioned still apply though.
On the plus side you get to enjoy the midnight sun. It's a pretty unique experience. And now you have an excuse to visit again!
Those people were deplatformed and deamplified, rather than debated.

GP definitely has a valid point as do you. Speech was not equally free if the counter points weren’t allowed, which allowed a lot of people to say anything they want for a long time.
Would it be different if one is paying GitHub? It should be (I hope so). And same should be true at GitLab? Anyone tested it? Or am I paying for "nothing"?
>The driver of the vehicle was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to the California Highway Patrol.

It has nothing to do with a Tesla.
> software did not have ability to phone home

This is the main reason for the simplicity of key checks.

If you copied someone elses windows installation (cd burners were very expensive, but a floppy version existed), you'd also copy the serial number, and just use that. Even if the serial verification algorithm was complicated, noone would really have to crack it at all, because they'd just use the original serial for all the copies.

Piracy was (and still is) rampant with home users, but business users still needed some kind of a simple check (so.. a simple serial) to match the installation to an actual licence, which was more "protected" than the actual medium (cd, floppy), by using holograms, microprint, etc: https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2018/09/13...
The headline is absolutely, literally true.

The story is that the DOE determined a lab leak is the most likely origin. And that’s exactly what the headline says.

Did they decide it’s only marginally more likely than other theories? Perhaps, but the headline remains true.

This is not complicated.
I don't think that's accurate. They got OKRs early on from a VC John Doerr connected to Intel ("High Output Management").

Intel was huge when they started OKRs, but Google wasn't, in 2000.

https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/set-goals-with-okrs/ste...
> The LLM has no idea what words mean

Well that isn't true for any sensible definition of "idea of what words mean". If you examine embeddings produced by LLMs you find similar words in similar locations in the multi-dimensional space.

> They just statistically mash up patterns of words from massive input with no clue whatsoever what those patterns of words actually mean in the real world.

This is simply not true. As multiple papers (eg [1]) have shown these models can do tasks that require chained reasoning and give results that can only be explained by this ability.

There's even a hint of a possible explanation in that paper:

> For certain tasks, there may be natural intuitions for why emergence requires a model larger than a particular threshold scale. For instance, if a multi-step reasoning task requires l steps of sequential computation, this might require a model with a depth of at least O(l) layers.

Your understanding might have been correct for LSTMs trained before 2018 or so, and it was a reasonable model in the BERT era of early transformers. But it needs to be updated now with more recent results.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-ph...
Showing a timer or splits is not pacing
It says in the article pacers are not permitted in the Olympics.
You dont need to run marathons to have a pacer.

You have pacers in most "official" races. Plenty of pacers in 5K's, 10K's, 15Ks, and Halfs. People want to focus on running their time at a constant pace and not having to speed up and slow down every mile.

I assume a patternmaker is someone who focuses on making patterns, probably novel, with sewing and crocheting. I'll google it and edit this post once I confirm it.

Edit: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patternmaker

Yep, seems close enough. Amazing what one can do with basic logic.
The evidence was actively suppressed, scrubbed, and authors ridiculed and threatened.

We the People need an apology and an investigation.
It's sad to see OP has been on HN since 2012. I guess he learned nothing from our community in the last 10yrs.
It's quite popular in countries of the former USSR.
In general this development is synonymous with the development of orthodoxy and heresy in late antiquity - it's not enough to believe what you want to believe, but to insist that everyone else believe it too.

The template works like this, create a set of ideas, but cast them as having been part of the fabric of reality itself. This can happen intentionally or organically. Organic development is as simple as raising kiddos with the same belief. The way that socialization and mental development happens us that it makes these truths appear as normal and obvious as apples are red.

Are rights obvious and self evident? Congrats you've been born and socialized in the west. Is the mandate of heaven obvious and self evident? Congrats, you were born in China a millennia ago.
I'm sure I saw on TV that they use what is basically a giant LED strip on the inside of the course, which as I understood was a 'pacer light'. Seems to strip the strategy out and reduce it to a purely physical contest, which doesn't seem an improvement.
“The DOE oversees several U.S. national labs, some of which conduct advanced biological research”
In 1998 we had a super security conscious CTO.

He had me come in each morning and go over the logs for the servers on our VOIP product - which fed to a line-printer (dot matrix) in real-time and would spit out a ton of paper. (as much as I hated this, I love the sound of dot-matrix printers)

I had to go through the logs with a highlighter and highlight out anything suspicious...

This was the mid-late 90s and we were one of the few companies to have already adoped Linux to production at that time.

Some of our employees were the authors of H.323 and some other protocols - and flourished out to all sorts of your streaming techs today.
> Unlike paid upgrades, a subscription guarantees recurring revenue not only for the developer, but for Apple themselves.

I just buy nothing at all from the app store

yeah I'd like a night sky app, happy to pay a one off fee (even $20) and for upgrades

but not a monthly subscription
I disagree that security is impossible, because that is using 'secure' to mean absolutely proof against compromise, which is fundamentally impossible because of complexity (even formally verified systems like seL4 run on real processors/RAM which have side channels).

Practically a fully patched iPhone or Pixel without sketchy apps is a very hard target and exploits have a limited lifetime. There is a vast gulf between that and a phone running a 5 year old release without patches.

Why are governments so bad at mandating security? Paralysis in Congress and the EU?

Re Huawei, they were sure there were exploits that could be used against it, and they could never be sure it was exploit-free. (We know that major vendors like Cisco have bugs constantly, so it only requires early access to the code to discover them to produce a ready stream of exploits.) Which is totally what we would expect.
If the watch also measured the distance you’ve travel, is pace not just distance over time? Speaking of wearable, pacemakers serve a different purpose, so the term is ambiguous

I’m sure you run then, because again I have no idea what you mean by “splits”
I realize you intend it as a joke, but it's sad how much your quote sums up HN commentary. It hits uncomfortably close to home.
Numbers will typically be rendered in Arabic numerals and not in Arabic script if a 7 segment display is being used. Latin characters are already pretty difficult to read on a 7 segment... Arabic would be even more difficult.
The problem is that inevitably "but they're morons" becomes the excuse to deny them agency and freedom. And then it's just a matter of who gets to decide who is "smart" enough to deserve freedom. Every single time we've gone down that path it's led to oppression and abuse.
Interesting!

As I noted elsewhere in the thread chatGPT seemed to handle it correctly.
Businesses don't have freedom of association. For example, in California, the "ban the box" law means that FANG must hire convicted domestic abusers even if it is bad for morale. This of course pertains only to past actions of the applicant though.
This is excellent. Thanks for sharing it. The recent changes to zoning in the west coast might radically change things in regard to housing stock. I'm hopeful.
> There is no guarantee that Nazis will not again take advantage of a population that is used to follow the state's lead, this time to silence you, or that another group won't do the same.

And that's fine. This argument keeps being brought up over and over again, but if this happened, nothing would please more because it would remove the ambiguity from the situation.

> It's frankly incomprehensible to me how anyone who doesn't support totalitarianism can look at history (or present day) and dare to normalize any amount of state control over speech.

I mean, the fact that you can look at The Holocaust or Jim Crow and think that any amount of tolerance should be shown to Nazi'ism or white supremacy is beyond incomprehensible to me. But that's the issue.

For a certain type of person, any legislation curtailing 'free speech', even if that is done to stamp out white supremacy is an existential threat to freedom in America.

But to people of color, allowing white supremacists to spout intolerance publicly with no repercussions (other than maybe getting 'cancelled') is an existential threat to THEIR freedom in America.
I think it is a good idea considering the temporal frame of reference. Payback on projects like these take decades. Furthermore the objectives of whichever local official with any sense of wit and honor most certainly must encompass and protect the needs of local citizens and global directives at the expense of energetically and ecologically expensive tech of arguably dubious merit.
I agree it's an organizational problem; however in Delphi/Pascal I don't think you can turn off the checks at all; so, in a sense, that's a level of type checking that is comforting...
Reminds me of the Void novels of Peter Hamilton. The black hole is in reality an artificial world, constructed by an ancient civilization to investigate the purpose of life. Enormous amount of energy is needed to run the world simulation inside, that why the “black hole” needs to expand to consume other star systems.
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs. End-to-End Learned
Apparently only the top-level GP is allowed to push back on what other people say or do, but when the OP you're replying to exercises their right to free speech to do the same, it's the end of the world.

It's an interesting double standard.
Then it would be pretty boring. But watch a few of the women's 5000m from a few years ago(haven't watching in a couple). You would see the leader all alone. It was exciting, but also lacked that excitement of seeing someone kick for the win.
Being an American is about individuality
When an instruction has unpredictable effects, especially on a large scale like this, it seems very likely that internal microarchitectural state is leaking, and the result could easily be a massive security vulnerability.
CSP. In hardware.
I agree that it does among some. But the semantics of "MICRO-services" is that smaller is better and you can find those who take it to be smallest is bestest. You can't just assume the word "micro" is just a hanger on and isn't doing work convincing people of the virtue of super-small. Lots and lots of orgs and people fall into this trap. I've worked at them. I've argued with advocates in the professional sphere. All the time.

If it was literally just SOA, I wouldn't have issues with it as you can reasonable have conversations about where divisions should be placed. Maybe you are surrounded with more reasonable advocates, but that is not the norm in my experience.

When you have orgs assigning a team to build and maintain 20+ services... It's gone into full self destruct mode.
I agree. But I still don't think it adequately explains why the Chinese lockdown effort was so much more intense than everywhere else's. That is, unless they also know something about its function that the rest of the world doesn't know.
I've seen full spaghetti on recently written C driver code for an IC. The device contained a 24-bit processor that wouldn't have a compiler and its one-man dev team was necessarily doing all of the firmware in assembly. He basically wrote all of the C with assembly style control flow, goto-ing all over the place and zero high level statements.
I would be careful linking "Muslims" and "Arabic readers/speakers".

I know Muslims who would be challenged to speak more than 3 words of Arabic, as well as Arabic speakers who are Christians or atheists.
You really like using that word, racist. The problem is that's just your opinion. But you seem to be heavily focused on it. I think this is more of a you problem.
> that aside I'm glad to be in the UK where I get my 108mg/day methylphenidate and 10mg/day Ramipril for a tenner a month.

...it costs $50 just to get 15 days of Dexedrine. But that's with the complimentary "I had no idea my insurance wouldn't cover this" discount, which is only valid the first time. Now it'll be something like $300. That's almost half of the monthly income that the government took from us because we're apparently not poor enough to need it! (The government is wrong, btw.)

> Be aware that you might be underwhelmed when compared to dexedrine, the effects are way less obvious immediatetly

For me, the main differences between being medicated and unmedicated are:

- I don't feel tired all fucking day, I can actually stay up until night time and then sleep for the night. As it should be.

- I can do creative things like art or story writing without getting bored and giving up somehow, which INVARIABLY happens with ADHD.

- I don't end up trapped in bed unable to get food when I'm hungry.

Anything that does those three things is good enough for me. As long as it doesn't have side effects (after 2 weeks dexedrine no longer has any side effects other than reduced hunger).

> having aphantasia explains why being told to "imagine this" was always something that frustrated me because I couldn't do it in the way the other person would be able to do - but I didn't know that I couldn't, and neither did they

Honestly, I've always been aware of every single ADHD symptom that I have. It's just that I didn't know where they came from, I thought they came from laziness.

I definitely don't have aphantasia to that degree or anywhere close. I can imagine entire scenes in my head, imagine being an Umbreon in a forest, walk around and feel the grass and the breeze and the sun and everything. It's just, you know, hard doing that for longer than 10 seconds before my brain gets bored.

But it makes me incredibly upset when someone assumes that I can't do something because I'm not trying hard enough. Even people who know what ADHD is, seemingly don't believe that cases can get as bad as mine. That only comes from understanding that my case of ADHD is a disability. I didn't do that before when I thought I was just lazy. Ugh.
Toronto and London are roughly equidistant from the North Geomagnetic Pole.

Aurora borealis is visible at much lower latitudes in North America compared to Europe.
I also thought it might've been about the differences between them, given that Pashto has its own characters unique to its script and Arabic has diacritic marks not used by Farsi or Pahto. This is a different subject, though, that has little to do with what the post is complaining about. Their grievances apply to all scripts based on Arabic.
Is your company successful? Or is their failure at OKRs a symptom of their problem?
The Olympics doesn't allow professionals anyway, so the comparison becomes weird.
aims to transform the future of the entire Valley region, ...thriving cities can coexist with flourishing ecosystems.

Excellent. We need a lot more of this.

Then there is a section about the city sinking unevenly due to groundwater (aquifer) depletion, plus the city is prone to flooding due to hardscape -- pavement, etc. This goes hand in hand. Hardscape both promotes flooding and prevents groundwater recharge and for the same reason at the same time. They hope to remedy this (at least partially) with this project.

He aims to restore nesting and overwintering grounds for more than 150 kinds of birds along a migratory corridor from Alaska down to South America.

This would be the Pacific Flyway, an important migratory route for many birds. Planned rail development in Solano County, California is currently threatening critical habitat along this flyway with a planned stop that will sink into the marsh like Venice and never have much traffic (unless they decide to rubber stamp even more urban development in this sensitive wetland area to justify the rail stop). Birds need nesting and feeding grounds and safe spaces periodically all up and down this flyway.
Roku displays Faces of Death on home screen more prominently than PBS Kids
To be clear, I don't care about what channels Roku provides or what content those channels have. Users are in control of what channels they add and that is fine.

The troubling part is that ads for un-added channels and their content is displayed prominently and automatically on the home screen without the ability to filter. Oh, and this isn't even a third-party channel, it is the Roku-owned The Roku Channel.

I understand that most of HN is probably not going to care and spend time posting some version of "so what?".

I also understand that the content of Faces of Death is dated and somewhat debunked as faked. That isn't the point.

I also understand that Roku is ad-supported, and that I have the option to use them or not, or the option to take steps to block ads. Also not the point.

Roku's official response is:

> Please be advised that Roku (and/or its partners and content providers) may display advertising and promotional messages through your Roku products and content services. And, All Roku devices are Ads supported, most Ads are managed by each channel developer. Unfortunately, we don't have an option to remove ads at this time. We'll be sure to share your feedback with the team though. Let us know if you have any other questions.
Yes, if only IDA pro had a hobbyist license :(
That's JWZ though.

When I last explored the tildeverse it was rife with easily triggered precious snowflakes actively searching for reasons to be offended. It wouldn't surprise me if the fee-fees protection comment had at least a grain of truth to it...
I wonder what expectations are. Presumably in China they've had years to refine their process to get to a low defect rate, I suspect they anticipated some learning curve.
> to almost 2 billion people.

There are probably 350 million Arabic speakers.
Why don't the icons have attribution?
64-bit floats are a finite set. The solution of problems where the real numbers are replaced by the finite set is sometimes easier, but often much more difficult. The reason is that you can't do calculus over finite fields. For instance, taking the inverse of the natural log is efficient, but the inverse of the discrete log is a hard problem, and hence is used in cryptographic algorithms.

Complexity theory is a very subtle science.
KPIs are more operational "is anything broken". OKRs are more aspirational "achieve something new".
Of course they can. It'll probably be a kangaroo court but you'll need a big global coalition for that.
Yeah for a few years I thought I was actually +2 older than I was. This started to happen after some major life events that threw everything I knew into question. Since that happened I've found it difficult (or boring) to relate to people who are younger than me. Most of my friends are older.
Not sure if the economics of it are as simple as the author suggests. Espresso-based drinks take time to prepare, and while people are willing to wait, there is still a limited number of them that can be made per unit of time. On the other hand the number of drip coffees that can be produced per hour is much much higher, so even if the absolute profit per drink is lower they could easily sell more of them.
I think the problem you should all be addressing is not which theory was correct but why people who mentioned this possibility as a theory were downvoted on this plat form.

Regardless of which theory is correct this behaviour affects everyone negatively.
plex is bloat
There is a difference, I think, between consequences resulting from your actions and being prevented from taking those actions at all. With regard to speech it's not a clear line, certainly, but the distinction matters, I think.
Should you avoid eating burnt food?