skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jordan Peterson is impressingly insightful, and a great motivational speaker.

I wouldn't call him a philosopher, because philosophy to me must have a timeless element that is necessarily detached from any specific time or society, and Jordan is first of all a clinical psychologist, which makes his experience inherently tied to the current society through his practice with patients.

That being said, we are living in the current day, I think his lectures and books are very helpful for anyone struggling with the meaninglessness of modern life.

I also personally dislike his usage of Christian mythology and ethics in presenting the "how-to" of life. It might be useful as a narrative tool, but Christianity in itself is extremely toxic life-denying philosophy.
Your definition of what would be revolutionary is likely the last thing humans will achieve, there is a lot of revolutionary things to happen between here and there.

I'm not sure what you are using as a definition of AI but I would say it is already being used massively in industry, and a lot of harm can be done even if it isn't autonomous.
So many questions. How are users tagged D or R? Is that a manual process or automated somehow? What is the effect of these tags? Can I find out if my Twitter account is in one of those buckets?
Car manufacturers have proven they have zero ability to make any kind of in car entertainment system with software that isn't a giant pile of crap, a pile of crap which they abandon and never update.

GM is committing suicide here, what an idiotic move.
Not only will GM look bad, but the press when they dump Android Auto will see a cliff in Android marketshare.
... what does the Vatican City State have to do with this decision from the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, an independent administrative authority of the Republic of Italy?
Only used for metrics, apparently. [0]

/**
* These author ID lists are used purely for metrics collection. We track how often we are
* serving Tweets from these authors and how often their tweets are being impressed by users.
* This helps us validate in our A/B experimentation platform that we do not ship changes
* that negatively impacts one group over others.
*/

[0]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
This was the best news I heard at Tesla investor day. It should simplify and cut the cost of the in-cabin wiring.

When Sandy Munro interviewed Elon Musk a couple of years ago he said "Why are you still using 12v stuff in the cabin?"

Musk's answer was that the automotive supply chain was entirely geared around 12v equipment and they had to take advantage of that to get to market quickly.

I'm glad those days are almost over.
> running your family as a syndicate

Evidence? And offspring doing something on their own doesn't count.

> illegal immigrants in order to sway voter demographics

That's not how voting works.

> dossier full of lies about your opponent

Sure that one counts. Sometimes both choices are bad. But one candidate doing something bad doesn't mean you increase what the other candidate can get away with.
Radiation releases don't mean exclusion zones.

Note that he included Three Mile Island amongst the radiation releases. Where's the exclusion zone?? It's not even a matter of cost, just look at the risks. You're at the fence of the reactor when it happens, you decide to walk away. Let's see how far you get before the risk of the trip exceeds the risk of staying. You come to a street--end of trip. It's more dangerous to cross the street than to stay put. (Admittedly, that's assuming an average crossing of an average street and streets vary. It's a lot safer to cross a 25 mph residential street than a 45 mph main street.)
Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point?

Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.
Are there any training/ownership models like Folding@Home? People could donate idle GPU resources in exchange for access to the data, and perhaps ownership. Then instead of someone needing to pony up $85k to train a model, a thousand people can train a fraction of the model on their consumer GPU and pool the results, reap the collective rewards.
> are now losing Electron support which Valve said is a motivator.

Steam doesn't use Electron, it uses the older CEF to integrate Chromium (but your basic point stands).
The mouse that builds 110lb mounds of pebbles
Was this article written with the intention of nerd sniping?

Starts with an obviously ridiculous thesis, arguments with a bunch of numbers that don't quite make valid comparisons.

Cynically, I wonder if the author actually believes the thesis or is intentionally putting this forward for attention.
That will definitely do something! Good job!!
Close, but that 2% is actually half of the maximum:

"The less severe infringements could result in a fine of up to €10 million, or 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher."

"The more serious infringements go against the very principles of the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten that are at the heart of the GDPR. These types of infringements could result in a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher."

https://gdpr.eu/fines/
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391433
I couldn't find anything specific to that, but I did find thus blurb where they seem to explicitly track how often they're serving Elon's tweets for A/B testing experiments: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
On my “following” tab (on the phone app) , I’m still getting recommendations for bomb throwers I don’t follow. Am I weird? It’s like an unhinged relative. Not pleasant.

Edit: I reversed “for you” and “following” in my original reply.
> Even California does not think the point of public education to be basic functioning as an adult citizen. The vision statement is “All California students of the 21st century will attain the highest level of academic knowledge, applied learning and performance skills to ensure fulfilling personal lives and careers and contribute to civic and economic progress in our diverse and changing democratic society.”

Ohhh, if wishes were horses, my friend.

Have you ever worked at a place where the mission statement contained things like "a commitment to excellence" and yet most everybody around you (quite possibly including yourself) was decidedly mediocre, employing practices (like doctrinaire Scrum) that precluded excellence and were intended to manage mediocre workers?

California's education system, like nearly all USA education systems, is based on the Prussian model, which was devised by Industrial Revolution magnates as a way to mass-train children into future workers for their factories. Any pretense to excellence, or education to the highest level, is aspirational at best, a fig leaf at worst.
Steam's in-game overlay has a fully user-controlled browser running on the same engine. Some people use that to open something like a game wiki, and malvertising is a real risk. (In addition to just wanting somewhat secure browsing as a baseline)

Also: I'm not sure if links sent in Steam chat, when viewed in the overlay, open there or with the system browser.
It's a colloquial term for recommendation engines, how often do you hear people say "the algorithm" (vs. "the recommendation engine") on YouTube?
> The opinion says nothing about the ability of Castle Rock to fire the involved officers for being derelict in their employment duties (like any other employee).

I mean, it literally does. The ruling overturns the law which gives them the basis to do so, and additionally establishes that states cannot pass laws imposing such requirements (as well as prohibiting a number of other things as well).

I'd suggest actually reading the opinion and dissents before discussing this further.
> reduced the required reserve ratio for banks to zero,

Isn’t this only for smaller banks? if I recall correctly something like banks with a market cap over $500B have to maintain a proper reserve ratio.
Go to the local gym and work on actual social networking. Peloton is just goofy.
Neo4j has a self-hosted community edition that is free, though you need to update to Enterprise to expand your DB beyond one node. It's worth noting though that scaling from a single node to a cluster is going to have some pretty huge performance issues whether you are using SQL or Neo4j to store your graph. The power of graph databases is that it should be very inexpensive to follow an edge in the graph but when that leads to a network hop you lose a lot of performance.

If you are comfortable fitting your data onto one box, then development speed is probably more important than other factors and I would just try a few databases out and especially pay attention to how good the libraries are in your programming language of choice. Neo4j for instance had high quality libraries in Java but the experience in Python was not as good.

If you have a lot of data or need next-level performance, I would start by doing some research on the various ways to store graph data and then pick a DB that supports the approach you want to take.
If you allow truck drivers to split shifts like that they will push it and do things like take multiple 2 hour naps instead of getting actual sleep.

You HAVE to have very very clear limits like this. Truckers are an adversary in the process. They would try driving 24/7 if they physically could keep their eyes open. They ALWAYS think they are one of the safe ones while pushing their mental health.
This reminded me of a story in Carl Bernstein's book about being a newsboy for the Washington Post. He talks about a time when he was in the room where they did type setting and someone tricked him into touching one of the plates. Because he wasn't a union worker the boss threw the whole thing on the ground and told them it had to all be redone.
Did you also skim the accompanying (or rather, main) repo, https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm ?

From a quick clone and line-count, it has:

235 kLOC .scala
136 kLOC .java
22 kLOC .py
7 kLOC .rs

So I don't think you did, since you posted so quickly and that's a LOT of code.

I also haven't skimmed this code except very superficially, but perhaps you should since you're out there making statements with your Princeton credentials.

(I posted this comment with the heads-up a few minutes after your comment above and then expanded it as you didn't respond.)
As someone who hated being in the SQL world and couldn’t figure out why until years later when I found out about graph databases, here’s one big shift:

Graph database store true relationships.

The R in RDBMS and the concept of relationships by primary keys are lies (imo). They lead people away from what true relationships can be. Databases like Neo4j are not about doing any sort of PK or join or merge-before-query. Looking up by connection is the fastest way to find information. If your RDBMS had one table for phone numbers, one for email addresses, one for first names, one for last names, one for street, and so-on it would take huge amounts of time to query to find all the detail for a single person. With a graph database it takes a small amount of time to find the first bit of info (let’s say phone number since it’s easily sorted), and then every other bit of linked data is essentially free.
GM are seriously deluded if they think they can get anywhere near those figures. We all know how crappy their software will be, and why on earth would they think anyone will be stupid enough to pay a subscription for it when its free on every other car.
> "It is our understanding that Twitter Blue does not provide person-level verification as a service. Thus, a blue check mark will now simply serve as a verification that the account is a paid user"

Nice to see the White House correctly understanding what the new "verification" process entails.
you can't expect bureaucrats to know the difference...
I think that Groupons salespeople were getting massive concessions from the businesses they signed up, way beyond what a normal coupon or ad campaign might cost them. That's just my speculation based on the magnitude of a lot of the deals I used to see and the anger I heard from some of the businesses I talked to about it.
Do We (Still) Need to Work? (2021)
I have been contacting federal and state legislators to get this practice banned. I urge others to do the same.
I was being cheeky, sorry. To make my point directly, I think you get that it's the DA's job to prosecute crimes in his district. The year is 2023, and before him he has details of a crime. It doesn't matter that some other crime at some other time in the past wasn't prosecuted by some other prosecutor. It was never on Bragg to do so. The decision to prosecute this crime must be based on the evidence. It cannot be based on who Trump is, and whether other people who held his position were prosecuted for other unrelated things.

This has nothing to do about forgetting history, I lived through it and was calling for Bush to be prosecuted then. It's so weird to me that the people today who are saying "Well what about Bush!!" are mostly those who voted for him twice, at least in my circles.
Tesla started shipping the new AMD based MCU3 at the end of 2021. MCU2 in previously Model 3s is an Intel Atom architecture.

Previously Tesla offered MCU1 to MCU2 paid upgrades for Model S/X owners. It seems unlikely that Tesla will offer anything similar for MCU2 to MCU3 but not impossible that it could be done as a 3rd party retrofit. The connectors and physical dimensions are different so it’s not trivial.
It's been hard to predict the quality of electric vehicles based on the same brand's ICE/hybrid vehicles.

For example, Toyota is head and shoulders better than the competition at ICE and hybrids, but they're arguably last in EVs. In fact, Consumer Reports says the Chevy Bolt is currently the best EV[1].

1. https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/rankings/electric-vehicl...
Typically, we expect to be able to run "open source" software ourselves. If you open-source your C compiler, I can compile a C program with it. In a few recent high-profile cases though, companies have "open sourced" ML systems without releasing the model weights. This practice is just like your releasing the builds scripts for your C compiler, but not the compiler itself. While more transparency from social media will be enlightening, calling a release like this (or LLaMA) "open source" feels like equivocation. I'd love to see more full releases, weights included.
I read the code snippet before I saw the link and thought you were joking, but yeah, there really is an author_is_elon flag right there in the main branch.
Maybe you should have kept it in a managed money market account instead of a savings account? FDIC limits aren’t some mysterious new thing and businesses do have other options available.
I sometimes get these as push notifications with my username added to them.
In 2008 I moved into my first apartment with a proper air-to-water heat pump. Granted, the place clearly also had a smart architect, and was built to very high efficiency standards (was rated LEED Platinum). It was installed in a small void between a living room and the bedroom, adjoining an exterior wall. Had an access panel. You’d only barely hear it initially start up. Because of its location, the total length of the ventilation ducting was maybe 1.5m, so air didn’t really change temp before it was delivered to its destination.

Nowadays I rent a floor in an old Victorian home converted into a duplex, still running a boiler (single loop for both floors) going to radiators and convectors. Real noise from the basement from the pump, banging of pipes, and the air quality monitors clearly show VOCs rising — sometimes to really crazy levels (250+, sometimes 400-600!) if upstairs cranked the heat to hell and back.

Where I live now has mediocre insulation at best, and an uninsulated three-seasons room on the 2nd floor that might as well just be open to the outside air. In 2017 when I left, my electric bill was only about $45/mo (1BR, all electric appliances, though elec was half the price back then), and that included in-line water heating (with 3gal tanks for the bath and kitchen). Meanwhile, my landlord currently pays about $7000/year in fuel oil to heat this duplex and its water.

Granted, it’s far from an apples-to-apples comparison as where I lived for ~9 years was ultra-modern construction with no corners cut, and I didn’t share heat/hot water with neighbors that have a far more demanding “standard of comfort”. If only I lived here, might only be $2000/year since my standard of comfort is a lot lower than upstairs, but it really shows the difference that construction, insulation, maintenance, HVAC system choices, and just lowering your standards a bit makes.

House across the street just sold. Had vents and forced air, but still a boiler. New residents haven’t moved in yet, but they IMMEDIATELY removed a fairly new boiler, plus the 375 gallon fuel tank. Putting in a heat pumps and a hybrid water heater. Don’t blame them for both the long-term savings, plus reclaiming floor space in the basement.
Kevin Systrom: One of These Social Platforms May Well Become the Everything App
Something that readers may not know is that they are now heat pumps on hot water heaters. An added benefit is that the fan on the heat pump will exhaust cold air. That might be a benefit for some folks!
I answered my own question https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

"This method reduces the page rank of users who have a low number of followers but a high number of followings."
I mean, what is crystallized intelligence, but that which we can call upon without having to focus on it?

I mean this honestly, no snark. When I was a kid, learning how to factor numbers was really hard. It took a lot of time and concentration to do even basic problems, and people who could do it quickly without much perceived effort were a mystery to me.

By the time I reached high school, I had enough practice that I recognized the common patterns without difficulty, and often the answer bubbled up to my conscious mind without thinking about it at all. It sure feels like my brain is making an API call to a subsystem, you know?
https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/3450fe6172a7cc441d0819379ed... <- Here you go, some context about what group is and does (or was and did, in this case) in the K language.
I think the premise was they were solving information asymmetry + price discrimination issues? Coupons are a still a thing, groupon was just online coupons which remains a seemingly useful thing.
Twitter has always had "chronological timeline" behind a confusing "sparkle" button (except for a brief period a few months back where they removed it, or always defaulted to back to algo timeline? and then restored it a week later)

They called it "Latest Tweets" https://web.archive.org/web/20200205092104/https://help.twit...
The repo suggests it's about tracking engagement metrics[0], so Team Red people see more Team Red content and vice versa. Nothing nefarious.

[0]https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
And then when they don't see the revenues, they dump Android Auto and get bailed out by the people again.
If the property names are to be believed it sets a weight multiplier to 0. So it prevents recommending them entirely.
There's a few: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/twitter-vi...
This is pretty limited. I picked a term used in the diagram to see what I could find out about it. But there seems to be next to nothing in the released code about the mentioned "author diversity". No real code or description.
Eh, it's name-spaced.
You're correct about LTV, but over 2020-2021 many buildings sold at 'cap-rates' of 2%. (A Cap rate is the yield on the building and effectively an inverse P/E ratio.) However, cap rates are now moving towards 4.5%-5% as interest rates went from 0%->4.5%. And we expect Cap rates to end up slightly higher than interest rates, say 5% or 6%.

So when cap rates double the implied value of the building falls by 50%. Effectively the building goes from being valued at a P/E of 50 (cap rate 2%) to a P/E of 25 (cap rate of 4%).

So the halving of the building's value, as cap rates move in response to interest rates, may mean that a 50% LTV loan is now underwater. Especially if the building is unoccupied or may soon be unoccupied.
There it is, only humans can make art, your paragraph is proving my own point. This is exactly the type of thing I'm talking about as I mentioned with non-technical people. The people who say this simply can't perceive that there is nothing special about humans and our brains that can't be replicated. It's because I've read enough philosophy that I'm a physicalist and not a dualist. Continue thinking that humans are more than biological machines while other people continue to make more and more powerful AI.

And if you're done with this argument, as you've mentioned a few times over threads, I'm not sure why you continue to reply.
well here's the thing. shut down the NYPD, fire all the cops, they all go back home to Suffolk County.

Now let's recreate the NYPD as something new! Let's hire all new cops. All 36000 of them.

Who's going to apply for those jobs? Seems likely most of that original 36000 would be in line.

that is, if you have cops, someone has to do that job. It seems like the job as practiced in the US naturally gravitates towards the kind of policing we seem to have. I think that all extends from the fact that guns are basically fully legal and ubiquitous throughout the US which puts it on police departments to be hyper aggressive, highly armed and dangerous, and generally mistrustful of the public; it also does not help that the educational background requirements for cops in the US are very low.
Just a little story:

Back in 2006, Apple went to Verizon and wanted certain concessions from them for the iPhone - including no third party crapware. Verizon refused. Apple went to their competitor AT&T who did accept Apple’s demands.

Verizon started losing customers and they came crawling back yo Apple.

Apple did the same in other countries with the same results.
Python local packages directory proposal rejected (PEP 582)
It happened to me on a 2013 era Macbok laptop I had around for testing stuff and is my only mobile computer. I had Steam with soem old games like Half Life on it and my son could play on it when bored. Steam like a piece of shit of software bricked itself so one day you could no longer paly your games.

Sorry I did not had the energy to calm down and research how to undo this shit.
Oh, no worries :)