skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I always cringe at videos like this where they use no safety equipment… waving his mini jet engine (which is really a blow torch) on a stick inches from his face with no protection seems like a terrible idea.
(Here, I'll demonstrate.)
Lived in the city for 7 years. Visited recently and made me sad. It is a shell of its former self.
So that you can refer to it by name, and do things like `_.remove(myArray, _.isNull)` to get an array with no null values.
The concept of infinity seems impossible to me in physical world. It's a great mathematical concept to model our understanding. Just like imaginary numbers.

I cannot imagine anything being infinite in the physical world. I find the simulation hypothesis more probable than Universe being infinite. Space and Time is not infinite. It may be Gazillions of centuries old, but not infinity. It can't be.
Are you talking about errand-runner, or something else? Are you planning on open sourcing it?
I was pretending to be a memory stick (the Sony memory storage device). And thus had to reply to external commands. On tight deadlines. Very tight.
Really? I've checked a range of topics and the Rational Wiki seemed spot on. Do you know of any topics it's completely wrong or unfair on?

It of course takes side on some issues like Atheism, Religion but nothing unexpected for a site to be unapologetically rational/empirical.
This is exactly me, although I've had streaks where I just ploughed through the big backlogs just throwing a lot of time against the problem (having a kid now, I can no longer reside to this option)

Question: for language learning: is there anything to say about or help with this initial learning? So before then starting the spaced repetition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo&t=5877s

It's a 2 hour video essay that covers psychometry generally as a lens to understanding a book called the Bell Curve that was a flashpoint for questions about the validity of IQ science generally (but most especially how it applies to race). It took a good chunk of my Sunday to get through it, but it was really enjoyable and gave me a ton of insight into a ton of buzzwords and studies I had heard of but couldn't really dig my teeth into.

I think with this topic, getting a briefer, less nuanced summary than something like this would be a mistake because of how much misunderstanding of these topics permeates popular culture. The video also provides a number of studies and books to keep going beyond the relatively breif 2 hours of content it provides.

It uses the famed/infamous book the Bell Curve as a case study and delves into how they were originally created, how they are updated, how the term hereditery when used in genetics means something that is sometimes counter-intuitive to the definition used in popular culture (for example whether someone wears earings has high heritability, whereas having 2 arms has effectively zero herritability) the statistical meaninfullness of factorization (G-factor) of domains of IQ into a single numerical value, how these domains came to be defined, the current state of understanding regarding the local vs enviornmental source of IQ for individuals, how the Flynn effect was observed, etc.

But to answer a bit of your earlier question.
When IQ tests are created, they create a set of questions, test it on a sample group, and set the average value to 100 and higher/lower scores depending on what the distribution of correct answers is. The Flynn effect happened because researchers noticed while the average for new tests always is set at 100, people scoring 100 on a more recent test were generally scoring even higher on previous years tests. The article of the reverse Flynn effect is a little bit sensationalist because as it mentions while some areas (like Spatial Reasoning) are improving, others are apparently starting to get lower. This calls into question a bit the idea of a G-Factor which is an assumption that their is a common factor of intelligence that covaries across all IQ domains (spatial reasoning, reaction time, etc... ) which is the theoretical reasoning behind IQ being meaningfully represented as a single numerical value rather than a multi-dimensional value.
You answered their question, they were satisfied, and you continued to pontificate at length for several minutes longer? That's rather discourteous.
I had to switch to Apollo when i.reddit.com was sunset a few weeks ago. It’s decent if you get rid of the thumbnails and reduce font size. It’s still way slower than i.reddit.com and you can’t seamlessly browse to other websites via Safari, so it’s still a strict regression from that imo.

That being said it’s probably the best mobile app experience for reddit someone could ask for. It’s usable, which is more than can be said about the current mobile site.
Oh yes, I know. Boy do I know.
This is horrible. I see horrible scenes in the city streets on a regular basis but seeing the picture of this poor tiny little baby on the pavement hit me hard.
Not really- my friends and I would just sort of bend the pages gently and you could see the combined picture just fine, and always flattened back out no problem if stored in a plastic insert with cardboard backing.

Most people I knew didn't fold them completely ever, and we were just kids.

I'd have to imagine it was the same for the collectors.
I live about two blocks from the WF location in the article. I went there yesterday for the first time in a few months. I would like to be able to walk there and pick up groceries, but it’s very intimidating to do so. You have to keep your head on a swivel to stay safe. The anxiety and paranoia is not worth the convenience. I’ve never seen anything really major happen when walking over there, but the store is usually empty when I go, so I’m sure they’re just hurting because no one wants to go there.
I'm seeing some weird parallels with the byzantine generals problem/distributed consensus and the architect/contractors in your story. Did the architecture firm eventually sign off on the changes the subcontractors made?
Having not seen the contract, but having worked in construction, I think it's likely the contract did not specify clearances and/or turning radii, or maybe even dimensions. Clark was probably hoping the Port would cave and pay for change orders. It's even possible that individuals at the Port were aware of deficiencies, but let it slide...for reasons.
It's so crazy that there is such compelling evidence that we poisoned an entire generation so badly.
are you leaving toilet seats up or something to induce this behaviour...
For reference, this would be equivalent to a 5 cent fine for a normal American citizen.

Nature's Bounty, owned by Nestle (with a market cap of roughly $339 billion; https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nsrgy/market-cap/ ), has to pay $600k, or .00017%, for scamming consumers.
I’m a legal tech skeptic, but I’ve been very impressed by Chat GPT’s ability to answer simple legal questions. As long as bags of meat remain the ultimate decision makers (judges and juries) you’re going to need some lawyers to interface with them. But it’s imaginable that you could reduce the number needed. The trial lawyer delivering the closing argument wouldn’t necessarily need a dozen other lawyers preparing the case for her. GPT is the first technology I’ve seen that seems to “understand” written work well enough to deliver meaningful answers to case-specific questions.
Or they'll vote the driverless vehicles out of their city like the Parisians did with the e-scooters.
I only care that Taibbi is demonstrably wrong, because I have a very low opinion of Matt Taibbi's reporting (this is a hobbyhorse of mine; I don't even think he got the Vampire Squid story right.)
Yeah there's only one valid interpretation of "improvements to web experience" - they're going to make it worse like they've done the last 5 years.

There is increasingly a divide between the zero attention span tiktok bullshit in the main feed, begging me to use the app, algorithms, awards, coins, engagement ... and the really awesome text-based discussions occuring in the subreddits. At some point Reddit are going to fuck the site up even more - like getting rid of old.reddit.com - and people might finally pack up and leave.

I laughed the other day when visiting an nsfw-tagged post and not being allowed to view it with a web browser. "Browse privately using the app". What? In what universe is your shitty app more private than using Chrome incognito?
It's interesting to hear your experience as a pedestrian, because it makes sense that cautious self-driving cars would cause fewer problems for pedestrians than for traffic. After all, a pedestrian has no problem dealing with a stationary car--just walk around it.
As an avid space-based RTS player, it seems obvious that humanity should focus their efforts on mining space rocks.

It's really dissapointing to see that there's not a huge investment of capital from developed nations to extract these resources on behalf of their country and that it's been mostly left to private enterprises.
the connection between weights are dynamic but the weights themselves aren't being changed i.e being updated in response to the text.

when training a model, the forward pass would happen i.e the generation and then depending on how close to truth it was, the configuration settings (aka the weights/neurons) would be adjusted to incorporate whatever little insight was gained from the text.

Weights are matrices. The values of the matrices aren't changing.
Takeaway: If you're working for a tech company with billions of users, your personal CO2 footprint is completely irrelevant. Rather than agonizing over flights vs. trains, beef vs. pork vs. vegan alternatives, heating etc. - find some small thing that you have access to and that you can optimize.

That's about 2.2 TWh per year. A decent estimate for average worldwide CO2 intensity of electricity is 400 gCO2e/kWh (that's 400 tons per GWh). A typical personal footprint including some international flights will be in the tens of tons.
Science, properly done, is about convincingly explaining how your propositions might be true, usually deferring to a branch of mathematics.

Being known for making leaps in this process and draw unwarranted conclusions is sufficient to make one suspicious and warrant extra scrutiny on other conclusions.

There are many ways to fail in scientific process, if even by pure luck. And yet more by systematic error.

Ad-hominem and appeal to authority is an annoying tactic one has to successfully defeat. Declaration of "it's a fallacy" is worthless at doing so. What you need to do is still to present your arguments in a solid way, at which the blog post failed anyway.

The ad-hominem does not apply to classification - you can make a classification mistake, but ad-hominem is not about that. It's about attacking the author's directly, and an argument that a source is unreliable because statistical claim is not of this nature as it relies on proposition to be shown true or false. Ad-hominem relies on a true but irrelevant fact. The argument above relies on a relevant proposition.

So by mentioning ad-hominem (which is quite specific) in a wrong context, you have made an argument from fallacy fallacy and additionally a pure mistake.

The one you might have wanted is Fundamental Attribution Error also known as correspondence bias, since the talk is about classes of authors and their trustworthiness based on publication medium. Even then, the claim on reliability of blog posts is to be shown or disproven, not offhand discarded.
Those links look great. I've been super addicted to reading about this stuff for the past couple of weeks and you've got plenty of interesting stuff I've missed. Thanks for doing this, I hope you keep it up! I've subscribed
Ooh, well spotted. Correlation is correlated with causation!
Based on a previous talk [1] there was a claim that you should be able to see events from previous aeons in the background microwave radiation.

In particular rings caused by the collision of black holes.

And from his talk he had reached out to colleagues from around the world to see if they did exist. So it seems like he does care about it being provable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjwnjR0apY
Where in Atlanta is that?
Lenin also said communism would be built in the West, not Russia. Circumstances allowed power to fall into the Bolsheviks hands and he decided to take it - to the surprise of Trotsky, Stalin, Zinoviev etc.

The second point follows from the first.
Of course it can be done, but the minute that you need to spin up a VPC, your infrastructure complexity becomes considerably higher. You need to worry about subnetting, carving up IP address space and IPv4 vs. IPv6, making sure you set up VPC Service Endpoints for various AWS services so that you're not paying for Internet egress despite using AWS services, security groups... none of which relates to business value at all.

It's just a hassle that's best avoided unless you really don't have any other choice or the financial math actually works out for doing so.
Depending on what you need in particular for this project you may be able to find some here: https://universe.roboflow.com/search?q=Dolphin

Btw, if you’re doing this for humanitarian/non-profit purposes we’d be happy to consider sponsoring it!
Reading from my phone right now can confirm
A lot of people point to 'crime rates in SF are not noticeably high' but one of the reasons for that is that everyone who lives in the zone knows to avoid the worst areas at the worst times, and there are a lot of bad times and bad areas. If average people were walking around these areas frequently, crime rates would be much higher.

This is of course really bad for local businesses. And yes, a certain fraction of the homeless population needs managed care in controlled facilities until they recover, but neither the city nor the state nor the federal government wants to pay for that. Practically, that means there are areas of the city where homeless are ignored, and areas where they are chased out. If homeless people show up and start acting out in Pacific Heights etc., the cops do show up... it's just policing for the wealthy in that respect.

However, much of the rest of the city is really no different than anywhere else, but for some reason there's an epidemic of opiate use down around that Mid-Market area and that's also where the worst of the mental illness episodes seem to take place, i.e. people screaming their heads off at all hours for no apparent reason. It's too bad, for some years that whole zone was seeing an economic boom and was getting a bit nicer.

The shitty drivers are really the greatest threat to public safety across the rest of the city at present, something about the end of the pandemic has turned drivers into imbeciles it seems. (Homicides are about twice the level of auto-related deaths, but the reckless and drunk drivers are everywhere, not concentrated in the worst areas).

I suppose the organized gun-armed gangs of smash-and-grab car thieves targeting the tourist zones are part of the problem, in their nice cars with the removable license plates, but the cops are apparently too worried about their image to do anything about that. Bait cars could be an option, but then they might have to shoot somebody, which would be bad PR. Their mentality seems to be, "why risk it?"
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Of course they did. It's a common part of large-scale construction. You don't just model the finished product; you model the stages of construction. This is called BIM (Building Information Management), Seattle wrote BIM deliverables into the contract, and Clark used Bentley software to project-manage the construction. Bentley is using this as a PR case study: https://www.bentley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CS-Clark-...
If you're happy for mathematical structures to be infinite, why can't our universe (including ourselves) just be one infinite mathematical structure?

Yes, it's very complex, but there's plenty of room in infinity.

It doesn't need to have a "real" physical instantiation anywhere. It's like the simulation hypothesis, except you don't need the simulation. We're just the inside of an infinite self-experiencing mathematical structure, with nothing on the outside.
I think this video by `Shaun` is informative and well-researched (articles and books are cited). It's long; the creator isn't especially succinct, but it's as entertaining as the material allows, and the subject's complex enough to warrant a video that's a couple of hours long. https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo
A bit of a logical leap in my mind to infer from that that there a bunch of of people saying STEM majors "lack critical thinking skills."
I know that because I do see women in certain EU countries (Poland or Romania for example) or from countries where coding and office work hasn't had a strong "only boys allowed" history (only russia and india come to mind, maybe china?) do as well as male counterparts and stay as long in technical aspects. This is from my limited experience in non-tech multinationals.

I also see men who are as much social and organized as women and there are polar opposites like myself and the common denominator is how we view ourselves fitting into the world which is a product of environment, culture and upbringing.
FTC going after any/all scam is amazing news, not sure why it matters if they're Chinese
I posit that the big bang wasn't an event in historical past, but is an ongoing process. Stuff that falls into black holes is squirted over all of time and space in the universe. We measure that as background radiation.
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The universe being finite in any way is even harder to grasp for me. How can existence itself have a beginning?
I agree. This is why I use Opera's mobile browser which defaults to zoom with dynamic text wrapping to fit the screen width.
Two big complaints I've seen are people regretting too much time wasted on porn, and conventional porn not doing it for them, so they try types they say they regret. I'm not saying limit the time spent every time, but perhaps most of the time could help with those issues, for those that have those complaints.
The idea for games is that these are simple games, presumably with complete descriptions from various sources already in their database. The test is of their reasoning ability and ability to generalize descriptions into tasks that aren't chimeras of examples already in their database, y'know, like a classic test of what we'd call raw reasoning and intelligence, not crystallized intelligence.

With reversing strings unfortunately it's not likely to achieve that considering its tokenization.
The reason agile came to prominence 20 years ago was that responding to change was more valuable than sticking to a plan.

And yet, this feels more relevant than ever. Agile has been thoroughly taken over by management and consultants. We might have some new tools and phrases, but behind the facade it’s all waterfall. And that comes with sticking to the plan with the caveat that certain special people absolutely can change the plan, in some cases very quickly and dramatically. Having something empirical to point to that maybe that reduces productivity is absolutely a positive.
That is one of the most horrifying videos I've seen in quite some time.
But it doesn't say "elephants are not native to Germany." It says "there are no elephants in Germany." I don't see what's so much "smarter."
out of curiosity, why is this comment being voted down? It seems reasonable, is there more to it?
Based on his talks Penrose doesn't either.

It's just that we are talking about googolplex timescales.
Hmm. Soldering since before I could talk, then professionally for a couple decades, and I never used flux once. It's in the solder.
Does anyone have a dump of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\LlmResearch?
I took some pictures of dolphins on the way to the Channel Islands and was surprised how many obvious propeller scars they had. Given how much they seemed to love playing all around the boat, I guess it makes sense.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8913083@N05/5419104265/in/albu...
About 1980, I bought a Mad Digest called "Madvertising, or Up Madison Ave." Here's a link: https://archive.org/details/madvertisingorup0000deba

I know that it helped shape the cynic that I am.

Those guys were great.
Computing our climate future 2022
Meanwhile AMD/Xilinx still havent returned to manufacturing same volume of older designs like Spartan6 as they did before pandemic. What used to be $4 chips are now selling for $40. Why order new batch when we can manufacture 10x less and charge 10x more funneling our clients to never more expensive SKUs?
For those people unfamiliar with 'TV shows', they are similar to HBO series, but with less interepisodic narrative.
Cabbagetown, well within earshot of Edgewood's sometimes rowdy bar scene.
Note to self: the returns on review highjacking far, far outweigh the costs.
Our perception is fairly limited. It's a very human notion to believe that everything must have had something come before it.

But keep in mind we are also the ones defining before and after based on our perception.

It happens that this matches our view of light propagation/etc, and our understanding of time. But that is today. Not during the big bang or "before" it.

In fact, we also know there were times where the current physical laws did not necessarily apply, shortly after the big bang for example. Currently we believe fundamental forces took time to separate.
Heck, even subatomic particles took a very significant amount of time to form.

At a time when physical laws may not apply, things like "our view of the direction of time" would not have applied, either, for example, since most arrows of time boil down to the second law of thermodynamics, see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time.
Which means even causality as we think about it breaks down somewhere in there.

This is hard to wrap your head around because it's so alien to how we currently perceive the universe.
We want things to fit that perception.

Honestly, even before you get to "before the big the bang", we still can't explain why the universe inflated during the big bang (IE we have no idea what field did it, though we know some things about it, and just expect we will eventually discover it).
the sunderbans have a very low amount of Tigers. Most of India's Tigers are in the states of madhya pradesh, Karnataka and maharashtra which are not affected by rising sea levels as much as bengal as they are plateaus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India
The problem will persist until there is a major shift in local norms for policing and law enforcement.

A segment of the homeless can not be reached by social programs, and crime tourism is rampant.

The unspoken deal is law enforcement doesn't have to put themselves at risk for performative arrests, and the wider Bay Area doesn't have people pushed outwards from the city.
My experience with car mechanics is they are good with mechanical systems, but have little understanding of anything electrical, and even worse with electronics.

P.S. If you're doing a bit of wiring on the car, don't use those crimp on wire connectors. They'll work ok for a year or so, and then start behaving erratically, slowly getting worse and worse. This is because the crimp is simply not tight enough, and the mating surfaces start to corrode.

The best solution is to strip the wire ends, slip some heatshrink tubing over the wires, cut the plastic off the butt crimpon connector, crimp it on, solder the wires to it, move the shrink tube back over the joint and shrink it on.

This goes for any crimpon connector.

Also, don't use the auto wire you get at your local auto parts store for anything in the engine compartment. It won't last in the heat. You gotta get heat resistant wiring.
It'd be surprising if something as limited as an open interval was homeomorphic to the entirety of the real line. \j