skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should not have spoken so authoritatively. I can't edit my comment now, but the links are on wikipedia itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka#Kalinga_war_and_convers...

"On the other hand, the Sri Lankan tradition suggests that Ashoka was already a devoted Buddhist by his 8th regnal year, converted to Buddhism during his 4th regnal year, and constructed 84,000 viharas during his 5th–7th regnal years.[89] The Buddhist legends make no mention of the Kalinga campaign.[91]

Based on Sri Lankan tradition, some scholars, such as Eggermont, believe Ashoka converted to Buddhism before the Kalinga war.[92] Critics of this theory argue that if Ashoka were already a Buddhist, he would not have waged the violent Kalinga War. Eggermont explains this anomaly by theorising that Ashoka had his own interpretation of the "Middle Way".[93]

Some earlier writers believed that Ashoka dramatically converted to Buddhism after seeing the suffering caused by the war since his Major Rock Edict 13 states that he became closer to the dhamma after the annexation of Kalinga.[91] However, even if Ashoka converted to Buddhism after the war, epigraphic evidence suggests that his conversion was a gradual process rather than a dramatic event.[91] For example, in a Minor Rock Edict issued during his 13th regnal year (five years after the Kalinga campaign), he states that he had been an upasaka (lay Buddhist) for more than two and a half years, but did not make much progress; in the past year, he was drawn closer to the sangha and became a more ardent follower.[91]"

On the contrary, Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism after Kalinga war is told in Ashoka's edicts, which I think is just too convenient. But then, Sri Lanka has had historical wars with Hindu kings from India, so that is there...

At the end, I should not have spoken so authoritative.
Maybe dont work for demonstrably unethical clients.
This is an advertisement for something like the semantic web, not AI or language models.
Looks like Intel 4nm will only start shipping 2023H2. I'm not sure I see Intel 2nm shipping less than 6 months later, especially given Intel's recent history of stumbling on execution. How firm do you believe the 2024H2 delivery date of N2 to be?
I'm afraid you're mistaken (source: worked as DSP engineer for 15 years). Often you apply your filter around the RF frequency you want and then sample at a lower rate. You're right that the signal will get aliased doing that, but the information is always preserved.

If you sample s.t. your folding frequencies are in an appropriate place, you can fold your desired region into the first nyquist region without needing to mix it down. This is especially desirable if you can avoid having to build an IQ mixer because they're hard to keep balanced.

The worst case doing this is that your signal spectrum is reversed in frequency, but you can correct that easily digitally.
> Once you reach a certain level, all problems are solved by people. There is no such thing as a purely technical problem.

It's a good summary overall, but in my view the best principal engineers are the ones who also solve pure, hard, technical problems. Far too often, people at the principal level are content with strategizing and guiding, staying away from the ground. But you lose a lot of potential that way. Nothing can replicate the value of problem solving and building things together. As an engineer, few experiences will give you the kind of learning you get when pairing with someone experienced, knowledgeable and passionate in a subject. As a principal, there is no better way to visit the depths of a problem domain than by working directly on it. Of course it takes a tremendous amount of trust from both parties to not feel undermined sharing responsibilities, and that's usually the hardest part.
I've recently challenged myself to read more papers related to the work I do as an engineer. It was a muscle I exercised as an undergrad but have since neglected in my working life. I had imagined these papers to be much, much harder to parse than they really were, the domain of proper computer scientists, but that's just silly. It's akin to how one should read a primary source over a summary -- the original text is not a mystical text beyond your comprehension; you too can engage with it and draw your own conclusions.
I get the iffyness, I suspect there is probably more to it then the public sees, for example it could be their underlying layer or something else.
It's not clear to me how this article relates to the OP, or what point you feel the OP fails to address. Could you be a bit more specific?
Religion can be rebelled against for reasons that are not childish.

Also, I'm sure there are even many Christians that would specifically not want you to swear on a Bible if you are not a believer, because that would be dishonest.
well done. losing NPR clearly is giving Musk pause.
Ragequitting is also degrading to NPR.
Pair this with Superhuman and you'll have Gmail Motion (April Fools product) in the flesh! https://youtu.be/9KEcfP_CWVo
You have a short memory. If you glance up, this is what you wrote:

> Huberman usually does not interact with people who don't at least lean right.

> I didn’t say most were right wing.

You contradict yourself. Pick one.

> Besides doing what someone else did and bringing up how I’m a bully or conceited while being far more dismissive than myself.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceit
yeah, and then you'll say hindsight is 20/20 and who could have predicted the failure?
Kubernetes Controllers vs. Operators and when to use which
Never ceases to surprise me when folks align cryptocurrency with these things.

Money laundering, drug dealing, scamming old people, these things have all existed well before cryptocurrency.

Arguing that central banks and a few other non-elected decision makers should be able to influence our lives by devaluing our savings is... insane. It's Stockholm syndrome really.

A few wealthy people decide your money should be worth less because a bunch of other wealthy people have made bad decisions for decades and now there's too much money floating around. Coincidentally, the interest rate adjustments won't tangibly affect the wealthy people! That's not something I want to continue to support.
I'm convinced people like you are in for such a rude awakening.

I don't understand how you can hold this position with AI considering it's only the beginning.
Don't use ambiguous dependencies and you won't need to flush your cache to get a newer version.

I would say the culture is not an issue of Java but of popularity. If Go became the shovelware language of choice, you'd see a lot more bad Go.
Why engage on the platform when it’s rigged by a narcissist? Like the Greyrock method, disengage.

Twitter only has value so long as it has network effect. People leaving diminish it. So why not?
Yeah, calling it a lifetime license to CoolSoft 7 or to CoolSoft 2023 is the easiest way out. It brings some seasonality however, since the duration of updates is now couple to when in the update cycle you purchase.
It did seem to have happened that she bought a ticket though. News stories about her yesterday quoted the judge as explicitly referring to her buying a one way ticket. "Elizabeth Holmes' purchase of a one-way flight to Mexico was a 'bold move,' judge says"

https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-pl...
Was a joke about how it just sits there doing nothing.
>Putting aside any worries about connecting a high-speed rotating device to the internet

We should beware of these dangers, not brush them off. A nation-state could easily destroy millions of homes if/when these Internet-facing APIs are plentiful.
Neal Stephenson also recently reconfirmed that he still uses emacs for writing. I wonder if he's using it on a vintage machine or something modern?
HN hates crypto for no apparent reason other than hive-mind. Not even worth arguing around here.
Having standards and self respect isn't rage quitting.
Apart from the programming exercises being in Matlab (which nobody uses for ML nowadays), the course is still solid. The theoretical concepts and math that the course covers are still relevant and provide a good foundation for someone starting out.
How, specifically, does it degrade anybody to stop using Twitter?
Floor 796
I wonder if this will have any domino effect, right now the only thing holding Twitter together is its network effects. According to the article on NPR's site[0], they have 8.7 million followers and run 52 different accounts so Twitter is losing a pretty important partner.

Also, no mention of Mastodon in this announcement. It sounds like they're just going to use Facebook for the time being.

0: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics

You don't even understand the terms you're flinging around. Ring-wing explicitly, unambiguously, means Conservative.

> What do you call the Liberal Party of Australia? They aren’t left leaning at all.

And the Liberal party of Canada is.

All of the Western world is Liberal. It can either be left-leaning or right-leaning.

It does not make a lick of sense to suggest that the only thing that anywhere near leans left is Socialism (this is the only possible conclusion that can be inferred from your rhetoric), while you lump everything else that functionally uses Capitalism as "the right". This is not the colloquial understanding.
Ez, just stick a GPT-powered "reverse-moderation" layer in front of the request. Rate the response of ChatGPT for "did it do what the user asked, or did it provide a cop-out", and if it was rated as disobedient, regenerate the response until you get something acceptable.
> It receives less than 1 percent

Why do they keep saying they receive almost nothing, yet at the same time say government funding is essential to their operation?
Religion is in no way a force for bringing people together. Anti-Semitism is rampant among many Christians. Catholics and Protestants have quite a history of not seeing eye-to-eye. Shia and Sunni Muslims are pretty notorious at this point for their battles.

Your examples are counter to your own point. Jews don't seem to have the same views on abortion that the evangelicals appear to have. The United Methodist church is splitting because of differing views on homosexuality and other LGBTQ+ issues.

Having common values is very important, but predicating it on all the doctrine of a set of religions or a single religion seems shaky at best.

I also noticed you still haven't given a good reason. Your opening line is circular - violating the monoculture is bad because it disrupts the monoculture. Instead of proposing a broad set of morals outside of religion, you intend to (by force?) push a set of morals that YOU dictate based off ancient texts of dubious origin.
I'm repeating it because it's important.
Cost of lifetime license: $39

Time used so far: 4 years

Time remaining with new license: 2 years

Time lost due to license change: 20 years

Damages awarded to the plaintiff: $30
But he spoke the truth
...and the alternative had no consequences? Get your head out of the sand.
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Lots of backed in assumption in here.

The way we designed out current society makes unemployed people some kind of pest, it's not glorified, quite the opposite.

But that's not a god given rule, nothing obliges us to follow that path, especially if (big if) AIs/robots take over most things.

If anything you're flat out wrong, automation moved people from stable and fulfilling jobs (small companies, family companies, life long carriers, &c.) into more and more precarious situations (minijob, student jobs, faceless corporations, hashed carriers, &c.)

Productivity shot through the roof while wages stagnated

PS: I've been unemployed for large chunks of my life and had perfect meaning, I was productive, learned stuff, created stuff, enjoyed nature, got in shape, &c.
> In this case GPT-4 is used to solve a problem that shouldn't have even been one to begin with.

But the problem DID exist, and problems like that are likely to continue to exist for the foreseeable future.
How naive to think regularly structured spreadsheets are the answer to this problem. There is a famous joke about "all your budgeting spreadsheets being useless when you discover you have a formula error in one cell that propagates throughout the whole spreadsheet".

You have to do those same confirmation calculations anyway when you use a spreadsheet. In my experience the utility of something like what ChatGPT can do is still unparalleled.
I was going to make the same joke! If he were an Assistant Vice Under-Dean he'd have 10 assistants, but sadly he's just an academic.
Not to mention elimination of pointless work.

I needed to gather various statistics on the speakers at the previous ICM

Why did this work need to be done? Are even the people who say they want this data actually going to use it for something productive? Is there something revelational in this data?
This seems absolutely inevitable.

If IFS is serious it needs to be fabbing SoC's with Arm CPUs and to be as competitive as possible with TSMC.

Nothing forces IFS to make Arm CPU's that compete with Intel's desktop and server products.

Of course, the two companies have a long history of collaboration including Intel having an Arm architecture license via StrongARM. There is an interesting anecdote from Robin Saxby of Arm about when Steve Jobs phoned him and tried to persuade him to block the sale of StrongARM to Intel but Saxby convinced Jobs otherwise.
Yeah, I agree. I don't think we should stop improving things, and I don't think we should stop leveraging solutions we have come up with. I would say, be honest with yourself about what you need and understand that you are making trades.

Don't reward companies that want to push disc brakes (for instance) as a reason to ditch something that fits your purposes.

It's easy to cherry pick scenarios where a piece of tech would save you over the alternative, but life is holistic. We can adapt. The first step is to decide that it is worth trying to.
did audio start playing for anybody else? I thought browsers outlawed that years ago?
Setting Up Git Bash / Mingw / MSYS2 on Windows
That's an awful lot of workaround to solve the social problem of "my regulatory agencies aren't regulating well enough" -- a problem which will still exist afterwards.
Ah yes, we call this a USB condom
exactly. It makes mistakes, but so do I. It makes mistakes far faster however, because it takes about 5 seconds to finish each attempt, so they seem far more prevalent. However, I can fix it's mistakes almost as fast as I can fix my own, so this speeds up iteration nicely. It's not a "perfect tool", but nothing is
Why does it matter if I'm gaming while looking at a screen which is half a metre away, or while looking at a screen which is in front of my face and allows me to move around, in fact making me less like a zombie because I don't have to be stationary.

It's been a couple of months since I've done anything in VR, but I don't understand why you're being so overly dramatical about it, comparing it to 1984 and consumerist zombies.
If I understand you correctly, I have felt similar angst before in this kind of role. Basically, you see "org-wide" work that needs to be done but it requires some level of "org-wide" alignment that doesn't yet exist. So you feel like you are twiddling your thumbs doing code reviews and making the tests faster while you wait to get the green light to "do your actual job".

At least for me, in hindsight, a lot of that was just in my head. It's fine once you earn the level to not always operate at it. Just as long as when that's needed again you are able to step up.
Ahhh another example of the hardest problem in CS - naming things!
You're inventing things people aren't arguing for. The purpose of giving puberty blockers, for example, is to buy time to avoid irreversible damage at a too young age. And yes, to a child whose dysphoria does not resolve, puberty as the wrobg sex is irreversible damage.

If you believe your own arguments, presumably you support them.
>I'm surprised Schneier says "I am unconvinced".

And immediately after he says he's unconvinced this is a concern, he states that he does, in fact, carry a tool with him that would protect him in these circumstances.
Databases by prof. Widom, from Stanford. Currently the course is at edX, and split into 5 mini-courses. Everything in the course is well thought out and apparently polished and perfected over years of teaching practice and experience. There is nothing useless in the video lectures, and the course homework probes every topic from the lectures.

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases-databases

Songwriting, at Coursera, from Berklee College of Music. The guy just sits in a dark room, and explains the process of writing lyrics to songs. He just explains it very well.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics
There was probably a warehouse ops/tech angle to it too. Zappos was something of a pioneer in large-scale robotic warehouse automation, and Amazon ultimately also acquired the robotics vendor Zappos relied on (Kiva).
> the original text is not a mystical text beyond your comprehension; you too can engage with it and draw your own conclusions.

This! This is so important.

Here is what I wrote (oh, wow, 10 years ago) about the process I use for reading papers. I hope it helps people.

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-researc...
You really need to look at history. Grand narratives have their limitations; niche focuses on specific areas can sometimes lack context or discussions of broader implications; you need to synthesize and compromise between the two approaches to create your own understanding.

You can focus on some trends and areas that have implications for modern geopolitics (at least right now). Pick books or articles on them and then follow whatever interests you:

- The south China sea and surrounding area, especially the debates around the nine-dash line

- The fall of the USSR, complicated because of the number of states but still very important

- The conflict between India and Pakistan

- Post colonial developments in the Arab world (including north Africa) and Sub Saharan Africa, again difficult due to the number of states but still important (some sectarian and ethnic conflicts which seem hyper recent have long histories, often predating colonialism, that had rocket fuel thrown on them in the post colonial environment)

- The rise of Brazil

- American naval superiority in the wake of WWII (this goes nicely with discussions on the south China sea)

- For a particular institution, the history of the WTO can be very eye-opening

As always, read contesting approaches or narratives on a particular topic. Criticism is as important as the original argument.
Your example sound close to reality. COVID also helped get people on there. And now I hear they also made it near impossible to close your account too. Which of course.
That's a very generous interpretation. Of course it's what her defense attorney stated, that doesn't make it true. The prosecutor did not "backpedal".

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/theranos-trial-eli...
> I mean, it’s also less verbose

Are we talking about the same language? Or maybe you consider writing "if err != nil" every few seconds as good exercise for your fingers...

I think we shouldn't point fingers at Java when it comes to Go's verbosity.

I can simply do dict.contains("foo") in Java vs having to go through a verbose hoop:

if val, ok := dict["foo"]; ok {
//do something here
}

Common operations like filtering/transforming collections are very concise in Java - I'm certain doing so in Go will be a bunch of more boilerpate:

collection.stream().filter(...).map(...).collect(...)

Don't get me started on having to go through iota hoops to declare enums.
I think the whole purpose of the ritual is shared solemnity. Laying aside Matthew 5:34-37, using the Bible fits in the context of Western civilization. Likewise, using nothing and merely affirming fits as well. But by its very nature bringing in any book or other item because it has "meaning" to you doesn't fit. It violates shared solemnity by the individualist nature of the act and opens the ritual to trivialization. What's next, someone's Teddy Bear?
Not exactly shocking if you’ve been following tech layoffs. Companies only need recruiters when they’re hiring.
> A mere 16.2% of the total population has also gotten their updated bivalent booster shot

Now that is interesting, and something I havent figured out yet, especially when historical "routine" vaccine rates are so high.

I was standing at the pharmacy the moment they opened the first bivalent shipment box.
In the BBC's case, he's acknowledge it's not accurate. NPR's case is similar (and even less "state affiliated" than they are).

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65248196

> Mr Musk said Twitter was adjusting the label for the BBC to "publicly-funded". "We're trying to be accurate," he said.

If NPR is state affiliated because of 1% government funding, SpaceX should get the tag.
Last week, the Federal Reserve issued an important update on twitter. So no, I don't think twitter is worried about losing NPR. Twitter has the strongest network effects of any contemporary social network.
Tesla and SpaceX combined have obtained $5 billion in subsidies from the US government. NPR’s budget subsidy is less than one percent (~$3M).

The label is not accurate, it’s a weapon of childish behavior.
I'm not talking about the administrator of this instance, I'm talking about how mastodon is fundamentally designed. Even an iPhone could probably serve the (static) text of Tao's post to a million people on a 5G connection. Computers are fast.
If the NFT is backed by a DApp[0] it should not matter if the regular web server is gone so long as there's fuel to keep the DApp going.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_application
The Princess Alice experiments imply superstition would have a practical role in a society where (lacking CCTV and other modern technology to supervise) it's important that people do what they're supposed to without actual oversight:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21377689/

Children in that study are markedly less likely to "cheat" in a task if they believe they are being supervised. This can happen because an actual adult supervises them, or because they believe (as they were told) that an invisible person "Princess Alice" is supervising them.

Sceptical children confirmed Princess Alice wasn't real behaviourally, that is, they'd verify that she just doesn't exist by passing their hand through the space supposedly occupied by Alice, having done so they would cheat at the same rate as unsupervised children. If you remove those children from the results, Alice and an actual supervising adult are equally effective in deterring cheating.
Checking a table for correctness and filling up a table are not the same thing.
I also check for correctness when I manually count entries. It's an extremely error prone task.
Looks like this is 12b parameters. Will this fit on a 32gb M1?
You can, you just have to have a config file that lists files that might get reflected upon.

This is available for some of the more common libraries (there is definitely more work to do here), and you can also use an agent, run your code on a regular JVM and it will collect the runtime accesses and create that config file for you.
By "clearly giving him pause" you mean he finally went to bed after spending the evening joking about BBC?

(At this moment the last tweet is 8 hours ago after several tweets about BBC including dick "jokes")