skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I repeat:

> It has a well-sourced Wikipedia page for crying out loud.

You’ll have to read most of it as well, the juicy parts and citations are towards the bottom.

Bootlickers have the burden to prove data is not misused these days—not the other way around.
Hmm I'm not quite sure this would actually neutralize parasites however. In composting, the actions of the microbes themselves allow the pile to reach temperatures high enough to burn your hand. These temperatures can actually be sustained for quite a while too. Even the very microbes that cause temperatures to reach that high themselves die and the only lifeforms left are some specialist thermophilic species.

Vermicompost setups never reach those temperatures so I don't see how it could possibly be safe to vermicompost human feces in them...
The governor can decide to not execute him. This just isn't something the courts can remedy.
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Yup. I think this is the best point of comparison - a 4-6 year old kid. Specifically, one that hasn't gone to school yet. The difference between a typical 6-year old and a typical adult is in big part that the latter spent 10+ years being systematically fine-tuned.

Logic, arithmetics, algebra, precisely following steps of an algorithm - those are not skills one "kinda" just "gets" at some point, they're trained by deliberate practice, by solving lots and lots of problems specifically constructed to exercise those skills.

Point being, get GPT-4 through school, and then compare with adult performance on math-adjacent tasks. Or at least give it a chance by prompting it to solve it step-by-step as a problem, so it can search closer to the slice of latent space that encodes for relevant examples of similar problems and methods of solving them.
I don't really think this is true. I view him unfavorably because he avoided extradition on rape, sexual assault, molestation, and sexual coercion charges until time ran out.

I sympathize with him for cracking the admin password to help Manning get documents anonymously, but it doesn't overshadow that he'll never have a day in court for the women who brought credible criminal allegations against him.
Yeah, I'm all for investigating this line of thinking further, but all sorts of weird coincidences come up in numerology that no serious person would consider "science".
Are you unironically arguing against universal suffrage as a policy?
> “It’s concerning that Bhutan's resources have been invested in a secretive manner in a highly volatile and risky investment which has a big environmental burden,” says one former international advisor, who asked not to be identified.

Hahahah. Why? First world nations do this on the regular.
Because normal funcitoning people want to conduct commerce and experience a crime free life visiting these corporations, or any other place, within the cities that they live.

We should put criminals in jail and mercilessly shame and make fun of people like you that construct some nonsense rationalization for all of us accepting allowing our homes, our towns our streets to turn into shitholes. You are a LOSER and the rest of us are getting real sick of putting up with your type.

I was going to mention in my original post, but I'll add here.. that the misguided moralisms are only part of the problem. There is a not insiginificant portion of the voting (or non voting) population, and political activists, that support and enable this nonsense not out of a misguided sense of compassion but similar to parent comment here, because they have a bitterness and ressentiment towards this or that other part of society and want to see orderly civilization destroyed.

In some ways this may even be a subconcious motivation, but it is there. There's been way too much explicit crime and degredation for many to just be fooled by good intentions for this to continue unabated..no, it's something else as well. Many are thrilled with these trends.

So..

>You think people are shoplifting from Whole Foods for fun?

Yes, absolutely this is a part of it. They do it because they want to and they can. Some may want to stick it to the man like you want them to do. But it doesn't matter, because some sob-story claim of being poor "therefore crime" is untenable even if true and should be rejected out of hand. It's bullshit.

Nice places are expensive. The whole world cannot nor should they assume some right to live anywhere just because. Politicial dysfunction does play a part of economic pain, but some people will not be able to make it in expensive places. They do not have a claim to tear down these places just because they can't afford to live there. They deserve jail for that. I want to have nice clean orderly crime-free streets. And this is entirely achievable and has been achieved in many times and places throughout history, in the US as well. The moral position is to take anyone trying to destroy this or inflict crime on people and businesses and put them in prison.
Yeah I can see the argument for running getting a person tired. But in jumping, all the force is exerted before one's feet leave the ground. The jumper is a 200lb weight imbued with a certain amount of kinetic energy, subject to deceleration proportional to its weight. An ounce is about .03% of the total deceleration. I maintain that the weight will not produce a significant impact on the trajectory of a jump.
I'd love to know how that came up and who it was actually insulted you for speculating that. Are you talking people in the medical industry? Academia?
What if you had an employee who was horrified at their coworkers' eternal damnation and worked tirelessly to save their souls? Seems like that might cause friction as well. Seems like we might have a standard answer for that sort of friction that works for most environments.

The bulk of which, frankly, is just "don't be an asshole". But at the margins, we back that up with "at the very least, don't discriminate and refuse to hire the trans/christians/muslims/whatever, that's just awful".
If they can track the token that way, that blows the whole point, the token becomes a persistent unique id.

The idea was to prove that a token exists without disclosing the token itself, nor any sort of 1:1 substitution.

That sort of thing is definitely possible, that's not the conundrum. What they said is one of the conundrums I have to admit. If the server doesn't know who the user is, then the server doesn't know it's a valid user vs a bot.

But I only agree it's a problem. I don't agree it's a problem without a solution.
From GavinMcG's (currently top) comment [1] in this thread:

> The statute in question ([0] – see (D)(8)) says the court may not consider the merits or grant relief unless there are facts or legal rationales that could not have been raised earlier. The court isn't empowered to do something just because two parties agree.

[0] https://casetext.com/statute/oklahoma-statutes/title-22-crim...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780147
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Actually at the time I did not drive on any toll roads.
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Since your argument was "Europe lags behind in technological innovation", which is not related to companies per-se, wouldn't it be more interesting for you to find out what kind of technological advances Europe has been leading?

But since I already shared that with you, here are some companies doing interesting "disruptive" stuff, which seems more interesting to you:

- Vertical farming -> Infarm (Germany), Agricool (France)

- Electric mobility -> Northvolt (Sweden)

- Quantum computing -> IQM (Finland), Pasqal (France)

- Biotechnology and synthetic biology -> Oxford Nanopore Technologies (UK), Synthace (UK)

- Renewable energy -> Vestas (Denmark), Oxford PV (UK)

While writing all of this out, I'm starting to think that maybe you're just trolling, as obviously there is technological innovation coming from all continents and someone can't be so thick to think it all comes from the US, right?
Very cool!

I looked into it a little bit, a good option depending on your threat model is to simply leave it in a faraday container (read: aluminum foil envelope - or the more sophisticated stuff) when you don't want it to be visible. But then, you kind of have to let go of having that phone usable at home at all, and end up having a "dirty" and a "clean" phone. Then again, just useful depending on your threat model.
It's not surprising this is from the early 1980s, right around the time Bayh-Dole was passed and before rampant corporatization of science really took hold, before the generation of profitable patents became the most important concern of leading public research institutions like MIT and the University of California.

That, I suppose, is why the concept of 'academic fraud' doesn't appear once in the the talk, which is otherwise full of good general advice. However, fraudulent science is now a major problem in academia, and one of the worst took place some 15 years after this publication, at Bell Labs itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal

If you're working in a lab and find the PI is fabricating data on a regular basis in order to get publications into journals, or so that they can be the first to claim a patent for a particular process, well, what's to be done? Hamming's comment doesn't really work in that case:

> "Another fault is anger. Often a scientist becomes angry, and this is no way to handle things. Amusement, yes, anger, no. Anger is misdirected. You should follow and cooperate rather than struggle against the system all the time... Another thing you should look for is the positive side of things instead of the negative."

Perhaps there was a Golden Age of Science in the past, when academic fraud wasn't fairly common and scientists weren't also entrepreneurs looking to market their dubious patents to large corporations for a percentage of the profits?
This seems like a pretty weird complaint. It isn't that hard to click though.

Personally - as someone pretty interested in multiple elements - I like seeing the positions I had never considered because it makes me think more about how they are doing things.

Not in CA though so not really going to work out.
I looked more closely at the email and realized I know most of the folks who sent those messages.
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> "The lie of the slope is the implication that we have ever been or could ever be on level ground."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Emperor_of_Dune

> What do [thinking] machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.

Your workplace has an incentive structure (probably a complex one, made up of monetary, social, etc factors). That structure is akin to a machine. That machine should aide you - as an IC, it should aide you in doing quality work in alignment with business needs; as a manager, in motivating and coordinating your ICs. It shouldn't do it _instead_ of you.

The idea that you can't add rewards for good behavior _because_ it will result in perverse incentives is, IMHO, akin to thinking you can't add code to the product because it'll result in bugs.

So what can you do?

Engage with your people, be generous with them; be generous with rewards and praise and all the good things when they do well; be generous with forgiveness, coaching, and teaching when they do poorly, and be generous with your time and involvement. Do your own thinking - don't have the machine-that-is-the-corporation do it for you, because it's full of bugs and always has been. Be engaged so that you can adjust as things play out.
There is nothing counter culturish about the left wing now. If anything, right wing is the new counter culture.
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Is it a conspiracy theory to assume that an organization is biased towards the source of its funding? Especially when the opposition has openly stated that they would cut it by a lot?

It's completely fine to say that the CBC isn't biased, but it's not necessarily a conspiracy theory to say that it is.
12 years for cross rail, considering it’s scope and unique problems tunneling through some of the most developed subterranean land in the world, isn’t a length of time that most of us would consider absurd.

For instance check out the precision and work required to pass (and link to) Tottenham court road.

As a counterpoint look at the “new” underground Muni line in San Francisco that is a tiny fraction of the length of the cross rail project and hindered traffic and other infrastructure development for 15 years
Being corner stones for conversations means that people are going to talk about things that matters to them, like usability or ability to deploy. These are good things! That's what design studies are supposed to do!

I don't know why you're attempting to discourage this.
> I’m curious how IBM has the metrics to know the productivity multiplier of AI well enough this far in advanced to accurately replace exactly 7800 jobs.

That works out to about 2.5% of their worldwide employee count, which seems pretty conservative to me.
Given the volume of sci fi that has been written about AI deciding that humanity must be destroyed, it wouldn't be surprising to see an AI riff off that.
I posit that the effect is real (see sibling comment about "horseshoe theory"), but that framing it as "wrap around" incorrectly centers the discussion on a single left-right axis. There are several other axes that govern how people interact with issues (personal life issues, societal issues, and politics as a subset). In my experiences, among the most common are three dispositional axes:

- Is their focus on making things better, or on keeping things from getting worse?

- What is their regard for institutions and/or expertise?

- Are they attracted to, or turned off by, a framing that relies on scalar hyperbole: "the worst its ever been", etc.?

A person can shift around "on the issues", viewed purely as left-right, while still remaining true to themself on these dispositional axes.
Honestly I was mostly just lazy, I can't think of any real advantage. I guess if I accidentally went late through an intersection and would have been subject to a red light ticket, I would have been saved on that. However I think this has never happened to me, so this is not a real conscious reason for me.
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Maybe, however it’s still likely marginal they aren’t running a marathon and overall the additional protection from injury likely outweighs any impact on performance.

One can make this argument about boxing too, gloves are heavy and and also cause more long term concussion related injuries because they allow you to hit harder however in the short term a boxer can have far more matches because they don’t risk breaking their hands as much as in bare knuckles or wrapped knuckles boxing.

Athletics at this point is so well researched that if different shoes would be better they would’ve changed them already. There are no specific regulations for court shoes in basketball as far as I can tell.

If low top shoes would be better some team somewhere would’ve tried to use them and if they indeed presented an advantage everyone would’ve adopted them by now.
The key is that it has to be resistant to subversion by hostile terms of use. Similar to how certain provisions in employment contracts aren't enforceable under employment law. Because literally anything you try and establish here will instantly end up as a waiver in terms of use for services that regular people can't possibly understand or reasonably opt out of.

(as example, see recent law suit that Tesla won because the driver used auto-pilot on "city streets" where it was advised not to somewhere deep in the terms of use).
The post I was replying to said "That should be the number one goal - to stop it at it's source instead of dealing with it after the fact." Who's being dishonest here? The gratuitous condescension seems rather unwarranted if you're not going to figure out the context of my post before attacking it.
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Was that the one with the Nixie tubes?
While the sibling comment has answered on why this is nothing like social media or video games, I do wish that the energy cost of these activities was taken into account more often. Video games in particular have become massively wasteful. Just downloading these 100GB behemoths expends useless energy. And everyone is pushing for 8K 172FPS games. Why? Just why?

And yes, before you answer, that applies to any hobby you can think of. You won't be astute by pointing out that e.g., car enthusiasts are similarly wasteful.
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I doubt that taste is that arbitrary. Regardless, do you think our value systems are that dependent on what other people think? Do I really need someone else to confirm that something tastes great or looks great?

I guess in the future extraverts won't listen to music.
In this case, HR wasn't the problem. They were helping and tried to improve the situation. The problem is that there's only so much HR can do when the top executive chose to completely disregard them.

I'm biased, my wife works in HR but I've heard multiple stories from her where she helped solve problems by acting as an intermediate and deescalating the situation.

One of the major impetus of HR is to comply with laws regarding discrimination and ensure that the company doesn't engage in behaviours that would result in them being either liable or having a PR problem. This means solving those kind of issues and that sometimes involve batting for the employee with the executive team because they know that it's in the best interest of the company.

In this specific case, OP is a manager and passing up the chains issues that have been signaled to her. In a well functioning organization, this is absolutely the correct response and it's part and parcel of a manager's job. Involving HR early with a clear solution to deescalate and improve the situation (as described by the first case from OP) is great because this is what's best for the company. If the employee had transferred to the new team there would have been no basis for a lawsuit.
That's true, but once something is outside of your light cone it does not matter what it does, it may as well not even exist to you.
I am not assuming anything, and no such assumption is necessary.
That's the great part, you don't, but you also don't have to pay people.
It seems likely they felt they can get more for it from mining Bitcoin. Surely they’ve done the math. Why would a country, like a business, choose to make less money?
> a handful of other reasons, none of which are "ai".

"IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780706
> Unless you have reason to believe that their ankles work differently than other people’s.

I cannot agree with it. The goal of the study to show that there is no reason to believe that it works differently for different people. There are individual variations in ankles of different people and probably they use their ankles in different ways, because it is a result of reinforced learning mostly. Different people can settle in different local minima.

The sample is homogenous, and it seems relevant to the results. Physical education students may have some special traits. They had chosen to become physical education students, so they we above average in physical activities, and then they spent years training their abilities. Moreover there can be a 10% of people with ankles working in a slightly different way and a study with 13 participants will not be able to notice it, even if such people become physical education students with the same probability as people overall, but they can represent 95% of physical education students or 0.1% of physical education students.

There are studies that are based on an established theory and they can try for example to measure some constants or something. These studies can use reasoning like yours, they can rely on speculative arguments when proving validity. But it means that some previous study addressed the issue of the validity of the theoretical model. If we believed that the theoretical model of a human ankle is beyond any doubt then why to run the empirical study? We could run a computer simulation and get any results we want.

But this study is even more early stage of research, and if my explanations are not good enough, then the quote from the article (emphasis is mine):

> These findings provide preliminary evidence suggesting that wearing high-top shoes can, in certain conditions, induce a delayed pre-activation timing and decreased amplitude of evertor muscle activity, and may therefore have a detrimental effect on establishing and maintaining functional ankle joint stability.

It is a pilot study, with the only achievement: they developed and tested methods for the follow-up study, which could take a several hundreds of participants and to test them without tuning its methods when something unexpected happen (if you do it is a bad sign of a bad science).

I personally leaning towards a belief that the results of the study should hold for the majority of professional athletes, but I wouldn't bet for the rest of population.
Every time there is a natural disaster in the US its GDP rises.

All that says is the UK is less prone to such events - extrapolating from that you will be safer, and “better off financially” in the UK, according to your own metrics
It's worth discussing implementation feasibility of product designs. While I think a modern Canon Cat would be awesome, there are reasons why such a device doesn't exist.

For example: When you make a non-dedicated device, you are outsourcing a lot of the functionality to third parties (e.g. via an app-store). This significantly affects the costs of a product launch.
“the PC-maker told the publication.”

Newsflash: IBM hasn’t made PCs in 18 years.
This is great to see and I hope other nations follow suit.
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Don't you need a ton of speeding penalties in a year to get your license suspended?

There are already lots of automated speed cameras and human speed traps everywhere. Everyone around me still speeds. I don't buy your argument that 20 cameras will fix that.