skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how does it make sense to utter the sentence "this has been abstracted [away]" when the `this` is itself the essence of abstraction.

I think that you and I are reading this sentence (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140437) differently:

> > It’s a testament to computer science that this has been so thoroughly abstracted over the years

As your brackets indicate, you are reading a word "[away]" that is not explicitly present in the text. It seems to me to make more sense to read it without adding "away". (Wiktionary, for example, does not require that, or any, preposition in sense 6 of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstract#Verb, which is the one that seems to me to fit here.)

For example, I am a mathematician, and I could say that mathematics has been abstracted over the years (millennia!). I do not mean that the mathematics has been abstracted away, which I agree with you would be in some sense meaningless, but rather that the mathematics itself has literally been abstracted: from only being able to count and do arithmetic with specific real-world objects, to being able to do count and do arithmetic with numerals that did not refer to a specific thing, to being able to use letter to refer to numerals of unknown or variable value, to … well, there's not such a clear linear progression after that, but there's definitely a tower of abstraction. I hope that this sense of "mathematics has been thoroughly abstracted over the years" is an intelligible one (even if phrased differently from the way I assume you, or perhaps even I, might phrase it ourselves). It is in that sense that I take the sentence "It’s a testament to computer science that this [meaning, I think, notation in type theory] has been so thoroughly abstracted over the years".
LOL.

Do they know that you don't even actually put money in the slot machine to spin it? The only money you spend in the game is paid to the titular infernal rent seeker.

Anyway, it's a brilliant game.
Dividing people into #1 and #2 is loser-talk (to put it in the same context) for the kind of people who read too much "how to succeed in business" books and watch too many Gary Vaynerchuk vlogs.

No wonder not just the supposed "#1" people wouldn't want to get with someone with that attitude, but even "#8" or anybody for that matter!
He also entered Eurovision.
I disagree with this. Binarized MNIST samples of any reasonable quality are (still) tricky to get right without a hierarchical system (read: VQ-VAE tokens or some such encoder space). Same with really solid CIFAR-10. "Scaling down" is a different problem than scaling up, not everything transfers but saying "everything works on
MNIST / CIFAR-10" in generative modeling is a bit glib.

Would much prefer to see early work with solid small scale results on arXiV, than have people hold concepts for another 6 months scaling up. Let that be for a v2, if you cannot put early but concrete results on arXiV where else is there?

Recalling that a lot of nice papers are mostly MNIST / CIFAR-10 level results at first, followed by scale (thinking of VQ-VAE, PixelCNN / RNN, PerceiverAR, many others that worked well at scale later). That doesn't mean every result will scale up, but we have a lot of tricks to scale "small-scale" models using pretrained latent spaces and so on. The first diffusion results were also pretty small scale... different time but I don't think things are so different today.

That said, I can agree that you need to be a bit in the weeds on the research side to be diving deep on this - but I expect lots of followup clarifications or blog posts on this type of work.
Two most underrated problems in software development are tracking (and timezones) and calendars. They both seem really simple on the surface, while in practice they’re a gigantic mess that takes enormous amount of work to get right.
This is an artifact of capitalism driven healthcare. It's only an issue in the U.S. It's the end results of incentive's designed to extract money vs incentives designed to provide healthcare. (i.e. capitalism)
The point is that room temperature superconductors only matter if they have several other properties - they have to be ductile (easy to mold into wires), have good material resistance, maintain their superconductivity under high enough currents, and be cheap enough to produce.

A ceramic room-temperature superconductor, like LK-99 would have been, is not a promising material at all, since it's extremely costly to make wires out of it. And even if we found a way to do so, it might not have mattered at all if it only worked for the very low currents/voltages in the original tests.
> If you actually use it you know it's incredibly useful for learning, getting answers to general problems that 99% of the time work fine and helps you understand its answers. The amount of times it's wrong or misleading is not significant enough to even be annoying during day to day use. Just talking about current practical usefulness here not even speculating about the future, just want it's useful for today.

We used to just call that "a search engine". Remember that? Somebody would put up a website about their favorite pet topic and when the search engine unearthed it, that's what you got.

It was the ad-ification of search engines that killed that. So, AI allows us to go back to the Internet circa 2000? That's a big innovation? I mean, I'll take it, but that's a pretty low bar ...
Same here, along with other utility boxes. They used to do this with fire hydrants as well, but the fire department complained so they stopped. The artistic paintings on the hydrants were interfering with the existing paint color codes the fire department uses to indicate various aspects of that particular hydrant.
>nothing you describe is new or unique to Canada

Canada had the highest immigration in the developed world in absolute numbers, which is positively insane. Canada has the most overleveraged housing in the world. Canada has the lowest availability rate of housing. Canada's productivity has been constantly falling off of its peers. Canada's wage gap with the US for skilled workers is large and growing. Canada has more international students than the US, a country with 12x more student spaces. Canada has a massive foreign worker program. All of these have exploded over the past few years, and are very much new and hitting the breaking point.

These are all entirely unique. But the [hand wave] "yeah everywhere is bad yo" bit is a common retort.
Missoula in the 70s/80s was still a traditional Western American small town. What you're referring to is the opposite of culture. The importation of cultural representations from "afar" is a sort of Disneyfication and dilution of local culture. What you're talking about could more accurately be described as cosmopolitanism, basically Epcot Center for the plebes.
Now I'm even more disappointed in the outcome!
Sure, but there's a level of entry to the "challenge" call to action. When folks are saying "believe in the science", it also means to believe in the scientific method, which does include challenging observations and independently validating conclusions. A proper challenge requires coming up to the plate, proposing a challenging hypothesis to a given conclusion, and then going through the work required to test your hypothesis, documenting the inputs, the variables, and showcasing your outputs.

What this doesn't mean is the average human who does not like the conclusion producing a statement saying "I don't think that's real", or even going so far as to cite data which could appear to refute the conclusion, are producing a challenge to the conclusion. They're just stating an opinion. This isn't designed to be exclusionary, but to ensure that challengers are going through the effort that the producer of the conclusion did. If one is not willing to learn the problem space enough to reasonably challenge the effort, then that challenge is moot.
>I've seen Mein Kampf in a library.

Should it be kept there because many people keep reading it or do you believe that any library needs curation based on ideology?
Simple, Tovarisch. No medications are available. Many of the comrades are counting and re-counting wheat berries in the already scarce tillable fields. We have no private property so smart chemists will not produce more than the minimum medications as ordered by the Chairman. The capitalist doctors were sent to the gulag for working outside of the three clinics we have.

No medication, no problem. You see, tovarisch!
1 kg black hole will last 8*10^-17 seconds[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#:~:text=The%...
The time code transmitted by WWVB includes two bits to express the state of Daylight Saving Time.

0 = Standard Time
1 = DST Ending
2 = DST in effect
3 = DST Beginning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB#/media/File:WWVB_time_cod...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB
> This study shows that endoplamic reticulum (ER) stress–induced WASF3 protein localizes to mitochondria and disrupts respiratory supercomplex assembly, leading to decreased oxygen consumption and exercise endurance. Alleviating ER stress decreases WASF3 and restores mitochondrial function, indicating that WASF3 can impair skeletal muscle bioenergetics and may be targetable for treating fatigue symptoms.

So it's a stress response, not necessarily causal. It's long been suspected that some sort of perennial stress state was involved in this problem (anything from adrenal fatigue to illness genes never turning off). So does this tell us more or is this just another biomarker?

Though I say 'just', finding a biomarker for CFS would still be something people could be tested for, which is way better than where we are now.
Radio syncing is perfect for forgetting about setting clocks for DST on/off because the sync automatically does that for you.
> Not good if the 2nd device is always carried, and exposes tons of stuff the first doesn't.

There are three concerns here:

Concern 1: Government employees being paid to do work, but instead spending time on TikTok. -- yes, a 2nd device makes this worse, but certainly banning government devices are a necessary (though not sufficient) step here.

Concern 2: Confidential government data obtained by apps with broad permissions -- solved by moving TikTok off government device and onto personal device, as the personal device shouldnt have government data on it (e.g., tax records, health records, personal records of citizens)

Concern 3: ALL data exposed to foreign governments via TikTok and other apps - still, banning government devices are a necessary (though not sufficient) step here. NYC doesnt have jurisdiction over all citizen behaviors, and this needs to be decided federally realistically.

Now, if the 2nd decide is a government device also, then no problem! TikTok is already banned on the 2nd device also. As will be for the 3rd and 4th government device.

If the 2nd device is a personal device with government documents, you have a much different problem of why that is the case.
> The AI is not [...] really reading them either

Then what is it doing, exactly?
> The codes are outside in a public space. They could easily be replaced, I do not trust them.

This applies whether there's a redirect in place or not. If you're in the "False Napkin Restaurant", and they have QR codes that take you to falsenapkin.com, I could just register falsenapkinrestaurant.com and replace the menus. Ordinary people will have no way of knowing the difference.

> doesn't mean that I would like to consent to the privacy policy of or provide any information to the 3rd party they chose

That's an issue regardless of whether there's a direct client-side redirect or if there's just some Javascript inclusion going on that was provided by a third party but without an explicit redirect. Either way, your data can be used by whoever the restaurant has contracted and your ability to consult their privacy policy remains the same.
> can you make wires from cermets?

Well, nobody mentioned cermets, or wires, and there are plenty of applications for superconductors beyond wires. Even so, we are perfectly able to make fibre optics cables with silica, which is a ceramic.

> we need a substance that is malleable(?) enough like copper wire that electrons can pass through.

Malleability (actually, ductility) has nothing to do with electric conductivity. It can be useful depending on the use case, but for example on a printed circuit you don’t care about that. Not everything is a dangling wire.

YBCO a ceramic superconductor, it is used in thin films that are deposited on metallic substrates in tapes and it works well. See figure 2 of the paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271637455_Dipole_Ma... .

Also, you might not realise this but pretty much nothing is malleable at liquid helium temperature.

> Pottery ceramic wont work like that.

Sigh. Ceramics are not pottery, and more than 99% of the time do not have anything to do with pottery. Ceramics are compounds that are not intermetallic, typically oxides, sulphides, nitrides, etc. Some are bendy (though generally less than metallic alloys), some are hard, some are electric conductors, some are not. They have very diverse sets of properties.

They are everywhere in the chips on the device you use, in its display, in the power plants that make electrons move so you can use it, in any lithium-ion battery, etc. I don’t think I can name one device that does not involve ceramics. Even a shovel, either in the form of a passive layer that makes it stainless, or in the form of rust on it. None of that has anything to do with pottery.
It's a slot machine game. Seems like it's being enforced properly in this scenario.
That's why we need regulations and mandatory 10-15yrs warranty
It is a sanity check to protect against malicious ntp actors.

http://man.openbsd.org/ntpd.conf#CONSTRAINTS
> Repetitive use of same IP over 30+ years, 100%. Its like Fast N Furious or other movie franchises that just publish a slightly different version on some cadence.

Go play the original Super Mario Bros, then Mario N64, then Mario Sunshine, then Paper Mario (wii edition), then Super Mario Galaxy, then Super Mario Odyssey. Sure all those games have Mario in it, but they’re only the same in the sense that the Mandalorian takes place in the same galaxy as Star Wars Ep 4. I would never compare this franchise (or Zelda) with Fast and Furious or even something like CoD. And I don’t know how you can call the IP repetitive when the only constant in all the games I listed is Mario. It’s not like FIFA that updates every year with a new roster and the exact same game.

The reason I love playing these game is because they do innovate and create completely new games even if it’s the same franchise.
It does. As long as you carefully select HW.
GPT-3.5 is pretty much useless for reliable NLP work unless you give it a VERY proscribed task.

That's really the major breakthrough of GPT-4, in my mind, and the reason we are absolutely going to see an explosion of AI-boosted productivity over the next few years, even if foundation LLM advancements stopped cold right now. A vast ocean of mundane white collar work is waiting to be automated.
Jesus, Florida man is a Deep One.
What since Adam? Learning rate scales / schedules? I cannot think of many big massive changes since ~2014, most of the setups from that era (grad clip + medium-ish LR, some ramp up or roll-off at the end) work fine today for me.

(Note: There are many, many great optimization papers since 2014 - I just don't see them show up in general recipes in open source too often)
Historically, it seems like "arguing publicly, getting public outcry, and getting the notice of someone higher up the chain" is pretty much the only way to effectively appeal these sorts of decisions at Google.

I don't know if it'll work in this case, since google's argument ("this contains a slot simulator and some countries don't like that") isn't too egregious, but I can't really fault the dev. When the faceless review process fails, this sort of public appeal has worked before.
Do you think libraries should include more books which help children to grow up more progressive and educated adults?
Modern privacy violations have nothing even remotely resembling the negative impact the holocaust had on Jewish people…
> What? why? how?

Same stuff as everywhere. Mice, keyboards, printers, displays

> I'm a Software Engineer with 7 years experience, but I've been out of the game for a while now. I also have not touched windows in 8 years, and only use Linux on a VPS, so the basic "computer" always works.

I'm glad you've not suffered the way the rest of us suffer.
I guess on the other side of the argument: why does a game developer in one country feel obliged to change the content standard set by another country? It’s a pretty minor variance all things considered. Maybe you just can’t “change much” here?

(Also: I don’t agree with the obviously silly content rules.)
> The package ecosystem is more mature now, and it turns out that Debian Stable almost always has what I need

At times it's missing something I want but usually Debian stable is all I need. I don't use unstable or backports: typically I either use Debian stable or I compile from source (like Emacs).

Last little hiccup recently is the lack of support for JPEG XL in the latest ImageMagick shipped with Debian stable (if I'm not mistaken), so I'd need to compile it from source (haven't done it yet but it's on my todo list: I want to recompile "losslessly" all my JPG to JPEG XL).
It's unfortunate that he summed up this realization by saying, "When you realise that the dumbest person in the argument is on your side, that means you’re on the wrong side." It begs the question of how you decide who the dumbest person is, and it seems like it would reinforce whatever a person's current attitudes are, rather than move them to change.
At the risk of sounding like I'm flaming - which I'm not - it seems like a pretty privileged viewpoint for you to posit that the recent trend of more people raising concerns about cost of living and wages are simply anti-government or anti-immigrant.

Groceries have gone up in price. Shelter has gone up in price for both renting and buying. Healthcare is in shambles. Wages haven't been keeping up with inflation the last decade+, let alone the past two years.

Yes, I understand the entire world is reeling from a pandemic and horrific monetary policies put in place by said governments and corporations that manipulate it for their own gain.

The government has chosen to enact policies against the best interest of most of its citizens - at least those making less than $100k/year - and they continue to do so at the expense of everybody.

What will be the "straw that breaks the camel's back" for the majority of Canadians to finally realize that their government doesn't care about them and only cares about bringing in more foreign money to prop up the absolute sham of a "housing market" they have while suppressing wages for lower level entry positions like service industries or entry-level IT jobs?
It's not defining a function though, it's describing (by one aspect) a whole class of functions.

Take:

f: ints -> ints

f can be 'add1', 'identity', 'double', etc.

If you know that, and calling it 'defining a function' is just loose English (you didn't mean completely defining) then fine, but that's what's confusing people.

It read to me like you thought it was equivalent to a function definition in code, X & Y described what would actually happen over different inputs, so I was just trying to explain, didn't mean to offend if you knew already.
Computers do do this. The problem is that some computers are quite old and the battery that keeps the real-time clock running has gone flat. That means if the computer is powered off it forgets what time it is.

If your quartz watch battery goes flat you replace it straight away because a watch with a flat battery is 100% useless. But if the battery on your motherboard goes flat you don't even notice, so why would you replace it? To a layperson, "my computer's time is always wrong" is not likely to be caused by a random flat battery that they didn't know existed.

Microsoft came up with this "Secure Time" system so that even computers with flat batteries would be able to work out what time it is, but obviously it is kind of weird and sometimes makes wrong decisions.
I think it would be infinitely preferable if the police did their job. In Europe this works well, I can't see why it couldn't work in the US too.
No.

https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/yse-study-finds-el...

> But a recent study from the Yale School of the Environment published in Nature Communications found that the total indirect emissions from electric vehicles pale in comparison to the indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles. This is in addition to the direct emissions from combusting fossil fuels — either at the tailpipe for conventional vehicles or at the power plant smokestack for electricity generation — showing electric vehicles have a clear advantage emissions-wise over conventional vehicles.

> “A major concern about electric vehicles is that the supply chain, including the mining and processing of raw materials and the manufacturing of batteries, is far from clean,” says Gillingham. “So, if we priced the carbon embodied in these processes, the expectation is electric vehicles would be exorbitantly expensive. It turns out that’s not the case; if you level the playing field by also pricing the carbon in the fossil fuel vehicle supply chain, electric vehicle sales would actually increase.”
My professor is a materials/mechanical engineer and in contact with many auto companies. He told me of the following dialogue:

Prof: Why did you stopped adding passenger side handles? How much one cost?
CarGuy: Around €1.50
Prof: That's not much?
CarGuy: A new car leaves the factory every 60 seconds.
Prof: Oh.

For the lazy, that's €2,160/Day, €64,800/Month, €777,600/year.
Because they enforce when someone complains. They aren't going to proactively ban stuff unless they really have to (e.g. something that is very obviously illegal/scam/etc.)

So if nobody complained about the other apps, they didn't get banned. It is that easy.

That someone else does something that violates those policies/laws too doesn't mean that you get a free pass, unfortunately.
No but their VC's probably have people to talk to in order so sort out these sorts of situations.
One of the few things I actually remember from undergrad was a presentation freshman year where some famous person said "almost all major leaps in engineering ability come from one of three things: economics of scale, something else (maybe new algorithm? not sure), or a new material that simply has better properties". I don't want to be a materials scientist, but that line got me very interested in materials science and gave me a lot of respect for it. If you find a new material that is 3x better than any other in some way, that unlocks entirely new doors.
> "Apps that simulate gambling, or games of chance or skill that are conducive to gambling are prohibited in the above locales.”

The outrage is unwarranted imho. The app in question looks like a slot machine and that’s the core game mechanic.
Buzz Osbourne of the Melvins. Dave Mustaine.
I think you are underestimating how much effort would be required. That is at least a 9-figure project in each city if you don't widen any roads and just convert car space to bike space.
Lenny Bruce was the OG.
Complications of Epstein Barr have not been ruled out as a cause for CFS. But the problem is that nearly everyone has been exposed so it's hard to find counterexamples (or the lack of counterexamples)
Here you go: https://tf.nist.gov/stations/wwvbcoverage.htm

Keep in mind antenna placement matters with these clocks. Different parts of the room can have very different signal strengths. Away from other electronics and near a window is all better.
Probably changing the laws in those countries, which only the citizens of those countries can really do. Google isn't the cause here, just the middleman.
Swiss army knives and compromise: living well in tiny homes by people who do it