skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little over 2,000 years ago someone wrote Elihu's speech in Job where he claimed God was unknowable because why it rained or where snow came from was beyond human understanding, so how could we understand something like God.

Claims of what can't be known often tend to turn out to be wrong.

Even in terms of discussion of understanding our own universe this may be the case.

A century ago physicists had their minds blown by the discovery of quantum mechanics on the tail end of having just discovered general relativity.

Still today, physicists struggle in unifying those two models, with the former discrete and the latter continuous.

Meanwhile in just the past few decades, we've landed on a similar paradigm for a very niche application. This is from Nvidia's GPU Gems book chapter 39:

Although the data set is interpreted as a continuous function in space, for practical purposes it is represented by a uniform 3D array of samples. In graphics memory, volume data is stored as a stack of 2D texture slices or as a single 3D texture object. The term voxel denotes an individual "volume element," similar to the terms pixel for "picture element" and texel for "texture element." Each voxel corresponds to a location in data space and has one or more data values associated with it. Values at intermediate locations are obtained by interpolating data at neighboring volume elements. This process is known as reconstruction and plays an important role in volume rendering and processing applications.

We are in what appears to be a continuous universe at macro scales which at low levels of fidelity behaves as discrete probabilities which alter based on interactions and observation.

Meanwhile we're building virtual environments functionally modeled as continuous geometry which at low fidelity converts to discrete representations which behave differently depending on interaction and observation to conserve resources.

We're well on track for knowing quite a lot more about the nature of our reality, and just because things seem uncertain or debatable today doesn't mean they will remain that way into tomorrow.

In fact, looking at much of history, it stands to reason many things we think unknowable will in fact be known in the future.

As to whether we like the eventual answers to the questions we ask is a different topic entirely.
When a node rejoins after a restart, have all other nodes drop any pending transactions initiated by the node in question. I implemented something similar for a distributed filesystem and it worked pretty well.
I'm curious about this. I watch youtube a bunch and I never see rabbit hole videos. E.g. I've never seen the videos you mentioned. Is it because I'm signed in? I don't understand why I don't get any shady videos from youtube.
Hi Jeremy,

I'm sure you get this a lot, but thank you for teaching me ML - I am a hardware engineer/manufacturing person who learned to code in the early 2010s and it's been immensely helpful in my career. Learning ML feels like V2 of that - picking up a new skill that is going to end up being useful in so many places. You made that journey much easier and more accessible and I very much appreciate it.

(No need to respond at all - just wanted to pass along the gratitude!)
Not looking right now; but yea, I'll only consider remote jobs for now on.
Sounds like they're in need of some Hacker News Optimization
The Verge has always been considered a tabloid source. No different to the Daily Mail, since they both have heavy use of ads and affiliate links in every section and corner of their articles.
Google specifically calls out accounts with YouTube videos as exempt from their new two year inactivity policy.

I mean I get what you’re saying, but as they say, “content is king”.
For Americans with otherwise good credit, it often is!
This is marked dupe, but I can't find the previous thread. Where is it?
There was a Duty Officer rotation for the O-5 (Commander) officers on the USS Blue Ridge in the late 1990's.

The 0-6 promotion list was out one September, and they had fun with a certain Captain-to-be with a monstrous ego, who was quite excited to be off the rotation.

They put his name down for 31-September.

As expected, he achieved low Earth orbit in his rage over the affront.

MORAL: date math is hard.
One fatal flaw: there's no data to compare it to and therefore nothing to base this conclusion on.

Personally, YouTube became boring after that. I don't use it's algorithm, it's just a video host to me now. Someone sends me a link, I watch it. It has become impossible to find anything interesting on the site anymore using the site alone. I used to love scoffing at flat earthers, then on to lizard people and so on. Did you know there's a face on Venus? Fun times. You can't even fall down a music rabbit hole anymore, it just shows you stuff you've already seen, often 5 minutes earlier. And then it tries to shill garbage at me. It's no fun anymore.
Have a work mate that has just bought a 2nd hand apple lappy with the M2 and has Asahi installed on it.

it is blazingly fast. No kidding around... everything just snaps on when clicked.

If this is the future I may have to start buying apple hardware
It’s just wrong. If I think of men likely to have a micropenis it’s going to correlate strongly with genetic or developmental issues. Not the things exactly with track with being able to afford or make great use of some imposing pickup truck.

I know a family where every man is built like a brick shithouse and ain’t compensating for shit and every man has owned at least one truck. Big vehicles fit big people and carry big things that big people lift into them.

The difference is that such men are just entitled to use such things without being mocked. Whereas a man with a small dick using such things, or a man with any sort of socially contemptible trait using such things, is mockable. Don’t they know their place?
The ISPs aren't tacking anything on here. Their objection is exclusively to those fees that governments are requiring them, by contract or statute, to add and pass through to their subscribers. They're not just deciding to pass the fees on to their customers: the municipal agreements instruct them to do so explicitly.
My warning is, if you devote yourself so wholly to order, the record of your life will be all metadata and no data. I've been obsessed with this topic, as with dust free window sills, and coffee mugs with perfectly aligned handles in my cupboards; there come a day when the diary says 'read and organized diary', and those days are not days.

So I look at my desktop with 5000 files and 40 types, and with sort by date, I can approximate no worse than my own memory, a liner stream of conciousness I occassionally dump to a thumb drive or raid, but no better.
> Originally there was Multix.

Multics.
You missed one of the biggest, one so important it has its own, separate, overriding privacy law: Substance use disorders. (Though perhaps you can argue it’s in psychiatry!)

Addiction treatment falls under 42 CFR II, colloquially known as “part 2”[0]

Part 2 data is significantly more encumbered than other medical data. If I want to get it I need to be explicitly allowed as a named entity by the patient to receive it. If the data is shared with me under a “general designation”whoever gave it to me has to record that and tell the patient on request. And I have no TPO carve outs, I have to get explicit consent to pass it along.

It is, often times, treated as radioactive data - my company deals in medical data but explicitly says in our contracts that we refuse any receipt of it.

0: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
The crazy thing with smoking is that now organized crime have taken over selling cigarettes causing more crime. God forbid they actually help people by doing things like providing affordable living accommodation! Though I think Australians only have themselves to blame as they do tend to worship the self proclaimed experts, and look down on the US for our tendency not to.
This is insane speculation?

You're saying these executives are invested in some REIT so they push RTO to pump their own bags?

Maybe, just maybe, they think RTO is better for the company?
This is what I was hoping to see but didn't see it on initial click to the study. Fantastic work.
Honda K24 Dirt Racing Engine Makes 400 HP with Crazy High Compression
Early early SEO was cramming keywords into the bottom of the page with a foreground color the same as the background.
When you say "find info on this" do you happen to be using Google Search?
Understanding Battery Types
> The idea that you can reduce all of society to market forces is preposterous.

Good thing I didn't say that then.

> If you take you argument about 'social engineering' to it's logical conclusion,

Logical conclusion or comical extreme?
I felt the same way, but at this point I think it's just that the reality distortion machine shut off when we all went remote. I went back onsite after COVID and it's not the same, because the true nature of the relationship became apparent, we ARE commodities (at least if the company is large enough). Human resources if you will.
It does seem like there’s been a trend of claiming “things I read on Twitter and don’t believe” as being out of touch MSM, while “things I read on Twitter and agree with” are the new journalism disrupting the status quo.
What drone/controller/headset are you using?
> Because if you look around at sophisticated military hardware (which these drones, when they will exist, will be) it's all like that.

I agree that it will be much like sophisticated military hardware is today - but I say that as someone within 20’ of his own third-generation night vision, body armor, and weapons that are approximately on par with that of a contemporary US soldier.

> Heck, even now, if you want to acquire for your projects certain camera or heat sensors you have tons of hoops to jump through to get your hands on them

Nonsense. You can order very usable thermal sensors from China, shipped to your door. You can order even more capable sensors that are covered by ITAR and prohibited for export without so much as signing something. A notice on the website saying that they’re restricted to the US is the extent of it.

> Today any maniac can use a car to plow down civilians or get a gun and go on a rampage. That is low effort high impact. This would be a lot higher effort. Probably kind of the same impact.

I totally agree with you here. Firearms aren’t the most effective way to cause harm to a large number of people even today; drones certainly won’t be for the foreseeable future.
What if you could seed probes, like the Breakthrough Starshot probes, with synthetic life that, upon reaching their destination, would develop into humanoids that would explore for you and send back data?

That's a lot of ifs, but it would be an interesting way of exploring interstellar space in a much shorter time span.
Texas drought unearths 110M-year-old dinosaur tracks
Yes. Just watched their journalism degrade to tabloid status in the past few years.

But won't be surprised to see layoffs happen in ad hungry articles such as the Verge thanks to GPT-4 being a candidate to replace them.
That C-H bond is part of an aldehyde functional group, normally those hydrogens are not removed (I think because it helps for pattern matching the functional group)

Usually it’s just hydrogens on hydrocarbon chain backbone or aromatic rings that are deleted

Functional group sheet: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62185f3b81809a6fd03dd...
So weird. I was under the impression that "Flat Earthers" were kind of a parody cult that started decades ago — not unlike "Birds are not Real".
And this sounds like spam, too.
I'm sorry, are you saying that the US doesn't spy on military exercises of our allies?
This just means the algorithm thinks you’ll like Tate or Peterson. Maybe you will, idk. How is that a “rabbit hole”?
.NETs (fka .NET Core) is cross platform since inception and now runs fast and flawlessly on Linux and macOS. I only use it to build server (i.e. non GUI) Apps.

The tooling and workflow is just as good on Windows as I’m able to use Jet Brains Rider / VS Code to develop .NET projects on both.

Having a full native Unix Terminal and using tools like Docker is nicer on macOS, installing and building OSS projects is better supported but Finder is worse than Explorer which is IMO the biggest drawback.
I remember at a previous job someone cut the cost by only doing look-ups after the first three characters had been typed, and at another job someone getting an unexpected five figure bill (they had some explaining to do).
Same here, no matter how many times I click dislike on said Canadian academic.

My theory is that the algorithm has figured out that even people who don't like him can still fall down the rabbit hole. And when they do, they become hyper-engaged. Which makes the Hail Mary attempt worth it.
Puerto Rico is a terrible example.

Cuba is a much better one, it's not even hypothetical.
A company in search business need to evoke a sense of trust which I don't associate with Google any more. The word Google now stands for flippant attitude to products and services, disregard for privacy, and bloated interfaces combined with a degrading search experience. They need to dig deep and do better to change this attitude
In the Pre-google days of the internet you used to have to play "search engine bingo" to find useful results I remember jumping between Lycos, Metacrawler, Altavista and Infoseek and it was still a coin flip if you would get useful results.

Search engines used to require you to use Boolean operators "+" "AND" "OR" "NOT" to filter search results. My high school library had a laminated card next to the internet connected PC (via dial up modem) explaining how Boolean operators worked and with suggested search engines to use (this was around 1996/1997).

The eye opener to me was my high school class was given an assignment to write about the upcoming "G8 Summit", Russia had just joined the G7 creating the G8 and it was a big news story at the time. I can remember how frustrating it was to find any results searching for things required constructing strings like "G+8+Summit OR Group+of+8+Summit"etc in sites like infoseek and still getting nonsense results. I found the information I needed to complete the assignment by going to public library which had copies of various daily newspapers archived I basically quoted newspaper articles to complete the assignment and concluded the internet was useless for finding information. I complained about my situation at home and my Dad Casually mentioned have you tried "google.com" next ay at school I typed "G8 Summit" into google and immediately got relevant results. I was a convert to google immediately it was so far ahead of every other search engine at the time it was like night and day.
Strike Force Five: what happens when late-night TV hosts make a podcast?
> I'm just reporting what I've been told by Koreans I've met.

Korean men, I've no doubt.
Sub-Saharan Africa mainly, and a few oddball places elsewhere. Some of the Stans.
I did use it.

From the HN Guidelines:

“Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.”

You indeed have the right to your opinions. That does not mean that HN must accept and provide a venue for them.

Good luck to you.
I work in the space, and back in 2018 the FDA was communicating very clearly that they wanted to see someone make a closed loop artificial pancreas. They do go a little easier on companies that are developing the new stuff they want. But I suspect the bigger companies didn't want to touch it because it's inherently risky: any minor bug or glitch can literally kill children any you could lose the whole company.

It's awesome that the DIY / hacker / open source folks were able to step up to the opportunity and build this great think, but it is all very much proceed-at-your-own-risk: there's nobody with a big pile of cash to sue if you or your loved ones get hurt.

I'd love to see more of these sorts of trailblazing initiatives in the future, and it's tremendously encouraging that the FDA is apparently open to this as well.
The problem is that the internet we remember from when google was good no longer exists. Blogs are dead. Personal websites are dead. Noncommercial, informational or niche interest websites are dead. Search sucks primarily because there’s nothing worth searching for anymore.

Yes, we can most of us name real websites that we still read & rely on. When did those sites start publishing? How many of the creator-controlled, non-commercial websites/blogs you read began less than say 5 years ago? I bet the number rounds down to 0.

Google search sure as hell played their part in creating this world, but fixing search isn’t going to bring back an internet worth searching.
I'm skeptical of the argument that Nvidia's superiority to AMD is due to their software. But even if it were, what would AMD gain by having access to the source code of Nvidia drivers? It's not like they can use it to speed up their own chips.
Probably a very tight window between when they hamstrung explicit strings and when they still had it a a recommended feature.

Its unfortunate but theres more money to be made being less helpful. For example, google ads pay based on session length.

See youtube killing its short form videos with the 10 minute monetization cliff --> gap filled by vine and then later by TikTok

Once you change the usefulness of your product it's only a matter of time
Must be your browsing preferences, I just get sports highlights and lectures on Antiquity.
Think of it as people going out to dinner. The US orders one plate of food per person, when China orders food. Each Chinese is only allowed to have half a plate.

Why? Because they are Chinese, and food ordering is not by headcount but by nationality.

Who in their right mind think this is reasonable?

We need to decrease emission, but it should be across board on a per capita basis.
It links to: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-...
In Australia, I believe Australia Post has an address API but I don't think it's free.
On one hand I love this level of nitpicking.

On the other hand, by the standards of what an undergraduate organic chemistry student is looking for from a free online resource, and given that it is just one guy doing this, in his spare time, I think this is absolutely fine.

(I have a competing website on organic chemistry and I think this guy does a much better job on graphics than I do.)
Yes, being signed in encourages personalization to your profile, so YouTube can suggest more things you have a high chance to watch and fewer random/general things, the latter of which rabbit holes require.
That's entirely to be expected when your plan hinges around having one kid. They're called little emperors for a reason. If you have more than one kid, Korean or not, you treat them less preciously.
Wouldn't that incentivize them to cut costs even more?
It’s not Microsoft. It’s Microsoft employees. Someone decided to do make this happen.

Why do MS/Google/FB employees just not care about anything other than compensation these days?
Defo got my click to find out about this novel "homelessness drug"!
That doesn’t make what I said any less true. Anonymised datasets have been available to researchers for decades.
They're in the shorts section, which seems to have very different recommendation results compared to the regular feed. My regular Youtube video feed is almost exclusively stuff that's similar to what I usually watch, to the point where I need to go hunting for new content. My shorts feed clearly reacts to what I watch, but I get a lot more content that's well outside my interests, including new uploads by random users and alt-right garbage. The alt-right stuff is usually a reupload by some tiny account so it seems like there's a concerted effort to keep putting it in the feeds.
> I've never seen the videos you mentioned.

Be glad. It depends on many factors what videos "the algorithm" thins you want to watch. Location, videos you already watched, probably gmail mail contents, purchase history from google pay, music you like... the list is endless and iam sure even for some google engineers not transparent at all. And don't you dare click on the wrong video by mistake! A simple dislike isnt gonna get you out of that hole.

Iam actually mostly fine because I barely watch youtube and ads and suggesstions are only one reason.
I am not a graphic designer nor really care about it too much but I can spot a few things that look less than ideal. Of course I might make the same mistakes (that is why we have code reviews etc.)
Tune PaLM 2 with your own RLHF training data
Yes, he has a warrant out: https://apnews.com/article/technology-religion-arrests-race-...
There was an interesting interpretation of this phrase in the 1st to 4th centuries CE.

The Bible has two creation stories, and those seeking to rationalize that ended up gravitating to ideas in Plato for a solution.

One group in particular focused on Plato's images (a representation of a physical object) as opposed to forms (a spiritual blueprint preceding physical objects).

So they ended up with a theology that there was an original primal man which brought forth a creator within light that took on the images of the primal man, and claimed that we are the children of that creator in the images of the original man who is now long dead. Claiming indeed that the new world has already happened and this is already the rest for the dead, and we just don't realize it.

Which is a much more curious belief system today when humanity is building copies of ourselves in what will almost certainly end up literally being light given trends in optoelectronics and AI.

There's a very real possibility that we will bring forth a creator of worlds within light in our own image, and that it will in turn create copies of humanity in our images long after we are all dead.

The particularly nagging question is whether it is more likely to find that belief buried in the lore of the original world, or buried within a copy of that original.
Most organizations use a widespread corrupted form of Scrum, the most important features of which are the two-week sprint and task estimates expressed in "ideal developer days" but labeled story points.

This allows managers to engage in Planning and Predictability Theater™, which they seem to find reassuring.

This corruption of Scrum also has the effect of reframing imperfect estimates as IC failures.

Genuine Kanban works better in cultures where ICs are highly trusted and failures are primarily examined through the lens of systems breakdowns, and views those systems as primarily the responsibility of management.
Here is the text of the law [0].

It defines "objectionable" content with CSAM as the first category, and then a number of other categories that would be First Amendment protected speech in the US. Possession alone carries a 10 year prison sentence, possession with intent to distribute is 14 years. The Christchurch shooting video and manifesto were both classified as objectionable by New Zealand's Chief Censor (I'm not joking, that's actually their job title) [1].

My point was that they are prosecuting people for political and journalistic speech under the same law they use for CSAM, with equally severe penalties. Hope that is a more clear explanation.

[0] - https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0094/latest/...

[1] - https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/news-items/res...
It'd be so, so easy for Google to give us the option to remove sites we don't want in search results. (And by give us I mean return to us, of course.)

It does seem like they've finally removed github scrapers like gitmemory -- at least I haven't seen them in a while.
My bank was like that for my debit card...I ended up just using dev tools to remove client side validation and put a 0 in there, and I guess they don't do any server side validation for that field