jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do think that understanding intelligence is critical for developing AI, because computers are not subject to the same evolutionary circumstances. If computers were, then they could be. Now if you are talking about an organic computer, and you mean to include existing animal brains, well, people already knew that, and they meant to talk about the inorganic computer. Maybe after (or concurrently) inorganic AI, people will take on the challenge of designing intelligent organisms that fit in the ecosystem.

I think intelligence may be composed of several sub-modules, the combination of which, working in concert, produces the sought-after effects people often talk about when they talk about the Turing test.

I do think tests which propose to pin AI on human characteristics is not as useful as an investigative avenue as it could be. I think the first real test of AI is the identification of causal factors in a phenomena. I think another major point of intelligence would be if AI could perform arbitrary analogical mapping. I think all of math is arbitrary analogical mapping, where you start with a set of capricious but useful building blocks, build a big structure and then... analogically map the math onto a phenomena.

I think these two ingredients makes for the kind of mental abilities that people have been craving for in AI, abilities like a computer developing its own software to use hardware, or a computer which models and reasons about phenomena.
I completely and whole-heartilly agree. Every time I realize that what I am working on is going to turn into crap, I move on to something else. The steaming piles of crap behind me: http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/10/last-ten-years-if-i-up...

The problem with quiting/failing early is that you have to defend yourself from others who are unhappy and "stuck it out".
Not divisible by three, which comes up a lot. 12 is superior.

60 is probably best, tho.
You're right. Half of iOS developers and 64% of Android developers are living below the "App Poverty Line"--making less than $500 USD per app, per month.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/21/the-majority-of-todays-app-...

Several people (a consultant I hired and a few clients) have encouraged me to develop iOS apps. This was based on anecdata, but I eventually convinced a client to hire me to build a simple one as a proof of concept. We found that interest in the app fizzled out fast and I learned that I didn't enjoy standalone business application development much. I didn't rule it out as a hobby though.
> had certain appeals

Like what?
you can always chroot
Can still do that with the ribbon. Press Alt.
Write the debugger first.

You'll need it anyway. And it will provide /much/ insight into your mistakes.
The site is damn slow!
Start with 10M, become an angel investor with 9M of it.
To follow up on this point, a portion of revenue of most ISPs and telcos comes from contracts with the federal government.

In a time of emergency and war, a large multinational is not going to bite the (large and powerful) hand that feeds them.

A related current example is BP with the oil spill. BP could very well have said fuck you to the Obama administration and not set aside a compensation fund. However, this would have been done at the cost of current and future federal government contracts.
This doesn't make any sense. We've already seen major telecoms roll over and participate in massive illegal government surveillance. And that didn't involve a war on American soil. We already understand exactly how this works: major telecom firms have enormous contracts with the federal government and/or pending regulatory issues before federal agencies. That gives them a huge incentive to do what the government wants, especially since the government can credibly promise to indemnify their illegal acts.

Given this history, WHICH JUST HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, there is no credible reason to believe that ISPs would "just say no" during a real national emergency.
I sympathize; I was in a simliar situation around five years ago.

There are three things I've done which have been responsible for literally every job I've had in the last decade. In order of importance, they have been:

1. Know people.
2. Engage in the FOSS community.
3. Challenge myself.

That's it. Now, the interesting thing is that if you reverse this list, you get the steps you need to get a new job:

3. By challenging yourself, you will increase your knowledge base and become a better coder.
2. Find an project, tool, or subject that interests YOU. Something YOU would find useful and rewarding. Whatever it is, write it and RELEASE IT. If there's a project that already does what you want, start contributing. Help other people use it. Write documentation. Anything. Whatever it is, RELEASE IT. Doesn't matter if it's something a hundred people worldwide will find interesting - you'll get their attention, which leads to…
1. Knowing people who can get you jobs.

I cannot stress this enough: RELEASE CODE. The great thing is that you can usually get your employer on board with this. If other people use it, they can contribute features and bugfixes back, which they can make use of. It's like having programmers work for them for free.

The fact that you have this ambition at all puts you at a significant advantage over other programmers. Keep hold of that drive.
The treatment of the Paradox of the Great Circle in the article is not very good. If you're left wondering, Wikipedia helps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%E2%80%93Kolmogorov_parado...
Can you elaborate? People are turning for Bing for image searches for "research" purposes since google disabled the disabling of the content filter in the US?
The are a few options but all require some effort https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/27
Ah, sorry. Then I am misinformed. The locale "zh_CN" does give me Sunday as the first, which seems then misaligned with actual practice.
You can in Android. If its not available in iOS its because Apple forces them to use Safari's Webkit and it does not have the API for it.
I've been meaning to contribute some changes to OSM. It provides by far the best mapping in my area out of any provider but there are some bits that are inaccurate or incomplete. This has given me the push to actually look into how to commit edits!
The main issue here is that in the JavaScript ecosystem there is this trend of using external dependencies for everything, regardless of size (i.e., leftpad), and trusting forward versions blindly. Security in npm / JS / node_modules ecosystem is quite reactive, instead of active.

If there is a bad actor that releases a widely using dependency, for sure it's going to be gone from npm quite fast most of the time! However, it'll take some time for it to get noticed, and people will invariably get affected.

You shouldn't bring an open honeypot to a place where bears can attack you easily, right?
Would you consider using one of the trackpads you're happy with INSTEAD of a mouse? For non-precision work, that is. Browsing, navigating an IDE, clicking around the OS, stuff like that. In an emergency anything that does a two finger scroll and registers a click is okay, but would you enjoy using it for eight hours every day? Apple will confidently sell you a $5000 desktop machine with just their trackpad, because it is that good.
5 lots of 350 topics. 350349348347346 is still 5.10361951 × 10^12... I'm sure there would be some uneven distribution, and ofc the birthday problem/effect has a impact.

That said, this sounds far better than FLoC. I wouldn't mind this.
Wasn't his salary as laureate paid in wine?
I tried this for Chrome for a couple days and found that it really didn't block too much ads(I can say none ads were blocked) comparing to ABP.
> The last SpaceX test rocket failed to land.

This is disingenous. The last SpaceX rocket successfully returned from suborbital flight onto the target landing site. They just underestimated the amount of hydraulic fluid needed to make a proper landing (but then again, they hit the barge anyway!). It's basicaly a 99% success with a minor error that was found and will be corrected.

Stupid failures always happen, but at this point we can definitely assume that yes, they have a reusable stage.
I would love to see a long term comparison between Berkshires performance and a "Buy and hold the Nasdaq and reinvest the dividends" strategy.

Without dividends, the Nasdaq 100 had an annualized ROI of 13.85% since 2021-03-31 which is the first date Google shows in the Nasdaq chart.

Any ideas how to get data on Nasdaq with reinvested dividends?
This too but with croissants. It even became a verb. To croissant someone or be croissant-ed!

Edit: Also singing over the top praises of employees using the victim's account. "MonkeyButton is truly the best coworker I have ever had "

All this fun has gone away now with Covid and remote working.
The only bad rules are ones you never break.
Funnily enough, I came to it in reverse: I learned about ECS years ago (from the tmachine series of posts, posts about Dungeon Siege, and others I can't remember) and became interested in Clojure's data-oriented stuff because of my interest in ECS. Although, I became interested in and used Clojure already, due to its focus on immutability and functional programming, before people really started pushing the data-oriented aspects, so it was an easy evolution for me.
(I upvoted you, and I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes).

> > Or I can give one dose to both of you. And this is what I know. At the very least, one dose is likely to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death.

We don't know this from testing. We know it from real world data -- we've given a bunch of people their first dose and then we measured what happened.

Imagine you tell people "we're going to give you two doses of this vaccine. You'll have the first dose today, and then you'll have your second dose in X weeks. We know this is safe and effective from the clinical trials. Do you want to go ahead?"

And then, after you've given them the dose, you say "well, actually, looks like vaccine production is pretty slow, and we really need to vaccinate as many people as possible, so we're going to delay giving you your second dose".

There's a strong argument for doing that, but it's not obviously the right thing to do. Informed consent is an important part of healthcare everywhere. And vaccinations are so important that anything that interferes with trust needs to be really carefully examined.
This. I would bite if it was an AMD chip. Intel is just overpriced.
Actually, yes! We will be offering the chassis by itself. The intent is to make sure that someone can get back into a good state if they drop their laptop down the stairs or something, but there is nothing preventing you from picking one up to use for your own projects (though adapting everything to work with an ARM SBC would be non-trivial).
No, they say that hackers "not only broke into their database; they changed the names and passwords of profiles" but they admittedly do not attribute that to the group.

You can't negate "They don't accuse Sci-Hub of actually doing anything!" with "They accused hackers of Doing Evil, but admittedly they don't attribute this to Sci-Hub."

Via stolen, cracked, or phished credentials, though. I'm not arguing against this, I wholeheartedly believe in the Guerrilla open access manifesto and its beliefs, and it is admittedly not proven to be Sci-hub, just a random attack.

So if there's no proof, and you'd agree with it even if there was, then why bother posting this awful article?
I found third party CDNs were almost always the cause when my personal site felt slow. My personal server responds quickly every time, because it's not subject to the same heavy traffic fluctuations that CDNs are.

To that end, I serve all the font files from the server and run a self-hosted analytics tool. Most Google fonts are just conveniently hosted fonts from third-party foundries, so it's not like you are supporting Google by downloading them.
wow you have so many conflicting views, irrelevant comparisons between two types of markets and asset class, and don't seem to realize it?

equities markets cant be compared to a commodity. so that invalidates your entire first paragraph, the longest one. as a corollary to that, don't derive your confidence from equities investors opining about commodities for the first time in their lives. you have equities investors that never traded tech and never traded commodities talking about bitcoin, you cant call that insight. bitcoin is looked at in market cap terms because it has a more transparent supply than any other commodity. this is completely new to the universe of assets and the market likes that. it removes a risk with gold, oil, etc.

paragraph two and three: you want high price for a longer period of time, but are turned off by the exact and only mechanism in which it gets there - large % and large $ amount price increases. fascinating.

more tech equities comparisons. mmmmk

I’d like to leave you with an alternative tool for valuing, and its just scarcity. if thats not good enough for you, then just stay out of the market. retail investors en masse never got married to commodities markets for the exact reason that they are not buy and hold outside of some metals. volatility is not controversial in the commodities markets, its termed as seasonality, as supply and demand ends up having a frequency in some markets. A lot of the equites market style comparisons to bitcoin is because it started with retail (non-institutional) who never traded anything else. But don't be like them. Bitcoin’s not a company so dont use company comparisons.
Now that I agree with; the article specifically avoids attributing it to them, and if they could, you can bet they would. So I'm assuming they're taking a mostly unrelated incident and pushing an agenda with it.
Did you really look into this that much? Because there are a *lot* of free and self-hosted alternatives.

Here's a list I found with a quick (DDG!) search: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-analytics/?platfor...
Indeed, Paypal doesn't want you to pay with your credit card, and won't let you change your default PayPal payment method. You have to go through a process to select it Every.Single.Time, if you remember, and if you overlook to do it - well, what do you know, PayPal just saved the CC fee...
Maths is a self-consistent and closed system. From that point of view, the nature of axioms is irrelevant. You can have an unlimited kinds of axiomatic systems, each consistent and each explanatory in its own way. What is a theorem in one system can be treated as an axiom in the next as long as the system itself leads to no contradictions.

Given that human knowledge encompasses more than one axiomatic system, it would be foolish to endow a system designed to replicate human knowledge with an immutable set of axioms.

Please watch this presentation of Richard Feynman on the nature of maths and physics: http://www.feynmanphysicslectures.com/relation-of-mathematic...
Phones have a clear indication of whether they are connected to 4G or not. What basis do you have to say that warfangle's signal strength is good in the buildings they spend the most time in?
Here's a link to the article.

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/01/13/an-open-source-tool-for-easie...
I'll agree with you on that. I enjoyed math problems, but only until I grasped the concept. Then it became tedious. I then preferred to move on to more complicated problems. Probably why I like programming, because there is always a more complex program to be made or worked on.
> The text of each chapter was just some advice about solving them. He said that as soon as he got a new textbook he'd immediately work out all the problems

I literally did the opposite of this. I went so far as to make deals with my teachers that if I got an A on every test, I wouldn't have to do any work outside of class. Maybe I figured it to be a challenge, maybe I was plain lazy. Whatever it was, that didn't prepare me for college.
There is a java app called Color Oracle that works on all platforms (http://colororacle.cartography.ch/). Turn it on and choose which color blindness to simulate.

I'm color blind and when switching to protanopia, the colors on my screen don't actually change for me.
That blog post contains no evidence for anything whatsoever, again it's just a bunch of hunches and biases. It is also not relevant to the statistics I posted, their central claim is:

> an incident could be anything from an accidental and playful scratch or nip to a full-blown attack by a poorly-trained, aggressive dog.

But the statistics I posted ARE KILLINGS.

> I agree that pitbull attacks will result in more damage and are more prone to kill somebody. But thats not because there evil or go crazy, its because when you mistreat a poodle - you get a minor annoyance, but when you mistreat a pit - you get a 100 pound of muscle and bones bomb ticking to go off.

And again zero evidence to back up this claim. There is evidence to the contrary however: there are plenty of dogs that are bigger than pitbulls and perfectly capable of killing a kid with a single bite. Yet they aren't responsible for ~60% of the deaths.

Also it only seems logical that dogs bred for being aggressive are aggressive. In the same way I'd argue for keeping your kids away from fighting breed cocks (I've been attacked by them, and while they don't do much damage to adults, you don't want to be attacked by them when your height is such that your eyes are within their reach).

If you have any evidence to the contrary, please do post it here.

> I guess that asshats will keep mistreating their dogs and enjoying in making them vicious and that something has to be done. But banning the dog is the wrong thing to do. Dangerous dog handlers license or/and personality screen of owners is the correct way to go IMHO.

I'm arguing for keeping kids away from pitbulls. Do not let your kids play with them. Whether it is the right thing to ban pitbulls depends on how you value the joy they bring their owners over another dog breed against the deaths they cause.
This seems to be the wrong question for their problem: they should have asked "when do we introduce the code standards for our new guy"?

This way they make it sound like they blame _him_ for not deducing their code standards out of thing air. Which is redidiculous.
Oh, I know. I was saying that it would be doable to implement.
Bicycles are not dangerous. Skates and racing bicycles are only dangerous to their riders. Open fires are not dangerous at all. I've been making/playing with camp fires since I was 1 year old, and I can tell you that a game of soccer is far more dangerous. Of course this doesn't go for open fires in a forest and yes I think those should be banned (and are).

And yes, I'm in favour of physically limiting cars to the maximum allowed speed (or just over).
I think it's quite clearly satire :

"Hell, look at me. Other than my affluent Orange County family, my Stanford bachelor’s degree, and the $10 million that my uncle invested as seed capital for my innovative advice column start-up, I have nothing but my ability to code."
> The gravitational force vector for a star in the sky N light years away points to where the star would be if kept moving at constant speed for N years.

FTFY.
Lags a lot on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3, stock browser).
True, although I think this is something that I shouldn't have to manually specify.
> What bloat? No one is forcing you to install anything

The last time I did a "base" install of CentOS and Ubuntu, it installed a TON of garbage, almost none of it relating to the actual operation of the machine. The "base" install also missed a variety of tools that I'd consider essential to a "base system". Granted I've only been a unix/unix-like system user for around 20 years, but it seems like things are bloated when they get to that point.

Before people go off fudding/etc, I use a variety of operating systems daily, and I've written my own installer for 2 of them so they'd be better off FOADing....
As someone who lives nearby I can tell you many people (english minority) call it Three Rivers.

In franglais it is called "tree rivers"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais :)
It's his decision, not mine or any authority's.
Anigbrowl has been very actively trying to defend the NSA and USG - and I am 100% against that.

It is not uncivil to call him out. His position is the enemy of freedom.

Manning and Snowden are heroes.
I'm not sure how this is possible. On one hand I'm not hugely surprised - once fridge is at temperature it doesn't require much energy to sustain it if people don't open the doors, but on the other the iPhone uses a tiny amount of power.

Back of the envelope says the 10W charger can use 240W a day, or 87.6kWh per year when in constant use, which it won't be.

I wonder how many fridges my laptop could power.
Thanks for this. Tweaking it slightly:

> Gravity travels at the speed of light, but it pulls you towards where the object would be if the object kept moving at constant speed, not where it was when it left the object
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There is already high probability that China refuses to approve the deal. In 2018 Chinese refused Qualcomm's NXP takover. It was $44B deal.

The small print in the takeover says:

> The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals for the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place in approximately 18 months.

In other words, regulators in China, EU, UK and US must approve it.
I meant org-mode. I didn't know about the other one. Thanks for the info.

I do not use Emacs as spreadsheet often. As my spreadsheet needs are larger than org-mode is comfortable with. Pretty much business people sharing data at work.
But I have used for reports and whatnot and it's fine.
I can't do 2016 but I can do 2005 - https://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/electoral.vote/
I've been bitten by this.

I once worked at a place where the development process for the Windows version of their product was GLACIAL because there was no way to run the CI scripts locally or even set up a dev environment that could build the product. People actually edited code in a text editor and then submitted it to github and waited an hour for the CI job to build a virtual Windows instance, run updates, install Visual Studio, Oracle, and all supporting software, run the compile and bail with a syntax error :((((((

So I made a Powershell script to install everything from scratch on a fresh Windows 10 or Windows Server system using Chocolatey. The script took about an hour to run, but once it was done you had a Windows box (or VM) that could build the project in 2 minutes at most, or just run the CI script directly before committing. Suddenly it didn't take weeks to fix bugs in the Windows client, and corrupted installs or DLL hell was one "wipe", "run script", "walk away while it churns for an hour" cycle to a perfect dev environment again.

I was fired 6 months later for "not stepping up enough".
That’s a really weird analogy... Writing software (in any reasonably challenging context) is not administrative grunt work with clear and easy definitions of right and wrong.

It’s an art and a science. So I much prefer the comparison with pro athletes who become coaches or actors who become directors.
I wouldn't say that it is a generation that can't read, rather I would word it as a generation that cannot write. The death of long-form text in user-created content on the web came largely from people starting to use their mobile phone as their primary device. A touch keyboard just isn’t as inviting a tool for expressing thoughts at length as a computer keyboard.