skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if animals can think

Well, it is not an easy question to answer. First off, everyone would agree that humans, apes, dogs, squirrels, spiders - all "think" in essentially different ways. This is important. Humans, for example, think mostly in terms of the language (words, phrases) - the way they would talk to other people (or post on Facebook, for that matter). Other animals do not do that. From that perspective, computers are closer to humans than animals. Again, this is an important difference that cannot be ignored. It would help if we had different words for these different levels of "thinking", but we don't.
I believe the "member's only" aspect is for people with a Medium account as opposed to people who are members of Bloomberg, as it says that you can read it if you sign up for a free Medium account. I agree that it's a wall of some sort. Requiring signup to read content is a barrier, and at least for Show HN posts, I believe that's frowned upon. Anyone know if there's an official HN position on this sort of thing? Reading the guidelines and the FAQ I don't see anything that addresses it specifically.
It's 7kb minified and gzipped. Vue is almost 30kb. If you use a runtime version of Moon, it becomes 3kb. This makes it faster to load on mobile devices.

Along with that, it also has lots of official plugins similar to what Vue provides.
Honestly, no. I don't see what place ridicule has in a technical discussion.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned here yet is Emby.

Awesome home media library solution. I finally broke down and bought the lifetime license so I can download media to my tablet and watch it offline.

But even without the license the software is rock solid and amazing.

Other than that my list resembles other lists.

pcengines apu for home router

gitlab (I actually found that gitlab was overkill for personal use so I either use gitlab.com private repos or just git+ssh at home)

nextcloud for family pics

siptrack for password and inventory management

kodi

openvpn to access my LAN

I have a kvm hypervisor at home with a homebuilt nas for setting up testing and PoC virtually.

the nas is fedora+zfs+iscsi with one 4x2.5" SATA 5.25" bay in an external cradle connected with eSATA and one internal 5.25" bay with 6x2.5" sata disks. all disks 1TB, two separate zpools with raidz.
He's making the age old mistake of conflating mapping input and outputs to intelligence.

Intelligence is not defined by the ability to recognize letters. Or play a game of Go.

Deep learning is a powerful tool for creating systems that have an ability to map inputs to outputs with very noisy, non-linear or complex data.

The mapping itself may be complex, but it's not going about solving problems like a person would. It has no idea what letters are, and how they fit into its world. It has no concept of self, cannot contemplate its own existence -- and perhaps most important of all, has no free will.

The moment we have some kind of deep learning or AI that has free will and can express interest in something other than what it has been trained on, I would say we are closer to unraveling the mystery of consicenesss and human intellect.

Even babies are animals exhibit many forms of free will, decision making, and novel behavior that cannot be explained with our current observations of route deep learning techniques.
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The complex world around us
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Location: central Kansas
Approximate net worth: $2k

Probably need to work on upping that a bit.
NASA would define life as "A self-sustaining series of chemical reactions capable of extracting energy from its environment and capable of Darwinian evolution.

Self-sustaining?

Nope.

Chemical reactions?

Definitely not.

Capable of extracting energy from its environment?

Unless you count people plugging in GPUs as the Blockchain's doing, no.

Darwinian evolution?

Hell no.

Overall conclusion: No.
Animals aren't "eco-friendly" because they're intelligent; if they're eco-friendly at all, it's because they're too dumb to do otherwise. Many animals (cf invasive species) are extremly destructive.

Many animals exhibit a much greater degree of tribalism than humans. Consider wild canid species like wolves. Tribalism in humans isn't "made up" either, it makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary perspective even if it's possibly not as useful today.
They effectively sheet mulched the area, which is an established practice.
This article is infuriating.

#1 problem with education is that nobody is building for the student. The student is never the user.

Think about all of the companies and institutions that make up the experience of the modern student.

Think about who they are serving. Who are they building for? Who are textbook publishers building for?

It's probably not the students. Tools will not fix this. Laptops will not fix this.

Until students' experience affects schools' bottom line, education will not change for the better.
That is not a conclusion that can be drawn from the findings in the paper. While the models they evaluate can achieve zero training error on random labels, the test error is obviously not zero: it doesn't generalize at all. However, training on real labels often finds solutions which can generalize quite well.

A better way to summarize the central question of this paper would be: "Why is it that a large-parameter model trained with gradient descent on real data _could_ just memorize all of the training data (it has the capacity) yet finds solutions which generalize well to an unseen test set?"

To say that deep learning is _just_ memorizing its training data would be incorrect. We have empirical evidence to the contrary and this paper is part of that evidence.
Mach-O files are usually padded to 4096 byte aligned segments. You can inspect the segments with otool, pagestuff, and nm.

NB: UPX compresses it from 23312 -> 12904 bytes (55.35%) using UCL.
+1 for GoCD. Super easy to setup and deploy on a on premise bare metal boxes. Save $$$
You could use http://www.ascii-art-generator.org . Select "Image to Color Ascii Art". It is also using libcaca.
I've been using the Kupfer application launcher for years. Haven't touched the KDE menu since :-)
Alan Turing in a Newly Discovered Letter: ‘I Detest America’
What about shadow profiles?

I am not used by FB but it most certainly maintains an account of me.

Additionally, handing over data does not give FB full usage rights to it. At least in the EU, data subjects enjoy the basic right of informational self determination. FB may have to answer in a more comprehensive manner with the GDPR coming into effect.
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This isn't a response. It's a dodge. Instead of responding to the substance of my reply, you've just pivoted to talking about "ridicule", which is a completely different issue that is only a symptom of the issues in the JS community: the lack of stability and comprehensibility that you seem to be willing to excuse, going so far as to tell people to go elsewhere if they don't like it, without seriously offering up a viable alternative (probably because there isn't one... The web is the web and it's unfortunately unavoidable despite the absurdity it frequently embodies).

So are you choosing not to reflect and respond to my comment? Or did you really just completely miss the point I made?
KeePassX stoppet updating, switch to KeepassXC:
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Why would you hold 10,000 elements in a linked list?
Ask HN: How do you learn a new programming language
If you already know couple of popular languages such as Python, Java, C and you want to start learning a new language, say Elixir, how would you start.

Would you go bottom up: follow a book or online tutorial and start from very basics.
Or would you top down: start with a project and then lookup how to do things.
Couldn't disagree more.

Consciousness is misunderstood by surprisingly large number of smart people. The common view is that there's science and that's it, when actually, science just describes the patterns of what we observe via consciousness, which is in a way above science.

Regarding "what is life?", that's fundamentally different. Life can have fairly concrete definitions. Basically, it's a physical matter with specific properties, that's it. Whereas with consciousness, it's much more complicated. But defining, say, the feeling of pain as a physical matter with specific properties doesn't make much sense. "Pain is when these neurons are charged."

Also, what is a computation? A falling rock does perform a computation of a physical process. Any physical system can be said to perform a computation - or even a myriad of different computations, depending on how the physical state is interpreted.
Yes, and flagged.
Looks useful. Did you make the API documentation on your own? I used github.com/lord/slate to make a documentation page out of a swagger.yaml file for http://www.coinbots.io.

I'm curious how many other coin-related APIs are out there.
This is scary more than interesting in my opinion. First let me say, I am not addressing this issue in the context of free speech. That issue has been rehashed on HN over and over. Instead, I am questioning these actions from the context of the power that Network Solutions is exercising in taking down and essentially seizing a website. Short of having a court order, which is not made clear, I am stunned that this is able to take place.

>The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has claimed responsibility for the site's removal. Executive Director Kristen Clarke said in an email that the nonprofit group has "taken action against Stormfront."

A nonprofit has "taken action against Stormfront." What kind of action has it taken that allows it to have a site in essence seized and taken down?

This should be a concern to an business that has an internet presence that may have a difference of opinion with any other person/organization. While I do not agree with Stormfront or their rhetoric, I also do not agree with seizing a website from its owner without some type of legal action or court order to do so. More needs to be said on what happened here or we should all be concerned about these actions.
Please just use https://publicsuffix.org/
If there was a demand that the "fixed" cars were actually tested and were now under the limit while not losing more than say 5% in economy or power (or else owners would have to be compensated) it would likely find that the cars fail one or more of these requirements.

I believe it's now a middle ground: cars lost "only" about 5-10% performance/fuel eco, and they are still only half way to the NOx limit.
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thanks for posting this. what does "decimally smooth" mean in this context?
Ah, if only Dylan and Smalltalk had survived the 90s.
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Whether you listen to the left or the right, everyone agrees the landscape is, if at all different, worse than ever, and requiring assault weapons to defend from government tyranny. Literally, the left is calling the right Nazis, and the right is calling the left Nazis. Would you prefer the citizenry is unarmed against the Nazis?

If you're in the center, like me, then you recognise there are credible reasons the landscape is similar enough. Any nation can turn fairly quickly as the political tides shift. History is replete with examples. It is usually only a matter of months.

Boy, this got off-track fast.
Ah thanks, missed the "Another library?" part. I think it's a good idea to address this question because this is the first one someone has after reading the title (Vue, but faster & smaller). Maybe I'll use it for some side projects, would be interesting to see if it is still easy to develop with a subset of Vue's API.
This is what ReCaptcha is too
Last I checked, everybody's data center or building can catch fire or have a fire inside. I would love to see the building that has computer equipment in it that cannot catch on fire. You are one bad UPS / power supply away from a rack fire. Never mind the electrical panel itself.
And potentially get a valid ssl certificate for your domain.
This is being down-voted, but it's a relevant point. The cascading-menu style of application launchers is from the 90s, yet is still very common for lack of a better method of offering access to a potentially very large number of applications.

If you think about it, even the homescreen of Android or iOS is basically the same, although of course optimized for a touch interface. You have a long list of apps, and you can group them into folders that open when you tap on them, same as how a cascading menu opens when you hover its entry. The only difference to the launchers included in Plasma is that folders on Android/iOS are created and managed entirely by the user, whereas Plasma insists on using the application metadata to group stuff together.

Is there any other way? The only thing I can think of right now is search (either via text or voice; all launchers in Plasma have text search over name and description, so they're good there) and whatever the commandline does... Stack Overflow, I guess? :)
Plenty of people do dispute historical oppression. Plenty of people deny outright that it was oppression at all. They think it was better back then. And they are not outliers.

But if you're claiming that historical oppression totally ended at some point, what date do you believe that was?

As a white dude, I disagree with your reading of the American left. I don't think I've ever experienced a personal hate for myself. They do take issues with a lot of the behaviors of a group that has benefited from and sustains oppression. But I object to that too.
Oh for sure! I was looking mostly for current numbers but it's very important that we work to make the grid cleaner in order to make EVs make sense in the future.
A REPL is better when prototyping but tests have a lot of value afterwards.
They're repeatable and they can be used to spot regressions.

I think that the a good workflow is to do initial experiments on a REPL followed, once I get an idea of the code will look, by writing tests and the actual code that will run in production.
Portland, Seattle, Austin, or Atlanta. Currently live in Nashville and it has been a great move for me and the family. Nashville always has a number of tech jobs available especially within the many healthcare businesses. It is home to a number of corporate headquarters and is always attracting new businesses. It is very affordable and has a lot of entertainment whether you like music, sports, the arts, etc. Another plus is TN boasts NO state income tax.
Right. Quick accessibility with a keyboard shortcut and partial name typing is the way to go. The trick is ensuring you have the right name (so a slight learning curve).
Not exactly. I'm not invoking A, I'm ignoring it on the grounds that it doesn't reflect reality. I don't see any solid, logical grounding to the claim that there are discreet types of consciousness.
Did this subthread get detached? I can't find it in the original post...
You are just thinking of very simple scenarios of supervised learning. Even the simplest of other examples like playing games can be thought as decision making(or free will?). Also then there are areas where deep learning research is heading, e.g. neural turing machines. It has just arrived and does not works great, but if the concept will be successful, it can be thought as free will by all definitions.
Electric vehicles can be charged overnight and at off-peak times, so it's reasonable to assume they use a higher-than-average share of low-carbon energy.

For example, around 50% of the UK's electricity production is from low-carbon sources (renewables and nuclear). But a much higher percentage of off-peak power is low-carbon. After midnight, close to 100% of the grid is low-carbon because the gas turbines spin down while the wind turbines and nuclear reactors keep running. EVs and smart chargers/smart grids will help us make better use of clean off-peak power!

Also, grids will continue to get cleaner over time. An EV purchased today will have lower and lower emissions as it ages, but a combustion vehicle will only get worse!
That's not entirely true; GCC (and almost every other GPL-licensed compiler) has a specific exception for its runtime libraries that lets you distribute their compiled version under any license [1].

But for example, Ada Core's GNAT is licensed under GPL but doesn't have that exception, which makes the binaries it outputs be licensed under the GPL as well, to make you buy the Pro version of the compiler.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-faq.html
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The point, I think, is that it will work for every device on your network that's using Pi-hole as its DNS server instead of just the local PC.
Same set up here, and it's very easy to install and use. Non-technical users have no problem using it either as the desktop and mobile sync clients are intuitive and reliable.

I have mine configured as a public website with most data protected by the inbuilt encryption, and I use EncFS directories to sync more sensitive data across machines. Some things require client-side encryption and this is easy to achieve.
> Facebook's Bucklescript

I think you mean FB's ReasonML. Buckle is Bloomberg's OCaml-to-JS compiler.
Oversimplified. Electric car can act as storage for renewable energy. Moreover charging happens at night when a lot of countries experience oversupply of energy (e.g. in Poland electricity is cheaper during night hours).
You can also just restart the REPL, though some people find waiting 5 second for that too annoying.

That's true only if clojure is your only dependency, in real project with libraries is more like 15 seconds with lein repl, cider is much worse.

Do you have other recommendations for a language that meets these criterias?

Some would say Common Lisp.
Burying the weeds under an impenetrable layer of mulch causes them to compost in place. The soil deepens and you get a blank slate to start over, more like a secondary succession forest.
what's the cost of resetting & reusing pre-allocated memory vs letting the GC discard stuff.

if the cost of resetting is greater than the cost of collecting & re-allocating, then you're in the same place. at least in my experiments of trying to reuse already-allocated virtual nodes and resetting their properties was slower than simply unreferencing them for the GC and re-allocating new ones.

have you tested the tradeoffs of your approach in modern browsers? (i see the repo is somewhat dated).
>This makes it faster to load on mobile devices.

That's not very significant, since even your favicon will be of comparable or even bigger size, much less any static asset like an image.
What if, on the outside, thinking is a unitary process, similar to (but not the same as) processes in quantum mechanics. When you observe a result (of someone's mental process; e.g. the dog ended up biting you), you could say "oh, I know what you were thinking", but all you know is in fact the current state of their mind, and, just like in a quantum mechanics, that state will persist (the dog will keep trying to bite you) unless you give it (the process) some time to become unitary again. After that, a new observation may yield a different result.
"Consistency issues can usually be fixed with wizards."

Yes, the old "well...a wizard did it" DeusExMagic-User. Sooo useful for the DM, especially if you are the sort who keeps tweaking the map, and have players puzzled by the appearance of new landforms not present on their earlier version of the document....
Facebook is a monolithic threat by inducing the world into accepting the relinquishment of privacy for convenience. The abiding thought that all should remember is it is a marketing (ad) platform. Furthermore, given it limits social outreach to 5000 "friends" (with no such limits on "follows", which still prove difficult to utilize), it is assuredly not intended to facilitate social outreach.
I must admit, I really enjoyed reading your comments on this thread. Good work, and thanks for the effort!
it's significant because code has to be additionally parsed and JIT-compiled. which is not true of images which simply blit pixels to screen as they decompress; it's not simply about size on the wire.

https://twitter.com/HenriHelvetica/status/877924754195324928
Zero tailpipe emissions is worth far more than you are internalizing.

CO2 is not the only pollutant that matters. NOx and sulfur emissions are arguably worse in term of quality of life in cities.
Well, if Facebook won't tell you how, you need to go figure out the connection you have with the other N thousand people it recommended to you. You might be able to find the common links, and do some valuable reporting in the process.
Age: 24, Location: Atlanta, NW: ~$2k

Welcome to the life of a grad student..
You can think of Ruby or even Python as of Smalltalk survived, and of Erlang/Elixir as of Smalltalk's original vision implemented, to a degree.
Maybe it only appears to be, but in fact it's some animal form of ML. Hard to say I guess.
Some replies are responding to the title as if the author literally meant "living organisms".

Instead, I think it's clear that the author is speaking of an interesting metaphor.

It's similar to how we might talk about all the various Javscript libraries and framework flavor-of-the-month as a sort of "Darwinism" and "natural selection". E.g. it's a marketplace of coding ideas and the ones with staying power demonstrate "survival of the fittest".

Or to write about all the worldwide computers executing high frequency trades on the stock exchanges as an emergent "super-organism".
Well I'd argue being better night make all the difference. If the set of possible programs includes ones extremely difficult to program, then are those programs possible to program given an ordinary developer and sufficient time? Definitely not imo. Some things only a genius programmer could do. That programmer could come along and invent a way to do ai using today's commodity hardware. Without that ingeniousness it's doubtful more time would do the same for ordinary developers. Do I believe I could do it given enough time? No. Could some genius somewhere today? Maybe.i wouldn't rule it out, in fact I'm fascinated by it.
Looks interesting, thank you.
I have the same question, based on the Alcubierre Drive math, (Wrap Drive) which is based on that space can travel at any speed.

But I also know that the Alcubierre Drive have some weird implications, such as the inner of the ship is causally disconnected from the space wrap, basically you can't control it from the inside.

Anyways, I'm curious if the gravitational waves are "space waves", in that case it wouldn't have limit, as space can move at any speed.
And noise! Not so much from cars, which are reasonably quiet these days. But trucks and motorbikes, especially, can be appallingly loud and make our cities unpleasant places to be.
If you search for a person and look at their profile, you will show up on their PYMK list.

I've noticed that, but not sure if the author of the article had it that way as the other person said she didn't know her.
>Experiments indicate that the memory of chess masters is tuned to typical game positions. In 13 studies conducted between 1973 and 1996 (the results were compiled in a review article published in 1996), players at various skill levels were shown positions from actual games (a) and positions obtained by randomly shuffling the pieces (b). After observing the positions for 10 seconds or less, the players were asked to reconstruct them from memory. The results (graph at bottom) showed that chess masters (with ratings of 2200 or higher) and grandmasters (generally 2500 or higher) were significantly better than weaker players at recalling the game positions but only marginally better at remembering the random positions. This finely tuned longterm memory appears to be crucial to chess expertise.

That's kinda neat