skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah, I was prepared to be all gung-ho for this post, given that I've suspected the winter was going to be here for quite a while now. But strangely, this post actually caused the opposite effect for me. The winter will probably come one day, but is all the evidence the poster can find? Andrew NG tweeting less and a statement that DNNs doesn't scale based on flimsy data is not at all convincing to me.
THat thank you was actually directed at dang, anyway, why am I not surprised that even that comment was downvoted. I am truly amazed by this conversation and fail to understand how those commenting here pass the bar for civil conversation.
> The new synthetic diamonds will come in pink, blue and white, and the stones will contain a tiny Lightbox logo. De Beers said the logo won't be visible to the naked eye, but it will make the stones easily identifiable as lab-grown.

This would suggest that it's not easy to identify lab-grown diamonds from other diamonds.
Nature journals actually do provide professional copyediting services for all articles accepted for publication. For commentaries (from my own experience), the editing process at Nature is quite intensive.
Thanks for the recommendation, when I was in high school I had followed a different tutorial and even spent a whole summer holiday trying to build a cargo-cult Forth interpreter in JS to convince my friends to try Forth.
But then I lost interest.

Now that I'm much older I think I will take my shot at reading a more advanced book on Forth.
That's the optimistic interpretation. Pessimistic: There's one or more great filters.
well yes; technically they use one base-pair as the origin of life (which is probably still a little too small).

From looking at the graph, and the 300 milion year doubling, they seem to put life complexity at about 256 base-pairs at the origin of the earth.

There should be a link to the actual paper in the article.
However one should always be hesitant to believe these claims because there are no regulatory agencies currently protecting investors in the case of ICO fraud.
This is something I always wondered about AI and it promises. Sometimes, the last 1% is the hardest or can be even impossible. Self-driving cars, in particular, are a good case. We get to solve 99% of the use cases but achieving full autonomous vehicles might be just out of reach.
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I think a lot of answers have existed for that question.

In the context of this thread, lets say you are a species which stepped out of your planet, there are plenty of asteroids, and even planets lying around you can mine for resources. You settle billions of your kind in space. You are not running out resources and have no motivation beyond research and science to venture out a little far.

Would you, such a race, want to travel interstellar distances? You would travel far distances by organic growth.

Also its likely how old the universe is anybody who didn't kill themselves to extinction, is likely at our phase of development. And is likely asking the same questions as us. Those beyond our phase of development are hiding for a good reason.
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If that is true, where can I buy second-hand diamonds for a fraction of the cost?

I've looked and I can't find any.
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It creates seeds you can't harvest, plant and grow again to maintain a captive market.

When it can't do that, it sues farmers that harvest, plan and grow the seed it wants to protect.

This includes Monsanto's crops contaminating other crops like in the Vernon Hugh Bowman case.

It also promoted (at least in France) round up as biodegradable but we eventually found out it didn't, and went to contaminate the drinking water.

Which is a problem, given that glyphosate based products are currently in the process of being banned in Europe.

The answer from Monsanto to that has been ghostwriting reports and pretend they didn't come from them.
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> When I proposed to my wife, she specifically requested the diamond cost a minimum of X dollars.

Now this is a red flag if I ever saw one...
Kidnappers are still part of a community and a society. Often they even have political or social goals beyond just greed, or there are others that may get affected by their actions. For example Somali pirates don't each operate completely independently and the actions of one group can very directly affect other groups. So if one bunch of pirates kidnap the crew of a commercial vessel, take the ransom and then kill them, there will be a lot of very upset rival or allied pirates who's chances of getting a ransom payday themselves just got hurt.

Then there's the fact that while the authorities will put in an effort to track down kidnappers and bring them to justice, they'll put in an awful lot more resources into tracking down murderers.
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Because the author is a well respected scientist and quite talented
science writer & journalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Siegel
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What this makes me think is that the motivation is money, not murder. They may not enjoy the murder, but if it's what gives you a reputation that you should 'pay up', then it's a messy means to and end.
Stockfish is not designed to scale to supercomputing clusters or TPUs, Alpha Zero wasn't designed to account for how long it takes to make a move, fair fight was hard to arrange.
Only tangentially related to the article, but it's always struck me as a little unethical that Demis Hassabis' name goes on every paper that's written by Deepmind. No-one produces that much research output.
Fermi's paradox is just a hand-waving argument involving tons of unknown probabilities.

It's not a given that alien civilizations "should" have developed this or that technology that we ourselves don't have.
There are two key ideas: one is notation as a tool of thought, and thus the symbols are incredibly important (or, if not using symbols, to use similarly lightweight notation as in j/k).

In a semantic sense, the key idea is that you compose operations on array indices. A good example of this is k's where operator, &, which converts an array of booleans into an array of indices where it is true. It's very common to take & of some predicate on your inputs, manipulate that for a while, and then index into something else at the end.

There are also ideas of rank/shape ambivalence, which naturally encompasses broadcasting (so scalar + vector broadcasts the scalar, vector + matrix broadcasts the vector row-wise, etc).

You certainly can implement something with APL's semantics as a library - Numpy does this. The magic of using APL comes from having all these features at once.
Just from a counting argument, the strategy is probably closer to cooperate against the leading team. Then you commit half of your players to the attack, as does the cooperating team, and you can then match the leading team, while having half of your team in defensive. (And the only uncommitted opposing players are half of the players of your cooperating partner.)
Very interesting points...

The disconnect between the expectations and reality.
Well, to some degree you will always have it, but that is a very interesting facet, and I concur that it is somewhat increasing. It has in the recent past, and it still is..

> And it is not limited to media or CEO's, but it made its way into top researchers.

Interesting. One would assume that top researchers would be more "immune" than anyone else, but if it's true what you say and it already made its way..
For the record, I think you are onto something here.

What would be your favorite pet theory that explains this phenomenon?
Do you believe it has something to do with this culture of "fake it till you make it", as if we have forgotten the value of honesty?
Is it normal to use baby about a whale calf in English, or is it only used in the title to trigger emotions?
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How many of your own family members would you be prepared to sacrifice towards that principle?
In fact given the fact evolution is a process without a goal. Intelligence could be even more rare among multicellular lifeforms.
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I've seen elevators with a mounted TV that's playing ads.

(I believe I've only seen them in hotels)
Put down the phones.
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>Vendoring isn't ideal: it makes, for example, code-reviews a PITA, and you still have the problem of what to do when you upgrade or add a dependency.

The status quo in which anything that goes wrong breaks the entire universe because no one vendors is also not ideal.

However, consider the long list of disasters that have occurred with NPM recently, and how many of them would have been less disastrous had vendoring been the exception rather than the rule. Left-pad wouldn't even have been an issue, for example - builds simply would have been unable to update, but nothing live would have been affected.

To misquote Ben Franklin here, the tradeoff isn't between a greater ideal and a lesser ideal, but between security and convenience.
The thing is that you can learn new moves/strategies that were never thought about before in these games but you still doesn't understand anything about intelligence at all.
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Initially it was a one-man operation that relied on donations from fellow Reddit users. I guess the donations eventually dried up or at least stopped covering the ever-increasing bandwidth costs.
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This sounded interesting, but turns out it's just the screenshot from their homepage [0]

[0] https://mixmax.com/
An alternative measure would be "best goal difference", which also would make team B the winner in your example, but wouldn't necessarily be the same as highest scorer, or lowest conceder.

As seen in an alternative outcome, this gives us 3 potential winners.

Team X: Scored/Conceded
Team A: 6/4 (winner if best goal difference wins)
Team B: 7/6 (winner if highest scorer wins)
Team C: 0/3 (winner if lowest "conceder" wins)
From my own retrospective notes, tasks that are "dangerous" (w.r.t. planning) are:

* Administrative; i.e. my brain doesn't anticipate any tangible end product or outcome upon completion, and...

* Free of a strict, externally imposed deadline, and...

* Impossible to complete in one sitting, usually because...

* The method to complete them isn't clear, but it...

* Probably involves doing lots of experiments, research, contacting people, etc., and...

* The optimal time to start work has already passed.

I doubt these are universal, but I've found it useful to be able to recognize tasks like these as a separate class from normal work, rather than being surprised when they turn out to be different.
wow, 1950s thinking indeed: "this is not easy to explain to women".
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Exactly, while I have access to VPN and other means of bypassing the block, I have no intention of supporting such lackadaisical solutions to our privacy.
> Unlike conventional football, where the winner is determined by the highest scoring of the two teams, in three-sided football the winning team is that which concedes the fewest goals.

You could say that in conventional football the winner is determined by the team which concedes the fewest goals as well. It wouldn't make a difference on 1v1, but it does make a difference on 1v1v1, and that'd make the two more compatible.

I've played football with 3 teams before as a kid & teen (and other sports, such as softball), but not with the above rule. It generally turned into a gank fest (2v1), and the above rule would solve that for a lot of games with 3 players though not something like MtG because the game is over after you "scored" 20 times ie. there's no end time.

Also, as a general statement, there are a lot of fun variants on football including ways to build equal teams. I've seen some of that some during gym, playground on school, and after school on the streets (yeah, did things besides playing computer back in the late 80s/early 90s). To name two simple examples of variations on football: on the schoolyard playground we played football with a tennis ball, and on football training we played football with small goals though without keeper. Simple, minor modifications which allow for a lot of variation and strategy.
Is this happening inside google campus or in a city?
> understand images in Google Photos

This is one of the areas I’m most enthusiastic about but … it’s still nowhere near the performance of untrained humans. Google has poured tons of resources into Photos and yet if I type “cat” into the search box I have to scroll past multiple pages of results to find the first picture which isn’t of my dog.

That raises an interesting question: Google has no way to report failures. Does anyone know why they aren’t collecting that training data?
Rust has lifetimes and ownership as language concepts so that you have to be explicit about who owns a resource, for example memory, but it does not give you a lot of control about what to do when an allocation fails.

Zig is designed so that you can still peogrammatically deal with a failing allocation, as does well-written C, but it does not have a ownership system like Rust.
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>This really annoys me, but what can one do? At least it's fixed now.

The weird thing is, open source development is as close to a free market as one can get. Frustration with NPM should result in multiple javascript package managers competing to undermine NPM's dominance, but the only alternative is one that uses the Node registry.
One minute call twice everyday by real human.

1. First to remind me the things, I would be doing today.
2. Following up on the tasks, I am supposed to do today.

I tried to do using Alexa. Didn't go as expected.
Personally I think the answer is anti-natalism. Once life gets more intelligent it takes a relatively short time (compared to the age of the universe) to get to the point where they realise it's unethical to create new life and choose to go extinct.

As a result, intelligent life around the universe only exists as short 'blips', being around for too short a time to ever meet other species.
Blockchain is an open distributed ledger protocol. I don't see how that fits with SQL?

Am I missing something?
Both the words "today" and "tomorrow" ("morrow" being related to the word "morning") are defined in terms of the day, not whether it's before or after midnight. "Noon tomorrow" spoken at 23:55 or 0:05 refers to the same point in time (~12 hours later) in human language. I would argue that "today" is basically unassigned at night - there is no current day in scope.

Sometimes we need to use non-human language to communicate intent correctly to a computer, but we shouldn't let that redefine perfectly good and well established human language.
Doesn't seem factually inaccurate, it's essentially saying "not my problem". I assume the incompetence accusation on LE is due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881704.
What drives the female desire to have an expensive engagement ring in the USA? I'm not criticising anyone for desiring one, but I've never asked easier. I like the idea of wearing rings, but I'd do something more exotic and rare, like iridium or something.
puppet dependency managers have also been an issue
it's certainly easy to solve poorly
What do you see exactly when you look closely and how do you know it is dead end?
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[ Prices below are arbitrary but illustrate why this is totally irrelevant outside of jewellery ]

De Beers relies on the fact that ordinary people don't understand diamonds aren't very valuable. After all, the diamonds they see sold by De Beers are expensive, so...?

De Beers plucks a $50 diamond from the mines, charges $5000 for it in jewellery and says that's symbollic of True Love, or whatever nonsense people believe.

But the people making diamond cutting saws do not care about True Love, so they are already buying whatever is cheapest, and they won't pay more than $10 for $10 of diamonds. To them that $50 diamond is worth... $50.

De Beers new plan is to make $50 synthetic diamonds, brand them, get across to consumers how these aren't "real" diamonds (hurting synthetic producers), that they're more "I wanna get into your knickers" than "True Love" and charge say $500 for them to emphasise that they're worse than its $5000 mined diamonds.

That makes no difference to the diamond cutting saw people, they still just want diamonds for their purely mechanical properties, and they'll continue to pay $10 for $10 of little diamonds.

De Beers hopes that this drives the synthetic diamond competition out of their market, and allows it to go back to charging $5000 for a $50 diamond in jewellery. The industrial market operates on a rational basis, there's no profit for De Beers there, it's all about the silly people paying $5000 to signal "True Love".
Still, using ip addresses to try to determine where a request is originating from is not a good idea. I'm also not intending to bypass a block, I just happen to be in a network right now that that doesn't have a public ip in the EU, I'm using the internet as intended, the fact that ips sometimes correspond to geography is mostly accidental.
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For comparison, several variations of three-player chess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-player_chess) exist.
As a procastrinator I get it, but wouldn't you get the same data from non-procastrinators if you overload their capacity and observe them switching to the 'highest pressure' deadline?
It could fallback to the current behaviour just fine.
There's a fluorescence test and a conductivity test they do. Iirc, the natural diamonds do worse and that's how they identity them.
Yes, that is important. I agree it would be bad if employers started implicitly requiring this stuff.

A lot of employers will pass on you if you lack an easily searchable LinkedIn or Facebook profile, which is frightening. But still plenty won’t care.
Doesn't really make any difference. There is some size of rock that's too big for your shielding, and you rather want that mass concentrated in a handful of planets than spread around.
But you can use it for gravitational slingshots.
> It is a well constrained problem

But attacking not-well-constrained problems is what's needed to show real progress in AI these days, right?
Yes

Vanilla is actually vanilla - it's a complex substance. Artificial vanilla is just one component of vanilla - vanillin.
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> Poker players suffer from similar delusions about how their game can be generalised to other domains.

Oh that's so true

Poker players in the real life would give up more often than not, whenever they didn't know enough about a situation or they didn't have enough resources for a win with a high probability.

And people can call your bluff even if you fold.
It is one thing to disable cruise control if I've gently tapped the brake pedal to deactivate. With every cruise system I've encountered that happens well before the brakes bite. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't want emergency automatic braking off achieved by the same trigger. (No experience of Teslas to be certain).

It is entirely another another if automatic braking or other safety features deactivate when I am scrubbing speed by "slamming on the brakes". That seems like a very bad idea. If my foot slips from the brake pedal that's one common scenario where I would indeed like emergency automatic braking.
There's discussion here https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/19366/hardware-use...
AlphaZero's hardware was faster and Stockfish had a year old version with non optimum settings. It was still an impressive win but it would be interesting to do it again with a more level playing field.
I gave my fiancee, now spouse, my grandmother's diamond ring, about forty years ago now. The value instilled in diamonds by fake scarcity is nothing compared to the value instilled in durable objects (like rings) by their history. It's all sentimental value anyhow.

It's great that diamond mining is starting to fade from human history. It will take a while. The mall jewelry shops are still advertising the engagement-ring "one month's wages" schtick.

My snarky electrican engineer pal puts it this way. "Sure, crystals can put you touch with the whole universe. But you have to build them into circuits first!"
I'm pretty sure that most do something similar regardless.
I really enjoyed this.

And I think no one mentioned the very related Computerphile video yet: "The Problem with Time & Timezones
" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

Same topic, equally entertaining (not AS geeky though).
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That's not procrastination. That's efficiency.
This article covers a lot of important points, but I must nitpick one in particular. GMT is not a timezone. Europe/London is a timezone. GMT is solar time which is distinct from UTC as a time system. The purpose of leap seconds is to track the difference between TAI and GMT which results in UTC (i.e. UTC = TAI + leap seconds).

Since everything is relative, my preference for recording accurate historical time is microseconds since TAI0. Everything else prior and future is an estimate.
frankly you are treating Facebook and your phone as if they were addictive drugs instead of a way to communicate

the government should take those away if people can't use them without hurting themselves

taking some person heroin or cocaine away is a form of torture or human right violation too, but we let governments do it because we think those chemicals corrupt the individual who uses them
If almost everyone understands you but a tiny vocal minority pretends they didn't, though...
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Nice. I've wondered several times how to have the equivalent of {1, 2, 3} ^ {3, 4} from Python, but in bash.
Unless some sort of millionaire / billionaire (Thiel / Musk / Bezos, i.e. one of guys the hated by HN, just kidding) will be behind this open-source journal.
My comment above (about the bribery) was a joke. I am surprised that people took it at face value.

But no matter the joke, in no other language you 'd see packages like "is-true", "is-false", "ifAnd" (because && is too difficult /s) and "ifOr" (because... what's that "ll".... wait, is it "II" ? Um... How do I type it that vertical || line thing again?? /s).

The problem is not with users creating "useless" packages, the problem is with the community embracing them and having completely redundant one-liners gather million of downloads every week.

It just feels... icky. As if the whole's thing is put together with duct tape and bubble gum. We didn't resort to these kind of things when we had to support IE5.5 and 6. What went wrong from 2010 till today?

Seeing "is-true" rely to "is-object"... Why? Seriously, why? Maybe I am being completely narrow-minded and bitter.

If that is so please teach me and I 'll try to be better. I am not trying to provoke only to learn.
In Arizona, on the streets:
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> This is not easy to explain to women and the mechanically innocent.

How insulting! As a father of two girls (and a boy) I'm glad such statements aren't common anymore.
Your doing the right thing by doing a cost-benefit from their perspective, but your completely misjudging the costs of releasing a hostage vs. murdering someone.
That description sounds a lot like a unikernel-type system.