skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of funny to read, because a week or two ago I watched a video about the intricate details the CIA pays attention to in their costuming. I wonder how much effort on altering one's gait, appearance, etc is wasted due to agents being exposed by the overall structure of foreign service and intelligence. If every agent occupies the same post in the embassy or they always drive the same car, it doesn't matter how much they change their hair color.
The older generations have been seriously exposed to climate change for about the same amount of time that millennials have. If you are going to pick on them, why not pick on fiscal policies :)
The problem isn't deduction. It's getting things into the deductive system in the first place. You have to model the world, and your model will probably be incorrect somehow (https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/11public_html/p18...).
I'd say it means attitude and capability to observe whatever (circumstances and people especially) under numerous angles (especially including those the majority of people won't consider) and react constructively. Properly integrated experience ("lessons learnt") together with mindfulness, emotional and fluid intelligence are the major resources for this.
>> I can forgive that 128GB SSD but not the CPU or RAM.

I had the curse of having to use a 2017 MacBook Pro 13” with a 128GB SSD...it’s not forgivable, it’s not usable.

By the time I put xCode in there as well as Office, et cetera, and project files, I was left with 20-30GB left, and anytime I dipped below...20? it bombarded me, literally, continually, with a message ‘you are low on disk space.’

You know what is never forgivable? Soldering a hard drive to the motherboard on a $1500 device.
Non-stupid enemies simply won't put you in the situation where you "have to" push the button anyway.

In any given encounter, they'll steal a minority of your stuff unopposed, and you'll refrain from the murder-suicide button because staying alive with majority of your stuff is still a better outcome for you.

The pattern will continue until someone acts irrationally and then you've got a lot of people dead for reasons that have more to do with pride than logic.
Of course your experience counts. I'm just making sure we're comparing apples to apples. It appears my very shallow understanding of Australian election administration is WAY off. (I'll need to find some sample ballots.)

If you're handling large scale, complicated IRV elections with ease, than that should inform the efforts of our local proponents (eg fairvote.org).
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When you discover that an intuitive result is wrong, the production of a thorough debunking is but a tiny sliver of the total work needed to change the world's minds away from that wrong result.
My best guess is a combination of historical inertia and the fact that the names are actually meaningful, just not in the way that one might naively expect as an outsider.

When the foundry sends you a design kit which contains all their design rules and tooling around a process, then this process has some codename that appears everywhere (think filenames, names of library elements, and so on). This codename tends to be something like GF14 (for GlobalFoundries' 14nm) or N7 (for TSMC's 7nm) plus cryptic suffixes for different revisions of the foundry process.

So the 14/12/10/7nm terms are actually part of the design engineers' everyday work flow. They just also filtered through to marketing for whatever reason.

I could imagine that at some point in the future, foundries will switch to a year-based versioning similar to what happened with a lot of software. So you'll have a GF2027 process and so on. That's pure speculation on my part though, and inertia is definitely a thing.
Advent calendar of whatever type works best for your family, whether religious/securlar stories each day or LEGO Star Wars mini builds, having something they look forward to doing with their parents each day means a lot to little ones.
Studies like this that try to pin or correlate a fundamentally changing, social concept like wisdom with precise quantitative fixtures are idiotic.

No matter the qualifications the authors might make to ensure their definition of wisdom is as empty and useless as that of a specific number, the grand claim of the study makes it sound as if they hadn’t even grasped that qualitative concepts are subject to change and depend upon the entire universe of conditions that impinge upon the concept’s users.

What we mean by wisdom today in 2018 and what, for example, the ancient Greeks or scholastics meant by wisdom is entirely different, such is the power, history, and blurry bounds of the concept—and the point of studying these concepts in such a quantitative fashion is refuted before it’s even made.
what he meant is you could develop something similar in many other languages with the same complexity / time taken in rust.
bert provides incremental improvements on tasks that don't really stress-test contextualized world knowledge in linguistic tasks — contrast with Winograd schemas (SOTA: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02847.pdf). Corpus data and compute don't magically solve everything.
Scientists transform sunlight into a liquid fuel that can be stored for 18 years
"@" is for an array variable or pulling something in array context. You can have variables declared with $, @, or % depending on whether it is a scalar, array, or hash structure.
Qualcomm Suffers Setback in Antitrust Battle
It's worth noting that old people have seen many popular scientific truths come and go. The food pyramid, for example, has killed literally millions of people with terrible nutrition advice. Trusting the scientific community is a good basic model to go by, but it's understandable why people with more life experience may be more skeptical.
The link I provided has a link to a pdf that goes through fundamentally valuing augur, including with a discounted cash flow model.

Finance lesson 101 is that all assets are ultimately valued by its cash flow, or as a store of value. P/E, EV/EBITDA, DCFs, etc. You just try to apply those concepts to crypto, which is what Multicoin does
The repo includes a DESIGN.md file that describes the design motivations for the library, and it's definitely worth reading. It goes through a few really powerful techniques for writing misuse-resistant APIs, and I think some of its advice is applicable to good software engineering in general.

https://github.com/google/mundane/blob/master/DESIGN.md

In particular, their use of the type system to expose opaque types that only allow meaningful operations on them is something that I've seen used to great effect in other statically typed languages, like Haskell.
Nevermind, you can set the cost/max of each:

https://laurikari.net/tre/documentation/regaexec/
Doesn't wisdom come from experience? So, no matter how old you are, if you have done something then you have experience doing it and you have some insight and wisdom about it (whatever it is).

So a 20 year old who has driven the Rubicon Trail probably knows a lot more about that than a 50 year old who has never done so.
I wonder if you can push your case with Uber by threatening to sue for defamation of character.

Also, I wonder if a request for metadata of the photos would help resolve this in your favor.
"I think it's because the wise live longer."

I think this is false and based on nothing.
Many organizations, especially larger ones, have a matrix structure in which project teams pull in resources who report to multiple different managers. So there may be a disconnect between the reporting manager and the team.

It's also just as difficult to evaluate team performance as individual performance. With knowledge workers everything is so subjective, and trying to put objective metrics on it ends up being self defeating due to people gaming the system in ways that harm the broader organization.
Facebook's response here is pretty galling. They are admitting (barely) they were complicit in crimes against humanity and yet the wording they use and their commitment to action is at about the same level as if they experienced an hour of unintended downtime or used the wrong font for a couple days or something equally trivial.

This right here is a perfect example of the banality of evil. Facebook bears a huge responsibility in helping to facility a horrific crime, and yet they are treating it as some sort of boring bureaucratic snafu. They aren't even accepting responsibility, they are just brushing it off in a typical "mistakes were made" fashion. This is appalling. Facebook should be ashamed. Everybody who works at Facebook or holds Facebook stock should be ashamed.
Agreed. This also cuts both ways; usually if something exists or is believed, it came about to be that way for a reason that is not always 'just because' or malicious. Which is why I get a little skeptical when some startups promise a world of disruption and end up, say, reinventing the bus: https://www.pedestrian.tv/tech/very-innovative-silicon-valle...
Came across this somewhere: "cdf" changes the current bash directory to the one open in Finder.

cdf ()
{
currFolderPath=$( /usr/bin/osascript <<EOT
tell application "Finder"
try
set currFolder to (folder of the front window as alias)
on error
set currFolder to (path to desktop folder as alias)
end try
POSIX path of currFolder
end tell
EOT
);
echo "cd to \"$currFolderPath\"";
cd "$currFolderPath"
}
I've found that hardship seems to be the best at imparting wisdom. Several years out of college I don't think I was very different from the day I graduated, but then one day something happened to me and I was suicidally depressed for months and experiencing immense amounts of pain every day. When I came out the other side I was a different person.

People kept telling me: This is an opportunity. You can use it to grow if you want. I think I did, and I think it taught me that as much as it sucked, I gained something I would not have otherwise have had from the experience.
This latest craze of "AI" research seems to be fueled by a sudden glut of computational power (GPUs) that wasn't available previously. I think that most technical people would agree that the mid 2020s is extremely ambitious. I'd also argue that we're actually more likely to experience another AI winter.

The frightening part of the current deep learning research is how susceptible they are to adversarial attacks. Adding small amounts of noise causes misclassification in images, and some papers even explore the inevitability of adversarial examples [1]. This is especially frightening given the amount of autonomous vehicle work being done. I could imagine a situation in which the sensor noise varies just enough to cause such an error. Obviously, the systems will have redundancies built in, but I'm convinced the self-driving cars are still a ways off as well.

EDIT: As others, have stated just adding noise is not enough and it is often used to generalize the model. The paper does discuss that the perturbations can be incredibly small to cause this deviation and that the set of such deviations may be larger than expected especially for complex images.

Regarding the AI winter, I suppose I should have defined it as a reduction in the amount of research and the extent of the progress being made in the area rather than the utility of such research.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02104
MIT only requires source attribution. It's the BSD licenses that require attribution for binary forms of redistribution. Still, it is good manners and good cover-your-arse practice to attribute whatever free software work they used (Google does this with their giant "open source licenses" page).
I don't see any problem in designing it.

Now, you'll just be facilitating the work for some company that will sell them. Because they still need to be physically made and sold.

I know that Brazil uses Diebold-made machines that run Linux.
>Why did Jean Calment live so many more years than other centenarians, breaking all records and setting a life expectancy record which decades later has not just not been broken, but not even approached?

> she requested to be woken at 6:45 am and started the day with a long prayer at her window thanking God for being alive and for the beautiful day which was starting, sometimes loudly asking the reason for her longevity and why she was the only one alive in her family. Seated on her armchair she did gymnastics wearing her stereo headset. Her exercises included flexing and extending the hands ("a distinguished woman must have beautiful hands"),
then the legs, https://ewikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Daily_routine_at_...

I don't believe in god, but I believe in prayer: meditation/mindfulness + appreciation + possibilities + supernatural aid (as in the Hero's journey).

But perhaps not a blessing to outlive one's grandchildren.
The food pyramid is/was an economic model to satiate lobbyists, not a scientific one.
I like Majority Judgment, which I essentially view as approval voting on steroids. It allows you to effectively rank candidates, for one thing.

Really, we just need something better than first past the post.

FPTP < IRV < Kemeny–Young < Majority Judgment

Really, if anyone here hasn't looked at cardinal voting systems before, I strongly recommend reading some of the academic work in this area. There are a lot of strong considerations in favor that surprised me.
This is the greatest sarcastic comment I've seen all year. You nailed the Haskell zealot to a tee. Meanwhile the Forth zealot is getting IBS just hearing about the code complexity from Haskell and all the myriad of language extensions to make it closer to actual mathematics.

Don't get me wrong, Haskell is really really cool and some brilliant coders use it. One day I'll actually make it through Haskell book.
Tackling ozone depletion is a lot easier: we stop using some chemicals. Not a big deal.

Tacking climate change is asking everyone to stop using energy (as we know it) which is fundamentally existential.

They're not in the same category of proportional impact.
I can't. It isn't simple. And certainly to me, doesn't justify the catchy "assumption-challenging" title of the paper, which appeals to an obviously informal definition of the term.

===

In our work, we proceed from a theoretical conceptualisation of wisdom as expert-level knowledge and judgement in the fundamental pragmatics of life. Note that the term wisdom is reserved to denote only the highest levels of performance. Lower performance levels are labelled as wisdom-related. Knowledge (in its widest sense, cf. Polanyi, 1958) in the domain, fundamental pragmatics of life, entails insights into the quintessential aspects of the human condition
and human life including its biological boundaries, cultural conditioning, and intra- as well as interindividual variations. At the centre of this body of knowledge and its application are questions concerning the conduct, interpretation, and meaning of life (for a more detailed description see Baltes et al., 1992; Staudinger & Baltes, 1994).

We have outlined a framework of five criteria (see Table 1) that can be used to evaluate the quantity and quality of wisdom-related knowledge and judgement contained, for instance, in individuals’ verbal responses to difficult and uncertain problems of life. This approach to the psychological study of wisdom received empirical support in a series of studies with regard to reliability and some indication of predictive and external validity
(Baltes, Staudinger, Maercker, & Smith, 1995; Smith & Baltes, 1990;
Smith, Staudinger, & Baltes, 1994; Staudinger, 1989; Staudinger, Smith, &
Baltes, 1992; Staudinger, Lopez & Baltes, 1997; Staudinger, Maciel, Smith
& Baltes, 1998a).

===

An example of a test question is: "somebody gets a phone call from someone about to commit suicide, what should they do?"
except that: vomit fraud is a very uncommon occurrence

second, regular cabs also have tons of ways to rip off riders, and do so. Playing with the meter, intentionally taking a longer route, etc.
I don't see your email in your profile. Feel free to email me at thomas@gebert.app

I forgot to mention it, I'm interested mostly in theoretical math, and more specifically Type Theory.
it's available to scihub
I don't know much about AI, but I wonder what AI people think of this theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition

The idea being that if we want to replicate strong AI, it needs to be embodied, because a lot of our cognition is built on metaphors that are instantiated in our physical actions and perceptions.
> [abuse] why does it appear in the biographies of so many people who achieve greatness, often middle/upper-class?

Because other people don't write autobiographies?
Show HN: Why does every homepage look the same?
Why do you believe that the wise live longer? That seems a hasty conclusion to come to, especially when the age you live to can be influenced by factors that wisdom can't circumvent.
> I was close to that with the SageTV boxes, but Google bought SageTV and it started becoming obsolete, and there was never really a good Netflix integration anyway.

Man I was pissed when Google bought and killed SageTV. It was probably the best DVR out there. Flexible in all the ways you'd want it to be. High Wife Approval Factor (MythTV was a disaster)

I guess they open sourced it a few years ago, but our family has moved on to just renting comcasts DVR. It's actually not that bad.

... That being said, the way we consume media has changed considerably since the days of SageTV. Youtube has almost completely taken over my TV watching time.
Uber is the worst, especially if you are an Uber Eats driver. They just recently increased the drive radius while lowering pay. The app doesn't encourage customers to tip, either, whereas a tip is default in other apps like GrubHub(then again, DoorDash steals tips so they can pay less in fees).

Unfortunately, not enough people use Lyft so those who don't like Uber are still forced to "multi-app" with Uber rather than relying on it as a sole source of income.

It's companies like Uber that make the US unemployment rate bullshit; people can be independent contractors, get treated like trash by "unicorns" like Uber, get paid shit, and be considered employed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can make a living working multiple gig economy jobs, but it's hardly sustainable.
I agree with the general skepticism regarding AGI, but I think it's worth pointing out that there is some progress towards robust representations of abstract conceptual knowledge (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/331/6022/1279) that are far beyond feature extraction.
> These drivers are looking for any way that they can to make their work barely profitable

Sympathizing with this is like sympathizing with a store clerk who is taking money out of the register on the side.
Think of it like "I couldn't have done it without you" when people accept awards. Sure they could have, it's just an expression of appreciation.

He might also not have chased the project if he weren't working in an ecosystem he particularly liked, so who knows, maybe it wouldn't have happened without Rust.
Exactly my question. When I look at common definitions of it, they all have some age-correlated feature, like experience. My first guess is that they're using a definition that doesn't match the average-person understanding of the term.
"There's more than one way to name it"
That page misses my favorite XML quote, which is also on cat-v at http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/:

XML is a classic political compromise: it balances the needs of man and machine by being equally unreadable to both.

- Matthew Might
Well, the problem is that these are researchers claiming to have empirical evidence relating to wisdom. Their precise definition of the term matters if you want to understand what they're actually saying.
I’ve felt the same way in the last few years since college. Been a ‘similar’ situation but I can definitely tell that all this time I’ve spent working on myself, reading philosophy, etc is just starting to pay off.

Not saying it’s ideal but trying to learn as much as you can when you’re in a hard place might help you out.
I mean you can apply astrology to predicting the future but that doesn't make it any more valid than applying those valuation methodologies to cryptocurrencies. Call it "fundamental" if that makes you happy, but the reality is you're effectively just picking numbers out of a hat.
That is not what people were told, and that is kind of the point.
STAR voting is good, but it makes the (IMO) mistake of taking the average rating as each candidate's score. I think it's absolutely crucial in a voting system to make it resilient to manipulation, and that means that taking the median rating (as in Majority Judgement) is the way to go.
Ah, right, yes, that makes sense now. Thanks.
Having a user serviceable M.2 slot would have made this the perfect Mac for me.
Lets say I have Applecare for the first 3 years and the SSD dies on the 4th year, what are my options? Replace entire logic board with new CPU & SSD?
People don't risk falling off scaffoldings when building and maintaining nuclear power plants?
This is a common misconception. It is not a small amount of noise that causes misclassification of images. It is a carefully designed and quite unique pattern that causes misclassification. It only looks like noise to the human eye, but it really isn't.

Yes, neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks. No, just adding noise to an image doesn't break neural networks.
Almost like it’s a publicly accessible website or something..
Using your anecdote (and my own personal experience) I would venture a guess that pain and suffering can change a willing person more than any other kind of experience.

I spent a long time ignoring discomfort (pain-light) in my life. When I started nosing into the discomfort, the pain, and the hard things, I started to change. I had to be willing to do it, though, be willing to face that I was wrong, acknowledging that even the criticisms I had of myself were wrong.

I have changed more in the last year than I have over the rest of my life. The change has been huge.
So why doesn't everyone have domesticated pet raccoons?