skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what model you use for the AI and in what field.
With ML you have a model that dictates your constraints and how it applies what it learns.
If you have an AI that models let's say Hannibal and his tactics on a battlefield, well you may do well against many opponents in a battle simulation. On the other hand if you modeled "Bevis and Butthead" and had that AI run a restaurant, you may have a colorful but disastrous result.
You would have to find an appropriate context for the model to be useful.
A shell that reruns the entirety of a compiled language each time you enter a line.

"This has obvious performance disadvantages if you're actually doing computation inside your REPL instance—for each new line, you'll have to redo all old computation. However, this technique has other distinct advantages that make it very desirable for certain use cases."

Are there any cleaver increment compile/run tricks that could speed this up?
Can you please not post acerbic rants to HN?
Agreed... this is called "partial founder buyout" btw and helps align investors and founders.

Your investors want you to shoot for the stars... it's hard to do that when you're worried about rent, bills, etc.

Additionally, your EMPLOYEES benefit from this too as you're now thinking like investors and want to grow the company.
Oh right, the following mode! Hadn't thought of that, that surely counts as flying by camera. But it doesn't apply to the situation where you give the drone a preconfigured, uh, visual coordinates (a path, I guess that must be?) and it will try to follow it. So it still cannot wreak havoc at an airport without either you being there (follow mode), GPS being available (autopilot to coordinates), or flying manually using a remote control.
15 activists were just convicted under the 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act for obstructing a deportation flight:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/stansted-15-depo...

The 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act says:

"It is also... an offence for any person by means of any device, substance or weapon unlawfully and intentionally to disrupt the services of such an aerodrome in such a way as to endanger or be likely to endanger the safe operation of the aerodrome or the safety of persons at the aerodrome." and provides that "A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life."
Call it what it is: fraud. They fraudulently deceive their customers for monetary gain.
> fact-checked

Apparently not, since vampire squids feed on marine snow, not blood [1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2012/09/vampire-squid-video/
I think you get the US plus a bunch of other countries that you hear much less about in the US.
Have you ever implemented an ORM? I did.

Stuff like "each implementation can break down that abstract query into whatever implementation specific query works best in that database" is wishful thinking. It's like saying that Java is faster than C++, in theory, because JIT can produce better code. And in theory, it can. In practice, we're not there yet. Same thing with high-level database abstractions - they're all either leaky in subtle ways, or they constrain you to extremely basic operations that can be automatically implemented efficiently on everything (but e.g. forget joins).
Personally, I think the monetization of GMO is the problem more than the GM.

We have turned seeds into the equivalent of Gillette razors. A farmer buys patented seeds and the complimentary chemical to kill everything else.

The problem is that as farming has turned into a big dumb business, centuries of best practices with respect to land management are getting tossed. Farmers near where I grow up (who are left) don’t rotate and are being ground into bankruptcy as larger and larger entities dominate.
Except food doesn’t tend to harm you if it’s DNA is a little different, you digest it, it doesn’t modify your cells directly.
You know I originally thought this was an outlandish idea, but I have to remind myself that the processes that govern reproduction are themselves encoded within the DNA... If those processes are affected adversely, it may well take many generations to realize the effects, at which point for those individuals it is far too late to undo the damage.
If this starts happening frequently, I think the response will become more reasonable. Birds pose a similar risk and the response there is to try to keep them away, and build aircraft to withstand most hits.
Would be nice to point the scientific community in the direction of basic software engineering practices. Encouraging engineers to read Code Smells and Refactoring.

Most of the scientific software I've worked with is completely unmaintainable by anyone but the original makers. Buss factors of 1 are not sustainable.
Yes, you're interfering with an extremely complex system. Are we really so naive to believe there is some exact 1:1 mapping of genes to traits, or even close to that? The fact I've heard things like "75% of DNA is useless" [1] seems like such a laughably naive statement I fear for the future of humanity.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140926-at-least-75-per...
Dynamic function creation at run time with Python's eval built-in
Can We Really Resurrect a Dinosaur?
On ranting. From the introduction to the book this article is taken from:

What follows is a polemic, or as defenders of the system would have it, a ‘rant’. Polemics express negative QUALITIES. It is generally best to ‘let the facts speak for themselves’, but there are some aspects of reality which facts cannot speak for. At various points in this book I refer, for example, to the ‘nightmare’ of the system. To those who do not experience system-life as a nightmare (usually people in nice jobs), it will look as if I am ‘ranting’ — an accusation that I tend to take as a compliment — see https://libcom.org/history/shadow-glorious-though-strange-go...
His argument for spurious API breakage is strictly logically correct, but seems practically dubious to me. When have you ever had to unnecessarily break API compatibility because something you thought was an Option[T] result turned out to be really a T, always? Maybe I'm wrong and someone will post some convincing examples, but I currently don't see this as a problem that needs solving.

Union Types don't compose straightforwardly because they flatten; maybe this is desirable in some cases but the rationale in Hickey's talk leaves me unconvinced. The only practical use case for union types I'm aware of is smoother interfacing to dynamically typed APIs; any nice examples for something beyond that?
> I would say Malaysian government, since they need to be responsible for 10s of millions of people's life.

This is very funny. It’s like saying Stalin or Mao commanded superior credibility because they were responsible for tens of millions of lives.
I like the way they politely skipped Kaldi WER on test-clean (4.31) in results table. Their best WER (4.91) will not look so attractive.
The hypocrisy of this site is staggering. Any one of these “growth hackers” would jump at the chance of Goldman running their IPO.
most people will have children anyway.
> what GS does beyond being a “vampire squid.”

Did anyone know what actually GS do anyway? Yes, they are an investment bank, they are dealing with money, they are going after ever bigger margin for profit. But how they get there is anyone's guess, and doubt there are that many people in the whole world understand what exactly GS did to get those money.

Average joes might not know what GS is, as with most of us here on HN, but they surely feel pain that the investment bankings brought to them. In that sense, 'vampire squid' is actually quite useful metaphor: It is mystical, it is malicious.
I just read all the solutions here, and this seems fair. That way they have no reason to be upset - they can take some profit now, or risk holding.
Exactly, exactly, exactly. The hubris of people thinking that they understand “this gene has this discrete effect” is astounding to me.
Sure, you can be productive by just using http as an RPC channel, but it's fragile. That's part of what REST covers.
The Builder’s High
Props to Sciencenews.org. The articles are interesting. The pages load fast. And lots of meaty references to backup the claims. Will subscribe
Aha. I think you've helped me see the central issue with your point that it would also heat the sun to millions of degrees. Suppose there was some system that allowed you to collect the light of some source and dump it somewhere else: the drawing in the What-If seems to suggest a system of perfect mirrors with an "output tube" pointed at the earth, so that any photons leaving the tube hit the earth with a high degree of accuracy. What your point shows us is that even if we imagine an indestructible system of mirrors and lenses to do this, the result is that bottling up the energy that the source normally radiates away massively increases the temperature of the source (turning your mirrors into plasma and returning the system to normal, but we're ignoring that again). So entropy law isn't violated.

The reason I (and probably others) find Randall's explanation unhelpful is that obviously there's "enough" energy being reflected by the moon to start a fire (that's why people keep bringing up solar panels). The issue is that there's no way to optically redirect that energy into a small area without heating up your source to the same degree. Which is theoretically possible I suppose, but it's not the situation the What-If is talking about. Along with the issue that the light we see from the moon is mostly reflected rather than emitted (which changed the situation entirely), this makes the What-If explanation a little misleading.
Do we already have something with the quality and workflow of RStudio but for Python?

Spyder and Rodeo don't even come close at this point. Does PyCharm allow something similar?
Not sure about that. He was trying to get the best deal for Greece, Germany called his bluff and he was left holding the bag, but he had the right intentions. In retrospect he probably should have gone with the Grexit. The Germans would have capitulated, and, had they not, you’d still be better off.
> From my laymans POV

It's just so much more complicated than that.

There is an additional huge array of variables like introns[1] and exons[2].

There's also the fact that not all base pairs encode even for genes, there's things like tRNA[3] and ribosomes[4] and the super amazing ribozymes[5].

Even after all that you have specific DNA binding factors[6] that along with the insane machinery[7] of our DNA regulate which base pairs are even exposed or copied into proteins or other cellular products.

Our genetic code is far more complex than just being "genetic codes." And we're still uncovering more layers of complexity and self-reference[8] the closer we are capable of looking.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intron

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribozyme

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA-binding_protein

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_gene_expression

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world
Well, SyncThing is open source as well as being free.
I'm not sure about geography, but the vast majority of U.S. population is proudly uneducated in mathematics and many hard sciences. Math taught in high schools is pretty laughable and physics isn't even required in many places.

Source: Lived in the U.S. for many years.
Medical study finally puts parachutes to randomized controlled trial
Most Verizon FIOS markets have gig access. They don’t like cities, so you’d need to look at close suburbs.
> Some breeding bulls are used to impregnate tens of thousands of cows. I fail to remember the details but one of them 30-40 years ago had a genetic defect which contaminated a lot of the US stock.

The other side to that story is that, while the breeding male's genes led to more spontaneous abortions (i.e., pregnancies that ended unexpectedly with calf loss), his daughters produced a lot more milk. From the same article:

> That’s a crazy number, but here’s an even crazier one: Despite the lethal mutation, using Chief’s sperm instead of an average bull’s still led to $30 billion dollars in increased milk production over the past 35 years. That’s how much a single bull could affect the industry.
Source?

As opposed to US politicians like the Bushes, Clintons and Obamas? Or any of the countless corrupt puppet dictators that the US installed around the world?

Listen, I know they're pushing really hard for a war right now; but unless you're right up there at the top of the pyramid, war is hell.

The only thing that will ever get us out of this hole is truth, and truth starts with not spreading BS.
The scattering seems it should cancel out. As far as total energy reaching a point on earth (or the circular disk of a lens) just as much should get to you only due to scattering as failed to get to you due to scattering.

I don't think this changes the ultimate answer to the question.
I strongly believe Discord would be a better alternative to Slack in the workplace. Drop in/out voice channels combined with chat would be fantastic for geographically disparate teams.
> The purpose of education is also to prevent ordinary people from being able to communicate with each other.

Without education, a lot of people wouldn't be able to read the article (for the better?)

Without education, people would rely on their instincts and get tricked by this article, rather than critically analyzing it.

Without education, the author wouldn't have been able to use 90% of the complex vocabulary uses throughout the article... It's almost ironic to read.
For anyone interested below are some examples:

1- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Instrume...

2- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V0RyHPM0mBI/maxresdefault.jpg

I remember the numbers right, but it wasn't reverse logarithmic scale. It was a hard transition at 140KM/h.
People know about the political divisions of America which make the news. Likewise, Americans know about important provinces of other countries.

For example, when I was in China, people asked me all sorts of questions about Texas. It turns out the Lone Stars have built quite an international reputation as a... libertarian paradise. Hawaii, California and New York play on the international stage, but nobody has heard of Idaho.

Americans know the divisions of the UK. They might know Holland is a part of the Netherlands. Most of us know Bordeaux Normandy and Champagne are provinces of France, Bavaria is in southern Germany and Crimea is supposed to be in Ukraine. We know Venice, Sicily, Kashmir, Tibet, Manchuria, Xinjiang, Siberia, Baja California, the Yucatan and Patagonia.

Also our states don’t get redistricted often (ever), unlike some countries.
The problem with GM foods is that the overwhelming majority of them are modified for resistance to poison chemicals, which are dangerous and haremful
There's quite a bit of logic encoded. DNA has equivalents of conditional jumps, and stored state. That's in the stuff that for a long time was called "junk DNA" between the encoding sequences.
> I think that if discoverability would be there from the start, we wouldnt have things like Hateoas

HATEOAS is discoverable. That's the whole point of placing hypermedia as a central tenet of REST.
joe rogan and jake the snake
Why do you think changes would be as likely to cause good as to cause harm? In complex, yet structured, systems - I think changes without fully understanding what you're doing are vastly more likely to cause harm than good. Software is the obvious example. Change a line of bytecode/assembly to something else. I think the chances of that change being good are extremely close to 0.
I definitely don't want barriers on research. Rather, the issue is that this technology is being used by overzealous profiteers who likely care very little about potential consequences. Alarmism is warranted IMO when corporations that have proven to be sociopathic are using this technology and potentially affecting near every in the country (and maybe the planet). Haven't we learned anything from global warming?
No surprise that someone in the crypto space is severely mis informed while also making it clear they only truly care about the price. The truth of it is that Ethereum functions better as a system at $10 than $1000. Of course crypto has been hijacked by brain dead speculators so it’s hard to see its true value.
Not really. It's more like a compiler, an optimizer/simulator, and compiler-compiler all pipelined in a circle. Seemingly random changes get incorporated into a starting binary that are selectively pruned/modified during the simulation/optimization phase, which generates a new compiler-compiler, which constructs a new compiler, which generates a new binary to run through the optimzer again.

It's more in-depth, because I'm abstracting away the elegance of protein/enzyme selection and translation through biochemical/mechanical fitness... But it's all there.

I'm just afraid of the predilection humanity as a collective has for not taking into account/being able to reason through higher order network effects.

Our economic/environmental woes prove that anything approaching the periodicity of a human lifespan becomes extremely hard to analyze/predict in any meaningful way. It seems to work though... So some days I feel like I can't really frame an argument against it.

It's kind of hard to argue that it isn't working when you have air conditioning.
Wait, why should we care about 120hz? It seems like 60hz should be good enough for people who aren't professional gamers?

I wonder how much battery life could be saved by turning the refresh rate down to 30hz?
Reading through the prologue to the whole book, I get: Civilization is a sin; knowledge is a fraud; religion is evil, money is evil, etc., etc.

Hard pass. I doubt the author even believes this tripe; he's more likely to live in an "artificial" city than try to survive in the woods on berries.
There is Mechanic (https://github.com/fsprojects/Mechanic), an OSS project that's meant to take away some of the pain, though I don't have any experience using it and I'm not aware of how useful it is in practice.
That's not only a layperson's POV. There was an article in The Atlantic (approx a year+ ago) - which I've looked for an cannot find (sorry) - on a scientist who long to short "I don't think things (i.e., DNA) are what most science thinks it is." Much like you he said, "it's not this simple. the mesh is more complex and has multiple currently unforeseen dependencies." Obviously, I'm paraphrasing.

And every month since I've read something that supports this and undermine the current conventional wisdom / proof.
I too have faith.

If not to that sub, then the peeps over at /r/rbi and /r/whatisthisthing has achieved incredible findings
> The purpose of education is to socialise human beings into a life of complete institutional dependency. School teaches you that justice must come from someone in institutional authority, that meaningful activity must come from a ‘career path,’ that if you want to express yourself you must first gain access to centralised speech platforms,1 that if you want to do something, you must first of all gain a licence or a qualification and that, above all, your own desires and instincts are invalid.

And also education is based on punishing errors and consequently stifles real learning because we learn by erring.
Hey and the next Haystacks CFP is open. You should submit a talk Max!

http://haystackconf.com
Depends a lot on the situation. If the two of you bust your asses and the company is on a great track to liquidity for the employees, I'm sure people would feel fine (though in that case, why not just pay yourself enough salary?). If there's still massive risk that employee equity goes to zero, as an employee I would be pretty turned off by the fact that the founders want to cash out.
Very droll. Nice elude to dysgenics [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics
In other words, "I have no evidence but I refuse to consider that I could be wrong"
I meant a never ending stream of sophisticated ideas and precise data that leads nowhere. I used to watch every interview of the guy[1] and .. I always left the video empty minded.

[1] he seemed to have human values and of course knowledge about the topic
Yes, there are a few packages but if you want specific here is a link: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libcaca0 A funny side note: Sam Hocevar, Debian's former project leader, wrote version 2 of WTFPL..

But you are right that it is not accidental association. I attribute the humor to be intentional and very similar to that of the WTFPL authors.

Something that might be a accidental association is a pattern I noticed in the debian mailing list. For some peculiar reason, the vast majority of those in favor of removing the package are from the UK and US, while those against it are from east Europe and France. I guess diversity of culture is not high on the agenda of the diversity team.
You mean without learning. The ‘education’ presented in this article is schooled education, not learning. People do learn in schools, but they do so despite being there, not because of it.
It's an iterative process. Anthro-centricism is powerful in terms of what it makes "obvious". The universe spins about the earth. That atoms are made up of objects. That we are the pinnacle of local evolution. That reality is really real.
I don't think it's really accurate to describe selective breeding as restricting how you can modify the underlying data. I'd rather say that the executable itself contains layer upon layer of consistency checks so if you modify it too much it will just refuse to "boot up." In fact selective breeding relies heavily on this mechanism since it can create hundreds or even millions of nonviable organisms for every viable organism.

If the consistency checks in the natural genome don't stop you, pretty much by definition whatever you're doing could happen through an unlikely coincidence of selective breeding (especially if you involve a wild virus to take the place of the lab virus.)
Many people seem to believe it's hard/impossible to negotiate 4 day work week. Your negotiation position might be stronger than you think. Give it a try. Get creative. Approach it as you would a coding problem. Read a book about negotiations.

I have worked 4 days or less for about a decade now. Well worth it.
Those removed testicles must itch like hell. Feel sorry for you.
Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks: "wtf, no, versioning notebooks should not be this tedious?" instead of suggesting other horrendous ways of versioning them?
Thanks again for your help. I think that led me in the right direction.

This is the optical argument for maximum concentration given conservation of étendue (the same page has an optical argument for the conservation):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue#Maximum_concentration

The angle subtended by the moon is approximately 0.54 degrees, or about 0.01 radians, so the maximum concentration factor is about 10,000. The moon provides about 0.1 lux of illumination, so the maximum illumination you can achieve by optics is about 1000 lux. The sun subtends about the same angle, and we receive 30,000-100,000 lux from it, and the maximum illumination you can achieve from concentrating it optically is about 1B lux.

I'm willing to believe that you can't light a fire from the moon, if the intensity's a million times lower.
She was a passenger, she wasn't drunk boating (which is illegal).

If someone sober took her out on a dingy and just left her there after she fell overboard, people would be pretty outraged.