skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to highlight the folly of The Chinese Room is to consider a different alternative:

Imagine you create a system of filing cabnets that encode rules to compute AlphaGo on encrypted inputs. This is _clearly_ conceptually possible (if not practical just due to the sheer cost and size).

This system would, as AlphaGo does, be the worlds strongest go player. Even though the human inside may not understand go at all (and certainly wouldn't understand the game they were helping to play, as all the moves would be encrypted).

In this form we see The Chinese Room not as as evidence against AI as intended, but if the argument actually held (and wasn't just a form of intellectually low misdirection) it would be very strong evidence that its idea of "understanding" is of no practical use. ... since what would "understanding" even mean if we couldn't even say that the worlds best go player didn't understand the game at all?
FE: vuejs (PWA), BE: PHP Laravel,

I would be interested in working on a backend if it would be this stack :)
It's a minefield of property rights and politics. Land owners have water rights. The state can't (or won't) just arbitrarily yank those rights without compensation. At this point, I think that compensation would be in the very high billions of dollars? I'm not sure what the value is.

Water in California is a complicated story. The right solution might be to take over the rights from the private owners and ration water in a systemic way. But politically that is still a non-starter.

If this had been foreseen way back when, with water being treated as a public resource to be auctioned to the highest bidder, we'd all be better off. But it's too late to easily switch to that. There are way too many rights-of-ownership to untangle.

Imagine if the FCC never existed, and spectrum rights were instead allocated based on who has the tallest and most powerful transmitter. That's loosely how water is currently apportioned. He who has the deepest well and thirstiest crops gets the water.
Clever bug exploitation – backface culling
Clean it. Put cooking oil on it. Heat it to 170-180°C (depends on oil type, and I use infrared thermometer to check). Keep it at that temerature for 30min or so. It's non-sticky again. That's what I do with my cast iron pan.

Alternatively you can put it into oven and bake it at that temperature.
Remember that those well paid techies are what lets CA balance the budget.
Poor people would move to California to get free income, and rich people would move away to avoid high taxes. This idea is a non-starter.
Back in 2014 they issued a recall for batteries... They expanded it in 2015. IIRC it's still valid today if your battery is the original one. IIRC there wasn't any issue, but there was a risk in the design that could pose a safety hazard.

They also recalled some devices for a battery enclosure problem again in 2018. Same deal: no issues, but there was a manufacturing defect that could have resulted in an issue. It was a loose screw.
Team up with a good ux designer so that you can wireframe/prototype your idea before you spend any development time. I'd love to help - www.andyphil.com
Under their language modeling section, they include the Transformer and have listed some papers from 2019, so it seems to be reasonably up to date.
> Not having a speedometer shouldn't make a sensible driver suddenly very dangerous at all.

of course. Any sensible driver will not drive the car without a speedometer.
Which is neither here nor there for a country with 1+ billion people.

You can have all that and still have 70%+ piss poor population...
You don't need to repeal proposition 13. It bans ad valorem taxes only. It technically does not ban adding a tax on the raw square footage of land in specific areas that need additional development - only if it's based off the assessed value of the property.
Which tool are you using for monitoring Nvidia GPUs?
Exactly.

JS is absuerdly fast (comparatively).

The DOM/rendering is sluggish (comparatively).

The observation is the
driving point behind virtual DOM.

Also why high performance rendering uses Canvas or WebGL, at the expense of debugging tools, browser extensions, and accessibility.
Yeah, the thing about the argument is it mixes together two close but distinct arguments in a way that makes it harder to argue with either.

On the one hand, there's the implication that because it's just books and boxes & whatever, it can't do the impressive feat of speaking Chinese.

On the other hand, there's the implication that if it is a "room" or "computer" or something doing the speaking of Chinese, it can't "really" be doing it because it doesn't have the spark of life or a soul or whatever magic one might name.

And because the argument has a bit of both these claims to it, it is hard to address since a proponent can go back and forth between them.

That this argument was taken seriously by philosophers was rather disheartening to me when I discovered this, when it became obvious there really wasn't any more there than a colorful (but not particular relevant) metaphor.
The Turing test is an attempt to define intelligence operationally, from the outside, as a black box. Searle's argument is that the test is ineffective, since he is hypothetically satisfying it without "intelligence".

Unfortunately, his argument applies to a human being as well, so...
AFAIK that's all Linux's TLS implementation does -- ciphering & encryption, not session setup
I do not believe I have presupposed the answer; I have simply articulated how I believe the reductio to work.

The key, of course, is whether we think that the person in the Room actually understands Chinese. The inference Searle wants us to draw, based on our intuition, is that the person does not understand Chinese just because the person is following a lookup table. The way to get around the argument is to claim either (i) that the inference doesn't work—that is, Strong AI does not imply machines understand, or (ii) that the Chinese Room does not imply machines do not understand.

I think (i) is a reasonable claim that follows from understanding what is intended by the term "Strong AI." (ii) is the tricky one. It seems to me the best route out is to find a way to substantiate a claim alluded to by another commentator, viz. the property of intelligence does not exist (though I would say "understanding does not apply" or something like that). The thing is, it does seem to me that understanding is a reasonable category for this case; and anyone who thinks this is likely to feel the force of the argument.
I don't see why "strace -f" wouldn't suffice. I use that all the time for exactly these kinds of things.
Bump_alloc – my new Rust crate
> It's labor which consists of people who _have broken US law_, and it's hired by people who are also breaking US law

Of which Trump himself is guilty of [0]. Why isn't Trump in jail for that specific crime already then? You see the parent's point now?

[0] - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-trump-organization-emp...
You can prove anything by assuming the truth of the conclusion you aim to reach.
I don't understand what you mean by 'non-locality of convolutions'. Isn't convolution inherently a local operation? This probably being one of the main reasons that CNNs are biased towards texture [0] and not shapes?

[0] https://openreview.net/forum?id=Bygh9j09KX
In my eyes FOSDEM proves that the community-driven FLOSS model also works for producing a conference (including the talks that we can enjoy from our couches), not 'just' for producing software.

I think we are mostly beyond the need for legitimization of FLOSS these days. But as you mention there is no shortage of professional events.
`nvidia-ml-py3` a Python interface to `nvidia-smi`.
This is my thought as well. Keep the "broadcast a notification to all other devices registered to the user" part to verify that the new one is authorized, but instead of copying the private key to the new device, tell the server to authorize the newly-generated private key.
John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir
Firm Caught Fabricating Russia Data Used by NBC to Claim Russia Supports Gabbard
Not sure obscure is the right word there, mighty boosh was pretty huge about a decade ago. Unless you mean the approach to the humor?
Iirc Lee first got Fielding and Barrett working together when they worked on a show he done around 1997 but beyond even he would stress that it would be a stretch to give him credit for their successes.

I dunno about saying Lee is on the fringes either, he's had 4 seasons of a show on BBC that only ended a couple of years ago. He's on the fringes relative to guys who aggressively court mass audiences but he's almost surprisingly popular for how arch be can be. It's hardly Daniel Kitson (a big favorite of Stewart Lee's who is well worth checking out) levels of critically adored but unknown.
The Over-Engaged Knowledge Worker
usernames are strings, and what exactly is in them doesn't matter.

"1234" is a string in anyone's language. I have to say I've never thought of doing this and can't see a use for it but I'll bet there are some lovely bugs to be discovered. Also, you can have more than one name -> uid. There can be multiple uid = 0 for example, indeed calling uid = 0 "root" is only a convention and is also unnecessary.
Also there's the whole "killing a mosquito with a bazooka" point there. If you are making this for your research-group then all the more reason to not depend on a big thing like Zabbix that'd require a fatter server and someone to set up/maintain.

For your purposes this looks like more than enough but if you wanted to hone your Pythonic/Flask/webapp skills a little more I'd suggest you expose the rest of the info exposed by the CLI and also expose the backend API for people that may wanna use your underlying code and integrate into their own stuff (eg something that chooses an available GPU before starting a job).
> We hate them for the same reason we hate airport security theater; they do not work

Well, they absolutely do work. They work so well that they've reduced bot actions by almost 100% on our sites.

We wouldn't use Recaptcha if there wasn't abuse on the internet. But, unfortunately, there is. There is a sobering amount of it.

I'm actually curious about all these posts suggesting that websites use Recaptcha for no real reason or for some trivial reason. To me, it suggests a massive misunderstanding that people have about the internet.

It's certainly something to worry about, but how about this angle: abuse is getting so cheap and hard to prevent that we're electing the aid of complicated systems engineered by large corporations like Google. That scares me, but not from a Google=bad standpoint. It indicates that the internet has fundamental problems that make abuse trivial, and that's a different discussion worth having, but it's a much harder one than Google=bad. Probably less cathartic, too.
(I've managed to hardly read anything about Uber before on here, so excuse the naïvety)

So it's virtually a pyramid scheme?! Sounds like the main benefit for drivers (apart from low wages) is a large bonus for referring other new drivers. Uber spends most money getting more drivers, and ever expanding. The early drivers got paid well (from bonuses), and so do those running the company, I assume. So when the global supply of new drivers runs out,..what?
Not quite - a UUIDv4 has 121-122 random bits, plus four bits indicating it's version 4, plus 2-3 bits indicating its "variant" (basically its canonical endianness).

If you want UUID compatibility, six hard-coded bits plus 122 secure random numbers gets you a real UUIDv4.
Growth hacking is hard. We had to learn a few tricks to grow our Hacker News alternative (https://laarc.io)

Suppose you were to start a site similar to HN. How would you get the word out?

The most reliable way to grow is to have an audience (or access to one). But they have to be interested in what you're showing, else you're little better than a spammer.

Looking over the traffic for the last month (https://imgur.com/a/O1wtzav) the spikes were from comments posted to lobse.rs:

https://lobste.rs/s/jqkqwb/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend#c...

https://lobste.rs/s/kx4ojt/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend#c...

This won't keep working, but it might have been enough. The site seems to be spreading through word of mouth now, and about 400 people show up each day.

Communities are also a strange thing to grow. Grow too fast, and you'll spoil it. Ditto if you grow from the wrong source of people.

Fundamentally, you have to have a product that users love so much that they spontaneously tell their friends about it. But press coverage – or at least social media coverage – seems to matter a lot. You probably need both.

We've been using https://playbook.samaltman.com/ as a mantra, and it's been effective so far. But it's only been a month. We'd like to try Michael's advice next: http://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/getting-press-for-your-sta...
> I certainly wouldn't understand it. I have my doubts that it is even universally understood inside the black community. The most reasonable interpretation is that it is an insult

I'm a 40-year-old out-of-touch white dude and I know exactly what "dog" means in this context. So do my 65-year-old parents.

Maybe your life has been so far removed from mainstream American culture that you haven't heard basic slang for the last quarter-century at least. That doesn't mean it's reasonable or excusable for a working cop.
Raffzahn has it:

> The 80 character came from IBM's extended punch card design of ~1930.
Are you sure? For example, the Florence Cathedral (Il Duomo) required nontrivial, novel mathematics. Brunelleschi didn't succeed in that effort simply through iterative engineering.

I think in general it would be more appropriate to say that fundamental theory tends to predate its applications, and then the theory and applications evolve as one informs the other in a positive feedback cycle. Likewise a lot of improvements to rocket science are due to iterative engineering, but we couldn't get off the ground (literally) without calculus.
The issue with grazing animals on the land is that it removes the benefit of allowing it to revert to nature - Flowers and brush depth that foster wildlife are stripped away by the grazing stock.

Just musing:

If you leave a patch of ground alone for an extended period of time, it'll transition through various phases of regrowth and eventually end up back at whatever the wild state of being for that region is. Often the end state is woodlands.

So since that conflicts with being a productive PV estate, at some point maintenance is inevitable or you'll end up losing the panels beneath a canopy. That said, the scale of that kind of regeneration might be a century while the useful lifetime of new PV installs is what... ~20-30 years?

So on that timescale what issues are you likely to hit allowing the land underneath PV installs to grow wild? Access would need to be maintained, panels would need to be lofted to a height that avoids any overgrowth, fire risks (electricity + dry brush etc) would need to be mitigated.

Main question I have though is sunlight coverage - Surely the panels and plant life are going to compete to some extent. What's stopping a PV deployment covering ~100% of the land area, shading it all out just like a forest canopy would?
I have very little space AND when I moved house I got super annoyed over sooo many annoying trinkets. I don’t want more stuff.
This x1000 If you want to make a little cross platform binary for some utility sure maybe Go is the right choice, but most of the time people are building a "Web Application" in which case there are dozens of better languages to use
Not at all. Read the article, GM themselves said they needed to free up cash after all the recent share buybacks.

"GM has said the job cuts and plant closings will free up $6 billion in cash, but the automaker has spent $10.6 billion since 2015 buying back its own shares"

This is a direct transfer of money from workers and worker obligations (like pensions, health insurance, etc) to shareholders. This has been happening a lot lately in several industries as Wall Street demands everyone buy back shares or get punished.
In most cases the shortest program is the fastest, because most bitstrings are random, and the shortest program just prints the bitstring.

On the other hand, for compressible bitstrings, the shortest program is most likely not going to be the fastest, because you need at least one operation to output each final bit, so since the shortest program is going to be doing more than just printing the output, it's probably going to take longer than just printing the output.
TFA> Taxpayer subsidies for homeowners, through the mortgage interest deduction and other means, long have dwarfed the public funding available for low-income housing development.

Those same subsidies apply to rental properties as well (now, with fewer caps as a result of recent limits to owner-occupied). Mortgage interest deduction for owner-occupied property serves to put owner-occupant usage (generally considered “good” for a neighborhood) on equal footing with commercial renting of property.
> The key, of course, is whether we think that the person in the Room actually understands Chinese.

As I said that’s no more relevant than if the paint on the walls understands Chinease. You can’t answer the question of if the room understands something by saying if a single element understands something or not.

Or consider this, does Microsoft the company understand French? It seems like a simple question, but you can easily support yes or no. In some situations it can respond to a French speaker, but not all situations.
> On-site blue collar jobs are safer, as a percentage. Robots can prefab things in factories, but it will be a long time before automated robots can build or repair anything on-site with the efficiency of humans + power tools.

It is hard to replace someone like that, but you can make their work meaningless. You could e.g. make electrical wiring that is trivial to install and self-diagnoses. So now it is "Uber Electrician".
It's interesting to think of the state of California as one ginormous mining-town. Only instead of some rare mineral that will one day be exhausted, it's the groundwater in the aquifer that underlies the entire valley.

The concept of virtual water may help us to treat this vital resource with more care. I'm imagining something like a nutrition label, where there's an estimate of how many liters/gallons of water is needed to grow the food.

A quick search turned up a food/water required table: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/10/how-mu...

Looks like we could do quite a bit to reduce our individual water usage by substituting a meal of cabbage and potatoes for a chicken dinner every so often...
Unless North America is into eating Strawberry flavored Almond Bread, CA is not bread Basket of NA.

Garlic basket - Yes, Strawberry Basket - Yes,

Nut Basket - For sure (if you count hollywood celeb and eccentric world saviors of SV).

But bread basket .. nope. The people of CA think the sun rotates around them. The most arable land in 'Murica is the mid-west and Mississippi river system. America with out CA will happily feed itself without missing a beat, without Almond milk of course.
GreatFire is tracking Apple iOS applications for instances of censorship
More context: https://mailchi.mp/greatfire/applecensorship
I use Firefox android with Ublock origin and am logged into Google (boo). I used to use a plugin to change my user agent to Chrome when on Google sites. This was necessary as you get the old style search results page if you use Firefox, but if you pretend to be Chrome you get the current page style which works perfectly. With that plugin enabled I always had to solve multiple recaptchas and my recaptcha v3 score was 0.1. Disabled it jumps to 0.9 and v2 gives me no puzzles. Guess I will have to live without shiny Google search results then.
This post sidesteps the main issue: growth hacking becomes irrelevant because most involved parties are now aware of the breadth and depth of fraud involved. Fake users, paid download farms, automated registrations. VCs learned the lesson.
I think you have put your finger on exactly what is at issue: it does not matter whether the program is pencil or paper or electronically. It's an analogy. The point is that we do not (says Searle) impute understanding to the person in the room, therefore we should not impute understanding to a computer running a program. But Strong AI requires us to impute understanding; and this is exactly what is impossible. Therefore Strong AI does not exist. I take that to be the force of the argument.
Some MUDs back in the day had combat and skill systems as complex as any modern MMOs. They were the precursor to MMORPG.
The article talks in some detail about that.

(To get more info I clicked "GET THE ENTIRE 57-PAGE REPORT" which however led to a page thanking me for signing up, apparently for a free trial etc. Uh..No thanks.)
“By 18, a very bored kid left to chance will have found an unhealthy outlet like drinking or property theft.”

Do you have some statistics to back up this claim, along with a comparison against teens who are not bored?
I use CMake because most of the dependencies I consume use CMake, and tooling for CMake is more widely available.
I use StandardNotes and the Open Source aspect attracted me. I can run the parts if the company goes away. Today, I’ll pay SN a reasonable fee for convenience and future additions.

The competition is Evernote if the software isn’t free. I feel like SN seeks convenience now. Licensing games are just another commercial competitor.
There's already the Optimus keyboard family (at the least): https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/

And, as mentioned, looking at the keyboard is the opposite of productivity.
React-Redux Roadmap: v6, Context, Subscriptions, and Hooks
I would caution against making conclusions solely on Google Trends. Less people may be googling growth hacking because more and more people are becoming familar with it.

However that doesnt mean the demand for growth hackers is declining. People may already know what it is but the need for growth hacking may still be increasing. Or it might have different names that people call it by now.
Any luck installing it within a container in a Synology NAS?
It isn't looking great for pistachio cultivation in Iran either - https://phys.org/news/2016-09-iran-pistachio-farms-dying-thi...

We have more frequent droughts in many parts of the world as a result of climate change, and groundwater reserves are being depleted - this will have a large impact on where crops can be grown
Yes. We've changed the URL to that from https://longreads.com/2018/02/05/the-couple-who-turned-a-cal...

There was also this thread last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291845.
Did you find the Upenn course on probability? I have been looking for it for a long time. The professor was absolutely brilliant.
Dwarf Fortress is a helluva thing, good reference. I'd argue that's just as demanding as any IRL project and it requires planning, forethought, and myriad other detail and macro oriented skills.
Using BGP to calculate fastest paths around the London Underground
The law is already selectively enforced, which is my point. It's selectively enforced to benefit private business owners at the expense of both migrant laborers (who are brutalized by both the state and extremely harsh and unfair working conditions) and domestic laborers. And the nature of the immigration laws means that non-selective enforcement is impossible, since attempting to do so will always favor the lawbreaking of private business.

The normative question of whether we should or should not harbor resentment or moral outrage against poverty-stricken migrant workers doing backbreaking labor for a pittance isn't really relevant to an analysis of how the government's immigration policies are enforced and who benefits from them.
> Then create bullshit "incentives" that sound good on paper but which practically no one uses to squeeze a few more pennies

What's an example of this?