skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time for Classical Music Is Just Around the Corner Thanks to Technology
Hmm I think this should go something like this:

How would objects created from X and Y can reach each other and communicate when X is not dependent from Y or otherwise? You need global mutable state or your own code witch depends from both X and Y is somehow connecting them.

So one top thing FP movement argues against is global mutable state so of course you don't have that ...Unless you are wrapping some non-FP thing like QT...

And if it's your own code it shouldn't be different that Y creates B:s instead of A v2 since your code is aware from two different versions anyway.

Do you see any weak points?
It's context-depednent. Unnatural doesn't need cognition-dependence, but merely higher complexity than usual -- an arthropod skeleton floating in space is unnatural, in the context of an asteroid, because asteroids are though of as "nartually" arising collisions of rocks, gravity, solar radiation, and the like, but not not the complex processes of animal life.
We're going to need to think carefully about what is covered by "this sort of thing".

If your ancient aliens theory didn't actually predict "Stonehenge", but predicted that the aliens would have left "all sorts of cool weird stuff", and then you point at Stonehenge and say "see, that's the sort of cool stuff I mean", then I'm no longer impressed by the predictive power of your ancient aliens theory.

Predictions have to be precise for a theory to be supported by them: they can't be vague generalities. cf. astrologers, who "predict" the future by predicting nothing.
The FDA is still on the fence about Marijuana, if that gives you any idea of where they are at on new technologies and drugs.
Netflix doesn't even provide ratings anymore. It provides "match percentages," which are trying to predict how well it matches your preferences, not the overall quality.
The only thing that advances faster than science is the rate at which psuedo-science co-opts it to sell people snake oil.
An Oral History of ‘Office Space’
Maybe I’m just simple but couldn’t you say it was always case that the human hive mind is a bit like a giant analog computer ? Not sure why the digital stuff is important for the analogy.
Newish, throwaway account?
have to think about what the power source for those would be, in turn. It's more of an issue of consumption rate
Manager: I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further.

Basically.
Yes, most of the time. There is actually Winds aloft data that is made available to pilots to select routes. And in lots of cases IFR routes are designed keeping these speeds in mind.
For me on a trip right now, I have:

2h drive to ORD
2h airport security Theater
4h Flight to SFO
1h to deplane get an Uber to someplace

So 9 hour total journey on a direct flight. A 50% faster flight would make it be 8 hours instead of 9? I don't think I would pay anything for that.
Blood of the Young Won’t Spare Rich Old People from Sadness and Death, FDA Says
I'm not an expert. But my understanding is that the "maximum propulsion" speed (587 mph) is limited by the "critical mach number" of the airframe, which for jetliners is something like 0.85.

Faster than that, air around portions of the plane may start moving faster than the speed of sound (even though the airframe as a whole is going slower than the speed of sound), and this wreaks havoc in terms of lift, drag, controllability, and structural integrity ("mach buffet").

I think cruise N1 is something like 80% (that is, of full power). If you pushed the engines to 100% power at cruise altitude, they could probably get you past 587 mph / mach 0.85, but you'd be having a really bad day.
https://screeps.com/ is pretty neat, lots of different ways you can try to adapt to different situations.
Ada Lovelace’s Legacy Lies in the Power of Imagination
> Pretty sure Twitch is far far ahead

Stream quality is still far better with Youtube, especially outside North America. Twitch has better community and highlight clip feature.
I suspect it'll go soon, if not at the very top price tier.
I feel like this is missing the part where the FDA just shut down Ambrosia.

Check out their site. It's just a note "In compliance with the FDA announcement issued February 19, 2019, we have ceased patient treatments."

https://www.ambrosiaplasma.com/
Say you chose to share a single profile with your SO/family/household, for whatever reason. Then Netflix's ratings would be for a nonexistent aggregate person that is a combination of the tastes of all those people, weighted by the relative frequency of use and/or rating actions. This could be significantly less useful than what you as an individual see on your own account.
If (when?) one of those kids gets cancer, this will be quite a lawsuit.
In nearly 30 years of computing experience, one thing I've learned is the guys who make the platform never capture all the little details of what you'd like that platform to do.

IMO iPhones never really shined until they opened it up to 3rd party developers and built an ecosystem of developers around the app store.

One thing I love[d] about Windows was how deeply you could tailor the experience (through hooks, DLL injection, etc). Haven't played with Linux as much but love the concept that you can overhaul the whole source code to taste.

GreaseMonkey is analogous for the web.

I hope this concept isn't lost as corporations wrest control of both sides of the user experience (browser and services).
> sells one liter of blood plasma from donors between the ages of 16 and 25 for $8,000, according to its website.

I would be very curious to know what they typically paid the donor in that transaction.
The device reportedly causes 20.000 contractions in 30 minutes. And apparently, it's not only volume but also intensity that does the trick. Good luck doing this with you brain, professor.
So then if this doesn't pass the sniff test, why is their inventory system responding that these vehicles are available? The twitter thread shows you how to easily verify the author's claims, and with some quick spot checks I was able to confirm that the API works the way they say it does.
I think you’re wrong about the ML precision. You need highly precise for most recursive machine learning tasks because you’re compounding errors otherwise.

Typically you can’t even use floating point representation: not accurate enough.
Is this dangerous for the plane if the wind hits it sideways or something? Does this mean the flights will be extremely bumpy?
That other "universe" is just patterns embedded in our brains. That's all you need.

You could likewise argue that sounds exist in a different universe, but are only "embedded" into the air using pressure waves, but why would you ever think you needed a different universe of sounds when you've already got pressure waves in air? I mean... what's "not enough" about that for you?

>What we call "physical existence" could is also probably just be "math all the way down".

This is a needless diversion. Mathematics is the study of structure. Physical reality has structure, and very well could "be structure" in some equivalent sense, but to say it is math is just abject poetic nonsense. This change of language would literally make no significant difference to anybody about anything. You may as well be declaring the world to be flat and asking everybody else to go and change all our language to make it true.
The issue is that there are actually many implicit constraints on the motion plans by which robots would pick strawberries, and when you make any one of them explicit, your whole robots solution might have to be redesigned from the ground up.
Yes, for those readers who may not be familiar - the speed of sound changes with altitude. At sea level, it is around 750mph but at 40,000 feet it is around 620mph IIRC. It is affected by the density of the air (which is a combination of the air pressure and temperature) - hence why they use Mach numbers to denote airspeed above certain altitudes as that takes into consideration the air density to give you a speed relative to the speed of sound at that altitude.
If you had dementia you would be even more scared. That's why quack medicine can survive in a world where rational information is available, it is terrifying to die.
The jetstream, like all weather and winds, is on a continuum. There is no barrier where outside of the jetstream the air is static. See the principles of flight and how air functions VERY close to a wing for an example. This is actually a good example, though a bit unrelated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13829625
I should have said on-prem or dedicated (or whatever the opposite of expensive AWS is)
Blood transfusion comes with a host of risks which increase the more you do it. Call me old fashioned, but I’d like to save up for a time when my life depends on not having an infusion reaction!

I’m also getting the sense that you’re not quite getting what I’m saying about the difference between getting a bag of blood from a teenager, and having your circulatory system grafted onto a teenager. Even leaving aside the “we’re not mice” issue, you do see the difference not only in scale, but type right? Please say yes...
Are you conflating "common" with "possible"? Study of exonoplanets finds earth-like ones relatively rare, and being Earth-like is still a far cry from.

There may be a large number of life-hposting planets in the Universe, while still fitting current data that they are extremely rare as a fraction of, for example, the region of space reachable by humans, by floating space rocks, or perhaps even the Earth's light-cone.
One of the embedded assumptions I seem to see in discussions about this object is that objects like it (from outside the solar system) are rare.

Is this truly the case, or is it just hard to monitor the paths of the multitude of objects passing by earth?
I like the work OpenAI has done in the past, so please take my complaints as gentle complaints:

- a very small percentage of generated samples ‘read well’

- I Don’t see any evidence of ‘understanding’, at least in the sense that BERT can identify original nouns that pronouns refer to (anaphora resolution): amazing to get state of the art results

- the ‘we aren’t going to share code and results’ thing reminds me of the movie The Wizard of Oz: trust them that they developed cool technology

- in 6 months, high school students might be getting similar results, given how fast our field is moving forward: this makes the danger concern less important in my opinion

This whole thing seems like a throwback to how science was conducted 10 years ago - ancient times in our fast moving tech world.
Sure, but let's leave the FDA out of the picture for a second:

1. How much evidence is there that Marijuana is an effective treatment for certain diseases? How much evidence is there that Marijuana is harmful?

2. How much evidence is there that infusing young people's plasma into your blood treats any illnesses? How much evidence is there of risks associated with infusing plasma?

We don't need to include the FDA to take a look at how silly the idea is.
Just wanted to point out that he's currently suing all of these people and the company for discrimination.
> A lot of modern people think of religion as some combination of fairy tales

Fairy tales are essential. Without them, you're left with just life philosophy (e.g. stoicism, Aristotelian ethics, or modern quasi-religions where the fairy tale parts are almost irrelevant, e.g. Zen Buddhism).

I don't really have a problem with fairy tales (well, except that I cannot considered any opinion of an adult who believes in them, seriously), but the problem is that religious fairy tales often include some idea of "us vs them", "chosen ones", "infidels" and/or "holy wars", which seem to prime many of their followers to be violent against non-followers.
No it's not. The airplane just has to do wind correction by either crabbing into or away from the wind depending on the wind direction.
A lot of people are still on the fence. Science is not completely clear about what is happening with weed. And it is not always a "positive" drug.

I'm all for making it legal, but we should also realize that there is a multi-billion dollar lobby pushing with an agenda for legalization that tries to paint weed with all the advantages in the world.
...Naranjo's partner, Alexander Shulgin, synthesized the more commonly known MDMA, which proved to be less hallucinogenic and less toxic than its original formation.

Shulgin synthesized a variety of phenethylamines (of which MDMA is a member) and tryptophans, tested them on himself, then wrote detailed experimental procedures, including his own subjective responses to what he had made.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL
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Yet another example of reality making it very difficult for organizations like the Onion.
If you stay within the jetstream, it is a surprisingly smooth ride - a bit like being in a canoe in a middle of a fast flowing current in a river. Jetstreams tend to be fairly long and continuous.

Where it gets bumpy is if you are transitioning in or out of the jetstream zone - a bit like the abovementioned canoe hitting some rapids in a shallow part of the river.
> For one thing, when I was playing video games in the 90s, a huge fraction of the online gaming population was made up of kids, and online game communities were nicer than they are today

Maybe it’s because I grew up playing FPS, but for as far as I remember people in these games were extremely hostile to women.
This kind of retribution is pretty normal from the companies I've worked it, it's clumsy that it ended up in writing here and a bit more vicious than usual with a child involved. Normally it's done offline in private conversations or simply as something that's understood between like minded managers with passing comments.

One manager I had was pretty candid about it, he said he couldn't find another job and was looking to retire so he was going to give me a bad performance review despite actually being the top performer so he wouldn't be affected. He was otherwise very apologetic that his hand was forced.
No doubt we need to get out of endless wars. It seems easier said then done. As soon as President Trump tried to get out of Syria there was a huge backlash from Government insiders. Eventually China will block the South China Sea trade routes and because we are over-extending ourselves we may find ourselves powerless against it.
It's typically a blood plasma internship, done for exposure to the wealthy clients.
You're obviously committing a straw man fallacy.

But based on this line of arguing, you're implying that young blood has actual biological benefits.

If so, can you back this claim up at all?
ruck = very large hiking backpack that's made out of pretty durable non-rip waxed type of fabric with a large frame. Great for carrying a lot of heavy stuff a long distance. Issue is, w/ a load that means your really seriously heading out to do something... there isn't much extra room.

But then add the extra batteries for the current radio system that's most widespread in the force (ASIPs, usually carry 1 to 2), with this 4''x 2'' battery packs for ASIPs that in turn take up a lot of space (carry 3-4 spares), and then extra ammo, and then the 'portable' equipment for optics or the heavy weapon systems that tend to be deemed 'portable'

... there just literally is no. more. room. And then there's some more added.

These types of cool new tech, which are battery powered, are hamstrung by the simple fact of "how do I carry a massive amount of batteries for all this?"

So it in turn puts soldiers and leaders in a really precarious position of either having to fight a tough battle of stating all of the obvious that I said above, getting told to bring it all out anyways, and then not really being able to. So do we hope we don't get asked "where is X-equipment, is it on your person," or do we lie, or do we what?

Since this article came from USMA, it's a good place to lead upstream conversation on this sort of core issue.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia don't have the agreements with the IAEA required for a party to the non-proliferation treaty to sell them regulated technology as they currently don't have any nuclear facilities.

But you know how Trump is with international treaties; I'd guess this is mostly about letting nuclear tech companies sell regulated tech in violation of the conditions of the NTP.
Yeah. Good question. It would really seem to depend on how fast the air speed changes.

I mean, the opposite effect is well attested to - you fly along with a headwind (and sufficient airspeed), then comes along a sudden tailwind, and your airspeed drops sufficiently that you stall, or at any rate descent. Wind shears, often associated with cold fronts or thunderstorms.

Maybe a) mach 1 is further from cruise speed than cruise speed from stall speed, and b) drag slows down the plane more effectively and quickly than the engines can accelerate it.

That could explain why wind shear has and does lead to stalls, but not to sonic booms/structural disintegration.
That's creepy to associate young people's blood plasma with nectar of the gods.
> 2. There is no fire alarm for AGI[1]. Is this thing the key to really dangerous AI? Will the next thing be? No one knows. It's better to be conservative.

This is certainly a point worth discussing, but it's odd for OpenAI to suddenly stand on principle about this specific result.

OpenAI was founded on the idea that public access to AI tools and research would improve and democratize them. Their website and founders make statements like "Are we really willing to let our society be infiltrated by autonomous software and hardware agents whose details of operation are known only to a select few? Of course not." and "...empower as many people as possible to have AI. If everyone has AI powers, then there's not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower." Meanwhile, their view on AGI risk seems to be that more access will improve scrutiny and oversight. Since day one, they've taken flak from people like Nick Bostrom and Scott Alexander (https://futureoflife.org/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open) who argued that their stance amounted to publicly sharing untested, hazardous tools.

And now they balked because... they built an essay generator that's not quite good enough to compete with cheap troll farms that governments can already afford? I don't think they're necessarily wrong to not share this, and I know Sam Altman said a while back that they might not release all their source code. But I don't think this should be looked at in isolation.

If the people going to bat for democratized access to AI suddenly decided that the public can't be trusted with access to AI tools, that's worth talking about.
I want to preface this comment with a statement that in no way am I trying to blame the victim here, only to point out what can be learned from this situation.

This is certainly not the first time I've heard of Amazon being a shitty place to work at, and I don't see much reason to doubt the story of a vindictive boss doing everything they can to make an employee miserable after learning that the employee submitted bad feedback against them.

The two lessons I can extract from this post for myself are.

1. Never submit negative feedback via "anonymous" or "confidential" feedback processes at work, especially against a particular person, especially your boss.

It's been covered on HN before how these things are never really anonymous and confidential, and it should be kind of obvious to figure out if you think about it.

2. If you are at your job as part of your Visa process, you are essentially a slave with a slave's rights to match, and you are better off not rocking the boat if you want to complete the process.
I had a manager that took over from a previous person when I was working remote. There were a few issues, but the one that stands out is they flew me down to London for a week, set me up in a hotel, and had me take taxis back and fourth to the office and expense food etc.

After returning home, he rejected my expenses because of variance of costs of the taxis, despite me pointing out that I was using the stipulated vendor and the difference in cost was between me leaving the office at rush hour and me leaving the office around 9-10pm.

Not only did he reject the taxi expenses, but the hotel, the flights, the food, etc. The guy was obviously a class act in his 50s, rejecting the expenses of a fairly underpaid 25 year old employee living in Scotland.

Super illegal but ultimatly I quit, because life is too short to work for horrible people.
And integrating power into the vest? Those already weigh an intense amount for a ~200 # male w/ full combat load and plates, and are bulky as it is...
As intense these allegations are, someone on the Internet once said that it's best to keep these things offline until investigations/lawsuits are done. Is that true?
Unlimited PTO is not so much a marketing farce, though the ways it's promoted are. However, since it doesn't involve accrual and payout it's more of a tax scam on the back of employees (natch).
Blood transfusion has a number of significant risks, just not in comparison to the cases where it is employed.

From the FDA, "The more common risks are allergic reactions and transfusion associated circulatory overload and less common risks include transfusion related acute lung injury or transfusion associated circulatory overload and infectious disease transmission."

A Sense of impending doom is a side effect of an incompatible blood transfusion and is typically followed by death.

These companies are also mostly fly by night "move fast and break things" motto companies that do not undergo rigorous medical evaluations. A large part of the FDAs concern in their official statement is that these companies are not conducting clinical trials.
As far as I can tell, Bloomberg didn't actually link to an official statement, but the Verge did:

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u...
You got fired. Cry me a river.
"why not" is always a good way of killing people. If you don't know why and how, you don't know it's effects. The whole 'well it won't kill you' mentality of false medicine ends up prolonging the time, if ever, of a person getting real treatments. This is an infectious mentality, not just one individuals choice for themselves.
Nobody with any technical competence is inviting a place like McKinsey in the first place. Because of course not. Unfortunately McKinsey is quite happy to talk a big game and sell sub-par technical services to their customers who are either too dumb or too craven to see through the charade. Same goes for big-4 technical consulting in my experience, but less extreme.
I just noticed that CodeShelter webpage is using .co domain name. My problem with that is that it's so often mistaken for .com that virtually any other tld is better.
> the ‘we aren’t going to share code and results’ thing reminds me of the movie The Wizard of Oz: trust them that they developed cool technology

And this is where it stands: They claim to have something.

They won't release it.

If they had nothing but a somewhat creative streak to make up the results, the world would look exactly the same as it would if they had something.

Them lying is the least hypothesis here.