skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(not GP, just an interested passer-by)

Based on my limited contact with AI during the aughts' semantic web/description logic symbolic heyday (we were exploring ways in which multiple communicating knowledge bases might resolve conflicting information): symbolics with uncertainty is too hard, maybe in a very far future. When ML and symbolics are successfully put together, I expect the symbolics to focus on what they do best: ignore uncertainty and change, leave all that to the ML part. For example, when you do the "obvious thing" and run symbolic reasoning on top of classifications supplied by ML (which is maybe a naive approach not working out at all, I have no idea), you would feed back corrective training updates into the classification layer instead of softening the concepts when the outcome of reasoning is not satisfactory.

Imaginary toy example: if your rules state that cars always stop at stop signs, but the observed reality is that this hardly ever happens, this first iteration of ML-fed symbolics would not adopt by adjusting the rules to "cars carefully approach stop signs, but don't actually stop", it would eventually adopt by classifying the red octagonal shape as a yield sign, keeping the rules for stop signs as is (but never seeing any).
You could be doing instead

((if (null? x)
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Or they could have built a single application which does both chat/audio/video.
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I don't really have a solid response to that argument other than that I think we as a society need to stop emphasising traits that are predominantly held by men and start appreciating the traits that are predominantly held by women, those traits are incredibly valuable.

To give a concrete example: Dame Caroline Haslett who was the President of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain created objectively the safest electrical outlet and plugging mechanism ever conceived (as long as you don't step on one). There was no such mandate for it to be so safe, you could argue that a man could have done exactly the same but I'd rather consider that she was being extremely empathetic as to how the device would be used and that safety in this area would quite literally save the lives of men, women and children.

A world without her contribution would be a lesser one, but I would argue that it was made with her femininity, not with how much she filled a man-shaped role.
Fyi... Wendover Productions made a 4-minute about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWNGAUvSyOc
The orange cloud suggests the hydrazine was not released. I would expect a different color of the capsule was blown to pieces.

What video are you referring to?
You do understand that windows creates about 1000 processes on boot alone? A clean start?

(Of those about 100 survive as services.)

In short this fail adds as much as 10 seconds to boot time? (Sort of hidden on most hardware by parallelism, but if you have something not super recent, well...)
I will once I have a few complete sections. I plan on putting them on GitHub so you can run them via Google Colab.

The topic is introductory fluid mechanics BTW.
Direct link https://workspaceproapp.com/
> I've hired Rails developers for Django roles and seen them get productive within weeks.

What did you like about the Rails developer that you chose the person for the role? Basically, I want to know irrespective of the language, how do I show my "quality as an engineer"?
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Because I believe in commenting on why when I downvote: This comment is not constructive or engaging a debate in good faith.
Search could be better, but decent content.
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> "Nuclear power is weird—it exists to produce electricity, and at the same time it can’t exist without electricity.

This is a problem for a lot of power plants, although most non-nuclear ones can safely survive a sudden shutdown. Starting up after a total shutdown is known as "black start" and an important part of contingency planning: https://www.drax.com/technology/black-start-important-back-p...
I have a passion of explaining concepts to younger humans. Combining programming, animation, and teaching: this kinda hits home.
As always, a disclaimer, I am deeply involved in the Julia community so beware of my biases.

Honestly, I think the best argument (and the only one I buy) for Swift is the latter part: “…we were more familiar with its internal implementation details - which allowed us to implement a prototype much faster.” – just like I said about a year ago [1]. If you are sitting on a team deeply familiar and passionate about a language – Swift – what kind of managerial fool would not let them take a stab at it? Especially with Lattner’s excellent track record.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16939525

The ideas behind Zygote dates to somewhere around spring 2017, but I think it took about a year to hammer out compiler internals and find time to hack, so you are still right that nothing was public when Google settled on Swift – I think there been at least one Mountain View visit though over XLA.jl, but do not quote me on that one.

The race is still on and I am looking forward to seeing what all the camps bring to this budding field. I have worked with an excellent student on SPMD auto batching for his thesis project and we now have some things to show [2]. This is still a great time to be a machine learning practitioner and endlessly exciting if you care about the intersection between Machine Learning and programming languages.

[2]: https://github.com/FluxML/Hydra.jl

My only request would be for Jeremy to explain “Swift for TensorFlow is the first serious effort I’ve seen to incorporate differentiable programming deep in to the heart of a widely used language that is designed from the ground up for performance.” to me. Is it the “serious” and/or “widely used” subset where the Julia camp is disjoint? =)
I think the point of the article is that the science supports the fact that there are sex differences in the brain.

Ideas that the article does not propose include:

- Men are better than Women or vice versa.

- Men are better suited to X activity or job.

The point was that the science should be evidence lead and defended from ideologues regardless of your view on the broader political issues. Ideologues attempt to bend all evidence to support a pre-existing conclusion, and the politicisation of science is bad in all cases because it undermines the entire process. It's depressing that a publication such as Nature should be affected in this way.
First you need to install pdf2svg for LaTeXit to export SVG.

Now, once you’re in blender if you import SVG art it’ll typically come in at a very small scale and each object will be separate, but it’ll also be selected. I usually scale it up shift select the first character of my equation and then ctrl j to join it.

Then it’ll just be a regular curve object in blender. You can add modifiers like solidify, bevel objects, convert to mesh etc.

There’s also a 2D/3D toggle in the curve properties.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6001859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=219758

Edit: Fix URL
You don't think an OS/kernel should be expected to perform the most basic of kernel tasks well?

Also creating a lot of processes to run your tests is a perfectly normal use case. In this case they're running 10 per process, but creating 1 process/test (so as to not leave any corrupt memory/state behind after a failed one) would also be perfectly reasonable.
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I might doubt your doubt somewhat. As often with Gene Wolfe, it's not clear to me that it is his powers which have waned, or that it is my own folly in not rising to the challenge of the puzzle. There's so very often something lurking in the shadows after all, and (in my incomplete experience) his works always benefit from a re-read.

For one more recent work with more workaday prose, The Sorcerer's House, it helps to follow a 'superfan' and consider it a rewriting of the lamia of Corinth. There certainly is so much more there than meets the eye; as dense as BoTNS. I find it more fruitful to take the ostensible lack of clues to figure out the 'real' deal as challenge for us (or the braver readers of the future) to rise up to.

There's plenty good in late Wolfe, just deeper hidden, perhaps.
The 3b-hive stung you.
Sharks cope with levels of heavy metals in blood that would kill other animals
What's the difficulty in having outbound passport control as exists in Schengen area in the EU and in Australia, and much of Asia? What am I missing here?
We are often deceived by the fact that Human infants are optimised for plasticity (I know this is arguable - but it's a reasonable theory) and for their brain to get through a bipeds birth canal (and subsequently grow). Look at lambs in contrast (I've been on a sheep farm in Scotland for a couple of weeks so I've had the opportunity!) Lambs stand up about 3 to 10 minutes after birth (or there is a problem). They walk virtually immediately after that, they find the sheep's udder and take autonomous action to suckle within an hour (normally) and follow their mothers across a field, stream, up a hill over bridges as soon as they can walk. Within a week they are building social relations with other sheep and lambs and within three weeks they are charging round fields playing games that appear pretty complex in terms of different defined places to run up to and back and so on.

This kind of rapid cognitive development argues strongly (IMO) against the kind of experimental/experiential training that a tabula-rasa nn approach would indicate.

Human plasticity and logical reasoning are the apex of other processes and approaches, I think that because we have so much access (personally through introspection and socially via children) to models of theses processes, and the results are so spectacular and intrinsically impressive.

I used to go to the SAB conferences in the 90's, they're still going, but somewhat diminished I think. This was where the "Sussex School" of AI had it's largest expression - Phil Husbands, Maggie Boden and John Maynard Smith all spoke about the bridges between animal cognition and self organising systems. I am pretty sure that they were all barking up the wrong tree (he he he) but there was and is a lot of mileage in the approach.
Yes, but he creates 1000 processes of the same executable with different arguments to run different tests as I understand it. With a really big executable.

That's not the same thing as it's slow to add normal sized processes.
Yes. And also, keep working on projects that are relevant to yourself. Even the smallest project to fetch something or to index a specific data type. Little steps like this will soon start bearing fruit as you realise you need this knowledge for the bigger projects you are working on.

Courses and tutorials can be fun, but personal projects (goals if you want to call it that) make you learn things more efficiently.
There's enough plane spotters around Heathrow 24/7 that this is actually probably covered.
With you on the bananas but I’ve had to put darkeners on all the superbright LEDs in the house :/

Not the fault of the LEDs themselves I guess.
I learned blender out of a necessity to explain concepts to older executive humans (and blender is awesome!).

During my undergrad we learned Matlab in year one and subsequent modules in core subjects like solid mechanics, fluid mechanics etc ignored anything to do with code. This was mainly because (as I learned later) the lecturers frequently couldn’t code themselves.

This was frustrating because coding is essential to engineering and efficient problem solving. Fast forward to today and I see the same problems. Students are terrified of coding. It’s complicated enough to have to learn all this new maths but also all this computer science stuff?!

So the notebooks often deal with fundamental stuff that don’t really need need code but then the code can be super simple and intuitive and hopefully inviting.
What is surrogacy status in India?
It was never a category. In the last 12 months there were 125 such posts, so 1 every 3 days. Some 'merry christmas' and 'this site is down'. In the last month it was 7 (that already includes this current post).

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22tell%20hn%22&sort=byPopular...
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I learned OOP in 1992, using Turbo Pascal 5.5, and got hold of Turbo Pascal 6.0 with Turbo Vision, shortly thereafter.

My follow up OOP languages until 2000 were C++ alongside OWL, VCL, MFC. Clipper 5.x, Eiffel, Sather, Modula-3, Oberon variants, Smalltalk, CLOS, SWI Prolog, Delphi and naturally Java.

In 1999 I got a signed copy from the ECOOP 1999 proceedings, full of alternative OOP approaches.

We should strive to actually provide proper bases to CS students, instead of market fads.
What bad incentives do support based models lead to?

There are 3 different aspects here: 1. you're selling support 2. the customer is using the support 3. it's open source, so anybody can sell support

So in order to be profitable, you want to maximize your income (1.) and minimize your expenses (2.), that is, sell lots of support for software whose quality is good enough that the customers rarely have to actually call the support hotline.

But if the customer does call the support hotline you have to ensure that the support they get is top quality, otherwise they'll take advantage of 3. and leave for your competitor (note, "we'll support ourselves in-house based on the upstream release" is effectively another competitor here).

Another point: there are multiple levels of support, and different organizations can cooperate to provide the full package; at the lowest level you tell the end user to check if the computer is powered on; at the higher levels you root-cause and fix bugs and implement new features, which is where you can really market expertise with specific projects.

Of course you're right to point out that you're limited to enterprise clients; I haven't heard of any success with selling support to consumers.
Debugging Java/Scala works really nice in IntelliJ. It also has support for asynchronous stack traces which means to say that stack traces are carried over asynchronous boundaries. It even works for callbacks.

Edit: Having said this, I still rely more on creating test cases to capture what I think should happen instead of stepping through the code in a white box way.
The China chart is very interesting in comparison with India where there was no one child policy.
Another is "Launch HN" which only YC companies seems to use. Maybe there's post launch marketing checklist with an item to post on HN.
That’s kinda my point.

And I think it’s disingenuous to claim gcc, Linux or glibc are somehow “from” RedHat or suse. Sure they contributions but it’s not like they’re company projects that were open sourced.
I have this hypothesis that, once the field of ML stabilizes around a mature industry, we'll start seeing people using symbolic tools to generate explanations of the concepts learnt by the deep learning networks.
Are you transpiling your async functions away? IIRC there's been a lot of work on async function stack traces in V8 but it's obviously useless if they are compiled to some state machine monstrosoty before getting executed.
Shouldn't that be (if (nil? x))?
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>Hinduism is so diverse

I'm well aware of that - Hindu here :), by birth anyway, and have read a lot of books about Hindu philosophies (note the double plural).

>and varies by region,

Not quite correct, only partially. I'm not an expert on the intricacies of it, but it is somewhat generally known to people that the are many branches / sects / whatever you want to call them, and they vary (or varied, originally, at least), by the main god / founding guru / philosophy for that sect or branch, not by region (although that may have even coincided in some cases, others were/are nationwide). Over time that variation may have morphed into being somewhat along regional lines, but even now, it is not fully so. You can find plenty of people of different branches of Hinduism, in the same town or city (even somewhat in villages, is my guess, though less so there). Just look at the print or online matrimonial ads, for example, of any leading Indian newspaper, and see how many ads there are for prospective brides and grooms from different Hindu sects, but from the same state or even city.

>that any blanket statement you make about it has a very high chance of being incorrect!

See above points. And anyway it was not meant as a blanket statement. We are talking about human affairs here, not algorithms, so a certain degree of looseness is generally acceptable and understood. In this context, we don't need to add (math) existential or universal quantifiers (like "there exists ..." or "for all ...") to every statement we make.
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But without learning, or resolving, or trying to resolve the issues that killed the 5th Generation and GOFAI in the first place.

"let's use Description Logic and F-logic because we both cannot do the science or maths to decide between them as a community (oh the irony) and hope that because they are tractable the fact that they are not expressive isn't going to matter"

5 years and £250m tax money later...

"It turns out that it matters, and there isn't an alternative, and we don't know what to do"

Meanwhile on another planet, AI researchers :

"Answersets and FOL offer a potential solution, we just have to slog away on a shoestring for 15 years to get there."
Not restricted to HR, I assume orgies would take the place of meetings.
s/Javascript/React (e.g. debugging works fine with stimulus/coffeescript for instance)
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Wouldn’t it be better to shape the world in such a way that those techniques aren’t needed? Don’t work for nasty companies, don’t invest in them, don’t do business with them and lobby the government to outlaw tracking & stalking.
Yeah 9m2 is pretty crazy...

If you ask me, I'd be a proponent of limiting to above 15m2 units with shared spaces, and possibly age-limited.

In the Netherlands we have homes which are for youth only, can only rent them until age 27. I think such an age limit would make sense for such small units. The idea being that the image and culture of these buildings are focused on instilling the notion that these spaces are temporary.

I think it's fine you live in a 15m2 unit at age 20 as a student. But if you want to do that at age 40, it's super likely that it's not by choice. And that's not something we ought to necessarily allow.

The successful concepts I've seen typically have high-quality washer/dryers separate. A large communal kitchen to supplement a small private kitchen. A communal hangout space.

And finally, a private event room you can rent, e.g. 10 times a year, to say host parties, music, poetry, debates etc. If you've got say 360 days out of the year and a morning, noon and evening slot, you've basically got about 1000 slots to fill each year. If you share such a space with 25 units, each unit could rent the room almost every month.

None of this is perfect, particularly the age-limit is hard to enforce, and you start to touch on the gov vs personal-freedom debate. But I think the above minimum guidelines would be the least bad solution that finds a reasonable balance.

It really depends on the city though. If there's a ton of housing shortage and you've got people forced into 3-hour commutes, illegal dwellings, homelessness, >60% rent/income etc, aspects of which you see for example in Manilla, it makes sense to allow 15m2 units. In a city where there's no such housing shortage, I think it makes sense to set the minimum legal standard a bit higher.
Probably, it's been a while since I have done Lisp in anger.
Computers do what you tell them to, not what you want them to do.
It has a style. It is ok if you don't like it. But it is not ok saying it hasn't.

By the way, Jeremy Howard spends several minutes on one of his videos explaining the style and why despite seeming strange it is the right choice for fast.ai. I just can't remember which video, but I would guess it is in dl 2 2019 first video.
Here's the new build nuclear for the UK - https://www.niauk.org/industry-issues/supply-chain/nuclear-n...

None of these are Gen IV reactors, thought the last two are labelled as gen III+, which looks like the kind of labelling a hopeful chipmaker might slap on a processor when they add some bells and whistles to an existing design. Do you know where any gen IV reactors are being built currently? I hear a lot about them, but they seem mostly to be vapourware.

Also, Hinkley C, which is currently under construction, has a strike price so high it will probably be mothballed as soon as it is finished, with an analysis by London stockbrokers Liberum Capital describing it as 'the most expensive conventional power station in the world' and 'economically insane'.

This is the new nuclear actually being built. If there is better, safer, cheaper available in gen IV reactors, why is that not under construction instead? If they are available, the UK government will presumably also know about these reactors, yet it is apparently not interested in building them.
“[the anti–sex difference contingent is] in fact advocating for biomedical research to retain its male subject–dominated status quo so disproportionately harmful to women.”

The money quote. The situation in neuroscience is pretty much the same as if in Machine Learning people would say ”You must use just white males in face recognition training”.
No. You're misrepresentating or misunderstanding the claim.

It is not about debugging. It is about program design. If you need to step through execution in order to understand and reason about iit then your design is too complex.

It is not a claim that print and conditionals are better debugging techniques. It is a claim that having those critical points in execution making assertions and logging warnings is a more productive alternative which precludes debugging in the first place.

> have access automatically to all the scope you could possibly use to print your output statements without having to write any.

If youre in a context where you need this level of access to the state scope you have a ball of mud that needs to be decomposed. You should know what state you have by the failure mode or the failing test at hand.

Using a debugger only makes sense if you're dealing with a mess. Fix the mess don't build tools to work with it.

> You are also free to still think carefully while using a debugger.

Yes but again, if you need a debugger it goes to show you don't think carefully very often so maybe telling me you can with a debugger is kind of aoot point when I know you won't.
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I pick the side of the Venezuelan people over the US empire. I, as a US citizen, am horrified to watch an oil war play out in real time. Similar to how the US uses siege warfare(a war crime) in Yemen, we are using sanctions against Venezuela to install our dictator of choice. The people of Venezuela decided their leader in free and fair elections. We need to leave them be.