skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever been to a meetup or small conference, looking to talk to people with a certain interest but out of 40 people, you only get time to speak to 4? Thereby missing out on possible valuable conversations.

The app solves this problem*

Instantly attendees get access to a group chat. No one has to set it up, no one has to add others. Only people who are/did attending get access, no random unaffiliated people.

It "just works" solution.

Current solutions are sub optimal and they involves virtual schlep and so people don't use them.

*this is one use case, but there are broader uses cases where you would use it every single day.
It sounds like this is talking about 3rd party scripts included in the page. Like Google analytics and the like.
The real issue we are facing is that everything that we thought was not going to be pattern matching and tree search has turned out to be pattern matching and tree search. I remember my father telling me computers were never going to be able to play Chess, because it required creativity for example. Nowadays a neural network with tree search plays chess that looks remarkably human. A lot of problem domains have fallen to what is basically pattern match and tree search.

Extrapolating the trend of the last 30 years, there is evidence that computers will be able to solve every task a human can using pattern matching. If that isn't AGI, it might turn out to be better than intelligence.

The technological future is unknowable, so believing AGI is certain is too much. But believing it certainly isn't around the corner is also too little. If computers can do anything a human can intellectually, they have reached AGI. The list of discrete tasks (games, decision making once the parameters are defined) a computer can't do is a very short list.

If someone finds an objective function for deciding what decision parameters are important AGI could be upon us very quickly. As a postcript, I think people radically overestimate human intelligence.
AT&T sued over hidden fee that raises mobile prices above advertised rate
Web of trust is not consensus.

Fragmenting and an inability to formulate a standard answer when communicating are serious issues with using it, but a takeover is not.

If Chinese users would rather trust some Chinese government entity to resolve URLs, then that's what they'd get. At the same time as other users might get something else.
Myke Towers – Inocente (Video Oficial)
We tiptoed around these issues for years, using names like "global warming" and "climate change". It's time we started using the right names: we are in a crisis and we have an impending catastrophe.
I use Axe FX myself. It's good, but for me it does not really replace _all_ tube amps. I still have a few that do what Axe FX can't do.
With CGO_ENABLED=0? If that’s the case then I’m really interested. Last I checked it’s not supported[1]

https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3/issues/384#issuecomment-...
Can F* Replace Haskell and Coq?
Revenue neutral carbon taxes are a fantasy, because they are pushed by progressive politicians, yet are deeply regressive in their impact.

Inslee admits this, and simply wants to add a new tax, and refund it selectively to people who he thinks deserve the money/access to electricity, and outlaw the use cases which don't.

Purely coincidentally this is the same effect as making the tax system more progressive, but actually it's all about climate change.
In the old days a politician just needed a single wealthy donor (say a George Soros or one of the Kock brothers), now with crowd sourced fundraising, you just need 1M people to give you $20 via your website or app.

So yes, all you need do now is to appeal to the masses! [much to the chagrin of the wealthy -- see Schultz' attempted presidential run]. However, representing the masses vs a few special interests is definitely a step toward greater democracy.
Emmons-Winthrop Glacier Time Lapse from Camp Schurman
Interfaces with defaults.
Style sheets for sound - I think BBC radio used to sell CDs for this. Now they can provide Audio Style Sheets with the acronym of... oh, wait

Golly - you could make any story sound like it was a Radio 4 play
Worth noting that Elixir Language Server will also hook into your text editor/IDE and provide warnings every time you save a file (it compiles the code behind the scenes).

https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls
I am hoping for something which might have similar effects: that the EU will get its act together first and implement a carbon taxation scheme, imposing tariffs on imports from countries that do not implement a carbon tax.

The US, unfortunately, seems to be in denial of the climate crisis. I wonder if in 30 years we will be putting todays climate deniers in courts (like the Nuremberg trials) for crimes against humanity.
What if I want to take notes but not contribute to deforestation and issues with the environmental impact of using paper in 2019?
There is a lot of froth, as in any hot field. However, unlike before, there are many cases where AI actually works now. Some perceptual tasks work better than a human, in fact. We can quibble about the naming and whatnot, but that's not something you can say about the last AI winter. It's sort of like dotcom bust of 00, sure things imploded back then, but there's no sign whatsoever e-commerce will implode at any time in the future because unlike before it actually works this time.
The only exception that I have found has been building mindmaps.
The UNs largest source of funding comes from the United States, more than the next 2 countries combined.
China is a bigger problem anyway.
I thought Science is a rigorous and authoritative journal, once.
See, that's the problem, right there: everybody says the same thing. "We are only responsible for a small part, so let's do nothing".

So we do nothing.
My issue with this has always been that my longhand is terrible, and writing under pressure makes it worse.

Longhand notes (which I do frequently for the RPGs I run, so practice isnt the issue) are nigh unreadable. I literally have dozens of notebooks (not full, but at least 30 - 50 pages each is pretty common ) of notes I struggle to read and organize.

Being able to write with speed and br able to read them is why an elementary school teacher recommended that I try using a computer to write on back before laptops were a thing, and it remains a big reason I rely on them for work notes now.
Generally speaking, it's IP addresses that need warming up, not domains. Unless you have a dedicated IP then mailchimp ha probably taken care of that for you. If you set up DKIM and SPF properly then your emails will be authorized to be sent from mailchimps pre-warmed IPs.

Perhaps a Wednesday service outage occurred? I wouldn't necessarily worry about it unless it becomes a pattern.
Are conduct viewing minutes warrant expense.
I also highly recommend the dialyzex [0] project as well. While it's not going to match every feature of some type systems, it does a much better job than one might expect.

It's always a little frustrating that folks pass on Erlang or Elixir as entirely dynamic. It's a lot closer to what you find in gradually typed languages if you take advantage of the tools available.

[0]: I know there are a few of these elixir projects, though I am not familiar with the parent's. Perhaps it's a typo?
It's interesting. The OPUS one is noisy, but pretty crisp. MP3 is smooth but more muffled. (like it lacks dynamic range) Honestly, I'd rather listen to the OPUS version if these were the only choices.
So everything would go up, but then people would have more money. Or are you suggesting that the extra money gets burnt in a furnace?

Have the carbon tax go to the people. Easy solution. Prices go up, people get more money.
Not only that: the exact same written text will appear more trustworthy depending on the typeface [1]
(eg Baskerville > Helvetica > Comic Sans)

[1] https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye...
The police department web site
I wonder if adults can improve their handwriting.
Book Review: “The Circle” (2015)
It doesn’t always end in 911, that can also fwd to a #.

You can always call the police dept. their # will be on their site
I have had a tesla since 2012. it's fine in the winter. I go probably 15 weekend trips to ski areas around seattle. Don't forget that electric cars charge the battery when they come down that big hill. tesla's heat the battery which reduces the amount the range decreases significantly. It's not like the range goes away in some unknown schema.
Readers on the joy of losing your virginity in your 30s
iPad + their pen. It works unreasonably well.
He answered to another post

> I went with https://pro.ultimateears.com/home and have been really happy with them.
I frequently still use notepads for notes, I find it actually helps me retain information.

Additionally, when reviewing shortly after a meeting, I find that I can better suss out the truly important action items. Especially if things need to be delegated.

This isn’t to say I never take notes on my computer.
(Notepad++ is wonderful for this), but I find the physical note taking to be incredibly beneficial for organization of information.

Additionally, there may still be a certain social impact where people feel that you’re “paying attention” when taking notes on a physical pad, vs they feel they’ve “lost your attention” the second you start to type away on a device.
Is the environmental cost to produce and run your electronic device over its lifetime less than the "cost" to use paper over that same amount of time? Honest question; I don't know the answer.
Well, posting arguments on Reddit or GitHub is not how peer review or academic correspondence works ("peer" means someone who has a track record of publications in the field s/he is reviewing). Those arguments need to be written as a formal comment and submitted to the journal. It too needs to go through peer review. Otherwise it'd be too easy to troll a scientist.
Imagine the wonderful world we could be living in if someone had banned personal cars? Instead of roads everywhere we would have parks on instead, places for kids and adults to exist. Instead of urban sprawl we could have had walk able and cyclable cities, with a lot less pollution. Instead of 40,000 dead every year in the US we could have them living. Instead of 100,000s seriously injured, we could close down hospitals. Etc...
loopback.io
Apart from the "SaaS services" (I mean, are they really services for services?), this seems to boil down to:

"We can't trust SaaS.... so we built a SaaS to alert you when the JS delivered by your SaaS changes...". So now you have to trust this SaaS to tell you that the other SaaS is still trustworthy.
Looks for beginner correct
I'd be interested in knowing what coungerarguments the people downvoting this comment might know of, which I apparently don't.
> P2P... in different NATs

,,,isn't possible. NAT killed[1] the ability to write true p2p network software.

> with UDP hole punching, my tool climbs over NAT

First, UDP hole punching is very complicated[2] with reliability dropping fast as the complexity of the NAT(s) increases. It might work "most of the time" when each side is a simple RFC1918
private network behind a router with a well-written stateful firewall+ipmasquerade using a real, publicly routable IPv4 address. I wouldn't assume hole punching works after adding carrier grade NAT, unusual NAT configurations, and/or unfortunately common poorly written routing software.

> Requirement to use

This is missing: "Both sidesz need access to and permission to use a TURN server".

--

[the actual hole-punching method seems fine (I've only skimmed it). I'm only criticizing the claim about offering "P2P communication" when the method still needs an imprimatur from a non-NAT 3rd party.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169372

[2] https://bford.info/pub/net/p2pnat/
why? you see video of the people saying it themselves
China also produces much less per capita for that emission. A better metric is productive output per unit of emissions. The metric that matters isn't the per capita emissions but the amount of value generated relative to emissions.
> Some perceptual tasks work better than a human, in fact. [...] that's not something you can say about the last AI winter

Eh. I'd say that's somewhat apples to oranges.

A) There were some useful and successful expert systems.

B) Things seemed to be going swimmingly, until they hit a fundamental wall.

C) We're working with a few orders of magnitude greater compute than they had access to.
? Err, not at all to me.

Sounds Bermudian to me. Especially in this one linked above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvfhUGblRAw
I kinda see it this way:

AGI is Data in Star Trek TNG - trying to be human, making decisions to want to be alive, eventually dreaming and finally using an emotion chip. Another alternative here would be Moriarty or the various doctors in Voyager.

AI is the Ship in TNG - lots of heuristics to figure out what the user is trying to do. Past usage of commands and relating major events outside the ship with algorithms for battle, life support, etc.. Events categorized by importance and automatic handling to save lives when necessary. Basically an extremely advanced Siri that doesn't really misunderstand you - while at the same time not really caring about you or knowing anything about being alive other than the priorities built into its software.

I think for the next 100 years we're going to have AI progressing like the ship in TNG. I don't think we'll have AGI until maybe 100-200 years.

Then again when I was born no one had a fucking clue eventually we would have something like the iPhone and talk to someone in China with <1 sec lag. So my estimates could easily drop to half.
The kinds of questions I ask when writing flashcards: How can I split this info up into different facts? What facts do I care about / will I care about?

But I think I wouldn't make flashcards for something if I understood it. I've found practicing recall with flashcards highlights what I don't understand. e.g. sometimes I've been confused between similar cards, and it's not obvious when looking at the cards the similarities/differences.

I think this complements rather than replaces things like the manually writing notes or explaining concepts.
So, no podcast yet, right? Didn't want to miss anything. That's a pretty cool idea. I'm all for some kind of subculture where media have tiny size limits, and if that starts from retro culture then great.

I love to imagine using my 4G connection to download like 60 hours of podcasts in the few minutes before leaving on vacation...
Commonly prescribed drugs are tied to nearly 50% higher dementia risk
Everything is bullshit until is not, humans were talking about transportation without using animal forces for decades before it became a reality, and a lot of people were highly skeptical of such thing being even possible until it actually happened in 1804 (first steam train), same thing happens with Artificial Intelligence, and we are in such uncharted territory that someone could say AGI is just 10 years away and someone else say 100 years away and both get the same amount of credibility, meaning near none cause we don't even know what is that we don't know to achieve AGI.
1-1 ratio is crazy. there isn't a gas station for each gas car. Charging has gotten vastly more common and faster. range has increased too, which reduces the need for charging. New teslas are 370 miles.
Same story here, getting NGINX to help even with highest support tiers was a PIA too
Ooh I like this idea. Like retool meets IFTTT.
@mindgam3 .. “Minor quibbles about truth and meaning of words aside, I have to support any article that skewers the soft underbelly of the phony AI ecosystem as effectively as this one does.”

I fully concur ..
I just pointed out that $700 billion isn't nothing.

I'm well aware of the myriad of flaws in the existing programs. I certainly wasn't claiming that the $700 billion was being spent wisely but apparently that is what a number of people assumed.
Study of one, here, but I find typing notes on my touch screen phone causes me to think a bit more about what I’m writing because I can’t go as fast. So I end up having to summarize to take notes. If I manage to flesh out the notes later, it’s not bad. The problem is when I try to take shortcuts by just taking photos or recording audio. You can do either of those things, but it won’t help the message sink in. Only thought and repeated usage/reference will cause it to eventually stick. Active research can help too, if timeboxed. I only learn passively when I can repeat something at least twice, like an audiobook.
I use feathers [1] and like it a lot.

[1] https://feathersjs.com/
I use it to remotely start my computer. My raspberry pi is always on and i use "wake on lan"[1] to start my desktop whenever needed. My desktop is powerful and consumes decent amount of power. Using Rpi to start is lot more power efficient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
I realize this is proposing that the birds depicted are not endemic to Peru.

However, on the topic of birds endemic to Peru , the Marvelous Spatuletail is just amazing and stunning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvellous_spatuletail
Twittitled was the term used at Twitter for people who complained about the lack of free hint water to the executives of the company when we had fresh fruit water made each day. It’s super easy to get into this mindset at the big Bay Area companies.
Adblocker in their browser, maybe?
I do 95% of my dev work in Python so I'm quite biased in its favour.

But I've seen literally 1000x speedups from transferring the numerical heavy lifting to C++, which paid back the time it took to rewrite that code in very short order and enabled us to do something that wasn't previously close to practical. I was pretty sure that the benefit would be closer 10x, but nope!
You don't know who you are, it is about time you go buy your BMW in LA and sort out your prop investments in Dubai.

But on a serious note, the notion that any insurance company or even governments give any weight to the "data" from social media and the like makes me uneasy, specially when you realize how off they can be!
A project I want to do: use an rtl-sdr to catch temperature readings from a BBQ thermometer off the air. Then push that data to prometheus/grafana and get alerting when the brisket is done.
iPad?
You can probably run it on the same Pi Zero using screen? Am not sure if it will have enough juice to run both though.
There is something beautiful about efficiency. Small computers (check out /r/sffpc), efficient codecs, those competitions where people make games/music/graphics in just a few KBs (forget what those are called - “demoscene”?). The fact that compressed Wikipedia without images fits on an 8GB USB.

It all fascinates me. It is amazing to see us push the boundaries of communication under such restrictions
I have a flair, a temperature controlled kettle, and a bellman stovetop steamer. The grinder I have was good for pour-overs, but isn't really up to espressos, but even so the espressos and cappuccinos I've been able to produce make my kitchen my favorite place to go to get caffeinated.

More often than not I'll make multiple beverages with it in a row. It's good enough that I'm frankly worried that when I finally upgrade to a proper machine it won't feel worth it. I had been looking forward to getting my fancy espresso machine eventually, so this is weirdly disappointing.
Are you able to block the unlabeled sponsored content the article is referring to?
Nearly everything has an environmental impact. And do you really think a Laptop compares favorably to thousands of pages of paper?

But I guess you could get a used iPad with the Apple Pencil or something similar.
> Do you work for Verizon's NOC or Network Engineering department then

If that's what it takes to be able to decide, then I guess we can safely declare that it wasn't negligence, because no-one that fits that description will ever publicly admit to it.
Hack NASA. It's great.
wait what. "chaddi dost" is literally, "underwear buddies," not "butt buddies." "chaddi" in some cases also generally means just shorts, not necessarily what's closest to your skin. The connotation is you and your friend knew each other from when you ran around in diapers.
Don't know if this is just me, but just short hand the entire lecture - it keeps your brain in check that you are understanding each word. Even if it doesn't read back you'll retain a lot more than just passive listening.
Would be even more interesting if each sound effect were randomized a bit so you don’t feel like you are hearing the same thing over and over.
I'd you're wondering what a hermit bird looks like:

http://www.peruaves.org/trochilidae/black-throated-hermit-ph...

So that does make sense.

I'm wondering if the drawings on the desert plains could have been some kind of manifestation ritual, i.e. "let's get some beautiful jungle up in here, everybody get drawing." When there aren't any super grounded or practical ideas as to how to do a thing, it seems like this is one of those ideas to which human psychology likes to attach.
Sure, but I wasn't making any claims about healthcare. I was just stating the obvious that we spent lots of money on a safety net.

Ironic that people seem to think that those programs are worthless, but I gather want to arrange for a lot more money to be distributed by the same organization that can't seem to do anything useful with the money it is already distributing.

I'm not a fan of the affordable care act, but it seems completely obvious to me that we need to decouple health insurance from employment. I really don't understand why that wasn't a key element of health care reform.
I do hope people calm down. At least write in English. For me I googled the title after I saw the paper from Science online during weekend. I have one major question: why does failing to send email equal to civic dishonest behavior. How the alternative explanation 'passive waiting strategy' is taken into account in their experiment or is it counted as part of civic dishonesty? I found here the author having fair discussions and being active. Then I started my post. Unfortunately I guess after so many opinions being expressed, some of which with strong emotions, it is too overwhelming for the author of the paper to reply.
Earbuds bring dirt with potential infection into listener's ears. That is the main reason why I do not use earbuds.
I downvoted you for being ridiculously reductive. Whatever you consider to the the opposite of an ear bud is probably also being pitched by some "tech" company. Even assuming tech companies are overall bad, you're just throwing confirmation bias at the problem.
A lot of these issues are now solved. OCaml universe now switched to Dune[1] as an uniform buildsystem, using ocamlformat[2] as an uniform formatting tool (succeeding over ocp-indent), Base[3] standard library aims to be the only one, a lot of legacy cruft was removed in recent compiler versions, along with improved error messages. Real World OCaml book[4] is now being modernized for the second edition. Recently even the design of documentation produced with odoc was improved and cleaned up a lot So it tries to catch up with more modern programming languages.

[1] https://dune.build

[2] https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat

[3] https://opensource.janestreet.com/base/

[4] https://dev.realworldocaml.org/