skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone reads Gary’s new book Rebooting AI, his whole MO is that to create really good generalized intelligence current level of neural nets are too narrow.

And here OpenAI made a claim about solving Rubik’s cube with a robot hand. One would assume they found a generic algorithm from the headline that does Rubik solving From both physical and algorithmic perspective. In actuality OpenAI made a demo of a very specific Rubik’s cube that gave Bluetooth info about its state (not pure vision like humans do). The Rubik’s algorithm was a pre-programmed one, not something that was learnt. Only hand manipulation of that specific cube was learnt.

And we don’t know how general the hand manipulation was. Does it work with different sized Rubik’s cube? What about a non-bluetooth one? Can the same system also fold clothes? Assemble lego blocks into some fixture?

Basically OpenAI has taken a fuck ton of VC funding. So the headlines are hyperbolic when reported. Whether intentional or not, I don’t know. To the layman it’s sending the wrong message and creating unnecessary fear.

OpenAI, DeepMind, AAMFG need to always explicitly say how narrow their AI is when they make claims. I.e Here’s 10 things it’s good at and these are the boundaries. If you change things slightly in the following ways it will fail.
We have centrally planned currency, education, military, pensions, increasingly food and healthcare. We have among the farthest left immigration policies of any wealthy state and at the federal level among the farthest left abortion laws. When people say the US is on the right they generally mean we have guns and some semblance of private healthcare. I think the idea that the US is right leaning or that Democrats are anything resembling center right is an illusion put forth by far left socialists.
Did some kind of automoderation break the title by changing ALL_CAPS to All_caps?
What do you base the "active" part of your assertion on?

I'm curious, because what I've read as a layman led me to believe Boeing legitimately didn't know how dangerous it was and their processes/culture helped undermine facilitating a better understanding. Still not good, but a different world than actively deceiving regulators. It almost seems like their cognitive biases deceived themselves
Crazy Dice Set
I don't get it: I've been buying Amazon prime for about 8 years now, and I don't encounter nearly the amount of problems that everyone else reports.

Yes, I've gotten a few bad items from Amazon. I've also gotten bad items from brick and mortar stores as well. (I recently had a bunch of items go bad from Trader Joe's long before their sell-by date.)
Elm has long been at version 2.5.8. Why they couldn't come up with a name that wasn't already in use I will never understand.
Go has those features in the reflect package (so as far as I know, Go is just as powerful as Python), but you’re right that they aren’t easy to use. If you do use them, it’s quite clear, and will be addressed in code review so you don’t have nearly as many dynamic typing bugs as Python—it’s not anywhere close.

Very dynamic code shouldn’t be easy; the happy path should encourage clear, simple code. By encouraging people to stay on the happy path, their code is more performant, maintainable, etc and it keeps the average code quality quite high across the ecosystem.
I definitely buy allergy pills off EBay that are close to expiry.

But the vendors will state this.

It’ll then take me another 4-5 years to go through the bottle of 500 :)
But the television’s unencrypted collection is fine?
For each input source file, cl.exe creates at least 7 temporary files (with suffixes "gl", "sy", "ex", "in", "db", "md", "lk"). The churn of creating and deleting those, coupled with the slowness of performing checkpointing on a huge empty drive, seem to be the root cause here.

This appears somewhat related to this bug report: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/...

Marking the temporary files as FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY could improve things, without having to go into significant Windows kernel changes.
I would classify these in the realm of software engineering, not computer science.
> As long as the protesters don't disrupt the experience that I paid for too much, they can do whatever they want.

Grow a backbone, some things are more important than a video game expo
while that might be true, some things do get to a steady state that feels like a solution.

For example, most europeans do not worry much about the next war between france/germany/italy/spain/austria.

The "war is a constant between large powers in europe" issue appears to be solved enough, for now.
Seems like the only possible reason to me... sadly we live in a society that caters to the lowest common denominator rather than demanding and rewarding excellence. I worry for future generations.

When I lived in Tucson AZ almost every light was set up for lagging left turns. Where you can go when it's safe, but in the event of heavy traffic you'd be able to count on having a green arrow to empty the left turn lane - worked great!
Well, that's not the only poor advisor Buttigieg has had in his failing presidential campaign.

It seems like if the mainstream media were not propping him up, he would have gone off the radar a while ago.
No, I don't because that happened in 1991, I was 5 years old back then.

Also, what has lead in gasoline to do with EM-radiation?
Ah yes, as long as the protesters are non disruptive and I can ignore them they are allowed to protest as they want. Should they inconvenience me however, someone will have to take care of them
Except our pockets (unless you wear tinfoil pants) and many other materials are transparent at those wavelengths which makes it a lot less crazy.
Well Wiki's support file uploading and you can always source control the ppt files and use MD files where appropriate.
Yeah and there are other tools for other environments. I've found it hard to keep my setup aesthetically pleasing with them, and if you're doing anything with color or anything low contrast, they can make your life pretty hard. But yeah I mean, use whatever works for you, definitely.
Google was always extremely proud of the fact that, unlike Yahoo, Altavista, etc., you couldn't buy the top spots. The organic results looked very different from the couple one-line ads at the top or side.

Now, if I search without an ad block for something like "screws" I get

1. Two ads that look like search results (same 3-4 line excerpt, same links into internal results, same "more" dropdown), except for a little box that says "Ad". This takes up 1/2 of my screen.

2. A full-screen height worth of map and links to physical stores (have no idea if they're paid for or not)

3. My results
Hillary attacks Gabbard, Bloomberg (himself a candidate-candidate) attacks Buttigieg, Yang apparently didnt have much chance anyway ... who s left to smear so that the biden-warren fake race is complete?
Shouldn’t PGE forgo payouts to shareholders in order to keep infrastructure to a better standard? Surely the long term value of PGE is diminished (and thus their ability to pay dividends) if they are found liable for fires or effect rolling blackouts as a “solution”. The pension funds could invest in something else instead.
Sale By dates are not the same as Use By dates are not the same as Expired By dates. This link should help clear up a lot for you and your wife, and save you money/prevent waste in the long run.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/inter...
Global Constant Maps and Slices in Go
The thing is, almost all of these providers share infrastructure and IP blocks. Lookup MicFo and the associated lawsuits (not even including their lawsuit with arin). They provided the exact same IP blocked systems to dozens of the top VPN providers.

The reality is, if someone else owns the infrastructure you're just pushing the risk to a different location.
I flatly don't believe in CAGW. Science shows us CO2 has a base2 logarithmic effect with 50% of the heating coming in at around 40ppm. Do the math. At this point even if we go up to 5k ppm there is less than 2C total warming even possible. The rest of the temperature rise scare comes from IPCC models that amplify the tiny amount of CO2 warming. The same models that have so far failed to track reality. Satellite data shows the rate of warming over the last 50 years has not changed even as CO2 skyrocketed. The correlation isn't even there. NASA admits that the most recent years would not have actually been the hottest years ever if they didn't fill in missing data with their propriety algorithm. The sky is not falling. I expect it to take another 10 years or so before the data is so in your face that we start talking about how we made such a large mistake. Even if CO2 was a problem the only way to fix it at this point is to keep the 2 billion people down that are striving for a much larger footprint. Good luck with that.
Because they have a crushing monopoly on US online commerce, and 80%+ of customers are happily consuming their cheap goods without knowing/caring about the quality/authenticity.
It takes some time(in my case about two weeks or so) until you "get" which search terms to use in a different search engine. And now after years of using DuckDuckGo I stopped using Google completely because I simply can't get find any usable results on the whole first one to two pages, sometimes there's even half of the first page filled with only Pinterest links.

In short, no, DDG is definitely not inferior in my experience, it's all just a matter of getting used to it.
Commingling also sounds like an Amazon problem created by itself. The customer shouldn't have to care or even think about that.
Thank you.

On 2, I mean these (feeds, topic lists etc.) are probably not worth indexing at all, esp. since you keep all old content in the index.

Is your code all home-built, or you're using some FT engine compiled to Wasm?
Do you live near a major city? I've wondered if there is a correlation between incidents like this and specific cities or if there is a difference between more/less populous areas of the U.S.
I’m not sure who the intended audience for this post is, but I’ve never known any serious or productive developer who quit learning a language just because they got hung up on a few of the trivial syntax examples in this article.
I've worked at several multi-billion dollar corporations. Here's what was used, to varying degrees of success:

Private owned retailer: used Sharepoint and / or word documents on a shared network drive. This didn't work very well, but it ticked the "I did it" / corporate compliance boxes.

University: we use OneNote notebooks for each team. It's stored on a file share, and since everyone already uses Windows 10 / O365, it's an easy thing for our security concerns. It's also auto-backed up to the cloud (O365). It's also easy for business users / BA's to view and contribute to. Downsides: it's hard to flag info as out of date, or notify people of changes.

Healthcare provider: we used Markdown / Git. This worked because there was a single (mono) git solution for the entire org. Technically there was an SVN thing too, but the org was working to actively remove that / transfer source code to BitBucket. We required each project to have a README.md. This file included what the project did, and all the info a new analyst needs to know to get up and running: how to build the project, what servers it deployed to, what testing / production URL's applied to the project, what tools you installed on your local machine, etc.

We had a separate repository for "standards" that applied to all projects or across different global teams (think "internal" - EPIC, Sharepoint, etc teams and "external" product teams). These were just markdown files that contained policy info, best practices, libraries to use, etc. There was a "standards" team made up of a dozen individuals from separate teams that met quarterly to make updates to these standards. Changes were managed in Git and any issues were created there as well. It worked pretty well, since policy / standard changes tend to move slowly in large orgs. It also gave all teams visibility to the policies so they were all on the same page.
It's been my experience that nearly all items with expirations on amazon are either near the end of their shelf life or past it. Coffee, candy, supplements, whatever. It's very obviously used as a dumping ground. It's crazy to me that this isn't common knowledge by now.
Protest is supposed to interrupt, to be there where it isn't wanted. It is supposed to be inconvenient and blocking.
Keeping a gas or diesel generator fueled and running for days at a time is not super cheap. Plus if your whole city's power is cut and everybody else is running their generators, there's a risk of fuel price increases or even fuel shortages.

Solar & batteries are a solution but people won't adopt as a solution with this sort of timeline and current solar/battery prices. There'd need to be a slow but certain rise in PG&E prices and a some sort of tax rebate to really get people to convert over.
A fresh mechanism for how buckyballs form in space
He came of as progressive because (but not limited to) his views on M4A single payer, defending it and calling it the compromise solution, when comparing it to the UK system, where all hospital are own by the government and doctors work for the government.

That all changed.. just 9 months later
A lot of them shared physical infrastructure definitely less odd that multiple were breached at same time.
Yeah I try and make color schemes that work in 256 color terminals and I really lament the lack of options sometimes. Could be worth doing something clever, but having been a terminal Vim user for so long, I've built up a lot of resentment against color schemes that look great in GUI but not so great in terminal haha.
IPVanish was caught logging while claiming they didn’t log [1].

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/ipvanish-no-logging-vpn-led-homelan...
back when i was in college I wanted to be a network engineer and was fascinated with data centers. I use to call them up and pretend to be scouting for cages for my employer (this is long before "cloud" was a thing) and schedule tours. I would get to see all the cool gear, power backups, fiber and everything and they would be forced to answer all my stupid questions like "what is your backup plan if a tornado hits this place" haha. It was really fun.

EDIT: one time I went to the Yahoo datacenter in Deep Ellum (East side of downtown Dallas). I walked in without calling first, asked for a tour, a couple guys walked away from a foosball table and told me they were too busy and went back to foosball, jerks. Although, they probably knew i was just a random geek in the neighborhood heh.
they cannot please both.

They will have to ride out the bad PR in the west, because they cannot afford to ride out the chinese market's dominance and profits.
Well, not really. That's a broad overstatement. Sure, for hype US tech companies but there are small companies without ridiculous over-pricing that use it to fund their growth as it was originally supposed to. But I agree that when the owners want to IPO it is often because it's beneficial time for them to sell (valuation is high vs the perceived risks). Or some VCs want to dump their stocks. Yet had you taken part in say Facebook's IPO that was considered over-hyped and held onto your stocks you would have made massive returns so, it's not all smoke and mirrors.
@eahefnawy This is not for static pages. This is for web frameworks like express/hapi etc
> It is used in Germany, the Nederlands, and Switzerland I think.

Germany today has a public/private mixture, Switzerland and Netherlands is fully private. I'm making this distinction because private profits do exist in these system, while the original comment I replied to lamented them.

> The difference in payment between US and European health care workers isn't large enough to make much of a dent in US healthcare expenses. The big sources of costs is the US massive bureaucracy dealing with bills, insurance and negotiation, as well as the medical inefficiency and overprovision inherent in the system. Also high drug prices.

Are you sure about this? Last time I looked it up, I came to a different conclusion: Administrative overhead (~8%) is neither a huge part of costs, nor is it massively different than in Europe. Drugs prices also only account for 10%.

Salaries for workers on the other hand are a significant chunk, and those are easily double than those in Germany in most cases. Note that I'm talking about all salaries, doctors, nurses, clerks, cleaners...

I agree with the overprovisioning being much costlier, but those are due to legal liabilities being more expensive in the US in general. In Germany, even if you win a malpractice suit, you get a pittance.

> There are about 1 million doctors working in the US. So thats 100 billion. US overspending is about 1 500 - 1 800 billion.

Again, this disregards the vast majority of worker salaries involved.
Not trying to be a Boeing apologist, but if the bar is "zero risk" almost no business plan in industry would be implemented.

They have to acknowledge at some point that lives may be at risk in their business. Whether or not that risk level is a acceptable and that they properly gauge that risk 8s another matter
I don’t understand. Can you rephrase this?
The Kiss of Zuck.

Facebook: We're not political
Exactly! Which is why we need to be extremely prudent and not assume we can pollute without any major impacts. If the flashlight is poor, we should crawl, not run inside the cave.
Sorry, i think you misunderstood. I believe that lifestyle effects do influence cancer rates, but I don't think they influence it as much as the effects I mentioned. Note that in the papers you describe, the increase in relative risk is actually fairly small.
And if that's still too much, you can walk away for a $350 one at harbor freight (whether it starts again the second time you need it to run is certainly questionable)
It's a statement written for Chinese Authorities. This twitter thread analyzes it pretty well.

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1183215204525412352
Emacs is too Big and Complex: Where do I start from?
I am an emacs noob trying to better use the editor. I am at the point where I can search for commands I know I need and learn what they do, but I feel like I need someone to tell me what are the commands I do not know I need.

For example I am trying to start using Magit and I cannot really make sense of how emacs is configured on a system.

Do you know some resource that can give me some high-level how I am supposed to use this editor?

Thanks.
Did you read the part about survivorship bias?

And on top of that, it's a blog post. Evan gave examples of really helpful error messages.

I don't use elm, as I don't do webdev and I don't agree with Evan's tendancy to minimalism, but I really wish other languages had the "pair programming" aspect of the elm compiler.
> “ keep the focus on the game and on the tournament."

I just can't help myself but draw the parallels to the NBA and their current situation as well with China and the utter hypocrisy shown by everyone from GMs to Coaches all the way down to players and media staff. When it came to social issues and black incarceration and inequality in America they spoke up bravely, and stated they wouldn't just "shut up and dribble" as LeBron famously stated.

Steve Kerr, a long outspoken critic of Donald Trump famously stated in 2017, "If you look at the history of the world, the biggest problems come when people don't speak."

Now this is Steve Kerr in 2019 after the China controversy, specifically on whether Morey shouldn't be fired: "I would hope that you appreciate my right to not answer that question because all it does is create a headline"

Sure sounds like the players and coaches are now saying "let us shut up and dribble" and "let us focus on the game"
Amazon just has a bigger target on their back.

Why wouldn't these issues affect any business with a sizable logistics chain? There are no guarantees of authenticity of goods at your local brick and mortar stores either.
What was the first color in the universe?
I was getting ready to paste the same thing; the command-line instructions make Algo, effectively, a somewhat technical solution, but it really does just work.

And for those who have used various VPN solutions over the years but not Wireguard: it really is pretty magic. It Just Works, with fantastic performance.
If you have a registered trademark you can have Google block other advertisers from visually using your trademark in an ad. However, that doesn't prevent them from using the trademark as the keyword target (the non-visible part of the ad).
This is only an issue if the keys of the VPN are compromised (like it appears to be for NordVPN).
Russia’s Cozy Bear Hackers Resurface with Clever New Tricks
I also don't blame them, and in fact I'm a bit bullish on the fact that these influencers are bringing greater awareness to using VPNs to an audience that might otherwise not use them / understand them.
The comment is a reference to an email client of the same name. A comment like this appears without fail on every HN post regarding Elm.
Oh yeah I've been trying to give the world another unwanted programming language for a little while. This snapshot is from a tool I'm writing to generate C bindings--today glibc, tomorrow the world, etc.
Careful, you’re misinterpreting the document. The two studies you’ve picked are listed as “neither evidence of an effect or a null finding”, they are not included in the “more than 500 studies” finding harmful effects. Those studies are prefixed by “P” in the document and, although I haven’t counted, a rough estimate based on the number of pages makes it plausible that there are > 500.

That said, given the scientific consensus from rigorous meta-analyses, I expect that these “positive” studies are mostly of low quality and/or limited sample size. And scepticism is generally warranted when advocates start listing large numbers of studies instead of referring to a few meta-studies. As it happens, the best available meta-studies come to the opposite conclusion (namely, that there’s probably no harm from mobile EMF), so this long list is essentially bogus.
Uh, Syria was a French mandate.
Refactoring by Martin Fowler and Kent Beck.

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler.

Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.

Growing Object-Oriented Software, guided by tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce.
"elm" is also a text-based Unix email client.
that’s more DPI. unless my terms are conflated mouse acceleration increases the speed of the cursor during sustained movements. I’m not defending windows here, as I wish it would die in a fire, but do this in hardware by increasing mouse DPI if you can.
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol.
The best way to anecdotally see if it works for you would be track consumption using a simple app (https://careclinic.io) then measuring productivity with rescuetime and seeing correlations.
>Well, I suspect that the help is not disinterested. Nor do I think it's done in a 'personal' capacity.

I won't quibble with the "not disinterested" bit, but what he's doing is introducing people that he knows to the Buttigieg campaign, so in that sense, it's quite personal:

>Zuckerberg and Chan recommended numerous potential campaign hires, and two of them are now on staff: Eric Mayefsky, senior digital analytics adviser, and Nina Wornhoff, organizing data manager.

>Mayefsky previously worked as the director of data science at Quora, a 10-year-old question-and-answer startup founded by former Facebook employees. Mayefsky worked at Facebook for almost four years starting in 2010, according to his LinkedIn profile. Wornhoff previously worked as a machine learning engineer at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and in Democratic politics in Indiana, Buttigieg’s home state.
Clojure, Beam, and Dodging Static Types
There's also Streisand[0], that gives a lot more options.

[0] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand