skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here's the problem - God doesn't exist ...

Aristotle would disagree:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-way-moving-tale.h...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-way-part-iii-big-...

> The only absolute laws are the laws of physics.

Then you're left with explaining the laws of physics and why they exist. Those laws are contingent after all. See Aquinas's "argument from contingency" (though not the general cosmological argument or Kalām variant, which are not very good) as well as Leibniz:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument#Argument...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_sufficient_reason

For a fuller treatment see Feser:

* https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp...
I am not a fan of patents, mainly because of issues surrounding eligibility, implementation and abuses. (edit: which would be all fairly straight forward to re-adjust and enforce, if there was a will to do so in the legislature)

I do, however, reserve the term "patent troll" to places who practice acquiring patents and suing others based on those patents, as a way to make money, but don't actually build anything with those patents. I do not understand why it is even legal to do that, that is most certainly easy to fix (edit: I reached a point where I think greedy people = psychopaths, destroyers of the world).

So the Wright Brothers, the Edison, the Christiansen, and many others, actually did build from their invention. They did use their patent to prevent others from using it, which is basically what a patent grants its owner. Patents don't give you the right to proceed with your invention, they give you the right from excluding others from doing your invention.
In this case, my guess would be that the 6309 was marketed as a drop-in compatible replacement for the Motorola 6809. In that case, there is no point advertising other features, because code written for the 6809 won't use them anyway. Rather, you market it on the fact that it's cheaper, uses less power, can be clocked higher, etc. Disclosing all sorts of ISA changes might even scare people off, thinking that the compatibility might be compromised.

So why did they put all those extra features in at all? My guess would be that they had a big buyer, who was in a position to write their own software to make use of those features. This is why you end up with undocumented features in Intel chips today, and the buyers are either big datacentre operators, like Google or Facebook, or government organisations, like the DoD or NSA.

I don't know who such a buyer would be for the 6309, though. It came out in 1982, the same year that Intel released the 286, and Motorola released the 68010 (and National Semiconductor released the NS32016). Also in 1982, Osaka University built what was then the world's fastest supercomputer using Z8001 microprocessors (check out the cooling system in the photo!):

http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/other/0013.html

If you were a government agency, wouldn't you rather have a 16 MHz 32-bit 68k than a 5 MHz 8-bit 6309? Or even the 4-10 MHz 16-bit Z8001 that Osaka had used? Of course, if you were a Japanese government agency, you would have to import the 68k or Z-8001 from the USA, whereas the 6309 was made in Japan.

On the other hand, the Motorola 6809 was used for some arcade games, including Defender and Robotron. Maybe Hitachi planned to sell the 6309 to games companies? I assume that games companies controlled their entire software stack, and games always need more performance at an affordable price, so the 6309, as a 6809 but with opportunities to go faster, would have been pretty appealing. The arcade version of Double Dragon used the 6309, although five years after it came out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_(video_game)
And - from the supposed manufacturer site - here:

https://ouster.com/products/os1-lidar-sensor

It is not exactly a "cheap" piece of hardware:

>OS1-16 Available now for $3,500

>OS1-64 Available now for $12,000 or $8,000 for non-profit research

>OS1-128 Available now for $18,000 or $12,000 for non-profit research

hence - probably - the need for the collar with the spikes.

Maybe I am a pessimist, but set aside specifically Groningen (NL), which may well be an exception, I would estimate the durability of such a thing (I mean before being stolen or vandalized) in an "average" park in two-three days (or nights).
Long Live Slackware Linux – MINI Documentary
Long Live Slackware is an independent Brazilian mini-documentary. It addresses the older GNU / Linux distribution still under development, Slackware Linux.

Credits:
Interviewee: Jefferson 'Slackjeff' Rocha
Script: Paula Siqueira
Filming: Anderson Carneiro
Edition: Caio Fernando
Dubbing: Sam Grant

Video:
https://youtu.be/nhSHH8pY6uw
Distraction-free? Have they stopped filling the new tab page with revenue-generators like Pocket?
Had to create a throwaway to touch this, and I am _not_ an anti-vaxxer but...

One of the primary arguments of the anti-vax movement is not that "vaccines cause autism" but that the FDA is a poor, industry-captured steward of public health WRT the shit that they give the thumbs up to be fed or injected into kids. This story is a case in point for that argument.
It's possible to go a long way if you throw resources at underperforming students. Another method of going a long way is cheating. Neither affect your intelligence positively.

However, I have no reason to believe one of those two factors is at place when looking at the top ten students of a given school. With cheating you don't aim for the top, to make it easier for your cheating to remain undiscovered and there's no point to invest lots of resources into a student that isn't failing, since there's nothing to gain, at least from my perspective. Or is there a cash price tied be being in the top ten?
Launching of Topnextthing
Few other other articles on the paper:

* https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/07/7772764...

* https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/how-early-christian-...

* https://nationalpost.com/news/world/medieval-catholicism-exp...
I've mostly had good internet connection since 2004, so I know.

Pages were better before this modern SPA thing that ironically get sold in to improve user experience.

End of discussion I guess..?
Airplane Shooting Game for Android
A programming language for designing Turing Machines
I believe it was this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20915873
Early Employee at Square Raised $57M to Keep Institutional Investors Safe
Show HN: One app, all social needs: mates, dates and cool experiences
Airplane Shooting Game for Android – Toon Strike Force
Show HN: CLI for Generating OpenID or OAuth2 Tokens
Well this piece was significantly less worse than I expected going in.
Asynchronous programming using thread pools
The link is self-referencing, the article should be this one (Reurters):

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-probe/goldm...

But the original source should be this one (Bloomberg):

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/viral-twe...
What has this to do with bad project management? I do not see anything particularly bad happening in this project, while the BER is indeed a clusterfuck that keeps giving.

They are still within their financial budget for this project, will maybe overshoot it by a bit in the end. But that's OK, since such a dismantling had no precedence whatsoever, and it was just an estimate and everybody knew that. They will exceed their time budget by a lot, which is also OK, since again such a dismantling had no precedence whatsoever, it doesn't really matter if this thing takes a decade longer to dismantle, and the reason they take longer than initially estimated is that they had to overcome a ton of problems nobody could have known about before and went about their work carefully and systematically. There were a lot of lessons learned from this, which should help with being faster when dismantling other nuclear plants, but and a bit cheaper (maybe at 2/3rds the cost in the future).

With BER on the other hand the date of completion did matter, both politically and economically, and the exploding time and financial budgets were a result of gross incompetence in particular from the politicians that personally kept meddling in the project (it was "prestige" project), complete failure in contractor oversight (which resulted in a ton of defects and also some corruption and embezzlement) and a completely useless project leadership (of mostly political appointments, aside from the politicians themselves, that e.g. resulted in them building that thing without working fire safety).
I think you’re overrating modern web design. For example recently I have been frustrated at the amount of web sites I have been on which “respond” to the geometry of the browser by completely removing essential navigational elements of the site and giving the user no indication that anything is missing. This makes for example using the site in a web browser tiled to half the screen width on a laptop impossible.

This site even works perfectly on mobile, because it doesn’t change to simplify itself to the point of being unusable, like many modern web sites do, often even refusing to stop doing so when choosing “request desktop site” in the mobile browser.
I switched over to Firefox when I read that Chrome was limiting the functionality of ad block extensions and it's been a fantastic browser so far.
>It's weird to see you say "What matters to people is what people decide matters" and then assume the other party has no reasoning behind their actions. Peculiar indeed.

I don't assume that. If anything, I do the exact opposite.

The "other party" says that they have reasoning behind their actions (and only reasoning).

I point how they indeed have reasoning, but that this reasoning is based on an implicit value structure, and is not some "pure reasoning" as claimed, and that furthermore, that it is wrong, because their conclusion on "what matters" should have taken into account the Other.

Let me break it down to a number of statements to make it simpler:

1) if you think of yourself as a perfectly rational agent,

2) and your goal is to point a very bad habbit in someone, e.g. that their drinking/eating will kill them,

3) ig you say it without kindness and tailored to their personality

4) because you think only the fact that it's true shoiuld be enough

5) then you're undermining the success of your own intervention. The person could close down to you, double down on their habbit, etc because of the hurt of your words.

So a perfectly rational agent should include (5) in their calculations, as it's a fact about the world and how people react. Yet many (as in TFA) don't. Their rationality stops at first order thinking, and doesn't include people's reactions and other second order effects.

So, my whole point is: you're not really rational if you skip (5). You just have an incomplete model of the world, and your conclusions about "what matters" (just the truth, the delivery shouldn't count) is flawed under a rational utilitarian assessment.
Using this at work last week to refactor a database call to a new service call
>While I appreciate how hard it would be to implement properly

Isn't that part of what it means to acquire a patent? Trying to get a patent on something that I don't yet know how to actually implement should be denied, right?
Two clicks and it‘s gone forever. In the main GUI, not some about:config setting.
Is there something a linux user should take note of? Or is it Sandboxie an attempt to reproduce features like kvm/qemu to windows world? Looks like a cool tool but currently not sure what I would do with it besides of what I do with Linux already.
Let’s enumerate how Firefox is bugging the user to tell him they respect his privacy:

- Each time one opens a tab,

- Every week in my mailbox,

- When opening any other website and their popup is here to tell me « You’re protected! »

- When one opens a website and FF asks « Do you want to install this privacy extension? », pointing at the facebook jail or the container feature.

- When suggesting to use Pocket or any new idea,

Chrome succeeded by advertising in competitors’ browsers (through Google properties) for Chrome and making Chrome get out of the way... in Chrome. I’m not sure Firefox can succeed by bugging the user in their own browser. Also, coming from a company who fired his CEO for a private donation made 10 years earlier, claiming it’s a privacy-respecting company is rich.
It's true. I have kept giving Firefox another chance over time but haven't been convinced.

Recently, I tried Firefox again on Windows. And the experience is amazing indeed - faster, smoother, and with trackers blocking, very pleasant. And with strict protection, that's sort-of a builtin ad blocker.

Something still feels off on MacOS even though the last version has been a massive improvement for MBP Retina.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much par for the course with Schestowitz. Even where he's got some actual meat (and many of his roasts are at best thin stews, often verging on homeopathic), he trips over himself slathering on the umbrage and insinuation.

I tend to believe what he's insinuating here, that Microsoft prioritises desktop licenses well above any apparances of playing nice with Linux (Azure may be a market, but that's virtually (hah!) all servers). But Schestowitz can't get out of his own way to tell the story.

Going straight to the source is generally recommended in any case. All the more so in this instance.
You've just described Leo - leoeditor.com - where you're effectively editing a gigantic single xml file hidden by a GUI. The structuring is only occasionally automatic - mostly manual. It has python available the way emacs has elisp.

Git conflict resolution of that single file is intractable, so I convert the representation into thousands of tiny files for git, which I reassemble into the xml for Leo.
> In the end, I still give up. I can't please them. I don't understand

I would hate to lose you. But you’ve got to keep up with the times. It used to be, for example, acceptable to call any theoretical person “him” if it was a person in a stereotypically male role. Now it’s not acceptable, and we all have had to adjust. When I was a kid, it used to be accepted and normal to make jokes about racial stereotypes, and most people only thought it was funny and didn’t assume racism of either the person making the joke or of anyone laughing. Now it’s different, and we cringe at the terrible things which we then accepted uncritically.

It’s a bit like that when cultures change.

> This is not a dictatorship. But "inclusive" language start to feels this way to me.

There are two different things going on, one mostly good – i.e. the societal move to less adversarial language – and one bad, the social media incentives which creates an outrage driven attention culture, which drives people to, like Cardinal Richelieu, scrutinize every tweet and find something in those words to cancel them.

You shouldn’t be afraid of the latter to a degree that you reject the former.
Is Chrome still planning on rolling out manifest v3, which kills uBlock Origin?

I imagine that would boost Firefox growth.

Edit: Answering my own question...yup, it's in canary as of November 1st.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/google-begins...
I see you are downvoted and I think that is wrong.

It would however help a lot if you wrote in a style that made it clear that this was your personal experience.

I'm using an Ubuntu based distro myself (KDE Neon) and have no problems.
> "This is wrong" always implies "IMO/to my knowledge" anyway, and is functionally equivalent to "I feel / it could be argued that this might be wrong" and all that, except that the writer has the courtesy to speak up when they are ready to actually express an opinion, not just to allude to the possibility of someone, possibly them, expressing an opinion or making an argument.

They are not "functionally equivalent" if they effect the reader in two different ways.

I would infer an aggressive attitude on the part of the speaker which makes the meat of the message more difficult to parse. Should I, for my part, try to get better at parsing messages delivered in such a format? Sure. But the question of whether or not you want to be heard still leaves some onus on the speaker to consider their audience.

But it's complicated, right? There seem to be quite a few people in this thread that strongly prefer one over the other.
He has a real name.

You continuing to assert that his name is in some way not real is incredibly rude.
Spaces and é can easily be represented in a single DB column, and none of what you wrote precludes having a single "first name" and "last name" field to represent your name in a DB.
Yeah, he left github. Maybe you'll get it through shine, which uses tvm. https://github.com/richardhundt/shine

Or I'll upload a fork.
> Despite the prominent stream of thought on this site, no particular technology is in itself "inevitable."

And what's your argument?

If the technology represents a big advantage to a group of people, history shows that is what eventually happens.

So yeah we could choose not to invent spears or choose not to invent metal armor, or choose not to invent gunpowder, or...
That’s for one application. Phones have dozens of apps. If they all use different, giant models like this, then 512GB won’t be nearly enough.

Moreover, what is the performance going to be like? It can’t be too spectacular if your model doesn’t fit in RAM. 33GB is manageable on a beefy server with a ton of RAM. You’re not going to have the same luxury on your phone.

The other major aspect of it is memory bandwidth. If the model was designed to run on a high end GPU, with all 33GB stored in graphics memory, then it’s going to perform terribly if it has to be paged in and out of flash on a phone.
Reproducible Data Analysis in Jupyter (2017)
Hello Everyone,

Thanks for showing such a great support ! Let us address some of your questions here !

You dont need to have any coding knowledge to use the platform. Anyone can install Local Market Instance and Setup their market. Its similar to Mastodon Project
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

All the local markets are accessible from your end-user app. So you dont need to publish any separate app.

We are anticipating that Vendor Cooperatives will help us manage the local markets.

When the project gains traction. We will be releasing the PWA and IOS app also. So dont worry about that at all !
I think there are (at least) two fundamentally different ways to create UIs, suited for two fundamentally different types of UI applications:

Programmer-driven for "tools" (think Photoshop, Maya, IDEs, debuggers), and artist-driven for "user applications" (think typical mobile applications and games).

For the first type, "maintainability and functionality" is more important than "beauty on the surface", and it's also important to give the programmer a framework which encourages "best practices", so that the result is not an archetypal "programmer UI".

Only for the second type, "shininess" is more important than everything else, this includes general aesthetics, colors, animations / transitions, etc...
Their own page says, "our recommendation algorithms ... learning characteristics that make content successful ... optimize the production of original movies and TV shows ... optimize video and audio encoding, adaptive bitrate selection, and our in-house Content Delivery Network ... and advertising".

https://research.netflix.com/research-area/machine-learning

Here's another article on the subject:

https://becominghuman.ai/how-netflix-uses-ai-and-machine-lea...
My friend is a pharmacist in Toronto Canada and she says that very often, elderly people with no family or support system would come to her and talk at length or ask her to explain what their mail was that they received. Sometimes it would be elderly people who don’t speak English (she works close to Chinatown) so she would get one of her pharmacists who speaks Chinese to help out the person. It’s a very sad situation to be in.
>Where? I didn’t see it.

"For one, because they need a fixed binary representation for the type, to persist it on disk. In a programming language you do things in memory, so you don't have that issue..."

The crucial difference I point is "persist on disk" vs "do it in memory", not in the "binary representation". Both running programs and DBs have one, but one absolutely needs to be persisted on disk, whereas live program memory doesn't.

>This applies to every feature for every tool. You don’t have to solve the problem if you just put it on your users.

There's also the fact that it might not be a problem just an easy cop-out from the user.

In which case it's better to force your users into the more formal and rigid structure, and have them rethink their model, than turn the DB into an "anything goes anywhere" store.
Does anybody know if they intend to do releases anymore, or is -current basically the only version there will ever be?
Wenn das der Führer wüsste
2D to 3D transform is simple trigonometry (using stereo / motion) and should be possible to learn without lidar. I think this is already a solved problem. One option though is to add lidars in random Teslas (e.g. 1/1000) to help with the labeling / learning.
Be careful what you wish for. Do you really want the policy to reflect popular polling? Really really? Because what the public supports is a mixed bag. Maybe the population will support higher healthcare spending but also greatly restricted immigration policy ... or leaving a beneficial trade-block due to fears of Eastern European immigrants. Contrast this to Switzerland, where we've seen popular anti-immigration measures being 'tweaked' by more level-headed politicians who realize there are larger issues at play.

There is something to be said about policies put forward by sophisticated and educated elites.
Andrej Karpathy taught cs231n. The question is about Sam Altman who didn't teach anything related to NL. He's on the board of OpenAI because he was one of its founding investors.
How Many Calories Can the Brain Burn by Thinking?
I'll always know him as badmephisto. In a recentish reddit AMA, he says he still keeps a cube on his desk so he can practice a bit and not forget his algorithms.
They wrote a good blog post about using this gem back in 2016: https://github.blog/2016-02-03-scientist/
Relevant username?

This seems to be a strange hill to die on. For all intents and purposes there is a declaration in the readme. And anyone who knows enough to want to operate with this will see that it's fairly basic. Others will likely just reach for a more generic or battle tested solution.

In any case, people should be able to do what they want with their repos and code, assuming legality of course.
I didn't try it, but what I'll miss the most is traffic information (I live in a very crowded area with huge traffic jams).
I've never heard that that was the reason for Elon leaving the OpenAI board. The official announcement said
"As Tesla continues to become more focused on AI, this will eliminate a potential future conflict for Elon."
Do you have a source?
Firefox Send might be an option.
https://send.firefox.com/
Let's you set link lifetime, number of clicks/downloads allowed, etc.

It wasn't around when I needed to send my passport scan the last time but it's more comfortable than email.
I think your assumption is wrong.

Making $200-300k as a self-employed software engineer requires a completely different skillset than getting and maintaining a job at a FAANG. The roles have very little carry over.

I made ~$400k last year (in cash) as a self-employed engineer. I work maybe 20 hours a week. I would hardly say that getting here was non trivial, but I'd hardly say it's trivial to get a job at a FAANG either.