skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone recommend readings on von Neumann that highlight his non-mathematical achievements? Obviously he was primarily a physicist and mathematician, but for a non-mathematician, the long list of academic publications is hard to interpret and appreciate. For example, more in the vein of these:

- Reportedly, von Neumann possessed an eidetic memory, and so was able to recall complete novels and pages of the phone directory on command. This enabled him to accumulate an almost encyclopedic knowledge of what ever he read, such as the history of the Peloponnesian Wars, the Trial Joan of Arc and Byzantine history (Leonard, 2010). A Princeton professor of the latter topic once stated that by the time he was in his thirties, Johnny had greater expertise in Byzantine history than he did (Blair, 1957).

- ...conversing in Ancient Greek at age six...

- On his deathbed, he reportedly entertained his brother by reciting the first few lines of each page from Goethe’s Faust, word-for-word, by heart (Blair, 1957).
My guess is that each relatively difficult field (fields that require substantial thought... I guess you know it when you see it) has its freaks of nature: genetic anomalies that, for at least a brief moment, seem to transcend the other participants.

In the 20th century, philosophy had Saul Kripke. Among other things, he published one of the seminal papers in the (at that time) nascent area of modal logic when he was 17. I have it on good authority from a professor friend that many - who know Kripke in a professional setting - regard him as having a sort of alien intelligence.

Not to take away from Von Neumann, but there are at least a couple people each century who have these sorts of alien cognitive skills.

Also, while there is probably some truth to them having a sort of alien intelligence, we can't disregard the contexual factors of their success. Von Neumann lived in a unique academic-historical period. A period where one could make lasting, foundational contributions to a variety of disciplines.
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I am entirely in agreement contingent upon there being some language construct which makes it possible to explicitly limit which variables from one block can be seen in subsequent blocks. For example

DoAll() {
// A
a1 = ...
a2 = ...
a3 = ...

withOnly a1, a3:
// B
b1 = f(a1)
b2 = g(a3)

withOnly b2:
// C
c1 = h(b2)
}

Since this doesn't exist in any language, as far as I know, I guess I'll stick to using functions for now.
Wow, a computer something-ist trying to be a neuroscientist.

So maybe the visual cortex is 30% of the brain, it is also very coarse and imprecise. It sometimes ignores large part of the visual field. It is very immune to noise and that's why it is imprecise. It does much processing without you being conscious and that's why there are so many "optical illusions".

On the other hand audition (when working, not my case) is very precise (sensitivity), has very good frequency selectivity, huge dynamic.
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Of course, better-known orchestras will first assess an applicant's musical prowess by whiteboard interviews.

If you can't write down Freygish scale, including the dominant fifth, you needn't even dare thinking about playing there.
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Are rate limits manually imposed by moderators?

I feel quite certain the error message does not match the source code, I suspect it is downvote based, which at times (certain subjects) basically equates to agree with the status quo or be silenced.
Modern Image programs have a Dehaze algorithm that already can calculate a depth map using the haze. Wonder if this is better.
Then you'll _really_ love the Galaxy S9 with the curved edges, where the natural resting spot for your fingers is on the curved edges of the actual screen.

/s
Intermediate bosonic metallic state in the superconductor-insulator transition
Firefly used a mishmash of English and Mandarin (?).
Does the rate limiting code take downvotes into consideration?
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Nope.

Not with this technique at least. Maybe you could train a CNN to do that...
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> Seems like a bit of a tail wagging the dog situation. How do we know the more relaxed/organized schedule leads to success, and not that success leads to a more relaxed/organized schedule?

That's a facile rhetorical question. You could similarly ask, "How do we know that good food and exercise lead to healthy human beings, rather than that already-healthy human beings have access to good food and exercise?" The answer, of course, would be research. All the students were working the same amount. Their work habits were different.

Furthermore, although I can understand why success might lead to more relaxation (for instance, by making students feel less stressed about their future prospects), I don't see how it would lead to more discipline or a focus on deliberate practice. Successful people tend to do the same things they've always done, for the obvious reason that they are successful doing it. If they were undisciplined and successful, what motivation would they have for becoming disciplined?

In addition to the data and the research (and Newport has illuminated many more results than this one), two anecdotes come to mind. The first is from The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker, where he brings forward some examples:

> [Consider] Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt’s confidential adviser in World War II. A dying, indeed almost a dead man for whom every step was torment, he could only work a few hours every other day or so. This forced him to cut out everything but truly vital matters. He did not lose effectiveness thereby; on the contrary, he became, as Churchill called him once, “Lord Heart of the Matter” and accomplished more than anyone else in wartime Washington.

The second is from my personal life. Having children forced me to concentrate my efforts and create a much more disciplined work life. I'm more successful and focused than ever. Although this is just an anecdote, this phenomenon is commonly reported by other people in demanding technical or executive roles.
So this allows free bypass of features that YouTube wants you to pay for via Premium subscription.

Why is this acceptable for YouTube? Can we start building and publishing plugins that bypass paid subscriptions for other SaaS services here too?

This is especially strange for music - music artists (in my experience) usually want you to pay for playing their music without video via subscription or by buying an album. This allows complete bypass of that - it's essentially Napster again.
Which is already quite complicated...
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I think the next logical step for Apple is to use textual analysis on this HN thread to optimise for what the following change should be...
The laws, taxes, and zoning surrounding residences for stays under one month and over are typically wildly different.
It's switching two corporate overlords for one, so I think they'll still see it as a net win.
How did they get the reference palette to those stars?
On a slight tangent, when I saw "in 2020", my initial reaction was to think this was a post speculating about the image recognition trends in the far future.

And then I realized it is November 2019.
A real comparison is of course impossible, but of that coterie, Kurt Gödel is a strong contender. As the original post mentions, he singlehandedly destroyed Hilbert's formalist program (which von Neumann was also working on) and von Neumann is quoted as saying he was "in a class by himself". There is the famous letter from Gödel to von Neumann which anticipates the P=NP problem by decades.

In a different era, I think Blaise Pascal is also a contender. At age 19 he invented a working mechanical calculator with a functional carry mechanism, which somehow his contemporaries failed to achieve for the next sixty years.
How exactly does that pay for YouTubes storage, bandwidth and transcoding costs? How does that pay for music artists which request that their music is paid for when people are listening to it in background? Why the wierd double standard with YT?
I think what these people are doing, focussed practice sessions for hours on end is really hard and requires exceptional willpower and concentration. These are not common qualities. Remember that the average attention span is 15 minutes. Nothing close to four hours. Of course, the most elite students or professionals can go on for much longer. Personally, i can't force myself to do this and end up being average or worse. despite dedicating most of my life to programming. such is life. i have tried methods to combat this and eliminating distractions is key, however most of the time it is impossible. i do know i can come up with some amazing work when i'm not distracted.
... And someone taking 30 percent and making you an employee w/o benifits in the process! Yay!

Yet another example of big tech trying to figure out how to control and profit from the means of production without building it or investing in it.

It's like everyone wants to be a comic book villain these days.
US won’t clean up Marshall Islands nuclear waste dome: wants it free of graffiti
I've skimmed the description of the repo and it does look unrelated. The paper uses depth information while the repo is focused on color balance. The paper mentions this is inaccurate way of fixing the colors as the color information changes with distance too.
It might indeed require new training data for substantially different kinds of haze.

They are only talking about reefs though, which means tropical ocean water. Coral don't thrive in muddy water.
Coverage is very useful in determining whether your tests actually do what you think they're doing. It's not very useful as a metric to be optimized. Writing good end-to-end tests that really cover the functionality as specified is very difficult, doing so blindly without tool support is doomed to fail.

An even better tool than measuring coverage is setting up a mutation testing framework and adding tests until all mutations are caught.
When he listed Gladwell as a source it immediately changed how I perceive the article. Perhaps I would eventually have come to take it as stretching the data to make questionable conclusions but the reference accelerated it.
Apple patented something similar in 2015 regarding the recoloring part without dehaze.
Right, I completely missed the point that you were concerned about the amount of radiation at break even.

I wonder whether you could detect the increased efficiency well before reaching break even (that wouldn't prove that you can reach break even of course)?
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Interesting. So far I've been using it since I discovered it on HN and I like it. Their support is quite responsive too, and it's easy to whitelist a domain if something breaks.
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Yeah, this is the kind of mind-blowing, mesmerizing stuff that dreams are made of. Or rather, that makes people have dreams, much like the moon landing.

Being able to see the shadow of the Hayabusa2 coming closer to the surface, the dust when it fired, then moving away, is just simply.... Would be really awesome if there was a video version with interpolated frames so we'd get a smooth video. I know someone did that of one of the moon landings (the one with the sky crane iirc) and the result was simply stunning.
I've had some success with adaptive contrast ... basically you compute the difference between the original and a blurred image and then apply more contrast where that is high.

I've done this in Darkroom and Blender (with the node compositor).
The U.S. Natural Gas Boom Is Fueling a Global Plastics Boom
C-style languages tend to have squiggly brackets which can limit scope somewhat, but not as totally as you describe.

For example:

doThing(){
x = 7; //x visible in whole function
{
y = x*2; //y only visible in this block.
}
// x still visible, y no longer visible
}

Explicitly removing things from scope doesn't seem to be a feature though.
The number of confirmations needed to feel like a tx is secure and the throughput of the network are not related. Regardless of that, you're still wrong about security and confirmations, using your own source.

ETH ave. block time: 10s. Time to get to Coinbase confirmations (35): ~350s

BTC ave. block time: 10m. Time to get to Coinbase confirmations (3): ~1800s

So I can make 5-6 transactions that coinbase thinks is "secure enough" on Ethereum in the time it would take me to make one transaction with Bitcoin.

Add to that the fact that the throughput of the network is higher, and ETH is actually about 17x faster than BTC, and that's totally ignoring the on-chain scaling that ETH is much closer to than BTC.

Also I don't currently hold any crypto, so you can stop pretending that everyone who is more informed than you is actually just biased. I cashed (of my mostly BTC holdings) in 2017.
> The foremost is simplicity, that a language should be simple enough that the programmer should be able to know everything about it.

Well, no. Translated - "a language should serve the lowest possible denominator".

Apart from the obvious fact that it is impossible, it's also definitely not the way to go if you want quality software.
I tend to have a rule/aspiration that I could frame as "80 || 24": don't force me to read too much in two axes. So a longer routine that does maths, maybe even with nested loops, but using short variables and few function calls is quite easy to follow.

As are short routines that have long identifiers. Like your average OOP or Lisp code.

I even think that multiple statements per line are falsely maligned. Wirth used them quite a lot, and not just in stuff meant for publication. If you've got everything on a few lines, it's not that hard to follow.

Interesting sidenotes for this would be syntactic elements beyond functions/methods. Starting with nested functions, where I actually found the function-hoisted JavaScript variant better than Lisp's flets/labels or modern JS arrow functions.

Other areas that don't seem to be investigated a lot would be inner-procedural refinements (ELAN, some C preprocessors), folding/structured editors and Knuth-style Literate Programming.
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> responded in under 2 hours

and gave 3 different proofs!
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Does being a GSuite customer counts as paying for Google Chrome?

If that doesn't count, there there is no scenario where you can say you've paid for it.
Not only responded in under 2 hours, but "Tao’s reply also included three independent proofs of the identity."

From the article we discussed earlier, https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-lead-to-unexpected-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528425
A tip I learned is to commit the failing test but mark it as an expected failure, if your test framework supports that.

That way you can commit the test, bisect works, and the test begins "failing" when the bug is really fixed, and you can commit the fix as well as a one-line change to amend the test from being failure-expected to just a normal test.
Even the presence of a plain loading screen like in DOOM can be done well; there it provides a brief pause for the player to calm down again and it prompts for a spacebar so you can grab a drink or check your mail without issue. Plus it's fairly fast so in most cases you wait like 30 seconds.
Does this end up including OWE in the end? It seemed like WPA3 ended up being standardised without all the features we actually wanted as requirements.

OWE = Opportunistic Wireless Encryption, previously if your WiFi has no password everybody can passively snoop all the packets, so it makes sense to use a password even if you tell everybody what it is, like FreeWiFiHere - so that an active attack would be needed to steal data and you've some chance to detect it. OWE says wait, why not use ephemeral keys even if there's no password and then you only set a password if you actually wanted to deny access to people who don't know the shared password.
Is just patching the url in the binary an option?
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This quote perfectly illustrates the unparalleled absurdity of contemplating nuclear warfare.
Venezuela is a great example that hyperinflation, or substantial consumer price inflation, is mostly a forex phenomenon, and in turn a balance of trade problem. Because you can't print other countries' money.

Venezuela is a disaster because its export industries collapsed, and it doesn't have the advantage that western countries have of being an inward investment destination. So all sorts of things have to be imported, and the dollars needed to import them become increasingly scarce.

Printing money is a symptom. If the presses stopped then all that would happen is that paper money would become increasingly scarce as well as worthless.
In an answer to the question of why there is no evidence of intelligent life beyond earth despite the high probability of it existing, Szilárd responded: "They are already here among us – they just call themselves Hungarians." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
> Sure they created a lot of apps but they never replicated THE key feature of iMessage which is seamless SMS fallback within the same app. You don't have to even think about "Oh this person doesn't use such and such app"

To be fair, while Google certainly could have had a better strategy, replicating Apple's would probably have been a failure.

For several reasons, iMessage's success is very US-centric. SMS fall-back is really not an option in countries where unlimited SMS isn't the norm. Google should have tried harder to acquire Whatsapp, or at least grab another big fish in this space (like Viber).

RCS is going to benefit carriers more than Google, since they might claim back some of the IM traffic. Google realizes it can at least try to control the app (Messages) which will be deployed to most low and mid-range Android phones, that are running stock or close to stock Android.
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Intelligence is a word, a messy abstract concept. If you treat it as an existent quality like height or weight, you end up with absurd questions that have no answers, like "Who was smarter, Picasso or Einstein?"
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Tenured ML professors at the top 100 or so universities in the world aren't "most of us".

Too bad we're talking about AGI, not ML.

Those jobs are incredibly hard to get,

You don't need to be a genius in order to land a hard-to-get job, and you thinking academia is somehow better at making the absolute smartest people rise to the top is cute.

The fact that you think that John Carmack, because he's a name that you've actually heard of, is going to go into ML and suddenly make some giant advance that all the poor plebs in the field weren't able to do, is only a reflection of your misunderstanding of what's already happening in academia, not on Carmack's skills or abilities.

I don't think that. Mostly because we're not talking about ML, but also because I don't expect eureka moments from people that have been trying to solve a problem for a long time as much as I expect them from someone that hasn't properly tried their hand at it. Academia produces consistent results and consistent improvement. That's not what I'm looking for.

You're acting as though everyone are just low level practitioners using sklearn, and it would be a great idea to have some smart people work on developing something novel. Guess what: that's already happening, with incredibly smart people, on an incredibly large scale. Carmack doing it would just be another drop in the bucket.

sklearn hardly seems relevant to AGI, so I'm not sure why I'd act like everyone in the AGI field merely a novice practitioner of it.
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That'll change with time. I'm behind ISP NAT for IPv4 but have static IPv6 direct to all my devices in the home. My ISP ran out of IPv4 relatively early so had to go this way.

On the other hand, this won't really change much for the firewall issues named above. Computers are too insecure to expose them all to the internet, all the time. We'd need pretty radical changes in how software is written to create a truly flat worldwide network (which has never existed before).
No, it doesn't speed anything relevant up. I'm curious as to what made you ask, though.
Hm, is the secrecy of that URL the only thing stopping someone else downloading the backup?
You are a gentleperson and a scholar.
No no no. This is an isolated incident. Developers at Google are absolute Wunderkinds that know everything better than the stupid users out there, and never make any mistakes. Except this one time. So don't worry, just leave those field trials enabled, it won't happen again.
In any sane world.

Nowadays also mandated by the law in the EU.
> The answer, of course, would be research. All the students were working the same amount. Their work habits were different.

The proper research here would have been to make the student change their habit and see if they became better musicians as a result. This article isn't research, it's writing down a fact and then trying to extract conclusions when none can be made.
He was hardly alone if favouring a "preventative war" - Curtis LeMay was another advocate - they thought it was the rational thing to do.

How someone can rationally advocate the cold blooded killing of millions is, frankly, completely beyond me.
> But how do I transfer bitcoins from your main wallet to the new one without having this transaction public so linking your wallets.

Don’t transfer between personal wallets: when you purchase BTC, send it directly to the wallet you’ll use those funds with.

Transaction mixers (there are other names, but i think mixer is/was common) are a viable way to deter this kind of attack, as they muddy the transaction history between you and who you wish to pay (or yourself). You’ll have to pay for anything that’ll stand up to dedicated government/professional scrutiny, but i’ve seen more sites with some measure of mixing built in lately.
The landing page doesnt have any links or interaction. You have to press the menu to see the options.
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