skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a famous 'rebuttal' post to this here https://medium.com/@buckhx/unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...
That screen will be toast after a year or 2,500 folds.
This was downvoted, so I figured it must be obvious. I googled but as far as I can tell, Carmack is an engineer not a scientist. No formal scientific training, no scientific work.
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1.) My life was way less monotonous when I was a teenager. The most monotonous period started when I had children. You dont get more monotonous then that currently. In school, at least you learn about something different every day and can do different things during breaks or read or play games.

2.) Before factory like schooling, I guess we mean feudalism and traditional farm households, teenagers were not free at all by any meaningful definition of that word. No one was.

3.) How far exactly in history do you want to go? Because you really have to go so far that we dont really know how people lived. But, it might involve getting pregnant at 14 by a strong dude who decides restrictions placed on you due to being stronger.
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I don't see it that way, but rather as the best of both worlds, even if the Index is better. I want it to tether to a PC (or console) as the Quest can, but have hardware onboard so I can take it off by itself and watch Netflix on it. I could never figure out why everything wasn't like the Quest from the start. The Oculus Link and hand tracking (good for video controls without having to use a controller), are what's pushing me over the edge to buy one. In my opinion it's the first VR headset compelling enough to actually purchase. I can recommend it to everyone whether they have a gaming PC or not, and frankly at $400+ for these headsets, people should get a Snapdragon attached for basic gaming and video.
Because there is no clear definition of what is patentable and what is not.
Discussion Ready Data: satellites don't make decisions, humans do
Most companies aren't interesting enough to invest in without some kind of secret sauce. Claiming that they are going to use 'AI and ML' is a way of saying that 'yes, we are a company with tons of competition and little competitive advantage, but we will have a secret sauce eventually. We don't know what that is yet, so we are using jargon as a placeholder.'

Call me a cynic, but I think the talk of building a data moat is mostly nonsense. Of the companies that make these claims, how many of them are actually hiring expensive data engineers to build the moat? If don't have a team working on it, then its a ruse.

Unless the startup is founded by people with deep experience in ML and have been working on using it extensively from day 0, it is unlikely that they will be able to deliver on this vision. They won't be collecting the data correctly if they are doing it at all. If they are collecting it correctly (they aren't), they won't be able to get it to a useable form. If they get that far (they won't), they then need to build out the ML Ops to deliver their models. Now, finally, they can `from tensorflow import *`. Engaging this process post hoc takes YEARS.
Paul Graham actually wrote about this in 2003:
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Adults can't avoid seeing that teenage kids are tormented. So why don't they do something about it? Because they blame it on puberty. The reason kids are so unhappy, adults tell themselves, is that monstrous new chemicals, hormones, are now coursing through their bloodstream and messing up everything. There's nothing wrong with the system; it's just inevitable that kids will be miserable at that age.

I could not agree more. Adolescent education is completely and utterly broken in most developed societies and is causing pain and misery on a vast scale, but fixing it is a complete non-priority for those who could.

Greta, when you're done with climate change, can you fix schools please?
We are AGI, the general part comes from language and specialization of brains for language use.
Perhaps we could teach dogs to smell it like we teach them to sniff drugs & explosives?
I think the Cally Road one won worst building of the year.

ah yes - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/29/carbunc...
Thanks. For others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theo...

I'm sceptical of the idea that this is a deterministic phenomenon, but it's an interesting take.
Wow, I really don't know how to start to respond to this! Maybe I'm too "cranially challenged"? ;)

You've mentioned quite a few cliched tropes, which I'm sure you can already find many suitable echo chambers for. I find it interesting that you consider that such groups do not already exist, considering the current rise in right-wing, pro-extreme capitalism and anti-intellectual movements across the globe. I worry that you think they are too much talk and not enough action, as many a wrong action has started with that thinking.

I would suggest you do the opposite of what you intend: have more in-depth and open discussions with people who do not share the same core beliefs as you. Not arguments, shouting matches or meaningless online factoid swaps, but open discussions where you invite in and really ponder different opinions. Accept that pretty much everything is more complicated than it first appears and all an echo chamber will do is reduce thinking and reduce the essential nuance of viewpoints.
You're comparing a list of 2 pin connectors to an 18 pin connector.

Perhaps using wireless charging and putting a rubber band round your phone will be a better solution.
Facadism in this sense is nothing new at all. Our entire urban centers were build mostly from industrially produced, ready-made components as neo-classicist, neo-baroque, other historistic and art nouveau facades in front of simple base constructions from 1870-1914, with only a short period of real innovation with expressionist and reform/Bauhaus facades post-war/post-monarchy in 1920-1930. What you describe as athmosphere really always was intended to signal prestige and social status, now and then.
Thanks for your perspective. One issue is that it is often hard to tell in advance whether you know what you are doing or not. Also in my experience some implementation details can lead to a revision of the interface as well.
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That was a total waste of time. Peer learning has some major flaws which various different systems have been able to overcome. A centralized learning process is always better than decentralized one from my experience.
> I'm skeptical of the idea of static archives, especially when it comes to code.

I don't think anyone is going to be hoping to use this code for their own purposes, but rather to study programmer culture and development. For instance, when did the idea of "immutable by default" start, and how did it spread from esoteric academic languages into mainstream languages like Rust? How did the decades-long specter of Perl 6 affect the course of Perl 5, and how did the rename to Raku lead to its resurgence (or lack thereof)?

I'm no expert in history, but I have read a reasonable amount; and what's often fascinating is when there are two groups who think that they are in complete disagreement, but in fact share a common assumption which you, from the perspective hundreds of years in the future, do not share.

There are things that are so obvious to us now that we don't bother writing them down or explaining them, which will be a complete mystery to people 1000 years hence; and it's basically impossible to imagine what those might be.
you sound kinda delusional, mate :D

In all seriousness, I challenge the coherence cohesiveness and tensile integrity of your stated principles.
They are self-contradictory in nature, don't appear to be particularly well thought out, and represent a rather common caricature of Silicon Valley and American ideology in which one wants ones cake but also wishes to eat ones cake.
gorm (or any other ORM for that matter) is no silver bullet and just introduces unwanted complexity in the code.

Now, instead of being able to quickly see a query in one place what commonly happen is people breaking down all things and creating "helper" functions in strange ways to select, limit, order, and any other stuff, and ending up with something so complex you waste a lot of time to understand and only the original writer knows where to find anything. For me, this adds way more issues than any security concerns you might have related to learning SQL properly, too – and if you are using an ORM chances are you already know how SQL works anyways (and you can use static analysis tools to reduce the errors, plus the reduced cognitive load in using vanilla SQL).
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I don't think there's a single issue the tech community is more deluded about than mass immigration from the third world and its cost.
A relatively small number of adults discovered and shouted about problem like climate change. The majority ignored them, and continue to ignore them. Consequently we are where we are now.
There is now an updated readme on how to use the php backend to build the JavaScript
They had that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_V-Chat
That's what I thought. Then that's one whole category of exploits that no longer applies, no?
Machines are inevitable.

The concept of sensing and learning from surroundings should survive.

Human's feed AI, AI should go interstellar.

But what we will have to make sure is are we feeding the AI the right things?

Nope, Tech giants, once built by nerds are now ruled by political criminal minds.

Without living in harmony there is no way AI will serve only good purpose.

If you are a developer, think thorough whom are you helping, why they need you. The code you write is a part of your brain. Have self righteous that code should be used for good and good only.

How will you guarantee that? you cant. Then don't innovate!.

Stop being the old school nerd boy and level up. Do not show off and gain attention unless you fully solve the problem.

Circle back to start. Question again and again how this will be used flawlessly. If it doesn't its not worth sharing knowledge. Share morals.
The worrying possibility is the other way round: an impressionable mind that can be shaped into action by some of the more extreme ideologies of the world.
I vividly remember being frustrated as a teenager that I essentially lived my life as a vassal until age 18 or so.

The school system felt utterly farcical. Like being trapped in a cage with a bunch of idiots.

In adult life you can quit a job, leave a town, change yourself. As a teenager your most expressive period is robbed from you.
How many phones have you snapped in your pocket?
A printer with a USB-B port can be plugged into a USB-C port. Only the cable needs to change, not the printer. After buying my Macbook with 4 USB-C ports I simply replaced the cables for the various devices, and I almost never need to use any adapter/dongle at all.
This is my point exactly. The model is trained without any prior domain knowledge at all. It only has access to a game world where the constrains in the world is a representation of the game's rules.
“_Specifically_ working on Artificial _General_ Intelligence” is a bit like “As a physics major I’ve decided to specialise in physics.”
> I miss the old DC barrel connectors -- they never broke, and they were usually designed such that housing of the electronics took the brunt of everything, not the PCB.

I've patched up so many of these over the years, that doesn't really seem that accurate. Though it is relatively true for properly designed stuff (connector bottoms out on the case and not on the jack) and things using the rather rare panel-mount jacks, which are indeed very solid if only lacking in ingress protection.
Citation needed, I guess: only 4 hours a week of peer-peer contact in preindustrial cultures?
Isn't this how the neurons and synapses in our brain work, though?
Not really, sometimes you search for some information (camera review, headphones review, medical information, toys, whatever) and instead of landing on some site that has good information you end up on some crap site with crap content and tons of ads.

Why? Because owner of that site had resources to do SEO (if one has money, one can trick Google algorithms without much trouble). How they earned that money? Through ads, obviously.

The more ads such site has, the more revenue comes in and more money can be spend on SEO to increase revenue. And so one.

Who pays for that? Those who landed on such site, they wasted time, read some potentially infomercial content.

This ads -> money -> SEO -> more ads -> money is not particularly beneficial for the economy. This looks like one more incarnation of Gresham-Copernicus law - bad content is pushing away good content. If you spend money on content, you don't spend them on SEO, so you earn less money from ads and finally you end up on 5th Google results page and that's the end.
> [...] but the core concepts, that actually work, things like batch normalization, gradient descent, dropout, etc are all relatively simple.

They may be simple, but it's controversial why they work. For example dropout is not really used much in recent CNN architectures, and it's just - I don't know - ~5 years old? So people don't even agree what the core concepts are ...
There exist magnetic charging cables that can help with the breakage issue you're having. The connector and charging cable are connected by two magnets and some pins, instead of breaking the cable or the device itself, the cable will just disconnect.
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Your dismissiveness and lack of argumnts is not conducive to discussion. For starters you could elaborate why you found the article a total waste of time, and what flaws and advantages you see in various systems, including peer learning. Finally, why is a centralized learning process always better?
How can you even say that? I’m dumbfounded. Only in this era of complete erosion of antitrust could this statement be made. Standard Oil would have been awed by this cornering of the market.

https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/comp...
Horses don't plan though, and they are much better than computers at a lot of tasks. If we can make a computer as smart as a horse, then we can likely also make it as smart as a human by bolting some planning logic on top of that.
Very - I recall around 2000 the registry .coop I worked for was one of the bidders for .org back then.

There where some very sketchy bidders one of whom seemed to want to convert to be for only a narrow US specific definition of non profit, The Red Cross would have been bared from having a .org for example.

There is a reason that ICANT is hated by a lot of those who have to deal with it.
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Where I live, Cash/CreditCard on Delivery is very common, which helps a lot for buyers who aren't sure about the service. Yet, it clearly adds a burden on the seller.

I'd like to add to your points, especially for brick and mortar stores going online, make sure the shopping experience is good! Few of the stores we have 10x harder experiences in shopping and browsing.
Difference between full and quick format of a floppy disk
What if you record YouTube videos sporadically?
Is there any history of the product development?
I had the phone, and I love the form factor. I wish Apple could come up with something like this, as I could not move from iOS, to be honest.
> if a phone really wanted to take good pictures (and not just market 'megapixels') they'd have focus, light balance, shutter speed controls

Any high-end smartphone can manually control the focus, white balance, shutter speed and shoot RAW. On the iPhone you need a third-party app to access it, but plenty of Android devices include that in their default camera.
Ok boomer.
This is one of two lightning talks I was holding at EmacsConf 2019[1].

By now, organice has naturally evolved even further - for example it features WebDAV support. With that, organice can potentially be used with a multitude of synchronization backends: Client/Server services ownCloud, Nextcloud and Seafile, but also self hosted dedicated WebDAV servers like Apache or Nginx.

1. https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule
Little known fact: "vi" is short for "visual". So, that's how I pronounce it.
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Why?

These regional vanity TLD's don't have are real day to day use
He exploited a classic TOCTOU race.

In software this is so common it has its own CWE (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/367.html)
Wow, that post blew up.

Like most engineers I respect JC for his incredible work, but I really think AGI is far off and at the moment would be very surprised if there is significant progress in the next years to come.

I also want you to read this extremely well written (old) blog post about the topic and I don't think much has improved since: https://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visi...
Is anything know about how much performance will be lost?
"threadreaderapp" link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1194762568948056064.html
There’s an organisation that trains rats to detect tuberculosis by smell. Sounds like this could be another candidate.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/dec/26/g...

They also train them to find land mines.

https://www.apopo.org/en
I myself am a woman and pursuing my graduate studies in this field. There's no gender bias here in calling out flaws in work that's deeply technical. I have given similar reviews to some enormous claims put forward by my peers(men and women). I agree that person2 could have been more subtle on a public forum. But not even for a second did I associate a gender dimension until person1 brought it into the context.

Since we are talking history - with some search - I found out that Person1 has recently put out a #metoo experience and called out some incidents at Caltech. Don't you think there's not even a little bias here against every possible "person2" who happened to be a male and just gave a technical feedback? Not like that's an invalid statement. He does have valid points in what he said(just the way he said it might not have been ideal). But it escalated very quickly!
Hey Braunson, are you open for fulltime roles and if Waterloo would interest you? This is for a space startup, with NASA award-winning developers, Earth observation scientists, big data and unicorn startup veterans who come from ten different countries, where I feel you would be a great value on the team!
I wonder what JWZ thinks of this
I have FB blocked so thanks for sharing!
So you learned tools, not facts. AIUI, the major criticism of the US "factory schooling" (I'm from the EU btw, so it's only hearsay) is that you're considered "done" once you leave school, and never have to acquire new facts again.

Both your education and mine (electrical engineering) focused on the means of acquiring and communicating knowledge (reading comprehension, critical thinking, technical writing), not on rote memorization. That basis sets you up for a lifetime of adaptability through discovery and learning. If you're never learned how to assimilate new knowledge, you're going to have a hard time staying relevant in a rapidly-changing society.
You have to be a detective to track down which cable is compatible with which port on your computer. Of course most e-commerce platforms don't show features of the cable, it's usb-c and be done with it...
They can’t, I think, because Moto patented adding a budge to keep the display from creasing?
It's like Black Friday/Cyber Monday/any other "shopping holiday". There are discounts, so some people try to move costly one-time purchases and whatever else they happen to need at the time to that one date. Others buy more than they need because they fear missing out on the discounts (classic couponing addiction). Of course there's also a "buy nothing, save 100%" meme. It has nothing to do with being an obedient citizen. If you think Chinese people will do everything they're told to, you need to adjust your worldview a lot.

Amazon does compete in China https://www.amazon.cn/ but the ads I have seen put them in the "foreign luxury goods" niche, where the market is smaller and their competition are other sellers of foreign goods, like proxy buyers. Unsurprisingly, Amazon doesn't have a lot of experience sourcing the kinds of stuff most Chinese people can afford. What Amazon sells internationally is largely the same as in America; what Alibaba sells internationally is largely the same as in China. Neither is a great recipe for capturing a foreign market with different needs.
# Appears as XENO.
> indirect pressure tactics my supervisor uses like not responding to emails

Are you sure this is a deliberate strategy
The most destructive hurricanes are hitting US more often
That's just retarded.
Context which might be missing is that the buildings shown here are some grade of "listed buildings," where demolition prohibited under law for cultural or historical reasons.

Whilst some of these examples are particularly ugly, it strikes an interesting balance between maintaining the historically important aspects of the building, whilst modernizing it (or at worst, preventing a safety risk).

What's fascinating is when the aesthetics of the past don't align with the economics or building regulations today. Large windows and high-ceilings are both energy in-efficient and waste a lot of potential square-metreage.
The only way i think it can be done is simulated evolution.. be that simulated evolution of neural nets or something else.

As others have mentioned here though.. this becomes horrifying if we've created something sentient to kill in games or enslave.
I've crushed an xcover 271: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_xcover_271-3415.php
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>In recent surveys I've found that American teens are subjected to more than 10 times as many restrictions as mainstream adults, twice as many restrictions as active-duty U.S. Marines, and even twice as many as incarcerated felons.

What does this even mean? I don't feel as though "restrictions" are countable, fungible things.
To extended it further, what is the business case here?

Without a business case to service, would someone buy this only for the Company to be dead or to abandon the product?
To say 'f* you' to the law/TOS and the people behind it, or to brag how smart they are, or to entertain their friends.

Any of these can be worth the penalty.
As deluded as the Bush Institute: https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/north-american-century/b...
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Most times 'facadism' is not an architectural choice, is the only way to get a permit to renovate a building. In case of doubt, 'gatekeepers' will always leave it as it is.

And 'facadism' is not that new. In some English cities, around 1800, it was common to get a land plot with an already built facade. It worked fairly well as a way to keep unity while allowing fragmented private iniciative.
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