skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why is JavaScript JIT compilation tied to the rendering engine?
What happen if the payload got slingshot off-course? Since it has no rocket on its own (the reason to use skyhook), it could end up in the middle of nowhere.
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
It’s a free tool
The linked TED talk is by Janelle Shane, an optics research scientist and an AI researcher. She maintains a blog, which is quite funny and has also written a book drawn from her experiences with NN's, particularly GPT-2.

https://aiweirdness.com/
>SKIDROWE

As someone who always struggles coming up with names, this acronym(?) is awesome.
I think it's considering only single member districts. If you count multi-member districts, Western Australia sends six members to the Australian Senate and it's 2.6 mio sq km. There's probably others around too.
I have compared both Modula-2 and Oberon-2 to Go, but have not compared Active Oberon to Go.

This was for purposes of creating a top-down, predictive, recursive descent parser for Go.

I am curious on how Go is being parsed. LR, LL, or ?

I am also curious about the CellType and PortType of Active Oberon. Do these correspond to Go's ChannelType and possibly to OCCAM and CSP Send and Receive Channels?
The benefit might be disproportionate if measured in some way but I don't think that defines who is protesting and their motivation.
(without first-hand experience with it) I could see it being popular with people not going all-in with containers. We have a few machines with services that are conventionally managed and a few services being stuffed into docker containers, and it feels slightly odd that some services are managed through systemd and some through docker commands.
Absolutely.
Also, a point I found interesting is that we can classify desires in three categories:

- natural and necessary, e.g drink, eat

- natural but not necessary, e.g sex

- not natural and not necessary, e.g smartphones

Epicure advised to fulfill only the first type of desires, that is, drink water and eat bread, period.

As a sidenote, the goal of his philosophy was not to experience pleasures, but instead to avoid pain, which is quite different.
100x or "resolution" doesn't convey it correctly in my opinion. It makes you think they can distinguish more shades of the colors we all know. As if it was a quantitative difference. But the difference is qualitative, they see colors we don't see. We are color blind to them.
You’re right, except it was a statistic like 2.8万, translated to 2.8 million. Your take could point to a possible cause, though, maybe also putting it under the “shallow” category.

(Additionally, when 万 is used in Chinese to mean a whole lot, I would translate it to “thousands of” or “tens of thousands of”.)
Why do you think people will choose to rent a self driving car instead of owning one?
> (with the possible exception of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison) no one else in America was writing at the same level

I believe the greater literary community would flip that and say no one else was writing at the level of Morrison & Bellow and perhaps Roth & Updike were at that level. And Updike’s work does not age nearly as well as the work of the other three.
King GAFA and the Magical 0-1 Crop
Sleeping with No Clothes
Look for Rogan podcast on this coming up
I've been on Hacker News longer than I've been at MGH ;)

Thanks for your kind words.
Where I worked we used this to display other tree based data, was an interesting exercise. As long as you can translate into their log formats it was really simple to set up. Was more eye-candy to be honest.
Only Brain Activity Involving L5p Neurons Enters Conscious Awareness:Says Theory
Melting permafrost in the Arctic is unlocking diseases
I am pretty sure activities that have low brain requirements, be it the shower, running and the likes allow our brains to declutter, clean up all the mess of the constant stimuli we are assaulted with, especially from tech, but also noise if you're a fellow urban dweller.

On a similar note, I realised pen and paper -away from any computer, works wonders to organise my thoughts.
Maybe they're like the mantis shrimp, who can see 16x more spectrums of light than we can.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
"Decentralized" is the key here. One option, already mentioned, is federation like Fediverse. Even more interesting would be friend-of-a-friend system, where rating of each post is subjective, and weight of someone's upvote is inversely proportional to degree of separation between you and them.
Also Docker doesn't support the newest version of Fedora because they've switched to cgroups version 2.

Another project that doesn't support Podman is Nomad from Hashicorp, someone have tried to make a driver, but it is far from production ready: https://github.com/pascomnet/nomad-driver-podman
Birds have 4 primary colours and six secondary colors...
> From another perspective, this is a +500$ post in the cost column of that unit (and perhaps n500 if the whole unit then comes asking for the same thing). The cost of spending time arguing is baked into the cost of salary, meaning it doesn't show since it's the same regardless. It's a form of optimization, but the optimized unit is not productivity.

I'm not seeing the point here. What is* being optimised for? If there's an easily-worthwhile productivity-boost, what else is there to say?

If the whole department would see a similar increase in productivity from scaling-up the expenditure, isn't it the job of management to ensure it happens?

> He was denied buying an external screen to be more efficient since he then could have more information on the screen (eg an application next to a browser), "because then everybody wants one", even buying it himself.

This is just plain stupidity, isn't it? Is there something I've missed here?
The point of paradoxes like this is to demonstrate that even in our incredibly simple toy models of agents, we still run into issues. These paradoxes help point out weaknesses of the models and act as new desiridata for better models.
Linking to examples of the meme without linking the actual meme doesn't really explain what "draw the rest of the owl" means. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/572/078/d6d...
When I work from home I often take a break to do laundry or do the dishes. It often helps me to get clarity on issues I have been working on.
I can't read because of paywall, but I tend to agree. Top earners usually aren't particularly talented, and I tend to think that the impact of chief executives is also drastically overestimated on average. That being said, good luck finding reliable metrics for ability. Those often skew with income, and many industries, especially software, reward highly skilled personnel by moving them OUT of their strength and into leadership positions. Kind of ranty, not sure I have a point.
Boeing’s fix tames the ‘tiger’ in the 737 MAX flight controls
I think comments here seem to be missing the point, which isn't so much that Nunavut is geographically huge, but that Canada doesn't seem to have anything like the principle of one person one vote. There's huge disparity between the electors or people per district figures - 1:8. That's some epic malapportionment.

Is there any kind of movement in Canada to introduce democracy? Americans regularly complain about their undemocratic constitution, giving equal say to sheep in the middle of nowhere and humans in New York. The UK has a few problematic cases, but they're easily removed and maintained because they want to maintain them.

But Canada's excuse is that they can't change their constitution — indeed, they continue to use the UK parliament to change what ought to be part of their constitution, that's how cowardly they are. Why is Canada considered so much a centre of democracy when all the evidence is against that notion?
FNA is an open-source clone of the Microsoft XNA game programming libraries for .NET/CLR/whatever the right scope/trademark for that platform is. I don't think it actually stands for anything. Wikipedia says that XNA stands for "XNA's not acronymed", but I think the source was joking.
It would also dramatically change society as currently valuable social networks that do not improve ability would be abandoned in favor of groups that improve ability. The MBA degree would become irrelevant overnight as it's a very expensive networking and screening process.
I really like this.

At the risk of being a broken record, this is similar to an approach that I discovered and have talked about on HN before. I think your approach is a form of "separation of concerns" that makes sense because I've found that CSS becomes less tangled and more comprehensible if styles that represent a concept like a .product-card aren't concerned with how they are sized or positioned on a page; that's the job of something like `.home-page .product-card`, or, in my own practice, `#home-page-product-card` if the element is a layout singleton or `.home-page__product-card` if the element is repeated.

By doing this, not only can I look at my markup and understand what everything means(which I can't do easily with utility classes), but I never find myself needing to use things like `!important` which have consequences to their use.
A big part of it is extensions, I have a handful of extensions that I use on a regular basis, and Firefox is the only mobile browser that actually supports extensions.

Another part of it is that I just trust Mozilla more. Both in terms of conflicts of interest, and just plain fixing bugs. For example, Safari on iPod touch has been unable to access the microphone for years, even though Safari on iPhones can.

I will concede your point about security. I think that iPhones are probably more secure than Androids. But, I feel that the security of my Android phone is sufficient for my needs.
Excerpts from the story:

To get the flying public equally comfortable with the MAX, Boeing needs also to counter a recurring theme on social media: the idea that software shouldn’t have been needed in the first place and that the plane’s large engines throw its aerodynamic balance out of whack and make it “inherently unstable.”

Boeing says MCAS is needed not for stability but only to make the MAX feel the same to a pilot as the previous 737 model. The airplane will fly safely with or without MCAS, Boeing insists.
I agree. This problem is still useful though, because to analyse a lot of counterfactual muggers, you must be able to analyse one mugger!
Someone else said it already some time ago, but if Mozilla had just put the money they get from Google into a fund, they'd be able to develop browsers till the end of time. But they try to "innovate" and "re-invent the web" with WASM and also other completely unrelated ventures such as Rust, as nice as it may be (Rust not WASM that is).

Another aspect of the Mozilla Foundation is that they're basically acting as a fig leaf for the monopolist web Google has created in this decade, with Google financing them to prevent anti-trust investigations, and Mozilla also playing along with Google-financed WHATWG to white-wash "web standards" and prevent real and obvious innovations such as third-party script blocking, serving only Google's interests.

FF indeed does work against anti-privacy, and I'm applauding them for that, but OTOH FF also enables ad blockers. I've used uBlock just like most of you here, but ad blocking is also a factor turning the web into a privacy minefield. Eg. if you're indiscriminately block all ads whether targetted or not, there is no possible way to finance web content production; yet people also don't want to pay for content. So what people get is polarizing click-bait, propaganda, and low-quality content while content creators (other than some high-profile YouTubers maybe) can't earn a living.

We really should stop with "fighting for the future of the web" articles when the reality is that the web locks people into addictive behaviour, fake social interaction, and crap web frontends for oligopolist cloud-hosted services (completely antithetical to personal computing and site autonomy principles), and results into cultural loss due to the expectation that everything must always be available for free, all the time, a model only creating monopolies.
You certainly can, and that is the biggest problem with this article: a completely lack of interest in understanding what deep learning understands (ironically).

Hofstadter, having completely missed the boat on connectionism, committed himself to a failed paradigm, and been wrong about AI time after time (remember when Hofstadter claimed beating humans at chess would require computers to have emotions and be able to write poems?), totally fails to grapple with what NNs do do. For starters, Google Translate is a free service and not necessarily SOTA, even when he wrote this. For example, if you were going to ask 'what do multi-lingual translation seq2seq RNNs (or Transformers) understand?', the immediate obvious thing to discuss would be questions about the 'interlingua' which their embedding yields, things that word embeddings learn (including surprising things like relative locations of cities or sizes of objects), or about transfer learning to tasks that require grammar or reasoning or common-sense like Winograd schemas like in GLUE or SuperGLUE, and how they improve massively over earlier approaches and how they are scaling (one of the most important trends in AI). There is a great deal which could be said here, demonstrating why it works so well and why it doesn't work sometimes, and an AI researcher is just the sort of person to ask.

And unfortunately, Hofstadter does none of this and instead bangs on about some errors he found, like it's a total blackbox and understanding is a binary where you either like the same poetry Hofstadter does or you are a cretin, and takes the attitude that any error shows that the approach has failed, is failing, and always will fail because it is 'deeply lacking' (what, exactly? And to think, he complains about 'deep' being abused for rhetorical purposes before and then goes and produces a shallow exercise like this).

I thought this was a lousy neo-luddite essay in 2018, and it's only gotten worse since then. In another 10 years, it'll look like Cliff Stoll.
Human beings. What a bunch of assholes. I applaud the people tying to help, but there’s just too many people and too little caring and long term thinking.
If SpaceX hits their goals with Starship, this might become feasible. I would imagine that the economic viability of a spacehook will lag well behind having sufficient launch capacity to build one.

> SpaceX clearly intends to build dozens of Starships. With an eventual flight rate of once per day per Starship, we’re looking at roughly a million tonnes to orbit per year. That exceeds the current launch market of about 500 T/year by a substantial margin. [0]

[0] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/the-spacex-sta...
I'm in no way bullshitting here, have you tried medical marijuana? I have spinal stenosis, and have resisted any non-conservative treatment because Western medicine is curiously bad at addressing this malady. Weed has helped tremendously, particularly with sleep where I had trouble finding comfortable positions.
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Why would I pay someone for their ability? Ability by itself is nothing. Ability doesn't generate value, action does.

You might be a strong, mighty genius, but if your ass is "chilling" on the couch 24/7, your exact worth is 0(ZERO)$
Maybe it was the literary form, like “Editorial of Inadvertence”? Emulation of the subject would be a silly “meta”.
I’ll equate this to being critical of any early technology as if no further development will happen.

Translation, good translation, is not easy. If it were, it would have been a solved problem years ago. And, yes, some languages pose more challenges than others.

I often have to write the same text in multiple languages. I usually write in English and use Google Translate to quickly generate a rough draft translation in other languages, say, Spanish. I then copy-paste the translation, proofread and edit. It is a huge time saver. Aside from not having to re-write the material, the cognitive load of the proofreading and editing process is significantly lower.
Pre-WW2 Poland also had a great math achievements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_School_of_Mathematic...

The city Lwów, or Lviv as Ukrainians now call it, had a great school and the city changed hands during war.

Also, Polish mathematicians from other universities played an important part in breaking the Enigma. They developed the Bombe, the cryptographic machine later sent to UK, which was then refined and used to break it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

More generally, I suspect it was something about the era and its culture that valued intellect and sciences. These days people like that are often put down as nerds. Leaders and extraverts are praised and set as examples. Celebrities are also a modern invention, I see them as something quite distinct from "stars". The only requirement to be a celebrity is to be popular.

Also, these days people would rather worship CEOs.
At which point? Perhaps if you are a tetrachromat, then it would be worthwhile.
The documents prepared before the contract supported all sorts of activities.

But the contract signed by the state, did not. It spelled out exactly what was allowed. That the organization advertises it is capable of other physical testing is interesting, but not relevant.
Gource is a really cool visualization tool. Here's a Gource visualization
of development of the Python programming language (C Python implementation, aka CPython): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBtDstOTmA Here's a collection of Gource visualizations: https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource/wiki/Videos

If you create your own visualizations, I strongly recommend that you automate doing it as much as possible. For example, if you process data first, use a script to automate processing the data. You'll need to give Gource various options, and there are a lot of options; store options in its config file or scripts.

Also, if you create a Gource video, I strongly recommend adding some music or at least an audio commentary. If you add music, make sure it's legal to add; the safe route is to use music released under open licenses such as Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) CC0 Public Domain Dedication (CC0). Beware of the "non-commercial use" licenses - your releases might count as "commercial" even if you don't think they do (talk to a lawyer if you want to go down that path). A great place to start for Gource music is
audionautix.com ( https://audionautix.com/ ), which has released lots of music under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License;
you can select from lots of different styles and get some great options. "Improving Gource Videos with Background and Audio" ( https://fransdejonge.com/2018/02/improving-gource-videos-wit... ) has some tips and instructions.
If you don't plan to be poor, then you need many paying customers.

For a browser, the customers could be either end users, corporations with many end users, or marketers who want to sell to the end users.

The latter case is Chrome, which works through a long chain of Google services.

The corporate case used to be IE, geared towards deep windows integration.

The case of the paying end users used to be the original Netscape. It did not work well for a number of reasons. Paying for a product when free-as-beer alternatives are available takes understanding, which is sorely lacking outside some segments of tech circles.

I personally buy Mozilla a figurative pizza by a yearly donation. I do it because I understand their importance and feel grateful for their products. If more people did that it would help, but most people who are to benefit from Mozilla's efforts are not technical.
Seems to align well with this study which found that luck and other factors had much more to do with success that deviated from the norm than moderately increased intelligence or other factors: https://hbr.org/2015/11/are-successful-ceos-just-lucky
In law and finance (and probably everywhere) there are winner-takes-all scenarios where employing someone whose skill is 10% greater than your “opponents” gives far more than a 10% advantage, and hence the marginally more skilled people can command disproportionately higher salaries.
Are Antico's colourful paintings really a result of her tetrachromacy, rather than artistic flair? If she's painting such that the colours of the paint match what she sees, then trichromats should also think the paints match what they see, since they're less discriminating than she is.
Redhat continues to try and eliminate Docker as a competitive threat. Water is wet. They are winning, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This won't be good over the long run for the Linux community.
A part of humor is "reading the room".

I've met genuinely funny, kind people, who are able to make jokes on the line of what is "acceptable", but because they could read the room, they could stay within acceptable and rarely offend people. When they did offend, they were quick to admit their mistake and apologize. Their apologies are genuine, because they believe it's wrong to offend their coworkers trying to be funny.

I've also met people who believe it's their right to make jokes on the line of whatever they think is acceptable, regardless the thoughts of everyone who has to hear them. Some of these guys were really funny. But they did offend some people and were generally not apologetic when called out. A lot of them were assholes. All of them had somebody who thought they were an asshole.

Honestly, I find there's tons of humor at work that goes nowhere near the line. I feel like funny things happen all of the time at my work. If your workplace feels soul-deadening it might be worth applying somewhere else.
Show HN: Brutal.js — half-baked web framework
That's a good point: if the Mugger is an Operator from the Fifth Dimension and he has such great magickal powers, why does he need the 10lb in Pascal's wallet? Or, if he does need them, why can't he just get them?

Like, we are asked to believe that, given that the Mugger is an Operator from the Seventh Dimension, he has the power to offer 10 quintillion Utils to Pascal, but not the power to just take the 10lb from his wallet.

I think the whole paradox can still stand, given that the Mugger can then just offer an amount of Utils that compensates from the much smaller conditional probability of the Mugger being only sorta omnipotent.

On the other hand, I think we can easily resolve the paradox by inserting the Crowbar of Cynical Jadedness: If it sounds too good to be true, then its probability of being either good, or true is zero (it can be one or the other with a non-zero probability, but not both). 10 quintillion utils (or however many) sounds too good to be true, so it can't be true. A Used Car Salesman will never offer you a good deal. The Mugger is only lying to get Pascal's money.
Part of it is because the cause of my choice is not where the money should go. I want a functional safety net, good schools, strong infrastructure, and a million other things to ensure a healthy society. I'm not sufficiently educated to donate money in a way that ensures all that stuff gets funded. I accept that some inefficiencies exist but also the government is funding things I need but have no idea about.

Also, I can make only so much impact on my own. Advocating for taxes gets many people to give.
I live outside Houston. We use a broker (http://www.texaspoweragents.com) to do all this for us and change providers when prices fluctuate. It's remarkable how cheap our power is. I have no affiliation with the company, just a fan.