skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thought experiment is underspecified in ways that undermine it.

How big is the book?

Seems like a nitpick about a theoretical concession in a thought experiment, right? No, it's actually very important.

If the book contains simple instructions like if you receive character A then reply with B, etc. in a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style, then it would have to be exponentially large. Too large to be able to carry out more than a few words of conversation, and certainly you would not be able to converse about math, e.g, you're asked what 一 plus 二 is and you say 三, etc. The book would rapidly become larger than the planet Earth with any reasonable conversation depth. This is not just practical problem.

Okay, so the book isn't a simple lookup table, fine. You'll have to have a piece of scrap paper and write down things to refer to them later. But once you do that, it's obvious that you've created a system of memory. It undermines the whole force of the thought experiment. The book was supposed to contain all the brains and you were just supposed to mechanically follow along without understanding what you're doing. But now you're doing complicated things like solving math problems and then converting the answers into Chinese. In order to give the book a finite size, we've given you a lot of work to do, and now it's totally reasonable to say that you do know how to write Chinese. You write Chinese by looking it up, the same way that real translators do!

The Chinese room thought experiment is much discussed but it's a pretty poor thought experiment. It handwaves away all the important parts of language in order to make an inscrutable point about machine intelligence. It neither sheds light on machine intelligence nor language.
As a matter of fact I have done a very similar color-coded personality test at a corporate event.

https://www.insights.com/us/products/insights-discovery/

After the test, we were even given blocks to keep at our desks so that people who interact with us knew whether we were 'blue' or 'yellow' and adapt their reactions accordingly.

I guess I should have just said I was an Aquarius or Capricorn or some such and it would have been just as scientifically accurate.
Old Chinese Room argument, updated for the 2020s

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
Most/many of the homeless that come in are eligible for Medicaid or other government benefits (veteran healthcare for instance). However figuring that out can be very difficult. Many of them are incapable or unwilling to give up their names or stay long enough for social workers to get their paperwork in order. Or they're afraid of being located (for example they have warrants out for their arrest). Then you have regular uninsured people who are simply incapable of paying that come in and give fake information.

Fun fact, if you're unable to pay the full amount most hospitals will do almost ANYTHING to stop from having to send your bill to collection. Even if you say 'I'll pay $50/month forever' thats way better than they'll get from the debt agency that buys your debt.
I think there would be less mistrust if the environmentalism weren't bundled in all kinds of other radical causes, the more extreme aspects of which are often alienating to the average person. For example, extreme environmentalists are often also extremely pro-immigration; they are utterly conservative in terms of the environment, yet utterly liberal to the point of contemptuous indifference to any societal or cultural damage that might occur as a consequence of unrestricted immigration. People aren't stupid and can sniff these kinds of inconsistencies out.
Does PR stands for Purchase Request here?
A lot of developers I've worked with don't want to use these tools because they are working with already-awful legacy codebases that will emit screenfuls of (legit) positives when run, and it feels overwhelming. I remember working on some teams where all compiler warnings were turned off because if you turned on even the default ones, you'd get hundreds of thousands of them during the build, and it looked bad. Since nobody had the budget to spend any time cleaning up warnings because "customers don't care about compiler warnings" they would never get fixed. Forget even sanitizers: You wouldn't even get the splash screen displayed before ASAN would barf on you.

The best projects are the ones that start out from day 1 with all the pedantic warnings turned on, warnings-as-errors, static analysis and sanitizers run as part of the automated build and any peep out of them gets treated just like an error would get treated. When you start the project out that way, there isn't that de-motivating initial hump to get over.
Yes. Land is cheap (in most places) and you are used to long commutes by car.
Are you sure that your memory is correct? We have measured a warming of around 1 degree so far and that doesn't seem like enough warming to go from snow every day to 50-60 degree days.
college pass for loon, sunday river, and sugarloaf is ~$400.
It is usually about coming up with an idea that addresses a burning need. Getting enough traction becomes quicker that way and provides you with the necessary runway. So instead of getting "wow" as a response when you showcase, it becomes more like "we need this yesterday, when can we talk?"
The logic we followed when pricing it so cheap was: we are just getting started, this will help get some revenue in quickly, etc. Will think hard and perhaps reconsider the pricing model.
Distributed Idea Suppression Complex
(Disclaimer: Didn't read the article because of the paywall)

In the New England, (Northeastern states in the US,) climate change hit the ski slopes years ago. Those that invested in snowmaking stayed open and continue to do great business, those that waited for natural snow went out of business rather quickly.

Lesson: If you run a ski slope, once you have 2-3 years of bad snow, it's too late. Invest in snow making early.
No. I'd rather learn how to use my tools (that I have invested years to be comfortable with) properly than starting over.
We should put responsibility where it lies: Facebook and YouTube aren't causing video view numbers to decrease; users are choosing to stay in the FB / YT ecosystems rather than seek out some third-party website.

Having seen both the performance and ad-blast of Cracked's website, I can understand why. FB and YT are a better user experience.
This is the most accurate description I've ever found of my experience with pair programming. Thank you!
Pi-Netes: Quick Guide from Pi to Kubectl
Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley
Yes, it seems a few other comments also suggest this. Will have to consider this. Really appreciate your feedback.
syntropic agriculture, that's what I'm involved right now and that's where I found this balance
Continuing deeper into this conversation would lead towards a discussion of how accurate a model of "free will" is, but I'm not so sure that certain activities are so different than addictive drugs such as opioids.

If people become so good at pressing the right buttons in the brain, the probability of success of "teaching" children to not get addicted will be very low, and the best chance of success is abstain from it, just like with opioids.
This is really just my opinion, but I think the intention is to solve problems when there is consensus.
Holding someone to their promises strictly is not the same thing as having stakes.
It's used as an equivalent to area denial weapon - time spent being listed with work is time you do not get to challenge the immediate superiors or peers.
The work does not have to be related to company goals.

Since the work gets pushed down, ultimately rank and file workers get screwed the most.
That's just proper craftsmanship. As opposed to that, the term "house" means any shitty cardboard box in the US. Which is as intended because the cardboard box vendor makes money with resales each time the weather gets bad.
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-over...
> Why suppose the neural network needs to solve differential equations? Is that the only way to learn to catch a ball?

Yes. You need to decide where to put your hand, how to orient it, etc in reaction to the ball movement.

The answer is a solution to the differential equations, and you cannot consistently get a good answer to an equation if you don't solve it.

The solution probably isn't symbolic but numeric, but that hardly changes anything - you still need a lot of math to consciously solve such an equation numerically.

> Or the system knows how to translate from English to Chinese. Human language isn't simply about following translation rules, though. It's also about communication and expressing thought. Or participating in language games.

human doesn't get to decide what to do in Chinese room experiment - (s)he is just a dumb CPU that does table lookups in a huge book. Every possible response to a sequence of previous messages is already written in that book (so it must be quite big ;) ).

You could completely automate it, remove the human and nothing would change from the outside.
I don't want to get into technical details except to say some of what we support are/is some legacy stuff customer's use ... that we did not create. It's weird, and faced with the choice of fixing some old products with a lot of unknowns ... and moving customers to something more modern that is more compatible with Edge... we chose the latter.

I suspect the agility of any team is heavily influenced by not just numbers, but tech debt, and other choices.

All future work we do is compatible with Edge, it's not like NOTHING works with Edge, but to say "We support Edge"... customers expect that to mean everything.

Fortunately I don't think we'll have to have that conversation anymore.
Yep. Also the fact that it can complete in more places. Git history, remote hosts for ssh, ...
Back when I ran a company, my partners and I gamed out what to do with employees in various situations, as a way of coming to a consensus. I was against legal action in all but extreme hypotheticals. Behavior like this is in that class.

You assume you not only have all the relevant information to predict the outcome, but also that your analysis of the situation is superior enough to trump those who actually own the process and will be responsible for the aftermath of your destructive actions. You demonstrate you know this by suggesting stealth.

Thinking about the fact that people like this are out there makes me paranoid about my hiring all over again.
Thanks, thats a great way of putting it. Will try to aim for this more, and iterate until we get to this.
I see a lot of discussion about recycling and burying/burning, but I think more effort should be made to reduce usage of plastics and re-use where necessary.

I have gone plastic-free this January and it has been far more challenging than I thought. Despite having some very ethical shops on my doorstep in Bristol (UK), it takes a lot more time to do my shopping now and there are still many foods which I just cannot find without plastic packaging, most of which really do not need it.

It has been a great eye opener to just how bad the supermarkets are and I think change needs to come through regulation, as a simple small tax for them may be enough to tip the scales and move things in a better direction.
Clear your floating point exception register by calling feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT). Convert to long by calling lrint(rint(x)). Then check your exception register using fetestexcept(). FE_INEXACT will indicate that the input wasn't an integer, and FE_INVALID will indicate that the result doesn't fit in a long.

Edit: check for me whether just calling lrint(x) works. The manpage doesn't specify that lrint() will set FE_INEXACT, but it seems weird to me that it wouldn't.
The plane did not deviate from its flight plan.

FlightRadar24 published[0] the track of the plane vs the other commercial planes taking off from IKA around the same time and vs previous flights of PS752. The plane made no movements that would lead an observer to believe it was anything other than a civilian passenger jet following its flight plan.

[0] - https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-cr... (under 'Other relevant flight information')
I'd recommend you to use the 8 months of runway as much as you can to build and make revenue. When you run out of money you will get a job anyway, try to not stress about it right now.

Sales: Try to sell what you have and listen to customers who pay you. Pilot customers might request a lot of features that nobody wants to pay for later.

Consulting: I imagine that process automation is often implemented by management consulting firms with deep access to the company processes. You could try consulting clients while using your software. You will be able to understand better their needs and generate some revenue at the same time.
This depends enormously on where you are: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/infrastructur...

Go farther South and it gets down to eventually nothing. Go far enough North, to permafrost country, and you not only need to dig down to the permafrost but you need to have insulation so the permafrost doesn't melt.
Unsigned integers are still specified to wrap.
Without knowing the exact product I would suggest tightening up who your target market is. Generally, a product that can be for any industry of any size makes it really hard to focus. Start with a specific subset and it will make your sales outreach a lot more targeted and keep you ultra focused. For example instead of it's aimed at "small, medium and enterprise clients in any industry" think "local service companies in the US with 30-75 employees". It sounds like you might not have that ideal target market nailed down yet. Good luck!
>"talk of colours from the infamous Myers-Briggs test, administered by less-respectable management consultants" //

I think in the UK Myers-Briggs was fronted by "respectable" management consultants and was mainstream.

Or perhaps no management consultants are respectable because they primarily seem to front the current fashionable pseudo-science?
I think an easier to understand way to look at it is that every square meter of forest is enough to offset 1 or 2 watts of carbon based energy consumption if we assume that the trees don't die and decay, no forest fires, etc. We know that's not enough to sustain a modern civilization because past civilizations were dependent on energy from wood and coulndn't sustain a much lower standard of living even with a much lower population density. By contrast solar can sustain on the order of 100 watts per square meter and can do it even in areas without enough rainfall for forests.
Question on Quora: What are the top mobile app development trends in 2020?
> For our cottage we actually had to explode away about 4 ft x 1100sqft of bedrock to pour a foundation into.

I don't see why you would need to do this? You can build right on top of bedrock; it's not going to give you frost heave.
Forgot this one:

Hardware Reverse Engineering - CSCI 4974, Spring 2014:

http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/hwre-spring2014/

And put the full list on Github:

https://github.com/JeremyBlackthorne/RPISEC-Courses
Japan Confirms First Case of New Chinese Coronavirus
Also: spiking neural networks. Doing useful stuff with them has been a work-in-progress so far though.
Something I discovered about Clojure's cond recently.

It usually looks likethis:

(cond (< a b) (println "a < b")
(> a b) (println "a > b")
:else (println "a = b"))

I thought the :else had to be :else, but it only needs to be truthy, so it can be anything that isn't false or nil (which makes sense as you want it to always execute that form if no others match).

So this is just the same:

(cond (< a b) (println "a < b")
(> a b) (println "a > b")
:hotdog (println "a = b"))

Probably obvious to everyone else but it was a bit of a "duh, of course!" moment for me.
I seriously doubt that snow has gone from common to rare to casual observer, all because average surface temperature has risen 1.4 deg F in the last 130 years. [1] (Granted this is an only average; there could be specific places experiencing that phenomenon.)

Americans are experiencing less snow because they are migrating to warmer areas. [2]

[1] http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Temperature-Change-Ove...

[2] https://www.curbed.com/2017/3/27/15077042/sunbelt-snowbelt-m...
Thank you! We have definitely been struggling with this. Will try to find a more specific niche.
Yes, that is what I said in the close of my comment.
Original (in Swedish):

https://www.vof.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Katz-Erikson-1...
what do you get being a moderator on SO?
Jesus, is there anyone famous who wasn't connected to this guy? This is the worst game of 7 degrees of Bacon ever
Public relations.

See related: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
depending where you live there might be some local institutions giving out some cash either as a grant or as a loan with very good conditions (a combination of no collaterals, low interest rate, no equity and so on). That could be an option to stretch your runaway further and avoid being constantly worried about that.
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Marketing is the most important thing at all time every time. Where is the link to your product?
I think they're joking.
No IAP and no ads? How does a game studio should earn money then? Knowing the fact that business model of games are moving to free to play and than players are now reluctant more than ever to pay a decent price for a game but prefer spend 5x more little by little?
Do you intend to reverse the trend? Real question, no trolling.

How a game studio can make money with a F2P game? Or how can we make money from a free 2 play NoBullshit™ game.

Disclaimer: I'm a game developer, I make a MMO F2P mobile game with IAP and ads.

EDIT: I'm not trying to discuss why a F2P with IAP and ads is not always a Bullshit game, you guess that I'm trying to do things well.
I recall termite colonies also have interesting an interesting behaviour that resembles an analogue for an organ that other animals are acquainted with: lungs.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/how-termites-...
Its hardware, so you are looking at the bathtub curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
It seems to be enabled by default since 2013/Python 3.4:

https://bugs.python.org/issue5845

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1a6cb30a346ba8812d6...

https://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/3.4.html#sys

Support already existed in Python 2, so it's sad that it took so long for it to be enabled by default.
It used to be a standard of good writing to always expand acronyms at first use. That seems to be gone now as frequently I don't see that in practice much anymore.
I fully support any plan that ends in the forest moon of Endor. What are even the odds we'd have fossil fuels left to burn in 1,500 years? I feel like we can safely say we'd have reached peak oil by then.
I am patient - I distract myself by reasoning through how to improve the process.
Yeah, I worked around technical debt and legacy support too, it goes with the field.

Still not an excuse to alienate your customers who want to use a browser that comes with their OS. Enterprise customers never want to go through the hassle of installing external software company wide just to use your services.
Ask HN: It's 2035, climate crisis is almost averted. How has the world changed?
We can sometimes use a bit of inspiration and a vision of a great future instead of only the daily grind and bad news. So for a few minutes, let us teleport ourselves to the future, observe it and look back on how we made a better future actually come true. Let's embark on this journey:

One and a half decades after the bleak outlook at the beginning of the 2020s, it is becoming increasingly clear that the worst effects of the climate crisis can either be avoided or at least be mitigated. The world has changed a lot in the time between 2020 and 2035 - and mostly for the better. How has the world been changed and what does it look like now?

(This is admittedly an unusual application of the AskHN format. It is deliberately vague, has no clear answers and is mostly intended to inspire people to imagine a positive future. If you find it inappropriate, flag it - I'll get the message)
Check my profile and send me an email and I'd be glad to talk more.

Here is the progress I've made since then.

After I did that project I spent a year working on text analysis tools for somebody else. Then I was looking for a new job and I made a new version of that software to scrape 1000's of job listings and do a similar classification based on the whole text of job listings which are usually a few paragraphs.

That software has a much better user interface than the old software for adding labels and it's designed to handle "workflow" tasks that have some human and some automated elements.

If I do more work in this area I will probably build on that code. Personally I think the framework for getting training data and putting the model to work is more important than the model itself. (That said, with a good document embedding I think you could get good results with less training data)
Are you sure you are talking about the Netherlands? Heating pipes routed outside walls I have seen in the UK, but never in the Netherlands. No soundproofing would NEVER pass building regulations in the Netherlands.
I’m very similar to you. B2B SaaS. Bootstrapped. Hitting 50k ARR right now.

- 1 year is nothing. Do consulting up to two years.

- screw partnerships, pilots. They add nothing.

- Start blogging and evangelizing

- Do anything feasible to get 10 customers. Worry about pricing after that.
Improving the classification of your transaction data with Machine Learning
Thank you! Could you add them via the form? That way I can keep the feedback in one place.
Generally when newspapers put quotes around a word like that it means they are using a word quoted directly from a source.
Is it not the same for the current wave of anti-bias/discrimination/racism training? There is zero evidence that it has any effect. What few brave researchers have risked their careers exploring the effectiveness of the training have found that it does basically nothing. None of that stops companies from paying millions for it and good luck to the employee or executive that even dares suggest that perhaps there's better ways of tackling the problem/issue.
this would certainly help recreate the configuration.
Thank you! Is there a way to find the Metacritic review automatically from the app ID?
A B-tree set, for example.
Well quite. But that doesn't change the fact that enforcing poorer lifestyles will inevitably affect the incentive to work hard. This website is in no small part about startups and getting rich, isn't it?

Personally, I'm forced to compete because I live in a stupidly overpriced part of the world in terms of housing (SE UK) but apart from a nice house I need very little to support my ego apart from my dog and family, so I think I'd cope with the poorer lifestyle far better than many people I see around me, seeming to have built their self-worth around posessions and silly crazes.
> · Red: dominant, driven, solution focussed.

> · Blue: analytic, careful, meticulous

> · Green: patient, considerate, nice

> · Yellow: extroverted, creative, verbal

Damn. I spent so much of my time and energy pushing back exactly on this bullshit when I was young. That's part of the curriculum of mandatory courses I had to take during an apprenticeship in Switzerland. Expensive and mandatory courses paid by students' employer, of course. But I didn't know that the "color model" was THAT popular.

In french speaking countries, that's often presented as a package called PNL, aka "Programmation Neuro-linguistique" (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmation_neuro-linguistiq...). Based on my experience, that kind of pseudo-science is super popular in corporate environment, and is really difficult to fight against.