skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It absolutely did understand it in some sense, as it completed it with a correctly structured sentence instead of random bytes.

I'm not sure we should expect it to know math, since it's not clear that, in a dataset of all text on the internet, the rules of math are not particularly important for it to learn. They're certainly in the dataset in various ways, but it has a limited memory and it is not surprising it knows other things much better.

We know math has hard rules because we learn that in other ways that this system does not implement. I think its at least remotely plausible that similar systems, with human-scale (i.e. orders of magnitude larger) datasets as input, taught in a similar way as humans, could demonstrate similar capabilities.
Same, I was one of 83 with javascript disabled, when I turned it on the information gained was way more than the information gained by knowing I have it off.
I know there are situations where a "real" desktop OS is helpful, but at the same time it's remarkable to me how well my 2016 iPad Pro holds up with only 2 GB of RAM.

The 2015 model actually had 4 GB, but that was a 12.9" screen and substantially pricier.

They stuck with the same 4 GB in 2018's redesign unless you buy the very expensive 1TB storage option, in which case it's silently bumped up to 6 GB. Apple oddly doesn't even advertise that difference, it only came out through benchmarking.

Hopefully the 2020 refresh bumps it up to 8 GB which I think would future proof new devices for 5+ years of solid performance.
Seems like a good candidate for a Wikipedia rather than Github.
Telepathy is such a broken trait. Mind control is way too powerful, and assimilation way too difficult to have it any other way.
Seems like this is a strategy for making an article appear more relevant to current events than it really is.
Surgical masks you can probably get away with, particularly if there is wildfire smoke in the region or a disease scare. In very cold weather regions you might be able to get away with a scarf covering your lower face.

Walking into a store with other sorts mask on in America runs a not insignificant chance of getting you shot, or at least held at gunpoint. But more importantly, you'd be traumatizing everybody else in the store. When somebody walks into a store with a mask on, more people expect 'robber' than 'privacy enthusiast'.
I raised chickens and they had the run of my 40 acres. I could not tell the difference in the eggs except for the shell color and yolk color. Free-range chickens tend to have a darker, orange yolk.

The taste is identical, to me at least.

The meat is totally different, though.
> inferred some racist undertone

Interesting — the revealing commentary continues. There was no mention of race, only that "need I say more?" about a practice that's owned by several cultures is an antagonistic insinuation.

You've continually failed the most basic exercise of reading comprehension, so there's no value in me engaging further.
Hello @gravypod I'm one of the maintainer of this page. Thanks for your feedback. We do have plans to include troubleshooting guide in near future. Luckily, it's contribution coming from the community, hence you can contribute too for this.
Anything like this in US? Or any plans for a startup visa?
CatBoost – open-source gradient boosting library
Because of low income people who need to get places and are used to being treated poorly. Sometimes you have no choice.
That seems like another blow to high-performance computing on VMs.
India surpasses U.S. as 2nd largest smartphone market
Thanks for your feedback. We are continously working on the links and getting it fixed. It's completely community work and we working together to make it useful for the community.
Hahaha. Quite old.. 35... As someone who will turn 40 this year I guess you will call me positively geriatric!
Interesting that cutting back has resulted in endurance loss but not the heart rate going back up. But it is reasonable to suppose that endurance is sort of a leading indicator with resting heart rate following it.
My wife has a low resting heart rate since her 20's (never really measured it before that.) She was never a big athlete or a good exerciser. Recently she has started an HIIT program, for general fitness and weight loss. I think we will need to track the heart rate carefully now.
I have a European startup visa.

If you at all can, stay in the US. Your startup valuation will be reduced by 80-90% compared to what you may expect in the US.

And don't think European grant money will magically make up the difference. It's a pain to apply for, a pain to administrate and claim, and you'll be competing with a cottage industry of professional grant proposal writers.

The one case it may make sense is if you have a very obvious and boring business model, and your business somehow saves the planet while delivering clean drinking water to Africa. This will make you investable and ensure you check the boxes the grant proposal reviewers are looking for.

Also the startup ecosystem is no where near evolved. There's no SAFE notes, employee stock options are totally broken, acquires are unheard of, etc etc.

To end my story, I lost interest in my startup because we couldn't raise money at a decent valuation, and my 2020 was going to be spent chasing small checks from various EU funding schemes.
Sure, but that pales compared to losing a juicy timeslot on the runway.

Some of those literally sell for 8 figures. You can run a lot of empty flights at that rate.
Most neighborhoods aren't so dangerous that carrying around $100 or so in cash to pay for groceries is a significant risk. Nor are most people ever going to chargeback a grocery store purchase.

For some sorts of purchases, particularly larger purchases, the benefits of a credit card become more important. But for most casual day to day purchases? Not so much in my opinion.
Sadly, no. The only thing was this: https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/us-startup-visa-delayed-fallin....
> I don’t get what your point is.

I apologize if you found my post unclear. You seem to be reading more into my comments than is there.

The commenter above disputed that "Shaming the choice to eat a food is a dark pattern." Specifically, it was claimed

> It shouldn't be. Food is a very topical, superficial aspect of culture and the average person has more than enough choice in what they eat.

> If eating bats is causing serious pandemics, then I'm going to shame eating bats. If shark fin soup is damaging the ecology, then I'm going to shame shark fin soup. If high-sugar diets are resulting in massive health problems, I'm going to shame high-sugar diets.

They specifically stated that they would shame people for eating things like bats. They also stated that they would shame people for eating high sugar diets. They implied that anyone who eats a diet or which has a negative impact can be "shamed". Whether that be shark fin soup, or high-fructose corn syrup.

I asked whether they apply this standard ("Shaming the choice to eat a food is not a dark pattern") to things that they may do themselves. I'm curious what diet they eat that is free of any judgement.

> If you’re trying to defend Chinese eating habits the vast majority of Chinese people don’t partake in eating “exotic” meats like bats, live mice, and dogs. Most would be horrified as well.

I haven't said anything at all about these things. I think I've been very specific in the responses I've made, and I have not at any point disputed any of the speculation made about the origin of the virus, nor revealed any judgement I may have, positive or negative, on the matter.

Is it possible that the virus originated with the practice of eating bats or other exotic animals? Sure. But I'm not an epidemiologist. I don't have any inside information. I have nothing that would make my opinion on the origin of the disease any more than idle speculation. But, I unlike others, I haven't claimed to know the "probable" origin of the virus.
Not the OP but I suspect we’re not talking about any performance gains here, the arduino is still running binary. What you get by using a functional language like haskell is a way to structure your code differently and in many cases that could make your life a whole lot easier when you translate the solution that you have in your head to code. It is also easier to catch bugs
Amazing work! I'm excited to try out the Plasma variant. So far have been using Budgie, and quite happy with it.

The main annoyance is package repository. Not only it's humble, but the maintainers have really strong views on what shouldn't be there. Faced the problem when tried to install/build Fractal client.
Annapurna, the goddess of job security.
The very first nCoV genome sequencied earlier this month[0] ends with 33 As, while the genome of the virus found in the first U.S. patient[1] ends with only 12 As.

Is it normal for there to be variation here? Do these repeated A sequences actually code for a protein or are they just a marker to let the ribosome know it's reached the end of the genome, and so the length of repeating As doesn't really matter past a certain point?

(I'm obviously not a biologist)

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN985325
Also prior to the NBN (wholesaler) taking over the network, "take rate" (number of homes actually connected to the cable) was ~30%. Changing a network designed around that to 80% is quite a task
If I didn't have the "Ikea effect" with my current Void install I'd be using Solus. Straightforward, sensible and clean. Plenty of useful and interesting software in the repos. Good enough UX for developers and your nan.

I encourage everyone to try it, but before you do, remind yourself that it isn't Arch or Debian-based, so if you use some unusual software you may well need to build from source.
Our chickens are nice occasionally too.
Once again, the claim was:

> From what I've read it came from bats. Most probably bats being eaten.[1]

This claim is not found in

> 1. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqy3n/scientists-now-thi...

Simple as that.
> I’m quite old. 35.

Oh jeez. I’ll just be over here covering myself up with dirt I guess.
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Why would the most recent version Google makes available to my Pixel 3a phone be different from the most recent version Google makes available to anyone else?
Before anyone says that example (or any of the other fluent but _completely nonsensical_ continuations in the article) shows some sort of "understanding," please explain what you would define as understanding?

I would (and I think anyone would) offer an operational definition: there is some class of questions to which this system could reply with sensible, actionable responses. Obviously the present system is not able to "understand" and answer simple arithmetic problems that a first-grader could answer instantly. Given that, would there be any point in expecting it to answer any other logical query that could be of use in one's work? (See the "medical" example in the article, about how to drink hydrochloric acid.)

The only question it appears to answer is, "given some words, what are other words that are likely to follow them in a typical blog post?" The fact that the words are syntactically correct is unimportant, when the fluent words convey no information relevant to the input.
What are you really doing with two carry-ons and two checked bags?

If I'm staying for less than 4 days I can fit everything I need in one backpack. With a backpack and a carry-on I can bring everything I'd want for weeks.
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Ask HN: Why shouldn't I shut down my business?
Hi, I'm Ben Howell, founder of Psychstudio [psychstudio.com]. I have zero paying customers.

Psychstudio is a platform for building and hosting online behavioral experiments. It's been public for just over a year and accepting payments for the last 7 months.

My email list has ~150 people on it and I send a newsletter every month. I publish very well researched content and those who read the articles get value out of them. I promote articles on twitter, linkedin and reddit.

There are competitors in the marketplace and I built Psychstudio to address some of the shortcomings of those competitors (which are our USP's). I believe it's the best product in the market, bar none.

I started working on this in July 2016 based on a lot of advice, feedback, customer interviews, etc. During development and testing, feedback from beta users shaped the product as it is today.

It's not easy to admit defeat when it seems there are other products in this space but the numbers tell a grim tale. I can go into infinite detail on any aspect if needed. It's also not easy admitting that I've had no customers whatsoever even though I've been doing this for years.

I really need your advice and thank you in advance.
Both of you are kids... I'm 59 and I do cardio mixed with weights. My RHR is 45 bpm, but has been as low as 35. Recently, I had to substitute cycling for running due to a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in my left hip. Sucks, as I love running and it's such a great cardio exercise. Low resting heart rates are nothing to worry about, as long as you're cleared by a doctor and the low rhr is from workouts.
Oh, that makes sense! Thanks for explaining!
Spirit has been mostly fine but you should price in the cost of eventually getting stranded by them in the flight cost. I've flown them at least a dozen times and been stranded once where the next flight would be 4 days later so I had to suck it up and buy a flight back on Southwest.
No, there has to be roughage mixed in. (Hay, etc) Cattle will founder in pure grain.
What would the benefit be? Cat5E can carry 10g, is cheaper, and you only need one cable. You have twice as many connections, twice as many PHY components, twice as many points of failure, etc etc if you go with two HDMI cables instead.
Generally speaking the route to a major city is usually pretty much to head to a big main road and follow that.

I know these things happen but I have to wonder when they noticed a lack of other traffic, smaller roads, strange roads, on their way to a big city.
It's fairly easy to visually tell if the egg came from a free range chicken, the yolk is a dark orange color.
This makes me curious; has anyone tried making an extension to randomly choose for each request whether or not to send "Do Not Track"? There are probably a lot of other settings that similarly don't affect the page in any visible way that could also be randomized as well. I doubt I'm the first person to think of this!
If Epyc CPUs aren't available, then it isn't apples to apples.

A customer doesn't care about nm. They care about what's available.
The apples to apples comparison is The best x86 available vs the best ARM available.
Yup, plus depending on the case it might be anything up to insanely hard to find that bug (imagine >100k line code base where will causes a subtile wrong state once in a thousand requests if build with optimizations under load which causes a chain of other subtile errors crashing the production server once a hour).
Link? I am only aware of a rapidly advancing field where techniques are being optimized and getting easier and easier to perform.
South China Morning Post has an interesting read on wet markets and exotic meat https://www.inkstonenews.com/health/chinas-coronavirus-outbr...
If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?
Building the Perfect Meal with Sheep Lungs and a Suitcase
(which is a reason why I'm going to be so upset when the MAX is put back in service and I won't be able to fly Southwest anymore)

It that on principle, or fear of safety?
Definitely computer. Someone should ban your account
While much business travel may be inessential, family visits for Lunar New Year are surely essential for many people, so this is a tough time for such an experiment. I was surprised to learn that there are normally 3 billion passenger-journeys in China during the Lunar New Year period! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun).
so every free proxy web browser website ever is blocked or expensive and this chromebook cannot download anything. so im really at a lost. i need to know if there is absolutely anyway i can be able to use free.cloudbrowser (assuming it is not blocked) or something like it. or should i email cris??
... or fatal if the direction is bad. And as authoritarianism tends to coincide with corruption, chances are the direction is bad quite often.
Maybe trying to take a detour like these guys (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-07-mn-949-st...) Ended up making a movie about that family. I think back in that situation the highway was closed due to snow.
I am going through the quantum computer exercise, but one point of improvement is that it's awfully wordy. A lot of time is spend on saying they are saying how they are saying what they are saying. Better to stick to their own advice of writing concise and to the point.
> believing that massive client volumes fund the R&D stream that feeds most server-side innovation.

What does he mean here?
Oh, yes...should have mentioned the 28" seat pitch. That's the other way they make money. Other airlines have 30"-32" in their economy seats.
How much unregulated wild meat is there in the city-state of Singapore to begin with?
There are more news outlets reporting this fact than Vice. I’m commenting on the actual facts not the legitimacy of whatever source OP decided to cite.
What's the point of this comment? Isn't this pretty much exactly what's in the answer linked?
No, the Uno has nowhere near enough RAM to be useful with Python. However, MicroPython runs beautifully on an ESP8266, which everyone should always use instead of an Uno, in my opinion.
It's nice to read about Daubechies here on HN. I remember reading a few of her papers circa 2006 for an academic project. At the time I was accustomed (prejudiced, maybe) to see mostly male authors in all the papers I used, and I was a bit surprised to learn that the I in "I. Daubechies" meant Ingrid. I'm happy to see her still going, her work is awesome.
Because noone wants to pay. We are still flying the same speed as we did fifty years ago. Imagine for a second that you could fly from London to Sydney in ten hours (that's the Concorde speed on a route over Panama City so that almost all of the flight is over a sea to avoid any problems with sonic booms) but a ticket would be 15 000 dollars. Noone developed that plane.
On top of that advice, when I travel in winter, I just throw boots (with good socks) and extra winter stuff in a bin (gloves, scarfs etc).

Basically it is "what would I put on if I were to go outside and dig my car out and it was ultra cold"...and what would I put on the kids ... everyone's stuff just gets thrown in.

Just throwing it all in a bin is handy for quick packing, and if I don't need it quick unpacking.

That's on top of the usual emergency kit, blankets, etc.
What Is the Coronavirus?
A lot of the things that work for $100 do not scale.
but it is relevant - if the waste could be made economically viable to process and extract (and as a side effect, the harmful parts removed/utilized), then there would be less pollution and contamination.
I was thinking arbitrage too. But from the perspective of buying ads where you find a way to make more money from the traffic than the ads cost.
And repeated studies have failed to show that N95 masks reduce transmission more than surgical masks do.

One of many studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/
I've wondered this as well. I think the idea of a small-team open source project funded on KS in milestones is feasible. However, the promotion would need to be handled by the community and backers vs the developer team. Otherwise the time and monetary cost of frequently running campaigns on KS would be too high of a distraction.

I also think there's room in the market to create a KS alternative specifically for software that actually helps with promotion.
Pixelmator was launched in 2007 and used the same strategy as Sketch, it’s similarly based on the AppKit frameworks that Sketch is based on. It would be great if Apple had continued to create those kinds of powerful APIs instead of say, bringing iOS share sheets to macOS.

MindNode’s about page lists seven people. That’s pretty close to the maximum level of success Apple’s policies allow on their platforms. If you don’t care about ambitious apps sure, no big deal, but I care.

Couple of other quick points: I’m less concerned about existing apps like Adobe (they’ll be fine), I want new apps that are powerful like those apps. Also, and this is pretty subtle, I don’t think there’s any kind of conspiracy here, I know I talk like it is, but I don’t think executives are sitting in a room saying let’s make our products bad for powerful apps, it’s more like indifference, and “hey iOS is making us so much money, why not just use that same stuff everywhere?” But an implication of that is it moves the Mac to a more iOS-like software market, and that’s a market that’s failed to produce technology that’s the same caliber as things like Adobe, Office, Ableton. Whereas what Apple was doing before the iPad was producing apps of that caliber with the OmniGroup’s apps, and Sketch.
Video of TV Host promoting eating bats. Forced to apologize. https://mobile.twitter.com/pdchinese/status/1221071113645625...
That’s not a correct reading of Rapanos. Rapanos says that “the meaning of ’navigable waters’ in the Act is broader than the traditional understanding of that term, SWANCC, 531 U. S., at 167; Riverside Bayview, 474 U. S., at 133.3 We have also emphasized, however, that the qualifier ’navigable’ is not devoid of significance, SWANCC, supra, at 172.“

Rapanos doesn’t define exactly what navigable waters are, but casts sharp doubt on two types of waters: ephemeral streams, and wetlands without a surface water connection to navigable water.

The key changes to the 2020 rule are to exclude those things: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062159101

> Specifically, the new rule will erase protections for so-called ephemeral streams, which flow only after rain or during snowmelt.

> The rule also erases protections for wetlands that do not have surface water connections to intermittent or perennial streams, which account for more than 51% of the nation's wetlands.
The other thing is they charge. for. every. single. thing... Want a carry on? Pick a seat? The price for these types of airlines have just about every nicety set up as a DLC, if you will. The base line ticket is cheap. Once you get all the extras, things are closer. When folks search for price - they get the raw price.
It looks like it's really too early to tell and so far it looks like initial reports of it having a nexus in the market were premature. It's still uncertain where the first patients got it from. Originally Wuhan gov was saying their first patients were on Dec 27, but that's being revised to Dec 1. So it seems given the disparity in dates the assertion of the epidemic having started in the market is unconfirmed at this time and Is more the result of speculation (or misinformation).
It is interesting. DNA itself could be analogous to the tape that a Turing machine reads one cell at a time. The alphabet in each cell is finite (ATCG).
I mean, that’s a whole different study.

Given the need to prioritize 2 studies, one which studies the actual diet which the majority of Keto followers tend to actually follow, and another which the promoters of Keto use for marketing Keto, but very few actually follow, they prioritized the former.

I would have probably made the same decision they did, but even if they had prioritized the latter, the point is that they chose to conduct 1 study and not the other is not a knock on the study they actually conducted.
If they all get together and increase upstream then they can start selling do’s protection, like the phone companies did for spam calls.
I wonder how easy that is.

I remember some research that found low level drug dealers didn't make much more than a typical low wage job... sometimes way less. Many had low wage jobs because of that.