skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess HN guidelines-ishness. Plus, the well-off don't like discussing sex, money, religion (spiritual or favorite programming language) or politics online, and that hits two buckets. I would wager that the average HN reader is far from poor, although may have been in the past. Better to seem to stick our heads in the sand than have real conversations if doing so benefits us, because it fulfills the objectives of the site. This doesn't preclude enthusiastic discussions elsewhere.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

- Upton Sinclair
There are people with lessions affecting only very specific regions of their brain, who can proceed in regular conversations normally, but when asked numerical questions, they give seemingly nonsensical answers. Like when asked how much one cup and two cups are, they could very well say five. Yet you wouldn't infer they lack the understanding of the world.
I don't work remotely anymore. It's not that I think it's a bad idea. I think if a team isn't used to that level of communication, it makes for there to be some pushback.
Not sure how that would work. Warren’s tax starts at a net worth above $50M. How would someone who is upper middle class pay for it.
> But the political problems are huge.

That's true. But there are no technical problems with it, not even backwards compatibility problems.
Is seems, this also affects public roads. Here is, for example, methodology of application of these waste products to road surfaces in California:

https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/research-innov...

Doesn't seem there is much there on controlling amounts of lead, cadmium and radium in the material. No on the gradual accumulation on the road.

As per the following paper, not much research had been done on the health effects of applying it on the roads and risks of dust particles lifted by vehicles being inhailed.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325460511_Environme...

And from its abstract: "Currently, state-by-state regulations do not require radium analyses prior to treating roads with O&G wastewaters.".

So it looks like there is a loophole that doesn't specifically disallow to accumulate unlimited amounts of radioactive material with 1600 years decay half-life on public roads.
It is almost impossible to show how tame the fur farm foxes on Prince Edward Island really were, but in addition to the photos - of which there are more than one [1] - there are also written reports about how tame the foxes where [2]:

"Dr. Frank, among other things at Montreal, had a pair of tame foxes lead about on the main streets, driven around in automobiles and taken to a public dance, where the girls did the fox trot with these foxes around their necks, and all this was photographed, moving pictures taken, etc., and to cap the climax Dr. Frank hired two airplanes, took up a pair of foxes in one and from the other airplane a photograph ground out several reels to be shown in the movies in the near future."

How common these traits were is another difficult question. But given that there was prior selection for tameness and that Belyaev specifically looked for those tame foxes to include in his experiment [3], it does not seem so surprising that this trait very quickly became more common.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/03/tame-foxes...

[2] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433090788674&vi...

[3] https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.200800070
adjunct faculty teaching a full load (2/2) make a very nice wage at my uni (~70k). the problem isn't the wage but the exactly what non-tenure implies: lack of job security.
A universe of what we perceive as AI, reminds me of the short story They're Made out of Meat [0] (and a version on youtube [1]).

[0] https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
Arguing that physics students don't understand equations very well is a poor way to make a point about GPT-2. GPT-2 fails at a much more basic level, and that's Marcus's point.

Talk to a five year old for a while. The five-year-old's language may be crude but it shows basic concepts of a conversation, continuity, referents, basic causality, etc. GPT-2 has none of these. It regurgitates smooth language fragments because that's what it was trained on, but it exhibits no awareness that it's involved in a communication event with another being. Except possibly at cocktail parties, humans don't simply regurgitate words.
Sure, but stars have the majority of mass in a solar system, so you might want to basically deconstruct them to make more ships/habitats. See Orions Arm/deep well industrial zone as an example. :)
I don't drink much, but when I do, I prefer pure 95% ethanol. It's poisonous enough as it is, without impurities.

Back in the day, that was spectrophotometric grade ethanol.
What does C/C++ offer aside from developer preference, when compared to assembly?

Squeezing every drop out of microcontrollers likely includes much bit-banging. Once you've given up perfect instruction cycle counting, they're all high level languages!
I mean, historically, stocks have gone up in real terms (discounting inflation).
From what I understand GDPR was supposed to guarantee opt-out by default and this is widely adopted. Instead of having stupid popups on every single website asking us to agree to their tracking policies, wouldn't it make more sense to enforce a law that says they should respect the setting expressed in the header and users must not be bothered?
When people talk about getting rich, beware that they're mostly talking about getting rich quickly in a matter of months or years. That won't happen, but you can definitely retire as a millionaire from modest means.

It's simple math that investing even minor amounts over your life can compound greatly.
How long does it take for tectonic action to "recycle" the plates? Could a civilization have existed as extensive as our own in the extreme past, but we can't see any evidence because it is all hundreds of miles under the surface of the earth being melted down slowly?
The power of recursive reasoning. Induction tells us that Intel's 10nm process probably wasn't 10nm features...
Internet Era has just begun in India.
More and more 1st-time internet users are joining the wave.

Thanks (Or maybe no thanks because they created a monopoly in telecom sector) to Jio for making the Data rate too cheap and to manufacturers like Vivo, Xiaomi, and Oppo for making Smart Phones available at a cheap rate.

(Less than 1$ for 2-3 GB.)
When it crashes it will wipe out many more trillions
I think some of these examples are interesting because they show that GPT-2 was trained on data (web sites) that were optimized to be interesting, rather than lists of facts or logical inferences.

Hmm, now I wonder if you could take GPT-2, add on a little bit of training on some boring rote lists of logical inferences, and get something useful out of it.
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You got an off by one bug in your first example ;-)
I know thrift stores in a particular part of the Bay Area where college students dump clothes with labels like Armani and Versace because they bought too much / can't take it home with them when then move out. I would think women's shoes and handbags would be another area, but would require more specialized knowledge/research.

Lightly-used items can be sold on eBay, while vintage items can be sold on Etsy.

After that, cars and pickups trucks can also be arbitraged by going to car auctions and watching Craigslist. It especially helps if you know a mechanic well or are a mechanic.

The next step is arbitraging small businesses and real estate.

Beyond that, you need to slowly build a real portfolio of defensible business investments.
In what meaning we could ever "trust" Google's search results? We have already witnesses myriad of examples of Google removing and modifying search results to mollify various governments and private groups. We witnessed how Google banned substring "gun" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16479204) from Google Shopping results. We have seen people in Google discussing "ML fairness" (modifying algorithms to fit their perceptions of what results should be instead of showing what they actually are) and more broadly, their responsibility to shape political discussion and national election results. We now know they have the tools, the means and the motivation to influence search results, and that they have done it many times in the past. Commercial considerations add to this mess, but I think if the "trust" is the idea that Google just shows the search results as they are, without any outside considerations not related to the quality of search intervening, then this "trust" is long gone. Now the question is only who gets the power to play with it. Is it worse if Google sells a bit of this power instead of keeping it all to themselves? I don't know, maybe, but by then I don't think talking about any "trust" has any point.
I have a modest proposal for you...

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
There's over 3000 species of mosquitoes. Only 3 of those species are the primary carriers of these diseases. Only 1 species carries malaria. So we only gotta get rid of a small portion of mosquitoes.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/gro...
Yeah, I quit reading when I get the unblockable full page ad asking me about paying 50 dollars for a Go course. Good spam bot.
Since this was written a library proposal to add units to C++ has been submitted to wg21: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p193...
I'm excited about future applications that strap this onto some relatively simple, logically consistent, non-AI number-crunching program. As a toy example, Scott Alexander trained it to output chess moves in a consistent manner that avoids nonsensical moves, but it can't win against competent human players. If you strap it onto a chessbot during both training and use I'm fairly sure it'll easily beat human grandmasters.

So what you have here is a human compatibility/abstraction layer for programs. What can you do with this strapped to Wolfram Alpha? Or trained with a Github dataset?

Put another way, apparently this does linguistic style /convincingly humanlike writing without being able to reason about cause/effect or basic arithmatics. But we already have programs that does cause/effect and arithmetics, quickly and at 100% accuracy. Now we just need to combine the two.
"AI" is really just a wishy-washy way of offloading the responsibilities of leading a decent life today to some magic future. There is no reason AI will be "better "on any axis except scale and speed. So, think the Holocaust times a gazillion, in one microsecond, but don't think Bob Ross or Fred Rogers, because even if you could just make that "more powerful" (you can't, not in the same way you can crank up destruction and insanity), that's not even on the menu, there's no money in that.

And hey, if AI is so great, and can spread it into all sorts of areas that are inhospitable to carbon-based life, what's the rush with getting rid of carbon-based life? Why does it have to be the extinction of humans and the destruction of spontaneity? Have you entertained the possibility that this outlook might say more about you than the state of things?

> [Hobbes] foresaw the necessary idolatry of power itself by this new human type, that he would be flattered at being called a power-thirsty animal, although actually society would force him to surrender all his natural forces, his virtues and his vices, and would make him the poor meek little fellow who has not even the right to rise against tyranny, and who, far from striving for power, submits to any existing government and does not stir even when his best friend falls an innocent victim to an incomprehensible raison d'etat.

> For a Commonwealth based on the accumulated and monopolized power of all its individual members necessarily leaves each person powerless, deprived of his natural and human capacities. It leaves him degraded into a cog in the power-accumulating machine, free to console himself with sublime thoughts about the ultimate destiny of this machine, which itself is constructed in such a way that it can devour the globe simply by following its own inherent law.

-- Hannah Arendt
GPT-2 is trained on words people actually write on the internet

It sure is. Go to the site [1] and paste in anything from an Internet rant. It does a really good job of autocompleting rants.

At last, high-quality artificial stupidity.

The other extreme is the MIT question-answering system [2]. Or Wolfram Alpha. Just the facts.

[1] https://talktotransformer.com/
[2] http://start.csail.mit.edu/index.php
My XPS13 9350 from 3 years ago fits comfortably on every airplane tray I've bothered to put it on as well. This is not a small or super light machine.

That's not really saying much.
The oldest rocks are about four billion years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks
I can confirm my father's experience that real estate stinks as an investment:

1. maintenance costs

2. insurance costs

3. heavy and ever-increasing property taxes

4. 6% real estate commissions when you sell (contrast that
with stock broker commissions on a trade)

5. you never have a clear idea what it is worth

6. it can take months to sell, meaning your money is not available to invest elsewhere

The only good thing about it is it's usually the cheapest way to borrow money.
This is the Tianjin port explosion from 2015.

https://youtu.be/iv5g2MhPT5I
This is an exciting idea. I would hope that we can ultimately dispense with annotation and have the computer simply read the sentence and comment, or implement, or what have you.
You could say that a trained neural net contains a model of how language works, and it reasons about sentences based on this model.

I think people are really hung up on that it has trouble reasoning about what its sentences are reasoning about, and skipping how amazing it is at reasoning about sentence structure itself.
Why so? I admit to being a novice in that area, but unless you are worried things are going to get drastically worse (civil war, etc) won't most stocks get better as the economy leaves the recession?
> The biggest problem I've found is that the Internet isn't really ready for customers that can download at 10Gbps.

TCP is dumb and if it can saturate your connection it will increase your latency. I feel like being unable to saturate a connection is a good thing.

There are other measures you can take to avoid saturation, but simply having an oversized pipe is hard to beat.
I read the first few pages of the language spec and skimmed the whitepaper and I cannot find any compelling use case for the system. Even worst, some ideas presented are actively anti-features. For instance the inclusion of all materials that was read: in theory it looks cool, in practice this is a copyright nightmare. Again, the ability the reply every edit is creepy as hell. As an academic (whose job is thus churning papers), hiding how the sausage was made is a nice property of a PDF. Also, important thing is idea laid out in papers, not the exact stream of text that express them.
I believe it’s well developed in LabView.
Many of those tiny boards are better than most 60's computers, which had quite a few high level languages to choose from, before C was even born.

So keeping an open mind is actually the key factor here.
I'd also like to mention something that was tried in Serbia (but ultimately failed, though in a good way):

Our national telecom operator, Telekom Srbija, had a monopoly on internet access in most areas due to the fact they own all the phone lines. In cooperation with Huawei and the Chinese and Serbian governments, they made a plan to kill POTS service per line and use ALL of the bandwidth for VDSL, as well as building DSLAMs on street level, to provide very high speeds (100/10 Mbps was the max they achieved before stopping) with short copper lengths. Phones would work over VoIP, so all new modems were VDSL compliant with IAD (integrated access device) "certification" (a SIP client and 2 POTS ports).

In the end the Chinese lost interest and it was all forgotten and covered with ash. The new idea, which is why I say it failed in a good way, is to skip the street DSLAM buildout and just do FTTH. And they did, though not with symmetric gigabit speeds, because reasons (bla bla customer demand, costs, etc..) The highest speed is 1000/400 Mbps for $120/mo. (which is super expensive compared to what was promised by the Chinese and also compared to general purchasing power in the country).
What they're really asking for is (attempted) automated diagnosis, where routine tests are done and fed to a computer and a list of things that might be wrong can then be evaluated by humans. If something looks possible more precise tests could then be done to confirm the diagnosis.
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Why can't open access wi-fi access points provide some sort of encryption? Couldn't the access point and clients use some form of public key cryptography for the local communication?
Some technologies seem too universal to assume an industrial civilization would miss them. Things like ceramics for example are easy to make, very useful and would likely survive in the geological record.
Does class size matter? i.e. Does the adjunct have to generate (> 100%) funding for their pay?
That is probably due to that they use some of the drugs themselves instead of selling it. Professional/successful /rich dealers are not also users, i have learned from watching Hollywood movies...
Although over tens of millions of years the chances of an asteroid impact wiping out our Lunar or Martian legacies might be more realistic than not.
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> That's the entire rule/suggestion. There's no "timing the market" needed.

“Invest 3 years after an inflection point” is an attempt at timing the market.

For every 2008, there are ‘54 and ‘57; ‘70 and ‘73; ‘80 and ‘81; et cetera.
This chart here seems to contradict you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...

Am I misreading it?
It's sugar for existing features. "await"ing existed before but required some really messy syntax to achieve the same thing. It's very much an incredible improvement over the status quo.
Sure but capital is the single biggest factor in market returns.

More money means more ways to make more money by taking larger bets, using more leverage, waiting longer to turn losers into winners, and generally absorbing more risk to generate more return.
Interesting work.

How is MSL related to the concept of version control/revision control? I didn't see any reference to (centralized or decentralized) VCS, but that seems highly relevant to MSL.
When you invest $100 and you see it go to $90, $75, $50, $40 at some point the majority of people will "cut their losses" and sell. It's human nature.
Like many people, I have started toy OSes, and like most such projects, all of them but my current one did not make it far past the booting stage.

The problem was that there was just too much to do: Booting, memory management, interrupt/exception handling, video output, keyboard, disc access, file systems, scheduling... most of those things are potentially interesting, but not all at once, and yet they are all pretty much necessary to get your OS to the "critical mass" where working on individual aspects starts being fun.

Until I had the idea to not just boot using plain old 16bit DOS, but too also keep DOS running in my OS, as a task. The thing about DOS is that it is barely an "operating system" in the modern sense. Instead, it is more a crude collection of 16bit x86 routines that do most of the aforementioned things: Console input/output, file system access, crude memory management, a whole shell actually (COMMAND.COM)... and you can even load drivers for networking, sound, and almost everything else, provided for form of it already existed about 15 years ago.

My current toy OS is a modern message passing microkernel, but for everything that I did not feel like implementing yet, I call into the DOS task. The task runs as a vm86 task, essentially within a hypervisor (called the "vm86 monitor"), but specifically for 16 bit real mode code. (64bit x86 got rid of the now obsolete vm86 mode, so there you would have to actually implement something much closer to a modern hypervisor.) This is done using using a shim layer that receives messages using the message passing system of my OS and translates them into the (usually) soft-interrupt driven DOS/BIOS function calls.

This is possible with DOS, unlike modern OSes, because it's such a crude and conceptually simple OS, centered around direct hardware access and with essentially no own memory protection/address space separation, that it just does not get in the way of implementing my own OS.
Just wanted to mention the info that the biggest or second biggest (depends on how you count, it's a duopoly) cable ISP in Serbia is finishing up the migration to DOCSIS 3.1, and will provide gigabit speeds to cable customers. However, the upload will still be 50 Mbps maximum. Currently the fastest they have is 300/15 Mbps, which is better than what they will offer with DOCSIS 3.1 -- 1000/50 Mbps.

Most of their passive and active equipment in areas which have been fully "digitalized" is 3.1 compliant, they just need to finish the whole city and then they will start marketing the offer. Modems will have to be changed as well as equipment on the customer's side which they haven't done yet, so it will take quite some time.

They "promised" it by the end of 2019. (in 2016.), seems it will be 2025. By that time the Chinese government and Telekom Srbija will have FTTH to every home.
This is pretty badly written not sure how it reached the front page.
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Captive portals suck, I agree.

However, isn't it a better trade-off to have a network password? Even something trivial like "123456" that isn't hard to spell for guests who may speak a different language?

It does add a small amount of friction, but network passwords can be embedded in a QR code (unlike captive portal passwords) so at least it should work for mobile devices.
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Except that wouldn't have helped in this case because the proper tests hadn't actually been done. Clinical decision support systems have been developed to assist physicians with semi-automated diagnosis and they can work, to an extent. But the hard part is gathering an accurate medical history and then reducing it to discrete concept codes that software can understand. Computers can't effectively interview a patient or ask the right questions for rare or complex conditions.
> How to fix this?

Stop clicking.
Ask HN: Any favorite case studies on optimizing subscription page prompts?
I'm looking to dive into different case studies to try and learn what I don't know that I don't know. Any companies that you feel do this particularly well, I'd be interested in hearing about. I'm specifically interested in subscription prompt pages. Thanks!
That's assuming it would be worth the investment (because systems in most areas of the observable universe can be few and far between) to go to other systems, when you could invest in preserving your own home system by exploring and colonizing planets, planetoids and such around the home-world. When you commit to interstellar travel, you basically need an entire planet's-worth of supplies, energy and biosphere or you send self-replicating robots.

It's not like we can miracle up another Earth or go to another solar system anytime soon. Our best bets are to preserve what we have and have a look at the moon, Mars, etc.
Good libraries will let you define custom units that let you express things like this. Boost.Units does.
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I did not get such an ad on my end? And this browser has no blockers of any kind. I scrolled through it in its entirety.