skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a researcher in the field. Not in NLP anymore, but I worked on that as well, years ago, and I keep up with the research. You can't "understand the context" of "War and Peace" unless you have real, actual AGI. I doubt actually it can be fully understood at all when translated to English and read by someone without the right cultural background. This is an extreme example, chosen to make it easy to see that it applies to any non-trivial text.

Let's take a question answering example. Take just about any recent deep learning paper and try to answer detailed, higher level questions against it. To use a concrete example, take MobileNet V3 paper and ask your system "do I put activation before or after squeeze and excitation" (correct answer is "before"), or "do I need a bias in squeeze and excitation module" (correct answer is "it depends on the task"). You won't be able to, because a lot of things are just _assumed_, just like in any other realistic example of text written for human consumption. The facts are encoded externally as information about the world, and they're so fine grained and contextual, that we don't even know how to begin incorporating them into the answers, let alone do so contextually and probabilistically, like human mind does.
Interesting ... they heavily recruited my daughter who's a senior in high school and looking to go to business school in supply-chain-management. She applied to GW but it was her last choice and she was accepted everywhere she applied.
It's the Chainstays. You need two bars connecting the bottom bracket to the rear hub or the rear wheel is extremely unstable.

Most modern bikes are fundamentally 2 triangles joined at the base.
You didn't read the previous GRU indictments very closely. They got actual surveillance footage of individuals in the building.
> The university staff were mostly sullen at a culture workshop, enthusiasm was low.

Maybe they would be happier if the administration would just let them do their jobs?
AFAIK, it only searches through your apps, not files.
I did not know that, and I have read a few of his books.

One of the reasons that I like HN, is because of occasional gems like this.

Thanks!
For anyone else wondering if Bitwize just came up with the word of the week or Psychobabble is really a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychobabble
In theory, maybe. As in, I agree with you on principle, but if you do even a cursory read about recent abuses that include parallel construction, PATRIOT act and BSA, you may find that it is no longer the case.

Hell, during my last attended CAMS conference, FBI guy outright said said that if the new lawyer doesn't know how to play ball with those ( informatikn gathered by SARs ), he gets pulled to the side and told whats what.

Chilling. And no one questioned it. Including me.
Perl used to be in somewhere similar to Pythons place 20 years ago...
That view send to be shared by 16 Nobel laureates of economics and other 2600 economists signing the Economist statement on climate change in 1997 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economists%27_Statement_on_C...). Calling your difference in opinion a "lack of understanding" seems a bit inappropriate.
I think the top-level take away here is not that Julia is a great language (although it is) and that they should use it for all the things (although that's not the worst idea), but that its design has hit on something that has made a major step forwards in terms of our ability to achieve code reuse. It is actually the case in Julia that you can take generic algorithms that were written by one person and custom types that were written by other people and just use them together efficiently and effectively. This majorly raises the table stakes for code reuse in programming languages. Language designers should not copy all the features of Julia, but they should at the very least understand why this works so well, and be able to accomplish this level of code reuse in future designs.
I think it's worth studying and developing further, for instance study how to make AI which will not "fail in unexpected ways"
You had a few early laptops like the DG/One [1] that could run off of battery by 1984. But there was really no way to communicate without plugging into a phone line. (You could maybe have used a radio modem in principle but you mostly had to connect to landline phone service to communicate.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General-One
For a lot of companies I think the internal processes and tools for major incidents have been sort of cobbled together over time. It's somewhat recent that organizations (especially smaller companies) are thinking about major incidents more diligently as an end-to-end process that's connected to but separate from more general ops-alerts.

One of the reasons we started Kintaba was that we're noticing a shift as more and more employees are leaving successful companies that have invested tons of time into their incident management process (most of the bigtech companies) and are now joining/starting their own companies where they want to spin up a mature process quickly.
A bit of a reminder that things don't move as fast as we think they might:

>Otto just delivered the first self-driving truck shipment. In a few short years, the most common job in what was it, 30 or so states? It'll be all but gone.
For non-US readers or those not used the federal political process, the president doesn't set the budget, congress does.

These proposals are policy pieces to play to the base, and rarely have much that ends up in the actual budget.
Haha just be glad the original ASP wasn't created by ASPRunner, and all you have is the source code, like the project I'm currently rewriting.
Agreed, but then that's where context is important. Was this document signed after some months-long process, or was it a preliminary thing while they were working on finding a guardian?
We had both. But knowing that someone tried a deployment and who was critical because we could ask them why and to explain what they were deploying.
Years ago, when I was adapting field manuals into Unity Games -- I got asked to create some training for a piece of field kit that relied heavily on a windows mobile device (very early windows mobile, that had a registry -- could run some win32 apps, had a noticeable delay of like 350ms between every input and it reacting...)

I had that new-job-gotta-impress energy, so went _hard_ at this project. I added so many tiny details to make it _exactly like the windows mobile device_. I had simulated battery indicators, signal that was calculated by ray-crawling to the nearest in game "tower" and attenuating based on the materials it encountered along the way (why?!) -- every menu, function, submenu that I had access to I implemented. The power button worked, the restart button would do the windows mobile boot animation. No stone unturned.

When I finished it, I assume 6 people saw it, but they never said anything to me about it. That was probably my first adulthood jolt of ennui. Ah memories.
I like Inside Security: https://inside.com/security

Plenty of links on the latest threats, botnets, malware, etc. Variety of technical and less-technical pieces.
It was all a designed to create more surveillance, not to protect us. I don’t think it’s stopped any terrorist attacks.
There is a name for a developer willing to work for a startup in exchange for equity: co-founder
Good. I was just wondering why this project in particular needed to have a live crew.
Audit Initiated of FAA's Pilot Training Requirements
> e.g. having the “NavigationService” change which links should be available by listening to a state change on the “UserSession” service as a user becomes authenticated.

Could you expand on how you're achieving this? I'm creating a new project using xState at work and this is one of the things I've been trying to come up with a solution too.

My biggest problem is the pattern I've set up for routing on top of xState (It's an electron app so no URL management required which makes that easy) requires you to create the state machine yourself, so it can't for example be used as an actor in part of a larger system.

It sounds like your NavigationService and UserSession service might be similarly separated so I'm curious how they're communicating?

Something that occurred to me last night is that I can probably make a coordinator of some sort somewhere in the tree which forwards actions from state machine to another as required.
For an example for a culture much to the contrary, in Austria, there's a tradional way of being "grantig" (grumpy, ill-tempered). According to at least one of the etymologies, this was based on an ill-informed observation of supposedly typical behavior of Spanish nobles, i.e. Grandes -> like a Grande -> grant-ig. To this day it's some of a poor man's way of professing accomplishment, not to the smallest of irritations in the service industry, especially with guests from abroad.* However, from the inside, it's just a reminder that respect is a mutual affair, to be payed by either side. (From this perspective, being able to show yourself "grantig" translates to a minimum reserve of freedom and empowerment.)

*) The traditional, class struggle related response, however, is, "They are paid too much."

(Obviously, this is to be read with a grain of salt.)
It's also interesting how most of the comments disagree with that one, yet it still has positive upvotes.
You significantly underplay how much influence this has on the budget actually passed by the house and how often the house decides to go ahead and fund what the white house asks for.
Windows 95 wasn't a good UI design, why are all the window buttons next to each other, to make it easier to hit the wrong one? Why can't I right click on a down arrow to make it scroll up? or right drag on a scrollbar to drag in 2d? Why click to raise and no drag and drop save? Why full screen windows? Why does it have menu bars?
My MessagePad 2100 could do AppleTalk over it's serial port and wired Ethernet with a card. There was also a pre-wifi DigitalOcean device[0] that could do wireless AppleTalk.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/19970124002055/http://digitaloce...
> feeling good about the place that you work will feed into that purpose motive.

Of course, but that's not the problem with what GW is doing. The problem with what GW is doing is that trying to make people feel good about the place they work with by putting them through artificial "team building" exercises doesn't work. The way you make people feel good about the place they work with is to make it a good place to work. That means letting people do their jobs, giving them the tools they need to do their jobs, and removing obstacles that are in the way of them doing their jobs. Forcing people to stop work and go to these events fails at all three.
> 3) Lots of Apollo era designs don't exist on paper. The F1 engine doesn't really even have a standard design, since every iteration was changed to be "better" by throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticked.

I believe the F-1 specifically does have full CAD models now after a reverse engineering effort, though in general your point still stands. They attempted to restart J-2 production for Ares, but ran into so many complications that the J-2X was basically a clean-sheet design
All of you that keep telling me I should get over it and accept Nadella as a 'new kind of CEO' compared to Ballmer and Gates please explain yourselves. Do you really believe that this sort of thing happens without an OK from the top? Do you really believe that MS can be trusted, that GitHub really is in the best hands that it could be in and that we should let bygones be bygones because MS has changed its ways?
try staring at some dude's graphic tee for 8 hours trying to do some work. This is not a good analogy.
What you're talking about largely falls under autonomy (reasonable amount of time to implement your solution) and mastery (feedback on your solution to the problem).

And that's totally normal.

Some companies can better fit the Purpose mold better than others. Many can't at all.
Imagine it? I've been living it and it's so much better. Try to get from one side of O'Hare to the other for your connection leaving in 20 minutes with a rolling suitcase vs with a comfortable medium-large backpack.

Boarding flights is easier, getting around outside is easier (try rolling your suitcase around the cobble streets of Paris), fitting into tight restaurants is easier.

Look into /r/onebag if you want to learn more. Check out the Minaal, it's literally life-changing if you travel often.
ARPA-e is a grant funding institution. They were given 400 million to give grants, and have issued 92 million. Trumps budget is asking for them to return the remainder.
Simpler explanation for why

perfect square <=> odd number of factors

Proof: For every divisor d of n, n/d is another, different, divisor.
This gives a pairing of all the divisors.
The only exception is if n/d = d.

The exceptional case n/d=d only happens when n=d^2, i.e. when n is a perfect square.

Thus, when n is not a perfect square, there is a pairing of all its divisors, hence the number of divisors is even.

If n is a perfect square, the pairing pairs up all the divisors except for sqrt(n). Thus the number of divisors is odd.
I just tried searching for a file with Spotlight and it found the file by name.
Apparently a lot of people care, but programs not having the same style across a system always seems to be a top 3 issue with electron apps.
If there is one thing that will end american hegemony, it is failing to fund basic science.
Private sector: This is your time. The free market has been waiting for you. You don't need the government to do this.
I’d normally agree except the copy cat effect is strong these days. School shootings in US are the counter example where little changed after Columbine and now we have them weekly or so.
The house is hostile to Trump no? They will do the opposite of what he says he wants. Checkmate.
roundabouts
Spotlight is the OG OS integrated full text search, originating 2004/5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)
Thanks for the clarification. As someone not from the US, can you also clarify what role does president have at all in the budget? Can he send it back (and be forced to sign a second time?)
I think it’s not such a new idea, I mean there was the Magna Carta
As the author of the arxiv preprint referred to above, I would like to point out a newer, expanded version written for the Siggraph 2019 course. It's available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334397782_Course_no...
You are right some people find it fun to go to dangerous places, I assume. Think about the crew of StarTrek and of course Buzz Lightyear. Personally I would rather send someone else to space than go there myself :-)
Sadly, some animation is necessary for humans to perceive that a change has occurred. If a change is instantaneous, we often miss it and keep staring at the screen, waiting for a change that has already happened.

Of course, this can be eliminated in many cases, including where the change is an immediate reaction to user input, since we would then expect the change, and would not miss it.
We used CherryPy for a lot of our Python tools at Netflix.

I was going to link to some open source with CherryPy, but it looks like they've all be rewritten in Go or Gradle. :(
It's not almost zero impact. It's a clear negative impact to anyone who's mindful of things like latency, workflow, muscle memory, gaze patterns, information density, attention, special recall, and working memory. These design patterns are nothing but a frustrating, dazzling interruption designed to hijack your emotional faculties instead of providing you with a useful tool. They turn real concentration into mush.

Nothing comes for free and if you're optimizing for "just neat" then you're paying in usability.
That's a painfully shameful attempt to conceal malicious practice.
If this is really where the researchers think these tools are headed (and I don't really doubt you on that point), then this is incredibly dangerous stuff. No matter how good your system is, the impact of implicit, unintentional, and non-targeted bias is huge on the sorts of content these systems will produce. But expose it to the levels of intentional manipulation present on the Internet of today, and these models don't stand a chance of producing something that safely does what you claim.

I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I'm not seeing any discussion about the safety and security of using these systems. And if it's not even being discussed, we can be sure nothing's actually being done about it. Selling promises of active-agent computers interpreting human intent and summarizing information from the Internet without addressing this concern is irresponsible at this point.
Yes, and Youtube's methods and algorithms they have deployed. They assume the claimant is the rightful owner.
Using TPUs is expensive. Also some applications may need small latency
Was inspired by this, threw together this hack for vim users.

#! /usr/bin/env bash
cd ~/share # or wherever
echo >> notes.txt
date >> notes.txt
if [[ $# -ne 0 ]]; then
echo $@ >> notes.txt
fi
vim "+normal Go" +startinsert notes.txt

Enough to see if this will work for me.

I also aliased this to something short so I can quickly view notes starting at the bottom:
vim "+normal G" ~/share/notes.txt
It seems like the author had an idea, then looked for anything that could help support the idea. The problem is the person only looks at the facts through their original idea.
The president's budget is traditionally DOA, but particularly when the opposing party controls the house.

Apologies for lack of a newer source, but https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/presidential-budge...

The presidential budget proposal is actually required by law, but just doesn't have an outsized effect.
...their population isn’t a big fan of their governance.

Why would you believe this? The last time they didn't like their government, they replaced it with the current government. Even the Ayatollah was pissed off that they mistakenly shot down a plane full of Iranians; they weren't about to curb the relatively limited public demonstrations that agreed with him on that topic.

Oh, let me guess... you learned of the average Iranian's great political discontent from the USA war media. "Wishful thinking disguised as reporting" leads to wishful thinking in place of analysis.
There was IrDA (infrared based communication) that could be used for serial connections to other Newtons, computers printers and cell phones. It was slow though, so the better step up was an actual serial connection to either a modem or a cell phone (acting as a modem).

Later versions of the OS (2.1 for sure, and I think 2.0 could run a few specific Ethernet cards) had Ethernet (10Base-T, and technically 10Base2 I think) and Wifi (802.11b only) drivers written for them.
Just reading what everyone does may work. Here's a tiny package:

https://github.com/ChrisRackauckas/EllipsisNotation.jl

I think that `/src/Name.jl` must have the main module, and `/test/runtests,jl` tests. And the package manager cares about `Project.toml`. But beyond this there are no real rules enforced, although there really seems to be one way to do things.

Here's a much bigger project, organised the same way. `include(file.jl)` literally copies in the text, and it's somewhat conventional to collect all imports & exports in the main file:

https://github.com/JuliaNLSolvers/Optim.jl/blob/master/src/O...

Still no sub-modules. No files included in mysterious locations. Methods being defined for functions from elsewhere are all qualified, like `Base.show(io::IO, t::OptimizationState) = ...`
I pretty much gave up on Windows over a decade ago. After years and years of doing this and that to prevent snooping, I finally had enough.

I did keep a Win7 VM, however, in order to use Excel and Word for work. But I migrated all personal stuff to various Linux machines and VMs.

I've mostly used Debian. For transient VMs, I mostly use stock Gnome. But also XFCE, which is light and cute, and is the new default for Whonix. Mirimir's main VM runs Bunsen Labs Helium, which is basically OpenBox, with a dock across the top, Conky, lots of shortcut keys, and right-click menu. Also pretty light, and uncluttered.

But I don't really care that much how stuff looks. As long as it doesn't interfere with usability. And I do admit that the latest Gnome has done some stupid things to some of my old favorites. Gedit, for example, has been incredibly dumbed down. There's no shortcut key for "save as"! And much useful stuff is now hidden in a hamburger, and you actually need to tweak it to make stuff show up there.
I read this as in compiled mode breakpoints don't trigger at all. Is that correct?

Edit: Ok, I tried out compiled mode and it does stop at my breakpoint. The verbage in the documentation is a bit difficult to understand on this point. I'd guess you need to first set your breakpoints prior to going into compile mode?
Not yet. We will try to run against those benchmarks soon.
I equate garbage collection with larger static binaries. Julia's static binaries are especially large since they package the entire sysimage. I'm excited about StaticCompiler.jl because, by cutting out the sysimage, it promises to make Julia more competitive with other garbage-collected languages like Nim, Go, Crystal, etc., all of which produce relatively small static binaries.

However, like these other garbage-collected languages, Julia is unlikely to ever compete with the likes of Zig, Rust, C++, etc. which produce even smaller static binaries since they don't have to ship a GC runtime. That's why I specified garbage-collected languages as, in my opinion, the addition of proper static compilation will allow Julia to completely supersede other garbage-collected general programming languages but not manually managed systems programming languages.
The genie animation is actually important. It illustrates to the user that the window is being physically relocated somewhere else. This matters for a new user who doesn't know what "minimize" is and could accidentally click it wondering how to get the window back. The animation shows you exactly where it went and what you need to click to get it back.
Well maybe instead of articles complaining about ads we educate the users on how to turn ads off and how to install ad-blockers.

But that's not what this article is about, it's a Microsoft hit-piece. That's all journalism is nowadays, mercenaries for hire.

And final point, if the ad isn't for me or anyone else here for that matter, why are we seeing an article about it? And why did noone else here mention you can turn it off?

Microsoft is not the harbinger of ads and they never will be, Google was and is. If you want to war ads, take it up against Google, their browser, their OS, and their search engine.

Ironically MS put an adblocker in Chromium by default.

You people and your biases...
And it's been a terrible practice from day 1.
The telegraph and the telephone. The enabled economies of scale and speed of decision making that were not possible before.
The private sector has never funded low chance of return research, actually a few companies did but that was another time. That's what national labs are for.