skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replication often (depends on the kind of science you're doing) takes a comparable amount of work to making the paper in the first place.

If I'm a reviewer, then that means that I'm asked to volunteer a bit of my spare time to facilitate the evaluation of my peers by helping the editor (who's expected to be competent but not knowledgeable in every niche) to read the paper, and answer the following questions: (a) is this topic relevant and novel in my sub-niche; (b) is the content adequately described in a way that the target audience (i.e. people in my sub-niche like me) can understand clearly; and (c) does it have any obvious flaws or ignorance of things and previous research that are (or should be) well-known in my sub-niche. So I provide my niche-expert opinion about these questions to help the editor make their decision on which papers to include and what changes to mandate.

That is peer review - in some sense, establishing whether the author is "behaving as a peer". Replication is something that comes after the study is published. If the system would require me to replicate your experiment for a review (assuming that I'm interested enough in the particular topic - I review papers that are tangentially interesting, but not the direction that I'd want to do myself), then that would be unreasonable to have it done as a volunteer service, it would require months of full time work to make a review, and who would pay for that work? If the authors would have to fund a replication before publishing, that places an enormous barrier on publishing and, frankly, I would want to read results that have not passed that barrier because I can't assume that everything that's useful for my research will be able to pass it. As the reader in the target audience for scientific publishing (i.e. other researchers actively working in that field - scientific journals and conferences are made by a niche of scientists for that niche of scientists, it's how we communicate between ourselves, disseminating knowledge to outsiders is not the primary goal for the vast majority of academic publication venues, that's what textbooks and monographies are for) I want authors to publish their results without a prolonged vetting, because I'd prefer to read them sooner rather than later.
I remember your user name, you popped up in another thread about US/China, talked baseless anti-US conspiracies then left. Is there a reason you spend time out of your day to do this?
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I remember a time when Reddit puns weren't rewarded on here
I had (and used) an Amstrad PenPad for a number of years (until I replaced it with a Sharp Zaurus 5000D which ran Qt on Linux). The down-side to both was a lack of connectivity!
This is great and looks very easy to use! I'd expect it to have a huge impact given how easy it makes for people to leverage a few or a few thousand GPUs. I do have a few questions, of course.

Is it getting a lot of internal use already (beyond the example we just heard about)?

Is it possible to do inference using a CPU and a lot of RAM using a model trained on multiple GPUs via DeepSpeed?

Does it work with TPUs right out of the box? It looks like maybe not - if not, any plans to support them?

Can you use DeepSpeed to train using a lot of CPUs + ram rather than GPUs?
Yes, it actually already existed as a branch of the air force. Why do you think it is called "Space Force"? Because it was originally the Air Force Space Command and is dated back to 1982.
seconding this. Connections is an amazing series about this topic
Doesn't that require specific adhesive (that is rather bad at being sticky)?
It would be different even if we didn't "say so".

I don't understand what you're asking, exactly. I didn't say he wasn't allowed, but you're going to get a lot of attention for purging popular things, attention that you don't get if you simply cut back to being "less Online" and shift from huge amounts of time to fifteen minutes a week making an occasional comment and replying to the occasional direct message.
>More than that, I think NLP will unlock new ways of interacting with computers. Computers will be able to handle the ambiguity of human language, transcending their rigid “only do exactly what you tell them” models of the world.

As exciting as this sounds, I can't help but feel that given -we- haven't figured out how to handle the ambiguity of human language, I'm not convinced a computer attempting to is really markedly better for many use cases than requiring exactness. But operating at a human level of 'understanding', and being broadly accessible, may be enough to change the world. Hopefully for the better.
Ethical considerations aside, this article had a huge impact on me and played a big part in getting me to finally learn to code. _why's style made the idea of coding very approachable for someone who didn't have a math/science background
This all sounds good, but how do you represent "information" on a physical level without electrical signals?
I know that feeling of being caught up in the energy of a crowd. Massive music festivals can often provide that feeling.

Another anecdote I frequently recall is one from the documentary "Wild Wild Country". This documentary follows an Indian guru named Osho as he establishes what amounts to a cult in the US. One journalist recounts going to the town where the community has established themselves with a mind to expose them as a cult. He relates the members lining the streets waiting for the Guru to drive along and he can't help but feel their ecstatic energy as they wait for him. As the car slowly drives down he sees the adherents completely lose control of themselves as the car slowly passes them. When the car arrives in front of him he makes eye contact with Osho, the guru, and the journalist himself burst into tears. He didn't become an adherent or start to subscribe to the cults beliefs but he was overcome in that moment.
Sorry, I have no experience with Flutter or knowledge of how Redux is being used with it, other than having seen one or two random comments where the two names appeared together.
Product launch marks going from zero provided value to greater than zero provided value (assuming the product doesn't somehow subtract value from the customers). And it is also easier to iterate and respond to customer requests after launch. And launch is often the development milestone requiring the most concerted effort to overcome.

So I think having a party to anticipate is a way to emotionally incentivize pushing through that barrier.
Not sure but there have been lots of idiotic use cases in tech demos of recent years. Consider the demos of the impossibly stupid Microsoft Surface Table, which you must use to order cocktails at a bar, or browse photographs in a really inconvenient way.

That was 2008. More recently, a rational and critical look at 99.9% of proposed use cases for blockchain are things that nobody wants.

Another thing that literally nobody wants but people keep trying to market: folding displays.
But how would the hearing have done that? The document strongly suggests that it wasn't a hearing about whether she should be released.

Again, I don't think anyone does expect a child to understand the form. But they need to either have the hearing or not have the hearing, regardless of what the child understands or whether a guardian has yet been found.
Interesting, I didn't learn in school that elemental crystalline structures were auxetic. Is this property of crystals important for industrial use?
The public is horrified at whatever the news tells them to be horrified about.

Government employees getting killed in Iraq happens often enough that it doesn't get clicks.

Government employees getting killed in Space happens so infrequently that it will get tons of clicks.

Simple journalism economics.
I ordered a mattress off of amazon. 2 days later, I get the money back on my account. Not wanting mto be banned from amazon, and thinking maybe the payment bounced on my account, I called customer support.

"I think I accidentally received a refund of my mattress.", I said. "you want to return your mattress? I will send you a shipping label." they helped.

"NO! I have the mattress, and want to keep it, but also got the money back. I want to return the money!". "OK, I will contact the seller to take care of your refund."

"you don't understand! I want to return the money. The seller accidentally returned the money after delivering my mattress!."

They finally understood and asked the seller. The seller didn't refund anything. Amazon didn't either. But I have both the money and the mattress to this day. Go figure.
Nobody will care if you take a photo of money. Copying the money, as in making a physical copy is a problem.

This is different from information which is inherently not physical, so any copy of representation is a copy. The grey area of course is a lossy copy... redistributed low-res copies of art, etc.
Maybe your md index is borked. Look into the mdutil (maintenance) and mdfind (search) commands.
Electricity: The ability to send energy down a wire, and then to have energy available "on tap" at any moment.

Many of the inventions I see listed here rely on some form of electricity.
Bountysource campaign to support the development of a Rust back end for GCC
> Hand washing

Hand washing isn't modern by any stretch of the imagination. Promoting it is modern, though.
After my last very successful Bountysource campaign to modernize the m68k backend (https://www.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-th...) in GCC, I have decided to create another campaign to stimulate the development of a Rust frontend for the GCC compiler collection.

The idea is to get an independent implementation of the Rust language similar to what gccgo is providing for the Go language as an alternative to Google's own Go compiler.

The main advantage of having a Rust frontend for GCC would be to be able to build Rust code on a larger amount of architectures since GCC supports quite a lot of more of architectures as compared to the original Rust compiler which is limited by the comparibly small list of architectures supported by LLVM which is used as a backend for Rust:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Archit...

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM#Back_ends

There are currently two projects which aim to develop a Rust backend for GCC, these are:

> https://github.com/philberty/gccrs

> https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust

My hope is that we can collect enough money in the community to help speed up the development of either of these Rust backends and get them merged into GCC within the foreseeable future.

I have already discussed this project extensively with multiple GCC developers and they all agree that a Rust frontend would be greatly welcomed by GCC upstream.
Hey! Cool project, thanks for sharing it with the world!

If I may offer a suggestion, you should perhaps expand on the rationale in the readme to include some of what you say in this comment. I personally find this to be a very interesting library for rapid prototyping, so if you're looking for use cases that's another one for you.
I’m talking about directly under the trunk. So the mass of the entire trunk plus the mass of all the organisms in the soil as far down as you go. The mass in a column of krill (of course over much more vertical distance... miles, not hundreds of feet) is larger.
How would we run out of domains? Register every single 253-character string as a domain name? Sounds expensive.
I'm not arguing that products shouldn't be launched, just that launch alone is too early to celebrate.

It's exactly after that early iteration after launch that you might have something to celebrate.
I do not know much about java, but I think that the part about automatic conversion on passing errors is not available in java.
Whether the Space Force actually achieves its goals remains to be seen (goals which remain somewhat nebulous, though the article points out the following):

> The new service is aimed at protecting U.S. assets in space, such as satellites, from earthly threats, including U.S. adversaries Russia and China.

I am no expert, but I'm fairly certain that the Air Force and NASA were charged with the responsibility of protecting government assets in space. It would seem that this Space Force is being created to carry this duty out as one of its core responsibilities (the Air Force is already responsible for a lot) as some countries around the world accelerate their space research and space ventures (not to mention that our own private sector has companies accelerating space research as well). As far as I understand it, China already has an equivalent to the US Space Force - besides China, there are other countries with galactic ambitions and they are not all friends of the US.

That said, claims of the US 'weaponizing' space may be exaggerated, or at least it would seem so to me. The US obviously wants to protect its interests in Space and it doesn't want China getting a strong enough early foothold so that they can operate from a position of greater leverage in matters of space diplomacy.

Again, I'm no expert, but I think what the US needs to do to ensure future prosperity for others in space (both private and state actors) is to pursue diplomacy and establish an international coalition for space governance. Of course, this is easier said than done, but starting on the right path could be the difference between tense confrontations in the future vs. clearly communicated and shared information.
https://www.opennic.org/
May as well just say The Earth would be better off if people had never existed if you're going to go that route.

There's more people living better lives, so things are better. There are new problems caused by our previous success that we solve next.
Address Space Isolation for the Linux Kernel Is Still a Big Challenge in 2020
For state management I would start with reading "Thinking in React": https://reactjs.org/docs/thinking-in-react.html

Step 3 is key. Step 4 is also important.

Then try to simplify the app as much as you can. A system has always 2 kind of complexity: the intrinsic complexity and incidental complexity. "Smart engineers" like to show off their intelligence. That usually end up making their life harder by adding a lot of incidental complexity that eventually lead to fragile architecture and frameworks that add more complexity than necessary.
Indeed, but that kind of describes the gulf between current language processing and present AI. Present AI generates tokens that seem to have meaning or seem like an appropriate response to a statement but where it become evident after 2-3 paragraphs, there's no substantial relation to either underlying meaning or underlying goals.

Part of this is "underlying meaning" is an intuitive way to describe things but whatever is underlying here is more tenuous than a classical logic/GOFAI model of the world but more "solid" than a long, clever stream of associations.
I do it because Russia and China pay me a great deal of money to annoy silly warmongers on the internet.
By the way, the name (Yara) is a reference to a mythical mermaid from Amazonian folklore.
gosh, this is unsettling. my brain is literally getting stuck on an infinite loop trying to read this and coherently put them together
> ... "the iPhone is really good" -- so that conversation had to have happened after the iPhone was announced, and perhaps after it shipped ...

Not necessarily. Steve Jobs was really pissed with Google after they launched Android because Android copied a lot of features from ios. And they could do so because Apple had given them early access to it to develop apps like YouTube (remember, the first iPhone / ios 1 came with the YouTube app bundled by default). Steve Jobs was also mentoring the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, at that time, and they had unprecedented access to both him and presumably his company. That's why he believed that Android was the "stolen" property of Apple:

> According to Steven Levy's book, Jobs "concluded that he was a victim of deceit." He felt "he had been betrayed by the two young men he had been attempting to mentor. He felt the trust between the two companies had been violated […] Not only did he believe that Google had performed a bait and switch on him, replacing a non-competing phone with one that was very much in the iPhone mode, but he also felt that Google had stolen Apple's intellectual property."

Source: https://gizmodo.com/what-really-made-steve-jobs-so-angry-at-...

(Interestingly, it was after Android that Steve Jobs very rightly claimed that Google's "don't be evil" mantra was plain bullshit).

Edit: Turns out I may have been wrong about the YouTube app part. While I do remember reading elsewhere that Apple did give Google access to early prototypes of ios and iPhone, this article claims that the YouTube app initially bundled with ios 1 to 6 was built by Apple themselves, and not Google - https://mashable.com/2017/06/30/iphone-youtube-app-story/ .
1) This bug is a major one for a big part of the world.

2) It belongs to the part of GNOME that exists solely because GNOME decided to reinvent keyboard input.

3) Google shows lots of people aware of the problem (bugreports, stackexchange, whatever) — of course it does, see (1) — but not only no solution, but also I couldn't find any workaround short of using another DE, although — see (2) — disabling the feature altogether would be a decent workaround.

Of course all programs have bugs. Do other free programs tend to have bugs of this lasting quality?
I strongly suggest that everyone stick to the suggested 100mg to 350mg dosage range suggested by the author.

Some forums and health websites suggest significantly higher doses, but I think that's a bad idea. Your body will tightly regulate magnesium levels within a specific range. Large doses (500mg+ per day) will just make your body work harder to eliminate the extra magnesium.

Also consider that Gwern famously self-experimented with magnesium on two separate occasions, and found a long-term trend toward decreased performance: https://www.gwern.net/nootropics/Magnesium It's anecdotal, of course, but it's not hard to imagine that the megadoses of magnesium could cause electrolyte imbalances or other disturbances if continued long term.

Keep it low dose and keep it safe.
These are well known attacks. In case of Freedom Hosting this maybe was the cause for finding the server. Mitigation exists. Today big illegal darknet websites run lots of Tor servers on their own. You can also manually set trusted guards or other nodes in the chain so no malicious node will ever be part of your path through the network.
Actually there’s whole business models that are based on nonsense. Like the idea that people will pay someone to drive over to Subway and bring back a terrible $3 sandwich, and that this scheme will somehow be systemically profitable.
The phonograph. The idea of "record something and play it again later" has significantly impacted all of our lives, and was barely even imagined prior to invention
I'm back on Windows 10 now after a decade of MacOS.

But my recollection is that it's fine as a search feature, and not that great as a launcher— if you just blindly type a prefix and press enter (as you can on Windows or Ubuntu), you end up launching a window of extended search results. Maybe I was doing it wrong somehow, but whenever I used Spotlight to search for an app, I needed to type it in, wait for the search to completely resolve, and then use the mouse to select and launch the application out of the results.
This would be more NSA jurisdiction and they do. The problem is most people's assumption is that if one part of the government has it, then everyone gets it. This is wildly false. Even within the FBI itself, different departments and cases get different tiers of access.

Even when the case agents get access, policy dictates what evidence is allowed to be taken to a public trial. Otherwise you get repeats of the FBI/4chan/8chan debacle. This is especially true for legal "grey areas" like mass surveillance. This means that agents will often get evidence they won't use in order to guide active surveillance using more legal means in order to collect evidence they feel comfortable admitting in public court.
It's interesting how parasocial interactions form, often without us consciously doing so or meaning to. The drive to form these associations seem to be wired more deeply than the side of our brain that listens to reason.

There's a decent article called "Parasocial Interaction in the Digital Age"[0] that describes this phenomenon occuring through YouTube, and I would not be the least bit surprised to find that it's applicable to the situation of _why discussed here.

[0] [PDF] https://thejsms.org/tsmri/index.php/TSMRI/article/download/3...
Printing Novels in the Gulag
A pencil tip touching a steel razor blade is famously a diode which can be used to build a "foxhole" radio [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxhole_radio
Not just FS metadata, it can index ID3 tags, EXIF, and whatnot, and it’s fairly extensible, although underused.

Kind of like the underpinning concept of AppleScript and app dictionaries, awesome tech and concepts, but it’s sad to see the promise of the extensible, composable desktop slowly dying.
We started in Guam. We have not made landfall since.
> i) it helps you understand you are looking to create change that is remarkable and identifiable to GW, not just any old university, ii) it reminds you the changes being made are to change a young student's life, it's not just to teach them factoids, iii) it reminds you that the goal of GW is to change the world through it's teaching, not train people to pass exams and get certificates.

This is still vacuous and not very applicable.

"remarkable and identifiable to GW" which means what?

"change a young student's life" in what way?

"to change the world through it's teaching" to change the world how?
Comedy is right.

"I'm really starting to get worried about my Higgs Boson (HBN) after watching some videos on YouTube" [0]

"This repost and all of your posts are garbage." [1]

"It's the most random and unoriginal shit I've ever read." [2]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1sqyh/an...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1vfnv/wh...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1o83a/fo...
How's there a limit when there's a new TLD on an almost bimonthly basis?

If you're going for something lower than 8 characters, odds are you're either paying thousands or buying something that's not .com.
_why should be left alone. People keep bringing this up and starting the hunts again to locate and bother him, it's a form of harassment and bullying.
Why did you take up conda in the first place ? venv and pip are part of the python project and conda seems to be yet another package manager in the already crowded and shady space of npm, brew, ports apt yum etc. I've always been puzzled at how they managed to shoehorn themselves into the python ecosystem while offering no distinct value as far as I can see.
Whether or not the word "hack" is a good description, it's still illegal to take things from someone who leaves their door wide open.
have you seen how much a capital letter costs in the bay area these days??
Does this guy know anything useful about AGI that I don't (all I know is that we're super fucking far away)? All of these articles seem to be him tossing around ideas that feel good to his mind, and no substance.
I had a former employer do a mandatory Sean Delaney-led session for thousands of employees. I found it to be quite good, but much of our dysfunction was at the leadership level (directors stabbing each other in the back, etc.), and leadership—despite also attending the sessions (management had even more training, IIRC)—quickly reverted to the same toxic habits.