skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Q1) By the mere copying of behaviors, no. It is clear that there are at least the a priori intuitions of space, time, and causality necessary for humans to obtain any knowledge. It is within that a priori framework where concepts and then decisions are derived from.

Q2) This would require the knowledge of what is sufficient & necessary for AGI.

Q3) Minsky, Neumann, and most sophisticatedly, Norbert Weiner answered this question. Read page 33 of Weiner's Cybernetics. The real insight, where in what I will now explain in brevity is at the expense of the insight's resolution, is that in the nature of microscopic phenomena there are an exorbitant quantity of fickle components ("equal particles") whose positions, accelerations, velocities are all impossible to record because of that sheer quantity by the nature of this sphere of study. More so, there are then at least second-order coupling effects between all these fickle components due to their constant interaction. As a resolve, we have developed terms of statistical understanding. Weiner cites "cloud, temperature, turbulence, etc." all being concepts which are specifically defined in a statistical context.

Where as in the macroscopic sphere there are far fewer particles much further apart from each other with near certain initial masses, positions, and velocities.

The result? In the microscopic systems, because their properties are precisely defined statistically the distribution which predicts the future nor past for a given system isn't unique. That is, the future state (predicted by the distribution provided by some initial system) could have also been predicted by other distributions describing many other initial systems unless by "some miracle" there is a "tightly defined statistical range".

So are microscopic physics condemned to this paradox? Not necessarily, there may be some way to construct scientific objects from systems phenomena which don't require a statistical conception because they can be precisely defined from a microscopic systems point of view temporally & spatially. However, this would require a revolution in theory and likely mathematics
Java also compiles to native code, commercial compilers exist since around 2000, and now even the free beer versions have them.

Additionally, Nim also has its own runtime, https://nim-lang.org/araq/ownedrefs.html.

Which most likely doesn't have 25 years of optimization algorithms, and monitoring tools, invested into it.

So "No JVM" isn't necessary an advantage.
WGU is non-profit.
The best one I remembered from being taped to my mom's fridge, but I just couldn't dig up, was of a big dejected bird standing in front of the open refrigerator, saying:

"Dang! Somebody ate the middle out of the daddy longlegs."
The value of knowledge they obtain from a failure far outweighs the “cheap tests” as you put it.
My firm belief is that if Markdown had never been adopted, we would have a standard way of formatting text by now supporting these 10 basic formatting types: headings, paragraphs, bold, italic, strike-through, monospace, bullets, links, images and horizontal rules. That's it. Just 10 basic formatting options.

There's no reason why, in 2020, these aren't available everywhere. Just like every text editor can understand emojis (with colors even!), these simple formatting rules should be baked into every platform by now, and easily used on everything from PCs to phones to TVs, in every editor from Vim in a terminal to email to iMessage to Wikipedia's text entry box. Just like emojis are. It's truly insane we haven't standardized this yet. How old is RTF or PDF? Doing this basic formatting in ascii text is just mind-numbingly stupid.
The original German source, Tagesspiegel, has a good record, and Berlin's interior minister would hardly go public with such a drastic statement if he weren't damn sure an order had been diverted.
Do banks ever actually do this? It makes no sense and what you describe us identical to a push payment fraud? A bank account number is not private information so there's really no point in creating another account.
us, founders, were the ones making the least already

I don't think people realise how common this is.
Humans evolve and adapt, we are very resourceful. We will overcome this and learn how to respond faster and more correctly in the future. Also the future president of the USA will likely be much more intelligent, this was a once in a lifetime concentration of ineptitude in power.
For those interested in the topic, data sonification of DNA goes back to at least the 1980s. "Electronic Music for Bio-Molecules Using Short Music Phrases" has a summary, at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yiyu_Cai/publication/24...

See also http://www.petergena.com/docs/gena-strom-DNA.pdf , which is one of the references.
Author here. This should not have included INSERT. I updated the post to reflect that. Thanks for picking this up.
>Make them route those calls through a special system and give them a secret token that that system will verify

STIR/SHAKEN is handling this at the provider level. There are an awful lot of PBX installations out there, with hundreds of makes and models and service lives in decades. You are absolutely not getting every business with a trunk line (e.g. essentially every business with more than one telephone) to participate in a protocol change.
> * auto numbered lists. NO!

> The problem is it's nearly impossible to keep your formatting right if you have a long item lists. I often write answers on s.o. where it's like "You have 3 issues. 1. several paragraphs 2. several more paragraphs and code samples. It would be absolute hell to have to figure out the formatting to make sure auto numbered item 2 stayed 2 and didn't become 1 in a new list

I think you and the author agree on this point: Markdown does have auto-numbered lists, and the author of the blog post believes that was a design mistake. If you write a Stack Overflow post with a list numbered 3, 2, 1, it will be rendered as 3, 4, 5.
Agree. I was confused by this at first but if the slope on lines without dividing by population is:

(log y2 - log y1) / (x2 - x1)

Then if we scale y2 and y1 both by c, which is 1 / population:

(log( c * y2 ) - log( c * y1 )) / (x2 - x1) =

(log c + log y2 - log c - log y1) / (x2 - x1) =

(log y2 - log y1) / (x2 - x1)

So scaling by population does not change the slope of the graphs, only the intercept.
They went too far and aren’t blowing anything up. There has to be an optimal amount of resource burn
If your game takes more than about 45 minutes, you're playing it wrong.

Free parking doesn't give you a bonus.

Every property must be sold when it is landed on, either to the player who landed on it or in auction.

The supply of houses and hotels is limited.

If you have a situation where no one has a monopoly and all the properties are owned, you have to make trades. If everyone refuses to trade, then you might as well stop because the game will never end, but you should still reach this point within 45 minutes.

The entire game was designed to be bad -- it's trying to show that owning land is evil and that who is rich in life is mostly based on luck.

The winner is supposed to be the person who rolls the luckiest.
Do you want the government to come in and seize your products?

Because this is how you get that to happen.

(And yesterday, it started to look like we were going down that path, slowly -- with talk of the Defense Production Act)
A series of smaller queries moving data through temporary tables is what I do when the query is too complicated for the query planner. It’s also easier to maintain than a giant query, with or without CTEs or hints.
I think the article says they get 30% of the profit not the sale/revenue.

Edit: although I don’t understand that because why would they only get 45% if they do it themselves? Seems like they would get 100% of the profit if they do it themselves. If they have to pay some cost out of the profit then it was not by definition profit.

Edit 2: From https://bookshop.org/pages/about, it looks like it is a 30% commission, which is more like 30% of the sale than of the profit.

TL;DR: ignore me. i am talking to myself.
Nonsense. Just need to use your imagination. Throughout the game the player can purchase pieces that go on a Risk board.

If the bank goes broke, all players switch to the Risk board, and fight each other until the winner becomes the new banker and forcibly takes money from the losers. Kind of like real life.
Jobs was raised by two people middle class-enough to adopt, in the middle of one of the most progressive parts of the United States during one of its most progressive eras. He also wasn't harassed by the law for doing illegal things that would get someone a CFAA-equivalent punishment today (he was a huge phreaker, for instance, and made cash off of it before Apple).

Beyond that, I might add, he was in 'audience-testing distance' of Hewlett-Packard back when the namesakes weren't only living, but active, and their company was on top of the world. And he managed to get free parts from one of them, a job, and a pretty important deal of networking, solely by sending Bill Hewlitt a personal phone call as a twelve-year-old. Show me a child in that situation who could get personal audience with, say, Zuckerberg, today. Or Gates. Or any of the Netflix guys. Or anyone running Apple. Or, let's lower the bar, any C-level executive at Microsoft.

[Correction without changing the original text, as it's relevant downthread: The first sentence of this was later shown to be false. The rest, to the best of my knowledge, is entirely correct, though.] Edison grew up in walking distance of a college and was able to take classes there. Patents were also significantly cheaper to acquire in his time. Further, the job that effectively launched his career he got via nothing but luck (someone almost died by chance, he played a role in them not dying by chance, that someone's father gave him a job).

Bruno Mars's success was pretty much entirely because of his family (not to mention, if you don't see how 'growing up in the safest and richest part of a state known for being safe and rich' might play a big role in things, you've got a very contrarian worldview):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Mars#1985%E2%80%932003:_...

Barack Obama's mother was highly-educated and relatively influential (his father as well to both of those, along with his stepfather as to the former), and he went to private schooling as a child.

The Beatles are the only ones on your list who don't have something heavily-significant going for them prior to success.

I respect you a massive amount, but it's really disappointing to see this line of thought coming from someone as intelligent as you. I'm doing really well, myself, but it's not in line with reality to act like reality's meritocratic. There are significant barriers to success for more people than there aren't, and "blaming your parents" is a particularly strange way of phrasing 'structural barriers to opportunity'.

EDIT: added a paragraph
When a robot mission is wildly successful, they should build more of the design and launch another.
Here’s another post about a similar situation with an app which was on the first iPad’s sent to reporters:

https://home.theodoregray.com/blog/2014/7/31/how-the-elements-came-to-be

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22775624
Thanks for mentioning Cargo Distribution. I always imagined and longed for a world in which something like this existed in this game, and now I get to find out it always did.

A link for the curious: https://wiki.openttd.org/Passenger_and_cargo_distribution

In short, enabling this feature allows the game to specify a specific destination for each piece of cargo. It then does a little bit of management for you in routing the cargo through whatever network you build, but it's up to you to make an efficient network with good routes that causes the cargo to flow properly.

This contrasts with the vanilla game, where passengers are just a kind of cargo with no specific destination, as is everything else, and you are allowed to just send them anywhere that accepts passengers and get money for it.
Their model doesn't seem to account for static charges and evaporation, which typically results in accumulation on surfaces and less of endlessly freefloating in a room.
Oh. Oh, that's just brilliant. (The example in the other subthread makes it clear.)
Disruption from Spanish Flu was short-lived, and yes the damage caused is from the lockdown, not the pandemic.
In the worst-affected areas (except maybe on small city level), the deaths are still a blip. If there was no media circus around it, everybody would still be mostly unaware; any kind of reaction would just be starting now with some areas having issues in hospitals, and even then judging by how people ignored the lockdown in Seattle when it was partial, it wouldn't be as bad as now.
Then, by CA govt's own admission in the worst case they'd be near herd immunity (iirc they listed 56% infected) in 8 weeks. That includes the times where the deaths are still a blip compared to flu, and hospitals are not overwhelmed. So let's say 5 weeks of panic. And then that's it.
I wish that markdown formatted bold and italics like this:

_italic_

*bold*

instead of:

_italic_

*italic*

__bold__

**bold**

because stars around a word make it look like it's glowing, sort of like bold does, and underlining a word means to make it italic. Does no one remember this?

In English class, before computers, our teacher told us that certain words are always underlined: book titles, ship names, etc.

In Typing class, our teacher told us that if you submitted a typewritten manuscript to a publisher, what you underlined with your typewriter would be converted to italics in a typeset book. Underlining meant italics. And sure enough, nowadays when everyone has a computer instead of a typewriter, and can make real italics, they tell us that book titles, ship names, etc., ought to be in italics (the same things that my teacher used to tell us should be underlined) https://www.purchase.edu/editorial-style-guide/general-style...

I get kind of why Gruber did it his way. He was caught up in the Semantic Web, where you don't use <i> and <b>, you use <em> and <strong>, and <strong> means <em> only more so. So by that logic

*this*

is emphatic, and

**this**

is strongly emphatic.
For some reason libraries have very, very small scifi collections. I'd get my scifi from used bookstores (long before Amazon). My favorite was a hole-in-the-wall about a mile walk away. You could return the books after reading them for half price store credit. I read hundreds of books that way.

I few years ago I got into buying boxes of 50-100 random scifi books from ebay. In bulk they're about $.50 each.
Even with new tech companies like Plaid they're designing patterns that will compromise security down the line. Plaid has you enter your bank login information right on some third party website. While Plaid can be trusted, there's no reason to trust the third party with my bank login info. My password manager right doesn't work on these pages since it doesn't recognize the domain. But a less astute user may unwittingly give out their bank login info to some random site that makes a fake Plaid UI.
> State governors learned they could not rely on the rapidly depleting national stockpile, especially after Donald Trump made it clear that federal help would be affected by political preference, saying he wanted governors to be “appreciative”.

A class act. Better let voters of the opposition die off than your own.
It seems like the modern equivalent is NASCAR or F1. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway fits over 250,000 people.
Agreed on the music ecosystem. The only thing that gets to me is the lack of keyboard shortcuts and being able to bind any midi cc to anything. You can't use midi to start and stop recording in Garageband for instance, which is something all desktop DAWs let you configure.

LumaFusion is good but I really wish iOS supported more video codecs than two delivery codecs (h264 and h265). I mean, they own ProRes. Cmon just add support for it in iOS.
For JSON, see jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq).
>>> I worked on an app that made a billion in revenue in seven months from a product with only twelve engineers directly working on it

uh? Can you indicate what? How many other apps have similar penetration?
Gladly. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190272/ Table 6. This is a Cochrane review BTW, the gold standard in evidence based medicine.
I've bought lots (figuratively and literally) of books from ebay.
Right now it seems like the entire world is competing for a Darwin Award.

Scary how common this approach is right now. I’m starting to lose faith in humanity’s ability to evolve beyond the ape.
We’ve already seen it with the current gen I think: it’s not the more powerful platform that wins, it’s the one with the best exclusives and Sony shredded MS on that front for the current gen.
>This filter generates a file with relative translation and rotation transform information about subsequent frames

>which is then used by the vidstabtransform filter.

The first pass is meant to find the rotation, then I assume the next pass cancels it out.
I can imagine many people would not be comfortable answering that question, particularly depending on the company and their culture. I can easily see this type of question leading to dramatically different conclusions ranging from “this person is a deep thinker on varied topics” all the way to “this person wouldn’t be a good cultural fit”. Don’t think too deeply about the wrong topics.
What impact? First, the worst case estimate with soft distancing from the Imperial College paper everyone is quoting is 1M in the US. Even if it isn't an overestimate (their models have tons of assumptions and past pandemic estimates for death rates/etc were usually overblown), 3M people die in the US every year iirc, and given the demographics there'd be a large overlap. It's significant, but not worth messing up the lives of 100s of millions in the USA alone for years, and knock-on effects potentially for decades.
We use both Zoom and BlueJeans at work, and Zoom Just Works™ while BlueJeans has all sorts of compatibility headaches; if it's not Chrome/Windows, it's pretty much a crapshoot.

That being said, the AV quality between the two are pretty similar.
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If all the users data was going through the VPN, Facebook defacto knows what the user is doing on the web making that suggestion moot. It's the on device activity they want.
It's of a very different nature, but that reminds me of another "off by one" fencepost error exploit I encountered in the wild of The Sims Online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

In this earlier post I described making a maze solving bot to quickly and automatically generate millions of Simoleons, and an ad-hoc solution to the delivery problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730181

[...]

And the other problem was that TSO just wasn't designed to make it easy to transfer large amounts of Simoleons from player to player.

You couldn't just "wire" somebody an arbitrary amount of cash via in-game email -- you had to show up on their lot and meet them at a specific real time, and suspiciously hand it over to them $1000 at a time.

There was another better way to transfer cash more efficiently than handing it over grand by grand, and that was with tip jars: You could fill a tip jar with $5000 using the pie menu with a couple of mouse clicks, and then the user could empty it the same way.

So when I had to deliver our first million Simoleons, I came up with a system where I'd go to the lot of the customer and meet them, then ask them to line up a bunch of tip jars in a row. I would then use bot macros to fill each tip jar one by one with $5000, while the customer would quickly empty them as I filled them up, and then we'd go back to the beginning of the row and start all over again, until we'd transferred the entire million Simoleons, in only 200 $5000 hand=>jar=>hand transactions instead of 1000 $1000 hand=>hand transactions.

One time when we were making a big delivery of cash, running the gauntlet of tip jars in our customer's living room (which I admit looked pretty fishy), and their housemate came home, saw what was happening, and wisely sussed up the situation that there was some kind of deal going down, that she wanted in on.

So she put her own tip jar down at the end of her housemate's row of tip jars, and I blithely deposited $5000 into her tip jar several times, which she immediately snapped up.

When I realized what happened, instead of contracting The Sims Mafia [2] to do a hit on her, I congratulated her for her loose morals and ingenuity. It was such a great hack, and I totally fell for it, and had more Simoleons than I knew what to do with anyway. It's all about good customer service!

It was a fun experiment, but other bots and offshore farmers were starting to work the system too, and customer service and delivery problems made it not worth continuing.

[...]

[2]

Schneier on Security: Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/virtual_mafia...

Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass: Building Web Reputation Systems: The Dollhouse Mafia, or "Don't Display Negative Karma"

http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2009/10/the_dollhouse...
Number of distinct ways to climb stairs
Millions of Americans didn’t pay rent on April 1. Now what?
I see no reason to think Ginsberg originated the phrase "best minds of a generation," but it doesn't appear cliche enough of a phrase to even have an etymology I could look up.
Isn't that the part of Italy where hospital collapse actually happened? And in the same article they conjecture they are now at ~herd immunity. And the demographics are skewed towards the elderly so again they themselves estimated the death rate being consistent with 1%, age-adjusted. And they counted ALL the surplus dead.
This is an upper bound of the absolute worst case, as far as I can tell.
Have you seen Pandoc[1]? I'm not sure it supports the particular cases you've stated, but I've been using it happily as an HTML generator[2].

1: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html

2: https://www.aib42.net/articles source at https://github.com/aib/www.aib42.net/tree/master/articles
The URL brought back memories. I used to mess around with OllyDbg a lot back in the day!
I know and appreciate XKCD but I’m in no way an adept. What exactly a, I looking at?

Warning; on Mobile Safari I succeeded in zooming in by enlarging part of the surrounding page and recentering, but then I couldn’t zoom out.
Wait, are you saying that in monopoly, the one who rolls the luckiest wins? I think that’s true.

I would like to point out that in real life, that is also the case. The ones who roll the luckiest also win. Think of your birth situation. You didn’t chose it.

Now, is Monopoly teaching anything remarkably useful about real life that could put you ahead? I don’t think so.

It’s a game! Since the strategy is limited, takes a long time, I don’t think it’s a great one.
We’re probably breathing the cleanest air we have in quite a while all around the world. And that’s only after a month of total shutdown. Imagine what we could achieve longer term if we had the will.
Thanks for your fast reply, much appreciated.
To be frank, it is the "old school" graphic that gives it its charm and is the reason why I like it. Same reason for why I like Roller Coaster Tycoon.
You understand that participating in this system is a necessity for survival.

The fact that I HAVE to participate in it to live is why I'm also speaking out against it.

But sure, irony or whatever.
> Are you more likely to subsequently touch other things with your exterior appendages or your face?

Pick one. Exterior appendages, or face?