skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it would represent a kind of non-linguistic general intelligence ability which would be remarkable to find in a language model

As a relative outsider to this field, I don’t really see the stark line between natural language and general intelligence implied by this statement. Language is just abstractions encoded in symbols, and general intelligence is just the ability to construct and manipulate abstractions. Seems reasonable to think that these are two sides of the same coin.

Put another way, natural language is the product of general intelligence.
No. You didn’t watch the video. He specifically mentioned that this doesn’t work on bagels.

The point of this machine is that there’s no thinking involved: it turns brown = it’s done.
Well, while certainly imperfect, some like SDCC are good enough to write some games with nontrivial logic.

Here’s an open source game (disclosure: I wrote it) that compiles with SDCC and runs a game involving a flood fill algorithm, a tiny GUI with checkboxes and buttons and only one assembly routine, all running on the Amstrad CPC464 and above:
https://github.com/cpcitor/color-flood-for-amstrad-cpc

It’s much easier to write and much faster (and probably smaller) to run than the same in BASIC.
The boring technology observation (here referring to the challenge of getting publicity for "solving a 'boring' problem") is really true.

It extends very well to something that we constantly hammer home on my team: using boring tools is often best because it's easier to manage around known problems than forge into the unknown, especially for use-cases that don't have to do with your core business. Extreme & contrived example: it's much better to build your web backend in PHP over Rust because you're standing on the shoulders of decades of prior work, although people will definitely make fun of you at your next webdev meetup.

(Functionality that is core to your business is where you should differentiate and push the boundaries on interesting technology e.g. Search for Google, streaming infrastructure for Netflix. All bets are off here and this is where to reinvent the wheel if you must – this is where you earn your paycheck!)
It's almost like these missions all have vastly different mission requirements.

They sent voyager up with the Golden record. Those dumb engineers wasted precious mass on something purely for sentimental value.

Also compare with other abort modes
Shuttle was a dial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#/med...
Yes, but recall we are talking about my expectation that he will prefer cashing in to trying to be President for life (which in my estimation would be thwarted by every other part of government anyway). He may well be doing such things now, but he can't really cash in on favors owed until he leaves office.
While it's undeniable that technological progress has reduced costs for space technologies over the past decades, this has not translated into reduced prices available to NASA. Much of this has to do with cost-plus contracts offered to Boeing, Lockheed, etc. as well as defense-driven propping up of these old-space contractors with little progress to show for NASA programs. What SpaceX is bringing to the table is a significant step up in capabilities offered to NASA at a fraction of the prices offered by Boeing et al.
The thruster fire looked very cool. I cannot believe how accurate the landing was.
Lets hope. I think QNX programs were often made out of smaller processes. It would be interesting and cool if this is the case with Fuchia.
You can technically do it with only one character (via Godel numbering and unary), but it gets annoying fast for obvious reasons.
Especially given that we'll need to leave the magnetosphere to access a lot of space mining. You either bring a ton of shielding+food+water+life support+crew quarters, or you advance autonomous operation. One of those is already happening and highly applicable to other fields.

Imo what ever comes after homo sapiens inherits the solar system, not homo sapiens ourselves
Yeah! Or syntax highlighting that confers some emotional valence to runtime behavior (allocating resources - say, calling a constructor for instantiating objects - having a different color)
Fuchsia is more than a kernel, and I wouldn't describe XNU as just being Mach.
The numbers don't relate perfectly, but the point stands. By failing to address what i'm actually saying, it's your straw-man of "the math doesn't work" that is distracting the conversation.

Bad pit owners exist. Pits have a dangerous combination of mentality and strength. You can use a gun as a can opener if you want to, that doesn't change the ability it has to remove a life.
I love this tool. I have one terminal window always open with it.
We can't even end language wars.

It's not a tech problem. Programmers can start, like every other human being, with empathy and examining their own assumptions, biases, and bigotry. Since there's no global community of programmers, and it's a skill or a job rather than an identity, I think you're asking a meaningless question.
The average IQ and experience of their software developers has dropped remarkably over the past decade, as they have expanded.

I've had multiple occasions of "Seriously, Apple hired person X? lol" over the past five years or so.
The idea of particles like knots in the fabric of space has been around for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_theory_of_the_atom
That may be cheap for residential, but commercial and industrial rates are much lower. $.015 isn't uncommon.
2 people in the shuttle crew were pilots trained to land the shuttle. That was their primary job. Surely they were capable to do other things, but they could not be sent into the space for months and keep their skills intact. So the real number of seats was like 6.
Depends on your Serotonin level
> Actually yes, there is a sense in which a comment is partly responsible for the subthread it leads to

Ah ok, just like people who dress scantily are partly responsible for being raped. /s

Solid logic.
Trump Is Doing All of This for Zuckerberg
SQL Server partially supports it - indexes for example are not versioned which causes snapshot transactions to fail if someone rebuilds an index - even if it’s not in scope of the snapshot.
Oracle has an entire VM suite, mostly incompatible with anything else and full of bugs, made with the only purpose of enforcing a core restriction so they won't bill you for the all cores on the real machines.
How did SpaceX accelerate their development so fast ? What took NASA decades to achieve in terms of high tech rocketry SpaceX achieved in less than half the time. What are the factors ? The people Elon hired were ex NASA ? Where did the working knowledge come from ?I don’t think I found the answer anywhere on the internet.
Plankalkül: The First High-Level Programming Language and Its Implementation
To be fair they called the president by the last name and honorific, in that brown-nosing speech towards the end of broadcast.
Then what do you do, transition on a different plane during school? At that point you will need a full 45 hours or more on the second plane, negating the cheaper first plane.
> your only regret is not achieving your intent which was to kill the dog

You cannot ever know what his intentions were, and to accuse him of that is pretty disgusting.
More info here: https://medium.com/@danielblank/djitsu-the-problem-with-web-...
Yes, SpaceX did request less funding than Boeing for this program.
At least for many web apps the future is likely automatically created and managed domain validated certificates. Amazon and Azure provide these free of charge and then you have Let’s encrypt.

This does not change the CA paradigm, but removes many operational issues.
Actually, yes, there was a lack of ventilators in hospitals in my home country at some point. Luckily, not for long, as it's one of the countries which produces them. I can imagine that some of the neighbouring countries had it worse.
The perplexity numbers are for different tasks. MIM is encoding a sentence into a latent variable and then reconstructing it, and achieves PTB perplexity 4.6. GPT-2 is generating the sentence from scratch, which will on average have higher perplexity numbers. I agree that PTB perplexity 4.6 on autoregressive language modeling would be a huge result.
Usually in the English language citizenship and nationality are conflated and people use them interchangeably.

You can have multiple citizenships. Musk has 3 (South African, Canadian, American) but his nationality is South African.

Also, culturally, he was born and raised in South Africa. Moved to the US for college. If South Africa had the opportunities the US has he would now be likely in Praetoria.
In a toy raytracer I once wrote in C++, switching from malloc to custom memory pools for small fixed-size objects was a big performance boost. Making free() a noop was another big performance boost, both for deallocation and allocation. Turns out sequentially handing out memory from a big chunk of memory is much easier than keeping track of and reusing empty slots, and it keeps sequentially allocated objects in sequential memory locations.
>> If you submit code, you grant a license to Google to use it in non-proprietary [sic, I assume] code.

> it's a copyright license, not a copyright assignment

>> So, at some point, once users and developers are locked in, Google can make later versions closed and proprietary enough to stop clones.

> you're welcome to fork it if you wish, or distribute proprietary, non-open-source versions of the code

It sounds like you're agreeing completely with everything the parent said.
One C compiler I used 30 years ago sacrificed reentrancy for variable folding. It did call chain analysis so that it could alias local variable and function parameters to single global scratch pad variables.

That allowed you to write non trivial programs in C for the 8031/32 without external RAM.
In addition to the other excellent suggestions, you can check in with the music department of a local college or university.
All pilots are trained to land with the engine out. Some are better and most are not, that's not the plane's fault. Yes, glider pilots are the best at this :)
It just doesn't matter in Africa. People are dying of disease every day. They have river blindness, tuberculosis, HIV, cholera, west nile virus, parasitic worms of every type, malaria... oh, and also the Wuhan lab virus, which usually doesn't even kill people.

There is no reason to test for the virus. There is no reason to care at all. It's a rounding error in the disease statistics.

At the battle of Gettysburg, or at the Las Vegas massacre, blisters and skinned knees weren't a concern. It's not that they didn't happen, but they were such a low priority that the doctors weren't going to care.
Doing unrelated cleanup sounds like flushing CPU cache per every allocation.
For what it's worth and from where I'm sitting TC pretty much lost all of its edge post-Arrington. It's now a mediocre source of regurgitated news on ridiculously formatted pages with one of the longest list of 3rd party trackers across all news sites. It's just... junk.

The live stream video should indeed be THE main thread for the event, no argument there. It was just jarring to see it mid-page and the TC thread sitting at the first spot.
That's not what he claimed. He claimed that

1. Code submitted by third parties to android
2. was moved into Google Play Services
3. And this was possible only due to the CLA.

This isn't true for a couple of reasons. 2 is unsubstantiated (it's possible this is true, but I don't think it is). Functionality certainly moved, but I don't think there's reason to believe that code was copied.

3 just isn't true. Android is Apache licensed, so code in android can be reused in proprietary code without a CLA. What you can't do is relicense Android without a CLA. Another user mentions that the Fuschia CLA doesn't allow relicensing anyway, but I'm not an expert and don't have knowledge of that.
You have not provided any refutation to the OPs argument.
Yeah, I agree that these statements are not awfully scientific. I wish I had studies or references to back them up, but I’m not aware of something like that.

However, as others have pointed out, this was originally observed by pg and has become a staple of YC’s advice since then. I think it would be uncharitable to say this is just a hypothetical invented by startup gurus. YC has had a lot of startups pass through their doors, and more experience than almost anyone seeing why people succeed or fail. Their findings may not exactly be science, but I think their advice is as close as we can get right now.
Andrew Ayer's tip on getting Debian sorted may have saved me hours.
There was more to the case than just CA issue. The even bigger point was the Illinois Governor and especially the Chicago mayor effectively banning all church gatherings for a year or more until a vaccine is developed. The case was brought by some churches that when reopened they went fully above what CDC and the law required for Walmarts, Targets etc as safety measures keeping 2 feet distance, masks, sanitizer.. And in the end this was based on the First Amendment. Congress shall make no law in respecting religious an establishment of religion or prohibiting the exercise thereof...

If retail stores and restaurants can reopen, why are their doors staying closed especially given the measures taken to prevent any transmission?

You can follow up on the article below.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/5/10/21253844/...

There is so much more to the story.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1021460120197827...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1021460494447183...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1021462636128723...
>Fuchsia aims to provide drivers with a binary-stable interface. In the future, drivers compiled for one version of Fuchsia will continue to work in future versions of Fuchsia without needing to be modified or even recompiled. This approach means that Fuchsia devices will be able to update to newer versions of Fuchsia seamlessly while keeping their existing drivers.

This is a massive step back for open source. The fact that Linux doesn't have a binary-compatible driver interface is a good thing: It means hardware vendors have a very strong incentive to get their drivers upstream into the kernel. And indeed, on servers and laptops and desktop machines, this has largely happened. But on mobile platforms, with Android, it has not happened. For various reasons, but nothing fundamental.

We would all benefit if Android hardware drivers were upstreamed. This would allow for a much more competitive, and higher quality, software and hardware ecosystem on mobile platforms.

But Fuschia is going in the exact opposite direction: It makes it possible to build proprietary drivers. It's for this reason that I hope Fuschia is not successful. We already have a high quality kernel: Linux. If Fuschia is "not a science experiment", but instead intended to use proven ideas, then any improvement that could be added to Fuschia could be added to Linux. We don't need a new operating system whose only advantage is that it's easier to write proprietary drivers.
Maybe. The PT6A already has a gearbox, so the engineers are presumably able to choose a reduction ratio and prop RPM quite independently of the gas and power generator rotational speeds. (There are still torque limits in the gearbox output, though it seems the same constraints would face an electric motor.)
How many social media users are real people?
Once upon a time, Android had a mail client that was part of the open source components. There was also GMail app that was closed source. Then a couple of versions later, the open source email app was discontinued and its functionality was incorporated into GMail. And the same thing has happened to many more apps and functionalities.
This is a problem we wrestled with a lot at Netflix. What counts as down? It was rare for the platform to be completely unavailable. Most downtime was partial, where just some people had issues. How do you calculate that?

We ended up settling on predicting how much traffic there should be at any given second, and then going from there. For example, if there should have been 3000 stream starts in that second, and we got 2000 starts, that would count as 1/3 of a second of downtime.

Our goal was 4 nines, which allowed for a total of one minute of downtime a week. We managed to achieve that on many weeks of the year. One week in the three years I kept close track we managed 100%. It was near Christmas, when no one was working and deploying code. Shooting ourselves in the foot was the number one cause of downtime.
For backwards compatibility, I updated our intermediate certificates to provide the AAA Certificate Services signing https://censys.io/certificates/68b9c761219a5b1f0131784474665... to replace the expired 2nd intermediate certificate. (Modifying the "GandiStandardSSLCA2.pem" file in my case.)
Wat... americans born here have no 'ethnicity'?

eth·nic·i·ty
/eTHˈnisədē/
noun
"the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition."

Also, I love this country... where did I say this place is awful? I live in NYC and I love it. That doesn't mean that I don't love my original country as well, (Albania).
We have a database server at work that costs us about $10k a year. It’s bare metal so that gets a nice spec. We’re probably a little over provisioned, but not crazy so.

The sticker price of the Oracle licence for this would be about $400k a year.

It’s just a complete non-starter for most companies.
When people know the price won't increase wildly, and know that rationing means the shelves won't be suddenly empty due to hoarders, they will buy what they actually need and not try to hoard.

Additionally, since the price is kept manageable, everyone who needs the items will be able to afford them.

If you don't combat hoarding and price gouging, people will panic buy, because they know the price could increase at any point, and because the want to get ahead of the hoarders. Now they become the hoarders.

Libertarians fail to understand why businesses often do not extract the maximum possible profit from the market at all times, because they do not understand that commerce is much more complicated and human, and not solely based on supply, demand and price signals. They do not understand the business/consumer relationship. They do not understand morals and ethics, and why businesses would want to maintain a good relationship with the customer base, instead of fleecing them to the maximum possible extent.
Tom Mueller: From Idaho logger to SpaceX co-founder (2019)
Just like the sibling comment indicated, we (HFT, algo trading) need nanosecond precision for some metrics.
The ruling has not been issued. This is about an injunction before the ruling.
Microbenchmarks are not lying, but they can be misleading...

The most frequent problem is selecting the fastest solution with a microbenchmark and creating a lot of unnecessary cache eviction/pollution, sometimes on the code cache, sometimes on L1/L2 or both...

Microbenchmarks are good to explore the optimization space, but the final decision should be made with the full execution context in mind.
I definitely took the prefix “unpopular opinion” from a subreddit. In this case it was appropriate, but I’ve no qualms about changing the title if it invites good discussion. (See: updated title)
Falcon/Dragon might not have a high-volume commercial future for human flight, but Starship Crew certainly will. With rapid full reusability the cost drops to the point where single-digit millionaires can afford a trip, and much larger space hotels are affordable to build.
It is probably pretty realistic at this point to compile any program for a Z80 into a single compilation unit.
The point is that when a non-Googler contributes code, it’s non-proprietary since the non-Googler is by definition a non-Googler. What the CLA does not prohibit is proprietary use—- your lengthy answer. The OP makes the point that Google will find a way to use public contributions for Google’s own profit.

The sheer size of the response above, let alone content, is what creates the tone of “talking past the customer” which is what has alienated so many people from Google. The problem I’ve repeatedly experienced in Google open source and as a Google Cloud customer (contract with Google FDEs on-site) is that Googlers just don’t listen. You can’t trample the customer with your own narrative no matter how correct and elegant it is. You can disagree, but you can’t deny the feelings of others. It just doesn’t work that way.
I believe they didn't actually fork his code, what they did is build a brand new project that is heavily inspired by AppGet.

Also, they have now corrected the credit: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/winget-install-le...
Cannabis dispensaries are currently closed except for medical patients (I know, but if a doctor has written a prescription it is hard for the government to say no), and then only for curbside pickup. See here for example:
https://www.airfieldsupplyco.com/mmj-recommendations

So churches clearly have more access these days which makes that argument silly.
> also, this comparison would not register as a proper “benchmark” as it’s not even close to how you would perform a proper benchmark. it’s more of a data point.

I would prefer to not have to argue about that in court...
Deallocation at the end of a program's execution can substantially add to its runtime, and it's entirely waste. It's a much more common strategy than you might think.
'Sign in with Apple' Bug Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Anyone's Account
> I think saying religion is equivalent to sports is pretty strange.

Attending "church" is functionally different from "religion". The performance aspect of church is much closer to actors participating in a common theater. The other aspects of religion can be performed outside of church and usually without gathering physically in a communal room.
Yeah, that's an artifact of the livestream spanning many hours while the lifespan of HN submissions being measured in hours, so by the time the big moment happened the thread was already halfway down the page. I've rolled back the clock on the submission now to accommodate that.

I hear you about TC and will pay a bit more attention to that in the future, but really we judge this by article quality rather than site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), so your best bet is always to propose a significantly better, specific article. I'd have been happy to use the AT one instead, but it has other problems: its first half is a photo collection, which is ok in principle but raises other issues which I can explain if anyone cares; and its second half swerves sharply into a political direction that would likely act as flamebait here.
Not just a fancy new client - it was still the days when cloud storage wasn't ubiquitous and you saved stuff by sending yourself email, and Gmail had a completely monstrous storage offering compared to other free email providers. It was as much proto-Dropbox as it was email.
The title is misleading. NASA did it. SpaceX just built the rocket.
Also make a Calendar placeholder (like a fake meeting), invite a lot of folks or a distribution list, and turn on an alert for 24 hours ahead.
Yup same here.

I just can’t do dark mode at all. I’ve tried multiple times, using different themes.

It’s jarring and too contrast-y on my eyes, which is distracting and I can’t scan the code fast because of it.

How’s your eye sight? Last time I checked I was 20/20.
It took ASML a long time to perfect these machines, but once they nailed it I'm pretty sure it's no big deal for anyone to duplicate it if they knew how to avoid all the pitfalls.

It would save the Chinese decades if they stole ASML's secrets instead of trying to figure it out on their own. Most likely they will simply take the shortcut and then start selling the machines at half the price ASML is selling them for (as they do with almost everything).