skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does. The bigger question is whether it's a good idea.

Dating up means the other party has more desirable alternatives. Dating down means they don't. That translates into different relationship dynamics.

Are you constantly trying to win them over, are they constantly trying to win you over, or is it equal?
It’s not helpful advice. He’s essentially finger wagging instead of offering positive input.

Corporate America really is bad enough to warrant correction. If anything, I’d probably suggest learning about people to the OP of the thread. Find out how to spot personality types quickly and how best to work with them - including avoiding the toxic ones. But also temper it with not over analyzing-analysis can become its own damnation.
I just accept that there's no fix, we're killing the planet, and we have maybe a few generations left before we go extinct.

The universe doesn't care.
If I'm not making money off it, I'm going to stop writing it and find something else to do, obviously?

Being able to say "I have deep technical knowledge of this domain, proven by the fact that I literally wrote the software and can customise it to your needs" is worth something, unsurprisingly.
With the state of npm these days you can go on holiday for a month and come back to a new world and find your React structure deprecated
They're not in the tech industry, but they are tech companies. Tech companies are companies who believe that in tech innovation is not only possible, but necessary to drive exceptional business success. Those are indeed few and far between.
> I've always found the idiom "job creation" weird and illogical.

Probably because the origin of the term is very political in nature.
I think the point against these "few shot" or "one shot" learning models is that humans typically have a lot more data than are being credited for.

If I pickup a cup and move it around, pour water into it, turn it over so the fluid falls out, do it again, try some other object, compare them... how many data samples did I just receive in my 1 minute endeavor? The answer is: a lot.

Depending on how continuous (or not) space/time is and how fast your brain processes things... you're potentially being exposed to some extremely large discrete sampling of an infinite set.

How many actual discrete samples? Who knows, can probably come up with some bounding estimates with some work but that assumes we understand the brain better than we do. In addition, there's a reasonable amount of information that you likely inherit genetically so think about those massive discrete samplings over the time of your ancestors' lives and summarization and compression you get through evolution, over many thousands of years. The fact I have fingers, thumbs, and walk upright is a solution set found across a massive problem space and I get that out-of-the-womb (tm).

I don't believe modern ANN models are quite right and I suspect there's quite a bit we don't understand about our own intelligence that isn't or may never be captured here (hey, I want to be irreplaceable) but we have to consider the comparison more holistically.

One of the fundamental issues I believe DNN fail at is the fact they train against on high level problems and typically don't couple together for learning processes (it's not quite practical yet). As a human, when I learn how to do something I incorporate and connect it with future learning processes to help me learn faster or gain novel insights. Computationally this would be connecting stupid amounts of DNNs together in all sorts of ways (GANs are one line of thought similar here but I believe this would be a rich field to explore).

Personally, I'm completely against endeavors to search for a real AGI. I find it hard to believe once such a goal was obtained, it could possibly be good for my long term survival but hey, I'm a bit greedy in that respect.
Capitalism is the default system that evolves organically when free men and women create things of value and voluntarily exchange them with others. That's not to say it's perfect or 100% fair.

That's why you always hear communists and socialists talk about the need for a "revolution". No one ever talks about a capitalist revolution because people don't need to be coerced into voluntarily exchanging goods and services. They do, however, need to be coerced into giving up their wealth to some massive state who's self-appointed role is to decide "what's fair" and who does and does not get to receive wealth produced by others.

They may well be instances where the hard edges of capitalism need to be sanded down a bit with redistributive policies, but make no mistake, between socialism and capitalism, socialism requires a lot more force, state-backed violence, and coercion to make work.
> Humans observe an object once, such as a cup for drinking water, and we immediately grasp its "cupness"

Adults do (i.e. the agents pretrained holistic model of its entire observed physical context). By reducing the phenomenon to the single observation, you're conveniently ignoring the early childhood phases spent exploring shapes/3d-geometry that enable this very ability of inference. this isn't fair, because regarding humans, the line between training-phase and trained model is very blurry, whereas a statistical model is trained when the weights are set and done.

Brute forcing through 2d-projections of 3d-objects (further denormalized through camera-artifacts etc.) until something sticks in a convoluted (heh) composition of arbitrarily initialized set of nodes and connections is obviously far different from the physical exploration kids do. Comparing the models resulting from the latter with the former is, in a word, absurd.

Through exploration, humans develop a model of physics itself, from which the nature of cupness can be inferred (which is, in fact, the magic term).

Deep learning alone won't get us there, but it'll probably give us the components that enable us to simulate this intricate process happening in kids brains.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that that's what a lot of the smart people researching general intelligence are working on (because that's what I would do, excuse my hybris).
Catastrophe*

* More violent hurricane seasons, more lively wildfire seasons, longer droughts and shorter winters do not count because reasons.
This is code from the 60s/70s running on IBM mainframes.

It should not be surprising that it is written in Assembler, given those factors and the performance advantages over the alternatives.

I was writing new 370 Assembler in the 90s for high throughput electronic pre-press systems.
"Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it. "

https://www.quora.com/Big-data-is-like-teenage-sex-everyone-...
"but I'll believe it when I see it."

And what will do you do then?
The coronavirus was the trial run for climate change.

If you thought in February that it wasn’t a big deal, if you listened to folks who said “the cases will go to zero soon”, well, perhaps you should check your epistemology and listen to folks who know what they are talking about.
Isn't the punishment a way to stop people from trying to commit a crime?

Because you seem to be focusing on the outcome/consequences of someone that committed a crime and got caught.

It's not like the punishment is the result of "bad luck" or "unexpected circumstances", it was a deliberate conscious action, right?

Also some of these actions aren't a burst of irrationality and poor thought process - they are planned and recurrent, done through stretches of time in a consistent manner.

So on one hand, it seems severe punishment, on the other hand, people severely push boundaries while knowing it's wrong and with severe punishment - what would they do if it was less severe?

Edit: just to make it clear, I'M NOT SUPPORTING HEAVY SENTENCES.
Shouldn't Wikimedia Foundation be grateful for that? Their goal is met — people learn stuff even faster, and also they incur less server costs, because Google eats them.

For a site without ad revenue, it looks like a total win-win for them!
That reasoning is true to a third.

Length as hash was indeed a thing in PHP/FI 2.

Second third to the reason is that PHP often takes names from underlying C libraries. strlen is strlen since that's the C name etc.

Third third reasoning is that early PHPade it easy to contribute. You had a need and a patch - a few minute Slater it is in. Nowadays there is more of a debate and vote before things are added (in my personal opinion too much emphasize on voting, but, well that's how things go, some day the process will be relaxed again ... and strengthend ... and relaxed)

Cleaning this up isn't trivial. There eis sooooo much code written already. There are sooo many tutorials, books, articles, magazines, videos and muscle memory making a change hard, even ignoring that for many things there is no single truth about what is best.

From time to time some modules might see replacements with more streamlined APIs (i.e. Maybe someday one figures out what a good and practical Unicode aware string library might be, which might replace the classic string mess) but those are multi year things.
Or how they sometimes won't allow you to watch the original English version because you're not in an English speaking country. Even if your language is set to English (of which around 1/4 is still not translated). All movie previews are in native language which necessitates a visit to YT or IMDB. Even non-prime content is affected, just recently I paid 2.99 to watch some cheesy 90s movie with my friend who had always wanted to see this "classic". The syncing was abysmal and resolution 480p i.e. 720x480 i.e. DVD.

After we were done, I noticed there were a handful of HD torrents in various languages. Reminded me immediately of Gabe Newell's thoughts on pirating games: "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem".
> early birds looked very much like infantile or even embryonic raptors

Sounds like neoteny, the retention of juvenile characteristics in adulthood. See: domesticated foxes, dogs (esp toy breeds), people. Seems like a particularly easy evolutionary path, perhaps take a step back, then forward.
Reframing visual perception to think of the world as an external memory
America Deserves a New FBI
As long as people have to do things with land and resources there has to be a way to enforce use.

It’s not like collectivism or communism or anything else allows interlopers to seize things willy nilly.

Peasants in Cuba or the Soviet Union couldn’t just squat on land and do as they pleased. The kulaks are a good testament to what happens in those circumstances.
If, in a mood of theoretical reflection, you make articulation in written or spoken language the criterion for "knowledge", it comes as a disappointment to think of all of the cases where we speak of someone knowing something (e.g. how to ride a bike) even though they are unable to train someone to do so entirely verbally (e.g. by written instruction, or over the phone).

But adding the epicycles of "tacit knowledge" and "rules followed unconsciously" clarifies nothing. The mistake was in the overly restrictive definition of "knowledge".

I've surveyed some of the critiques of the "tacit knowledge" concept in this article:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8267598
We’re not talking about mass-market movies, the DVDs of which you can pick up at your local hypermarket for just a few $currency_units. We’re talking about the "great movies". These are often only available in rather expensive editions that are rarely discounted substantially, such as the Criterion Collection in the English-speaking world. Not only are these editions expensive in terms of their list price, but in most of the world they are not available locally, and if you wish to order them, you must pay substantial shipping fees and deal with customs hassles.

Also, your 100 DVDs is nothing when the canon of great films in the opinion of most film scholars would easily approach a thousand titles.
I would agree but that argument goes for pretty much any aspect of human behavior. Where I make a distinction is by defining dominant behavior.
This provides a fair bit of an idea: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-true-north-metrics-your...
There was an RFC for that, but it was voted out: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2049
we're already seeing it, you just choose to ignore the signs.
Google support for Android is atrocious, I do not think this is really debatable is it? Even Google's own hardware ( Nexus ) does not newer versions.

Maps is a web project.

Chrome is a feeder for Google's web properties.
I heartily recommend the Graphviz plugin for MediaWiki.

Also, http://www.webgraphviz.com/
Isn't she the first woman ever to dive to the deepest point of the oceans? Shouldn't that be the more interesting factoid than she also happened to be the first US woman to have done a space walk?
I totally agree. If you want to reduce crime, it is paramount that convicted criminals become honest citizens. Excluding them from society does not accomplish that. Guidance on how to function normally in society might.

Criminal organisations would probably gladly welcome someone with proven criminal experience. If we make it too hard for criminals to rehabilitate, they are very likely to return to crime, because that's always an option for them. Help them out of that world, and help them build a normal life with normal responsibilities, where they can use their skills and talents to make an honest living.
Been reading about nuclear weapons for 60 years. Will believe it when I see a warhead in my living room.
Exactly. Wikipedia's content is CC-licensed precisely to allow reuse of all kinds, including this.
Churn Heatmaps for Enterprise SaaS
The PATRIOT Act was justified with the intelligence failures that led to 9/11. The militarized police get much of their gear from surpluses sold off from the endless wars justified by people no one would challenge because of "with us or against us" rhetoric following 9/11. Their funding comes from bills justified with "terrorism!" cries from people who feared a stranger with a bomb more than a cop with an armored personnel carrier following 9/11.
68K support on the hardware side happened in OS 8.6. On the software side, it wasn't dropped until the Classic environment was.

Legacy support has deteriorated more rapidly recently, it seems.
CuBit: A General-Purpose Operating System in Spark/Ada
> For me, I stepped out into an uncertain future. I don’t really see meaningful human interaction anymore.

People may think it's because he's been disconnected for so long. But I have the exact same feeling, and think about this problem every day.

I'm a software engineer, and doing everything okay in the modern world. But I mostly use smartphones as a phone like in the last century unless I have to, I don't use most social media stuff, and I don't even take pictures.

I don't feel bad or sad about it because I was not interested in the first place. But I feel disconnected, and cannot empathize with people. Everything seems more and more pointless to me.

I wonder how many people feel the same, or it's just the op and me?
I skimmed the article. People search google; it gives a paragraph from Wikipedia. That answers their question, and they go on their way; this has reduced the number of people that click on the link to see Wikipedia.

I fail to see the problem. Wikipedia doesn't show ads, and isn't run for profit. If people get the tidbit of info they needed, they've been served. If they didn't click on Wikipedia to get it, that means Wikipedia saves money. This seems like a good thing to me.
For me I think that value arises in a nihilistic world when regardless of what individuals actually do, over time we move further into chaotic outcomes, or that things gradually get more harmonious (less conflict and negative externalities).

The latter comes from the realization that some things (ie actions based only on gaining money/power/fame, knowingly taking advantage of people, needlessly killing, laziness, cheating for gain, not helping the poor, not forgiving people).

This arises from nihilism because some believe that it can't be possible that nothing matters when these values are "beyond our earthly realm" in that it often requires seeing things on a more spiritual level, and thinking beyond immediate gratification.

It is then that one may see nihilistic people as those feeding their temptations as these are often the easiest things to do (running vs. sitting and getting fat).

So while one can think nothing matters, some may then see that indeed some actions "retard" not just ourselves but all, and others are a net benefit for society.

Though believing that such actions are actually a net benefit may be considered "faith" because I can't know for sure.

Just my thoughts.
ZoomInfo founders Henry Schuck and Kirk Brown became instant billionaires
there won't be enough rain in places where things can grow.

basically at +4C average the atmosphere is a completely different beast, it's not entirely clear if this amount of CO2 actually allows for clouds to form.
Hindi Language Datasets for Machine Learning
OECD Economic Outlook, June 2020 The world economy on a tightrope
> Perhaps the best known example of this kind of tool is Make. At its core it is only a DAG solver and you can have arbitrary functionality just by writing shell script fragments directly inside your Makefile.

I am still fascinated by redo (https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), which provides exactly the same purpose as Make, but turns its interface inside out: Make is a DSL for describing an acyclic dependency graph, with attached command lines to compile, link, install or run stuff, with a minimum amount operations. The fact that Make is not language-specific, and one just uses shell commands to build stuff, makes it versatile. But there are edge cases which have the effect that people often to prefer to do "make clean", because dependencies might not be captured completely.

"redo" is internally more complex, but basically it is a set of just ten shell commands which are used declarative to capture dependencies, and are part of build scripts. For example,

#!/bin/sh
redo-ifchange /usr/local/include/stdio.h
redo-ifchange helloworld.c
gcc -I/usr/local/include helloworld.c -o $3

has the effect to rebuild a program if the file "/usr/local/include/stdio.h", or the source file "helloworld.c" was changed - be it by the programmer or by a system update. That's it. No "clean" command is needed.

The result is, in terms of user interface and usage, fascinatingly simple (I tried it with a ~ 20,000 lines C++ project which generated a Python extension module using boost.) The lack of special syntax needed is just astonishing.

But I wonder how well it would run with all the additional complexities like autoconf and autotools - knowing that the all complexity of these tools is usually there for a reason.
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If you play hard to get, aren't you selecting for the most desperate suitors? And therefore the ones of the lowest "value" themselves?
> As far as why people care about free will, I dunno, almost everyone I meet insists free will exists, and when I ask why, they insist that they have a choice, and then I say “but you could only have made one choice,” and at this point most of them become absolutely incandescent with disagreement.

Sure, it's frustrating knowing something intuitively without being able to articulate why it makes sense!

If you want to make sense of free will and see evidence that lay people actually accept Compatibilism in which free will is compatible with determinism, I suggest my post elsewhere in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23476919
Benchmarking the Updated Intel CPU Microcode for Srbds / CrossTalk Mitigation
> 2 years in jail for selling gum

What do they have against gum?
But it seems she if the first woman of any nationality into Challenger Deep, that is the more interesting/notable factoid than the space walk one.
I believe it's a big problem that people don't know anymore where their "information" comes from (and who paid for it).
I got out of school in 2013 and then went to a job that was pretty self isolated, working in proprietary format that wasn't really aware of the rest of industry - at best there was some Python and some .Net work. I took another position a couple of years ago where I got throw into the deep end of the modern material - ASP.NET Core, Node, NPM, React, Typescript, modern ES, the whole kit and kaboodle. I can tell you it took me a loooonnng time to get it all figured out. A lot has changed in the latter half of this decade.
This is honestly the first I’ve ever heard anyone complain about composer. Having experienced a number of other package managers, composer is by far my favorite. Like have you spent any time with npm? Composer is light years ahead in reliability and expectations matching reality.
Putting aside the criticisms of Google for its near monopoly on search, I don't think it's necessarily fair to say that Wikipedia "loses" a visit just because Google happens to be able to deliver the desired information on the search results page itself.

In many cases, visitors aren't using Google search because they want a webpage. They're using Google search because they want an answer to a question. Google is answering that question without them having to click through to another site, and visitors are fine with that.

Likewise, I wouldn't say that all of the online calculator websites are "losing" visits just because I plug 3^3 into my search bar and get 27.

Note that in some cases, Google has license agreements with the websites from which they gather that information, so while the visitor may never land on the source website, that source website still gets remuneration.

Besides, if you think it's bad that Google is providing content from other sites so that visitors never have to land on the source site, just wait until you hear about AMP ...
Not to nit but it's pretty trivial to dual boot windows 10 and Ubuntu. You can even do it straightforward without a flash drive these days
If something is enjoyable and rewarding, like making art or an invention, I'd want to do it myself. If a job is unenjoyable and unrewarding, I will use the fruits of my labors to get someone else to do it. I will pay a lot of money to whoever cleans my septic tank. Does that make septic tank cleaners socially valuable, or does that make having a clean septic tank valuable? If a machine can clean the septic tank and no one has to do that task anymore, then I can get what I want without either having to toil myself or convincing someone else to toil.
Gibbs Phenomenon for Fourier Series
I think that's really impressive. An expensive piece of software shipping an operating system to go along with it. And they have a video showing worldwide installations, demonstrating that it is a successful product. Well done!
ARR, Cash, Churn, Growth Rate, A usage KPI, Support Time-to-close