skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Top universities should just [fund]..."

I want something more crazy, daring.

Kickstarter, meets blogging, meets X-Prizes, meets startup incubator, meets moon-shots, meets those McArthur genius grants, meets Y-Combinator classes (cohorts?).

Start with a fund.

Recruit some lunatics, err, mavericks, err, battle weary scientists to judge proposals.

Make a couple lofty problem statements. Maybe one per year.

"Create next generation peer review system."

"Invent open access research thingamajig."

"Launch competitive journals for emerging disciplines."

"Deploy FOSS collaborative content management system for science reporting."

Define some semi-plausible victory conditions. Number of papers refereed. Number of research projects hosted. Number of citations.

Each applicant does a pitch.

Fund a reasonable number for groups each round.

Beer and pizza.

Wet, lather, rinse, repeat.
Organize your tabs with tab groups in Google Chrome
That sound cool! Is it online anywhere? I'd love to look at it.
Chris Cox, Zuckerberg lieutenant, to return to Facebook
The logo is so similar to Haskell's ...
Why do you want it, and how much are you willing to pay?
It seems like a step towards OpenAI becoming something like a utility provider for AI capabilities
I've wanted to do this for a while. What's your process like? I have a few books (Introduction to Space Dynamics, the BMW book, etc) but I'm not sure if I should read it cover to cover or try to design a curriculum etc.

Do you use any simulation software or just pen and paper?
Self-destructing skimmer steals credit cards of Greenworks customers
Out in the sunny south, but 'outdoors' is still seen as a risk in my circles. Outdoors has a probability of getting within 6 ft of someone not wearing a mask.

Plus with 2 jobs and young kids there is only so much that can be done without supervision.
NVidia is not the endgame. Also, desknotes are large, heavy, and have short battery life.
When someone does this to Facebook its malicious and they go to jail. WHen Facebook does it to someone else... "oops".
Scientists detect unexpected widespread structures near Earth's core
I’ve been trying to tell people this for months, and I just wish I could have found a better way to get the message across. A plan which relies on reforging all human interactions into a more convenient shape isn’t a plan at all; it’s a pipe dream, a hope that if you hide for a bit the problem will just disappear. (Although it did disappear in some countries, so I’m sympathetic.)
I think you're on the same page.

The gist is that while you'd hope to have a stable interface, in reality things change. By marking fields required, they basically have to stay that way forever so you can support older clients. In doing so, you create a brittle API that may not be able to evolve with changing requirements.

For this reason, I believe Google got rid of required fields in proto3 (everything's either implicitly optional, or a repeated field which may have 0 elements).
I've recently seen these two software on HN that maybe of some help:

deepfake for voice: https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning

Reproducing emotional voices: https://www.sonantic.io/
The third approach, which Signal uses as a privacy preservation measure, is for the sender to generate the link preview on send. Of course, this then opens up abuse where the sender can arbitrarily control the "link preview" to say whatever they want.
Why do you have to share the archive of an article that is just published
Additionally, I would rather they war game and plan for extremely implausible scenarios, than have them not bother because of course, those scenarios could never happen. ISTM that the things that could never possibly happen are the ones that bite you in the ass when they eventually do, because you were unprepared for that impossibility.

This applies to businesses too, not just the armed forces. Here in the US, I'd bet you many businesses, even those that have some measure of emergency disaster preparedness, had not made any plans around a plague disrupting their China-originated supply lines, much less that same plague hitting this continent. But some had. I can't find the link ATM, but a month or so ago, there was an article here on HN, about how a grocery chain in Texas had managed to keep their stores stocked and their supply chains running, in part because they had gamed out a pandemic scenario and made plans accordingly. Some businesses in my have area managed to become (more-fully) operational sooner than others as local COVID-related restrictions have been eased. And others are still completely shut down, even though they could start operating partially again under the current restrictions. Dollars to donuts, I'll bet the many of former had gamed out pandemic or similar scenarios, and planned accordingly, while many of the latter had not.
There's various kinds of "unnecessary work" jobs. Some do really contribute directly to the common welfare: artisans and producers of culture; providers of small conveniences, etc.

There's also a whole lot of administrative, artificial, make-busy-work jobs, where we build complicated systems of bureaucracy to prevent losses that cost orders of magnitude more than the losses they prevent, and that in turn impose layers of bureaucracy on others.
bit of a detour, but being able to do things like this is a big part of what lisp programmers are getting at when they bring up the advantages of 'syntax as data' - being able to perform complete high-level runtime program introspection, transformation, and code generation - good to see these kinds of techniques are available in other good languages that might appeal to the less parenthetically-inclined, not that that is the only benefit of julia
Hmm... I'm not sure I agree.

All optimal points (for, say, optimizing a linear function) will lie on the extremal points of the feasible domain, many of which will be points where the constraint functions are not differentiable. In all cases you can turn nonlinear objective function optimization (say over f) into linear objective function optimization by adding a constraint f(x) ≤ t and moving t to the objective.

Now, I will agree that smooth optimization algorithms will work ok, but try optimizing abs(x) with GD; you'll find that the best possible error you can achieve (other than by sheer luck) will be ~O(L) where L is your stepsize.
The Pentagon had a plan for the invasion of Iraq that was loosely followed. The State department did not however, leasing to the mess predicted by the Pentagon's plan. Additionally, limited information is available about several North Korea plans.

Canada and Mexico may still have some plans, but the US's primary strategy is just to ensure an anti-US regime can never get power. So more the CIA's area.
This sounds great. What is the imagery going to be used for?
Sports attendance is way down, I don't care what the sports themselves say.

During the NFL Playoffs they couldn't show crowd shots because there were enough empty seats that it was noticeable. I saw empty seats at the super bowl.

I saw highlight on ESPN of an NBA game before the lock down, and it looked like a high School basketball game because of the number of empty seats.

Considering every player in the NBA, MLB, NFL, and NHL are all part of the 1% I'm done contributing to the rich.

I'll go see minor league baseball games, they are much more fun anyway.
I don't count prototypes as a real product, it is vaporware until it's in consumer hands.
It's not so much as they aren't an established company it's that that their business model has been broken/bypassed by technology. They've been reduced to being a middle-man that obstructs value rather than providing it.

The only part of biz model left is "prestige" (very fickle), "customer lock in / inertia" (which is already going away re: OA), and lobbying government to prop up/expand their monopoly (ever extending/expanding copyrights, which is the one thing that doesn't seem they will ever lose on cause ever other bypassed dinosaur broke ass business model publisher spends tons on it).
I think they forgot the bit about withdrawing free transport for school children and pushing it onto the local councils to pay for instead.
POSIX shell is a Lisp-2.

foo is a function (if in the first position of a command), otherwise just a "word":

foo foo bar # look for foo function or command, pass "foo" and "bar" arguments

The prefix $ must be used in any position in order to resolve a variable name.

$command $foo bar # substitute $command and $foo, then re-parse

A function foo and variable foo can co-exist:

foo=/usr/bin/foo
foo()
{
print $foo # no conflict
}

GNU Make is a Lisp-1, but needs a $(call F,X Y) operator to pass arguments to a macro F defined as F := <body> where in <body> the insertion of arguments is indicated using $(1), $(2), ... All the disadvantages of Lisp-1 with all the disadvantages of Lisp-2.
>The only thing preventing this from already happening today is that it would cost an insane amount of money to be able to mine blocks faster than everyone else in the system combined

The US Military budget is insanely large. The total value of Bitcoin is estimated at around $160 Billion[0]. The annual military budget is 750 Billion dollars. If there is the will, being the money would not be the issue preventing such an attack.

0. https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-much-worlds-money-bitc...
We just pay the bill again and go - meh?
> You need to use a one way policy ratchet to ratchet down the hours per week worked as productivity has increased, otherwise workers will never see productivity gains and society will be stuck on the 40 hour labor work week forever.

The feasibility of this (in the US) is strongly dependent on health insurance not being tied to having a full-time job (often defined as just under 40 hours a week).

Plenty of employers have demonstrated that they can be organized to use mostly part-time labor, but their incentive to do this has been avoiding the obligation and expense of contributing to health insurance and other benefits, rather than giving employees a productivity dividend.
I mean...that's what they tried to do...
My question wasn't about the theoretical aspects of measurability since any countable set of points will have measure 0 but about all AD libraries sweeping this kind of issue under the rug. Where in the Zygote docs is it mentioned that the absolute value function will give the wrong answer when differentiated?
PySimpleGUI wraps tkinter and thus ultimately Tcl/Tk.
Perhaps if it has moral consequences they should delete the code?
mods: The original (better) article is at https://theintercept.com/2020/06/05/pentagon-war-game-gen-z/
It's only Open™️ if I can run the API on my own machines.
Related: do people have good recommendations of "casual" math books for more advanced topics? I.e. ones that an educated reader with a background in math can read through in one pass (unlike most textbooks) but nonetheless have real math in them? (And has fun exercises!)

I can start with some. Feynman's Lectures on Computing. Scott Aaronson's Quantum Computing Since Democritus (though it assumes some background knowledge of quantum computing). I think Colin Adam's "The Knot Book" (on knot theory in topology) as well.
Sign up for the beta if you'd like to be the one to flesh them out :)!
"Many open-Internet activists have been discussing how to back up the archive and make it more resilient for years. The temptation would be to employ a distributed system, such as a blockchain, that would be censorship-resistant and couldn’t be legally shut down."

A blockchain? Oy, vey.
I don’t want to wade too deep into these waters, because I will admit that I am not prepared to properly navigate them myself - but I think it’s a common misconception that art is “supposed” to be good, or have a certain quality about it.

Not all art should inspire wonder. Not all art should be of any kind of quality. I am not a big fan of that piece, myself; but one wonders if perhaps, the very intent of creating that piece was to evoke those kinds of feelings, that kind of reaction?

I listen to a fair amount of noise music. Not all of it is even very listenable. A lot of it evokes feelings of dread, discomfort, pain, anxiety. Of course it sounds terrible - that’s the point. It’s a vehicle for emotional catharsis. It’s a thing that makes you feel something, even if they aren’t feelings that most people enjoy. Even if wanting to experience those feelings is not something that most people could relate to.

Just a perspective. I agree with you, that we should be able to speak freely about art, and that it has nothing to do with how you should be perceived as a person if you do not consider certain pieces to have any sort of artistic merit.
Good to know. My use of "hostile" was precisely informed by that terrible GitHub issue thread and the Twitter shitstorm.

I'm glad that sensible minds have prevailed and you've found a way to work alongside each other.
Fwiw, I still get recruiter emails now and then years after having shut off my LinkedIn account. If they mention how they found me, it's usually through GitHub.

...not that I've ever had anything useful come from talking to a recruiter. The useful bits have always come through my existing personal network more directly, or through meatspace networking. I shut down my LinkedIn because I basically started to view recruiter emails as spam.
I see a lot of complaints here about the News Feed, which I agree with, but I spend approximately zero minutes looking at it.

All I have to do on LinkedIn is exist and it's led to some useful job connections and a few offers (which I ended up not taking).

Honestly, the tone in the post tells me this person is at a point in their career where they feel confident they can walk in anywhere and get a job. I don't know if I'll ever feel that way and I like recruiters reaching out to me.

Just don't read the News Feed, and LinkedIn is good.
All the more reason to wear a facemask -- COVID hasn't let up, and it'll also protect you from being ID'd.
Woodworking is a hobby I really enjoy, but I've found nearly every public figure in the community to be pretentious and exclusionary (I don't actively watch Matthias' youtube channel, I just know him as the "wooden band saw guy", so I'm not applying this to him), much more so than other hobbies I've tried, programming included. Seems like everyone who is a "real" woodworker has a giant dedicated shop space filled with Sawstop and Festool brand everything, massive planers and jointers, a wall of expensive hand planes, and an elaborate dust extraction system. Going into a Woodcraft or specialty lumber yard for the first time sucks because some old white guy makes you feel dumb. Am I a "real" woodworker if I just have part of a basement/garage and a few Ryobi tools? Am I a "real" woodworker if I make things out of pine instead of black walnut? What if I use pocket screws or rabbet joints instead of hand cut dovetails? Steve Ramsey's Woodworking for Mere Mortals youtube channel and his online courses (costs money, but quite affordable, IMO) are the best resources I've ever found for lowering the barrier to entry. I would have given up long ago if it weren't for his stuff.
The police have the power of the government behind them, which in the US literally has the ability to kill you in some states.

At least if it's in the hands of corporations there's still a chance that the only entity more powerful (the government) will do something about it (through regulation).

There is something fundamentally wrong with American society, though. No arguments there.
Right? Data structure wise, layers are a stack. We've got fancier things we could use to generate images.

What about a digraph? A node graph editor for compositing would be pretty cool. It'd get you kind of what you have in blender / unreal / unity's vfx graph / shader graph.

I like the push for everything to be non destructive, but it'd be cool if I could, in a reduced input "live" kind of way, see before/after choices -- so I can make adjustments like an optometrist.

I make a lot of texture masks for interactive 3d stuff, the digraph approach would be nice if it let me bitpack things in a more complicated way into color channels than what's possible now.

Maybe what I'm actually asking for is more photoshop-y like tools in blender?
My capsule reviews of what I've read in mathematics over the last 22 years. http://don.dream-in-color.net/books/archive.php4?iSubject=79
Right now the match % is close to useless, see:

https://twitter.com/pmigdal/status/1268959822378082304

It used to be much more informative, especially as the answers are weighted. Of course, a much more informative approach would be to use update weights from data.

Also, when it comes to your example:

- I know people with a deep believer and a lukewarm one (I don't take for granted that it is a more important question than if someone enjoys horror movies),

- for important matters (e.g. whole conservative-religious-right-traditional) it is not a single answer but many, many.

Also, usually, there are much fewer deal-breakers than one initially states (vide https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_datin...). Again, looking at data (vs assuming what is important) would be a big deal.
Never forget Aaron Swartz. All he did was send download requests to JSTOR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3UkQ
(Points at username)

Trigonometry.
ML will require a lot of samples for getting it as desired.
I will say, let your wife carry an attached microphone and meet all the people she wishes to talk at least once.
collect all the audio data, and you can use it later.
<ake all the available moments memorable for her like If you have child record a message from your wife for next 10 birthday of child.
Yes, I read it. I double-checked to make sure it wasn't actually anywhere near indefensible from most main-stream perspectives on the role of the state first, in fact. Which part makes it indefensible? Why might it have been the only (acceptable, reasonable, effective; any of those might be assumed to be implied and which one chooses might matter) option available? Context from the full prompt might help there. Why might that have been necessary? (Ditto). Which obligations might prompt the prime minister to consider that necessary? How could meeting those obligations, despite the cost, be moral? How could those things be reasonably seen as true?

Not one of those seems anywhere near an insurmountable challenge, even without going all jack-booted. Do they? How's it an indefensible position? It's tense and uncomfortable and grey, but not indefensible nor even requiring an extreme perspective to defend it.

[EDIT]

> P.S. people who assume a lot generally get it wrong. Chomsky is not my favorite political guy. I tend to like Jordan Peterson more as he speaks more to my libertarian tendencies. But again, don't let facts get in the way of you making a caricature of what I think so you can attack it.

Where'd I imply (what I gather you think I thought) that you're a leftist? For that matter where'd I imply I'm not, or that I don't have libertarian tendencies/sympathies? In fact this new information fits my model of what I reckoned your perspective to be pretty spot-on, so if I'd incorporated that into a caricature of you (where's that, incidentally?) I suppose I'd have nailed it.
There isn't anything there apart from the readme.

I built a descriptor block into a FPGA design about 15 years ago, this was for PCI so I could put it at a fixed offset into the BAR for every device.

I don't see how the "get a (potentially upstream-able) driver for it instantly" would work. Someone would still need to write a driver, you just get a way to probe for whether to attach it or not.
Reference Guide: https://www.khronos.org/files/openxr-10-reference-guide.pdf Spec: https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenXR/specs/1.0/html/xrspe...
I only took 1 semester of a grad-level Linear algebra course. Is there any newbie friendly book for Multilinear Algebra with emphasis on Application that you know of? Thank you!
Damn it, I'm on the hunt for a new laptop and System 76 seems so appealing, specs and price, yet I'm put off knowing that if something goes wrong with it, it will be months before I get it repaired (as a non-us resident)...
They are targeting their competitor.
My reading is that Knight had a manual, high-touch release process. It’s hard to imagine enough bureaucracy to make that safe. Companies with proper CI/CD may deploy with what seems like reckless abandon, yet are essentially immune to the particular mistake of accidentally forgetting a server.
there's zero understanding in any of this. This is still just superficial text parsing essentially. Show me progress on Winograd schema and I'd be impressed. It hasn't got anything to do with AGI, this is application of ML to very traditional NLP problems.
>PayPal cookies stored on the buyer's computer

That's probably why. I use addons that autodelete cookies as soon as I leave webpages because no one has the luxury of pretending they don't know how badly cookies are abused at this point.

I guess the inevitable next step was for companies that abuse cookies to start punishing people for refusing to take their shit.

I reiterate: paypal is a shit company. Pine, please provide an alternative.
Upvoted and agreed 100%, from an AAC researcher. Your best bet is definitely going to be to reach out to an SLP with AAC expertise.
What breakthrough occurred?
Its not a elliptic curve but was a type of winternitz (Curl-P) before, then blackhat came:

https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Wed-August-8/us-18-Narula-Heilm...

And then they changed it....and no you create a iota seed just like that:

cat /dev/urandom |tr -dc A-Z9|head -c${1:-81}

And talking about scam....ethereum-classic? Bitcoin-cash?

Your talking about a flaw when you just can use a receiving seed once?
Please just read the DAG article, and understand what winternitz-ots means hint (one time signing)

EDIT: Here the winternitz paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/191.pdf
It doesn't have AC. The network is over 100 years old and built to a small loading gauge, which limits the size of the trains and ancillary like AC units. This is unlikely to change without absolutely vast sums of money being thrown at it.
Maybe using a lav mic and the recorder in the pocket would be the most natural
> We had a similar discussion here a few times and content/program creators have said they made more money when their product was also available free - people tried it and bought it.

There's a difference between making your work free when most work is non-free and making most work free. When things are generally pay-walled, free content can get extra attention at the expense of paid content. When the expectation is that things are free, well, there isn't any more total attention to go around, so all that changes is that content creators stop being able to charge for their work.

More generally, positional goods exist, so you cannot reliably extrapolate from individual interest to group policy goals. When people want a bigger boat than their neighbors, you cannot subsidize boat-buying until everyone has the best boat on the block.
You got it in one: we don't trust our police with it, and there is something fundamentally wrong with society. That is why there have been calls to radically re-think, or even eliminate, policing in the US.

This announcement coincides with protests against police brutality, at which many police have behaved brutally. That was sparked by an outright homicide by a police officer, captured on video, of a man who was subdued and presented no threat -- while other police officers watched, and many others have subsequently attempted to justify.

The "something fundamentally wrong" is very complex and subject to genuine debate, but it's not subject to debate that whatever it is, people don't trust the police.
In sociology anyways, there's no such thing as a "normal" vector. People talk a lot about the Overton Window in a 1d sense, either you're left or right. When in reality it's a series of multi-dimentional "value" axes which inform / create certain societal norms.