skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is difficult because your standards are higher than what you can dish out effortlessly. That's a good thing. Higher standards are the route to better work, and towards even higher standards. Make peace with never feeling satisfied!

There are two techniques that work for me. Perhaps they will help someone.

First, the empty page. The empty sheet is the hardest to tackle. I dump out the main points I want to convey, in no particular order, and I am often surprised at the narrative arc taking shape. There's content hidden inside ones brain that's occluded by the part that's policing the written style. Concentrate on first getting it out in the form of bullet points, small funny phrases, headlines, etc. You could use powerpoint to restrict yourself from having to think in terms of long sentences. Then you look back and see what your brain has conjured up.

Second, reviewing. When reviewing a draft, for each set of lines that focus on one idea or concept or theme, write a very short description (4-5 words) of the idea on the margin. Now, start from the top and only read the margin annotations. That gives you a feel for the narrative arc. Give an entire para to an idea if it spans a few sentences.
There's no technical or physical limit to why so many things can't be automated, which means everything that can, will be automated eventually.. Super popular games like Factorio and Satisfactory are glimpses of a potential near future.
> If you seriously believe that fundamental forces leave no space for free will, then it’s impossible for us to genuinely make choices as moral beings.

> The underlying physics would in reality be governing our behaviour, and responsibility wouldn’t enter into the picture.

First, this is one of the few useful things said here. Responsibility, poof. I agree. And I think that radically changes how we should approach so many things. As a hard determinist who is writing arguments, ethics, and moral frameworks around said determinism, I think there is a big issue with a lot of discussions about free will - definition.

When most humans say "free will", they don't mean randomness, not even close. While philosophers in this argument have spent a good deal of time on randomness, I think that focus misses the point entirely. Even if there is molecular randomness, how does that give any more meaning to humans? At the end of the day, the human idea of control gains nothing from it.

When humans say "free will", they are referring IMO in actuality to a real thing - a combination of many things, but basically agency + lack of prediction powers. At the end of the day, those are not going away anytime soon, if ever. This is where ethical, moral, and social questions are based, not in free will formally.

The lack of formal free will is crucial for underpinning all of this, but it in no way makes ethics and the like impossible. We still exist and experience the world, and it is in all of our best interests to go towards a "better" one. Whether we were always going to do that or not doesn't change that, nor does it change the human experience.

I will say this - determinism must be approached carefully precisely because of articles like this - it is easy for the worst effect of determinism on humans to actually be the idea itself and how it makes people defeatist about morality. I hope to spend my time making a good case for how to approach it safely and in a way that makes the world better, and I wish more people were looking at that instead of arguing about quantum randomness.
Thanks, and good catch, I'll change that

That's a good use case, we've been having bi-weekly virtual team-building meeting that always feel awkward, I'd be curious if this could at all fill a niche like that. --camaraderie is hard to create virtually
I think that this is a good point, and maybe the thesis is stretched a little bit. That said, lack of real determinism does two things at least 1) it possibly changes our almost 'fundamentalist' view of the universe as being deterministic, which is I think our 'default instinct' these days and 2) opens the door to other possibilities. The 'gap' to consciousness/free will and other things, as you point out, remains.
Tons of great games here. Super Hexagon alone is worth $5.
I’m still grateful for a high school teacher that would assign a 1000 word essay and, weeks later after we’d forgotten it, hand it back and make us write the same essay in 250 words without losing the meaning of the original.

When you have something to say, write. Then set it aside until you have time to improve it. Then publish.
Buttondown lets you send emails to just paying subscribers of the newsletter, kinda like substack. I was playing around with the config and didn't realize it would ask people to pay! I am very dumb.

Anyway, I disabled it. There is no paying-subscriber-only content and I don't plan to offer any in the near future. Sorry about that!

There's some archive posts[1] that are only for newsletter subscribers. Those are usually first drafts of blog posts I'm writing and don't want to be shareable yet. But that's just a newsletter subscription and totally free.

[1] https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive
Who decides whether it’s relevant?
Long term (10+ years?), I think these plant-based meats are the future. These early/middle stages are important, just like any product, and they'll find their fit in a crowded grocery store.

They are likely to be much healthier than meat (barring some real fun CRISPR gymnastics).

They can taste however you'd want them to taste. Think, Captain America 5 burgers, exclusively at Burger King. It'll taste like the best beefiest burger more so than real beef can. Sauces can help, but the underlying burger still has to hold up.

They're likely to be much cheaper as patents expire and 'store brand' burgers get out there. The competition will drive the price to near the cost of the ingredients, which I think are much cheaper than feeding the animal the ingredients for a few years and then eating the animal.

They're more resilient to shocks in the supply chain compared to animals (mad cow, hurricanes, climate change, etc).

They have a much broader market base than animals due to ethical and religious restrictions.

Barring some medical report that says they give you super-cancer, I think the product is just better suited to the marketplace.
> That’ll put millions out of work and is basically text generation... easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and we probably already have the technology just not productionized.

Yea, but does it...you know, work?

Why didn't the internet already eliminate most customer service? The common inquiries can easily be found solutions to online. if I'm calling support it's almost always because the resources available don't solve my problem. And spending 20 minutes on the phone with an automated system asking about billing is very frustrating.
Prime just recently introduced channels, which dramatically increased the amount of content available, but each is $3.99. I personally love this because I’d rather have the option to subscribe to Smithsonian content or MGMs back catalog using the same streaming service I already use, rather than paying to use 10 different or getting stuck using the small list of (mostly old, TV movie, or B movie) content on just prime or Netflix.

So this is a feature, not a bug. Mostly because I’ve accepted how backwards the movie industry is going to be with copyright. But still having the option is the less evil.

That said, Maybe the UI can make this more obvious?
Super, didn't know this
> "secure" (i.e. "stand fast" or "fast asleep")

The most common example of this sense today would be "fasten".
Works on the 6D. Thank you!

I'm only getting ~4 fps, with substantial latency. Is that your experience?

Image quality on the first lens I had at hand (40mm f/2.8) blows my Logitech 920 away. Field of view on the 920 is equivalent to a ~26mm on full-frame.

Super excited to see if my slightly-broken EOS M will do the trick, too.
edit: A submersible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_Challenger (not THE submersible, as I first thought) You would think that it would be front and center in an article about this.
And the move to 5nm for the A14 (sampling since 2019) will yield more chips per wafer. Either way, Apple is very forward looking on supply chain and has been planning this for a decade. Remember when they owned the majority of the nand market due to long term supplier contracts?
There are a few podcasts and interviews about the initial days of VWO. You may find the following resources helpful:

[1] My very first interview in 2012: https://mixergy.com/interviews/chopra-visual-website-optimiz...

[2] A relatively recent one: https://inc42.com/startups/wingify-paras-chopra-saas-startup...

[3] I've been blogging about many lessons I've learned on my blog https://invertedpassion.com
Ok, but the Linux container is completely at odds with Google's ChromeOS pitch.

Google says that ChromeOS has "simple setup" - but not the Linux parts. They say you can "search anything on your Chromebook" - but not Linux. They talk about "Chrome sync" - doesn't apply to Linux. Etc.

I think that ChromeOS has value as a web-browser host, and also as a development machine for vim-jockeys. What's missing is the middle part: a real desktop OS.
There's something there
I'm disappointed by my and others ability or lack of ability in automating.

The humble takeaway is that it is far more difficult than people imagine.
Many Windows users may not know there's a better way, but I can hardly think that's an excuse for developers writing proprietary freeware for Windows. Surely they've heard of open source at some point, they just don't give a damn.
Why do people believe Apple will price these machines cheaper than their Intel offerings?
ChromeOS is not compiled on those Pixelbooks.
Suppose you have an application written in C, which is designed to be portable to macOS, Linux and Windows. Using your macOS laptop, you can compile it and run it under macOS. You can also compile the Windows executable from your macOS laptop, although you still need to move the executable to a Windows VM or machine to actually test it. But it means you can at least check your code change compiles correctly for Windows (which does have various differences in APIs, headers, etc) without actually having to go the Windows machine/VM.

(You might try testing the Windows executable under Wine on either macOS, or even a Linux Docker container with Docker for Mac – however, that doesn't work well in practice, because Wine is full of bugs and gaps, and a lot of the time the executable doesn't work properly under Wine due to Wine bugs/gaps but works fine on real Windows. So you still need the Windows VM for testing. But you can stay away from it during compilation.)
Is that not true? Certainly you can find a period of time when populations in both England and Saxony spoke mutually intelligible tongues. This confusion seems to arise out of a deliberate misinterpretation of your quote out of bad faith, not any semantic misunderstanding of the past.

If you believe this isn’t true you’re wandering into a territory of objectively demarcated language and dialect classification to little benefit. Pedagogically useful I’m sure, but to what semantic end? Hell I thought this was the type of problem linguistics intended to solve.
This is the case in most of the world, but I believe that in France spent fuel is reprocessed.
If they implement it, then it would be a hamburger menu.
Maybe you're familiar with Yuval Noah Harari's position in the free will vs. determinism debate. He argues that, not only is the idea of free will a myth, it's harmful to society: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-har...

Also, it seems you're getting at an interesting idea: we can understand determinism, and we can understand chance, but free will seems to want to combine the two concepts in some incomprehensible/nonsensical way, which nobyd can understand.
sometimes I spend a long time researching shoes online. What can I say, good shoes are crucial when you live in the mountains. Do I want to waste my time on this task? No. Please sign me up for an algorithm that can assist in this purchasing decision. That way I can spend that time doing more important work. Thank you.
That was a killer article, a really great read.
1. Yes

> Does that prediction take time?

Of course it takes an understanding of the entire universe, which we don't have.

> If it doesn't, if it is instantaneous, it's just a hand-waving god. If the prediction for any given instant takes trillions of years, it's meaningless.

The lack of ability to predict does not change the facts of determinism one way or the other, and that concept alone changes many things about the world, which is why we should care about it 100%.

Since I think it will be most helpful to your line of questioning, here's a simplistic but concrete example:

Without formal free will, responsibility takes a very different form, and that alone can be used in arguments such as punishment vs rehabilitation, levels of societal equality, and human rights arguments.
I understand why push notifications could be annoying, but the intent was to see if they could replace emails with bite-sized ephemeral information. Guess that's not happening.

There are many clones of PushCrew now and I suspect you may be seeing those. We're evolving the product towards being a thoughtful part of website experience. I hate unsuspecting popups too.
Really strange the 'suicide drone' branding, given this War of Terror and Suicide Bombing, or WWII and Kamikaze attacks. I wouldn't have thought the US military would want to be associated with the word. Maybe they don't, but the media isn't happy with 'loitering'. I guess 'loitering' isn't much better now I think of it, with the term mostly used regarding prostitution.
On a tangent: I dream of a web where whenever there are sets of items (eg eberts-great-movies, and movies-on-amazon) you can easily apply set operations (like intersection) on them (so if ‘n’ stands for ‘intersection’, eg eberts-great-movies n movies-on-amazon).

So, in effect if you’re on a site that deals with a set of items, like the amazon prime movies, you can tell the browser to intersect this set with a different set at another URL.

I understand that doing this would require the right ‘infrastructure’ to be in place.
As a critic of the article, I'll answer.

When you ask if the current state of the universe is "predictable", I'd say not by any machine or device that could ever be made, even in principle, that is a part of the system it's predicting. Almost anything you put together from atoms will have less memory and predicting power than would be required to predict the future state of that system, let alone the rest of the universe (else we could solve the halting problem, among many other things). No "devs project".

That's not really what we tend to mean when we say deterministic or predictable, which is more like, could the future of the system be predicted by some unbounded machine that lives outside of the system, but is magically supplied with information about the system. As such, the "time" taken to make the prediction is also kind of irrelevant, because if that system even has a notion of time, it's on a different axis than our time. It would be like a piece on a checkerboard asking its neighbour how many turns it takes for a human to decide its opening move... human time just can't be observed by the checkers pieces who count the passage of time in checkers-turns.

Nobody expects to see such a prediction made, but it's not a meaningless property.
> formal methods based on proof assistants never took off

A few examples of large scale industrial projects using formal assistants:

seL4: A proven correct commercial OS used in billions of mobile devices.

CompCert: A proven correct C compiler used by Airbus for avionics software.

ARM: End-to-end verification of CPUs (https://alastairreid.github.io/papers/CAV_16).

There are many more.
Is she also the first person to both walk in space (or just go to space) and also dive to the deepest point in the ocean? Or are there men or people from other countries that have done the same thing?
University of Nebraska Helping Student-Athletes Become Social Media Influencers
Rather, their fuel is plutonium. There's lots of plutonium in spent reactor fuel that can be extracted into more pure plutonium and used as fuel, but also to build nuclear weapons.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23462568
would you share a gist to you emacs config ? maybe even a medium article about your setup ?.....
Look up the gnuplot name controversy to better understand what's happening here.
In the Cloud Status History page scroll down to the 6:32 entry that says "Unable to Access IBM Cloud"

https://cloud.ibm.com/status?selected=history

- 2020-06-10 02:19 UTC - RESOLVED - The network operations team adjusted routing policies to fix an issue introduced by a 3rd party provider and this resolved the incident
While true, it's equally true that chrome os usually isn't compiled on Google employees Linux workstations either.
Hah, didn't even notice that.
Yep, and that's a great learning for us. For us, it's easy to assume that we've saturated our potential after being around ten years into the market but that's not true at all.

Your comment is a great reminder towards that.
I don’t think it is possible to test the difference. Any situation that looks like free will can also be explained by determinism. The only evidence is the subjective experience of choice, which is invisible to science
Everything is amazing, one of the first things I install on a fresh Windows installation.
"Ablation: No Monotonic Interpolation" is my favorite — wait for it...
Does anyone else find it telling that there wasn't a "none of the above" option in that vote?
I'm giddy with happiness that you remember the 2009 screenshot :)
Roger Ebert had an unexpected impact on me in my 20s. In my late teens, I started religiously reading his reviews, and this continued until his death. I've never really been a "movie buff," but Ebert's witty prose and pointed technical critique reminded me of Scalia (whom I also loved reading). Thank you for putting this list together!
Also machines are good at applying existing styles, not creating them. For this the artist will still be needed.
I feel the need to point out, since this is the top comment, that there are numerous reasons to believe this piece is not real.
I gotta say, I’ve written thousands of lines of assembler and can count the times that inline assembly was clearly useful on one hand. The clear benefits seem to be readability and concentration of documentation.
I agree that nuclear decay is random, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily an example of non-determinism in the universe. As a subscriber to multiverse theory, I'd say that the appearance of random outcomes is just the way it feels to be a human in a quantum superposition.
1999-2019 is not the interesting period of automation. I'm surprised the authors think it's even relevant. 2020-2040 will be the period to watch.
Can you enumerate these reasons? Just saying "there are reasons" is not very useful to anyone.
We try! :-)
And how many restaurants now have online ordering who would never have had online ordering without being forced to?

However, even before Covid, McDonald's was rolling out touchscreen kiosk and app ordering. So, there has definitely been automation in that sector.

The paper is ... kinda odd ... because its methodology considers machine operators (injection molding machine operators, lathe and machining center operators, etc.) to be some of the most automatable. That's a pretty laughable idea to anyone who has tried to run one of those machines.

Yeah, 20 hours of training got me to the point I can run a CNC mill. However, I wouldn't say I'm good at it. I touch off incorrectly probably 1 in 20 times--which likely blows a part and breaks an end mill. I sometimes don't leave enough clearance to the vice jaws--which certainly breaks a mill and possible damages the machine itself.

I think it was NYC CNC on YouTube that had a whole video of the various fails he's had with CNC milling machines over time. Anyone who has used a CNC cringes at that video because we have all done exactly the same things.
Believe it or not, once the lexing and parsing was out of the way, the two-page description of the two-pass process in the book was really all it took: make a list of all of the goto labels, then calculate the address of each.

I’d be happy to turn this into a couple of tutorial blog posts. If you removed all of the lexing and parsing code, and chopped the ISA down to just 1 or 2 instructions, it would really highlight how simple the core problem really is!

One technique I’ve used before (and a technique echoed by David Beazley in his compilers course), was to skip the lexer and parser and jump straight to working on something which is handed an already-parsed AST. Let’s you skip right to the interesting part, especially if you are already bored with writing parsers by hand.
if you use strava, it's clear this mean he had a public profile (which is default)
Most do, they want to replace them with nothing, e.g. reduce electricity usage. And that may be a hard thing to swallow, but reducing energy usage is the only realistic pathway towards a <2deg world goal.
While looking up this movie, I just realized that uBlock Origin doesn't block ads on duckduckgo.com: https://i.imgur.com/mz7wkCh.png
If somebody compromised a car ECM why would they do anything as childish as running a botnet or mining bitcoin? If they just make every car of a specific model engage their ABS system to disable the brakes and set the cruise control to 200 km/hr at rush hour they could easily kill tens of thousands of people in a minute without giving any warning or leaving any ability to respond which would completely destroy any car manufacturer in an afternoon. They could literally blackmail billions of dollars from any car manufacturer instead of mining bitcoin for pocket change.
i also love the posix c naming conventions, like fopen, malloc, iconv, the level of ambiguity and abstraction is poetic
There is an economic limit. If the cost of the machine is more than the human then your competitors will use humans and you’ll loose a ton of money on every product you sell. Of course that doesn’t matter because there is no technical limit on the value of your stock so as long as you are the golden boy it doesn’t matter
Searched for IFR estimates there and grabbed a few sample calculations:
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/gw5l4q/serology_fr...
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g6035k/new_serolog...
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/gnbpkk/antibody_re...
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/gnbpkk/antibody_re...

So, 0.77-1.25% for this range of estimates.
No idea why you were downvoted, this clearly contributes to conversation.
This sentence strikes me as interesting:

> (For ethical reasons, they did not allow the chickens to hatch.)

What exactly is the ethical reason? Do they suspect that the dino-faced chickens will not have a good quality of life? How do they know that? Also, who doesn't want to see a dinosaur-faced chicken?
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Surely not from AWS themselves. They have zero reason to disclose data showing how expensive their services are relative to expectations.
This is incorrect. The submersible used is in fact 'Limiting Factor' built by Triton Submarines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_Submarines

Limiting Factor is correctly identified by NYT as the submersible used:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/science/challenger-deep-k...