skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this article in 2013 scared me off as well. A few years later, I had no choice but to visit the US and had 0 issues getting through CBP and TSA. The former was especially surprising (and a relief) to me, as my purpose of travel was not tourism or business. I came there to undergo an outpatient operation, so I had prepared lots of proof and documentation to show to border patrol officers. Because while this would technically fall under "medical tourism", I had heard this purpose of travel is somewhat likely to get you denied entry. The officer didn't seem to care one bit. After being asked the routine questions and answering truthfully, he asked me one trick question: "So, you're here on business?". I said "No" and then I was let through. No issues at TSA either. Being white and Dutch must be pretty powerful.
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Here's a good example from 2018:

"Deep learning (does not) scale... We can't just scale up AlexNet and get respectively better results - we have to fiddle with specific architectures, and effectively additional compute does not buy much without order of magnitude more data samples, which are in practice only available in simulated game environments."

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/28/ai-winter-is-well-o...

But Gary Marcus is the gold standard. Check out his 2018 take-down attempt, which is clearly mostly wrong:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1801/1801.00631.pdf
Code Only Says What It Does
Deploying and Hosting a Machine Learning Model Using Flask, Heroku and Gunicorn
The motor cuts out at 15 mph in the EU, in the US the standard ebike limit is 20 mph, and many ebikes go yet faster than that.
This is why pumped hydro using existing dams is so nice. I think constructing enough storage to handle months of lower solar output will be difficult.

Phase locking human activity, including economic to the energy cycle would obviate the need for many technical solutions. We should just hibernate.
Looks like the The dot language originated in something called [Webdot][0]

[0]: https://gitlab.com/graphviz/webdot
Facebook Loses Antitrust Decision in Germany over Data Collection
> You can do the same in Prolog and similar languages. Is the language/the compiler reasoning?

Yes, of course. Reason isn't magic.
WD Addresses SMR Controversy with New Red Plus Hard Drives
You did the math incorrectly. You can't add up the total deaths and then divide by one of them to get your chance of dying in that age group.

The populations of those are ranges are different sizes. There are many fewer people alive who are in the 85+ group than there are in the 15-44 group. So if you work that out based on the relative population sizes, you'll get a much lower death rate for the under 40 group.
No.

edit:

For instance, there is no continuity of small changes in height that will bring you from climbing up incrementally larger trees to climbing to the moon.

The question is whether gpt-3 vs human intelligence is more like climbing a tree vs climbing a mountain or more like climbing a tree vs building a rocket.
You seem to be confusing Amazon's internal infrastructure and its development model to how AWS is used by customers.
Does anyone know why would you try to develop an opensource game in C# in the first place?
On the other hand, car infrastructure tends to be better separated from people walking compared to bike infrastructure.

A longer distance car drive may happen on a highway fully separated from pedestrians, while cyclists are almost always on bike lanes right next to sidewalks or trails/paths basically shared with pedestrians.

Car infrastructure in most places probably has had 1000x as much money pumped into it as bike infrastructure. If bikes had even 10% of that, you could have luxury, hyper-safe bike paths anywhere and everywhere.
Not just alge but ag in general. CO2 makes plants grow fast, farmers would buy it for greenhouses if it was produced on a large scale, although finding a way to stop it going back into the atmosphere would be better.
Was due to the Firefox container extension not preserving cookies.
I did, across different roles in two well known teams. As I said, there are exceptions, and the hiring bar has been dropping a lot in the recent years.
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I didn't know this yet it doesn't bother me. In fact, my favorite fantasy series is "the Dresden Files" which is not very poetic, but has an amazing story (you could call it derivative in a sense) where pretty much everything exists (vampires, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, Norse gods, Greek gods, Queen Mab, wizardry, native American skinwalkers, Grendel, Cthulhu, angels... etc). The universe is huge and it feels like we're just getting started when were at book 14 (still quite a few more planned in the arc with books 15 & 16 coming out in a few months). It seems to follow the classic heroes journey as well, but doesn't suffer from it, but manages to create a deeply moving story.
Electric Chariot sounds like a band I would have joined in High School.
"People will have vote with their actions if they want things to change."

That isn't how monopolies work - while some people can individually make huge sacrificies and not use any Facebook product, in reality that isn't practical and few people will because they are a monopoly.

This isn't like buying a car where there are multiple providers who all use the same roads and petrol. Or the mobile phone system, where there are standards (GSM) and regulations so you have a choice of physical and virtual networks.

In my mind, breaking up Facebook would be a massively pro-market (increase choice and competition) and massively pro-capitalist (increase investment of capital, profit and innovation) move.
>>> found 8 non-https links

The main root cause for missing https in HN submissions is old github pages before 2016.

GitHub rolled HTTPS but didn't enable it by default for older sites. Gotta go to settings and tick https.
That's not a "novel" task though. It's an extremely common pattern.
People ported Diablo I to the Nintendo Switch using a similar project.
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this is excellent, next time I'm at my amusement park job working on the analog PBX system, I will definitely use this in order to document the punch Downs and other wire cable runs from the analog phones to the voice gateways.
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
The criteria is whatever a doctor chooses to put on the death certificate, for what ever reason they choose.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-start-reportin...

> Asked about the numbers Wednesday, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, commissioner of the city Health Department, said the "unfortunate reality is there have been people who have died either directly because of COVID or indirectly because of COVID."

> Barbot said only time would tell what that number really meant. Some deaths, for example, could have been registered as having been caused by heart attacks because people had not yet developed coronavirus symptoms, when they should have been counted as probable COVID-19 victims, she said.

So NY officials state that their recorded death toll should reflect both direct and indirect fatalities, whatever an indirect fatality is supposed to mean, and that a person who dies without Covid symptoms, and who has not tested positive, should be counted as a fatality. So unless they have proof Covid wasn’t a contributing factor in any way, it’s counted, which does actually sound a lot like “ anybody who could have potentially been infected”...
I think the point Gwern makes is that if a government wanted to they could easily allocate enough resources to do this. More bluntly I think he's saying if the US decided tomorrow to begin a Manhattan Project for AGI there is a non-zero chance that they might succeed in 7 years.
Acceptable Authoritarianism
Imo it is an organizational thing. Big is good, powerful and important. The more subordinates the more powerful a manager is. Allocated resources (e.g. dev hours) must be spent on something and more often than not must deliver just a little bit short in order to allocate more the next time. Overengineering is rewarded, it creates more tickets to work on and keep the people busy. Then on the other end there are the resume driven folks, who are mutually interested in piling up complexity. Still, invoking Hanlon, it can not be ruled out that some people just do not know better.
Sometimes I think KISS is directly at odds with enterprise development.
“ but an idiot savant, we should remember, is only a genetic mutation or bit of brain damage away from a normal human.”

I’m not sure this comparison holds.. seems like a chain of fuzzy implications taken as necessary fact.
Isn't the entire point of OpenAI's claim that GPT-3 is a few-shot learner that it generalizes concepts, not just syntax?
I can’t imagine a worse job government job than being a TSA agent. Other federal agencies think you are a joke, the public mostly hates you and/or thinks you are a joke, and you make no money, and it’s a boring job were you have to stand up all day and talk to people at an airport. Oh and there are no real prospects of career advancement especially at the lower levels, and the job skills are not incredibly applicable in the outside world.
nice tune though while going to top
Are you sure that you’re not operating as a sole proprietor under that set of facts? If I sell something with the intention of making a profit using my own name as the seller, bam, I’m a sole proprietor. If I file a doing-business-as (DBA) form with my city, I can sell under another name and still be a sole proprietor.
I still cannot get my head round the fact that people don't know about TBD, and that there are substantial numbers of people not doing it.

It's how all source control was done before DVCS. It's pretty much the default workflow with a DVCS - if you read the Git docs and do the simplest things, you're doing TBD! It works perfectly well for most people.

How do people get to the situation where they know about Git Flow, but don't know about TBD? This feels like a huge failure of education or documentation or something.
nice tune though while going to top !!
> For instance, they're also able to apply cosmetic rules.

How does this happen? Do you inject the thousands of CSS rules from EasyList in each page? Doesn't this require AdGuard to be able to have access to the response body for secure connections? Doesn't this mean that web pages can easily override injected cosmetic filters since these are not injected as user styles?
Sibelius was originally a brilliant piece of software until it was bought by Avid and the entire UI turned into utter trash. I haven't touched it since. I also bought Finale when it first came out (was in a demo session at the MacWorld where it came out, sitting next to me was Wendy Carlos) and that was the worst piece of software ever written which is why I switched to Sibelius when it first came out. Maybe both are better now, but my minimal needs of today are fine with MuseScore.
But then you need to replace dialogues and storyline as well ? Also items/spells/mechanics can't be a straight clone ? So you would end up with a completely different game ?
We have a complex product with many aspects that our customers use, and almost all with some customized integrations.

A bugfix to the integration is typically low risk and high impact, and so the client will want to install that ASAP. For example it could be they suddenly changed the values in a single field in an XML file we read, due to upgrades elsewhere in the organization yay, halting the integration.

So we push a fix where we handle the new values, and they want that installed ASAP.

What they do not want pushed out into prod without lots of testing is all the new things we've added elsewhere in our product, or larger changes to existing features.
Not a lot of software really feels like "magic" to me anymore, which is unfortunate, but system programming on Windows often still feels like some arcane art.
"Incidentally, the story that Harry Beck based his original map design on the electronic circuit board is a myth. There is indeed a Beck style circuit board design tube map in the archives, but it was apparently a joke that was presented to him long after the tube map had been adopted by London Transport."

from TFA
Well, he sure showed us!
Awesome, looking forward to hearing from you.
It is a great question! Why does anybody play a specific game? For my kids gaming is a way to form a collective in-group narrative between a set of kids. That means that they all drift to the same games. My sons actually play different games together than the games they play to form a narrative with the bigger group. For me I play solo without talking about it with other adults too much. Many of the games are of the type I played with my friends when I was in the phase my kids are in now. Mostly 4x and RTS/TD. So my relaxation also has a nostalgic element. I don't grok Fortnite, but I do grok the cultural element in a few hundred million (!) people watching the same seasonal change. I wish I could have had gaming as a cultural element on that scale when I was young. Based on my preferences it beats the fads of the 90s by a very long stretch!
an exponentially growing number of tshirts perhaps ?
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Choosing the right tools to test a visualization library
> wouldn't hurt to look at all the different keys and give them a try.

TIL Enter key toggles comment collapsing.
Law enforcement can reach out to the registrar with a warrant.

The whole idea of having personal details in domain WHOIS information is a design from a different age. It does not work in the internet of 2020.
Intro to the piece

> Facebook is "aiding and abetting the spread of climate misinformation,” said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Drexel University. “They have become the vehicle for climate misinformation, and thus should be held partially responsible for a lack of action on climate change.”

> Brulle was reacting to Facebook's recent decision, made at the request of climate science deniers, to create a giant loophole in its fact-checking program. Last year, Facebook partnered with an organization, Science Feedback, that would bring in teams of Ph.D. climate scientists to evaluate the accuracy of viral content. It was an important expansion of the company's third-party fact-checking program.

> But now Facebook has reportedly decided to allow its staffers to overrule the climate scientists and make any climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it "opinion."

> The organization that requested the change, the CO2 Coalition, is celebrating, E&E news reported on Monday. The group, which has close ties to the fossil fuel industry, says its views on climate change are increasingly ignored by the mainstream media. Now it plans to use Facebook to aggressively push climate misinformation on the public—without having to worry about fact checks from climate scientists

I highly recommend for people to read the whole thing, many details such as:

> The CO2 Coalition told E&E News that it is getting assistance from a "'conservative' Facebook employee." Facebook says that claim is not true, but did not specify who at Facebook reversed Science Feedback’s ruling.
Be fingerprinted by unique stack signature anyway.
Funny enough, I find this purposefully exaggerated example not exaggerated enough. It seems to me there is much more reason for Walmart have a spy agency than for NYPD. After all, if NYPD has a reason to be involved with a foreign entity, there are federal agencies (most prominently NSA and CIA) that supposedly should handle these matters (though what they really do nobody knows). NYPD exists only to serve NY, and NY is a part of USA.

Walmart, on the other hand, isn't exactly a part of USA, and if it needs to spy on somebody, it would have to rely on their own internal capacity.
Racism and sexism in branding, UI, and tech
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Because some people are just juvenile, and are a little broken inside. It's not complicated.
At that point you're better off just getting a screen and drawing whatever you want on it, and kind of losing the point of the project, frankly.
It's also interesting for the fact that it has only been trained on text. There is a big unanswered question as to what would be possible if this were adapted so that it could be cross trained on other data that would provide a basis for its text output.
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I'd rather have the Nvidia support for ML. But more importantly, the OS would need to support a multi-touch trackpad and the Adobe suite.
Part of the thinking about it is not making excuses to yourself. If I have to rewtite something, I don't just dismiss it as refactoring, I also ask myself if I could have got it right the first time. And try to estimate how long it will take, because you will improve with practice, and it is part of doing a professional job, even if it is thoroughly broken and abused at your place of work.
I find it quite disheartening how easily people in the U.K. adopted a culture of informing on their neighbours for things like walking the dog twice in a single day and shaming people on social media.
Tolkien also contradicts himself by hinting at more direct allegories e.g. the dwarves as Jews during the later years of his life. Combined with his open lament for the Nazi appropriation of Norse mythology, it's hard to see how his fictional Eddaic / Judaic nexus is not among the most stereotypically prescriptive combination of metaphor, allegory, and moral. (Not intended as a negative criticism, because I think it justifies itself at every level.)

Authors don't always know what their work is about, especially as they're writing it.
See also Gwern's Twitter posts:

https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1273643406766505987

https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1274380298910826501

https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1273658044677853184
Which is explicitly blessed by pg himself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement."
I'm intrigued what level you write these tests at, because one of the most painful things to me is having to do large refactorings in a codebase with lots of little niggly unit tests, but few integration or functional tests. During a refactoring, you're constantly breaking impelementation details, and many people feel compelled to have test coverage of these details. My favourite systems are ones where use cases are explicitly modeled, or at least you have a well-defined (and tested) service layer. This is often something you'll introduce first on top of a legacy system. In systems built this way, it's far easier modify the guts, knowing you're not breaking anything with business value, but without the overhead of small unit tests that are highly coupled to implementation details.
Now we need a go to bottom button.
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Depends on the country - you do need to provide full info to theregistar.. but they cannot share that if you are a private person - at least over here.
I find this a bit backward actually but I suppose it exists to be able to serve legal notices to those domains.

There's a lot of issues when you operate across jurisdictions that probably won't be solved until some international treaty comes along.
So you're creating metaphors that don't make sense using things that you have a limited understanding of to describe something you think you might be wrong about and getting annoyed that everybody else isn't following along with your deep conversational chess. Right then. I'm going to go ahead and opt out of this conversation.
If the "secret weapon"-theory is true, then I guess the companies loudly proclaiming they use Haskell could just be trying to trick their competitors into using it...
>I don't even see the point. If there's no enforcement of this law, why even bother with the illusion of legality? Just accept donations - and likely no one will ever bother coming after you.

This only works if you never piss anyone off, have no enemies and the government only stands to look bad from going after you.

Obviously accepting donations in an illegal manner is a stupidly low hanging fruit for someone who wants to screw you over. Sure you'd probably only have to pay back taxes (or whatever) in the end but it's a massive hassle and better to just keep it on the down low.
> Amateur radio enjoys the privilege of pretty lax regulation

What. You literally have to have a license issued to you personally (no anonymity) by the government to even be allowed to do it. And the rules of what can and can’t be sent are, to my Internet-accustomed mind, excruciatingly onerous. No encryption? No foul language?
Who would you say the NSO are actually targeting when they release articles like this?
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The phenomenon you are describing is called "Summer Reddit", and that term comes about yearly because schoolchildren are home for the summer, with the average age of Redditors participating during this time lowering from 24 to 16. It also heavily correlates with an increase in edgy commenting and shitposting.
Sometimes designing for hypothetical cases makes software simpler. The general case is often easier to understand.

Other thought: good engineers can guess future cases more accurately, that's why they're good engineers.
Yes, I think that in the end, this would be true. AGI itself would be transformational - partly because it would be easily linked with computers' "superhuman" powers of memory, throughput etc.

But, on the way to AGI - which seems to me a long way off, despite some of the interesting arguments made here - it's not really true that "being very humanlike" is a big commercial advantage. As long as we have (say) less than the intelligence of a 2 year old child, or a chimp, then we'd rather have computers be doing very un-human things.
Can you explain a bit more. At 100k salary, you are just paying 4K per year in rent?
> Well, well. It's harder and harder every day to argue with the legal opinion offered by former SCOTUS justice Kennedy, which seemed hilariously corrupt at the time, that corporations are effectively people.

I hate this meme. That's not what the decision said.

First "corporate personhood" means that corporations are allowed to sue and be sued like they were individuals. Along with being taxed and regulated.

Citizens United, the decision you are referencing did not involve this concept.

Rather it said that the rights of individuals to free speech is not diminished if they act collectively as opposed to individually.

If I'm allowed to say, "RNCTX doesn't understand the issue" and so is my friend, then us saying it together doesn't make it illegal because we acted in coordination.

Likewise if I'm allowed to purchase a billboard that says it and so is my friend then there should be no issue with us pooling our money to purchase one together.

And that's what Citizens United said. Corporations are one such mechanism through which we could pool our money to purchase that advertisement but others such as unions, non-profits, and all other forms of collective groups are covered.

It's actually a very common sense extension of the first amendment.