skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the comment and confirmation that Dreyfus is essentially a dualist/believes in souls/etc.

I've idly had similar thoughts about the web of interconnections of concepts. Our idea of "cat" is not a single unit but an array of different ideas of body shapes, fur colors, sensory touch experiences, sounds, and other concepts that are rolled into one word.

I've often argued that general artificial intelligence will probably look like a complex series of individual 'utilitarian' components working on concert to achieve what looks to us like consciousness. A kind of "unix philosohpy" of AI: small, targeted tools working in concert to create a larger "operating system" of consciousness.

I've taken a few undergraduate philosophy classes myself in addition to talking to many philosophy grad students. It pains me to see people waste so much time on this subject. Philosophy itself is wonderful. Academic philosophy is a hollow shell where all the significant subjects have branched off into their own disciplines, leaving the husk of theology parading as science. At least theologians have the honesty to admit they study theology.

I would rather learn from engineering lore and draw from their wisdom on how to build complex systems than listen to academic philosophers.
On their own website they claim to have 700 employees? Isn't the definition of a small business less than 500? And how is Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha affected by a pandemic?
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> This is well within OSHA limits and is very unlikely to be noticeable.

Why does the study state, "The FFR dead-space oxygen and carbon dioxide levels did not meet the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s ambient workplace standards."

Do you have a source that counters this study, or are you just throwing some armchair mathematics out there?
I greatly appreciate the candid snark in the bug report. Sometimes there's just not much more to say.
Yes, there is a lot like this out there.

The question I would have for you is what state are you looking for? Thanks.
We added client rate throttling to the platform API gem
Yes, what Obama admin/Biden/DNC did against Trump admin/Flynn is criminal and they should be brought to justice and the book be thrown against them.
Huh? I always mix with caffeine, and have no problems. Also, it is "habit-forming". If I increase the dose to stay alert longer, and then taper down too abruptly, I get dazed. However, I suspect that you're right about alcohol. But that doesn't matter to me, because I've never been much into it. And THC is just fine with modafinil :)
Same here. I used it to sync my Keepass database, currently 1.6 MB, across a sliding window of about 10 devices (sliding because I like trying new OSes and phones). That ground to a halt with the 3-device limitation, so I migrated to Syncthing.

I would have loved to pay for Dropbox; in fact, in 2008 I did upgrade to 50GB for one year because I liked the company and wanted to help it survive the downturn. But if I had kept that up, I'd have paid $1,200 by now to sync less than 5 MB.

Interesting you mention $3/month. I pay almost exactly that at vultr.com to keep an IPv6 Syncthing instance running so that a copy of my stuff is globally available.
Haghia Sophia (built AD537) without doubt is the most majestic building for centuries probably is just surpassed by Taj Mahal. The latter however is just essentially a monument but Haghia is fully functional architecture suitable for congregations. Both of the buildings sourced its building materials from all over the world due to Roman Byzantine and India are both the richest world's empire at their apex times.

Fun facts, most of the mosques all over the world copied the Christian's origin Haghia Sophia's dome based architecture and the dome becomes a generic symbol for mosque in apps, etc. On the other hand, churches all over the world are mainly based on the Gothic architecture. The Gothic architecture is most probably originated from Muslim Spanish empire although it's claimed to have Roman and French influences [1]. This can be seen from the infamous architecture of Great Mosque of Cordoba or Mesquita (built AD784) the world's largest mosque during its time, now a church. The other popular mosque inspired by Mesquita mosque is Spanish Mosque (built AD1906) in Hyderabad, India.

Arguably, the more visually appealing and beautiful architecture based on Haghia Sophia is what made it being adopted by most of the mosques around the world and the demise of Muslim Spanish in the 15th century that really sealed the fate of the Gothic based architecture for adoption in modern mosques.

[1]https://muslimheritage.com/muslim-origin-of-gothic-architect...
My sister, who uses TikTok quite a lot, referred to TikTok earlier today as "The New Vine", leading me to suspect some portion of the user base is there for similar reasons/content and that there's enough overlap for it to not be a wholly useless comparison.
I guess you haven't read the comments on Hacker News very much before
Maybe, but since we don’t have that knowledge, we can’t program it.
Speech always has consequences (that's rather the point of both speech in general, and the entire concept of free speech in particular: if it had no consequences, there’d be no reason to protect it), and is always a subset of action. Assembly is inseparable from speech which is why, lest the flimsy excuse that a thing is one rather than the other be used to justify a ban, it's wrapped up along with all the other speech-equivalent expressive rights in the first amendment.
Here's my attempt to translate. I think it's probably wrong and welcome corrections.

You have a function `p` which accepts an "element of the Cantor space" (infinite sequence of bits) and returns true or false. You want to find some value where it returns true, or prove that it returns false for every value.

Crucially `p` is not a math function, it is a Haskell function. So you can't say "p is true iff its argument is pi" because you can't write that in Haskell. In fact, all `p` can do is look at finitely many bits - if it looks at infinite bits, there is an input for which it will never return. And because it looks at finitely many bits, there is necessarily a largest bit-index which it looks at.

Now a generic-imperative programmer might attempt:

for (bignum x = 0; x < infinity; x++)
if (p(x)) return x;
return NotFound;

but the problem is knowing when to stop, so as to return NotFound.

However, if we could detect when `p` demands more bits than we have produced, then the search will terminate:

int bits = 0;
bignum x = 0;
while (x < (1 << bits)) {
try {
if (p(x)) return x;
x++;
} catch (BitAccessOutOfBounds) {
bits++;
}
}
return NotFound;

Haskell's laziness enables it to "drive the loop" but the idea is not so different.
I am shocked at the people defending apple. A thin piece of tape shouldn't be enough to damage the laptop. That's terrible design. I hate to make the cliche comparison, but this is why newer think pads have the camera cover built in.

"Dont cover the camera, YOU could hurt your 2500 dollar device."

In my opinion, this response from apple says:

They didnt know people covered their webcams.

Or

They dont want people covering their webcams.
No one gets that day off, and voting closes before the line outside is gone.

It is disturbing how much voter disenfranchisement is allowed in this system.
I'm suggesting that Forbes, IGN, and the many other websites that published nearly this exact article at the same time--an article which clearly benefits a game publisher's interests--might not be a coincidence.

A dozen journalists arguing in the same week that it's about time we pay more for AAA games... Is more than a little odd.
Thanks, I didn't realize that.

Higher doses do further reduce the need for sleep, however. And while they don't put me on edge, they do increase the risk of saying and doing risky things. But maybe that's because I'm bipolar.
A minority of end users cares enough to actually put tape over their webcam.
I guess the author is not aware of Rodney Brooks or any number of other long existing proponents of having AI be embodied. And that’s not even taking into account that the network, its data, and sensors attached to it, and their data all fill the role of a kind of embodiment in an environment if that’s something the author thinks is missing.
> The problem isn't getting a computer to ride a bike, it's getting a computer to learn to ride a bike how a human learns.

This is just a more sophisticated way of assuming that there's something human-intrinsic about bike riding. Human-like is not the only way to approach doing or learning. Whatever works, works.
Interesting... as a Hindu evolution is perfectly integrated into our religion. Some "Hindus" still don't honor and respect women, but that doesn't match the teachings at all. Mata Amritanandamayi has some good videos lately about this
> pays for its 5G in Bitcoin, and puts up job postings online to get people (paid in Bitcoin)

'Cryptocurrencies' would have been a better mention that I would agree with rather than just only to use Bitcoin.

In this day and age, It's a good time to be in the business of building and selling these shovels i.e Solar Panels to people who aren't able to do this themselves.
I'd work where it pays more. If Uber isn't this place, they will eventually be out competed.
Why do you need to know?

Who are you?

What is your method of proof for these?
I bet it also tells you when the mail ballot someone swapped for yours was received.
Millenial in the slightly under 30 crowd: There actually are still a few celebrity comedian types that could still pull me (and everyone in my millenial friend group) to subscribe to a new network with original content (Jon Stewart, Dave Chapelle, Dan Harmon), but those guys don't come cheap. Most of my friend group couldn't even name famous Youtubers / TikTok people though, that must be a Gen Z / borderline-Gen-Z millenial thing.

If quibi was actually interested in making stuff to suit millennial taste, they should have focused on absurdist comedy, which is usually short-form anyhow. Stuff like Eric Andre or Adult Swim's "Infomercials" series ("Too Many Cooks", "Unedited Footage of a Bear" + many others that vary from amazingly memorable and funny to unwatchably awful) is exactly the kinda of stuff that I wont invest over 20 minutes in (absurd humor tends to get boring when it loses it's novelty), but whenever I find one that's really good - I'll show it to all of my friends. Having a decent budget, cast and production quality also really makes a big difference with what can be accomplished, so random absurdist youtubers usually can't provide the same experience. The fact that the Reno 911 reboot is the only thing on quibi doing well sort of confirms that the "weird comedy" genre is still underutilized.

Edit: Apparently someone has already written about this trend far more eloquently than I did: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/aug/13/how-did...
Maybe no one owns the land then? Owning land by purchasing a title registered in the State's land registry can hardly be a stronger claim than being a nomad wandering through.
Howdy.

I have loud and angry thoughts about this; https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/ has a bunch of pieces, some of which may be more relevant than others. The slightly-more-serious corporate side of the house is at https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/, if you can stomach a slight decline in platypus.
Sure...the bar for Nature is really high...friends at my work have been through the editorial/revision process there and it's generally very demanding.
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Neither does a camera cover given no one will remember to always close it after calls.

The hardwired status light is far better, you know as soon as you’ve been hacked, and well before they are likely to see anything compromising.
I thought this same article had been flagged before and it was dead, but I guess this was re-posted and the dupe detector let it through.

TL;DR: unnecessary inflammatory language, arguing that "An American passport is now worthless. Worse than worthless, it’s a plague." All because you can't travel anywhere. Yeah, right.

But guess what? You shouldn't be travelling. Regardless of your passport, where you live, or where you're coming from.

It'll be 12-18 months before we can even start to grasp the long term implications of how each country responded to this pandemic. E.g., will vaccine be required for folks traveling to/from Brazil? Will other countries in Europe and Asia do the same with the US?
You need to call Swift's bluff with AnyObject. That's unsafe and was only necessary to bridge to Objective-C where you can call any method on any object.

I think we are in general agreement?
Congrats. How long to reach that rate?
Backdoor accounts discovered in 29 FTTH OLT devices from Chinese vendor C-Data
Basically what the last thread said: the typical pattern is to buy a company, load it up with debt and cut expenditure to make all of the revenue graphs trend up for a few years then sell it to unwary public investors and walk away with a huge profit.

A lot of them end up collapsing under the debt a few years later, plus the heavy cutting of capital expenditure (“capex”) leads to a long term declining revenue as they are no longer investing in new products.
Dozens on this thread alone.
> What point are you making?

Presumably something to the effect of "It can't [currently] be a especially horrible problem if all the listed consequences were quickly fixed.". On the other hand, see (https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2278).
Some IBM ThinkPads have physical cover for camera. I wonder why.
PBS documentary 'Hagia Sofia' 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2WNUWDoAM4
What a mistake. I imagine the email client just typed that email, and the wide distribution list, all by itself.
Thank you for this. As someone who who understands linear algebra well, I feel the neural network formalism obfuscates the core meaning of these processes. It's good for describing composition, but not good for understanding the parts in-between.

Looking forward to your take on LSTMs and transforms ;).

Much thanks!

Great contribution.
Same. I saw the domain name, and thought "How did this get published in Nature???"
I'm not sure how indigenous cultures are represented in North America today but the map shows Iwi in New Zealand that are present day, not a historical artefact.
> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on.

Unless your laptop has been rerouted to Ft Meade for custom modifications prior to its delivery by our shipping partners.
I miss Chrome apps. What was wrong with them? Genuine question.
You're being unfairly downvoted, because it's a good question, but I understand why people are so abhorrent to private equity.

Private equity has a reputation of splitting up companies, firing tons of people, and then selling the parts to the highest bidder, often while taking advantage of a reputation which is based on social capital the brand built before being acquired.

Some will say this is a good thing since the company was often failing in the first place, but there are plenty of counter examples where the only motivating factor in the move to PE is greed.

Greed isn't always good, even in the context of the boardroom.
That’s some impressive multitasking.
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Except that’s not what happened...

And it’s partly because a tweet about it got very popular this week too. There’s definitely industry pressure but it’s not a work like come on.
Thanks! Cynical I may be but I do love our mission at IM.

And I'll just leave this here because at work we were all laughing our heads off about it. We joked about hiring the author to write practice problems for us. ;-)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-broken-lives-behind-....
Every workplace I've been at allowed you to leave briefly to go cast a vote.

Sounds like you worked for some really disenfranchising companies.
Why do you accept other products going up in price with inflation but not games? It's getting more difficult to make an AAA from what I can tell.
Closing the camera isn’t required to use it, only to disable it. Flip phones required opening to use them (and closing to fit in your pocket).

And yes, 90% of people aren’t going to remember to close the camera cover every time.

The LED indicator is all you need as long as its hardwired like Apples is.
How much did you pay for a car back then compared to now?
This is where things are heading, especially for business or corporate 'consumers':

Need web hosting? Certainly you can't deal with a 2Tbps DDoS attack, so let's route that traffic through Cloudflare.

Sending email? Can't send it out with those /23s you have, they're on some blacklist from a shady DNSBL provider. Need to pay for GSuite or Office365.

Can't protect your CEO against a targeted attack? GSuite Advanced Protection or Microsoft ATP has you covered.
You only need the light.
Huh, the Borsalino. But damn, those are expensive hats!
Thanks for pointing that out. Didn't even think to look it up as I had just assumed it was that way forever.
Something is wrong on your end, you can parallelize the build of typical C and C++ software almost infinitely. The reason why is because most C and C++ software do not have 'happens-before' dependency relationships due to the way translation units work, so basically every translation unit in a module can be compiled 100% independently of any other translation unit. In practice that means you can easily scale up to 1000+ processes with no issue, and in fact, this has been accomplished in combination with AWS Lambda:

https://stanford.edu/~sadjad/gg-paper.pdf

Actual screencast of it in action compiling FFMPEG:

https://asciinema.org/a/257545

(Perhaps the issue is you are bottlenecking on I/O or some other resource?)
Yet Steam still takes 30%, it's not all fun and roses.
What horrid people? Why do you believe this? They got manipulated by facebook ads.

Cancel culture is a myth? Are you following the news at all?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506215/
Scientific American?
Someone said "Hey Alexa, totally don't send an email to all employees about banning TikTok on mobile devices and order me some food"
They were proprietary; only worked in chrome. Progressive webapps are built out of open standards, and will ideally eventually work everywhere.
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but this doesn't take that much money. run the numbers yourself.

Even with today's poorest ever interest rate environment, $10mm in US treasuries is still earning you $133,000 a year in coupon payments and is not taxable by states or local municipalities. Leaving it with 24% taxed by Feds, before you come up with any deductions.

You already own a house outright, so 30% of that isn't going to housing.

$100,000 free and clear to play around with and occasionally buy food, every year, for the next 30 years (while your bonds also keep increasing in value), with both a home to always borrow against, and your $10mm in treasuries to borrow against if you really wanted to.

If you aren't flying private, airlines have already subsidized all your flights with an infinite amount of points.

If you are flying private, your netjets membership is already paid for, so you aren't really paying for that either, its an asset not an expense.

And once you get to Tibet you aren't paying for anything or using any money, because its so cheap.

This isn't billionaire status, this isn't Bezos status. This isn't even top 100 wealthiest, top 200, top 500, this is top 30,000,000.

You can get VIP treatment at Cannes Film Festival, and buy tables in Ibiza and St Tropez all summer, or pay $10,000 to an enterpriser for basic infrastructure at Burning Man once a year.

The reason I point this out is that its not rare enough to really make up these scenarios for. People do it for some time, and then they find something more fulfilling to do that keeps them in one place.

The abundance of money, like an abundance of oxygen, has diminishing ability to do anything for you.
Out of curiosity...

Do the doors at Apple HQ have locks?
Or is there just a little LED next to them that lights up when they open?
Apparently mpv reached the same conclusion, since they took that out and replaced it with a warning.

I agree too. At minimum there should be a launch flag (e.g. -allowGnome) so users don't need to outright recompile the app.
The LED is an instant indicator of being hacked, well before they can collect anything embarrassing. Unless you are a 24/7 nudist with a privacy fetish.
I think they are just trying to point that inflation exists...
Why is it never a sexy/revealing male photo?
How about one of these e-letters [0] backed up by a Science digital subscription to actually read the content?

Referring to a recent TOC [1], the "Research Articles" would likely be more in-depth than you want, but there are also summarizing "Perspectives", "Features", and "Reviews" that I generally find OK for medium-difficulty reading.

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/subscribe/get-our-newsletters

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org
I felt sad about their acquisitions and strategies. They had SliceHost - a big player in very beginning of Cloud, they had a solid background in Hosting Provider, but they just give them all and knees AWS.
A piece of tape does that without the security theatre of a cover.
E-mail attachments are one of the worst ways to share large documents. For one, it pushes the hosting requirements for the files to their e-mail provider/recipient. Large attachments will count against a user's mailbox storage limits and can DoS their inbox. The management of that space then falls to the recipient. I also don't know if any e-mail servers that actively dedup attachments. So unless the underlying file system is doing block level dedup a large attachment lives in each recipient's inbox on the server(s). These are reasons pretty much every ISP and e-mail provider has pretty strict limits on attachment sizes.

I certainly do not want anyone sending me attachments that are a couple hundred megabytes. I don't want to have to prune my mailbox or choke my mail client downloading the attachment. IMAP and POP3 suck for downloading a lot of data. I'd much rather have a resumable HTTPS link I can download whenever I want. Better yet would be a service that let me preview the document before downloading it. Some sort of dropbox-like service maybe.
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Dropbox is the new Novell. OSs eventually catch up and even quicker when it creates a new recurring revenue stream.
I'm under the impression that computerized voting systems are in no way standardized nation-wide (USA, at least). But your point still stands that it seems easier to hack a computerized voting system to commit large-scale fraud than to fraud with paper ballots.