skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could also be worth it to have a look at SageMaker? IIRC it's cheaper.
We literally cannot perceive the constraints of the latter's underlying physical system.

Well, for one, I'm reasonably certain that such a system fits inside a skull...
Usually I just look into source code. Use 'tree' command to see the folder structure and then pick a file that seems relevant. Then I go to the bottom of the file and work my way up (usually the main entry points are the bottom, depending on the language of course).
You can guess, but you can guess before you know how they voted - you can narrow your error bars, but it seems very unlikely you can out someone that you couldn't already out. Say you see all the votes, one is for an extreme party, there's going to be plenty of people whose politics you don't know in depth - people (IME) will either keep secret their allegiances or be very vocal. Those who are vocal won't care that you "know", those who're secretive ... did it help?
And drag and drop
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If people purchased books with the expectation they would work on Cloud Reader, wouldn't Amazon have to provide some sort of refund? Amazon cannot suddenly force people to buy a Kindle device to access books they've already paid for.
> I'm not sure I understand why you think this would be a good goal.

You do already know. It's in your next sentence.

> Sometimes, however, you want more fine-grained, print-style control

That's fine. PDFs aren't going away, nor would aiming for the kind of thing I mentioned preclude the plaintext formats from finally gaining the ability to control print-level details with a set of formatting directives if you flip the switch in the writing app to make it let you target a "print profile" for that document. In fact TeX—being a plaintext format that also happens to lead to many of the PDFs we see anyway—is already an example of how to get the ultimate "fine-grained, print-style control" without being a clunky document from an office suite, which aren't actually all that great at that level of control, anyway (but TeX itself is not well-suited for this use case, for its own reasons).

The point is that most people shuttling Office documents around are most of the time not using it for those reasons, so their 80% use cases shouldn't carry the baggage nor impose it on others. It would be one thing if it were just a matter of people not knowing, but the reality is that neither the tooling nor the cultural inertia for those non-existent tools are really where they should be.

> People still do print things out too, like fliers and signup sheets.

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We know it happens again millions of times a year just for human brains. As such the complexity of the brain is irrelevant - what is relevant is the complexity and reliability of the machinery that constructs it.

We know the volume of the machinery that constructs it, which allows us to compute an upper bound on the informational complexity of a system capable of constructing human brains.

To me it is totally unreasonable to suggest we will never be able to at the bare minimum mimic that process and grow whole brains.

To me most of the opposition to the idea of artificial intelligence seems to come down to people assuming we're bound to only try to do this with software on a digital computer. But if that proves fruitless, there's no reason to assume we won't try analog systems, or if all else fails try biochemical systems, all the way down to genetic manipulation and tricking cells into growing into brains for us to hook up to computers.
Was about to suggest the same thing. You can buy physical machines with beefy specs for much less than your cloud bill when you get to these extremes.
It's time to accept we're probably already living in a simulation
I've come back to this very page a number of times over the years and I've always been dissatisfied with how it glosses over why E_1 implies we should take the median, and E_2 implies we should take the mean.

Assume that we have some value of s_1, with elements x_lt \in {x_1, x_2, ... x_k}, x_lt < s_1 and x_gt \in {x_k+1, x_k+2, ... x_n}, x_gt > s_1 (ignoring the case where any element is equal to x_1 to make the reasoning easier). If we move s_1 + epsilon increases E_1 by epsilon * |X_lt| and decreases E_1 by epsilon * |X_gt|, this implies that E_1 is minimized when the number of elements of X on either side of s_1 is equal (now that I've written this out I think that's what 'ogogmad is getting at).

I'm still trying to develop the intuition for why minimizing E_2 implies taking the mean.
Yep compared to someone in the 51st percentile, most of us suck!
I would bet on the LED being parallel - otherwise sending more current through it will burn more power, generate more heat, and likely cause it to wear faster.

I think the point though is that it's not software controlled in any way: powering on the camera lights up the LED, and there's no way to bypass that with only software. Or at least that's the claim.
The capital T-truth is that no one really knows since we're all observing the system subjectively from the inside.

Many who practice meditation and/or experiment with psychedelic drugs will tell you that there's something in there that's not a computer.

We could assume, as many do, they're fooling themselves; since we can't measure it. Or, we could trust our authentic experience of the real world even when it can't (yet) be measured.
This is not a problem of regulation, but a problem of law enforcement; there is no need or regulation "don't sell horse meat as beef", but to remove the US legal system plague of settlements where companies pay money to get rid of investigations and claim "they have no fault".

I know a real case of horse meat sold as beef in UK and they have lots of regulations (including the EU on top of local). You can put all the rules and laws in the book, but don't just relax and hope all will be obeyed. As some SCOTUS decision stated a while ago, some laws and regulations are made so dense and confusing it is almost impossible to comply to the letter - they were talking about something as simple as driving a car on a public road.
Coronaviruses aren't anything special, HEPA filters that are in part specifically designed to trap virus particles will trap SARS-CoV particles as well, because that's their job.
Lowering regulation does not mean no regulation. And outright fraud or misrepresentation would still be punished by the courts.
We had the same problem!

We managed to cut our costs by about 2/3rd by doing two things:

1) moving to batch (this spins up machines to run docker containers without much hassle. You can also share instances)
2) use spot instances.

Spot instances integrate nicely into batch, and depending on how you set it up, you can optimise for speed or cost. for example a p2.xlarge is still $.9 but on spot its about $0.25-0.35
This is a false dichotomy. People can dislike PWAs and be critical of AppStore practices at the same time.
Um, you can't have law enforcement without laws to enforce...
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Ja the memories ! I was lucky enough that I grew up in a house filled with computers in the 80's and early 90's with enough diversity (386,486, early pentiums) to explore and have a brilliant geeky-upbringing. My dad was never really into games, but whenever we had to go on a milk-run to the local cafe, he would always give me money to go play "the fighting game" and was always "amused" at how "Dhalsim" or the "Toordoker"(afrikaans for shaman) could stretch his limbs that far !

Good times - thanks dad :)
Eh hardforum has a good FS/FT community but the rest of the place is becoming a cesspool of trumpists
If you write an executable to a file, does the program still exist? Or is its existence as a program depend on it being loaded in memory and being executed?
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Easily. 4G is our household’s only connection, no other options in countryside. 3 kids + Netflix, etc. One SIM card is our Wi-Fi network’s gateway, another I put on my Tesla. One in my phone.
It's probably perfectly feasible - it's the same working principle as a dehumidifier, except temporarily heating instead of temporarily cooling. Just reverse the polarity and you're set!
Internal microphones are not attached by such a port.
Thank you Alex, I know, "compiled" in my post was lazy shorthand for something like "low abstraction, batch compiled" which in the context of the non-virtuous cycle limiting the reach of the repl/conversational workflow also touches on the historical and pedogogical legacy of people being smarter than the machines and needing brains to work at low levels of abstraction. Now that's rapidly, though unevenly, becoming a myth.

Your work over the years on Clojure is so deeply appreciated and my post was also to some degree coming from a place of lament that more people don't know about it and benefit from it. Thank you for it.
Subsistence wages are set by the value of the "outside option" for workers in undeveloped countries, which is subsistence farming. As a country develops, labor productivity increases and wages rise, until companies are willing to switch to lower productivity but cheaper workers. This cycle ends once the supply of subsistence wage workers runs out.
It's quite a challenge to find a GPU that could run GNOME smoothly. I remember that few years ago there was a flag that magically fixed the issue (at least on Intel iGPU), but they removed in one update. Then I switched to KDE and turned out that it wasn't the integrated graphics that was bad, but GNOME.

I wonder what's wrong. There are only like a few simple animations in GNOME. C'mon, I could run Compiz smoothly on some old GeForce FX with more flashy effects enabled.
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Libertarian and redistribution have an obvious logic conflict, so you may be right about very weird friends.

Libertarian base idea is freedom, as much as possible; redistribution is the opposite of freedom because you work, earn money and someone comes and takes it from you. Makes sense?
There is, it just depends on the part of the company you're in.

If you have a team run by idiots, then you won't have QA.

If you have a team run by adults, then there is plenty of QA. I mean its total shite that this wasn't caught. I'd expect much better, especially as this is the second time in n months. But then perhaps working for a company run by a dick who can't listen is getting to people.
> We would stop paying taxes for this services and instead private services would spring up that we could chose to pay monthly for

I don't think this would work very well, because I do want my neighbors to pay for fire-fighting services in case their house is set on fire. Moreover, to a proportionally lesser extent, I want their neighbors to pay for the same thing, and so on. There are a whole lot of cross-externalities that can't be dealt with easily via private contracting, so we need the government to step in and provide a sensible "default" that's not simply "no one gets any fire-fighting protection unless they pay for a private service".
Why stop at Java? Isn't this solved by IUnknown's QueryInterface from COM?
Damn my bad ! I should have checked first ! Wow I didn't realise they that feature-complete !
You're demanding that they exactly define what can't be exactly defined, and it's not going to happen ever. We're probably going to get closer and closer, but in the end we're still observing ourselves and reality from the inside.

I believe the goal of the article was to describe the differences between computers and humans, from the viewpoint of humans. What seems to be more popular these days is to start from the viewpoint of a computer and pretend humans are the same thing.
It's been odd to see my own reaction and that of my friends to the move of the left towards solely social justice issues in the last few weeks. I've been talking to friends and we all dislike the inane focus on "white fragility", wokeness and performative activism in the form of posting your reading on Instagram. The democratic party's lack of interest in doing anything meaningful is pushing people away - Hopefully liberaltarians form a new party of some sort and break the logjam of the two party system. It's what we sorely need right now.
I would be interested to know if it might be possible to eventually install XCode Command Line Tools or similar, and then use it to sign DMG packages?

At the moment having to keep a Mac solely for the purposes of signing software packages is very frustrating.
Tangential question: what would be a career path for a typical product developer to become one of the programming gods who get invited to such discussions? (Even if it's technically open mailing list, you know what I mean). How many years of experience and how much formal CS education would it take to acsend to that level?
Is there any good reason to research this at all since the virus is mainly transmitted through surfaces and is not in itself airborne? Sure there are drops that can last long enough in the air to infect people but it’s far from the biggest point of infection.
Several years ago I tried to register for a website that refused to accept a change of more than one character at a time, using onkeyup and other events to ensure you couldn't fill it in any way other than one letter at a time (fortunately this was only on the asking setup page; it works fine with logging in). After every change in value, it compared the current length to the previous length, and rejected it if the difference was more than one.
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> very strong union sector

Why is this not free market? Employees are part of the market as well. At some point you may argue that the unions form a cartel maybe. But that is another sign of a free (from state) market
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The mutability comes into play when you want to serve the content. Youtube/Flickr pretty much operate on full replacement, when you're done fiddling with your files you publish them and they never change. This makes it easier to serve the content cheaper through caching and CDNs.

That partial sync is pretty much Dropbox's technical advantage right now. Change a bit and it tries only sync a bit. Now imagine how difficult that would be to serve with multiple layers of caching.
AFAIK you have it exactly backwards.
You don't know that the ballot box wasn't switched in transit, nor presumably that the postman in your area didn't switch all the voting papers.

Any system that's anonymised seems to require trust.
I actually like blocklist/passlist

its far more descriptive.

Personally I'd like master/apprentice to be more popular.

but all of this is pointless if we don't actually remove some barriers to entry for IT. I doubt people are put off by the use of master/slave, Its the barrage of abuse one gets for being different[1].

[1]no this isn't from most people, but the minority is vocal and toxic, and the majority don't really do enough to keep a lid on the tedious pricks who insist on making IT creepy for anyone who isn't a young bloke.
I think the characterisation of Clojure is not that unfair here. It's Clojure keywords have the role that Lisp's symbols have (and I think they have better ergonomics), and symbols are mostly only used for source code representation.

In other Lisps the detailed semantics of symbols are more important including the identity/interning thing.

Rich Hickey was a Common Lisp user before making Clojure so there's a fair chance he knew how symbols worked there, so the cargo culting characterisation should be applied only light heartedly :)
Retro machines always feel less authentic to me when they use an fpga for the CPU instead of an actual retro CPU or descendant of.

Just opinion of course. Retro is whatever it means to you.
> I could never see Apple releasing something like Fleabag

Take a look at Trying.
I should also take advantage of the occasion to mention that I find it a pity that we don't use keyboard keys as 101 complementary buttons for the mouse/trackpad :D
Where are you that has rules that prevents you from being treated as a contractor if you genuinely have the flexibility?

Most places that force these kind of treatments tends to do so only when people have no ability to set their schedule or no realistic prospect of negotiating terms etc. in ways that makes them indistinguishable from employees.

Most of the time there are ways out of this and/or all that ends up being required is for you to be an employee of your own company rather than exploit tax loopholes that were never intended to be used this way. Eg. this is the case in the UK where the dreaded IR35 closed tax loopholes that let people avoid paying themselves a salary for their contracting and instead cut costs by taking out dividends or making their spouses directors etc.. The change did not in any way stop contracting even for a single client, but it prevented people from using it as a way of avoiding tax.

In most of those instances "forcing you pay for things you're not interested in" boils down to not forcing society to take risks on your behalf because people are using contracting as a means to avoid e.g. social service payments and the like.

I'm sure there are places that are exceptions where some people get caught out, and that's a shame, but most of the time these rules benefit far more people, because of the extensive use of "contracting" as a way for employers to get out of obligations with people who have no effective leverage.
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for one because the government mandates every business over a certain size (IIRC 50 employees or so) to vote on unionization which is then binding.

The Nordic countries aren't "free market" by any American definition of the term. They're corporatist/tripartite economies. This has just become a fashionable talking point among the mentioned 'liberaltarians', like the Niskanen Center, who invented the term to my knowledge.

I think it's mostly a PR campaign because if you frame social democracy as being free-market it just sounds nicer to the center of the American political spectrum.

A lot of of labour protection that you don't find in the US nonetheless exists, like 1 year+ of paid maternity leave, usually at least 5 weeks of paid vacation per year, ~35-40 hour work weeks and so on. When people talk about free market aspects they usually mention school vouchers and such and selectively pick a few things where the government is more hands off.

As the article mentions Uber/ridesharing as a yardstick, take note that Uber withdrew from the Danish market in 2017 after facing regulation, in Norway only Uber Lux is still active after facing fines, and the same happened in Finland. In Sweden Uber still operates in three cities but all drivers require taxi licenses.
Actually I never do. Once a piece of hardware is no longer useful to me, I usually give it away to someone who might have use for it. Often that ends up being my parents which is arguably pointless, given how little they look after hardware in general but... Oh well...
Previous discussion of the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451

Explanation from LinkedIn and the actual (open-sourced) code in question linked in the top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23719995

That explanation seems plausible to me, and would imply that there is no spying going on there.
> The first iPhone was the first smartphone as defined today

Two reasons why not.

1. Wasn't first, e.g. HTC Touch was very close in terms of UX and form factor, released a month before iPhone.

2. Wasn't a smartphone as defined today. At launch it didn't have app store nor any user-installable apps at all, these features arrived much later.
But humans learn by themselves, from observing the world around them and drawing conclusions. Which is a major advantage and a core problem in strong AI.

The only reason it works is that a lot of humans put a lot of effort into more or less figuring out exactly how to ride a bike. It doesn't generalize at all, teaching the same robot to ride a skateboard would mean doing it all over again.
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> No one is losing their job because they got caught calling someone out for being racist or sexist.

A bit on the side:

Maybe it would help a good deal if people started losing their jobs for clearly false allegations and for not protecting people they are responsible for?

Like:

- if we conservatives got together to pressure whoever employees that person who posted the picture of the Mexican truck driver with his hand out the window and made that persons life a mess: after all it was clearly wrong as admitted by that person him/herself.

- next up: shaming the company who fired him over cracking his knuckles until they fire whoever was responsible for this.

After all we white males are the powerful privileged ones arent we?

Obviously (hopefully) I don't want this, I only want to get people on both sides thinking.
I dunno. Kinda seems like common sense.
They'll be right back soon enough.
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It did unravel in Georgia and nothing was done. We still haven't got the full report of the VR Systems hack as well that spanned 8 states.
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> Subsistence wages are set by the value of the "outside option" for workers in undeveloped countries, which is subsistence farming. As a country develops, labor productivity increases and wages rise, until companies are willing to switch to lower productivity but cheaper workers. This cycle ends once the supply of subsistence wage workers runs out.

As I've said in my original post, this just means that labor force is now sourced from another country. Subsistence wages are just the minimum you can possibly pay someone, and I don't see how this will stop being a thing unless governments across the board make it so. Happy to be proven wrong about this.
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It's not very common and about 15 years old, but if you can find the deluxe cabinet of Afterburner Climax it's a pretty fun experience. If you were to add VR and more modern technology, it would be pretty awesome.
Oh ok that’s encouraging.

It does use an fpga for graphics. That’s kinda surprising I would have thought there’d be a suitable graphics chip off the shelf.
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This was linked on reddit and apparently what he meant was other OSS projects lack maintainers but linux is fine.