skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Brexiteer in my family blames it all on the Europeans, apparently they’re the ones raising all these barriers and cutting us off from the benefits of membership out of spite.
Does everyone have a scale? I'm starting to think I should do more drugs...
True, but unfortunately PinePhone shipments have been stopped to India & Russia[1]. I assume that would be the case for many other brands shipping their handsets from China/HongKong to India.

So, these local manufacturers are going to have free run shipping crap embedded phones for a long time.

[1]https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-ord...
I have been using a single text file for past 5 years. Ability to do vim regex search is a big plus. Lately I have been thinking of adding a search engine on top of mac's notes.sqlite db.
Baidu has worse UX after google search exited the mainland china. The many so called newer internet companies are actually copying and localizing. Blocked by the GFW, the inaccessible instagram can never be the main stream. Instead of the detecting intrusion, DPI plays a huge role in controlling the freedom of speech. And with the help of ML, DPI is even smarter than before. Fewer people of new generation in China know Google, Facebook and Twitter, and they only know the second-class analogue of these service providers.
More and more, SARS-CoV-2 is sounding like polio more than any other disease in our recent history.
> Boris Johnson even assured us that it was going to be easy to get a "great deal" on free trade.

It's almost as if a Torie politican knowingly lied to win an election! I too am incredibly surprised... /s
Slightly off topic, but is ES<CalendarYear> an actual thing, or common parlance for current capabilities? Officially, I thought there was only ES5, ES6, etc.
There are several Methods for this - search for OTA...
One of our STB models are still using OTA via DVB-C (I’m in Denmark). Only without the the last few months are we replacing the QAM based SWUPDATE mechanism to an TCP/IP based mechanism (IP is required for using the STB in the first place even though it’s a DVB-C BOX)

EDIT
Here are the standards you want to read: https://dvb.org/?standard=specification-for-system-software-...
"Portland police declare riot as anti-cop protesters torch union headquarters" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23889300 . This was on the 52nd day of "protests". It sounds like a city under siege to me, when rioters brazenly attack the police.
All the edx courses I've taken are basically text books in video form. Coursera has a very strong formula of short videos with frequent questions, often a question every two to five minutes to make sure you understand the material
That makes sense if there are almost no passengers in planes. And if they have too many idling pilots as many flights are not scheduled.
Poubelle, the trash can In French is directly named after a Mr Poubelle.
A hypothesis which I ran across but haven't yet had the time and inclination to back-of-the-envelope: had germany sought to peacefully outcompete the british empire, they might well have succeeded by mid-century, instead of suffering all the ill effects of 1914-1990 ("the short twentieth century").
Pilates are named after Joe Pilates

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilates
Sure, but these are Russian-speaking cities in Ukraine.
Big Data – Big Privacy Hole
Not so much tired of it as extremely indifferent. I'm simply not the type of person that uses tools like this; at all. I know plenty of people that take notes, use post its, etc. I can't even read my own handwriting and wielding a pen is physically painful for me. So not a thing in my life.

I tend to treat written notes as short lived and transient. I'll literally create a new tab in whatever editor, write or paste something there and typically never even bother to save it. Either I act on it or it's a form of documentation that ends up in a more permanent place like a README, issue report, article, code comment, etc.
TFA notes that people take their phones out of pockets. I believe the real reason for that is phones are now so large that they are uncomfortable to have in any pocket while sitting.

Also, idk - if your pants are so tight that you can't make use of the pockets you are definitely risking a Tom Brady moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAMUArVQtks
It may not understand in the same way we do, but this clearly goes beyond memorization of the kind implied by that thought experiment. There's completely novel things that can be expressed.
Who will believe that? They don’t release it because it’s not up to the hype. If a research is successful one should have nothing to hide.
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (1981) [pdf]
i would definitely consider myself one of those who jumps around but never becomes a repeat user..

just recently i came across the first exception to that... Joplin...
https://joplinapp.org/

been using it for a little while now and am planning on sticking to it for a bit longer, i have it integrated with my personal nextcloud instance
That‘s just a philosophical argument, it‘s not like there is some magical property that turns something from a Chinese room into something else.

How do you know you are not a Chinese room? Or I am?
You must be left of Mao. Time for a reality check.
Yeah I think we need to maintain this distinction between a scientific understanding of the world and what human beings actually are, and the abstractions we invent in order to ensure we don’t destroy ourselves as a species. I firmly believe that without the latter we are doomed, which is why I intentionally deceive myself with ideas like the existence of a singular benevolent unifying presence (often referred to as “God”) in order to shape my own behavior.
Many of the jobs Eastern Europeans were taking simply aren't being filled by UK workers.

They consider themselves too good to pick fruit, clean toilets and care for sick people.
I have, and it doesn't work. The recognition is good enough for a demo, in the store you will be really impressed how well it works. However, when really taking notes on the go you use your own abbreviations it doesn't know, use slang or scientific/technical language. Thats where it breaks down and degrades into the usual "I hate you, autocorrect" spiel.

Also, OneNote does it's recognition and replaces your handwritten text by printed text of a different size. This makes all kinds of diagrams, side-by-side-text, tables, etc impossible.

I have gone back to a paper notebook.
The note taking service is on one of my raspberry pi's and exposes a HTTP API which the fuse driver interacts with.

Could have used NFS or something to achieve what you've suggested, but this is the path I went down and seems to work ok for my needs.
I sent you an email, let me know if you don't receive it, want to make sure I got the address right.
Hi, artist here showing up a little late. Working in 4x5 was a reluctant choice at first, as I had little experience with it at the time, but had advantages. The edges of the negative make for a visual cue to the straightening in addition to the buildings. Rise/fall and rear tilt helped get the ideal angle on the tree so that the background structures are square, and in shots where I'm close to the tree, like the W. Hastings one, I'm using front tilt to get part of the tree in focus and also part of the building, which serves to make both the subject.

I think beginning and ending in the analog space (these are silver gelatin prints) make the compulsive ordering -- which feels so digital -- more disruptive than they might be in an image that reads as digital already. They are paired with my Dither Studies, which similarly deal with the computational in an analog medium (acrylic paint), in a show up now with my gallery https://higherpictures.com
Now we need to make human augmented generative adversarial eyetracking networks that are trained on getting people not to skim.
No, they aren't releasing the weights. They are releasing it as ML as a service. Right now it's in free beta, but it will open up for commercial usage in the future.

On another note:

At 175B parameters, with float16 representations, the in memory footprint is about 350GB plus activations would take it to another 400GB. You would need 12 or 13 V100GB GPUs to hold it in memory, or three p3.8xlarge. Meaning loading it on AWS would cost around $35-40/hr.

Though if you didn't care about speed, you could load up the weights from disk one at a time and forward through it a few layers at a time on a single GPU.
> I don't know about the "recycled soapy water" bit. All the systems I've seen use fresh water on each use.

Here's an example of the kind of machine I'm talking about:
https://www.hobartcorp.com/products/commercial-dishwashers/d...

It has a tank at the bottom, for the wash water. As fresh water comes in for sanitizing, some of the wash water goes down the drain -- 3/4 gal/cycle, per the brochure. We would drain the tank at the end of each day, and fill fresh in the morning.

> So, gross, stuck-on lettuce, yes. Sterile, yes.

The rule we were taught was: when it comes out of the machine, if it looks clean, it is clean. Which is to say, if there was still lettuce or other things on a dish you needed to spray them off and run it through again (and do a better job spraying before loading).
It is not what the “no downsides, only considerable upsides” crowd expected. Remember that a lot of people, and dodgy newspapers, still cry ‘project fear’ at any expert opinion, so concrete consequences like this are going to shock some people.
C Programming Language – Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman
I had always assumed the bell managed to reference both a dinner bell (food) and a mission bell (California, with its Hispanic population, hence Tex-Mex). I'm blown away it's just the founder's name.
Using NFC Tags to trigger device or home automations
Or the lawyers.

Both as an anti-lawyer joke but also from the quite practical observations that there are a bunch of human endeavours, law springing to mind, where humans have to act as a Chinese room on purpose and reason about things they have little practical experience with using only words.
You should update the Wikipedia article. I mean, you've already got the references.
https://aadibajpai.com/blog/gsoc.html#testing I wrote this a couple of days ago, the first paragraph might be useful.
You're comparing apples and oranges there, in fact you say it straight out: "you learn different things during a CS degree". It's not a web development course, which is why there's such a big gap in time.

I could believe finding a well-produced collection of courses equivalent in material to a CS course for say $1000, but not $50. Not by a country mile.
Good observation. It is possible that GPT picked up on this statistical tendency. I participated in seven Turing tests, and most of the "X or Y" questions had the latter as the correct answer, so regularly that I set my program to pick it as default when it didn't know. As GPT picks up on statistical word orders, I find this likely to be the case here as well.
Pretty sure OP is being sarcastic.
Depends on the domain.

Why did DeepMind pick Go as a challenge rather than Chess?

Because with Chess you can store the entire search space in memory. With Go you can't.
Legal, regulated psychedelic mushrooms 1 step closer to Oregon’s November ballot
Yesterday, I gave the AI Dungeon version of the model the questions from the first round of the most recent episode of Jeopardy (almost certainly not in its training set). After I burned the first category on priming it, so it knew the kind of task we were doing, it got 72% of the remaining questions right. That's not just making it look like it knows what it's being asked.
Correct. Perhaps I'm being pedantic but my past experience has been to log in via 2FA, update settings to disable 2FA, then authenticate via 2FA one final time before it is finally turned off. This has held true across many services.
Interesting. I wonder why they didn't just use a value that's not valid for a filename. TRAILER/// might have worked for Unix.
The suggestion that everyone who is pro- aggressive disease containment has not had their life turned upside down by the global pandemic is lacks logic. Shutdowns are necessary to contain the virus, and the economic damage done from not containing the virus is far worse than the alternative. We know this because we have data.

There are multiple countries that were hit very hard in the first wave, and then managed to contain the virus and accelerate their economies after; France, Spain and Italy are all great examples. IIUC, France now has 3.6% unemployment. They had strict lockdowns, followed by mask wearing, social distancing, and contact tracing. The same tactics are working for NYC in the US.

We do ourselves a great disservice to act as if virus containment is bad because it destroys economies. No, the virus destroys economies, and containment allows us to continue once mitigated. That’s what the data clearly shows.
Electronics are cheaper in Switzerland
I learned that a while ago and settled on notepad++ to organize my daily work.
Every new tab opens and without needing to be saved is persisted even if computer restarts. That is a perfect scratchpad for ideas.

What I want to keep gets named and is then classified. For is no longer useful the tab gets closed and not saved.

Notepad++ allows for searching all documents within folders as well.

Another great option is moving lines up and down for prioritizing lists for which there is a shortcut ctrl+alt+up/down arrows.
Has happened the same to me a couple of times.
Yikes, let's break apart your claims.

Why am I arguing this? Your initial claim, that protestors are trying to burn down the federal courthouse, is totally unsubstantiated and smells like bullshit. It's worth arguing against because it paints protestors as violent agitators.

The horror of arson does not excuse extrajudicial precrime tactics. In fact, it is reasonably well-argued that no crime can excuse extrajudicial tactics, simply because committing crimes in the case of seeking justice for crimes will lead to never-ending criminal acts.

By what evidence are you not convinced that these buildings are fire-resistant? The positive circumstantial evidence is that, from both an encyclopedic source and firsthand hearsay, the building is composed of quarried stone, steel, concrete, marble, and bronze. The negative circumstantial evidence that you've brought up, that the office-interior decor may ignite and that the building may burn out from the inside, is not just speculative, but doesn't meet the original criterion: The building would not burn down just because it has fire damage inside. Even worse, once again your unfamiliarity with the building hurts, because you don't know about the marbled entryways and stonework walls, which don't have enough wood in them to sustain fire damage.

And then you bring up 9/11. What a red herring. What a non sequitur.

Finally, you failed to address a sibling point: That after the Oklahoma City bombing in the 90s, the Feds stepped up their stance on defending federal public buildings like courthouses. We are not really exaggerating the level to which these buildings have been secured. Again, this is something that you may have to visit and see for yourself to grok.

Please watch less Fox News, or whatever it is that is rotting your arguments in this way.
I'm in the same boat.

Every minute I spend taking notes on something is probably better spent doing the actual thing. I have tabs open until I do the thing, then I just archive them and close them.

Same goes for any to-do list.
>And in the name of protecting the user from malware they have no tools to deal with it

There are tools as the ecosystem is open and the community is extraordinarily talented, but it largely depends upon the device, whether the kernel source, driver blobs are available and boot loader can be unlocked; these were generally true for most devices from high profile manufacturers, but now things are changing as those manufacturers have ventured into $1000 smartphones and don't care for their enthusiast population.

Then again, new breed of pure Linux smartphones are available now. IMO, this should be the long term focus for any enthusiast wanting a free, open, secure mobile computing experience.
Do Colorless Ideas Sleep Furiously? (1997)
I believe I shared this once before. After twenty years of trying every possible note taking app from Word 95 to Notion, this is now the entirety of my note taking app:

#!/bin/bash

read text
_date=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
echo -e "\n$_date: $text" >> ~/Dropbox/notes/stream.txt
I use a paper A5 atom notebook. You can easily rip out pages and rearrange them. I mostly use it for quick todos, db relation schemas and writing down some logic.

I do take some notes with Apples Notes but I periodically clean them out. I don't see the benefit in keeping old notes. If a project is done the notes are also deleted / trashed.

Why do people keep their 5 year old notes anyway? From a IT programming perspective anything that old is probably out date and not relevant.
Note-taking is best served by a system, not by a single app.

I used to struggle with note taking apps until I started to use
org-mode on termux. Human interface relies on emacs, syncing and versioning relies on git, agenda and TODOs rely on org. Never needed any other note taking app.

As a bonus, emacs color themes look really nice on a crisp OLED screen.
America's Innovation Engine Is Slowing
I can't find where to pay? I selected all the cookie preferences I wanted. How do I finish the transaction and get the cookies delivered?
this is just precious lol...
Ricky Gervais gave a very satisfying answer to this exact question: https://youtu.be/P5ZOwNK6n9U?t=70
I’m curious, just how wrong is the comment? A parallel political scenario, the election of Trump, was also characterized by a fundamental political platform centered against other races and cultures, and this was acknowledged and successful.
Ask HN: Have developers become a commoditised resource?
Arguably, it already is all over the place in telecommunication. But indeed, Huawei being somewhat limited could push more people to buy Ericsson equipment, where a large part of it uses Erlang.

It is strong in the area because you have the perfect storm of large complex protocols bundled with the need for very high reliability and robustness of systems. Few languages does that particular mix as well as Erlang.
Forget filters. It would have to be done in a vacuum and you would need to centrifuge the required gasses/carbon. It is possible in small batches, but the sunken ships do exist ready to harvest. Maybe in the future the market will come.
Are you saying that the author of this article is a conspiracy theorist?
>I've also seen a couple demonstrations of people generating simple apps with just a description.

And yet none of those people have released a demo, even though some said they would, multiple times. I'm still quite sceptical at those demonstration until I get to try it myself.
Time management and switching off from work.
For the nonsense answers, I have to say that if someone asked me that, I might very well reply with made up nonsense.

Sounds like a perfectly valid Dr. Seuss answer to a Dr. Seuss question.

To me this is more human seeming and demonstrates more personality then just saying, “I don’t understand your question?”

Of course as others have pointed out, if you want it to get serious, you have to demonstrate that it should respond with a “That’s a Stupid Question” if you want it to do so.

What would be interesting is if could master the usage of a sarcastic or silly emoji to tag when it was making stuff up versus being serious.
In the early days of blogging, I used to write anything and everything. People read them. If I find a better way to move a sprite on a timeline, I write about it. If I find a way to hack an animation sync with a kicker layered audio, I write about it. People will read about it, discuss on forums, and sites such as Adobe would link to it.

Then, I became smarter. Before writing, I'd then research, ponder, and then find a solution someone did. Awesome, there it goes.

I do still write notes -- Handwritten, erstwhile in Evernote, Apple Notes, etc. Then I wanted to simplify it, in the hope that the notes will likely stay on even after I'm no more. Recently, I chose to stay with plain text, markdown is the next-step up, and then perhaps plain HTML.

Markdown - I write it as plain as possible. It is easily readable as Plain Text, if needed.
HTML - I'm pretty confident that HTML as its saner, plain form will remain and live through time.

So, now, I have started collecting, writing pieces of notes in a set of Plain Text Collections - akin to your Org-Mode but much much simpler. In order to publish it[1], I threw in Jekyll for now but I'm not married to that and I'm keeping it such that if I just change a tool the next time, I can do it without much jugglery.

Of course, I still use quite a few Note-Apps but most of them are the tools to my needs. I've stopped looking at Note-Apps that ingest and keeps it there. For instance, I can write in iA Writer and the file stays where it has. I can then continue writing it with SublimeText + Markdown. I will try to write more, be naive all over again. I don't want to know who reads it, how things are -- but just things that interest me.

1. https://oinam.fyi
I’m sorry to hear. I’m curious, have you had your blood oxygen level tested?
Yep, you always attach new knowledge to old one, and refining old one. That’s why learning Chinese after Japanese is not confusing but quite easy: you can reuse a lot of previous knowledge. In the same way, learning kanji is learning morphemes so the more you know, the more easier it is to learn new words.
Would not the praised invisible hand take care of this? If toilet cleaners provide more value than stock brokers (they do), they should be paid more.

There is also the fact that Eastern European construction workers in Germany do not follow German regulations, rip out Asbest without precautions etc., thus undercutting local builders.
Are you anonymous in incognito mode or do you just think that you are?
Go do this on twitter/reddit.
That sounds very strange. Norway is in a similar position as Switzerland in terms of trade, and Amazon has for the past 10 years collected Norwegian VAT up front when using express shipping.

This year the government mandated that international sellers registered for VAT and Amazon has registered all their local stores in Norway
"PageRank was named after Larry Page?"

Interesting to me, as I thought it was Brin's idea, and 3 people worked on the paper.
During Coronavirus Lockdowns, Some Doctors Wondered: Where Are the Preemies?
$35-40 an hour is well within the range of a "that sounds fun to grab my friends and mess around with it for a few hours on the weekend" budget!

Especially if you can use spot instances or a cheaper cloud host.

But I guess without the weights, the floor for this is several thousand dollars to play around with.

Do you know if the data set is being released?
I'm shocked! We've made patent and copyright laws more restrictive and punitive, and in the case of copyright, we grant them for much longer times, and make it practically impossible to determine if some piece of "intellectual property" is or is not copyrighted. We have non-compete contracts for skills like sandwich making. We let employers own every piece of "intellectual property" their employees create OFF THE JOB.

Then we piss and moan about lack of innovation. Makes all kinds of sense to me.
Since tabacco gets its cancer making polonium from the air, I wonder if smoking got riskier because of the nuklear testing.
Many of these are just words subject to multiple interpretations, one of which happens to be a person's proper name, similar to the old linguistic teaser: "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana"
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