skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using Leuchtturm 1917 Notebooks with enumerated pages and a table of contents. I've tried many electronic notetaking solutions but none of them have the flexibility, especially not with regards to formulas and diagrams.
Pine64 announce the Pinecil, TS100 compatible RISC-V soldering iron
> I'm saying that 'qualia' exist

If by qualia you mean slight differences in information processing in human brains, then sure. If you mean anything more than that I would like a) a better definition than the one I have given b) some observational evidence for its existence.

> My issue is with people who are confident that a big enough NN necessarily has consciousness.

Not necessarily, just potentially. After all there will be many inefficient/barely-better-than-previously/outright detective big NNs on the path to AGI.

If you're asking whether an intelligent NN will automatically be conscious then it depends on what we mean by "intelligent" and "conscious". A mathematical theorem prover may not need many facilities that a human mind has even though it still has to find many highly abstract and novel approaches to do its work. On the other hand an agent interacting with the physical world and other humans will probably benefit from many of the same principles and the mix of them is what we call consciousness. One problem with "consciousness" is that it's such an overloaded term. I recommend decomposing it into smaller features that we care about and then we can talk about whether another system has them.

> Hell, maybe panpsychists are right and even a rock has some sort of consciousness.

If we twist words far enough then of course they do. They are following the laws of physics after all which is information processing, going from one state to another. But then all physical systems do that and its usually not the kind of information processing we care that much about when talking about intelligences. Technically correct given the premise but useless.

> I don't think it'd even be possible to identify such a part if it existed

We're already making the assumption we have the technology to simulate a brain. If you have that ability you can also implement any debugging/observational tooling you need. AI research is not blind, co-developing such tooling together with the networks is happening today. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-activation-atlases/
That the poor souls were so bored and deep in procrastination that they actually logged on to and used the corporate Yammer instance and "liked" perhaps five messages on there before being adequately underwhelmed to return to their respective work tasks, I am willing to bet.

Am I sarcastic? Maybe, maybe not.
As far as I'm concerned this is phenomenal...

I mean...wow.

The use cases are practically limitless.

All I saw from this post is that it doesn't work well with edge cases.

But this smashes the Pareto principle.

This is perfect as a tool for kids to get into programming.

Something where they can see a big result with less effort, like programming in the 90's.
So far you're on point as far as I'm concerned. I'm eager to see what you have to say about reversing course.

An issue that bothers me no end is the fact that we very well could get out of this mess if we collectively wanted to.
Add to that the legal and regulatory costs. Getting a drug approved is very expensive and time consuming.

The legal costs to defend the drug and its use in court after release can also be staggering. Most developed countries have the English Rule, which requires plaintiffs to pay the legal costs of defendants if they bring a suit and lose. The US does not.
Do not quite agree with "safely continue" - at the moment you got ArrayIndexOutOfBounds that unvalidated value might be already stored somewhere / used for changing the state, and it may be not possible to revert those changes easily (or at all).

Danger of core dump in MT case is a valid point, though. However, one can argue that "unsafe to crash" is an indication of poor architecture decision - e.g. saving persistent state to file should be done by writing to new file first, and only replacing old file after that is completed (but I kind of agree, this may be hard to make 100% reliable)

P.S. on the other hand, looking on your other comments in this thread, I do agree with your point - yes, there are cases indeed when you have an assurance the error could not corrupt the state / propagate to other part of the program, then logging error and not crashing is a better option. That's rarely happens in my projects, but this is specific of what I'm doing, and does not invalidate the point.
Suitland and Beltsville, MD - suburbs of DC named after local landowners, Samuel T. Suit and Truman Belt.
I tend to agree that gov needs to step in, however the libtertarian in me also wants to know: why doesn't someone start a business selling this drug for, say, $200 instead of $540? If the answer to that is that the regulatory burden is basically insurmountable thanks to decades of regulatory capture, then yeah, government needs to act. Presumably such a company doesn't need to do any research, or get new approvals! They just need to make the thing and distribute it.
What’s the benefit of using Privacy Possum over Badger?
I'm sad there's still no good offline and native clone of Workflowy/Dynalist after all these years.
I've tried many other outliner-like note-taking software, but I haven't found anything that is more comfortable to use than the outliner system in Workflowy/Dynalist. To paraphrase a quote I've heard online, "it fits my brain like a glove."
The health assessment Apgar Score, named for its inventor Dr Virginia Apgar, but frequently assumed to be an acronym/initialisation and spelled as APGAR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar_score
I have been ill since early March, never bad enough to need to go to hospital.

Have had mono a couple of times and do tend to get post-viral fatigue, this is different as I still have symptoms of covid19 as well. Sore throat and conjunctivitis are the main things that affect me, did notice that my sense of smell improved a couple of weeks ago.

Was pretty fit before this and still did competitive sport in my 50s.
What do you mean by systems thinking? I looked it up but I'm not sure which definition you had in mind.
Apparently one common fix for this according to some Reddit post is to use framecapping. It might be that i am too biased against delta timing in games (ie. using the time delta between frames for animations) because i've seen way too many games break using it and is the reason i run any game older than ~7 years with framecapping enabled, but given the description on the site then i guess what is really happening is that since the game uses mostly baked lighting, they sample the environment lighting to apply to the entities and then -since the sampled positions, be it probes or lightmap lumels, are few and in fixed locations- they interpolate them as they entities move using the time delta between frames to make that interpolation look smooth. Then as the game runs in faster hardware, it ends up with smaller time deltas, which in turn breaks things because time deltas are evil :-P.

Though that is obviously a guess (that this is what happens, not that time deltas are evil, that is fact :-P), though i've done something similar at the past for getting light on dynamic entities from a static environment, so some things did click.
Cloudmailin for all incoming then a fairly sophisticated parser app I wrote just using expressjs to put things into crm or tickets or forward as needed to the right folks.
Mass effect is a CYOA novel. The moment-to-moment gameplay doesn't matter to the story; the only way in which the story is interactive is in the CYOA choices and the passive storytelling (unlocking codex info, environmental storytelling)
Through losing you gain such a better signal to sample regarding facets to improve. You are able to discover other winning strategies which may be distinctly separate from an otherwise winning strategy. Without losing, how can you truly understand how to be the winningest?
Human vision is more complicated than that, there is some "compression" happening at the eye. But yes, it's almost certainly more than 11 megabits, more likely around a few dozen just for the eyes: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-04954-5_...
How to Design Professional Venn Diagrams in Python
Who said anything about dry air?

Winter in SLC and Utah County brings an inversion layer that traps polluted air from the ground up to about 8000 feet above sea level. That pollution causes all sorts of respiratory issues. Speaking from experience - it’s awful. No lotion in the world fixes it.
I've studied it extensively. Please provide evidence to the contrary.

Here's one of mine about ADHD:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1518691/
Can you provide a citation for Harry Gold? All I find is a chemist convicted of spying for the Soviets.

I find [1] which outright declares the etymology is from the economic term, and that it was popularized in medicine by Peter Rudd in 1979, or from a 1962 punning usage referring to literal gold salts.

The economic sense of a gold specie currency has uses going back to at least 1764 [3][4][5].

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC557893/

2: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299414/where-doe...

3: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?corpus=15&smoothing=3&...

4: From 1767 https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Inquiry_Into_the_Pri...

5: From 1764 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ames_Library_Pamphlet_C...
I would argue that using the right words is important here. “On call” typically refers to a specific thing, where if something breaks that person on call is, well, called (or paged, etc.) to fix it when it happens, even at 2am. This is how I took the meaning of that paragraph as well.

If the author meant that code ownership is important, or that the engineer(s) who wrote the code are responsible, that message could have been conveyed by saying, “the persons who wrote the code should test it once it’s deployed and are responsible for fixing if it breaks or is broken when deployed.” This is much clearer and doesn’t use terms that could be understood incorrectly.
I can’t believe this game is over 20 years old. If you haven’t tried Worms ever, please give it a shot. It captures an innocent and growing age of gaming, before the modern AAA production budgets, before social media, before societal division, where it was fun to play outside and fun to play on the computer. I’m not sure how to describe it but I hope those who try it for the first time feel the same good vibes.
What is the best way to support this work?
Rails does so much of the plumbing work for you (and does it really well) that it’s a good smell test that if you’re not working on something that the user sees, you’re probably reinventing the wheel.
Nice. As an aside, how do you pronounce Heaviside? Is it hevy-side or heevy-side or...?
Jesus Christ, you West fanboys can't let it rest, can you?

You need to realise that Western European dominance is a historical anomaly resulting from the industrial revolution

Europe has no minerals or natural resources to exploit. If anything you guys have been on borrowed time.

From the time of Sumerians Asia has been at the fore front of civilization and growth. Until the colonizations started. The world is reverting to this natural equilibrium.

As you can see from the response to Covid, the future is most definitely East Asian. Europe will not be missed.
Just out of curiosity, what is the problem with delta timing and what is the alternative?
> [T]he vast majority of it was driven by engineering-management-career resume-building and was actively detrimental to the editorial/content-production/journalism side of the house.

Why didn't the non-technology side prevent this if it was so clearly detrimental? I can't imagine that the technology side of a media concern has that much influence over the company's overall priorities.
Personally I think it's a huge waste to re-write everything (badly) in Rust. Why not link against an existing JS compiler/interpreter written in another language?
Ask HN: Help me find an article comparing language bootstrapping?
A few months ago I found a webpage that compared languages (C, C++, D, Rust, Zig, etc) on some metric that I can't find or remember.

It had to do with building the toolchain from scratch with no binaries, cross-compiling, or some similar metric that looked at the toolchains and how likely they were to continue working for the next 50 years or something. I think it was a personal website with a table comparing the languages.

Anyone have the link I'm looking for? It's driving me crazy trying to find it!
A few years of hearing skinhead Nazis shouting "pakis out" will do that to a culture.
"Top 2%" (iq over 130) is "moderately intelligent"?

Guess the rest of us are potted plants.
> The runtime allocates and frees heap memory while performing local calculations.

1) If it allocates, why does `top` not show it?

2) Why does it allocate SO MUCH when it uses only a fraction? Looks like a very bad strategy to allocate 2800 times more memory than actually used?
Heartbreaking but what a wonderful way to memorialize her. Thanks for sharing.
Talking Statues of Rome
The "Rafael" mentioned in the article seems to have answered a comment above.
Point well taken, but I'm still not convinced that the variability you describe couldn't be accounted for by things like differences in diet (which can greatly affect cognitive ability), or differing circumstances at home (ie. abusive homes, or parents who are neglective vs caring and nurturing) and/or outside the home (like various forms of stress when kids live in dangerous neighborhoods where their peers and adults get assaulted or murdered on a regular basis), parents who push their kids to achieve vs ones who don't care how or what their kids do, etc...

Picking out the effects of nature vs nurture in a random chess playing kid is not easy, and I wouldn't be so quick to attribute to innate talent that which could be explained by environment.

What is clear, however, and something which you did not seem to deny in your own response, is that playing a lot of chess when you're young is critical to overall chess performance. Without that even "intelligent" and very capable adults who started playing too late are just not going to catch up to capable kids who played a lot of chess early.
I hear a lot of people here focusing on this agenda-setting title but to me this title is as dishonest as when Apple states that "they are the largest tax payer in the world" as a defense for why they shouldn't pay more taxes in Europe. The question being raised is about proportions just like in this case.

Weak, headline grabbing, agenda-setting titles are plenty to go around.

The true cost of producing a patent-protected product is hard to know as it tends to be part of confidential business information.

I think it's fair that people question the cost of monopolies since they draw their status from protections conferred by (patent) law - conferred by the people.
QuickJS is an existing JS compiler/interpreter written in C.
That is precisely what this is doing.
try out

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/

super clean and nice.
Couple forced to wear ankle monitors to isolate after tests positive for Covid
I found the story of the leaks, backlash, counter-backlash, counter-counter-backlash etc. very entertaining.
FOOOORE!
Did you see how much GPT-3 costs, that Gwern found it not interesting (because it's just bigger and more expensive GPT-2), that only the biggest companies can even train it?

Have you considered the carbon footprint of using such a model?
agreed on the lament about us getting away from distinguishing productive/unproductive uses (an argument i've made a lot and am glad to see getting more light of day), but your critique sounds overly pessimistic about marginal utility, which is a fairly value-neutral concept that's been pressed into the service of politics and ideology.

value will never be purely objective (at least not in our lifetimes or many, many after), but we can ground it in bedrock shared values like fairness and industry.
The Many Methods of Communicating with Submarines
I'd have thought so, too... except that I regularly speak with Brexiters. Cognitive dissonance is very real.
> simply overriding NIMBYs at the state level

> Yes, because we love democracy, don't we folks.

Home ownership is about 50/50 in the Bay. If CA acts against NIMBY short-term interests that isn't in and of itself anti-democratic.

It could make sense to question whether that's a power that should reside with the state, one might attack some of the common anti-NIMBY arguments (e.g., that people without homes are disproportionately unable to participate in local politics), and any individual state-level solution could be undesirable on its own merits, but going straight for the jugular and asserting the state is being undemocratic by not protecting NIMBYs seems overly inflammatory.
Thanks, I didn't know iCloud includes applications.
ADHD has not had any proof about differences in the brain:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1518691/
You might make your German Chocolate Cake with Baker's Chocolate, a popular American brand of baking chocolate, named for Dr. William Baker, who founded a chocolate importing company.
Current Day Turkey – Used to be called Constantinople, named after Constantine. Originally named Byzantium after Byzas from Megara.
Actually if you prorated the demand from the EU in term of exit payment to the length of the residual budget, you were well over 350m pw. And that's before the big €700bn+ package that the EU is cooking right now which will dwarf those numbers.
Naa native i mean...maybe bsd's too, sure it works with wine, but since it's still maintained....
Right now we do it on our free time.

Yes, the game is still for sale; I know it's available on Steam, GOG, and Humble Bundle. I don't know any sales numbers, sorry.
Those are good, but my absolute favorites are the X1400 pants, which are now sadly discontinued.

For shorts, I really like their Unite shorts in ripstop polycotton.
Professor Loury Brown University
That's a new take on Starship Troopers I've never heard before.

The entire movie is supposed to be a pro-military propaganda film for that specific universe. One cannot be a citizen without military service. They even used child soldiers [0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_7FaWnlhS4
Why would 11:02 be hard to tell apart? I think you misunderstood what I was saying. The hours would always flash first. For 11:02 it would flash 11, then 12(12 being 0 since the next place could not have Any number > a 5) then flash 2. For 1:12 it would flash 1, then 1, then 2.
I'm curious about the latency since that's generally the point of SSR.

Also, a single process can consume just as much CPU as multiple processes, so the efficiency isn't obvious unless you measure user time.
I like to look at notes-taking as a broader way of capturing information you have seen. The value of keeping notes is to eventually make use of them. The tool should focus on serving this core workflow, not creating overhead.

We created a tool that tries to minimize the cognitive load for capturing things. We were inspired by messaging system and email to yourself, and build a tool for capturing infos on the go for ourself. We're testing it with small group. If you are interested and willing to write us feedbacks, drop me a line and I will invite you to the beta community.

abtin.setyani@gmail.com
If you have the game on CD (any edition), you can download an updater for the CD version from here:
https://worms2d.info/Updates_(Worms_Armageddon)
Here is an idea: anyone can make a generic drug if an independent FDA lab cannot tell the difference between unlabeled samples from the new manufacturer and unlabeled identically packaged samples from a currently approved manufacturer.

You would need to do this testing continuously at random, so the FDA could just charge a fee for this. It would be way cheaper than full regulatory compliance.
Star Control 2. Game lore is massive and deep, and is given out in small chunks, never overwhelming the player. Mass Effect actually borrows from this game a lot.

Tie Fighter. If I had any doubts fighting for the Empire, they were all gone in just five of six missions. After that, I wanted to blast as many traitorous rebel scum from the space as I could!

Betrayal at Krondor. One of the best RPGs I ever played. Writers could challenge R. Feist himself!

Full Throttle. The finest LucasArts quest ever, with great characters and story.
I flagged this because it seems to be hiding its political motivations:

"The media, normally so enamoured of controversy, has largely declined even to debate the possibility of a laboratory escape. Many news sites have simply labelled it a conspiracy theory."
1) No one has to buy it. Who is going to buy this stuff if not the corrupt government officials?

2) Supposedly the government could do it at cost. But where were they when it was the time to invest and invent? Billions were wasted on rescuing zombie companies.
#cancelsideburns
The Subtle Art of Priming GPT-3
Hmm, they cite a tweet which cites a clip from the News-Political complex.

Is this where research in journalism had sunk to?
People don't push dog shit through your letter box and spray paint "pakis out" if you're white British, but they do if you're Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, etc etc.
I got banned from Facebook (as a millionaire) [video]
> I’m curious about the incentives.

If it's anything like Google Takeout, it's possible that it was employee-led. (The contingent within Google that created Takeout is called Google Data Liberation Front.)
Navigating 'information pollution' with the help of AI
Cool tech but I'm not as excited about the surveillance this will enable
Research also isn’t priced at just its face value - there’s the opportunity cost of very smart and hard working people making it happen at overwhelming risk of failing.

I think the main bloat is likely regulatory capture - we could start with the question “why can’t I make this drug in my garage” and work through each barrier. Equipment is part of it but the time and expense of navigating extensive regulations, building relationships with bureaucratic agencies, needing legal support, and so on prevents competition. Even if it isn’t as hard as it may seem to deal with all that, the reputation of it being an insurmountable barrier is enough to discourage would-be innovators.
I like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890036
Thanks for the tip.

I incorporated this into the GPT-3 based search engine I'm hacking right now: https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1284905727388028928
I had never given any thought to this word as I had heard and used it since childhood, had no idea that was the origin!
Xcode 12 finally supports SVG image assets, and it is backward compatibility
I have yet to find a cloud based notes system that doesn't have dumpster fire levels of responsiveness and search. Any suggestions? I've taken to just syncing a text file across devices.
Looking at Kasparov, not really.

Bet seriously, I have seen famous programmers in person. And famous sportsmen. A disproportionate number of them are dull IRL.

So, do play chess. Just do not build your life around. And do let your parents lock you up to reach world-best results.
You can put a mesh bag on the washer discharge to catch fibers before they go down the drain. Some people use nylon stockings, but the mesh used as a sock around drain tile piping works very well. It can be bought in bulk at big box home improvement stores.

It's amazing how much fiber this will catch. If you have a septic system, keeping the synthetic fibers out of it is a must.