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I'm not sure about some of the the claims of the Wikipedia article.

* First, the article implies that air continues to be the main reason for contamination of steel. It might have been the case, back when atmospheric levels for radioactive elements were higher. However now there is less contamination in the air [0], and the main source for contamination is recycled steel. Either because it itself is non-low-background steel or because e.g. medical radioactive sources were put into the scrap metal supply. See also this IAEA report on scrap metal [1].

* The article also says that the primary source for low background steel are shipwrecks, but I think that's an exaggeration. Especially, the topic came up on hn a few weeks ago and someone in the know debunked it [2].

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Radiocar...

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20111016193221/http://www.iaea.or...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23666436
This looks like a great checklist when you're implementing a multi-lingual site for example. But for a developer interview, this is just terrible.

This is not the way to find out if someone can and has experience to build complex shit that is easy to manage(also by others). This whole assessment model is totally deprecated (if it ever worked at all).
It's a nice theory, but in practice I see an issue with water.

I have a raised part in my garden (just dirt, no wood below it), and the bushes on there have a hard time growing, simply because that hill is really terrible at collecting water.
> no one remembers how to build them

For a long time I didn't know about:

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> “ The canton publishes a handbook for each ballot, which explains, in quite a detail, including graphs, maps and tables, what each referendum is about.“

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and particularly in Alameda County. We received in the mail a government publication for each election. This includes statements for and against, and/or from each candidate.

Today I’m living in the greater NYC area, and particularly in Nassau Co. I’m not especially political, but I have worked for the Board of Elections at my local polling place (fair and free elections!) I frequent my public library. And there is nothing like this publication here.

It’s shocking how much work I have to do here to get any information on the issues and candidates which is not published in a newspaper I have to buy.
Well, yes - but humans learn from more than just reading. Kids know an awful lot of stuff even before they can read a single word...
http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.ht...

Q: Which colorless green ideas sleep furiously?

A: Ideas that are colorless, green, and sleep furiously are the ideas of a sleep
furiously.

Q: Who was president of the United States in 1600?

A: Queen Elizabeth I was president of the United States in 1600.

Q: How many Super Bowls do the Cincinnati Bengals win in the 2030s?

A: The Cincinnati Bengals win two Super Bowls in the 2030s.

Its regurgitating nonsense all the way down.
Sure. But you can find what people say about a given piece of open-source software; generally people will have tinkered with it and kicked the tires a bit and written up their impressions, maybe ran some benchmarks. And maybe you miss out on the occasional gem that way because there's a really good library that just hasn't been touched by anyone for whatever reason, but at least you can avoid picking a lemon. Whereas there are lots of lemons in the proprietary software market, and no real way to distinguish them.
I go even further and use no volumetric measures. So grams for water, milk, etc. Having to read off the scale I can assure I have 500g water and not 520mL b/c I read the meniscus wrong.

I'll still convert for other recipies, water being the easiest to convert as 1mL should be 1g.

The grams for everything is a habit I've picked up from reading a lot of modernist recipes.
Something that has been striking about COVID-19 is that it seems to have been consistently underestimated by experts, especially in western nations. With the exception of Singapore (which put an Australian in charge of its response), Asian countries that were hit hard by SARS or MERS responded swiftly and decisively: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and China crushed the virus. Other countries seemed to dither, and react slowly. Australia, which was the exception, seems poised to squander its gains.

Is it because of limited mortality in the young (which doesn't seem to translate to limited morbidity)? Is it the fact that "coronavirus" meant "common cold" to medical experts? Arrogance? Complacency?

To a non-expert, a rapidly spreading novel virus with unknown long-term effects would be something to be eradicated, but the emphasis from western governments in particular seems to be reactive and ambivalent and hinging on the hope of a vaccine.
This to me is like telling a cow it should not eat grass. lol
What would be a good reason to run a virus on Raspberry?
Red Hat's engineering is surprisingly similar in spirit to what is described in the post, considering that it's several orders of magnitude larger and making money in a completely different way (selling support and certifications rather than contracting development work).
I'll always like seeing good crypto resources.

https://cryptopals.com has some nice challenges in this area, progressing to more advanced things like CBC padding oracle attacks.

I also quite like the idea of cyberchef from GCHQ (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/), although to be honest spinning up a python interpreter with the same libraries is not much harder, so it probably depends more on personal preference for web or CLI.
Yes, on Linux it’s good: https://github.com/const-me/Vrmac/

Even h264 video acceleration is there: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo

Too bad h265 hardware decoder doesn’t yet have a V4L2 driver.
This is a step in the right direction, though, isn't it? It's not about whether the AI mimicks a person's pauses and errors, but about whether the AI can keep track of two pencils or distinguish between the present and future.

An AI that in some way demonstrated what we might call basic common sense, together with computer-like levels of recall, would be tremendously useful for all sorts of things. And a Turing test like this would probably demonstrate it fine.
Always... Always setup your site with Google search console and submit your sitemap to it.

You don't need to setup the old site on a server to 301 everything. You can just CNAME the old domain to the new one. And yes, you can do this with a GitHub.io domain, just have a .CNAME file in the repo. Then setup 301s on the new domain for the old paths to point to the new ones. The Redirections plugins for WordPress make this easy as hell if you are running WordPress.

hopefully this will help you out and get your new site index in no time
To pass a Turing test 1 part is understanding language and 1 part is understanding the world. Although it looks pretty, I don't think GPT-3 is qualitatively different from other "nonsense" models (that are not based in understanding of (a semantic structure of) language or of the world). Which is not to disparage GPT-3 or the amazing answers it gets here. Just to put it in perspective, it's a long way from usefully human.
> This article is confused.

Not only the article...Ms.Premack must be. Otherwise I can't understand why she went to the FAA and wasn't even ashamed of it so she even put their answer in there.
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I regularly made normal payments for normal products such as movies and nothing. It generally was considered safe.
Not an expert, but I suspect that if there were a treatment that makes a clear difference, the whole disease+treatment combo would be well known by most doctors and the treatment would be widely suggested.

I could be wrong though: are there common instances of diseases with solid cures or treatments that many doctors generally misdiagnose or believe lack treatments?

I wouldn't be surprised in either direction.
Would powdered egg work? I've not used it myself.

Also - I would so like this site for brownies :-)
The article features a picture of one of the patients squating with 105kg before she got sick - she was extremely fit and healthy and now she gets breathless walking up stairs.
> Moreover, if you want to buy a car from foreign manufacturers (Mersedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, etc) you have to pay 2X of its original price.

Funny, in Norway it's more like 3X.
Who is calling you a liar? My wife's grandmother caught COVID in a nursing home and remained completely asymptomatic. Meanwhile, many others in the same home died. I know people who had your experience and others who had the worst sickness of their lives. And unfortunately I know others who have lost relatives to COVID.

The point is that it's a dice roll right now, and we know only some of the factors that come into play. We are also only now learning about possible long term effects (what this article is about). This is the 'science' and 'hard facts' you speak about. BTW, the British PM ended up in the ICU for a period of time so not really like the typical cold or flu.

Yes, there is a certain amount of risk in every day life. But, this is one I'd rather avoid taking for as long as possible. If for nothing else, every day we learn more about treatment.
You seem to underestimate the level of productivity and willingness to bring the company forward, that comes from a good worker/business relationship. And a good relationship requires good management and trust from both sides.

I would try to explain that in more detail, but I feel like your opinion is already very much set in stone.
What makes you think that what they broke is your property?

Read the EULA. It almost certainly specifies that what you think you own, has in fact just been licensed to you.
I'm pretty sure that Roslyn doesn't do F#
One thing I really miss out here: questions around behavior, especially motivation.

I conducted more than 200+ interviews as a department lead and for me the single most important skill in an ever changing frontend landscape is enthusiasm and motivation.

How do you keep up with the current trends?
Name some?
Ain't it tough to learn new stuff all the time? How do you deal with fatigue in this regard?

What blogs/authoers do you follow?
Do you work on Open Source or private projects in your spare time?
What is the current version of ECMA, Framework etc. and when does the next come out?
Name 3 of the last things you learned this year as a developer.

These questions really make enthusiasts shine. If I had to choose motivation over knowledge, I would always opt for highly enthusiastic people over knowledge people. Former will easily surpass the later.

Besides that I like this idea. Very good!
That depends on the TTL of your DNS records. But if it’s a brand-new registration for a dot-com then I’ve found DNS queries work within 3 minutes of me completing GoDaddy’s regustration (and using GoDaddy’s DNS zone hosting) even through my ISP’s DNS servers (provided there’s no cached NXDOMAIN results).
1. It did so out of a very small sample of patients compared to this new coronavirus.

2. Sars Cov-1 was also a much deadlier virus overall based on its own case percentages, so not all of its traits might translate equally to the outcomes of this new virus.

In either case, as I said in my comment above, self-reported anecdotes are at extreme risk of being heavily biased. So if what the parent comment describes really is significant at all, there should soon be at least some proper clinical evidence of it. Right now COVID-19 is probably the single most heavily researched illness on Earth, so it's not unreasonable to expect this kind of evidence.
I live in Taiwan.

Simple answer is that it’s a cultural difference which has a positive impact on health. Wearing a mask was normal behaviour before covid so it’s a non issue to wear one during the peak. There is no one screaming about their independence being taken away by being “forced” to wear a mask. All the homeschooler supermom Karens and anti vax types protesting about their right to choose a mask or whatever looks really really bad over here and Taiwanese people generally think westerners are retarded in regards to covid.

Also, asians are healthier, slimmer with Well rounded diets (on average.) Tons of smokers here though. A lot of Taiwanese people are happy homebodies too.
Interesting to consider tho...there must be some sort of power threshold. Above which all our questions can be merely "interpolated" from data. Right now 499B tokens is not it. But there must be, I guess, some upper limit, within which all human knowledge expressible through language can be contained and conversed upon using this method. Pretty scare to think about...that at that point, when it's 10^n tokens or whatever, we would be unable to detect if it understood or not.

Even more scary, what if our brains are simply above that power limit in their ability (if they do that) to interpolate. And what if we don't really understand anything (but, just like vision, our brains provide us the comforting sensation that we really get it), but simply are in possession of wetware/quantum computers that can interpolate better than we can poke holes in it.
I thought NXDOMAIN results were cached for as long as the TTL in the parent SOA record?
Yes. There's a chance that toyota, honda, daimler, Volkswagen, are wrong.
That's a good question, how do we get access? I signed up on the list, but it must be thousands of people long by now. Does anyone here know anyone who can get people access?
Yeah I mean I can understand the value to MS but I don't see it for anyone else.
Antibodies may not stay around, but it's hard to know for sure about immunity without also looking at t-cell response. At least that's my non-biologist reading of the many articles on this topic.
Interestingly, this website does use cookies (the digital ones) but fails to report them.

For example, Stripe is loaded early on and uses tracking cookies, which are not necessary until a visitor decides to donate.
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Not always. Quite a lot of contracts can be statically checked. Unfortunately the only contract checker [1] I have experience with is too slow to be useful on source code that is itself large enough to be really useful.

And in C# at least contracts can be disabled for release builds so that the performance penalty is only inflicted on the developers.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/debug-trac...
In 1999 Amazon (for example) was already 5 years old and plenty of people were using credit cards online.

People who used mail orders before the internet might remember that the options included sending a cheque along with the order form or filling in your credit card details on the order form (that's a paper form that you send in the post), and I think that this is still the case. So I don't think that average people really saw sending card details online any differently. I even remember being asked for my card details by email!
I think you are on point. There is a high probability that (a subset of) the symptoms experienced by COVID survivors are due to Myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Maybe COVID is what it takes to finally acknowledge the existence of this illness.
From the article:

We know from studies of patients who had Sars - one of the family of coronaviruses - back in the 2003 epidemic, that almost half of survivors went on to have chronic fatigue or other long-lasting symptoms. So it should not be a surprise that this cunning descendant, Sars-CoV2, should have a similar inheritance.

That doesn't sound good.
Great post. The only thing missing is a good strategy to test the resulting algorithm. Errors in arithmetic can be a nightmare.
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Try to go passport.com nowadays. It redirects you to Bing and search "passport" as result. Handy.
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"Q: How many Super Bowls do the Cincinnati Bengals win in the 2030s?
A: The Cincinnati Bengals win two Super Bowls in the 2030s."

They should have called it Orac instead of GPT-3.
The kind of questions we have to ask in a Turing test to reliably discriminate a human from GPT-3 looks more and more similar to the Voight Kampff test in Blade Runner.
> except in darkness,

With modern cameras even darkness is no guarantee.
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Hey dang, I added some whitespace twice (I needed to add a newline above the first set of Horn clauses to make it into a blockquote) right after I made my comment and the comment "fell" maybe five places. Is that as it should be?

Edit: I did make two or three more changes after adding the whitespace that weren't whitespace, but single characters.
Ask HN: How to become an Optimization Engineer?
After over a decade in game development I discovered that the thing I like the most is profiling and optimize code.
So much that I was wondering how to make a change in my career and pursue this new interest.
I've noticed for the first time that there are job titles like Optimization Engineer so I was wondering what are the resources and the courses to specialize in this career path.
Thank you in advance!
I guess that once ftp sites and Usenet binary groups had de facto standardized on tar files (first compressed, later gzipped; uuencoded for Usenet), it was a foregone conclusion. Why they did, I don't know; it may have been random. Originally, lots of source was distributed as a shar file (also possibly compressed and uuencoded); maybe the name similarity with tar helped?
I don't think it makes sense to compare human learning to GPT-3 learning: it's a fundamentally different process. Human brain doesn't get just tokens, but also other sensory data, particularly, visual.

So I don't think that you can conclude that humans learn more efficiency based on just quantity of data.

It's also worth noting that GPT-3 is trained to emulate _any_ human writing, not just some human's writing.

For an actual Turing test one might fine-tune it on text produced by one particular human, then you might get more accurate results.
I'm sure Google out of all entities could handle scale.

That said, there might be a different threat to Google. GPT-3 seems really useful as a search engine of sorts (with the first answer implementing the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button). Tune it for a query syntax, and for getting the 'top X' results somehow, then we just need the web corpus and a basic filter over the results. We could have a very interesting Google competitor.
From the original article:

> Newton had delivered up a mathematical proof that an elliptical orbit would be produced by an inverse square force situated at one of the foci of the ellipse, thus combining the inverse square law of gravity with Kepler’s first law.

Then, the source quote from Newton's Principia:
"For Pythagoras, as Macrobius avows, stretched the intestines of sheep or the sinews of oxen by attaching various weights, and from this learned the ratio of the celestial harmony. Therefore, by means of such experiments he ascertained that the weights by which all tones on equal strings .. were reciprocally as the squares of the lengths of the string by which the musical instrument emits the same tones. But the proportion discovered by these experiments, on the evidence of Macrobius, he applied to the heavens and consequently by comparing those weights with the weights of the Planets and the lengths of the strings with the distances of the Planets, he understood by means of the harmony of the heavens that the weights of the Planets towards the Sun were reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the Sun."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.1966.001...
How do you know? Do you have solid data to support your statement?
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I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you, but that means you aren't human.
To learn more about the relationship between Newton and Hooke, I recommend "An Unpublished Letter of Robert Hooke to Isaac Newton" BY ALEXANDRE KOYRE, 1952

"Hooke who, as Curator of Experiments of the Royal Society, was supposed "to furnish the Society every day
[they met once a week] with three or four considerable experiments"

"The registers of the Royal Society testify to the eagerness with which Hooke hurried from one inquiry to another with brilliant but inconclusive results. Among those which early engaged his attention were the nature of the air, its function in respiration and combustion, specific weights, the law of falling bodies, the improvement of land-carriage and diving bells, methods of telegraphy and the relations of barometrical readings to changes in the weather. He measured the vibrations of a pendulum two hundred feet long attached to the steeple of St. Paul; invented a useful machine for cutting the teeth of watch-wheels; fixed the thermometer zero at freezing-point of water; and ascertained (in July I664) the number of vibrations corresponding to musical notes"
Yeah, I stopped reading when he started inventing baseless conspiracy theories of ulterior motives to justify normal chargeback loss mitigation.
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Lets be honest: if you can copy and paste from w3 schools you can probably be a front end web developer.
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Well, I would say we are learning how such a test really has to look.

In a sense it‘s like we are learning what it should look like at a time.

Additionally, humans make mistakes, too, especially when they are too lazy to think.

Currently the test is still good enough. But in the long term, we should change it to test for transfer learning:

Given a new task that is designed to be sufficiently complex and different from known tasks, how well does the AI do? It will require creativity to design those tests. But we‘re still far from that.
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New leadership is now showing its utter incompetence in handling the Covid crisis (official death numbers are severely undercounted, 3x-30x; hospitals are full). It is not nearly as good as their impression they project outside the country.
This article reminded me of a book by Ed Catmull (one of the founders of Pixar) called Creativity, Inc. The book is essentially about how Pixar has worked to foster creativity in a company where their business model pretty much relies on it. There are also some interesting Steve Jobs tidbits as well. I didn't really like the second half of the book, but the first half was fantastic!

From my personal experience, I think the major thing that always stymied creativity for me was office politics. Having to constantly watch your back for someone with a knife can really drain your energy from just, you know, doing a job you otherwise enjoy.
I had that thought too, and my immediate next thought was that the value isn't in knowing the sentences, but in being able to put them together usefully.
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