skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. You really have to be here to believe the extent to which the average Joe on the street believes they'll be able to have their cake and eat it after this is settled.

What's bizarre is that when challenged on how ridiculous that is, they'll immediately accept it as rational before saying "well we voted out anyway so it doesn't matter".
>This is what everyone expected when leaving the EU single market.

Actually we were repeatedly told otherwise. Not that I believed any of it.
Their dedication and mental stamina (maintaining focus over multiple long games) is a big factor.

Their proficiency is like any game that you might practice to extreme: whether speed-cubing or competitive video games. Getting really good (fast), even for simple games like Tetris, Solitaire or Minesweeper is just training your brain to quickly recognise some very specific patterns.
There are lots of recipes out there that call for 1/4 teaspoon of some kind of spice. That's easy to measure if you have the typical 1/4tsp, 1/2tsp, 1tsp, and 1TBS set. Not so easy on a low-cost kitchen scale (that still costs more than the spoon set!) that can't measure 0.6 grams accurately. So you need to get specialized equipment anyway.
Rickdiculously Easy CTF
I'm not going to summarize classic equational reasoning (with it's deep connection to algebraic geometry and whatnot) here in a single HN post ;) I can point you to some classic works/authors in the field, though (and I'm sure some fellow HNers can provide some more): Gauss, Knuth, Bendix, Gröbner, Buchberger, Bachmaier, Euclid, Ganzinger, Davis, Putnam, Robinson, and Colmerauer for Prolog 2. There are also category theory papers relevant to reasoning about data structures, and of course Damas, Hindley, Miller for type theories. The way is the goal here.
It would make sense to train a different model, specifically to pass the Turing test that‘s built on top of GPT-3. Perhaps by having humans actually have those conversations. Perhaps somebody could make a game out of it where humans can pretend to be GPT-3 as well and you have a large number of conversations along with the outcomes.

It would learn to not know too much, to make the conversation fluent, to perhaps get bored after some time.
Yes. Baroque Cycle is a true monster and varies in quality but I stuck with it for superb perspective on the birth of the modern age, and some of leading scientific rivalries of the time (e.g. Newton vs. Leibniz). As well as the beginnings of science, it also considers the creation of modern finance systems.

At the risk of opening up the standard argument about the quality of the endings in Stephenson's books, I thought that the [spoiler-omitted: technology] conclusion of the third book in the cycle, although not particularly dramatic, is an excellent counterpart to the [spoiler-omitted: superstition] beginning of the first book.
I've used Keep extensively, but have been slowly migrating over to Notion as I need more structure than what tags in Keep can afford me.

The problem is probably me, I save a lot of stuff. But, Keep has become sluggish as a result. I'm not great at utilising tags, so oftentimes I'll just scroll through "everything" (sometimes narrowed by say searching for "images") and I have pretty decent visual memory so I'll readily find the thing I'm looking for just because things have the right shape (even text).

Notion is sluggish with embeds. It doesn't deal with the visual information I store very well either. This might be a Firefox thing.

Have used Evernote too, in the past. The problem with that is that it doesn't at all mirror my mental model of how things relate to one another. Granted, neither does Notion nor Keep.

For me, things start out flat (Keep) and then they nest (Notion) but I also have interrelationships, and need pointers between things. Sometimes, I just want to explore the "web" of how things connect but I've never encountered a system that affords me different "cameras" to explore my curated content.

I do not have the energy to build it though.
ah, yes, farther down that wikipedia page that is mentioned... Never heard of it before.

This is worth a read:
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/what-dix...
> ...recovered from it like from a normal cold, so did the British prime minister

…say what? He was in intensive care.
> Which is bad enough in general, but in this case there are political implications, so no matter what conclusion you reach from doing that, the people who want the opposite conclusion can accuse you of choosing the wrong factors and add enough of their own to lead where they prefer. If you only add factors that all point in a single direction you can reach any conclusion you want, but if you let each side keep adding factors in their favor indefinitely then you exceed the limits of statistical significance before either side runs out of factors in their favor.

This is my point. When people cherry pick statistics to "prove" their point, it's easy to cherry pick other statistics that disprove that point. Reality is incredibly complex, but even relatively smarter people seem unable to discuss it accordingly, and also seem unable to realize they are debating in an unintelligent/dishonest manner, *while calling their adversary in the argument "stupid". It's interesting to observe human behavior, particularly self-perception.

> But it's also important to notice that this is only a statistical problem. It means that statistics can't really tell you what happens in the aggregate, but that doesn't mean you can't investigate individual cases. If you have an email from the hiring manager saying not to hire you because you're black, you shouldn't need statistics to win that lawsuit. So if that sort of thing is prevalent then prove the individual cases, and keep doing that until it's not.

I agree - dealing with precise details of individual cases is superior. But people on both sides of "the argument" seem intent on broadcasting mistruths based on cherry picked statistics (dimensions of reality, etc), which is how we end up in these silly, never ending arguments, which increases polarization, which begets more silly argument, and around and around we go.

Or, we could discuss reality as it is, to the best of our ability. The way I think about things, I believe more intelligent people should take that burden upon themselves, because they have greater ability to do so. If their argument is just and accurate, they should be able to win the argument, should they not? And yet, they seem to insist on sticking to a disingenuous rhetoric approach, and finding holes in these arguments is very easy so the fight never ends.
What have they made since? Forestall makes plays now doesn't he? I don't know the other 2 of the top of my head
That’s all Brussel’s fault!
(/s, obviously, but many Brits really think this way).
I seem to remember that Ireland was planning on opening up more direct shipping routes to mainland Europe.
Bit difficult when they control the press.
How many double blind experiments did you do with a control group with/without masks? O2 sat levels from any tests I've seen aren't affected by masks, so I'm more than a bit skeptical here.
> Take Sweden as an example. We haven't heard any news on Sweden for a while, which can only mean that they must be doing well now and looking at their curves they did flatten indeed and their death counts are drastically going down.

There's been a lot of news on Sweden.

Last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-c...

Just a couple of days ago: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sweden-covid-coronavirus-deaths...

Daily deaths have gone down, but Sweden remains the 5th worse with overall deaths per capita in the world. It will be interesting to see how the Swedish strategy plays out when the summer ends.
That's what happens in Switzerland. See payot.ch, galaxus.ch, and ceedee.ch. Local jobs for local purchases. Nice concept.

Also: the products are more expensive, which is what it costs for your neighbor to have a job and not unemployment.
Does your daily routine include a bit of exercising or/and walking? What's your daily walking distances?

I am asking because some post-pneumonia (non-COVID) patients tend to have temporary shortage of breath/fatigue syndromes. And a good way to get rid of them is to get some elementary body movements like relaxed walking among tree alleys. Nothing crazy, just comfortable stress-less motion.

It helps to clear up the lungs and balance the immune response.

I wonder if this information can be of any help in your situation.
Not being sarcastic, but I know some people with less coherent writing than this. A lot of people struggle to make a point, use vague language, or wander in and out of topics quite easily.
Python got me an interview at Google
Essentially, a struggle session? Yes, I could see how this would be beneficial to those wishing to establish moral superiority.
Amazon solved a fairly large problem with retailers here. They were shit and abusive to the customers. It’ll just slip back to the status quo again if we lose amazon dominance I hate to say.

I’d rather prefer it if that wasn’t the case for ref but I know British culture well enough to know that we’re lazy and selfish.
Excellent analogy, actually.
You can skip first step. Those certs are HR toilet paper. I used mine to placate my mum, she in turn rubbed Stanford/UM diplomas into our overly inquisitive aunts faces.
In the UK, Amazon had >30% of all e-commerce marketshare in 2019. I've seen the huge volumes of Amazon packages that get delivered to my building. Especially during the pandemic lockdown!
Is there a term for the casual dismissal of breakthrough technologies and ever-moving goalposts for what is considered impressive?
We tried that before and it didn't work out too well.
The way my British friends told me, nobody really took the brexit vote seriously and treated it like a Lord Buckethead, Boaty McBoat Face joke.

At least until the mic dropped and the consequences of their joke vote became clear.
I don't think so.
This is of course a philosophical point but without some underlying thing we can call "intelligence" this will never be more than a quirk. When something/someone is pretending to be something they are not, this hoax will sooner or later fall apart. If a computer can trick you into thinking you are having a conversation with a real human by optimizing for the common things people will try when playing the Turing test (like common knowledge, persistence between questions, non-sense questions etc) you gain nothing in the quest for AI. One may find some use with a fluffing machine that can output almost coherent jumble that a human may or may not need to go over depending on the use case.
I mean it was your decision and you have to live with the critics. There are endless ToDo or note taking app monetization schemes even if the core app is oss. I am sorry but the way you handled it just rubs me the wrong way. I was an early user of notable and I for one have no problem with working around bugs in oss. If I pay for software I expect it to be working as it supposed to be and notable is just not.

If I have a look at future features I just know that you will put sync behind a paywall or a proprietary subscription service. You took the merit of the oss community took the fame and now you are running with it hoping to make some bucks.
Then you probably don't know what 'consciousness' means, because none of these processes give an explanation as to why or how qualia arise.

Also, "trial-and-error stateful processing" is so vague and broad that I don't feel that it meaningfully describes anything more than 'computation'.
> Creating a billion dollars of incremental value at a startup yields untold riches for the entrepreneurs behind the venture. Creating a billion dollars of incremental value within a large corporation may be recognized, but the rewards are nowhere near the same level as a startup.

Isn't this the most obvious reason? If you have an idea and the capabilities to develop it for your own gain, why would you do it so the shareholders of your old company can buy a new yacht, while you struggle to buy an apartment?
I agree with the sentiment, but it's a crowded market that if there was an easy, elegant solution that met everyone's needs we'd already have some leaders out there. Maybe we already do. My person preference is Notion at the moment.
Again, anecdotally. But - I am a lifelong severe asthmatic. As a kid I was prevented from all running activity. It was the 80s. At 23 I decided, against all advice, to start running. It is now 25 years later and I have run 360 days a year all that time. I still have asthma, but it's just this annoying thing, like hands that grip my lungs a bit. When I get the flu ( I had a terrible flu in January this year ) I do not stop running if I have low/no fever. Running for me is just a walk to others as I do it every day. Since Covid started, so I don't wheeze and sneeze and terrify people and become a social pariah, I take one puff Budesonide, one singulair and a reactine every day. I now have zero asthma and my nasal rhinitis is 70% reduced. (no sniffles just one closed passage as I've had my whole life). I am not recommending anything but building a relationship between my experience, yours and the discussion about this pandemic flu. What is missing from all of these anecdotes is context. This is mine. I am an extremely disciplined runner, I stretch every day ( I have scoliosis which requires it so I remain mostly pain free), I run a Decolinization Think Tank and I live in the Western World and am white and currently upper middle class. I grew up in a trailer with violent neglectful parents and so I also was forced to go through a decade of self work and radical subjectivity was the product . This is my subjectivity, my context and it is directly related to how I recover from disease - or do not. We need numbers and statistics and context.
This line of thinking ends up being applied only to chess, while what you are saying is true about most fields that need human expertise and judgement.

LeBron James is famous for being able to remember every shot he makes. There are cricketers who can tell you ball-by-ball plays from memory. Roger Federer remembers most of his matches. I have seen technical founders have an uncanny ability to 'remember' their code bases and figure out what to change. Boxers remember fights and sparring sessions in crazy detail. Mathematicians can do the same with papers they read ages ago.

I feel that memory and understanding co-evolve. The more you understand something, the better you remember it. The more knowledge you are able to memorize, the better you are able to understand and assimilate and create new ideas.

I am commenting because I have seen several smart people give this line about chess being about memory without realizing their professional expertise involves a great deal of memory too. In my experience, this is probably because when kids play chess, there is always this one kid trying to memorize opening and dazzle other people. Ultimately, those kids do not go on to become grandmasters. But yet, the people who lose to them think they lost because they did not memorize an opening.
> You have to be able to query the agent.

That's what the "reply" button is for.
Which is exactly why I would advise OP against trying to convert their teaspoons into grams. Unless they're very careful, they're bound to get inaccurate results.

As it happens, baking soda has a density of 2.2g/cm^3. But the powdered form contains lots of air between the granules, so the actual density comes down to somewhere just above the density of water. Using 3g instead of 2.5g in a recipe, though, will yield very different results.
Do you mean the effects of different forms of economic planning (centralized/decentralized) and democratic decision making? No, there is no research or data available, at all.
I think at casual levels chess is mostly about carefully parrying, till the opponent makes a mistake, perhaps alertness is more important than memorising patterns at that level..

There is also the The Theory of Steinitz, that says that one can only win in chess as a result of opponent's mistakes.
That's just nostalgia, electronic communication is in many ways better than face to face, even if it is worse in others. Electronic communication allows you to communicate with the specialist in your field, located in the other side of the world. It is constantly available thanks to smartphones. If you have a great idea, you can share it immediately, if your phone is waterproof, you don't even need to leave your shower. You can ask question and get answer within seconds when you are working on your subject.

Pandemic aside, our "newest adult generation" still can meet in real life. But they are now able to take advantage of both electronic and face-to-face communication with a level of expertise older generations don't have, and better manage potential distractions.

I don't worry about them, not on that subject anyways. They are perfectly able to understand the beauties in life, like every human did since humans existed. It is just that times change and people adapt.
This is a nice, interesting, useful article, but the title is garbage.

Step 1: Buy some WS2812B strips.

You're not building the strips. You're building the control infrastructure.
Thank you for coming to my defence so perfectly.

I might have been tempted to veer off into a discussion about panpsychism (because it's so fascinating) but this is a much stronger example.
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> Unfortunately, without a proven treatment, there isn't a lot else for doctors to do.

Figure out a treatment? Or at least establish what is actually wrong?
I applaud your effort. Programmers, of all people, should understand the effect that language has on shaping thoughts.

My biggest question is - why couple a new programming language and the translation system? Either system alone would be difficult to get a foothold. Wouldn't you be better off picking an existing programming language that you really like - one with good semantics and lots of libraries - and implementing the translation system on top of that? Some sort of Lisp would seem to be a natural fit. What does your language offer to someone who is already comfortable with English-based programming languages?

(sorry for double-commenting, but I didn't want to start a merged thread for two very different topics)
Does anyone know what could be a specific reason leading to this change? I mean, deeper than "no single market", what would prevent Amazon from running the same operation, potentially with slightly higher fees to offset relevant transport/import taxes. They ran marketplaces at crazy prices before, like shipping to Australia before local distribution centres.
Oh yeah, and the current pandemic and its economic effects aren't helping the UK's brexit issues.
Did anyone think it did?
But at that moment, when you create specialized prompt to get a specialized result, aren't you doing most of the work for it.
Also, the term "Guy" which is an eponym for Guy Fawkes
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy#Etymology_1
The amount of notion spam on the internet is pretty remarkable.

Every year...there's a new FOTM note taking app, but this post hit the nail on the head....they are all absolutely awful and cater to serial movers.
> and our women with their sophisticated accents

I also feel particularly terrible for women across Europe who will less often be catcalled by drunken Brits. It’s really the end of an era.
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In french, a waste container is called "une poubelle". From the name of the prefect Eugène Poubelle who decided the collection of waste in Paris in 1884.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poubelle
Energy IS electricity, and to create a Lightbulp you NEED energy, it's exactly the same.

For your vacation trip you NEED energie in form of food an fuel, the vehicle you travel in, is made by food and fuel...exacly the same.

If the transport company accept your fuel (or workforce witch again is fulled by energie (your food)) as payment, you exchanged energie to energie, probably they dont and thats why you use a exchangemedium called money.

EDIT: You dont have to messure anything, if you need light exchange energy to light, travel exchange fuel to distance, working body food to (body)-energy. To make stuff you calculate the sum of the energie needed for, and thats the price of the product, sure exeptions like apple exists ;)
Once there was a rocket there
In Zaire, in Zaire
Hypergolic fuel there
In Zaire, in Zaire

The difference in runs between Lumumba (cancelled after the first season) and Mobutu (32 seasons) shows that, at least during the cold war, playing courtier may have been a dominant strategy over attempting to remain undomesticated.
Amazon might end free shipping to Ireland from amazon.co.uk and start doing it from amazon.de instead.

This switch was done to a number of other European countries within the last decade (inc. Finland).

edit: OTOH, I just realized Ireland uses the UK electrical plug, which complicates buying electric stuff from amazon.de a bit...
What's the problem with unsafe? Isn't the whole point to isolate the unsafe behavior into specific parts of the code?
Markdown and similar markup languages is the perfect note taking solution.
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At what bitrate though? At 1 MB/s that’s 400 TB, which is nothing to sneeze at.
Nothing beats plaintext.
Recent research across various specialisations just indicates that being good at mensa tests largely only correlates to being good at mensa tests.
Yes, "bombshell" is a pretty silly way of putting it. Any business with an even semi-competent leadership has been planning on the assumption that these types of things will be gone and are mitigating the issues as far as they can.
The IQ test was only ever meant to see if someone was 'lacking' on the cognitive side of things, it was never meant to be a test for how smart people are!

It's a terrible test to be judging intelligence from!
Quite interesting, but couldn't find a sample sound.
I'm curious to try this out, but I can't justify spending $97 for Nerva without any kind of trial period. A promise of a full refund isn't enough, unfortunately.
Because it's still entirely unclear what the arrangements for trade will be, despite the fact that the transition agreement ends on 31st December. For example, the UK government are planning a number of huge lorry parks near the English Channel crossings to deal with new customs arrangements, whatever they may be, but they've only bought one location so far: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/12/local-anger...

Edit: to be clearer about what my point is, Amazon relies enormously on friction-free shipping. It might make more sense for them to plan not to ship across a border for a while until it becomes clear what the logistics will be of shipping across that border, rather than guessing what it will be like and getting it horribly wrong. The possible outcomes range from a decent free-trade agreement with minimal disruption (although that seems vanishingly unlikely now) to a hard Brexit (i.e. no agreement) and an immediate sharp stop to frictionless cross-border trade.
No. This is like saying that if today is not raining, a rainy day is coming
> Of course, the human can simply lend their name to the robot.

That could have consequences for their reputation, though.
I already run Sway on an old laptop. It is faster than my modern Windows gaming PC for most tasks and apps.
There are services that take delivery in newry (northern ireland) and deliver to dublin. Presumably, they'll still work. Shipping to ireland often costs more anyway, and not everything ships outside the UK.
The paperwork is going to be a nightmare. Why wouldn't they change?
AFAIK, aluminium smelters would have significant issues if their pots overly cooled. OTOH, their massive energy consumption can be significantly modulated which is often used for grid load stabilization.