skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hügelkultur is fascinating. Early this year, my kid and I built an 8'x4'x2' Hügelkultur raised bed for vegetables. We're fortunate to have some fallen trees and rotting logs in the back of the yard, and we were able to fill the first foot of the bed with this debris, then regular soil and compost.

The plants are thriving and producing plenty of edibles, and now I'm thinking about building a second one.

The most interesting discovery is that the bed seems not to require much moisture. I was watering it every day for a while, until it seemed that it was turning into a big mud pit, so I stopped, and the plants have continued to thrive.

I also built a drip irrigation system into the bed, very easy to do actually, but have not turned it on for the same reason. The ecosystem seems to retain water and is not draining moisture into the ground nearly as much as I first anticipated.

If you build a raised bed, it's a good idea to put in 1/4" (1 cm) metal mesh at the bottom and up the sides a bit, to discourage burrowing creatures. Then add a layer of cardboard (old pizza boxes or shipping boxes work fine), followed by your Hügelkultur logs and branches, and finally some decent organic raised bed soil and quality compost.

Another lesson: this system is heavy. Make sure you use strong wood and solid construction techniques. To do it again, I would add more reinforcing beams, because a couple of the side panels are starting to bulge a bit. I will be patching them with struts later this year, probably.

Another interesting discovery: Hügelkultur is conducive to slime molds. I noticed this weird, alien life form appearing overnight and had to ask in a gardening forum: yellowish domes of soft, fungus-like stuff. It turns out to be Fuligo septica, commonly known as dog vomit slime mold (any players of Hack out there?). It's harmless and even beneficial, but looks horrible.

I've started using Hügelkultur in my patio buckets and ceramic pots as well; half the pot gets the rotting sticks, then top it off with dirt. Thus far, these pots are doing very well.

In this era of uncertainty, growing your own food is a great idea, and it's good to see such brilliant ideas as Hügelkultur and square-foot gardening being widely disseminated.

Probably next year we're getting chickens.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septica
I assume you are asking about the ones in the US system (because in the system like India and my country, everyone who finishes the med school are assigned rotational spots without exception). From what little I observed (almost all of the people I know get into residency in the 3-5 years of trying), some decide to become physician assistants, some medical scribes or some chose pharmacy school. After studying medicine for 4 years or more, one has sufficient knowledge about medicine to branch into similar professions like those.
It is a politician's modus operandi/job to mislead in order to achieve political goals. It would have been the job of the press to point out the problems and the job of the public to form a qualified opinion.

Only the politicians did their jobs, unfortunately...

(And yes, I'm a cynic)
It often depends on what software you are writing. Writing a web service? Sure, you can kill the process. You only affect that 1 request and the user can retry and other users are unaffected. Writing a server that maintains state for multiple realtime clients? Or a user facing program? If an error can be safely constrained, it can be preferable to log the error but keep the application running.
Except for the Epstein's of this world (prince Andrew, pope,Charles to name a few!)
when you describe someone as being smart, presumably you are refereeing to an attribute that is innate. You can study smarter, but this does not make you smarter but rather more efficient at whatever task you are trying to study. For it to make you smarter would require such techniques to lead to a permanent rise of IQ, which has not been shown to be the case. Psychologists have spent a long time trying to find ways to raise IQ and have failed, according to Dr. Jordan Peterson.
Is Erlang about to be the next big thing due to companies unable to use Huawei and instead going with Ericsson for 5G deployment?
Deserves much more than that: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=virus+pandemic+wildlife+destructio...
I have a 7yo son so we go out pretty much every day to the park. I haven't tracked anything but ballparking it from the distance and how long we are out I probably walk around 2-3 miles a day. Some of that will be a light jog while kicking a ball around or catching frisbee.

I have had a few gentle runs as well for 5-7 miles but as previously mentioned they are exhausting me right now and exacerbating my anxiety about the impact COVID has had to my body so I have cut them out for the most part and sticking to gentler exercise with my son.

I am hoping all of this is made worse by the added stress of life right now. I am on holiday for the next few weeks so looking forward to a change of scenery and less day to day responsibilities.
I have that similar feeling, I don't want a bunch of paper around, but writing on paper is just SUPERIOR to anything digital, as it's so much easier to freeform write, add sketches, etc. That's why a bought (several sizes now) a Rocketbook. Paperish, can write/draw, easy to digitize and reusable.
MaxDB too, named after is son Max
Maybe this is a dumb question, because you seem like someone who thinks in a radically different way to me. But why would you try and use GPT-2 to help you write better English versus actually learn to become a better writer yourself?

I say this as someone who reads extensively and is considered a "good" writer and have won prizes before for my writing. I became a better writer through reading more books (especially classic literature) and writing more. Cribbing off a computer algorithm and copying and pasting seems like it would just be hurting your own growth, as well as being lazy to boot.
I gave up with the commercial and open source offerings and instead just wrote my own solution.

All notes are markdown, stored in a SQLite DB with full text search. It has a simple frontend and you can drag/drop images onto the editor and it will upload them.

To facilitate quick note taking I wrote a FUSE driver for it and have bound CMD+N to open a command line scratchpad window (I use i3wm) where I can write and edit notes using conventional *nix tooling.

It's not perfect, nor slick, but it works for me.
I'll take issue with this quote: "This is a problem because research has shown that the excitement and fun induced by novel activities can cause a positive temporal effect on test scores - a placebo effect."

This is not a placebo effect. Doing a variety of things does make you smarter. If I learn to play chess, there is a very real effect. From there, you have diminishing returns on investment. If I play chess for 4 hours per day, then it crowds out other, more productive activities.

There is a perceived mystique to chess, but it's no different then checkers, contemporary German game geek games, or any of a range of other strategic games. People who play such games a lot will be better players when placed in a novel game (or a real-life situation which requires the same type of strategic thinking).

And such games are no different than a broader set of other cognitively-engaging activities, be that logic puzzles, editing Youtube videos, or STEM/maker activities.

In most activities, there's an initial surge of growth (so long as I do it for long enough to learn something -- not a one-hour thing I forget after a few months), followed by rapidly diminishing returns, but that's far from universal. In programming, for example, that surge comes when people start to think algorithmically (e.g. in terms of big-O notation), not when learning to order operations. In reading/writing, that comes when people start to really think through audiences, structure of text, etc.
chair of the National Infection Prevention and Control Committee through the Ministry of Health, Singapore (2013 -),)

To the rest of the world, he is the face of Singapore's Covid response. Based on what I've read he was influential (behind the scenes perhaps?) in Singapore's response...and the reason why your government didn't require masks till after your flare up.

His advice seems to have been taken very seriously in other countries (not requiring masks, not closing schools).
you could still deal with that. one option would be to just go for the outcome with the highest percentage, instead of the simple 50% majority.
we're not far from coccinelle-ing the codebase
Around 35% in Germany, comparable to the US. Couldn't find any statistics for the entire EU, where did you get <10% from?

https://www.emarketer.com/content/amazon-remains-the-undispu...

https://www.onlinehaendler-news.de/online-handel/marktplaetz...
And swiss prices are absolutely outrageous. In addition to lots of taxes and duties on certain goods, labour prices in switzerland are sky-high, so visiting a retailer there is usually more expensive than a short shopping trip to France/Germany/Italy...
That 48PB is mostly just old video game roms and isos though
I had fatigue for about 3 month after a bout with mono (mid 30s). Lost 15 kg, had to restart running from scratch after running 10k @2 times a week for years. It was scary, the doctors said there is no treatment just optimising healthy living and hoping it goes away.

Ever since this started I could not understand the people here on HN arguing there is no proof that there could be long term effects. Now we have proof of the opposite and they are out in force marginalising (its just a few people) to keep their own fears contained.
Yet the pro-brexit party is still in power, so it seems the majority still wants brexit or at least isn't willing to put their money where their mouth is.
I don't know how it would work, but the legal border of the EU customs union would be the NI/RoI border, but with some extra paperwork meaning, in practise, the border is the Irish Sea.

Maybe asking a friend in Belfast to forward a parcel to Dublin will continue without any checks, but a parcel forwarding service is unlikely to go unnoticed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_and_the_Irish_border#20...
Totally agree. I am too small of an expert to provide a statically representative numbers. Medicine is my hobby, not a trade by day.

Instead, I'm using a more algebraic, inter-disciplinary approach to medicine trying to infer the outcomes in symbolic form, just like the algebra does. Sorry for non-conventional approach, I clearly understand it goes against the usual expectations of the day. To make things more weird, I do some practice too, including the light surgeries.

>I take one puff Budesonide, one singulair and a reactine every day

In this way you shape the immune response to not attack your tissues. This reduces (or even eliminates) the manifestations of asthma, but does not heal the root cause of it.

Physical activities probably tend to reduce the asthma manifestations too.

Regarding possible healing solution: it is a tough situation as the true reasons of this illness lie inside the genetic code. And this code is hard to change, especially for a grown-up organism (currently it is thought as impossible, though prominent things like CRISP do exist). In this way, asthma is considered impossible to cure.

Regarding COVID: it is not a genetic illness, so it is possible to cure.

So this is my context. Pure algebra with bits of physics, chemistry and biology.
I don't think it has to be secretive. I think it should be an objective that is out there for others to aim for with very public and open policies regarding qualifications and on-going membership. When you make something secretive and hide all the rules around it, you are much more likely going to wind up with salty employees when (not if) they discover its existence.

If you are in an organization filled with vindictive employees, I recommend terminating them all if you have the power, or finding a new place to work. Not everyone can be part of the A-team. Trying to constantly appease those who feel entitled to the highest levels of the software engineering ivory tower will never end in a good outcome for the organization and will dis-incentivize those who actually bust their ass every day.
Twitter reveals that hackers downloaded data from eight compromised accounts
Yes it's definitly snappy'er than X11 but i had some problems with hanging/blank windows last time i use'd it.
> 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.

Still, nothing beats the cluelessness of pro-brexit British expats when they are faced with the consequences of what they demanded.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/brexit-voting-pats-sp...
AWS IAM policy generator with fluent interface
https://github.com/foambubble/foam

Roam-like note taking app using VS Code. Still early days but has momentum.

Been using it for a week for some project docs, and so far I like it.
Give it time. Much like the average smoker, the regret doesn’t really kick in until you’re well up shit creek without a paddle.
I think that it would be good for this to have questions about HTTP as well, such as status codes, caching, and content negotiation.
Is it? The denial in Europe is currently that the flooding of the labor market with Eastern European workers has no consequences for the common man.

Countries have been sold out to the stock markets for the last two decades. It is refreshing that the UK is the first to recognize this officially.
I think Max might count, but Maria would be weird if it wasn't named after someone...
MySQL too, after another daughter, My.

Edit: oh it's in the article too.
Of all things implied by Brexit, making business harder for AMZN and their sellers might end up boosting UK retail. Or maybe not, as everyone has to do the customs themselves. To me, characterizing this as a "bombshell" sounds like satire, ie mocking a proverbial Brexiteer sitting at home all day and ordering things on Amazon. OTOH, it's not plausible that this undertone could've been missed by Brits of all people.
A double twist is that in the original Hungarian his name is Élő that means "Live". For the first few decades of hearing "Élő"-score, I just assumed it meant your "live" score, as in your score at the current time. I wonder if others had that confusion too.
Plot twist, all of these HN comments were generated by GPT-3, including this one... dun, dun, dahhh.
I didn't know that, so thanks for pointing it out. I've never used AMPL, but have read plenty of code written in similar mathematical modeling languages (AIMMS, GAMS...etc).
V8-lite offers a ~25% reduction in memory usage at best, which is still one or two orders of magnitude more than engines like QuickJS. And you still have to deal with the massively slow and complex build.
> I don't think that you can conclude that humans learn more efficiency based on just quantity of data.

You are correct. My main argument was that in-distribution learning is not enough. You can's fix that problem with more data as many responses to my comment seem to assume.

I think out-distribution leaning and small data requirement are connected. If agent can understand the concept separate from the chain leading from sensory inputs, it can understand what it's doing in novel situation even without examples.
Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Fiction" is one of the best treatments I've read on this topic.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane...
That doesn't seem to be accurate. First, Eskimos and Inuits are not necessarily referring to the same people, and Eskimo seems to come from Algonquian and means "snowshoe-netter" or "to net snowshoes", at least as far as I gather from some quick searching.
Galaxus’s is expanding in Germany.
I think there are other semi specialised retailers like Fnac , interdiscount, Mediamarkt that have local shops and shipping.
Switzerland is in the single market. The UK loses access to the single market on January the 1st so that comparison doesn't stand up.
Most of these are great. Taco Bell makes sense to me however - I didn't expect to buy bells there. If it had been named after a Melanie Taco or similar, THAT would've been notable.

My contribution: Lake Mountain in Victoria!

"There is no lake at Lake Mountain, the area was named after George Lake, who was the Surveyor-General of the area including the mountain."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mountain_(Victoria)
I’d say a third of the stuff ships. Sometimes I can find the item locally for a comparable price, but sometimes I’m SOL. It could be better but it also forces me to reevaluate how much I really need something, and reduce on clutter.
I'll take a look at Jira, if you like how they handle this they probably have got the logic figured out well already.
That's a useless hack at the time. You could generate your own credit card numbers back then using a formula. The name/expiry date or address were not used for verification.

So ordering from a fake credit card was easy. Finding the drop shipping location was the hard part.
The color #663399 is named "rebeccapurple", after Rebecca Meyer, who passed away at age 6. https://css-tricks.com/rebbeccapurple-663399/

was unexpected to me when i first learned CSS, and now is a bittersweet memory i gladly pass on.
It's even more interesting from the perspective of a non-native english speaker who learned reading and speaking (english) in a mixed fashion. From my personal experience my quickest progress was not made during the systematic learning from school/univ etc, where grammar / structures were taught, but rather from watching movies/conversation/gaming etc. In those scenarios I didn't "need" to have a concrete understanding of the precise meaning. A very vague and abstract idea is more than enough to complete my correct task, may it be gaming/understanding plots/clue-finding etc. In the next occurrence, I simply "interpolate", or more like filling blanks with equally vague words. As time goes by it just gets more accurate, even without understanding the concept precisely.
That is true of Sandwich (earl of) tho, which I find fun.
That's nice. I used to like taking notes on Notion. But one day, I got annoyed when I was not able to quickly search an old note as it was nested under some other note. Took a while for me to realize and make sense of that.
That's actually fine. Look at this Twitter post:

https://nitter.net/kleptid/status/1284098635689611264#m

While the human is doing most of the work, this looks more like teaching another human than coding in a formally specified, machine-parseable programming language.

On one hand, this could decrease the barrier of entry to programming. On the other hand, it seems to leverage (and train) the same skills that are needed to express ideas clearly to humans, which is arguably much more applicable than learning a traditional programming language.
Is it the average Joe, or is it the 95th percentile idiot that happens to get attention?
They commercialize the API. The model is so large you can't run it on a single GPU, AFAIK. OpenAI developed an infrastructure to run the model efficiently. So many companies would rather use API than deploy the model on their own hardware.

They will probably release the baseline model, not model optimized for deployment. There are many optimizations possible such as precision reduction, pruning, distillation, and they don't have to share these optimizations.

> a fast Google search yielded no results and I'm curious.

List of pre-trained models on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/models

You can see some of them are prefixed with "google". Also ALBERT is from Google Research.

That's just natural language processing, I dunno what they have in other fields.
I dunno, if you would prefer that all your political opponents would drop dead, and your political opponents number > 50% of the population, then you do indeed put a negative net value on human life.
It correlates with education, income, etc. because it serves basically as a literacy test. (As in, very low IQ means you fail at most measurable things.) Once you condition on IQ>110, the correlation disappears.
I've tried Evernote, Apple Notes, the Remarkable Tablet, vimwiki, and I keep going back to handwritten notes on paper.

My current workflow for notes is: I take notes on the notes app on the iPhone or my Mac if I don't have my A4 Moleskin notebook handy. And then I transcribe the notes on the Moleskin whenever I can. Another recent addition I have to this workflow is a Brother VC-500W label printer. I use it to print QRcode stickers for URLs that I stick on my notebook.
Which isn't too bad on electronics (including camera equipment and such) where Swiss prices are quite reasonable.

Now for the rest...
(note that of the many possible definitions of intelligence, I'm using IQ here to align with research terminology)

There are definitely activities that have been shown to increase IQ, even when attempting to correct for confounders, although not by a dramatic amount.

For example, spending an additional year in school increases IQ by 1-5 points, depending on which study you believe. [0]
Similarly, having a healthy diet as a child "increases" IQ, although you could equivalently phrase it as malnutrition decreasing IQ.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brainstorm/201806/ho...
Yeah that’s what I was thinking when he started with the nonsensical questions, like “how many eyes does a foot have?” No (non-blind) human would need language input to learn this fact. Makes me wonder if anyone is working on large-scale architectures that can ingest multiple types of data and correlate them to make predictions.
To give a sense of how accurate that estimate is, consider this reference:

"In other words, the human body sends 11 million bits per second to the brain for processing, yet the conscious mind seems to be able to process only 50 bits per second."

https://www.britannica.com/science/information-theory/Physio...
The 52% idiot.
Adguard dns looks great, anyone use it and is there a privacy issue?
What would be the timeframe over which one would make a profit? Our global financial system is based on the 30 year U.S. Treasury bond. There are no economic incentives to plan beyond 30 years.
I don’t think there is duty on most things. VAT is 7.7%. What jacks up the price is retailers thinking « this is Switzerland, people are used to pay through the nose so why not make an extra 20% »

What irks me the most is companies that have no presence in CH but who will ship to CH, and when you go to their website everything is 20–30% more expensive compared to their .de or .fr store (where vat is 20%!). Even though shipping is extra, and it all ships from the same warehouse in Germany or Ireland. Like misterspecs, or revolutioncycles.
Still, there are some expectations from customer that limit the product's innovation. Let's take Iphone, from the first version to latest one customers expect a slim phone with touch screen.

Customers want "this product but better", that the innovation will be limited around that product's initial characteristics.

Of course another line of product can be independently developed, but it's riskier as customers may or may not want that kind of product.
Some of these skills (I would add: patience, focus, controlling anger, planning a few steps ahead) definitely transfer and are especially valuable to teach to children. But all these apply at the beginning already, for champion-level play the famous Morphy quote applies:

"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
XZ used to be the compression format for many Linux packages in many distros (at least Arch based) and has only lately been replaced by ZStd. How do you come to the conclusion that xz is barely used?
I remember reading somewhere that some of them still tried to connect to any "open" WiFi network they could find
I do quite a few little edits too, but I don't often write long comments, so I haven't seen this behaviour.