skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't Amazon not deliver to Switzerland or something? I think I heard that Swiss people for example can't order from Amazon.co.jp. Meanwhile I can order from Amazon.co.jp to Finland and Amazon (or DHL) handles everything from shipping to VAT and to customs declaration.
Value is there until it isn't. A lot of the value here comes from its potential rather than its current use
Probably not very hard, but it will cost 10x more than regular clothes. Current process is highly efficient and produces thousands of units per day with a dozen of low skilled workers. Whatever is not automated (and it's not much) benefits from dirt cheap labour in Bangladesh or Vietnam.

Your sewing robot will make a dozen of units per day and cost hundreds of thousands. Monthly salary of just several sw engineers from SV is probably greater than total operational expenses of a medium-sized factory in India for a year.
There were people on the TV the next morning all "I didn't think my vote would count" or "I just wanted to tell the government to stuff it".
Do you live in Switzerland? Only a fraction of what’s listed on amazon.de or amazon.fr will ship to Switzerland. Pretty much no electronics will ship to for example. The China loop hole was closed recently so that alibaba and the like are now unavailable. Often you just have to suck it up and pay “Swiss” prices from a local reseller.
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I think there's a difference between pure mathematics and applied math in these discussions. Exploring the dark room of math is one thing while having a whole lot of great tools and figuring out how to use them in a rain forest to build a livable dwelling is quite another. Math being the abstraction of the world needs bridges to the problems we are facing. Hence the practice of trying a few real life examples (elephants) to test whether it (a method) works.
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by choice, but consider all of the different ways that people have recorded paper notes, and you can figure that there will be at least as much diversity in electronic notes. What we’re seeing today is just the tip of the iceberg, we’ll probably keep inventing new note taking software for as long as we have interesting computers to do so with.
It may do that, but the fact remains that it uses cookies to do so, which European users have a right to object to under GDPR.
I'm still waiting for him to fill the much promised ditch.
I've tried many different systems, and the one I settled on is a single simple doc. It's the only method I've used for over a year.

You can do google doc or office doc, but the key for me was having one doc that I just keep prepending to.

Each day i'll add the date yyyy-mm-dd (dow) in bold and then list my work for the day... I use hyperlinks to dedicated docs or online guides for more involved projects (quick ctrl-k), and add a little check mark when it's done.

By adding days in the future, I am able to schedule work or set reminders, and with ctrl-f I can search the doc for anything I've done previously as it also acts as a journal.

I often used to get lost in the minutia of catagorization, and having list sorting help me determine priority, but I've come to realize that I already know what needs to be done, and roughly in which order. ... my bottleneck was always focus. Excessive task structure can be a procrastination in itself.

Going back to paper as op suggests seems like a step back.

It's not perfect, but it works. I do still wish I could add some sort of hierarchy to line items and also be able to zoom out to see the bigger picture, but for now that just sits in another dedicated doc that I schedule myself to look at now and again.

Hitting 18 months now on this system. Have never felt so organized.
I was trying and using one single app for this purpose: Simplenote.

Installed a few years ago to all my devices. Simple and works. Why should anyone waste time trying all alternatives, after a first good enough app have been found which fulfills most needs?
This isn't just a list of things named after people, but "unexpectedly named". For example "Main Street" being named after a person is surprising since you'd usually expect it to come from "main" in the sense of "principal". "Price Club" is funny since you'd expect that it's referring to low prices.

Is there another pre-existing meaning for "poubelle" that makes this naming unexpected?
Printers are still a cybersecurity issue, it's incredible how often we still see printers on the same LAN as workstation given the horrible state of their security, and that random people are expected to come to "fix" them regularly...
The closest thing I can think of from the pure FP community that makes queries compose in a monad is Scala Slick, which adds an extraordinary amount of complexity to compose queries in exactly the wrong way. The whole FP community's thesis seems to be "take adderall and follow the math" and that thesis leads to Slick, not Datomic. (Both are early 2010s era so i think this is a fair comparison)
Hacker spaces such as SF’s Noisebridge can be like this.
> Compressed sensing in this context is made possible by the fact that the signal’s frequency content is highly sparse.

The fact that the signal is so regular is what makes this possible. You're sampling the same signal many times, far more than twice the frequency of the highest frequency.

If the signal's frequencies changed over time or if there were more frequencies in the signal, this wouldn't work or would require far more data.
They confirmed they wanted Brexit in the last elections. They had no excuses when Boris was elected. If that is what people want, that is what people deserve.
If You Are Not Writing, You Are Not Thinking
Still enough to build a nuclear arsenal. So that's probably enough to build AI talent
Shameless Plug: ThinkType[1] comes pretty close to just writing things down in a notebook. It's probably even easier, though it doesn't support formats other then text.

[1]: https://thinktype.app
This is a dilemma I struggle with currently. I have several product ideas that I can either run 100% on my own, or I can try to convince my current CEO that we should start building these out and selling them to our existing client base.

The advantage of starting your own path is that you get 100% autonomy over every decision and every client that you take on. This can give you an incredible uplift because nothing is ever in your way from an organization/people/politics angle.

The disadvantage is that you have to rebuild all that corporate boilerplate in order to establish name/brand/reputation/process/etc. You also don't have many constraints acting upon you when starting from zero, and you can wind up making piles of decisions that roll-up into disaster.

I think the best course of action would be to present your ideas to executive leadership. If you can secure some equity share in the organization or products you propose, this is easily the fastest and least stressful way to get them to market. Being able to reuse your same HR, marketing & sales teams can save you potentially years of headache.

If your current organization is gigantic or otherwise inflexible, you are probably best suited building out your project on your own time, incorporating LLC over the weekend, etc. One day you just put in your notice and move on with your dream.
Silhouette, named for a French finance minister back in the 18th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette

Eponyms can be very weird sometimes. The path from austerity-pushing minister to artistic rendering of outline in profile must have been a bit odd.
Damn, I actually didn’t know about that! Looks like it doesn’t enforce values like a select does, but I think that would be a lot less work to patch over with JS than implementing a whole custom component.
Not to add insult to injury, but it's been said that coronavirus actually plays into the hand of current UK gov as they have a scape goat if things go south.
>taking our women

Don't think you ever had to worry about that. ;)
Because the risks are different. Most startups fail and founders often lose money. At a big company, the risk of failure still comes with a fulltime salary.
So the cart can fly the plane while the pilot is attending passengers? Geniys!
Throw some novel text prompt/task at it and see what happens. If it was just "glorified lookup tables" then the result should be consistently garbage.

Note in particular that "like a function that can do the same computation with fewer inputs" maps very well to GPT-3 - it can complete many interesting tasks by just having a few samples provided to it, instead of having to fine-tune it with more training.
One question is whether you can learn non-cognitive skills from chess that transfer to other fields eg. tenacity, dealing with loss, the ability to sit and think for long periods of time. I probably had some of the most memorable failures of my sheltered life on the chess board, starting from when I got suckered with a 4 move checkmate in the first week I learned how to play.
They could pull a "Lady A" and rename them "D Cups", but that has connotations, too.
I'm fairly certain that people are indeed working on a treatment, but until it's ready what do you propose?
Humans are exposed to much more input than just the things they read. Think of every thing you've ever seen and how much data that represents. All of that is your training data. Is it more or less than GPT-3?
I took it seriously. In my social group, the bigger problem I saw was delusional Lexiteers. They're due to get literally nothing they said wanted out of Brexit.

I hope one day we can rejoin, and it doesn't break the UK into pieces, but right now I can't see the Union surviving.
For a lot of people it was a protest vote. They knew Cameron wanted them to vote one way so they did the opposite, it was a vote against the status quo.

For other people they genuinely believed the scapegoating the UK media had done for 20 years+

For others, a minority, they thought that this was a way of pushing the EU to reform some of its more silly practices (like moving parliament around for no reason)
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As I said, not that it's any different in practice.

But armies of the past would have no problems taking out 20% of a population as a comparison.
I heard that there is a 'trick' to getting a certificate for free ($) on Coursera: First you just review the course which is free of charge, and then after you're done with it all you start the free trial. Now you have 7 days to finish up the courses which shouldn't be a problem due to the reviewing.

So that could in part explain the short completion times, although I'm not sure how many people use this 'trick'. Coincidentally though, I've learnt about this trick in relation to the exact course you mentioned (deep learning.)
Are there any good resources for learning how to pick up GPT3 and play with it? This seems fun.
The Elo rating system in chess is often written in capital letters, but it is not an acronym. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo.

https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1327/what-does-elo...
DNA is nothing like the training of GPT. DNA does not encord a massive amount of statistics of words and language and how concepts, words, etc, relate to one another.

All DNA does it encode for how to grow, build, and mantain a human body. That human body has the potential to learn a language and communicate, but if you put a baby human inside an empty room and drop in food, it will never learn language and never communicate. DNA isn't magic and comparing "millions of years of evolution" of DNA is nothing like the Petabytes of data that GPT-3 needs to operate.

Again DNA has no knowledge embedded in it, it has no words or data embedded. Data in the sense that we imagine Wikipedia stored in JSON files on a hard disk. DNA stores an algorithm for growth of a human, that's it.

The GPT-3 model is probably > 700GB in size. That is, for GPT to be able to generate text it needs an absolutely massive "memory" of existing text which it can recite verbatim. In contrast, young human children can generate more novel insights with many orders of magnitude less data in "memory" and less training time.
UK had a great think going on but meritocracy creates both winners and losers.

In a mixture of losers with cocky winners, you have people who overestimate their abilities and people who are bitter.

The bitter ones demand protection against the people who come over and over-compete them, so you introduce non-meritocratic barriers like nationality. Starting on 2021, Polish and Bulgarians and so on will be barred from coming over and compete with the local workers.

The winners are cocky, many of them are really the best - UK has a great talent pool. They have a great thing going on for them, and they believe that they can overcome EU, USA and China.

The protection demand of the lower skill people seems to be served, shortly UK will start building it's non-merit based workforce(unless UK residency is a merit).

The time comes to put the winners on test. This is indeed a bombshell to the cocky ones, the people who had a good thing going on for them and believed that due to their expectational abilities everything will be about the same or better.

I still think that the UK would be able to find it's place in the new world order but many people will face bombshells as their freedoms and abilities to do business will get a haircut.

EU's skilled ones will be protected from UK's in a similar fashion of UK's less-skilled are about to get their protection. It is not as meritocratic system as before but that's what people wanted.
Dan Hannan and a bunch of the other dishonest brexiteers deliberately misled people into thinking they could be.
This would have been great for my English classes in high school. Yes, teacher see I read the book.
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I've had the domain name "incoherency.co.uk" for over 10 years.

Some time last year I tried to transfer it from 1and1 to Gandi, but it seems to have got stuck in limbo.

The WHOIS records show that Gandi have it, but it doesn't appear in my account on Gandi.

Now what I'm seeing is that the domain expired on 17th of June, and Gandi seem to have removed my nameserver glue record on 17th of July (2 days ago).

As a result of this, my website and email are now both unavailable, including the email address that Gandi have on file for me.

Gandi's support form allows you to specify an alternative email address, which I have done, but so far I'm not getting a reply from them.

I called the only phone number I could find for Gandi, but it just directs you to use the online form and there is no way to reach a human.

What is the fastest way to get my domain name back?
Looks really useful, except for people especially in England, Corn Syrup isn't a common ingredient :(
My theory about handwritten note-taking is that the bandwidth difference between thinking (fast) and writing (slow) is somehow extremely beneficial to the process of generating creative and evocative output. There have been so many journaling sessions which I started with the absolute conviction that I had nothing new to say, and after 4 pages of extremely creative and detailed ideas, surprising even to me, I had no choice but to exclaim, "Now where did that even come from?!". Maybe the hypnotic act of twirling the pen on paper slowly puts the mind into that sub-conscious creative state similar to what happens when one is about to fall asleep? It is honestly magical. I now use OneNote every day (because I can search through a large volume of notes easily), and I quite miss the dramatic revelations of pen on paper journaling. My notes were about programming and trading. For those who write fiction, I bet slow, old, typewriters are similarly more beneficial than the latest ergonomic keyboard and Word 365!
You would be correct.

It's ~650GiB of data. The entire English version of Wikipedia is about 20GiB and the Encyclopædia Britannica is only about 300MiB (measured in ASCII characters) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
The Mars bar was named after the company, which was named after the person, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Clarence_Mars . Also, M&M's.
I worked at Xerox for over 20 years and never heard this story. Not surprising, though, there were lots of little groups working on things they never spoke of.
“The chess community is probably right in criticising the recent study, as it suffers from several methodological shortcomings that probably invalidate the results.” A remarkably self-undermining statement, and at odds with the tone of finality in the rest of the article.
I have used Apple Notes since I got my first iPhone, there's still notes from back then in there! Mainly for quick lists and things I need to remember, ideas, shopping, etc. Haven't really found any issues with it.
It's more about not being able to sell as easily as now, from the UK to the EU, which has a population of 443m.

It's yet another headwind for smaller UK companies, that will see their potential serviceable available market (SAM) get smaller, unless they spend extra. This will also significantly increase the time for the goods to arrive to EU destinations.

You calling this "americentric" is also weird. It's going to be the same situation for all other e-commerce sites, no?
I presume she wanted to check if the FAA has authority on this issue on IcelandAir’s US routes in particular. Which is a fairly reasonable question for a layman to ask.
Ok, yeah, I see. Though, in that case, it's both a failure on his side, as well as an utter failure on apple's side.

Also, arguably, a plus for Google's stance on this: no answers to questions, no access. Sue us.
There's no evidence that qualia are anything more than clusters within some vector space which is useful to describe sensory inputs. They arise because they are useful for making sense of the external world.

I know that philosophers like to believe in some mystical bullshit about a whole different category of things, but if you believe in evolution, things are simple. An animal receivers a sensory input, it tries to use it to improve its survival chances. It usually makes sense to tell signal from noise, by clustering and transforming it. You cannot derive any useful information from a single vibration of air, but if you transform from time domain to frequency domain, you can observe that certain frequencies relate to information about outside world, such as presence of predators, etc. If you do several layers of such transformations you arrive to qualia.

If you study signal processing and NNs, these things become obvious. If you give a signal processing guy a task to detect human speech, for example, he will filter frequencies, then estimate loudness and compare to background noise. If you train NN, it will do the same -- you will likely get a neuron which represents "loudness in human speech". Same if you train a computational process using evolutionary process: loudness in specific frequency range carries out useful information, so no matter what process you use, you will have some representation of this quality.

Same with "color red" or whatever other qualia you can think of -- it's just a region in a space which arises from useful transformations of the incoming signals which maximize useful information.
Quite obvious omission for every C/C++ programmer, but:

https://www.godbolt.org/

Of course the "offical" name is "Compiler Explorer", but everybody just refers to it as "Godbolt" (probably because of the URL), which I thought is a weird but interesting name for a programming tool until I learned much too late that a certain "Matt Godbolt" has created it :D
Hmm, that's an interesting take, and I agree with all your points. Notion is decent, but it requires some learning curve to begin with. I also feel that the apps that optimize for taking notes in a structured, connected manner compromise on the UX front. There's no one size fits all.
I have made up my mind on my eBook's cover
Every time an article talks about training/finetuning/improving GPT-3, you know it's GPT-3 talking about itself. There's no option to do those things for GPT-3 outside of OpenAI.

More broadly, you can be very sure that a text about GPT-3 originated from GPT-3 if it makes more sense when you replace "GPT-3" by "GPT-2" everywhere. GPT-3 naturally has no knowledge of itself because all related text was written after its training. The closest is GPT-2 (for which there is apparently plenty of corpus to sample from), so that's the content that GPT-3 writes about when forced to talk about itself.
There's a common story that referring to a toilet as a "crapper" was related to Thomas Crapper. Apparently, not true, despite his influence in the field. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper
Corn syrup isn't a useful ingredient anyway. It only exists in the US due to corn subsidies. I would be more concerned about the difference in flour between UK and US. That would change a "perfect" recipe significantly.
>> 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 ;)

Aw :(

Alright, I'll just chase down some of the references you say. I was going to check out Prolog 2 anyway, after browsing the wikipedia article on Colmerauer a few days ago and seeing a reference to his later work there.
I write a lot when designing software, but hate paper, so I ordered reMarkable 2, which I expect to change my note-taking habits completely. I plan to write everything into it.
I am entitled not due to a sense of self entitlement, but because that's how the protocol for engagement on the web defines it: that's how tcp/ip works. I type in a url and my computer takes whatever bits the server sends my way.

Platforms and creators have pletora of other protocols to use that suit the model you're suggesting.
Yes, that was also expected: Northern Ireland becoming a smugglers' haven...
Sort of an obvious one, but MariaDB is named after Michael Widenius’s other child, Maria.
Watch the same people that spread dangerous misinformation turn around and blame someone else when the consequences of their actions comes back to bite them.
Corona is the scapegoat everywhere across the globe for poor economic choices governments and corporations made. The UK is not unique here.
Sources, please. Peer-reviewed, if possible.

Mensa is an association of moderately high-IQ people, and IQ correlates positively [0] with education and income, among other things.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social...
Lol. This is exactly what I was thinking the other day. Everyone is churning out new notetaking tools as if we don't have enough already.
Just tether some wiring to the bugs brain, call it a day.
Where do you live that there is one standard egg size? At the very small market down the street from me, I count 3~5 sizes in their various packages (depending on how picky you want to be about "same size")