skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't it, though. Feynman explains magnetism perfectly well in his lectures, he's just saying that he can't give a decent math-free answer in a few minutes to an interviewer with no science background. Any answer that short would not functionally be any better than "magnets work because of magic".
Same, however I am witnessing one take off to disrupt a 9-figure industry. This won’t change my high 5-figure salary though :)

I like being in a big corporation because of the low risk lifestyle it entails, lots of time with the family!
"Can you elaborate on how you are having GPT2 contribute to your comments? What is your process?"

...

"I write a prompt, often copying text from the articles or other comments, and have it generate a lot of completions."

...

Can you elaborate, even further, with details about the actual UI of GPT2/3 (which I have never used, nor seen used) ?

What I mean is ... when you "write a prompt", is that stdio on the command line ? Can you paste an example ?

Do you, then, get a single "completion" as an stdio result and ... you can just get new ones by up-arrowing and repeating your command ?

Am I getting warm here or am I stuck in a unix command centric paradigm of what this all looks like ?
I have found that the Remarkable tablet is no worse than paper and sometimes better.
Show HN: Notepad – A fast and simple text editor on Windows for over 30 years
Che Stadium, named after the Cuban guerilla, Che Stadium.
The Mexican food in what is now Texas already I used a a lot of beef and cheese before it became part of America
Thank you for this info. I think I might!
Just curious, are you a lawyer here in Canada?
This mass censorship that we are living in allows and promotes all sorts of manifestations of the so called anti-racism white over black. It's of interest to the controlling regime to do so.
But, when there are manifestations against the totalitarism, they are forbidden. Because, again, the deep govern owns the political, economical, mass-media and so forth all over the world.
I wouldn't speak of an "open source community". there is no such entity, formally speaking.

the best reason however is, in my opinion, network effect. github has been the first big player in this space and is also the default place where people go.

However yes, I think that the open source community should move to at least gitlab.com, if not to sourcehut.org.
What makes you think this? The fact that it can produce working code from a prompt in some cases shows rudimentary non-trivial reasoning. Hell, GPT-2 demonstrated rudimentary reasoning of the trivial sort.
Transportation, not healthcare. High speed rail is ridiculously good, it connects just about every major Chinese city, it’s affordable, very comfortable and fast. I would consider healthcare an exception, it may be affordable but outside of a few expensive clinics in Beijing and Shanghai it’s really bad. Mobile payments are way ahead of other places (you can pay any random person you meet instantly with your phone, and that’s been the case for at least 5 years). Any kind of logistics/delivery (food, online shopping, post etc) is very fast and cheap and this has a lot of flow-on effects in terms of convenience and lifestyle.

Basic research in (for example) AI is probably on par with the west, I think it’s fair to say the engineering/applied side is ahead. This is helped by essentially zero concern for privacy = more data. WeChat translate CN-EN is miles ahead of Google. Any kind of large scale tech that has anything to do with surveillance, things like CV, deep-packet inspection, would be unmatched I’d say.

It’s definitely not free of racism.
Org charts are pretty common in my workplace.

I wonder what facilities are available to Microsoft employees to discover people outside their teams when seeking assistance or niche experience.

You can see a “who reports to who” in Outlook on our phones when searching peoples names but I don’t think that’s how these peripheral connections are being made.
Holy smokes I never knew all this. Makes me think there's a couple other steps here that Satoshi could have made towards anonymity.
This is a ying and yang issue. For every advanced concepts team, you need a non-techy business and marketing team to pull ideas out to the world.
I can answer the "wouldn't stores have access to banks that aren't closed?" question.

I work in a niche industry that enables stores to order coin from banks. The issue is that stores can't get coins from banks because the banks don't have them either. Banks order coins (and notes) from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is shorting the shipment of coins to all major banks.

So, when a store like Target orders coin from its bank, they may order $500 in pennies. The bank then may ship them no pennies or a fraction of the order, depending on the bank vault the coin is coming from, what inventory they have, and formulas in place.

Look for this issue to go on through at least Christmas.
Millbrae, California (suburb of San Francisco-San Jose right next to SFO) is a conjunction of Mill and 'brae.' Mill refers to Darius Ogden Mills (at one point the richest person in California) who purchased the land in 1860 and brae is a Scottish word for "rolling hills". [1]

Longyearbyen in Svalbard (Longyear Town), the main settlement, is named after John Monro Longyear, an American coal magnate from Michigan [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbrae,_California

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen
Rust can also pattern match the same, if I recall correctly.
Famous for some. With no further comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFJE8ZdeG8
Isn't that my point? That we shouldn't be afraid of cultural change if it brings about more of the values we want and less of the values we don't?

"Cancel Culture" is much feared by many, as an example, but in practice it actually intensifies public debate among questionable issues while not wasting time allowing folks with classically racist views to muddy the more pressing issues, so while it can feel painful sometimes, it seems like a net good.
There’s a phenomenal amount of double-think going on in this sentence.

“While there is an adequate overall amount of coins in the economy, the slowed pace of circulation has reduced available inventories in some areas of the country.”

Literally the second clause contradicts the claim of the first.
Slow but very cool. IS it HTML5? A video codec? How are you rendering?
The air quality has actually improved a lot in recent years, and I’d expect that trend to continue. The govt is putting a lot of emphasis on it recently. But yeah, it’s still pretty bad.
With high power towers for cell network and plenty of devices that emit radio, you can have a wireless power harvester that can be powered forever if you lower you energy consumption below a given threshold.

Also was an experiment a while ago where photons were both feeding the camera sensor and used to get the image itself. Granted resolution and clarity was bad but the images still could be used to recognize stuff. Combine that with a smart AI at receiver site and you can have full surveillance, at least for counting bodies (humans + cars) for your desired place (think gathering places like Tienanmen).
I just finished this beast one hour ago.

Coffee culture and all the other bits of innovation and turmoil of the Enlightenment. Church vs State, Kings vs Commerce.

This epic fiction was completed some time in 2004, Tulips and Beanie Babies had crashed hard but there was far more coffee yet to drink, and junk residential mortgages had yet to destroy the world...

The characters of 1700 trying to make sense of this new thing called "money", its first derivative called "currency", and ever more abstruse instruments "bank notes" (what is a bank?). Mutual shares in associations of investors of "insurance", "corporations", or even trade in those things to form "stock markets".

And here you are, trying to explain the blockchain to your Mom.
> true native linux port?

why would it matter?
Bay Area surplus electronics aficionados may remember halted.com, which was founded by two guys named "Hal" and "Ted".
I believe it is implying that there is enough coins in the country for everyone. However, unequal distribution due to COVID means some specific areas are lacking.
I feel like a 35 year old version of you, I can’t believe how much freedom I have. I’m blessed to have a mind that is constantly inventing I guess.
Calle 13, Latino America! One of my favourite songs!
Reminds me of an episode from Under the Influence (covers history through the lens of marketing). Specifically:

S7E11A - Brands Are People, Too - Products Named After Inventors

This week, we explore famous Products Named After Their Inventors. Some products are so cemented in our minds we forget their names once belonged to people. Shrapnel was invented by Henry Shrapnel, nachos were invented by Nachos Anaya and the leotard was invented by a Jules Leotard. We’ll even look at some inventors who wish their names had been forgotten...

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/arts-culture/under-the-inf...
These Are the Six Letters to Get Kanye West Elected President
Just did a deep dive of this a few days ago. Mostly looked at the Elkan paper, which this post called naive. I've been researching in the context of weak-supervision data from the Snorkel software package. It's very easy to create positive labels but very hard to make negative labels.

What I'm looking for and what this post doesn't cover is moving beyond the binary case. Looking for Multi Positive and Unlabeled Learning...
It's my opinion that the web page is a non-answer.

It's unclear to me from the page how the supply of coins is disrupted by the pandemic. Perhaps it's because the mint is shut down, but they don't say that.

If coinage isn't an 'essential' business, that seems odd.
How so? The first is speaking broadly, the second refers to specific localities.

Some areas face a shortage because there is an oversupply in others, with a total supply that is adequate. Were they circulating more, the concentrations would presumably level out (or so the argument reads to me).
Truck driver. Many truck stop convenience stores, many Walmarts have signs asking for coins, and/or to use plastic.

Saw one sign offering coin redemption (I guess in one of those machines) for no fee.
Nice! So many gardeners and permaculture enthusiasts on hn. Fun to read the comments. #gardeningnerds
>A UBI recipient has not monopolized anything

I'm not sure I understand. You could equally say a shareholder of public company stock hasn't monopolized anything in exactly the same way, no? That's what the word share means. If you have Apple stock, you're not monopolizing any of their assets.

So are you saying that there's an essential difference between someone who owns an apartment or two and rents them out vs. someone who owns an equal amount of an investment fund (whether real estate or not) and makes the same amount of money? Is the former a "rentier" and the latter not?

It's an interesting idea, that modern finance is largely socialist, and the remaining work to be done is to eliminate all the small time capitalists that own actual means of production rather than shares, and redistribute the shares equally.

But there is all this romanticization of "small businesses" that has to be undone to get to that socialist paradise.
I've heard this before, and despite my cautiously being on the Elixir bandwagon, this story triggers my BS sensor. Assuming their competitors are already invested in another language, it will be expensive for them to switch, and the company using Erlang/Elixir gets good press from using a hipster language. Can someone point to specific people that said they were barred from revealing their BEAM-using employer?
The incessant functional evangelizing everywhere I go reminds me of why people don't like vegans
It's a tool, and like every single other tool in history of mankind, it can be used for both good and bad
My note taking app is vim editing a text file named ~/notes.
I think HN should have a rule that no paywalled link be published unless a way around the paywall is provided.
Improbable Data Patterns in the Work of Barbalho et al.: An Explainer
The whole movie is great, especially IMO the Ruby Rhod scenes!
That's very interesting. In my MCOL of city I've been looking at buying some apartment buildings and many of them advertise the W/D in the building as a source of revenue.
This is obviously a rubbish comment, but nevertheless it raises an interesting point. Deep learning has entered a phase where, due to the excellent tooling (PyTorch, TensorFlow etc) and freely available data, there is a massive ingress of new poeple into the field. This has had a variety of effects, many of which are not necessarily beneficial to progress. There is so much noise and hype that it is difficult to do good work in the first place, and then be recognised for it. Unsurprisingly, rumours about massive salaries at FAANG, everyone trying to start AI companies, and a torrent of dubious quality research flooding conferences retard real progress.

I suspect that there is some optimal mix of making a field accessible and attracting good people to it. If it is too inaccessible, then progress is too slow. It it is too accessible, then it gets flooded. Most scientific fields exist on the inaccessible spectrum. It is relevant to note that many amazing discoveries (including the foundations of deep learning for example) were made when the field was obscure.

So to answer your comment, a scientific field doesn't owe you anything, and in fact, is probably better served by not making it too easy for you to get involved.
"Overall" vs. "in some areas". "The average is fine, but the standard deviation is high" is how I read that sentence, which is not a self-contradicting claim.
A Mathematical Introduction to Kernels
If anyone hates a recent change to Apple Notes that makes your first line BIG, do this:

Preferences -> New Notes Start With ___Body___
> "Any time someone pushes forward AI as a field, people will almost alway remark: 'but that's not real AI.'"

This statement reveals a widespread, and in my opinion, a not-entirely-correct, assumption that increases in the ML field means we're actually pushing forward on AI. It also implies a belief that the pre-1970s people were somehow less right than the 2000s+ ML crowd, when a lot of ML's success is related to compute power that simply did not exist in the 1970s.

ML computational machines to transform inputs->outputs are great, but there's no compelling reason to believe they're intrinsic to intelligence, as opposed to functioning more like an organ.

We might be making great image classifier "eyes", or spam-filtering "noses", or music-generating "ears". But it's not clear to me that will incrementally get us closer to an intelligent "brain", even if all those tools are necessary to feed into one.
>You've got a tiny percent of the population with the ability to proxy out of China.

do you have data to back your claim up?

>You cannot easily share the information you find with non-VPN friends.

We talk in person, during lunch or on dinner tables, in office. When we talk politics online we invent new words to avoid auto detection. The recent hot topic is this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/hp8z29/%E7%8E%8B...

basically some guy got detained because he whistleblowed something food safety related. We talk politics, in ways you normally wont imagine. But not the politics you expect.

>Xinjiang concentration camps.
That's an interesting topic because most Chinese dont care when you shove it into their throats in one way or another. If you used Weibo, I wonder do you have Chinese friends? Have you asked their opinion about those camps?
> WeChat translate CN-EN is miles ahead of Google.

That's interesting!

At the same time, deepl.com is also miles ahead of Google, so I'm not all that impressed by Google Translate anymore. (Deepl itself is impressive is heck!)
> Cargo pants are fashion-as-pretend-occupation — when not at work, wear a fancy chronometer to suggest you’re a pilot or a diver, or camo to suggest you’re in the military. Cargo pants are a paratrooper costume. Cargo shorts have giant external pouches so teenagers in the 90’s, trapped in school, could say (sartorially) “I go out into the world and do adventurous things!” even though the things they stored in those pouches were doritos and portable cd players.

> I am discussing clothing as it might be worn by people while doing their real jobs, not their pretend ones. If cargo pants are appropriate for your real job, you definitely don’t want or need my side-seam welt pockets; and vice-versa."
The Hijacking of a $100M Supertanker (2017)
I think the assumption that anything with a brain can experience pain, suffering and happiness is a pretty safe one. Synthesising information to decide what is suffering and happiness, and then trying to maximise happiness, seems to be one of the basic functions of any brain.
http://archive.is/xOEF9
Do you know of a book or article that goes into this in more detail?
Thanks for the pointers. I suspect Google would be ok with Boost, since they are a C++ house and Boost is the major library. A big reason D picked it was because Boost is corporate lawyer approved.
Please socially distance me from this regression model
My first thought at the headline was that as people head home to isolation, the coins in their pockets stay home with them. Which is probably true.

But the article talks about closing businesses, and those coins leaving circulation until those processes work through.
The first of the related links has the full answer

"The primary issue with coin is a dramatic deceleration of coin circulation through the supply chain. As of April 2020, the U.S. Treasury estimates that the total value of coin in circulation is $47.8 billion, up from $47.4 billion as of April 2019. While there is adequate coin in the economy, the slowed pace of circulation has meant that sufficient quantities of coin are not readily available where needed. With establishments like retail shops, bank branches, transit authorities and laundromats closed, the typical places where coin enters our society have slowed or even stopped the normal circulation of coin. The coin supply chain includes many participants, from the U.S. Mint who produces new coin, to the Federal Reserve who distributes coin on the U.S. Mint’s behalf, to armored carriers, banks, retailers and consumers, all of whom have a role to play in helping to resolve this issue."

https://frbservices.org/news/communications/063020-federal-r...
Yep, hopefully this provides an alternative
not a party member btw. Am Chinese. I will follow up here on any questions you(qbaqbaqba or anyone else) have though. and if you are interested here's my thought on the whole topic in one piece:
https://medium.com/@theseadroid/the-china-problem-ce0c1a0e57...
In my opinion DangitBobby's comment is reasonable and interesting, not ill-intentioned.

lm28469 quoted a list which includes "autoimmune problems" and linked all of them to gluttony, sloth and lack of will.

That strikes me as nonsense. To the best of my knowledge, people suffering with autoimmune problems can't just fix it with a bit of will, and life's hard enough without people making it worse by telling them their disease is their own fault.

But regardless of what I think it is perfectly reasonable to question that link.
A sibling comment has already mentioned the one-child issue, but I wanted to say... Chinese culture is so deeply different from American culture about all sorts of things about reproduction and fertility.

Chinese people's attitudes toward the one-child policy and also sex-selective abortion are complicated and varied, but they don't seem very similar to Americans' attitudes at all!

In the U.S. it's common for people's religions to completely formally proscribe some forms of birth control and/or abortion. This has led to a big political debate about what the scope of their legal rights to avoid subsidizing these things for other people should be. It's not surprising that that debate should exist, but also not surprising that it would be uncommon in China where (1) the most practiced religions largely don't have these teachings and (2) people don't have a common expectation that the state will give their religious practices and beliefs a considerable amount of deference.
> promote hygiene

You mean like wearing masks? Because that's apparently a "political opinion" right now
Also a good film, Sneakers from the early 90s.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
They don’t serve food like any of the taquerias here in Texas, maybe superficially similar... they do serve burritos which are more Cali mex.
Now I’m sad.
Not all smart people want a no-currency economy. Having all transactions being electronic means that it's super easy for financial institutions and the feds to track every single purchase you make. It's none of their business to know that much detail.
From the same last name, “tarmac” is a shortening of tarmacadam, from tar + macadam; the latter named for John Loudon McAdam. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam
Part of it is culture and general pathologies - the upper management still thinks hydrogen is a workable idea which would be a bit more faie back in the 1990s or 2000s when batteries hadn't caught up.

Another factor is the general innovators dilemma where they have tremendous sunk costs in their old fuel burning ecosystem.

To be fair generally moving from a mature and high scaled to an untested and new approach is expensive and downright reckless looking levels of risk, only vindicated after a success when the unforseen or unbelieved shoe drops.
I disagree: I highly value the emails I receive from noreply@hnreplies.com. Same for email from various noreply addressed for google docs, or things like github's notification noreply.

Marketing spam is one, but far from the only, use for noreply emails.
I'm surprised to see so much advocating for digital currency in here. Is nobody else worried about the government having an electronic record of every transaction that's made?

They'll have data about everything that anyone has ever bought, where and when they bought it, and a graph connecting everyone who has ever done business. There will no longer be any anonymous way to trade.

I personally consider the end of paper money to be the final nail in the coffin for the country. There's no coming back after that, the government has complete and utter control over the citizenry from that point on.
I think people try to do too much with note apps and then they fail. What people normally try to accomplish with a note app should actually be like 4 - 5 different apps which handle different elements of what you're trying to accomplish with notes.

Or at least, it would be 4 - 5 completely different processes and a given note app isn't best for all of them.

I use...

App for capture and inbox (this is an actual note taking app but I don't use it for writing)

App for writing notes (my own writing

App for display and management of networked notes

App for arranging (networked notes), outlining and building to the draft stage of writing

These are all part of a typical note cycle which many people use one app for. I put these notes through a cycle in the order that I wrote them. Typically I would start out with capturing information, then creating my own notes from that information and then eventually using that information for my own writing. I'm not a writer, but writing helps me think through things I want to understand better.

I could constrain myself to a physical journal. I could constrain myself to anything. It would drive me nuts though. I would end up attacking the journal with scissors and then pasting pieces of paper to the walls. Then arranging pieces and pasting notes on top of each other as my ideas change.
error: not recognized as a country by the US
Criticising the media’s biased coverage of a scientific topic doesn’t seem politically motivated to me. The statements you highlight could just be ‘true’?