skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point is valid however a distinction should be drawn between the technology used to access the data, any technology to actually build and run the described programs, and the data (source code) itself. The code, being largely high level language algorithm descriptions and associated documentation, should be relatively comprehensible without a compiler or execution environment.
I find it a bit surprising in how many teaching materials you find it still, despite being outdated knowledge for a long time now :D
If you do any amount of cooking I find that a kitchen scale is worth far more than the little space it takes up.
Ask HN: Anyone know of a quality online art journal?
Any art school graduates here? I want to get into the habit of making vector artwork as a developer but dribbble is mostly derivative and isn't curated. I'm looking for an affordable digital art journal that is less exposition and more illustrative--kind of like Envisioning Information by Tufte.
Assuming Kratsios does not have experience already in doing so at Clarium: the problem will be -- when there is a dispute of opinion at the pentagon and two Ph.D.s with decades of experience come in with vast amounts of experience, but opposing and irreconcilable opinions -- how will Kratsios decide? If he does not know, he will need staffers; how will he judge the quality of the staff and their competence? Repeat this for the dozens of very big decisions he will be making, and the many dilemmas he will resolve.
I'm a CS professor at a primarily-undergraduate U.S. college. I supervise two to four independent research projects or honors theses every year and have published papers and posters based on undergraduate research with my students as co-authors.

If you're going to pursue undergrad research, I don't recommend choosing based on field, but based on potential supervisors. Who are your favorite professors? What subjects have you really enjoyed and would like to explore further? A good project is at the intersection of what you're interested in, what your faculty mentor can realistically supervise, and what you can complete and bring to a good result in 1-2 years. You're going to get the best experience if you're able to work with a faculty mentor you like that can teach you about the research process and devote time to mentoring you. Those skills, more so than any specific project you complete, are what will help you be successful in grad school.

There are probably examples of successful researchers who started in one area as undergrads and stayed with it for decades, but it's more common to switch as your interests change and you get more exposure to different subareas of CS, particularly once you get into a grad program and get more exposure to the open problems in different fields. Grad schools will not require you to stick with the area or theme of research that you may have been pursuing when they accepted you.

To give you a concrete example: my first undergrad research project was writing a simulator for acoustic reverb. I continued working with the same advisor, but we switched to projects related to imaging and remote sensing, which led to experimenting with weird neural network architectures (before the current boom in deep learning really took off) and their applications to multispectral imaging. When I started my Ph.D. program, I was originally working on nonlinear optimization and its applications to sensors, but ended up switching to performance modeling and queueing theory, which became the subject of my dissertation. My research has evolved even more since I became a faculty member and shifted to working with real undergrads; I've recently been doing a lot of qualitative research with community organizations about their uses of data and analytics, which is only tangentially related to traditional disciplinary CS research.
Thanks for your feedback! I like the WL algorithm for its simplicity, but agree there are specific cases it does not handle well. It is meant to illustrate a simple message passing algorithm, and is not a particularly efficient implementation. Will clarify this point, thanks!
Unfortunately one of the requirements of a good identity system is that it should keep personal data secret from parties who do not need it. This means that blockchains on their own aren't a good fit, since by design they share all information with all parties.

Having said that, BrightID uses a blockchain and seems like an idea worth exploring.

https://www.brightid.org/whitepaper
Stent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stent
I'm not a fan of the "Nix" moniker. I find it confusing as previously I've used "nix" or "*nix" to refer to the family of unix-y operating systems.
Didn't I hear that Thiel has left Silicon Valley for LA?
Good point. The maximum distance the attacker could be would be limited by the act of releasing an insect and the biological limitations of insects (lifespan, travel speed), not by the range of the wireless communication.
Google still tracks app users when they've opted out, privacy lawsuit alleges
I'm interested to know where you got the idea that autoimmune disorders are due to lifestyle?
I am assuming you are American. A vault of gold is more important than any stocks or factories. You come to realise its value through cultural memory.
What's the license? Hopefully, Boost or Boost compatible?
Is there a list of others?

I love using sci fi as inspiration for new products.
Fair enough, that was out of line, I apologise.
"They're so intelligent. I was able to converse with them about quantum mechanics, which is something I've never even tried to talk to a regular horse about."

I mean, that I would classify as just genius
You don't know my apartment kitchen (which is the primary reason I am looking to move)
I'm no fan of Twitter, never had an account, and never will. But I'm curious where are these people going to go where there's no censorship and no "cancel culture"?

And how much of a cesspool is that sort of place going to be?
> But a feature map doesn't tell you anything about how the space itself works.

The space is what is doing the work. Of course it's vastly more complex than a simple image with a few regions painted into it. There are only implementation details below it. The issue is that we cannot import and export them. With software that is a wholly different matter and they be transplanted, fine-tuned, probed and so on.

> but it's not certain that we even can potentially build tools to interact with it.

I agree that this is all very speculative, we don't have the technology and it can take a long time until we can actually inspect a human brain. But we may be able to do the same much easier to artificial intelligences, once created.
As much as I hate onenote, the ease of just hitting [super]+N to start a quick note is the lowest friction way to go from 'i need to write' to 'i am writing'. I've tried a few of the competitors but I guess I found my killer feature.
Does that invalidate their opinions about other matters?
The resolution is so low it's not of much use for intel services at the moment (160x120 monochrome.)
Usually adding one new resource subtracts a resource overall because they take other resources time. In the best case it may give you half a resource boost but it puts pressure on supporting units.
I made a web-based clone as a Java applet circa 2003-2004 for a $300 contract on rentacoder.com for which I was never paid. :)

I built just the basic skeleton of a game engine, and stupidly handed over the code to the client before they paid me. They went on to find another contractor to dupe and turned it into a game called "Fat Super Heroes" which was online for a while on some sleazy website where you could gamble real money on the outcome of the game.

The original (horrible, terrible, hacky) engine I wrote is here:

https://github.com/emezeske/museum-of-ancient-artifacts/tree...

I don't think it ever got much real popularity; I was not a fan of the theme and the second contractor added a bunch of bloat that made it load slowly, etc. But it was quite a fun learning experience.
Instead of assuming that "surely every sane person" must share your point of view, can you point to specific accusations and sources that validate them? You might just convince someone you have actually a point, if your arguments hold up.
You fell for a Snopes TRoLL. They made that story up. Mobile homes are called that because they can move. There was never a mobile home company called "sweet homes", and the industry does not originate in Mobile.
I would honestly just suggest you spend some time interacting with it when you get a chance. Yes it still spews nonsense and no there isn't understanding, but it is qualitatively better than GPT-2 and has somewhat remarkable range. The hype is more about the potential rather than the capability.
Which programming language do you want to get back into? Perhaps people can point you to good guides for a particular language.

Also, I wonder why you can't just skip certain parts, or maybe just go through the rote exercises. When I wanted to learn SwiftUI, I still ran through the extreme basics. Who cares? It's not the worst chore.
This, like a lot of these, feels like a happy coincidence people probably realized at the time and couldn't say "no" to.
Magnets... how do they work?
Paper background is gone in iOS 14.
I assume you're talking about Thiel and maybe China, but still don't actually know.

Have you ever actually listened to any of Thiel's talks and the reasons why he takes particular stances? If you did you'd realize that his stances on things like China are related to geopolitics and economics, not race.
Maybe the real lesson is it was trained on human-written comments in discussion fora, so it perfectly mimics the average lack of point, weak arguments, rambling and incoherence in fora?

It would be interesting to see if the output has a similar quality when trained only on highly regarded texts.
The Mobile Homes one is a fake story made up by Snopes for their TRoLL section. It's not true. There was no business called Sweet Homes in Mobile, and the prefab housing industry did not originate there.

Manufactured houses really did grow out of the camper/trailer industry. The name "mobile home" is a holdover from when they had wheels. The first companies to deliver prefab houses to set on foundations already had thriving businesses making trailer-homes or other prefab structures (like those seen on construction sites)
Are Americans unaware of how influential their own cultural export is? Have you not noticed how in every city you can find people wearing Yankees baseball caps with that characteristic logo?

Most countries have rappers now, emulating the style.

If there's a village out there that doesn't buy American cultural products, there is someone whose job it is to sell it to them.
It's the verbatim output of the forth or fifth sample I got out from GPT2 1558M after a short prompt that explained that GPT2 and GPT3 were AIs from OpenAI and that GPT3 was better, that GPT2 was asked if it was jealous and it replied ". (unfortunately I've rebooted so I don't have the prompt in my terminal buffer anymore).

GPT2 output quality is highly variable. Well crafted prompts can inspire some great output without much digging through samples. I believe I've gotten much better at writing prompts-- even using the right typography matters-- after spending some time doing it.

It sounds like GPT3 gives something much closer to best-of-gpt2 all the time. I hope I get access to it at some point (I also hope the api exposes raw probabilities).
> Can you imagine how management would feel if you would allow your work hours to be interrupted by friends and family asking for favors and going ahead and doing them? Hey, I need a lift, can you help?

Our executives specifically asked middle management to be flexible to allow employees time to handle errands and favors during normal business hours. Within my team we've been stepping up to handle on-call coverage so on-call can handle family stuff during the day.
Convert Image to Vector Art
i think for most software engineering, pursuing novel innovations is not the best thing to optimize. novelty can mean complexity and duplication. but i would totally agree with taking risk around giving people freedom to decide what to work on.
Interesting. That OV06948 camera is also 40k (200x200) pixels, 30fps, and RGB. Critically, the page you link lists its weight at 0.87g = 870mg, which would make it 157x denser than lead.[1] The actual spec sheet says 0.87 mg, i.e. less than one milligram, which is incredible.[2] It has up to a 4 meter range, which I understand to be wired, so it would still need some sort of transmitter.

The camera used by these researchers, including its lens and panning head, is 200 mg (77 for the sensor and lens and mount, 7 mg bluetooth chip, and 96 mg boost converter). It's only 20k (160x120) resolution, monochrome. It has a wireless 120 m range.

The killer, however, seems to be power. The 10 mAh battery alone weighs 500 mg, which means the 200 mg vs <1 mg comparison becomes more like 700 vs 501.

The OV06948's power usage is 25 mW, which means a 10 mAh / (25 mW / 3.3 V) = 1.32 hour runtime, capturing 142k frames of video. The bug rig gets 6 hours, capturing only 108,000 frames of video. Perhaps you could get longer battery life out of the OV06948 if you slowed the framerate.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28870+mg+%2F+%280.65+...

[2] https://www.ovt.com/download/sensorpdf/553/OmniVision_OVM694...
Just for visuals, this is like Mercedes barring Jewish people from buying their cars to please to Hitler and the the broader market. Of course we know who was on the right side of history.
It's cloud only, end-to-end encrypted. Usable offline. You can host your own sync server if need be, its just CouchDB: https://docs.inkdrop.app/manual/synchronizing-in-the-cloud/#...
Made 13 Dollars with Brave and Basic Attention Token
For the benefit of others reading this thread: this is the more overt form of the "great replacement" dogwhistle.
Public intellectuals? Perhaps the public within a small geographical area. Maybe even just a couple of zip codes.
Here's another angle. The increasing censorship within China leaves less and less opportunity for the greater Chinese population to learn about the capabilities of other countries. A few examples of excellence that are still available to Chinese citizens are the NBA, Apple products, US education and Tesla cars. Most nations export excellence of some type to China.

Having these examples in their hands or on their screens likely initiates a mild cognitive dissonance: "The CCP news tells me how terrible the USA is, yet, these elements in my life are excellent beyond what is created by my own country." It's reminiscent of Russian defectors who couldn't rationalize the images they were shown of US poverty, illustrated by films from the Great Depression wherein the 1930s streets of New York were clogged with cars. Or, Boris Yeltzen visiting an American grocery store in 1989, and being overwhelmed at the variety of products and full shelves [0].

As the reins of censorship and propaganda tightens in China, there may be less and less of the world to pierce through and belie the narrative they are fed. Perhaps we should not abandon them any sooner than we must.

With that said, if it's a deliberate approach, we need to get the messaging right. The NBA should stick to 'we are ambassadors for the USA to the world' and leave any politics at that.

[0] https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When...
Would you mind elaborating on why Standard Notes is too buggy? Only thing that comes to mind is the use of React Native and Electron (suboptimal performance / UX) but I've never had any issues myself.

I'd like to hear of alternatives that apply the same e2e encryption model.
I've not quit Twitter, but I've reduced my usage of it (and gained control of my data) by syndicating my posts/statuses from to Twitter and backfeeding any replies/likes as comments on my blog.

It's all simple enough to get setup using the IndieWeb Wordpress plugin.
I rewatch this video constantly. It's not just about magnets, it's about epistemology and it's also the greatest masterclass on science education in my opinion. It's also one of the best distillations of the thirst for finding out that drives humans (at least some of us apparently). Flawed man, it turns out, but am thankful for at least this video if nothing else.
Back in the day, a better f*uck you was becoming straight-edge gothic punk.
Kind of silly to insist on a newsletter versus a blog and direct folks to a $30 a month service. You can get a free blog on Tumblr or Wordpress.org. You can get one for $5 at somewhere like Micro.blog. There's plenty of ways to setup a personal blog that works well for both long posts and short posts. All of those have mechanisms to crosspost to social media or turn into a newsletter, if you want. But the focus on that solution is silly-- the open web is here, it's great, and blogs are a solid technology. RSS works well and makes it easy to syndicate all over.

I am personally quite happy using Micro.blog for my blog [micro.json.blog](https://micro.json.blog). It's hosted Hugo (which is what I used for my blog before) setup with a micropub service already and hooked into most of the tech and standards coming through the Indieweb movement.

Blogs are the answer to twitter. Newsletters are just a potential answer to monetization for a limited set of folks.
https://sendportal.io is a more modern alternative to Sendy.

(Disclaimer: I'm part of the dev team).
The dual PhD problem of today’s startups
That tweet is completely devoid of substance and if it truly changed your mind you are a mindless sheep just believing whatever Sam Altman and his crony of VCs tell you to.
You'd probably be better off using a microphone if we are taking about search in low light conditions. Or maybe a CO2 sensor, if you can miniaturize it enough.

But I'm not so sure it's that much better than dogs for search and rescue. Much more promising for surveillance.
I guess Clay "Republicans Buy Sneakers Too" Travis forgot Chinese buy more sneakers than republicans.
The other parties popular support determines which of those two parties wins.

When you have more than two you could end up in a minority government where a smaller parties decide issues by supporting a big party.

Provinces have had other parties become the government.
U.S. Senate Bill Proposing a Digital Dollar and Digital Dollar Bank Wallets
I was essentially asymptomatic. I had a tiny bit of vertigo and stomach problems for a couple of days, but I only noticed when looking back.

She had incredibly mild asthma but didn't need an inhaler (and does now). Other than that, nothing.
I'm perfectly aware of `git stash -u` ("by default") as well as `git add -N`, etc, but as I also very intentionally pointed out, that has its own downsides.

That is, my own personal workflow poses essentially zero risk of deleting or committing those files, so "quit using the file system the way I've always used it" is no less of a stumbling block for me than "maintain `mod` declarations" is for you.

We simply haven't found an approach that doesn't step on someone's toes, so the one that Rust was already using from the 2015 edition stuck.
I was confused by Hamming Windows and Hanning Windows. At first I though Hanning was a typo for Hamming, but no, they are both similar but slightly different things, named after different people.

https://www.tek.com/blog/window-functions-spectrum-analyzers

Hamming and Hanning

These two similarly-named Hamming and Hanning (more properly referred to as Hann) window functions both have a sinusoidal shape. The difference between them is that the Hanning window touches zero at both ends, removing any discontinuity. The Hamming window stops just shy of zero, meaning that the signal will still have a slight discontinuity.

https://www.tek.com/-/media/sites/default/files/u811871/hamm...
Who gives a shit? Close the issue, then block the guy and move on with your life.

There will always be haters and trolls. Don't let them drag you down. Don't expend energy and emotion on them. You are not ding anything to hurt them.
Writing blogs, and writing response to blogs, is a significantly better mechanism for most conversation on the web. Short posts, and replies, have all the problems that comments have had all along.

Still, short posts are great, and represent probably 90% of my own blogging. Webmentions/ActivityPub are great starts to getting all of this tied together better.
I believe French drains were invented by an engineer named James French
> Interaction with partial, in-progress programs. People wanted to be able to comment out `mod` declarations to temporarily exclude files from the build.

Except the current system actually has the opposite effect -- working with partial programs is actually worse from the standpoint of using rust analyzer. Newbies like myself start writing a new source file and expect that completion and other features will work right away.

> Interaction with version control, e.g. `git stash`. Similar to the above, people want to exclude untracked files from the build when their corresponding `mod` declarations are stashed.

They can just stash the file as well.

This strikes me as making the whole system harder for new people to understand just to smooth over edge cases for power users that definitely have the ability to come up with workarounds.
A Wisconsin bank wants coins, and it pays above face value for them
> The definition of value is what someone else will pay.

The whole point of the book is explaining why this is wrong. Maybe you should actually read it so you can actually understand the argument she's making and offer a serious critique.
Neither can even basic chemistry. Intro to chemistry is sort of just a giant hint at quantum mechanics. When you get into electron shell configurations, inevitably there will be a student who will ask why electrons arrange themselves like this. The teacher will say "well, it's complicated". But it's just basic quantum mechanics. I wish they would have explained the concepts at least. Obviously the math is complicated but the ideas really aren't too bad.
> In general, if you are trying to distinguish an AI from a human, you don’t want to ask it obscure trivia questions. GPT-3 is pretty good at a wide variety of topics.

Surely you could tell it isn't human because it knows too much trivia?
Approximations implemented in HW generally use different techniques than ones in SW. They typically start with a lookup table, possibly followed by some other steps. Someone reverse-engineered the old AMD 3DNow implementations here:

https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/272990/1-s2.0-S157106610...
I think in a Turing test the human is supposed to be trying to convince the tester that they are human. Otherwise the test makes no sense. The human might just answer "eh" to every question.
> The first scenario is they have never set up a test environment in the first place. They're either too lazy to do so, or too lazy to look into how to do it. Often confused with being 'too busy to do it'.

One lesson of modern architectures (i.e. anything more recent than the LiveJournal-style Web/App/DB 3-tier stack) is that it is literally impossible to create and maintain a test environment that has enough similarity to prod to be useful.
The free alternative to Wolfram Alpha with step by step solutions
Especially if you only think of them as ‘units’ rather than individuals with strengths and weaknesses.
Fantastic, thank you for #1. Earlier today I was bemoaning the lack of wiki-like linking in Notes. Glad to learn there’s at least this workaround.
> Liberal western values were invented hundreds of years before modern levels of wealth.

You need to look at when they became mainstream and were codified into the law and into our other institutions, not when they were invented. E.g. women got the vote in the US only 100 years ago.