skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I owned a house in Edmonton where ice would form under one side of one garage door in the minus-a-lot-in-either-scale 9-month-long winters. I used to break up the ice damn daily with a mattock, fun times.
That's a really unfair comparison. Suggesting that all regulation is akin to your marmalade example is akin to suggesting that we shouldn't enforce any laws because adultery laws are still on the books.

There are good laws, and there are bad laws. There is good regulation, and there is bad regulation. The solution is to curate from the good set, and weed out from the bad set - not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Hmmm! Starting to sound more like the alternative hypothesis...
I was pretty upset when I went from [initial][surname] to [initial][surname]1 after changing jobs.
In addition there's micro.blog, who seem to be doing okay with their paid-for Twitter-like micro blogging service. Though last time I looked in on it, they'd started interfacing with Mastodon as well.
Also worth mentioning: Five Eyes is an older concept. That's an inner circle, but the outer circle is at least 14 countries strong[1].

[1] https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/
Why do we have to go? The big question is: What is awareness? That awareness is wherever you are. No need to go to outer space. However, once you can create awareness artificially, you can send it into space, without human time constraints. There is no problem in travelling for millions of years if your awareness doesn't end.
I know right. The same old UNIX crustaceans still want to relive the glory days of 1970 with "Everything should live in the terminal" with the chaos of X11, spending countless time editing their dotfiles or starting silly 'Vim/Emacs is better' wars. That ship has sailed. If not, already sunk.

I found this toy to be very cute. Too bad my friends are not the typical software engineer that can use this. I'll just point them to a native macOS habit tracker on the app store instead. Friendly enough for them and efficient enough unlike the Electron alternatives.

Actual progress rather than re-creating the prehistoric 'good old UNIX days' or turning the users laptops into stove burners with many Electron apps running.
But how do you convert a video to text? Or do you record straight to text?
‘I feel helpless’: three people on their grueling Covid-19 recoveries

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/20/coronavirus-...
Thinking for your self does not imply a greater than average "holding" of atypical views. The people who came up with typical views thought for themselves, and people who synthesize their opinions based on similar information often reach similar conclusions.

> Most people really interested on not being different and will hold mainstream views without questioning.

Perhaps, but this doesn't imply the contrapositive, which was implied above (that holding mainstream views implies one does not think for themselves).
Curious that the author no longer credits the paper that a lot of the ideas are based on: InteractiveProceduralStreetModeling, Chen et Al 2008 http://www.sci.utah.edu/~chengu/street_sig08/street_sig08.pd....

One should give credit where it is due.
For me it is? But take that as coming from a guy who literally has been playing 3 games (Xonotic/Nexuiz, tome4 and Hedgewars) in the past 5 years on and off, and nothing else.
Nope, I'm not doing the PM's job. I'm not doing the market research or coming up with the product roadmap. I want the PM to justify to me the work they are asking me to do. I also want to have a productive conversation about the cost of what they are asking me to do (which I can articulate to some extent) and the value they expect it to return.

Involving devs after the roadmap has been decided is too late.
A rather predictable position for a person owning a business that makes the future worse.
I think perhaps they meant that Microsoft are putting it in the cloud as opposed to moving it and decommissioning the local version.
I don't think there is any other social network or IM app that allows you to ping CEOs all over the world
Good point. I suppose it just becomes a display then, rather than mirror — but with similar data.

More like the ubiquitous readouts in the "2001" Discovery ship.
> With some careful choices and by doing some of the finishing ourselves, we thought we could make it relatively inexpensively, too.

What was the cost?
Confusion. You're experiencing confusion.

I get the exact same thing.
Chronological list of all entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
How anybody can equate becoming a doctor with becoming an astronaut is just beyond me. How many doctors are there in this world? How many astronauts? Ballpark answers to those two simple questions should be enough to understand they require vastly different levels of ambition...
My parents. You have a kid. You figure out quickly that a lot of advice doesn't apply. Figure the kid out. Have another kid. The stuff you learned with the first doesn't apply.
That's why. Many providers can detect a VPN hosted on DigitalOcean and trigger security measures or captchas. I'm testing a commercial vpn (Mullvad) this month and it's working fine.
Covid-19 Vaccine Generates Antibodies and T-Cells in Phase I Trial
This job listing doesn't say this. Other providers already offer Windows cloud offerings; only make sense they would as well. They also offer Office, Windows Server, and SQL Server as cloud offerings, and still sell plenty of licenses for on-premise installs.
Do you have a recommendation for price alerts? Both E-Trade and Robinhood don't notify me immediately when a price target or percentage change is hit. A 90 day limit order does execute quickly enough but it isn't exactly what I'm looking for because there might be new information that would have made me not want to buy.
> open and flowing

Open and flowing, but to the US. A high quality researcher, nobel price winner (etc.) does not have its intrinsic value turn to 0 once the clock reaches 65y.

As we innovate more than SK, I welcome their generous gift of talented researchers.
The Full title did not fit, so I did my best to make it fit. Here it is:

"Report: AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine Generates Antibodies and T-Cells Against the Virus in Phase I Trial"
This misses the point to an impressive degree. No one here is disputing the current legality and I think everyone here understands the difference between government and private services.

The argument is that we've come to depend on privately owned backbone infrastructure in much the same way we depend on publicly owned roads. Furthermore, the operators of that infrastructure have shown themselves to be vulnerable to public outrage. Therefore, it's reasonable to ask if additional regulations might be a good idea.

A good analogy here might be to privately operated toll roads. Surely such a system shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against you based on (for example) your bumper stickers?
Hypocrisy on ethical concerns fosters abuse and corrupts the host.

The key bias here is normalisation of deviance, both on an individual and regime level.
This brings to mind the debates between Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Episode: https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/cheryl-misak-on-frank-ram... Media: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/philosophybites/Cheryl_Mis...
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Dunder Mifflin is a part of Sabre
Both the Onyx Boox Max Pro 2 and 3 have a 13.3" e-ink touch screen and run Android. On my Boox Max Pro 2 when in monitor mode (HDMI input) however the touch information is not forwarded to the host PC when connected with USB. I guess in theory an android app could do that though.
This is also known as the XY-problem [1]. People want a solution to X, and they think Y is the way to solve it. But they’re having trouble doing Y and so they ask for help with Y.

The problem is that Y is not the best way to solve X and you’re confused about why they’d ever want to do Y. Life would be much easier if they had just asked for help solving X.

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378
That isn’t exactly accurate but yeah- it was the work of just a few. Some of us were brought in to help with certain details.

Edit: the github history here is what probably happened after they cleaned it up and open sourced it. Which isn’t uncommon I think.
Step 1) Consider magento
Step 2) Implement anything else
Worst Deal Ever – ticket resale merger when viagogo bought StubHub for $4.05B
I recommend going to https://mobileread.com/forums to read about user experiences with Onyx and other makers. They are interesting devices but the support level is not at the same level as a Kobo/Nook/Kindle. I used to have a Boyue Likebook Mimas, which was a great ereader hobbled by a slow processor and itchy software.
I think I meant to reply to the person above you.
US leaked parts of cables to plant false theory on Wuhan lab coronavirus leak
"Business owner" is neutral and meaningful. I guess "founder" is best reserved for writers of constitutions and the like.
> and can accept challenges to them

Is there a public count of how many challenges vs how many were rejected?
That’s the choice you make. You can either offer a working return address or you can waste your time and money ‘advancing the legal precedent’.
> At first pass it gave some weird answer.

The default sampling parameters are really not that hot for cases where there is nearly a unique correct answer-- bad luck will force to to ask wrong.

From that prompt I (a human) don't know if I should expect something like "Albert Einstein" or the straight answer, so higher temperature sampling can risk kicking it down a silly path.
C&F Discover Issue N12 Forem – Design Rant – Figma Tokens – SASS and Clamp
Huh, they bundle packages for archlinux, debian10, fedora32, ubuntu1804, ubuntu1910, ubuntu2004.
If you go to the bottom of the list, you can see the first entries dating back to 1995, when this resource was originally created. In a sense, these are the articles that were deemed most interesting/important to write by the early contributors. I have found this to be a useful way to approach what is otherwise somewhat overwhelming in scope and size.
Have you tried using http://switchr.imagility.io/ ?
I like how GPT-3 was so nervous about giving this presentation that it got all existential at the end. Code like it's your last day on earth! Stop developing nuclear missiles and ad blockers! Make sure you celebrate with some alcohol.

I loved everything about this presentation. It's better than some I've made myself.
If all of your beliefs line up into neat little bundles, you should be suspicious because they’re prepackaged and put together.

The vast majority of society have prescribed views, that is their views are derived from their group identity.

Why is this an issue? Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth.

The question isn’t to tease out a controversial answer, rather to assert an individual is not a mindless ideologue.
I kind of like each community having a shared sense of pride and ownership in their respective spaces.
Now I'd be interested to see GPT-3 trained on code samples from open-source repositories. Would it compile?

Could it output a decent implementation of an algorithm if you were to feed it the comment describing it? How about more general statements about input and output.

The holy Grail would be to code just by describing what you expect the code to do. A few plain-language (maybe a more structured subset?) sentences stitched together, the API glue autocompleted.

And for reverse-engineering? Train it on drivers, then feed it packet captures. Could it make sense of the data?
Not true, I have been accessing remotely my BB Terminal since 2012. It's just an application that runs on any windows machine.
Cloudflare is horrible for blind people.

Screen readers, the programs that use synthesized speech to tell us what's on the screen, cannot read images. Good captchas usually have audio equivalents (which come with their own set of problems), but this one doesn't. If you're blind and flagged by Cloudflare for some reason, you're cut off from accessing half the internet, potentially critical banking/governmental/medical/communications/educational services. We rely on the internet way more than our sighted peers, so this is very important. This has recently happened to me on a few sites, fortunately not critical ones, but it was not a pleasant experience nonetheless. CF engineers, please fix this ASAP. I'm surprised there still isn't a huge lawsuit over this, as this is clearly violating all sorts of laws.
Why is it not permitted to create a jelly/marmalade with more than 4 fruits?
I didn’t mean it that way, I’m just not sure how much I could talk about it. For one, because I was involved but only so much. And two, because it’s not really my thing to talk about per se.

As for problems, not really any problems. It was quite straight forward. I’m just not sure my company would appreciate me speaking on their behalf about details.

Edit: but I can answer like, general technical details and things like that.
Yeah, Mt Everest... nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded ;-)

I happened to be in Guam in 2012 and in some dodgy dive bar (...) ran into the crew that took James Cameron down to Challenger Deep, only the second manned descent ever. Didn’t believe them a word until I saw my couch surfing host dancing with Cameron.
Is there a name for the reverse, when Stack Overflow assumes you don't understand your constraints and propose all possible solutions to what they think is X that aren't a solution to Y?
I strongly disagree with this claim that is presented uncritically and without evidence:

> Additionally, the more we set our sights on escaping to other worlds, the less likely we are to look after our existing one.

The opposite seems to be true. There’s some evidence the Apollo program fostered the environmental movement. As Carl Sagan said, “Whatever the reason we first mustered the Apollo program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of Apollo.”

The “Overview Effect” has apparently caused a strong movement among astronauts to protect the Earth, from both war and environmental degradation.

The two most prominent benefactors of human expansion into space, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, flawed as both men are, seem to also be sincerely concerned with the long-term ability of humanity to live on Earth sustainably. Musk does this through Tesla (accelerating clean energy transition), and Bezos through climate donations and, of course, funding the Long Now foundation that thoughtpieces like this are the product of.

And NASA is deeply involved in environmental protection, whether monitoring the ozone layer or climate change. Few other agencies are as focused on protecting the habitability of the Earth as the only agency that is involved in sending people to other worlds, and you’d find fewer more strident proponents of protecting the environment than astronauts who have seen the entire Earth as it is.

So this is just a false dilemma. A straw argument & it seems likely the exact opposite is likely to be true: lack of focus on the reality of Earth in space and the long term of humanity possibly taking root among the stars seems to make ignoring of environmental degradation easier, not harder. When you do not see Earth as “finite, alone,” it’s easy to lose the perspective that we must protect the Earth... the only home we’ve had and by far the best planet.
>> But why think performing arithmetic with 100% accuracy is required?

Because otherwise, how do you know that your system has learned the "rules of arithmetic", as per your comment, and not something completely different? And like I say in my other comments, there's a very obvious alternative about what that something completely different could be: a representation of already seen results.

Besides, GPT-3 is a piece of software, it's not a child or a grown up human, who can make mistakes because their memory fails or because they get overwhelmed by the complexity of executing a complex set of rules. If a piece of software implements a set of rules, it's usually able to execute them right every time, without failure, certainly so for relatively simple rules like arithmetic. Pocket calculators with tiny resources can do that and they can do it with very long sequences of numbers, so why would a huge language model, running on very expensive hardware, fail?

>> The cliff for GPT-3's arithmetic ability is likely due to the fact that it can't do recursive/recurrent calculations.

Well, yes, exactly that. If a system can't represent recursion then it can't represent arithmetic between arbitrary numbers. Hell, without recursion, a system can't even count to arbitrary numbers. So in what sense can GPT-3 be said to have "learned the rules of arithmetic"? Learned them, how, if it can't represent them?

Actually, your observation about recursion is the first thing I'd have normally said, but it doesn't seem to be commonly understood that neural networks (and propositional, attribute-value, learners in general) can not represent recursion. Similarly, such systems can't represent non-ground values, that is they can't represent the concept of a variable. But that's a big part of why they can't build general theories. In terms of arithmetic, it means they can't represent the relation x + y = z because they can't represent x, y and z as universally quantified variables. The only remaining alternative is to represent every ground expression, like 1 + 1 = 2, 1 + 2 = 3, etc. But that's not the rules of arithmetic! That's only some instances of specific operations. That is why GPT-3 hasn't learned arithmetic and can't learn arithmetic, no matter how much data it is fed. It's just not possible to represent the rules of arithmetic in a propositional language. A first-oder language and the ability to define relations recursively are necessary.

Edit: OK, sorry, my claim about a first order language being necessary is maybe hard to substantiate outside of Peano arithmetic. But, recursion and the ability to represent variables are absolutely necessary. See primitive recursive functions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_recursive_function.
>I don't know how to avoid heap memory allocations in haskell or make sure memory is on the stack, but both are very easy to do in C++.

Yup. I know it's easy and the default behavior in C++.

This Haskell page says, it is pretty common to allocate and deallocate memory immediately, and that GHC handles this pretty efficiently, which probably explains why Haskellers dont seem to care about this (though it seems weird to me).

https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/Memory_Management
I think I'm misreading the article. If I'm reading it right, the author is on the right track but didn't make it all the way to the station.

The right way to do this is to make this a bipartite maximally connected directed graph. Then calculate the strongly connected components of the graph. Then remove all the edges that bridge different strongly connected components. All of this is linear in terms of the number of edges.
Appreciated, I did very small bits.
There’s a difference between a VM host with the technical ability to carry out a targeted MITM attack against its customers using hardware-level access, and a provider that sells MITM as a service.
Some level of technical competence is necessary, but not always as much as you might expect. For example, in designing an API, sequence diagrams and data payload definitions are things you can use to communicate the essential aspects of an API to less-technical PMs.
That is true, but it also misses the point. Even if there is a lot of personal pride in having a Bloomberg terminal, firms would put an end on that in no time if it was not in their best interest. The fact is that Bloomberg has created the perfect legal extortion tool with the terminal. They created a software company that is at the same time a media conglomerate. Every financial company in Wall Street wants to be on the good side of Bloomberg and receive positive or at least non-negative coverage. One way of keeping this going is having a large number of terminals installed.
UFS on FreeBSD. And that's me :)
This is true too. But at least that's sort of like personal savings and cash flow.

Derivatives aren't anything like that.
From Gödel, Escher, Bach, chap. 6, Douglas Hofstadter:

> In these examples of decipherment of out-of-context messages, we can separate out fairly clearly three levels of information: (1) the frame message; (2) the outer message; (3) the inner message. The one we are most familiar with is (3), the inner message; it is the message which is supposed to be transmitted: the emotional experiences in music, the phenotype in genetics, the royalty and rites of ancient civilizations in tablets, etc.

> To understand the inner message is to have extracted the meaning intended by the sender.

> The frame message is the message 'I am a message; decode me if you can!'; and it is implicitly conveyed by the gross structural aspects of any information-bearer.

> To understand the frame message is to recognize the need for a decoding-mechanism.

> If the frame message is recognized as such, then attention is switched to level (2), the outer message. This is information, implicitly carried by symbol-patterns and structures in the message, which tells how to decode the inner message.

> To understand the outer message is to build, or know how to build, the correct decoding mechanism for the inner message.

> This outer level is perforce an implicit message, in the sense that the sender cannot ensure that it will be understood. It would be a vain effort to send instructions which tell how to decode the outer message, for they would have to be part of the inner message, which can only be understood once the decoding mechanism has been found. For this reason, the outer message is necessarily a set of triggers, rather than a message which can be revealed by a known decoder.
Depends on who you ask. Nobody can predict the future, otherwise they'd be a stock market Billionaire.

I see an economic crisis brewing in the distant future. Our economies are based on consumption. I don't think we can grow consumption indefinitely, especially if that means growing the population.
> Yeah, Mt Everest... nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded ;-)

Mt. Everest is the kind of place where that could be literally true (though I don't think it is, yet), if you count corpses as part the crowding...
> use stop limit prices to guarantee a desirable price in which case there's nothing a hedge fund can do to bump you

This is VERY misleading - not sure if you just worded it poorly or if you believe this - but a stop limit is NOT a guarantee that your stock will be sold.

Someone has to take the other side of that trade for it to fill. If there's no one there to take the trade - which is common when the price moves quickly - it will not execute.
...do you have a GitHub repo for checklisting items for building a custom house like this? I'm nowhere near financially secure enough to even begin planning for something like this. But it'd be cool to look through the checklist and have people contribute things you might forget, and it might be useful for others.