skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partially but it affirms my point that you disagreed with. My point from the beginning was that “nice” sake that was polished more and costs a lot (a Junmai Ginjo or Junmai Daiginjo for example) will be served cold. Many of the more alcoholic sake styles and cheaper sakes will be served hot or cold. The heat can help hide impurities but it can also play down (or change) the heavier alcohol flavors.

So yes I agree certain styles will be served warm and might have different and interesting taste profiles depending on temperature like your whisky example. But ultimately, warming the sake will tend to hide the subtle flavors that the sake maker did all the extra rice polishing to achieve, so it wouldn’t be recommended for a nice Junmai Daiginjo. The poster I replied to tried to falsely claim that hot sake would better pull out these subtle flavors, which I cannot find any reference for and does not agree with my experience drinking and reading about sake.
"Companies are not people" is the best way the world has been swindled into this sort of chaos. If people profit from the company, the company is people. Purdue could entirely go down or not, but I'd much rather see the people who most benefited from it being the ones actually going down.

Companies aren't evil, they're just things. We don't jail guns for killing people, we jail people for killing people. Why in hell should this be any different when money is involved ?
Isn't two "utilities" enough here?

Suppose we have two components-- X and Y-- which depend on two other lower-level components-- A and B. How would you draw this as a block dependency diagram without repetition?

If both X and Y depend on B, then X and Y must be above B, and both touch B. If X and Y are orthogonal rectangles, then the entire X-Y edge is obscured from below. This means that another lower-level component A must can only interact with either X or Y. You'd need to allow X or Y to no longer be orthogonal rectangles to overcome this, or need to give up on the vertical organization of dependencies.
Especially when you consider those that didn't overdose but were still crippled, which is certainly at least an integer multiple of the number of deaths.
While the traffic pattern is indeed rectangular, the "flying in circles" may come off as almost a joke to people involved in flight training (at least it did to me as a student) because one of the maneuvers you are required to learn/be able to demonstrate is flying a perfect circle. So there are, almost comically literally, a lot of student pilots out there going around and around in circles. Also rectangles and S-curves and figure-eights, and I wonder if you could do a little filtering to pick up people practicing their stalls, but I'm not sure if the temporal resolution on ADS-B altitude is enough to get that.

Usually in urban areas there's a more or less formal designated practice area where people are doing these things, intentionally not near the airport, but you could filter out small aircraft in those areas if it was really an issue.
Unlike Reddit, HN actually makes downvoted posts unreadable(unless you go to the pain of highlighting the text or changing the CSS).
I don't think coding theory is that esoteric. I would expect many, but perhaps not a majority, of people with a computer science or mathematics education to have studied its basics. Its prerequisites are not too steep and of course it is absolutely ubiquitous in digital technology.

I read the table of contents because I was curious what they considered "essential" to compare it to my own opinion. I think it's an interesting submission.
Easy to use and only a small amount of code required
This isn't some hyper specific market. Mobile games are a $76 billion industry (and rising) with the overwhelming majority of users only having access through either the Google play store or Apple store.
Owh wait they do
Which would be irrelevant since the original comment was that Epic had no monopoly on any market, and didn't specify the terms and conditions for a market to fit the argument.
The best I can make sense of this article, there may have been, overall, enough generating capacity on the grid, but not enough transmission capacity in particular locations. The closest anything in this article is the bizarre state statement that "no one says it was congestion". But spiking LMP's pretty much exactly indicate either congestion or insufficient generation in particular areas. In fact, in the case that, overall, there is sufficient generation, these conditions are the same. What it might mean is that there is some network condition, e.g. some generation or transmission out on scheduled maintenance, that puts the grid in a less-than secure state, such that higher than expected demand causes transmission in unexpected areas of the network.
I agree. I very much like the metaphor you're drawing here. Expecting a phone to cost as much as its materials is like expecting to go to a restaurant and being outraged when a steak and fries costs $25 when you can buy potatoes and a steak from your local supermarket for $8.

It's absolutely ignoring the overhead, R&D, etc; but I often also find iOS itself ignored in the built-in costs. I often find comparisons to costs of materials vs. MRSP bizarre at best, in any case.
I think you’ll find that the licensing terms can change faster than you can re-engineer your systems.
Really? Source? One of the most comprehensive study on the topic (1), says:

"Our food system has put the focus on short-term production and profit rather than long-term environmental sustainability. The modern agricultural system has resulted in huge increases in productivity, holding off the risk of famine in many parts of the world but, at the same time, is based on monocultures, genetically modified crops, and the intensive use of fertilizers and pesticides that undermine long-term sustainability. Food production accounts for 70 per cent of all freshwater withdrawals and 80 per cent of deforestation, while soil, the basis for global food security, is being contaminated, degraded, and eroded in many areas, resulting in long-term declines in productivity."

USCUSA isn't in love with industrial farming either (2):

"Monoculture degrades soil structure and leaves it more vulnerable to erosion, resulting in costs for soil replacement, cleanup, and lost farmland value."

Maybe major farmers aren't the most objective not most qualified group of people to assess the sustainability and [unpaid-for] externalities of their output?

(1) https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/documents/2017-09/...

(2) https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/hidden-costs-industrial-agr...
Cherry picking some unproductive crops doesn’t prove your argument against animal agriculture’s impact on climate change. Some actually useful real data: http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Calories_per_acre_for_vario...
Even if you were to get it, what would that change? The culture of consumer exploitation would still be there. How do you change something that's been a cultural cornerstone for over a century?
Totally understandable. No the battery wasn't replaced previously, I am the first owner. I think the difficulty of the glue is overstated (especially iFixIt's guide where you take apart half the machine to use some solvent, wtf). Just pull the battery cell at an angle so you don't bend it too much, it'll come off.
Different market, different historical reasons, and typically a much smaller user base for MacOS than the iPhone.

Also, “sideloaded” apps on MacOS are most certainly suspect in Apple’s eyes, so much so they put opt-in requirements around them. While I do see that as an argument for allowing iPhone sideloading with similar opt-in requirements, you can at least understand the market is considerably different for iPhone users than for Mac users, even if there is an overlap between the two.

iPhones also, from a support perspective, are an order of magnitude (or close to it) greater than that of MacOS. Seems reasonable to me for them to keep their appliance locked down in this way.
Things That Make a Conducive Work Environment
I thought they didn't make Swiss bank accounts like they used to? e.g. FATCA means you can't really use Swiss bank accounts to hide assets any more (at least not if that bank wants to participate in the international banking system)
If you do this, please offer nonprofit and student/academic plans! Many people in social sciences and the nonprofit world don't have the engineering resources to build data pipelines, nor the budgets for a $250/mo plan. But they're spending every day slicing Excel files of surveys and risk assessments and potential donors and the now-departed intern's messy list of average flight speeds of unladen swallows.

In all seriousness, this product could bring leverage to those in society who could have the most impact. Design is brilliant, the pipeline idea is brilliant, I can see this really gaining traction.
Setting aside any objections one may raise regarding the term emergence[1], the objective of this post was to discuss how while GPT-x alone cannot become an agent, its internal representations can be harnessed to create an agent. Note that human-like emotions and qualia are not in any way necessary for an artificial agent.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8QzZKw9WHRxjR4948/the-futili...
The line becomes very blurry when the evil is fantastically enormous.
Apple's gross revenue was about $14 billion, not $50 billion. Total app store revenue in 2019 was $61 Billion. Apple received between 15% and 30% of that, depending upon the first year/later years subscription numbers. If we use 22.5%, Apple made $13.7 billion.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21292203/apple-app-store-...

Follow the link to the cited study. Another data point is Apple's release that they paid developers $34 billion in 2018.

https://fortune.com/2019/01/28/apple-app-store-developer-ear...

Since the 15% subscription model was relatively newer in 2018, let's put the 2018 developer number at 75% of the total, so Apple made about $11.3 billion in 2018.

Also, we should not forget the huge overall R&D spend Apple is making to keep growing the iPhone/iPad market. Apple makes money off sales of course, but it is still a huge investment in the platform and that creates market for developers.

They have also just announced a new platform for Macs that will allow iPhone and iPad apps to run unaltered on the new Macs. Again, big R&D expense from Apple with upside for developers. In general, there have been big R&D expenditures in software SDKs in recent years for developers to get to a write once model so programs can run on all the platforms.

Apple also eats the 2.5% (typical number) credit card transaction costs. In addition, they deal with collecting and paying local sales taxes in every state and in 155 countries.

For the user, they provide a trusted payment processor and software source so they don't have to worry if the software will have embedded malware or if their credit card data will be handled appropriately.

They provide cloud servers for notifications, file storage, all of the software update processing, payment processing, and many other services.

The app store team performs about 100,000 reviews every week. Somewhat automated, but a lot of humans involved too.

After the first year, Apple's cut is 15%, so after all the other expenses of the app store I'd be surprised if they are clearing 10% after that. Whatever the exact number, it is far less than 30%.

The 2019 net prior to R&D and other expenses is probably around $12 to $13 billion best case. Developers made about $47 billion. At any rate, Apple is making money, but we should keep the right numbers in mind when we have these discussions.
> Cherry picking some unproductive crops doesn’t prove your argument

It was asked by a previous commenter in the thread to cherry-pick a crop that is less efficient than a cherry-picked animal. It was never meant to prove anything, only to helpfully answer the specific question asked. Trying to change the subject now does nothing to help your cause, which nobody really disagrees with in the first place. Even if you come from a heartfelt place, it is troubling that you did not take the time to read the thread before pushing your agenda. That is not the type of community HN strives to be.
This is the other side of the coin of "everyone can be a coder after a few months of self-study". We eschew the idea of licensing and the result is the general public suffers under technical incompetence.
You shifted from arguing from a purely theoretical view (if Epic had a market should they be regulated) to now arguing a very narrow view local to this case. I’m arguing the big picture, so feel free to engage there or not.

Sure, Epics specific case may be the only strategy they can take - they won’t find any documented collusion when there’s only two players, that’s obvious. They already colluded to suppress wages. We can all see what’s happening. You’re arguing semantics on one side then arguing generalities on the other. But let’s call a spade a spade: theres no smoking gun, but they are colluding, it’s just a silent “don’t lower yours and I won’t lower mine” nod.

Edit: further, with the amount of lock in they each have, there’s not much pressure anyway. It’s just not comparable to anything really that has existed beyond Windows/Mac which were/are entirely open. And it goes even further. Mobile phones are on people at all times. They do way way more. You have accounts with hundreds of apps, services. It’s just not a comparable thing, it’s a world with big lock-in.
I was fumbling with a random piece of software one day, then realized that ImageMagick was installed as a dependency. "Oh," I thought, while recollections of years past flooded my mind. After a few minutes of reading ImageMagick documentation, I stopped fumbling around and completed the work with ImageMagick instead.
Church numerals are essentially like the unary notation.

1. 0 : Think of 'y' as a blank blackboard in (\ x (\ y . y )), because when you apply it to two arguments, you get a "blank blackboard" - (\ x (\ y . y )) x y -> y

2. 1 is a tick mark on the blank blackboard (\ x (\ y . x y )). Applying it to two arguments, (\ x (\ y . x y )) x y, you get x y

3. 2 is a tick mark on a blackboard with a tick already on it : (\ x (\ y . x (x y)) x y yields x (x y)

3. 3 is (\ x (\ y . x (x (x y)))

and so on. The count of "tick marks" is essentially the number.

Calculation with this is notation is also fun to understand with the "tick marks on blackboard" analogy.
Where are you moving to? (EU only)
I think that's overly dismissive of it. GPT-3 for me represents the very beginnings of breaking out of the paradigm of a specialized machine learning system for each task. GPT-3 is alternatively a (surprisingly good and consistent) machine translating system, a (disappointingly mediocre) calculator, a (very uneven with flashes of brilliance) chatbot, etc. All without special engineering to do any of those things. I can't think of any other system I have access to that does that.

Regardless of whether you think GPT-3 represents a track towards true AGI, this is a huge advance! Even OpenAI's API for it is astounding compared to other APIs. I can't think of any other API that amounts to "provide an English language description of your task" and returns an answer. Like I said, the results are still quite uneven, but the fact that it's not extraordinarily outlandish to provide such an API is absolutely mind-boggling to me.

I don't think I could have ever imagined such an API existing even just 5 years ago!

This is way way beyond even the same qualitative thing as ELIZA.
An Indian doctor who is in Jail for 6 months for protesting against govt
This happens because execs are cheap, farm out everything to dev shops, and the beleaguered, underqualified devs power out nonsense code to keep up with the arbitrary point quota for the sprint. No one knows how the whole system works, reqs change constantly so poorly-planned updates degrade the whole thing, and all the while actual patient data gets mixed into the big soupy pot of bullshit. Anyone who raises concerns about the situation gets to be the "compliance officer," thus passing responsibility from the people benefitting from the situation to the people who just want to keep their job.

I wonder what would happen if devs could say to their boss "no, this won't be released until we're confident in it" with legally enforced immunity to consequences.
When console makers start making the same profit margin on their devices as Apple does, as opposed to selling them at or even below cost, this argument will begin to make sense.
(I don't have any professional background in this) I believe in general above-ground lines are "less durable", but they're much easier to install and repair. Below-ground cost significantly more for both. They're also susceptible to different things; wind and tress for above-ground, earthquakes? high water-table? rock vs sand/clay? for below grown.

For a few years I lived in a neighborhood that had above-ground lines, but further down the street they were below ground because that neighborhood was significantly richer. Our power went out fairly frequently. The neighbors told me it was because of the transition from below ground to above ground, but I also wouldn't have been surprised if NIMBYism kept older equipment in service.
This is great!

I have been searching for a decent piece of spectroscopy software, currently I use a mix of an ancient VB program I wrote in high school, an even worse labview program I wrote in undergrad, and a jupyter notebook I wrote in grad school.

The reliance on the point grey libraries is a bit of a bummer since my cameras are mostly based on firewire cameras using the dcam protocol via libdc1394.

Kind of an odd choice to license it with the cern open hardware license, being that this is really a piece of traditional software as opposed to a hardware design or firmware.

Speaking of, there is a great laser beam profiler called Bullseye that is in a similar spirit to this project. https://github.com/jordens/bullseye

It also supports point grey cameras, so if you have a camera for the openraman project your camera is probably compatible with bulleye as well.
Not indexing the sites and shutting down google news is effectively the same thing.
I'm not entirely sure, all told. I don't see it as much of a handicap for me, just a bit of how I remember things. That said, I'm almost always willing to try things.

Any reason not to just have the conversation in the open?
Those wouldn't be IBM's top competitors in semiconductors would they? I don't think Facebook or Amazon or Microsoft is spending more than 1% of their R&D budget on semiconductors.
"Got a call from some dreamers said they was out for revenge, got excited then I thought about it, started crying, because a year ago my cousin was killed looking for his".
makes sense, thanks. How would this be better than the logs you'd get from each service?
Problem Exists Between Eyes And Fingers?

So, PEBEF?
You're still not getting it. It's not about if Google is profitable or not. That's beside the point.

There's not much I can do for you anymore. It's up to you now.
Yep, a big bundle of hard to compile code written in an unsafe language.
How does climate interfere with burying power lines? Germany's bad weather is only slightly less of a stereotype than the lack of humour and <you know what>, and all residential power lines are underground. Even the long-distance lines are moving underground lately.
How many people do you have to kill before you deserve to get fed into a wood chipper? The Sacklers are at 250,000 and counting.
It's a "gigantic win" for everyone in the same manner that Uber paying drivers and customers (via bonuses / free rides) to use their service was one for everyone involved . Sooner or later, Epic will have to stop doing this once they get their market share and there is no guarantee that this will be the financial model they follow (free games frequently, paying devs to be exclusive etc).

It works in a different context ( platform exclusives ) because the lock in / costs to developing for a different platform are far different from that for different stores on a single platform.
Apple generally ships parts overnight to shops. I've worked somewhere that had an AASP as part of it. Occasionally there's a delay but around 90% of the time our guys could order up to about 4PM EST and have it come in for the midday FedEx Express dropoff the next day. And this wasn't in a major metro area where overnight delivery is common/easy.

2-3 days would have been a plausible turnaround time. 7 is laziness or a long queue.
Former FBI agent John Douglas argues in one of his books (I forget which one) that if general public knew the whole scope and details of the crimes perpetrated by any of the serial killers he prosecuted, the level of support against death penalty would be close to nil.
The FBI can commit crimes with impunity, that much has been made clear. So given that, the best thing you can do to your hardware is make sure that even criminals can't get in, which also restrains some of the rights of the original owner.
It appears as if one of the main reasons for almost a-priori rejection of the Many Worlds interpretation lies in the words "many worlds". More often this metaphor gets in the way instead of helping. It seems as if you have to accept something "more", yet, at its core, the Everettian interpretation is the simplest pure consequence of QM. We just have to grapple with the psychological consequences if being a cog in the machine and we devise further metaphors to help us talk about how it would "feel" to be in superposition.

Is there a better way to build intuitions how an information processing system would behave while being in superposition?

Things get complicated when we throw humans in the mix, perception and consciousness and all. But modelling even simpler machines and their "point of view" can be insightful.

In this day and age it shouldn't be hard to imagine the working of a computer that uses computer vision algorithms to perceive its world and take action as a result, acting as a "causality amplifier". For example image we feed it the output of some QM experiment and instruct it output a description of what it "sees" (as we routinely do with cat pictures classification).

I assume it would be far less controversial to think about the unitary evolution of the wave function if the system being described is a QM experiment plus a computer rather than the same QM experiment and a human.

Yet, there are many similarities. The output of this computer (the classification) would be in superposition, and when measured by us it would appear as if the wave function collapsed. But we could add another such computer in the mix and ask ourselves "does it also see the wave function collapsing"? Well can program it to take the measurement and record the answer and then convey the answer to us (or to another computer down the chain). These "answers" are the "point of view" of the computer. It will "observe" decoherence yet it won't be decohered itself, as its own statement about whether it observed decoherence is itself in superposition and thus can be used as a further input to other machines witnessing subjective decoherence.
Which ones? I only skimmed the case, but it looked like market power would suffice.

In either case, the standard legal approach is to throw the kitchen sink of claims, to see which ones stick. Most claims get rejected by the courts, but if you have a few that work, it's enough.

It also helps settle. If I have a dozen $10 million dollar claims, with a 5% chance of success each, a rational opponent will throw me $6 million to go away. If the parties settle, the kitchen sink approach is not a bad one to get a better settlement.
Nice idea. Any plans for search/filtering? Also, how do you update/deploy?
I can "side load" my Mac too. And users know that if a 3rd party application fails or causes problems you don't call Apple. To me this line of thought doesn't hold up.
I wonder what would have happened if drugs were just legal, and anyone could buy whatever they wanted.