skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bliss is Ignorance

Actually it was a very nice language and certainly an improvement over writing system software in assembly language.
Nuclear plants can throttle down. But the economics of nuclear power make it prohibitive to satisfy peak demand from nuclear reactors. Even France relies on gas plants and power imports to satisfy its electricity demand peaks, despite being a net electricity exporter over the course of a full year.

The CAISO grid had an average power demand of 25 GW in 2019 but a peak demand of 46 GW (Table 1.1):

http://www.caiso.com/Documents/2019AnnualReportonMarketIssue...

Keeping enough nuclear reactors operating to supply the most demanding hours of the most demanding season would have extraordinarily high marginal costs for the last few terawatt hours.
It overcounted some of the test based deaths, but in terms of excess mortality there were probably still more covid deaths than have been reflected in test-positive death numbers, so it’s still an undercount.

Here is some data here on excess deaths: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking...
In C, because you often use void * for containers, there may be less code bloat than a container multiply used using generics which accessors are monomorphized for each type. In practice this is pretty trivial difference and can be bounded and understood well enough.
That's what growing old looks like, friend. The world we knew is going away, to be replaced by a new world for new people who care about different things.

I'm sure people who genuinely loved tending to mules and horses "lost interest" when regular folks started using trains and cars to travel. It's just how it is - humanity goes forth, as it will.
There are actually documented cases of police officers in the early 20th century requesting heavier calibers and hotter loads from gun manufacturers because they believed their firearms were incapable of stopping an enraged <slur deleted>.

Biologically, this is utter nonsense. But the belief that black people are tougher, stronger, and more capable of withstanding pain and drugs is a surprisingly common belief. Doctors are notorious for downgrading black pain in clinical situations as compared to white patients, and administer less pain killers.
Wax Bullet Duels Were the Paintball Fights of 1909 (2016)
Oh, ah yes, that's good. With the A.__init(self) approach you'd overcall in a diamond-pattern. Okay, I'm convinced.
Wired probably took money to write this smear campaign. They haven't been a credible source for a very long time.
The Xbox isn’t marketed as a general purpose computer, nor is it integral to the economy.
In classic Hacker News style, you're now being downvoted too. So clearly the truth is somewhere between "diversity matters" and "diversity doesn't matter". Who knows?! Best not talk about it.
The solution in C++ isn't so great either, considering:

struct Base { Base() { cout << "Base" << endl; } };
struct Derived1 : Base { Derived1() { cout << "Derived1" << endl; } };
struct Derived2 : Base { Derived2() { cout << "Derived2" << endl; } };
struct Join : Derived1, Derived2 { Join() { cout << "Join" << endl; } };

And then you get two calls to Base:

Base
Derived1
Base
Derived2
Join

There's virtual base class inheritance but then that's a different problem that's hardly any more straightforward than Python.
In addition to that, you also need to know how to:

Read the instruments. This is non-trivial with modern glass cockpits as the readings on the screen don't necessarily have labels.

Set the flaps at the right time. Too soon and you'll tear the wings off or run out of fuel before you make it to the runway. Too late and you will be flying too fast to land.

Lower the gear, again at the right time to prevent them being torn off by airflow or not being down when you hit the runway.

Know that, once on the ground, the nose gear is steered with the footpedals and not the sidestick (Airbus) or yolk (Boeing).

Set the autobrake so you don't need to brake manually at touchdown. If you get this right, you don't need to mess with reverse thrust.

It would be helpful to know how to turn off the cabin pressurization system so no one is blown out the doors when they are opened.

Even if you're lucky enough to get all this right, you're only going to make a smoking hole somewhere near the runway if there's any significant crosswind.
tbf, the initial download screen is so bad I can't believe it was actually coded by a microsoft studio. It's a 120GB download, so I thought ok, I'll just play some other game in the meantime, right? Nope, they forgot to check if the application is in the foreground and check for button presses even when the download window is minimized, meaning that when I play something else pressing "A" on the controller presses the "help" link on the download screen, opening a new browser window and microsoft help page. So....nope, I can't play something else while Flight Simulator is downloading its data, because whoever coded it doesn't know basic principles of input capture on MS platforms.
For forensic, as opposed to manual, searches of electronics there is under the district court judgement in Alasaad v. Nielsen (currently on appeal as Alasaad v. Wolf because of change in DHS leadership.)
What makes it worse is there are certain topics where there is no objective, unbiased view beyond believing what most of your peers believe.
fair enough. like i said i'm not a domain expert, and definitely wish them success.
mikefax
> Just doing a 3D reconstruction with multiple cameras is more established field

Yes, but that alone is not enough. You can indeed reconstruct 3D after spending enough resources, but that won’t help you finding out which color the camera is going to see, because of these reflection issues. Human eyeballs are very reflective. Even if you approximate them with spheres and distort the reflections accordingly, next subject will wear eyeglasses, the reflecting shape of these is arbitrary, you have no chance of doing that accurately enough.

The worst-case example is a person wearing eyeglasses which are completely flat on the outside. No matter how many cameras are around the screen, none of them will capture what would reflect in the eyeglasses for a missing camera at the center of the screen.

I think people will eventually solve that, not with AI postprocessing, with hardware. You can place a camera behind center of the screen, and split time between display and camera. For example, you light the display for 10ms, and for the next 6.66ms you turn off the display and instead read data from the camera. This will get you 60Hz of both display and camera.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, cops in the early 20th century requested larger calibers and hotter loads from gun manufacturers because they believed black people survived gun shots better than white people.
Would pay for this if you could customise the links on each platform rather than only have the robot suggestions.

While it works fine for 'popular' music, like almost all music platforms and tools it totally sucks for classical music (and I appreciate Songwhip is a free and cool thing, not complaining!). While it'll mostly find the same piece of music on different platforms, often they will be different recordings which isn't appropriate.

I say this because linking to recordings across platforms is a key part of my partner's workflow, and a tool like this (if customisable landing pages could be easily created/curated) would be a game changer!
There is a bit a grey area, which is why I was careful say "the model learned/understood/knowns something" in my earlier comments.

However, You seem to be making the Chinese Room argument. If you define meaning such that either no computer program could possibly "understand" meaning or it is unverifiable if it does, I don't think it makes much sense to have a discussion if GPT-3 does. Is there a test that a model could pass that would convince you that it "knows" meaning according to your definition?
You don't have to make it public. I bought a sensor from them and marked it private, so it doesn't appear on the map.

From installation guide:

https://www2.purpleair.com/pages/install

If you set your sensor to private, you may view it by logging in to the PurpleAir map using a Gmail address that matches the "Owner's Email" in the registration form. Alternatively, you can use the link provided in the registration confirmation email. You may share this link with family and friends.
> Without emails as the keys to the kingdom, what would you use?

PKI. Service providers shouldn't give you access to an account just because you can prove you control an email address (during a narrow and predictable time window, no less). The simplest thing would be to encrypt the relevant part of the payload (the one containing the password reset link), so resets are only possible if you can receive the email and have the means of reading it in its "true" form.

Failing that (suppose you've not just lost your password but also the ability to decrypt the contents of the message), there should be an alternative, but the threshold for proving your identity should increase. It would ameliorate a lot if it meant that people had to show up in person somewhere. E.g., I show up at either the business's local branch (if there is one) or the USPS (or...) with my photo ID. From there, an attestation is generated that you really are who you say you are, and only with that attestation will your account be unlocked.
Really fun and creative idea. My partner might use this at school to give other staff and students incentive to review it at least periodically.
Worth pointing out that it was discovered that this blog entry was edited during the Covid-19 pandemic, between April 8th - 15th, 2020. Prior to this, his blog had made no mention of coronaviruses.

https://fullfact.org/health/cummings-blog-coronavirus/
> what is fine-tuning, like what do you have to actually do?

For GPT-2 it is as easy as creating a corpus you want to fine-tune on, adding new unseen tokens to the dictionary, and run a finetuning command. https://huggingface.co/transformers/v1.2.0/examples.html#fin...

> Has anyone done it

Many have. AI Dungeon is a great example. Others are experimenting with humor generation, short story synopsis generation/creative writing, and supportive chat bots.
I want to re-iterate that I'm in favour of UBI. I can imagine there are potential pitfalls to UBI, but I think those pitfalls are not as dangerous as the alternative. I really do think we should have some form of UBI (though I don't think it would be a panacea).

I just think that there isn't actually anything meaningful to be learned from this study about how things would play out if we implemented actual UBI.

The reason this doesn't tell you anything is that economies are strongly interacting systems, and humans are tricky test subjects. If you give a couple thousand people a couple years of money, that's a very different situation than an entire country of people being promised that money forever.

People against UBI worry that it'd cause people to quit their jobs or be lazy. Who is going to quit their job to live off UBI if they know the money will dry up in two years? Furthermore, one might be concerned that even if the first generation of people to get UBI treat it responsibly, what if the next generation who grows up taking it for granted don't treat it responsibly?

One could play this game all day where people who are against can come up with rationalizations for why the results of the study don't scale and people who are pro-UBI can come up with reasons why it would scale.
Tangent but much larger audience is the original GB game jam coming up next week.

https://itch.io/jam/gbjam-8
Mozilla, at least, has shown they're not married to Google - they had Yahoo als the default search engine for a couple of years because Yahoo was the highest bidder.
Blue Box – Officially Woz
Right, my assumption up to the landing point was that the radio help included the instructions for all of that.

Note it's called a yoke. :)
Honestly heard it more than once from smaller players. I can see how the bigger players gets away with this based on all the other things they get away with that we know about.
That's not the opposite of my point -- you're just rephrasing it.

If I can buy a cheap roof for $2k but have to replace it every year, or an expensive roof for $15k that will last 50 years, then LONG TERM the cheap roof is the more costly option.

But if I only have $2k instead of $15k, I'm not wrong to buy a cheap roof. Yelling at me about the long term costs of the cheap roof is missing the point. You're just saying that you're disappointed by my lack of $15k.
I remember seeing OpenLase after I developed a bunch of laser projector games [1] [2]. I wish I had known about it back then. Python was a huge bottleneck, and I had to come up with workarounds for the GIL and other problems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs&t=15s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-jf-ans
This is an example of why we need more viable political parties. Which is why we need a better voting system (ranked choice, approval, etc) so that other parties can become viable and start influencing politics. Of course neither of the two dominant parties want their power reduced in this way.
Another police department got caught bending down the notches on their police badges as a way of signifying how many kills a given officer had, and even had a ceremony for officers first kill. Reports say at least 25% of the precinct participated, probably most knew.

American police live in what we call a “siege” mentality; they believe that they’re the only thing protecting society from chaos and crime. This results in a belief that their actions are inherently just, and that any criticism risks exposure of society to the chaos they’re barely holding back.

It’s not a convincing pitch when viewed in the light of blatant police brutality, but it appears to be what they believe.
You are describing an RSS feed.
You can easily call c code from rust using the extern keyword:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html#usin...

If your c++ code uses the c ABI (application binary interface) then you can call it easily too. There is a tool called rust-bindgen which will automatically generate the required rust code from header files.
I've found the same. When you have things to done you get them done. When you don't, you can sit around browsing the internet all day. It tends to be when things pile up that you are most effective at getting through them!
I think part of OPs point is that you think you can get a copy of any book. I don't mean to sound snarky at all; it's just that you know what you see online now, which is not all that is offline. You don't miss what you don't know.

My experience is of numerous out of print books that might have had small publishers in small editions. Even an unusual edition of an well known book can be unique in various valuable ways.

One year the university I was at was in danger of flooding. The priority was moving books that as far as they could determine were the only remaining copies of. You wouldn't believe the numbers of them that were moved. Many used bookstores I've visited were similar, with books selected because they were unusual.

It's hard to know what you don't know.
Google bans/locks/deletes accounts for arbitrary reasons all the time, with absolutely zero recourse for the user.
Does it need to be included in the Linux Kernel? I understand that NTFS is 27 years old and mostly to support Microsoft file systems. Can't the driver be an external download?
Since You Were in Diapers
> I can agree with Bing but DDG is plain horrible for searches. It's basically just Google page 2+ results on Page 1.

Maybe a couple years ago. I can't remember getting better results with Google over DDG more than once or twice in the past two years.
And he's still alive! Wow, 97 years old.
As a rebellious young nerd, at some point I realized that my piracy was more akin to/aligned with collecting/preserving content as I consumed just a fraction of it but still derived joy from the acquisition and storage.

Of course, once I got a job as a developer I paid for everything (too much, really... my unplayed Steam collection keeps growing!)

I still love emulation tech, though
Yeah, it's bad, and it's the first thing you see as well. But it's not "negative review for the whole game" bad. I just muted it in Windows in the volume mixer (although I bet a lot of people don't know you can mute individual apps). I didn't notice your input problem but that sounds pretty annoying.
I guess you are :) . I will tell you a secret. I suspect I'm a Chinese room too ^^ ...

There are also people with so called total locked-in syndrome i.e. people who can not do any voluntary movements even with their eyes, so there is no way to communicate with them. How would you decide if they are conscious? It may be literally matter of live and death for them. How should we know if they even want to live in their condition?
It's still hugely popular in the Netherlands, but somewhat ironically mostly viewed through the web or apps. I wrote a simple command line reader scraping the web version: https://github.com/sjmulder/nostt
I presume you're right about that, but up to a point. My father was a fighter pilot, and he said you live and die by how tight you can turn without stalling out ('cuz then you'll fly right into the crosshairs of the guy behind you trying to line up on you). This is done by feeling in your seat and the control column the minute trembling of the wings as they reach the stall point, and that's exactly where you need to place the airplane.

I took a class in performance driving once. They say to cinch the belt down as tight as you can so that your seat feels every nuance of the road. And it does, and it works. With some practice you can feel when the tires are right at the limit of their grip. It's just like reaching the stall point in an airplane when the wings lose their grip.

Also, airplanes have a "feel" in the control column, and they definitely fly by that pushback. It's so essential that Boeing jets have a "feel computer" to push back on the stick to simulate what the pilot would feel if he were directly controlling the surfaces. There's none of that in the flight simulator games.
I think WASM will eventually produce the solution (hear me out before you tune out). I've been thinking about this for a while. So we have WASI[0], which doesn't yet address the UI issue, but there's half a dozen at least projects attempting to create runtimes for WASM. If most languages wind up compiling for WASM / WASI I think eventually a good effort could be done towards a WASI-UI or WASUI.

Imagine if major OS platforms had a common UI framework that any language can produce a UI for, every major browser already supports WASM, why not a WASI based common runtime that would benefit every OS that supports it. I havent seen anyone else discussing this I've just been contemplating it for a while and I'm not sure what it would look like short of recreating a cross-platform X window system.

However, as crazy as I sound my reason for this is simple: the issue with a lot of UI frameworks is that they tend to be language specific and are mostly useful to the languages they officially or directly support. If you can build a UI compatible stack that any language can target, you can gain a lot more adoption. I could easily see Rust, D, Go, etc supporting a common UI runtime.

Electron sells itself rather easily cause most devs are familiar with HTML / CSS / JS. What we need is a cross-platform cross-language solution that isn't XML based but something a language can implement rather simply, or maybe even a compiler / standard library could manage.

[0]: https://wasi.dev/
With an util like jq, yes.
Reminds me of a Wordpress site that ended up having a bunch of files uploaded to the uploads directory with the extension .php -- and the webserver allowed them to be executed. Unfortunately things like this are often overlooked!
> You know, with the amount of data some companies and governments are slurping up it might almost be justified

Which is why Bell Canada not peering at TorIX (and other Canadian IXPs) really annoys me. (Rogers, Telus, Cogeco, TekSavvy, etc, do.)

* https://www.cira.ca/improving-canadas-internet/initiatives/c...

Even major cloud hosting companies (AWS, Digital Ocean, OVH) have Canadian build-outs for folks that are sensitive to domestic/international issues, and yet if connect with Bell your traffic tends to go to Chicago and then back.
HOLY CRAP, WHAT?!?!
or just !s
> Instead of a civil police force you will end up with an ad-hoc collection of private security, thugs, violent gangs, protection rackets, and so on

Uh... I don't think that's what I said, at all. I said we need new cops and a new law enforcement organization, because the old one is polluted beyond redemption.
No, of course, I wouldn't go an review the entire game based on that one screen, but yeah, it's a pretty stupid thing to have right at the beginning as every single player will see it before trying the game.
The parameter/dataset arms race producing emergent intelligence rather than just bigger models is a fantasy.

However without a good/better explanation in the meantime , really interesting capabilities emerge at higher parameters

Specifically to your point of arithmetic— here is GPT3 performing “zero shot” (ie no examples) arithmetic:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/pf6fHcrio7QFtU4S8

The “completion” includes an answer to the problem but also provides a natural language summary (GPT3)

GPT3 has ~170billion parameters (GPT2 ~1.5B) & somehow is capable of many-digit arithmetic w/o fine-tuning or task-specific training. (Its training data was “messy” from Common Crawl like for search engines)

Microsoft’s Turing-NLG has ~17billion parameters & was successful only in 1 of every 2 attempts of 2-digit arithmetic and only successful less than 10% of the time for higher numbers of digits.
In-tree drivers are the standard for Linux kernel modules.
After Thursday's Dogfight, It's Clear: DARPA Gets AI Right
aniline is a potent carcinogen.
All the time! I'll try to email one or two lines to myself to remember it later. I've found this is the quickest way to give myself confidence that I'm not "losing" the idea if I stop thinking about it now.
Pick an example where one computing pioneer finding a solution to a `problem' resulted in some major advancement for humanity. The book `Fire In The Valley' (The Making of The Personal Computer) might provide many clues.
I find it interesting that I initially interpreted the headline “New nitrogen products are in the air” as a story about pollution. I.e., new nitrogen products (pollutants) have been detected in the atmosphere.
A wide diversity of humans can and have learned to speak the pilot/ATC dialect and cadence; and, English is the generally accepted lingua franca for flight.

I am not sure how class enters the equation, although it seems to me likely that travelers would prefer to hear neither George Plimpton nor an East-End eelmonger over the intercom.
Volume generally beats quality for models. So the default position of anyone looking to analyze the data will be to ask for more of it.

This is where I think GDPR helps since it adds cost to that data. It really gives you and opportunity to assess the value versus the liability of the data.
The developer tools are free for anyone with a free developer account. Submitting apps to the store requires a paid developer account.