skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you wanted to roll the dice on something that would really spice up the universe AGI has a decent chance. I’d rather keep those dice in my hands for as long as reasonable though.
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> I'm an accelerator physicist and I wouldn't want my code to end up on acceleratorskeptics.com with people that don't understand the material making low effort critiques of minor technical points. I'm here to turn out science, not production ready code.

Specifically, to that point, I want to cite the saying:

"The dogs bark, but the caravan passes."

(There is a more colorful German variant which is, translated: "What does it bother the mighty old oak tree if a dog takes a piss...").

Of course, if you publish your code, you expose it to critics. Some of this will be unqualified. And as we have seen in the case e.g. of climate scientists, some might be even nasty. But who cares? What matters is open discussion which is a core value of science.
Well, this policy change will force them to be more efficient, and it's a net win for everyone
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TikTok was incredibly popular in India. If I recall correctly it was their largest market outside of China.

Edit: According to the company themselves, it was their largest overseas market with a userbase of 200 million.
> Why do you think science is different?

It's really not, I guess his focus lies on cranking out irreproducible papers.
The Dead Drop. Keeping a secret is easy, communicating a secret is not
Which destroys the appeal of the building in the first place
Thanks much for your reply. Turing’s application of Godel merely says that there are some calculations a computer can’t do. There are still a finite number of instructions that are unique and would reasonably pass muster under our patent laws. If you’d like to further clarify, I’d love to hear it.

I laid out the issues for the patent system in my other responses, and perhaps you’re right that it’s hard to search and find a series of instructions, aka software, but you should know that software patents are examined entirely the same as other patents.

I haven’t seen an analysis that 90% or some other high percentage of software patents shouldn’t have been allowed. Remember that you can include any description in the specification and abstract, including the whole encyclopedia if you want, but that doesn’t define the invention. The invention is defined by the legal description in the claim language – it’s a boundary for what is actually new, and every single word of it must be found in a product for it to infringe.

The claim is synonymous with the invention in the case law, which is why it’s not recommended to use the word “invention” in the specification, so it’s not used to narrow the claim interpretation in the court’s Markman (claim construction) proceedings during the suit.

Believe me, if someone could do an actual assessment of allowed patents (notably the claims) and show that they never should have been issued, I’d love to see it. As an FYI, from time to time in representing defendants we’re approached by professors etc. who’d like to share prior art and be retained as experts. But aside some from studies here and there which are generally marketing hype ramping off the thought that all software patents are bad, I haven’t seen it.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24232307
Has anything changed recently, or is biotech still far less well compensated than software, relative to years of experience and education?
It depends on the country and city - here in Ireland the taxis are almost always a class act. My local taxi company allows payment via smartphone and even sends you the invoice via SMS or email if you need it as a business expense. I've even had a driver turn off the metre and show me around once he realised I was new to the city.

And tipping, although appreciated, is not at all mandatory like in the states.
Honest question, but why can't docker use something like bittorrent to download images?

Most of us download our OS via torrents only, so we may as well download the images too if there was support for it.
Game programming isn't—or at least shouldn't be—so different from other fields that fundamental software engineering principles do not apply. It seems like discarding criticism just because it comes from outside the immediate industry is going to lead to an insular culture and get in the way of any real change or progress.

Doubly so for an industry that still has high-profile, highly funded projects (Battlefield V, Anthem... etc) flounder because of technical debt and poor tooling. (And yes, these issues are all downstream of awful management for those particular projects, but that doesn't change the technical side of things!)
What latitude?
notcurses takes this to its logical extreme: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses#Transpar...

check it out in notcurses-demo -- pretty crazy stuff
Those police should have been required to make sure he was a match. Feel like it was mostly due to racism and thats fckin horrible. Then they blame it on the computer. like yeah but its also their fault for not double checking.
My 'concern' was clear. He was doing what he accused others of doing.

> The authors of the 1619 project agree that it's not a neutral historical review

cite?

> "reframing history"

I'm not sure what that means but link, please?

> "using history and reporting to make an argument"

What's your objection to that? Should they have used bluster and lies instead - what do you want? (and cite for that quote, pls)

> "explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative"

If the national narrative was wrong then that's reasonable (and cite, pls)

> It's infeasible to expect commenters to provide detailed citations for every fact they reference.

Perhaps, but some backup is necessary for verification.
You will and you've actually been really well received. I wouldn't worry about the occasional negative remark. Those are going to happen and other people can often figure out that it's someone being weirdly pendantic or whatever.

Bill Gates has said something about "your unhappiest customers are your best source of learning." I like to view big negative reactions to my writing in that light and help me up my game for future pieces.

There are no soft launches and this is all grist for the mill.
Before I quibble, let me first state that this is an excellent, well written and comprehensive guide that any aspiring Shopify app developer should read carefully.

Two Quibbles.

First, the API is very good but Shopify support will not answer developer questions about it and will push you to their developer forums. There if you are lucky you might get a useful answer within a day or two, if unlucky you won’t.

It’s shocking that a company whose entire business revolves around these APIs (its not just used by app developers but by merchants themselves) refuses to offer technical support.

Secondly, it’s a tiny market. The best data have found indicates about $50M a year total to App developers, so if you want to build that $1M MRR app, look elsewhere. Author, please correct me if this is wrong, as I’m working on a Shopify app as my side project and it would really help my motivation if my estimate is way low.
if so what is the cost to compute an AGI answer and is it cheap than a human?

and could a specialist AI out perform AGI?

or would you use the AGI to teach the mini specialist AI's to a certain point and then some other process to train them to a specialist level.
They have registries already which work with docker after an auth setup. They are generally private to you.

Yes, docker is a struggling company which sold some lines of business and is now trying to reinvent itself again towards developers. Given other recent moves, I'm not sure the new leadership understands how to do this.
I like this idea. I would think that the “default” hub should not be managed only by Docker, but eg by docker and other registries. I suspect that docker inc still wants full control over their registry though so I don’t see this happening.

We might decide on another, non dockerhub open registry though, and use that instead.
Even if you're taking vitamin D supplements, you probably won't get the full anti-covid benefits unless you also get at least 15 (and preferably 30) minutes of direct sunlight exposure each day. My understanding is that vitamin D causes your skin to produce nitric oxide, but this nitric oxide doesn't actually get released into the rest of your body unless you get actual sun exposure.
Race conditions aren't undefined behavior in C/C++. Data races are. Lots and lots of real systems contain race conditions without catastrophe.
Its technically possible that a court of law is not corrupt. Even in the US.
If nothing else, it helps debugging code which tries to reproduce your findings.
That's not the point, though. If you obtain your results by writing and executing code then code quality matters - to reproduce and validate them.
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I'm pretty sure it does, but I'm also pretty sure it's okay if it doesn't.
The primary use I see is as a super scientist / mathematician. If nothing else AGI, and especially super-intelligence will probably cause other areas of technology to advance at unprecedented rates. This may or may not be to our benefit, depending on if we can solve the value alignment problem.
Apparently there are sufficient (even I have one - 7 IIRC) that an even more exclusive club as been formed:
https://rosschurchley.com/blog/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-s...
Yeah, it's a nice idea for me too. It's a (for me anyway) impossible to make call to give up the kind of salary we make as a senior in tech just because I miss coding for fun though..

I've had pretty good success with replacing programming as a hobby with other things though (biking, woodwork, parenting etc) and I don't really miss 'coding for fun' much anymore. Between clients I'll maybe do some to keep up to date, but that has a different feel to what it was like when I was young ;)
yeah the version control aspect of unity made me cool off on it because version control is so very important.
I think it's interesting how freaked out people get when they realize how powerless we can be as a species even with all our technology.

I'm baffled that "flatten the curve" is now "lock down until further notice".
What's the incentive to reduce false arrests? Are the arrestors' jobs at stake? Is their wallet at stake?

Why put in the extra effort if there are no consequences for being wrong?

Most of the time it seems the worst-case scenario for the perpetrator of the false arrest is being relegated to desk-duty or a paid suspension. If there's a settlement it's the tax-payers that foot the bill. Until that changes, there's basically no reason for them to make the effort to reduce false arrests. This isn't a problem that will be solved with recognition algorithms getting a few percentage points more accurate every year. It will require actual reform.
Question for the OP seeing as this is a Show HN: how does this compare to Nim (https://nim-lang.org/)?
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No they don't, but if you do something silly like spin up a bare VM build node, and then pull your environment every time, then obviously you won't get any caching.
No one is saying that code is the science.

If I'm given bad information and I act on that information, then problems can occur.

Similarly, if the software is giving the scientist bad information, problems can occur.

How many more stories do we have to read about some research getting published in a journal only to have to retract it down the road because they had a bug in the software before we start asking if maybe there needs to be more rigor in the software portion of the research as well?

There was a story on HN a while back about a professor who had written software, had come to some conclusions, and even had a Ph.D. student working on research based on that work. Only to find out that a software flaw meant the conclusions weren't useful to anyone and that student ended up wasting years of their life.

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This stuff matters. This isn't a model of reality, it's an exploration of reality. It would be like telling a hiker that terrain doesn't matter. They would, rightfully, disagree with you.
No, latest is just a tag and is not handled differently. There is a CLI flag to ignore cached layers. This however does not effect the FROM line, so if you have the image, there will be no pull.

Expect this to effect CI systems
Buyer's remorse is a real thing, and at some point it's far more important that you trust that you made the right choice than for some third party to approve of your decision 'objectively'.

Knowing this makes it into a kind of moral hazard to continue to press you for more information, so I will simply close with 'Congratulations'.
This is my steady state. I don't think people shouldn't be valued by their output, and I'm content to spend time with my family, learn about the world around me, have fun, and do my best at work. I do go through episodes where the need to create something worthwhile takes ahold of me, though, and it can be debilitating for a few days.
Mbuffer is a tool for buffering data streams with a large set of unique features
Like many policies, their origins are complicated, and subject to 'bootlegger and baptist' type motivations.[1] Going back to my first post in this thread, I was saying that zoning laws were not "originally designed to limit where Chinese immigrants could live and work", and I stand by my comment.

As a bit of an aside, I find it disturbing how political debate is becoming pure sophistry, where winning the day is dependent on proving that the other side is racist. Zoning is bad, whether or not it's racist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
Having worked on this project, and a handful of features in it, the "vehicle controls" mentioned here are things like putting the convertible top down, or raising/lowering the ride height of the vehicle. It's all higher-level communication down to dedicated systems that directly manage the feature.
I don't think it's necessarily a holistic thing... i think it's more that the doctor specializes in this area and most doctors aren't familiar with it.
My understanding is that direct sunlight over a major portion of the body for a full 5-8 minutes around noon can be enough to elevate levels sufficiently. In spreading the exposure in this manner one can avoid burns.
> Most of us download our OS via torrents only

I mean, I only do it to stick it to the people who claim torrents can only be used for piracy; I think most people prefer the simplicity of direct downloads though…
This sounds great. In your opinion, do you think your team is unusual in those aspects? Do you have any knowledge of the quality of code in other branches of physics or other sciences?
Lots of people saying, it is the scientist's job to produce reproducible code. It is, and the benefits of reproducible code are many. I have been a big proponent of it in my own work.

But not with the current mess of software frameworks. If I am to produce reproducible scientific code, I need an idiot-proof method of doing it. Yes, I can put in the 50-100 hours to learn how to do it [1], but guess what, in about 3-5 years a lot of that knowledge will be outdated. People comparing it with math, but the math proofs I produce will still be readable and understandable a century from now.

Regularly used scientific computing frameworks like matlab/R/Python ecosystem/mathematica need a dumb guided method of producing releasable and reproducable code. I want to go through a bunch of next buttons, that help me fix the problems you indicate, and finally release a final version that has all the information necessary for someone else to reproduce the results.

[1] I have. I would put myself in the 90th percentile of physicists familiar with best practices for coding. I speak for the 50% percentile.
>AGI could be the ultimate tool to free every human being from toil

I don't believe that's inherently a good thing if you mean that literally. I used to subscribe more to the AnPrim/Ted Kaczynski ideology that toil is an inherent part of human satisfaction and allowing people to "free" themselves from it goes against millions of years of evolution and positive feedback loops. I'm sure some people can fill the gaps just fine, but we aren't talking in terms of "some".

(I'm not Derrick Jensen, he follows a similar ideology and I chose the name as a parody of the average HN poster. Does HN have an anti-impersonation policy?)
If you're at the level where you can write a decent book on programming or something... that means guaranteed job offers for the rest of your career.

Like, I haven't seen Raymond Chen's resume, but if he calls me up tomorrow looking for a job, I'll find something for him, even if we're not hiring.

Ditto for Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, and some other people in the Rust community.
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What’s their plan to someday turn a profit?
I'd think that whoever perceives themselves as craftsmen should continue to, you know, craft things.

I personally am interested in a society where work is 100% optional. And I think AGI would enable that.

How do you view AGI in relation to economic effects on the world?
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Depends what those two or more skills are.

You might be a top flight musical basket weaver but that won't pay too well.
There are lots of people reacting to the extraordinary with "inspiration", "disappointment", and "jealousy".

I'd say none of these are as useful as reacting with curiosity. There's an endless amount to learn from the extraordinary in any field or sport or hobby. It's easy to write off the extraordinary as naturally talented or lucky or something else surface level. Most of the time it's anything but.

I play golf. It's a game that can be extraordinarily frustrating to beginners. It often takes years of hard work to just be moderately adequate at the game. Going into it with disappointment or jealousy of extraordinary golfers will quickly lead them to quit as they'll be way too stressed out to enjoy the game. Those who go into it with inspiration or admiration of those who are better won't be able to sustain it when the inspiration burns out.

Curiosity is the only emotion I've found that is sustainable. Endless curiosity as you try to figure out and piece together what makes someone good at what they do. It's an emotion that sustains because it's the only emotion that is useful both when you hit a bad shot and when you hit a good shot. It's useful both when you watch someone who is worse than you, and when you watch someone who is better than you.
This is true-ish. Building techniques have a lot of regional factors. How much rainfall do you get? Does the ground freeze? Is the ground dry and solid enough for basements? Do you need to worry about heating, cooling, or both? Humidity? There are a lot of practical reasons for architecture to differ from place to place even today.

At the same time, materials are more homogenous because more of them are engineered and shipped across the country, so that contributes to some homogeniety, as does the media environment.
I did not know that and that's quite a scary thought.
I once had a thought, that if I wanted to write something that would last forever and run anywhere, I should write it to target DOS, and make sure to test it on FreeDOS in a VM and on DOSBox. That way it would run on a stable ABI with loads of emulators, and via DOSBox it will happily run on all modern desktop OSs (and some non-desktops; IIRC there's at least an Android port).
One of the great things about the US legal system (although it's not uniquely American whatsoever) is that it's perfectly possible to prevail against the government in court, and happens on a regular basis. It is especially noteworthy that there is no single person or organization that has authority over both the federal court system and the Department of Commerce.
But the results are usable by others, in most fields of science the code is not part of these results and is not needed to enjoy, use and build upon the research results.

The only case where the code would be used (which is a valid reason why it should be available somehow) is to assert that your particular results are flawed or fraudulent; otherwise the quality of the code (or its availability, or even existence - perhaps you could have had a bunch of people do all of it on paper without any code) is simply irrelevant if you want your results to be usable by others.
> ..Coastal areas in the region have prepared tsunami evacuation plans in anticipation of a possible future Cascadia earthquake.

> However, the major nearby cities, notably Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Victoria, and Tacoma, which are located on inland waterways rather than on the coast, would be sheltered from the full brunt of a tsunami.

> These cities do have many vulnerable structures, especially bridges and unreinforced brick buildings; consequently, most of the damage to the cities would probably be from the earthquake itself.

> One expert asserts that buildings in Seattle are vastly inadequate even to withstand an event of the size of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, let alone any more powerful one.

> Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA's Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, put it quite dramatically: "Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake#Futur...
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The hardest part of that would be verifying image authenticity.

Google Cloud uses an adjacent feature called binary authorization. When turned on, only images that are signed by a given authority (usually your ci/cd instruments) can be run inside your Kubernetes cluster.

Binary authorization may be a good starting point for someone trying to make bittorrent distributed images a usable thing.
Try getting a taxi in Bangkok as a foreigner. Likely end up being ฿250 regardless of how far you go.
I hadn't actually seen that about Vitamin D, I appreciate you pointing it out.

I wasn't arguing anything about it being a steroid -- but the overall intention of the article is to "be careful", is it not? If you "treat it as medication" (even if you're not saying it is), what's the intention of that communication?
This is my career so far in a nutshell.

I’m an average programmer.

I’m an excellent problem solver.

I have an above average work ethic.

I’m an excellent communicator.

Basically, I combined all of these traits and found roles that leveraged these traits to maximize my impact.

Not for nothing, but this is why my liberal arts college was profoundly impactful for me, despite not getting a “top tier” CS education. My writing abilities were given a shot in the arm, because I had to write so many analysis papers for my government minor. My understanding of human behavior was expanded by my psychology courses. My understanding of how I should never design a UI was solidified by how poorly I did during a year of art classes.

Some days I wish I was as strong mathematically as my friends who went to MIT, or as talented with programming languages as my friends who went to Cambridge, but each one of us have been able to have successful careers, despite our differences in breadth/depth.
It's not corruption that is the problem in this case but fear.
Low res rendered on a low DPI/PPI screen causes your eyes to strain. I will link you later.
All the more impressive when they're also one of the better dividend stocks out there.