skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reasoning is based on two things. For one, what we know about brains in general and the amount of time it has taken to learn these things (relatively little - nothing concrete about memory or computation). For the other, the obvious limitations in all publically shown AI models, despite their ever-increasing sizes, and the limitted nature of the problems they are trying to solve.

It seems to me extremely clear that we are attacking the problem from two directions - neuroscience to try to understand how the only example of general intelligence works, and machine learning to try to engineer our way from solving specific problems to creating a generalized problem solver. Both directions are producing some results, but slowly, and with no ability to collaborate for now (no one is taking inspiration from actual neural networks in ML, despite the naming; and there is no insight from ML that could be applicable in formulating hypotheses about living brains).

So I can't imagine how anyone really believes that we are close to AGI. The only way I can see that happen is if the problem turns out to be much, much simpler than we believe - if it turns out that you can actually find a simple mathematical model that works more or less as well as the entire human brain.

I wouldn't hold my breath for this, since evolution has had almost a billion years to arrive at complex brains, while basic computation has started from the first unicellular organisms (even organelles inside the cell and nucleus are implementing simple algorithms to digest and reproduce, and even unicellular organisms tend to have some amount of directed movement and environmental awareness).

This is all not to mention that we have no way right now of tackling the problem of teaching the vast amounts of human common sense knowledge that is likely baked into our genes to an AI, and it's hard to tell how much that will impact true AGI.

And even then, we shouldn't forget that there is no obvious way to go from approximately human-level AGI to the kinds of sci-fi super-super-human AGIs that some AI catastrophists imagine. There isn't even any fundamental reason to assume that it is even possible to be significantly more intelligent than a human, in a general sort of way (there is also no reason to assume that you can't be!).
How do you know the dog is counting the treats Vs "hmm that feels like less good stuff than I'm used to getting".
I use only yaml for humans and json for machines. i see many projects that use toml but i just hate it. maybe toml is not bad itself but i have never seen project that would have toml config really human-friendly. it always loks like a retard-child of some ini monstrosity. yaml all the way, hands down.
Thank you for this.

Regarding your last link:

I have something similar scattered all over text files in multiple drives and very rarely see them. Yours is organized, in one place and easy to see your intentions if you need to.

Maybe everyone should look at your list once in a while. Just reading them has a very strong emotional effect for me.

Bookmarked!

Thank you
Neither title paints the whole picture. Vinyl LP sales have been growing year after year for more than a decade now.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15401405
Great write-up. Not sure I'd want the job. Sounds like she was a good fit for it.

I was a manager for most of my career, and spent most of that time pining for the fio- er, my days as a coder.

So, after I left my career position, I reverted back to a coder. It's been nice.
That is bullshit.

Everyone in the world knows that most dangerous countries are North Korea, Iran and Russia. So that US has to spend enormous amount of money to protect themselves.
China takes over countries using financial pressure (either through aid or financing loans) and broad pro-China deals (universities not being able to speak of Taiwan as a country, etc). Their MO is not generally invasions, so worrying about them is not sensible.
I'm guessing cow towel = kowtow. But... Perhaps you do treat your cows nice n stuff?
Stockfish parameters aren't arbitrary, hardcoded or static. Vast amount of computational power went into "tuning" those parameters to see which combination of values in which stage etc yields the best outcome. In that sense it's not dissimilar to Alpha Zero except the latter does this a lot more at much higher meta levels.
> The classic example is that there’s an infinite number of functions with type int -> int

But are they really int to begin with, as in actually ratio values? Perhaps you're inputting the units requested and getting units available back, which will be completely different from a function that takes an int for the items currently in the basket and returns a new total of items in the basket. Can you compose all those functions into each other? If not, they're not really using the same type but you're representing them as such. That would be undesired behaviour you can totally avoid through subtypes StockAmount and BasketItems.

Edit: If you're talking about the math domain, obviously subtyping doesn't apply.
Generally trying to debug optimised code is a nightmare anyway. Most debugging is performed on non-optimised builds, which wouldn’t be affected by the proposed optimisation.
I wonder if there are humans that are really immune to feeling bad when constantly not living up to their own expectations.

Nothing wrong with working hard of course, just make sure you like what you do and who you are while doing it.
Why should I care so much more about his physical and mental maltreatment by the legal system over the other millions experiencing the same everyday? If you asked why public discourse ignores this in general I would understand.

Making no claims about his guilt or innocence.
> We need to focus on the second R, reuse.

That means you need to end both single-use containers and selling stuff in containers entirely.

There’s only do much of one type of reusable container you even can have a use for, and that’s assuming you do even have a use for them in the first place: I don’t make jam at home, I buy it, I don’t have a use for a new jam jar a month, and every jam-making friend has more jars than they could ever use (seriously, I used to stock jars for my parents until they stopped canning, then tried giving my stock away, about a third of which found I interest, the rest went to recycling).
I think you might be right, but do we have any examples of this happening to a real legal system yet?
Love this one :D
It matters because these problems feed into each other.

If a tonne of recycling is not financially viable because the Pringles cans are too difficult to extract, then none of it gets recycled.
Those are really good points. A good approach to incentivize everyone to do the right thing is to make it the least expensive option. That either requires some lucky tech breakthrough (super unlikely) or a strong government.

A recyclability tax, where the producer pays a tax that corresponds to how much it will cost to recycle their product. Maybe collect data of how much of their product is actually recycled. That would force producers to consider reuse, recycling, etc.

Banning disposable packaging. Want potato chips? Bring a special reusable (and relatively expensive) bag to the dispenser, have it unload some chips and do whatever trick is necessary to keep the chips dehydrated and crisp.

You can also only ban disposable packaging that could have negative environmental effect. Maybe something made out of some fungi or hay or something could just be treated like compost waste.
You gotta be in it to win it.
Kubernetes Disaster Recovery with Velero
This entire subthread is about "people who are doing well" getting shafted.
> Basically you just had a lot of motorcycle gangs running around in the forest

Luckily however the Norse, as boat travelers, were mainly limited to the Volga and other large rivers. Outsiders were also reluctant to approach indigenous communities due to the risk of being struck with poison arrows. So, the local peoples could simply move a couple of dozen kilometers from the big river and then never encounter a Norse party in their lives.

> it also makes me appreciate the gradual changes that Christianity brought

Among the indigenous peoples of the Middle Volga, one finds a strong undercurrent of resentment of Christianity. Not only did people not like losing their traditional religion (animism for the Mari and Chuvash, for example), but the Christianity that the Russians brought was not often kind or compassionate, and it went together with serfdom that was hardly different from slavery. Some have even looked back on the era of Muslim Tatar rule as preferable, because the Tatar Khanate did not practice forced conversions of most other peoples. The Tatars were content to let most of them stay non-Muslim and move freely about the forests, because these peoples could then be used as a very lucrative source of fur taxation.
down again... https://archive.is/JAd24 ... but the app is now down too.
You'd probably be interested in part-time contracting. Set your own hours and rates. Often there's a small paid project in lieu of an interview. Lots of interesting projects are willing to shell out for a contractor that aren't willing to hire a full time employee.
A countdown for tasks/events/whatever
If you are a Senior anything and being told what to do, you're not really a Senior.

Maybe that works for you, if you're in the right place getting paid the right amount, but we do ourselves a disservice when we allow this to occur.

My personal understanding was:
junior: lots of tactical guidance

medium: less tactical, lots of strategic guidance

senior: no tactical, very vague strategic (normally coming from business partners).

Maybe that's just me, though.
There's a Classico pasta sauce line that uses jars molded with Atlas Mason on them and fit Mason jar lids but are not designed to be reused for canning. Just for marketing.
Isn't telling people to stop judging at least as bossy?

People die of depression, there's good reason there would be emotion going against its perceived over-usage.
If LMDE picks up steam I’m sure that could change. Is the Ubuntu distro so different from Debian that those devs can’t simply work more on the upstream distro (or are Canonical devs not really doing much Linux work but userland/app work instead)?
Well in Spain we were still fighting to get a flat rate internet subscription in 1998 or so.
It might be more culturally sensitive. Americans identify each other by first name then surname whereas this isn’t the case in large parts of the world (especially East Asia). The internet being invented in the United States carried this cultural bias into the operation of TLD, domain, subdomain order.

Which isn’t to say it’s wrong... it’s just the way it is.
We need legislation with teeth.
> Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there's gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that's still better than the one I'm using right now.

I think it might also be that we are exposed to so much music than before. Because of that, our expectations on what is good has become harder and harder to meet.
On that topic, I am all in favor of static sites hosted on github. But the static site generators, the way I see it, weren't self-contained. That is, you still needed to go through a build process. And after a lot of poking around and digging about, I built(and subsequently open sourced) this[1]. Kind of a 1 hour coding-session kind of thing but for anyone out there looking for something entirely self-contained and stupid simple, there you are...

[1] https://rorigami.site/
Have you ever worked with a therapist? I would recommend it. In particular, while there may be a genetic component, don’t underestimate the impact of growing up with a severely depressed parent. You may be carrying more burdens from your childhood than you realize.
This is the sort of scientific illiteracy and ignorance masquerading as "reasoned response" that makes this whole exercise futile. Literally NOTHING in your comment was true. Not one single bit of it.
I hate this argument. How can you care about the millions if you literally do not care about the one?
Where are you going? Momentus space
Show HN: The Horde – Music Groovebox and Remixer
It is a shame. CDs have a number of real advantages over vinyl records and dynamic range is a big one. But most pop/rock CDs take no advantage of it at all. I have some classical CDs that would never work on vinyl, though.
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This should be understood as high frequency stock traders fighting for turf. One shop tries to access broadcasting bands to enable higher powers, thus, more reliable transmission, by multiplexing the payload with general purpose economic news - allegedly. Another HFT shop is trying to preempt this.

The race for speed in financial markets has reached a point where no existing fiber optic or satelite based system can compete; the state of the art are short wave radio that bounce back on the ionosphere and enable intercontinental communication at the speed of light over the shortest path and with no intermediary hops. Fiber optics, for contrast, can only do about 2/3 of the speed of light and impose non-direct routes and multiple hops.
You could consider the marketing factor: early work from lesser musician is designed to sell. Then when fame is there, maybe they can focus on something more driven by their artistic désires.

The stones released a classic blues album lately. That was purely for them not so much for selling. They can afford that because of their huge fame.
Some of my favorite records:

Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knights (1972)
Cannonball Adderley: The Black Messiah (1972)
The Cannonball Adderly Quintet - Country Preacher (1970)
Jimmy Smith - Root Down (1972)
King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West (1971)

Donny Hathaway - Live (1972)
Baby Huey - The Baby Huey Story (1971)
Various Artists - Wattstax (1973)
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1974)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)
The Temptations - Masterpiece (1973)
The Meters - Rejuvenation (1974)

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1969)
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson (1971)
Miles Davis - On The Corner (1972)
Weather Report - Black Market (1976)
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius (1976)
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (1973)
Herbie Hancock - Thrust (1974)
Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973)
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I mean, why can't we live on sunlight, or purely on carbohydrates and trace elements? Organisms evolve for their environments; if something in your diet or the environment is producing enough of (whatever) for your needs, there's not much evolutionary pressure to produce it yourself. Or even keep the machinery for producing it in working order, if you have it.

Vitamins are a good example, we need them, but we don't produce them (except for D, but there are practical problems producing that in the environments and latitudes in which humans now live).
FWIW - Pringles tubes are very effective in increasing wifi signal range.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-a-wifi-antenna-out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ioJ8i56pA
The beer bottle consortium in Ontario is a good model, the beer bottles have been shared among all the brewers for decades and returned for deposit to common locations. This monopoly has a few issues of course but it's a good template.
Laws often do come with "intent" statements, and where they do not courts have been known to refer to formal records of proceedings of legislatures.
Imperial, on the whole, is one of the better-paying Universities in the UK, and certain Departments are able to provide considerable supplements upon base salaries.

The vast majority of academics with families live in the outer zones in London, or commute by rail from the suburbs just outside. London has a very dense and efficient public transport network, and therefore a typical commute time is around 40 minutes, and in most cases less than 1hr.

The price of accomodation remains an issue with younger academics, who arrived in London after the housing booms (1st surge around 2004, 2nd around 2010). Consultancy, enterpreneurship etc do provide good additional income streams for many, and therefore it still all makes sense.

More recently Imperial has been developing some of its own accomodation for junior staff and graduate students, which is made available at subsidised rates.
https://nm.debian.org/faq/

"The site gives me 403 Forbidden errors if I disable referers"

yah cool faq, many questions answered.
In my previous professional life I owned a record store. We sold "dance music" vinyl records to mostly DJ's from 1990 to approx 2007. The creativity and quality degraded as time went on.

First, the lower barrier to entry meant more wannabes creating more "noise." Not aural / sonic noise, but noise in the shopping and buying experience. There were still needles of joy, but the haystack was getting larger and larger.

Put a different way, the higher barrier to entry meant only the determined stuck to it. And in sticking to it, pushed themselves and their gear harder. Amazing things happen when there's push.

On the other hand, the new and easy to use gear isn't as "inspiring". Good is too often good enough, and great takes too much work.

There's a dark side to cheap & easy.
Shepard's Prayer.
One thing I really liked about Tanium was the way they handled employee equity.

First starters, they granted RSU's instead of ISOs, so when you leave the company you just get to keep whatever stock you've earned without needing to write a big check and pay a bunch of taxes all at once.

Secondly, they did something like what the article suggested and every time the company raised fumding (about once a year), they allowed employees to participate and sell stock (with some restrictions.) In fact, the company has been profitable for a while, so I think allowing employees to sell stock is the primary reason they still do regular funding rounds.

I ended up leaving for other reasons, but I always felt like they treated me well in that regard.
The Leaf came years after Tesla and was a cautious, follow-the-leader side bet by Nissan.

The Tesla Roadster was a radical re-thinking of the automobile -- an industry that had been stagnating for over 50 years -- and an all-in investment in electric vehicle future by an eccentric billionaire. Nowhere near as bold or life-or-death in either financial outlay or feature design.

Do a side-by-side feature comparison of the original Leaf and Roadster to see just how far apart the two were in thinking, design and ambition.

The Leaf was and is essentially the belief that Tesla's vehicles would be too expensive for the average customer so Nissan could ride Tesla's tailwind to sell a more affordable model. And they have, and that's fine.

But it boggles my mind when people imply that Nissan's efforts in electric vehicles are in any way a reasonable comparison to what Tesla has done.
It's not just Tritium. TEPCO, a Japanese power company, estimates that more than 70% of the tanks — that’s 700,000 tons of water — will need secondary treatment before the water is in any state to be released.

Also my guess would be that they lay a pipe from these tanks into the water to dump the 1 million tons, meaning there would be some spots with fairly high concentration for a long time.
So it is like Nobel Prize
appreciate the gradual changes that Christianity brought to those forests...

To be fair, Christianity's position is that of chance, Europe could all just as well have been founded on Slavic Paganism, Islam (arguably it largely is and this is insufficiently recognized), Mongol pluralism or some similar belief system. Any nominally centralized society capable of a rule of law and literate record keeping would have had the same effect, if capable of gluing together society long enough to create a surplus and decrease the risks of increased specialization. See earlier civilizations, other parts of the world, etc.
There are, of course, atrocities everywhere all the time. Change generally isn't sparked by routine atrocities rumbling along in the background though, but by people coalescing around specific atrocities that gain high profile for whatever reason (largely random) which serve as an avatar for all the others. So I suspect you have it backwards: the mistreatment of others isn't a reason to dismiss Assange's complaint, but rather to elevate it. Maybe this will be the one that finally catches fire and helps all the others.
There are thousands of people working opensource for nothing. Why do you or anybody care about market rates when those people (me included) would do it for minimum wage?

I'd happily code all day long on stuff I really care about for minimum wage. And when I day minimum, I don't mean the penance described by the law that forces you to have multiple minimum wage jobs to get by. No, I mean one single job that pays enough to get by.
Thing is, he damaged himself by choosing to spend nearly a decade in isolation. We haven’t done anything to him other than expect him to submit to due process as a citizen like any other.

That he has driven himself half-mad is indeed tragic, but it’s not societies fault, nor is it sufficient to place him outside the law.
You are confusing connection-oriented phase of x.25 with “streams”.

X.25 is a “packet-switched” “connection-oriented” protocol.

[which p.s. makes sense for traditional telecom’s view of the world, which as you know is circuit-switched. One of the main beefs of telcos in regards to IP was traffic management. Compare X.25 congestion management with IP. ]

Some kind soul has delved into the details of modalities of networking protocols:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43543284
No, I haven't ever even told anyone. I've kept it a secret my whole life.

This sound like good advice, but I've kept it hidden so long I'm genuinely afraid that I'll have some kind of breakdown if I let it out.
The public suffix list makes sure evil.github.io can’t read bob.github.io’s cookies, nothing more and nothing less.
Of course journalists use Photoshop. Before digital cameras, journalists also pushed or pulled the film processing, dodged and burned parts of the image, exposed different parts of the photo paper by different amounts, used different processing chemicals for developing the photo paper. It's not about correcting the image to match what your eyes see, it's an artistic and creative act because a photograph can never represent what the eyes see, and photographers have to interpret the image to get their message across.
It's somewhat common for London office workers to park at an overground station 30mins-1hr out of london and commute in.
>there's no moral compass for society anymore

What? And there was more of such a compass a century ago when lynchings were much more common for "racial defilements"? Or two centuries ago when slaves were considered bad by the general public for escaping from the brutality of ownership? Or perhaps 600 years ago when witch burning was remarkably common in much of Europe?

Not criticizing your defense of Assange (his treatment really is deplorable, petty and cruel), but This phrase has never been anything less than absurd, and particularly so is to claim it of today's society in comparison to some mythical past morality..
This is not an excuse. The western countries burned most of the fossil fuels, and are responsible for most of the world's deforestation.

You're effectively saying that other countries shouldn't be allowed to lift their population from poverty in the same way that the western countries did.

If so, then the west should pay up, or otherwise stfu.