skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mutability is an abstraction, it doesn't forbid in place modification of data. What it forbids is other code accessing data that holds references the array prior to the modification, which creates a logical error.
Having teenagers around can change the way we read passages like this:

"You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other."

Or maybe that was intended by the writer.
> As a linguist (well, person with a degree in linguistics), I think Searle makes a very strong point, and I don't think it's at all fair to call it rebutted or disproven.

I think you are about to disprove this point.

> The core part of the room is a book where the operator looks up symbols coming in and is able to mindlessly copy the answer to the output. Such a book (or whatever book-like device, i.e. a list of inputs with corresponding outputs) that allows a person to interact with someone in a language they don't speak is an absurdity, it cannot exist.

Yup, that's both true and a pretty convincing rebuttal of the Chinese
Room.

> But the notion is not far from the bone-headed simplicity of early AI and machine translation efforts.

So, what? No one, anywhere claimed that those early efforts were self-aware or had understanding, nor are they what the Chinese Room is even notionally directed at: it was directed at the limit of possibility, not the then-current implementations.
It’s possible that the moderators tweaked some knobs to control the rates of submission, the rise to the front page, the time on the front page, etc. Not that they did it individually, but there could be more added mechanisms this year. Maybe they will respond and provide some insights.
However the Ada library manager has a reputation for being complicated, slow, and fragile. Gnat was able to compile Ada much faster by using a C-style compilation model instead!
https://dwheeler.com/essays/make-it-simple-dewar.html
> The solution to Python’s GIL bottleneck is not some trick, it is to stop using Python for data-path code.

What about using pytorch multiprocessing[1]?

[1] https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/multiprocessing.html
Personally for me, before during and after the quarantine my use of HN has pretty much remained the same, I work with computers (like most of us here) and I check HN when I get a little bit of down-time, like while waiting for something to compile or waiting for a file to get transferred or something to finish installing,only thing that changed was during the quarantine I was working from home, the number of hours I worked, the nature of work I do and how I do that work remained pretty much the same.

So, I am guessing this is pretty much what happened to most of us as well? And therefore for a majority of HN users, our HN browsing habits probably stayed the same?
But salary isn’t necessarily correlated with rarity of talents right? Perhaps you’re in a rural area and trying to hire someone with specific cryptography experience and a PhD - they might not warrant a 95th percentile salary for a senior developer out of grad school yet you may need to hire internationally to find someone
Do you have a better answer?
It's one thing to introduce your own notation and another thing to reuse already established mathematical notation.
I read the first few chapters of Foundation and had to stop. It read like a synopsis of a really interesting story, but it was just delivered in the most artless way.
"so there are these assholes over near beatlgeuse who haven't figured out ansible communication and therefore think they're alone in the universe. So they send these packets of super aggressive proto organics at every exoplanet their crappy telescopes pick up in hopes of seeding life in the universe, but, in reality, just making life hell for their neighbors. That probe which showed up here twenty years ago? We all have NOSES now, Bob. Do you have any idea how humiliating that is?"
I, for one, wouldn't mind knowing that. Agriculture is an absolutely fascinating topic.
Baker case subject-matter was "... certain forms or banks, consisting of ruled lines, and headings, illustrating the system and showing how it is to be used and carried out in practice".

So that case was about illustrating and explaining a method of doing accounting. There was no textual matter copied.

In Oracle vs. Google I believe the source-code of the APIs was copied.

Even if one would consider a way to do accounting an "API" an explanation and illustration of an API is not the same as the "API".

Explaining or illustrating a "structure" is not the same as copying that structure. Note that copyright applies to actual "works of art", not to abstract "methods". An API (as referred to in this case) is not an explanation of a way of doing things but an actual constructed artifact, source-code.

Think about books. Their content is copyrighted. You can not copy their content. But nothing prevents you from explaining and "illustrating" the content of a book, as long as you don't copy significant portions of the structure and ordering of its verbatim words.
I'm much, much more interested in the ways we're going to use law to limit what Apple can and cannot do though.

If Epic can't get it done, another big lawsuit will certainly come along. I hope we can force them into allowing side loading and third party stores. This is definitely possible given that we have laws which forbid car manufacturers from selling directly to people. Anything's possible!
I briefly tried to get numbers then gave up. However: I think you are underestimating the efficiency of wheels.

See here for an example how a dozen HP (ironic unit name) suffice to pull tons and tons of stuff on a train track [0]. Same principle goes for street/tire to a large extend.

So I'm pretty sure that is the one thing that knocks the horse out of the park.

I excluded planes here, but I would imagine that they reach their improved efficiency by doing a lot of movement via gliding, while a horse has to actively "work" for every bit of movement.

All of this is intuition though, so please chime in if you can provide some actual science :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au3U72CX74I
Because writing in cursive/freehand both require planning, planning which is not required by typing. In fact, I will argue that Gregg requires more mental planning and activity than writing in freehand, due to a number of factors about how it is written.
> Unless it were curated, which is why people are nice.

Curation could be pretty simple: mere submission isn't enough, the submission has to have made it to the front page.

Given the anti-abuse safeguards already in place here (since getting a submission to the front page is an attractive goal already), I wouldn't expect that any attempts to get a link included in that collection would succeed.
No. In languages like F#, you can encode in the type system that the result can be either a customer or an error. And the compiler won't let you "access" the customer until you've safely checked that the result is, indeed, the customer rather than an error.

In this way you end up encoding more intent within your types and behaviours rather than implicitly letting the consumer figure it out themselves.
Is this actually that much different from Facebook / Instagram?

I've only used tiktok once for like 10 minutes just to see why everyone was talking about it. I also don't often use facebook, so my experience may be somewhat biased.

I know it's possible to curate the IG feed, but in my experience going on the "search" page (or whatever it's called, the one with the magnifying glass) I'm bombarded with scantly clad women. I don't follow anyone who posts pictures even remotely related to this.
> Perhaps you’re in a rural area and trying to hire someone with specific cryptography experience and a PhD - they might not warrant a 95th percentile salary for a senior developer out of grad school yet you may need to hire internationally to find someone.

If you can't find someone in the area at a lower price, then yes they warrant a higher salary until you do find someone nationally. That's how salaries are set. Why are you looking internationally before you look nationally?

'Couldn't find someone to do it at what we wanted to pay them' isn't the same as 'couldn't find someone to do it.'
I don't see how other sites play a role in this.

Only counting posts with 10+ posts does not guarantee that the baseline is the same for the two groups. You seem to imply that the number of posts that reach over 10 points means they reach the frontpage and that the number of posts that reach the frontpage is always the same during two time periods of the same length. But I don't see how either of these two assumptions has to be true.

The problem with the "19% vs 40%" comparison is that it does not compare the same thing. According to this article:

19% is the increase in total posts

40% is the increase after posts with less then 10 votes have been removed AND posts without the negative keywords have been removed.

This comparison is not the right one. Either posts with less then 10 votes need to be subtracted from both groups or from none of them.
A faithful simulation of your brain would still find fun whatever you find fun. If I enjoy reading tech articles and programming, then I'd still enjoy that if it was a faithful simulation. For social behaviors, presumably you'd be able to interact outside and/or with other simulated people.
For physical activity, you would lose that, which would be unpleasant. Though, hopefully you'd be able to make some form of physical simulation that is controlled by the brain even if it can't match reality perfectly.
For sensations like taste, air temperature, and smell, well.. while those can be enjoyable/unpleasant it is not that enjoyable.
So, you'd do just as you always have? If we don't have any form of physical simulation within it then you do lose some activities, which is unfortunate.
I'm curious why you think what gives our life meaning and joy is tied to our physical bodies? Like, the most enjoyable aspects in life for me are things that I could do from a ''mental'' textbox. There are certainly things I would miss, but hopefully simulation-esque aspects of that would also pop-up as time goes on.
I've been using arch for the past several years. Decided to get it installed after buying a new desktop. Overall it's good (and I've used it before), I have very simple setup and I don't really need much. Just dev tools.

The issue I'm having is (I think) hardware related. I'm a bit afraid to update systemd since by doing it several times before I got a kernel crash during install which left the system in an odd place. requiring me to boot up from usb to correct the installation. I can deal with it, but this is not something I particularly enjoy. I currently have almost 2GB of pending updates because of this, which I think defeats the purpose of rolling release distro.

I was actually thinking about trying out some other distros, maybe debian. With hopes that it will fix the kernel crashes. Another thought that I had, was to switch to FreeBSD, the only thing currently preventing me is the lack of Docker.
> Police have additional rights

No, police exercise and are protected by powers of government, these are not the same kind of thing as rights, and do not belong to the individual the way rights do. Moreover, the legitimacy of such powers is exactly dependent on the legitimacy of the government and the extent to which it observes the rights of the people subject to it's powers.
We have known for awhile that online shopping is hurting the planet. Alibaba and Amazon are a huge part of the problem as the biggest online retailer in the world. with packaging thrown out and returns often destroyed. There are efforts to mitigate this but they are insufficient and need to be further developed.
I forgot to comment on the following important point:

> the pulse seems to reliably predict when I get to sleep but nothing else, not even when I am awake vs. sleeping

My experience with the Zeo made me realize that predicting sleep vs wake is hard to do. The modern multi-sensor devices tend to use the accelerometer derived movement together with historical sleep times to predict this. The early Fitbit devices tracked sleep with the motion sensor alone. In the middle of my normal sleep cycles, if I listen to a podcast or read from a smartphone/eReader while remaining mostly motionless, both the Zeo EEG and the Garmin PPG derived EEG will interpret that time as REM sleep.

I wonder if the professional sleep labs can accurately detect the difference? The true test will be when sensors/algorithms in casual activity trackers can detect when we nod off or nap during normal waking hours.
The worst ones are all private, so they can't be pointed to. But we do find out about their existence after they're broken up (by law enforcement action, not Facebook). E.g. the domestic terrorists that were planning to overthrow the Michigan State government were coordinating via private Facebook group. So there's one example for you.
Quite a bit broader than "libcurl's HTTP/HTTPS handling", though.

Which it sounds like the answer is nonzero. But significantly smaller than "every C bug since 1988".
My point was more along the lines of the language is sufficiently complex to lose the bigger picture when it comes to compile time speed rather than that the compiler is definitely slower due to said IRs.
Car design is about to change forever
# create table y (i int, d int);
# insert into y values (1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 1);
# select *, (select count(*) from (select count(y.i), y.d from y group by y.d) _) as foo
from (select count(y.i), y.d from y group by y.d) _ ;

count | d | foo
-------+---+-----
1 | 2 | 2
2 | 1 | 2
(2 rows)

By the way great example how unwieldy SQL is. A bit better with CTE:

# with bar as (select count(y.i), y.d from y group by y.d)
select *, (select count(*) from bar) as bar from foo;
That isn't necessarily the mental state of HN. Given the nature of HN, it could just reflect interest in the subject.
T.Rex skeleton brings $31.8m at Christie's auction
To Promote Change, Support Teachers
Adversarial Examples are not Bugs but are Features of AI
Bureau of labor statistics keeps and publishes salary info. The hard part is making the job titles line up.

https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm

Somewhere on that site there's a listing for H1B levels as well. I saw it on Blind last night but I can't find the thread this morning.

EDIT: Check out this site: https://www.flcdatacenter.com/caseh1b.aspx
First, I learned how to use Anki & the Image Occlusion add-on (which is fantastic and y'all should donate to the creator if you use it).

Then I went onto http://gregg.angelfishy.net/anunit01.shtml and I created anki cards out of all of the words and images in the anniversary edition.

I'm currently working through that deck, and have about a month or two to go before I've at least seen how it all works, and then I'll have to start journaling & writing regularly to produce fluency.
Not just musicians and lyrics were influential, also music journalists were the strongest Mugabe critics, which led to his downfall. They had much bigger impact than political journalists, probably it was easier to critizise politics through softer topics. Most journalists were tortured, jailed, murdered or exiled.
That’s fair! But sometimes I want to have a hook that basically says “Are you sure?” to catch mistakes in the wrong terminal or something. One thing I wrote recently took several hours to run and it’d suck to accidentally close it because I type without looking.
DeepSukebe-利用AI的Nudifier
The fact it took until the late-1990s for Progress to add support to SQL to Progress

No idea where you are getting that from, SQL has always been supported, but no reason why it should have been a priority given the vastly superior 4GL for creating applications against Progress until the 2000s.

database vendors like Oracle, Postgres, and other saw success in offering only a database product

Different companies, different priorities; Microsoft an obvious counter to that claim.

Comments on Linq, SQL etc; no, my point was it was direct and inline access to data. It was a very successful but niche approach that eventually got traction as a concept and alternative to SQL when tools like Linq arrived. But Progress devs had had that ease of data access in their programs for years, under the cover of the unfashionable 4GL label.

I agree with you on it's general awkwardness wrt industry trends, and obscure pricing and marketing strategies.
and sexbook or fuckbook
I think in the last 10 years a lot of tech products have actually regressed. phones (and cars, televisions, bathroom scales and refrigerators) force all kinds of annoying post-sales "engagement" with the manufacturer.
I think Searle is even more relevant today, with GPT-3.

It's getting really hard to distinguish a GPT-3 text from actual human generated text.

But we also know how GPT-3 generates those texts is absolutely nothing like how a human generates a text. GPT-3 seems more like the man in the Chinese Room, in how it writes, than a human being.

Or is it? Are we really just a deep neural network implemented in meat?

Or is there something fundamentally different between how we experience the world, and how GPT-3 experiences the world?
IMO it's definitely exaggerated. If you're selling through Fulfillment by Amazon (as I did for years), the merchant is charged for the return shipping cost, which is often UPS Retail Pricing.

Considering the inbound shipping costs to the fulfillment center, the storage and handling costs, hard cost of the finished good, the cost of returning the item from Amazon to the merchant if it is deemed to no longer be "New" (or the choice by the merchant to destroy) plus Amazon's commission of 15-20% depending on the item category, a 30-40% return rate would make one's business unviable at best and bankrupt at worst.
Wait, people genuinely buy clothes (although this is more like borrowing) just for the purpose of taking a selfie?

I can't even begin to comprehend how desperate they must be to look good and fit in.
In German academic texts, numbered footnotes are very common. I think it's similar in other continental European traditions. In English texts, I've usually seen more chapter end notes than footnotes.

Also, some citation styles make heavy use of footnotes.
PS5 Accounts for 72% of Next-Gen Pre-Orders
Microsoft/Xbox will need much more than Game Pass and acquiring game studios. They'll have to start innovating for a change
You might not be using Amazon right, just one example: Every time I need a new filter for my air purifier I buy a new machine, swap the filters and return the new machine with the old dirty filter.
That isn’t my experience. I have an ErgoDox EZ, and while it’s married to QWERTY, I’ve customized everything else and have 4 layers I regularly use. I also use my MacBook’s keyboard when not at my desk and I never have a problem context switching. I also recently got a windows laptop and put pop_os on it, and after a few days was able to context switch between OSes with different keyboard and different shortcuts without a problem. It takes time, and maybe diligent practice, and maybe my brain is a little weird, but I suspect most people can do this if they’re diligent.
Apparently HN doesn't recognize a joke and sincere awe at the face of stellar achievements :( .

And some even don't believe in progress, arguing that people of old knew what we, people of relative new, know. Wow.
Well, it seems to sort of kill his argument because he's saying you can detect consciousness via a visible tell, but a sufficiently advanced dog-robot with expressive eyes would trick him (there's a reason I work in machine learning)
I worked for CNCF for two years up until about three months ago. Not one GCP person there.
They also need large departments for everything else: Accounting, engineering, HR, legal, facilities management, marketing, IT, customer service, etc. You simply can't run a huge business without a large number of employees, and you need a deep management hierarchy for that to remotely work.
Ocearch – Shark Tracker
Arguably, winners are also folks trying to transition from an F1 to an H1B; culling mass applications from relatively low paying consultancies leaves more room in the lottery for new grads trying to stay in the country.
You'll just have to look nationally before you look internationally.
I don’t think there is anything about impeding political protesters in the Apple EULA. Even if there were something, certain things are typically protected in law; in most western countries, for example, a landlord cannot forbid a shop from serving members of a specific religion or of a specific ethnicity.
GAO Agile Assessment Guide [pdf]
Exactly, a GPS tracker in the landfill != product in the landfill.
Key point from the article:

Adversarial examples arise due to the presence of non-robust features which are captured as a property of the fundamental mathematical techniques employed in AI/ ML.
As it happens, it wasn't, it's a real person.
Monstrous Offspring
Here in the Netherlands it is almost common for girls to shop and fit at home, the sent a lot of stuff back.
Hacker News vs. DEV vs. HackerNoon vs. Medium website loading experience
What Is Snowflake and Why Is Everyone Excited About It?
I've experimented with putting some or all of my modifier keys under non-pinky keys like O on my ergodox. My problem with that is that it forces me to drastically slow down my typing. Otherwise typing a word like "word" will register as 'w ctrl-r d'.

I have not found a timeout value that will always register "word" when I'm typing at 110wpm and also Ctrl-r when I'm just lazily hitting that single hotkey :/ It's either too fast or too slow for some use cases.

I have read some posts from people that use layouts like that and it either seems they already type pretty slowly or they have RSI problems and it is worth it to them to slow down.
Are you talking about a digital consciousness?
Wait, nly th nbs f t mtter?
DOJ sues Yale University for discrimination against white and Asian applicants
I’m just a little salty because I’m trying to move over from the U.K. and it’s a bit of a pain :P
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy [pdf]
I find that these sorts of polarizing statements which either side can take to mean a one-up on the other side tend to get lots of upvotes on applicable forums.
No one seems to be talking about the unintended consequence of this policy(or in this Administration's case a likely intended).

It's the same thing with minimum wage - politicians feel good raising it and for those that remain employed it is a good thing. But it ends up in fewer job opportunities, causing further unemployment.

This looks like a great policy at face value but in the end, it's going to mean many fewer H1B's. This is a win-win for the Trump administration because it looks like they're doing the right thing and perhaps they are, but it's also keeping foreign workers out and providing Americans with more jobs, which is exactly what they want.
This didn't start because Epic got kicked out of the store, it started because they pushed back against Apple's rules knowing the result would be getting kicked out.

Getting back in doesn't advance their position in any meaningful way.
efinancialcareers always publishes completely made up numbers and articles. I 100% advise to ignore everything you see there and wait for a real newspapers, especially for a subject as important as salary and visas.
Even excluding the spiritual plane, however, is the question of whether the subjective experience of an "intelligence" implemented in silicon is anything like the subjective experience of an intelligence implemented in meat.

When GPT-3 writes a text, is it experiencing anything like what a human experiences when writing a text, even thought the output of the two processes are increasingly hard to distinguish?