skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
?? Current reinforcement learning algorithms don't score an action by producing a line of text that is read by a human. It assigns a value by writing a floating point number into a register on the computer somewhere. If it were otherwise, and there was some kind of interpretation unit that was needed to compare two rewards and decide which one was bigger, then hey, you're not using the reals for your rewards anymore, just like the paper suggested you'd have to.
Switzerland does have the Gotthard Base Tunnel aka the longest railway tunnel in the world: 57km or 35.5mi.

Anecdotally I believe the current 4g connection is best in the very front of the train, but gets worse if you're in the back.
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Ask HN: Maximum monthly price for low friction credit card SaaS sales?
I've seen $299 quoted in a number of places as the maximum you should charge per month for low-friction sales, as this is around the limit individuals will have before they require more people to be involved in the purchasing decision. How accurate is this figure, and is there a UK (£) equivalent figure?
Why stop at just Facebook? What about Google, Doubleclick, Disqus, Google Analytics, Twitter and all the others that have embedded widgets all over the web?
While I see where you're going with that, in all fairness Apple has made an effort to shove Apple TV+ onto pretty much every streaming device, including non-Apple ones.
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By "directly" for the head of state, I mean, they vote, directly, for the head of state. Americans are picking on the ballot between "Trump" or "Biden," not "Republican Elector Steve Ruralson" vs "Democrat Elector Bill City-Slicker."

The results are passed on via electors, but most electors are bound by law to vote alongside the popular vote of the state. Even when not bound, they have almost exclusively done so, making this particular fact more of a technicality.

An indirect analogy based on the Canadian system, for instance, would be whichever party in the House has the most seats gets to put their leader in the President role. I would consider that to be "indirectly."

Canadians are never asked "Who should be Prime Minister: Justin Trudeau, Andrew Scheer, Jagmeet Singh, Elizabeth May or Yves-François Blanchet?" Parliamentary procedure dictates that.
And just like Fox and MSNBC it gave us nothing of substance.
I think they were talking about a few million a year for Ethereum issuance.

Don't really know anything about Polkadot.

Personally I think the idea that a fixed supply solves everything is an oversimplification. I mean if you want digital gold then sure. But if you want lots of everyday transactions I am not sure it can work.
So they paid $1mm a 10 minute clip but don’t own the rights. Netflix pays that type of money for their their shows but owns the rights. Stranger things season 1 was $6mm an 60 minute episode.
I'm surprised that we're already generating almost half as much energy as all the decay energy in the core.

It did not take long for the human race to start being a major force on the planet after we started agriculture.
It seems sometimes you just need to hit a certain level of status and then you fail upward from there.
Difference being apple is competent when it comes to product design. Most companies aren't apple.
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Well, Netflix at least kinda makes sense from a business point of view. The reason they don’t allow watching on Linux is because some of their content providers insist on a DRM scheme which they can’t guarantee will be secure on Linux. I disagree with this on an ideological point of view, but from a business point of view it makes sense as Linux is a minority in their potential user base.

Quibi’s decision really does not make sense. It is reasonably cheap to release a viewer app or website for the mainstream browsers & OSes, and indeed if there is a good Quibi show then offering it on desktops & TVs would significantly improve the viewing experience and bring more people in.
When you're the only drug dealer in town, you can treat your customers however you want. They'll keep coming back.
Any type of long hospital stay frequently causes delirium among the elderly. GA makes it worse.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065676/
I admit to being a Tesla skeptic.

I’m now way less of a Tesla skeptic, but barring regulation, I am still an electric car skeptic in North America.

The pure electric car market still feels like the hybrid market, which is to say, there was the big-selling Prius, and then pretty much nothing else that sold well. And that wasn’t because of technology; you could get fantastic in-town mileage with a hybrid Accord. But then you weren’t obviously signaling you were driving a green car.

Which is where I feel like in the electric market. Lots and lots of Teslas about, because you get to show you’re driving an electric car, but then vanishingly small sales of anything else. At least in the North American market. (Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...)

Now, that changes with regulation. See: sales of the Renault Zoe in Europe, where France and Germany offered massive subsidies, and demand went through the roof. https://europe.autonews.com/sales-segment/europes-no-1-selli...
Living in the Netherlands and Flixbus is no competition to the trains here. As for travel inside of country, most of the passengers are travelling for work and normally employers pay for travel costs and if not it would be tax deductible, so they would naturally take trains. A lot of lines are already at maximum capacity during rush hour. As for travel to outside of the country, trains move a lot more passengers than Flixbus. Cheap train tickets are always bought early for holiday season.

I find public transport more expensive compared to minimum wage keeping other countries that I lived before, but the quality is high.

Trains are fast and reliable here and there's continuous improvements on the trains and their tracks. Every year they would announce that decrease in travel time due to improved tracks or higher frequency for some routes.

The only problem is that when something goes wrong extreme weather, signal failure, problem on the tracks in the rush hour, then that route stops working and all neighbouring routes become delayed or overcrowded. Luckily I only experience it every few months.
Apple, for their part, seems to want up make you happy. So it behooves them to make things just work. I can watch my YouTube videos streamed effortlessly to my TV.
The passenger modal share for rail in CH is 21%:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...

For the US it is 0.3%.

Given that CH is land-locked, it's not surprising that freight modal share is 46%, because it has to get inland from a port in some way:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...

This is higher than the US, but give that 127M Americans (40%) live in counties that are on the coast, it's probably not too hard to get things to them:

* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html

* https://www.livescience.com/18997-population-coastal-areas-i...

Heck, Los Angeles county has a population (10M) larger than CH (8.5M), and would be the 10th largest state (between NC and MI):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

So a good number of Americans can get goods pretty direct without long distance inland shipping.
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They own the right to distribute it for 2 years. For everything that isn't Seinfeld or Friends, 2 years probably is 99% of the revenue. As long as Quibi does a decent job of selling those licenses they'll probably recover some of their investment. Oh, and by the end of 2 years Quibi will either be bankrupt or a $100b company, so it's not like it mattered to Quibi.
That sounds like the worst of everything - you won't be getting the benefit of having someone who can explain things to you in person (kind of wasting a teacher) and you also won't have the opportunity that KA gives you to take things at your own pace.
they did eventually enter TV streaming but way after their announced stance of Mobile-Only
Any pointers for said papers?
That's almost exactly the opposite of what I had in mind. I don't believe in "low-level offenses" as anything but tools to perpetuate inequality and would love to see the concept eliminated. Any offense benign enough to be considered "low-level" is not indicative of bad intention to me, because I assume any person choosing to do evil will go big or go home :)
The argument goes that if nobody is willing to pay the price for something(passenger rail), and chooses another alternative(driving), then it means that the service is not worth having and subsiding it would just be a waste of taxpayer money.

Of course its not that simple, because driving is subsidized(I would prefer every road to be a toll road and get rid of the general taxes that used to go to roads)...but you get the point.
Meh, blogspam.

The source has more information, including detailed specs: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/20/odroid-hc4-low-cost-...
I'm surprised this was an issue. I've never had trouble maintaining a stable 4G connection when traveling at 80mph down the highway. I'd be interested in some reasons why a train is a much tougher situation.
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Yes, but you have no idea how long that bite size will last. While scrolling your feeds or playing most games, you can stop at any time. You can't say ahead of time "I'm going to spend 6-8 min waiting in this line / at the toilet, enough for a byte-sized episode".
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It’s worrying... that... they’re working very hard to make it better?

(I honestly don’t get your point?)
Fair enough, it's arguably cynical to tell the children that Santa Claus isn't real. However, we're all adults here.

The highest-quality software can not win in the software market. This is evident from the software that is out there owning the market.

Quality is a trade-off, if you spend too many resources on it, you can not compete. Catching those last few bugs takes exponentially more effort.

Moreover, there are snake oil salesmen at every corner, telling you that if only you adopted some methodology, your defect rate would plummet. It's easy to get lost in that, not actually delivering a product.
Not to mention radar, which every Tesla has.
Yeah, Excel idea that .csv parsing behavior should depend on regional settings is just crazy. "c" in csv stands for comma, not semicolon!
If the problem of scientific innovation is merely one of policy and incentives (rather than more fundamental limitations) should we not be able to point to specific policies that were changed or added that resulted in the slowdown of innovation?

If so, then I would think simply reverting back to a previous set of policies would be sufficient.
The "Some More News" channel on YouTube had a detailed piece on Quibi some time ago which does well at explaining the context of all of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFePUknSIc
Google's search results are probably (I speculate for lack of data) as good as they are because of all of the privacy problems.

Surely Google either knows who I am, or has cross referenced my interests over the years to similar individuals.

Google also knows my emails.

On mobile Google probably knows my GPS position, and anything with a maps context benefits from that.

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The search has a lot of implicit input that, apart from just the keywords alone which would still be problematic enough from a privacy standpoint, would be insanely consumer harming to share at all.
In Switzerland we defiantly do not have that, specially not in tunnels.
I'm not much of a financial guy, could you spell out the specifics in their accounting that smell? And whether this is a standard practice?
But isn't the sophisticated structure what leads to the real number. If you change the rewards to something more complex surely you still have to pick between actions and at some point you'll have to evaluate which one is "better" and I can't see why you couldn't use real numbers to represent utility.

I mean, humans are general intelligences, and you can translate pretty much any human reward into money, which is a real number.

The paper is super long though. Maybe someone can give a TL;DR that makes sense.
Well, that's how it starts right? The claim that they are not going after the family is not truthful. The possibility is out there, and given that they have just secured one fo the largest judgements ever against a pharma company, Justice is clearly not afraid of the Sackler family.
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What makes a double-linked list better?
In older versions of Android it'll look like this (https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/07/14/gboard-6-4-brings-i...), while newer versions of Android will have an icon on the top left of the keyboard, before the stickers, gif, clipboard, and cog buttons.

This is with the default Google keyboard (gboard), your mileage may vary with other keyboards.
They became world dictator fair and square!
Why couldn't a mechanism (say A Neural Turing or whatever) that you train be "cognition capable" when you start and then be trained to actual behavior after that?
However the number of stock data points goes up over time, making it more like 2^(n*t) cost.
``I reported the vulnerability to the NHS team who fixed it very quickly.''

This should have been the first sentence of the article.
What part of bank regulations you think PayPal is not compliant with?

They are registered money transfer business. When they give out loans they use Synchrony bank for that.
The game is about putting boxes with icons or (abstract) shapes on them together so that they can be found easier later.

Consider the situation that you've been putting "things that are cold" together. Snowflake. Snowman. You've also been putting "Buildings" together. House. Castle. ... And now you've got an igloo. Where do you put that? "Things that are sports like". You've got a football, a baseball bat... and now a hockey stick. Does that go in the cold things? Oh, here's a stadium - does that go in the sports area? or the buildings group? You've been putting round things together - frog eggs, wheels, and this disk with a slash through it. And now you get things that look like pills... was that thing with a slash through it a pill? Should you move it over to the pills section? or leave it with the round things? Or maybe move the pills adjacent to the round things.

So on one hand, the game is about organization of things... on the other, it's a word and idea game about how you group particular things together.
Also a layman, but I think OPs point wasn't that it isn't possible, but that's it's not effective or analogous to how humans or other species learn.

For example, your cat's brain isn't just a randomly initialised neural net. Your cat comes pre-wired in such a way that it understands certain things about its environment and has certain innate biases that allow you to train it to do simple tricks with relative ease through a reward mechanism.

A more analogous example would be building a cat-like robot with four legs and a neural processor then switching it on and expecting to be able to train it with treats. Without a useful initial neural state (founded with an understanding of cognitive psychology and neuroscience) it would be almost totally useless.
I think he means when using git from the command line. Trying to push to your repo will trigger a github sign in process, which will then save the credentials to Windows Credential Manager. Git will then ALWAYS use those from that point on credentials unless you go into the manager and delete them, which is a massive pain if you use multiple github accounts.
Quibi at its core is brilliant.

10 min episodes and you can finish a season in a night is exactly what people want.

Stuff like flipping screens and 'phone only', not so. But they were very easy to pivot on. (Which they did)

So you might think you are smart saying this is obvious, but it's not.

It's only an amount of content issue. Which we also know is solvable. But it's not clear exactly how.
I pay for youtube premium because I don't want my kids to watch the ads.
Stranger things only has 1 b list celebrity. I think quibi was banking on all the a listers in their content.
I was shocked when they made an Apple Music app for Android however subpar the app was.
Another comment brought up StrictYAML, and they have a good dissection of the problems with TOML[1].

Personally, after doing a few pyproject.toml files, I still find it confusing and awkward as soon as you get past simple headers and key-values.

TOML is like YAML, it translates to "jsonic" types, but JSON's virtue is that simple 1:1 mapping between syntax and data.

TOML and YAML both have non-obvious syntax and there's a layer of translation you have to do to understand what you're actually generating.

But I don't really want to generate a big blob of objects, arrays and such, I want to configure something. I think that's why none of these languages work very well.

[1]: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why-not/toml/
> The idea of using "rewards" as a primary learning mechanism and a path to actual cognition is just wrong, full stop. It's a wrong level of abstraction and is too wasteful in energy spent.

A lot of research in RL is focused on intrinsic motivation and the question of whether we can bootstrap our own 'rewards' from our ability to predict and control the future according to some self-defined goals/hypotheses.
> people don't even need an excuse to attack you anymore beyond your non-cis, non-white, non-maleness.

I'm a privileged cis white male, but I've also been doxxed and harassed online (got cancelled basically). Can we not make this conversation even more divisive by suggesting it has anything to do with these immutable characteristics, please? The internet can be a shitty place for anyone.
Well, what do you use already? The same password everywhere? Passwords written/printed on paper? Stored in a file? I don't see how anything you have now could be better than e.g. Bitwarden
Humans do have infinite rewards (or at least penalties). Death is a pretty common one for example.
Further Cloudflare domination as smart toaster botnets achieve even more ddos power.
I'm not quite sure why they went with the borked "half the screen is empty" look. Ok, it's easier to read, but that negative space is bad design, regardless.
The buying and selling is actually fine, what fraudsters prey on are irreversible transactions. So specifically crypto withdrawals and transfers are the issue, here. PayPal is not enabling this functionality. Buying, selling, shopping, and possibly deposits if they can swing the regulatory compliance bits. All of this is completely reversible if PayPal finds that it was done fraudulently.

The only concerning part is "shopping" with crypto, and that's likely going to be restricted to merchants that already have a business agreement with PayPal. Under the hood it need not involve cryptocurrency at all except for displaying prices and debiting balances - instead of showing $XXXX, it shows YYYY_BTC and PayPal has to do figure out the currency conversion price for debiting the customer balance in BTC and crediting the merchant in USD.
Amdahls law is a known quantity. You shouldn't ever just use concurrency for no reason, you have to think of your problem set.
Awesome, thank you. This is one of those HN comments that go in my notes beside the original article.
Here is the issue if you are interested. It's still not closed:
https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/371
There are unused scrollbars everywhere. It's quite an interesting example of scrollbar blindness [1].

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293421
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If you could work for any tech company as a software engineer in the United States besides a FANG, what would it be and why?
Netflix on Linux has worked for many years, but lots of content was (is?) limited to 720p or even 480p. This doesn't actually have anything to do with Linux - the same limitations apply to Windows as well unless you use Edge or the Microsoft Store app which implement a stronger level of DRM.
Obviously if they put it all behind a paywall then they would stop advertising it as free. My point is that it's their right to do so if that's their wont, not that it would necessarily be the best business decision.

> If one advertises "absolutely free email hosting" but means "we will read your email, analyze your behavior and sell your information to those who can effectively hound you with ads", people should push back. And "it isn't free to run" is not a valid defense.

Show me a single freemium service anywhere that advertises itself using such exaggerated language.

I don't understand why people complain about free services like this. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Choose if you want the ad-supported free service or the paid service and then quit complaining about the choice you've made. You're not ever gonna get an ad-free free service that offers all the same features as the paid service. That would be corporate malpractice of the highest order; they'd have $0 revenue!
Why does it matter? Turing completeness is a low bar. Both exp(exp(N)) and log(log(N)) algorithms solve the AI problem in a finite number of steps, but one of them is a useless abstraction, while the other one really works.
Yes, they would be within their rights to do all of those things. And ... ?

I can't even read Washington Post and New York Times articles without paying for a subscription. So what? They don't owe anything to me for free. Thus I have paid subscriptions with them, because I value their content enough to pay for it and that's the only compensation methodology they've found to be workable.
While I agree that we don't have an agreed upon definition of AI, the problem is firmly in the "I" part of AI! The "A" part is taken to mean implementable by a computer, i.e. a Turing machine. This is the content of the Church–Turing thesis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Be careful. If you ever write a commit for an open source project a disgruntled employer could become ideas, depending on your contract.
Reproducibility seems like a social problem of people publishing shitty science for citations. As for the rate of innovation, discovery is certainly an NP-Hard problem. How can we guarantee any sort of expected rate of innovation?
I created a twitter account, put on a nice profile picture and linked to my portfolio in my bio, set the tweets to protected, and then never logged in again. Now my name is reserved and people can find the stuff that actually matters if they come across it. Twitter is toxic and gives me depression. I'm much happier off not using it.
There were so many things wrong with Quibi, just off the top of my head:

- Initially restricting allowed devices to mobile only.

- Flagrant nepotism, like Reese Witherspoon being given $6 million to narrate a documentary miniseries...with her husband coincidentally being the Head of Talent Acquisition at Quibi.

- Seemingly not having a single critically-acclaimed show. Quibi's strategy was seemingly to just dump money on A-list actors, not A-list writers and it made all of the shows (or at least the dozen I sampled) a wasted effort.

- (Allegedly) stealing the video-rotation technology from another company, and being mired in a lawsuit about it.
I first learned about him through some things Martin Gardner wrote, I believe. But I felt like I came to know him a lot better from watching the movie An Honest Liar [0].

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2246565/