skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad to see the development world using the same statements from the sysadmin world were we have "The cloud is just someone else's server that you do not control"
Have to give Lisp credit on pushing the importance of engineering. In a time when FORTRAN spaghetti or C reigned supreme, lisp pushed for programmer-friendly abstractions and hiding complexity in black boxes. In a time of thinking about algorithms, lisp pushed to think about abstractions.

If types are your thing, shen lisp is an interesting language. Lisp with sound types (to the point of literally embedding sequent calculus in the language) and others traditional functional features like pattern matching.
Congrats on the new job!

I have a week off in early November and I plan on setting up a small homeserver for Jitsi so my family can use that to stay in touch over the holidays. I’m also looking for some kind of self-hosted social media type deal that I can invite a few friends to.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I find those requirements reasonably acceptable, they are there to ensure you are not a burden to the social welfare system. Spain has universal healthcare, if you go to an emergency room with a problem they will give you medical attention no payment details asked. I'm guessing you arrived to Spain without a work contract and hence to obtain a residence they required you to have a private insurance to ensure you are not moving to Spain to receive medical attention (there were some cases decades ago of americans coming to Spain for hip surgeries and the like).

If it makes you feel any better, it can be much worse. I present to you Belgium's bureaucracy! Obtaining residence in Belgium includes circular dependencies (you need bank account and work contract to obtain residence, you need residence to obtain bank account). Multiple visits to the administration for different steps. A visit by the Police to your house (usually during work-hours), including inviting them over to snoop around. And the entire process takes between 6 to 12 months due to the slowness of everything. If you switch from one town to another you have to re-register again (a quicker process that still requires a visit to the town hall) and another visit by the Police to snoop around again.
These insects are pre-coded to fill a certain niche in their society. A human is born into a role to some degree but can use intelligence to change that role as well. This requires some ability to reason about the self, and to some extent being able to reason about the self improves the ability to reason about others.

I often see the question asked as "what if there was something that behaved just like you, but without consciousness, isn't it just as evolutionarily fit?" But it presupposes that such a creature could exist, and a creature that behaves like a conscious one without consciousness seems like a bizarrely inefficient solution to me.
I just feel like I get a more actionable answer than the "It's a bit chilly and overcast" I get when I ask about the weather – how do I know if Siri and I agree on what's chilly or not?
The original Nabla article is missing information on how they primed GPT-3 for each use-case, and how much effort they put into finding good ways of priming.

All fancy GPT-3 demos seem to rely on good priming.

The time scheduling problems are probably hard limit of GPT-3 capabilities.
The "kill yourself" advice, on the other hand, might have been avoided by better priming.
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Drivers can’t drive 24/7. This cuts down on time to destination significantly if the truck can keep going. Perhaps this can augment the driver, where driver provides handling, gas, etc. while the truck self drives.
Once the docker installation is documented, it should take considerably less time to self-host.

This is for `yarn build`, but perhaps it applies to `yarn install` as well: there's a note in the documentation that says compiling the front-end requires 2gb of RAM. You'll need to set it to use only 1gb RAM to accommodate the $5 droplet's specs via `NODE_BUILD_MEMORY=1024 yarn build`

As for the technology & stack, most of the code is from Pleroma, essentially a lightweight Elixir/Phoenix version of Mastodon, with Vue for the frontend. If there's any part of the architecture that's closed, the project would highly appreciate raising an issue, as it wishes to be a fully libre project.
The Mongols successfully invading Europe would have been as impressive as the Romans invading China. (Didn't happen, but really, think about the logistics). That's a lot of land to cover.

I think the long-range logistics of supporting an army thousands of miles away from your civilization centers was just too much to handle for Iron Age / Dark age civilizations.

Even if one leader (Genghis Khan) could successfully lead such an expedition, it was clear that his successors were unable to.

As such, once Genghis Khan died, the Mongol Empire could only sustain itself for a short time before collapsing. First into the four Khanites, then total collapse a few decades later. That's just too large a land-area, without any decent form of large-scale transportation (ie: boats) that could assist travel.

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The Roman Empire's expansion was primarily driven by the Mediterranean Sea. Going over the land-route through the Silk Road between Europe and Asia is... hard. Very hard.

Another part of the Roman Empire was that they were a bureaucracy: they spread their ways and very carefully organized their empire as it expanded. You didn't need once-in-a-thousand year leaders like Genghis Khan to do things, your standard Roman Magistrates were effectively trained to do the task. Even when Rome itself collapsed, the Byzantine empire (Eastern-half) continued to run itself for nearly a thousand years later, under largely Roman-inspired principles.
I had no problem in CA using Firefox.
No need to come close and touch. This can be important in some scenarios, like paying to a street musician, or donating to a cause by just pointing your camera at a billboard, or a graffiti, or a printout on something.

I think I need to restate the well-known: the gulf between reasonably easy and zero effort is quite large, and crossing it changes a lot in user behavior.
I'm sure a driver will still be needed for a while yet, they'll just be required to do less – much like an airplane. So the whole system becomes safer.

Around 5000 people die per year in crashes involving trucks in the US alone.
This is an avoidable danger. If you want to have sex, pick a faithful partner. There is little reason to put oneself in harms way for STI. Especially as we’re seeing an increase in antibiotic resistant strains.
Because we as humans easily anthropomorphize. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Media_Equation
Like already said in this thread: the Amiga was a product of its time because it introduced some hardware and software features that were radical at that time.

If you want to make an Amiga 2020 today you will really need something that the normal PC/Apple/phone/console does not do.

For example:

The Amiga 2020 needs: a 64 core CPU in which each core or set of cores can run a fully independent&secure version of the OS. I'm thinking switching between OS's like the Amiga workbench could switch between resolutions.

The Amiga 2020 needs of course a hardware chip that does perfect speech interpretation. None of this half/half Siri or Ok Google stuff. The local AI on chip will handle that all.

The Amiga 2020 needs a hardware chip that will control any set of VR glasses easily. The OS will of course have a graphical layout that will fully use AR and VR capabilities such that the user can do cool things with it like AR augmented desktops that exist both on computer and physically on the desk in front of you. I want to have my AR rolodex as my address book.

The Amiga 2020 needs 21st century expansion to talk to external devices. Either via 4G/5G such that computer and peripheral can always talk to each other no matter how far away they are. Or something more fancy like low power led/laser beam comms so that you just have to place the peripheral next to the computer to make them sync up.

The only thing missing is the spirit of the "future of the computer". Do not underestimate how optimistic we were at that time that computers, with their endless possibilities, would solve just about any problem in the world. The 21st century is a very different place.
The thread is not about business perspective, it's about the hype around what GPT-3 is and is not able to do.

One thing GPT-3 is not able to do for example, is replacing 2 ML engineers to build a GPT-3 like model. But OpenAI can do that.
Yeah I would agree that the magic is kinda fading for me too, but there's always something new in our field. Someone coming up with a new project, a new language, a new idea, something... I don't think it'll ever be completely gone for me!
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I've personally only seen git lfs used as a bad-habit enabler (e.g. storing .dll, .so, and .exe files within a repo).

IMHO those artifacts should be stored elsewhere. Anyone have some better examples of how it's used?
This may be apocryphal, but I recall a story from many years ago of a glitching CRT terminal. The manufacture replaced it with another but the new did the same thing so they sent someone to the customers site to see what was going on.

That's when the technician discovered that there was a tokamak next door...
Doesn't the option to withdraw your 401k exist with a 10% penalty (+ taxes)?

If you're including employer match here, it looks like you can still get instant, guaranteed gain.
Yes, flippantly, because each new generation of historians needs to find a new hook to hang their career on. They add nuance, but it's unclear if it will stick. The same happens for example with the rehabilitation of the Vikings, which were savages who built a culture, by any account, on pillage, rape and murder, supported by the archaeological record (the many burnt settlements) and the historical one (the many first hand accounts of the despair and fear they sowed).

The stability of the roman empire was a marvel. After incessant war within the borders during the republic, violence moved to the borders of the empire. To be Roman, and citizenry became quite broadly spread, during those few centuries, was to be free and safe.

Fiction can often capture this truth better than any scholarship. In "Augustus", a portrait of the first roman Emperor, the author John Williams conjures a scene where Augustus, near the end of his life, contemplates his successes and failures on the deck of his cruise-ship. An Egyptian freighter pulls alongside, and the crew sings him a song, thanking him for the stability he brought, the captain recalling the pirates that used to terrorize the Mediterranean. Now, they could voyage safely.

That change, in just a generation, exemplified the stability of the roman empire. While adding color to this history is great, it often tends to cheapen this enormous achievement.
> Besides, a Lisp editor can optionally blur the parentheses so users don't mentally have to.

How do I do that with spacemacs?
Started with Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Leadership", which is a 4-in-1 biography of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and LBJ. I cannot recommend it highly enough! (Here's my more detailed write-up: https://terranostra.one/posts/Review-Lessons-from-the-Presid...)

Then went on to Ron Chernow's "Washington" (another great book), and am currently on Jean Edward Smith's "FDR".

If you're interested in presidential biographies, have a look at this guy's page: https://bestpresidentialbios.com/
Trucks stop frequently at gas stations, rest areas, etc. without "truck pirates" making much of a dent. I'm not sure why it'd be any different in transit.
> That’s getting closer to what would have been an informative response. It could use further expansion but that could allow someone reading it to weigh how much that would remove a limiting factor in their experience.

Consider that you've gotten more useful information from my response than what you've paid for. If you want the whole picture, buy the book. Your sense of entitlement to more of my time seems misplaced.
I think the more relevant comparison here would be ASICs. Softcores on FPGAs are indeed terrible but if you're implementing some algorithm directly at the gate level for cryptography or signal processing or whatever then being able to arrange inputs outputs into dataflows is a big win with no roundrips to general purpose registers or bypass networks. Not having to fetch instructions and being limited in paralellism is also a big win. And generally if you're doing something like mining bitcoin you should expect an FGPA to perform somewhere between an ASIC and a GPU.

The problem is that if a task is common then someone is just going to make an ASIC to do it. And if its uncommon then the terrible FPGA software ecosystem and low prevalence of general purpose FPGAs in the wild mean that people will just do it on a CPU or GPU.
Its like cancer research in the 70s. Lots of money focused on a couple of areas of drug development (like chemo), but the real progress is going to come from long term, deep mechanistic research. We spent so much money on cancer treatments in the 70s, but the real impact came from the work that slowly revealed the underpinnings of cancer as a genetic disease as well as the development of new modalities of treatment (immunotherapy) that paid massive dividends down the line. In the same way, I think we need deeper fundamental understandings of the disease, and that combining those with the explosion in new treatment modalities we've seen over the past two decades (e.g. cell and gene therapies etc.) Is whats going to get us over the finish line. Until then, might as well keep throwing immunotherapies at whatever targets we find hoping one of them will stick, the same way we did cancer research with small molecules decades ago.
Does anyone know the GPS coordinates of this? Would love to see what it originally looked like in satellite view
> These people aren't any more racist or sexist or whatever than anyone else. They're just willing to crack jokes about a hell of a lot of stuff that would make most white collar employees cringe.

I wouldn't cringe if I heard off-color jokes at an auto repair garage.

I think I'd call the police if I saw a bunch of dipshits sitting around a workstation, targeting random women from the other room with facial recognition software to share degrading posts about them being receptacles for their own sexual gratification.

Aside from TV sitcoms and online forum caricatures, I haven't a clue what that kind of sociopathy has to do with blue collar workers.
This is a company which had high-level employees use their own product to take pictures of women who worked for them, privately shared those images on a corporate network, attached sexually explicit captions to the images, then deleted the evidence when shit hit the fan.

Literally just one of these transgressions is a fireable offense at most other companies.
One time work to get knowledge outside your head vs mental notes for context switching while you code? For some people/projects, the first one would be much easier.
We know that we are tracked but it's still interesting to see how campaigns have become more savvy in their use of data.
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While somewhat true, my experiance with these types of products see this following reoccuring pattern

1. Sales for a No Code product talks up how you will not need programmers to create solutions

2. Company buys No Code product deploys it to users

3. A few users "get it" and create solutions with no code

4. Something in the environment changes, or the original creators of the solution move on from the company and the "no code" solution breaks, no one can fix it or understand what broke or even really explain the "solution"

5. Devs / SysAdmins now have to detangle and figure out how these "no code" solutions works, what they were suppose to be doing in the first place, and figure out why they do not work any more. Often times this results in the dev / admin just redoing everything properly, in a proper programming enviroment because there was no logic to no-code solution
It's uncommon to throw 128 GB at a postgres. Remember that the world has moved to the cloud, where you pay a hefty fee per GB.

It's entirely possible to throw gigabytes of RAM as long as the company is willing to foot the bill. You're going into thousands of dollars per month depending how big and how many replicas we're talking about.
From rapidly skimming the front page of HN, I read "Featuring Long-Cat" and stumbled over it for a second.
> I've seen this called "pointing and calling" [1], Japan's train drivers use the technique to force themselves to perform actions and take notice of the current environment.

The concept makes sense, though I don't quite fully get how to translate it to other contexts besides train driving where unexpected and unpredictable events come up all the time. Let's say you're driving a car and the traffic light turns red. Do you point at the traffic light, say "red", point at your brake pedal, say "brakes", and then hit the brakes?
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> Yes and I make about $1500-$2000 in cash back a year using my various branded credit cards. How can you do that with Alipay?

Which are essentially funded through merchant fees. CC's will gladly give you $2k in cash back for all of the fees that it charges merchants. If those fees didn't exist, your overall cost of goods would likely be ~3% cheaper.

Looks like Alipay has disputes and fraud: https://intl.alipay.com/ihome/user/protect/memberProtect.htm
Many large corporations have budgets in excess of that and still struggle with delivering solutions and software updates. Internally or externally.
Couple things--

1) You underestimate how critical prototyping has become, again likely since you say it's been a couple decades. Time to market has become more important, and verification has become harder as CPUs have gotten even more complex. FPGAs enable cosimulation and emulation, leading to faster iteration of both design and verification efforts and thus better TTM.

FPGAs are so important in the hardware development process that I would even say you're not a serious hardware company if you don't have any FPGA frameworks to design silicon.

2) As others have mentioned, FPGAs are also critical for low-latency workloads that require constant tweaks-- high frequency trading (ugh...) comes to mind. The need for "constant tweaks" could also be satisfied with just "normal" software, but that has higher latency as opposed to an FPGA, and FPGAs can get some crazy performance if you're willing to pay the price (south of 7 figures).

Overall sure, usage of FPGAs might be niche compared to, idk, Javascript; but it's commonplace/practically essential in hardware.
Inspired by comments from hacker news discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901779

we are building a kind of vertical niche for the graduate programs. Feedbacks and comments please.
The Cookie AutoDelete extension has an option to delete them. I'd highly recommend having that extension anyway!
Because it allows for a more interesting analysis.
Drivers are in short supply depending on your location, and they are quite expensive. The pay along with the short supply has made keeping drivers a bit difficult in some places. Not to mention, a computer isn't going to be limited by OTR regulations concerning On-Duty and and Driving hours, and they don't have to reset.
No, it's not auto-completing function blocks, just simple expressions that are easy to validate. E.g.,

let lo = 0;
let hi = vec.len();
let mid = lo + (hi

will autocomplete to `(hi - lo) / 2` as the second autocomplete option (so I'd hit tab twice). If you were to "score" it based on top-5 it'd probably be pretty bad at guessing my intent, but then again, I get to _opt-in_ to suggestions so it just needs to be right often enough, as it doesn't bother me much to keep typing.
There are actually two problems, that people often mix up. One is how we get a sense of self, which I think is what you're talking about. Another is how qualia, like the perception of color, arise at all. Nobody seems to have any idea how that happens; we have no way to map some arrangement of atoms to a perception and prove from first principles that one leads to another.
Yes?
I've also considered doing the index only when the notebook is full, allowing 10 pages or so. Haven't tried it yet.
Here is the word list:

> alien, angel, Annabelle, apple, asylum, autumn, bandage, bat, Beetlejuice, black cat, blood, bogeyman, bone, brain, broomstick, bucket, candle, candy, candy corn, carnival, carve, Casper, cauldron, cemetery, chainsaw, chamber, Chucky, cider, cinamon, Cleopatra, cloak, clown, cobweb, Coco, coffin, corn maze, corpse, Corpse Bride, costume, cross, crypt, crystal ball, curse, danger, dead, death, demon, devil, doll, doorbell, Dracula, dragon, Edward Scissorhands, elf, extra-terrestrial, eyeballs, fairy, fangs, fingernail, flashlight, fog, Frankenstein, frog, full moon, garlic, genie, ghost, Ghostbusters, glow-in-the-dark, Gomez Addams, goosebumps, grave, Gremlins, Grim Reaper, Harry Potter, harvest, haunted house, hayride, heaven, hell, Holy Water, intestines, jack-o-lantern, Joker, M&Ms, magic, makeup, mask, masquerade, midnight, mummy, nightmare, nun, October, organ, owl, paranormal, Pennywise, pitchfork, potion, pumpkin, pyramid, rat, raven, saint, scar, scarecrow, Scooby-Doo, Scream, shadow, shrine, silver bullet, skeleton, skull, snake, Snickers, spell book, spider, stake, straitjacket, supernatural, superstition, Sweeney Todd, syringe, test tube, The Exorcist, thriller, tombstone, trick-or-treat, Twilight, UFO, vampire, Voodoo doll, werewolf, wig, wings, witch, wizard, wreath, zombie
That makes them a bigger win to automate.

You save a lot of money on accidents too by automating.
That makes me wonder: how is it possible to even determine what the correction should be? Space is vast, how do they determine the position of a microscopic vessel precisely enough to know how much to burn?
Thanks for sharing. My own pet theory is very similar to yours: humans evolved consciousness in order to ‘observe’ our cognitive and emotional state, so that we can build models and apply them to reason about other people’s cognitive and emotional states. It’s hard to have ‘theory of mind’ about someone else when you don’t have access to your own mind to start with.
Yes, they have everything in place, except the zero-effort contactless payment feature, a way to show or export / print a QR code.

Paypal.me works great on the web as a clickable link, even though the commission is several percent (don't remember exactly), not the 0.3% which Alipay boasts.
I know what placebos are. But the effect is created by telling the patient you gave them medication. So I don't believe it's possible to make "treatment by placebo" a standard.
Are Web Components (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components) considered to be a library/framework?

If not have you considered trying to update the repo to use them
I do not support the entrance standards you describe but if the school is as AP test centric as you describe not that much will be lost. I oppose any standards that for a gifted and talented school that allow anything but test scores on blindly marked tests to count because I trust that they will be used to keep the wrong sort out, whether that’s currently Asians or Jews.

IB is at best very little better than AP. If you’re not teaching actual college level material like Bard College at Simon’s Rock[1] a limited amount will be lost by allowing administrators more leeway to discriminate against Asians.

I apologize for my overwrought language. I pattern matched your opposition to the current regime to the Ed school orthodoxy or the San Franciscan attempt to actually end Lowell.

[1] https://simons-rock.edu/academics/index.php
We get it, you are poor.