skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've been in such trainings, and I've seen lots of people get offended at hearing "you benefit from racism" as if it meant "you're racist".

The core of the issue is that this is a stereotype being applied on a person because of their race. At no point is someone going through that person's own individual history and determining specific points where they have benefited. Instead, there is just the stereotype (which might even be true on average) that is being applied to each individual person because of their (perceived) race.

What was the word for stereotyping someone based on their race?
If you think Peter Thiel spouts nonsense, you must really be a 300 IQ megabrain...
You can use Alipay Tour Pass in China
Lobe: Easy to use app that helps you train machine learning models for free
This just goes to show how much of a total pushover their CEO is.

A competent CEO would have fired all of them on the spot once the investigation was completed. You don't let someone who sexually harasses coworkers resign in order to save face. Letting these people off the hook, regardless of how good an employee they were otherwise, perpetuates this behavior. I guarantee you that these men will go on to other companies and continue to do the exact same thing to someone else.
Thank you! Org mode has made me try to switch to Emacs for a while, but somehow have never been able to change my workflow, and Emacs is just to bloated to just start up for jotting a simple note... (I've found myself editing .org files in vim, which is just ridiculous!)
Maybe this will solve my conundrum!
Repo Roster: Shout-out stargazers and forkers in your GitHub README file
> In our heads, language is a combination of words and concepts, and knowledge can be encoded by making connections between concepts, not simply words. If there is no concept or idea backing up the words, it can hardly be called knowledge.

Great point.

> A language model such as GPT-3 operates only on words, not concepts. It can make connections between words on the basis of statistical correlations, but has no capacity for encoding concepts, and therefore cannot "know" anything.

Are you sure? Aren't "concepts" encoded in how language is used, at least to some degree?

LeCun does say that models that explicitly attempt represent knowledge perform better than GPT-3 in terms of answering questions. I'm no expert but I believe him.
Reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain really opened my eyes up to how different the work place is at different class levels in modern society.
I thought it was because Google Captcha punishes you SEVERELY if you're not using Chrome.
Knee-jerk reaction are hiding something dark and dirty in the tech world. It need to be provoked and addressed!!!!
Service workers are hard to get right and if they've for example updated the service worker, it might be damn near impossible to unregister the old one and installing the newer one before the old worker is set to be cleared from the cache.
As I understand, it's a forum. Some forums allow you to see posts made by certain user, just mobilizon doesn't. Like ycombinator is not your personal blog, but a group, to which you can contribute.
Does Google know that the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against them a week ago? https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monop...
Is there an easy way to scrape this to download a few things I'm interested in, or just a subsection on how to lead others during conflicts like this?
Well, here's my hypothesis: first, humanity's greatest invention is society. Our ability to work together to achieve larger aims--hunting, planting, protection, invention, etc--makes us unique.

This explains, for example, the complexity of language.

But it also explains the evolutionary benefits of consciousness. I would claim that for society to function we need a sense of self, as that allows us to reason about our role in society, the benefits we gain from pro-social behaviour, etc

Basically, without an "I" there's no "we".
The most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 27, 1962)
That's incorrect. A platform that choose not to moderate anything was not liable for anything.
I second this, I want details!
I do this with a git pre-push hook to the main branch of my repositories. It displays a prompt in red and forces me to type in the name of the branch.

The result of one too many mindlessly accidental pushes.
Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages
Facebook’s Election-Week War on Accountability Is Wrong
> The government ID process is a breeze in comparison with other EU countries and quite cheap in comparison, too.

That's true for the spanish national's ID (the DNI) but for foreigners, even EU ones, it's a huge pain. I've lived in a couple of EU coutries and only Spain asked EU members for a special card (NIE), private health insurance, bank account details, etc
I'd say many plans that use Fidelity already allow access to BrokerageLink which makes it simple to buy Fidelity's zero fee funds.
> has been verified by multiple sources and is credible

Citation needed.
So you take no responsibility for spreading misinformation if the prior source is not corrected? Sounds like you're acting in bad faith then.

You can win an internet argument anywhere, but if that's all you want to achieve here, then maybe stop trying to debate physics.
Just looking at raw FLOPs: the 7nm Xilinx Versal series tops out at 8 32-bit TFlops (DSP Cores only), plus whatever the CPU-core and LUTs can do (but I assume CPU-core is for management, and LUTs are for routing and not dense compute).

In contrast: the NVidia A100 has 19 32-bit TFlops. Higher than the Xilinx chip, but the Xilinx chip is still within an order of magnitude, and has the benefits of the LUTs still.

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It should be noted that Xilinx Versal "AI engine" is a VLIW SIMD-architecture: https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp..., effectively an ASIC-GPU hardwired into the FPGA.
One point I don't see mentioned is that in most cases, 401(k)'s are protected during bankruptcy.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/retirement-plan-bank...
It seems Mobilizon invested a great deal in the usability of this tool.

(Not specifically the visual design, but the ease of use and the matching of user needs).

I've seen projects advertising decentralization as the main selling point. Mobilizon seems to also push strong on the user experience, and I'm glad they do.
To me GPT-3 feels more like a rocket-booster than a high-altitude plane. On its own it's not going to reach the moon, but combined with the right guidance and additional thrust it just might.

I think being able to model future outcome of something in a similar way humans would (like GPT-3 does) is the first input step for an overarching AI to reach some kind of sentience.

With my admittedly limited understanding I believe that what differentiates our thinking most from other animals is that we are able to evaluate, order and steer our thoughts much better. If we can develop something that can steer these GPT-3 "thoughts" I imagine we could get quite close to sentience
Links to avoid verizon's obnoxious "policy-wall":

- https://outline.com/XZYvKa

- https://web.archive.org/web/20201026181132/https://techcrunc... (seems to successfully load then fails after a few seconds)
Venmo, Paypal and other forms of digital payment are extremely popular. It's not as ubiquitous as WeChat but it's not some unknown quantity. The US has a hybrid system with mixed credit card and digital pay systems.
It appears that one might not even be able to make use of QRhi without porting all the QWidget-based UI over to Qt Quick.

Given how some high-profile Qt applications are using OpenGL, continuing with using ANGLE would seem to be the superior choice over having to rewrite everything with a completely new API.
Europe was too fragmented to be conquered by the Mongols. Their way would have been blocked by castles and town walls, each originally thrown up by one group in conflict with others—by a fractious nobility against its kings and against its own peasants, and by townsmen against them all. Above all, “there was no central government to offer surrender.”

For the same reason, Mongols failed to conquer the medieval Rus, it being all fragmented and internecine. Oh wait, no they didn't. They plundered it, conquered it, decimated the population, and taxed what's left.
Easily changing the design and being the cheaper option to ASICs for small productions are the two main uses for FPGAs. You may be designing a box that can be configured to do different things so you may want to support multiple FPGA images to switch back and forth depending on the mission. You may just want to be able to easily upgrade firmware for a complex design in the future. For Space DSP applications, the FPGA is king and will probably be for a long time simply due to the ability to cram a lot of functionality into a small space (DSP, microcontroller, combinational logic circuits, and massive I/O banks all in one chip)
Another nice article trying to drum up support for the idea of a soul (yes, in the religious sense), in this Templeton Foundation-supported magazine.
Thank you very much, looking forward to your feedback! And yes, this is exactly what I wanted to achieve :)
Maya, Houdini, and many other content creation tools are using Qt too. It's part of the https://VFXPlatform.com/ too.

But Qt is riddled with lots of tweaks, hacks, bugs - it's a beast, but sometimes a wild one, as you don't know what's going on deep down...
StackHawk Raises $10M Series A to Bring AppSec to Developers
Except Memory / DRAM.
I think no-code is taking going a bit too far but definitely less code is becoming a major opportunity for innovation.
This doesn't sound like a very rigorous refutation. Is this the way debunking works in deep learning circles?

Anyway, I can refute the refutal using the same standard: lots of things about the real world can be learned from just reading text, and there is no reason given why a DL model couldn't too.
Alexa Seems to Be Getting Worse with Time
The iPhone SE 2020 arguably has an excellent camera. It certainly exceeds most users ability.
The article mentioned the last point:

> I understand that you can make the same argument about taxable accounts and a rising capital gains rate. However, I would bet that capital gains rates will remain below ordinary income rates for the foreseeable future.
I don't see how the article's data supports the headline at all.
What do USA customers think about this price if it was not a beta?

Worth if when no DSL, Fibre or 4G options are available?

Worth even if other options are available because latency/price?

Coming from a country with a lower purchasing power in dollars, 100$ would make this not an option even for many even if no other options are available. Still, if the same connection was shared between 4 homes it would be a great improvement.
Me as well, I look up about service workers.

I agree with the transparency, I was not aware about service workers until this post. In the meantime, there are Firefox/Chrome extensions that manages the service workers. Those extension can block service workers from installing without the user consent which that was nice.
The most crucial thing they solve is giving websites access to their cached pages, and they can thus show cached content while also making a request for new data in the background, still provide cached functionality while the device isn't connected to the internet, ...

In the wider concept of "PWA" (Progressive Web Apps), they also are used to enable webapps to act a bit like local apps if the user opts in - a user can add them to the homescreen, and they then are launched just like normal apps (but still sandboxed in the browser). An example that does this quite well is the Web-IRC client "The Lounge" - you can open and use it in the browser, but also pin it as a standalone app, including support for push notifications etc if you allow that.
Or you're just a regular person who can detect silicon valley flavored self help platitudes
This is a sad example of needless extremism where anything short of the nuclear option just isn't good enough.
What is Mobilizon's policy on deplatforming, censorship, etc. How will they protect against owner/employee bias? I ask this because Mastodon's founders also pitched a federated tool to the world but then turned out to be very much the same authoritarian pro-censorship actor as the centralized platform we'd all like to get away from.
Welcome Deno Does this mean goodbye to Node.js?
For some context. The 2nd edition was published in 2002 (so maybe written in 2001-2002?). The fourth edition published in 2020 seems to have a bunch more things on NNs.
In the commercial space I always refer people to https://www.altair.com/inspire/
Which now uses SomSolid for analysis. From what I've heard (used to work there, still know people) it is way ahead of other FEA solvers. You can also find easy access to 3rd party tools through Altairs licensing model.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace
Building the Yelp for Graduate Programs
It is not fair to call Norvig an idiot. When I was studying AI in grad school, around 2002-2003, just about everyone thought that artificial neural networks were a dead end, compared to approaches like support vector machines. Sometimes the scientific consensus is wrong, and it takes a few heroic figures plugging away to prove it. That doesn't mean that everyone in the mainstream is an "idiot".
Hey Hacker News!

About two years ago we launched Polar on HN [1] and now we’re back to announce Polar 2.0!

https://getpolarized.io/

Polar is a tool used by software engineers, students, and professionals. Anyone who wants to manage academic research, technical documentation, textbooks, or web-based reading to build a personal knowledge base.

Polar is an integrated reading environment similar to your IDE that you use for writing code. Think of it like Visual Studio or IntelliJ but for books, web content, PDFs, EPUBs, etc.

What makes Polar special is that we’ve built an integrated workflow so that you can read, annotate (make highlights, add comments, pagemarks etc), and convert anything to flashcards. You can then use spaced repetition to review your material directly in Polar or sync it to Anki.

My co-founder and I have been working tirelessly on this since the lockdown started to get this shipped.

This release represents everything we’ve learned since 1.0 and includes:

- Dark mode!! This was by far our #1 requested feature

- Both EPUB and PDF supported (originally it was just PDF)

- Web pages capture content using Mozilla readability, then saving them to EPUB

- Web capture works entirely from our chrome extension so that your cookies, etc get captured too

- Easy reading management with flagging, tagging, archiving, pagemarks to mark specific sections in the book, and more

- Improved annotations and highlights management, including area highlights, annotation tags, margin notes, etc

- One-click flashcards directly from annotations

- We’ve greatly improved our Anki sync to make it more reliable, faster, and has more features like support for cloze deletions, front and back cards, HTML, etc.

What’s more, Polar is open source so you don’t have to risk being locked into a platform you don’t control!

We want to make obtaining an education as easy as possible. In addition, it shouldn’t cost a fortune to get a decent education. Be it tuition or overpriced textbooks. This is why we are building Polar with the vision to truly democratize education.

This is still early stage for us of course. Some of the upcoming features will include mobile apps, integrations with tools like Zotero, and much more.

If you’re someone who reads a lot and likes to remember the material, give Polar a shot! For power users, we also have a premium version with up to 500 GB of storage. For HN readers, we are doing a 20% discount promotion for a year-long subscription. Use the code hackernews20 to take advantage of that

We would love to hear what you think about Polar!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960
Is Tableau written with QML, or QtGui? (I'm familiar with the latter, and have never used Qml)
>Regardless, my question is why did consciousness arise? What was the need?

Presumably for social awareness and theory, for the purposes of child care and social living. Reading the intent and feelings of others. In other words, anything with a Cortex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_cortex
I am not sure whether you are serious or trolling but I will bite ;-)

FPGA are being used in many type of applications where real-time is necessary and non-recurrent engineering (NRE) cost need to be minimized, for example here [1].

One classic example is that if you poke under the hood of any signal generator like AWGs, you will probably find an FPGA inside. As you probably aware since you in hardware business, AWGs are probably one of most common equipment in any electronic and electrical labs or companies.

[1]https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/fpgas/article/...
This is pretty neat! Here are a bunch of things that I would consider high priority to implement if I were making this myself, many of which you have maybe thought of:

- Undo! I accidentally clobbered my carefully planned roads while dragging to fill the area adjacent to the road with grass!

- Make it a more intelligent about laying roads when dragging (auto-choose the correct road piece to connect to adjacent road properly) to reduce the tedium of having to choose the tiles manually

- Likewise when flood-filling with something like the concrete-with-railings, it should flood fill the middle with non-railing pieces and the perimeter with the railing on the outside.

- selection mode, drag to select area, copy-paste

It was not clear what the brush menu did, the dialogs with numbers and no explanation were intimidating and nothing interesting happened when I accepted the numbers.
One thing is how can this be a $300B company if there are tiny fees?
I've been experiencing something similar, every time I click on a twitter link from outside of Twitter, Firefox errors with "There has been a protocol violation" error and a hard refresh fixes it.

I'm not sure whether it's because I've setup FF containers to open all twitter.com links in a separate container.
After seeing the no-code movement over and over again, I do not believe that this time it is any different. From MS Access days, Adobe's Dreamweaver, and many other forms of no-code solutions, the environment that supports no-code requires a tremendous amount of code. Knowing how to code can help you optimize, automate, configure no-code solutions. The end result is always back to code.
I was thinking recently how the "sack of Rome" really happened and then I've read a book called The Illustrated History of Romanians by Neagu Djuvara which answered some of my questions.

The core problem of the Roman Empire was immigration and the speculators that it has attracted. For example, when gold was discovered in Dacia (Provincia Dacia, nowadays Romania), they rushed to the Eastern Europe building colonies near the Danube, something similar to what happened in the time of the Gold Rush in USA. Since immigration in Rome was embraced, many nobels stopped paying good wages to peasants and they started to bring slaves and cheap labour from all over the empire. These peasants, left without work emigrated to other successful Roman colonies like Provincia Britannia and Provincia Dacia which were very powerful back then. Even some nobels themselves took everything and left.

Also, the invasion of the barbarians on the Rhine and Danube fronts (mostly Goths - Visigoths and Ostrogohths -) didn't help. So many people were coming south of Rhine and Danube that the empire could not self-sustain itself anymore. Many families leaving for Constantinople after 400 AD. The population of Rome decreased from something around 1 million down to a few thousands. Also, Mediterranean Sea stopped playing an important role and the next big thing was the commerce between Europe and Asia. Constantinople being at the cross.

Edit:
As Neagu Djuvara said in his book, don't imagine that all barbarians were the same and their only aim was plundering, there are many sources which show that they actually got asimilated into Roman life and some of them offered their services as Merc Corps to defend the borders of the empire, keeping their own culture and traditions. Historians enamoured with Roman Empire history depict barbarians as being savages which was in fact not true. For example in the Romanian language, Gothic toponyms have been preserved to this day. Also the word "viteaz" which means courageous in Romanian is stemming from the word viking. Which clearly shows that these cultures intersected.
I'm more of a Java man myself. I like groovy though, it feels like a more functional python. I could see myself using it just for scripts.
Doesn't hurt that they're in the middle of Kensington does it...
I am also working in a newsletter. What I do, is I add a link at the end for anyone who wants to promote/advertise their product/service.
productivegrowth.substack.com
Please read the full report.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29956364/

> The cookie groups were provided with 500 g of cookies at the beginning of the session; this corresponded to an over‐supply of cookies to avoid limiting students to taking one cookie only. The teachers were instructed to comment on the availability of the cookies only by saying: ‘I've brought some chocolate biscuits.’ Teachers were allowed to eat one chocolate cookie themselves to break any reservations about taking the first cookie. The control groups received no chocolate cookies.

> If students brought cookies or other sweets for their group, the teachers were instructed to report this to the study group.

> At the end of the session, all students were asked to fill in the anonymous end‐of‐session evaluation form. While the students answered the questions, the teachers were instructed to leave the room. The forms were collected in a ballot box. After all students had left the room, cookie consumption was determined by subtracting the weight of the remaining cookies from 500 g.
Totally agree. I should update the study to express praise for the original TeuxDeux, it's conceptually the best to-do app out there in my opinion.
This reads like it’s bizarrely out of touch with reality. Or is that just me?
> there's a remarkable dearth of evidence that humans do something qualitatively different.

Perhaps now, but if history is any indication, when we (as humans) think we have a good grip on how something really works (like human intellect in this example), we've been wrong.

We model the world around us from observation and testing, find our errors, remodel, and improve over time.

Then at some point we find some piece of information that shows us our model was a decent approximation, but fundamentally wrong, and that we need to start from scratch.

If we find that we want to go beyond the moon (and we eventually will), or that the moon is further than we think, we'll again need a different approach.

I always feel like there's a certain beauty and cosmic humor to it.