skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even using the same libraries for most of the functionality

Actually no, not anymore.

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/3621

> because there’s demand for it, today

We've only seen the demand from you. Nobody else. One individual isn't enough demand.
Harvesting, planting, fertilizing, irrigating... are all uniform processes. Larger farms can invest in more machinery (and more expensive machinery), and build more infrastructure for themselves. They can do more sophisticated testing of their crops/animals, can monitor the things they need to monitor to a higher level, they can absorb loss-incurring seasons more readily. All of that is economies of scale.
It seemed pretty clear to me that it was a light-hearted joke, referencing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[1]:

> “And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/79195-and-then-one-thursday...
Especially true for casual/forum variety, like I said it's not meaningfully insightful and reduces to bullshit (and usually takes effort to reduce)
"As Fed chairman, every time I expressed a view, I added or subtracted 10 basis points from the credit market. That was not helpful. But I nonetheless had to testify before Congress. [...] I would catch myself in the middle of a sentence. Then, instead of just stopping, I would continue on resolving the sentence in some obscure way which made it incomprehensible. But nobody was quite sure I wasn't saying something profound when I wasn't. And that became the so-called Fed-speak which I became an expert on over the years."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedspeak
The meat of 6 billions chicks was needed to feed domestic reptiles?

Assuming they weight around 30 grams it's ~1,800,000 tons of meat

That's a lot of meat, I didn't know people kept so many reptiles in their homes.

p.s. 1,800,000 tons of meat could feed 180,000,000 people in Africa for a year (assuming an average in North and Central Africa of 10kg/person/year which is optimistic for some of the countries there).

It's astonishing how much food we waste for silly reasons.
it depends on the context, concentration of land in the hands of few promotes income inequality. It maybe a good thing for consumers, but will be a bad thing for small - medium farmers who wouldn't be able to sustain their income source.
Or just run Linux.
I would go one step further and say that most Indians in the tech space come from Upper Caste, well to do Middle Class families with enough money to give them a comfortable chance at getting into a decent college in India/Abroad. This gives them a sense of entitlement that is very hard to shake off.

This also makes them partially blind to the kind of hardship most poor Indians have to face and live with for the entirety of their lives.

Income inequality has been diminishing in India, but it still a major force as it tends to drive the kind of demographic that would end up in certain type of jobs or positions within bureaucracy.
> (1) language acquisition only occurs through comprehensible input (this is known as the "Input Hypothesis" popularised by Stephen Krashen) and that (2) deliberate learning of grammar and vocabulary has very little to no impact on your language skills

(1) is somewhat true while (2) is utter garbage. In fact, the point of (2) is to reach (1). In his book, Nation (2001) explains very well, with data from numerous studies, that cramming vocabulary is in fact an extremely optimized productive use of time and effort. And given how Nation details the dimension of vocabulary learners, he is above suspicion in respect to being biased towards rote learning.
Who steals this stuff?

If you want them because you care about enlightenment, wouldn't you also want them to be publicly accessible?
In don't know how much the advertising industry creates greenhouse gases but like any other human activity, that's a lot. From employees driving to work to the electricity needed to run the servers.

In this case, I don't think the dumpster fire produces more than a few kW of heat. If it was done inside an office space, it probably wouldn't be powerful enough to heat to room to a comfortable temperature. The server infrastructure required to stream the video most likely produces more CO2 than the fire itself, and I don't usually see an ad on web net saying "we bought carbon offsets to compensate for the greenhouse gases that video produced".

Here there is a visible fire, so people think "OMG, the planet", not realizing that their computer may be connected to a much larger fire in a coal plant.
I would love to see some real sale stats if those claims are real? I have no idea how much they are supposidly outselling zigbee or z-wave devices.

From a purley anecdotal standpoint, you start with the wifi devices as they are low barrier to entry, (no hub required and normally comes with some sketchy 3rd part app); If you decide to go all in and buy more than a handful you naturally progress towards the zigbee/z-wave devices and ether a fully managed Proprietary "do it for me" system like SmartThings, or you go down the self managed route with HomeAssistant or OpenHAB.
This might be helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxwlmeyu9w
An item's market value is effectively defined by how much someone is willing to pay for it, rather than the material sum of its parts.
How many big startups/companies in India are making enough profit to self sustain themselves currently?

Jio, swiggy, Zomato, Tata motors, Amazon, flipkart, ola, big basket, oyo, Paytm, and the list goes on. Maybe we should shut them all down.
The latency is not a problem as long as you avoid packet losses. If you have losses then you pay dearly if there's latency. The latency itself doesn't present a problem, the TCP window size increases and takes care of that. The problem is packet losses, because (even with 'intelligent' retransmission) there's a lot of (the buffered) window to retransmit and then the performance dies. When the packet losses stay low, say, 0.001%, the latency is not an issue.

(At work I did months of testing on TCP performance for a 900ms rtt high-speed link)

But yes, upload speed is more important than ever. For my work-from-home setup I need to transfer lots of data both ways. And for my "cloud" backup etc. I need to push large amounts of data out of the house. And with fiber I get that, fortunately.
Historically more than 95% of the population had to live on a farm to support the 1%ers who didn't. Most of them were slave labor. this farmers did define the dominant culture.

Of course most of them don't appear in history books so they are easy to forget about.
I hadn't heard of GNU.FREE despite having an interest in both GNU and voting systems. Doesn't strike me as a great loss really though. As the article mentions, Bruce Schneier makes a solid case against electronic voting systems. [0] If such systems must exist I'd rather they use Free software, but it would be better if electronic voting systems didn't exist in the first place.

[0] See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25048768
It's not just that the page loads are slow - they give you zero feedback that something is actually happening. Chrome's progress bar never appears, links don't change style, etc.
I'll grant the former claim. It's intended to be a thought experiment, not anything that's likely (or even possible). And I have no quarrel with you taking the latter position either - the point I'm making in my comment is merely that the argument against prosocial lying is a bad one, not that I think my defense of economists lying is particularly strong.

Since multiple people have thought my point hinges on whether the example is reasonable, let me reconstruct the argument given in the post.

1. It's always morally unacceptable for a doctor to lie to a patient, regardless of his / her reasons for doing so.

2. The economist's profession is like that of the doctor in certain important respects: "The central problem with allowing for, and consenting to, any untruthfulness is that it undermines essential trust between professionals of the field and the rest of us."

3. Therefore pro-social lying by economists is wrong (just as it's wrong in the case of the doctor).

I think the claims in the article rely quite heavily on our intuition that it's never acceptable for a doctor to lie to us, even for "prosocial" reasons. (We don't have such intuitions for economists, apparently, and that's why our intuitions about doctors are so important for the argument.)

But this claim is basically not defended, and my point is that it's very easy to come up with cases in which it's not only morally acceptable for a doctor to lie to you, but in fact might be morally obligatory. This means that the argument fails.

The fact that the argument fails doesn't mean that it is okay (in any real life situation) for a doctor (or an economist) to lie to you. But the fact that the argument fails is something worth noting, I think, in comments about the article.
1) 30mbps isn't broadband in 2020. Maybe in 2000.

2) Those numbers for EU are incorrect. Look at Stockholm for one. It is at a minimum 2x too low. Even Denmark which is in top is too low. I live in Denmark and even if I pick cable the lowest I can even order is 300Mbit/s. But that would just be stupidity since I can just click on Fiber and get 1/1Gbit/s for US$45.
This is a very European comment responding to a very American comment. That paper is too sober to represent any side of American politics.
> Yes, markets can be wrong, but baselessly dismissing market data is plain dumb. Until market is shown wrong, the value that market assigns to something is at least some evidence of it’s true value.

Do you have the ability to show that PoS is NOT as secure as PoW?

> Also, sorry to burst your bubble, but universe doesn’t care about socially beneficial outcomes.

No shit. Never said it was. In fact when I mentioned market failures I made it explicit that I believe this to be true.

> So right now you’re basically arguing that bitcoin isn’t valuable because you don’t like what it’s valued for. There’s nothing wrong with that, but at least admit how highly subjective and contrary to available evidence that opinion is.

What the fuck are you talking about?? I never said anything remotely related to this. I said that your idea of "PoW is never wasteful" was meaningless. Maybe you were paused from posting on HN for straw manning?
Turn off usage and diagnostics and try to save a location in Google Maps. Alternatively, open up the usage and diagnostics stats and see just how much they harvest. It's, frankly, a ridiculous non-sequitur on the part of Google.
Regardless of what certain individuals want, ignoring inevitable outcomes don't fare well for them.

For example, like Yuval Noah Harari mentions in Sapiens, agriculture was not necessarily good for individuals. But since it allowed long term storage of food (in the form of grains), it allowed for stable habitats which grew into cities and nation states. There were still tribal people for a long time (there still are) who didn't adopt the technology but they were increasingly at the mercy of those on the other side.

We've seen the same with other technologies, like powerful weapons in the last centuries.

I think, in the new information age, we're headed to a similar trajectory with this new set of propaganda methods and defenses. Those who don't incorporate these new technologies into their systems will be at the mercy of those who do.
Say you have a $100 debt, so your net worth is -$100. If I take that $100 debt away from you, your net worth goes up by $100. -$100×-1 = +$100: a negative times a negative is a positive.

A debt is a negative quantity, and me taking something from you changes your quantity of whatever it was by a negative amount (if I take one apple from you, you gain -1 apples), so a negative times a negative is a positive.

If you have 3 $100 debts. If I take two of those $100 debts away from you, your net worth goes up by -$100×-2 = $200.
Cool article! So much low hanging fruit in hospitals and doctors offices alike. I think automating things like forms has a lot of value, although calculating it that way is not the most accurate lol.

The problem you’re dealing with is largely because programmers aren’t involved in the healthcare space or administration, and the admin aren’t aware of how much money or time ideas such as documented APIs could save. I think it would be awesome if healthcare systems would hire programmers solely for the purpose of problem solving, maybe let them run loose inside a hospital or something :). The state of overlap between healthcare and programming is tiny, probably on the order of 1 percent of either population have a meaningful connection. If we’re to actually get any meaningful interaction, Im guessing it’ll have to be done through top down hiring.
This is a great effort. But, as with many Google projects, it has been largely left to decompose.

Android isn't getting updates to Noto fonts - and doesn't support font side-loading. So anyone who wants to communicate using an endangered language can't do so.

Judging by the issues backlog, it appears only a few people at Google work on this. Not enough to sustain it.

This is too important a project to be left to the whims of a Google product manager.
>Though he has yet to start a new war, he had drastically increased bombing and drone strikes leading to far more civilian deaths than Obama.

Got some source data that backs up this claim?
I think the extra power comes with cognitive overhead, I.e. operators are now relative to some module, and you're stuck with that overhead whether or not you actually use the power or not.

Trying to stay neutral, I think its no suprise that some people prefer typeclasses...
Tech giants data tools in 5 minutes
Please fully read the article: Until circa 2017 the administration thought the notebooks were merely misplaced. As it's a tremendously large library that wasn't so difficult to believe, and numerous searches have been conducted over the years to locate the notebooks.

Only after a change of management they investigated the circumstances of the disappearing of the books more closely and came to the conclusion that it's more likely they were stolen.
Yeah, if they ever managed to expand to a US datacenter they would take a huge bite out of the established hosters there. But, knowing US labor costs, they simply might not be able to do so at their current prices. On the other hand, energy is probably cheaper than in Germany, so there's that...
The BBC frequently uses different titles in different places (home page, section page, article itself) and also changes them - the submission's title may well have reflected one of them at the time.
The west is the reason why your country (which i presume is Hong Kong from your username) is in the state it is in now today. It is amazing how brainwashed a population can become and be so blind to facts.
Gold is rare, but can often be found on planet Earth.
To better understand this, and see how complex numbers can be viewed the same way, go through this article, especially up to the first set of slides: https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/
Okay, but offering no machine suitable for developers and power users will eventually hurt them when they leave whole ecosystem.
Well, what are you expecting? An actual explanation for the grand theory of everything? Or just a fun story as a response to the prompt? To that, it does a decent job, and that was all expected of it. Give a human the same prompt and see what they say.
An amazing documentary on the subject is “The Act of Killing” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing) which challenges former death-squad leaders to reenact their mass killings (of supposed communists...)
Being the most famous does not mean it is a valid one... AI (and philosophy) moved away from it, and the Turing test is not really the focus of AI research.

It's surely touted by marketing companies that claim to have passed it (what does it even mean? How long can the conversation be? Is it enough to fool one people? Is it a person at random? One AI researcher? The smartest man in the world? A balanced sample of 500 people of all ages and education levels?)

As Russel and Norvig say, 'The quest for "artificial flight" succeeded when the Wright brothers and others stopped imitating birds and learned about aerodynamics. Aeronautical engineering texts do not define the goal of their field as making "machines that fly so exactly like pigeons that they can fool even other pigeons".'
It's the same for the Turing test.
HN has been flooded by Hindu Nationalists. Every topic about India I comment on, not only it gets downvoted pretty heavily but typical conspiracy theories get thrown. It is really disappointing, you are right.
Unfortunately, the CIA has its tendrils deeply planted within the American publics' minds ..

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-long-forgotten-cia-docume...

Obama was used to sell war to the American public - and Western Europe. That is going to take a lot of work to undo.
The primary difference is that Syncthing is focusing on synchronization, meaning that some files/folders take space on both devices and are kept in sync. It's essentially a cron-ed rsync (Dropbox is built around the same concept internally).

Recall is primarily a file server. The analogy that I have is that it's a zero-config FTP server with a web client with a nicer UX. Auto-sync of select files is on my roadmap, but at this point it's just a 'remote access to your files in a browser'.

Another big diff is that Syncthing is open source, so it's security and privacy are verifiable. Recall is closed source at this point (although you could peek at the JS client to figure out how it works), and I'm not yet ready to make a promise to open it in the near future. So, be aware.

Thank you for your kind words, I really appreciate that!
I wouldn't exactly consider the left in India, or most of the west for that matter, "left" of the American left. This is true on some dimensions but certainly not many others, at least speaking as someone who has lived in both the US and western Europe.
Paul Bloom had a brilliant TED-Talk on the matter, you might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPicL1AWrs8
Copper is not expensive to deploy given that it already runs to peoples home for their phone line.
> The best parallel I can think of (this isn't good, sorry) would be like attaching the type of every variable to every place you use it -- this would technically make it easier to follow a snippet of code, but create lots of visual noise.

At some point we did this very thing and it was the recommended way to write code. And it did indeed create a lot of noise. My understanding of how we moved on from that is that namespacing, aliasing, and in general better code structure started being used. Things are no longer global. How do you make parts of mathematical proofs non-global to the entire proof?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
> and the question is: ?.

Ah, the epsilon question. Well played, GPT-3.
Yeah that part of my comment was a bit sloppy (I didn't mention vocabulary originally and then foolishly added it in a later edit). Cramming vocabulary does help make input more comprehensible, but it should be noted that cramming vocabulary doesn't (by itself) cause you to acquire that vocabulary. Graded readers have been shown to also be very effective, despite a lack of vocabulary cramming (meaning that it's not necessary -- which is the point I was unsuccessfully trying to make). I do agree that it is a productive use of time (at least in the early stages of learning a language) and in my own language learning, I am cramming vocabulary.

However, consciously learning grammar definitely does not have significant enough returns to be worth the effort (it can help somewhat in certain cases, but comprehensible input has a much larger effect).
I think this is actually the interesting part. It appears to understand some causality in spite of never being trained this. GPT-3 seems to be able to do arithmetic with small numbers, but begins to fail with larger equations. This seems congruous to how humans may internalise arithmetic. As far as we know, we do not have an ALU in the brain.
Unequal Power
Around half of the population in Scandinavia lives in apartments made out of concrete. It's not plausible that IKEA don't know that.
> Assuming they weight around 30 grams it's ~1,800,000 tons of meat

Check your math.
I wish I had known about pluralsight years ago. It has quality content. It helped me move to senior roles easily. I watch/listen daily during commute to work.
Doesn't this mean that you cannot use the computer for personal use, or that you can only reclaim the business-use proportion of that VAT?
Apparently there are a lot of high net-worth individuals that take pleasure in acquiring such cultural goods to hang them in their private studies or re-sell them. The Nebra Sky Disk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk) was e.g. excavated by two "tomb raiders" who sold it on the black market, and only after the disk changed hands multiple times it was re-acquired by the federal government in a sting police operation (luckily).

It makes me sad to think about all the artifacts of e.g. the Byzantine and Babylonian cultures that were stolen during the recents wars in the middle east, most of it probably made it into the hands of wealthy collectors. At least we can hope that some of the stuff will turn up again, eventually, but since most people don't know how to properly keep these artefacts from decaying there's still a tremendous risk they will be permanently damaged.
I don't think we disagree. Isolation is an essential part of it. If they didn't have isolation to begin with, they wouldn't be able to control anything.
Software development IS for everyone. Don't like one, don't hire them. You are exactly gatekeeping, but who said you are what I or others here consider a good developer?
The force is acting on internal parts too. I don't think the silicon microchip inside can survive those forces.

There is just too much that could go wrong here.

I would be positively shocked if this thing works. I'd have to rethink a lot of things I hold an opinion on.
To be clear nobody who understands such tools well enough to actually create our current generation of tools believes these specific tools are intelligent in any meaningful way.

The simplest counterargument to them being intelligent is that the only parties asserting the argument contrary to actual experts are those who manifestly fail to understand their nature.

You speak of it "hiding its intelligence" when it has no interior singular consistent model of reality to exercise and no interior thoughts to hide just a random walk through probability and calculated but not examined correlations.

On first blush it has so few connections compared to us that it seems like a toy in comparison but the truth is we don't even know enough about how our own brain works at this point in order to create an accurate scale. It may be more accurate to think of a neuron as a small processor as opposed to a dumb electrical component for example.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neural-dendrites-reveal-their...

So in brief your argument is that despite not knowing enough about the brain to duplicate it we built a machine that is vastly simpler than it by accident and the only people that have caught on is layman on hacker news.