skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fallacies are your failure to apply scientific method. The fact that you are aware of them doesn’t change the fact that you don’t know how to use it.

It’s like a blind person learning this something isn’t red. They’ll continue guessing until they came up with the right colour.
Climate denialism comes to mind here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqXkYrdmjY
Same. Playing on PC. Few bugs. I didn't buy into the hype (ignored the game's marketing) and am enjoying it very much as a result.

In the past I've been bitten by my own unrealistic expectations of certain games prior to release. I'm sure there's a little bit of that at play here, both the developers and gamers/new media's fault.
She would have had her information stored in a database at all times along with the rest of us. She would have been tracked and monitored everywhere she went. She would have undergone an inspection anytime she went anywhere.

Your mom's quarantine is fine by me if it means the 80% of the population who are under 55 can live their lives.
Autopilot is distinct from full self driving - I was talking about driver assist.

'Solved' is doing a lot of work here and is an unnecessary threshold I'm willing to concede. I think we would be more likely to agree that things went from unusably bad or impossible to usably good, but imperfect in a lot of consumer categories in the last five years due to ML and deep learning approaches.

The more clearly 'solved' cases of previously open problems (Go, protein folding, facial recognition, etc.) are mostly not in the consumer space.

As far as the gpt-3 bit I encourage others to read that excerpt, they explicitly state they excluded the problems they asked from the test data so it's not memorization. The types of failures it makes are failures like failing to carry the one, it certainly seems like it's deducing the rules. It'll be interesting to see what happens in gpt-4 as they continue to scale it up.
The magic sysrq key combination works, I don’t see why you couldn’t do something similar for a SAK?
The nautil.us website with it's initial load of a few MB is a great example of modern web bloat.
Even though I waited not much more than 5s, staring at the blank, white page made me not want to consume the content whatsoever.
User: your thing doesn't work the specific way I want. I haven't read the manual and refuse to learn now to use its features. You should make it magically work the way I imagine.

Multiply by 100 users with different opinions, all entitled, on how thing should work.
Perfect isn't the goal, it's just a word used to make the proof more obvious.

The relevant question is whether you can buy an LCD that calibrates well enough, and the answer is not "obviously no".
But they have existed for a short period of their lifespan, so by definition are early in their lifetimes. The argument isn’t that there will be new stars, but that they will exist for a long time.
I overheard some immature humans referring to “Santa Claus.” I deduced that they expected this Santa person (?) to deliver gifts to them today. Has anyone heard of this? What belief system do these children subscribe to?
His interview with Jim Keller is pretty good.
Big Sur 11.0 (and betas) were an absolute mess. However 11.1 is genuinely a great bit of kit.
The original article is about a manipulation technique, hence the focus on that aspect
The entropy is -0.7log2(0.7)-0.3log2(0.3) = 0.88 .

The post is very confusing, in no case can deterministic hashing increase the entropy. And if it outputs only half of input entropy then it's only 8% more efficient than von neumann in this case.
git gc runs automatically when some threshold is met in the number of "loose" objects (objects that were created by e.g. git add and that haven't been packed yet). I don't remember what the threshold is, though.
Yeah, but then the problem is that politics, the topic that invites a ton bad faith tactics, also has tons of real life repercussions. And if you just try to ignore it because of the bad faith stuff, then the people with the bad faith arguments are more likely to get their way. So it sucks to engage, but there’s not any other great choice.
Gephi is good for drawing large graphs. Takes a minute to get used to the UI.
Yes, Siri has much more lenient policies for academic publications than other Apple departments, and other parts of Apple are also getting a little bit less strict. It was never entirely impossible to publish at Apple, but it used to be extremely difficult.

Once it became evident that this was a clear competitive disadvantage in ML hiring, policies evolved…
This absolutely happens in my (anecdotal) experience. But it's not a problem that affects Apple really.
You’d need much lower than 72 hz for you to notice flicker. Regular VGA was 60 hz. Amiga interlace had noticeable flicker with an effective rate of 25 to 30 hz.
That justification seems rather weak by that some operations don't work on some files.

Of course not all operations work on all types of files. It feels as if they think that one type of “file”, as in the file that is a block of storage, is the “true file”, and the others are “fake files”, whereas the file that maps to a block of storage is no more or less an abstraction than a file that maps to a some segment of a process' memory or a hardware driver.

Would it be different of Unix files were instead named “vectors” as a more abstract name and that some vectors mape to what others might call a “file”, id est a block of storage.
Unfortunately it's unlikely Linux will ever run on the new M1 Macs: "Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238175
I hate these flat, 'phone style' interfaces on desktop apps..
I've never really used Macs but I think my favorite window style/chrome was the old OSX Aqua look.
Do you have any arguments behind your "No."s?
RGB LED Daylight Simulator / Artificial Window
That means those salmon have to make there way thru about 10 or 11 dams!

Dams provide so many good things (clean energy, passable water, flood protection, ...). If the salmon can spawn that would be ideal!
Non-blogspam link:
https://m.weibo.cn/u/5061214872#&video
"There's no intentional or manual effort at Google to promote pinterest."

But there is an effort at Pinterest to promote itself via Google. Pinterest pays Google for online ad aservices. Pinterest is a Google customer. The user is not.

The bottom line at Google is not driven by showing users the "best" results for users. The bottom line is driven by customers such as Pinterest who pay Google to assist them with online advertising.

Page and Brin identified this conflict of interest in their 1998 paper introducing Google, which was originally intended to be an academic endeavor, not to become an online ad services company.^1 According to the authors, (a) the interests of users and advertisers are not one in the same, (b) there are inherent effects on search results if the search engine is funded by advertising, and (c) the behind-the-scenes operation ("technical details") of search engines funded by advertising become largely non-transparent to users/competitors (a "black art").

I reckon (c) is why we get questions like this one from the OP.

I have also seen these inexplicable and useless Pinterest links in Google searches.

1. https://research.google/pubs/pub334.pdf

Quotes:

"To make matters worse, some advertisers attempt to gain people's attention by taking measures meant to mislead automated search engines."

"Up until now most search engine development has gone on at companies with little publication of technical details. This causes search engine technology to remain largely a black art and to be advertising oriented (see Appendix A). With Google, we have a strong goal to push more development and understanding into the academic realm."

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."

"For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."

"Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results."

"But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm."
What are frankincense and myrrh, anyway?
> But which action?

In the UK, my view is the action to take was very clearly to dial back the public's expectations of having a 5 day "free for all" period of relaxation of our restrictions over Christmas.

This 5 day period, as originally planned, was going to lead to massive cross-country travel, plenty of it being completely unnecessary, with no doubt a lot of risk taking in the spirit of "it's Christmas" and an inevitable huge spike of cases and deaths in the weeks that followed.

I mean I love Christmas, but I can cope with not having 5 days of partying for just one year... *

As it happens, the government did take action to dial this back at the very last minute to allow just 1 day of relaxed rules (Christmas Day) rather than the week that was originally on the table. In my view they should have been planning for this right from the start and they unnecessarily screwed up a lot of people's Christmas plans by leaving it until the very last minute to make this change.

Now even if the variant turns out to be a "non issue" (and we still have rising numbers anyway), I think it's better that they took this action to further limit Christmas (as tough as it is for everyone) rather than take the "wait and see" or "hope for the best" approach, both of which seem to have been UK govnt strategies at one time or another during 2020.

* I'm being slightly flippant here. This is clearly a tough time for a lot of people, and many families will be spending Christmas apart and will find this very hard for all sorts of reasons.
Coronavirus: France finds first case of new variant
Not when you count the external cost of taking it out of the ground and putting it into the atmosphere.

If you had the renewable energy surplus necessary to do it, you'd make as much liquid hydrocarbon as you could, and pump it back into the ground.
The funny thing is that this article is attacking Bulverism by describing it as a fallacy, thereby proving that Bulverism is a useful mode of thinking.

I quite enjoy the Bulverism mindset. It's close to the bug seeker or pen-tester mindset. If the code seems complex you have to assume there is a mistake somewhere. You put yourself in the shoes of the one who write the code and try to imagine where some complex interactions could be badly anticipated. To exploit, you have to understand what went wrong.

Seeking the truth probably can't be done in absolute. It's probably a better idea to hold a variety of beliefs and Bayes updating them with the information you gather, but at the same time keeping in mind that other people may have received different information.
It has 4k of TMEM on the GPU, and is in fact the only place textures can be used by the GPU.

That's one of the major reasons the N64 has a reputation for being 'blurry'. 4k gives you a max of (with mip maps) one 32x32 16-bit texture at a time.
I don't see why a modern gui should be impossible. It's not like flat design with rounded corners is amazingly complicated. One issue could be high-res assets, but with some codegolfed vector graphics I think you could get something nice looking.
They said professional goodwill not fame. But Jeff Dean is famous for work he did for Google. Dave Cutler, Anders Hejlsberg, Jeff Bonwick, Bryan Cantrill, and Shigeru Miyamoto are famous for work they did for other famous companies.

People used to get famous working for Apple too. Jony Ive? Andy Hertzfeld? Susan Kare?
Striving for a single “The Truth” seems like a fundamentally losing battle when I’d have to convince 8+ billion other humans to agree with me in every aspect of how I see the world, but an entire world that could fit in my single viewport would be a very narrow world indeed.
I mean the ability to patch is why they ship broken. Games now are published to rely on Day-1 patching to fix key issues.

In the era of zero-patch gameplay the PS2 and Gamecube versions wouldn't have shipped.
Let's Encrypt alone has issued about 1.5 billion certificates in five years of operation; just storing those in DER form with no indexing or other metadata would occupy more than a terabyte of storage. (This is also not counting CT precertificates, which are duplicative of the final certificates in their meaningful content but contain different signature data.)
We already enjoy the services of a massive optically-coupled fusion energy source. All we need to do it plug it in.
> removing the public's focus on the more evenly distributed measures we are already employing

How is this focus "removed" and why is there any reason to think that evenly distributed measures along with targeted ones would be a problem for the public?
and here I would be happy with a wall just playing old fashioned static and then position furniture in front of it as if it were an ordinary wall.

I am just reminded of various sci fi type shows and movies where the outside world was simply a colorful screen that changed periodically if at all. this type of use could make even the most boxed in apartments much more livable
I think the major flaw in patents is that they provide a monopoly on the technology (for a limited time). Monopolies are bad. Let the USPTO determine a fair price for a technology. That way the company can decide if they keep the technology secret, and the USPTO can decide if they think the technology is too important for society and it needs to be open (and thus increase the price). Other companies can then get a license on the technology for that price. And no companies can be denied access to a technology (like the current situation).
I think China's decision to go carbon neutral by 2060 is somewhat given some positive lights, though with heavy coating of doubt.
I have one of those, I have not determined how to effectively use it.

As well as one of the USB dasung paperlike screens. Unfortunately accessing the software and use on modern windows and mac os seems impossible.
The IBM mainframe operating system z/OS (formerly known as MVS) is a certified UNIX 95. (That's an older UNIX standard, but still valid.)

There are still a lot of IBM mainframes out there. Far less than there used to be, but IBM mainframes remain (even in 2020) a sector with many billions of dollars of annual revenue (if you add up hardware and software and services across both IBM and the ISV ecosystem). And the vast majority of those mainframes run z/OS. (They also run other operating systems – z/Linux, z/VM, z/VSE and z/TPF – but many of the sites running one of those other operating systems run z/OS as well.)

The UNIX component of z/OS is not merely a compatibility layer, a lot of operating system components and applications now rely on it. For example, the REST-based z/OS management console Zowe that IBM is now promoting runs under z/OS UNIX. My understanding is that IBM prefers (where possible) to develop new OS components and applications to run under z/OS UNIX rather than the traditional z/OS APIs. Anything written in Java (or other newer languages, such as node.js) is running on z/OS UNIX. So even if a z/OS site isn't doing anything directly on UNIX, they are almost certainly using OS components and applications which directly rely on it to function.

Obviously z/OS is absolutely dwarfed by Linux and macOS, but it is probably the healthiest of all the commercial Unixes – Oracle has put Solaris in maintenance mode, same for HPE and HP/UX, HPE killed Digital Unix years ago; AIX is healthier than Solaris or HP/UX, but I think z/OS is even healthier than AIX. z/OS licensing fees are a lot higher than AIX licensing fees, and the non-UNIX parts of z/OS (JCL, VSAM, CICS, IMS, etc) make it far harder to migrate off than AIX is.
I talked in the nixos aarch64 channel and cross-compiling is very hit-or-miss which is why nixops won't deploy well from an x86_64 machine. You can run a qemu aarch64 VM to delpoy if you need to.
My last job was like this and it was beyond frustrating.

They had essentially re-created the C/C++ language feature of a struct. Rather than letting the compiler/linker worry about where to place the data there was a global array of uint16s. Fields of these ad-hoc structs were placed in this array via defines (sometimes spanning more than one element). Rather than passing pointers to an instance of a struct, they passed an enum which was switched on to find the correct defines to index into the global array and wrangle the data back into a proper type.

So when we were tasked with adding three new instances of a particular ad-hoc struct it cost us tens of thousands of dollars in engineering time. Oh, and all testing was manual as well. The other programmers didn't see the issue and I was just floored by that.

I found a new job, as a sibling comment points out. Sometimes there's no other option.
Upon seeing the reports of the location of this specific real-world incident I researched to try to find an article I know exists describing how indestructible those windowless telecommunications hub buildings are. Isn't there an article somewhere describing how they're hardened against unconventional military attack? Visually the Nashville structure seemed very very well reinforced.

As for the NSA angle, this location was not on the list published by the Intercept in 2018.[1]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
As an aside: The technology / evolutionary differences are likely to be immense. Imagine trying to have a 'first contact' with an ant in your backyard. Honestly, for most humans, it's not even close to worth the time or energy to 'talk' with something like that. We don't even consider a single ant worth of much study at all.

Now imagine a people as far advanced of us, as that ant is to you. Now imagine that 10,000 times more advanced. Or 100 million times more. That is the kind of difference we have to consider.

The unfortunate reality may be that other civilizations are so far advanced from us (100x? 10,000x? 10 billion?) that we are effectively 'alone' all the same. Like an ant pondering the garden hoses, BBQs, or fence posts of the universe.
My girlfriend and I watched Interstellar the other night. She had a few questions at the end and I remembered there being some great infographics that would help explain. So I reached for Google Image Search and the results were dominated by Pinterest. It wouldn't have been so bad if I could've viewed the original full-size image - but for that I would've needed to create a Pinterest account which I absolutely didn't want to do. After that I gave up and drew my own with pen and paper.
> Polio was endemic, with low incidence, for thousands of years. Around 1900 it went from endemic to epidemic. Why? Did it suddenly mutate into a deadlier or more transmissable strain? While we don't have polio sequences from before and after 1900 to compare, we do know that rapid improvements in sanitation delayed exposure to the polio virus. Babies were now encountering the virus after maternal antibodies to it had waned!

What is the source for this? I've read another explanation: the overuse of pesticides like Paris Green, DDT (see pictures of kids literally sprayed with it on their clothing), and the use of "medical metals" to treat any kinds of diseases - giving mercury, arsenic etc. All of these (pesticides, metals) can weaken the bowels and allow the polio virus (which resides in the bowels) to enter into the spine where it then causes paralysis.

Maternal transfer of antibodies is one of my favorite immunity topics - it is far overlooked in usefulness lately, largely seen as impractical due to changes in lifestyle (not many mothers breastfeed)

Dear downvoters: what do you find does not contribute to conversation about sharing this theory?
Zoom asks for permission to restart Mac weekly
Yet the paper you reply to is written in sep 2019 and states that the Chinese market is still a massive influence. Don't you think that outweighs your tweet from 2018 from some guy?
I like how your framed it, giving the lower bound only
What sort of conspiracy are you imagining here? Someone exploded an RV in an entertainment district so that AT&T had an excuse to disable service while the NSA installed wiretaps?

I think that as investigations unfold, that will not end up being what happened. Just a guess though.
One of the first programs that I wrote and that went commercial was written in Turbo Pascal as well. It also had a GUI system with EGA/VGA drivers where most of the performance critical code was done using built-in assembly. Turbo Pascal was mighty good and productive environment. Turbo Pascal's built-in assembly was also used to implement preemptive multithreading in the same program.
The intent is something more like studying the chess tricks and traps books[1]. Humans learn new things by exploring the boundaries of those things. This is as true for secondhand stories of explorations as it is for firsthand experiences. I think it's just humans a-human-ing. Nothing immature about learning.

[1] There are a bunch of them. Here's more on one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8051867-the-greatest-eve...
Out of state folks are investing into 8,000 acres of solar plant in central Ohio. My guess is that there are material administrative impediments to the process rather than lack of demand.
Don’t you think this reflects a bias in the opposite direction?

Systems are dynamic and complex, but that doesn’t make them unknowable. If complex systems were impossible to model science wouldn’t be a thing.

Sure, the “new variant” narrative is an easy one to pick up because it’s superficially understandable; but what other complex interactions are resulting in a new strain becoming dominant over an existing one?

Do we just sit on our hands and go, well gee, better do nothing? Guess it’s just too hard to know what to do at this point...

There is a typical government fallacy that to be seen doing something is better than nothing, even when it’s the wrong thing... I get it, that’s bad.

...but this is a case where doing nothing has been a colossal disaster so far; and it’s extremely clear what the result of doing nothing different will be if the new variant hypothesis is correct.

So it’s a risk game. Is the cost * probability of A vs B a better choice?

You’re saying the probability is not known at this point because systems are complicated.

So what? It’s still clear to me that it’s very likely that something is happening, even if exactly what it is, is unclear.

You can still build a risk matrix taking that into account.
“A helpful (Python) cheat sheet, quite long.” ― Brian Kernighan
Source: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring19/cos333...
What do you mean apart from him? "Tim Apple" is the one Apple exec who went to hang out with Trump.
Nobody, and certainly not the USPTO, is able to determine the future value of any patent.