skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the paleontologists had an answer, why are they making flippant comments and un-founded guesses?

Right, like I said, person with no domain knowledge alleges experts are making “flippant” and “unfounded guesses”.

What exactly were you trying to prove?
> the only purchases I've made off ads in the last few years have been from targeted IG/FB ads

Likely most of the ads in the last few years have been targeted ones.
Click the timestamp of the comment then click [vouch], and upvote it if it's got voting buttons.

Don't re-paste it.
Having met several people taking calls on similar numbers (in European countries though) and also called a few times myself, I can tell you: They help more than you can imagine.

Most callers are not suicidal, they just need someone empathetic they can talk to. 'Suicide hotline' is just one of the few keywords that are very effective, it catches people in their most vulnerable state right before it's too late for help. Type 'suicide' into google and they show you a number above all results.

To everyone who doesn't have a support structure, please just search for 'suicide/depression/anxiety/* hotline' in your language. You most likely will find someone who will talk to you for an hour at 4am. Don't feel bad about it, you are not bothering anyone, they often do it voluntarily and just want to help others.
I'm a fan of consistent behavior, but actually I'm on the side of not sleeping with a display plugged in. Going to sleep when there are no peripherals plugged in is only a sane default because there's no way to actually use the device with no access to the keyboard/mouse/screen.

OTOH, one can still reasonably use a closed laptop if it has a display plugged in, so closing the lid no longer implies an intent to stop using it. Because of this alone, going to sleep in this context might not be the most sane default.

Some examples of when I've personally closed a laptop with the screen plugged in without wanting it to sleep:

* Working at a desk where the laptop doesn't fit with the lid open
* Starting a video when connected to a TV in a dark room, where the laptop's screen is a distracting source of light
The aim of the deal was to get something better than what was previously had, at any cost. Any.

While I can appreciate an attempt at objective analysis of the deal, that's not what has been discussed so far. And, in all honesty, the occasion itself is momentous enough that it's a dis-service to discount any emotions around the affair.

This isn't a cause for celebration for a calculable majority of the UK, after all.
Here's one without

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL02e4L-RQo

Another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YnrJCHbxw
Brits will soom be able to eat imported chlorinated chicken!
So when it comes to something like this, the way it'll generally work is that you already have the code pretty much in your brain. Then you write it out & make some size optimizations. Hence the short timeline

So feasibility assessment is easy: you already know what you're going to do. The initial idea is going to be something that tugs at your brain & you mull over it in the quiet moments of your life. & the expertise comes from experience
Do you have any insight whatsoever to back up such an empty claim?
Lest we forget, all of this started because one man wanted to win an election: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-21148282

David Cameron wanted to appear tough and miscalculated badly, and now an entire country will pay the price (literally).
SchemeMosaic Chop'n'Screw How-To (Emacs GUI for Scheme Concatenative Synthesis)
Just adding to your point to define what exactly data science is these days. I've been interviewing intermittently for the last few weeks and different companies mean different things when they mean data scientist. It's a catchall-term which includes some of the following: data analyst, data engineer, business analyst, machine learning engineer, product/growth analyst etc. For all of these, I would say that a PhD is not required.

Another thing I've observed is that even when a PhD is required, companies usually add "or equivalent work experience" (4+ YOE) in their requirements.
You don’t have to do anything. What you own is what you own.
> worse than brexit based on how deeply integrated the England and Scotland are

I think you are underestimating how much the UK and the EU were effectively integrated.
Has it been Jepsen.io tested? I wouldn’t recommend using it if not.
Sure, `reduce()` was removed from the standard library between Python 2 and Python 3. Here is Guido arguing that `lambda` and several other functions should be removed as well.[1]

[1] https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
Why do we call it a microprocessor, when it was six chips?
More than the interface (which is a matter of taste; I prefer single-window), I refer to the experience as a whole.

I've used only Lightroom (as Adobe product), and it's hard to define what casual editing is, but the basic enhancement functionalities were easy to use, and especially, they were very effective (again, for a casual user).

It had, as far as I remember, very good automatic enhancement, that one could use as a base. The other products I tried weren't so effective. If, as I suppose, this type of functionality requires a significant investment to develop, then it's out of reach for non-very-well-funded open source development.

Dehazing was another typical example of LR functionality: it's stupid simple (a slider), and does effectively what's supposed to do for a casual user.
yes, ease of access. The state of these keys is represented as a bit each in a word at offset 0x417, in the bios data area.
I calculate that 70/100 gives you a 6 in a million chance of getting 10 in a row.
That actually isn't true:

> As an EU member, the UK was automatically part of about 40 trade deals which the EU had with more than 70 countries. In 2018, these deals represented about 11% of total UK trade.

> So far, 29 of these existing deals, covering 58 countries or territories, have been rolled over and will start on 1 January 2021. The latest deal to be struck was with Mexico on 15 December.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47213842
Did you look somewhere like the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas book?
Nice resource that's better than nothing, but just want to note that there are numerous engraving errors in the couple scores I looked at that would make them unsuitable for serious study.
Here you are:

“ There are two possible approaches to build widespread SARS-CoV-2 im- munity: (1) a mass vaccination campaign, which requires the development of an effective and safe vaccine, or (2) natural immu- nization of global populations with the virus over time. However, the consequences of the latter are serious and far-reaching—a large fraction of the human population would need to become in- fected with the virus, and millions would succumb to it. Thus, in the absence of a vaccination program, establishing herd immunity should not be the ultimate goal. Instead, an emphasis should be placed on policies that protect the most vulnerable groups in the hopes that herd immunity will eventually be achieved as a byprod- uct of such measures, although not the primary objective itself.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32433946/
No idea if that's still the case (hopefully not), but it was widely known when they were a young company. It shouldn't take much effort to look into, if you actually care enough to investigate. :)
Vulcanus
Ah yes the average user care about privacy and encryption. UX is for us nerds.
None of which answers the question - which significant new markets exist for UK goods and services?

Unless you count tax evasion and money laundering - something the UK was doing okay at already - there simply aren't any.

There is no promised land here, no sunlit uplands, no glorious future as an independent trading nation. In reality the UK has just pulled the rug out from under its most productive service sector and cut out the heart of its tax base.

And it doesn't have the skills or the culture to develop new service markets, because it's thinking like a 19th century imperial power running a 19th century economy, not like an interconnected smaller power with significant unique skills and talents in a mixed 21st century economy.

When you sell a plane or a computer or a tractor to a foreign country you don't just sell an item that needs to be shipped. You also sell training, spares, continuing support, consultancy. and business development.

These were relatively friction-free when freedom of movement was a thing. Now they're much harder, because they rely on employees visiting customers and possibly staying with them for long periods - which can't be done with paperwork and restrictions.

This "deal" makes all of this much harder for EU trade, and does nothing at all to make it easier in Rest of World.

And all of this held up for weeks by arguments about fish, which are barely a rounding error in GDP terms.
> a) CI fails, because changes in master in the meantime make it so your branch now triggers a test failure or merge conflict whereas before it didn't. We can ignore this, scenario, because nothing lands till

No we can't, because what do people do in this scenario? They make a new commit that fixes the tests, but leaves a long chain of previous commits broken.

(Also in a big enough codebase with enough collaborators it becomes impractical to require CI to pass against the absolute tip of your shared development branch before merging, because in the time it takes to run CI there will always have been more changes landing in that shared branch).

> 1. You don't didn't use rebase -x (why not, if you carefully test all individual commits on the feature branch?)

I've never known anyone to actually use -x. Maybe a very dedicated individual could, but there's no way you'd be able to enforce it across a team (unless that team is in the habit of making feature branches that are just a handful of big commits - but in that case you might as well just squash-merge). Pulling changes from master and resolving any conflicts is already a frustrating interruption; making it take 20x longer is a non-starter.

People don't carefully test all individual commits, but that's ok. Even the most casual testing will catch when a commit simply doesn't compile, and introducing a compilation error in manual code changes is much less common than introducing a compilation error when pulling changes from master. And in the worst case, an isolated non-compiling commit in history is not too much of a problem to skip when bisecting. The problem only comes when you have a long chain of non-compiling commits - which is exactly what rebasing tends to produce.
So glad to hear that! I loved her Odyssey translation. Her introduction alone is worth the price of admission.
It's easy to make money when you have money and thousands of desperate poors begging for the opportunity to bhe your investment vehicle. Sam got lucky and got rich. From there it's all downhill.
Sure, EU trade isn’t going to zero. So I think that comes down to a case by case argument.

Generally being part of a larger market is the best option, but individual executions are clearly going to be argued about endlessly.
You’re right, but it’s too late to edit now.
> e-mail, and using it for authentication is so much better for everyone than virtually every single alternative (absolutely including even a bespoke username)

Why is it better than a username?
currently on the frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25527902
The government (usually the military) makes the thing with a basically unlimited space and budget, the private sector let's you buy one. Making an iPhone is not trivial in the slightest, too.

Also, the military (for the most part) pays for these inventions, the actual research and manufacture is usually still done in the private sector. That doesn't have to be the case, but if we take the Soviet Union as an example of an alternate system (Basically state-owned design Bureaus) they could just about keep up with the pace of technological development (and match in limited scope) but their populaces didn't see the "trickle down" technology.
How Pixar Brings ‘Soul’ and Existential Ideas to Life
This is something I've seen an awful lot on iOS. Clearly having Apple give you an SDK is convenient as a developer, but for a huge segment of the market, storing randomly on "someone else's computer" just isn't an option - professionals and others that Apple tends to target.

With the storage framework in recent iOS versions, maybe we'll see more apps support it? It surely can't be too much effort, but I guess the demand is limited.
https://archive.vn/9102h
"Intelligence Augmentation" makes good PR, like those old Apple commercials, "Be All You Can Be" (no, that's the US Army; Apple's was "The Power To Do Your Best.")

But the money is in replacing humans.
Having a culture of sharing it is good, I think - it means that they save spending on advertising and have more funds for other things.
> Maybe a very dedicated individual could, but there's no way you'd be able to enforce it across a team

Adopt standard workflow tooling that enforces it, like the gitflow tool but for your actual team workflow.
Wait, really? Like what?
Don't be so downbeat. A lot of execs really hate remote working, they are people-persons who thrive on conviviality. They will soon push again to have proper offices. You'll be laughing at all this in 2022.
A very old example, but Quake 1 did. It came out at the time when everyone was thrilled by DooM 2, the game that took the world by storm. Quake 1 was the second game in the row from the same developer that did so.

Diablo 2 was hotly anticipated and it did deliver.
In a recent Advent of code (Night 23) I back ported my pascal Solution to Turbo Pascal 7 in DOSBOX... I had to use a file of longint because I couldn't fit 1,000,001 elements in RAM (4 megabytes)... but used a temp file instead. It took 10 minutes instead of 0.25 seconds, but it worked.

Both are command line programs, no GUI.

64 bit exe 215,850 bytes

16 bit DOS 5,632 bytes

The bloat is real.
I absolutely agree with the fact that Tenenbaum et al are aiming at AGI from what I think is the right approach.

They tend to break down deep architectures into smaller components which get fused into probabilistic inference systems. That's the way to go to be able to e.g. reason about causality.
Private right of action.

If I want morbidus-rex.com, and I see a cybersquatter there, I can file a complaint. I pay $100.

You also need to give appropriate tools to allow private enforcement. If I file a complaint, the cybersquatter is required to release documents showing corporate ownership all the way up the chain. Failure to do so results in automatic loss.

Registrar arbitrates, with first $1000 in costs going to complainer, and remaining going to registrant. Typical case, I show that I'm an individual or similar entity, and it's done. If there is a complex corporate scheme to decipher, the party with the complex corporate scheme covers costs.

And if you hold a thousand domains like jkhzxkljhdsjkl12jkl.com, I don't really care.
I think Aerosmith said it best:

> the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

https://genius.com/Aerosmith-amazing-lyrics
Isn’t that called clamshell mode? If so it’s been that way for years. Easy to change IIRC also.
The PM also said the NHS would be getting an extra £350m a week as a result of a Brexit dividend.

Some people believed that too - although rather fewer believe it now.
The US being a “melting pot” probably means that unusual names are more common than the UK which is homogeneous by comparison.

Also, and I don’t know if other countries do this, but Americans just love coming up with unusual and distinct names for their kids. “Oprah”, for example. “Lincoln” for both a boy and a girl seems to be in vogue at the moment.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be possible, just that it shouldn't be the default.
> Northern Irish sectarianism?

Unfortunately for sectarists in Northern Ireland, catholics have more children there. A quick glance at the declared religion by age will tell you all you need to know. Catholics will soon outnumber protestants in Northern Irland. From there unification seems unavoidable.
In case it helps anyone:

I remember when I upgraded to Catalina, macOS wouldn’t allow me to vertically rotate my two external displays anymore (as per my pre-upgrade setup). Then I remembered Apple introduced Sidecar, which I decided to turn off (using ‘defaults’); issue gone.
Correct, in this context I meant Digital Signal Processing.
Yeah, it makes sense to test for this kind of thing, but they should have planned to give the bonuses to everyone regardless of how they responded to the phishing attempt.
It was six circuits on one chip.

https://firstmicroprocessor.com/?doing_wp_cron=1608857321.86...

https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/compucorp122e.html
Unfortunately Apple is quite fond of introducing breaking changes.
What's the consensus among epidemiologists and virologists about this new strain? And what are the author's qualifications?
The multicolored letters on the first piece brought so many memories of being just a kid and playing with poke commands and little print and go to routines to display rainbow colored moving letters and making the first steps into graphics on 8 bit computers. I suppose we were all artists back then !
I recently did the software engineer job search thing and most of the companies said I’d be required to work to the office when the pandemic is over.
Have no idea why this particular word is posted today, but those who may want more information can be pointed to Tom Paxton’s Yuppies in the Sky. Helpful to know something of 1980s Greenwich Village culture before listening.

Listen to one of the version’s sung by Tom Paxton himself on your favorite video playback content providers.
If you’re criticizing goto in kernel source, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s incredible how many people just regurgitate this anti-goto meme without any experience writing system C code. There are various highly structured uses of goto used for systems programming in C, most prominently for error handling but also for things like retry logic.
> and soon found out that closing the laptop doesn't put it to sleep anymore

I'm fairly sure this has never been the case, or at least not for a very long time. As a long time Macbook user with external display, the expected behavior of closing the lid is to keep the laptop running as if the external monitor is the main display.
Interesting thought, thanks. :)

Probably don't want to get a new PoE switch, as I have a decent (fanless, silent) 16 port HP Procurve switch already that's barely utilised.

PoE switches never seem to be silent, and would annoy me. ;)

The other option I've been thinking of, is getting one of those "smart" power control boards + flashing it with Tasmota (https://tasmota.github.io) firmware.

That should work, and allow for using the official RPI4 adapters. :)
Dota works perfectly on Linux.
It's not even through proton. It always worked natively on Linux.
I mean, Sam Altman seems like a great guy. I hope everyone learned a lot from this comment, as we always do from people agreeing with each other.
How true. "Those evil Trump campaign staffers turned election in his favor using amazing evil micro-targeting FB techniques which are complete scam and do not work at all".

Pretty coherent point of view.
Brexit (Britain’s exit from the European Union) happened on 31 January 2020.
I wasn’t aware you could run an M1 with Catalina...
GPT-3, given enough data and compute, would pass the Turing test, ace the SAT, drive our cars, and tell really good jokes.

The GPT people are reasonably close to it doing those things at a moderate level of competence. It still has no clue what it's doing; it's just finding similarities with old data, and once in a while will do something really bad.

The next big breakthrough needed is enough machine common sense to keep the big-data machine learning systems from doing stuff with near-term bad consequences.
I'm interested at is it possible to redirect the information sent by fitbit to self-hosted server?
Suspected Russian Hackers Used Microsoft Vendors to Breach Customers
“The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst U.S. cyberattack in years used reseller access to Microsoft Corp. services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from SolarWinds Corp., investigators said.”
Likewise, I just picked up a 2021 M2 which I heard will switch to something new in 2022. I love the car. You can feel all of the engineering and craft in the driving experience.
Then why are no countries or businesses queuing up to take advantage of the commercial opportunities that have become available?
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I am saying it must be jargon used within a particular community or minority subset of general stats/ machine learning/AI. honestly, I still think it's a database/ enterprise term because I've worked for our national statistics office and never heard it in the statistics community either. I have frequently heard data lineage however, but again, that's a database/ enterprise type person lingo: when people use that word I know immediately the background they're coming from.

Another poster mentioned vendor brochures and trade shows, which is in line with my expectations about which community it stems from, and also explains why I've never heard of it because I try to keep away from such environments these days.

Everywhere I've been the things which I take to make up "provenance" have generally been referred to under the simple label of "data quality", with separate subset definitions and measures such as timeliness, source, authority, format, history, suitability, verification, etc.

Of course, that's assuming people even worry about such things. In practice, let's be frank, anyone who's worked with data science knows they actually get shorter shrift than they deserve in practice: I'm probably among a minority of people in the real world who actually take things seriously, and I find myself on a constant crusade to remind people that just because a data point exists in a data set doesn't mean it's useful/ appropriate/ truthful/ unbiased.

data quality is a bit problematic, because I can see it being used by people who think provenance doesn't have any thing to do with quality, and from a variety of fields, but it is also infinitely more popular according to historical search trends, and in my last three jobs provenance would fall under the data quality framework.
Well, that depends on the argument, but presumably if at some point you state "the moral thing to do is to reduce surplus so that other people may have increased surplus" and no one is really doing that, you have to question the moral argumentation somewhere.

For instance, were I to make that argument, and were you to ask me "During the pandemic, did you Doordash any food? How much did you tip? How much money do you have in your bank account?" and it turns out I tipped a very small fraction of the money in my bank account despite "the delivery driver risking his life to deliver nutrition you require to survive" then you might be well within your rights to ask me to justify this behaviour of mine contradictory to my stated morals and see if the argument extends.
They don't fall apart. You need to look at it as expected values. Most signals are not 100% noise, but e.g. 90% noise and 10% signal.

If you have a candidate from Harvard, it's a mixture of ALDCs and really smart people with some bias for policies like affirmative action. You might not know what you're getting, but there are odds of scoring that genius. Ditto with most other low-quality signals.

And statistically, you do get someone better than a random schmuck off the street. I mean, the processes are noisy, and perhaps 10% of your workforce might make a better CEO, but you have no way of finding those 10%.

(And the noisy signals problem in hiring isn't specific to CEOs).