skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scrapple is very different from Lebanon bologna, which is a lot more similar to standard lunch meat.

Lebanon bologna is closer to a summer sausage or salami, except it's all beef. It has that tangy, fermented flavor.

Scrapple is made from off-cuts and offal and cornmeal, and it isn't fermented. Both the taste and texture are very different from Lebanon bologna. I think most people would find the texture to be more off-putting than the flavor; it's more like a porky hash than like a lunch meat.
"a mishmash of genes from two different individuals almost always works out" => different individuals of the _same_ species (which btw is how a "species" is defined).

The evolution of organisms that gene mishmash (aka sexual reproduction) is thought to be the result of an ongoing arms race between gene sequences that "try" to stay unchanged (in higher level species) and gene sequences that "try" to "free ride" (from viruses etc.) Being able to build members of your species from "mishmash of genes from two different individuals" has the effect of scrambling the DNA of each species member which makes attack harder.

Organisms that do not do this and reproduce via cloning (aka Parthenogenesis) are often entirely wiped out once a pathogen figures out how to target their DNA -- hence the bananas types we eat change over time.

ps: Similar evasion is used by some computer viruses: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/definition/Poly...
Very tangential, but as someone who has gotten into the Game of Go because of their pioneering project in that space, I'm exceptionally grateful -- that alone had a very significant and positive impact on my life, and I can tell that in that entire community it was a watershed moment as well.
Did anyone else get really bad side effects? I felt awful after my first shot and now I an currently recovering from my second shot and feel even worse. I don’t think I have ever felt this bad from an illness.
I'm glad others are using Fossil this way as well! I use Fossil for hosting my small projects, but have also built a forum/wiki site for my family using it, and I'm working on porting my blog to Fossil as well. I'm very impressed with its design and flexibility while still remaining small, fast, and understandable.

Side note: I've been exploring the ecosystem around Fossil/SQlite as well. I've been working with Pikchr a lot recently as a way to create diagrams that can be version controlled. Because Pikchr is implemented as a single C file, I was able to compile using Emscripten as a WASM file, and embed that file in a single HTML page that gives me a "live editing" experience (basically I call a render method when the text area gets updated). The way these pieces of software are written minimizes dependencies and allows for them to be used in a huge variety of environments. I've really enjoyed working with them.

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
Since they control the rendering, they can shut it off by not hyperlinking the link or displaying a warning next to it, they don't need to put an always-on tracking mechanism in place that sends them click data even when the link is not determined to be malware.
Strange. I find Chrome to be annoying and slow.
When rents were high: I must be paid market value for this property that I bought for 8% of its current value!

Now: Someone must foot the bill for this!
What a bummer when every product turns into subscription service and a thing you don't actually own. Products-as-subscriptions are nice options at times, but even then I'd prefer for them to always be options, along with the option of owning outright.
When it was announced that we were downsizing our offices and everyone was given the option to WFH if they wanted. One of my coworkers has been building his retirement home in a remote part of Maine. He immediately began looking for reliable remote high speed internet options to accelerate his timeline.

Being able to move into his retirement home early would dramatically reduce his cost of living because he would sell his current home and actually hasten his retirement by a number of years.
It seems like they're very successful from their website. What was bad about it?

I would personally love to have a built-in APL scripting language for interacting with data.
On the one hand; award winning ai specialists. On the other: an anonymous internet commenter.

I'm not going to take bets on who is right, but simply saying "nuh uh" is not exactly breaking ground.
Could be they want you to buy their Pro item where the actually offer reasonable affordances?

Most "pro-sumers" wouldn't bother to adjust what the auto-focus calculates anyway.
Mazda has been actively removing touch screens in new models. The screens are still there, but the touch part is replaced with physical controls for cabin features/radio and a puck controller for other stuff.
I suggest this „someone“ to be whoever would have profitted if these offices were full.

We need to stop privatizing gains and socializing losses.
Yes, agreed. A public option would help.

But for example, I pay for my own insurance. There are programs now where you can pay for your own insurance with pretax dollars, so my contracting rate just accounts for this. Since it's likely that high pay software engineers will be the first to go, they are also the most likely to be able to absorb that cost and risk, even without a public option.
Its in testing right now.
You may be right, but it's also commonly believed in these communities that hardware is the part that's already been solved. Computer hardware already vastly outstrips human capacity in many domains.

To me, it seems more likely that we're missing something/some things on the software side. AGI could probably run on present day hardware or even older.
I agree that even middling quality middle managers provide plenty of value, but there definitely is a class of manager that does not know how to engage with all of their employee charges and make them effective. Most of the egregious side hustle situations I've run into have come from particular employees that felt they were so close to the chopping block that it didn't matter anyway, as they felt abandoned by their management chain either perceived or in fact. Most others have at least been respectful that the full time salary = time priority and because of that and reasonable task management it became not a problem.
The key advantage to Plex is that it has apps for just about any platform you need. Most smart TVs will have a Plex app, there are Plex mobile apps, and apps for the PlayStation, NAS devices, etc, etc... Plex often muddies the water by trying to push their paid/premium offerings on you, but it's these paid services that keep the core platform functional and free for everyone else.
A CCTV Test Target
I concur. There is “Reality”, and then there is human’s conception of “Reality”. (See also: “Theory of Forms”).

AI and Machine Learning are housed in human’s conception of Reality. Not Reality itself. We’re innovating in a sandbox, but we’re getting better and learning more to the point of getting so good, we may one day get out...
The funny thing is that customizing your browser in this way can be its own kind of fingerprint.
Ah, sorry, SyncPlay is the watch party feature I was thinking of. I know it's available in the web client (what we used) and the Android app.

RTMP gives you lower latency and more control over what's being shown when combined with OBS. Jellyfin's SyncPlay works great when you want to watch a shared movie with a set group of people, but it gets buggy when you watch multiple episodes in a row or people drop in and out. Doing OBS with RMTP (I used MovieNight) means it's just one continuous stream that people tune in to. You can use OBS to queue up arbitrary video files, and with different scenes set up you can even do bumpers and "commercials".

And it's definitely not silly! I used an RTMP stream to do a "Saturday Morning Cartoons" stream for my friends a while back.
No simple answers!

All these kinds of simplications - too much sugar, too much cards, too much fat, not enough walking, too many video games, etc. - never turn out to be the answer for a broad part of the population. This cannot be turned into a sound bite.
Covid-19 is meticulously measured and tracked in every human being, but no one is interested in adverse vaccine effects. Things that make you think...
as another noted, there should be no problem accessing it. I just double checked on tor and vpn. as for why it made it to the front page, all I can say is more often than not I'm surprised at what I post that gets attention over what doesn't. Last night I also posted an article about autism and parental age, was thinking that would get more buzz than this.

either or, more often than not I use hn as just a place to save obscure links with the additional benefit of reading insights from others when the posts get noticed.
And after going to the site, and being forced to toggle every opt-out option individually before saving... if you return to the site later none of your opt-outs are shown and you have to redo everything each time.
Detox: Gray box end-to-end testing and automation library for mobile apps
A lot of comments in this thread are talking about how unsatisfactory this paper is, because of course rewards are enough for _some_ agent, but this paper doesn't venture to say anything about that agent (e.g. what differentiates humans from squirrels even though both are trying to eat and reproduce?).

But I think though they talk about rewards incessantly, the interesting angle is the importance of a complex environment in which the agent learns to maximize a reward:

> we suggest the emergence of intelligence may be quite robust to the nature of the reward signal. This is because environments such as the natural world are so complex that intelligence and its associated abilities may be demanded by even a seemingly innocuous reward signal.

On the one hand, this does echo some old work on situated cognition, which one might actually believe. But perhaps politically, if the claim behind the claim is that we can only develop powerful AGI which understands how to interact with our world by developing agents that learn with unfettered access to the world, then perhaps this will be the beginning of a strong push for tolerating spastic ineffective robots in our physical environments, and letting error-prone agents have vast access to our virtual environments. We'll be asked to put up with their mistakes because that's supposedly the cost of progress; limiting their environment would limit their cognitive potential.

> For example, consider a signal that provides +1 reward to the agent each time a round-shaped pebble is collected. In order to maximise this reward signal effectively, an agent may need to classify pebbles, to manipulate pebbles, to navigate to pebble beaches, to store pebbles, to understand waves and tides and their effect on pebble distribution, to persuade people to help collect pebbles, to use tools and vehicles to collect greater quantities, to quarry and shape new pebbles, to discover and build new technologies for collecting pebbles, or to build a corporation that collects pebbles.

Aren't you comforted they chose round pebbles instead of paperclips? And though their example is meant to illustrate that the reward function doesn't matter, you'll notice there's no negative reward term for e.g. smashing a retaining wall to dig for pebbles in the rubble, or dredging a beach where a protected bird species nests, etc. "Allowing the agent to fully explore the complex environment is the only way it will learn complex representations and actions!"
The Han Twins: An identical twin lives in the shadow
I disagree about not using the module-specific `get` functions. They should be used when you expect what you’re operating on to be a specific type. Sometimes I want to write a function that only operates on maps, and Map.get will throw an error if you pass anything else. Granted, I write specs for all my functions, and I come from a static language background, so this is just my perspective. Other than this quibble I think this is solid advice.
Don't they still record and just upload when you go to the dealer and they plug in the cable?
Joby Aviation's S4: The Best Design for Air Taxi
yes, airbags and crumple zones do improve safety, but even those are not without negative consequences, like bigger, heavier vehicles (which is more dangerous to others) and higher sense of psychological safety leading to being less considerate, less attentive, and more reckless.

that's not to argue that those tradeoffs aren't net positive, but that they're still tradeoffs to be considered, rather than short-circuiting to "of course it's better!".
I have to admit I was unnerved the first time I got in a car with an electronic hand brake - certainly something I would not want if I were buying a car. Especially as there was a "Microsoft" logo next to it (presumably for the terrible in car entertainment system which was touch screen only)

The encroaching of software into cars does remind me of the old joke though.

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "if GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued the following press release -

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics -

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "car NT", but then you would have to buy more seats.

6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would only run on five percent of the roads.

7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
That's the number 1 reason it should be the default.
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What was the minimum wage in the US between 1776-1865?
> Shimabukuro also said the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) - another safety monitoring system - showed an increased incidence of heart inflammation in 16 to 39 year olds after their second shot when compared to the rate observed after the first dose.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/...

> The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is a collaborative project between CDC’s Immunization Safety Office and nine health care organizations. The VSD started in 1990 and continues today in order to monitor safety of vaccines and conduct studies about rare and serious adverse events following immunization.

The nine HMOs are:

Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA
HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR
Kaiser Permanente Northern CA
Kaiser Permanente CO
Denver Health, CO
Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, WI
Kaiser Permanente Southern CA
These days there's a self-service panel on the Microsoft 365 sign-up/admin page once you've set up a tenant. I've not been asked for any formal business registration numbers via that process, but the old days of needing to acquire these licenses via a partner seem to be somewhat gone.
What was the minimum wage in the US like between 1776-1865?
Not my entire history, just my history after I learned a little bit about China and realized how many people on this site consider themselves to be intelligent free thinkers but simply regurgitate the pre-packaged US line on anything geopolitical. My only aim is to dissent against the manufacturing of consent for another bloody US war. What’s yours?
This is my point.

It happens with brick and mortar stores, too. The MO/KS border has a large population buildup. It's totally normal to shop in the state that has the best tax rate for your goods. If you apply the ecommerce logic to this, you need to have people show ID at stores so the store can apply the right tax rate.

It seems to me the seller's state has just as much claim to sales tax as the buyer's. The seller is potentially making use of business development credits etc, etc, originating in their state.

This is an issue that falls under the federal government.
>I think what was naive was building OSS around service, support and consulting. Instead it could have been built around mutual benefit as a governing principle.

Free software was built around the principles of mutual benefit. OSS was coined as a "corporate friendly" label, and it is from that culture that the whole service and consulting thing comes. Service, support and consulting is how you make money from it. It wasn't naive at all - it was a cynical co-opting.

(And if you don't see the problem with the maintainers of a piece of software to also charge for support, may I direct your attention to The Shirky Principle [0] - "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution". Software developed under this model will, over time, become byzantine, baroque, and frustrating - because that brings in the consulting cash.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky#Shirky_principle
It’s very unlikely, but not impossible.

Here’s a plant-to-insect example, discussed a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26600298
There are so many people that conflate AI and machine learning and believe they are one and the same thing. They are not the same thing. Machine learning is a proper subset of AI. Even the best machine learning doesn't embody all of AI, because AI is more than just machine learning. Anyone who has spent more than a few years doing AI research and not just reading popular science blogs knows that AI is not the same thing as machine learning.

Yet, here we are, saying that achieving one form of machine learning to its fullest extent will be "enough" to meet the challenge of AGI.
Churches and malls were converted to residential buildings. Why not office space?
Seems like maybe we should be recommending the J&J vaccine for men under about 35 and the mRNA vaccines for women in that age group.
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I went to the doctor because of general shortness of breath all the time, heart rate spiking during normal activity like standing up, palpitations out the wazoo, and general fatigue.
I've used MakeMKV! Odd because I remember having to run "helper" applications in order to break DRM - maybe that was another software package. Good to know, now I just need a rainy weekend!
Apple to shut down Dark Sky's iOS app and website
I work for an engineering company, we lease our class A office space in a small professional office complex. We did share the building with an insurance company, they had approx. 50 employees in the building, but they left about a month ago. They decided those 50 employees will be WFH from now on, never to return to the office. The building is very quiet now. The management company laid off cleaning staff, turned off the water feature, and sold the art off the walls.
> you don't "know" the result of something that never happened, you suspect.

I don't know that an asteroid isn't going to kill me in the next 3 minutes, but I can make some educated guesses about the world. My read of the situation is consistent with the way that the advertising industry has reacted in every single similar situation. It's consistent with the way that they're acting right now with tracking restrictions that require affirmative consent. There's a pattern here.

> Also changes the perception that Microsoft were doing it to attack Google.

Who cares?

> Once it's a standard you'd get it enacted in law that companies have to respect the setting.

If we're going to talk about suspicions, I have seen zero evidence that a DNT standard would have actually helped get legislation passed. Generally speaking, that theory does not line up with my experience of how lawmaking works.

Nor does getting it passed into law mean that advertisers wouldn't immediately lobby for it to be revoked as soon as any company turned it on by default. Heck, they'd try to force it to be opt-in instead of opt-out in the law itself if given half a chance. They would argue that Microsoft was being anti-competitive (exactly as you're arguing right now). Facebook is currently arguing that Apple's privacy controls are anti-competitive, there's no reason to believe they wouldn't make the same argument about Microsoft if DNT was turned on by default, regardless of what the law said.

A privacy standard that can not be turned on by default is not worth fighting for.
> Die-hard sofa-surfers can be persuaded back to the office with new rooftop pools, pet-friendly concierges and Michelin-starred canteens.

No amount of perks are going to make an office more comfortable than my home. I don't care how good the coffee is or how many pizza days they have, it's not going to make up for wasting an hour or more of my life every day commuting.

I'll never willingly go back to the office.
That's an incredibly broad generalization to draw over several thousand years of human history. I'd argue since at least ancient Rome the predominant model for societies has been the clientela patronage model [1] and its feudal derivatives. The employment model is a formalization of that relationship that sets up basic "serf rights" that were otherwise open to horrendous abuse before. The contractors of yore were mercenaries - they were usually paid more than the soldiers in standing armies (sound familiar?).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage_in_ancient_Rome
If you wanted to, couldn't you just compile your C/C++ program statically and then it would be comparable to a Go binary?
> There is an interesting inverse correlation of Mozilla CEO salary and amount of users Firefox has.

The amt of politics required to be dealt with == big compensation.
How do you know the bible should be used as a source of truth? Do you actually question the veracity of biblical claims? How do you determine which parts of the bible are inspired and which aren't?

This has nothing to do with religious institutes and everything to do with a fundamental claim of the religious.

Reading your post here, I take it you believe the bible is from god or a higher authority. Do you ever question that belief?
Collinearity is fun to say.
Agree with almost everything, but one point doesnt attempt to reason about the pattern. Why shouldn't I pipe into a case expression? It's visually pleasing, more concise and removes an empty line.

Easier to talk about where I disagree, but overall great read!
That's fair, and the limited charging speeds have been even more significant at times. This is one of the big downsides of the warranty being so weak, IMO.
But a CDN _is_ physical infrastructure. Just like power, water, transit, etc. The same economic forces influence CDNs just as much as they do the others.