skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean

if you don't remember a smell, how would you notice? It's not like your brain will throw up an error message. The memory just won't come to mind.
This is literally fraud and maybe identity theft, isn't it?

And not even high tech, people used to do the exact same thing with paper cheques by mail.

There's a sending bank account, a receiving bank account and a digital trail. With the newer KYC laws, it should be easier to find the criminals.

Happens a lot in the UK and they don't do anything about it because the police has been defunded to hell.
low meat diet lowers tons of health problems...
> inability to pay a larger upfront cost, to extort them for more over a larger period of time.

I say, the more competition for banks, the better.
Lost it, but I might be able to dig up a link a month later from a Buddhist guy who won $650,000 and immediately gave it all away.
When you pick your own subreddits there is a case to be made that you chose to see what you see. As reddit goes further down the path of picking what hits the front page, they will get more flak.
> > the “oh no! I despise slack” group

I despise slack more than probably most anyone. I've been working remote more often than not since the early 90s though, so remote is very natural. Non-stop interruptions will kill you though, regardless of job location, so close that slack tab.

> I don't know what the tools are to turn chat into a value-adding thing, but I don't think they're in place yet.

It's called email.. in the case of slack, just let it send notifications to email. That's how I monitor slack, I'll check my email when I have free time between concentration sessions.
Asked Apple “on background” about this. They confirmed it’s only the Mac that can control other devices with its peripherals
This is nonsense. Writing elaborate documentation is useless if you already understand your own concepts. Software docs are one thing (comments and readmes) but elaborate documentation meant for knowledge sharing that is never actually read is just a waste of time.

Your sentiment feels more like "dig a hole, it builds character!"
I've avoided infection, but some friends of mine didn't, a couple who got infected by an acquaintance who "forgot" to tell people he was infected.

They then went on to unwittingly spread the infection at a small gathering of friends, even though their rapid tests were negative. A subsequent rapid test showed negative for one, positive for the other. PCR tests nailed it down, and they went through the whole contact tracing malarkey to get everyone tested.

It may be as simple as someone not taking it completely seriously, or someone 100% unwittingly becoming a carrier, even with negative tests.
This comment brightened my morning.

I'd like to add something substantive, but the two parent posts already noted everything I would have.
They just "solved" protein folding late last year. How can you say things are slowing down? Do you honestly expect life-changing discoveries every other week?
Mount Rushmore built from recycled waste
I heard a great characterization of autonomy levels that it is much less about technical capability and much more about legal liability. People obsess about the technology. The real challenge is going to be liability and insurance. That will flip around in a hurry when it becomes clear that human driving is a root cause for most remaining incidents and insurance cost. You'll be allowed to drive but you'll pay for the privilege through your insurance.

The difference between a level 2-3 and a level 5 car is the presence of a steering wheel and the legal requirement to have your hands on it. As incidents with Tesla show that need is both real but actually not that urgent given the fact that people get away with and are really creative in finding ways to not have their hands on the wheel. The occasional incidents because of that mean this is a problem but the lack of lots of incidents indicate that actually it's not completely horrible at what it does. Tesla is taking an incremental approach here and every incident makes the whole system a little safer. Their predictions as to when they will do level 5 and eventually 6 are of course wildly optimistic but the general approach is not without merit. They get lots of data and the improvements are basically data driven.

The middle ground here is level 4 where it becomes safe and legal to remove your hands from the wheel under some circumstances (like a road with special lanes, a well mapped and understood area, cars staying below certain speed limits, etc). Level 4 is basically what Waymo does in a very limited set of regions. Unlike Tesla, they actually have driver less cars though. Level 5 would be when they can do it anywhere. From 3 to 6 is basically a path of aggressively cutting down on the possibility for any kind of incident.
Not just allocation, it's a quality problem too. The type of cops you need for street busts is not the type of cops you need when pursuing interstate (or even international) wire fraud. If your organization is historically unbalanced towards the former, changing towards the latter will take generations (and a lot of political capital).
I guess the point is that if some people need to put in all effort just to deliver the required thing, while others can deliver the thing and have 20% time left, the latter people have much better time to do documentation.

So you say, why not plan for more time to do the task? Then the people who had 20% capacity for documentation etc. now have 40% capacity for that plus other things, and the same annoyance happens for the other things (e.g. unit testing, automation, etc.).

A good solution requires the company and the team to do the difficult thing and recognize and allow for the fact that different people spend different amounts of time on the same work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27447507
As a biologist and longtime dabbler machine learning and Bayesian methods, I tend to see intelligence as a manifestation of evolution. In the case of an organism, the improvement of the model (the genome) occurs through processes that are very similar to what we see in any kind of learning (real, brain based or "artificial", computer based).

Evolution and intelligence are inextricably linked. They are practically the same thing. This means that intelligence is probably a natural result of any system similar to those that support biologics. If you flow the right amount of energy through a substrate with complex enough building blocks, you'll eventually get life ~ which is just something smart enough to survive and feed off the available energy flows. In the world, this flow is radiation from the sun, while in a computer, it is governed by a more abstract loss or fitness function.
It’s a little below average

“ The average US resident drives 13,476 miles per year and spends about $1,262 on gasoline.”

But that’s immaterial.

If that’s 10,000 miles a year at an average of 20mph that’s 500 hours driving and 8,200 not driving - over 90% of the time the car is idle. I.e “hardly being used”
Paying people well is very negative for the environment.

A poorly paid person will have a smaller car, smaller house, use less electricity and gas, and throw away far less trash.

In fact, wealth is very strongly correlated to environmental impact. Sure, rich people might be buying electric cars and recyclable coffee cups, but it nowhere near offsets the bigger house with A/C...
Per definition the existence of the business depends on entering the fight.
Drug-related offenses are often that of possession. It's not hard to investigate possession and it's not like the cops are going to ignore the gram of coke they just found in your pocket.
Your case of curiosity is a very very specific one, and while most people are curious in different ways, for those who are curious in the same way as you, anyone with an Apple device and an Apple computer can sit down and start tinkering with code and running stuff on their own iOS devices, it’s fun and pretty easy to get started. If I was just a child or a teenager today, I think I’d have just as much fun, probably a whole lot more, playing around with iOS and learning how it works and building really interesting applications using its extraordinary range of technologies, things that were never possible in the old days of tinkering.
OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control
Unfortunately i'm rooting for the Bozo, the current AI Revolution won't lead us anywhere and will ebb down eventually.
They are also building quite a bit of solar power. The obvious difference between actual coal trains and electric trains (even running on coal electricity), is that you don't need to change a thing in the trains themselves to reduce the emissions of the system. Certainly it would be nicer if India already generated their electricity carbon neutrally, but moving from coal powered electric trains to PV powered electric trains is so much easier than from diesel trains.
You missed his point. BigTech is trying to make open computer hardware and software illegal, because "security".

That is a loss for everyone, even if tinkering with computers is not your hobby.
Free software was expressly about handing power back to users and developers outside of large companies. The whitewashing of that as OSS combined with the failure to build effective cooperative structures within software development has instead resulted in companies that have more power over more aspects of our lives than any amount of proprietary software ca. 1980-2000.
I agree with your sentiment but they were referring to people who do not read documentation provided to them.
There is no reason the machine can't do everything you said and everything the parent said.
That fucking sucks. I don’t really have much to say about that other than if you’ve got a contact email, let me know.
> It's good to hear because epistemologically I just do not believe that most learning is anything but unsupervised.

I have a feeling that the lines between the supervised and unsupervised categories will get increasingly blurred, with semi-supervised, self-supervised (eg. like self-attention) and adversarial (eg. GANs) approaches mixing together in strange ways.
And you find people talking about new features in a way that is totally foreign to you because old reddit doesn't support them. I don't know whats someone's profile says or what their profile picture is.
It's a sad state of things when we on _hacker_ news discuss an open letter to a proprietary software vendor asking to implement pagination in what was supposed to be a web page.

And Android is not much better in practice.
How is autonomous driving an increasingly scarce resource?

The tech industry, with zero marginal cost, took to the subscription model with great success. Hugely profitable. Now every business looks to work in subscriptions.

I think what we will end up having is that initial players to offer autonomous driving will be able to charge, because it’s scarce and to recoup investment. Eventually the tech will get commoditized as computers grow ever more powerful, and someone will offer a car with free autonomous driving in order to sell more cars.

Subscriptions make the most sense for stuff you buy regularly, and stuff that can’t be monetized other ways (like Netflix). Car manufacturers are neither. Plus they have to compete with likes of Waymo and Uber - are they going to want to charge $8.50 an hr, plus the cost of gas, car, insurance etc, when I could take a self driving Uber for $20/hr?
> i have a morbid fascination with the 'frontier non-medical drug use' communities

I share this interest. I've very little interest in using drugs recreationally myself, but find reading about it oddly fascinating, particularly the novel agents. Taking a chemical when you only have the vaguest idea of what it _may_ do crosses a line I would never want to, but I sympathise with the feeling of wanting to know the effects and being willing to take that risk.

> broad cheap availability of novel benzos

The RC benzos have always concerned me. I'm prescribed a benzodiazepine (20mg temazepam), and it usually induces a mild feeling of wanting more, even though there are no noticeable recreational effects at that dose (at least for me). None of the opiates I've ever been prescribed have done the same, for comparison. It felt obvious to me that using the novel benzos without medical oversight could easily lead to a rapidly escalating problem. A while ago I saw a poster seeking a synthesis for a benzo they claimed did not cause tolerance, and my first thought was this can only end poorly. I don't believe there was ever a follow-up post, but I sincerely hope they avoided any problems.
yeah if there's a context to a lot, as per the previous example of homicides, you can understand what a lot of homicides will be in relation to homicide rates in other places.

So if you don't really have an easy to understand context I don't know if 1% would be considered a lot.

Let's imagine the HN conversation:

a lot of people love the fruitcake they receive for Christmas!

I checked Santa's bureau of statistics - only 1% love fruitcake - is that what you call a lot?!?

So I guess I agree a lot doesn't have to be more than half, but when I don't have an easy to identify context I read a lot as being most. Surely my mistake, but one I feel is hard to guard against.
With no consequence to you if you decide to go GTA on the system, no peripheral vision, no feel of the road or wheel, assuming you at least have stereoscopic vision with a headset it’s still not at all going to work for white out or hard rain.

It’s a fun idea that we can create a whole generation of Bangladeshi click farmers that drive people instead… but it’s a nonstarter for a bunch of reasons.
My understanding is that transporting oil by rail takes more energy (so more carbon), and if things go wrong, they go much worse than if things go wrong in a pipeline.

I think pipelines make sense as long as we are continuing to use oil. This particular pipeline project was pretty stupid though, and kenny's support of it was either gross incompetence or an indirect way to defraud tax payers.
The approach presented here is arguably the worst of both worlds, environmentally speaking; pay upfront and own the scarce hardware, rent access to the software.
Thanks! Other people had requested an easy way to see all the sales as well, so I think that's up next on my list.
Ideally corporations should charge depending on the condition, and on top of that pro-social government should determine which charges are discrimination and which are not, and then compensate discriminating charge difference from the budget.
This makes the system transparent and it prevents real incurred costs spilling into unintended areas. E.g. plane won't fly if it is loaded with fuel amount assuming all passengers are slender. Extra fuel is loaded and burned, but currently costs are spread out to other services of the airline. Instead they should be visible and managed specifically I think.
What does this have to do with privacy?
I mean, that point was in there, sure. But I get the comment you replied to regarding how the OP comment reads.
I'm not sure about an increased risk of lawsuits, though worse promotion outcomes is a bad answer for other reasons. That sounds like remote employees are less productive than on-site employees. I don't think companies would want to design a remote-work policy with that belief.
Not OP, but as someone who's used such handles in the past, using a password manager.
I understand your point and yes, low-level hacking has become increasingly difficult due to both locking down and increased complexity.

There's still many ways to be creative though and I think there's also more potential than before due to increased resources for developing other kinds of applications.

It's not all bad.
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27455341
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
Cutting out toxic influences is generally a good thing for most people. In OP's case, temptation of drug use and the risk of backsliding was too much, so yes, important and excellent that they cut out that person.
Some airlines have started doing exactly that.

I think it was a pacific island airline that did it first.

However, I'm the same height as aplummer. Whilst I probably should lose some weight, my lowest healthy weight is inevitably going to be more than any smaller person, and that was never in my control. My clothes are also bulkier and heavier.

While there are many small positive aspects to my size. Travel comfort is not one of them. It would be unreasonable to expect us to react positively to something that makes that worse.
I don’t know. Why can’t we have both? Why can’t we have devices that permit “mucking about” but also when configured appropriately allow us to ignore the low level details and muck about with higher level stuff? They don’t have to be mutually exclusive despite “bt whole home wifi app has detected this is a jailbroken device and for your safety will not run”. It’s my wifi, it’s my phone!
I'll bet a sum of real money that Some Bozo is correct.

Bozo has the hindsight of history and philosophy going for him, while Deep Mind has a huge financial temptation to sell snake oil.
"A sufficiently powerful and general reinforcement learning agent may ultimately give rise to intelligence and its associated abilities. ... We do not offer any theoretical guarantee on the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning agents."

OK. This basically says "evolution works". But how fast? Biology took tens of millions of years to boot up.

An related question is how much compute power does evolution, viewed as a reinforcement learning system. have? That's probably something biologists have thought about. Anyone know? Evolution is not a very fast or efficient hill-climbing system, but there are a large number of parallel units. It's not a philosophical question; it's a measurable one. We can watch viruses evolve. We can watch bacteria evolve. Data can be obtained.

Two questions I pose occasionally are "how do we do common sense, defined as not screwing up in the next 30 seconds", and "why does robotic manipulation in unstructured situations still suck after 50 years". A good question to ask today is why reinforcement learning does so badly on those two problems. In both cases, you can define an objective function, but it may not be well suited to hill climbing.
I guess not, but without context as I said in the other comment I jump to reading it as most.
Because it feels like they don't care about you and will immediately take you out if you show an inch of unproductivity. And I'm guessing we all know the outcome of such type of pressure.
That must be one of the more interesting blog post I have read in a long time. We need more solution driven people, great insights.
It seems like a lot of communities have moved to discord, but thats obviously not the same.
It means the infected ones could prevail in their population without the need to artificially grow and release more of them.

All the usual limiting factors are still there, so no, there won't be much more of them.

Except if these bacteria give some yet unknown benefits to this species of mosquitos.
I don't think (in my lifetime) I've heard anyone discuss buying or selling a stock in the context of a Dividend Discount Model.

This observation isn't really in support of Bitcoin, it's more of a depressing thought that our stock markets are closer to a Keynesian beauty contest. (GME, AMC, etc).

I don't personally own stocks or real estate for cash flow purposes. I own them with the expectation that I can sell them for more money down the line.
I’d think there were more last year than the average per year
And yet y'all keep using oil.

If you don't like oil, there's an easy solution, stop buying it.
What was the duration of the study?

I’m convinced I had Covid twice, in March 2020 and again in December 2020. So in my case, “natural” immunity did not last 9 months. (Although there were presumably different Covid variants at play here. I’m in London where the “Kent” variant was dominant in the December peak)

Only the second time was confirmed by PCR test (no testing available in March 2020), but symptoms and progression were nearly identical both times.
There's a large and perhaps unsolvable problem of the state of the art solutions that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should - even if the car can safely handle 99% or 99.9% of the situations, the algorithms are not really able to detect if they're in the last 0.1%. The car will slam into stationary trucks, suddenly brake for no reason, consider the tollbooth to be a bus - all with utmost confidence it's doing the right thing.

In other words - the value of proposition of autonomous driving would be completely fine if the car gives up on unarguably difficult situations and alerts the driver to take over. As of now, however, the car will boldly do something stupid and dangerous.
Using "security" in air quotes diminishes the significant effort Apple and others put into making devices secure, and this does have fundamental trade-offs for the end-user. Some of us actually care a great deal about security, and appreciate the trade-offs and effort put in to making that happen.

I sympathize with the tinkerer mindset, but this mindset exposes serious lack of empathy in exposing REAL risk to REAL people by allowing anybody to hack devices simply to satisfy 0.01% of users who want to run a custom bootloader. This is not a valid engineering trade-off for a "trillion dollar company". The world doesn't revolve around you. There are other products on the market for tinkerers that don't involve exposing everyone from your grandma to politicians to serious security and privacy breaches.
It's not possible to both maximize the safety and efficacy of using oil while externalizing the long term economic and environmental impact of using oil. The proposed efficiency and safety are entirety predicated on the externalized impact of pollution, climate change, and oil sand fracking.