skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems worse than the typical skull cap helmet because of the no-chin strap. I'd imagine it'd fly off as soon as you hit a substantial bump or were going fast enough for it to catch wind.

Thing cannot be aerodynamic with all that ribbing, can it? It'd surely start rocking your head or something, right?
+1 on team aggressive music / calm concentration :-)

@pjgalbraith's suggestions were really great -- Venetian Snares all day!! -- here are few more. Join in and share :-)

Hard techno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w0irSFx8-o

Baroque-inspired Breakcore. Fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ATuxUnKqc
(recommended: 5:01)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_V9f64KRYk

https://dyingfetus.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-one-to-fuck-with

U+1F918 :-)
https://archive.is/fqckt
Maybe so, but as a user I have no incentive to want to allow it. And there's no checks or balances, since it's completely unilateral on the part of the software vendor. My experience has been that there's continuous creeping growth on what gets collected and stored for eternity.

Any nonvolatile bit is a public bit. It's only a matter of time.
Agreed.

There are very few cases where I would use Packt, and only after personal recommendations.
Here is a ycombinator link on finding a technical co-founder
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3i-how-to-find-a-technic...
That's not what the disclaimer or the owners say, but it's taboo to see for yourself. Similar to that Byuu situation.
You know, I cannot tell you how many inventions I have been involved with that started out as a few of us just joking around. I bet there is a cool theory or name for this, but sometimes, humor has a way of sort of shaking loose peoples imaginations.

hahaha, you never know :)

It would be hilarious if you guys end up with something cool from it. Shug.
Ask HN: Can a neural network where the neurons are humans become AGI?
This is just me rambling but the thought of using natural physics to solve complex computation as described here [1] got me thinking about using humans to do complex computation as part of a neural net. Is it possible to create a neural net where the neurons or activation functions are humans and only the communication between the humans (i.e. the weights/synapses) need to be optimized. Does anyone know if there's experiments done for this? I know of one thought experiment which is similar but for another purpose called the China brain [2].

* The idea is that you can make an AGI out of a network of humans. The individual humans within the network needn't know how they are contributing to the overall intelligence of the AGI.

* The communication between neighboring humans in the network can happen via sending emails, over hand help radios, yelling or even dockerized containers. The optimization algorithm determines to whom these messages are sent and with what "weight".

* The inputs and outputs need not be trivial, they can be arbitrarily complex, such as numbers, theorems, songs or questions being posed and answered. These inputs and outputs need only be "differentiable" either numerically or even in a "fuzzy" sense in order to allow the communication to be optimized.

* An example could be a neural net of mathematicians who together produce a better mathematician who is able to solve a problem no one single mathematician within the network is able to solve. This neural net of mathematicians could be better than a group of mathematicians discussing amongst themselves. In a group discussion, human dynamics come into play, where one of the mathematicians becomes the leader and needs to act as a centralized consolidator and arbiter of information. Whereas in the neural net the algorithm/weights determines how the mathematicians communicate with each other.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27738029

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain
> Some people work with code from 13" laptops. And viewing diff of two files of 79 char per line max becomes very convenient.

I think it's not the only reason. Limiting columns forces developers to read more vertically, which is less tiring for eyes. For example, try to read a book on a 27' monitor with no max width. Going to the next line will quickly become painful.
It's an either/or if you presume designed structure and mindful order are the nature of the universe, which is typically what people adopt to avoid dealing with nihilism (if Camus, Kierkegaard, and Sartre are to be believed).
So they are saying to use a firewall...
> quitting job and taking an extended break

Do it. You've got FAANG, you've got awesome experience, you can afford to do this now.

Stop working for a year, I think in the US they call it a sabbatical. If you didn't take a break after college, call it the break now.

You might be limited in where you can go right now, so no overseas stuff - but if you're in the US I'd really stress taking this year to just.. Enjoy yourself. You can walk into another role tomorrow if you need to.

Obviously talk this over with your SO. Some people have different approaches to this stuff. I'd need to go over finances and explain the job market to mine. I usually take 3-6 months off between jobs - this is the first time I've worked consecutively through roles.

Now on how to go about this, take as much paid medical leave as you can. String your FAANG along as long as you can while still getting paid. It won't be a clean break with your direct report because they want you working, but they work for the big machine too. You're not impacting them. Everyone else, it doesn't really matter. Make your LinkedIn connections and get the fuck out.

When people ask what you're doing, or when you talk to employers in the future - "I was looking after my parent/sibling/family". No more questions, and it's a reasonable explanation. Like telling your boss you've got "stomach problems". They aren't going to pry and it's socially acceptable.

I can't wait for you to look back in 6 months time and think "why the fuck didn't I do this sooner". It might take you that long to start feeling better.

Now go join a gym, start regular healthy routines, learn a foreign language, make delicious food and clean the house for your SO. If I wasn't starting a job, I'd be joining you!

Take care, you'll be fine.
Here is the problem I see:

1. Users enjoy product for free.

2. Users pretty much never tell maintainers what is going wrong for them: no messages (much less proper bug reports), no contributions in any way!

3. Something invariably goes wrong for users that do the above.

4. Users immediately hit social media and try to tar the entire project, developer/company reputation, whatever. “Zero stars”, doesn’t work in their use case. You have surely seen these “reviews” before, and mindless tweets.

THIS is why I am torn on telemetry to some degree. IF you demand no auto-feedback in the name of privacy, THEN you should help out voluntarily OR not use free software! Yet software maintainers can’t count on this at all. They risk being hanged in the public square for every bug.
You're assuming Copilot is the only AI-powered autocomplete?
If you have online documentation a great measure of the popularity of your project might be unique IPs connecting to the server for it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210621173229/https://www.tought...

Probably better than no helmet, though my concern would be that this provides no real protection from abrasion for the face.

Motorcycle protective gear needs to protect from impacts yes, but abrasion is also a significant risk - slides from speeds over 100kph can be quite substantial in both time and distance - upwards of 5 seconds, and dozens of metres, pushing higher in different conditions.

This video of a slide in the wet made the rounds a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoYLKSYnrN0
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a noise? If it is infringing and someone is liable, what proportion of the infringing cases would be found and what proportion of those found instances be brought to the courts?

I have almost no sense of how often code is infringed currently and how often anyone does anything about it. I have a feeling that we live in a world with constant infringement, basically no one cares, and no one does anything about it. And I would assume, the status quo will maintain its current course with this new tool. But again, I'm giving zero factual evidence, it's just a feeling from not seeing our hearing almost any news about open source code infringment.
While all the posts before mine were decrying the usefulness of this design I want to make a different point.

This shows what can be done when you really do think outside the box and stop letting convention dictate what can be accomplished. This concept makes my heart swell at how awesome inclusion can be.

This isn't about Snell, this isn't about being AS GOOD AS a full-face helmet. It's about being better then a cotton(?) fabric turban. It's about respecting a persons choice of religion.

I ride. I curse at the organ donors who wear skull-caps, or the teens wearing shorts & t-shirts; and hope I am wrong and they stay lucky. But I support this.

Things can only get better from here. This is an improvement. This is embracing what's different and trying to make a difference.
The problem with webdav on windows explorer for me has always been the lag. Windows explorer has never really handled remotes with latency well, and webdav is one of those when you access a server across the globe
And China has nothing approaching the means to project power that the Allies had by Dday
As a meta-point, I'm kinda surprised how attitudes among programmers have reversed in the last 20 years, from phoning home being suspicious under any circumstances, to telemetry being indispensable. I suspect the two sides of the argument map pretty closely to age.
It seems like what is needed is a full-face, Snell tested helmet that accommodates a turban. It might have to be a bit bigger, but there's probably some market for this.
Why do you say that the U.S. would not "seriously try to break such a blockade"? Logistics issues? Political issues? Economic issues?
Use STL vector and deque in C++ instead.
This isn't widely known, but activity schema[1] is aiming for this space (disclosure - I co-founded the company supporting it).

It's a modeling approach that separates data modeling from data querying -- meaning that once data is modeled, it can answer any number of questions. The base building blocks of the data model can be combined at query time without having to figure out explicit foreign key joins.

[1] https://www.narrator.ai/activity-schema/
There are a few problems with dual sockets:

- The flip side of cuts the computers you need to work with in half is that it doubles the blast radius in case of PSU/fan/mobo/etc failure

- If you're interested in I/O, dual sockets can be problematic because few motherboards are "balanced" with an equal number of PCIe slots local to each socket.

- NUMA makes everything harder. Even after the work that I've done to make NUMA useful for Netflix's Open Connect (CDN) on FreeBSD, I'd very much rather just use flat machines wherever I can. NUMA gives lots of opportunities for comically bad performance if any little thing is placed incorrectly.
For context: Sikh bikers in Canada have protested laws mandating helmets be worn while riding. This site has the name of Pfaff Harley-Davidson, a dealership in Ontario, Canada, in its footer.

As a safety conscious rider, it's hard to see this one way.

On one hand, the Sikh riders seem to really enjoy riding, and riding together. Nothing quite says "bad ass immigrant" like a flock of brown brothers on Harleys in matching turbans, rolling in a holiday parade. Turban and beard are very integral to their religious identity, no doubt about that.

On the other hand, riding without a helmet is a terrible idea, for both the rider and the community, which inevitably bears part of the consequences. Even purpose-built helmets without chin bars and face shields do little to change outcomes in the majority of crashes. Even at sub-freeway speeds. There are good reasons modern ECE and Snell ratings really require full-face helmets for street motorcycling applications.

I really, really hope this isn't a Sikh-specific rehash of the "party hat" phenomenon in the USA. Down here, some riders, and especially "scene" Harley-Davidson riders, reacted to helmet laws by selling cheap, minimal "helmets" that either claim to pass or just pass our laughably outdated DOT safety standards. These are little better than paper party hats, ticking a box to avoid obvious problems with police.

I'm not familiar with the full context in Canada. But law aside, anybody riding a motorcycle on public roads in a turban needs extra helpings of initial and refresher training, more insurance, and proactive estate planning.
I’m pretty sure Snowflake is hybrid like you’re describing. It certainly performs like it. Check out their original white paper for the architecture details
That's a hard assertion with no real evidence, and it sounds like a truism.

Do you think climate change is an existential crisis? If you do there's flat evidence right there that deliberate design doesn't always beat evolution.

The idea that humans can engineer our way out of everything is hubris. Natural emergence seamlessly takes every variable into account. With man made things, they are designed within a scope so as a result there are always externalities. Literally every problem people are arrogant enough to think they can solve with central planning is an unintended consequence of attempts at central planning.

These unintended consequences are the direct result of part of what I'm talking about. Natural, emergent systems take everything into account because the entire system performs the information processing on behalf of itself. A central planner is incapable of that.
It all depends on how your lead (manager/RA/whatever you call him) manages the team. If everything is on the cloud and sensible 'pairs' are maintained with a practical CI (minus all the ridiculous performance metrics bloatware) behind good repositories, then you have lost nothing.
Office space is overrated and makes sense only when micromanagement is essential (that IMHO should never be the case).
"disconnecting all Windows computers from the internet, i.e., no direct connection, would result in a dramatic drop in security problems."

And jailing the entire population of a contry would reduce car accidents!
> It's about being better then a cotton(?) fabric turban. It's about respecting a persons choice of religion.

Exactly. This is no different to kevlar jeans - they're nowhere near as good as racing leathers, but they're a damn sight better than regular pants while still being something you can wear all day.
A carbon market encourages both.

Whenever possible, the carbon market will encourage industries to produce less, it should always be the cheaper option. But reducing carbon emissions is harder in some industries, and the carbon market gives those industries an alternative option.

Also, it's impossible to reach net-zero emissions by just emitting less. Plus, the latest papers make it clear that we are far past the point were we can limit damage by simply going net-zero. We need to go massively net-negative.

If we want to go net-negative, we need a robust carbon offset industry, and a carbon market is one way of encouraging growth in that industry.

Besides, as far as the global environment is concerned, there is zero difference between not emitting CO2 and emitting CO2 in one place and sequestering it in another.
Some additional points:

* Another example could involve a neural net of software developers trying to build an application. Where over many iterations of building several applications, the algorithm learns that certain sub tasks are best given to certain developers (i.e. neurons) and certain sub tasks need to be given to multiple developers since it might be a difficult or an error prone problem to solve.

* The neural network architecture needn't be limited to just MLPs, they can be recurrent, convolutional or anything else.

* Obviously the problem I am unable get around is how the inputs and outputs are to be defined for given problem. Given that the neurons are humans who can solve quite general problems themselves, the inputs and outputs needn't be limited to just numbers.

* The optimization algorithm determines to whom these messages are sent and with what "weight".

To state some of the obvious:

- A neural net of just one human is AGI

- A company or any organization of humans can also be considered to be AGI. However the focus of my question is whether we can capitalize on the recent developments we've made in the neural networks architectures and optimization techniques and apply it to a neural net of humans.
Which is not surprising given the scale of recent ransomware attacks.

Let's hope that insurers will start with requiring better security from their clients.
There are more effective ways to make money in PoS networks than staking.

Staking is not all that profitable, really. The rich get richer at a rate which is comparable to a Vanguard ETF but the price volatility is much higher than a Vanguard ETF.
It’s about the size of a hand drill and can probably be miniaturized further, heck you might not even need to inflate with an electric pump, you can probably have a small electronically controlled valve and a CO2 canister similar to those used for quickly inflating bike tires.

The only real issue I see with this is it’s actual applicability most stab victims get stabbed multiple times, often in the same area plugging one hole might not do you good when there are 5 more around it, heck the balloon might exacerbate the bleeding from adjacent injuries.
“the FBI’s gross abuse of its power,” its “serial deceit” by which it “manipulated documents, concealed crucial exonerating evidence, and touted what it knew were unreliable if not outright false claims.” As a result, “years of major claims and narratives from the U.S. media were utter frauds.”

The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence, by Joyce Nelson
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/03/the-dangers-of-priva...
Yes (as you now know), GitHub’s terms require users uploading code to agree to GitHub being able to both redistribute (“publish”) and reproduce (“copy” / “store”) their code.

The “Terms” link on the copilot page goes directly to GitHub’s TOS, so yes the terms are one and the same.

This question is interesting and I’ll try to help turn the downvotes around, but it might be too late. Anyway, when users agree to allow their code to be “published” by GitHub, they are allowing it to be both copied and distributed. The TOS also says (note the indexing/analysis comment) “This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.”

The part where GitHub might have trouble (I speculate) is that their TOS doesn’t discuss derivative works, and the input code to copilot could have licensing terms on derivative works that get scrubbed out by copilot. OTOH, if copilot were to guarantee that a chunk of code never resembled one of the original inputs it may be legal to create derivative works from samples under fair use.
I would say it’s always possible to have a mutation that makes endurance harder for you, but it should also be possible to train to improve from the case where you do no cardio at all.

As far as genes you can look at Kenyan and Ethiopian runners for an example of what genetics may do. There has not been a study that has found any single gene that gives them endurance, but the statistics are convincing that there must be some edge there.

>The statistics are hard to ignore. This medium-size country of 41 million dominates the world in competitive running. Pick any long-distance race. You'll often find that up to about 70 or 80 percent of its winners since the late 1980s, when East African nutrition and technology started catching up with the West, have been from Kenya. Since 1988, for example, 20 of the 25 first-place men in the Boston Marathon have been Kenyan. Kenyan women appear to have had a later start, winning none of marathons before 2000 (possibly due to discriminatory laws and a tradition of forcing girls into marriages, both of which were partially rolled back by 1990s reforms) and 9 of 13 since then. Of the top 25 male record holders for the 3000-meter steeplechase, 18 are Kenyan. Seven of the last 8 London marathons were won by Kenyans, and the sole outlier was from neighboring Ethiopia*. Their record in the Olympic men's marathon is more uneven, having placed in the top three in only four of the last six races. Still, not bad for one country. And even more amazing is that three-fourths of the Kenyan champions come from an ethnic minority of 4.4. million, or 0.06% of global population.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/wh...
I'll take my RF1400, thanks.
People who think this won't happen or unlikely to happen need to look at where HK is at right now and what happened to HK over the course of last few years. Taiwan is a much bigger fish and has things like TSMC that China really wants/needs. Sooner rather than later, it is actually very LIKELY to happen, esp. if Xi wants to see it happen in his days.
yes. https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/arai-classic-v-helmet
I'm currently running Windows 11 preview on an i7 3970, circa 2012... It might not be "supported" at launch, but it works currently.
Why do people bother using an engine? Is there money on the line? It just seems pointless to cheat at a hobby.
I am happy to support this as well, though I would hope that the criticism would be taken as constructive and used to improve the design so that it can be both inclusive and safer than this initial concept.
Incorrect fact. The modern border of Lebanon was drawn in 1920, nearly three decades before the creation of Israel. Further the Levant has been a distinctive cultural and political entity going back to the middles ages.
This is correct, and ultimately a preferable outcome to guns.

There are two causal factors for gun violence -- access to guns, and desire to cause destruction.

With knives, your arms quite literally will tire out. Still not a GOOD outcome, but is the best to be expected when only one causal factor is blocked.

Blocking the other is probably beyond the scope of policy generally, but decreasing it may be possibly impacted by social policies encouraging people's proclivity towards violence.
They're not mean. They just don't have to pretend to like you.