skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the car is rather clever, I hadn't thought of doing that.

I've been maintaining an offsite at a friend's house that I rotate out whenever I visit. The car would be a good extra. Encryption required, but I'm already doing that.
I basically need users to be able to upload data, and then have it downloaded via Unity
Fair enough! But GraphQL returns data in a hierarchical format, so the property of relational closure is lost.
I think one of the reasons psychologists reject Myers-Briggs is because it's not unusual for your results to change from test to test. The test that they prefer (the Big 5), does have introversion versus extroversion as one of its axes, though.
Plastics are petrochemicals, meaning they’re made by combining fossil fuels (usually fracked gas) with chemicals. Petrochemical plants are among the most polluting industries in terms of harmful air and water pollution, and greenhouse gases. In the US, most petrochemical plants are clustered in a low-income, largely Black area of Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley.” So from fracking, to chemical production, to petrochemical manufacturing, people and the environment are harmed—that’s not even counting the end of the plastics lifecycle, like ocean pollution and incineration.

The concern:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plastics-plants-a...

An insider view of industry:

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/chemicals/our-insights/p...

My source: my wife is an environmental lawyer who is very concerned about climate change and works closely on these issues.
There are two equilibrium temperatures, i.e. temperatures that likely don’t depend much on the device that you are using:

* under a tent, i.e. in the shadow and sheltered from direct wind: commonly used and correspond to the temperature of the air;

* wet bulb: more recently under attention, correspond to the effect of cooling by evaporation similar to what a healthy human body does. Wet-bulb often gives much lower number in a dry heat and is more significant for human survival. I’ve read that 32ºC or 88ºF are likely were prolonged exposure lead to adverse health but don’t quote me on that.
that's a cool idea!

hmmm! Let me check what can be done.
When buying hard drive, take off a star in your review if no write-enable switch
No they’re not - but it wasn’t all that long ago that I was in school myself and it sounded extremely dissimilar to how I remember it - particularly for younger kids, who spend all day outside of lessons running around yelling and playing sports or doing activities and all.
Useful resources. Thanks for sharing!
Blue Origin: Compare the New Shepard Experience
how do you handle credentials?
The 4th dimension is used as more of a metaphor or minor plot point. The series has a much more valuable message.
No, it is not good news. It is good information that we knew all along. It would be news if the information was new.
This is the exact point of this project. (y)
There are so many resources on how to make the most of the time we have. All sorts of philosophies, teachers, books, etc. Undoubtedly people would benefit from engaging with this more, but there is a lot of effort already going into this.

Anti-aging, on the other hand, has basically no resources spent on it, and would benefit everyone if we could figure it out. It’s definitely worth putting way more effort into.

It’s also not zero sum. We can and should do both.
Lambda is a proprietary solution that only works for people on AWS. Linux is open, and I just need to put it on a box. How do I install the AWS Lambda stack on a standard Linux box?
Even if ivermectin were as effective as some people would like to believe, and widely used for COVID, it wouldn't be an alternative to the vaccines in the sense of preventing their emergency use authorization.
The purpose of any scientific field is to generate knowledge, i.e. to actually understand the conceptual underpinnings of something like intelligence.

This idea that all that's necessarily for engineering intelligence is throw some chemicals into a bucket and turn the heat on is bad. By that logic you can just write a universe simulator, wait a million years and maybe you solve AI as a side challenge. if AI is just evolution and genetics and genetics is just physics just solve that and we're good to go.

It's like if someone tried to build a bridge and he just clobbers things together until it stands up and then prays that it doesn't fall down. That's not how engineering works obviously, but that's the attitude we have towards AI.

What AI needs at this point is the very opposite. An actual theory of intelligence at a high level because we haven't really made progress on that front in decades.
Also see: the Curse of the Colonel[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel
Really cool post!

From the architecture, it's not really clear to me why Lambdas have the 15 min limitation. It seems to me AWS could use the same infrastructure to make a product that competes with Google Cloud Run. Maybe it's a businesses thing?
The vast majority of recursion in SQL is probably the result of a bad schema.
Organic Maps is IMHO the most usable OSM app for Android. It's available also for iOS, no idea if it's 1-to-1 but worth giving it a try.
I don't know if that's entirely true. I wouldn't say I lean on business hours in the app often, but things have gotten weird with Covid. In the last month I found a bunch of hours wrong in both Yelp and Apple Maps--they each had different wrong hours listed. Maybe Apple pulls from Yelp monthly or quarterly? Maybe Apple populated their own database years ago and maintain it separately? Whatever the method they each have their own way for users to report incorrect hours.
Because people here look dimly on those taking other's hard work with underhanded tactics. The name NSM and its binary files are the BRAND of the original project and the original developer spent lots of time to build the project and build the brand. All the integration with the names required work and time built over time that the original developer had put in. Don't tell me it's just a name and has no value. If so, you guys won't pick the same name and same binary names.

Fork the project and pick another name. Spend the effort to market and build the integration with the new name. No one would have a problem.
Death or Daath?
Bonjour, Could death be. Daath actually? Meaning: absolute knowledge. Sm
I wonder how intelligence affects introversion. I think that most people are boring and it's draining to act like being interested in their stories or behavior.
Ours were the opposite. Stores emptied out and we could shop comfortably.
I think it's valid.
Photo was posted on an internet platform.
A few people reading HN work with the internet. Who knows who becomes liable for strange legal actions like this one. It informs and then we get to discuss, about the possibilities.
The article doesn't mention how she obtained a digital copy of the photo, so she could post it. That's seems to be an important point.
> It seems strange at first

Why would it seem strange at first that a country that isn’t very Christian would not celebrate Christmas? Why would they?
Use a tool to generate the SQL schema. Then you can generate it to different DB types. Stored procedures is what breaks things in my experience.
Linux for PC from 2007: 37 browser tabs+Discord+Skype with no lag on 2 GB RAM
Apples and Oranges. Saunas have much lower humidity, and also you are exposed for much shorter duration of time. 100C is the boiling point of water; so if you stay for an extended period, you'll probably die.

Some people who live in 50C temperatures do not have access to AC or a reliable water source.
What would scale symmetry conserve? Entropy?
TL;DR:

1. Linux sucks when the memory usage come close to RAM amount, making system barely usable even on modern PCs (here's the report of system freeze with 32 GB RAM[1]). Luckily, the "le9" patch helps with thrashing condition a lot, either aiding in proper swap process or by early killing the offending process with kernel OOM killer.

2. zram memory compression is very effective and fast, even on 13-year-old PC with far from fastest CPU.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/...
Even with a totally plastic material (which is a stretch, since there are certainly granular elements even in clay soil) the material will deform until it fills the gaps around the arch shape.

At that point the material itself is forming an arch, and even clay has compressive strength since it has nowhere else to go. While it may increase the load on the steel, it's still a long way from having to support the full weight of the material above.
What universe are you in? April 2020 lockdown left the streets in Manchester dead for the first and only time I've ever seen, I think you might be revising history a bit
Can’t agree more. Chinese branch of KFC/McDonalds not only has many delicious specials you can’t find outside China, even the basic fried chicken is much more juicy and flavorful. I can only find similar fried chicken in some very niche brands in US.
9 out of 10 times good old `doSomethingWith(foo: Foo)` style C is better than c++/whatever `foo.doSomething()`.
Loosely based on Korean, but I "fixed" some words so that they match an equivalent English usage, because otherwise it's cheating. :)
Right now Facebook is the only company that can make a client.. In a crypto native ecosystem you could have multiple competing clients. Instead of organizing labor and playing directly into the hands of the corps, users simply vote with their attention by choosing or building a more desirable client. Progress is made through innovation, technology, and community building. Organizing labor just isn't enough!!! You have to go further.
> "Take of that what you will."

And now the article is "flagged" and goodbye discussion about this topic in general.
Taking a horse quantity of any drug is unwise, even one that won the 2015 Nobel Prize (Ivermectin). It still needs large scale RCTs for Covid-19 use, but there are some small trials that at least indicate it should be taken seriously and not outright discredited and smeared.

"Meta-analysis of randomized trials of ivermectin to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection" - "there was a 56% reduction in mortality; p=0.004 .. with favorable clinical recovery and reduced hospitalization."

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/of...

"Ivermectin was associated with decreased mortality in patients with COVID-19... The certainty of evidence for mortality reduction was low."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187140212...
AI people don't have a formal/scientific structure of intelligence.

Noam Chomsky thinks that deep learning is more of engineering than science [0]

He says what we need is something like a Turing machine but for intelligence.

[0]: https://youtu.be/ndwIZPBs8Y4
The story by itself is just a story. The fact that professionals at those respected outlets believed a certain narrative and used the story to promote it is more concerning.

It's like realizing the cancer is actually at stage 3.
I think AI is over-hyped now in exactly the same way that the dot com bubble over-estimated the impact of the internet at exactly the same time that most people were under-estimating the impact of the internet.

"In 2020 everyone will laugh at the idiots investing in the dot coms, and also three of the five largest companies in the world will be internet companies founded after 1990" would've seemed like a contradiction. Both sides were wrong in the late 90s.

The techno-hippies talking about AGI are insane, and so were the techno-hippies who imagined the internet would connect the world and solve all our problems.

The MBAs are selling bullshit as always and a lot of it'll go bust.

But there's a lot of value in the past decade of advancements in ML and a lot more to come, with a lot of chaff in the wheat.

The future will be shaped by ML more than the average person thinks, and those changes will be more prosaic than the hypsters would have us imagine, and those changes will be huge in ways that people kind of see now but take on an unexpected shape.

I think in 2050 we'll be nowhere close to fully autonomous robotics, but also the combined forces of the USA military will in aggregate have a robotic land/air/sea fighting force that's 1) larger than most of the world's militaries and 2) capable of toppling a nation-state like Iraq or Afghanistan completely autonomously (ie, without any remote control).

I think in 2050 we won't have robotaxis, but every warehouse and port in the developed world will be a nearly lights-out operation.

I think in 2050 we'll still have wait staff and baristas but most non-sitdown food prep establishments will have at most one employee.

I think in 2050 chatbots will still be useless for replacing callcenter work but also video games will have incredibly immersive social environments that are at least as stimulating as real social interactions.

And so on.
I think what we're measuring here is how much people like being in their own headspace.

Noting here that I generally find intelligence to be an unhelpful metric.
Will conversational commerce be the next big thing in online shopping?
This service exists, it's called AWS Fargate [0].

[0]: https://read.iopipe.com/how-far-out-is-aws-fargate-a2409d2f9...
One thing that really winds me up is that the colour scheme in google maps is ‘wrong’ in the sense that it does not match existing local maps. Apple maps have put a lot of effort into making the colour scheme and labels match existing maps. At least where I live in the uk.

Motorways show up in blue with white-on-blue-rounded-rectangle labels (matching road signs) with A-roads in green. Junction numbers show up as white-in-black-rounded-rectangle like on road signs. On google maps, the motorways and A-roads are yellow. Motorways get blue labels but it’s the wrong shade and shape. A-road labels are slightly better. A failure of apple maps is that they don’t show junction numbers on the regular maps while google does. But their maps mostly look like the road atlases I remember.

If I look at public transport, apple have made a much better attempt to match the look of underground maps in London (failure example: the map doesn’t make it obvious that the jubilee line stops at green park.) Google maps don’t get such good results though they try to match colours of lines. Google maps don’t have national rail but apple do. If I look at New York, apple have tried to capture the different style of their metro network (also their American road labels look like the road signs and this seems less the case for google but I don’t know so much about US road signs.)

The feature I really wish for, especially in car play, is plan views of road junctions like roundabouts or weird intersections. Neither maps app does this.
From what I can see it has only been "repeatedly shown to do" it when you explicitly try to force it to do it (e.g. adding those Quake specific comments to bring out the fast inverse square root code). I want to see a serious analysis of Microsoft's claim that it only happens 0.1% of the times. Has it actually been debunked?
If you mean “why isn’t it disabled by default on Linux installs”: most programs don’t expect malloc(2) to ever return NULL. Those programs will just assume the return value from malloc(2) is valid memory. In the best case, they’ll immediately write to it and protection-fault. In the worst case, they’ll hold onto this NULL pointer for a while, passing it around, until eventually something else somewhere distant in the program blows up some unknown amount of time later.

Even those programs that are “malloc(2) error aware”, often do something stupid and counterproductive in response, like attempting to allocate more memory for an exception object / stack trace / error string.

Programs that do something useful in response to a NULL malloc(2) return result — useful for the stability of the system as a whole, better than what the OOM killer gets you — are rare, even on servers. Usually it’s only stateful, long-running, DBMS-like daemons that 1. bother, and 2. have the engineering effort put into them to do the right thing.
Thanks @darepublic for the appreciation :)
This summarizes my situation, with one exception: the occasional trips (~twice a month) to work from the local coffeeshop, and/or ~twice a year trips to company retreats, helped varying the scenery and avoiding feeling burned out. Now I don't have that escape valve anymore and so, despite being remote for 10+ years, I'm dreading it.
Several layers, in fact.
I don’t believe that was their point.

If someone chooses to be privacy focused, then they will likely opt out of the things that they can control - that doesn’t change because there are others they can’t.
Did you have the same amount of confidence in your opinion when the lab leak theory was forbidden to discuss? If people are going to farm stores for medicine, that's a reflection on the absolutely deplorable state of credibility that the medical establishment has earned themselves over the past year. Doing more of the same isn't going to magically make trust in authority reappear, it's going to erode it even more.
> Apple doesn't support multi-point itineraries

I've never tried multi-point itineraries with Google Maps, but the new iOS beta has an "add stop" feature. It's not exactly what I was hoping for because it only has predefined searches ("food", "gas", etc). What it does is pause your original trip with a button to continue. If it could do a generic search along the route it would be exactly what I need most of the time without being too confusing to use.
i'd suggest the difference is our ability to communicate to other what we perceive is at a much higher level. I have no reason to believe there's any difference in the actual experience.
Tangential: PDA aren’t really the “next-lower” model, just the one that we talk about most often; there’s a whole family of models that are stronger than a PDA but not Turing-complete (e.g. alternating pushdown automata).
One past thread:

Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002210 - Dec 2017 (9 comments)
I think it depends on how you define what an introvert is. By your definition, it is someone who lacks confidence and social skills. I see a lot of people use the word introvert to mean "prefers spending time alone to socializing". This person may have all the confidence and social skills in the world but just prefers spending time alone, for whatever reason.
Christmas in Japan was pitched by retailers as a fun way to spend your year-end bonus.

Similarly, Valentine's Day was pitched by chocolate companies as a time to buy chocolates for your sweetheart. There are actually two such days: on Valentine's Day women give chocolates to their sweethearts, while on White Day (March 14), said sweethearts return the favor.

Japanese people are starting to do things for Halloween. I am not sure what the marketing story is behind that.
It surprises me that you can profitably mine on ps4. Also I’mn sure they simply failed to pay the correct people off or this as a hostile takeover by a different mafia outfit
It is interesting to note how it compares to "choose" (also in Rust) in the benchmarks.

single character

hck 1.494 ± 0.026s
hck (no-mmap) 1.735 ± 0.004s
choose 4.597 ± 0.016s

multi character

hck 2.127 ± 0.004s
hck (no-mmap) 2.467 ± 0.012s
choose 3.266 ± 0.011s

The single pass optimization trick[1] seems to be helping a lot in single character case.

Of course, doing away with a pass is suppossed to give 2x, and I am wondering whether the regex constraint lead to this "side-effect".

[1] fast mode - https://github.com/sstadick/hck/blob/master/src/lib/core.rs#...
https://github.com/sstadick/hck/blob/master/src/lib/core.rs#...
It's been fairly reliable in practice, but it's based on crowd sourcing. It'll ask you to confirm if you see one someone else has flagged. Sometimes you're the first to see it, sometimes the alert is out of date and there's no officer.
I don't think introversion comes from not wanting to learn to interact, but from not seeing a reason to. Anecdotally, I switched from introvert to extravert when I changed the focus of the conversation from knowledge transfer to just trying to have fun, I'm sure everyone has their own reason X for being introverted or extroverted.
What would you like it to do?
The Markdown authoring landscape is very fragmented. Everyone seems to be doing their own thing, and reinventing things like content reuse and conditional text.
It's much more like the guardian than the BBC.
Damn, $70 / month for 25Gbps symmetric; meanwhile, we're paying $130 / month for 1Gbps (400Mbps really) down / 40Mbps up in Comcast monopoly-land in PNW.
The law is relevant in any conversation about the law.
In this particular case though it is quite strange to me. Between katsu and tenpura, the Japanese are expert at fried food, in which they place peculiar importance on the lightness/crispiness. I tried KFC in Japan and it's mostly the same as anywhere else, a greasy mess.
Private Security Force That Works with Citizen Wants the Power to Arrest People
All expense, time and child-raising related concerns aside, I am concerned about the kind of state the world will be in for our future generations. There are a lot of pretty significant dangers to the entire world that seem to be coming to a boil possibly within our time, more probably in there's. Good luck to them, maybe adversity will bring innovation, but seems unfair to them.
>genetic algorithms combined with RL where the genetics determine the reward function.

I have been working on this problem for years (2+ as researcher, 2 as PhD student).

The main issue is that evolution is both massively parallel and had plenty of runtime to get to human level intelligence.

The person that pushes this evolution/evolved reward point is Andrew G. Barto and his students/collaborators over the years.

Satinder Singh in particular is actively working on gradient based algorithms to find rewards (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06741)

> Maybe we need to frame RL goals in much more simple terms, and allow genetic algorithms to evolve their own inputs and reward functions on their own.

I was checking HN while the current iteration of this (gradient based, genetic was my master thesis) algorithm, the main complexity is figuring out:

1) What are the sub-goal e.g. grasping things
2) How to solve those goals e.g. motor control
3) How to do something useful, e.g. surviving

Balancing those three processes is the current hurdle.

For more info my email is delvermm at mila.quebec
Not the person you replied to but try https://ethicalads.io from Read The Docs. It's very non-intrusive and I suspect most people will whitelist it if you ask. (I whitelist it anyway)
Good lord, I am hyperventilating just reading this. The people that went in and saved these boys are amazing. I am glad the author took the time to pull this together to share the story of the divers as well. Absolutely amazing - mind-boggling amazing - what dedicated, skilled, selfless people can do.
When you steal electricity anything can be profitable
It’s a phrase/idiom that has become widely used IRL. I hate how everything is taken literally online, it’s clearly an figure of speech about large scale economic re-openings
I was wondering why not mine on PS 4/5 four months ago, there are exploits available and GPU is fast. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26189532