skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If chaos is not a problem for computation, why do we always hear weather simulations needing better and better supercomputers? If simulating/computing chaos is just about getting precise enough initial measurements, then that wouldn't seem to be a need for weather simulating right?

I was thinking along the lines of running current observed data backwards to fine tuned initial conditions. That must require lots of computational power. Are we sure quantum computers and quantum algorithms wont speed this part up. That has to be somwewhat isomorphic to factoring large numbers, which I thought QC does have a potential advantage. But maybe chaos is distinct from factoring, I don't know much about how it would be modeled computationally. I realize most of the battle is getting proper initial conditions. But quantum computing is also coming at time when quantum sensing is growing. To me with quantum computing speed ups and quantum sensors, we have the two ingredients necessary to make progress on chaotic systems. Better initial conditions and better computational methods. That was my thought. Sorry for the ramble
If you read to the end of the interview, it seems clear that the B-52s were heavily influenced by Plastic Ono in the first place, so this all kind of makes sense.

The CBGB-era B-52s were pretty great, and I haven't listened to any Ono/Lennon stuff, so now I'm pretty interested.
Maybe Copilot could be turned into a context-aware search engine? That is, invoking it would return a list of examples that it thinks do the same thing as what you're trying to do, based on your work-in-progress code.
What does that have to do with anything? Even if true (and say the 2000 year old climate data was not cherry picked to make a point) I doubt that the changes back then to the current ‘abnormality’ happened at the same pace the current changes back to the supposed ‘normality’.

Also the changes back to this supposed ‘normality’ are only happening now because of abnormally high co2 levels in the atmosphere—emitted by humans—which are causing the temperature to go up in most places on the planet. The changes in the pacific north west is a manifestation of this broader change, and that is what people are justly worried about. No matter if the climate in this local area is going back to an “older patter”.
I use two or three emojis, but my problem with them is that I can rarely be confident that I know what they mean when others use them.
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Sure, but it is just an extreme example of the TCO of the OLPC being comparable to a high end professional grade laptop. It was just a very hard problem to solve, and the technology was not quite there yet.

Definitely not suggesting kids in Africa should just buy macbook pro's, but $100 is also a lot of upfront cost for a product that's actually not that useful and destined for the wastebin within a year or two.

I do hope I'm wrong and it brought some cool technology too some kids far removed from the big cities.
and the ever-popular snide reply: "you have too much free time on your hands"
Oh I see what you mean, I thought you were more along the lines of someone who thinks the $50 cooler from Walmart is no different from the $350 cooler I bought.

The coolest cooler isn’t for me either, but I guess if you’re at the beach a lot it could have been nice.

I’d prefer to bring ready-made things in my pelican and a travel speaker (though I never play music in public spaces) - I’m not a fan of do-everything devices.
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You need a group of people that you meet with regularly and feel connected to.
I feel like a mix of hand written test cases and copilot generated code might go somewhere, but I think you've got the basic problem sorted out. I'd much rather type an algorithm in from scratch than wrap my head around whatever copilot spits out.
share the link, not a text post

oh, looks like already 4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16086381
> At some point, Tesla founder Elon Musk came out of the woodwork on Twitter with his submarine idea, which would not have worked, as *experts analyzed later*

To my knowledge Musk wanted to build a small vehicle for rescue that could not be made in time, but was the design of the vehicle was analyzed later and found by experts that it can not work? If any one knows source please do point.
The stuff in that series is generally much more dangerous or unusual in handling than this one.
There are instances where government agencies have shut down communications during protests (e.g. BART). But I’m not aware of any US government orders shutting down internet access on Jan. 6. Care to share some sources?
The onus is on the programmer to understand what errors might be returned, which isn't always easily gleaned, especially when calling a function that calls other functions that call other functions, each pushing the error up the stack. The error interface does not provide much information on its own.

The mistake of the programmer missing an error that should be handled in a particular situation could be considered a subtle bug, I suppose. This is different to languages that have compiler-enforced error handling, where if you forget to handle a certain case the code won't compile.
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It's about community. It's why church is so good for this.
now on topic.. quoting "Business is about making money and working with customers. These are very serious and scary things. Toys are for playing and trying new things. This isn’t serious at all":

Maybe the problem is that what is called/accepted as "serious" is the opposite of it? A toy for shapeing a mind (of kids) may be looooots more serious/important that some $$$$$ made per-day..
kind-a the 4th planet the little prince visited..
"The only reason this drought is lagging behind that 1500s drought is because it's so young," Williams said.

Both of your links show how bad the current drought is. If the current drought miraculously reverses itself in the next several years, than what you're arguing could be true. However, it doesn't look like that will be happening - time will tell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River#/media/File:Col...

It's not exactly accurate because it doesn't account for water taken out for irrigation above this particular point, but it clearly shows the natural ebb and flow of the Colorado's volume.
Chemotherapy is basically cave man medicine. That a therapeutic drug is explosive only adds to that sentiment. The idea that we'll basically poison you just up to a point that's nearly fatal in order to kill the cancer is such a terrible way to treat someone. Now I'm not saying don't ever do it -- unfortunately that's where we're at in 2021. It's just kind of unbelievable that cancer remains so elusive that we're still using medical treatments that started from mustard gas usage during world wars, when we're so advanced technologically in so many other ways.

Interestingly, cancers for children are largely successfully treated. I was at a fancy conference a few years ago where some cancer researchers were socializing over wine, and I asked them why that was versus adults. They said the difference was that parents are willing to do almost anything (aka enroll their kids in experimental treatments) to cure their kids, but adults aren't quite so willing for themselves. Thus the rate of experimentation was just so much higher for children to the point where it's often curable. Perhaps one day we'll be able to simulate the body well enough to the point where we can brute force treatments computationally to fix this gap.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Every noteworthy push for societal change through history that ever involved breaking a law could be labeled vigilante behavior by some party. I just don't find that argument convincing. Our laws aren't there to protect themselves, they exist to create the society we want to live in. In what ways did the artist's actions harm our society? In what ways did it change how we view our society? Do we like what we see?

This isn't big brother with all the power systematically spying on citizens, this is a nobody with no power showing us a picture of ourselves. Both cases are happening, both happen against the will of the people, and yet which one do we allow to continue?

I'll also point out that the discussion we're having is exactly the outcome the artist intended.
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Seems like humans are more creative when they can get inspiration from language models.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04007
I've got to say I missed that announcement entirely?
This is the thing that made no sense to me about it as a premise. Doing correct program synthesis is really hard even when you have really opinionated and well-defined models of the domain (e.g. the Termite project for generating Linux device drivers). The domain model for Copilot is somewhere between non-existent to so open-ended (i.e. all the diverse code on Github, et al.) as to be functionally non-existent.

A bare minimum baseline validation check for Copilot would be to see if it provides you code which won't compile in-context. If it will, then that means it's not even taking into account well-specified domain model of your chosen programming language's semantics. Which, upon satisfaction, is still miles away from taking into account the domain of your actual problem that you're using software to solve.

The only place where the approach taken, as-is, makes sense to me is for truly rote boilerplate code. However, that then begs the question... how is this machine learning approach more effective than a targeted heuristic approach already taken by existing IDE tooling, etc.?

FWIW, I don't think any of this is lost on GitHub. I think Copilot is more likely a tremendously marketable half-step and small piece of a larger longer-term strategy unfolding at Microsoft/GitHub to leverage an incredible asset they're holding, i.e... practically everybody's source code. The combination of detailed changelogs, CI results (e.g. GitHub actions), Copilot, and a couple other key pieces makes for a pretty incredible basis for reinforcement learning to multiple ends.
No sarcasm: can you point me to a mainstream news outlet referred to Cuba as prosperous? Both things can be true; Cuba successfully developed it's own vaccine, which is impressive for a country is said to be economically far worse off than most of the Caribbean. It's not on journalists to bring up the plight of Cubans in an article where the subject matter is totally unrelated to the issues of food shortages. You'll be hard pressed to find any mention of cutting of social welfare programs, food deserts, lack of jobs, or a failing school system in an article about weekend shooting numbers in Chicago's South Side because that's not germane to the stats.

Certainly things are and have been bad in Cuba for a very long time. Much of the country is destitute and it's notable that the people demonstrate against the gov't over (amongst other things) food shortages, which had been endemic to life in Cuba since Castro came into power. A well-known joke in Cuba goes like this: "What were the first 3 sacrifices to the revolution? Breakfast, lunch, & dinner."
the point being that lower-case i is an Apple-ism, while the correct casing is upper-case I (I've also seen all lower case when used informally, e.g. icache, iram, etc.)
Please provide a link to the project. Thanks!
It's not legal to install spyware (or anything, really) on computers you don't own.
It is proprietary? I mean the code is but I have no idea if the protocol is. Obsidian is a note taking app that saves to a folder.
Any OS it runs on can use any syncing solution (as long as the OS supports access to those folders)
> need to built roads for autonmous cars

Not any more friendly than they are to humans. AI driving needs to handle the general case. Otherwise a road that has a lapse in autonomous-friendlyness could be catastrophic.
Over the years I've just learned to recognize that the "right way" is really about weighing trade offs. Is this hot code that needs maximum efficiency? Is this code that is going to be touched a lot and readability and maintainability are more important? If the latter then the "right" way might be a less optimized version but given the trade offs it is the right way.
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"someone" else's computer ... It's Apple, not a personal computer.
Are corporations people?
What's your point? Some kinds of weather are more problematic for rocketry than others. From the original article...

> "Of particular concern are cumulus clouds and anvil clouds, which are highly charged. There is also a criterion known as the electric field mill rule that places a limit on the strength of the electric field in the atmosphere."
Yeah - this is definitely something I wonder about: https://twitter.com/zachalberico/status/1390331653541687299?...

If you create a system without a central authority able to correct for incentive failures of system design, you can end up trapped by the incentives themselves. [0]

That can lead to bad outcomes we already see in existing systems (NIMBY housing, partisan politics, etc.)

2008 loans to save the system were wildly successful, in DeFi - there is no authority that can jump in with liquidity temporarily to save the system. Maybe some consensus could be reached, but it definitely seems like there's big future risk in this area.

[0]: Moloch basically: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
> Making petty arguments on YouTube isn't going to help you with bureaucracy it's only going to make things worse.

Looks like you were wrong, from the linked video (an hour ago):

> Thank you to everyone here who made a fuss, as I doubt I would've had someone on this case this quickly otherwise. The emails & calls I received this morning from the city made me feel like a customer at the Hilton... which I don't gotta tell you is NOT the way I usually feel when contacting NYC government bureaucracies.

Apparently dealing with the NYC government is like dealing with Google. When they screw up, your best bet is to complain loudly in public and hope your complaints go viral.
The secret to development is to just follow classic programming patterns instead of new school "best practices" that are rife among the kinds of programmers who are creating Electron apps, and you should be good. In fact, JS is insanely fast, so you don't even need to do that. (Netscape 6, which came out 20 years ago, had tons of its parts written JS, down to the AOL Instant Messenger client it shipped with. It was essentially the forebear to every Electron app you see today, except it was supposed to run on computers with 64 MB of RAM, CPUs measured in hundreds of megahertz, and this was all fully interpreted, not JITted.) NodeJS development is so bad that you can appear to be nimble just by not sucking as much as the status quo. "You don't have to be faster than the bear..."

A second thing you can do is not rely on a bunch of bloated, poorly written libraries just because they're popular—another "best practice", of a different sort. I.e., pretty much the opposite of this advice, ironically:

<https://youtu.be/X61wRmfZU8Y?t=223>
It's not defi that's the issue, it's leverage and under collateralized positions
Yes, well known journalist Conan O'Brien is who I seek when I am forming my opinions on geopolitics

Also I'm guessing the purpose of the Conan piece was to 1) rebuke Trump for calling it a shithole - rude, unproductive, and should be below the station of the POTUS - and also help drive tourism, which I'm assuming is the nation's main source of income, by showing a fancy resort, as opposed to what's usually shown on news; a destitute country leveled by natural disasters seemingly yearly. Not on Conan to show the other side of the resort.
Cuba is in shambles because of communism and communist ideals.
I just saw the documentary “The Sparks Brothers”[0], and this story really reminded me of their story. Sparks are a band who have perpetually been ahead of the curve and are generally rewarded in the same way that Lennon and Ono were (ie. no reward), but instead of packing it in, they have pressed on for 50 years.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparks_Brothers
Maybe in the short term, and to learn the basics/conversational Chinese, however I believe in order to fully and best understand the writing system it's still best to learn how to write the characters. Plus, the deliberate act of creating the characters stroke-by-stroke seems to better implant them in my brain more than just typing out some pinyin, but maybe that's just me. Spending 5-10 minutes writing a character helps me remember the meaning and shape of it much better than an hour doing pinyin/duolingo esque practice.

But I still probably can never see myself memorizing some of the more complex characters that even native Chinese folks have problems with :P
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Could you please share some of these stories from "the media"?
In that case, perhaps the best option is to lean into it and get onto a more Chuck Moore career trajectory?

(By which I mean, there are some corners of the profession where this sort of mindset is very highly valued. Aerospace, some high frequency trading shops, embedded development. Nothing wrong with playing to your strengths.)
Any idea if this board supports BLE Mesh? I've been waiting for an affordable platform to play with Mesh (tried ZigBee but didn't like).
I contributed to the OLPC project.

They had a lot of cool tech, but all the poor integration of a bunch of unrelated open source projects and a lack of people with the ability to design something to fit their market.

The end result was a cool product that nobody wanted that didn't work awfully well. I now use my OLPC as a sunlight visible status board - and I still need to reboot it once a month because the kernel has some memory leak somewhere.
This is what the automated Uber vehicle[1] that struck and killed a pedestrian did, as well. Despite picking her up via sensors and the ML model, it was programmed to ignore them.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverles...
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I've had the opposite happen, where because of mindsets like this, that it doesn't get properly discussed and going in blind having to deal with it later in a case where it was clear that it would matter.
> There is also equivalently smugness about the language in general.

This really turns me off about Go. And it seems to attract "tech-splainers" that defend the language choices that are made by talking down to people.
The whole point of the article is that this is an inadequate explanation. First, the author points out that the increase in calorie consumption has been modest compared to the amount of weight gained. Second, why are we eating more? Moral failure and weak will are the popular explanations, but this fails to explain a variety of observations (Why now - haven’t humans always wanted to eat delicious food? Why do some hunter gatherer societies with surplus food not experience the same thing? Why are wild animals also effected?).
ATMs belong to banks, not individuals. Is that enough of a justification to install malware on them?
I'm sorry, but this is just a gross mischaracterization of what a "macro assembler" is. I agree it was utilitarian and made to make unix easier and that many of its core assumptions were based on the platform of the pdp11, but it never did in any way resemble a macro assembler as far as I know.

And in fact, as gizmo86 pointed out, one of the explicit goals of C in terms of "making unix easier to write" was, afaik, that it would allow the code to be more portable to other architectures, because as the 11 in the name implies, the history that led to the creation of unix was not short on new architectures, and one of the key weaknesses of Multics was, afaik, the fact that it was rigidly written specifically for one specific architecture.

By this logic nearly every programming language is just a macro assembler at a certain level of (non-)complexity. All compilers do is translate syntax (macros?) into machine code (assembly?). So, is pascal also a macro assembler?

Anyways here is a list of instructions on the pdp11 that you can't directly represent even in the earliest versions of C to my knowledge:

ROR
ROL
SWAB
SXT
ADC
SBC
BVC
BVS
BCS
MARK
HALT
WAIT
RESET
MTPD
MTPI
MFPD
MFPI
MTPS
MFPS
MFPT
CLC
CLV
CLZ
CLN
CCC
SEC
SEV
SEZ
SEN
SCC

That's the distinguishing factor of a "compiler" vs. a "macro assembler". A macro assembler is a layer on top of an assembler that still allows you full access to the instruction set and allows control flow that most compilers would consider unsafe. C was never that. It wasn't derived from a language that was that and it didn't, to my knowledge, allow that even on pdp-11 unix.

I'd be really happy to see some code from one of the code archives of unix' history that proves me wrong there, though, if you have it.
Footnote: Feliks Koneczny has an interesting analysis of why Germany is like this. He classifies Germany as belonging predominantly to what he calles Byzantine civilization (I'll leave it up to the interested to find out how he classifies civilizations), tracing it to the influence of Empress Theophanu. At the time he published his works, he took Bismarck's Germany as the quintessence of Byzantine Germany.
My homepage is tiny and absolutely nothing fancy, but I've still managed to immediately run into at least two Chrome bugs.
I think they refer to private companies using moderation tools to prevent communication, coordination and encouragement of riots and insurrection that effectively achieved what other governments by blocking access to apps or forcing the moderation.

Depending on your ideology, it may be a good thing that the companies did it by themselves without requiring government force to do it, but I think the argument that these are similar actions in their purpose and effect is fairly accurate.
Copilot does approximately that, but instead of showing you code that's written independently it adapts to your variable names and context.
It's linked in the article: https://auth0.com/blog/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-...
"What they found was rapid onset of decomposition at 170 degrees"

So this seems to be more about people in a lab situation rather than it being so unstable it reacting sitting in someone's hot car.

Suspecting it to react at 212 and finding it reacting at 170 could ruin a lab tech's day to be sure. Those are the jobs that sound fun "for the science" lets see what happens when...
Holistic healing and organic farming haven’t been abandoned at all, industrial farming and pharmaceuticals have merely dwarfed them thanks to its economic efficiency.

But building soil and mixing a little wu with your morning stretches never hurt anyone (you do stretch in the morning, don’t you?)
really relevant to this discussion, though, the pdp11 did.
> Elon doesn't operate under the same jurisdiction as us common people.

Elon doesn't get any special treatment. You can do all these things as well if you're willing to expend resources when faced with repercussions. My suspicion though is society will give you more slack if you dramatically increase access to space for your nation state or make credible progress against a global ecological problem humanity is facing.

> It's Animal Farm all over

Don't get the Animal Farm reference as we're not talking about some sort of proto-communist utopia. Everyone is playing in the same sandbox.
Don't the hosts of every Olympics see them as a sign of prestige and international validation?
You’d think so, but I actually know a drug dealer who did just that not so long ago.

Cash deposits above $10,000 in Australia are mandatorily reported, that doesn’t mean every cash deposit above $10,000 is investigated.