skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the feedback! It's not a beginner's guide; it really is intended for people with at least a reasonable understanding of programming concepts such as scope and the difference between imperative and other types of programming.
Also, when people have tried to define exactly what it is, the NLP models have then usually turned out to be able to have or acquire it!
One of the pains of VNC is that I can't live-adjust the resolution to match the browser after setting up the device D:, the screen should scale to your browsers size which should make things better, is it failing to do that? I'll see if I can reproduce
Freedom to Fail
I know the author and have worked with him. Even when a system he wrote over many months was dramatically outperformed by a naive machine learning approach that I coded up in an afternoon, it made no difference to his confidence that he was on the right path.

I am genuinely unsure whether this is a good or bad character trait.
Electric toothbrush, Oral-B Smart Clean 360. My teeth have never been so clean.
The CSAM scanning is only for images that are being uploaded to iCloud.
I intend to move out of their ecosystem. First, they limited my phone to comply with their community standards. Then, they blocked anti-censorship apps. And now, they are deploying on-device surveillance. No, thank you!

I don't have a plan yet. I felt a lot more affinity for Apple over Google, given their security models, business models, data models, rhetoric, and OSes.
German Zeppelins were essentially invincible until the British invented incendiary ammunition. Their conventional rifle rounds would harmlessly punch through the gasbag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeroy_bullet
I’ve noticed similar recently - I used to play Overwatch as a form of “snacking” (rounds are ~10 minutes, so it’s easy to use it to fill up any odd quiet moments); decided to take a break due to the Activision drama… and now suddenly I seem to have an extra 3-4 hours of productivity per day, which I spend working on open source projects. The latter is less of an immediate dopamine injection, but I feel better over all.
Belarus has a fully Digital TV broadcasting.

Airing few of the most infuriating intercepts there can bring people to the streets again.

The next goal is:

1. Either get arms from abroad.

2. Get at least a single regiment on their side, and raid stockpiles, which I bet are still full of union's surplus hardware enough to arm the entire population few times over.
I suggest we take money from anyone who wants to pollute. At source. Yes, some poor people will be impacted (though not as many as continuing to ignore the problem).

By "at source", I mean that car makers should not be taxed.

Instead, fossil fuels should be taxed as close as possible to when they are pulled from the ground. Not when they are used (like a car does).

Then if car makers decide to build big diesel chugging vehicles, of course their market will be severely limited because not many people will want to pay the cost of running them.

Car makers are therefore still incentivized by market forces. to build efficient vehicles, but we don't need artificial and easily gamed regimes about what proportion of their production is fuel efficient.
But I am not confident they watched people use them in the real world.

Oh, rest assured, they do. Time spent screwing around trying to get the app to do what you want is considered "engagement," and treated as a target for optimization.
That’s not correct. (Sulfur can be an oxidizer in some reactions as you mention, but not in gunpowder where it acts as the fuel)

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder#Components

Potassium nitrate is the most important ingredient in terms of both bulk and function because the combustion process releases oxygen from the potassium nitrate, promoting the rapid burning of the other ingredients

Sulfur's main role in gunpowder is to decrease the ignition temperature. A sample reaction for sulfur-free gunpowder would be:

6 KNO3 + C7H4O → 3 K2CO3 + 4 CO2 + 2 H2O + 3 N2
I had a quick read. The paper states in the conclusion "The more we increase the number of iterations k, the more proportion decreases, but the number of integers starting the different trajectories keeps increasing and tends towards infinity as k tends towards infinity."

This statement is not proven, and is not supported by the previous theorems. Thus the following statement "We therefore conclude that the 3x+ 1 conjecture is false" remains an unproven assertion.

Essentially the paper argues that the density F(k) of trajectories at least as long as 'k' gets ever smaller as k increases, without ever reaching zero, and thus there exists at least one value that has an infinity long trajectory.

But that's as false assertion. Just because F(k) is non-zero for every finite value of k does NOT imply that the lim as k tends to infinity of F(k) is non-zero, and consequently does not prove the existence of an infinity long trajectory.

TL;DR: paper applies intuition on finite sequences to infinite sequences and gets it wrong.
Feigenbaum constant was definitely hardcoded
The trouble in Haskell is that an operator like %%@~ is just an arbitrary name.

In languages like K or APL, the combination of symbols is the actual definition.
The NSA is said to have 5 zettabytes at their data center in Utah[1]. It’s been rumored they could take a snapshot (I’ve heard 30 days) of the internet and process it there. Not sure if they meant the US internet or everything they consumed combined. All rumors except my one link.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/09/23/22...
The key thing to understand this is that it isn’t using a turbine blown by the wind, but rather a propeller that blows the air backwards, with the propeller being driven by the wheels connected to the ground.
I haven't heard any rumblings about it from browser vendors, unfortunately. Even Apple hasn't extended it to desktop-Safari, as far as I can tell.
> Nudity is 18+ in extremist countries like the Emirates or the USA

Titanic was PG-13 and it had a titty.
And the big story of ML-based NLP in the last decade has been that many tasks that were presumed too jagged for curve fitting are in fact tractable...

The thing is, I see many situations where large language models have been "impressive" but few situation where they have clearly succeeded in the real world. I'm less than impressed with online translation, Google's AI search is annoying, GPT-3 authored articles are impressive but often senseless, voice interfaces to various corporations are a disaster, etc.

It seems like the main "tractable task" is doing well on the benchmarks themselves. That's not denying there's progress here, it just seems like the "jagged" aspects of language might still be a hurdle.
> Apple built a mechanism to pull a photo from your phone, without telling you it did so

No, they did not. This feature is only enabled for photos that are synced to iCloud. If this applies to you, it is because you already assented to having your photos stored by Apple.

The FAQ covers this: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
YouTube autotranslate is doing a passable job to English on that one.Hit the CC button and select AutoTranslate option English on the gear box to the right of the CC icon.
Something I think about is how computer voice interfaces are changing how we speak[1]. I would not be surprised if the way we talk to each other co-evolves in a way that makes us more easily understood by computers. In other words, it may be easier to teach humans to speak like machines than teach machines to speak like humans. As someone who writes code all day, that's already somewhat the truth.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/alexa-dont-let-my-2-year-old-ta...
The damage to ecosystems by fire suppression and wolf elimination is obscured by latency.

Long-term, the planet will be fine. Maybe not us.
I am a guy but think it is likely true that more men than women are psychopaths. Suppose there were some psychological attribute on which men rated higher than women on average. Would an academic journal be willing to publish a paper that clearly stated this result and would HN allow such a post title? What about articles on racial differences and posts about them?
Bundler is part of Ruby since 2018: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/59c8d50653480bef3f245172...

But, it's irrelevant. I'm not arguing no one should make a third-party package manager, just that there should be a standard, ideally first-party one, that is good and well supported.

Languages like Ruby, Rust, Swift have recognized it is beneficial for the core project to provide a package management solution.
I see a future where Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) will allow the transition to renewables and sustainability (without nuclear). There are significant advancements in CO2 Capture and when there is a commitment to innovation (R&D$s) to develop new commodities that permanently sequester the captured CO2, we will learn how to integrate the environment with profit motivation. The Green Industrial Carbon Cycle will enable the transition.
There’s No Such Thing as a Fast-Expanding Bullet. (Or Even an Expanding One.)
Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with being embarrassed about dense logic. I think it's about a love of abstractions.

Many developers get trapped trying to recognize patterns and come up with perfect mental models for whatever problem they're trying to solve when the straight forward dense function is probably the simpler and more maintainable solution. I often fall for this trap myself and am constantly trying to be wary of it.
Its only a civil war if there is a large society division. How many really support the dictator ?
Energy usage for compression is tiny compared to actually transiting, and you can get some of the energy back. Or if it was hydrogen fueled, just run your engines for a short time.
Show HN: Spotiqueue, minimalist macOS Spotify client
Sending Bulk Job Applications Works Better Than Individual Applications
100%. I like it and I’ve never suffered any pain from it. I’m actually happy about discovering Poetry and getting Python to kind of behave the same way with a local venv folder.
> they can maybe do 5+5 because it shows up somewhere in the data, but then they can't do 3792 + 29382

I'd say you're underselling modern AIs. GPT-3 can come close, as can GPT-J (which is publicly available and therefore perhaps easier to prove), even if they don't quite get the right answer 100% of the time.

I gave GPT-J the following prompt (which you can try yourself at https://6b.eleuther.ai/ just wait a few min for an answer)

What is 1 + 1?

2.

What is 3 + 2?

5.

What is 6984 + 120?

7104.

What is 3792 + 29382?

And it responded with

33374
What is -0.084435 + -0.3?
-0.384435
What is -4.1 + -0.4?
-4.5
... [more of the same omitted]

Note that it got almost the right answer! Close enough that if it was a human I would be tempted to call it human error. GPT-3 can do even better.

EDIT: On another try GPT-J got the answer! Not bad (and GPT-3 is an even more powerful model).

33174
-3 + -91.4
-94.4
What is -1.6 + 13.81?
12.21
Depends what you're trying to do.

If the goal is deterrence - as the attackers seem to be claiming - quiet use is counterproductive.

The proposed use is doxxing of police and intelligence employees who are involved in political repression, including revealing the apartments and cars they use when on the job.
I remember reading (sorry, can't remember the source) that it's been proven mathematically that there's no way to write code which will run the same on any Turing-equivalent processor. Obviously that's not saying much since Bash is pretty far abstracted from the CPU, it's more of a caveat that I've hardly ever seen a discussion about Bash which doesn't involve at least one "well, actually" comment about how the suggested code doesn't do what the autor purports on some incredibly niche platform or with some highly unusual configuration.
> Finding actual CSAM (and not just any kind of pornography involving minors, hence the shift in terminology) is supposedly directly tied to finding child abusers, thus preventing future child abuse from taking place.

NCMEC and similar groups call all pornography involving minors CSAM.[1] And this system can't detect new CSAM.

> Another thing that nobody seems to talk about is that Apple doesn't want to be held liable for CSAM stored on their servers, either.

Many people said they would prefer server side scanning. Other people argued E2E encryption would shield Apple from liability.

[1] https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/csam
Fair enough you're probably right. And if you have a battery onboard and charge it using solar cells on the ship, you should have enough energy generated to at least run the compressor and dock the ship.
I think an inside job is more likely.

Some IT personel had clearly been running the system for years, and if they weren't bribed enough to lose their conscience, it's very likely that someone decided to fight the tyrants with the access they had instead. Sort of like Snowden.

If so I really hope they've left the country.
Also, when people have tried to define exactly what it is, the NLP models have then usually turned out to be able to have or acquire it!

That can be true without being demonstration that we're seeing unbounded progress in language use and understanding. A theory of the limit of NLP is still a theory of NLP and by no means better than other theories.
A great read, but animations would have been soooo much better than the static diagrams.
I, too, use 'lithobr(e)aking' as often as possible. Thanks KSP, and your rapid unplanned disassemblies.
It seems like you're conflating several things:

1) Save Our Mesa is the group that pushed back, successfully, against this project, to further the tourism interests in their town, according to the article and according to them.

2) Some infrastructure projects "like this" (i.e. not necessarily this one, but simply projects "like this") draw backlash from environmental groups for whatever local reason. (also, this does not mean Save Our Mesa, the group responsible for stopping this project, is an environmental group.)

3) A local group (Basin and Ranch) was happy that "grass roots killed this project" and they were "happy to help" (in an undisclosed way) -- this also does not mean that "environmental groups" stopped the solar installation "because it would be an eyesore," which is what you said in your original post.

Look, I get that environmental groups sometimes behave in ways that seem irrational, too focused on some small local issue (Basin and Ranch likes the tortoise habitat more than they like solar), but this kind of sliding different issues, takes, positions, etc., together is dishonest and shitty, whether intentional or not.
it is about microservice/DDD domain/DDD boundedcontext/DDD aggregates
This seems to be a paywalled/rate limited copy of an article from aeon.co by the same author:

https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-can-stop-worrying-and-love-the-...
Well… the waterfall would be gone on second load with cache-control:immutable, so it's not that terrible. And it would provide powerful motivation to trim that dependency tree :D
How would the sun push a solar sail towards the sun?
K is not an esolang and was not designed for golf; it has real users. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

Also, the primary goal is not always speed... runtime speed or speed of development. There are other things we trade off for all the time.
Rockets use stages partially to solve this problem, also to deal with rocket equation issues.

So already a solved problem
The question is, can you build useful NLP systems with machine learning methods? And the answer appears to be a pretty clear 'yes'. I assume the set of problems such methods can solve, and the quality of those solutions, is only going to go up. Let them have their fun, I say.

That said, I've yet to see a good question answering system even in 2021, and I have somewhat traumatic memories of my own attempts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ufq6CdCYw

The approach we settled on was quite old fashioned tree-based parsing of questions, with quite a lot of help to guide users to the subset of English we actually understood (disambiguation of both sentence structure and arbitrary named entities in a customer database, and upgrading partial/keyword queries to full sentences to be clear what we thought we were answering etc). All this was built on top of quite carefully curated customer ontologies and mappings to verb frames. We always intended to one day infer most/all that using machine learning when we had enough curated data to train and get a feel for how well it worked but we quickly ran out of oomph.

I have some sympathy with the author's basic point. I know there are pretty good demos of NLP over tabular data these days but I still think they'd struggle with any interesting real world usage (i.e. replacing SQL), especially when you have to model relationships between data in an arbitrary database. If you're anything less than 100% accurate in translating user queries, you have to provide ways to let them nudge your system in the right direction. It's true that human communication isn't necessarily entirely clear to even a human listener, but people know what they _mean_ to say, and you do have to offer some way to let them say it eventually. I find more mechanistic parsers to be more amenable to that, in general (but I'm not really up to date on the literature these days). I'd totally be in the market for such a system today if anyone can point at something robust though.
Dunno, as someone who cares deeply about food (and really enjoys it) organic, if nothing else, tastes better (usually). Especially if it's local, small-production organic. Plus has organic pesticides (or no pesticides) so it's probably healthier.
The "end" will happily send information to Apple such that under certain circumstances (that Apple and various organizations get to decide) low-resolution versions of the "end-to-end encrypted" messages can be obtained. That seems "compromised" by any reasonable definition.

Edit: thanks dpkonofa, I made the description vague in the hope that it's more correct.
I wonder what the difference in energy demands for producing them are.
This is pure conjecture, but I'd bet at least that the Russian ethnic group in Belarus (7.5%) would be more likely to do so than ethnic Belarussians.

Not to mention all the people well served by the dictatorship. Dictators can't stay long in power without plenty of allies. The Al-Bu Nasir tribe was just around 35000 people, yet practically ran Iraq for decades.
I plan on using squid to block Apple browsers on my network.
Aeroplanes are also all of these things. And things go south a lot quicker when they get hijacked.
LOL. What happened to the wisdom of age? We live in a representative democracy. If the people of Alabama want to elect him, his age no business of yours, he has a vote.
> we’re stuck with bringing our gas everywhere.

Bringing your own gas is fine. The real problem with space travel is you need to bring your own roads. Because what you're short of isn't energy, it's something to push against.
Thanks! That is helpful, I hadn't seen those.
Snowden criticizes Taleb for his abrasive Twitter behaviour and then suddenly this article. Petty reaction

https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/142303788789383987...
Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?
What’s your idea or skills. Are you looking to join an idea or have help building yours?
I don't think you can separate the two. To understand whether OOP is a good idea you need to understand how it's used to solve software problems.
Scope creep concerns:

1. what else to scan for.

2. what other OS vendors should add matching functionality because Apple has proven it is doable.
Yeah I like crisis too. words are hard!! maybe we should just stack a bunch of adjectives together ;)
Yes but, effectively, the end result is the same without violating users' privacy. If none of what's on their device matches the hashes, then nothing will have been done and Apple would be able to encrypt those backups also which would invalidate the whole 2nd part of your complaint.
If I were you, I'd quickly go to cash. However, a run on crypto exchanges would get real ugly, real fast.
Interesting how recognizing success in lowering carbon emissions gets downvoted. I'd like to know why.
The more important point is conservation of energy. Since the ground is moving backwards faster than the air, you can generate more thrust against the air for the same amount of power than the amount of backwards force exerted by the ground on your wheels (since power = force * velocity). For the same reason, if traveling upwind rather than downwind, you’d need it to use the opposite mode of operation - have a turbine driving the wheels rather than wheels driving a propeller.

Conservation of momentum is pretty irrelevant, since you have a giant immovable sink/source of momentum known as the Earth to push against
Aimbot
What's the test for a "known non-carnivore plant"?

If it absorbs half it's nitrogen from insects that get stuck to the stem…
Am I missing something? I'm looking at the chart "Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, China" (which is the chart that I think is the result of the article "How do CO2 emissions compare when we adjust for trade?") where the legend says

> Note: This measures CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and cement production only – land use change is not included.
The "best qualified candidate" is not generally an objective measure -- if you
can be more productive with someone your own gender and race, then that's all
to the good, the largely American taboo of racial and gender sorting notwithstanding.
He’ll Make a Way of Escape (In Trouble Times)
He will make a way of escape: Don’t fear, He is with you, do not bother, for He is your God,

He will strengthen you and help you, He will strengthen you with His righteous right hand.

God shall do a new thing in your life, though it feel like it’s impossible but panic not,

He won’t make tribulation to overwhelm you, and He will stretch His mighty hands to receive you.
I certainly didn't mean anything personal by it! The title alone was more than enough to count as that. If you hadn't put "Done with YC" and "Age discrimination" in your title, I doubt it would have gotten nearly as much attention. That's the way these things work.

I appreciated the nuances in the body of the text, but the truth is that they have much less influence, the internet being what it is.
People join and participate in reddit for the free "quality" content. Not for click-baits.

Let's be clear here - OF creators are looking for unsolicited free advertising.

And that's at the crux of the issue - both free online communities and subscription based paid online communities are competitors because both are in the business of content generation.

Free online communities make money from advertisements. So it is in their obvious interest to discourage all attempts, by anyone, of "free" advertisement. Especially their competitor!

OF creators are in the business of making and selling their content. Obviously it is not in their best interest to make their quality content available freely. As free quality content is anathema to their business, obviously there is absolutely no reason for any community to tolerate their attempts at free self-promotion.

The solution? If you want to make money, you have to spend some money - Just pay for a suitable ad in the free online communities and support them.
PI for a pihole was the best investment.
That's not what happens. Read the white paper. The only thing sent is the hash and signature (which, at worst, essentially amounts to a thumbnail of CSAM). No part of the encrypted content is ever sent to Apple.