skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, you simply cannot tell people to drop their cars when there is no public transport. No matter the country.

If you want to change the behavior of people, you have to build out public transport and bike lanes first or you'll (and it ashames me to say it as a leftie, rightfully) get laughed out of the door.
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I am 100% sure ML is close to solving natural language understanding comparable to 95% of the population. We tend to grossly overestimate median human intelligence.
I DISAGREE with the author's certainty.

Consider a modified question: Can artificial agents that incorporate trillion-parameter NLP models learn to understand natural language in order to perform a wide range of useful tasks in open-ended environments?

It sure seems possible to me, at least judging by recent progress in both reinforcement learning in open-ended environments (e.g., DeepMind's recent paper on open-ended self-play) and NLP (e.g., with models such as DALL-E and GPT-3, which are trained to learn only a very narrow set of simple tasks, but could be trained in service of more complex and diverse agent objectives).

At a minimum, I'd say no one today can answer the NLU question with such certainty.
Is there someone from the customer base that really believes in the startups mission she could hire? Someone that's really technical?
In case you were highlighting the person's h-index or citation count, there are a few shortcomings that these metrics suffer from [1], making it very hard to judge scientific impact.

EDIT:

Specifically, self-citation is the biggest issue, though often there are very good reasons to do it. For example, if you are working on a new area there might not be a lot of work other than yours.
However, mindless self-citation grows the number of citation at O(N), as your n^th paper cites the (n - 1) papers before it. The total citation count grows by O(N^2)).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7
It was definitely a high end watchmaker. A large part of the issue is what they considered the service requirements, that they wouldn't budge on - things like polishing all the scratches out of the band, and whatnot, when all I really wanted was maintenance on the movement. I didn't want to swap the movement, and that wasn't an option either.
I wish the USA was this strict. Any chance my flotilla of refugees can setup shop? Or no?
> Immediately I remind myself that the implementation from the book ignores the problem of persistence completely. If you close that application it loses all the state. I think this is not an accident. This is where things go wrong for OOP really fast.

This point hits hard.

Managing "live" scattered state that is gonna go away when the program dies is hard in itself. But as soon as you have to persist it or do anything fancy with it, you pretty much have to change the whole approach of your app. This is why it's always a good idea to start with established frameworks that handle persistence if you're ever gonna need it. Bolting-on is just too hard.

It also reminds me of my first job, in a Desktop app. State became so complex that to apply a "global change", like currency or language, it was required to close the app and open again. It was something very common, seeing how many apps required such things.

In the middle of my career I also worked in a very large video game. The higher ups wanted to change how "game saving" worked and instead of having to serialise just the basic stuff (health, lives, level) we needed to change it to serialise the whole game state including enemy positions and actions. It was the biggest change we did and we ended up having to add lots of boilerplate because of the scattered state. IMO, ECS was a very interesting development purely because now state is not encapsulated anymore, making serialisation completely separate from everything else.

Curiously, as much as modern frontend programming is maligned, such issues are easier to solve with central state management libraries like Redux.
And that trend is often accelerated by software, even outside of VC

As devs, what do we do about it?
You have .yarn/cache full of .tar.gz files.

I do think yarn 2/3 has some way to specially cater to easily editing your npm packages.
Eh the whole point of being on call is that you are effectively assigned to ensure that you're ready to jump on incidents quickly at off hours if needed.
I plan on probably selling my iPhone in favor of something dumber: maybe a lightphone or something (though its over-priced). I don’t know what I’ll do with my AirPods Max, which I love more than anything these days.

If I really reflect, I don’t really see what good a smart phone has done for me: it’s abused my attention for little in return. Of functions that make my life better, maps, a timer and a competent compact camera are essentially it. I’ll use my laptop for any other function.

The CSAM scanning isn’t alarming to me, but the general on-device photo scanning is. It’s not a question of if a state will abuse this functionality for something else, but when. It’s continuing to erode private life, and as most defenses of speech go: I’m often defending scoundrels and awful people to defend speech.

Privacy rights are taken away slowly, usually for good reasons.
Are you confused about the stock market? I know I am. I'm a data nerd who is putting together free analytics for people who want to track and understand what's going on in financial markets.

I'd love to have some beta testers if any HN readers are interested in this.
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I'm not wrong. The known hardware is the deciding factor, no matter how much you people hate Arch.
I have not bought Apple in ages due to them not being power user friendly any longer, and now this seals the deal to never buy their products again.
People who can't formulate values from first principles.
The big issue is understanding what the problem is asking. Once you get that the pattern is easy.
I still have one of these!

I wonder why in 1991 they chose to use a super heavy first generation portable?

Durability? Reliability? Ports and interfaces?

Trackball worked in space?
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> “At a minimum, they’ll all have to change their transportation,” commented the anonymous hacker, who used the name Cyber-Partisan. “But more important is that the operatives will know that such a leak can totally be repeated.”

Is that really the case? Wouldn't this kind of breach be best used silently. They could have used this access to alert those targeted by the regime ahead of raids etc..

This just seems like letting the regime their front door is entirely unlocked.
This is still very early stage and many features are missing (such as threaded comments).
The Frontpage is limited to 20 things and auto-scrolling (endless scrolling) is not used, hoping to allow users to "get their fix" and not get lost in the content rabbit hole.

Signups require a valid SMS-capable phone number and some 40 countries are supported at this stage. Each user signup comes at a cost and I hope to achieve quality engagement and content rather than quantity.

By requiring a phone number (twitter and others seem to have this too), I hope to deter signups with bad intentions.

I am hoping to build a community where diversity is embraced and celebrated and users are kind and respectful of other viewpoints and ideas.
It would mean a lot if you could try it out and provide constructive feedback/thoughts/ideas.

Tech stack: ASP.NET MVC+SQL and several other amazing libs/things credited at https://20-things.com/about.

Thank you for checking it out and providing constructive feedback.
I guess it means "max" or something like that (comparison operation?), and |/ means "max of an array".

Author builds this up by showing how long is writing "max" function with other approaches (iteration, reduce).

Can be wrong though
Isn't that exactly how we teach the scientific method? I've been out of school for a good while, but I'm pretty sure I learned "Observe, Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusion, Tri-Fold Poster Session."
I can't get over the clickbaity, obviously incorrect title to that one. I refuse to watch it for that reason alone. If the flaw is fatal, then every mathematician is wasting their time.
The official hue ones with buttons for power, brightness, and temp. (Maybe the same one you mentioned?) I'd prefer one with analog knobs, but that doesn't exist AFAIK.

I went through a period where I'd use home assistant, the phone app, and Google Assistant (voice), but ultimately, this setup with the physical switches is easier / fewer hassles.
I too live in inner London. I figure the only way you have a chance of surviving if stuff really went to hell is to bicycle as far away as possible - probably towards Wales.
Vote for politicians that want to address monopolies in big tech, so someday we have real alternatives to Apple and Google that I can consider switching to.
Very true. We must never deviate from strict adherence to strict seriousness at all times on HN to avoid any appearance that we're a community of human beings that occasionally enjoy humour or meme-ish content. It's the only way to maximize our useless internet points.
If you want to delete them all, just delete the entire app and reinstall?
In my experience, some people are more competitive than others and/or have stronger emotional responses to winning and losing.

It doesn't have to be a mental illness, just a matter of different wiring.

Recognizing how oneself is wired, and taking steps to mitigate the negative or unhelpful results of that wiring, seems like an what a well adjusted person would do.
Terabytes of tapped phone call records, according to the twitter. If assume mp3, that's of order of millions of minutes.

The whole republic population is 10 million. There is a suspicion all phone calls are recorded. Did the hackers got access to phone call records of every citizen?

Update: commenters below point out that phone codecs have much lower bandwidth than mp3. So it becomes even more likely the hackers have phone records of every resident.
Amusingly, it's still referred to as jibing[1], even though the apparent wind remains a headwind.

This is important because sailing has right-of-way rules that are written in terms of the true wind, not the apparent wind.

[1] or gybing if you're using British spelling.
It's quite clear that things won't be staying the same. What precisely happens, however, seems to be up in the air.

I'm not a climate scientist, but some things to consider:

There was recent research showing that the Greenland ice sheet is probably not as stable as previously thought. (https://theconversation.com/ancient-leaves-preserved-under-a...) (https://www.pnas.org/content/118/13/e2021442118)

The long term stable ("permanent", hah) wind currents that cross the ocean (ie the trade winds) have significant effects on local sea levels (ie the coast line that they pass near). If those change things will get "interesting" in many places. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_winds) For example: (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-amtrak-sea-level/)
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They got a big haul, but they need to really think about how to use it best - with the largest possible impact and as little collateral (to civilians) as possible.
Natural language as understandable by humans, is finite, because humans are finite, at least in this life.

There are only finitely many distinct utterances that a person could possibly hear that have length less than one lifetime.

Any utterance which takes longer than a lifetime to make/hear, is not really natural language, so much as an extrapolation of what natural language would/might be if people had unlimited lifespans, memory, and attention-spans.

How would I represent intensions in a neural network?
Well, you can encode text with a sequence of 1-hot vectors. (Is this trivial? Yes. Still counts.) If you can encode intensions on a computer, you can encode it as text. If you can encode it as text, you can encode it as a vector.

Do I think that (a sequence of 1-hot vectors) is the best way to do it? Not really, no. I'd need a bit more detail on what is meant to be represented in order to give a better shot at describing what I think could be a good approach for encoding it.

But also, I don't think the burden of proof is on me here. The author claimed that it is impossible, I said I don't see any justification for that claim.

Personally, I'm not entirely sure what they are saying is impossible. Do they have a particular task in mind?

____

Also, the set of possible states in a game of chess is finite, and a complete understanding of how to play chess optimally would, as such, also be finite. The fact that you can repeat some subset of states in a bunch of orders for an arbitrary amount of time, before you stop messing around and actually finishing the game, doesn't grant chess infinite complexity in any meaningful way.

A finite state machine can recognize a language which has infinitely many strings in it, yes. This does not mean that a RNN can't emulate such an FSM.
The social isolation of this whole period has definitely had an effect on me personally.

I'm assuming most people already have a strong social circle that they've been able to rely on during this, but as someone who moved to a new city to work as a young professional in his late 20's and no friends in the area, it's been rough.
also Magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

implemented using Elixir and Phoenix. Cool little project
I read the whole thing, albeit with a rising sense of irk, just to see if they'd ever get around to grasping the pedagogical value of the book.

But no, the author is stuck in a narrow rut of personal loathings, and ended up publishing a pernicious and unedifying exercise in missing the point that ultimately reveals more about the reviewer than then reviewed.
> Would it be possible to live on such a ship?

People live on house boats smaller than early Zeppelins. The challenge will be supplies and human excretions - if you live on such a thing and it's anchored over land you can't just drop your feces on a whim.
People aren't willing to adopt Nix/Guix.
Reminder that it's racist to point out that any climate action is going to need China onboard to actually achieve anything.
Or maybe it is, and Collatz conjecture is false.
I recently wrote up some of my experiments, observations, and findings with VQGAN+CLIP (the models folks have been using to do this AI Art recently) here: https://blog.roboflow.com/ai-generated-art/
Call your credit card company and ask if you can chargeback. Those lines exist to satisfy customers - they don't have to say yes, but I think you have a good chance.
The policy of aggressive suppression and few prescribed burns started around a century ago in CA, allowing fuel to build up and fires to become that much less controllable.

Addressed in more detail here:
https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-...
People live in RVs. The real question is: is it practical to have an airship with the top covered in photovoltaic cells sufficient to run all your normal electrical needs?

A residential-class airship would probably be limited to visual flight rules conditions and have to land or at least be docked every night. You'll want to do that for a variety of comfort reasons, too -- water is heavy, so finding a campground with electrical and water hookups would be preferred.
Its a stretch to call Databricks low code, Spark scripts, in notebooks or otherwise, are basically code.
Yes. I do actually think it is critical, but it's clear that most people are using "code red" as a semantic device, not out of belief that we should act with _true_ urgency.
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“emissions from electricity generation” to be more clear.
Carnivorous plants turn carnivorous because they can't get enough nitrogen from the soil usually. Thus, in these populations, it's likely that the additional genes favoring carnivory evolved first and then, with that in place, the genes for nitrogen absorption would not confer any advantage or disadvantage so would be slowly lost by genetic drift.
Magnetico[1] is an easy-to-use, self-hosted DHT crawler. It has a web UI that shows statistics and gives you a search engine (it uses sqlite full-text search).

It needs quite a bit of bandwidth and some storage space, but worked well so far, for me. I've been running it for a couple of years and it indexed around 12.5M torrents (36GB of uncompressed database).

[1]: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico
The F50 sailing class used in SailGP can remain foiling during jibes in winds as light as 8 knots. That is, the boat always sees an apparent headwind during the entire downwind run.
The problem is that an attacker can churn out public keys until they end up with a hash that's very similar.

Picking a random number and doing a keyed hash of both inputs, then comparing those, would bring out small differences in a way the attacker cannot control.
Even the old Zeppelin airships never had a major issue with strong winds - and these days we have satellites and aircraf-based weather radar.

Storms are no danger for airships.
I've been using an app (Noisli, before that it was White Noise Generator) on my iPad every night for the past 6 years.

Works great and you can customize the white noise. At first I was concerned that running it continuously for 8-9 hours every night would wear out the speakers on the iPad, but that was an unfounded worry.
A primary reason why covid restrictions exist around large gatherings is the threat of overloading the health care system.

Parties like the above can be problematic in a time of an pandemic even if one disregard covid. Any illness that can spread has the risk of causing additional stress on the health care system. I know for example some sport activities which has decided to reduce activity on the ground that the sport has the potential of accidents which would then put unnecessary pressure on an already heavily pressured health care system.
The unfortunate thing is that the extreme lack of investment in nuclear energy means we don't have a ton of experts in this area.
They didn't cancel the discussion; users did. I didn't flag this thread, but thought about it. It's got nothing to do with the validity of your argument. I'm in my 40s, am alert to ageism, and tend to think it's a real thing. But threads like this, where there's barely even circumstantial evidence in the story as presented (the whole story might be much clearer!) tend to be total shitshows as threads.

I think the bias towards founder teams is especially problematic. If I was trying to marshal a case that YC pattern-matches on 25-year-old top-school grads, I'd leave the solo-founder thing out. They're right about solo founders, and they're right along multiple dimensions. We can have a healthy debate about that, but all it'll do is muddy the waters about the ageism thing.

It sounds to me, given all the circumstances you've rattled off, the YC just isn't a fit for what you want to do. It wasn't at all a fit for my last couple businesses, either, and they did (/are doing) great.
Trains need tracks, barges need rivers, trucks need roads.

A cargo airship needs a clear field, and probably some really good tie-downs -- dropping off one or five thousand kilograms of cargo will produce a major lift imbalance.
This is a huge departure from the point you made above, where you claimed “the risk is real” for money in FDIC-insured checking accounts due to risky bets by banks with my money.

“There are trade offs for the user” isn’t really in dispute. The major concern being raised throughout the comments here is that advertising FC as a “checking account” is deceptive: it encourages people to think of it like a checking account, despite having a very different set of trade offs.

In engineering, we would similarly talk about violating the principle of least surprise. If my library has a function for saving files that’s very fast but sometimes loses data, I don’t call it super_fast_write, I call it unsafe_write. I think the idea behind this project is super cool, but it’s not high_upside_checking, it’s high_flexibility_brokerage.
Not to come off ageist but(famous last words), making a decision that impacts the lives of 330m people when you're 40's, 50's even 60's is a lot different than at 87. At the more advanced age you don't really have to live with the consequences of your decisions and the people effected by them for very long.

Feels like misaligned incentives.
That's a good point. Xiaomi deserves praise for keeping the bootloader user-friendly.

LineageOS provides timely Android security updates, but only the manufacturer can provide vendor security patches even when a custom OS is installed. If Xiaomi did this monthly, its phones would be as hacker-friendly as Google's Pixel phones.
This document contains the following:

> As part of setup, the device generates an encryption key for the user account, unknown to Apple.

The question is, how is this generated. Can it be re-derived from information Apple has? If not, how will Apple handle cases where the user loses or breaks their device?

Is it derived from the iCloud password? Currently Apple can reset your iCloud password and restore access to your images. Will Apple no longer be able to do this in the future?

It’s really unclear to me, and I’d want explicit answers to these questions personally.
IIRC those authentication apps are just TOTP which you can run on anything (the algorithm is trivial, there are even bash implementations.)

There's both ungoogled android or if you like Alpine Linux a lot there's PostMarketOS.
> This will not just be about CP. In many countries this will instantly be used to detect any kind of dissent. In the US it will take longer, but eventually I can imagine "misinformation" as determined by some stupid algorithm flagging you for quiet social credit style lists. What constitutes misinformation will change with the political winds.

In the US, there are over 70,000 overdose deaths a year[1], and that number has increased dramatically each year.

If Apple is already scanning photos and messages, why not save 70,000+ lives while they're at it by detecting heroin and fentanyl dealers, too?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html
Yarn 2 problems:

uses patched version of typescript. Using latest version of typescript is not reliable IME.

Bugs with npm scripts are really hard to notice, the terminal output is much more pretty, but imo has regressed.

Many npm scripts are not supported. You don't get a warning for which ones are ignored.

Simply viewing the output of your npm scripts is quite annoying, if you can figure it out.

Where yarn 1 "just worked" for my co-worker on windows (I'm on mac), yarn 2 did not "just work" - he got some security prompt (Yes, Corporate Sludge)

Our security scanner (blackduck) could not properly parse the newly formatted yarn.lock file, but, thankfully, I could create a work-aroung by telling yarn2 to use `yarn2.lock` instead... and just maintain 2 lock files. (Yes, more corporate Sludge)

Also, Svelte has a variety of issues with yarn2. In theory should be solved with yarn3.

I am hopeful for yarn3. May try again once it's been iterated on a bit. Maybe once yarn4 beta is out, yarn3 will be well worth trying again.

Biggest thing to me is the typescript situation. Yarn should be completely up-front about hacks like this. Yarn2 should immediately tell you to modify your package.json to point directly to the forked version of typescript when you first run yarn install, and in the migration guide.

zero installs is very neat, but, upload speeds are always slower than download speeds. Proper CI caching+not uploading truckloads to git will be the fastest+best strategy (as long as upload speeds are slower than download)