skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To start, I believe that the idea of "working memory" is largely valid.

Wait, are there mainstream schools of thought where working memory isn't considered valid? I'm a layman but I suffer from ADHD, and very much notice that my working memory fluctuates with my attention span (from lack of sleep/stress/etc).

Google's of no help to me, but I remember a story of some educators, looking at some kids who didnt go to school but worked selling concessions, but in turn, were actually quite good at math. They couldn't answer math questions when written out on a worksheet, but they could do the exact same questions when presented in the form of a complex order. (Double digit multiplication and summation isn't the same as algebra, but being able to do that implies a large working memory, which is claimed is the barrier to learning algebra.)
I bet if you spent three weeks going over basic math, basically decimals, and fractions; you might see a 90% honest pass rate.

I have found with math, the way it's presented matters more than most subjects.
Or, you know, this story was somehow made up to drum up the book release.
I may sound cynical, but I think it’s fair to remain skeptical.
The comment I’m replying to, for example, gives for granted that what this person is saying is true, just because it paints China in the bad light we would expect. Even if it make China's secret services look way stupider and inane than they actually are. That's a risky understatement.

Yet NPR fails to tell us how they verified the source’s claims. Have they listened to recordings of the call? Have they had some sort of proof?
There is no line that says they’ve independently checked the claims. Or did I miss that somehow?

When the topic is China we definitely end up accepting very low journalistic standards of verification that we would never accept for other topics. This is due to the mostly justified bias we might have in the West against China, but there's no why this bias is useful in understanding the geopolitics of the USA vs China scenario properly.

As a journalist is clear to me how the process behind such a piece goes: we haven't verified anything, but we're making the person speak directly, so if they're just making shit up, well, you know, it's just them that said false things on air, not us.
Why the Global Chip Shortage Is Making IT So Hard to Buy a PS5
"Leftists" don't think the correlations between results in IQ tests and many other things (such as memory, income and reflexes) exist?
I think anyone who believes this shit is someone you wouldn't want to hire.

Why can't they say what they mean -

There are people who are consistently missing out on jobs because of algorithms and it's quite detrimental to them and society while other candidates are just getting small incremental life increases without companies really benefiting either way.

You expect me to believe this shit is a problem -

"only accepted candidates with experience in “computer programming” on their CV, when all they needed were workers to enter patient data into a computer"

HR is to stupid to flick through the 250 applicant to see how the algorithms were going? Because they don't hang out on HN to read these stunning exposés on their profession? They don't know women get pregnant? Or “computer programming” != "data entry"?

While we are here, algorithms being the top problem is also probably not correct. It's pretty far down the line.
Viewstamped Replication Made Famous – A $20k Consensus Challenge
Yes it does:
https://stackexchange.com/performance

Pretty impressive I think.
Well, either you're sticking it to Beijing, or you just fell for a well orchestrated marketing ploy by Shum.
This sounds like a great experiment I'd love to see happen but that's also impossible in the current regulatory environment.
I read the 2019 paper[0] where they beat 5 pros in a 6-max table. It did not assume fixed stack sizes, it uses a technique they call "action abstraction" where they train on some number of stack sizes. During a game they use these pre-computed values as starting points for real time searching of the game tree.

Their papers are very well written. With enough determination someone could build a multi player bot.

I was also thinking about trying to build something simpler that works decently well. They published a paper a while back about a bot that only did real time search with no training. It performed better than older poker bots that used to require offline computation. I don't think you'd be able to beat pros with it, but it should do well vs amateurs.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay2400
I would like to see it your way but all of this so-called decoupling from China seems very half-arsed and appears to me to be nothing more than a show for the electorate. None of it seems very concrete, for years we’ve read that country X is going to hold China accountable for Y but China just keeps on steamrolling forwards without much consequence.
My point is that the thing you would often do after that is go after people's iMessages anyways.
I have 3 Olimexino A20 Boards running on Debian stable without any external repos/software.
All hardware for an audio/web/django/email/xmpp/backup server is running fine for years.
Hard cases make bad law. In other words basing our precedents and rules on extreme cases is not a good idea.

While extreme cases are useful for illustration and thought experiments, they are quite distracting when the real issue is small variances in the top ranges of ability.
Edgerouters run Debian, and you can install Linux or even BSD on them. But they have very slow CPUs and use a specialised NPU to handle forwarding of traffic, so if you do not run their OS its going to be very slow. This is the cheapest model, but the lite version can handle over a million packets per second, which requires a beefy CPU.
You give for granted Chinese govt has his wife.
Based on what, exactly?

Why are we, an extremely logical crowd, so prone to embrace fundamental logical fallacies when it comes to China?
A guy that has no time for philosophy.
If you suck it in, you'll talk funny?
This looks very useful, big fan of all the ^[a-z]+q$ utilities out there. But as a user, I would probably want to use XPath[0] notation here. Maybe that is just me. A quick search revealed xidel[1] which seems to be similar, but supports XPath.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath
[1]https://github.com/benibela/xidel
Reminds me of the time China gave a tour to international journalists of their reeducation camps:

https://youtu.be/WmId2ZP3h0c

It looks creepy as hell from a western perspective.
Gradient Normalization for GANs
Wow looks super nice, feels so easy to navigate and read, I was thinking it would be nice to have a RSS feed for some topics to read as news.
Great work!
Not necessarily, it's enough to have some notion of finiteness of computational resources for the outside, in whatever form they may appear. This is a pretty small assumption as we don't know any system which doesn't behave this way. So, by Occam's Razor, why postulating new physics (simulators without any kind of resource finiteness) if we can explain what we experience with traditional physics?

Also, if in the future we start simulating universes, all these constraints will apply to us and all the simulations we do.
> If mostly pension/mutual funds, social security, military, Medicaid, is buying our debt (as in Americans are buying its own debt? Very confused), aren’t we basically saying the economy can never have a serious prolonged correction? We’d all have to default on the debt we bought to give ourselves?

There are various options. You can print money to pay off the debt, which comes with its own tradeoffs. You can reduce the payouts in a way that doesn't look like defaulting - raise the social security / medicaid eligibility age, reduce what's covered by medicaid - or outright reduce the payouts, or take an orderly haircut. Or, yes, you could do an outright disorderly default, which would probably be unwise.
> Some operating systems as you point out are PLs

None that immediately spring to my mind. There are operating systems that incorporate programming languages as their default user interface (like UNIX that drops into a Borne shell and LISP machines) and there are computers that have programming languages baked into their firmware (like the 70s and 80s micro computers did with BASIC). But in neither instance is the language itself the operating system.

The micro computer instance is definitely nuanced though. Some do argue that Microsoft BASIC et al were an operating system. Some don't. I'm in the latter category because I think "BIOS" more closely describes the function of the software on those old micro computers.
That doesn’t say what it is.
> However, individuals do not necessarily inherit intelligence from their parents' genes.

Do you have an alternative explanation for the results of twin studies on IQ then? It's also not just IQ, so many things very strongly correlate between identical twins.

> Seriously, who could think that you could build a lineage of "gifted persons" solely by genetically selecting the parents among the population of "gifted persons"?

Does natural selection only work on non-humans then?
I agree that currently chewing gum is legal, however I do believe that chewing gum loudly shouldn't be.
And if they don't like your politics, they simply pull the plug.
> Also it can be good to understand that the reason the C64 was such a success was that it pushed 8-bit as far as it could go, specifically in audio and video.

I think the MSX 2+ gets that award on video. On Audio it's more contentious

(an interesting discussion ) https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/5ekcvn/in_term...
I just want to point out that a MA in film was extremely cheap at one time. A friend of mine got one at a state school for about $5 grand in the early 1990s. The issue is that inflation and rising costs in the US have wildly diverged from real wages. People aren't going to college in the US because it isn't economically feasible. Meanwhile, all my European friends have PhDs which were subsidized by their native countries. The fact of the matter is that the US is not taking care of their citizens, and has failed an entire generation.
I thought this too -- in fact the contents of this site are about the level of what good 16-year-olds learn in my country. I'd love to read an accessible 'intermediate' introduction to abstract algebra.

Something I've inferred -- and would love to be corrected on -- is that in the US there's a relatively well-defined course implied by the words "calculus" or "algebra". I can guess what they are, but I'm not certain, and it seems to change!
What an incredibly bad deal.

The required 12 months of webhosting is £2.99/mo now bill £35.88 Excl. VAT

Then the 'Review and Complete' page bills for my choice from the landing page of 'roodhen.com' which a whois shows is unregistered anyway, listed as £12.99 Excl. VAT, 'domain privacy' is £9.00/year Excl. VAT (listed as Regular: £18.00/year - which I think is illegal as 'discounted' prices must be listed at regular price a good amount of the majority of the time IIRC, at least UK), plus VAT on all of that is £11.58, leading to a grand total of £69.45.

What a scam. An equivalent offer with Dreamhost would be almost half that, and I'm sure there's cheaper still.
Look into ADHD and if you identify with it, you might look into getting a professional's perspective.
Having a desk bike is pretty great
I don't think it makes more sense intuitively at all. With the vast range of physical differences we see in people due to genetics, it is not at all intuitive to me to stick to some old dogma that says the brain -- one of the most highly specialized and evolved organ of the animal kingdom -- would not have significant diversity due to genetics.

You can exercise and train your mind of course, as you can with your body. I don't see that as a plausible reason people believe this way. I think they are stuck in the anti-scientific, anti-intellectual dogma for reasons that are not rational.
For one, Apple's chips lacked hardware support for virtualization until last year.
"Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML!"

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4234491
All pejorative has a literal interpretation that is not pejorative. The question generally lies in how it will get interpreted and what implied message it carries. In most cases there exist a non-pejorative word that can used as a substitute which does not carry the same disrespectful connotation and hostility. As the pejoration of the word occurs, the assumptions that occurs is that continued usage has the intention of hostility.
It’s not important. The differences are tiny, the sort of thing that would probably pass unnoticed in dynamically-typed languages but which Rust’s greater rigour instructs be marked a breaking change. As for knowing, humans aren’t in the habit of memorising every detail of libraries that they only interact with occasionally, and this is such a case.

Besides that, you’ll normally be dealing with the latest version, and if you deal with an older version then you should normally consider upgrading it. I looked through a few projects of mine with base64 deep in their dependency trees, and it was all 0.13 except for one instance of 0.12 via a dependency that needs updating.

You’re stubbornly ignoring the problem of freezing base64 into the standard library, apparently obdurately refusing to even acknowledge that a thick std is every bit as problematic as a thin std, just with a different set of caveats.

If you freeze base64 into the standard library, it’s frozen. No more even slightly incompatible changes can occur, and so you’re stuck with something inferior for ever after. This is exactly the urllib/urllib2/urllib3/requests situation. This is the “standard library is where things go to die” problem.

Rust’s chosen standard library strategy is in no way wrong; it’s just a different set of trade-offs, and incidentally one that experience says is decidedly preferable for a language of Rust’s complexity (wherein there is routinely not one simple and obvious way of doing a thing, in contrast to languages like Go, Python and JavaScript which have distinctly lower hazards to freezing things into the standard library, yet even their standard libraries have wilted in places).
The Polgara sisters are evidence for this.
Do you mean face shield only? That seems like it would be much worse than mask only, if covid is airborne as the article suggests. Mask plus face shield should be even better than mask only.
Among flaws mentioned in the article was error handling in Odin, suggesting OP prefers Zig's way. It looks like Odin is actually experimenting with new approaches too [0].

[0]: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2021/07/05/value-propagat...
You don't know what you are talking about. Rust doesn't have garbage collection and has a memory footprint very close to C.
Nothing in this is binary, there are few 100% protections, there is only risk reduction.

Surgical masks reduce risk. N95 or FFP2 masks reduce risks more. So, prefer N95 masks. This does not mean that surgical masks or cloth masks are useless, or that N95 masks are perfect.
That seems like a strange line to draw, surely plenty of disabilities are genetic, implying bad genetics no?
I don't see it impossible if you account for expected changes. It probably needs a lot of more research and better technologies, so we are not there yet.
> Why spend $5,000 a semester to watch a Zoom lecture from an average professor when you can open YouTube a new tab and see a world-class professor share the same information for free? It makes no rational sense.

Because there is much more possible value in college than just the education.

Socializing is a huge part of it. College is a good place to learn how to make friends, date, network, etc.

It's also nearly free at many schools, so I don't envision the future you're describing ever happening. Most 18-22 year olds couldn't think of a better place to be than on a campus almost exclusively filled with people in their age group.
If you read the article, you'd see there are "progressives" in positions of power of what science is funded and what isn't, who take the position that genetics don't matter at all, and any research into them is done because it's motivated by rightist hatred of minorities.
I think you misunderstand how things work on modern mobile OS.

You don't need to access the messages app in order to get access to the messages.

it's the opposite actually, the messaging app needs permissions for the system level messaging component.
Also consider that when the clamshell iBook launched very few home users were buying laptops (it was also the first consumer laptop with wifi).

The later G3 and G4 iBooks were well timed, however.
I wonder how woman feel reading such comments. Men dominated better paying jobs and positions of power since forever. It took 50+ years between equal rights before the law to equal opportunities in the labour market and education.

Men still have every opportunity a woman has. In addition, they are still recognized more for leading positions. They also dominate about every trade related job.

Yet, they are 'left without a purpose', when all they need it to do is do whatever they want.
iMessage is a pre-installed userspace app that uses frameworks that ship with the OS.
Workers fear robots and automation from Covid are here to stay and create jobs
It only becomes a moral issue if someone who does not happen to stand out along one if the axes that is currently rewarded by society ends up suffering significantly as a result and cannot find ways to succeed in life. Individuals may possess a great many valuable traits that are worth encouraging but simply aren't rewarded as well when it comes time to divvy up the loot. Sort of like being an essential worker during Covid who holds the line against a pandemic to keep society functioning but can't afford to raise a family in the income from that ostensibly important job.
Or variation in intelligence is genetically controlled in ways we don’t understand yet because our understanding of genetics is nascent.
JQ is not just a parser but a tool for doing operations, many of which are (or should be) generic across any tree-like data format. Reusing that part across different input formats makes a lot of sense.
Your chart seems to be drawn according to some very strict and modern definition of democracy.

I don't know history of countries in Europe, but in regards to stability some form of democracy was a form of government in Poland since XV century with pauses for getting raided and split up and ruled by our strong neighbors. We had kings but they were elected by the people (who owned land) since XVI century on average every 19 years [1] and had their power limited by political influence, in quite similar manner that US presidents have. And in nearly all elections our people had wider choice in candidates for kings than Americans had with candidates for presidents ever. We had a written constitution just 4 years later than the USA had it. So yeah, democracy can be stable and evolve without being a two party system.

Recently Poland had a few rough years but it's mostly due to our recent tendency to get polarized towards 2 party system by intentional messaging of one party over last 20 years.

So if your argument is USA must have all the dysfunctions because keeping every last detail of the system that is unable to fix them is the only way to maintain stability, then you are probably not quite right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_elections_in_Poland
I maintain a repository of many implementations of classical (tabular) RL algorithms [1] which you might enjoy playing with when starting out. I use it for both research and for student projects. The advantage of avoiding NNs when starting out is that it is much simpler to inspect the inner workings of an algorithm to see whether it's working or not.

I'm always happy to help if something is unclear or difficult so feel free to open issues there :)

[1]: https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox
Isn’t it plausible that an interactive gui over ssl didn’t perform well specially for VMs or the affect of the renegotiation
No it doesn’t. From your link:

• 9 web servers

• 4 SQL servers

• 2 Redis servers

• 3 tag engine servers

• 3 Elasticsearch servers

• 2 HAProxy servers

That comes to 23. I know “a couple” is sometimes used to mean more than two, but… not that much more than two.

“A couple” is just flat-out wrong; I’d guess that he’s misinterpreting ancient figures, taking the figures from no later than about 2013 about how many web servers (ignoring other types, which are presently more than half) they needed to cope with the load (ignoring the lots more servers that they have for headroom, redundancy and future-readiness).
People who speak other Chinese languages are translating to and from written Mandarin. They are not taught to write their spoken language. Nobody would read it if they did.

Spelling with Chinese characters is a tricky business. It is not enough to write the syllables; for each of ~1200 syllables there are several characters to choose from. Which to use in each word is purely a product of history, but the rules people learn are only for Mandarin.

It is funny that Chinese people who only know Mandarin mostly don't know this; it is not safe to talk about in China. So, Cantonese speakers let them continue to believe that Cantonese is "just pronounced differently", rather than being a whole language of its own. (Are French and Spanish just dialects of Latin?)
Sure, but it's unlikely that you would have an IQ that low, and not have a specific medical disorder that is causing some of your impairment. E.g, Down Syndrome is a chromosomal change, something that can be measured outside of a 'bad genetics'.
Yes, we understand that AirBNB is having negative effects on communities. Perhaps something should be done. But banning “investment properties” in a way that de facto bans rental units is not only a nonstarter but also a terrible idea in general.
Last commit to the Github was 9 years ago. Very weird, but stuff like this is the kind of outsider art that makes the world big and rich.

Seems like the name, Morashon, is the pseudonym for the author, which is also a strange twist. I wonder if it's an anagram of Rashomon.
You can’t expect breakthrough products like the smartphone every few years. That was decades in the making culturally and technologically.

Doesn’t mean something bad is happening, yet.
Intel CEO: Clients Want Custom x86-Based SoCs
That's still double entry actually, because it refers to the DB structure ;)
I think looking at screen while exercising is bad for your eyes.
I didn't get that take at all from the why-rebuild link. It seems reasonable to me - legacy code base, hard to maintain, with security problems that led to the massive data leak a while back. They also don't owe anything to anyone, and as a hobbyist project, they wanted to try something new. I'm impressed as they seem to have managed it - and the new site feels a lot more responsive than the old one.
I interpret the point of the article as being that normal defensive drivers will learn to handle autonomous vehicles common mistakes and anticipate them too, saving everyone from accidents.

This is since "autonomous" vehicles are plainly just as dumb, but in maybe other ways, as the most reckless of drivers out there. Going beyond this state to handle all kinds of "special cases" (that are still quite common) is really hard.

The article is not about any specific brand (Tesla or not), or implementation details like teraFlops, LiDAR or not, etc. so those discussions seem off-topic.