skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd challenge the premise instead of trying to claim that it's one way or another. Asking the question of whether something is intelligent always strikes me as odd. We don't have a definition of what intelligence is and our best guess in determining whether something is intelligent is to use the Turing test, which is highly subjective and doesn't bring us any closer to defining it. I think its far more productive to ask the question of what technology like this can realistically do for us instead of debating whether its intelligent or not.
So it sounds like they did a decent job sticking to the science on the Interstellar movie?
yeah for sure, I was just curious - cheers
There's a specific word in Chinese for the written language. The Chinese words for Mandarin are specifically for the spoken "dialect". Your writing system vs language distinction doesn't really apply in this case. Different Chinese languages are mutually intelligible when read by speakers of another "dialect" of Chinese, though another dialect may come across oddly. Ask any Chinese.
> The requirement to provide the information says otherwise.

Which requirement?

> Your sexual orientation is private information your employer can’t ask about, your vaccination status isn’t protected. Providing it can be required for employment.
Your third link even says: The EEOC confirmed “there’s no indication that there’s any federal law that would be violated by the employer asking this question.”. It also in most cases it can be a requirement for employment.

You're confusing being able to ask and discriminating against vaccination / medical status. The things an employer can't ask are very specific (and numerous). The things an employer can't discriminate against are more broad.
I lost $1000 due to post COVID brain fog just today. I’m a photographer and had my first shoot since having it, and I set up a light in a way where the first gust of wind toppled it over in to a lake.
Money is concrete and relatively easily enumerated and manipulated. Those other things aren't.
Serious covid complications seem to be the result of inflammation on organs, and nicotine is an immunosuppressant. The only episode of Dr. House where it was actually sarcoidosis, the patient had just quit chewing tobacco, so at least doctors on TV have known for decades. (Sarcoidosis is condition where your organs get inflamed very similarly to covid.) Notably, HCQ is also an effective treatment for sarcoidosis.
> Did he have so much control that he could suppress intelligence about an attack?

Not sure about suppressing intelligence - but he sure was powerful enough to generate fake intelligence about "Sadam having weapons of mass destruction" - overriding the skepticism of multiple established intelligence services in the process[1]. Cheney basically set up a parallel intelligence service out of his office to push the "weapons of mass destruction" angle with no factual/ground-intelligence basis.

1. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/special-reports/iraq-intell...
There is no teacher shortage. There is a shortage of people willing to teach for peanuts.
Software Engineering by Hussein Nasser is good.

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering
Is "AoE - the X Chapters" an extra addition to "AoE 3rd Edition" because everything could not be fitted into one book? Or is it something fundamentally different?

That would make it a set of 3 books to have viz. 1) AoE - 3rd edition 2) X-Chapters 3) Learning AoE.

Have i understood correctly?

PS: Does the 3rd edition omit a lot from the 2nd edition? What are the major differences?
Actually, it is. Delta is less deadly than the original strain.

And even if it wasn't, it would be true in the long run.
I think the exceptions to the rule are substances that aren’t eliminated by the body: small, “harmless”, doses can then accumulate with chronic exposure into a dangerous dose.
Franz, while a worthy solution, appears to simply combine all the requisite web pages/apps into one app -- meaning you're still dealing with all the various standards and shortcut sets.

The beauty of the Pidgn setup was that any contact was essentially indistinguishable from any other, at least by service. All appeared in the same chat window list, and you spoke to all using the same interface.

It was glorious.
Eco-fascism is our future
Lee Sedol was rated #4 at the start of 2016, the year the match was played. 3 years later, aged 36,

> Lee announced his retirement from professional play, stating that he could never be the top overall player of Go due to the increasing dominance of AI. Lee referred to them as being "an entity that cannot be defeated"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sedol

His rating seems to have crashed and burned from soon after the match in 2016 until his retirement in 2019..

https://www.goratings.org/en/history/

The #1 rated player is now Shin Jin-seo.

> In January 2019, Shin was defeated by South Korean Go program HanDol. The program defeated the top five South Korean go players. HanDol has been compared to AlphaGo, but is considered to be weaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Jin-seo
In the investment industry, 9/5 is excellent.
The elephant in the room is Obesity.
Well, at least that part of it that rips off other people's work.
It’d be great if you wanted to try wrapping clang tools directly! Since Nim can wrap C++ code so it might take some manual effort to wrap enough clang to be useful, but for just getting an AST shouldn’t be too much work. Doesn’t clang also have an option to output JSON/XML of the C++ code?

Though I’ve had good luck with just c2nim. But as you mention it’ll break on some corner cases things, so I just tweak the C a bit (remove function attributes, etc) then retry. However, c2nim was recently updated and fixed a bunch of C99 things. I haven’t had to do that in a while.
If you'd like 5-6 lightly used 1.8TB Intel P4610's I may be able to hook you up ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

But EVs are really not perfect anyway.

People say why have two powerplants. The reason is to get rid of the (environmental impact of) 300 mile batteries.

90% of the time, 10% of the battery is enough.

From the page above:

"If you never miss a plane, you're spending too much time at the airport."
A coinflip would be a 3650/5 or so.

A biased coinflip that gives 5 signals would be 5/0.
> It started with masks. The studies that we had about masks really were not great, but they did a risk-reward calculation behind closed doors: worst case scenario, the surgical masks don't impact the spread and it changes nothing; best case scenario, we reduce community spread. The problem with this is that if they told the public that this was how they were thinking about the problem, they wouldn't get people wearing the masks, so they overstated their confidence in it when speaking to the public. A good amount of people truly believe that the science was clear. But it wasn't.

That's not how I remember it. IIRC, the CDC dragged their feet on recommending masking because of the same lack of explicit studies you cite and supply chain worries. Then once they did recommend masks, you have a much of people citing their "flip flop" as a reason not to trust them.

> It was obvious that this was going to be with us for the rest of our lives back all the way in April of last year (or earlier).

IIRC, no one knew shit in April 2020. Your statement feels like its heavily influenced by hindsight bias.

> We need to decide if we're okay with science agencies lying to us. Is their purpose to exact change on society, or is their purpose to do good science and tell us honest results? All of the confusion in this article stems from the misrepresentations they sell us.

I think you're confused. I'm not sure exactly who you're counting as "science agencies," but if it's the kind of agencies I'm thinking of, I wouldn't say their purpose is either to "exact change on society" or to "do good science and tell us honest results." Their purpose it to come up with public policy to solve actual problems in the face of rather severe uncertainty. Hopefully that based on good science (which may be psychology/sociology), but that's often not possible.

It's not "lying" to not share your exact level of pessimism/cynicism or to be unable to make statements about the future with the benefit of hindsight.
Mostly provenance tools / some genetics tracking things, if you're interested in collaborating, commend and I'll add my contact email.
The Biggest DDoS Attack in History Hit Russian Tech Giant Yandex
Ask HN: How does one register a new “Well-known URI” with the IANA?
With an increase in fraud around fake quotes and invoices, I'd like to create a new ".well-known/" URI. Scammers submit invoices to accounts payable departments and swap out the bank payment details with their own.

I would like to create a new "well-known URI" for bank details. Example https://example.com/.well-known/bank-details.txt which would return the accounts receivable details for an organisation.

My question again is: How does one register a new "Well-known URI" with the IANA?
Ethereum community responds to criticisms of rollups
See also gambling and addictive gambling behaviors in video games, like loot boxes
Tongue Posture Is a Big Business with Little Evidence
>I am referring to how we choose to distribute those natural resources, and of course there are no natural constraints on that choice that is outside of our control.

How about you run an experiment? Spend every single dollar of income that comes into the house on yourself, and give nothing to your wife.

I think you'll learn very quickly that resource allocation in real world groups has constraints.
Folks doing audio work on Linux do you run a low latency kernel
Or anything special like that? How does it compare to say a Mac?
Interstellar correctly demonstrates how general relativity will work.

Even the 5-dimension tesseract was a decent representation as well.

Matthew Mcconaughey using love to navigate through the 5-dimension is classic hollywood.
Isn't this just transfer learning?
How much resources / CO2 is needed to sustain 17B life years?
https://github.com/protocol-registries/well-known-uris
Doesn't get brought up much anymore, but Biden got caught plagiarizing a speech in the 80s when he was running for president in the primary. Derailed his efforts on the presidential stage for almost 30 years.
The chart here is a ratio. Both the numerator and denominator are the same unit, so it doesn't matter if the unit inflates.
That was the only figure in the whole article which split out vax recipients, versus no-vax. The implication is that all the other figures didn’t have such a spectacular difference.

So why is mask wearing so correlated with taking a vaccine? I think you are suggesting one causation, yet the actual reason is probably the “hidden” correlate of partisanship. Lots of people use mask wearing to show party affiliation, and I would guess that party affiliation in the US is highly correlated with taking the vaccine or not.

Also you didn’t answer at all your original point “It means nothing as these studies rarely take into account confounding variables. For example the vaxxed are more likely to distance and stay at home”. Instead your link has nothing to do with correlation of distancing or staying at home. Changing the topic is a classic technique.
9 out of 5 readers cringe at this type of comment.

(I’ve never heard of the expression before so I found it amusing)
The US should follow China's example and start breaking up these big companies. Apple and Google both have their own payment apps.
> Certainly the author could not have known fingerprinting techniques 2000 years ago.

Citation needed.

> It is not unreasonable to interpret "mark" to be an identifier.

Adding an identifier, perhaps. But to interpret that passage to refer to taking pictures or imprints? That is unreasonable.
>“but GPT-3 isn’t actually intelligent!”. Everyone knows.

Not sure that's true, or at least people vastly underestimate just how surface level these models are. You left the most egregious example from the article out.

"“A robin is a ____” it correctly answers “bird”. Unfortunately, if you insert the word not (“A robin is not a ___”) you get exactly the same thing. As AI ethics expert Timnit Gebru and her collaborators put it, these systems are “stochastic parrots” that do a decent job of mimicry but utterly lack the depth of understanding that general artificial intelligence will require."

If openAI would state on its about page "we build APIs that do stochastic inferences on text and build editor tools" then I don't think anyone would argue anything. But if you withhold your models for 'safety reasons' to huge press fanfare and act like the singularity is around next year every time you make a bigger model it becomes a little ridiculous.

People like Judea Pearl asking what the theoretical answer to the fundamental limitations of these data driven approaches is if you're starting a gigantic foundation is valid.
I thought it was pretty clear too
So if I was in a space battle and the enemy 'jumps to light speed'(1) to make a quick escape ... they would actually be easier to target with a laser because they 'slow down' from my perspective?

(1) 'light speed' as in the speed of light, not as in a sci-fi context of hyperspace jump/FTL jump.
It is a tricky subject. When I referred to a model I had published elsewhere, I was asked to write about the model again in the current paper, since readers may not be able to access or want to access the other paper. But more recently, I was asked to do the opposite, since the model I was writing about in the Methods section was the same I had published elsewhere.

I see no reason to change terms and structure in scientific publications so as not to plagiarize myself.
I would just like to point out the fact that the S&P 500 is almost four times higher capitalized than it was a decade ago. There are three obvious reasons for this that come to my mind:

* There has been massive asset inflation.

* The market is in a speculative bubble.

* The 500 largest American companies really are ~4 times more valuable than they were 10 years ago.

Even with #3, the best case scenario, that alone should be setting off major alarm bells, because their material contribution to society hasn't increased fourfold, so that increased valuation must be coming from somewhere, that is to say, control over society more generally.
I'm a kiwi and i've never understood why the world keeps announcing NZ as victorious when covid is a marathon. Ask whether we were successful in 5 years time.

It could become problematic if other countries like Australia start opening up and we see an exodus of young professionals including healthcare workers, the latter we're seeing severe shortages of even with no covid cases. In contrast to NZ, Australia is better resourced to live with Covid and their citizens are quite rebellious against lock-downs, so it wouldn't surprise me if they open up well before NZ which could make things very awkward if we're still fumbling around with an elimination strategy.
I generally dislike consuming computer content in video form, but there is plenty of interesting content out there. Lots of conferences video tape sessions. Plenty of noise but some good things too.

E.g. one of my faves: https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k
But then I'd have to go on a stabbing spree, when simply complaining about it online is a much safer - and more importantly comfortable - if ultimately pointless endeavor.
Maybe we should not.
I grew up in this environment. These people are extraordinarily violent: football hooligans are violent, and English hooligans are notorious throughout Europe (someone was killed during Euro 2020). In the 90s, some grounds were genuinely unsafe. And I lived in London when Copeland was planting bombs...it went on for weeks, a guy running around the city planting nail bombs in crowded areas. Jo Cox murdered. Combat 18 were linked to the murder of a politician in Germany last year. As these groups have gone underground, they have become more dangerous not less.

Also, the reason why these groups exist is because they splintered out of political organizations. They weren't tolerated at any time but the BNP did not broadcast the violence or their links to it publicly. There is a distinction between a group like Britain First, which has people who are clearly dangerous but they retain a political profile, and Combat 18 who are active neo-Nazis like Atomwaffen in the US. Terrorist organizations are banned in the UK, there is a huge amount of surveillance of these groups.
Oh I have a 32GB RAM machine so that could be factor too.
Most content creators on YT want to grow their channel which is mostly at odds with covering complex topics in depth too much. Some channels, like Veritasium, do a decent job of taking complex subjects and presenting them to a wider audience - although many mathematicians and physicists do take issue sometimes.

A pattern you'll often find on YT is similar to how Intel and other manufacturing companies do the "Tick" and "Tock" pattern. They'll release a difficult to research, complex and time consuming video, followed by a few easier to produce videos with a lower cost of entry knowledge wise to pay the bills.

Tom7 is an interesting exception to this rule. He puts out about one video per year, but they're all very very well done. But, they're also tongue-in-cheek and he's not _really_ trying to teach you anything - but you'll probably learn something in the process!
Where is modern-day materials science with regard to self-replicating nanomachines? I know we aren’t there yet, but every year is closer than the one before. I have no insight into the state of the art, however.

Downstream of that question, has there been any serious study into the likelihood of a “gray goo” scenario? Or is it too far over the horizon?
Who is the ruling class of "elites"?
How to stop taking things personally
"It would be easy to say that this is a failure of open-source in some way"

I have seen far more commercial, closed source products go through similar staffing crunches. The difference is that the problems are hidden away behind misdirecting sales teams and so on.

I can't tell you how many times I've reached out to someone on the inside of a company to get a straight answer as to whether a product is being properly staffed and supported. Or, conversely, how many times I myself have had to decide to orphan some commercial, customer facing work to meet a goal with a higher priority.

In my experience, useful open source products are less likely to suffer from inadequate staffing than closed.
Re-Visiting Gopher on a/UX
obviously, the war on women hasn’t killed enough people yet.

They need to work on that.
> this is baseless conjecture

Exactly what I'd expect from "Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb."
It's actually not great, although I agree with you on several points. to be sure, people are not livestock.

But first, I'm not a member of any organized religion, so even though I might find something acceptable I can't invoke a religious exception since my unique spiritual outlook is unlikely to meet any court's threshold of acceptability.

Second, I honestly think this guy's religious claim is bullshit. There's no Christian stricture on concealing your identity, and given that the fingerprint was sought pursuant to a background check, I can even come up with a religious argument for why he should have complied (Matthew 22:22).

So while I support this guy's desire nt to be fingerprinted as a matter of human dignity, I don't think a religious exemption is the way to do it. Those have instead become a catch-all excuse for overtly religious people to opt out of things they don't like without having to meet the same threshold of legal credibility as others.
Thanks for the confirmation.

I've found that people who talk about Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand actually haven't read Wealth of Nations, and somehow miss what his main ideas were

... though then again, even Adam Smith himself seemed to be to miss the point of his writings given his occupation lol
> I see no reason to change terms and structure in scientific publications so as not to plagiarize myself.

There generally is no reason to change terms and the like. The solution is simply to cite one's prior work when quoting from it - the lack of the latter (citing that a given text is one's prior work) is what constitutes self-plagiarism, not the mere reuse of terminology.
PBS Spacetime has done some fantastic episodes on this including this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo
I generally agree with one exception: for UI heavy tools, screencasts are much better than docs. Rather than reading docs and trying to match content to the UI, it's faster for someone to just show me how it's done. I had to learn C# on Visual Studio a few years ago, and watching Pluralsight videos got me up to speed in 2 weeks vs. me struggling through the (rather dense) Microsoft docs and O'Reilly books. (this is partly due to the fact that Visual Studio is just that -- visual. A huge percentage of tasks are accomplished via mouse clicks.)

Even for something like Azure Devops I managed to learn much more quickly through YouTube than by reading the docs.

It's a akin to the difference between a book and a painting or a piece of music. A book -- or more generally the written word -- is really good until it isn't. Sometimes knowledge just flows more easily through other media.
I was once replied by a google engineer,
“We put a lot of thought in things we do, we do whats best for users”.
Well every time that arrogance goes wrong I paste this, to reinforce my belief on how google functions.
> Sure, but if an exception is made for anyone based on their beliefs, it should be available to everyone universally regardless of their beliefs.

In the US it is, the government doesn't act as a priest determining who is or isn't part of the Faith. In Canada it is similar, the only requirement is one of sincerity and good faith.

> Otherwise, people de facto have a different set of rights based on their beliefs.

It only becomes a question or rights when a a restriction is applied in the first place. Religious exemptions always come up when some kind of government policy is mandated (state education, vaccines, taxes, etc.). The "additional" rights only appear as a consequence of personal agency in the first place. Which is why it was called "the canary in the coal mine of rights".

> But deferring to pragmatism when dealing with the topic of human rights is offensive.

Hugh? It seems to me that pragmatism has a well deserved place in every aspects of political life.
Well, this takes me back. I’ve probably spent hours staring at the download queue in eDonkey then Overlord and eMule. I might spin this up just for old time’s sake.
What GPT-3 lacks that seems to be crucial, is a consistent view of the world.

For example, if you ask me "what is the capital of France?" I will answer "Paris" with 100% probability. No matter how you phrase the question, there is simply no other answer that can be given, if I understand what you are asking.

It turns out that humans, despite their reputation, are actually very good at avoiding cognitive dissonance.

Whereas language models are very bad at it. We don't even think of GPT-3 as having cognitive dissonance because there is not a gram of consonance in there.
Give Sciter a chance.

https://sciter.com/
I'm not even an atheist but okay.

The point is there's a ton of stuff in there that just never seemed to get mentioned when I used to go to church. I get the feeling people try really hard to ignore them.

So I make it a point to bring them up.
I think a lot of modern capitalist thinking has been shaped more by Hayek, but ends up getting misattributed to Smith.
A Wendy’s triple cheeseburger still sounds like a poor choice.
To whom should rich people be able to leave their fortunes, if not to their children? Or should it just be seized by the government when they die?
Connecting Azure to the International Space Station with HP Enterprise