skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like to mention that the brain has billions of neurons and how that is completely out of reach for current technology... But that neuron count includes neurons from brain structures related to non-cognitive tasks such as controlling your heart rate, breathing, glands, etc. Also, not everything in a neuron is for information processing, part of it is responsible for keeping the neuron alive, and part of it has to do with communication at the lower levels of the OSI model.

With respect to a theoretical artificial intelligence, we have very deep disadvantages that people do not talk about often.

Verbal communication in humans, seen from an oversimplified perspective, is about encoding ideas into words and then emitting the respective sounds for those words with your vocal chords and mouth, so that then another person listens to those sounds to recognize the words, and then inferring the meaning for each word and then the phrases. To make verbal communication more efficient, new words can be created to represent high level concepts, making faster communication possible. But there are still limits to verbal communication, both as speakers and listeners.

But what about machines? Machines do not even need to translate their thoughts into words. Machines can simply share a serialized cognitive model with another one, at gigabytes per second, and then the receiving machine can load it. What does this mean? that for machines, going to school is a experience that will last only a few seconds, and after that machines will be able to pass every school exam with 100% score.

Once one machine achieves expertise in a field, that machine can share its model with others, who will then load it and become experts immediately. This means that once one machine becomes as smart as Einstein, few minutes after, millions of machines will be as smart as Einstein.

It is not really the fact that we will be competing with smart machines, but the fact that we will be competing with machines that do not take 18 to 25 years to become "productive" in the job market, and that can educate themselves at a ridiculously fast rate making it impossible for us to catch up.

Also, the fact that machines can simply forget and throw away a model and incorporate a new one as needed. In a machine economy, AGI machines may be able to switch jobs multiple times per day, redirecting their effort to meet the needs of the economy in a highly dynamic way. They'll never have unemployment because they will quickly readjust their skill set to what needs to be done.

And when it comes to war, once machines have one highly successful general skilled at military tactics and strategy, every member of the robot army will be potentially as smart as that general.

Then, not only computer science, AI and ML are advancing fast, but we are also at the same time reverse engineering biology. In Terminator II, the fictional company Cyberdyne reverse engineers a robot arm and a robot chip from the future. That's not necessary: the "future" technology is already here. The robot arm = human arm, and the robot chip = your brain.
I forgot the history look up thing, it really helps out when you wanna remember who was working on the feature xyz.
Algorithms and Automatic Computing Machines (1963)
> I’ve been (rightly) chastised by dang, though generally I try not to troll. (Sorry to those I’ve been a troll too)

Preach. Same here. Took me a while to fit in but dang was always correct in his rebukes to me.
Do you think you could elaborate on how this works? It seems like a very ergonomic alternative to traditional footnotes.
I think the background image of breaking chains of bondage is a bit melodramatic and off-putting for a site used to circumvent paywalls.
The history of the industry is littered with the carcasses of counterexamples.

A great team is defined by what it actually, in fact, creates (which is determined by many factors). Not by the sum of the potentials of its contributors.
If this interests you, read more here:

https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/2018/10/21/getting-started...

Ben (sf2platinum) has been working on and off on reversing SF2 for many years.
I feel if your team has more than 6 members standup is anti pattern at that point
"As the coroner's inquest reached a verdict of an act of God, Meux & Co did not have to pay compensation."

The good ol days, sometimes a lot like these current days...

Yes we're all looking at you Sacklers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family

"The bankruptcy judge acknowledged that the Sacklers had moved money to offshore accounts to protect it from claims, and he said he wished the settlement had been higher."

Wished... Indeed... Only an act of God could have stopped them surely.
The problem with this comparison is that a language like Crystal shows that you don't have to give up the expressiveness for performance.
It’s important not to lump Jesuits in with other groups, or discount all Jesuits in history because of the actions of some. Things I heard growing up in Protestant circles may have biased me towards writing off the Jesuits, but a few years ago I read the 21st century book Heroic Leadership which was written by a Jesuit seminarian who took a surprising turn into investment banking and worked his way up to managing director before retiring to work on several charity endeavors. The book tries to help people in the business world learn from Jesuit principles since he felt the annual 360 interviews and other corporate programs were so hollow in comparison to the routine personal reflection and deeper annual self-examination he learned from the Jesuits.

Anyway, along the way he told numerous stories from over the centuries as Jesuits were trailblazers into building connections in China, India, Japan and the Americas. They would learn the local languages and culture, believing understanding and respect was vital when crossing into other lands. Their founder didn’t want them cloistered and spending the bulk of every day in prayer, believing instead that Jesus’ final commandment was to be taken seriously and they needed to get out and about. Nearly 5 centuries ago, he wanted all Jesuits to be so free of ties that with only 48 hours’ notice they could board a ship to sail around to the other side of the world.

There are many stories of them defending the rights of local people in colonized lands. The Spanish colonists had only dirt streets and wooden buildings in Asunción when Jesuit towns among nearby native Americans had cobblestone streets and stone buildings and were teaching Native American children in schools. The Jesuits pleaded with the Pope via letters that the Native Americans were fully human and Portuguese raiders should be stopped, but by the time the Pope’s cease and desist could reach the Portuguese those towns were destroyed. Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro acted in a movie about these tragedies. For all the faults of some Jesuits, many others gave their all for peoples around the world when it was a foreign concept to many other people to be genuinely loving instead of condescending to other ethnicities.
It's helped me learn the names of songs and artists.
Yeah, I guess it's like free throws or dribbling for basketball players. Not too easy, not too hard, keeps you "in rhythm" for when you want to ramp your attention back.
Do you use Namecheap's email inbox or is that accomplished just with DNS records?
We had our daughter who can’t consistently work the microwave put things in then we’d have Alexa cook it. We’ve got a disabled daughter who needs to be monitored at all times so yes, it made things way easier and we’d used it a hundred times before with no issues. It never microwaved when it was supposed to bake before that.
doesn't matter what the point is, 5/5 companies i've worked at it's simply repeat what's already visible on trello/jira board to people who can't care less. Every time hated hearing scrum master talk on and on about random stuff.
The way the legislation that gives the govt powers to enforce MIQ is written, is with respect to of the NZ bill of rights. That is, the legislation doesn't override the bill of rights but tries to work with it.

So given that it hasn't worked out as planned and they have directly violated freedom of movement etc, they have some pretty major issues.

This was how it was orignally written. I think they've tried to change it to install a CEO of MIQ which is the fall guy and absolves the govt now.

However, this will all be sorted out when the lawsuit goes ahead next year from the Grounded Kiwis (mentioned in the article) and hopefully a win for justice here. Given every legal challenge so far has been lost by the govt or backed out of at the last minute, there's a fairly good chance if someone or a group persues it to the final ruling, there will be a case set for a class action follow up.
Parthenogenesis
If I may suggest, check your magnesium blood levels (and your daughter's).

Magnesium deficiency is also associated with symptoms similar to ADHD. Even for people who really have ADHD, several studies show that magnesium supplementation greatly improves many issues.
95% of my portfolio is VTSAX, VTIAX, VBTLX.
I find use for small things. Dictating a text while driving, setting that egg timer is fast, unit conversions, dialing a phone number I’m reading off another screen. But the whole “tie me into home automation” is lost on me.

No one knows how much it really helps, but I have the “raise to talk” and “Hey Siri” features disabled to keep the “always on” buffer as short as possible.
By definition a simulated brain is intended to be exactly as smart as the meat brain being simulated. Once you get the simulation working you might be able to run it faster though.
The amount of dedication and skill it takes to build something like this is massive. I find it amazing how people keep up the motivation to contribute to such projects for hundreds or thousands of hours. I wish I could keep up with something even half as long, I find that these days I get so distracted and easily frustrated that I stop working on my cool ideas after only a few days. I have to wonder what keeps them going to be honest.
We have the explicit music filter on due to the young <10 children in the house.

Sometimes they ask Alexa to play a song, but everything seems to require the music plan on top of Prime these days, so it will play a different ‘related’ station instead.

It’s beyond strange when kids asks for a random kids song, but it is not available, so it starts playing obscure rap songs dropping F- and N- bombs (so obscure it bypasses explicit filters?).

It’s so hilariously broken in these cases (has happened two or three times over the past couple years), but I would love to know the breakdown in logic that these kids are finding…
Wow so you give it mathematical statements and it gives you a diagram? Is this what they call as “declarative” programming? I really like how it looks, and I can feel the passion behind the project. Very encouraging to see.
> no one knows where it's used ...

Isn't this really a tooling problem? I can't imagine any environment in which I can't instantly find all callers/users of a shared package. The problem I always have is that there are too many [known] callers! Impact is still unknown because you can't always depend on unit and other test to uncover complex issues unforeseen and unknown until they actually crop up. But that's why you have a staging environment.

It's better than the alternative of not sharing code.
If he's never going to use it for anything legitimate, perhaps just give it over to the FBI and they could take away the satire from the page and make it look convincing. Forward the information directly to the local field office automatically, without having to rely on a private citizen to make the connection.
I was wary of such a device too but wanted to try it for the convenience factor. Our other daughter is wheelchair bound and needs to have someone with her at all times, so it was nice that our 6 year old could put things into the oven even if she couldn’t operate the controls.
> Is it beneath me? I don't know, sure, it doesn't matter. Would I want to do it? No. And that's the main/only reason. I like being a software engineer, I wouldn't like delivering food.

Preface: I'm going to assume you are not just proficient at what you do, perhaps even beyond above competent, as a developer (likely calling yourself an engineer when it suits you). But it's this type of hubris that so is prevalent in the FAANG World makes me feel so... aghast at the tech bro/coder World.

I can't envision a World where someone who sought out to solve a problem would not want to directly put themselves in the position of it's intended target demographic or end user to gain better perspective about how to best optimize what it is they are developing: be it an app, product or solution.

This is why I think tech fails in the Corp World: after a while you get big enough and attract a certain type of worker and foster an environment where entitlement sets in, mission creep lingers and people feel almost ostentatiously incapable of putting themselves in First Person perspective when trying to solve a problem and would rather waste time with focus groups, endless board meetings, online polling or whatever the proper channels are that keep them locked in their ivory tower.

This is how you get mediocrity, by being so detached from the experiences and feedback from those you are trying to serve; abstracting your work away as something it's not (I also worked as a developer and consultant) is a fool's errand and I'm sad to say it's a significant part of I walked away from tech--the technology we worked on for years as an opensource project was being re-branded as something it's not, by people who never understood it as a means to stay relevant but ultimately failed to execute despite having first mover advantage, immense backing and support from the Corporate partners eager to try the technology.

The way to build a better mouse trap, is to be immersed in mouse trapping.

I'm back to tech, I never really left but I just stopped making it how I earned a living to regain sanity as well as passion, and I'm now primarily focused on ML after tracking it for a few years in a specific Industry and I'm starting to see this exact thing happen in that ecosystem now, too.

I'm going to focus on the non-sexy projects in the belief that maybe it won't be like that this time because I can't be bothered with this white glove developer syndrome.

It's the tech World's version of affluenza.
Can god build a paywall so high that even god can't read the pages behind it?
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year everyone!!!
No doubt after the first credit cards were issued, the banks starting selling purchase and merchant lists data to 'associates'. For our convenience of course.
We didn't use slack unfortunatly, we had Zoom meetings planned every day for 15 minutes and our manager would make us go round table to discuss our ongoing projects and challenges etc.. it was very interesting since our small team were all working on very different problems, we could all try to focus for 2 minutes to solve a problem all together as a sort of team blitz. Sometimes it worked marvels.
I mine Bitcoin in my basement :) two Antminer S17+ 73T/hs makes me almost 1k a month profit!
I don't have time to get into this, but I think it's pretty embarrassing that this podcast is still recommended. It's not "media deconstruction", it's two out-of-touch, low information conservatives repeatedly being incorrect and then changing their narrative to fit whatever is currently popular in conspiratorial conservative media.
That’s the tentative plan once I’ll reach my target number :-)
There's good discussion in this thread about when and why to use attrs, pydantic, or stdlib dataclasses; I have my own thoughts too.

But all I can really feel is gratitude for all of us not having to do namedtuple/slot contortions anymore. Good riddance.
Jesuits is one of the forward-looking and outgoing Catholic orders. They work on topics that both non-believers and believers could agree. Matteo Ricci was fluent in Chinese culture and language. Jean de Brebeuf learned aboriginal language and culture in the present day's Canada.

Many other orders have not been so much on going to foreign places and are pretty insular to the unfamiliar.
The suppression of the Jesuits occurred without a theological explanation from the Vatican. I would say that whatever the Jesuits did seemed to contradict the requirements of colonialism and religious imperialism.
I did. My work desktop is a Threadripper. A++++ would recommend.

The fact that a laptop is even in the same discussion as desktop chips is crazy. The M1 is a seriously impressive piece of hardware.

End of the day all I care about is how fast my chip runs. Different people care about different things, and that’s fine.

I’m generally annoyed by reviews that don’t clearly compare desktop vs laptops parts. This is especially true for GPUs. Just give me all the data and I’ll decide if I care about price or energy use. It’s remarkably difficult to find a comparison between a laptop GPU and a desktop GPU. Which is an important comparison if you’re trying to decide between a laptop or a deskto.
The point of that video seems to be to dox the person who filmed the other video, probably with the intention of making his life a lot harder and less safe. That's really creepy.
I wish I had had you as a professor. Such a struggle to work around notions of "what normal folks should be able to do".

The worst of it was, when I would go to rectify things that got done late or needed extra work, it was all "yeah sure, here's this thing you can do and these deadlines and you'll need to schedule time with me to review during this weird window of time and make sure to fill out these other forms". All of a sudden my late work consists of new scheduling, bureaucracy, and extra deadlines. Throws hands in air
I use Siri for some simple things, but one trick that keeps me coming back is it understands whispers really well. I can be looking at my screen and see a number, and whisper “dial 345-three oh two-fourtyfivehundred” or any manner of numerical words so quietly I can barely hear it, and it usually works.
This was an Amazon branded device. They apparently no longer sell it. It makes me more upset that it seems like no human ever acknowledged that my $300 microwave malfunctioned so spectacularly. Especially considering how specific I’d learned to get with my commands to it.
1750 IST in India
> because there's no way that could happen in real life.

It does happen in real life.

Government issued Title Deeds for property are the NFT's we had before anybody heard of the term. If the Title's Office says you own the deed, then by definition you own the property. If doesn't matter if you have the property in your possession, built a house on it, or paid a bank for it. All that matters is the Title's Office says you own it. If they do you can take possession of it, tear down the house, and the person who paid the bank for it handed over money for nothing.

That may sound scary, but in reality the Title Offices are pretty good at checking the current owner has authorised the transfer to a new owner. But they aren't perfect: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/she-had-n... And while such mistakes are generally very rare in any one locality (maybe once a decade where I live), I be surprised if it didn't happen once per day in the world at large.

I don't know how it works elsewhere, but where I live the government has a "all care and no responsibility" clause excusing themselves (ie, the Titles Office) from all liability when they do make the occasional mistake, including any responsibility for "setting it right". So once the illegal transfer has happened, it's over. There is no recourse. It's very like a bitcoin transaction in that way.

I smile inwardly when I see people claim NFT's could never work, or are ponzi schemes, or a throw a thousand other barbs when the reality is we've been using something like them for centuries. Unlike Pork Belly futures, put options and CDO's (which, when you think about it, are also a form of NFT from yesteryear), at least (usually, for now) they represent something tangible. It's true that rather some hand crafted legalisation like title law that takes years and an act of parliament to create, the link between the NFT and the thing they represent generally relies on contract law. Anyone can draft a contract of course, in theory a verbal agree suffices. I'm no lawyer, so I don't really know if a well drafted contract is weaker or not. I can say with some authority that signing things with private crypto keys is a damned sight more secure that how the title's office verifies you have ownership now.
I was going to encourage you to submit that. No need, I see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680492

(Great essay.)
> there’s more danger in hundreds of people fleeing in panic down stairs (whether that’s 1 stair case or 2) than staying inside.

Is there? I’ve never seen people panic when a fire alarm goes off. Maybe if the fire alarm is going off as the building is filling with deadly smoke people would panic. But then that seems appropriate (or at least better than sitting and waiting to die of smoke inhalation).

Pretty sure the Grenfell situation would have ended better by having everyone evacuate. And yes, the incompetent cladding work makes that a special case. But a huge amount of our codes are for a special case. Every so often it saves 70 lives.
I think there's a pretty cutthroat market for education spending even on the public schools -- people shop for homes based on school districts.
I like this.

For those of you for whom this list is too terse, check out the excellent LearnXinYminutes site at https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/
That's why I didn't downvote or dismiss it. It is entirely possible that those things are saying are true, and I believe you.

I was talking about the overall manner of how you said it being something that puts people off, not necessarily the content. Like, even if the content is legitimate, the tone just makes it all sour. I am not trying to be mean or attack you, but your last reply was kind of a perfect example of what I am talking about.

If you figure out how to work around the "people don't like me and how i converse with them" issue (which imo is just a lack of social skills, regardless of whether it is due to neurodivergence or not), you are gonna become legitimately unstoppable if you combine it with the rest of your skills/intelligence.
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I find it extremely interesting that ADHD is basically a United States thing, I had never heard of this thing in Europe, but in the US, it is actually talked about like it's an actual pathology, that can be actually diagnosed, and treated of course, surprise surprise, with Ritalin/Adderal.

No doubt that we are not all cognitively equal, but I am a personally convinced it is a total scam invented to put people on drugs.
Government agencies dont allow authoritative sources to remark on their incompetence. See the last 2 years as a citation of that.
“Rule of law” in common usage definitely means that each person is subject to the same laws. This is the definition I have always heard people use, and it matches OED’s and the UN’s definition.
An airplane with four doors instead of eight would weigh less so the plane may fly a little faster. Legroom shouldn't affect the speed.
True I guess, I know my brother and sister-in-law use Siri to set alarms and reminders and such because they frequently have hands full with kids. At the same time I don't think that they're worth getting a distinct device for (lets be honest if you're buying an assistant device you have either an android or iPhone with google assistant/siri)
> we will anyway need JS to convert the markdown to HTML.

You could compile the markdown to HTML server-side …
Same here. Probably 80’s. Kids those days too. I was the fastest reader so the first to prance around.