skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No parties know this. Entire TW will blow up its own fabs started off as meme that people have ran with. The only serious analysis about deliberately blowing up TW fabs was by US Army War College on the poor premise that it would deter PRC invasion when destroying fabs work in PRC favor by resetting everyone back decades... closing the gap.

It's more likely US & PRC will coordinate to save TW fabs with TW leadership cooperation because US controls inputs via supply chain and save trillions in US advanced industies. TW leadership will cooperate because not wiping out advanced western industry is the one golden ticket they have of comfortable retirement in the west. PRC gains leverage and access by hosting fabs. 100,000s of TW semi engineers has a comfortable future working status quo. It's basically the only arrangement that works out for everyone versus semiconductor mutually assured destruction. Reality is US has leverage via tech sanctions during peacetime, PRC has leverage during wartime by threatening to destroy all east asia semi supply chain which will kick world back to 80s instead of 00s. It's in everyone's interest not to normalize disrupting semi production.
>to the point of emergent consciousness

But that isn't the goal nor the argument being made (not to rabbit hole in discussing that consciousness isn't even really a scientific term that can meaningfully be applied).

We had some mathematical notions yes... and we have made a ton of progress since then. The perceptron doesn't hold a candle to methods today, not even close... though yes it is a building block for the field. I don't know how that could be all that controversial.
Somehow I made it all the way here before processing, how huge this thing is
I'm making a large pull request on rubygems.org (adding Webauthn) and the people are very helpful and friendly. I would encourage everybody to contribute, rubygems.org is just a regular rails app.
Hmm, aren't MTG releasing new sets every year? And don't they only allow cards from the last few years in tournaments?
Fascinating! Dumb question, but is there a dye we could inject that goes only to muscle fibres, so we can image all the muscles in the human body in one go?

I'm surprised by 2022 we're still discovering new ones.
Bitemporal Database: https://xtdb.com/

Datomic: https://www.datomic.com/
It really depends on what kind of scenario we're talking about. At the moment in time someone is affected by a nuclear blast in their vicinity, it's unlikely that person knows what else is going on in the world. A nuclear blast is bad, but how bad are things globally? No way of knowing, really, at least for awhile. Maybe most of the nukes targeted at your country were duds. Maybe they were never launched. Maybe some were intercepted. If one could survive just by hiding under thick materials for a week or two then travel to an unaffected city, I think a lot of people would prefer that if they knew it was an option.
Yeah, if I remember it was amazingly cheap if you were below 25 users but that 26th would force you to upgrade everything to the big boy versions.
especially since the raspberry pi just turned 10 years old and you can still get security updates for the original models because it's just linux.
It's not you, it's java.
Nope. I don't think anyone thinks the brain is an N layer deep network. There are many networks, and they cross-couple inputs and outputs from various subnetworks into others. There are also hormonal regulatory systems with feedback mechanisms that interact with these networks both is inputs and outputs. The brain is hugely more complicated and messy than anything that, say, GPT-3 is doing.
Yeah, I completely sympathize with the donor. He didn't want this child and should not be forced to add another family member because the author (selfishly) wants contact with her father.

The author is also clearly in denial. If she "didn’t care about finding [her] biological father" she wouldn't have put tremendous effort into it (including writing this article).
Globalism Is Good
> I'm sorry, but you're just mistaken about how JSX works.

No, I’m not. JSX doesn’t do anything. But it’s an expression and evaluated according to the rules of JS expressions. You might expect React or whatever to evaluate it one way today, and it can be evaluated another way tomorrow. React.createElement isn’t the API you’re using, neither is react/jsx-runtime. You’re using an expression with some special angle brackets and curly braces. You have no idea if your component is being called, but semantically you have every reason to believe it is and will be.

Bool && otherExpression is control flow because it’s specifically defined as an expression in the host language. Anything else is assuming compiler magic you were never promised.
Deep learning is like fish, there are a lot of types of fish. Some will eat you and some you eat.

My understanding of deep learning is that it is a methodology, not a technique.
if anyone has a link to other exceptional nature photos please share
For those wishing to learn more, watch the documentary "Winter on Fire" on Netflix. Yanukovych was a a pretty brutal dictator.
Yes cast iron works. Most ferrous metals do but some stainless steels don't.
From looking at their examples, they don't populate the 'ref' field of the ortb2 structure.

There's an argument to be made here that the advertiser isn't being completely deceived because they're choosing to accept data without a 'ref' field which means they don't know or care - beyond keywords - what page the advert ends up on.
If "impregnating someone doesn't make you a parent" then why does the author even want contact with her biological father? There is zero rational reason for them to have contact or a relationship except that she clearly does want one. I don't blame him for not wanting a random new family member.
He was apparently arrested last November, so before the war. And living in Poland. Not very clever.
I always found it slightly suspicious how the EDGES dip was right between the ITU region 3 broadcast bands. Obviously they do filtering and are far away from everything, but perhaps the gazillion FM stations in Indonesia + some TV stations + meteor scatter (or some other sort of odd propagation) could maybe escape the RFI filtering and mimic the dip.
In a world of iLok and countless other bloated license managers, your caution is warranted. But Tytel is one of the good ones. Vital's freemium model is based almost entirely on presets, with the core synth engine being free and open-source (the only thing other than presets is access to the cloud-based text-to-wavetable service).
TW isn't recognized as a sovereign country by anyone who can realistically intervene, so yes PRC can unilaterally and legally under UN framework decide to reunify with TW by restarting Chinese civil war that has never concluded via armstice/treaty - it won't be an invasion or annexation legally.
While I agree with Prof.Marcus' ideas on the limitations of deep learning, I still don't think neurosymbolic approaches are sufficient for a generalized AI agent. I think a unified cognitive architecture might be necessary based on neuroscience and psychological observations similar to the work done during the 70s and early 80s.
Same here. Scandit was the best thing we tested but they quoted us $50k/yr. We don’t have many users that actually need that feature so the next best option was compiling zxing to wasm. That performed a little better than using the js version.
Or rather a local minimum.

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Title appropriate! Am I the only one who immediately though of self driving cars? lol
I'm guessing this declaration is in response to this -https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-demands-us-explain-biol...
So Parallel Distributed Processing, it is?

Apparently deep learning has been beat-to-death as a word, but the way deep learning was explained to me, it is an approach not a specification.
They would not get out the most from the course, but I will say, even then it is worth it.

They will come out much better from the other side.

And the course is not that mathematical.
Let's find out what the next windows versions will be!

input: 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 2.01 2.03 2.1 2.11 3.0 3.1 3.11 3.2 3.5 3.51 95 4.0 98 2000 7 8 8.1 10 11
output: 9.93 28.81 18.84 9.40 20.56
The iPad that I still use pretty much every single day -- for several hours a day, sometimes -- is an iPad Air 2 that I bought shortly after it was released (late 2014, I think?). It still performs quite well and I don't have any real complaints about it.

In my case, however, I stopped updating it -- a long time ago, in fact! I'm not sure when it was that I stopped but it's running version 10.0.1 so around whenever that came out.

I'm quite aware of the "risks", however, so I don't use it for anything important. It's the device I grab whenever I'm gonna sit and browse HN, catch up on the news, or read some technical documents / papers. I don't really use any apps besides other than Safari and iBooks (I was going to install Firefox for iOS a while back but couldn't as it required a newer version).

About a year or two ago, I did look into updating it to a newer version, but I didn't want to install the newest version as I was afraid I'd be unhappy with either it or its performance and be unable to downgrade / rollback. Upgrading to any version other than the latest simply isn't an option, apparently, even "manually" using iTunes with locally downloaded ".ipsw" files (which were downloaded when they were released and so had valid signatures, etc.). Apple wouldn't let me update it to the last version of iOS 13, for example, so I decided it'll be running 10.0.1 until either it dies or becomes unusable (due to being so far behind).

Similarly, I'm still using the iPhone 6S that I've had for several years -- it is kept up-to-date, though!

Ironically, I ordered both a new iPad and a new iPhone about 15 months ago (December 2020). I did finally open up the new iPhone recently, but I still haven't switched over to it; it's still sitting there at the initial "Hello" setup / welcome screen! The new iPad, however, has been sitting on a shelf, still in the unopened box, since it arrived.
Really a great article. While I have mostly worked with deep learning the last seven years, I very much agree that long term, hybrid systems are probably the way to reach AGI.
> ...So, western users (people) think that all the world is caring about ukraine the way they are doing, but it may be not like that.

Sure the whole world *is* caring. This is the first time in many decades (since, what, the Caribbean Crisis?) that a major nuclear arms nation, that also is a veto-holding member on the UN Sec Council, has threatened to be ready to use its nuclear arsenal against anyone daring to interfere against its brutal and premeditated invasion of a sovereign nation.

None of the existing checks and balances, like the UN, or bi/multi-lateral treaties, nor the "world police" is currently able to do any direct military action to counter the brazen actions of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

Everyone witnesses the nuclear weapons being already "used" unilaterally by Russia, without being physically launched.

That is the nuclear deterrent as we've known it has been eroded. This cannot not catch attention of any state, nuclear or not. The whole world got less secure overnight Feb-24, 2022.
Radiation exposure due to less atmosphere during high altitude travel causes dna damage and can be a real cancer risk. ESP people that flight often, passengers, flight attendants, pilots, astronauts, etc.
The plot thickens https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1501313109520175104
From the New York Times article linked above:

> Some harm reduction programs do include sterile pipes — which are used for smoking methamphetamine and fentanyl as well as crack cocaine — in such kits, with the intent of preventing infectious disease or injury in drug users who might otherwise rely on contaminated paraphernalia.
I've been using my own audit trigger for 3 years now.

https://github.com/cmabastar/audit-trigger

It uses the old and tested http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Audit_trigger_91plus

but with JSONB instead of HSTORE, and automatically creates partitioned tables by month (Requires PG11+).
Yeah, I've gone from a huge proponent of AI/ML, to someone that sometimes uses clustering techniques. I recently had a client that wanted to estimate geological formation horizons, and five lines of scikit-learn did the trick for them. At the end of the day, AI/ML is great for some things, and not for others, just like how hammers and chisels are good for different things.
Yes, it's quite bizarre. I have used blender to generate training data for a neural network (which was a stunning success, and quite fast compared to any other method I could think of).

I had no clue how to use blender before, but now I feel like I have at least a passable idea of how the UI works -- despite basically never having touched it!
Another reason why America is the bad place.
I think it’s mostly a matter of cost. USB-C Is more expensive to implement. More signals, more expensive chips. Remember a couple of years ago all those USB-C cables that were damaging hardware?

On top of that (and I’m not familiar with the handshaking or anything) USB-C is both USB-3/4 and Thunderbolt. The latter is daisy-chained whole the former is one-to-many. I wonder if that’s added complexity.
I started a new company at the end of 2021 and I chose Ruby/Rails ... once again.
So what you’re summarizing is that cancer is definitely a single disease with multiple types but there are commonalities. Which makes sense. Which is why I never bought this “we can’t cure it because it’s not one disease”. We can’t cure it because we aren’t smart enough.
> Why is the the Amazon app 229 MB heavy?

I checked mine. 201 MB app, 115 MB "data", 202 MB cache, 518 MB total

Yes, the Amazon app, which literally feels like a webview wrapper around the mobile website, is taking up half a gigabyte of space on my phone.
Specifically in our case, we sell used video games.

A lot of very labour-intensive work (pricing, writing listings, getting images) is all done by machine now, and I've recently made some semi-automated flows for shipping (think stage 1 of Manna[1], where a script tells you the optimal way to do a manual job). The next thing is to automatically decay the prices with a cron job to get rid of stale listings.

I think the important thing to point out is that we're not a software business!
We're a retail business that happens to use software to increase productivity and competitiveness in certain areas. The value doesn't come from the fact that the software is particularly technically impressive, but that it allows us to achieve in 50 man-hours per week what takes others 200.

As a side note, I think the whole "I'm a software engineer, therefore I should focus on making software" way of thinking is an incredibly common trap that leads many people towards creating worthless startups.

Ultimately, good software solves some kind of real-world problem, and your understanding of the problem that you're solving is in many cases more important than your programming skill.

[1]https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
How many floppies to install Windows 9.93?
Interview with Intel’s Raja Koduri: Zettascale or ZettaFLOP? Metaverse What?
According to the book, a big risk is "skyshine": gamma radiation from the decay of radioactive particles that get spread into the atmosphere. Concrete walls are pretty good, and being underground is pretty good, but the problem with basements is that the materials above you that most houses are made of aren't terribly effective at blocking gamma radiation. So, even in a basement you'd still want to get under some thick/dense materials if you can.

I hope this information does not ever come in handy.
Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens
The Mozilla DeepSpeech tests on LibreSpeech listed in OPs link were out of date back in 2020[1], and Coqui.ai (the continuation of Mozilla DeepSpeech) isn't even benchmarked.

Additionally, where is the comparison to Vosk and the other noteworthy platforms? How old is the data for IBM, Azure, Amazon and Google?

https://github.com/Picovoice/speech-to-text-benchmark/issues...
>It can lead to a slight bump in stock price because it's easier for average folks to buy a $139.14 share than a $2,782.94 share.

This is true but one of the stupidest things in the market. Some retail investors have not concept of fundamentals.

I have met some myself that don't understand that stock price is a function of the number of total shares.
It would be cool if Hackernews did some kind of debate / in-depth discussion / podcast / video cast thing where some of these topics could be discussed. I would love to hear a nuanced, technical / economic discussion about this and other topics. Heck, I would even pay to hear it.

I have no real experience with academia, but the fact that I (as a layperson) can’t even get access to published papers is a pretty clear indication that they have little interest in making information available.

If only there was a website where entrepreneurs…
I've met at least two people in my lifetime who had 2 or 3 language processors in their brain. They could type unrelated sentences while listening/speaking in a different conversation.

That's not me, though - I can't even finish typing a word I've thought of if I'm trying to listen to someone talk or say something to them at the same time. I have 1 language processor at the best of times.
IME, there are relatively few good uses of lambdas in Ruby: blocks can do almost everything that lambdas can, but with better syntax support and closer to the "idiomatic" patterns that most real Ruby uses. For the things that blocks can't do, there are procs (which the article correctly observes are very similar to lambdas).

A good example from the article:

> If you want to map over a collection, but the map function changes based on the input, you can use a lambda to encapsulate the changing logic.

You can do this with `Hash.new { |x| ... }`! The block version is more readable, more idiomatic, and it gives you free memoization.
Likewise, it is easy to criticize coal, natural gas and nuclear for their shortcomings. But, its hard to create an alternative electricity generation/storage that can support constant base load and can ramp up in minutes to deal with additional load. Talk is easy, action is hard
That's quite a high fee for zero fraud protection.
We can always go copy nature's homework.

The neocognitron, the ancestor of deep learning, was inspired on the studies done by Hubel and Wiesel on the visual cortex of a cat.

There are many more ideas yet to be reverse engineered from biological networks.
isn't this supposed to be kept private by your friend under medical privacy laws?
Yes, I was thinking the same. I am super curious about what functionality in this could be used for sound generation.

It even looks like a full synthesizer. When I first saw the pictures, I thought it was some weird version of an EMS VCS 3 synth — which coincidentally is also from 1969!
> In terms of actual influence the much more obvious choice for father of computer science is Charles Babbage, whose work was both influential during his lifetime and who pioneers like von Neumann and Aiken referenced in their development of early working computers.

This is a strange thing to say.

George Dyson in Turing's Cathedral wrote:

> “Von Neumann was well aware of the fundamental importance of Turing’s paper of 1936 ‘On computable numbers …’ which describes in principle the ‘Universal Computer’ of which every modern computer (perhaps not ENIAC as first completed but certainly all later ones) is a realization,” Stanley Frankel explains. “Von Neumann introduced me to that paper and at his urging I studied it with care.… He firmly emphasized to me, and to others I am sure, that the fundamental conception is owing to Turing.”

Re-quoting Randell, On Alan Turing and the Origins of Digital Computers [1].

Dyson also came and gave a talk at Google as part of the book tour [2], and the talk consisted of him telling stories about the book and showing pictures of interesting artifacts. At 18:51 he shows a picture of Turing's paper as stored in the IAS library, and this is what he has to say:

> And so it irritated me how all these historians still are arguing about "What did Von Neumann take from Turing? Why didn't he give Turing credit? Did he read Turing's paper?" People say "oh no he didn't read Turing's paper." So I decided I would go look in Von Neumann's library.

> Turing's paper was published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. That's the volume it was in. When you go to the Institute [for Advanced Study] library, all the volumes are absolutely untouched, mint, hardly been opened except volume 42. And it's clearly, you know, it's been read so many times it's completely fallen apart. They didn't have Xerox machines so they just... Yeah, so the engineers I spoke with, the few that were left said "Yeah... we all had to read that paper. That's what we were doing was building a Turing machine." So I think that answers the question.

[1] https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/159999

[2] https://youtu.be/_FibuHyIHnU?t=1131
> It was only later, when the young Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) needed to establish computer science as a legitimate field of study that the history got edited to suggest a smooth evolution from theoretical mathematics to computing. To sell that message ACM needed founding figures and they settled on a deceased British mathematician named Alan Turing.

> Scientists active in ACM — specifically John W. Carr III and Saul Gorn — began connecting Turing’s 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers” to a broader vision of computer science in 1955.

Hm. I wonder what this writer would think of the Church-Turing thesis.
Yes, my example is trivial, but if-else can easily outgrow the ternary. The do-expression lets you embed arbitrary statements.
Not sure if you have encountered this yourself, but achieving this is a huge problem and has many, many issues.

Apartment buildings not built with EVs in mind are notoriously hard to retrofit to enable charging. And I don't simply mean the wiring from some central electrical room to parking spaces -- that difficult part is actually the easy part.

There are endless issues in getting such places wired up:

-- Which spots get wired? When every parking spot is owned by someone, whose will it be? How is the ownership of the charging spots determined?

-- Who will pay for the spots to be wired? Who pays for upgrades to the building infrastructure (and structure) that needs to be upgraded or fitted with central equipment (i.e. non-specific person owned)?

-- How will the electricity be billed and paid for? This influences how the wiring and hardware upgrades need to be designed and built.

-- How is liability and insurance for the equipment's operation handled?

These are truly non-trivial questions that have to be answered. Inability to answer these questions to the owners of a building's satisfaction actually stops progress on this topic.
Any HN contributors that have more info....will Finland now join NATO like the article suggests or is that over simplified?
https://archive.ph/kvewN
Ms SQL now has a very good built in feature for temporal tables such that you shouldn't have to use audit tables, it's an out-of-the-box feature.

Only problem is that there's no way to delete historical data without DDL operations, which you need if a user demands to exercise their GDPR rights.
Counterpoint:

us-east-1 is their largest reason, someone told me it's 50% of their revenue

multi-region failover is awfully, awfully expensive.

In my last 7 years I imagine we had ~1 outage a month on average from AWS failures, but who knows if my imagination is accurate.
Nah, not the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_%28cookware%29
Would be curious if she did genetic testing and was BRCA or BRCA2. That increase your odds of all cause cancers quite a bit. You can live a seemly pristine lifestyle and your genetics will still get you.