skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is unlikely to work, as the brain regulates many bodily functions on a neurohormonal basis, so the headless body won’t develop properly. You can get abnormal heart rhythms from a stroke in certain parts of the brain for example.

Also it has an insurmountable yuck factor.
No, they wrote:

> Cancer is indeed not 1 disease but many countless ones.
I expect "Seeing Like a State" goes into it, but top-down global abstraction and standardization often does work. e.g. mass production, mass media, and States themselves are unbelievably, fantastically successful.

The point is more than it doesn't always work, as standardization is a poor substitute for actual understanding.
Google could also solve these issue by unlocking its own apps, so they can be removed. For example, I have absolutely no use for google assistant or chrome or duo, yet they take up insane amount of space on my phone.
Maybe I'm tired but after reading the landing page twice. I still have no idea how it works. Can I use the product without signing up? Or a video of someone using the product?
Yes! Decode the base64, run through mozjpeg, re-encode. For PNGs, I've had the best results on average with pngwolf-zopfli: https://github.com/jibsen/pngwolf-zopfli
Yeah, if you dilute the meaning down to “feedback loop”, then deep learning and the brain work the same way.
Deep learning is all the very many models that use layers of neural networks. You can tweak it a lot, but there comes a point where you're not working with neural networks anymore. The human brain has reached that point.
> I'd be totally fine just having alerts and metrics driving the status page. Why involve a human at all?

What happens if the monitoring service goes down or has a bug that causes it to incorrectly report the status as okay? Obviously this won't usually happen at the same time as the actual service goes down, but if it did, would people really believe that?
> Objects influenced by a gravitational field don’t feel an acceleration.

We don't feel velocity but we do feel acceleration, whether it's due to gravity or anything else. I still don't follow the logic unfortunately.
It's perfectly rational to want to make contact with the person you inherited half your DNA from. I don't get from the article that the author was necessarily seeking a long-term, or otherwise deep relationship with their biological father.
Oh, because the distributed binaries aren't really open-source because they're made from a different version of the source? That's true, and it might come back to bite the author.

What do you think of Vitalium? I don't know enough about synthesizers to have an informed opinion.
Because Apple broke DSC right back at Big Sur, and hasn't bothered to fix it (at least for Intel) ever since.
The idea is that Poland is less of a threat to Russia than the US and less likely to trigger a large escalation that potentially confronting the US would mean. It's basically the equivalent of a pawn supporting a knight vs the queen supporting a knight
Why 4650g instead of 5600g? The latter is easier to source AFAICT.
It would be nice to have it in printed form, but just reading it before you need to use it (which we all hope never happens) is a good idea.

Unfortunately, most of the things that one would be likely to die from are things you have to deal with immediately or almost immediately, so knowing about them in advance could help a lot.
Counterpoint: a fine will do nothing but ensure that assets will end up in trust. Prison will actually ensure that even if they do escape financial ruin, they will be paying a debt in hard, non-fungible, time.
I've also seen similar behavior with thread-unsafe code (the time I saw something like this was very painful -- email messages were generated at about the same time in parallel, and most were sent to the wrong recipients.)
One aspect is to look at the inverse decision and effect.

Will NATO allow Finland to join NATO knowing that it will anger Russia and possibly provoke violence? The recent decision by the USA to not proxy jets from Poland to Ukraine is telling.
Why are you saturating your own link? You control your upstream unless you've already been breached or there is a vulnerability in your router firmware
DeepMind managed to rekt the best players in Go and StarCraft after a few years of founding. Go has been played for 3000 years, and it has influenced military strategy since ancient times. The strategies you can find in Sun Tzu's Art of War were influenced by the game of Go.

Did you know what is the difference between the military simulators used by defense departments and strategy games like Go? Did you know both share a lot in common? What you dismiss as "game playing" has more present applications than you imagine and will make the difference between life and death in armed conflicts.

The orders given by generals will likely come from a successor of MuZero. And that may expand to every key decision making process, like the equipment to be manufactured, logistics, etc.

Combine that with the power asymmetry coming from drones and that "game playing" will become the most dominant force in this world.
There is a great example of this from the fine folks at ITA Software (now Google Flights). Their founder wrote basically a paper on the challenges of writing airline ticket optimization software…in PowerPoint. The slides are thin on information but the speaker notes explain everything.

Since seeing that, I double-down on making my speaker notes tell the story for those that couldn’t be in the room.
Jurassic park vibes for anyone else? 'Life finds a way....'
I'm not a fan of the whole secure context separation thing. A lot of cool P2P stuff is impossible because a service worker can't access an HTTP server, which would be very useful for web sites to talk to IoT devices.

If there was something sensitive in front of my camera, I wouldn't give any random site permission anyway.

File system access should definitely be secure only, the rest might not need it.

Of course if Mozilla actually did FlyWeb we could almost totally deprecate HTTP except for some public legacy sites.
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I’m not sure that it is correct to limit deep learning to just a feedback loop, but cybernetics (if the thermostat variety, not the terminator variety) might be the right word.
Nobody is talking about going to jail.. We're talking about Prison. Big difference.
Whatever Apple is doing for the XDR (which I own) is not DSC, or not standard.

Because DSC has been broken ever since the Big Sur betas. Catalina supported 1.4 and DSC and my cheese grater Mac Pro happily drove 2x27" 4K monitors in HDR @ 144Hz.

Big Sur? Nope, you get 95Hz SDR or 60Hz HDR. If you set the monitors to DP1.2 you get 120Hz SDR.
>deep learning isn't enough is to use a different approach to achieve superior results.

Proponents of symbolic learning should start by just achieving results that are even remotely close go those achieved with deep learning. Nevermind outperforming it. Because the reality is, for NLP and anything related to CV, deep learning has consistently wildly outperformed every other approach. Thousands of ai researchers have tried to make "old school" AI work for those problems with only very limited success.

Now my background is in CV (not in the field anymore, but was until 2019) so I'm not sure about how well other methods stack up against DL for other use cases. But to me symbolic approaches for most of what DL excels at just seem like a completely unfeasible (and overcomplicated) pipedream.

I don't disagree with the premise that current research has kind of stalled compared to the early-mid 2010s but that mostly means we need to figure out new ways to do ML and DL, not because DL has failed as a concept . & keep in mind that the fact we can even say that things have "stalled" is because we got spoiled by the huge performance leaps that DL made possible in the first place.

The symbolic AI crowd have always had a "2 more weeks" narrative where they promise that they will figure out a given problem very soon if only x condition was true. The problem is that they have almost always terribly underdelivered, and that was true even when 99% of the research and funding was focused on symbolic or hard AI. Subsymbolic approaches could also be argued to have yielded somewhat underwhelming results (vs the hype) but the other methods are in a league of their own.
My running theory is that US does these endless wars for this reason.

Tax payer money -> defense companies -> 'political contributions'

This is why it's probably fine to not win wars because the war is not being fought to be won.
Over time = how many years?

You can still find work in pretty much any language. Think COBOL is a dead language? :)
Your post made me laugh out loud. Your rent is a sunk cost, it doesn't increase if you get a PC taking up 0.2m floor space and it's not like your PC is a car needing a dedicated garage for storage. Also, it's not significant large enough that getting rid of the PC means you can suddenly downsize and move out into a cheaper apartment to save money. So the cost in rent space of a PC is just bogus, unless of course, you live in one of those space-ship pods you find in Tokyo hotels.

And in regards to opportunity costs, I'm sure that if you're mildly creative, you can find some dead space under your desk or between your desk and the wall, that can't be used for anything like a plant or your legs, or you can just hang it from the desk so it doesn't take up any floor space. Like, come on, seriously, there are various mini-ITX case sizes and mounting options if you're short on space and have some imagination or willingness google a bit.

Nevertheless, I'm still impressed by the length of your mental gymnastics trying to attach a rent cost to the PC case. Quality satire like this is why I come to HN. Thank you.
My Beats Flex cost $59 - at the airport. They are probably cheaper other places. They also have the Apple “juju”.
The problem with coal is that there’s an invisible CO2 quota that if we as a species overstep it will kill more people than help. If it was me, I would try to get rid all taxes, and tax imports and local goods based on average world CO2 output compared to the country that I’m in. As people don’t generally think long term, this policy is unpopular, so it won’t get implemented.
In some cases refrigerating the ink will make it visible again, but not reliably. Leaving notes in your car can cause then to be erased. So these are a novelty or for casual use.

A fantastic use case though is in sewing. Ironing the fabric makes the ink transparent. These pens are far superior to chalk for that reason.
But they still want to charge us XDR owners $200 for the privilege.
> there comes a point where you're not working with neural networks anymore. The human brain has reached that point

No offense, just startled, but that’s the most self-contradictory thing I’ve ever heard.

The human brain is by definition a neural network…
I wonder sometimes how tiny brains work. Take butterflies: they can flit among flowers on a bush or in a small area on the ground; how do they know how to move around so they fly to a nearby flower, then stop and insert their proboscis into the nectar-bearing region? I guess there is no real learning going on--the behavior is probably innate--but still, it seems miraculous.
This is why I hate privacy first thinking. The IoT is a big deal. I own basically nothing that has electricity that wouldn't be slightly to majorly improved, at low cost, by IoT.

So... lets... make the tech that powers it not suck, so we can stop with all this analog business.
Give us an example that supports your argument ? Opinion pieces are what they are subjective opinions
Pretty much anything is vulnerable to a zero day exploit of some form or another. If you have data you wish to publish, or data that you wish to ingest in one direction only, a data diode might be helpful.

In this case, you manage the outside server, hardening it as best you can, and set up monitoring of bandwidth use, etc. through a network switch, etc.

The data diode will only pass data in your preferred direction, and can't leak it in the reverse direction.

In the case of inbound data only, you are protected against any data egress.

In the case of output data only, you are protected against ingress of control. You still have to watch for exploits pushing data out through the diode, but you can be sure any hack won't have been sourced from the internet.
Ask HN: For those who have relocated to Florida are you happy with the decision?
GJK is more than just collision detection. If you really just need to detect collisions, there are usually much simpler ways to do it.
I believe they call that Hebbian Learning in neuroscience.
I personally wouldn't let any usage of locals() through code review, except perhaps in some extremely rare circumstance.

Do you have an example of "filling a data class from kwargs"?
If we manage to create an artificial sentience then we need to legislate and protect their rights. AGI won't be a free lunch.
original author here.

It's funny you can get completely silo'd in your career, thinking you've seen it all. SBS 2008 is a really surprising little offering, lots of the admin tools seem streets ahead of anything I'd seen out of Microsoft on the enterprise editions, even if only that they point out problems and have actual links that work to send you in the right direction to solve them.

In some ways it reminds me a lot of the problems I used to have with some small customers when I first started my career and was dealing with small business owners who didn't want to learn how to be system administrators.

It might not be cool, but it's still fascinating.

edit: It is also surprisingly snappy on some fairly average hardware and running in a VM. Not sure what Microsoft have done between 2008 and 2019 but none of it was adding to the performance.
I don't think there's much appetite within the EU for rapid expansion; we're still grappling with Poland and Hungary's violations of the union's shared principles of liberal democracy. The EU needs significant reforms before it's likely to start admitting new members.

But certainly in the abstract, I agree there's a sense of drawing together, with the vast majority of Europe against Russian aggression. Finland probably should join NATO, as any benefits of neutrality must be dwindling under the EU's sanctions of Russia.
I think it's perfectly understandable to want to make contact with him, but not necessarily rational.

If she doesn't want a relationship with him, why is she trying to make contact? (He's already given her medical info.) It's rather clear she does expect a relationship of some sort.
In my experience running Windows on QEMU/KVM (using libvirt and virt-manager), I've been unable to get Windows VMs to output smooth audio without stuttering, nor 60fps screen redrawing (https://www.testufo.com/ fails miserably, even cmd and mintty feel sluggish). Is there a good solution for this?
> I like Gary Marcus as a personality and I look out for his work.

That's funny, my interest in reading this article went to zero the moment I saw he wrote it.
I've found the same issue - and I've discovered it's because of the pen. The pen they give to you by default writes poorly once your notebook has been used up. The clickable one and skinny ones are fine and write like day 1.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pilot-Frixion-Clicker-Erasable-Ge...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pilot-FriXion-ColorSticks-Erasabl...
Saw a clip of an administration official who admonished a reporter for spreading misinformation for merely asking the question. But he never answered the question definitively. Before today I would have said the whole idea was preposterous, but now I do not know what to believe.
Nostratic Languages
Being able to discuss such things is normal in mature, healthy conversation between people.

Also, Hacker News is hosted by YCombinator, a culture fundamentally rooted in innovation.
Re-posting my comment so that you see it:

I've found the same issue - and I've discovered it's because of the pen. The pen they give to you by default writes poorly once your notebook has been used up. The clickable one and skinny ones are fine and write like day 1.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pilot-Frixion-Clicker-Erasable-Ge...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pilot-FriXion-ColorSticks-Erasabl...
I interviewed with AWS about 7 months ago and got an offer. I had multiple recruiters emphasize the LP stuff. I prepared, and there’s no way I would have passed without that preparation.

In my experience, they also give the toughest programming questions. It is a lot of prep overall.
Interesting, though the article doesn't specify exactly what seasoning is, and specifically mentioned "formation of protective oxides, like chromium oxide" with seasoning.

I feel there might be some overlap, or loose use of the terms.
You do realize those are rugged cold war planes? They have zero problem landing on ordinary two lane road. You can fly to the border, land in front of crossing, push planes over the border and let Ukrainians do whatever they want.
Yeesh, hard enough to get people to consider non-humans as people let alone a computer program.
But that first viewpoint is called Computer Engineering, and is distinct from Computer Science.
Honestly I can't find any fault here. Giving up the drinking and smoking has probably been monumentally difficult, and it's amazing that he's been able to do that. That alone tells me he is committed to getting healthier.

The diet stuff... honestly, nutrition "science" is full of contradictions. Sure, too much of anything is probably bad for you, but I don't think diet concerns should be a blocker for receiving a transplant.

At any rate, sorry you and your family has to go through this, and best wishes for your uncle's recovery.
I think people like Cristy and Torvalds just want to help out. It's fiercely competitive giving things away for free in our gift economy. Some devs work hard for years building open source software without ever knowing the satisfaction that people are using it.

> I should take this opportunity to tell you that it's great fun watching you become a legend in your own time. Cheers! and well met.

Thanks!
Very impressive and inspirational. I'm blown away by this. Great stuff.
> The benefit of the coding puzzle platforms is as a hiring firm you get shown data about all applicants who took that test, and it’s standardised.

You're arguing that standardized testing is a good indicator of candidate outcome. If this was the case, Universities would not be ditching the SATs en masse.

When you test for programming puzzles, you're just filtering out people who have grinded leetcode, just like how the SATs filtered out people who took SAT prep classes. If that's your goal, great. However, we shouldn't pretend programming puzzles are a good way to filter for great engineers. I can guarantee you that leetcode is filtering out a lot of great engineers.
Probably yes, it works on 2p Neuro images, which are of course not InFocus
Ask HN: What do you think of recording video meetings?
At my large tech co, occasionally a host of a small ordinary inter-team video meeting will record it (after getting consent). I see many cons and also some pros to this practice, I’m curious what you all think?
"Neural Network", tragically, is a term that refers to a specific kind of model inspired by a sort of 70s understanding of human neurons. Deep learning refers to those models. The human brain is made of neurons, and by God do they network, but the term has been co-opted so it is not a neural network. A particular region or set of neurons that do one thing might be called a neural circuit, and the whole thing can be called the connectome (though that's sort of debatable).
This is briging some TS syntax into JS - the estabilished way (used be eg Deno) is to run .ts files, supporting all of TS language and syntax there.
America doesn't want to literally fly MiGs from Ramstein to Ukraine, which was the bizarre solution proposed by Poland. They're not against it in principle.

As the article says, attacking an EU member would already provoke a massive response. Finland joining NATO is a relatively small step, even if Russia cries about some perceived aggression.
https://twitter.com/alexey_minyaylo/status/15007899530428211...

1807 polled in RU, 59% said they support the russian invasion

https://www.dorussianswantwar.com/
That sine wave shaping network is blowing my mind! I've always wondered how function generators do that, and I knew filtering would only work at one frequency.

The diode-resistor network is all sorts of elegant. Using twelve resistors of carefully chosen values though, tolerance issues must be tricky. I'd imagine laser-trimmed networks being a good fit for that topology.

Is that likely used in monolithic function generator chips like the XR2206?
Has anyone pit DeepMind against a constraint satisfaction algorithm in StarCraft? I’ve heard constraint satisfaction can be good enough to simulate playing StarCraft.
On First Glance, Which of These Seems Like the Better Programmer?
He's really talking about a path towards AGI, not ML being able to do many tasks like this. There's work towards ML doing causal inference, but CI has been a major challenge for Deep Learning (a specific type of ML) and is likely not possible with it alone (see reference to hybrid models). Of course, if he were saying that ML/DL hasn't improved significantly in these recent decades then yes, he would be being dishonest. There even has been work in explicit density models, symbolic manipulation, and causal inference. All things he (presumably) cares about. But these things don't get nearly the hype nor the research power and thus is a lot slower. In the end there's really two camps. Those trying to do things and those trying to build models that understand. But note that he's using DL as a specific term and not in place of ML nor AI.
It's mainly the discomfort of the people who were left behind by DL speaking, not much else to see. We should absolutely let the data speak for itself.
I guess it's something similar to the concept of expert systems / rule-based system.
Some browsing lead to this interesting bit of trivia -- nickel means demon or goblin, and originates from miners mistaking the nickel ore for copper ore,
calling it "goblin's copper".

>As early as the 1600s, a dark red ore with a distinct green coating became a notable source of irritation for copper miners in Saxony, Germany. Believing that the dark red substance was an ore of copper, they continued mining it. As the ore was causing ailments, the miners turned to folklore and adopted a belief that it was protected by goblins. This ultimately led to the naming of the ore as “kupfernickel,” translating to “goblin’s copper.”

https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/thederm/site/c...

Also, (my speculation) it is the origins of the name of Copernicus.
quote: Roskomsvoboda is a Russian non-governmental organization that supports open self-regulatory networks and protection of digital rights of Internet users. The organization aims to counteract censorship on the Internet and to popularize the ideas of freedom of information and self-regulation.
While it’s not mandatory, have a product with real paying customers goes a long way. Even if it is only a few people/companies. That feedback loop at the beginning is huge.
While I do use this style occasionally, the previous commenter's point still stands that as value1, value2, fallback become longer than a couple of characters it does become very hard to read. It's also something that can start out fine but as the code grows more complex over time it can spiral into unreadability.
Used this in a b2b saas for a few years. Worked well and helped remove complexity in a previous way we did it that relied on a native app called pic2shop. We lost a bit of functionality specifically a clear target zone, green scanning line and better low light support. It made up for it in ease of support and reduction in perceived jank.