skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. How does Firefox rank on netsec concerns? I would think better than Chrome and Safari since not backed by one of the oligopolists. Might be a good target for support regardless of share.
I will, thanks for the recommendation! I hope my original response didn't dismissive -- it wasn't intended to if so.
You are not alone, the strong marketing from Adobe and Apple creates the impression that image creators are all about having Adobe software on the latest Macs. This is far from the reality. While most don’t correlate Linux with artists, we can argue that the most impressive and sophisticated computer imagery is mostly created under this platform. Actually, even when the studio is mostly Windows based, after a certain size, it gradually moves to Linux, like Scanline.
I fully believe that there are companies out there for which this is true. I also know that there is at least one organization out there for which it is not true, at least in several parts of the organization, because I've spent the last fifteen years working there. (It's a big org; there are probably parts that do have this kind of toxicity but I've been fortunate enough to avoid them). My work slides to the right all the time, but because I keep my managers appraised of the risk, give them as much warning as possible when something unanticipated interferes with progress, and work with them to consider alternatives and figure out how to respond, I have gotten consistently positive reviews and a wide selection of projects for me to choose from whenever I have availability.

Maybe I just got super lucky--it's a good fit for me and it's a huge part of why I've stayed so long--but to say that all companies and upper management are as you've described? That's painting with too broad a brush.
So for anyone curious, the article mentions very briefly that there was a pilot onboard. A pilot is someone who comes onboard to help the ship navigate, and is usually required in areas like this (areas with shallow waters, etc). Transiting the Suez also requires a pilot come onboard. They come on to prevent these issues.
If you look at the PR, it’s changing words like “here” to “theyre” and “help” to “theylp.” It’s basically just a simple find and replace with no concern for whitespace or whether any of the generated content makes up actual words.
Hard disagree. I have no contempt, however, as a person of science, I see that we are in the technological equivalent of the stone age when it comes to AI. "Cavemen" probably had some outlandish ideas in their own era as well.

To give you an example of how lost we are, we don't even know how human genetics work with the human brain. It is one thing to make a machine that can pretend to think, but to make a machine that not only actually thinks, but also communicates and is able to act in a 'human' or 'intelligent' fashion is exponentially harder.

Just my 2 cents. I hope to be proven wrong, but we haven't cured cancer or discovered the secret to fusion yet, so...
The article said up to 40% of matings were forced, not that 40% of female ducks die from forced matings.
> People's inability to accurately assess how easy an inherently easy problem is has no bearing on people's inability to accurately assess how hard an inherently hard problem is.

Really? It seems to me that if people over-estimated the difficulty of an "easy" problem like mastering go, then they're even more likely to over-estimate the difficulty of a hard problem like self-driving. In fact, the over-estimation could scale up faster than linearly, if estimating two problems of size X is easier than estimating one problem of size 2X.

> with the algorithms and computational models we have today or in the near future

That's the thing. When predictions were being made about the difficulty of mastering go, people didn't have the algorithms and computational models that we have today. Similarly, predictions made today about the progress of self-driving cars may be lacking critical information about the algorithms and computational models that will be available in the near future.
Did you look at the actual commit ?

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/pu...
The GitHub discussions for Atom have been flooded with spam bots for days
> Landlines and Ethernet Cords [...] early 2000s technology

2000s? You'd expect better fact checking from the WSJ. I take it the author is young enough for all of this stuff to just blend into an amorphous chunk of history corresponding vaguely to "what my parents mean when they speak of the olden days".
This famine is primarily a logistics problem not supply.
In any shipping, part of the risk is that your cargo may arrive late, damaged or never - you may get insurance for that, but that risk exists.

GA means that if due to some issue they throw away half of the cargo to save the other half (which is a good thing - you want them to be permitted to do that without going bankrupt, because otherwise there is no motivation to save the half that can be saved) then instead of some people getting their cargo and some losing it, those whose cargo was saved pay a proportional value to those whose cargo got thrown away, so after the settlement all of them get the same average lost cargo value.
it's been a desktop/workstation os for a long while now.
Hard pill to swallow, I know
What do you think are still good places that fits above criteria? Not so expensive Town/City with decent schools and diverse population.
I appreciate you taking a look. I went boring on the font stack because I wanted fast load times. Do you think you want a font that's rounder? or a font that's thinner?

The font stack for the curious: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif
For an intuitive and comprehensive book on linear algebra, Mike Cohen has self-published an excellent book on linear algebra [1]. He also has a very popular Udemy course on the same subject [2].

[1] Linear Algebra: Theory, Intuition, Code:

https://leanpub.com/linear_algebra

[2] Complete linear algebra: theory and implementation in code:

https://www.udemy.com/course/linear-algebra-theory-and-imple...
Wow, this is awesome. Definitely will speed up creating such drawings. Thank you!
Negative reviews are silenced. I ordered a machine with missing parts such that it couldn't be assembled. I gave a 1-star review and it never appeared on the seller's page.
You need to get out more. :)

Early on in my career, I made a living designing network solutions for companies. Warehouses and retail stores in particular needed large, highly available Wi-Fi networks. Some providers tried to build proprietary protocols/networks, but ultimately, they failed.

These days, I'd question working for, or doing work for a company WITHOUT Wi-Fi.

I am probably your age or older. I've interfaced with COBOL systems, for example...
Not sure. Having been a staff and principal engineer at a few places, my view is a staff engineer is primarily a reviewer and documenter: code reviews, writing and reviewing design documents, architectural and coding standards enforcer, etc. Mostly you are shepherding things along that are too technical to be dealt with by the engineering "people" management. Maybe a couple days a week you get to do some interesting coding.
It certainly isn't a strawman, it's how I interpreted your statement. I continue to believe that it is what you intended, but feel free to correct me; I'm listening. If you're truly being misinterpreted as often as you seem to imply, consider communicating more plainly without sarcasm and hyperbole. I personally find them to be poor tools for communication in general and on the internet especially.
I agree that learning a subject in mathematics requires going through it several times at increasing levels of sophistication.

That way, one gradually develops a level of mathematical maturity that allows an appreciation of abstraction.

I read about half of this. It’s nearly incomprehensible to me - I’d have to dig to find out what he’s trying to accomplish.

He’s going out of his way to introduce novelty and it appears he will try anything except address the subject directly.
Christianity, the English language, musical instruments (the fiddle), obligate monogamy. None of those are West African in the time period when slaves were arriving in the Western Hemisphere.
> The team notes that there is little evidence backing up the claims, and also little research into the effectiveness and safety of listening to these beats.

Also worth noting that this stuff started out pre-1997. As cool as the idea of getting a high out of a set of speakers is, I'd've expected a lot more elaboration on the idea if it did work
> An AP and a router are not the same thing

They certainly aren't, but most routers can run in AP mode and cost way less than a dedicated AP. One AP per room is pretty overkill, if you do that, you definitely want to turn the transmit power down to help clients roam.
There's an open issue where the maintainer pledges to ban some of them. https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/23978. But Atom is currently in a maintenance mode and one (volunteer?) contributor can't manually moderate against an army of bots.
It's disappointing to see that Microsoft hasn't moved on this, considering how historically spam-free Github has been.
How, not if. What sparked the first forms of life? No one knows.
The article covered CBDC is about two sentences and then moved on about regulating bitcoin for the rest of the article. Two separate topics, amd the title isn't really at all what the author spent time writing about.
It's not a logical path. Because at the atomic level, chaos theory takes over. You could not, with a mathematically deterministic model, ever hope to simulate that sort of chaotic structure. You would simply have a rough estimate. But by chaos theory we know that if the inputs are off by even the smallest amount the outputs over time become exponentially unpredictable and divergent.

We can use simulations as estimates, as rough guidelines, but not as universes on a chip. That sort of thing is impossible.
What is scale-blindness and how big a social problem is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day
The part that's from π is the actual pixel data, which is extracted in the Python snippet "waldo.tobytes()".
More-or-less equivalently, you could use "list(waldo.getdata())".

The GIF file as stored on disk has extra headers, and the pixel data's been compressed. So the whole file isn't found in the digits of π, just the pixel data itself.

I'd guess the chance of actually finding a correctly formatted full GIF file in contiguous bytes of π is effectively nil.
Evolution explains how life evolves, but doesn’t explain the origin of life itself.
Pretty much my story too - partner & I saved for almost 10 yrs and even then neither of us could have done it individually - that was 25+ yrs ago. I see more similarity with the past than I do differences.
How Ukraine Has Been Nazifized in Chinese Information Space
This sounds a lot like what I was considering. Initially I had a uC/OS kernel and added the equivalent of sleep()/wakeup() and the AmigaOS message ports. QNX took messaging to the extreme (in my opinion :-) but it makes a good way to delineate taskable data. Back at NetApp I was trying to accelerate file processing and realized that files (and mutations thereof) were just a state machine which (and this isn't new or anything, log file systems are an extension of this observation) but the interesting thing was how you could project a sequence of state transitions and reliably determine if it was possible to jump to the end state or not. (and yes this is basically optimizing non-directed graph traversal using robot state which can be reflected in external things like actuator position) The games people are doing these sorts of things to animate elements of their game environment which I find pretty cool too. Once my Tilt5 glasses arrive I expect I can play with this in 3Space using Unity and the SDK which will make it less of a thought exercise and more of a visualization exercise.

Guessing that lookalive-software is your github, have you put up your thoughts anywhere? Would love to read through them.
> have nothing to show for it in terms of something resembling human-level intelligence

We keep moving the goal post; a common theme was when I studied ML in uni in the AI winter of the 90s, that beating Go surely would mean human level intelligence. And many ML models we see now would be considered human level a few decades ago; we moved our goalposts and definitions, which is fine.

However ‘resembling’ is vague; I find most stuff on social media (most notably tik tok and instagram) not human level intelligence either, or, reverse, people easily would (and do) believe comments and posts done by something like gpt 3 are done by humans. That is because the level is so low of course. I know gpt 3 is not intelligent (for my definition anyway, which is intentionally vague) but resembling in some cases: definitely.
From what I've been told, the local pilots does not bear any responsibility.

While I don't work on container ships, every time a pilot comes onboard our vessel (87m) we maintain control. The pilot provides guidance and assistance in navigation, but the captain or a bridge officer (depending on watch) is in control of the vessel.

I think liability is removed from the pilots because ultimately the ships captain is responsible for the ship, and the officer on watch is actually in control.
TIL - thanks for the correction. It looks like they were complimentary, I incorrectly assumed that links to the hyperreal archive that were moved to Erowid were a name change, I never saw that it was a separate site.

https://erowid.org/general/about/about_article5.shtml
Look at your calendar.
In 2019, 32 AI experts participated in a survey on AGI timing:

45% of respondents predict a date before 2060
34% of all participants predicted a date after 2060
21% of participants predicted that singularity will never occur.

https://research.aimultiple.com/artificial-general-intellige...
Goodman Business Card, a new LaTeX template for business cards
True. Also Excel was a clone of Lotus 1-2-3, not VisiCalc, as it copied its macro language too.
Part of it comes down to trying to do AI in a disembodied way. OK, so a team of engineers can specially train and tune an AI model to beat a human at Go. But the human player who was beaten by the computer is thinking about getting up to go to the bathroom while playing, and will drive home afterwards through rush hour traffic and make dinner. That is informed by that human player's GI model for the world.

Current AI models see the world as edges and vague boxes. It doesn't even have item persistence, let alone the ability to decide on, and make, dinner.
Yep, I'd love to get the full list too.
Matters by what measure and to whom?

Sure, not just anybody could have founded Google, even if born to mathematics and computer science professors prioritizing their educations and offering enough of a safety net to start a company rather than toil to pay off student loans for their Stanford computer science graduate educations which facilitated a relationship with a professor willing to connect them with Andy Bechtolsheim right at the Internet’s precipice… but it sure did help.

What they did required hard work, intelligence, creativity and discipline to execute... But implying those are the only factors worth considering is garbage. Their circumstances guaranteed they’d be able to reap greater rewards than nearly anybody else for the same output even if google had failed. Just look at the Opportunity Atlas. Do you really think talent is that geographically focused? If you don’t consider their circumstances lucky or don’t think they made much difference, I’m not really sure what else to say.
This is somewhat a change of the arguments from your side I think. But let’s discuss this topic as well.

US system is not an absolute monarchy and we have checks and balances in place “to tie the hands of the President or his advisors” not only on the question on how to preserve state secrets, but also on many if not all other questions as well. You can check out links at the bottom of this Wikipedia page for good explanations of why it is important:

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

Going back to the question of state secrets, the President had the following options:
1) Expand EO to allow Secretary of State to handle confidential information any way she wants;
2) Authorize Secretary of State to handle confidential information any way she wants using President’s authorization (something like you described above);
3) Pardon Secretary of State for misuse of classified information.

What President and his Administration can not do is to say “nothing to see here, move along”. The President and Administration are not above the laws even if they have powers to enact laws themselves (through EO, regulations, etc). I hope you remember the Watergate.

Edit: forgot to say that I am fine with any of the 3 options above applied to the NSA employee from the parent post. I am not asking for “higher” standards —- I am asking for “the same” standards.
:) Played well.
Meta is cool, like Xi!
Maybe that, to some degree. But amazon.de has a lot of problems, too.

There are a lot of fishy listings, but it's also often quite easy to detect those fishy offers, because the German text is usually full of grammar and spelling errors, and often obviously a result from Google translate, and often not even fully translated, with larger parts still in (shoddy) English. Outright counterfeit products seem to be somewhat rare still, at least from what I observed, but there is quite a number of low quality knockoffs.

Or e.g. multiple journalists reported on review-rigging operations - usually organized through whatsapp, and using regular folks for a few bucks as "mules", to get some coveted "verified buyer" reviews. Or bait-and-switch listings, where they had an original listing which gathered some good/ok reviews, and then they repurpose that listing for another product, while keeping their stars.

Or e.g. there was a report about one guy who got like 10 - 20 packets a day with junk he never ordered, every day, over months. Apparently some shady sellers got hold of his info, and were using him as a "garbage bin" for excess stock[0]. While he wasn't charged for any of the products or shipping, he still ended up in a situation where his door bell rang a few times a day, and he ended up throwing away most of the stuff, having to properly dispose of it. And when contacted, amazon just told him to throw away the stuff he doesn't want. It's unlikely he was the only involuntary garbage bin victim.

[0] It wasn't clear why they did that. Maybe to inflate sales numbers to get higher ranked in the amazon search? Or because just shipping it through amazon to some random people might be cheaper than just keeping that stuff in the amazon warehouse or disposing of it properly?
maybe his nervous system randomly prefer it?
One aspect of the intellectual approach that I struggle with is decision paralysis. That is, second-guessing any expenditure of resources I'm considering as possibly better spent on something else. And there are innumerable options. Empathy or (perhaps more usefully?) a sense of duty to specific people or organizations helps break that indecision, at least for me.
Hm? Evolution explains why life evolves in particular directions. But it has nothing to say about how changes occur; instead, it assumes that changes occur and discusses which changes persist and which don't.

From the perspective of "evolution", there is no difference between a strand of RNA mutating into a different strand of RNA and a cluster of vaguely RNA-like chemicals mutating into a strand of RNA. Those are both things that are outside the scope of evolutionary theory.
The channel is not closed: in fact what happened is that she was supposed to turn tightly into the channel and ... didn't. So she continued on ahead, burying herself an entire boat length into the sandbar. This is why she is stuck so tightly- a ~40 ft drought in ~20 feet of water, but she's so far stuck that she's cleared the channel.

As for why, the investigation hasn't completed, there is no official ruling on who's fault it is, and a whole lot of lawyers telling people not to comment because this is big, big money.
This is nothing new. Most spam bots in the past have been poorly implemented
Strang’s latest book is very much in the abstract camp, but very practical. A physicist’s linear algebra book.

https://math.mit.edu/~gs/everyone/
I have one, the use case is different from a tablet.

I use calibre to load it with ebooks and they are outdoor readable.

(I don't do general tablet kinds of things)
Okay.

So what did he say?

Tell me that and you win but you don't know and haven't heard.

Someone told you to refute it and you comply unknowingly.
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I probably should have said had antecedents rather than goes back to. The point of 238 is a shared burden between the owner and the charterer in the case of a salvage.
We do know, though. We know the evolution of elemental matter, from the big bang through the formation of the solar system through the birth and the tectonic history of earth. We know that a particular combination of energetic environments and chemicals allowed a self reproducing process to take hold at least once. Because of the chirality of the chemistry of life, it's more likely that it developed on the surface, where solar radiation would select in that way, b but it could also have been thermal vents, underground springs, undersea volcanoes, or any of a set of locations that had the durability, energy, chemical availability, and border conditions that allowed cyclic processes to run the experiment a sufficient number of times for "life" to take hold.

We're missing a tiny blip of specificity in the history of life, but there's not anything particularly mysterious about it anymore. It's chemistry and time and probably vast scale and chaotic processes, but fundamentally and simply, it's a matter of chemistry and probability. There's no reason to ascribe to life life any special mystery over any other dynamic processes, like tides or orbits. We won the existence lottery, nothing more or less.
> suggests that the females have selected for traits they hate

Selected for rejection in reproduction. But the term “select” here has a particular jargon meaning that doesn’t line up with how you seem to be using it.

> collective eugenics

Choosing breeding partners isn’t a eugenics program no matter how you try to frame it, that’s just mating. Evolutionary biology especially isn’t, it’s a process that happens generationally based on which genes continue to propagate. Certainly many species consciously prefer outcomes for their offspring, but they’re not (to anyone’s knowledge so far as I’m aware) making those choices for the whole of their social organization or species.
No idea about ADS, but junctions work exactly as they should with WizTree [0].
I have junction folders that are bigger than the entirety of C, so with that not working, the tool would have been uselesss.

[0]: https://www.diskanalyzer.com/
It would be nice if banks need this kind of a process could agree on how it should work.

Like maybe the automated "we will never ask you for this info" email should only contain decimal digits and the "we are on the phone and will send you a confirmation code to read back" could only contain alpha characters. Or something obvious and consistent.
Its just indulgence letters all over again. People paid a lot of money to the church to try to clean their conscience when they could instead have used the money to lift a ton of people out of poverty. So the actual cause doesn't matter, what matters is what those around you think is important, and to them burning money by sending it to the church was more important than actually doing as Jesus preached.
can't describe the system from inside the system, boss
how is 1 negative? And how is 2 not solved by 1.