skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is long history of science-fiction writers painting correct visions of, at the time seemingly impossible future. Sometimes You don't have to be an expert to notice the trends in certain domains. I'd go even further - it could be easier to notice the big picture without being overly bothered with nitty-gritty technical details - yes, to further the field they are necessary, but to comment the direction the field is heading in and about its implications for society they are not.
I don't necessarily agree with the author, I'm just making a general comment.
The same reason they didn't shove in a 1000mbit Ethernet port; it saved them 2 cents a TV across 10 million TVs.
I wonder if it might be time for some legislation around this. Manufacturers are already required to include operating instructions with products they release, so why not protocol specs? They don't need to release anything secret, just the instructions for software to interact with their hardware.
For some ratio of cost to weight, with consideration as to where on the ship it is... if you have time to calculate such things. In this case they probably do, if they really care to.

At the scale of these ships, though, if you have to jettison cargo you're probably looking at hundreds of containers or more. At that point it probably doesn't make that much difference which containers you jettison, it'll mostly average out.
Random comment, I hilariously hold a CTO title (filed in Ma) or some place common. It's probably the wrong title, I just do everything technical and decide how to build things. It's just work, I put the cool CTO title on my LinkedIn but other than people trying to get me to hire them (they think we have money) it's just work. We're not a unicorn or anything too so it's kind of worthless title in my case.
Yes, exactly, no questions there :) I remember here in the 90s (barely post-USSR Hungary) going anywhere with a typical car was almost like a choose your own adventure, where adventure meant something will randomly go wrong, and if you are lucky you have spare parts with you, or maybe you can simply find a workaround (for example when the cooling system loses all the water because the radiator suddenly bursts means you could still make progress, of course slow and stopping if the engine gets too hot). And in the early 90s nobody had mobile phones, so it involved a bit of hitchhiking to the nearest phone too!
The VK_FOOL_printed_surface vulkan extension: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/the-latest-and-greates...
I have a friend who took anti-anxiety meds and was immediately extremely productive.
> but I was questioning the OP:s use of "anything", so I don't think I'm being pedantic

Nope, you’re 100% being pedantic. OP said “things happening around you”, which most would not interpret as “birth of my child” or random “kind gestures”.

> I'm a bit troubled by the (purposeful) spreading erosion of trust in society

I hear this kind of misguided sentiment quite often. I hate to break it to you, but your hope/trust for humanity doesn’t change reality.

Eg, my European colleagues who call political corruption as “transgressions”, implying that somehow it’s a rare occurrence in the EU, but obviously developing countries are “deeply corrupt”.
Sorry for not being detailed in my comment. Or i might have butchered. I will simply explain with numbers.

Email said, flight departs 31st March 9pm.

Flight duration 15 hours.

Flight reaches Apr 1st. 9pm. No indication of timezones, but as super common in flights, all times are local. Both cities have about 12 hour difference.

Google thought Departure 31st March (correct);

Duration 15 hours (correct).

Arrival Apr 2nd, 12pm. (Not correct, it added 15 hours duration to Arrival city time. Apr 1 9pm + 15 hours = this).
Maybe what you read about Putin's renewed popularity is itself
disinformation. Yesterday I was reading the opposite from another
(dis)information source.

There are no technical solutions to the veritas problem.

You can't task or pay someone else to solve this problem.

But what you can do is promote truth - as a moral principle. And doing
so as a strong principle requires a HUGE HUGE effort in these
times. In a world where deception makes money, and money is our god,
it's hard to live an hour without hypocritically feeding the machinery
of profitable lies. Even your post, made in good faith and sincerity
has unwittingly spread the (probable) falsehood about Putin. And this
reply of mine probably adds to the fire in some unseen (by me) way.

This has to come right from your soul and sometimes requires a
vicious and merciless honesty. You will not be popular or liked.
Hey Dane, thanks for the update, but reading this I'm fairly sure now that our monthly bill is going to go up by 1400% so that's not really a one-time cost - it's an absolutely huge increase for a very small agency. Having slept on this overnight now, I'm thinking I have two options - 1) spend a lot of time and energy switching over to EnvKey v2 and then pay 14 times as much for it, or 2) spend a lot of time and energy switching over to something else entirely and not pay 14 times as much for it. It seems pretty obvious which one we should go for.

Having put the time and energy into v1 and recommended it far and wide it's disappointing, but I guess we're not your target market any more.
Yeah the SO one tripped me out, thought my graphics card was dying ha.
No, the reason was that the search space is insanely large.

> It's just a 19x19 board, so it was always known if you could read all the possible outcomes you could see all the possibilities and win.

All possible outcomes is not something you can iterate over in our universe.

> There was a certain assumption in the question for AI researchers academically that it would be an understood algorithm as an AI agent like a Prolog application, not a brute forced model.

I never heard this, and the result is really not brute forced. You can't brute force go.

> That doesn't make AlphaGo any less impressive or any less practical, but it even has its own readout issues. It can't even read ladders without hard coding it in, for instance, because it becomes a long enough depth search. This is one of the first things a newbie would learn.

Only in early versions, AlphaZero didn't have any built in knowledge and can learn different games and the later developments in MuZero went further to make it more generalised as a learner.

Removing the hard coded logic and removing even seeing how humans plan, it got better. It found strategies and ways of playing that experts had missed in an ancient game.

> This is just looking at all possible outcomes and picking the best one, not knowing how to play.

"It's just doing X, it doesn't really know how to Y" is a common refrain. It looks at options, and explores "what if" scenarios in a guided sense with a feeling about how good any particular potential board is. I find it hard to say that it doesn't "know" how to play.
How is it even possible to spend that much money on "basic needs"? If your rent is 10k and you spend $250 a day on food, that still comes to less than half of your after tax takehome. That leaves you with 20k to burn after food and housing. Id be really interested to see a breakdown on that.

Throw in 5k / month on vehicles. You now have 15k after food housing and transportation. Are you really spending that much on child care and insurance?

I have a feeling this person is really saying that they are only saving 20k a month but thats not a lot to them.
Thanks for the details and the recommendations. I'm in complete agreement with them. Especially the explain the common sense part. A lot of people are ridiculously bad at communicating their expectations (both managers and managees(?))...
This post reminds me of the once common meme[1] that pi contains all things you will see in your life, all books you will ever read and all songs you will ever hear, the first thing you saw when you were born, and the last thing you will see before you go away for one final time.

Off course, pi isn't proven to be normal (containing all possible sequences of decimal digits, if I remember that correctly) yet so this thought experiment needs an encoding aware of that to work, and any random bit source that unrepeatingly explores the combinatorial space of a symbolic alphabet would work, pi is not special here at all. This is just the library of babel + encoding arbitary data structures into numbers.

As you say, finding patterns is not hard, it's unsurprising that random strings contain those things, maximum-entropy information sources maximize the expected information as per Shannon. The whole point, though, is finding useful patterns: things that predict other things you care about, which you didn't know beforehand (or just knew in vague outlines), and which are cheaper to find and explore than simply directly observing/simulating the things they predict. None of this holds for the 'patterns' you will find in a typical library of babel. Evolution and evolutionary algorithms can be seen as a tool to cull the impossibly large search space of a library of babel. Also mental heuristics like Occam's razor can be seen as tree-pruning heuristics this way.

An even more beautiful idea than "An infinite random string contains all possible data structures" is "An infinite random string contains all possible programs and all possible computations (according to all possible semantics of those programs)", explored by the legendary Greg Egan in Permutation City. I can't do justice to Egan in this already too-long-of-a-comment, but I promise you will absolutely be mind blown.

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/pi-meme-on-reddit-and-g...
> By being open source, affordable, and highly customizable due to the usage of Python

this is laughable right? why is the fawning over python not a thing that makes you chuckle? Is it because the computational finance community swarmed around python?
I think with him being the highest paid employee In The entire U.S. federal government and being the figurehead controlling the restrictions on our lives for 2+ years then caring about him is justified.
It's a kernel extension for audio and video decoding.
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleAVD.kext/
> OMG it's an April Fool's joke.

Very disappointing…

And here I was hoping it could be combined with the comma operator and be the ‘like, totally’ operator.
I'd pay good money for this. A year long "staycation" sounds amazing.
I like the SO filters i hope they leave it in settings after april fools
> Searle's answer is obviously not, from which he deduces that the computer program doesn't understand Chinese either.

Would Searle feel differently if he'd taken a computer architecture course?

There was something strangely magic about making an adder:

1. Learn about boolean logic, Karnaugh maps, etc

2. Define the inputs and outputs of a 4-bit adder, deduce some set of gates which would correspond to those outputs

3. Put those into a circuit similator and put a box around it

4. Suddenly the random AND and OR gates, which look arbitrary and none of which individually know how to do addition, collectively know how to addition.

Then you keep scaling that up: Put a bunch of gates together, none of which have memory, and suddenly you have flip-flops and registers. Add an instruction decoder and suddenly it starts zooming along doing things, executing simple programs that you feed it from simulated "memory". But you know that inside is just a spider's nest of logic gates.

I myself am religious and believe in a spiritual world distinct from the material world; but the Chinese Room thought experiment was never that compelling to me: I've seen spider webs of logic gates come alive as processors when assembled properly; I don't see an inherent reason why an algorithm of paper plus a very patient human couldn't come together to create something which "understood".
I think we will get to the Great Reset before we get to the Singularity.
Is this a GPT3 post? made zero sense
In Spain you need to make sure they have fiber, and not some satellite internet (surprisingly common).
Other than that, yes, noise is a huge problem for us foreigners in Spain. Most landlors opt for the smallest kWh electricity contract as electricity is one of the most expensive in Europe.
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It seems that the news from Wacom applies to both pen displays and tablets, but since they only show photos of pen displays, I was wondering — under what circumstances you would choose a pen display over a tablet?

The tablet I'm using (Huion HS611 on Mac) only serves as a tool for diagrams and sketching ideas, so laying it flat over my desk would require me to bend over or lean over to use it (instead of sitting straight and looking at the screen while using a non-display tablet).
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What I find mildly curious, that's also the only place where a length was provided as an argument into `Gitlab::Password.test_default`.
Pretty sure they said it's because it doesn't support permissions, so you could see anything on your hard drive, that's why they don't support it and do indexing instead
What does "seen from space" mean? I think to have any useful meaning it should mean "Can be seen with the naked eye, from an altitude X which we can consider space such as The Kármán line".

Just that something can be resolved on a satellite image using an arbitrarily large telescope doesn't say much about what size it is.
> generally when you sum together a lot of random variables following a specific distribution you end up with basically the same distribution (scaled by the N random vars). So a lot of sigmoids put together (e.g. covid spread) will still eventually be a sigmoid.

I haven't studied statistics very much, but I'm fairly sure the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem says something a bit different from that!
While this is possible, it takes ages for an application to gracefully shutdown so any time you save not having to start up a new server is lost. And then you still have classloader, memory and thread leaks since you can't really prove they are absent unless you have 100% test coverage + load testing on every possible code path.

Modern Java webservers (even 'enterprise' containers like JBoss etc) start up so quickly now there's not much to gain by not restarting them.
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Interesting story, I only know PL.8 from the public sources and always though it started and died with the RISC project, which later gave birth to Aix on PowerPC.

Wasn't aware that it still had a life of its own after that.
It's a kext for decoding HEVC, H.264, and VP9.
This is an interesting point. While this would be nice for some folks that just want drivers to be functional I could also see why a manufacturer might be reluctant to offer such information. One reason they could bring up is that it may put undue burden on them to document and provide such information. Another possible issue a manufacturer may have with this is that it offers a more direct route for abuse of their software/hardware (maybe?). Or in some cases it may be a liability to offer such information (if there is a potential for misuse)

Edit: or maybe they don’t want to release that kind of info for product/brand lock-in reasons?
how scientific are this kind of explanations? “today we know that X% of duck sex is forced; that could explain why ducks have genitalia like they do”. the genitalia evolved over 10s or even 100s of thousands of years along with many other traits in ducks. we probably don’t know if ducks were so aggressive 200 years ago but we assume what we see today was the same 100k years ago?
Most distros have systems to pull in advisories from various places and tools to query which packages on your system have issues. For eg Debian has their security tracker and debsecan to query it.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/
https://security-team.debian.org/security_tracker.html
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/debsecan
These elemental toxicity problems should be a problem of the past.
We have the science and the devices to detect and track them easily.

I'm speaking about XRF analyzer. Currently it's still expensive : a 30K$ portable device, but that's because it's a low volume production.

These are gun-like devices that you point to a material, it shines x-ray on it and analyze the rays that comes back, which allows it to determine the elemental composition and percentages of the material for free in a few seconds. Like magic.

Today they are used for checking the paints for lead. They are used by precious metal buyers and sellers to identify precisely the content.

But I dream of the day where anybody can just check its steak or salmon with it for traces of anything toxic. It won't detect all food safety problems like bio contamination or organic pesticides, but it can definitely make heavy metal poisoning a thing of the past, by helping track the supply chain, the same way that having an air quality monitor can help improve your air quality.
> they're thick and have all kinds of things in them, accreted over literally centuries of practice.

Oh, so the field is ripe for disruption by a startup that will jettison all that, replace it with arbitrary anti-customer terms under a thin layer of technology, and make bank! /s
I never said Europe was more enlightened or superior.

I merely said USA is still using the concept of race and it is mostly cultural due to its history. Which means racism/discrimination issues are treated under a vastly different pane of glass. And yes it is fucked up but racism/xenophobia is a global problem.

I never said europe fared better but it seems like mentionning US as a european triggered something that make US people think their country is under attack and they should just enter into negationism mode. Calm down, it is not a US vs Europe thing. More an ackniwledgement that different cultures react differently based on their history.
They also have the tools for trading various instruments, handling RFIs etc.

I think people will be willing for this start up to succeed though because:

1) Bloomberg has an incredibly inept internal technology team. Dealing with them is a like a clown show.
2) Horribly aggressively sales-driven in all customer interactions
3) Everybody in banking management that signs the hundreds of millions of dollars per year invoice for Bloomberg absolutely hates them.
It's very important to realize that disinformation is not something that you can usually solve with tech. [1]

It's a problem of trust and emotion, almost purely social and psychological.

If you try to "solve" disinformation with tech, you almost certainly make the problem worse.

So if you want to do something about it, teach people empathy, human values, and work on accountability and transparency. That helps a lot.

[1] see e.g. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051219889...
Modules = Lego bricks used to build bigger Lego artifacts

Package = Lego bricks (probably share a theme and are meant to build something concrete together), shipped with instructions and media and whatnot, in a, well, whole package.
> The type of places at risk of food shortages don't necessarily have wheat storage facilities with regulated hygrometry.

First of all you're moving goalpost here, the thread started with a discussion about how some people can hoard a huge amount a microchips or wheat to make big profit, there's no reason for this hoarding to occur in developing countries (and in fact it's more likely to happen in countries where capital is flowing, for such a speculator to invest).

Then when we're talking about countries that import wheat, that means taking wheat from tankers in big ports, not some remote rural places with no electricity or running water. In countries that import wheat, Middle East and North Africa that is, theses facilities are critical to the mere survival of the population, so of course they have access to at least the early/mid 20th century tech which is all you need…
Really hope some day it will be like this, never gonna give it up.
Yes, according to my experience the owners who actually care and will solve any issues are not using real estate agents. Only those who want to be 'hands off' do. It usually ends up not being a great experience for everyone involved.
>>> We keep moving the goal post

It's more like climbing a mountain and seeing higher peaks. Researchers may have been thinking that creating a human beatable program may get them insights into how to create an AGI, but they just find out more problems to surmount.
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>The DoD's rules do prevent this; the NSA refuses to follow DoD rules.

Well then it's like i said....there is something wrong ;)
These are not my words. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30875680
Phrasing any broad question as "why dont" makes no sense. Who are you asking the question to? Its a subjective question so the why depends on the answerer.
Seems like your definition of "serious business" probably amounts to about 10% of the overall economy at this point? It doesn't seem very relevant or useful.
Full stack dev here. I know plenty of frontend JS. I've written a chat application for my job that's currently in use by ~thousands of people among other things. This preface just to note that I'm not bad at JS or scared by it.

I hate having to set up a "modern" js toolchain when starting a new project. No matter what tools you choose it's always a huge hassle, and it never manages to integrate seamlessly with the backend.

What I like about HTMx and alpine.js is that first of all the set up is trivial. I just stick the js files in my static folder and stick a script tag in the header. Secondly they leverage exactly what the backend is good at: producing HTML. Getting the backend and frontend talking is trivial instead of a huge REST-y kludge.

With modern JS I need to write database models, REST views, REST serializers, components, routing logic, etc.

with HTMx and alpine I still need to write database models, views and templates but I get to fully skip the whole translation to and from REST (or whichever other API model you prefer). And in the end it's no less performant.

So yeah for hobby projects I definitely avoid modern JS, but it's not for no reason. The developer experience is just awful IMO.