skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem with this PoV is that these things don't directly impart knowledge of a subject. You might be smarter than your doctor or lawyer, but they are decades ahead of you in terms of training and practice. This includes not just their personal experience in the field but also access to the social stock of knowledge of their profession. Sure, there are problems like institutional bias and groupthink. But these are minor issues compared to the issue of having no grounding or education in the field as is usually the case when engineers opine their unconventional views in different subjects.

So the fallacy behind the fake polymath is not the idea that being smart makes you better at analyzing information. It's the idea that being smart is a substitute for information and expertise. This mistaken assumption can lead smart engineers to beliefs that subject matter experts consider religious or delusional. Mars colonization is a great example in Elon Musk's case.

Btw most of the general training you mentioned isn't part of STEM and is historically associated with humanities subjects like law and philosophy instead. In STEM you typically work with set epistemic frameworks with unambiguous correct and incorrect answers. In this sense, engineers actually learn the opposite of critical thinking and discourse.
Cancel culture does not exist - until you get cancelled.
A nice idea but it gives the wrong info for Spokane, WA, USA
> why I am consuming so much carbohydrates

Poor availability of healthy + low calories + palatable + inexpensive food in developed countries.

The obesity crisis comes from that.
Power propels cancel culture. Causing harm, pain, discomfort, whatever, to someone else gives people a feeling of power. Especially when they feel they have a righteous reason for doing so.
I've been looking at some automated way to scare coyotes out of my yard almost every night at 3am. It drives the dog nuts.
"How to gratuitously bring more distrust and fear into the world."
I think it's a pretty good article personally, sounds like the complaint is just about the title :P
Work has been done on using Markov models etc to predict missing symbols in these texts. But it feels like with all the data now available, and the fact that some signs' meanings are known, we must be able to at least reduce the constellation of possible meanings of some of the unknown signs. There are only so many things it was possible to say about olives in the ancient world, and presumably the semantic space wouldn't be so different to other vaguely contemporaneous languages (not just Linear B). Does anybody know of any work in this direction?
I mean that if "intelligence (etc.)" in the relevant sense can be described by an algorithm, its implementation will not just depend on properties neurones have as neurones. It'll depend on properties at various scales.

This isnt quite true for digital computers, in the sense that the only property which implements the algorithm is the electrical switching state... that this state depends on, eg., silicon isnt quite the same as silicon-properties the ones "doing the work".

This is part of the trouble talking about "computation" at all, which is a nearly empty term in my view.

Consider an example. A "baking a cake" algorithm can be implemented by a person or a factory, if specified correctly. In one case, the organic properties of a person appear "essential to the implementation", but they arent. But there are some algorithms which do require organic properties (eg., if we consider the behaviour of a cell wall an algorithm) to implement.

The question is in what sense are the implementation properties "doing the computational work". Any electrical system which provides switching states is "doing the work in the same way", ie., there are certain "macro-properties" which do the work, regardless of their micro-property dependencies.

I think in the case of intelligence (the brain-body, etc.) the properties "doing the computational work" arent the macro-properties of neuronal interaction. They're properties at various scales (subcelluar protein behaviours; celluar interation; neuronal communication; bodily organization; environmental driving; etc.).

In particular, i think it's the self-adapting self-organizing properties of certain organic systems that allow them to implement "the intelligence algorithm" -- this algorithm, if it can ever be specified, I do not think will be implemented only by macroscopic neurone firing -- i'd say that'll be a very minor part of its implementation. I think most of it will come from self-organization properties from the subcell to the body.
There are alternative platforms like Mastodon. The right would be banning as well. I was banned from Gab for "leftist" speech and they say they pride themselves on free speech. It isn't a left vs right issue. I think when it comes to technology, the left are just more skilled because the party isn't primarily religious zealots.
I’m confident that everyone in the deep learning industry knows our algorithms are horribly inefficient. The canonical example is training inefficiency. They are constantly noting that humans can do one shot learning and our algorithms generally can’t.

EDIT: That said there is valid criticism of their focus on very large models at the expense of more efficient algorithm research, so maybe that’s what you were getting at.
I've found meetup, conferences and twitter work well for me personally, but I imagine you can tailor it to your particular circumstances.

The only "trick" is to find the balance between pestering strangers and showing a genuine interest in the experiences of the people you talk to.

> Hi you have a $COMPANY shirt on, can you get me a job

would likely come off the wrong way whereas

> Hey $NAME, you work at $COMPANY? I've been thinking about applying there and was curious if you could tell me what you think of it?

Would likely get them to talk to you, and if things are going well, they'd likely introduce you to someone or offer to pass your contact information along.
I really wish they took them apart. Took them 30 min to toast 3 slices of bread
People like to come up with all kinds of 'tricks' to lose weight without feeling hungry. To me it sounds like trying to gain muscle in the gym without feeling fatigued or sore. Just be hungry and deal with that feeling. It's okay to feel discomfort. I'm hungry right now but I have decided writing a post on HN is more important than eating immediately; fat people should decide that losing weight is also more important.
Note that this is different than the hepatitis outbreak in young children (most of whom haven't been vaccinated for COVID). Here's a great explanation of that outbreak: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hepatitis-mystery
I feel this article made a mistake by using Musk. His companies are notoriously frugal and demanding despite the market or how well they are doing. I presume the SpaceX coffee story isn’t even all that recent.

It’s trying to use that to make a more general argument about the tech industry changing how they’re treating employees. That may be true, but Musk is a poor example of it.

This article would’ve been better titled “Musk Treats Employees Like Crap” and didn’t try to group the tech industry in.
Engineers can't be users?
The author found a relationship between Linear B (the script) and Linear A (the script) to the point of being able to approximately pronounce Linear A. The actual language written in that Linear A script, Minoan, is still unknown, but this provides some important tools to better understand it.
>Wouldn’t what makes it wet instead be classified as making the body of water larger instead?

No. See: wet paint
If you take money from people who were saving it, and give it to people who will immediately spend it all, that does indeed make inflation basically just as bad as printing it would have.
I think there’s a simpler explanation that wasn’t really talked about in the article — “cancelling” is just voting with your wallet and right of voluntary association and pressuring those in power to do so as well. This kind of behavior is born out of the natural frustration of people not only not facing consequences but at times becoming more successful as a result of the harm they cause. It’s filling a gap in our legal system so if you want to see cancel culture end it will be because it moves to the courts with things like a national hate speech law and sexual assault and domestic violence laws that don’t heavily favor the abuser.

You’re free to not like or want these things to be codified in law but it’s still nonetheless the formula of how to turn mob rule into a dialog. Nobody is showing up to the house of a murderer with pitchforks anymore because we have a functioning court system. Factory owners aren’t having their door broken down by angry workers because we have labor laws.
I'd say what actually makes a difference is sharing/marketing projects after you build them. If other people don't know your project exists, you'll end up with no users and you'll see your idea on various "stuff I wish existed" lists. Then one day you see a clone of your project and think someone ripped you off, when in reality they never heard of you and they were just better at selling themselves.
That would totally depend on the metal. Some would just shatter. Too brittle a metal or too violent a charge and the 'penetrator' just becomes a shotgun of shrapnel flying out in all direction.
The article is an overview aimed at beginners, but as such actually pretty good and helpful. It does not seem to overtly promote their product. Classifying this as spam / SEO only because one is not the target group is not fair.
I mean... it also takes an entire human brain to simulate a single human neuron :)
Monomorphization is one of the ways generics are implemented in other languages and it definitely allows for type-specific optimizations.

I imagine there's a rationale for not implementing generics this way, like keeping binaries small, but it seems like a weird tradeoff considering it increases overall memory consumption and decreases performance quite a lot...
Oooh, or electrolysis!
Are they losing subscribers?

"Disney+ added 7.5 million subscribers in Q2, while Netflix struggles." [1]

[1] https://www.investors.com/news/disney-earnings-q2-disney-sto...
The generated URL domain (5z8.info) is blocked by OpenDNS (Umbrella) under the Web Spam category. I can't remember the last time something slipped past my own DNS filters to get blocked upstream.
Sounds like you’re still working through the trauma unconsciously.
If all you offer is a pay cheque, don’t complain people only work for the pay cheque.

I’m not telling you how to run your company, or offering any solutions. I’m just trying to offer some perspective.
Human brains have hundreds of millions of years of evolution baked in. And each one still takes about 20 years of training and development to get to the point where it can apply logic rationally.
The WHO and many other doctors have decided that widespread personal failings are beyond their purview to fix, and so redefined the definition. People simply refuse to take personal responsibility, and in the face of this the doctors are trying to help. Make no mistake: this is a personal failing and a societal failing. Just because a large percentage of people choose to fail does not make it any less of a failure.
Let's relieve humanity from the hard-scrabble "earn a living" conditions because A) we can, and B) not doing so is cruel.

Maybe we slide into complacency and sloth, but I doubt it.

Personally, I think it would free up more time for things like parenting and education, and working out political differences with words, not weapons.
Don't give us that much credit! Litestream is a FOSS project. Fly.io isn't competitive about it. We just bought it because its existence, like, in the universe makes Fly.io more valuable, and we wanted to make sure Ben could keep working on it. We actually already have offerings that compete with it (Fly.io Postgres). :)

(Ben might feel competitive about Litestream though; it's his baby. So maybe give him some credit.)
Dokku maintainer here:

About 5-6 years ago I found out that "Dokku" means something like "crappy" in Telugu (I think). Lots of people seem to refer to it when talking about politics, theaters, and methods of transportation on twitter.

It's also the name of some famous Korean actor's Dog (I think they got the name from a Naruto character named Dokku). The dog is fairly new, and lots of folks stanning particular actors or actresses on twitter use the word `dokku` in their username.

Dokku Umarov was also a Chechen mujahid in both Chechen wars. References to him pop up every so often (he died in 2013, _just_ after the Dokku project started).

IIRC the name "Dokku" is a portmanteau of `Docker` and `Heroku`. How you pronounce it is up to you, though it seems I pronounce it very differently from others (I use "dough" instead of "dah").

Finally, "Dooku" is not how it's spelled, though lots of people seem to refer to Count Dokku of Star Wars fame :D
Oh I wasn't updated on that development. Good to hear!
The M1 has the exact same memory architecture as an 11th generation Intel Core series mobile CPU.
No, a lot of online streaming sites started using BitTorrent in the background to stream the video, and a lot of people got fined in Germany because of this
The blog post is about writing a Vulkan driver inside Mesa. Nvidia's blob driver does not count here.
The idea that Interstellar "taught" us what black holes look like is way overblown and oversold. John-Pierre Luminet and others were drawing black holes back in the 1970s.

https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/e-luminet/2018/03/07/45-ye...

https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/e-luminet/2019/05/23/40-ye...

https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/e-luminet/2019/06/12/40-ye...

> The current trend, the symetrical ufo-shape, is scientifically more accurate than the previous whirlpool but isnt perfect. It doesnt show the red/blue shifting.

A bit of a technicality, but the frequency shifting would only occur for rotating black holes but not non-rotating black holes. However, as far as I understand, non-rotating black holes are assumed to not exist in reality.
As it happens, the deciding factor in my choice to use Electron in this particular product is that, thanks to being built on Chromium, Electron includes high-level WebRTC APIs with a complete media stack (including advanced stuff like audio streams from multiple sources). Good luck getting that working in Delphi or Free Pascal.
That's a great description. It may be good to have something more about the types of use cases you see on the home page, or even a block from your "about" page, which is really great BTW.

I'm finding that clearly describing some of the users it is for can help people understand how they would use something.

Awesome work.
Take mine too: https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues
I'm pretty sure there is some manipulation going on to get this article to the top. It's extremely basic and "baity" compared to what you usually find here. I hope HN doesn't turn into the next Medium. It has been getting worse recently, which makes me think people have found better and better ways to create and manage spam/upvote accounts. Perhaps GPT-3 allows them to automate the karma generation for new accounts :)
Nowhere near to the degree of almost any other tech company I can think of
> I was going to ask how to pay the gas/fees, but IIUC this only runs in the testnets. Are they 100% free?

Yep! This entire process is entirely free.

> Does the code connect in the repo connects directly to the testnet or it connect with your server and your server connects to the testnet?

The process of minting an NFT takes place via the backend.

> If someone modifies 1 line of code (and add some oney for the fees) it goes to the mainnet?

We have a specific contracts on testnets (Polygon Mumbai and Rinkeby for now) and we use those contract addresses to mint the NFT. No one can change the network on which contracts are deployed, so the NFTs would be minted on testnet itself.

> Do you sell an "upgraded" version/service that connect to the mainnet?

We don't have any kind of "pro" version which mints NFT on mainnet.
And the major part of that work should be to optimize your immune system to which end there is a huge amount of research-backed advice available.
His logo is an M and Medium's logo is a globe?
You are free to remain stuck in old paradigms if you so prefer.

Adding features adds possibilities.

Nobody will force you to use them.
knative links are broken in the main article. May be it is this - https://knative.dev/docs/ ?
It might be more apropos to look at it as a con man thinks he spots a mark, runs his con but gets conned himself. At every step he can see the tables are being turned and there are multiple opportunities to walk away, as it's a long con. However, the instigating con man's greed won't allow for it. He then cries out 'that's not fair... he conned me!' There are no innocent victims in this story.
I don’t consider them abusive, I consider them rightfully angry. I don’t think I would react in a much better way
> Firstly, they claimed that the photographs were still under copyright.

Note that you can in some cases copyright the digitisation of out-of-copyright photos, if there is intellectual creation involved in their restoration or touching up. Simply removing blemishes ins't enough, but I don't know what they did in this case.
Yeah you can use preview/review apps via the `apps:clone` command[1]. It can be used in a pipeline to setup custom apps for code branches, allowing folks to stand up custom versions in CI for merge/pull requests[2]. If your deployment platform doesn't support this in some way, I would definitely recommend investigating it, as there is a _ton_ of stuff you can do with this.

- [1] Cloning existing apps: https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/application-management/#cloning-an-existing-app
- [2] Github actions review app support: https://github.com/dokku/github-action/blob/master/example-workflows/review-app.yml
when I, and others, did moderation of a community primarily communicating with Slack, using the channels to cause drama was an easy way to get yourself talked about in the moderator chat. Eventually, some of us moved to Telegram, which had the nice feature of letting you know when someone had taken screenshots of 'private' messages. There's ways around that if you don't want the recipient to know you are recording them, of course, but I think the lesson from all that was if you don't want to get yourself in trouble for stirring the pot, then take your conversations offline, with people, in person.
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Many of them never can.
If I understood the implementation correctly, as long as you use value types instead of pointer/interface types for your generic type parameters, you'll basically get monomorphization.
What if I do not have a google account?

Why is this better than framadate? https://framadate.org/
totally broken on mobile (Android), can't see a thing
Let's look at the most recent cancel culture that I have seen.

https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/ontario-liberals-drop-...

So election is going on:

>Alex Mazurek was terminated after homophobic comments on Facebook from 2014 were unearthed.

POLITicians are supposed to be POLITe.

>The Ontario Liberals are dropping their candidate in the Chatham-Kent-Leamington riding after comments he made on Facebook several years ago were brought to light.

There's basically no chance the liberals win in chatham. This has more to do with virtue signaling. "We are so virtuous that we would never let one of our candidates say homophobic things.

>In a statement posted to Facebook, Mazurek said the comments were unacceptable, but noted he was 13 years old when he wrote them eight years ago.

13 years old you said something mean? Cancelled!

What makes the NDP care what a 13 year old boy said? All people mature and get wiser since they were 13. What made the liberals go nuclear on a riding they have 0% chance of winning?

It's about saying how virtuous they are.
Ask HN: Who's been laid off recently and struggling to find a new job?
True, but it's depressing that Apple has decided to go down that path. They've gone from $0 ad revenue to $billions and are obviously intent on increasing that revenue even more.
For one, unlike DL models, we approximate things, and I do not mean that in the universal approximator sense. What I mean is that most of the things we do are essentially pulling from memory similar situations and stitching everything together.

Unless you are John Von Neumann, you are either approximately correct or very slow in solving novel tasks. On the other hand, we have the capacity to generalize much easier than our DL models.

I think that that relates to our memory. That is, we compress information in a way that allows us to search for the structure, map to the target domain, and then stitch it all together.

Hofstadter argues about it a lot in his books, that is, that we use analogies to learn stuff. In the same vein and in a very handwave-y manner, we can think of analogies as functors across categories. That is, as mappings between one domain to another where the relationship (morphism) between the objects is preserved.

For whatever reason we are capable of identifying those mappings quickly and applying them everywhere. This relates to symmetries where we have little to no trouble identifying objects that underwent certain transformations but our DL have trouble with.

A user in HN suggested that with respect to the visual transformations, we can do that because our optic nerve travels a long distance, from our eyes to our visual cortex, and that allows our brains to perform all kinds of data cleaning and signal processing.

The ideas about compression that I mentioned here is essentially what we saw in deepmind's GATO. More precisely, creating multimodal embeddings in that manner seems to enable good multi-task performance.

Sorry if this comes across as rambling.
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I spent basically the entire article trying to figure out what the "groundbreaking" research actually was... this is a pretty mangled press release rendering of the scientific research, even worse than the kinds you normally see from university research.

To its credit, this doesn't promise that we can (or will shortly be able to) actually read Linear A texts, and it actually explicates that we won't be able to do that. But that's pretty much the limit of credit due to this article.

Linear A's connection to Linear B has been hypothesized since... well, at least as far back as when I was taught it in school, which considering how long it takes textbooks to update themselves to state-of-the-art archaeology may as well be time immemorial.

What it looks like the actual "groundbreaking" research here is, based on the sleuthing done in the previous version of the article that leads to an academic review of the work in question (here: https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.04.30/). The layman's version is that it's a detailed analysis of the structural elements of the script to propose how the (unknown) language was encoded into Linear A, combined with some analysis of how individual glyphs varied in time and space--and this results in the conclusion that Linear B is actually a version of a regional [script, not linguistic] dialect of Linear A that was used to write a different language.
https://lineara.xyz/ is also worth a look