skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Researchers from Australia worked with families who said that their babies (ages 6-16 months) had a sleep problem.

Quite a big caveat here. I’d never let my 1 week or 1 month baby cry at night (or during the day) and in any case, he started sleeping well without any sleep training.
Heaven forefend that Nikon engineering chose the card format to match (exceed with headroom) the required transfer rate ;)
Oh shit. Then maybe it already happened but arm chair experts everywhere denied it already.

Basically that's what I'm seeing all over HN for the recent lamda fiasco. Tons of people declaring lamda isn't sentient when sentience can't even be defined.
Is this an example of nomitive determinism?
The Final Cut of the movie ruins the original look of the film. I'm amazed more people haven't commented on this. For example, compare the shot of the outside of Chew's lab:

Theatrical and Director's Cut versions: http://www.metabunker.dk/wp-content/uploads/br_dc_chew.jpg

Final Cut version: http://www.metabunker.dk/wp-content/uploads/br_fc_chew.jpg

See [1] and [2] for more.

[1] http://www.metabunker.dk/?p=1220

[2] http://www.metabunker.dk/?p=1258
I would love to see some kind of table or diagram that shows all the various "optics" in some kind of structured format. Lenses are the only one that I can keep straight in my head.
"America has plenty of land and so if people want suburbs and there is plenty of land to build them"

Are you just floating nonsense to get attention? THEY'RE ALREADY BUILT. Why destroy them and then rebuild other ones elsewhere, instead of simply building the high-density communities in the "plenty of land" that you admit is available? That's just stupid.

"most nice areas that are dense walkable are very expensive because they are no longer legal to build"

That is bullshit. What dense area is "no longer legal to build?" Look at downtown L.A. It's not "illegal" to build there, and it's largely a shithole that could only benefit from a remake. Likewise for Koreatown and a lot of Hollywood. There's endless fake caterwauling about "the housing shortage," and California has just passed a monumentally corrupt bill that allows developers to construct 10 units where ONE house stands today... with no permits or review.

This allows the destruction of ALREADY-RESIDENTIAL areas, while doing nothing to provide "affordable" housing or to help the homeless... despite lies to the contrary being used to excuse its passage.

Meanwhile, huge buildings like former Macy's sit boarded-up in dying malls... areas that have already paid the price of super-high density, in the form of paved-over ground and tree removal. Why aren't THESE areas being turned residential, and offered to those who favor high-density living?

Because this entire movement is a lie, that's why. It's a sellout to developers.
> The probability of C also having true in the row would be equal to Jaccard’s similarity!

That's clear, call this P1

> The probability that two documents A and B having the same representative token is, equal again to Jaccard’s similarity

That's less clear (call this P2) and not equivalent to the first statement, afaict. In fact, this probability seems lower than the previous one. Consider the table:

token A B
a False True
b True True

This counts as matching under P1, but not under P2.

What am I missing here?

In order words, the number of cases where `reptoken(A) = reptoken(B)` is a subset of cases where `reptoken(A) is in B`
I feel like they are stretching the word "new".

"New studies suggest that training in virtual environments can help robots with these and other skills"

Here's a paper from 9 years ago where people train in a virtual environment to help bipedal robots learn to walk:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2508363.2508399

And here's a Two Minute papers about it (from 7 years ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2bqz3HPJE
Funny coincidence. Yesterday I watched the talk by SPJ about Lenses and it finally clicked for me :-)

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4251-lenses-composition...

Maybe someone has an actual public link to this with no login needed?

edit: thanks for the subcomment! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-QwBL9Dia0
I always think of the fact that humanity is stupid.

If you got a knock on your door at midnight would you be scared? Yes!

But if humanity got contacted by an alien civilization tomorrow, it would react in joy! That is because humans are stupid in groups.
I don't think those high end locks are made of plastic though!
10 mins with a baking soda paste will remove the antireflective coating.
In python, I just go with "config.py".
But they didn't answer the most important question. Why a frog is called a toadlet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-QwBL9Dia0
Wind turbine blades perhaps? Ever increasing blade sizes are a serious limiting factor when moving these.
What Is Secondhand.dev?
In the genre of the 30-years-later follow-up, I actually wouldn't mind another spin-off from The Fugitive ... if it followed the same format, and was as tightly written as the original.
Why is that worrisome? I don't think it's worrisome at all. What's the worst that could happen if we make such a mistake.

I'd be far more worried about the scenario I described. Imagine something sentient that understands us far better then we understands ourselves. To top it off this "thing" is just pretending it isn't sentient.
Dollars, not Rubles.
Our vineyard didn’t make as much money as surrounding vineyards but it was still self sustaining. More robust demand for organic wines would have made it even more so.

Organic farming has external benefits as well, or rather the absence of negative externalities like harmful chemical run off and less water usage. These aren’t as easily noticed by just looking at market dynamics currently.

All that being said, my understanding is that organic farming isn’t the right choice in all cases. It’s definitely more labor and sometimes resource or land intensive. It takes a certain wealthy consumer base to support it.
When discussing AIs being sentient it is rarely discussed what being sentient means. It should be defined what that means and how it can be proven. I wouldn't know how to prove any human being being sentient if I cannot rely on conversational methods, as apparently that is not a accepted way, as shown by the recent Google AI researcher controversy.

However, I can make a simple computer program which is self-aware at least according to some definitions (a loop with reflective access to it's own variables, input/output with external systems and self-modifying code).
I tend to use Amazon a lot. I live in a pretty rural location. So its pretty handy to be able to order pretty much anything I want and [thanks to Prime] have it turn up within a couple of days. The 7 or 8 quid a month I pay for Prime is less than I'd spend on fuel, if I had to drive to the nearest reasonably big town, to shop for stuff.

That's not to say I don't agree with much of the sentiment of the article though. Trying to wade through the eleventy billion ident-i-kit versions of every item, to try and find the right balance between price and quality is a pain in the arse.

On the one hand there are some quality Chinese brands out there and, on the other hand, a lot of formerly quality western brands products are now visually indistinguishable from aforesaid eleventy billion Chinese clones --which makes me wonder are they all rolling of the same production line, anyway.

Fun fact: lots of manufacturers on Ali Baba will allow you to have your own logo/branding printed on their generic items, such as USB sticks, charging cables, tools etc. even with relatively small orders. So there's never been a lower bar to entry to become your own hi-tech brand.
Heat wasn't a very good movie. It was full of clichés, esp. the female characters. The cop's wife cheats on him with a loser, to make her husband notice. The wife of a gangster is obsessed with kids and family. And of course the love interest of the protagonist doesn't have a clue about what he does or whohe is, she's an innocent white dove completely, well, clueless. Morals are also very loose, which makes the protagonists hard to relate to.

The Fugitive has very bad guys, which may be a little cliché too, but there is this ambiguous central character of the Marshal who has a great arc. At the beginning he's just doing his job and isn't interested in the least in the details of the case. He only digs into them because he thinks they may help with the chase. And as the movie progresses he warms up to the protagonist, until he saves him at the end. That's great.

One way to entirely ruin the movie would have been to insert scenes with the Marshal's wife where she would ask why he's never home, and scold him for missing his son's football game, etc.
Exactly. If you are local and have tons some rubles to sell, you wont get even remotely this rate.
Google bot that 'behaved like a human' hired a lawyer: Suspended engineer
>men who have sex with me

Please start practicing abstinence before you get everyone sick, you sexy bastard!
People already know what it means all over HN. They have basically already said that lamda is not sentient. So no need to even define it when we already know what it is (and lamda is not it).
Holy Mountain is hilarious. I always think about the scene where the President's advisor says they need to kill millions of people to save the economy lol
Did they really ??

Looking at latest version of Preact v 10.5.14.zip (887kb) vs Preact v8.5.0.zip(90kb). So that is almost a x10 size increase in two years.
I think that some users are actually expecting their EVFs to magically eliminate motion blur when panning. Have you tried the Z9 since the firmware brought faster refresh? I'm surprised you are passing the Z9 given it appears you shoot heterogeneous. That said I'm seriously looking at D6/120-300_2.8 for the similar reasons, but I think my reasons might be a bit more distilled.
It's nothing to do with maturity, don't be patronising. They feel that it's the proper thing to do because it is the proper thing to do if you don't have good centralised sorting.

If you do then centralised sorting is clearly better all round. It's less work for people, collection is simplified and more efficient, you don't have issues with people missorting, you can sort into more categories, etc. etc.
I suspect it might not be technically feasible to delete. For example, it's in a language mode, it's not like it's going to be easily identifiable. And your name alone isn't data you can demand to be removed. For example, I might want "Iain Cambridge" to be removed but the other Iain Cambridge might want records belong to them to remain.
FASTag smartwatch scam viral video is fake, confirms NPCI and Paytm
What I find the real problem is not JIRA itself, but the fact that most of the time JIRA, is abused up to a point where it's become unusable. The inability or unwillingness (or both?) of the teams I've worked with to structure their work, write good user stories and keep things simple is in my experience the root cause of any shitty JIRA experience I've had. Of course it doesn't help per se that JIRA allows you to do that, but I guess that's not the tool's fault. (You can write bad and good essays with Microsoft Word).
> No way to fully type args and kwargs

I think "parameter Specification Variables"[0] come pretty close to solving that no? I'd love to hear your take if you've used them before.

> Type semantics aren't defined so there are multiple competing interpretations

> The most popular type checker - MyPy - is full of bugs and deliberate unsoundness.

100% agreed. I hope Pyright "wins" as the dominant type checker, because like you said, it's MUCH better in every aspect.

> A depressingly huge part of the Python community doesn't get static typing so a ton of your dependencies won't have types.

100%. I have so many half hearted attempts at typing my dependencies![1]

> I definitely wouldn't choose Python if I had a choice.

At this point, I'd have to agree, except of course for data science/ML things.

[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0612/

[1] https://github.com/davidatbu?tab=repositories&q=stubs&type=&...
There have been a few clear changes over time. It used to be that you delivered software to the ops team who then took it upon themselves to create servers to run that software, package up the software, testing it, etc. Delivering software usually went in the form of an email suggesting that this or that person might want to put software on a server or use some pre-built artifact.

These days software teams deliver ready to run software; usually in the form of some containerized binary produced by a continuous integration environment. No ops team is involved with deploying that container either because the deployment is fully automated. The CI/CD environment is typically provisioned via SAAS. We use Github actions for example. Our deployment process is "merge to the production branch".

The role of ops has been reduced to providing the automation that does several things:

- provisioning the infrastructure, typically via some IAAS platform like AWS, GCP, etc. with some automation (terraform, cloudformation, ansible, etc.)
- automating the deployment of software on that infrastructure. This normally is some kind of one liner in a CI environment that triggers the right scripts to run.
- automating the building of the software
- dealing with backups, monitoring, etc.

For small teams that work is easily handled by a specialized person for whom this isn't even close to a full time job. I know because I'm that person but I mostly do other things. In fact, I get really grumpy if I have to spend time on this stuff because it is a bit of a time-sink and it blocks me from doing more interesting things.

Ops teams still exist of course but they are employed by IAAS providers or companies that still run their own hardware. They don't get involved with how software is packaged and deployed anymore. They just keep the infrastructure up and running. Most senior engineers know enough to automate most of the above. And becoming a proper devops engineer just means stepping up and learning how to do all of it.
Was gonna write my disagreements with this article, but i think this quote sums it up:

"There’s no better way to spend your time than studying philosophy."
I could also see it making sense in areas unable to extend the local airport, due to space constraints, for example Singapore.
> They write something they haven’t really tested, merge it, and call it done

This is a problem of incentives. For all intents and purposes, the dev organization ceases to care the moment something is merged. Nobody is rewarded for making sure everything is fine all the way to production.

Now if you ship two extra Jira tickets this sprint however...
Well, it would lose the value of being nominally attributable to a 1500yo monastic document. This might not make a difference to you if you don't acknowledge the the provenance (nor, heck, if you think the provenance is shot in translation), but on net it probably matters a lot more that the small number of people agreeing to the document, presumably none of whom are you, do.
I liked Blade Runner, but one thing that bothered me was the lack of flat screen technology. All the screens are CRT, even the ones in the vehicles. You'd think the artists in the 80's would have easily imagined flat screens would exist in the near future. Chroma keying a flat square should have been a trivial effect.
Reflex mirror assemblies require physical damping that smaller bodies seriously struggle with. Engineering reasons trump Japanese desire for smaller cameras;)
An RFC won't compel people or companies in the way you hope. An RFC is a request and nothing more. A law is driven by the legal authority of a state and is backed by corporate & financial penalties, prisons, and guns.
Given the number of people that watch full length movies while holding a smartphone up to their eyes I don't think that's the main limitation.
I never understood how people consider go an alternative to python. I tried it myself for a while, and I couldn't stand the verbosity. So much code needed to do simple things, it almost felt like C again. And the error handling... Shudder.

I'm very happy python survived the 2-to-3 migration and is now thriving more than ever! Looking forward to the 3.11 speed improvements.
Bitcoin, real estate, early stage investments in businesses I have a relationship with.
Russia was thought to have the second most powerful army in the world, while Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe.

It was assumed Ukraine will fall in 3 days.

Whether Russia succeeds or not depends on your expectations.

To me, as a Pole, the fact that Ukraine is demilitarizing Russia is a great success of Ukrainians.

Russia will be too spent to even consider attacking Poland yet again, hopefully for at least a decade.

Ukraine looking east to Russia is done. Almost nobody in Ukraine wants to keep relationships with Russia. So there is great hope that now Ukraine will be able to make up its mind and choose Western path to prosperity as did Poland. Mind you, Polish and Ukrainian economies were the same size in 1989-1991 after we pushed Soviet Union to collapse. Before the war in 2021 Ukrainian economy was 3 times smaller than Polish.

Also, the push to transition away from Russian gas has never been greater in EU.
Thanks for your detailed answer. That makes sense. It feels like running Chromium might be a good trade-off : good security, less privacy risk.

However, I struggle to see how to run a stable version of Chromium. It seems the website only offers build on the most recent version, which is unstable. Do you have any thoughts on that?
I’m definitely not worried for Microsoft or the other big tech companies developing copilot-like products. To the extent that legal blowback focuses on issues that are both impactful and solvable (e.g. plagiarizing non-trivial snippets), they should be held to a high standard. Your point about the risk of poisoning the public’s acceptance of these technologies also resonates with me.

What worries me the most is the effect the public backlash towards these big companies can have on smaller actors that could enter this space in the near future. In the past we’ve seen open source projects like GPT-J come together to fund and reproduce closed models, and if we’re not careful to be nuanced in our criticism of big-tech frontrunners we might end up poisoning the waters enough to deter small actors without a dedicated legal team.

Copyright law is ultimately designed around humans as the only kind of actor. In an ideal world we would sit down and think about the way non-human learners should fit into this system and the balance of tradeoffs we want those laws to aim for. I hope that happens someday, but until then I hope we can cultivate a world where small actors are able to experiment with these technologies without fear of legal action.

That’s why it bothers me to see people arguing that language models should be thought of like human programmers making derivative works, even suggesting that we should require attribution for all generated outputs (i.e. the entire training set, always). That helps nobody, except of course big companies with infinite manpower.
Ultra slow? Have you seen "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
If you enjoyed The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, you might also like JCVD [0] with Jean-Claude Van Damme.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCVD_(film)
I'd love to hear your techniques.

I haven't had success with trying to negotiate telecom contracts. When I balked at the price, the salesman would sometimes offer a contract with lower levels of services along with the price reduction. And typically, it's more costly per unit of service, so not much of a bargain.
3. Don't be too poor to afford these things.
missle "defense" system, an (the most) important word was removed from the submission title
I don't keep up on the daily turn of events in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but I believe that one of the demands Russia made in response to the cratering currency was to demand that "unfriendly" countries make purchases from Russia in rubles rather than dollars.

My comment simplified the situation though.
Very unlikely, because the stuff in the vaccines doesn't stay around for very long. Monkeypox isn't exactly new. It is around for several decades, with the occasional outbreak. Pretty much every outbreak is linked to Africa. It's a tropical disease after all.

There are some thoughts, that the stop of routine smallpox vaccination might be one of the reasons why it spreads so easily now. The vaccine would be effective up to 85%.

You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox
> Being woke means understanding "Hip hip hurray" is a deeply antisemitic slur regarding the Hep-Hep riots in 19c Germany where many thousands of recently-freed Jews were lynched.

There is no consensus on the obscure origins of the expression - either way calling it a "deeply antisemitic slur" is baseless.

You're taking this a bit far.
>Obviously just clever lifeless patterns.

This doesn't seem obvious to me. Those patterns were more or less identical to a conversation with another sentient human.
That doesn’t help you when you’re application legitimately needs an environmental variable set but unknown to the developer, that application pulls a malicious module.
I have the opposite experience.

Given that I've been perfectly capable of doing ops work in the previous 5 companies I've worked at, suddenly being unable to do so in my current company because I'm classified as a 'dev', is supremely frustrating.

Especially when you have more experience by yourself than the entire ops team combined.
This is a clever approach for solving a very old problem. And that problem is that random exploration really doesn't work for long time sequences:

A while ago, we participated in the Bomberland competition (won semi-finals, 2nd place overall) and we went with deep learning reinforcement learning and here's the rough math: It takes 1 step to place the bomb, 5 for the bomb to arm, 1 to detonate, 10 while there's fire. So you might not know until 17 steps later if placing that bomb was a good idea. You have 7 actions (up,down,left,right,bomb,detonate,nop) so the chance of getting that 17-step sequence correct by chance is (1/7)^17 = 4*10^-15. Or said the other way around, you need to let the AI try around 232,630,513,987,207 times to get it correct once.

And that's why imitating someone else - no matter if they are an expert or not - will massively boost your learning performance. Because even the worst Mindcraft player on YouTube is still doing 1000x better than truly random exploration.

(That said, we lost in the Bomberland finals against someone who analyzed the game theoretically and then just hard-coded the perfect strategy. Sometimes thinking hard is superior to all AI approaches...)
Im(vh)o, all you need to do is stare long enough to realize how easy it is to get lost in a world in which you are constantly, intentionally exposed to calculated manipulation of human psychology to see how valuable it is to have a unwavering, structured approach to life and morality.
A relative lived sensibly and modestly her whole life. Three years before retirement the Northern Rock collapse happened in the UK and she lost her entire pension. Even in the 'developed' world, don't be sure any sort of pension will be there.
> non-consensual sex scene

In Blade Runner? I don't recall that... don't they kiss, and then it cuts to next scene. They still have their clothes on, standing by the door!
I think that this is the worst part. We gradually forget how to do nothing, how to stare out a window and just daydream or read something. Not being busy or productive every moment.