skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This conversation seems sort of unnecessary to me as a researcher who uses AI. Symbols and DL are not exclusive, just not yet thoroughly studied, I guess this is more of an argument about the semantic positioning of a few people in the field who think they are important. Some of the best current research in the DL space involves defining and searching for governing equations with symbolic matching.
I get that copilot is AI and pretty cool, but students could look up a Fibonacci program on Google before it existed. What's more these algorithms are written in books. If students wanted to cheat on your "write depth first search" assignment then they already were.
No mention of sanctions?

It's estimated that ~50% of staked value is held by US companies. These companies are going to have to make an impossible choice. Either:

1. Sign transactions coming from the sanctioned addresses, inviting the wrath of OFAC.

or:

2. Refuse to sign these transactions.

2a. If between 33% and 66% of the network refuses, the network will penalize dissenters by slashing their staked coins, until they no longer have a 33% stake. Billions of dollars of customer funds could be lost.

2b. If > 67% of the network refuses, transactions can be successfully censored. Now we no longer have decentralized ETH, we have "USA coin", where the government can censor anyone with a quick email to Brian Armstrong.

I don't see a way out. It doesn't look like the network is actually decentralized enough to handle a nation-state attack. This was not an issue with the old proof of work scheme. I'll be amazed if the merge is not delayed while they work on a solution to this.

EDIT: If Coinbase does lose that money, you could say the network is operating as designed in the presence of a hostile validator. But a LOT of people are not going to be happy with the result.
I call it "art with a capital F"
This is just scratching the surface of anthropology, if you want to go on a wild ride, read The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-eve...
Oxford also has a similar shop to Resilience / Consilience, the Future of Humanity Institute: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/
Toby Ord is a member, his book The Pricipe: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity is quite interesting: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50485582-the-precipice
It seems likely there could be subjective cultural differences in perception when there are subjective cultural cues in the content/image at hand, while at the same time the biology and physiology of our visual system is human in nature and doesn’t vary culturally, and the geometry and physics of light and perspective is universal. The hard part of any of this research is figuring out how to control for cultural cues in the first place in order to establish what parts are biological and what parts are learned and cultural.

It’s easier to search for cultural differences in color perception. There is an ongoing debate about whether differences in color names across languages indicates that cultures perceive colors differently. https://www.sapiens.org/language/color-perception/

FWIW I was hoping for something explanatory in that Chegg article, but it’s so hand-wavy and disconnected I can’t help but feel like it’s tickling my BS mater, like a lot. It is trying to imply connections between cultural perception and biology, but doesn’t manage to establish anything. A bunch of the sentences use big words but say nothing.

The third link you gave, that last paper’s summary point is that they do not find major cultural differences in depth perception. “The absence of marked cultural differences suggests that the phenomena under study may be universal in nature.”
The dungeon and item generation randomization is great. The real time isometric view, gameplay, and atmosphere, while groundbreaking, would not have been enough to get me to replay more than a handful of times. Without the randomization, the game would have had to have many more expansions.

I have played Diablo for far too many hours to count. On the other hand, Baldur's Gate is a game I replay about once every 5 years due to the atmosphere being so good.

One thing I loved about this game was the vast amount of fan pages dedicated to it in the early years when I was learning how to play. I have spent some time compiling links to those sites, that are still hosted or archived, at my website https://mgpat-gm.github.io/links.html. If you want a trip down memory lane, click away.
> I’m sick of pretending I don’t “get” art: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ppvwby/im-sick-of-pretending...

Are the pictures on that article broken for everyone else too or just me? I'm sort of curious about the art the author is ranting about.
I see what you mean. I'm not seeing that in this particular article, but without getting sidetracked by whether he's said that before - I think there are two flavors of agility here.

You're arguing against runtime agility. That makes sense; in fact, the more runtime agility you have, the less design-time agility you have, because all that dynamic negotiation is quite the constraint - and as you point out, a source of flaws.

Even negotiation has flavors. Classic TLS tried to make supporting old ciphers "secure", but even negotiation in which you assume the attacker _can_ control the cipher can be useful - the point then being not to do so long-term, but merely as a technique to allow non-instantaneous roll-out world wide. There's a difference between trying to support but never use legacy stuff and also refusing to specify the current gold standard, and merely having a protocol that supports multiple ciphers only to the extent necessary to occasionally replace a single old configuration with a single new one.

I'm not sure whether there's a huge difference between merely supporting research diversity, and having non-runtime but design-time agility. Perhaps those are the same thing. I guess it gets interesting where encryption primitives aren't just ephemeral communication tools, but a more intrinsic part of the software (such as in signing, and especially in stuff like blockchains) - is there a way to have at least the option of swapping primitives without weakening the guarantees today?

In any case; thanks for the clarification!
Huh. If an IC had a compelling argument for cost savings like this, I’d recommend they pursue the idea as a 10% style project. First verify the basics: licensing, health of the community, etc. Then build a standalone pipeline using the new protocol. Process data, collect benchmarks and metrics. Present your findings to the team and manager. If the manager thinks it’s still viable, they go up the chain and involve principals, architects and so on.

In summary, lower the bar for trying new things. This is how we innovate.
Is it a term of art unfamiliar to me as a layman (but I can see how it would be to draw a distinction from non-water-pumping units), or just generally American to call these (to me: fire engines) 'pumpers'?

Interesting (I think) aside: 'fire engines' is a remnant of (and now 'fire' is a redundant qualifier) garden watering systems being called 'engines', pumping systems (and earlier still all sorts of mechanisms) generally.
> Just add a requirement where the student has to explain how the code works.

There's an AI for that!
I appreciate that your comment doesn’t leave it at “Americans are stupid and morally deficient” in explaining why American cities sprawl.

> among other things, it makes us less sensitive to waste in general, and more prone to think of things as single-use and disposable.

I think this is mostly down to consumerism. Companies made a lot of money off of the wealthy American middle class in the late 20th century (and up to now) and convincing them to work more to spend more on cheap, disposable things was/is immensely lucrative. I’m sure in some indirect way, wasting space only helps reinforce the notion that waste in general is okay, but I don’t see it as a primary driver.

To that end, does anyone know of any organized initiatives to get people to move away from disposable plastic junk (often imported from China or some other place with abhorrent track records for environment, working conditions, political repression, etc) and toward a less consumerist culture (fewer more expensive possessions that we mend when they break rather than throwing them away)?
The production quality and effort to view count ratio of this guys video is off the charts.
This reminds me of when my school teacher insisted that real engineers didn't use calculators. They'd calculate their sines and cosines from a table.

3 years later, the education ministry decided that was BS and let everyone bring calculators to math exams. Surprisingly, math scores didn't go up much.
The reason why the attempt to use symbol manipulation resulted in the first AI winter is that symbols represent something else, and that missing something else is needed to attain understanding. For example, when we humans think about a friend using their name as a symbol to retrieve that representation into focus, we have now loaded a conceptually indexed space-time model into awareness about our friend that we can now think about. The symbol alone gets you nowhere. So adding empty symbols to statistics only ml/dl will also get you nowhere. The conceptually indexed space-time model is what is missing for AGI.
Yeah... I could totally forgive them for sleeping on the third-party GUI frameworks, but I can't forgive them for neglecting or botching first-party apps/core parts of the OS. And those don't even make business sense to de-prioritize. I don't really know what's happening there but it's not good; the Apple Music app for Mac is one of the buggiest, slowest Mac apps I've ever used. It's distressing that this is the treatment their flagship services are getting.
In your generated `my_app_web/endpoint.ex` there is a plug that will serve static contents from your `priv/static` directory:

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/inst...

This points to a function in `my_app_web.ex` which specifies which paths it will serve:

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/inst...

So you can either copy your js and image folders to `priv/static/assets` and they will be available as `localhost:port/assets/js/somefile.js` etc. OR you can add `js` to the list of paths to serve in app_name_web.ex and copy your js files to `priv/static/js` and access them at `localhost:port/js/somefile.js`.
Oops you’re right… glad you caught that.

~27K in all Florida
Yep. This introduces many more problems than it solves.

Slack can be both a tool that gives slack and takes it away. Given its critical mass, the latter seems to be more prevalent given the instant gratification people are expecting.
Well, you are basically saying ng you are exposed to US politics entirety via media. And the narrative you got is that Biden s administration suffers from dementia.
So how is that different from Trump being picked apart? It doesn't matter what Biden will do, by now it's a meme to view anything he does in light of supposed dimentia.

The narrative you propose as to why and how "rise of right wing media" is naive at best.

I suggest something different, and I base it on my own country that is both highly influenced by US culture and ended up in a very similar place.

The "rise" of right winged media is far from being some organic thing that just happened. In my country it was highly engineered. There was a massive influx of money coming from the US and directed to creating and buying media channels which you can very easily follow to being manuvered by a single person, the head of "right wing" politics.

It's even more crazy than that, not only does he manage this media complex using governmental benefits for owners of these media channels he also gets them to continually redefine what is "right wing" and basically it has devolved to a personality cult, where if you are not loyal (as in mafia type loyalty) you are automatically a leftist.

The narrative that the "other" population was left behind and that's why it's reacting is false. It doesn't matter how much the so called left side tries to be inclusive and ponder on it's own guilt of current affairs, it's at best being ignored and usually used as an admition of some primal sin that makes the "right" even more galvanized.

These things are not organic, a huge amount of money without scruples is being spent to inflame a culture war.
Cheating is getting easier by the day, but the bottom line is that if the student is cheating, they're probably not absorbing the coursework (or if they are cheating and absorbing the coursework, there might be something wrong with the coursework).

The most effective policy might not be to try and mechanically prevent cheating, but to explain that, this is information that you're going to need if you actually want to go into the field and if you're using copilot here you are damaging yourself in the long run.

Maybe it's not fair to give as good grades to students who are cheating on assignments as those who are actually doing the assignments, but at the end of the day is the purpose of the course to measure the student or to teach the student?
Probably because they'll start adding features to the Zig version that might not be trivially portable to the C++ version due to architectural differences.
I'm using reader mode in Firefox more and more often because websites just cannot keep their hands off my inputs nowadays. It's infuriating.
This kind of sarcasm falls flat since slack has very fine grained notification preferences. You can make it as loud or quiet as you want. Of course if your workplace culture doesn’t support IC focus, then you have much bigger problems.
> There are some non-dystopian applications, i.e. it makes tracking expensive inventory much easier.

Doesn't even have to be expensive. Cold-chain comes to mind. Pair with the most barebones thermosensor and with a quick/broad sweep you can ID localized cold chain issues. (e.g IoT sensor on a shipping crate may indicate <0*C but localized pockets of heat start registering on individual packages, etc.)
First of all, you're a brave man going after Dijkstra. Even two decades in the ground he's still going to win this argument.

The domain of astronomy is the starry sky and the Universe it reveals. The domain of surgery is anatomy, physiology, metabolism. In Informatics (not everyone calls it "Computer science", eh?) the domain is formal systems.

In each case the instruments (telescope, scalpel, digital computer) are not the main focus of investigation, they are tools, not the domain of study.

> the computer is the central figure

This is precisely the misunderstanding that Dijkstra tilted against.

> can you think of ANY other tool that represents CS?

Yes. The human brain.

I'll leave you with another joke, one of my favorite, although I don't know who said it, "Computer science could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems."
Reminds me of an odd residential development in Arizona, which actually started around 1973 as well.
https://goo.gl/maps/ZAUMABmrkRoL4pTp8
As someone who's starting to learn a bit about machine learning, it feels like the whole field is full of fancy terms like this that seem to mostly map to simpler or more familiar ones. "linear regression" instead of fitting a line, "hyperparameter" instead of user-provided argument. Half the battle seems to be building this mental translation map.
I don't disagree. However, I see no reason why light clients would not become the default option, as they effectively remove the trust placed on an RPC provider.
Some classic webmaster nostalgia:

Sliding door technique: https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/

Bulletproof buttons: https://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200705/creating_bulle...
“Coping with google… students can just search for the answers by typing in ‘depth first search code python’. Buckle up and hunker down for one slippery slope of an article!”
Chewing: The energetics and evolutionary significance of mastication in humans
How can you say you don’t like it if an important component of appreciating this piece is physically walking through and exploring it, which is presumably completely different from viewing a couple low res shots on your cellphone/computer?
Assuming a fork is expected and the PoW chain is running alongside the PoS chain, wouldn’t this cause a massive run up in ETH holdings to end up with assets on both chains?
Im not sure what you mean by perpetual controversy either.

What I mean by “less terrible” is socially, not technically.

Centralised datacenter based development leads to digital feudalism, where the owners of the datacenters take control of the “digital land” and build moats around them (often fake, imaginary - see how text messaging has no interoperability anymore when 10 years ago it did)

In blokchain / decentralised databases development this is not possible - people can always access the data that’s on chain, and they can extend your code, see it, change it (depending on the license even copy it and just make a slightly different product, a la Uniswap V2 and Sushi Swap). This leads to a real free market for applications, instead of the digital feudalism that naturally results from centralised data centers.
My engineering and physics intuition came from understanding the math behind it. For example, I've seen a lot of handwavy explanations of how jet engines worked, but understanding eluded me until I went through the math in jet engine class.
It's profoundly incorrect to say that nomadic societies "stagnated". They adapted to incredibly variable and harsh conditions from the equator to the Arctic and invented much of the technology of the modern world like agriculture.

Archaeological horizons and the lack thereof are only partly related to the societies that produced them.

If you're just getting into the subject of what ancient societies looked like and how diverse they could be, I'd recommend Dawn of Everything as an approachable instruction to the topic.
None of this works if the data is encrypted.

I'm surprised (and shocked) that letting unencrypted data hit the disk is still common enough to make such optimizations worth it.

Even if you just stick the key in the server's TPM without any sealing, an encrypted disk makes it much easier to deal with e.g. drive returns (for warranty or fault analysis) or disposal.
I get the feeling that renewables in 2022 are in the same place nuclear power was in 1954 when people promised that energy would be ‘too cheap to meter’.

Energy has to be generated or stored and everything depends on the balance between supply in demand. If supply is inadequate that thinking about distribution is like thinking about the deck chairs on the Titanic. If supply is large the distribution problem is a footnote. The actual opportunity is small and will occupy only a few people.

When I hear ‘energy trading’ I think of Enron. Matching demand to supply is easier said than done. If an industrial facility can only operate 30% of the time then the capital cost of all the equipment is multiplied by three, if it is possible to stop and restart the facility within hours. (Starting up a chemical plant on the other hand can take days.)
If you use picom as a compositor you can write glsl shaders, there is some work being done twords doing full out CRT emulation at a desktop rendering level, I found the repo below[1], but on my monitor the shader does this distortion at the bottom so I think it could be improved slightly. I'd really like to see someone get the glsl shaders from libretro[2] working with picom.(which the project in OP did) if any GL wizards reading this have any advice I'd be eternally greatful

[1] https://github.com/j-k-tech/picom

[2] https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt/#

[2.1] https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders
ICE can already power cars that travel 150mph. But cars are small and currently need human drivers. Perhaps self-driving buses going that speed would help.
We never did much calculation in math exams. That's what physics class was for.
Over a million families took advantage of the Homestead Acts, which granted 160 acres to settlers. That much land was certainly enough to make a living on. When I looked up my grandparents in the 1950 census, every house on the page was marked as being half a mile down the road from the previous one--because 160 acres, a quarter section, is 1/2 mile on a side.

Bad luck, family tragedy, and other factors played into the failure of the Wilders to succeed, but make no mistake: many did succeed on that land.
The rigorous definition of dirac delta is a function that doesn't take points as inputs. It's a function that takes in sets and then integrates over that set to product a value.
Note that their website[1] depicts twice as many working women as men (more precisely 9 women and 5 men). Perhaps due to an unconscious bias?

[1] https://fgsglobal.com/what-we-do
> A good book on the topic is "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk".

I wouldn't recommend that book. I would rather recommend reading A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes... which is insightful and genius like most of his work.

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

Some parts of Fooled by Randomness are also insightful (before Nassim Taleb became this weird, tin foil hat guy he is now)...

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

As for capitalist economy - it is of course a matter of opinion but I would rather say that capitalist economy is more about rent seeking, externalising costs and taking crazy amounts of risk with moral hazard rather then about risk management...

But perhaps it is because I am risk manager by trade and had seen too many insurance, banks and money managers from the inside...

EDIT: Both books - as I have just realized - are saying more or less that probability and risks are real but rarely quantifiable. I guess that makes me a pessimist.
What makes you think GPT-3 (or similar) won't write your ethics essay for you?
I can not be 100% certain this far down the road what he used on his horses or his wife but at the time, he told me that it was DMSO. I don't know where he got it but he was well-connected in the horse world.

He had a long career as a wrangler for Hollywood westerns after setting several records himself as a young cowboy in rodeo events as a bronc-buster, calf roper, header/heeler even setting one record in a rodeo at Madison Square Garden. He participated in founding the American Quarter Horse Association. He told me he had trained several actors over the years including a couple from the old TV series Rawhide who had never ridden a horse before that show. He knew Gene Autry, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and worked with them and other western movie stars at one time or another. He knew horses, mules, saddles and tack like the back of his hand and he understood cigars, whiskey, and women intimately as any real man did back then.

My wife uses Penetrex here at home for sore muscles. She claims to get some benefit from it. I was not aware that there were two compounds, DMSO and DMSO2 but we definitely have Penetrex here at home.

It is possible that the product he used back then was DMSO2 if it was widely used in the 60's through 80's in horse liniment. I actually had to look them up to get a feel for the differences between them.

Thanks for asking.
You're trying to generalize that all people who don't want deeper work relationships experienced this enlightenment in the same exact way as you. That's pretentious imo. There's plenty of arguments to be made for why people aren't gaining deeper relationships with those they work with, and your case does not account for everyone's.
The pictures are broken — I also wish I could see them. You can Google the artist to get a pretty good idea of what he’s talking about though.
“The idea of apolitical money is a fantasy”

Yannis Varoufakis, London, circa 2017

Either crypto follows the law or it gets banned. IMO this was inevitable.