skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found the numbers people propose for the probability of life arising to be absurdly self assured. We do not know the probability of life arising. We do not know the probability of developing intelligent life. We don't even know if life originated here.
If you ask me for my gut feel I'd say that life arises with near certainty in a range of suitable conditions. But that is beside the point - don't get annoyed with others for making assumptions and then in the next breath make equally strident assumptions.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll see what I can do.
I have personally seen programmers that were only marginally useful. More than once. Being ten times more effective isn't a great achievement.

Management is the same way.
I have a friend who, when he was younger, dearly wanted to write kernel drivers in JavaScript.
If you simply brute force by typing the words exactly puzzles you won't get the bonuses.
I see two big problems with OOP:

1) OOP takes credit for a lot of programming concepts by rebranding them. E.g. abstraction.

2) OOP-specific concepts are either over-used or downright broken. E.g. inheritance, encapsulation.
We can also see that fracking is absolutely nasty thanks to the endless amount of studies done on it, but if we cherry pick one single metric, sure...

Ditching a fossil fuel to another fossil fuel is just perpetuating the problem, it's not solving anything. It's like going from a meth addiction to a cocaine addition, sure cocaine isn't as bad, you'll still be absolutely fucked up in a decade though
>it is a product that is run by other people[...]Since it is centralized

so are federated instances in reality because the vast majority of people are going to be on some popular node by virtue of how communication networks organize.

And I'd rather trust Signal than having to trust some server in a guy's basement who I can only pray has a reasonable security setup, and is going to fold ten times more quickly to a court order than a foundation with a 50 million dollar check and nice lawyers.
Unfortunately this physics-guy/spherical-cow thinking is really common in people doing linear algebra on computers and the results are poor performance. Abstractions are great for general programming, but when you are doing tight-loop math it's really not applicable. I've seen this a lot recently with "clever" NDArray style math libraries (not to mention the utility of more than 2 dimensions is .. very limited)

In my not-super-extensive experience, if you're programming and dealing with linear algebra problems - and you're past the MATLAB prototyping stage - then I really suggest using the BLAS/LAPACK API. You're not gunna beat decades of nerds programming ballistic missiles on punchcards. They're kinda weird and unwieldy and don't match to textbook math - but they've had a ton of thought put into them. And are made with as few footguns as possible. At least re-implementing an algo with them a few times is really educational. You'll see that it forces you to think about your memory layout and you'll realize that the back of napkin complexity calculations are actually tricky to massage into a good algorithms that use memory well. The final result with something like the Intel MKL will be way way faster than anything your abstraction can achieve

(Unfortunately I haven't found a good primer on using the BLAS well)
Fun anecdote: when I was a teenager learning LaTeX, I'd got in the habit of google image searching the symbols – "Latex infinity" would turn up a pic of an infinity symbol with "\infty" below it; "latex contour integral symbol" would show "\oint", and so on.

As a nineteen year old first-year university student, I genuinely typed "latex bra" into google image search, pressed enter, and then had a second or two of shock as my brain was genuinely surprised to not see quantum mechanics in front of me with a nifty little "\langle" involved, but rather lots of women in decidedly unique looking underwear...
I've used tsrange successfully in 2 projects to optimise storage of temporal data.
The same can be achieved with start/end timestamp columns at the cost of more complex and error prone queries.

Multiranges could be used to further optimise for storage of duplicate data (if a data pattern repeats at different intervals) but it's not a big enough margin for me yet.
> Idris isn't very far from Haskell.

From my experience it's very far apart. I know that there is Haskell Liquid but that is still does not make it a real value-dependent type-system, even though in many cases it allows a similar expressiveness. If we talk in the context of programming paradigms, I don't think I would count Haskell in.
Senior House was an undergrad dorm that the admins put on probation and then shut down and converted to grad housing.

https://thetech.com/tags/senior-house
UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’
Paul Dix earlier today: "We're announcing the release of InfluxDB IOx, the new core of the database written in #rustlang and built with #apachearrow. It delivers infinite cardinality, tiered data storage, SQL compatibility and so much more."

Related: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-engine/
Can you clarify for me, a non-native speaker, what you mean with hustle here? Energetic activities or fraud? (I guess the first, but I also heard of a lot of academic frauds)
Yeah in the WoW case they didn't embrace it, but Warcraft and Overwatch has workshop solutions, that's what I was referring to. (Understand since I didn't mention it that it wasn't obvious, wrote the reply on my phone).
Pete Wilson and Proposition 187 - clearly the GOP still have not learned.
I really wanted to like the Remarkable. I saw people using them at a couple of conferences the idea seems so great.

So I tried it. Twice, for a couple weeks each. Had a couple of other people borrow in between and try it.

We all reached the same conclusion:

Solid implementation of a great idea!

... but ...

An additional object to carry? Nope. Get an iPad or a Surface Pro, if you need to both write/sketch and do other computing work. Carrying both a digital writing tablet and a separate general purpose device is very unappealing.
Read about the methods: They used visual cues on computer screens to test who was better in responding to visual cues on computer screens.

Let me guess.... The kids who were experienced in responding to visual cues on computer screens scored better (－‸ლ)
It's using the built in .match() to parse your answers.
Ok, but to my point, California was able to purchase the best expertise available. That they mismanaged it is a separate issue.
Wherever I have worked, there are myriad undocumented processes that result in the final product. I am sure there is quite a bit of undocumented magic in the development of the most advanced technologies in the world, including the communication skills between various experts speaking a language that is probably alien to most with years of rigorous study.

I cannot even get my mom’s baking/frying recipes to produce the same taste and textures that she can, yet I was the one watching and documenting them multiple times.
You’re forgetting feeling like you live in the Truman show mixed with North Korea in either your pros or cons.
How Much Money You’ve Lost If You Took Matt Damon’s Crypto Advice 1Y Ago
Thanks! Everything is saved in the extension's local storage. Nothing leaves the browser. You can export editor content from the settings (three dots in the bottom left corner). That creates a .md file with your notes that you can probably import to any editor.
There's a difference between trusting well known software such as vim (especially when packaged by a distro) and trusting shell scripts from essentially anyone. If it's a well known resource, then I'd likely trust the script without checking (e.g. adding a docker repo to Ubuntu), but otherwise I'm going to give it a quick eyeball.

I would tend to agree that scripts for downloading from the internet should have a '.sh' extension to make it clear that it's a script as opposed to a binary.
AI shows signs of general intelligence (e.g. can generate proper text in generated pictures) after about 20 billion of parameters. IMHO, 1 trillion of parameters can be enough to simulate human-like behaviour after reading lot of text, watching of lot of video, and playing lot of games and robotic simulations. It will be able to understand commands, understand video and audio from cameras, will be able to control equipment and robots, e.g. to repair itself, to reach a goal.
Customizing Switch Button
>The framers were well before the Industrial Revolution

They were well before radio, TV, internet, trains, automobiles, airplanes, nuclear power, and many other things that do not strictly respect state lines. "Leave most decisions to the states" made a lot of sense in 1789 but we live in a different world now.
So in other words, this is just another example of how easy government money makes you lazy, complacent and ever more greedy.

It seems the effects may have spilled over into the passenger plane side of the industry.
So you are saying the Apple, the company with the most money, is able to use that money to acquire a monopoly on the expertise needed for their chips. How does that refute my point? The USG can do the same thing if they want to spend the money.
> Anyone got any thoughts on this? Does Amazon have some big strategy that I’m missing here? How do they plan to persuade large numbers of people to buy into digital handwriting?

Have you use office 365 or onenote? An iPad with the Apple pen recently? Any digital notes are organized by default, the latency and poor refresh rate makes eink impossible for replacing notebooks to me, but an LCD works great. Handwriting is already mainstream, as is using it on computer.

If you’re asking about Amazon most buyers of kindle fall between either upgrading every cycle and never using it, never upgrading their kindle keyboard, or more commonly never used it more than 3hr in total. Kindle sales are going to be good either way since type 1 buyers love tech for tech.
Modelling cosmic radiation events in the tree-ring radiocarbon record
> whereas death by exposure is a very real threat. We needed to invent clothing just to survive outside a temperate belt.

It's been a while since technology makes us less fit to our environment than anything else.
Signal has backup on Android, and fairly fast image management, but it's lacking on iOS. That points to a lack of developer resources.

What you call WhatsApp history is other people being able to read your messages.

WhatsApp is violently agressive in demanding you use your phone and give access to your contacts. You can't use it without feeling violated.
Color Interpolation
What sorts of features do you mean? I explained how I would achieve the desired thing. It's been a good decade since I used Scala.
> but if we cherry pick one single metric, sure...

First off, I'd say total emissions by electricity generation is a great single metric to look at.

Second, those studies you didn't even reference were most likely FUD. I've worked on companies who organized those through call centers to spread the misinformation about fracking.

But instead of coming up with useless analogies about cocaine and falling back on studies you didn't even reference, please respond to each of my points instead of talking past me.

Maybe start with the fact that there are no replacements ready for coal other than nat. gas.

I'm all for building up nuclear energy and even battery banks. But currently nothing is available other than nat. gas to take the load that coal has produced.

Soo... the best way to reduce emissions is to use nat. gas until a solution is built up and ready. (cough, nuclear, cough)

Renewables will most likely never be able to handle the peak load, you need a baseline source, that's either fossil fuels or nuclear energy thanks to their densities.

---- edit ----

@lm28469: You're still not addressing any of my points. Dropping a study and calling it a day is not a conversation. At least pick out a point to defend from it...

But here's the cool thing. We don't need to read through your biased studies!

We know nat. gas is cleaner than coal and we can see it from reduction of emissions as we transition off of coal to nat. gas.

If you want to displace nat. gas as well, support nuclear as the new baseline standard! Or come up with better battery tech!

Until then, it's not ready and we need energy so we don't die... so nat. gas it is. Or coal worst case.
What's wrong with Go 2 with tools to automate migrations? Of course that limits the scale of possible changes, but moving methods between packages should be possible with this approach.
I do the opposite. Paypal has no customer support and doesn't care about me or any other customer at all.

But I can call American Express, be instantly connected to an agent who at least pretends to care, doesn't sound like they're overworked, and will gladly put in the chargeback request for me. I can also do this online if I'm feeling less social that day.
He's responding to a comment that explicitly called factions parties
Westerners blew up the world with nationalism during...German unification?

In 1989? Or are you making a cryptic reference to 1871...

I know this is someones "I'm too scared to be edgy on my main account" account, but still, make it clear what you are referring to!
Of course not, I was just pointing out that the poorly designed study that goes against all of the actual observable data makes the results a bit suspect. Like many things, I suspect that in moderation video game playing doesn't have any impact on standardized testing.

I suppose if this study can be replicated then we can all be thankful that excessive video game playing has made kids dumber at a lesser rate than they already would be.
"You're not gunna beat decades of nerds programming ballistic missiles on punchcards" funny and true
> Why? It was simple and understandable.

Maybe conceptually simple, but far from it in terms of reliability, predictability and ease-of-use.

> Finding out why the heck my resolv.conf contains some 127.0.0.x entry and not the real nameserver was the final thing [...]

So you read the comment at the top of the file and that made you question someone's sanity?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa

At the same time Portugal was a bunch of poor fishermen trying to get past a sandbank on the African coast.
So what? China is an authoritarian state that will kidnap your family. That has nothing to do with attracting talent to the US.
I am saying Apple and the USG will not be able to acquire the chips that TSMC/ASML/Zeiss/whoever else is crucial are making in the event TSMC/ASML/Zeiss/etc stop existing, in a timely manner.

Not that Apple and USG are not more or less indispensable than TSMC/ASML/Zeiss, that is neither here nor there. The point is some things simply have no fungibility, and hence you cannot buy your way out of it.

If 2 billionaires got trapped on an island with all their wealth in cash, and neither knew how to build a boat or sail, all that cash is not going to help them avoid having to figure out how to build a boat and navigate the seas in sufficient time to survive.
Australia law doesn't require you to do anything until explicitly asked by the intelligence agencies. The first stage is a gentle "Request for Technical Assistence" with no penalties for no saying no. But then they can then ask again and demand you provide assistance with jail time/fines for non-compliance.
The orders also come secrecy notices so you can't inform anyone (except your lawyers) that you've received the notice. The request have to target specific users so they can't be "Collect messages on everyone with a Muslim name" or something.

The chilling effect of it is. What if they demand you give them information you do not have a way of accessing. (Eg Signal). How would you comply? Do you have to pre-empt whatever requests you MIGHT get and ensure you could back-door a user if it were required. The law also seems to imply that ASIO could demand a single employee at a company backdoors something and they wouldn't be able to tell their co-workers.
Wii U Architecture A practical analysis
> and has thus observed first-hand the well-known variance of a factor of one hundred in productivity between the most able programmers and the merely competent.

from the text - it excludes the trivial counter-examples.

No-one expects complete newbies to be productive, or even capable of performing the task set. The comparison is always between normal, professional programmers and those "10x" alpha-male (they're always male) exceptional individuals who break all the rules (and therefore don't have to obey them).

I've worked with a few self-described "10x" programmers, and (like the few self-described "alpha male" guys I've worked with) they're always toxic assholes who don't understand how teams work. In every case the team would have worked better, faster, without them. But that's anecdata.
Tomorrow all charges get a referral to the Act Blue shared database with the FBI.
And you think 14th century Africa is comparable to the modern world?
If you are too weak to admit this is important to you, just go the "it's broken" route.
> The first AGI is (some) amount of time away. A more sophisticated AGI is coming not long after that, and exponentially faster and so on.

Why do people keep acting as if this was a god given truth and just a matter of time ?
I think the article means using Bash for scripting, while the reader could use anything they want interactively. That's what I do—I use zsh, but I don't script in zsh.
How about that LG OLED C2 Evo 55" TV? Do you prefer that over LG OLED C1 or maybe LG NanoCell 80 Series or Nanocell 90 Series?

Or maybe those Apple iPhone XS Max phones? Or iPhone 14 Plus or iPhone 13 Pro Max? Are these knock-offs sold by a reseller on Amazon?

What I am saying is that there are (universally accepted as) good products that have silly names. Naming is done by marketing departments trying to be clever, products are designed by design/engineering departments trying to be clever.

Call me old fashioned, but I know which I care about more.
We have had times with low unemployment and low inflation, but that's outside the Fed's control. The Fed has 2 levers it can pull -- interest rates and QE. Increasing rates / decreasing QE makes inflation better and unemployment worse. Decreasing rates or increasing QE makes inflation worse and unemployment better. This is about as well studied as anything in economics can be.

And while low unemployment is not unique to 2022, the decreasing inequality and the imbalance between the number of job openings vs job seekers are both at levels not seen in modern times. It seems reasonable to say that the inequality reduction and the high number of job openings are correlated. Raising interest rates will impact the latter so it's quite probable that it will reverse the decreasing inequality trend.
That’s not the only “question.” We’re a federation of 50 sovereign states, not a single state. You can’t just sweep that part under the rug. In general, people tend to get really upset when you act like certain lines on the map just don’t exist.
> Whatever the hard limits on AI, they will be so far beyond us that we won’t be able to visualize or guess at them.

Can you share your crystal ball? I need to check next week lottery numbers
I think ReMarkable's resolution is perfectly fine, and a higher DPI wouldn't make a significant difference.

However, it needs a better contrast. I can't tell if Scribe beats it on that, because in Scribe product videos their screen seems similarly dull, but other product shots have contrast so high it looks photoshopped.
We survived just fine in a temperate belt, developed intelligence there, and that intelligence allowed us to expand to the rest of the world.
What kind of banks? Or do you mean bank as a generic name for a financial institution? Works as a function of payments? How it is intended to function vs how it actually works?

It seems like a very easy question, but it is admittedly hard for me to answer without some additional way to parse it.

Could you narrow it down a little?
I think it's a good example of how rationality is a construct. We arbitrarily choose which rational framework makes the most sense in the situation and apply it.

Do you want to rely on the prior actor framework, or the react to what you see framework? That decision is not rational.
You have on Android, but not iOS.
Java? I wouldn't dream of writing the software equivalent of a modern constitution in Java.
I guess I’m unclear on your argument then. The entire point of this thread is that the US is building that fungibility (and they can do so by spending whatever is required to acquire people and machines to do it), and TMSC doesn’t like it. Obviously if those companies stopped existing today it would cause disruptions.
> the rigidity of the Constitution is probably it's greatest strength

Yeah. I’m with you there. It’s that way by design along with things like the presidency not having ultimate power.

The system’s not perfect, but let any modern politician make substantive changes, and I’d bet heavily on the system getting worse.
I read 90% of the comments on this and everyone seems unanimously onboard with these annoying banners.

The claim is they save the web. I can’t be the only one that feels these banners are destroying the web experience.

There has to be a better way to improve privacy without simultaneously nuking user experience.
If what you've created is unsound, then that is a compiler bug. Or you depend on something using unsafe which is unsound. Therefore you should, in both cases, appropriately report it.
https://threema.ch/en

https://wickr.com/
See I would rather 1 scammer get away if it means 100 legitimate fund raisers get to keep operating.

Canada's Trudeau showed the world what the nightmare scenario is: he single-handedly and with no evidence, decided that donating to a cause was retroactively illegal and every donor in his jurisdiction will have their assets frozen extra-judicially. No thanks.
If you're ever in Rome, don't cheap out on the museums. Take the guided tour, I highly recommend it for Villa Borghese. Price difference is minuscule, but your experience is wayyy better.
Third option, he chose that title to stoke the flame of all the inevitable FUD.
In fairness that was directly inspired by Haskell’s type of the same name: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.17.0.0/docs/Prelu...
Module production is quite centralised, with about 80% of it in China, and another 10% or more in South-East Asian countries, set up there by Chinese companies to get around the US tariff imposed in 2019 or so. (Korea produces some of the cells but doesn't assemble modules, AFAIK. Japan, also a few cells.)

The Europeans want to re-animate their domestic manufacturing for energy security reasons, after letting it die five or six years ago. First Solar is trucking on in the USA. India has ambitions to expand its production a lot. Not too many other places, to my knowledge.
China can do a solar EV project in 3 months. So if it takes China 40X times as long to do nuclear than solar, how long would nuclear take in Germany if solar takes 10 years?