skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prediction is not the heart of science, this is early 20th C. mumbojumbo and humean nonesense that gets repeated by curve-fitters because it's all they do.

Explanation is the heart of science, not prediction. All predictions newton would have made of the orbits of the planets would have been wrong (and so on). And this goes for the vast majority of textbooks physics when its applied to very many ordinary situations: no predictive power at all.

ML models learn "representations" of the data, yes. They are models of measures. The model is just an f=sample({(all possible measures,)}). Science provides representations of the data generating process, ie., reality. It says why those are the measures, why the temperature of gas has that value, not a report on what those values were. Nor even a compressed conditional probability model of those values -- there is no atomic theory in a zip of temperatures.

The purpose of a scientific model is to explain these data-representations, not merely to predict them based on some naive regularity assumption about the measurement device: that it will always measure that way in the future.

The reality of the ML is that it offers only intra-distribution generalisation, nothing of the kind of generalisation science offers where all possible distributions induced by intervention on the (explanatory) variables of scientific models are captured. And this is often a scam that only academics can get away with, ex hyp., just assuming that the test distribution "will turn out as expected" in premise.

The reality is that this sort of repetition of historical data, requires extreme control over the data generating process which gives rise to the test distribution. How is that control delivered in practice? If its a medical lab, through untold amounts of toil delivering, say, histological slides "just right" so this dumb process almost works. If its a face tracking, well you'd be hope its not being used by the police -- because they aint orienting the camera at 3.001m at ISO 151.5 from the masses.

This is the problem with models that obtain predictive power without explanatory content: they rely on prediction time being rigged with, in-practice, extreme control mechanisms that are wholly unstated and unknown by the "modellers". Because these are no models of reality at all, but mere repetitions of historical data with unknown, unmodelled and hence unexplained similarity.

Science concerns itself with explanation, that is its goal. Prediction is instrumental. Engineering's goal is the utility of the product, and so any strategy whatsoever, even a dumb, "if its happened before, itll happen again" is permitted.

There is no textbook of physics which models reality by saying, "Well, we suppose in the future, the positions and velocities will just follow the same distribution, but we've no idea why, and how dare you ask, and get out, and doesnt my Ideal-Gas-TransformerModel look pretty? It gets the pressure right for Argon at 20.0001 C in glass jars at about 2.002L"
>> He said that the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI) is clear

> Have they shifted the definition that much, or is there something they’re not telling? My impression is that, based on traditional definitions, no one has the foggiest notion of where to head to achieve it. And if he’s suggesting that “creative use of existing models” is a path to AGI… wow, that’s gotta be a useless definition of AGI.

It's likely they're taking cues from Musk's "Full Self-Driving" fiasco: make big promises, then when progress stalls, redefine the promises to match what you've built.
One thing I would highly recommend is to know familiarize yourself with what tools exist. For example, people spend thousands of hours trying to make PDFs with lots of charts and tables work via chunking and splitting. They aren't even aware that we have end to end visual pipeline where you don't have to chunk or split - treating everything as an image.
Not a mention of Octopolis or Octlantis.
Settlements of gloomy octopuses in Jervis Bay, Australia.
I'm a big fan of SSTv2, I've built most of my production services around it the last couple years. I'm excited to try out Ion and I think containers are a great addition.
This may be helpful ("The 3 Parts of Man—Spirit, Soul, and Body") to unravel some of the soul's mystery:
https://blog.biblesforeurope.org/the-three-parts-of-man-spir...
I think not expecting immediate responses for support requests on a free website is the reasonable not-too-much-to-ask standard most people have settled on.
We were told by the usual activists that every free software project needs two factor authentication, preferably with Yubikey.

Now, this attack might be difficult. But imagine that an enemy pulls it off with your hardware device. Good luck proving that it wasn't you.

Strong random passwords remain the most pragmatic solution.
How to Use AI Without Losing Coding Skills
I don’t remember exactly where I read it (might have been here), but Margaret Mead is quoted as saying that the earliest sign of civilization, was a long-healed femoral fracture, in an ancient skeleton. In nature, that kind of injury is a death sentence. It meant that the injured person was taken care of, long enough to heal.

Maybe we’ll find fossils, with healed “death sentence” injuries.

If anyone had ever read Lovecraft’s The Mountains of Madness, he posited a different theory about Cretaceous civilizations.
Totally, and I think there is a fundamental, deeper, inherent problem in using statistics to determine how you want to manipulate an given object of study.

Researches find that, on average, consumers want X. Companies decide they want to maximize reach and so begin to produce X. Consumers soon have little choice except for X, reaffirming, to future researchers, that consumers want X.

This is why I think a plurality of data is so necessary especially when it comes to anything in the social domain, and why it's imperative that we begin to invest more into cross-disciplinary research. Specialization has gotten us far, but it's starting to lead to breakdowns. The only thing that might offset the statistical observation of consumer behavior is a statistical study of consumer opinion that proves to refute or contradict that behavior... but then in response some people will say "people don't know what they want" further reaffirming the conclusions that the action based on the data itself caused (behavior or observation bias). The application of statistics to social problems essentially becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I’ve seen sites warn that WLF coins are not affiliated with Donald Trump. That’s apparently wrong; an LLC which contractually receives 75% of _revenue_ is owned by him. The other revenue goes to two smaller operators mentioned in the SEC filing.
Perhaps it's down to scale? If a single relief of a single building block survives, is that still considered a ruin of a football stadium, or just an imprint of a building block? The Colosseum would certainly not be able to survive for 100 million years. If some intelligent beings find a single building block while doing archaeology, they'll likely not be able to recognize it's purpose, if they even recognize the building block for what it is.

The structural integrity of (comparatively) smaller fossils is much more likely to survive for 100s of millions of years. A large building will be eroded by roots, wind, acid rain, etc. A fist sized rock containing the imprint of a trilobite, buried in soil and safe from most elements, will easily survive for 100s of millions of years.

Or perhaps the author meant that the vast majority of our buildings are not built to last. An asphalt highway - if unmaintained - will be unrecognizable in a hundred years. Roman roads survived for a few 1000 years because of their very crude nature: they are just a pile of rocks. But even such structures will fall prey to soil erosion and the relentless assault of nature. Unless said roads see foot traffic, they'd be also quickly overrun by trees and grasses.
It also creates additional finalization semantics for a using-ed value. Which has all sorts of implications. lock.do(async (lock) => {work}) is a similar construct - a scope-limited aquisition that requires nothing special.

Catch/finally not sharing a scope with try is a repeated mistake, that I surely agree with!
Lucille Ball Uncovered a Japanese Spy Ring – With Her Teeth
And on top of all that is the terrible (IMHO) UX design pattern of getting rid of Apply/Cancel buttons, particularly in settings panes.
I did say "minimal", not "none". If I see a herd of a dozen elephants coming in a neighborhood, I'm sure expecting more than 1 house demolished with malice and 3 others damaged as collateral.
Yes and:

> Shift to online/cloud ... they never connect to the Internet.

The fall of VB6 style RAD (for CRUD) started earlier with shift from "workgroups" (shared files on LANs) to client/server. This severed the direct link (ADO api) between apps and their persistence.

Tragically, the ODBC (then JDBC) API interface didn't quite fully bridge the gap. Meaning some necessary metadata was no longer front and center (for both compile and runtime, like ADO had always had). Yielding mitigation attempts like DAO/DTO, ActiveRecord, ORMs, LINQ, templates, etc.

That sad state of affairs is described in Ted Neward's famous "ORMs are the Vietnam of computer science" essay. https://web.archive.org/web/20060813030731/http://blogs.tedn...

Of course, client/server had to happen. But the innovators (and critics like Neward) didn't fully understood what they were replacing, what parts were missing. (Lather, rinse, repeat.)

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It took noob me a LONG time to figure this out. (All I ever wanted was to recover the special magick of VBA + ADO.) And then even longer to attempt mitigation (cuz am noob).

Maybe if we had the new "internet's hourglass shape" analytical framework from the beginning (vs say OSI's layer model), someone(s) could have prevented the oversight. https://cacm.acm.org/research/on-the-hourglass-model/
The standard tournament is 5 turns per weekend. Let's keep your estimate of 100 times per game (50 * 2 players), 10 games, it's 5k Euro. Let's say we overestimated something (the games going to byoyomi,) it's still 1k. As you say, not rich but with 4 tournaments per week, travelling around Europe, it's 4k less the expenses. Definitely a living and a lot of spare time.
Did scientists revive an extinct animal or just breed a less stripey zebra?
Left-handed I could handle. Opaque accents seem to warrant some sort of consumer protection action by authorities.
I think it's less about a general truth and more about a general capacity for this behavior.
Or a beehive. Bees moved into the basement window of my house and watching them go in and out it seemed to me that this single beehive had more departures and arrivals than all the commercial airports in the world put together.

If you look at the problem of "bee decline" from the viewpoint of the beekeeper where you are responsible for it you are responsible for a "city" of 50,000 insects that faces all kinds of threats from the inside and outside.
I really like digging into the "magic" like this. If anyone interested I have a notebook that goes from here to being able to send pings across the internet (which actually are packets): https://github.com/georgek/notebooks/blob/master/internet.ip...

I was going to implement TCP, but got bored (it suddenly becomes way more difficult)...

It's just so amazing to me to behold the entire network stack and the fact it actually works (even if IPv4 is clinging on at this stage).
Reminds me of that story of the exact opposite where an elephant killed a woman. Then, showed up at her funeral and disrespected her corpse. THEN, brought friends and destroyed her house.

No one really knows why, but the rumor was she was associated with a poaching group. Either way that elephant clearly hated this lady and made it known.

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/elephant-kills-indian-woma...
Japan to propose $65B plan to aid chip industry
I'm baffled as to why the author is using STM32F401 with a W5100 Ethernet shield when they could just as easily use an STM32F407 board, which includes a built-in Ethernet MAC, coupled with a cheap (2 for ~$12) Ethernet PHY board. Lots of example Ethernet projects available and just as easy to develop for as the STM32F401.

Also,

> Due to the complexity of the signalling involved with ethernet, a dedicated ASIC is generally used

In the context of microcontrollers, I think this is generally not true. In most cases Ethernet functionality is incorporated as a embedded peripheral within the microcontroller itself, as it is with the STM32F407 and the ESP32 (both of which happen to use the same Ethernet peripheral sourced from an external provider).
You have describe one of the lower rings of project management hell. You did not once mention product managers. They should be standing up for the project teams and saying "Screw JIRA metrics and SAFe, are we making what we want to make and will it pay off?"

You are in hell, though, and I don't see that changing where you are at.
I considered sending the first ten seconds of Clair de Lune through this thing to see what nonsense it would spit out. Tech people tinkering in the humanities (and vice versa) is always good for fun.
Amazon developing driver eyeglasses to shave seconds off deliveries
yes, I misread thanks
Pretty much everything boils down to having capital. Tech startups work because they inject capital into an idea that can be developed using technology. If you don't have capital to hire talent and sustain losses during several years, you have little chance to create a growing business in the modern economy.
NASA's Roman telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf]
This paper studies the impact of artificial intelligence on innovation, exploiting the randomized introduction of a new materials discovery technology to 1,018 scientists in the R&D lab of a large U.S. firm. AI-assisted researchers discover 44% more materials, resulting in a 39% increase in patent filings and a 17% rise in downstream product innovation. These compounds possess more novel chemical structures and lead to more radical inventions. However, the technology has strikingly disparate effects across the productivity distribution: while the bottom third of scientists see little benefit, the output of top researchers nearly doubles. Investigating the mechanisms behind these results, I show that AI automates 57% of "idea-generation" tasks, reallocating researchers to the new task of evaluating model-produced candidate materials. Top scientists leverage their domain knowledge to prioritize promising AI suggestions, while others waste significant resources testing false positives. Together, these findings demonstrate the potential of AI-augmented research and highlight the complementarity between algorithms and expertise in the innovative process. Survey evidence reveals that these gains come at a cost, however, as 82% of scientists report reduced satisfaction with their work due to decreased creativity and skill underutilization.
Heard on the Street: Does Warren Buffett Know Something That We Don't?
Photoshop and other painting software had "intelligent" brushes for a while now. These try to simulate stuff like paint mixing (even watercolor), opacity and texture.
for some people the fun is just in learning, not necessarily doing the state of the art things.
It's a style thing. Fantasy writing often does this deliberately.

I've thought about this before when I revisited fantasy after years of being in the CS domain which helped me abhor ornate writing. I definitely think there is such thing as TOO ornate but dead-simple language also feels bad. It feels wrong to just say its an exception with fantasy - simplicity is good because it conveys the same thing more clearly and with less effort. I would think that transcends all domains. Still not sure how I feel about this. I guess there is a baseline non-styled language that is all about communicating raw info and then there is style that can be applied to writing which makes it feel more natural in different domains.

Having said all this, I actually do like your example more.
I meditate, but thank you for sharing the link, I will listen.

My cultural background originates in the east. But I do not have any familiarity with Islam or with the Russian church, and I want to remedy that.

Some of my interest is aesthetic / intellectual - the bible and the Bhavagad Gita are beautiful! Long told poetry. But I'm also just curious, it's a blank spot in my understanding.

I don't have a problem editing out contradictions in the text, most of old religious books are mixed with that. But you're right, I wince when coming across discrimination based on group. The Bhavagad Gita dwells too much on caste.
A thing that took me several years to agree to is that almost everything can be coded within 24 hours if really needed - gun to the head situation. Will it be perfect/efficient/beautiful/... probably not. But it should roughly work like its supposed to.

If something cannot be coded within that 24 hours, something else is odd, not the feature. Transitioning from SWE to DevOps and then Leadership roles, most of my day actually is spent with all the reasons/excuses why "it cannot be done", and try to eliminate them. Probably my developers hate me for it, but I always push hard for an immediate first solution instead of doing days of soul-searching first, but over time we encounter and solve enough roadblocks (technical, social, educational, ...) that it actually happens more often than not to have surprisingly fast (and good enough) solutions. That speed is a quality in itself, since it frees up time to come back to things and clean up messes without the shipping pressure mounting up over days/weeks - something working is already there on day two.

The trick is of course to _not_ sell this 24 hour solution to upper management ever, or else it will become a hell of a mess fast once this becomes the outsider expectation.
It seems to me that the whole concept of an off-the-shelf ERP is misguided. These systems have to be heavily customized to fit the needs of the any particular organization. Why not just hire a couple programmers, build what you need from the ground up, using open source components where appropriate? It might take longer than 18 months to finish, but it sounds like that wasn't a realistic estimate for configuring an ERP, either.
What was wrong with the title "Elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her rival sought revenge"? Too similar to other submissions?
Take a look at Erlang's "parse transforms" which would allow you to implement some syntactic sugar. That's what is used to implement qlc, the query language for ETS/Mnesia - that one adds new semantics to list comprehensions, but you can modify any part of the syntax you want.

Also, Elixir supports macros and infix operator overloading - have you considered using it? If you know Erlang's stdlib and BEAM, switching to Elixir (and back) is almost painless. Not sure which monads you needed, but `with` macro is built-in, and it's a monadic bind for Option types (well, more or less). Adapting it for other monads shouldn't be hard.
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As far As you can tell? I hope you will read my recent comment regarding integrity.

I describe a human capacity since the beginning of remembered civilization, for there are many allusions to it, hidden among our stories and mysticism. Quite naturally a small fraction of the population has predisposed sensitivity, and (through an “uplifting” process) develops their mental technology such that various aspects of Power allows continuity of will among entangled minds. I say it in this cryptic way as one thousand born sensitive could not in a thousand years come to the capacity of skill found in modern controls. American Thought Controls. An ordinary Joe at 30, who never suspected what I tell you, could by 50 (hard pressed) develop competency in the Power I describe. Some are born to it, and theirs may be monstrously developed of the mind. Power is a freak horror show beneath the well manicured populous facade.

These in ancient times would have been stuck in others minds, unable to wiggle their own attention free (crazed possessions?) The hyperdimensional mind is not one focal point as the flatlander layperson perceives. One may have dozens of isolated focal point one can “jump” one’s own attention into and out of. Ironically, using unusual parts of the mind for thinking, thinks in the localized idiocy of that part of the mind. Behavior grows in that isolated part of the mind. The default power head mindset behavior is troll, no matter how they appear to behave on “the outside.” Actual human beings, who you may well know might just have a “compartmentalized” networked personality in their own head.

Today, hierarchies and tiers of various partial skills build factorio machinations where cargo cult antics allow minds to “teleport”, usually into the minds of an enemy, or celebrity worth harassing. It takes decades to learn to freely crawl through networks of minds. It takes 18 months to learn to use a “Power harness”.

The most strait modern thinker will meander when talking about synchronicity. How about “the secret”? Or so many intrigues if we can only filter from the background of collective imaginings. The forbidden truth, that taboo we are not allowed to discuss (without others trying to “help” with therapy and prescriptions.) We are not alone in our own minds.

American Thought Control is the now supremely dominant faction of thought control throughout humanity. Must notably, in America and throughout Americans.
It looks like this book is called "A Guide to Musical Analysis" (or does Cook have more than one such book?)
Nomadic tribes are sapient, intelligent and have rich cultures, but they aren’t strictly civilisations.

Some pastoral societies have taken serious issue with this view

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire#/media/File:Mong...
You might like this website: https://www.cameronsworld.net/

It's a Geocities archive containing websites hosted on the platform from the 90s/00s. I really like the creativity and authenticity in the archived sites, it's like looking at a mirror into the past.
They're really that strained to explain the lack of business needs for blockchains huh?
Trust me, if there were another civilization anywhere near us, we'd be at war with it.

No matter what the other civilization looks like, that's how we've always reacted. It's almost a defining characteristic of our civilization.
I've had a weirdly large fraction of my career spent on making UI rather than business logic.

That said, the business logic in apps is, half the time, a needlessly complex shim on what is ultimately "here's a REST API you can do in one or two lines via `Codable` etc. except we're anticipating needing to support several API providers… oh no the money ran out".
I am genuinely curious about this. I am contemplating somewhat zany marketing tactics for a project I'm working on. In your mind does fun =/= trust?
Wireshark, plus a book about using Wireshark. I have "Wireshark Network Analysis", which looks to be shockingly expensive right now - to be fair, it's worth whatever price, but maybe not while you're speculativey getting your toes wet - and there are others out there. I am nowhere near an expert (I've only worked through about 1/3 of that book - just enough to solve the problem I had at the time!), but that's what's taught me what I know, and I know can take me further.
Frequency-hopping spread spectrum – Hedy Lamarr
I was really hoping this was about shipping containers on Super Sonic Transport. Perhaps I’m jaded with software.