skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, when we got results we didn't expect we made sure that the experiment was setup correctly, and actually made sense. We use the timing instructions illustrated in this intel white paper, which does do serialization http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/training/ia-.... More over we tried a few different programs, CCbench, custom home-brewed, and BenchIT, all giving the same results. There's a paper about Asymmetry:

Thread and Memory Placement on NUMA Systems: Asymmetry Matters

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc15/atc15-p...
Behavior is just how you choose to respond to feelings you have. I have adult ADD/ADHD and novelty seek frequently, but it helps to remind myself why I do what I do, what my motivations are, what I desire in the long term. I still struggle with it though ...
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Well you're probably right, but I don't think that you can do too much, realistically, to regulate early access to very fresh ideas through networks like that - and I think that's fine so long as there's no purposeful or unnecessary delay in spreading the information more widely.

You could for instance make the same kind of point about YC companies' access to investor networks, advice of partners, all those sorts of things which aren't explicitly reserved just for them but of course are more readily accessible by virtue of being in the program. It's not something that's inherently bad, it's just how it works.

I'm not saying that having very close contact with this research group won't be advantageous to YC companies, of course it will, but with that as a given, the ethos of this group's findings being made open and freely available for anyone to use is well-intentioned and to be applauded, when it's a privately funded initiative that could just as easily be justified in being somewhat or completely closed and proprietary. Is it really important if some YC companies happen to have a slight advantage from this, as an inevitable side effect, in the big picture?
I think they might not have a native English speaker. Check out the title of this official video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFS2JWUkdvw
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Perhaps some stories are actually about the author as well. Serial, since you brought it up, always seemed to me to also be about Sarah Koenig's relationship to Adnan, how she feels about him and whether he's telling the truth, and her journey along the way. I really don't think "it's simply a lack of discipline of the writers to take themselves out of the story" is a fair representation of what the story is about. You might think it it would have been better presented a different way, but I don't think it's the way it is because they were sloppy, but because that's the type of story they wanted to tell.
You mean that it's impossible to make a human level general intelligence ('HGI', to use your term), without understanding those things?

It is entirely logical to argue that a high level intelligence could not be constructed without a broad and deep understanding of it's motivations and behaviors.

That may or may not be ethics as such but if something we make on purpose, we'd need to understand it. And considering it's difficulties, making it on purpose seems necessary, contrary to movies etc.
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That's the problem with many young people, they fail to recognize Unix history. Or for how a computer actually works... as long as there's a JVM running in a container inside a virtualized fat server with 128GB RAM, everything is fine.
Very interesting. We use Boost.Python to provide Python binding for Bond [0]. It works well but having something lighter weight would is great. One big issue with Boost.Python is long compilation times. Does your library improve on that?

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/bond/manual/bond_py.html
I used to have that. It was waking me up for the first couple of weeks, and then I got used to it, and slept right through.
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> Churchill is the equivalent of Saddam Hussein... I find it bewildering why he's still admired... unless they share the same value system and morals (or the lack thereof)

Just as a friendly pointer, I don't think you're going to change the mind of anyone who respects Churchill by saying that they're amoral & comparing him to Saddam Hussein. Regardless of where the truth may lie it doesn't seem like a winning approach.
https://discuss.starfighters.io/session/sso?return_path=/ redirects to https://staging.stockfighter.io/
We had a bug in email validation (worked on staging grumble grumble). Separately, our deploy script blows away memcached. Guess where email validation tokens were kept.

I temporarily turned off bust-cache-on-deploy and the rapidly rising number of validated emails suggests things are working now. Now back to more DevOps craziness.
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There is a good research base showing that there are gene variants for human response to light in resetting the circadian rhythm. The evolutionary history of this is so deep that the same gene variant appears in fruit flies, where it was first discovered.[1] But even at that, light influences everyone's circadian rhythm, and a smart, timed use of light can help you reset your biological clock. This article is an interesting account of one person's effort to do a habitual reset that seems to have worked. Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," and there seems to be a social and economic advantage in being a morning person in many life circumstances.

[1] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-genes-influence-...
Isn't China communist?
We unintentionally produce programs while fail or produce small variations on their original purpose - give control to X person rather than Y person.

We haven't unintentionally produced a program that had a whole range of unexpected behaviors. An intelligence having human-like "survival instincts" and etc would be a big variation on a tool.
Yes. A 27 year old Austrian man became a Shinto priest in Japan.

Source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/06/10/our-lives/b...
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"If the AI is at human level then it can do all human jobs."

I don't see how that follows. How does a computer program do manual labor?
Or medical treatments for fertility enhancement, which allow women to have children until a much older age.
After years and years of trying anything that came my way and seemed credible, the only thing that ever worked to change me into a morning person was living in an apartment that was so bright in the morning that even drawn blinds and an eye mask wasn't enough to keep the light from getting to your eyes. A few exhausted weeks after moving in, I was getting up with the sun naturally and feeling great about it. Since moving away, I haven't been able to replicate the effect in my new, dimmer apartment, no matter what I've tried.
It appears that that is true, although all I can find is this abstract[1], and it sounds like it might have as much to do with both parents being older.

In general, it appears that waiting into your 30s or later to start having children is riskier than doing so earlier. It'd be nice if we could rejigger society to reflect that - if people had their children first and entered the workforce at 30, they'd still have thirty or so productive years.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12771769
Those aren't a list of symptoms, but instead an outcome what happens given typical depression symptoms coupled with teen behavior (and not knowing how to handle the feeling). Actually, social isolation is a fairly typical symptom of depression. Substance abuse and so on are often correlated as well.

Looking for the study itself (which I can't seem to find), but the article says something along the lines of "showing symptoms of depression". Symptoms of depression are often caused by depression.

No, it's not an insult at all. The biggest insult to depression sufferers is not recognizing it as a condition or implying that they are something other than depressed.

Edit: I'm sorry; perhaps you are simply not understanding the article. Is English your primary language?
Maybe it's because I lived there a couple of years, but if I saw that phrase in another context I wouldn't think of walnuts and almonds. b^)
Arguably, cheap oil might exactly what clean energy needs right now, since environmentalism is a tough sell in bad economic times. (Paraphrasing Stewart Brand here...)

Trouble is, right now cheap oil hasn't been boosting the economy the way it usually does.
Confusing, still pretty buggy. Maybe it's a bit early to release?

I'll try to compile some constructive feedback in a bit.
This guy apparently doesn't need any kind of theming for his site.
In name only.
The tag cloud is hilarious.
Awesome, I've been looking forward to this! Signup went smoothly for me and I'll jump into the first level as soon as I can.
Awesome. Needed this.

Id add the option to upload block segments of files, and not just complete files.
This is more extreme now where our attention jumps from link to link. We can't separate this issue from the Internet era.
True. But new "stuff" is coming out so fast in ML these days, that pretty much whenever you publish a comparison, a month later something new is going to drop.
I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying about the "Like" button. He's talking about how aggressively we've been conditioned to align our identity with the things we like (aka, what we feel we must project publicly as our interests).
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Don't straw man me, bro.

My point is that the entire idea of an buggy AI destroying humanity is absolutely divorced from the reality of AI research. It's not unimaginable to the lay-person, but there is simply no way of getting there from the neural networks we're making now.

To begin, can you go ahead and explain what self-awareness means in terms of a neural network you are training?
Congrats on launching!

If you're looking to dive into the problems more immediately, there's a wealth of API clients and other resources available in the forums: https://discuss.starfighters.io/t/helpful-external-tools/136

Don't be afraid to try the game if you don't have much programming experience. It's seriously a great way to pick up some valuable skills.
I'm definitely more likely to finish a kindle book, just because I almost always have it with me.
Related discussion (on Baidu's Deep Speech 2 results) from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707538
From the title I was expecting a line chart of average book length over time.

Is there an API to get book metadata for all books?
The value of oil and coal companies would not necessarily be that effected by say banning coal and oil 20 years out. The depreciation, depletion etc on their wells is typically less than that so they could pump their oil, not bother with new wells and maybe try moving to renewables. The oil price falling in the short term due to everyone pumping too much has a much larger effect. (disclosure, oil investor).
I am not after changing anybody's political opinion much less Churchill's followers' because they seem like a lost cause to me but if my comment could be construed as a political speech, it would be more valuable if it was targeted at enlightened people sitting on the fence and not the hardcore ardent crowd.
Definitely a fascinating model and there are other doing it too, but the founder's (rbin's) post pretty much read "blah... blah.. blah.. trust and security.. blah blah.. sersiously.. blah blah blah.. "

Until there is a service that has shown it has the chops it takes to securely store user data for a third party, its an uphill battle for these services.
Woohoo, Congrats on going live. I am excited to play around!
This looks like a good initiative. I look forward to the day that this can be done automatically.
Show HN: “Gimmick!” scene, image and music, rendered in GLSL
In case it is useful for someone in the future, here is my response on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/3wfmzj/is_dokkualt_...
This shadertoy generates a scene from the game Gimmick! using a complicated shader. It was done for SIGGraph '15 but was rejected because it has trouble running on the judge's computers. Many browsers get upset while trying to compile the large graphics shader, as well as the very "fat" sound shader I wrote. I made a video of what it's supposed to do for those who can't run it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3izbzMNq74

It seems to work best on FireFox in Windows. Strangely, my old ThinkPad X61 _eventually_ ran it under Chromium, while Chrome on my desktop with a GTX 970 fails to compile it. Go figure.

A friend of mine created the GLSL code to show all of the bitmapped graphics shown, including tile animations, without any inputs. I wrote a wacky little "music stream" generator called ShaderTracker to create the music as a function of time. This is my first venture into anything shader related, so the graphics code is really the more interesting part. My friend is a genius and you should check out his shader work: https://www.shadertoy.com/user/Hamneggs
Trying to start the first level:

"Couldn't resume the level because Couldn't connect to the GM server to resume the level."
That's what I thought, too, but only because I've read American Psycho, which had a pretty similar thesis.
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It's not exactly the same genre since it's not futuristic, but last year's The Grand Budapest Hotel is also a light-hearted & fanciful adventures film, and it certainly has a plot - besides being a much better film all around than any of the BttF trilogy, in my opinion.

On the other hand, it's also only 100 min. long, so it doesn't exactly fit with trend of longer movies.
Such behaviour can be hardcoded for certain types of personalities and is not bad per se. You're just trying to achieve something that isn't compatible with your personality.

I'd perhaps recommend doing an MBTI personality test (there's a bunch of them on the internet). This might help you to understand the mechanisms behind your behaviour and most importantly give you some hints how to make yourself useful.

I recommend to consider psychologist only as last resort.
UPDATE: Can log in now. Cleared browser cookies, but have no idea if that's a coincidence or not.

I seem to have hit some kind of bug signing up:

1. Filled out signup form, hit enter.

> Page reloaded, sign-up form empty. No other feedback.

2. Filled out signup form again, hit enter.

> Told username and email address taken.

3. Check email.

> no new email.

4. Filled out login form using info entered in step 1.

> Page reloaded, not logged in.
Congrats on launching!

I'm getting this error when trying to play the first level:
"We couldn't start the level: couldn't connect to the GM server to start the level. Refresh page to check if server is down?".

I assume it's just too many people hitting the server at the same time, but fyi.
Judging from the amount that just passes right through I would have expected even less than 80% of the calories absorbed!
Blow away cookies for the site and try again.
So many submissions, so little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722526

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10711264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10709327

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10706511 (3 comments)
Wow, I never think I've had a confirmation email arrive so fast.

FWIW, I'm also hitting the rate limit exceeded error when trying to access the "first_steps" level.
All right, let's assume I decided that software engineering career is not for me. What careers are compatible with constant novelty-seeking?
I think it's an eminently sensible place to draw the line. The problem is with "general purpose computers" whose program can be modified by the company you bought it from but not you. The asymmetry is the issue. It becomes outright abusive when the whole point of the product is to be a general purpose computer that can do "anything" (like a games console, which serves no purpose without games). If anything, the advent of the over-the-internet "updates" (which the user frequently can't control either) gives the entire issue a new urgency.

In the case of "firmware", one must remember that it's a fuzzy (and misleading) term that used to refer to software that was in some sense "baked in" and hard to update, but is increasingly being used to refer to what amounts to an ordinary OS. If it has to be sent to the device on every boot, there's nothing "firm" about it - it's software, plain and simple.
Sorry, I'm being too indirect. You come across like a zealot. If you want to be heard by anyone who's not already on your side then you need to tone it down.
+1 exactly the same problem. Maybe it is because of the high number of requests. I'm astonished that the site is still up despite being #1 on the front page. EDIT: Yup, clearing cookies solves this
I do exactly the same thing. I get half of my work done before anyone shows up, and just cruise the rest of day or leave early. I don't play the game of staying late to make it look like I'm working hard. I let my work speak for itself, which is easy because I feel great in the morning and there is no one to bother me, so the quality speaks for itself.
So Sweden, Denmark and Norway have stagnated and declined? Can you be more specific?

More generally, Malthus had much more historical support for his thesis (that population would quickly grow to consume all the food available). But the rules changed.
the Irony, they came to talk about "Global Warming" i bet not a single one took Public Transportation to the conference - but instead they all flew in with their Private Jets and furthermore destroyed our beautiful planet
Yeah, CFCs got banned and the ozone hole went, you don't hear about acid rain any more, lead in petrol got banned, DDT got banned and so on in spite of Capitalism, so there's hope.
I haven't read that, but it seems like a reasonably interesting thesis to discuss. If that's Bret Easton Ellis's shtick... I definitely didn't get the impression he was saying that Facebook was to blame for making everyone happy, smiling consumers.
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I wasn't able to access the levels yet unfortunately. Is there still some testing going on?
same and same
The point of the example was that it provides a way to match current supply with future demand without any extra coordination between the sellers. All it requires is that each be willing to sell to any buyer, which is not coordination in any meaningful sense.

Your comment said That only works if a sufficient majority of producers do it, and do it in a coordinated manner., so I asked about another way that I thought would work (in fact, the way proposed in the parent of your first comment).
Difficult to assess objectively, but I wonder if the quality has degraded accordingly (eg. due amateur self-publishing)? In my experience, being more concise so as to produce better writing is difficult and time intensive -- a la the famous Blaise Pascal quote:

> I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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Don't you have to seek through the entire tar file to find a file? You see, that is a joke.
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Really awesome to see it launch!

It looks like the GM server is down at the moment, so I have yet to start the first level, but I'm more than happy to mash the F5 key till it works.
Even if you buy the hypothesis that climate change can't be stopped, the sea level rises would be something like 1 or 2m / century. More a case of get your grandkids to build their houses a quarter mile inland than a mad panic. Funnily enough global sea levels rose about 90m over the last 10,000 years and people hardly even noticed. You used to be able to walk from England to France where the channel now is.
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Yep. This works.
Came to say something along these lines. Often books say very little in as many words as possible. Part of a 'more stuff for your money' philosophy.

Textbooks have this problem as well until you hit graduate subjects.
Jacob Appelbaum has actually recommended this strategy in the last ~year. Not just the NSA, but also the other members of FVEY and places like Ramstein Air Base[1].

It's an incredibly dangerous role to play, so I understand if someone decides against pulling another Snowden. I only hope the have the moral fortitude to at least quit if they feel they cannot take the the whistleblower risk.

Also, for anybody inside that wants help, remember that Drake and Schneier endorse Intelexit[2].

[1] https://theintercept.com/2015/04/17/ramstein/

[2] https://www.intelexit.org/
What was Stalin's reaction?
If we all mash F5, maybe it will start up faster!
That's what I really had trouble with. There have been times in my life when I've been exceptionally motivated: pet projects, new girlfriend, etc. I'll wear out, get to bed at 8pm, wake up early and keep working or go to the gym.

But I'm also really productive between midnight and 4am. That's where I got my best work done during University and when I quit my job last year and went on a 9 months sabbatical.

How about we get rid of this horrible idea that we all need to be up early? If you're a morning person and that works for you: great. You should keep that shit up. If you don't think you are, then you should at least try it. Maybe it would work better for you. Don't discount it.

But if you try it and don't really like it, then why the hell should you have to be at work at 8am? Especially in IT. Our morning commutes clog up our motorways. If people adjusted and spread out office work schedules, it would make our transportation systems that much more flexible.

We don't all need to be morning people.
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I partially wish that the US had the same stigma so I could exploit it. I'd happily live in an apartment where someone committed suicide, since there's absolutely no logical basis for fearing it.
can't login with my migrated account. Here's what i get on pw recovery:

"The change you wanted was rejected.

Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to."
Hey guys -- the most resource-intensive part of the infrastructure (the game master boxes) is currently overwhelmed by your enthusiasm. We're spinning up more boxes for you, but it will take a few minutes.
Consulting might be a good bet.
Is there anywhere that extremely well thought out and detailed short stories could thrive? I want to find those.

I've read plenty of long books in my lifetime.
I enjoyed all of Anathem and would have happily read another 500 pages of it. Not sure if Stephenson is the best example, his long book style is quite unique. Usually it works for me (Anathem, Cryptonomicon, I've read both at least twice) other times it doesn't (The baroque series I haven't finished). Snow crash and Zodiac are examples of him writing shorter good books too.
Raah, that was the part I was looking for, I wanted to use it to learn a bit about assembly and code generation - I couldn't care less about HFT (sorry Patrick).

Good luck!