skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a good time for the technical community to reassess its contribution to the situation and how we can do better.

How were communication services used by individuals and the state?

Did the threat model encompass the seen actions and techniques?

Which companies collaborated?

I see a lot of responsibility on our side to do better.
> It's not correct to say Docker was designed "not" to do persistent data.

Any monkey can run a bunch of stateless systems. It's the stateful ones that have the worthwhile problems.
just like the dinosaurs messed up earth when they all died too?

Such a stupid sentiment. Humans can be wiped out for a variety of unknown reasons. It's not necessarily that "we messed up."
Same situation, but Australian.

Australia is quite a few steps ahead of New Zealand on this delightful journey toward outright social and generational conflict. At least in NZ you now seem to have a real public debate and perhaps some hope for change.

In the last election the Prime Minister (ex-Goldman, owns many properties including a literal mansion on the harbour), and the Treasurer (ex-honcho at the Property Council), openly campaigned to maintain the huge tax advantages investors hold over owner-occupiers. They won the election.

There are many, many weaknesses in enforcement around money-laundering and foreign "investment" in property. These have been called out for over a decade by international and local anti-corruption organisations. The Reserve Bank and other financial regulatory bodies periodically wring their hands and do nothing.

The major banks are hugely profitable and "not risky at all" based on revaluing their collateral upward as the bubble grows and they lend more into it.

At this point it's quite obvious the people who can fix the problem do not want to.

Why? Because the Australian government successfully turned housing into a one-way investment for the demographic majority (mainly baby boomers). They cannot taper the ponzi scheme without making those people poorer, and those people are their electoral support. Those people have come to believe they are clever rather than lucky, and this psychology prevents them from understanding they are hurting their children.

Most if not all government MPs own investment property, i.e. they have taken a leveraged bet on this arrangement continuing.

The way property has permeated every aspect of the culture and it's political and economic strategy really needs to be seen to be believed. I've been returning every couple of years over the past decade or so and it's like visiting an alien planet.

More here for anyone interested: http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/
It's going to happen anyway. I think we are better off doing such things in the open and having some visibility into it rather than be surprised when something happens.
It's nominal / negligible from what I hear.

You can't look up appraisal values from county tax office like you can in most counties in usa.
It's really technology that is always getting better. It has been so successful that it's hard to see the decline in so many other things. Factor out technological advances when answering these questions. Are our universities really better than they were 100 years ago? Even just 50? Are our political systems any better than 100 years ago? 2000 years ago? Are our stories any better? Are our People any better? Is our art better? Are humanity's cultures better? I can find points of these where I can argue some aspect is better now than before (but that's usually due to technology -- e.g. the whole genre of sci fi first demands, well, science), and some I could argue for overall being about equal, but for any of those being overall better, I find it a hard claim to make.
For what it's worth, that is slightly out of date - I have a code base that uses `@typedef` and TypeScript seems to pick it up without trouble.
Isn't this tautological?
There's probably no reason to restrict the computer the below human pro players (200-300 APM). My guess is the engine just wasn't designed with superhuman APM in mind and could be exploited. If that's the case then the AI would in some sense not really be playing the same game as the humans.
Oh, I try. But in the case of organ donation, I simply fail to understand the reasoning. If you're dead, why not save a life, renew sight, or otherwise greatly improve the life of another? Are there people who think that organ donation would hurt them in an afterlife? We, at least in the first world, live in societies with freedom of conscience and belief, so people should at least think through the consequences of their choices on others. (And on themselves; if there's an afterlife, do you really want to risk being judged on the basis of having chosen to deny a chance at health and wellbeing to another person?)
It is a shame the article has no pictures of the office setup.
This is good context, thanks.
We updated the submission title from “How junk science put a woman behind bars for 25 years”, which breaks the rules by being editorialized.
> McMansions are movie sets and the owners are playing a "role" of a "successful" person/family.

Ah, I love that. Applies to so many people I know. Well, at least, it DID apply to them before they lost their McMansion and, in some cases, went bankrupt.
I wasn't explicitly taught this - but as someone with no dependents, I relate quite strongly to this.
So working at UBS is like a public HS. You get a locker a phone and you float around to where you need to be.
Interesting, but ultimately the flaw lies in the assumption that each option is equal and ever voter having the same vote weight.

That is one of the reasons why our election system seems so schizophrenic in many ways, because as we have moved from a qualitative democracy, to a quantitive voting democracy, there is a diminished return on being informed. What we really need is the return to a qualitative voting system. That's a whole different can of worms, but is ultimately a necessity to arrive at a system that is not schizophrenic.
yeah ,keep going keeping in mind , what were you doing with weapons at afghanistan , iraq , vietnam ? spreading democracy ?
I'm so sick of this argument. How about we have a spine for once and say no?
There was a Starcraft brood war AI competition that did not have a limit on APM.

The top contestants were employing strategies that required APM an order of magnitude higher than what players could do. For example, in brood war, SCVs can repair any Terran building or vehicle but it is not worth the effort to repair goliaths or tanks for a player.

However, the AI could easily manage repairing it's tanks which makes the Terran army much more cost effective.

In SCII there is auto repair and other improved UX that probably limit the ability of novel strategies like repairing vehicles.
That's not what subsidy means.
"Want to Know What Virtual Reality Might Become? Look to the Past

No doubt some future V.R. creators will figure out how to tell cinematic stories or make compelling game experiences.

The director Chris Milk, in a widely circulated TED talk, called V.R. systems "Empathy machines," a description echoed by other V.R. auteurs.

The paradox of V.R. is that when you see the world through someone else's eyes, you can't actually see the person's eyes.

Donning V.R. goggles, visitors entered a parallel version of the forest, where they could shift in and out of the perspectives of different creatures, from midges to frogs to owls.

"This isn't storytelling." If V.R. allows you to project yourself onto the deck of the Titanic, I suspect we won't want the entire James Cameron-style back story about a dashing artist and his fleeting romance with a wealthy young woman facing an arranged marriage.

"We weren't expecting it really," Steel says about the process of creating "In the Eyes of the Animal," "But by the end of it, we were all thinking, If you'd had a stressful day, it's super nice to just put it on and just explore. You always find new perspectives and angles. With these bigger trees, you're scanning so much detail that you notice stuff in V.R. that you wouldn't notice in real life. We're stuck at five to six feet high, and so you rarely go down and put your chin on the floor. But in V.R., you just stick yourself down there, and you're like: 'I love it down here! Look at all these pine cones!' ".

In an age when action movies have acclimated our eyes to multiple cuts per second, and in which video games bombard us with nonstop carnage, there turns out to a surprisingly meditative quality to the world we inhabit with V.R. goggles on."

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Unless it's common in popular libraries/packages, I don't see why I need to take it into account.

Which popular libraries do this?

If it's just in a few places, it should be handled specifically, and use sane choices in other places.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723652
I suspect this will eventually lead to AI as a service for games. Rather than build a terrible AI that delays a game by months, approaching a company that can build a decent AI initially which gets better overtime would probably be ideal and create better experiences.

Im curious if a startup can be built from this.
This has been around for awhile [1]. They give you an API to use and then you upload your JAR. They have a Twitch channel [2] that is constantly streaming AIs playing against each other in their tournament.

[1] http://sscaitournament.com

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/certicky
Of course he knew carriers subsidized phones. In fact he called it out in his infamous statement dismissing the iPhone. Here's the exact quote (emphasis mine)

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item."

The iPhone was too expensive even when subsidized. I've said this before and will say it again: Jobs' real genius, besides making a smartphone that actually fun to use, was getting carriers to subsidize it to below $200 (up front, of course; they made it up on the mandatory data plans). Turned out that is the price point that people will actually consider buying a smartphone for personal use, and it created a whole new market which had not really existed previously: the consumer smartphone market.
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Integrity being of the utmost importance is probably the #1 reason why the people put in power by elections should not be in charge of running those elections.

I'm not saying I prefer Diebold, but I certainly prefer it if the only other option is the House/Senate $PARTY Caucus.
Thanks for the post and pointer, had not come across any stuff on red muscle etc before!
That's so cool! I wish they could start doing AI for team based competitive games like League of Legends where meta-play and team decision making is important.
Is that too complicated to tackle yet?
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No?

Starcraft isn't troops on the battlefield, in the same way that Risk, the boardgame isn't troops on the battlefield.

Just because the 1s and 0s or game pieces represent "troops" to humans, doesn't mean that the underlying game mechanics have anything at all to do with a real war.

For all we know, the problems solved by a monopoly AI, are more applicable to a real war than those solved by a Risk or starcraft AI.
This is something I've thought about quite a few times. It's almost counter-intuitive. The community that we surround ourselves in keeps telling us how exciting XYZ technology is. But at the end of the day it comes down to reading documentation/man pages, and trying to implement something that you're trying to get up and running. I ascribe this feeling of boredom that I get partially to my perfectionism. But a lot of the times, it's just...why? Frankly, I'd rather just enjoy life. Programming is great. Latest technology in language XYZ or framework ABC is fantastic. But there's more to life than that.

Sorry for rambling. Just got home and it's 1am here :)
Back when I played SC2, you really didn't need a high APM to succeed, unlike SC1. SC2 offered some helpful mechanics that SC1 did not, such as the ability to select infinite units at once, or give commands to multiple structures at one. I think Sheth, a high level Zerg player, was famous for having under 100 APM.
Bans should never keep you back. A fake email is pennies to how much is gained from learning or building something incredible
This was predicted by Stephenson in The Diamond Age.

It sounded perfectly horrible when I read it then as fiction, but reading it now as reality, I find myself filled with an unpleasant sensation of dread and loathing that well surpasses my previous response.
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I have been attending online meditations through Meditation Online [1]. The approach is very secular and there's space for discussion, which also usually helps to get started and motivated.

[1] http://meditationonline.org/
>All a beacon does is transmit an identifier or URL. It isn't and CAN'T track you.

If my devices are transmitting identifying beacons, then they absolutely ARE tracking me. What exactly do you think that "identifier" is?
This is essentially equivalent to just leaving a section blank. I do that all the time for races that I don't know anything about. For example, I don't have any opinion on school boards and certain other local elections, so I leave those races blank.
I like it. If I want to get on a whiteboard with a couple guys and hash things out, we can get a room with maybe a couple PCs to write some code. Otherwise, you're at home or somewhere else you find comfortable.
You don't spend a year of salary on a house, most people don't have anything close to that cashflow. And here, OP is talking about their budget which implies they are taking a mortgage on at least 15 years.
I do research in "Deep RL" for a living. The same algorithms (and advances related to them) that can be used in such a scenario can be used to create machine learning solutions for social good.

Similarly, algorithms used to detect cancer in medical imaging can be used to do automatic targeting on killer drones. Should we stop doing research altogether?
Is < 1 year old an old kernel version?

Honestly, I liked this article because they had been using Docker for more than just a couple weeks.
If you're looking at model feature weights, you're doing it wrong.

Most models aren't interpretable, and coefficients are highly unit and feature dependent. Discussions involving feature weights beyond "What if we reduce the feature space?" or "Did we implement this feature correctly?" often go bad, they almost always go bad when you're using it to "audit" the model. I have been in way too many discussions where someone suggested that the weights were wrong, simply because they thought something should "be more important".
Yeah, I'm not sure how optimized the python protocol buffer stuff is. Years ago I benchmarked the pure python protobuf lib and it was terribly slow.

grpc was nice to work with though. I generated the stubs and stuck my logic in there and had a working client/server in about 20 minutes. The streaming request/reply stuff was crazy easy to use, though I don't know if it does pipelining.
"Twice the size of England, but with less than a tenth of its people" means that beyond the very short term issues, the housing shortage is easily solvable with ample construction. If you can sell a newly built house for 500-700k USD; then they will magically sprout like mushrooms unless you explicitly forbid it (e.g. as in the California housing problems).
The problem is we is not everyone... it's only those who agree with you. Everyone else will just keep on pushing ahead, hence the less-bad option of not relegating that advancement to dark corners.
Thank you! It means a lot to me. Yes, I try to convey my sense of excitement about technology to other people.
Initially I thought this as well but upon reading it's somewhat irrelevant.

Desks are now like parking spots: first come, first served. When you log in, you get your own VM, not your own PC. So the placement and configuration may well be innovative in some way, but it would be a separate concept. You lose the ability to be special at all (prefer a trackball or ergonomic keyboard? Grossed out by that grey crap on someone else's--wait, your--mouse? Too bad, sucka!)

Digital nomads... but none of their digitals are nomadic. :)

What I found noteworthy is the lack of laptops. Nobody works from home?
All 7 billion of us? Good luck with that.
There are better war simulators if that were the purpose. There also wouldn't be a need to publicize it. Finally, big data/A.I is already used by the military. It probably isn't "decision making" levels, but it doesn't need to be. "Decision helping" is a good enough advantage.
I don't think the issue he is addressing is 'safety and stability' - in the common sense.

Families, for example are a lot 'less stable'. So are many communities - at least in the Western world.

On the community level - consider a place like Detroit - which is an example of many, smaller cities esp. in the rust belt. That kind of community blight can wear on people.
> I know why they want analytics; I'm asking why they are giving out live tracking data to a single private company. This free data is effectively a subsidy.

How is it a subsidy? They are getting the analytical data they want and are not having to pay anything for it. They could spend tons of time and money to build an analytics system, but that sounds like a waste of tax dollars. You'll also notice that their code is hosted on GitHub, is that a subsidy too?
Somethings the main qualification of some so-called experts is a certification from a 6-hour or 6-week class. From then on, they are eligible to testify as an expert in serious criminal cases.
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Ok, for conversation sake we all come together and say, "No, AI cannot be used for offensive or defensive military actions".

How do you propose that ban be enforced?
It is pretty clear now that the Turkey's Islamic government was behind the fake coup. They have used this to hit all of their opposition without worrying about laws (state of emergency = do whatever you want)

1. Complete clear all Gulen cult members from their infiltrated state positions

2. Hit secular Turks (Cumhuriyet newspaper behind bars this week)

3. Hit Kurdish opposition ( Kurdish party members behind bars this week)

Now that they are fighting in three big fronts. There is no way for them to succeed. On the other hand, if they win, this is the end of the secular, democratic Turkish Republic (which pretty much eroded on all those counts since the Islamic party came the power)
When should you start a SaaS?
> Was the court and legal system designed for cases like this?

Yes. There's even a law that sets up a specific court with special expertise and powers in vaccine cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_court
How is 'saying no' going to stop the military of this or any other country from doing it? How do you measure the disadvantage we'd be at by not allowing our military to do it, but letting other militaries (over which we have no control) do it?

Having a spine has nothing to do with it.
Not sure how this works... so it's a race into the office so you can sit next to your team before it all fills up?
We should be using electronic voting to tabulate and aggregate the data, but at the most local level personally I think electronic but with two paper receipts (one to the voter with who they voted for, one to the state w/o) is the best option.
A capital gains tax a good idea? No -- that would decrease market liquidity and make the problem even worse. France has high capital gains taxes and it means that people are less willing to sell houses because capital gains taxes eat the profit, so people tend to hang on to houses in the hope that in many years they'll appreciate enough to make swallowing the capital gains hit worth it. I have a place in France that I'd consider selling but I am not interested in giving the government a huge percentage of the profit.

Meaning if I take a risk in buying and renovating something, my profit has to make the whole affair worth it. If I'm giving the government 34.5% of my profit, if my house was bought at €500k and my target profit is €100k, then that means I have to sell the place at roughly €635k instead of €600k. That knocks many potential buyers out of the market, thus means that the house won't sell as quickly. That also means that my capital is tied up in the house instead of moving the market in some other deal or otherwise putting that money into the economy some other way. The net gain from a capital gains tax is actually a negative when you count the lose of market liquidity resulting from capital gains taxes.

Increasing the price of something lowers demand. If you increase the price of selling, less people will sell, causing house prices to increase.

Capital gains taxes are always a bad idea. Capital liquidity is critical for an efficient economy. The only people who support capital gains taxes are typically people with little capital -- they don't actually understand how it works and the stunting effect it has on an economy.
Thanks for making the resources free.
Yeah, apparently you're supposed to lose that ability in your mid-20's, but I still hear them loud and clear at 28...
New Macbook Pro can't walk & chew gum at same time(watch wifi + USB = fail) [1]

It was on HN last night

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVjIjBMx6o
Yeah, I suppose a better question is what fertilizer is used on organic tobacco.

But u/searine mentioned that mined phosphate can be used on organic crops so maybe organic tobacco won't avoid the problem.
Mr. cossatot,

Would you flesh out your ideas and submit them to Mr. Taleb?

You proving Mr. Taleb wrong would be quite an achievement and probably an instructive one.

If you cannot, please keep unjustified opinions to yourself.
How do you get rid of collective decision?
Vaccines was used just as an example.
Yep and many of them are just plain wrong. Godfrey Sullivan was not a Splunk founder.
I find it really funny that the Echo TV ads show use cases that are completely ridiculous. Kid ruins Thanksgiving dinner with the pull-the-table-cloth gag. [1] A guy in a mascot costume can't pick up his keys. [2]

One that comes close to reality is the kid who brings in a bouquet of poison oak and the mom says, "Alexa, wikipedia poison oak." [3] Then Alexa reads off a dictionary definition of poison oak that really adds no valuable information whatsoever.

I guess maybe the ad agency couldn't come up with actual compelling uses for this thing?

1 https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Au4v/amazon-echo-alexa-moments-kid-m...

2 https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Au3M/amazon-echo-alexa-moments-masco...

3 https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Au3N/amazon-echo-dot-alexa-moments-p...
The distinct failure modes being the source of anxieties.
I hope someone is sanitizing those keyboards regularly. It's impressive what germ-traps shared keyboards are.

(Not originally written as a Douglas Adams reference, but I suppose it sort-of fits.)
I love using a different keyboard every day that somebody previously ate Doritos at. Are they hiring?
I'm not saying that experience or background isn't important for a critic. I am just saying that they're NOT extraordinarily sensitive. They taste the same things we do, but they're able to pay attention and then put that experience into compelling words.
What are you willing to sacrifice to say no? How about your immediate comfort and free time. Thats the real cost. Its not "when it happens we'll stabd togethor", Its "youtube videos or protecting the world from a potential future threat that everyone will think Im crazy for worrying about"
So what did go wrong?