skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. Yours looks very nice. I've been thinking of allowing comments on the ideas themselves but I like your approach better (where the comments fall into different categories).
Not only is it low-effort; it's also something you can do while you do other things.
On an open platform, you don't have peace of mind from spying...

Unless every single part of your platform is open and you build it yourself. But then make sure the parts you use to build it aren't tampered with.

I think somewhere along the conclusion of that train of thought you'll need to build a fab to make sure there aren't silicon level backdoors in your hardware.
In before liberal snowflakes start bitching and moaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...

Don't believe me? Fine. Pretend your little echo chamber is the whole world. I have better things to do with my time.
Yes. I have a high-paying job, a mortgage, and although I'm personable I don't see any starting point or path toward doing anything about it.
And you're holding out on us with the story because...
Computers use quantum effects. That's how transistors function.
Are you sure? My understanding is that this connectome has been rather unfruitful in explaining its behavior.
traditional forums still exist

the problem with reddit is that there is too much news, outrage, and hype there.
I don't buy the AI quasi-religious stuff. But your argument here is flawed. If protein folding can do the process in constant time, we may be able to find another process (but electronic rather than wet chem) that can also do it in constant time.
That interpretation may make it true, but it would also seem to make it irrelevant. Unless Californians somehow have greater moral significance than people elsewhere.
It is very important this research was shared. However, the very difficult and likely impossible part is to actually change the emotional and interpersonal ethos of society. Given the very intangible nature of the problem, no one in power will care enough to initiate a national program to motivate such social change. Therefore, it must come from us, the people. We ought to stand to the call and do something of value to nudge society towards a more interactive state.
> I honestly don't know, so I'm asking a genuine question: if someone has no money in their bank account but owns a house worth millions of dollars, are they considered a millionaire?

Depends on other assets and liabilities. "Millionaire" is $1 million+ net worth; it's quite possible to have, say, a $3 million house, a $2.4 million mortgage, and $0 net between other assets and liabilities, and not be a millionaire.
A custom Android OS is the last thing I'd consider secure...
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>'I gotta ask: why the focus on "new research"?'

I think this passage is key, I had not heard this postulated before:

"New research suggests that loneliness is not necessarily the result of poor social skills or lack of social support, but can be caused in part by unusual sensitivity to social cues. Lonely people are more likely to perceive ambiguous social cues negatively, and enter a self-preservation mind-set — worsening the problem."
I think a lot of people forget one thing: intelligence is basically as good as the info you're putting into it. So even if you have a tremendous AI, it can only be as smart as the info it can access. It could only have god-like powers in realms from which it could extract some information. It's still very much subject to being blinded by ignorance (in the most literal sense of the word).

But I do agree that, if it has complete information, an AI could potentially beat us at anything that requires thinking.
> If you think there's something else, that is by definition supernatural.

First, how others perceive your words usually matters more than the precise definitions you have in mind. If I describe myself as believing in the supernatural, it has a lot of connotations I don't want.

Second, the possibility that consciousness (in some sense) could be built into physics themselves. So it doesn't contradict that the brain is made of subatomic particles, but the workings of the universe have more correlations built in that could work at different levels. Something I think is comparable is that many cosmologists think that the arrow of time, which events come before which, can be explained by a universe with initial conditions of extreme low entropy. So there's nothing within the universe that explains why the initial conditions were like that, but it's a real property of our universe.

Maybe consciousness could be an end state that the universe is progressing toward. Is that really so much weirder than working from an initial state of extremely low entropy?
This is remarkably contrary to how people actually use software. What people see is "click this button to make annoying red flashing shit stop so I can do what I want to do".

ala http://i.imgur.com/H0uVqFe.jpg
imho the problem is more to do with boredom and unfulfillment than isolation
It's a list of tools, not languages, as the title implies.
I follow OpenWRT/LEDE fairly closely and I agree that these bullet points are most likely the outcomes. Basically, in a sentence, LEDE may be allowed to take over management of the OpenWRT assets.

It's not done yet though. I would not be surprised if six months from now they was still petty haggling going on.
They still exist, but they have been dying. There are a few niche forums that still hold on to users, but the proliferation of subreddits leaks people away.

I visit no forums today, whereas when I grew up it was a majority of my online-life.
Okay, so one activity that is undergoing significant automation is flying jetliners. ADS-B is mandated like in a year or two.

This is for safety reasons. That happens to be one case where quality prevents really unfortunate outcomes ( an air crash ) but there's no way to take the side of pilots in this argument.

That is why you automate. You automate to improve repeatability of production. If the humans are breaking things - including themselves or other humans - then it is immoral to oppose it, regardless of how it affects our accounting and economic assumptions.

This also leaves craftspeople to make numismatically interesting objects, which is a Big Thing - look at Etsy.

I like the way it is blurbed in Tyler Cowen's latest book "The Complacent Class":

https://www.amazon.com/Complacent-Class-Self-Defeating-Quest...

"The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist and best selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition―we’re working harder than ever to avoid change. We're moving residences less, marrying people more like ourselves and choosing our music and our mates based on algorithms that wall us off from anything that might be too new or too different. Match.com matches us in love. Spotify and Pandora match us in music. Facebook matches us to just about everything else."
Storage is definitely one of those businesses where "fast, good, cheap: pick any two" has always applied, and still does.
Man, could I give an advice to you? Don't expect too much from other people, and try you to create "events" and invite some people, with similar interests, to join with you. Don't worry about the "no"s you will receive, pay attention to the "yes". The change start on you. This works for me.
"we experimented by conducting the same battery tests using a Chrome browser, rather than Safari. For this exercise, we ran two trials on each of the laptops, and found battery life to be consistently high on all six runs"

Specifically it looks like it might be a Safari problem.
To know your dying, and to have no one in your life is a very scary place to be in.
I don't see how everyone is better off if the event doesn't even get held. Unless 50% of the applicants are women then a 50% participation quota _is_ arbitrary.
>Eventually it gets to a near-superhuman level, where it's funnier than any human being around it.

>>My belt holds up my pants and my pants have belt loops that hold up my belt.

>>What's going on down there?

>>Who is the real hero?

I love that he used a Mitch Hedberg joke for this.
The ACA could barely roll out a website without tragic failure, how have cell phones "dramatically improved" the lives of the poor? They're still subject to as much bureaucracy and denial of basic services as ever. 4G hasn't improved public transpo.

I suppose the poor are no longer subject to long-distance fees during daytime.
This does not contradicts what I'm saying. Maybe you should mention that in the US this prosperity is financed by debt.
In the first paragraph, do you mean vector space over R? I wouldn't say "algebra" unless I were specifying a way to multiply two vectors.

I agree that you've found two notational abuses but I think they're very common; as an example of the second, the sphere S² is not the same as the torus S¹xS¹.
Just mount the file system with "soft,intr" options and you won't have that problem. Otherwise NFS is (perhaps unrealistically) optimistic that the server will come back.
As opposed to? The way people used to marry? From their own church and neighborhood? I think this is a case of over-glorifying 'the good old days'
The only reason we don't have a clean, cogent 'definition of intelligence' is because people like you blindly refuse to accept the possibility that machines can be intelligent. You're demanding that someone explain why black and white are different colors while requiring them to conclude that the night sky and the sun must look the same.
This is correct. LEDE is where all the devs and action went. OpenWRT is now just two or three people who were holding the old project hostage and may agree for LEDE to take over the name.

If there is a re-merge, it's going to be the LEDE base that is used. There are a half-dozen or more new devices supported in LEDE, an no new devices in OpenWRT from after the split (that I am aware of anyway).
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I don't know how it works in the USA but I would expect people to register their cars and show a driving license while doing so.
We can't explain everything completely right now. However, for example, we can model behaviors like klinotaxis and movement toward chemical gradients using only 10 neurons [0]! I find it completely fascinating — we don't have the full picture, but we can isolate different behaviors and examine how the neurons contribute to that action.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3_BjL20Roc
Agree with your assessment of Groovy. It made the JVM easy to use for simple scripting and served a really good purpose as glue language between big monolithic JVM software systems.

I haven't used it for awhile now, but I used to work on a serious Groovy code base. It's out of it's league now. Once Kotlin's scripting story gets rolling it should eat the rest of Groovy's lunch.
Deployment across EC2 nodes, managed with devops scripts from a few different tools and monitored with conventional monitoring solutions like Nagios/Munin. We migrated from colocated racks to that a few years back.

Personally, while there is undoubtedly a convenience factor with being pure EC2 and a cool factor with k8s, I think 80% of our stuff would be better off in the racks (which included a couple of hypervisors, so we still had some cloud-style flexibility and could do things like auto-scaling).
Terrible. I wish I could be governor or something and make sure that we stop this. It makes me sad.

How would you stop this as governor? I have a feeling your solution would be far worse than the problem you're trying to solve.
Even if I trusted it not to munge other things (doubtful), IIRC omnibus does not support my distro (Gentoo), and setting up another distro I have to (remember to) maintain just to support one application does not appeal medium term versus using a popular docker image which has done that for me already in a pre-tested fashion and should handle maintenance smoother.

Basically I'm at this point: 'what's the easiest self-contained box to run and maintain', with conditions 'I have an IP but it's not dedicated (ports 22/80/443 unavailable)' and 'there may not be existing DNS/SSL for this server but I can set it up' and 'SMTP from this IP is not desired/desirable, but I have an existing offsite ISP allowing relay with credentials'. This doesn't strike me as particularly weird, except that in the latter case Google is not an option (GFW'd from China).
So you are essentially doing AWS Storage Gateway then?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/G...
It's because loneliness is much more prevalent now than in 1974. It's no longer exotic but a condition sometimes voluntarily chosen and supported by modern technologies in 2016.

Also we used to think that heart disease risk is mostly tied to diet and exercise. But it's still the #1 killer in the United States. So every protective or risk factor needs to be considered. As such, new research linking heart disease, CVD, CHD to loneliness, friendship or marriage is interesting.

And It doesn't stop there. Loneliness is also tied to breast cancer, lymphoma and obesity : http://outcomereference.com/causes/59
'kubefed' joins 'kubeadm' in the portfolio of tools for making Kubernetes easy to setup and use - it really is ~2 commands to join a bunch of clusters together and give you a single control plane across all your zones/regions/clouds.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
You need to know what tovsimulate though. But we could imagine to create an "ai" from pure meat. Grey matter linked to sensor and ouput systems. Kinda nightmarish
What's really useful about the inbuilt terminal is that it's hooked up to the job control bits, which lets you do things like feed chunks of text to whatever happens to be running in it. I've got this set up as an operator[0] (fair warning, it's been a while since I've tested this much, and there are a few things it could probably do better), which is handy for, as an example, running python/irb/whatever in the terminal and sending function definitions to it as you write them.

EDIT: For the sake of being equal-opportunity, you can do the same thing in emacs with make-comint, even down to having it as an operator if you're using evil-mode. Y'know, whatever you're into.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/Wibjarm/5ae4c4da57bd034d15123cd8edad...
I guess alcohol effects people differently. I'm certainly a bit slow when I have too many beers. But I'd never consider just eating random things.

But the account of their ordeal seems to be fairly detailed. So they can't have been that drunk!?
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The report seems to be a PDF.. that was then printed, badly scanned, and saved as a PDF again. Didn't know it was still 1995!
"how have cell phones "dramatically improved" the lives of the poor?"

There's tons of stuff on this, but, eg., here's a poster from USAID:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/09/35/2d/0935...
> Nothing that they had to constantly resist manglement trying to mangle:

Such a failure to hold up standard was the main reason for the failure of the first Ariane 5 launch. They reused some subsystems from the Ariane 4 rocket, that crashed on Ariane 5 because a numeric overflow. This happened because the much more powerful Ariane 5 came much further during the time this subsystem ran, and had a greater angle that caused the overflow to happen. This had apparently been proven could not happen in the Ariane 4 rocket.

When the subsystem and its software was decided to be used on Ariane 5, they did not even run the subsystem with the projected trajectory of the new rocket. If they had the problem would have been found prior to launch. This was luckily not a manned mission.
Please put me on this island.
I can speak from experience that some of the LEDE/OpenWRT core people are fairly toxic at times. John Crispin in particular is known to go autistic on you if you top-post on one of his mailing lists instead of bottom-post. He's a real laces-out kinda guy.
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It's possible that we could face both AI risks consecutively! First a tiny hyperclass conquers the world using a limited superintelligence and commits mass genocide, and then a more powerful superintelligence is created and everyone is made into paperclips. Isn't that a cheery thought. :-)
I mean I still try and I give more than I receive for sure, but nothing seems to be working.

For the first half of my 20s I didn't leave the house under the assumption that, "if I work hard, I can live where I want to and find a job in a cool place. No reason to make friends now."

I have since replaced that assumption, but it's hard to find meaningful relationships in a place you despise.
People from the NTP Pool community were talking to them (including myself, briefly). Given the available information I'm not sure why you think they need help from NTF ...
Haha oops. But thanks for the reference.

I figured they were already checking the videos somehow, but it seems to not catch videos that are mirror imaged or have other modifications. What I was trying to say was that it's much easier and cheaper for videos to be modified than it is to add additional filters through which uploaded content must be screened for copyrighted material.
Is there a Omnibus package for Kubernetes (perhaps a Helm package?) I'd be very interested in that.

FWIW: I ran GitLab at my previous company (2yrs agoish) because GitHub was a non-starter for political reasons. We loved it! Keep rocking.
According to Snowden he didn't even have access to the information and was travelling via Russia to a southern american country when the US mistakenly pulled his passport (their original plan was to let him leave Russia and then force his aircraft to land over a friendly nation, but disorganisation cause the passport to get pulled too soon leaving him stranded in Russia).

To be honest I don't find your speculation particularly in line with the facts that we know. And it is definitely the least generous speculation you could make (i.e. makes Snowden look as bad as possible).
These claims are extremely weak. Even taking them all at face value you get a straightforward account of a whistleblower. The only statement of harm speculates that documents that were not released got into the hands of Chinese or Russian intelligence.
> What kind of person does sincerely believing this stuff turn you into? The answer is not pretty.

This is a particularly stupid version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences

"If you don't agree with me, you'll be associated with these people I'm lambasting!" I was surprised to see something so easily refutable used to conclude the argument; the article started out fairly strong.

> If you're persuaded by AI risk, you have to adopt an entire basket of deplorable beliefs that go with it.

Well if they're "deplorable", they must be false! QED.
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I've been looking for a service similar to Pastebin.com, but has a static URL.

I've been looking and it doesn't seem like this exists. I was thinking about implementing it myself, but wanted to see if anyone knew of any offerings. Any ideas?
I can't disagree enough. Having recently read Superintelligence, I can say that most of the quotes taken from Bostrom's work were disingenuously cherry-picked to suit this author's argument. S/he did not write in good faith. To build a straw man out of Bostrom's theses completely undercuts the purpose of this counterpoint. If you haven't yet read Superintelligence or this article, turn back now. Read Superintelligence, then this article. It'll quickly become clear to you how wrongheaded this article is.
So Android checks the APK is signed by the same publisher on update? What about for new users? Nothing stops Google from just changing which package is on Play Store, right? Where does signature validation come in, and how would a user tell?
I think you're misinterpreting my arguments because it suits your preconceptions if that were the case. GCM is not just client code. I clarified when someone said the client could be replaced.
You have to move to find work now. People aren't willing to move any more - that is a part of their reserve price calculation. I have moved six times since 2003.

"Median wages not climbing" much reflects the abject terror in almost all the economy - except that part of the economy which specializes in giving the appearance of innovation, tech - that one might actually innovate.

Until you've bred, trained and presented the racehorse that will save $x million, only to have people tell you "we don't understand it[1], so we're scuttling it" , it might be harder to see.

[1] "Do you understand Word and Excel macros?"
"Yes, of course."
"This is just like that."
"We still don't understand."

The private sector now is embracing a level of willful, egregious technological ignorance I've not seen in my adult life. The whole culture has been led down the garden path of "web development" and anything that is not that, is suspect.
Don't the people who control military technology in our current time already have "practically unlimited power over everyone else"?
I leave the house far more thanks to Uber. There are cool things happening, but it requires me to drive and I hate driving.
I think it's valuable to think about this problem from an evolutionary perspective. Almost every problem we have can be viewed this way.

We should be asking ourselves how we were living 100,000 years ago. This is what our bodies and our brains are expecting. The whole concept of the nuclear family and a house and a fence is a completely foreign concept to our bodies because we haven't been doing it for very many generations.

From what I know, we should be living in tribes, right?

From that perspective, I would immediately look at communal housing solutions. Maybe we should often be living in very small apartments with communal living areas and communal eating and cooking areas. That's closer to what our bodies and minds expect, right?
+1 "but some software has it's own crypto"¹ is kinda bad excuse for actively avoiding additional security - like Debian has on their mirrors (I think there even is (was?) an FAQ entry why there are no HTTPS mirrors, stating that APT packages are securely signed and that's all you'd need).

¹ I'm aware that APT actually uses GPG, but it does (did) so fishy manipulations both before and after invoking GPG on the signed files, that, if this would've happened in a corporate setting, I'd have rather peculiar questions for the employee who wrote that code.

That recent CVE, and also issues in software that I co-maintain, plus all the other CVEs that are delivered to my inbox changed my mind on open source quite a lot. Open source is completely worthless if no one actually bothers to read the code; I doubt anyone actually read those portions of the APT code, because anyone with a secure coding or crypto coding background should be alerted already by the function names (look them up). Instead we all always assume "ah well people use it and someone probably checked that anyway... should be good to go!". NO. It's not good to go. Read [the] code.
The problem with the economy is Obamacare. Once that's gone, the jobs will come pouring back. Easy
This presentation is from 2016, not 2011.
It's a military AI that correctly interprets a command to kill a particular group of people, so effectively that its masters start thinking about the next group, and the next.

This has been done many times by human-run militaries; would AI make it worse somehow?

Groups of humans acting collectively can look a lot like an "AI" from the right perspective. Corporations focused on optimizing their profit spend a huge amount of collective intelligence to make this single number go up, often at the expense of the rest of society.