skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with all these claims is that the term "singularity" implies, to most people, a sudden change after which civilization will be radically altered. I guess we'll wake up one morning and just start bowing down to our AI overlords.

Except realistically, how is this supposed to happen? Just because somebody runs ./ai_overlord on some linux box, or some VM cloud, doesn't mean that this AI suddenly somehow magically has insane industrial capacity. It can't necessarily network with all the physical infrastructure and vehicles to start carrying out goals. It's existence is limited to the various RAM chips of a digital network. It will take much longer before an AGI can actually even have a major physical impact on the world.

Also, intelligence is not magic. There are certain mathematical limits to intelligence. An AGI cannot solve the halting problem or compute the Kolmogorov complexity of some data. It can't suddenly build any physical object from raw materials without a huge amount of infrastructural work being setup in advance.

And let's not forget that human beings are also Turing complete. Which means, in theory, anything an AGI can do, we can also do. The main difference is that an AGI would be able to computationally solve problems at much greater speeds than a human. But it's totally unclear to me if this somehow translates into a sudden complete overhaul of all of our civilizational infrastructure overnight. Frankly, that doesn't seem likely. I think it's more likely the first AGIs will just trade derivatives or recommend Netflix queues.
Surviving Information Overload as a New Developer
It seems to be more argument from money spent. Which is equally fallacious, if less likely to show up on a standard list of fallacies.
The Google spokesperson's response is truly a classic too: "This isn’t an ad; the beauty in the Assistant is that it invites our partners to be our guest and share their tales."
I've had good luck with Bing, so now I use that as my fallback.

But honestly, simply forumulating a query appropraiately can help.

Pagerank basically lets you use search terms like circles on a Venn diagram - whatever's in the intersection floats to the top.

DDG requires a little more effort. Putting quotes around words that group together, using - to exclude large chunks of.

I find when I "search like it's 1999" DDG does fine.

(The syntax page has some useful tips: https://duck.co/help/results/syntax)
Why not get a warrant for all people who have searched for the term "railway" in 2016 because they might be terrorists?

And then just add those people to a list of people who should be watched closely at transportation centers.

And then maybe make them wear a little orange circle on their jackets so they are easier to identify.

And then maybe put them all in a concentrated containment area so the rest of us were safe from all the would-be terrorists?

Or maybe at that point filter it down to just the orange-circles who happen to be from germany.
I used http://phantomjs.org/ as a headless browser for scraping a JS-based site. It was a couple years ago, though, maybe now there's something better.
A US ally shot down a $200 drone with a $3M Patriot missile
A beginner’s guide to Monero
Why WikiLeaks works
I've always found it interesting that Netflix has not at least tried to go off AWS; if only because Amazon has a competing service with Amazon video. I'm sure its not an easy problem to solve, but Dropbox has gone off AWS as well; it seems like they would be much better served with their own "Video Cloud" with specialized hardware for streaming/processing videos.
> I drag or Ctrl-C/V file between two explorer windows and a new window icon appears on a taskbar with progress indication

That's unusual. I just tried copying large swaths of files with varying combinations of Explorer snapped, unsnapped, overlapping, not overlapping, etc. In ever case the Copy window appears h/v Centered over the origin Explorer window.

Do you have anything that has custom Shell integration installed that might be causing some weird interaction? I tried this on a pretty bog standard install. I'll try to reproduce it later on a more customized system.

> The notice is mostly invisible (no dialogs)

Yeah, that seems like an area of user experience they could improve. Do you lock your PC? All my PCs require password unlock and when I unlock them notifications like "Updates were installed that require reboot" or "Windows Defender finished scanning your PC" always pop out from the Action Center briefly. That's been my que* to go inspect it.

> I manually install 341.81... some weeks later... a notification that driver was updated.

I'm curious what could be causing that. I have some old Logitech Webcam drivers installed because they removed some features in the Windows Update version of the Driver and it's never updated.

I guess you could go to extreme lengths and disable that function of Windows Update: http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/stop-automatic-driver-upd...

> See search results for "An App Default was Reset"

This seems to be a result of 3rd party applications changing file associations using mechanisms outside of the Windows Guidelines. This is a big problem for Microsoft with regards to the Start Menu Icons, Uninstall Utilities, Control Panel Programs, and apparently file associations. They have recommended specific ways of interacting with the OS since XP that have been routinely ignored. Now in Windows 10 they're making changes that break these unsupported mechanisms and are catching flak for it.

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/windows-10-resetting-file-...
if a function depends only on multiple variables then those are partial derivatives, if the function depends only on one variable then there is only one derivative d/dx
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/10/darwin-day/

I'm afraid not.
We do need many more talented people to found and work for effective non-profits. At CEA, we've found it hard to hire extremely talented people, as many of the people we want to hire want to continue donating instead! Non-profits often find it hard to attract top talent, in part because they tend to pay lower salaries, working at a non-profit is less prestigious, and because talented people tend to want to work with other talented people. We have been impressed with Y Combinator's approach here, they're trying to incentivize talented people to found really effective non-profits, and then help them scale. We're hoping that if donors are willing to fund these new promising projects, many more people will be drawn to the non-profit world.
On the other hand, just like founding a company is not for everyone, neither is working at a non-profit. We should each consider our comparative advantage. As tempestn mentioned, some people might be extremely good at their day-job and be well compensated for it, but might not necessarily make excellent activists. In that case, that person might be able to help the causes they care about most by donating to effective charities.
We need all kinds of people!
Given an aggressive stare as a nonverbal threat.

That sounds similar to what's happening to my dad's place. The city reconnected a main street to circumnavigate his entire mobile home community a few years back.
Alibaba invests in WayRay a maker of augmented-reality dashboards for smart cars
Any reason when you don't like String being an alias of [Char]?
Guile uses an ahead of time (AOT) compiler. Someone wrote an experimental tracing JIT recently [0] but that's not part of Guile itself.

[0] https://github.com/8c6794b6/guile-tjit
Idk how common the setup in the article is, but seems they could easily test for heatmap singularities such as the one that happened and alert for that.
Yes, that's why I wrote that you need to remove the _cover_.
Regarding flash memory chips the real worry is to not blast them for too much time, not if the data is purged.
I don't think you could build a cable that has the tensile strength to hold a payload spinning at 27+ km/s. Even if it was made of carbon fiber I think it would have to be crazy thick and massive. Probably orders of magnitude heavier then the payload itself.
There's a bit of slight of hand in criticizing Derrida for not being clear. For example, computer science utilizes obscure notation and concepts and not understanding something is generally attributed to the mental acuity of the reader.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_...
The performance is horrible. It does make it very easy to work on strings though.
I read Kurzweil's earlier book, The Age of Intelligent Machines" as a boy and remember how fantastical it seemed. At the time I felt like he laid out a strong case for his predictions but every adult I knew, including my teachers, thought it was nuts... especially his predictions of a chess AI beating a the world chess champ and of sequencing the human genome by the year 2000.

Both of those things ended up happening a couple of years before 2000. While practically the entire world was saying that Kurzweil's far too optimistic, it turned out on the whole they were slightly too pessimistic.

It would be foolish to discount this.
"Yutes" remains one of my favorite words of all time.
In my experience it's the needed complexity added by bookkeeping and the coupling that requires to do rendering/updates and data binding using manual DOM manipulations in a performant way, especially in larger scale apps. You can easily write maintainable and simple applications that manipulate the DOM directly if you don't care about performance, or in some cases correctness, and you'll quickly do worse than React would, from what I've seen.
Stayzilla CEO arrested, corrupted cops,vodoo dolls
> potentially dozens of engineers and operators have access to that information

For that you have to break Google's security. I (and other colleagues) actually felt safer about Google's stewardship of that information when we got to learn how it worked from inside, than before joining.

(I work for Google, but not on security, and don't speak for the company).
You've taken nothing at all from the argument. If human civilization fails, then it's just a matter of time before the species does as well. More importantly, what value would there be in a handful of devastated humans scratching out a "bang the rocks together" life until the next extinction event finished the job?
One of the things that slows me down is that whenever I see Lisp code, my mind goes to the equivalent Haskell code, and the comparison is basically never favorable.

I'm a firm believer in the value of learning a functional language, and I totally understand that from a historical perspective Lisp is important, but does it really have much to recommend it over modern functional langauges?
My favorite use of macros is as a sort of progressive global search and replace on steroids. I have @q bound to Space, so I can record a macro with qq, then hit space to repeat. Since the macro is just a list of commands in a register I can copy it out and edit it to tweak it, once I'm happy with it over a few lines I can make it recursive by adding @q to the end of it.

Compared to regex search and replace this is much more malleable, interactive, and ultimately powerful.
I tried scrapy many years ago when it was pretty new. I felt like it mostly just got in the way back then and resorted to normal HTTP lib scraping methods like you've described until recently, when I decided to give scrapy another try.

I really enjoyed it this time. It has mostly figured out how to be unobtrusive and it now provides a lot of handy stuff out of the box, like the scrapy shell, the ability to easily retry certain error codes, a built-in caching mechanism so that multiple iterative runs are semi-reasonable, and an intelligent crawler that automatically ignores duplicate links from the same session. Compatibility with things like Scrapy Cloud is a nice bonus.

It's worth a try if you haven't looked at it in a while.
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So you're recognizing that there is no penalty. Not to the institution; just to everyone else, deaf or not.

Why would any institution pay for captioning if they can just come around to compliance by taking the videos down without any penalty.

This is now how you use legislation to move toward a the goal of greater (ultimately universal) accessibility.
>Am I missing out by not learning Vim?

You may be, though ultimately it depends to some extent on personal preference.

If you want to check it out, try this vi quickstart tutorial by me:

https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick

I initially wrote it for a couple of Windows sysadmin friends at their request. They had been given a few Unix machines to manage. They said it helped them quickly get up to speed with the basics of vi. I later published it as an article in Linux For You, a print computer magazine (now Open Source For You).
I recently had trouble getting a ~$250/month asthma medication covered (you can thank the EPA for making asthma medications unaffordable). I had to basically act as the liason between my insurance company, the prescribing doctor, and the pharmacy in order to get everyone in sync so the claim would go through.

Oh, and there was one time when an ER visit for anaphylaxis turned into an expensive lesson in medical claim coding. Apparently when an ER doc codes a claim as 'allergic reaction' rather than the more specific 'anaphylaxis' it no longer qualifies as an 'emergency' and my insurance company at the time only fully covered ER visits that were bona-fide emergencies. Good luck tracking down an ER doc at a hospital 2 months later and convincing him to resubmit some paperwork (because doctors don't make mistakes) :(
It's really at the point where you need to prepare/review for the technical interviews at most companies. If people are going to review coding interview questions/books/strategy then to compete we'll have to do the same.

I myself have been working through cracking the coding interview in an attempt to migrate from upstate new york to the bay area. Maybe I wouldn't bother with positions that demanded white boarding if I already had a position over there and could be selective but maybe not. It kind of feels like it's all part of the game at this point.
Yeah, matrices are also very useful. Instead of needing the "Tribonacci" equation definition, you can approximate or exactly match a large number of equations and operations with matrices.

Anyway, there are many things missing. I feel that An Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning should be standard middle-school reading; but alas, civics has not been part of the curriculum in my life time.
It looks like you're right, Apple says you can't bundle dylibs outside of a Framework on iOS :\

What would be the difference though, why make the distinction?

> Dynamic libraries outside of a framework bundle, which typically have the file extension .dylib, are not supported on iOS, watchOS, or tvOS, except for the system Swift libraries provided by Xcode.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2435...
It's time and space.
Northern Virginia in 1978 and now. That's a mindf*ck.
I agree with you about X-risk, but I'm not sure the separation is so clean. For example looking at the EA Community fund page it isn't at all clear to me whether or not some of the money will end up in the hands of the AI Safety people. To be fair this is openly disclosed as a risk, which is great transparency.

Second, donors may choose not to support the Movement Building Fund if they do not wish to indirectly support all of the problem areas that the EA community is likely to support. This includes areas like Global Health and Development, Animal Welfare, Long-Term Future, and any future problem areas that the community deems effective to address. For example, Dylan Matthews criticized the EA community in 2015 for being overly self-promoting and overly concerned about risks from advanced artificial intelligence (one response to this criticism here). Those with strong views about which problem areas they do not wish to support might avoid movement building as a result.

However, admirable transparency or not, the only fund I'd really be interested in allocating money to would be the Global Health and Development Fund. Given that, for me personally, the paragraphs about differentiating vs GiveWell are critical.
Never had that, but as an adult I only went back that one time. Who knows what it'd be like now.
Nevertheless, GR and QFT describe the same universe.
There are so many lines that are still funny even after a dozen viewings. Where to even start....

"We're famous for our mud."
I don't believe that is true. All of the animations presented are just css3 keyframe-based animations. There is no reason that you couldn't use them. The site cataloging them isn't responsive, but once you generate the css, you can use them in any project.
Cool, thanks for confirming.
For downstream partners I mean data flows from user -> Segment -> partner. Event data is ingested through our API & SDKs, and this is fed to partner's APIs. For Cloud Sources, generally data is pulled from partners using their public APIs at an interval and pushed to customer warehouses in batches. In a few special cases partners push data to our APIs.
Direct investing in ICO is major risk for investors. There is very little due diligence and investors don't have downside protection and it's unregulated.

Instead of starting with complicated solution on blockchain, NeuFund is starting like a regular VC capital that will be doing ICOs for his companies. This way they will provide best of both worlds
They should change the battery reference to be compute nodes, a la Hyperion cantos.

That makes a lot more sense. Hell, just make the Hyperion movie instead.
There may be legal matters of certification. Since CC is required by law, it probably has to meet certain requirements. You probably can't just hand the job off to some native-English-speaking teenager armed with Subtitle Workshop. It likely has to be someone who knows what they are doing and whose work is somehow validated for some sort of compliance. I would imagine.
The current update uses the linear model. I've also been working on neural network models, and more generally, better integration into deep learning workflows. That'll be the 2.0 release.

I've learned a lot while doing the neural network models, though. The 1.7 model takes advantage of this by having a more sophisticated optimizer. Specifically, I use an online L1 penalty and the Adam optimizer with averaged parameters. The L1 penalty allows control of size/accuracy trade-off.

This means we're finally shipping a small model: 50mb in total, compared to the current 1gb. The small model makes about 15-20% more errors.
A simple Google search gives this, though: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/465?co=GENIE.Plat...
Remember that Netflix runs their core product (content distribution) internally on their own CDN. All of the supporting technologies (billing, content discovery, etc.) is on AWS, but the core product is not.
This bookmarklet, which gives you a Facebook referrer, seems to work:

javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.hr...
Azure Functions F# support is now in GA
This freeware (for personal use) saved me dozens of hours renaming files: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Screenshots.php
What would count a evidence?
I wonder if he's taking the end of moores law into account though?

It's a fairly recent development and I'm not sure how many futurists have refitted their models for that.
Hi - I'm one of the authors on this paper. We had professional designers do the figures for this paper; Fig3 in particular was far better than what we could do ourselves.
GP said Google doesn't share personal information with anyone. That's not true. The article shows them sharing it with someone. The point isn't pedantic when one of their competitors, DuckDuckGo, literally can't--court order or not.

My use of sic erat scriptum means I'm quoting GP, grammatical errors and all. This point, in contrast to the previous one, is pedantic :). (One doesn't share information to someone, but with them. "Google doesn't sell your personal information to, nor share it with, anyone" or "Google doesn't sell or share your personal information" are more correct.)

[1] https://duckduckgo.com
0) Guile is a GNU project

1) Guile has no Global Interpreter Lock.

2) Guile is a scheme, so it is homo-iconic cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity

3) Scheme (and lisp in general) are nice to write Domain Specific Languages.

4) Guile doesn't have a particular overhead for calling simple functions which makes it possibly as fast as C.

5) Guile has a very powerful object oriented programming framework beating by far Python and Ruby OO systems.

6) Guile is optimised for immutability which makes it for safer code.

7) Guile has Guix which has 'guix pack' command which is awesome cf. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi...

8) Guile has a lot of supporters cf. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user

9) Guile has awesome maintainers

Also, there is not a lot of packages. But programs written in Guile or using Guile tend to be of higher quality, cf. http://guildhall.hypermove.net/ and http://sph.mn/content/3e73
>Why are you wasting your time here?

Because I like reading arguments from authority -- especially ones based on the premise that major organizations never buy into BS.

Which I guess explains why software sold to enterprises is known for its quality and utility.
> It could be if our workload was relatively stable

+1. If your entire environment is steady-state, it may be worth considering a migration to bare metal.

That said, you can expect:

* Worse uptime

* A fair bit of retraining / hiring different skillsets

* A loss of engineering focus as they work on the migration instead of feature expansion

It can make sense economically, but that discussion goes well past "the monthly AWS bill."
What about "Within 75 metres of buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals or people."

How many places can you find outside of Antarctica where you can get 75 metres from buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals, or people? I mean, I was gonna say "hey, the wilderness", but it includes animals in here. What size animals qualify? Is a rat in the vicinity going to get me in trouble?

I would almost go so far as to suggest this is simply a ban on recreational drone flight.
One of the key facts is that they assume Google even knows who "everyone who lives in that county" even includes.
Recall anything else? Even something as simple as the state, MO of the killer, etc?
as was pointed out offline, that is 26000 km/hr
No. I used vim for half a year and then went back to notepad++ and similar for plain editing. The bottleneck in programming is thinking anyway, and not typing. It does not make a difference. For serious coding, I recommend a serious IDE.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13377539
The web wasn't really created for the use that is given today and we're using our browsers like a pseudo-OS, this causes that webapps can't talk between each other and it requires a specific integration with each one of the services you want your app to communicate with.

However, when you develop an app for Windows or Mac you needn't worry about integrations, it's already integrated with all the installed programs on the computer out of the box, it's the OS who is in charge of managing the communication between apps.
Though that does not mean that there are no people who use Emacs to run a http server. Emacs (with elnode) powers marmalade, for example: https://marmalade-repo.org/
Medical id bracelet and Emergency App