skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously these are two different concepts as generally perceived.

But it occurs to me at some level they are the same thing, but take opposite positions. And are therefore irreconcilable.

For example, a provocative way to pose this question is as follows. People who strongly advocate that their free open source software be done in the open, also to my observation, commonly advicate their personal conversations be kept private. But if openness and transparency is a good that can improve things by communal surveillance, feedback and contribution, why do they want to deny their selves the same, don't they also want to improve themselves in their personal aspect?

My point in asking this question is to establish what the distinction is, and to reconcile their different approaches under a shared concept of moral good. I'm asking the question because I want to know what other people think and I don't immediately see a solution to this.

We are talking about morals and good when we talk about privacy and when we talk about open source. That is not just the way they are commonly discussed, it is what motivates policy and action regarding each.

The argument for open source software as a good thing that improves results is because discussion and inner workings are made public and conducted transparently in the open, people are more secure, our systems have fewer defects, we have more control and we are more free.

The argument for privacy as a good thing, is because discussions and inner workings are never made public, and conducted invisibly behind closed doors, people's autonomy and identity are more secure, society's ideas and identities have fewer defects because individuals are more free to experiment and try on a wide range of different ideas, expressions and identities without the cooling effect of the surveillance grid, we have more control and we are more free.

I realize that this presentation is maybe facetious in the way it draws parallels. There are plenty of other ways to present the two concepts. I've done this to demonstrate the similarities, to make it harder to ignore their irreconcilable opposite position. Because focusing on that and trying to reconcile that is the point of asking this question.

Maybe I'm just inventing this irreconcilability with some disingenuous sophistry. But any moral system has to be guided by principles and consistency to have credibility, to be defensible and to not seem arbitrary, and not just an Byzantine enumeration of situation specific rules and exceptions that contradict each other, but just must be accepted because it's the law. No one likes that. A mathematical or logical system that contradicts itself is limited and flawed. So moral consistency is important. And from the point of view of this question it seems like privacy and free open source software are inconsistent.
Makes sense, thank you for explaining.
Absolutely not. I pay $2500 for a 650sqft 1-bedroom in West Berkeley with a parking space. The fixtures are a little cheap, but it's 2001 construction in good shape with solid noise isolation, no pests, etc. The location is urban infill, so industrial, but safe, and similar apartment buildings are popping up around it. It's an obnoxiously long walk (or longer bus ride) to BART, but if you're willing to drive/Uber to a station, the location is fine.

Last I checked, similar units in SF were running at least $3800.

Yes, I could have a crappier apartment, or a shared apartment, or no parking, or several of the above, for a little less in SF. Berkeley is still my best option.

If 2-3 of my peers decide to live in the same amount of space I claim for myself, then the price will rise until the only way I can afford to live here is by sharing with 2-3 people. So while I am excited about the new housing construction in my neighborhood, I am not very excited about HomeShare.
The HN title doesn't match TFA title. HN has a grammatical error.
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> So don't have the union do that

Unfortunately, it's an all-or-nothing deal. The NLRA is a very rigid law, and once a union has been sanctioned as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit, they have the authority to do that.

It's next to impossible to either decertify or deauthorize a union once it forms, so you not only have to trust the current leadership, but all future leadership that may get elected, to focus only on the things you list and not focus on negotiating your compensation for you.
Andrew Zonenberg has a whole list of open projects for FPGAs on his wiki:

https://github.com/azonenberg/openfpga/wiki

There has been a lot of exciting work in the same repo for Silego lines and general foundations for Open Source FPGA toolchains for many of the types out there.

I've been really enjoying Clifford's Project IceStorm - open source tools which I've been using to develop/test on real hardware build up some Verilog chops:

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

I made a quickstart for it in a repo here for those interested in starting some Verilog adventures : )

https://github.com/gskielian/TEAM-VERILOG
Arguing that people should read this one study as the case-closed conclusion on this subject is off the mark. If anything, it's just one study and more work should be done before it's assumed a fact.

Additionally, the original study has seen a lot of criticism, along with other alternative explanations being presented.

The Wikipedia page for their study has a decent summary of various criticisms that remain valid concerns. It's fine discussing these things, but too frequently do people mention Freakonomics as the final authority on this matter without question.
Stop fucking using Twitter!
No it is not the same, it's not the same at all. There's a massive, massive difference between someone on the other side of the world sending a nasty message on Twitter and being harassed in the real world by someone on a dark street at night. These are so completely different that I can't believe that you are so tied up in your views that you forget that. Anyone that would suggest they are the same has clearly not been the recipient of the latter.

People have a right to be safe in the real world. Harassing someone physically or verbally as they're walking down the street for wearing religious clothing or a short skirt is completely unacceptable and makes people not feel safe in their own neighbourhood. It's not possible to anonymise yourself in real life.

That's completely different from having someone send you a nasty message on the internet. Completely different.

Twitter is safe. Nobody can harm you through Twitter. It's simply impossible to harm you through Twitter. What people can do is send you nasty messages through Twitter. You have two solutions:

1. Stop using Twitter, an utterly worthless dis-service that has never produced anything of value, or

2. Get over yourself and grow a thicker skin.

>You may not need Twitter for your work, but a lot of us do.

No, you don't. You think you do, but you don't. The only people that 'need Twitter' are 'social media' people and quite frankly they're the worst part of Twitter.

>If I can't use Twitter, I lose an important way to connect to others in my profession (specifically in open source).

No you don't. Twitter is not a good way to connect to anyone. Nobody can have any sort of technical discussion through Twitter without completely subverting Twitter's model through hacks like multi-tweet messages, self-replying, twitlonger, etc. Twitter has never been, is not and never will be a good platform for discussing anything. Use email, like the adult you claim to be.

>What about women in journalism? What about women in entertainment? They need Twitter, and they need it connected to their real-world identity.

Don't use Twitter. Female journalists have existed for a very long time, much (much) longer than Twitter, and the vast majority of them don't use Twitter. Twitter is a shitty, toxic platform. It's not some sort of official place. It's not a public service. It's not part of our culture. It's a shitty social media site that you should stay away from.

Twitter is not useful to journalists. Twitter is not useful to entertainers (and you'd be a fool to think that hate mail to celebrities didn't exist before twitter. They employed people to filter and reply to their fan/hate mail before, they can employ people to filter and reply to their fan/hate tweets now).
iOS 10 doesn't seem offer a built-in Contacts whitelist feature, but iOS does expose an API allowing third-party applications to filter-out incoming calls and messages: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207099 - someone could easily write an app that would use your Contacts as a whitelist, assuming one doesn't already exist.
Nobody predicted all the jobs, direct and indirect, that the automobile would create, either.
Two organizations that exploit the implications of the word "Open" as it is used in the world of technology to market their own private companies and organizations.
>the internet is as it always was

I remember buying computer parts via e-mail. Occasionally they arrived before I sent money. Think the odds are fairly low of that happening now.

Sadly, I guess a lot of it is no more complicated than road rage. Being kind, empathetic, a good citizen is negatively correlated with emotional proximity.

Add tons of people? Less emotional proximity = trolls. Add thousands of miles of distance? No public will to help child war refugees in Syria, and so on.

Such of large percentage of the nastiness would never happen face to face or with a neighbor.
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There are a number of domains where fads or apparently arbitrary orthodoxies emerge: clothing, music, food, art. To a certain extent architecture. Fandoms around books, or films, or comics. Theories of political economy. And management fads.

The common thread through all of these, as I see them, is that the underlying domain is complex, with an irreducible informational complexity, as well as rich and frequently highly significant interactions: the wrong clothes, accent, or music can get you laughed at, shunned, or killed, depending on the circumstances.

In the field of management, there's the need to communicate over a short order (hours, days, quarters) with a set of audiences (investors, stockholders, policymakers, employees), over dynamics which may not play out fully for years or even decades.

A significant problem is that at the levels of complexity being considered, there are systems of systems of systems -- if you're looking at a world-model view of cognition, understanding, and communications, then the problem is one of building up models of models of models, though to depths far more than three in many instances, and then communicating these effectively.

Quite frequently it's far easier to just follow the topical contours without a deep understanding. At the extreme case, you end up with cargo-culting, both figuratively and literally: aping the forms, structures, and actions of some system viewed as "successful", but with absolutely no understanding or attainment of the true dyanamics involved.

MBA culture is a part of that, and there have been a number of fads that have come along, typically with runs of ~5 - 20 years by my rough sense. I'm still planning on looking into this in more depth.

But the thought that the whole concept of a fad -- a temporary deviation from some base norm -- being a fundamental sociological dynamic with an information-theoretic underpinning strikes me as fundamentally sound.
OT: Not related to the particular future ubuntu release

Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop

Headline: Stop the dwindling numbers of ubuntu being used as the primary os

Problem: Any os which is not the preferred primary os is losing a consumer base. One can run docker/vm but that doesn't sum up. The whole system is confusing when trying to ascertain what hardware to buy or migrate over to ubuntu. Since there is no official word.

Likely solution: Setup a youtube like channel to review ubuntu support for popular hardware. Document it in a better way and make it search friendly. Like imdb model and give it an ubuntu score. Have an option to purchase the particular hardware related driver disk or to download it for free. KIS.
Success Method
It's easy to say when a lot less than that, but hell yes.
Sounds like standard legal boilerplate. AWS has similar wording in their terms. https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ Search for loss of data.
OpenAI still isn't open source, or open in any other sense of the word. It is a private organization that will own any technology developed.

Again, OpenAI isn't Open.
Your opinion about how far off AGI is is a totally reasonable one, and some AI experts agree with it. Other AI experts disagree, and think that AGI is basically tractable with current research methods plus a breakthrough or two.

Yes, there's some additional uncertainty about whether you're even asking the right people. But you can take account of that uncertainty, both by widening your error bars and by asking people from other fields as well (including philosophers, e.g. Bostrom). What you can't do is just throw up your hands and say "it's unknowable".

This is all beside the original point, which is that these arguments are much more rigorously grounded than just a wave in the direction of AGI. Could they be better? Sure, and there are a lot of people who'd be interested in seeing some better estimates. But for now, they're the best we have, and they're a completely reasonable thing to base decisions on.

> We can formally prove what a system is capable of. That fixes the problem.

That's exactly what some of the people working on this problem are trying to do, but it's a hell of a lot harder than you make it sound. Formal methods have come a really long way, but they're not even remotely close to being able to prove that an AGI system is safe (yet).
As a kind of brute-force proof-of-concept: it could be a series of instructions to poke your brain with an electrified needle of how to invoke the same thoughts.

(It could be that they're different locations in your brain that have to be poked than the locations it would take in the sender's brain, but it's not a fundamental obstacle. Either the sender studies your brain to tell you where you should do it, or instructs you how to figure out the right spots.)
Would anyone besides me like to step forward and admit they cannot even beat an opponent that makes random moves?
Education is important for success
India doesn't have top universities and top research talent.
Horses are not creative, do not plan for the future, and will never think of looking for work. People are not horses.
Things have worked out quite well for me.

The same cannot be said for those trying to force everyone in tech to join a union. Every month I see some hacker new medium post about it, and they never go anywhere.
Seems easier to enforce than say, the SEC regulations against insider trading, and while I am sure most goes uncaught they still enforce it often and thoroughly.

Intent and outcome goes a long way to proving a case here.
Well if you are aware of a major successful project bring an example. It would be hard to argue that Putin is not personally interested in any of the major military projects yet from Armata to fighter jets that even long term customers like India are abandoning due to horrible quality does not look like his personal interest helps much.
UofT is one of the best research university in the world, at the PhD level.

Waterloo is best at producing the best engineers at the undergrad level.
MacKay's work makes a complex subject simple, is certainly effective at unit harmonization in a domain (energy) where an array of units can be thrown around without any regards for ease of comparison.

Given technological trends, maybe it makes sense for the next version of this work to be some sort of 'living' document/website, where calculations with changing variables (like efficiency of commercially deployed PV cells) change over time?
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Installation issues

- DESCRIPTION:

Make installation more smooth. Last 10 times I have installed desktop ubuntu, I had to do one or more of theese:

1) manually change installation image

2) chroot into installed partition and manually make chages there for it to boot

3) run custom kernel to avoid hardware problem

4) copy and paste scripts from askubuntu to avoid hadrware problem

5) buy another piece of hardware

Sometimes it does not boot, sometimes it does not wake up after hibernate. Some wifi dongle had buggy driver that hang the system.

Luckily, solution was always out there, in the forums. But I had to do some research.

I would recommend Ubuntu to every person I meet, but I am sure that their hardware is not very well supported in it, by pure variety of hardware and my experience in installation.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: software developer
1. What is the Vector Institute? Is a foundation? Is it a not-for-profit corporation? Something else?

2. Who controls it? The government (which has put in most of the announced funding)? The University of Toronto? Google? A combination of all of those?

3. Who will own the work created by the Institute? How will it be licensed, and what rules will govern its publication?

These are questions that would be answered at a very early stage of an ordinary research partnership between a public university and a corporation, but I can find none of these details about Vector.
Well, I know ycombinator is doing it.[0]

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-ai/
From the perspective of someone who's lived in both cities, it makes perfect sense. Toronto is a much much nicer place to live and it'll be way easier to attract talent to it. I wouldn't move back to Waterloo for any amount of money.
Mercurial has better cross platform support.
Just speculating, but positions in AI are usually filled by people with PhD's and this knowledge is so scarce in the job market, not low level IT pros who are competing in a race to the bottom
> nobody is actually expecting anyone to click an advertisement (at least not on purpose)

This is problematic for me. The more a site knows about me, the better and more interested are the ads. But at the same time, it gets more scary.

Look for an item on Amazon, and you will see it advertised in a lot of pages that you visit. It can be useful to remember that it is there, also tempting. But it is the same feeling that being at home and when you look back there is the guy from the gadgets shop with the camera that you were looking in his hand. Creepy. Scary.
No, no it's not strictly more ethical. It's not even strictly safer, which should be an even easier question to answer. The baked-in assumption in your logic is that users have no options other than waiting to patch. But, obviously, they do, and keeping vulnerabilities secret deprives them of those options.
Maybe not now, but I assure you there many smart people trying to build the infrastructure and plenty of smart talent that could be utilized.
Thanks for this insight! I'll edit my comment to credit you, but I won't delete it since someone might have the same thought process as me.

My comment:

So I see now (thanks to you) that it is just showing test cases (test warbles) to demonstrate that these scrambling techniques work with foreign languages. However, why would the us gov need to make sure that this program can successfully obfuscate Unicode strings in Chinese/Russian/Arabic/Farsi?

My gut reaction: while code comments would be trivial to forge, it appears the us gov is still using foreign language strings in some way - maybe having just one string constant originally in a foreign language that is then obfuscated/scrambled (such as by xoring every char against a random key)
Considering that debug symbols, comments in code and Cyrillic characters in the metadata of files is being used a solid evidence Russia hacked the DNC, I'd say that it's probably still a useful tool
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006734
there's a few reasons the US is the most powerful nation in the world, and the world's most capable military is one of them
More likely this exists simply because Google could afford it. If something comes out of it, fine; if not no problem. When money is no object why not let some engineers play with experimental tech.
The TI-85/6 is a magical device. A widespread built-in text editor, compiler and GUI library in one.

I was very sad when I realized the BASIC performance was like an order of magnitude worse than ASM performance.
Keep in mind that in the meat space people consciously chose to socialize with alike people, that's why you called them "friends" and why only "liberal talking points" were discussed.

On social media, this happens on a less conscious level because with every choice you make some algorithm slowly "personalizes" everything you get to see a little bit more, thus it increases surfacing things/people that you are more likely to agree with while pretty much "hiding" anything/anybody that you wouldn't like/agree with. This is a slow process and it's mostly hidden from the user, as such most people are not even aware of being funneled in different "circles" in such a way, so they think their personalized social media reality represents the reality of everybody as a whole.

The big difference to geographic filter bubbles being that those still leave you aware of there being an "other side to the story", case in point: You know there are red states and there are blue states. On social media that other side gets blended out in such a way that it might just as well not exist at all because it won't be surfaced to you unless you make a conscious effort looking for it.
Also, this is meant to retain talents in Canada rather than coming to USA to work for companies like Google. By working for Google in Canada? Doesn't having "Google Brain" in Canada imply people are working for Google but it's one based in Canada now?
Going outside makes me less secure, but I usually put on clothes and shoes before I do it.
AI is going to be like nukes, sounds like a great idea first and then everyone freaks out once the cat is out of the bag.
They'll rent it out instead.
Source? I've read the stuff Crowdstrike and Manidant have put out and they mentioned none of those as evidence. Just binary analysis and network indicators from what I've seen.
>Oh god, talk about good timing. I just got a literal headache spending the last hour searching for a good cross-platform calendar AND todo app that would work on my Mac, and perhaps on Android (although that's bonus). And ideally I'd like to have integration with Trello, so I can schedule my work tasks into the day.

I've been looking for the same, and now I use OneNote for note taking and to do lists. You can easily make kanban boards, you can link tasks to emails or notes in OneNote with more information, and tasks show up in your calendar or tasks in Outlook.
I'm aiming to get the backend open sourced in a week or two so keep posted! I just wanted to get something out there in the mean time.
Epilogue:

> EDIT - Thanks to Dolda2000 I have modified the Java version. It is now about the same speed as the GoLang version. Indeed the issue was the the games were created causing the Java version to have to simulate more games to determine if the game went long enough. With the changes it is running in about ~6 seconds now and has restored my faith in Java.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43082115/why-is-this-gola...
Scroll to the end. This is a $30M grant to the guy's roommate and future brother-in-law.

Unbelievable.
I was curious, what's different about the community edition? It didn't really tell on the pricing page.