skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because there's scientific evidence strongly suggesting otherwise.

That's pretty generic, I could use that as an argument for anything.

I wonder if there was ever a scientific study checking if there is a correlation between the degree of introversion and competency in a deeply technical/scientific subject. Disclaimer: I studied Physics. Having specialized in Theoretical Particle Physics, extrovert people were just not there. Actually I wrote my thesis at a professor who had quite extrovert tendencies but it turned out he was not really helpful and rather rude. (Forced extrovert?) How do you actually solve an integral by talking? It's a trick question, of course it's possible but I have never seen how extroverts solve a complicated integral while thinking loudly and discussing. How do you socialize by not talking so much? It's also possible. Communicating with body language etc. might be what makes us human actually.

That said, being a strong introvert myself, I can network for hours when it's for a reason. But I rarely do that anymore because I don't see much of a point. Most people I meet through such Networking Marathons ended up in my LinkedIn/Facebook, congratulating them every few years for stuff or maybe coincidentally even being able to seek useful help sometimes. But my strongest connections I found "organically", frequenting places I have deep interest in or through common friends. With these connections I have co-founded 2 companies or given mutual help, inspiration and collaboration over years. I doubt extroverts have that very often. ;)
Uncov(er) – a tool that collect and processes code coverage reports
Can Xcode Refactor Swift?
I wonder whether your setup could be made to work with a higher population density?
Most banks looking to move off mainframe/COBOL/CICS/etc don't look to rewrite everything themselves. They look to buy packaged software which they will then customise/enhance. I think most of those packaged software offerings are written in Java. (Disclaimer: My employer sells packaged banking software written in Java.)

In fact, if you look at the existing COBOL banking applications, many of them aren't pure inhouse development, but packaged applications like CSC Hogan. Hogan runs on top of z/OS and CICS and is written in COBOL. Hogan shops will have a lot of their own COBOL they add to the Hogan system to implement customer-specific requirements. So for many banks moving off mainframe/COBOL, it is actually a migration from one packaged app to another, but of course they need to rewrite from scratch all their customisations.

In my personal experience, most banks doing this don't try to do it as a big bang. They identify subsets of functionality where they feel the current mainframe system is most limited – e.g. mortgages, mobile banking, whatever – and start by replacing that function only with the new non-mainframe software, and have it integrate with the pre-existing mainframe app for other functions. Then, the idea is, progressively they will migrate more and more functionality to the new system, and eventually the mainframe/COBOL systems can be retired. A piecemeal approach often involves less risk, costs less (in the short term) and is easier to justify to the business since they can see tangible results much easier.
The OP just said 'criminal', nothing about 'full force and power of the State'. Few criminals actually get that.
More likely shoddy unicode handling. I'd wager that the author intended for an emdash at that point (—).

...

I was close. It's an en-dash. It's a triple of bytes, in decimal representation:

julia> b = UInt8[226, 128, 147]
3-element Array{UInt8,1}:
0xe2
0x80
0x93

julia> String(b)
"–"

julia> ans[1]
'–': Unicode U+2013 (category Pd: Punctuation, dash)
Sure, but the argumentation in that blog post is that novelty seeking is a proxy for dopamine sensitivity, and dopamine sensitivity may be linked to extraverted/introverted tendencies, hence why that gene study is relevant.

But, as I noted, since multiple genes likely regulate for dopamine sensitivity (not to mention things like sleep, diet, etc), there are many factors which regulate those tendencies, and it's false to claim there's a dichotomy and that people are fixed to one tendency or the other.
would be really interrsting to do a deep dive on Pai's personal finances. He's not even trying to hide how much he's in the bag for the telecom/ISPs.
Bay Area rents have risen to match the ability of tech workers to pay. There's a general collusion of landlords, insofar as they target what other units are renting for in the neighborhood (which of course has nothing to do with marginal cost).
I'm sure a much larger number get seriously ill, but don't die, so the potential for quality of life improvement is even bigger.
Brian from Backblaze here.

> Range header has existed since HTTP 1.1

Backblaze built the original zip restore functionality in 2007 and I believe the range header was introduced after that? We FULLY support the range header in our B2 Object Storage and we actually have support for it (now) in the ZIP file download functionality.

However, because we built the client side custom program bzdownloader (our restartable restore downloader) it seems to still succeed in some situations where a web browser doesn't succeed. We can slowly retire our custom bzdownloader application as all web browsers catch up and have restartable downloads.
Of course it's not hard to find stocks today that went up over 72% in the PREVIOUS 10 years. That's not the problem.

The problem is how do you pick the ones that will beat the market beforehand, when everybody has access to the same information about the prospects for future growth & earnings?

It's been proven by hundreds of studies to be a statistical near-impossibility over long periods of time. Any outperformance over the short term can be mathematically reframed as random luck (which a retail investor like you and I will incorrectly attribute to being the result of our own abilities).
Yeah the problem is where would you put in the command to maximize paperclips? Even though deep learning is very powerful, it doesn't contain a utility function. The utility function to maximize paperclips would be some kind of module separate from a set of deep learning nets that would coordinate and read inputs from all the nets and then somehow give commands to some actuators somewhere (which it would also need intelligence about). All those deep learning networks would have to already be tuned to be very accurate in their own right before they are hooked up to any kind of controller.

That was my point that, AI has been confused with the deep learning gains in the past years, even though, the hard part about how to coordinate all those inputs and also give the right commands to actuators is still not near to solved, much less a completely virtual superintelligence that has its own "virtual" goals and virtual simulations of both its inputs and potential actuators in the real world. This would be akin to a kind of intelligence algorithm, and not deep learning vector algorithms that reveal structures in data.
Before 20 seconds ago, I did not know this was a thing.
By age 6, kids think boys are better than girls in programming and robotics
People of colour over-represented among the poor --> people of colour being considered lazier than paler people by people of means?
Humanity never started as a single entity though, so it wouldn't make sense for it to merge into a single entity.

If an AI begins replicating then its part will come into conflict only if its "immune system" is unsuccessful at beating back mutations and/or it's terrible at replication.

I don't think we have reason to believe either of those things will happen. High fidelity replication will be part of a successful AI's self-programming and it's like that a superintelligence will figure out how to run an immune system effectively.

I think the "all things in moderation" approach might make sense, but how do we ensure humans abide by it when there is so much wealth and power to be had if you edge out your competitors just a little bit.

Our economy heavily rewards optimization.
These are all great suggestions. You'll see shortcuts drop next week. Maybe even better than you expect :).
> What the parent described is probably due to other external factors (e.g. lack of choice, land restrictions or other things) that constrain behavior.

It's also a cultural thing. Just the other day I was minding my own business on a relatively central street in the European Eastern capital where I live and all of a sudden I see a Roma lady, in her early 50s, reasonably well dressed, coming towards the lightning pole that was on my left side, taking her underwear down and urinating, literally in the middle of the sidewalk, in plain daylight. Before that she had been talking with some acquaintances of her just outside a court-yard, I presume that if she really wanted to she could have asked those people if she could use their toilet.
You'd think the land bridge would have pretty fertile soil too, with it having been seabed a few years prior and whatnot.
> You don't even need a fun story about a personal relationship: say you misremember something.

To be fair, the statute does say you must knowingly and willingly be lying. Theoretically, that would be on the feds to prove. Of course, I don't think it's possible to prove whether someone knows something. But if they can prove that you at one time did know, or with a perfect memory should have known... I don't know how that works. Would it be a coin flip at that point whether the jury would believe that you simply "misremembered"?
But you don't have anything substantial to lose by holding open said door. This is a poor analogy because the stakes are not even close to comparable.
You've shifted your argument to one that is not particularly convincing to someone who doesn't already share a right wing economic view.

The North Dakota farm issue was interesting, as something I wasn't aware of (and thank you for bringing it up!) I'm less interested in engaging with the general libertarian argument against taxation.
No. It means you could program an AI to a) make paperclips and b) increase its own intelligence. Assume you program (a) incorrectly (in the sense of lacking the appropriate safeguards about when not to make more paperclips) but (b) correctly. Then, it doesn't matter that the AI will eventually understand what you want perfectly, because what it will want to do is to keep making paperclips. The whole argument is that if you have a self-improving agent with a goal and the ability to improve in ways you can't predict at all, then you better make sure its goal matches yours.

Of course, the obvious solution is: "make the objective function equivalent to 'do what I want you to do'", but the problem is we might not know how to encode that without help from a super-AI.
Hi, I would like to share an idea i had a while back with you flexport folks.

I work in an IoT company that focus on the hardware side, while I am the one responsable for having the software running smooth.

Chatting about the new hardware piece that were coming my first though was the following.

Have a very small piece of hardware, transmitter, to ship along whatever you are shipping. The transmitter will regularly (even every 5 minutes) transmit its position so that would be possible to track the geographical coordinates of every lot of product that is shipped.

The difficult part is that the transmitter need a receiver (with Internet connectivity) in close range ~10km, the solution would be to install those receiver in the ship or in the truck or in the train.

The hardware itself is something that we are using every day and it is not a big issue, the only real problem that I see is the installation of those receivers.

Is this something worth solving?
No chipset has supported ECC for quite a while: Flipping some configuration bits depending on the chipset used is purely an Intel money extraction-engine (Intel ME technology®©™).

Server / workstation class boards normally all do support ECC, though, so no real issue in practice.
Understood. But please read the whole link; you don't take a long position in any etf, geared or not, if you're expecting the underlying index to give negative or neutral returns. The whole point of the market is to grow--which is does "most of the time". (Caveat emptor, yadda yadda.)
Hi Mankhool, thanks for your reply. I totally get your point on this! At this stage we are asking for a sign up for two main reasons: 1) To inform you when your report is ready; 2) For our servers' protection (we just launched today)

If you think our platform can help you, I’d really love to hear your feedback, how can I help?
I still remember tracing down an odd bug involving taxes and contract calculations that resulted from a programmer I thankfully couldn't identify using a single precision float to do calculations that involved unit of measure conversions that then had calculations involving contract terms and weights. The original unit stored was a decimal with 30 total digits and 10 decimal digits. When I finally found the part of the code where decimals suddenly because floats, I was inclined to do violence given it was 3AM and I was chasing a couple of hundred thousand pennies in various places. It was deep in the middle of a stored procedure so the standard excuses don't apply.

I swear there are not enough classes about numbers.
An 8000+ line C file. I can understand how a single bug might be overlooked there.
When artificial intelligence evaluates chess champions
"industry demands greater direct subsidies"

Can you provide some examples of grid-scale solar or wind projects that don't get massive government subsidies?
As soon as you open your mouth, "what you say" becomes your word against the officer's word.

The officer can write down whatever notes he/she wants, however inaccurate, whether intentionally inaccurate or otherwise, then go testify in court later, under oath, that this is what you admitted to.

Now you're trying to argue to a jury that you(the accused, but of course, presumed innocent...yea right) is telling the truth, and the sworn officer is lying.

That's not a good situation to be in, regardless of your actual guilt or wrongdoing.

There is a reason that anyone who has ever had any substantial contact with law enforcement will tell you NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE. You have a 5th amendment right, and a very well known Supreme Court case Miranda V Arizona that clarifies that.

I personally have seen literally hundreds of cases that would have been dismissed before they ever made it to a jury had the defendant not opened his/her mouth. I make no judgments on the actual guilt of the defendant.
Would it not appear as though it was more intelligent simply based on the speed at which it makes decisions?

The Actual Intelligence may be the same (or a little higher) considering the Average Intelligence, but the effect the higher speed would likely be a measurable difference.
They do not have a build a service as good as spotify. They just have to force spotify to be more expensive by rent seeking. They make money either way.
With stories like this, I always find it bizarre that artists/creators do not keep personal master copies of their works. I don't think it's fair to push the blame of losing the works completely to the service operators, I feel that creators also have some responsibility to employ due diligence if they want their works to be preserved.
I think the evidence is implicit in the fact that the opposite of those things happened when net neutrality was put in place
> should return the same data that software thought it was writing

Hint: In an OS using a page cache (=every OS) I/O errors are not reliably propagated to applications unless they explicitly sync their dirty pages.
Relevant post by Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/
We don't know how to do this yet, but humans have things which are a bit like utility functions, "built in" in a way we don't understand. However it's done, it leads to self-improving behaviour in humans (many humans value learning and becoming better at things). Just because we don't know how to do it with deep learning and/or neural networks doesn't mean that it's a) not possible with those techniques, and b) that it's not possible with some other technique. (When a neural network becomes sophisticated enough to model its own workings and its relation to the environment, I don't see a knockdown argument for why it couldn't in principle optimise itself, given help from the outside.)
I just started listening to StartUp as well (I like several other Gimlet shows) and he seems incredibly smart. StartUp is also a great podcast if anyone is looking for something to listen to (start from the first season).
> Watch every decision the current administration makes.

Just the current administration, or democracies around the world? It's a fact that capital rules economy and by extension our lives. Why do you think it would be any different under Obama, Hillary, Lincoln, Thatcher, Blair, Castro, Kim Jong Un or Abe? The kind of democracy we have is bourgeois democracy - in place to protect the intersts of those owners of private property, thereby to assure functioning also protecting to some extent those interests of the people, to afford them the freedom necessary under capitalism, but no more.

It's not an issue of people v business, it's an issue of capital, which rules every country. It's not even businesses, it's capital itself.
how is this on the first page of hackernews?
Motion to dismiss denied in Artifex v Hancom (GPL enforcement on Ghostscript)
I don't know what he meant with "Dice.", but after that he did say that it was fish-shaped ingots that worked out.

Does dice tend to mean success in this scenario?
Did you even read the report, or did you simply pull a summary? The numbers are all over the map and the P values look hacked to generate a paper.

In addition, if you look at the fatality and injury numbers for urban interstate they went down for 65MPH and up for 55mph and 75mph. That makes no sense.

Basically, the statistics are sufficiently close to a wash that the confounding factors (like texting or rerouting due to more convenience) matter more than the speed limit.
Kind of similar...

https://www.buamai.com/

http://defringe.com/

http://designspiration.net/

http://www.clikclk.fr/

http://butdoesitfloat.com/

https://niice.co/
Fair enough. The article may not have sufficiently established such a thing. But enforcement when it works is likely to only work when enforcement is frequent enough to create an expectation of getting caught. Given that this would require a significant increase in manpower to truly be effective I'm not sure it's sustainable.

I suppose you could find a way to automate it similar to red light cameras but even those have been shown to be rather ineffective at actually lowering the incidence of violations so I'm not sure anything less than the presence of a police vehicle with flashing lights that pulls up behind you would have an effect.
> We simply need to make sure that the AGI doesn't optimize anything, but instead takes the saying "all things in moderation" to its heart. That means, every once in a while, AGI should stop whatever goals it pursues and reflect on purpose of those goals, if it is not, by some measure, going too far.

A superintelligent AI would be too useful for warfare and making money that we could ever hope to impose limits on what some people will do with it and allow it to optimize.
We live in a world with the NSA, a group known to flag individuals based on search history (ex. for TOR) and to share with other branches of government (see: parallel construction). Everyone has reason to be paranoid.
Data sleaze: Uber and beyond
The Saudis only become rich when they extract the oil and sell it on the world market. Otherwise they just have some warm fuzzy feelings, knowing that there are some long carbon chains somewhere underneath their feet. The value of their property right is in the implicit agreement that anyone else that tries to erect an oil rig and take their easily exploited oil will be shot, and any capital brought seized for the benefit of the Saudis.

It is all humans. The energy and engineering requirements of exploiting land pale before the sociopolitical requirements of exploiting it for any particular person's benefit.

A human is not a sellable slave until a slaver captures him and drags him to the block. The stolen goods are just goods that have been detached from the previous labor of legitimized title-service and security providers.

Inanimate objects have no intrinsic value. Every last speck of their value comes from human desires and expectations.

Imagine, if you will, two planetoids orbiting a star 1000 light-years away. One of them is 100 million metric tons of shiny 24K gold. One of them is 100 million metric tons of stinking manure. Which is more valuable?
Or a single malicious "feature"...
Why would Bitmain shut down their customers' hardware? It's a sure way to kill their (quite successful) brand.

But even if it happens, all you have to do is update the firmware again, and keep mining.

But let's imagine someone actually does shut down 70% of the mining power. What's the real consequence? Blocks will be mined somewhat slower (but not even close to 3 times slower) till the difficulty self-corrects. In the very worst case that will take 2016 blocks, or 14 days.
Every single map is inaccurate in a way, I suggest you read How to lie with maps by Mark Monmonier.
Not sure I agree that the overhead of running windows and linux subsystem is greater than keeping a Hackintosh running. I ran a Hackintosh for several years, but finally got tired of the update process, waiting for the right video drivers to be released, maintaining all this context, and then still have some quirks every now and then.

The only solution to me would be running OS X on my own desktop hardware. I'd gladly pay Apple a nice premium for this.
Does it make any difference if you're using your desktop to compile stuff?
Even "do what I mean" is not obviously correct. Yudkowsky used to advocate the idea of "coherent extrapolated volition": the idea of what I would want the AI to do, were I much more intelligent, knew more, could think faster, were more how I wished I were, and so on.
Font Map – A Machine Learning Visualization
In the end I looked into the source (I'm so glad I did this). The `-i` option was hardcoded within pgxc_ctl coord_command.c file. So I just removed it and recompiled. This is now binding as expected.

Many thanks!
Tribalism
Sure, putting more resources into weather forecasting seems likely to have diminishing returns. But consider learning itself. Educating a human takes many years, and we can't easily transfer knowledge between humans. There's a lot of room for improvement. Transferring knowledge between machines could be much more efficient.

The thing about machinery is that it scales. If you have one AI that's really good at writing fiction, you can replicate it and generate all the fiction you like. Not true of human authors.

I do expect there will be other bottlenecks after think time is solved, but even without intelligence much beyond human, the ability to scale in other directions is pretty scary.
Interesting. So, would you advise—if you do want to give a witness statement, because, say, someone close to you was attacked—just telling the officer (in not so many words) to go away; and then, later, writing out a witness statement and bringing it down to a police station?
In the Midwest at least bootstrapping is the smart choice for starting a SAAS company. I say that as someone who has started SAAS companies since they were known as ASP's. It doesn't rule out later taking funding, but the longer you wait the more power you have in the relationship with the VC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_fuel