skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, TL;DR:

"Causal Entropic Forcing" is something like an AI's utility function, where the agent attempts to maximize future possibilities. Since this is meaningless (all possible futures are possible), what you actually want to do is make it as easy as possible to get to those futures - aka, their entropic adjacency, hence the name, causal entropic forcing.

However, CEF requires that the agent can actually predict possible future states of the system, which comes with some serious issues. In the original paper, this is covered by access to perfect simulators, but those aren't available in real-world situations.

This post discusses how to (possibly) use recurrent neural networks to make such predictions; how to do so effectively, and with consideration of the NN's confidence in it's predictions.

It's pretty cool!
The ping pong balls are still a bit of a mystery then aren't they - is there any chance you could toss some kind of tracking device in there?

GPS could be helpful on a large scale if it did go underground for a distance, but I'm wondering about either setting up some kind of a local high-resolution tracking system that can track objects in the water, or some kind of a gyroscopically-aware tracking device that could be placed into the water and transmit telemetry from inside the kettle itself!

Could you model the current of the water while it's out of sight?
This is neat, thank you for sharing. I've been building a side business helping people plan travel to Italy, but it's very hands-on and time consuming for me (and hence somewhat expensive for my clients). I follow a lot of my own process for things like finding the best paid or award flights, accommodations, activities, etc. This post is making me think that a MOOC on my process might be valuable for those looking to DIY - it wouldn't have the benefit of me doing the planning, but for folks that don't know where to start it's an idea. I can't say I would have thought of it before reading this, but I'm terrible at coming up with ideas!
I think I understand it all well enough to explain! Want to ask some questions?
That's what I was thinking.
I'm assuming they go above and beyond what the city may offer.
if you are a company like whole foods - you probably don't want trash sitting around until a city assigned garbage is ready to pick it up in a week. same with hotels, etc.
Wikipedia launched in 2001. Facebook launched in 2004.

The choice was narrower then. Ruby and Python, while already active, did not have nice web and DB frameworks (both RoR and Django started in 2005). Java was also much less mature, and even more wordy.

PHP, on the other had, was easy to get from any shared hoster.
This article makes no sense. Virtualization's first use was to run a guest OS on a different host OS. Containerization's first use was to achieve reproducible configuration at a lower cost than virtualization. Neither were trying to solve a multi-tenant hosting problem where everybody is running the same system -- were it that simple!
(Author here) I've updated the post to reduce the repetition of "Hamano" in the text.
It never lasts more than a couple of election cycles, though, and basically coincides with a realignment between the dominant parties.
Adjusting and bugfixing Production React Apps made easy using Requestly
I remember when people used to get mad at Microsoft because they supported legacy stuff for years and years and years.
I use this desktop app, opensource and cross platform, constantly

https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app
Only for residences. All offices and apartment buildings have to get their own contracts.
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It's kinda an all or nothing situation. If the habit is to usually provide detail and then one day someone doesn't - people will assume the worst. Thus, it's better to encourage less info than more. Which is a bit counter-intuitive because, ideally, people genuinely feel bad about missing work and want to provide some justification.
X.25 isn't the whole networking stack. Elements of OSI were available, and are still available, but most people use something else because it's easier: good enough, soon enough.
I'm no expert, but just because it's used by professionals doesn't mean it's not a vanity brand. See Monster Cables and Beats by Dre.
> I don't think it's really "out there" to say that the typical minimum wage worker is not as high quality as the guy 4 years in making $20/hr. That is reflected in their pay, after all.

One other thing, is that minimum-wage jobs are often (not always) filled with entry-level workers. These are people who have never had a regular job. They don't know, or may have unrealistic ideas about the importance of being on time, showing up when scheduled, not taking random time off with short notice, etc. So policies are strict because many workers need to be "trained" about what to expect.
Gibbon was indulging a pastime of republican apologists, which is badmouthing anything about monarchy. In this case just sneering, but it stretches to inciting assassination - 'sic semper tyrannis' has been a thing for some twenty five centuries.

Way back when, the Roman aristocrats killed their king and instituted a wildly successful senatorial republic which lasted some five centuries. Later, the English aristocrats, going with the flow of the times, had their republic based on the Magna Carta - which kept a nominal king, serving at the pleasure of Parliament.

Those kings were hired and fired at will, sometimes with loss of head, like Charles I, or just the threat of it, like James II. Long before multinational corporations, there was international recruiting for the job, which is why German aristocrats had to change names for WWI.

Copywriters write advertisements, which is how governments get picked nowadays. They put a shiny gloss on unpleasant facts, or make the audience believe claims which are hard to prove with facts. Industrial manufacture of consent, or advanced belief production, whatever, it works.

(Since you asked. But do your own reading.)
They're done in preparation as well, in order to juke the burn rate numbers by reducing overhead. Make no mistake, an acquisition would likely result in further cuts (acq is always bad for the little guy) if not a complete wind-down, but cutting staff historically does make a company more attractive to acquirers.
They don't already have an arrangement? I've never noticed this problem at a grocery outlet.
The title of the original article is misleading in that it makes it seem that the city of St. Louis has chosen to decrease the minimum wage when in fact the state of Missouri has passed a law forbidding localities from having their own minimum wage. Therefore the minimum wage in the city will now be the lower minimum wage set by the state.
Back in 2013, I was working for one of Redfin's competitors, near Redmond. We were moving the developers off VisualSourceSafe, and the DevOps expert (hired at the same time as me) was a Git pro, so we tried Git.

Git lasted almost a week. The last straw was when a junior developer accidentally deleted the main line repo. We switched to TFS and never had problems like that again.
In that case, aren't the big benchmark gains being claimed mostly the result of changing the problem to allow a perfect simulator in the system? The original author is claiming benchmark results either with a perfect simulator or with a pre-trained neural network mimicking a simulator. It seems like a massive change to the original problem. Otherwise the utility function is very similar to Q learning, just optimizing for future "flexibility" instead of future "reward".

Basically we should be considering the current posted results versus Q learning with an equally accurate pre-trained forward simulator, which I don't think anyone has done.
Safari (at least on the Mac) shows EV certificates with a green padlock and the organization name, which I think makes it nicely clear. PayPal shows up as "<green padlock> PayPal, Inc. www.paypal.com" whereas a scam site will just show "<gray padlock> paypal.com.scammers-r-us.com."

Teaching people to look for this might be hard, though.
Ancient-genome studies grapple with Africa’s past
Thanks, I appreciate the balanced criticism.
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I was a little bit annoyed (enough to comment) by the use of the wrong units. 'mb' is millibit, perhaps millibyte, but certainly not megabyte (MB or MiB).

Similarly:

> it pushes about 5-10 megabits of traffic most of the time

Bits are a unit of information, not flow. Probably the author meant Mib/s.
> I wasn’t building it for fun: I work for Uploadcare and resizing images has always been a practical issue with on-the-fly image processing.

you ever consider pushing the work entirely to the client with a resize implemented in javascript? that would cut down on bandwidth as well.
We run a collaboration service [1] on AWS, nothing fancy in terms of infrastructure needs (DB, some EC2 instances and S3). We spend around 500 USD per month, but our largest customers run run our service on prem on their own servers.

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Looking for smart people interested in solving hard problems. Stack is JavaScript/Node and Java, but flexible on background in those specific languages
Facebook just needs to bite the bullet and release a framework named Google
>it's not feasible to haphazardly take biopsies of the brain to test for them

It is feasible post mortem but scientists still have no conslusive proof from such examinations.

>Conversely, my point still stands that the vast majority of somatic illnesses are diagnosed off subjective symptoms - doctors don't bother doing objective lab tests for a cold or a sprained ankle when the diagnosis is glaringly obvious based off subjective symptoms.

That is not in dispute because a cold and sprained ankle are objectively diagnosable post mortem. Mental illness is not.
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Why must the model of terrestrial radio always be left out of "customers are cheapskates" harangues?
The problem most developers who think they do really don't need a document store. They're just storing data and fields and relationships.
What - dig up the road and put induction loops in it? We haven't even got good broadband internet yet.

Battery swap sounds reasonable.
Startup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their...

What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway?

Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the middle of the night (according to a schedule I define using the mobile app), and it would fill up my car's tank and automatically bill my credit card!
Schleuder: A GPG-enabled mailinglist with remailing-capabilities
That's an aspect of minimum wage I haven't considered before - if I'm not feeling inherently passionate about my work, there's always the realization that I could get fired and have to take a lesser job somewhere else. If it's minimum wage you're more or less down to a binary situation. You might get fired. And then unless literally no one is hiring, you can get a similar job somewhere else. The long-term relative effects of not working short-term aren't as pronounced. I'm guessing a lot of minimum-wage employers don't do a ton of due diligence.
These Hand-Drawn Maps Helped Create ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books
1st Startup Democratizing Mobile Commerce
That is amazing. How did it come into effect? If I run for office in the US with the slogan, "Give Me a Break," do you think I would have a chance?
heh didn't expect to see my name on a post about a company I left aeons ago, but there you are - someone proving OP's point perfectly

(ps I wasn't a director and I'm not OP, but obviously still one of many in the aforementioned mafia's hitlist)
Climate scientists predict wet future for California
I want this for residential. Instead of having a "trash day" I wait until my garbage can is full, click a button on my app, and tomorrow morning someone comes and picks up my trash.
I can see at least one consumer use for this.

When we clean out the garage, my girlfriend and I rent a uhaul truck to take everything to the dump/goodwill/storage.

If I could use this service to just have somebody show up with a truck and pick up the things we want to throw away, it would be really helpful.
We as programmers have gotten tired of saying "per second", I guess.
It's called a dumpster, and it sits behind the building so customers don't see it.
> I don't think the same can be said of Mongo, or any other "NoSQL" anything.

I feel pretty good about DynamoDB, but the development model WRT to indexes and throughput is what keeps me away.
It's true that genes and proteins is nothing like code, but in the context of understanding the brain, I think that should be cause for optimism, because it means that nature has its hands tied behind its back. The genes can't just contain a description of how the brain should be wired together, because the description also has to be "self-executing"; the entire object must robustly self-assemble just from proteins physically interacting. So although 700 megabytes of mouse genes could potentially contain a lot of stuff, it might be possible to do the same thing much more simply if we can program a digital computer instead.

Like, the connectome for C. elegans has been mapped out; it's can be written down as a 2 megabyte ascii text file. Just the connectivity is not enough to actually reproduce the behavior of the worm, you would also need data about the weight of each connection, but it's still a lot less data than the worm genome (about 25 megabytes---I hope I got the number right this time!). The worm genes also need to contain a lot of additional stuff to build functioning cells internals, etc, stuff which hopefully is irrelevant to the actual cognition.
i think the "on-demand" bit is key here. sometimes you really want something taken away on your schedule, not the city's.
Don't grocery stores just have dumpsters? What problem is this solving that a dumpster doesn't?
Showstopper (2004)
Okay, so, from my understanding:

The system has access to available actuators (AFAIK, the X or X+Y position of the agent), a perfect simulator (given this action, that position is the result), and an equation to measure the energy of the system (in a physics / entropy sense).

The first example is the inverted pendulum (segway). The agent can move along X, and it takes more energy to go from the down / fallen position to the upright position, than vice versa. Thus, the upright position has better entropy (I never get the +- right with entropy, so I don't know if that means more or less entropy).

Since the system knows the entropy present in all possible future states of the system (via the perfect simulator plus the entropy math), it can make a sort of "map", and plot a path from where it is to the global max.

In simpler terms, it's optimizing how much energy it takes to get from the current state to all possible future states of the system: in simpler terms, it's way easier (literally, takes less energy) to let the segway fall down than to stand it up in the first place.

Does that help?
Isn't it always the primary issue?
While one can take a bit of issue with using the ether as analogy for a number of reasons, the most important difference to keep in mind is that the wave function exists in configuration space. For 10^80 particles, this is a space with 3^(10^80) dimensions. This is the source of nonlocality.

While PWT is the most sensible to me, it is strange though solely because of the wave function which is common to all theories, including MW. The novel part of PWT, that of particles having definite locations at all times being guided by the wave, is quite ordinary.
I'd love to know more about why this was considered insufficient to qualify for industry-common disclosure practices while simultaneously described as a 'Security' misconfig.

If it's a security issue, then responsible disclosure.

If it's not a security issue, then it's not 'Security'.

Right?
That would actually be awesome.
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I was developing for OSI at a time when it was not possible to do equivalent things on a WAN in Europe using TCP/IP.

TCP/IP didn't win by being first.
Bottled water is an important prophylactic is countries where municipal and surface water are unhealthy to drink. As usual, however, governments fail to hold corporations and consumers responsible for the environmental cost of not recycling the plastic containers.
YT recommendations in general is pretty rubbish
http://www.filld.com/
I just use iptables to forward all traffic on port 80 to port 8080. You can just replace your /etc/rc.local with this:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080

iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp -d 127.0.0.1 --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080

exit 0

Simple enough to add to a configuration management workflow. I used to maintain a configurable reverse proxy, until I decided that was way too much work and to only put one web facing app per server.

edit: rc.local may not be the best place to put these rules, check this link:

http://bencane.com/2011/12/30/when-its-ok-and-not-ok-to-use-...
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/come-on-its-2015-current-year
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/05/02/gas-deli...
Hudson Canyon always fascinated me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Canyon
Is there a Soundcloud alternative (that allows for user uploads)?

8tracks and SoundCloud have been my home for years, sad to see them both struggling.
Handling Complex JSON Schemas in Python
> gains being claimed

AFAIK, the claims being gained are that they didn't have to supply the system with any goals, and it "figured out" the basic tests - included tool use and cooperation.

> with an equally accurate pre-trained forward simulator

AFAIK, that's exactly what the OP is discussing: how would this system perform when you replace the perfect simulator with an RNN trained to predict?
Or somebody needs to write a library to manipulate ELF binaries and call it facebook.
Well, the author was talking about organs, not genes. Generally speaking the organ arrangement described in the article (external testes, internal ovaries) is pretty well conserved among placental land mammals even if genes related to other aspects of reproduction are not.
Muzzle: a simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screencast
I think bandcamp didn't take money - so they can operate as they want. I totally agree with you with respect to bandcamp being where cutting edge music lives.
"I reported this issue only a few hours ago, but I don’t consider this category of problem to require a delayed disclosure."
It's called [filld](http://filld.com), and it's _awesome_.
Well they could made an announcement or email their user base letting them know of the breaking change.
I laughed and then remembered I did this once as a teen.

Then I laughed some more.
With a request like this, the best you can hope for it lots of data points (ie anecdata).

What I've seen is that in the jobs filled by younger people with little skills on the worker side and near-exploitative conduct on the employer side, was a) a rather shallow loss function ("what if I lose this job? I'm underpaid, it's a dead-end, and I can easily get another job like this", that they often still live in their parents' basement exacerbates that effect) and b) a feeling of justification for these actions ("They exploit me, I'll exploit them back").

And those weren't simply rationalizations, so I'm not sure if it's a matter of moral fortitude or lack thereof, just of a different set of morals that (are understood to) underlie that type of job. There was a strong sense of moral in the people I worked with, just along other axes (eg. stronger loyalty between peers, but much weaker up and down the hierarchy).
Why are we relying on single providers, shouldn't it be a consensus system of some form, like month old certs get passed on in bulk outside of the main network, then if the original provider is compromised their cert info disagrees with the "consensus" providers indicating a compromise at some point.

High profile sites can buy multiple top level certificates (with mutual signing, say); sites needing less security can fallback on a simplified consensus system (maybe like above).

Workable?
El Niño-like weather increases California precipitation in response to warming
In spite of having tax funded garbage collection I often have trouble getting rid of certain things. Large items are collected infrequently and I might not want that sitting in my yard for a week or more awaiting pickup. Similarly, car batteries or other things that have special disposal rules can be difficult to find that information easily when it's something you deal with very infrequently. A service like this could help with that and I'd be happy to pay someone a few bucks to solve this problem for me.
Holy crap... it actually exists
seeing that they are in Atlanta I can only offer my experience living in the metro area. Suburban pickup is a multitude of private haulers, some with full size trucks and others running the mini style. There are even some non traditional haulers. Combine with all the custom haulers; leave dumpsters on site, pick up and haul on demand, etc, so there is certainly a market.

two dumps near me serve all these haulers and from just talking to a few to reading their websites many have government contracts as well. the local schools have branded dumpsters!

reading the article the one service which looks cool is giving customers assurance of where their waste goes so that they in turn can use this as a halo effect when getting customers for their own service. plus if you could effectively track and route specific types of recyclables surely there is profit in it
When one woman accuses a particular man of sexually inappropriate behavior at work, I tend to believe her. When a number of women do, I am very sure they are right, though every particular incident might not be exactly as they described.

Why is this? It's because, from what I have read, a number of studies find that when women are treated inappropriately at work, they rarely speak up. This is because they are afraid they wouldn't be believed, and there would be retaliation by their employers. They are also afraid they would be personally attacked by raving asshole woman-haters. Woman I have talked to personally on this subject have told me the same thing.

As to character witnesses, the whole piece is an argument as to why they are not very relevant.