skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how the Chromium project is set up, but another way to achieve that benefit is to require that succeed on all platforms before code can be checked in. Which you should probably do anyway.
We can't make anything the main goal of some human, because for us us (just like any other animal) the goal system is genetically hardwired to a bunch of complex feedback loops (hunger, sexual drive, pain, social status feedback, etc etc etc), and we can't turn off any of them, much less all of them, without fundamental alterations of something that's formed very early in evolution of multicellular life.

Any AGI system will also have some set of goals, just like we do. For us the goal is to (vaguely speaking) "feel good" and all the direct things that affect that, including feelings caused by anticipation of future events, etc - but this set of goals is pretty much arbitrary if these goals didn't have to survive through millions of years of natural selection and orthogonal to intelligence power.

I mean, if it doesn't have goals, then it won't do anything, it's not an agent. You could have very smart narrow systems that aren't "agentive" and just e.g. provide answers to very complex questions, but whenever we talk about general artificial intelligence we are talking about a system that has a feedback loop with the external world, i.e., it does stuff, observes the results, learns from that (i.e. is self-modifying in some sense) and decides on further actions - which means having some goals.
I don't believe I have a way to contact you, but shoot me an email at mathintersectprogramming@gmail.com
FWIW, as a software engineer, this type of vague, grandiose marketing language makes me think less of Redfin as a company. It definitely makes me think that me, and most of the talented people I know, wouldn't enjoy working there. If you really want to boost Redfin's reputation, I'd recommend following some advice from the YC application guide:

"The best answers are the most matter of fact. It’s a mistake to use marketing-speak to make your idea sound more exciting. We’re immune to marketing-speak; to us it’s just noise. So don’t begin your answer with something like

We are going to transform the relationship between individuals and information.

That sounds impressive, but it conveys nothing. It could be a description of any technology company. Are you going to build a search engine? Database software? A router? I have no idea. (...)

The best answers are the most specific. A surprising number of people answer with something like:

Jordan is an exceptionally dedicated person who gives 100% effort to every project he undertakes.

This kind of generic claim carries no weight. A single, specific example would be much more convincing." (https://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/)
Amazon wants lower ebook prices while book publishers want higher prices.
How anyone can believe that harsher sentences will curb drug use in this day and age with 50 years of evidence to the contrary is beyond me.
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Two other reasons that haven't been mentioned yet:

- MSVC had trouble with dead code elimination in some cases: fixing https://crbug.com/684105 reduced binary size by almost 900KB on Windows.

- It lets tooling like https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs... and the custom clang plugin checks run on Windows-specific code.
Can you not redefine a method in Python's shell in the exact same method?

Edit: Ah...silly me, that isn't exactly runtime.
Checkout LIME: https://github.com/marcotcr/lime presumably in this example when reviewing the test dataset you'd see the ocean light up more than the warships.

E.g. Here is an example of a wolf (ship) detection system that is actually detecting snow (area of the ocean) https://youtu.be/hUnRCxnydCc?t=58
> Never used a Mac, and never will. Don't see the point

Try the Mac trackpad, I think you will love it.
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If you're going to be pedantic shouldn't it be "GNU/Linux"?
Here in Shenzhen, I would argue that it's fairly clear to anyone on the ground that the boom has ended.

There are currently a host of half-finished huge buildings that are not being completed. For instance, I can see a bunch from my window. This is most likely due to lapsed demand and reduced speculative investment in the sector.

This is really just a delayed adjustment along the lines of an established national change, Shenzhen possibly encountered the slowdown later owing to increased expectations/hype/financing availability and special economic and political darling status.

I would say from physical observation that the second half of last year was the real slow down, things haven't changed much since then.

The local real estate market is pretty expensive... a lot of people who bought apartments 10 years ago are now USD multi-millionaires, despite having real incomes as low as 1-2000USD/month. As a consequence of consistent price growth, purchasing a small apartment now costs about the same as Sydney, with a median price above USD$1M. It is fairly difficult to rent a halfway decent apartment under about 6000CNY (~1000USD)/month, many pay double that or more.
> physicists who thought they had figured everything out in the '30s

Certain 30s physicists were making "My greatest fear is that my research is too successful" warnings that turned out to be pretty on-point.
You can say RL is not hard when you manage to teach all aspects of the SOTA RL algorithm (https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06887) to your class such that they are able to answer any question about it (not just implement it). Good luck teaching metric spaces to code monkeys.

You guys are doing good work teaching tensorflow and algorithms/models researchers are coming up with, but are slapping those same researchers by disrespecting what they're working on now. Some humility would be wise.
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I tried that and got an HP Spectre 15" when my 2013 rMBP was having memory issues. I really wanted to like it and it was a beautiful machine, but the home/end key was in a weird place, and the zoom/scroll in the browser (Chrome) is still clunky, especially the zoom, compared to Safari. There were other little things like no right click dictionary, poor palm recognition, etc.

I went back to the 2017 rMBP and really like it. I use Windows in a VM and have the Cmd -> as end and Cmd <- as home and it works great.

I'd still buy a Thinkpad if they put their old keyboards back in service.
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Just make sure to grab one with the discrete GPU(dGPU aka Performance Base). It's not going to be anything near a desktop(no laptop will) but I can run most things at 1080p pretty well and some of the lighter stuff(like Pyre) at 3Kx2k(native resolution).
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The WSL converts the Linux system calls to Windows calls with additional wrappers to implement the system calls correctly.
Will you keep this attitude when you get run out of business by them?
> The author is the one who moved the goalposts ...biztos was correct to call it out.

Yes, there's an extra word in there. I think you're both missing the point.

It wouldn't be interesting or valuable for Horowitz to change his honesty benchmark half way through the opening paragraph. He even includes the word "else" in there, reinforcing the equity of the two measures.

So, assuming he's not changing his honesty benchmark... nor is Horowitz likely to believe that each individual reader is objectively the only honest person in their network (or one of few). There isn't even any reason to believe the reader is above average in their honesty.

That really just leaves one reasonable interpretation in my mind; the point that humans are subjectively more likely to view ourselves as honest compared to others. Whether you agree with this point or not is another matter, but there's plenty of evidence for similar cognitive biases.

But yeah, I don't think this article is Shakespeare.
> There has to be huge barriers to entry, for it to work

you mean like billions and billions in revenue from a variety of other sources?
As much as I love LibreOffice -- and I prefer to use it whenever I can for several reasons -- the UI is just painfully awful.

My university and one of the journals I publish in require Word (docx) files for papers and other documents, so I'm required to use Office. No alternatives are allowed, not even LaTeX or sending in PDFs: their whole internal editing and typesetting system is based around Word. Still, while I disliked the ribbon in 2007, I've found the Word UI to have improved significantly over the years, with 2016 being remarkably decent and producing quite presentable documents. I would not object to there being a similar UI them in Writer.

I wanted to use Writer for several papers and my PhD thesis, but it has some difficulty importing my otherwise-not-very-complex Word 2016 files. While the text is imported more or less correctly, table widths and alignments get all screwy (which is a big deal), Word's internal cross-references (e.g. "See Figure X", where X is a number representing a specific figure and if that figure is re-ordered in the document, the number changes) get horribly broken, among other issues. Having Word export as ODT and opening that in Writer fixes some issues but creates more issues to the point where there's no real alternative for me than Word, at least for papers and other academic documents.

It really bugs me, and I blame Word for the interoperability issues. Even so, I have no alternatives due to the requirements of the journal. Bah.
>I get that some folks want to legalize drugs, but make an argument for it that doesn't involve this twisting of results to match the desired outcome.

Criminalizing drugs has negative externalities like boosting the profits of organized crime, but is often argued to outweigh those side effects by suppressing drug use, which is harmful.

If we found a way to make drug use much less harmful, then why would we not decriminalize drugs concurrently, given that its positives are negated so there's no argument remaining that they outweigh its negatives?

Even if the critical factor in reducing drug use harms was health services, the argument for concurrent decriminalization is overwhelming.
> this guy's failure to deliver the Essential Phone in time

Hasn't been a good month for Essential. The phone he promised in June didn't ship in July, lost VP's of marketing and communication and today Google hired away his lead UX designer to fill the same role for Google Home.
Agree. I haven't tried many alternatives, but had a need for a quick website recently and Hugo was exceedingly easy to use and has a lot of nice looking themes.
> Where is Knight Corner / Landing / Hill? May be they are on the market somewhere, but is Nvidia out numbering them 20:1? Or even more?

Take a look at the Top500 list of computers [0]. Of the top 10, 3 have Xeon Phi coprocessors (aka Knights Corner/Landing, Knights Hill hasn't been released, nor has any 10nm Intel processor), 2 have Nvidia coprocessors.

[0] https://www.top500.org/
No, the Defender didn't come with a roll cage, at least not most of them. The American-spec versions that were imported for three years in the 90's had factory-supplied Safety Devices cages but most rest-of-world (ROW) Defenders did not.

Source: I am the co-founder of NAS-ROW, the Defender forum. https://nas-row.com
Can you elaborate what you mean by "AGI will have too much autonomy to stick to it" ?

Any system that is capable decide that e.g. paperclip maximization is a bad goal must unavoidably have some scale of what constitutes better or worse goals... and that de facto means that whatever is at the "good" end of that scale will be the true goal of that system. But where does that scale come from?

Especially given that this scale is absolutely arbitrary, there are no competing "innate drives" (like mammals have) that would make it difficult to stick with any arbitrary goal. We're not talking about giving some intelligence orders that might conflict with what it "really wants" - we're talking about configuring the ultimate desires of that system, this configuration will define the world states that it will find more or less "desirable" given complete autonomy.
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How do they expect developers to write code if windows can't write to the file system? Do they expect everyone to use vim or other text based editor?
No disrespect, but, seriously, given that project was created 9 months ago, "minimalistic static site generator" isn't really sufficient project description, let alone marketing slogan. What I want to know is why to use it over

* Jekyll

* Hakyll

* Hugo

* Pelican

* Sculpin

* ...
You make a good point. However I still think it's underhanded an unnecessary. People are going to buy from amazon for a host of other reasons such as convenience and maybe free shipping if they are prime members. I think amazon needs to compete based on value add, not with an underhanded contract.

I will almost never sign a so-called "standard" software development contract because standard practice is to treat the little guy poorly. I think the same goes with amazon. Just because it is standard doesn't mean it's right.
Check your keybase folder /private/j2kun,krissiegel/ or ping me at mathintersectprogramming@gmail.com
DAS BOOT!! I remember talking to a colleague about this movie at a former job, and a woman near me piped: "Who would want to watch a movie about a Boot?!" We were speechless and she was totally serious.
Defenders aren't legal in the USA? I have been a scofflaw for the last ten years?

Sorry, you're totally wrong about that. Rest-of-world (ROW) Defenders are absolutely legal in the US, as are any vehicle > 25 years old with original spec motor. Also legal are North American Spec (NAS) Defenders, which were imported for three years in the 90s.

Source: I am the co-founder of NAS-ROW, the Defender forum. https://nas-row.com
I guess technically MS need to start referring to Windows 10 as GNU/Linux/Windows now.
>but a pure S3 endpoint will never take substantial marketshare away from AWS.

Perhaps in the "dev/ops" world, but S3 as a standalone repository could absolutely work for most enterprises and quite frankly soho users as a backup target. That being said, I have almost no faith this will survive and as such wouldn't trust it with my backups.
For those considering MS Surface, be aware that, unlike Apple, support is limited to the country that you purchased the device in.

See this comment from 2 months ago on HN [1].

Because of that negative point, I'm now considering one of the Ubuntu Dell Precision models and would appreciate any experiences on HN of Dell and international support for business class laptops.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14400873
"Contingency, irony, and solidarity" appealed to me because it offered an argument for expanding our concept of "us", examining our beliefs, and evolving our positions without tolerating threats. It was a prescription for strength that avoids cruelty, not weakness.
He said server devs, which I assume means people who develop stuff that runs on a (nix) server.

corysama, I agree. Windows was really lacking in any type of native unix connectivity. No native ssh, sftp support is a big one. You can get free third party programs for that, but nothing beats opening a terminal and having all of it, especially if that's what you are accustomed to.

I really love the new shell in Windows. I'm so glad they broke away from their old mindset.
30,000 people signed up for an account, with 20,000 of those accounts having some money in them

One-Third of the accounts had no money in them at all?!
you need to denormalize your database so you can just query for those particular objects without a bunch of joins. Put a limit on nesting, but honestly 6-7 levels doesn't sound that bad.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14876129
Significantly in the statistical sense?
Point is, nobody knows whether AGI really exists or not, based on our current approach. As I have answered in another comment section, natural language understanding haven't been cracked, at all. I mean at all.

So the reality is, it is like ancient human knows birds can fly with wings, but people can only fly in their dreams. Now, we know people can think intelligently with their brain, but no one knows how to make computer works the same. It is far too early to talk about the risk, until we have the Wright brothers of AI to enlighten us on such possibility.
I guess it's time I check out keybase's file stuff. Thanks!
It's running on a Raspberry Pi, not a phone.
Well in EE, I won't hire anyone without an MS.
Thank you for that perspective. Makes perfect sense.
vultr, digitalocean are my top 2
> Yes there was short-term fall out from the dot-com craze, but it didn't fundamentally change anything.

This guy is an investor, the memo has been sent to "Oaktree Clients". If one had invested in DrKoop, theGlobe.com or Pets.com, their fundamentals as far as disposable income or outlook on retirement might've shifted dramatically.

It's like trying to persuade someone whose retirement funds were all in Enron to take it easy, because electricity still exists.
You can also use intrinsics if you don't want to write your entire routine in assembly.
> neoliberal

Rorty was not a neoliberal in any honest sense of the word. He was a liberal and a progressive, to be sure, but was decidedly not a neoliberal.

If you're confused about what "neoliberal" means, think "the intersection of things that Clinton and Reagan had in common", not "the things right-wing US commentators call liberal". Most true neoliberals in Congress are on the red team, for example.

Literally the only place I can find Rorty himself described as a neoliberal is in some Marxist critique of something or other. And those authors doesn't even make it through their criticism of Rorty without a blatant grammatical error, leading me to believe they don't take their characterization very seriously.
You are supposed to use special MASM directives to generate function tables for SEH.
Human biometrics are subject to spoofing, replay, and birthday attacks. You can't extract enough entropy from any extant biometrics to be useful, secure, and free of collisions (without having an intolerably high false negative rate).
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IANAL, but yes, you can.
Three bedrooms in a 7' by 8' (for example) area.

People who complain that the Bay Area needs more "high-density housing": this one is for you!

To be fair, this property is unusually resilient with respect to rising sea levels.
Or write it using whichever editor you'd prefer in Windows, then access it from WSL, I guess? You can see the entire Windows filesystem from inside the Linux environment. You just shouldn't try to write to the locations that they keep the Linux part of the filesystem in from Windows.
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Counter anecdata: My office is full of T and W series Lenovos. I myself have a first generation Carbon as my work machine. My personal machine was a T410 (and before that another T series) until I recently got a new Carbon.

Absolutely zero reports of problems. None.
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You're probably right. However the other question is whether dealers should be help criminally liable for fentanyl-related deaths. In essence they are selling something that they know will likely kill some of their customers.
I believe these are referred to Railway-Oriented Programming. I've seen several other examples for Elixir (incl. ones using macros), but by far this is the 'cleanest' syntax :)

Here's a similar construct in Scala:

(for {
user <- currentUser(...)
group <- groups.fetchForUser(...)
friend <- friendships.fetchFriend(...)
member <- groups.addMember(...)
} yield {
render(...)
}).recover {
case e: Exception -> ...
}
What are you using for backup? I have Arq (to Google) and Crashplan.
Yep, the Meredith Whitney effect. She made a correct call on large financial institutions facing trouble in 2007-2008, and then predicted a large number of municipal bond defaults. That second prediction is still waiting for the reality to catch up.
One strain? (L. paracasei L26)

I get five in my yogurt.
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Ethereum miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards to mines
>"It is fairly difficult to rent a halfway decent apartment under about 6000CNY (~1000USD)/month, many pay double that or m"

I'm guessing that $10K is supposed to be $1K US? Paying double that or more would put on par with places like NYC as well.

Is none of that new real estate for the rental market then? Usually when the demand dries up for purchase developers will put them on the market as rentals so they are at least generating income. I'm guessing this maybe just hasn't happened yet? Or maybe all those high rises are mostly commercial?
A Microsoft Channel 9 video on how to use XMING with Windows Subsystem for Linux:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/WinCoder/XMING--Bash-on-Ubun...

I think what they mean by "no current plans to support X/GUI apps" is that WSL itself doesn't include support for an X server but you can still go ahead and connect X applications to any running X server.
If apartments are so expensive shouldn't that drive more construction? I wonder why construction has slowed/stopped if the existing stock is renting at such high levels.
If your willing to pay MacBook prices I'd give Lenovo another look. The latest Carbon is just... a perfect laptop as far as I'm concerned.
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Online demo: https://gitalk.github.io/
Barely related, but what's with the whole "Creators Update"/"Fall Creators Update" thing?
It's not "Creator's Update," so I guess it's supposed to be targetting "Content Creators," right? But looking at the changes in these updates, I'm really not sure what's been added for any sort of content creator. Windows Movie Maker hasn't turned into Premiere, Paint hasn't turned into Photoshop, etc. So where the fuck does the name come from? And why not just name it with some Apple/Google-esque codename like Snow Leopard or Jellybean instead of making some half-baked marketing scheme?
You've made a fair observation, but being strictly correct in the naming, in this case, is probably not helpful for Microsoft or users.

"Windows Subsystem for Linux" sets an appropriate expectation with me (the user) that I will get an experience not dissimilar from installing a real Linux distribution of one sort or another. For Microsoft, it's simply the easiest way to market that idea in the product.

No matter how much someone like a Richard Stallman would like me to differentiate between Linux (the Kernel) and the large proportion of GNU utilities that are the common tools of a complete system, in practice I simply think of the whole lot as "Linux" and probably always will... regardless of how fair, important (or not), the distinction actually is. I expect there are many more who think like that than not.
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I live close enough and here's my observation.

There is a very large subgroup that doesn't regard these things as shameful. This often becomes the main group of people involved with drugs. And it keeps sucking them back in, sometimes when they would otherwise get and this is exactly the problem I'm talking about.
I use it for my own small startup + my work uses it as well. Couldn't recommend it hard enough. Elixir 1.5 (just released) improves Developer Experience and makes things a little easier to debug.

Highly recommended, but as always ignore the hype/recommendations and do your own research.
It's a cool robot, but auto-dialers are a known tool in safecracking.

Additionally, the safe in question seems to be a SentrySafe SF082CS, which caries NO security rating from UL. The lowest test rating, RSC, only requires the safe survive a 5 minute attack with hand tools.