skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion is that it is a very long-term goal. Compare it to the autonomous car, getting the first 90% of a complete autonomous car is much easier than the last 10%. With AGI probably it is the same. Deep learning has got traction the last years, but we are almost using the same algorithms than 20 years ago, just in better hardware (plus some tweaks to make them work with bigger models). But I think we know almost nothing about how to achieve AGI. Just compare our deep learning models with the models we have from our brains, they are a subset of what we know about our brains. And I don't think we know a lot about our brains, but very little.
One reason is to use AddressSanitizers, ThreadSanitizers, static analysis and other tools clang and LLVM bring.
It shouldn't, but it seems like most of the smart devices being marketed do, apparently for remote monitoring and access to data.
Agreed! Even then though you still need to get it past the existing NIMBY population. I think buying them out via cash payments is really the only way to get existing NIMBYs on board with high density residential units which were not zoned when the bought into the community.

Basically the issue is that the developers are changing the rules of the game AFTER the existing NIMBYs bought into the community.
Yeah, but you can iterate on the gameplay before solving lag, locally.
Lower reliability.
His frustration with his trucks I bet it because they were powered by gas. Trucks should only be diesel you don't need horsepower (fast time to cover a distance) you need leverage aka torque.

A documentary on Sherman tanks amazed me because they were gas powered and when hit gasoline exploded. German tanks were powered by diesel. The US has hated diesel from day one it's amazing.

But electric has tons of torque by design it should be suitable. But I wonder if the horsepower can be dialed down for more range?
I've always loved iPod with buttons. The color display ipod nanos (4th gen) and iPod classic was good as it got. They still had physical buttons but allowed you to see album covers.

It was a great balance.

The iPod touches, by comparison, are not as good. What took a second to do, now took at least 3 seconds to do because you have to swipe to get into the interface, open up the music app, and then change the song.
C uses {} for arrays and this is written in C.
Exactly. For the knowlege they contain I'd bet they get the standard cost of living raise and will probably have to fill out some stupid self evaluation to justify even that.

It's only when the companies are going to loose that employee do they start trying everything to keep that employee. By then it's too late. Always reactive and never proactive seems to be the corporate motto these days.
As for the intellectual challenge, I really think Francois Chollet says it very well in his latest book: deep learning is a way to unpack, transpose, visualise and re-aggregate data fundamentals. We only need to master a bit of algebra and coding to make it happen on top of freeware wrappers like Keras and Anaconda, to say two. All the rest pertains to domain knowledge, ethics, politics and access to the hardware. Thanks Rachel and Jeremy for demystifying this field for the masses.
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I believe, though am not in a position to dig up a citation right now, that the spike in drug use you're referencing was also temporary, and that usage rates fell significantly, to well below the "baseline" level after that.

Assuming that's true, pointing out the spike, without also mentioning the drop is — at best — ignorant, if not deceitful.
We'll figure it out. Those who stand to benefit the most from AGI will want to keep their vast fortunes and lobby governments to figure out ways to keep the common man happy. Not to have every dream fulfilled, but just happy enough to not uprise. It's kinda always worked that way.
Not having to worry about language feature support across different compilers is a big win. See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/libyuv/issues/detail?id=685 for one specific example of why using Clang can have benefits over MSVC (TL;DR: 64-bit MSVC doesn't support inline assembly). Clang was already being used to compile this little part of Chrome on Win64.

Switching to Clang also allows the use of Clang-based sanitizers and fuzzing, which improves the security of Chrome.
That's exactly what I mean. Sometimes management doesn't understand what the documentation is supposed to look like or even the importance of it. They might not be aware of the complexity of their infrastructure that's been worked on by a single developer for a span of many years.
Sure, definition of "social network" is vague enough to allow for semantic massaging into any form anyone wants. The point is that this is not a necessarily a tool to keep up with your social network, but rather a work/collaboration tool. And there is very little competition among those.

I don't need to keep up with my "friends" and their statuses/photos/events/feeds, or "IM" back and forth with someone using cutesy emojis. I need to be able to hold conference calls with presentations displayed to all participants, or shared whiteboard to discuss some design. Stuff like that. And I want to be able to host all this outside of dirty paws of third party corporations and governments.

I'm of course disregarding the abysmal quality and stability of Ring, so all this is just academic anyway. :)
This is really cool!

I'd love to the idea to seek through the content. (Maybe through the parens keys?)

For me, it would ideally show a sentence (or x chars) both before and after. Or maybe a view similar to less?
Microsoft endorses and works on clang-cl, though I wouldn't say they give it as much attention as their own compiler. As for compatibility, I don't think it's a huge issue, if they never changed the compiler again, it would probably still generate working binaries for the next decade, including PDBs.
> just making more money doesn't magically fix the problem

Magically, no. With an effort yes. There are already experiments with basic pay for example.

Jeremy Rifkin books such as https://www.amazon.com/End-Work-Decline-Global-Post-Market/d... & 'Zero Marginal Cost' discuss the topic.
Realistically, though, an end user doesn't compile anything these days. If you build Chromium from source you're at least half interested in tinkering with it.
I would disagree, particularly when one's ideals cause them to tell themselves lies about reality. Which happens all the time.
> The idea of replacing human life with AI isn't exactly controversial in the realm of futurism.

It isn't in Science Fiction. But this is reality, and in this reality we do not have AGI and we have no idea of how far we are away from it. And even if and when it happens there is absolutely no guarantee that that will lead to the extinction of the human race and/or us ending up as slaves to the machine.
While this isn't a 1:1, the Trades are getting hit hard by this.

With the massive shifts in them(technology)you're losing the generation of TradesPeople that had both the old and new. And were able to draw off the old to work better in the new.

However there isn't the equipment/chance/time to spread that knowledge to the new Apprentices who only get to see the new without building a more solid foundation.
I guess the problem here is that Coinbase themselves might not have all the liquid BTC that their customers have, meaning they don’t necessarily have all the BCC to just give either?
In my experience, emulators are never quite the same as the real deal. Has anyone used this, and if so how was it?
finally I can remove the win32 specific code from all the open source software I maintain

not sure that was what Microsoft was going for though...
What do you know, someone's actually working on it now!

Last time I checked (a few months ago), the project had gone about 2.5 years with no releases, no public mailing list activity, and almost no non-trivial source code commits. Bug reports, whether trivial or show-stopping, were consistently ignored, e.g. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1485

It looks like some of the Ant contributors finally got around to picking up the project again a couple months ago. Here's hoping that they can get things back on track.
"Although Rorty’s polemical tone in his books and articles might suggest that he had a robust temperament, he was the opposite: gentle, shy, withdrawn, and sensitive."

His tone actually comes off as the latter to me. His work is intelligent but ultimately that of a weak pushover. I'm glad nobody is discussing this old-fashioned neoliberal. He was smart, but did not do what this writer seems to think he did.
Does anybody use this?
It's not an emulator
We don't have the luxury of designing humans from the ground up. Nor do we fully understand the structures underlying human motivation. Neither will be true (we expect) of AI, eventually.

It would be nice if there were some fundamental property of motivation that kept paperclip maximization from being an overriding goal of an intelligent entity, but we don't yet have particularly strong reasons to believe that this is the case.
It is not an emulator and the experience is pretty great for anything involving Linux as a workstation.

Even though they say "NO current plans to support X/GUI apps, desktops, servers, etc. at this time", this is achievable by installing VcXsrv.
investments into addressing mass unemployment and wealth inequality (both of which are well-documented to cause political instability)

I don't really expect to see this solved in the USA before it's solved in poorer countries. In the USA there's a tension between pleasing the millions of surplus workers and pleasing the top billionaires that'll be minted when robots can replace millions of workers. It's cheaper for the billionaires to buy legislatures than to endure higher taxes or weakened IP rights.

By way of contrast, there are no local power brokers whose fortunes are built on intellectual property in Bolivia or Bangladesh. It'll be 99% upside for populist politicians to just ignore American IP concerns and freely "pirate" machines-that-do-work and machines-that-make-those-machines. The long term solution to machines-do-all-the-useful-work isn't to tax the profits and redistribute them to unemployed people for spending anyway. That's just an elaborate historical-theme-park imitation of a 20th century economy. "Machines make all clothing, then we tax those machines and redistribute money to the people so they can buy the clothing." The better solution is widespread copying of the maker-machines and the dramatic price deflation that follows on everything they can make.
I’m not sure who you’re quoting but it’s not me. Also, you are the one making a strident assertion, you can’t really just say ‘none of us knows!’ when asked to support it.
I agree. The best way to subjugate a machine and prevent it from breaking out of its bounds is to create an artificial "universe" in which it "exists" with arbitrary restrictions and forces, much like the speed of light, gravity and magnetism and have it work on problems using individual workers in a "lifecycle" in which they have their own motivations and "lives" that they live out until they either solve the problem or "die" along the way.

Come to think of it...
Here's a hint as to why you might be having trouble:

http://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-comput...
I've worked in a lot of AI-related projects and was around when the AI winter arrived.

These various techniques that currently work by training, either supervised or self-training,
can have fatal flaws.

Take, for example, some high-tech camera technology. Use it on a drone to take pictures of warships from thousands of angles. You take pictures of U.S. warships, Russian warships, and Chinese warships. You achieve 100% accuracy of identifying each ship using some Neural Net technology.

One day this net decides that an approaching warship is Chinese and sinks it. But it turns out to be a U.S. warship. Clearly a mistake was made. Deep investigation reveals that what the Neural Network "learned" happened to be related to the area of the ocean, based on sunlight details, rather than the shape of the warship or other features. Since the Chinese ships were photographed in Chinese waters, and the U.S. warship that was sunk was IN those waters at the moment, the Neural Net worked perfectly.

Recognition and action are only part of the intelligence problem. Analysis is also needed.
Ok, I'll bite. Can you list several things that are vastly more likely to lead to the complete extinction of the human race (I'll assume that's what you meant by "destroy humanity") than malicious AGI?
> No, we don't. I haven't seen a computer that I couldn't power off yet, SF movies to the contrary.

Ok. Turn off the computer systems that control Russia's nuclear weapons delivery systems. I'm waiting.
Exactly-once or not, atomic broadcast is still impossible in Kafka
> it has no business doing random tampering like intercepting logins and DNS requests and renaming device nodes

I agree with the resolving DNS requests complaint, wasn't aware of that to be honest. That actually does seem somewhat odd.

However the other two make sense, systemd is used to init your system. Supporting login functionality as well as mounting and managing devices through udev (which supports renaming devices, as you said) doesn't seem too odd to me.

> Breaking "nohup foo & logout" is shockingly inappropriate;

Can you explain this to me? I never heard about this and my googlefu isn't returning anything fruitful.

> end users should never ever care how an admin may have booted the system much less have to know how to interact with it!

Unless you have an advanced user running `systemctl --user` or trying to check logs then I highly doubt the average user will need to know which init system you are using. For the most part, if you are just using your computer as a facebook/youtube/netflix machine then you probably don't care about the init system your computer is using (which I suspect describes 75% of users), assuming you even know what an init system is.
The more things change, they more they stay the same. Last time, this was called OData.
>By any chance, do you know what the rationale for this change is?

No I tried to pose the same question recently on the forum but it's locked down for new users. At best it has something to do with recent litigation. At worst they're being hypocritical and seeking that sweet ad dollar. I agree that the current situation is only marginally better than the status quo.
There was a post with some technical details on Agar.io a while ago back when it was released (>2 years ago). A year after Agar.io I made Diep.io, which is also fairly successful (but not nearly as crazy as agar.io), so that points to it not being completely based on luck :)

I just make what feels fun. For a perspective on development cycle: the initial version of Agar.io took 1 week, while Diep.io took less than a month too (it was released a lot more polished than agar.io). Of course, they continued receiving updates for months, but the initial version was already fun.

While the initial version for both games was coded fairly quick, there were months of thinking about them before I even started coding, and from beginning of development to first version the gameplay plans didn't change.
Depends on your software - it doesn't get you integration with other Win32 apps or features, notably the GUI, since it's a separate subsystem. If your app is a database server, probably yes. If your app is a monitoring agent, definitely no.

(I'm curious if you've used it or you're just commenting based on the headline?)
Reader view in Firefox wants to be your friend.
Perhaps emulator was a poor descriptor in this case -- I haven't used it. But it is running a subset of functionality non-natively, correct?
It's not really an emulator. It's more like a virtual machine that runs Linux in the background and lets you use the commands. You can install Ubuntu with it and it's officially supported. If it didn't work, I'm sure Ubuntu wouldn't run.
Random search is 10x slower now, and can never be better than that. Also, the ES paper you refer to is still reinforcement learning. This is like comparing neural networks to SIFT+SVM in the 90s. Sure, the SVM performs better, but maybe investing more in complicated models would eventually lead to better results?
Probably my favorite project I've done in the past few years. I managed to snag a mint condition 5th generation iPod (later called "Classic") and put 4 x 128GB microSD cards in it, with an expanded battery. Perfect for flights. Once the price of 256gb cards goes down I'll make another to get close to 1TB.
>but basically until Stox proves that it isn't a security, then securities regulations apply

That's not how it works.
Now you're being (even more) silly. Obviously I can't turn that one off any more than I can turn off the refrigerator downstairs from where I'm sitting. But there are people there that can turn it off, and if I was physically present there then I could turn it off.
> Appeal to authority.

??? I just gave you a ton of arguments you can read through.

You want me to copy-paste them here?

Ultimately, your "arguments" are refuted with a simple "There's zero reason to be afraid of what you're afraid of".
It works great for me. Like others have mentioned, it's not an emulator, so I don't feel sandboxed using it. The main downside is one of the caveats they mention: "Linux files are NOT accessible from Windows." Hopefully they can fix this in the future.
BUT WHERE IS THE SUSHI?
I do, for Ruby/Sinatra development, it works very good.
The price floor worked as intended. It meant that those who wanted to get their money out had ample time to do so, and the result was Bancor effectively returning a large chunk of the ETH sent to it.
I don't think Elixir has production-level support for gRPC which is a bit of a deal-breaker for me.
Sure, and as someone who owns an older model, this feature (as I'm learning about it today) actually sounds compelling for my particular use case. But I also put covers/tape over my webcams. So sure, privacy concerns are all relative.

However, in this case, I still cannot understand all the negativity still being directed toward iRobot. We know data they're collecting, we know why they're collecting it, and uploading mapping data is opt-in. If any of these things concerns you, can you just not buy it and move on?
I've been using it every single day since it was announced. It's pretty nice. There are compatibility issues with some programs (mainly networking and a couple weird syscalls), but for 90+% of things, I've had no issues.
It works frighteningly well; it's practically magic how well it works. I've even used it run GUI apps (mostly emulators for embedded software) via a Win32 X client.

In early builds I did have some file system weirdness but I believe that's all be resolved now. I expect the creators update will be a very solid version.
Uh oh, I have been putting a lot of effort embedding Chromium with Qt (which does not AFAIK have a clang build). I am afraid this is really going to slow me down. I wonder how this will harm other developers using CEF [0] w/ MSVC.

0 - https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef

Edit: Now that I think about it, the Qt stuff is all in shared libs, so less worried there. But with CEF, the C++ wrapper is statically linked. What is MSVC's linker's ability to consume clang objs and vice versa I wonder. If not an issue, maybe I'm just fine.
>How anyone can think that stronger penalties are going to solve the problem escapes me

I was referring to Fentanyl-laced heroin.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fentanyl-traf...

It most certainly does make sense to have stronger penalties for dealing drugs that have a high chance of killing people due to being laced with fentanyl. Otherwise it's like having the same penalty for a shoplifter as for an armed robber.
Not true. You can subscribe to the IPO through any major broker.
If I can send e-mail from my computer, I will. My phone is for those rare times where I have a pressing need to e-mail someone, but don't have any other way to do it.

I could see some use in smart-home devices to do things that "always" need done, and that don't need a connection outside of the home. Like "if anyone's home, keep it between 65 and 80 degrees, depending on humidity and delta with the outdoor temperature".

But I've never seen an example of something that I'd call anything more than a minor convenience, at best. Will I use it when it's ubiquitous in society? Meh, probably. But I don't feel the same excitement about it that others seem to.
Thanks for the clarification. I guess I'm having a hard time classifying it, since you can use an actual VM but this seems like something less than that.
Alot of stuff works great. I had a pretty high functioning dev environment. Hit snags when I tried to interact with the hardware. Like for setting up VPNs or networking tools. I think because it doesn't manage the hardware.
From what I understand it's mainly translating system calls. It's been described as being like a reverse WINE, hence everyone replying 'Not an Emulator' at you. :)
I'm not super familiar with Unity, but based on the satellite photos, I think Forrest Road 6015 will be traversable with a Class C; you should be able to find a fine place to came out there. You should call up the Prairie City Ranger District too, they'll know more local specifics than anything you can find online.
My cat wakes me up.
%AppData%\local\lxss\rootfs

Have fun
Well, he also has his stock in a company with a P/E ratio of 257.38, that's one very large bet. Cranking up earnings is clearly possible, but Amazon is also showing signs of imploding as for example people simply don't trust fulfilled by Amazon to mean anything.
How did you get a copy?
Can someone point to a decent X server for windows?
That's called 'data leakage'.

http://machinelearningmastery.com/data-leakage-machine-learn...
What it is is what BSDers call a "kernel personality". It's not a virtual machine; the Windows kernel just knows how to load Linux binaries and translate Linux system calls to the corresponding Windows calls.
I thought it was the typical approach for identifying email spam. Has that changed?
I agree. When someone moves to a small town by choice there is nothing wrong with wanting it to remain similar as longs the majority of residents like it that way.

There are many new residents to San Francisco that also prefer living there over places like Manhattan precisely because they enjoy open spaces and non-overbearing buildings. Suppose these new tech employees finally convince housing changes and get some condo buildings put in place of the single residence structures. Fast forward 50 years and now the newest generation that wants to move to the city asks these condo building to be replaced with Tokyo style super dense micro-apartment buildings. Those condo owning old-timers might resist that, no?

And yes, I too fail to see the need for the centralized tech hubs that created this dynamic. Spread it out or build new hubs where land is cheap.
Resolution Demo
Ignores citations supporting the point he's arguing against? Check. Fails to provide citations supporting his own argument? Check. Excerpts individual lines of a comment to argue against a point that wasn't being made. Check.

Congratulation, sir, I humbly admit to being trolled. With a little improvement, you might convince me you're human and pass your eponymous test.

Anyways, I'm done arguing events and facts I experienced first hand with someone so intent on ignoring what actually happened.