skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the paper: "it uses a single neural network, rather
than separate policy and value networks ... it uses a simpler tree search that relies upon this
single neural network to evaluate positions and sample moves, without performing any MonteCarlo
rollouts. To achieve these results, we introduce a new reinforcement learning algorithm that
incorporates lookahead search inside the training loop, resulting in rapid improvement and precise
and stable learning."
BUT those are what you just did. You are just as guilty of what you were excusing of others. You just made MAJOR hundreds of millions of people's deaths and called all of these little.
The survey population for this study was American Mensa members. I'm not surprised they found "those in the Mensa community had considerably higher rates of varying disorders" but I suspect this has more to do with who joins Mensa rather than high IQ.

As noted by Scott Adams, "It turns out that the people who join Mensa and attend meetings are, on average, not successful titans of industry. They are instead – and I say this with great affection – huge losers. I was making $735 per month and I was like frickin’ Goldfinger in this crowd. We had a guy who was some sort of poet who hoped to one day start “writing some of them down.” We had people who were literally too smart to hold a job. The rest of the group dressed too much like street people to ever get past security for a job interview. And everyone was always available for meetings on weekend nights."
I've been using AWS Lambda for a few weeks now. Mostly for trivial things like tagging and infrastructure automation. I like it as it supports python. For what I'm doing I don't need any external libraries so it's pretty slick. No server to maintain, etc...

I'm struggling a bit to find event patterns that work in cloudwatch to trigger my lambda functions though. For instance when a volume becomes "available" I can't find an event pattern that triggers off of that, etc... If anyone has any tips or documentation you can point me to that would be awesome.
This. As a Maltese person who has been following her for a very long time it is frustrating to see the way in which she is being mischaracterised in the international media. She was well known in Malta for making false allegations, character assassinations, mocking people from what she considered to be a low social status, publishing revenge porn to humiliate people and so on.
That would be for you to demonstrate, but even if we accept it to be true for the sake of a discussion, it is not relevant, because there is no reason to believe a non-human intelligence would choose to accept those ethical percepts that humans would prefer.
I'm not sure about what's used in all industry applications, but this video explains one implementation of a super-cooling setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jT5rbE69ho.

I won't even try to summarise it - I'm sure I'd get it wrong! Fascinating stuff though.
Oh, so it's just not using rollouts to estimate the board position? Thanks for the clarification.
Very neat, congratulations for finishing a side project! As someone who recently switched from Dish Network to a mix of internet TV providers, I'm really struggling to keep track of which episodes of which shows I've seen. Before, I simply DVR'd all of the shows I was interested in, and if it was still on the DVR, that meant I hadn't watched it yet. So I could see something like this being quite useful to me. That said, I rarely have a computer around when I am watching TV. So for me, it is going to have to be strong on mobile to work. Looking forward to giving it a try!
Why is the US again responsible and having to be the world's police? This is why we're hated so much in the first place. Why aren't countries closer to the region, like China, helping?
IMO W3schools has some of the best development tutorials for beginners
Very interesting article, but there is an easy fix unlike the article claims. Many platforms (like facebook) won't allow you to use a data pool if there is less than 1000 users. I wasn't aware you could target specific device ids just by knowing a single id, but that seems like an obvious flaw in the system.

If dsp/exchanges just required 1k or 500 users be in a retargeting pool (or list of device ids) then this problem would be solved.

As for knowing how many users use a specific app in a location, that is an extremely fuzzy number and I doubt the accuracy of it. Almost no exchanges show you how many auctions you lost, so just finding out how many uniques you served to is flawed and much smaller than the real number.

> "This is so easy and it's industry-wide," says Tadayoshi Kohno

Maybe across the spying/intelligence industry, but advertisers don't care about individuals at all. This is an interesting experiment, but most platforms don't enable this type of tracking and no advertiser would ever need/want to do it.
At office I have

- Air humidifier

- Boose QC35

- 27 inch 4k monitor

- Mechanical keyboard

- Gaming mouspad + gaming mouse

- Huge desk

I seriously don't get why would anyone go to coffee shops to work. Seems totally counter-intuitive to me.

Staring at 13 inch screen without mouse and using not-so-good keyboard seems just waste of my time. Not to mention small tables they have there.
Totally fair :) Thanks for giving it a chance!

For my own use-case, I don't really need additional info about episodes, so I wanted to make it as easy as possible to mark stuff as watched (I designed this around the idea of "I have 1 thing I want to do, how can I make it fast and easy?").

I can totally see how it'd be surprising, though, when you click an episode in the backlog view expecting more info, and it disappears. Maybe I ought to use a different cursor...
What Happens When You Sell Your Startup?
The problem is that all the evidence we have basically points to no for 1, and we have a big lack of evidence for 2. Self-evolving software is a thing that exists and I studied over a decade ago, which was already decades old, and it has not resulted in super intelligence.
The latest AI can work things out without being taught
It's a moot point considering that in a slightly different world we'd be talking about the crimes of Raegan and some other US presidents in exactly the same way.

It's only a crime because a victor chose to label it so, a different victor would have labeled a different thing the crime, it's all quite arbitrary in the end.

Phillip K. Dicks The Man in the High Castle is a very interesting thought experiment in that regard.

As enjoyable and gripping as the Amazon show might be, having the same show set in our reality would mean you'd be rooting for a couple of Neo-Nazis trying to revive the Third Reich. Would such a show still be as enjoyable to us? I doubt it.
Really? Are these non-European languages that you're referring to, because many of the European languages have their own versions of the name Alexander for both men and women, so I'd imagine Alexa wouldn't cause too many issues.
It has func and var compiler hints, which I hate (just like in Swift). Its harder to read too (just like Swift).

I'll stick with Python.
The fact that they only used self play with no outside input here is really interesting. I wonder if this system produced more new styles of play. While I am not that familiar with Go, I know in some of the other articles they talk about things like Chinese starts that are specific to certain cultures. I wonder if the fact that it had no outside reinforcement made it produce movements that we have already seen that are somehow inherent to the game, or if it produced many more new moves that were a result of it learning without any possibility of cultural interference. According to the article it did invent some unconventional and creative moves, but I also wonder how much it rediscovered.

I also wonder how much it’s style of play changes if it were re trained, due to the random start that it is given. Maybe that would produce something like seeds for procedurally generated worlds in games. Like if they could find a seed for a Chinese or japanese players, or ones that more aggressive styles. This is some pretty cool work and may open up even more doors for pure reinforcement learning
Does this honestly surprise anybody? We are standing by as thousands are killed in the streets of Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, etc. Can we provide solutions to our murder problems at home, before turning attention abroad?
This is awesome! I really need this in my life.

Also: it's very pretty. Love it!
Was also wondering why this wasn't mentioned in the article.
NAZI = Nationalist

Kind of why McCain used the word in a negative manner this week.
By what mechanism do you assume that an understanding of human consciousness is going to lead to anything like ethical behavior, given the enormous counterexamples given by our own behavior? Plenty of humans kill other humans fully aware that they are humans.
I'd have thought things like that were better handled as a response header (same for the charset).
I wonder if it could be applied to SC2 (since they already started the research: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcra...)
Erlang makes me break out in facial twitches to this day.
Yes, but tree search + neural net is still pretty generic. It only assumes that you can enumerate branches.
A lot (all?) PGP-enabled smart cards (that I'm aware of) only work with RSA keys.
Because PHP is awesome, and so is Python.

Java and Go are terrible.

Simple as that.
So in terms of training, they went from nothing to "Go Singularity" in about a month? Impressive.
Yeah, truthfully the mobile side needs work. It's functional, but there are some CSS bugs, and some things (adding/managing shows) are kinda painful.

Thanks for the kind words :) hope it's useful!
This is addressed in detail in the article.

> the researchers suggest a variety of ways to obtain that MAID, including placing an "active-content" ad that uses javascript to pull the MAID from a phone at a certain location... MAIDs can also be intercepted by someone on the same Wi-Fi network as the target phone.

> "It’s not a particularly high bar to entry for a very, very highly targeted attack," says Adam Lee... A domestic abuser could, for instance, obtain a spouse's MAID... or a co-worker could do the same in the office... Or an ad buyer could use active-content ads to gather the MAIDs of the people at a specific location, like a protest, or users of a potentially sensitive app like gay-dating apps or religious apps...
I remember reading ages ago in Scientific American about a much more interesting (and useful) AI application of this technique.

Genetic algorithms were used to evolve new, more efficient variants of existing electronic circuits. I dug it up - it was: https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2003/02-01/#a...
Article "Evolving inventions". I have no idea if there is an open-access version anywhere.

As far as I remember, that approach led to some patents, because some of the inventions were better than existing solutions. One of the examples in the article was a low-pass filter (I dont remember if AI version was actually better or worse than human-made).

The essential element of this approach was that in electronics (as in go) there exist a well defined set of rules, that allows researchers to build a simulation engine with optimization/evaluation function that the AI targets by itself, without supervision. It's great to see that this approach is still alive, although in my humble opinion, application in electronics is much more interesting than Go.
I'm surprised. This is the type of thing that should fall within the Panda update cross hairs. Thin content, heavy ads - Google should by design be favouring pages that aren't shooting for cheap long tail hits.
I doubt we could in any way make the plight of the Rohingya worse by intervening, even with nothing more than peacekeeping forces to aid their migration out of Burma. They are being butchered on the run.
Unless humanity's level of ethics derive from our level of intelligence. In which case, our only complain would be that we're too stupid to understand its superior ethics.

The same way a dog might not understand the ethics of a doctor injecting life-saving medicine into it. The doctor is acting super ethically but cannot explain it to the dog.
Shogi is probably the closest historical game in terms of complexity to Go. Some of the larger variants might exceed Go's complexity if played with drops, though that's not normally done. And Go played on a 9x9 board (like standard Shogi) has a substantially lower state space complexity (and almost certainly lower by other measures as well.)

But shogi is much more obscure outside of Japan than go or chess, so it gets less interest, especially in the large-board variants.
Ignoring for a moment that the need for almost all of these "fragile security positions" is from our own doing.. invading the country isn't the only way.

How about we bring wide-spread international attention to it? What about pressuring Myanmar's neighbors to take a stand against it (sanctioning Myanmar's leadership)? For fuck's sake, what about providing support for refugees fleeing that situation?

I don't know which answer would work, nor did I claim to, FYI since you somehow think I said that, but doing absolutely nothing is probably not a great idea.
Your comment suggests no, you haven't learnt anything. Because the other side didn't murder half a million people.
> Its first flight comes three months before Concorde takes to the air.

So, a copy was rushed into testing before the original was ready. This could explain why there were flaws in the design...
Really depends on what one's definition of Socialism.

>Nazism rejected the Marxist concept of class conflict, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the "common good" and accept political interests as the main priority of economic organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

Take a look at Sweden when their policies were more Socialist skewed, the government in order to manage the P/L sheet for social welfare programs compelled political out groups to be sterilized[1]. Roma people were considered a "drain" on Swedish society and attempts to exterminate them were done much more quietly.

If any government starts to make value judgements about who is more valuable than whom, they will repeat these same errors.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sw...
It still uses MCTS as its search algorithm. It no longer uses random rollouts as part of the evaluation, though. (Previously it was rollouts/2 + value_network/2)
If you start getting into decently designed systems territory, you're still going to have trouble beating some of the stuff that comes out of the Python/Lisp/Node communities. For instance: https://magic.io/blog/asyncpg-1m-rows-from-postgres-to-pytho...

Anyway, if you're locally looping for hundreds/thousands of queries to the database, instead of writing one query or calling a stored procedure, you're probably doing things wrong.
I think the game subtly guides the players towards a investment-heavy strategy.

Also, there is a built-in safety net that saves you from crashes... Won't spoil it completely but you can most easily achieve it right after you start the game from blank slate.
First floating wind farm, built by offshore oil company, delivers electricity
They use to for a short time, I don't recall if they ever said why they removed the feature from google search itself. This extension came after they removed it.
You might want to re-read the post you're criticizing.
For me the most painful and infuriating example of this was The Hobbit trilogy.
For anyone who is looking for a smaller vi tutorial (vi is the predecessor of vim), or just to dip their toes into the water initially:

Here's a short free vi quickstart tutorial that I wrote a while ago:

https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick

With this tutorial you can learn some basics of vi (which is the predecessor of vi) and get up and running with it in an hour or two of practice. Learning vi commands (the subset that does not belong to vim as well) is useful because vi is probably more widely available than vim (since it is more lightweight and also comes installed by default with many Unix and Unix-like systems, and even some non-Unix-like systems. So, having vi skills in your toolkit, makes it possible for you to edit text files with ease on a very wide range of operating systems, without needing to learn a new editor for each one or every few ones.

I first created it for some colleagues of mine at a company where I worked earlier. They were Windows system administrators who had been given additional charge of a few Unix business server boxes. I wrote it at their request. They used the tutorial, and then told me it helped them to come up to speed with the basics of vi quickly, which helped them manage those Unix boxes.

I later published the tutorial in Linux For You magazine (now Open Source For You), an Indian print-format computer magazine.

Enjoy, and feel free to give me feedback via Gumroad or the email in my HN profile.
The Yonge/Finch area is pretty disappointing actually. The food quality is fairly low outside of a couple gems (in a sea of garbage). Random places around Markham are much better if Asian is your fancy.
Cool. The design is pretty slick, the calendar is currently not working for me. Nevertheless, here are some first impressions:

- When adding shows, why do I first have to select a show and then press "add show"? It would maybe make sense if I could continue searching and add multiple shows, but right now it seems like an unnecessary extra step.

- It would be nice to see some more information about each show. Even though I might remember the title of the show, there are some shows with similar titles, so that I'm not completely sure that I've selected the right one. Just a link to the IMDB page or something would be sufficient. Or maybe just the release year.
To some extent they are, but uprisings are often misrepresented as coups in retrospect. I have some radically different notions, but they're somewhat inchoate and trying to explain them in a long meandering comment would probably be a waste of my time and that of other readers - I feel like I'm a few years away from being able to generalize it, and realistically that's probably an underestimate.

As a very quick thumbnail, I'm trying to blend Integrated Information Theory, Selectorate Theory, the eusocial dynamics of colonial animals (including ourselves, per Wilson), and some probably-wrong ideas about meiosis (cell division) to come up with a biologically-rooted model of the collective action problem. Not being a professional scholar, there's little or no chance I'll ever weld these into a general theory of human social behavior, nor do I want to; I hope to intuit a good-enough grasp to deploy it within polities and rely on its fundamental harmony with nature as the least destructive method of manufacturing large-scale social change. It's probably a doomed endeavor but I'd rather fail at a hard problem :)
Somewhat related, from Chomsky:

"My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that: namely, I can do something about it. So even if the US was responsible for 2% of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2% I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of one’s actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences.

"It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century."
I totally mean it: Inflation never solved the flatness problem
That's pretty naive to say. Reagan killed (directly or indirectly) orders of magnitude fewer people than the dictators mentioned. Reagan also presided over and encouraged the advance of human civilization, while misguided fools like Mao and Pol Pot actively tried to dismantle modern civilization.

The differences are pretty clear, they are objective, and have very little to do with who won or lost.
> Maybe across the spying/intelligence industry, but advertisers don't care about individuals at all. This is an interesting experiment, but most platforms don't enable this type of tracking and no advertiser would ever need/want to do it.

I disagree. If a company selling an extremely expensive implementation of something could serve ads directly to only the decision makers in that type of product, it would be a very valuable target and absolutely worth pushing ads to a single individual.
I meant that tongue-in-cheek based on the "by playing games against itself" during training. Nonetheless, thanks for clarifying that in case it's unclear for others (and for the SGFs).
But a lot of consumer products use it, like cars. I would say it definitely cast doubt on customers' overall confidence on whether Made In Japan is worthy of its price
I go to coffee shops usually when I have to:

- just focus on some non coding task (presentation, report, or what ever)
- focus on a single problem
- code something from scratch

All those are slightly easier when I don't have a huge screen, or the fastest internet (or some barrier to using the internet), or the perfect chair.
A question for those who are irked at the "If you truly want to have money, you will." comment in the article. Where do you draw the line between circumstance and personal engagement?

I used to find those sort of comments naive. A big part of that was because of what I thought was a reasonable thought experiment. In particular if every person tomorrow was replaced with Elon Musk. What would happen? Well not a whole lot - you'd certainly have Elons flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets. After all it would be literally impossible for everybody to be the CEO and entrepreneur. And so if we can even Elon scrubbing toilets, how could it ever be reasonable to suggest that everybody could succeed if they just tried harder?

What changed my view has been life experience. Even if the number of individuals that can achieve great things is a sort of zero sum game, I don't think that the lack of possibility of success is the thing holding individuals back. What does seem to hold individuals back is them, for whatever reason, never seeming to understand what it takes to succeed. People will try to find a better job or whatever, but rarely will they try to independently monetize what skills they already have, or teach them skills with that goal in mind. That is not to say these people are lazy -- many will work themselves to the bone even when it's not really expected of them (the "overtime as a badge of honor" as the article phrases it), but it's like the idea of spending some of that energy to try to do their own thing is something that just doesn't seem to register with them.

And I think that's what this article is really hitting on, all be in an unintentionally less than tactful way. And I also think that's why there's about a million different derivatives of the quote from just as many successful individuals that 'doors don't open themselves.' And of course once you fail, which you will - try again. The advice is so ubiquitous that I think people no longer even think about the wisdom within. We can even go back to the one Shakespeare quote most every person knows: "To be, or not to be, that is the question."
> Alternative text: High All <img> have an alternative text which describe the image visually.

Please don't do that. Don't put an alt on ALL images. Screen readers will read all of them. Skin and flavour images don't deserve to be read outloud. Nobody wants to hear "bottom left corner of logo" or "rounded corner".