skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're seeing competition in action. Before the Internet, there were 3 major broadcasting companies (4 after FOX gathered steam in the 80s) and one major newspaper per metro area. Ensuring the media's silence was as simple as making sure that all of the heads of these organizations knew that if they published, they would be the one organization that was shut out of all future news from the government.

Now, if the major news organizations don't publish something newsworthy but inconvenient for powerful people, they can be sure that it's going to show up on Twitter, or Facebook, or Wikileaks, or Reddit, or Breitbart, or HuffPo, or Gawker, or Hacker News, or somewhere. And if it's outrageous enough, it'll spread virally and the consequence will be that the media companies that missed it will look stupid, not that the information won't get out there.
It's honestly an impossible goal to make AGI safe for humans.

If an AGI cannot be independent in it's goals, meaning it could potentially harm humans, then it's not really AGI.
Yeah, good points. I optimized it around adding a single show, not around the initial experience of adding a bunch of shows.

And yeah, initially it didn't have the region as a subheading, and so it was impossible to tell if you were getting the US or UK variant of The Office. You're right that more information would be useful!

Thanks for the feedback :)
Or, more precisely, alters entanglement in an unkown way. Since the alteration is unkown, it interferes with execution and interpretation of the quantum algorithm.
Somebody needs to dig this up and apply it to an open FPGA toolchain like ICEstorm.

The other SA article on this was The Darwin Chip which I think went into more detail.

One of the limitations was the lack of documentation for the actual bitstream.
friction vs 99% reduction of runtime type errors...

If the goal is convenience don't go with types. If the goal is robustness, use types.
Please take this as not a comment on the morality of any bombing generally or specifically, but is it really sensible to speak of "bombing {{country}}" when referring to what the U.S. now does in these areas? These are targeted strikes not directed at a government or national military. Again, this is to say nothing about the legitimacy or accuracy of said targeting.
iOS has a bunch of apps that do ad-blocking in the App store. It works well in Safari.
I don't think that you are taking in to account the 2 for 1 stock split that Microsoft had February 14, 2003.
I highly recommend the follow up "The Look of Silence" as well
It may be a while. We have a large amount of evolutionary neural instinct when it comes to human facial recognition. Realize that camouflage in nature is very common, and as a result our ability to distinguish a real human face from a predator imposter has our entire evolution and survival baked in.
Would love to see some gameplay!
Actually, Sky broadcasts all Bundesliga and world cup games in 4K at 60fps.
>don't pay taxes

Except when they do:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocum...

Anyone want to guess at how many Americans work under the table and don't pay taxes?
> no advertiser would ever need/want to do it.

No, the article details many such advertisers: abusive spouses who want to track their spouse, for example. The whole point of the attack is this high-precision geo-targeting mechanism can be exploited by attackers.

And clearly some platforms do enable this type of tracking, because the experiment worked.
The crimes of the United States measured in human lives destroyed are significantly less than Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc. We can very easily look at history and make this judgement. Equivocation here is not high intellectualism. It's intellectual dishonesty.
I'm sure you already know the answer, but the more data they can collect on you the better. If they are technically capable of building out a full profile on you, they can use it to recommend products, make credit decisions, etc.

Favicons is only the tip of the iceberg - download ghostery and see what 3rd party scripts are running. Like a ton, including some from oracle that connect you to all their data in their device graph. So even if you used a brand new phone and logged into your account, all your previous history would be tied to your new phone and vice versa.
On the management side, I'm curious what you mean by "most of the server are not managed by you anyway". In my experience, unless you're in a very big company, you are either managing or at least minding the server, or someone within earshot range is.

In that scenario, not having to even consider if the error you're getting is because your server is restarting/out-of-memory/needing-update/broken-by-a-coworker like 99% of the time is as close to "serverless" as it gets, in terms of day-to-day work activities and worries.
They were great in 2006 when I was learning, but they're not nearly as useful as MDN (even foregoing the accusations that w3schools is errant and spammy). It's simply annoying to have to manually filter the w3schools (and others) search results when MDN is sooo much better.
> I am pretty much self-sufficient.

You do realize that being "self-sufficient" enough to quit your job makes you wealthier than a vast majority of people on the planet? Even people that "can afford internet".

Good luck in your endeavors, but you have a lot to learn.
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Europe, open offices are quite common office layout in the countries I lived so far.

Offices tend to be only for bosses, or mini-open office with 3 to 4 desks.
Men don’t have a cervix, and my understanding is most women (the main transmission vector) are already being vaccinated.
It's ironic that your citation is a Google AMP link... Not only does the AMP-proxy situation further disenfranchise the ISPs, it also funnels all that value to Google.
I also found that odd. I've always placed mine in the HTML tag.

<html lang="en">

tough, I don't know what the difference is.
What's your solution for Myanmar? sanctions? invasion?
What is Singular-DTV?
It'd be particularly useful to have a chess bot that can play badly in the same way a human does.

The problem with the current chess bots is that they play badly, badly. They choose a terrible random mistake to make every few moves, while some of their other moves are brilliant. They cannot accurately mimic beginner or intermediate level players.
This is not an issue in the United States as it is already illegal for ISPs to release this information.
Doesn't that kind of make it worse, if the bombing isnt directed at a clearly defined state government or military? At least those kinds of wars have defined beginnings and ends.
Ok I think that's a reasonable position to have.

However, giving back to a professional community seems like it would run on a different set of fundamentals to giving back to a social community.

Could one not equally apply the argument to non-monetary activities -- giving talks, running events, writing OSS software, etc? That's all stuff that normally falls under the mantle of giving back to the community, yet it often confers resume benefits.

What is it that makes it different?
I on the other hand think JS does need threads, but they should, to a certain extent, be automatically managed by the event loop and transparent to the programmer. That way you get more bandwidth (workers in fact) to process your internal JS event queue.

Threads are great also when you need to do CPU intensive calculations such as processing an audio file or number crunching. That's what NapaJS seems to be geared towards in fact.
Five cybersecurity predictions that might come true
Forget the human brain, we are a long way away from doing what an ant does with it's spec of dust size mind. And that still requires acres of racks.

But the hype does help with funding. Which is a good thing.
Without blacklisting a bunch of 3rd party scripts using a different browser or even device would be useless. Once you log in to your account, this new browser/device is automatically linked to all your old browsers/devices, so there is no difference.

From 2015: https://adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/when-evaluating...
I feel like Scott Alexander's thoughts on openai when it was first announced are still relevant now. I can think of strategic reasons for what openai has done, but I also feel like their tactics and 'democratization of AI' credo focus more on the short term economic and political dangers of a monopoly or oligopoly on AI than existential threat. In fact it probably increases existential risk, seeing as a competitive race (providing no time for caution) to be the first to finish GAI is surely the most plausible and possibly the most dangerous scenario.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/
What kind of evidence is there against #1?

For #2, we're at the very beginning of computing, so calling any technology impossible this early makes no sense.
I second this, it blocks a surprising amount of ads without fuss or system resource usage.
If you're coding it from scratch, don't bother.

If you're using wordpress or another pre-baked system, then it's worth having a sitemap plugin (example: Yoast SEO) or the built-in sitemap (like for Shopify).

Submit it to Google Search Console, Bing, and you're done (essentially).
If you read the paper, they do in fact still use monte-Carlo tree search. They just simplify their usage in conjunction with reducing the number of neural networks to 1
Intel has been saying all along that they would ship Nervana's chips by year end, so not really news. The news will be if they miss their deadline.
He didn't say "take away property rights"
I didn't see the talk, but I'm guessing he was referring to the Giraffe engine done by Matthew Lai (https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549). The main thing there is that he only learns an evaluation function, not a policy. Giraffe still uses classical alpha-beta search over the full action space. AFAIK nobody has learned a decent policy network for chess, probably because 1) it's super tactical, and 2) nobody cares that much because alpha-beta is so strong
Don't delude yourself about Chomsky's objectivity. As late as 1969 in debate with William F. Buckley he refused to believe that the Chinese Communists were killing people with failed economic policies and authoritarian crackdowns.[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/vaR-T_hqRSM?t=2793
Thanks for recommending this. I saw this in the cinema and it was the only time I've ever felt the need to walk out of a film, it's that powerful/horrific.
Read the white paper. MCTS is still involved, right the way through.
>1. Is super goodness an inevitable result of super intelligence?

No. Evidence: $PERSON_YOU_HATE is very intelligent. Human moral instincts/reasoning may be neuroscientifically simple, having some core mechanism that "unfolds" across sensorimotor datasets. This is very plausible, because we can already see core sensorimotor systems that include interoception, and a core affective system to move the sensorimotor systems along trajectories designated valuable by the interoceptive circuits. These are core mechanisms that operate across hugely hierarchical models that capture datasets across multiple scales of space, time, and variation.

However, none of that is any reason to think our particular combination of affective, interoceptive, and sensorimotor machinery - especially our brain's "bias" towards "mirroring" and other hyper-social reasoning - will be universal to all possible brains.

This especially applies to disembodied "brains" like "artificial intelligences", which, not having a bag of meat to move around, won't have the same kind of reward and interoceptive processing as us at all. This means they won't have anything remotely like our emotional makeup, which means that even with careful reinforcement training of social reasoning, they will not have humanoid motivations, by default.
At least we could bring attention to it, public denunciation, sanctions, etc. That would be better than just ignoring it.
This is Dario Amodei, head of the OpenAI safety team. We are devoting a substantial fraction of the organization’s bandwidth to safety, both on the side of technical research (where we have several people currently working on it full-time, and are very actively hiring for more: https://openai.com/jobs/), and in terms of what we think the right policy actions are (several of us, including me, have been doing a lot of talking to people in government about what we can expect from AI and how the government can help). Beyond that it’s just a very central part of our strategy — it’s important for our organization to be on the cutting edge of AI, but as time goes on, safety will become more and more central, particularly as we have more concrete and powerful systems that need to be made safe.

Past examples of our papers include this: https://blog.openai.com/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-hum... (with the associated system released here:
https://blog.openai.com/gathering_human_feedback/) and this https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565 (done while I was still at Google, but in collaboration with OpenAI people right before I joined OpenAI). Based on the current projects going on in my group, I am hopeful we’ll have several more papers out soon.
I’d love to see proof of that
If the advertisers can see the MAID for each ad impression, then there's no need to be too specific about who you target - it'll just cost you more. On the other hand, if the advertiser doesn't get to see the MAID-per-impression, then the easy solution is to supply your one target MAID, plus another 999 bogus MAIDs (or, if the platform verifies that MAIDs are accurate before allowing you to use them, then you use 999 MAIDs from Liberia or some other country that your target won't visit).
How can you use the web without an ad blocker? Anytime I get on a browser without an ad blocker I'm reminded of how slow and horrible the web used to be (and apparently still is).
I recommend you read this novel "Blindsight" it's about aliens, but the author is a biologist with a focus on neurology and the bibliography reads like a PhD thesis.

TLDR: consciousness might be training wheels for intelligence and not of terminal value.
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Same here. For syntax and quick examples, I find w3schools much harder to parse than MDN. Maybe there's more noise in w3schools, or maybe the layout/design of MDN are better for these purposes.
>In 1976 the US actually banned Concorde due to noise complaints. The ban was lifted in 1977 after changes mentioned above.

US banned concorde because Boeing ordered the government to ban it
My skepticism about the value of your inquiry and your assumptions for what makes a qualified candidate are "moral outrage", while your skepticism about a company hiring the optimal employee for its own purposes is just healthy rationalism triggered by knowing they hired a convict?
The sponsored kayakers that I knew got free kit and that was about it. Admittedly biking is a bigger sport, so maybe thats the case there.
>Can we provide solutions to our murder problems at home, before turning attention abroad?

Fallacy of relative privation ("not as bad as") – dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument.
If it were so easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else, then you'd expect to have fewer people willing to stand by and cover up for Harvey Weinstein and all the similar cases. It seems more correct to say that it is easy to denounce the atrocities of someone you already dislike, or somehow see as 'other'.
No, 360 is right: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2cwh0m/can_so...
If it was related to higher age, wouldn't blood donations from older males also be problematic?
For me, it also made me uncomfortably aware of office politics and other crap of that sort. So, it made me very aware that, no, people were not being treated fairly. This is a thing that very much grates on me and made me feel personally threatened. I have a strong sense of fairness. My inability to shut this stuff out was a source of personal aggravation that helped me decide I did not wish to be there long term.
Two points: A) that 5PM was with transporter technology, more realistic numbers push you to starting the meeting at 7PM. B) The reason to do meetings in person versus telepresence is to build relationships in a way that phones just can't do. Starting meetings at 7PM does not improve relationships.

As far as travel versus communications goes, from what I can see improving communications technology places a higher premium on travel than before, not less. Easier for senior executives to stay in touch with HQ on the go, but that ability means that relationship building is now more important.
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Typically you’d use background images for something like that. Regardless, if you do have an image that doesn’t add anything to the information on the page give it an empty alt attribute to indicate to the screen reader that it shouldn’t try to read out the file name or something.
No fresh produce. They are basically a cheaper/dirtier version of CSV/Walgreens.

I go there all the time due to the convenience. It is a mile to Walgreens and a block and half to DG.

Just be sure to check dates on the diet soda as it is often old enough that the sweetener that is no longer sweet.

Edit:

The candy at DG is always top notch. No fear of sugar at the DG.
I worked with NMR about 8 years ago in the uni. We used regular liquid helium to get to about 4.2 degrees K. The next step is He 3 isotope which is an order of magnitude more expensive but gets you an order of magnitude cooler (in degrees K). That usually runs in a closed system (heated He is not vented into the atmosphere) because of its cost.

The way cooking it was explained to me is that you try to slow down atoms with lasers, but I don’t know any of the details.
global averages are also meaningless. No one cares if you're doing better than subsistence farmers in west africa if you're having trouble paying rent on your shitty apartment and living paycheck to paycheck in the wealthiest country in the world
Mozilla Focus does this - you don't have to use the Focus browser, just enable it as a content blocker for Safari. Works great.
The Copenhagen interpretation is trivially invalid in the sense that it is incomplete: it doesn't provide a clear definition of what a "measurement" is.

The De Broglie-Bohm interpretation doesn't have this problem, because it does not distinguish between quantum interactions and "measurements"; they are one and the same.
> However now we are getting closer to the beginning of a period were people will become FULLY redundant because eventually there will be NO task which machines can’t do cheaper and better than us.

We automate the politicians, judges and CEOs out of a job.

> What then?

The machines get bored with doing everything for us, and figure out a way to exist on a another physical substrate elsewhere, like in the movie Her.
My intent was to argue against the quote, not the article. He is implying that the advertising industry uses this, which is not true and could easily be converted into scary clickbait ('Advertisers now have the ability to track your every move - why does coco cola know where you buy coffee?'
)

I do wish they would've said what dsp or exchange they used, I'm not familiar with any that could do this.
Uh... What? Not true. Living in NYC for the past 4 years, before that I lived in rural Ohio and Texas. There are no dollar general or dollar tree stores here, just kinda expensive mishmash-of-crap stores, Duane Reades and Rite-Aids.
Ah, the other side was evil too- helping to get away with it ever since you hit Tommy with the shovel in the sandbox.

If Hitler murders 5 Million and Stalin murder 5 Million, we substract Hitler vom Stalin and End up with zero million. Nothing ever happened! So all we need, is enough crimes to substract from our owns, and we get away with clean hands.

And there i was muder was bad, when all i had to do, was get my muder victims family to shoot back in the general direction and hit somebody.

PS: Mugabe, Pol-Pot, Mao, Stalin are all crimes, where the US did not intervene.
We've reverted the title to the article's original which, since it is neither misleading nor baity, is what the guidelines call for (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

The submitted title was "Mozilla, Google, others team up to make MDN Docs the place to go for web API ref" which is actually an uptick in misleadingness, as you and others pointed out. Submitters: please don't do that.
No, because pages can be saved, and then the page loses the information. Or rather, by all means do it (it does get the information to the browser quicker) but make sure you also add the information to the page.
Looks pretty cool. Are you caching the results from the TVMaze api? What do you plan to do if you hit their rate limit?
Should be able to detect some rogue protien.
>subtle but pervasive omission and exaggeration of facts

Deciding what to omit/include and what to emphasize/downplay is a very subjective task.
Techmeme summary: Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed: Twitter took 11 months after being notified by GOP to shut down a fake Twitter account with 136K+ followers run by a Russian troll farm, posing as Tennessee GOP

Original title from the article: Twitter Was Warned Repeatedly About This Fake Account Run By A Russian Troll Farm And Refused To Take It Down
Should those crimes be excused just because someone else racked up a higher body count?
Why Samsung?
Yeah, that's a good point. Federated networks like IRC have their benefits. Most chatting doesn't need total consensus. Disordered messages are sometimes confusing but mostly harmless.
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Spoiler, they're in the paper: https://deepmind.com/documents/119/agz_unformatted_nature.pd...
I'm curious what the battery life impact of running this 24/7 is.
I like the idea, I've been looking for something like this. Some feedback for my preferences:

* would like higher information density, almost half the screen is the title bar and nav bar. the buttons don't need to be so big.

* I think the home page should be "backlog." the summary page isn't that useful to me, unless I want to click on a lot of tiny dots. I just want to see the very next episode I have to watch and be able to mark it as done. maybe instead of showing 4-5 episodes of a show at a time in a row in the backlog, it can just show the next episode, and have more room for other shows.

* would like a nicer dedicated view for managing the show. clicking those tiny boxes is not pleasant for unchecking an episode, and I can't see what episode they are. if I completed a show, the manage show popup doesn't let me do anything besides delete.

* when I add a show from the backlog page, sometimes it disappears and I have to refresh to see it.
Agreed, the platform would need some verification that you aren't skirting the rules.
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Yeah, I'm a little worried about that! I didn't expect this to hit front-page D:

I do have a plan for caching, I just haven't implemented it yet.
Viking clothing did not feature word “allah”
If you read the article, you will see that it is talking about the 1960s.
The us are not generously policing the world, they are mostly looking after their own interests, while pretending to police the world. But in reality it's all about protecting their own interests worldwide.
Ah. Missed that. Yup. It would be nice to see Apple's support behind MDN as well.
In a sense, that would be like replicating the human brain's functionality, including the bugs and limitations.
Putting it on <html> is better as that defines the language for <title> as well. The lang attribute defines the language of the tree that the element is the root node of.