skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering, given a random truth-table with N binary variables and 1 binary output, what is (worst case) the smallest network that can learn it? (In terms of number of parameters).
I get where you're coming from with that analogy, but there is probably a better way to put it. Circuit simulation is a long-time application of computers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE).
> I can't help but imagine the same situation with Google or Microsoft as the party at fault

Well, check out the response to the Google Home Mini, where they had to disable the activation button in firmware because some units were constantly activating.
There is a significant difference between 'thought of' and 'are'. In reality fb is not essential to anyone's life, merely by the fact that you need a computing device connected to the internet to access it. If you have internet access you have other means to communicate with people that are not reliant on fb. There is no way in the near term that fb will be governed as a utility, and I believe doing so is more harmful than not because that will only force fb to exist in the future with government protection vs letting the market determine if a new/better/different social network can arise.
"No check, no tech." is something I use often.
I am not trying to be noble, just trying to change things where I live for the better (I am not in SV, I am in Australia).

When I started there were zero angel investors and next to zero VCs. Things have got a lot better, but we still have a long way to go.
Is AlphaGo Zero the first Go program without special code to read ladders? I'm curious how a pure neural net can read them, given how non-local they are.
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I use w3schools and MDN, both. w3schools improved a lot over the years, and it's easy to find something fast. MDN is more in depth. CanIuse.com is another very useful resource. Google should keep all three resources in the top results.
Not directly about US involvement, the documentary "The Act of Killing" is a must-see regarding individuals who participated in these events and their motivations.
Interesting. The manager at my open office position brought up how I didn't get up and talk to other team members enough. So I made an effort to have casual conversation with others during the day.....and got criticized for talking too much in my next one on one. That was likely just bad mentoring but it opened my eyes as to how someone across a large room, ironically in an office, was presumably able to monitor my activity from afar all day long.
Well, that's a good rationale. That's indeed a good reason to look into Go.
Maybe our primate brains are primitive, or maybe they are infected with a kind of disease that will result in the eradication of our species. Certainly if we observed self-extinctive behavior in the wild, we would classify it as a behavioral anomaly and perhaps even try to fix it, like we do with the pandas who refuse to reproduce.

But more generally, of the two ways of seeing it, who's to say which is right? When we disagree, to what can you appeal?

My point is, these moral questions are completely arbitrary. There is no grand cosmic objective function for life that is objectively true. Using these quasi-religious arguments about the "purpose of life" to guide AI safety research seems extremely irresponsible.
In addition to that list, there are the physical issues of film and optical devices. CGI can just work around them, but with film and lenses, physics still gets yah. For reference (http://www.quadibloc.com/science/opt0505.htm) the first order optical issues with all systems are:

> Spherical Aberration: this is the aberration affecting rays from a point on the optical axis; because rays from this point going out in different directions pass through different parts of the lens, then, if the lens is spherical, or otherwise not the exact shape needed to bring them all to a focus, then these rays will not all be focused at the same point on the other side of the lens. Essentially, lenses are spherical, they need to be parabolic but that is very expensive.

> Coma: this aberration affects rays from points off the optical axis. If spherical aberration is eliminated, different parts of the lens bring rays from the axis to the same focus. But the place where the image of an off-axis point is formed may still change when different parts of the lens are considered. Essentially, your lens may not be flat compared to the film.

> Astigmatism: this is another aberration affecting rays from a point off the optical axis. These rays, as they head through the lens to the point in the image where they will be focused, pass through a lens that is, from their perspective, tilted. Even if neither spherical aberration nor coma prevents them from coming to a sharp focus, if we consider the rays of light that are in the plane of the tilt, and the rays of light that are in the plane perpendicular to that, these rays pass through a part of the lens with a different profile. So they may not be focused at the same distance from the lens, even if they do come to a focus in each case. Essentially, lenses aren't perfectly spherical and may have a more cylindrical portion.

> Curvature of Field: even when light from every point in the object is brought to a sharp focus, the points at which they are brought into focus might lie on a curved surface instead of a flat plane. Essentially, lenses are round, and film is flat.

> Chromatic aberration: Essentially, red light focuses at a different distance than blue. This is the reason for rainbows.
Math research shares those qualities, except small input size if you include the body of all the already-known theorems as an input. I don't know if we'll see much smarter proof assistants soon, but it doesn't seem absurd to me as a possible development.
That's just refuting my point by stating the opposite. In fact jetliners don't really improve like you posit. Boeing's own high tech superplane (in a different market segment) is in fact only a "mildly significant" improvement over the 767 that it most directly replaces. In fact the 767 remains in production because existing operators don't want to switch to the 787 yet: the cost of running a mixed fleet is higher than the efficiency savings of the new jet.

That's the kind of market Bombardier was aiming at. And it's a bad bet, protectionism or no. It's very likely this plane would have failed regardless.
>The tempers of democracy are dangerous, so we put some things beyond its reach, unless extraordinary consensus is found to change that set of things

I understand the notion, but who determines what those things are though? And who judges that/those persons? Who says those things that "need extraordinary consensus" to change are indeed good and should be kept difficult to change?

Slavery took a civil war to change, and it could just as well have been noted down as one of those "things beyond its reach". Would that be ok?

Or, for an recent example, that some consider a bad thing but still requires "extraordinary consensus": private gun ownership.

>McCarthy and his ilk could shame people all he wanted, but they weren't able to get people thrown in prison for allegedly believing in communism, because the Constitution doesn't allow it.

At various times in history you could have gotten bills through Congress declaring people guilty and authorizing their punishment without trial. Thankfully, the Constitution doesn't allow such things.

I'm not so sure. For the communists, for example, if they really wanted that (and merely FUD wasn't enough to thwart them) that could be achieved with some trivial technical re-definitions (e.g. from "believers in communism" to "traitors" and "collaborators with the enemy"), and few would bat an eye. Like with the Japanese-Americans during WWII.

But being able to declare people guilty without trial is usually not necessary except in the direst of dark rules -- if the decisions of trials fit the intents and prejudices of the ruling elites that's just as well. Most dictatorships for example also have trials. It's just that they make the laws and have the support of the judges.
> The only concept people struggle with is pointers, but even that is a very simple concept.

Recursion?
A huge part of how they are working towards safer AI is making the tools accessible to everyone. There code is open source, which helps democratize AI instead of keeping it in the hands of a few corporations. IMO, that's a pretty sound strategy.
I'm not sure about that, but this kit comes from the Lego Ideas suggestion created in January 2016.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/388ddbe3-2f0a-42fb-9f54-93bf...
> only the size of 50-gallon drums.

Wow. I could see something that size as per-workspace for specific use cases. Though what those use cases might be, I don't know. (Also, cost is probably the prohibitive factor right now...)

Still, I'd always imagined that quantum computers would start out as something that could only be done mainframe-like due to size. Perhaps not!
Maltese person here who has been following this journalist for a long time. The international reporting of this omits a lot of important information. It is far from certain that her assassination had a political motive. While I admired her for uncovering cases of corruption, she also had a very nasty streak, resorting to things like publishing revenge porn [1][2] and mocking women for the way the dressed [3]. A revenge motive completely unconnected to politics cannot be excluded.

I don't deny that the circumstances of the assassination are suspicious, and I also think a political motive is possible, but people are jumping to conclusions without waiting for evidence.

[1](https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/oh-look-whos-here-m...)

[2](https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/09/bottom-of-the-barre...)

[3](https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/09/hot-new-style-wroug...)
A very good question indeed!

I guess here the idea wast to politicize this "discovery". It backfired, now the crazies will say "See, these scientists have to make up facts,what else are they lying about!"

So I thought, if politicizing and PR was the main purpose, there are better example out there to pick from than Vikings as an example of a peace loving integrated society.
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Look at the red dots it places down. Two of the dots are within 1/8th of a mile. All of the dots are within 4 miles. 1/8th of a mile resolution is extreme and not IP level.
It does, during training.
It's phrased funnily, but it's not just an argument from incredulity.

I'm making a claim: that an entity with orders of magnitude more intelligence and knowledge would logically have a superset of our brain's functionality.

And that there's nothing magical about our brains. A super intelligence would crack the nut of human consciousness in its first attempt.
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As you noted, the rhetorical techniques they use are not in good faith.

Wow, project much? I don't see that argument made in his comments, nor is it evidenced in the comments of others. Considering that I drew attention to the authoritarian pitfalls of communism and their destruction of 'life, liberty and dignity' before you joined the thread, your complaints about systematic erasure are baseless. Perhaps you didn't bother reading the comments you were replying to; I hope not, since the alternative possibility is that you were engaged in deliberate mischaracterization.
I read that particles in the radiation belts have been observed with large concentrations in the in keV range, peaking into MeV range. Impacting particles from the sun can be orders of magnitude higher. https://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wenpart1.html
I feel like this thread got a little lost.

There's a difference between something being legal and being societally encouraged. The original article is about companies working actively to help groups. I think 'age of consent' people should be allowed to shout it from the street corner of their choice, but I don't believe we as a society have to then applaud or patronize people who make a business out of selling them bullhorns.

"Some people say" Google refusing to run your ads or host your site (which I guess we've now slipped to from 'sending employees to help grow your business') is censorship, but that's only the case if you're a protected class.

And nope, born and raised in the good old midwest, and in fact had write essays on the ten commandments controversy in grade school.
After it became absolutely impossible to ignore, and therefore no longer profitable to support him. But what about when it was brought to their attention before?[1]

The story I reported never ran.

After intense pressure from Weinstein, which included
having Matt Damon and Russell Crowe call me directly to
vouch for Lombardo and unknown discussions well above my
head at the Times, the story was gutted.

I was told at the time that Weinstein had visited the
newsroom in person to make his displeasure known. I knew
he was a major advertiser in the Times, and that he was
a powerful person overall.

But I had the facts, and this was the Times. Right?

Wrong. The story was stripped of any reference to sexual
favors or coercion and buried on the inside of the Culture
section, an obscure story about Miramax firing an Italian
executive. Who cared?

[1] https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-...
Why Companies Need to Innovate and Can’t Just “Wait and Buy” Startups
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"Everywhere" is right. Case in point, that old show "Ugly Betty" made major use of virtual sets: https://vimeo.com/19274597
Firefox Focus is solving such a pain point for me. Browsing the web on mobile feels like 2002 desktop with all the flashing, scrolling, pop overs. It's a nightmare. The companies that rely on ads for revenue took the thing that made adblockers so commonplace and did it on mobile.
Wait for Alpha StarCraft for some real panic. So far RL based method has limited success outside of simple games(Not to say Go is simple, but rather the presentation and control parts of the format).
If anything, $60/month seems too cheap.
It's already missing iPhone X support.
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Yes. It just suggests that regulation is _hard_ to get right, and what might on the face of it look like a good idea might not be.

The people with the money and lawyers and accounts often find away around regulations.
A simpler way to say your accusation is that 'it confuses the sign with the signified', and I didn't.
Tree search is also used during play. In the paper, they pit the pure neural net against other versions of the algorithm -- it ends up slightly worse than the version that played Fan Hui, at about 3000 ELO.
> but the pictures that non-photographers can take with their phones in a matter of seconds are down right amazing.

But that simply highlights that simply owning good gear doesn't mean you can shoot good pictures. You still need to learn lighting, composition, posing your subjects, etc etc, which was always the case!
Disagree here. This protector is paper thin and doesn't change the key typing feel at all. Every keyboard I've ever owned gets dirt, grime, crumbs, etc under them, and this keeps it brand new without needing to clean the keyboard.

Secondly, I liken this to getting a silicon case for your phone. You don't have to get one, but the second you drop your phone, you will be thankful you had it.
Not necessarily. You wouldn't want to open source nuclear weapon blueprints, for example. Nick Bostrom examines the details of particular types of openness and how they might help (or not) here: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/openness.pdf
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Feck it, I do. My Irish is banjaxed after ten years away from home.
This is explained in the article. Apps use high-precision geolocation when requesting location-targeted ads, and you can target ads to specific locations, so if you blanket an area in ads you can indirectly track movement through the grid.

> They then used that DSP to place a geographic grid of location-targeted ad buys around a three-mile square section
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Oh, if you're going to redefine words after the fact to reshape your argument, further conversation is a waste of time. And you had the nerve to accuse others of not arguing in good faith?!
Ask HN: I've reversed-engineered a private API, how make profit of it?
I know nothing about laws, advertisement, or marketing. I would like to have your opinion about making profit of this work.

Should I contact the original app developers and propose a deal ? The app is super secured, and I did not find any security breach, I just reverse-engineered it. So I am not sure it will interest them. The app has over 90 million users, and as far as went my research, it seems the API documentation never appeared online.

Should I publish a paid app with additional features not in the original app, or make it free with ads ? Is it legal ? I am in EU.

Should I start a blog, explain how I did, and offer to sell the documentation ? Is it legal ?

Should I sell it on the blackmarket ?

Should I write an article and sell the article to a popular website ? Which one ? Is it legal ?

Should I start a blog, stay vague and grow an audience ? Then how to make profit ?

Overall, what is legal ? Which is the more profitable ? Is there other ways ?
Regardless of the issues with the keyboard, I've given it a try and I just really can't enjoy typing on it, especially coming from a keyboard with tactile switches.
It seems unfair to me that you are being downvoted. I am a Maltese developer and my thoughts mirror yours. The international media has taken a slant on this (assuming that her murder is connected to the Panama Papers) which may turn out to be correct but is far from certain.
There should be a word for this phenomenon where organizations are created to ameliorate a perceived risk, and then they do work that is unequivocally directly massively increasing that risk while writing articles that say that they feel kind of bad about the risk. o_O

I'm not very worried about AI safety. But if I was, it'd be hard to think of groups like OpenAI as working on the same side.
We owe it to Particle accelerators and MRI machines to let us cool to those temperatures. I also find it surprising that it is as small as a 55 gallon drum.
I really appreciated this analysis, thank you.

I just clicked the blgopost and was surprised by its quality even after having read these comments. I expect large companies to display good grammar.

Relatedly, it seems like Microsoft has a million blogs on different domains, it's hard to keep track of what's what.
Standard Notes adds Device Storage Encryption
So far it has been flagged and unflagged 3 times! We are back to flagged.
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Do you actually consider the crimes of Stalin, Mao, Pol-Pot, Castro and Mugabe to be minor?
I've gone down that road as well, worked "ok" but as soon as the external monitor gets involved, forget about it.
daiso is great. in LA, we now also have http://miniso.com/ (which i'm sure will expand to other major US cities soon).
Well, I'd love to see NN solution beating top chess engines. It might also introduce novelty to the game, just as regular engines did
Gentrification is really a non issue.

When areas begin to attract wealthier people, they can begin to attract nicer businesses and infrastructure as a result. So the entire neighborhood becomes nicer.

Should we keep things bad? Of course not. Make things nice, and those who can afford to live there should be able to live there.

Trying to make it about race is just racist in itself.
> In other words, by the time we notice something troubling, it could already be too late.

For me, this is the key motivating point - the horse may have left the barn by the time we act. A lot of times people say this is exaggeration but "Weapons of Math Destruction" is a nice read on unintended side effects of this phenomena [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-In...
There are other (widely used, in fact) alternatives to a classic column store or row store that exist for precisely the points you raise. It is possible to get something like (made up number) 80% of the OLTP performance of a row store and 80% of the OLAP performance of a column store if you employ some of the fancier page engine designs from the last decade, which is a good tradeoff for workload flexibility even if technically suboptimal for read and write exclusively.

However, I would argue that page layout doesn't matter that much in terms of system performance in very large scale-out systems. Other factors often dominate. I've seen row stores crush columnar stores for query performance, not because the row store was efficient (it wasn't) but because the inefficiency due to relative organization was offset by even greater efficiencies elsewhere in the architecture relative to the columnar store. Hence why using one of the "pretty good but not ideal for read and write" page engine designs and focusing elsewhere for query performance is a reasonable design choice.

I would agree that a generic KV-store is not a particularly efficient basis for a general-purpose database. You need to get much more query selectivity out of the content-addressability than a KV-store typically gives you for non-trivial data models.
Okay, how about Microsoft and the original Xbox. They lost $4B+ muscling their way in, and now have the market-leading console.

https://www.engadget.com/2005/09/26/forbes-xbox-lost-microso...
In short - is this a moving average with window range automatically tuned for optimum detail to smoothness ratio?
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LOL. This very discussion on HN. And dozens of results after googling with 'apple cpu macbook pro TDP'.
Are sitemaps still a thing that really matters?
More concrete examples would be helpful: actual user acquisition channels that could work and how to use them. Everything else is relatively easy: User acquisition is the hardest part.
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I'd also recommend Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War by Arthur Ponsonby.
Some really interesting reports in there, it's also quite scary to see how certain themes persist to this day and even seem to have influenced large parts of how WWII ended up being perceived.

Already during WWI the Germans had been depicted as "industrialized savages" who supposedly processed dead soldiers bodies in "corpse factories", of course only if they had not been too busy nailing nuns to churches after maiming them.

It's pretty easy to draw a clear line from that depiction to the narrative of a whole nation of atheist perfectionists trying to industrialize genocide in the most efficient way possible.

I guess our feeble human minds need those simple narratives which pit the perfect "good side" against the inexcusable "evil side", to rationalize our own shortcomings.
I find duckduckgo much better for these kind of searches. It also shows a brief instant result which is usually an excerpt from MDN.

Actually, I find duckduckgo better for all kinds of technical searches these days.