skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people make friendly AIs first, then we might be able to use those friendly AIs to figure out the actions that unfriendly AIs would take to get power, and close them off first.
Please do, and please announce that far and wide. There are likely many projects that'd like to use it but don't want to have to host it themselves, and you might want to catch the pile of current dissatisfied Patreon users.
I guess that's the risk of blindly trusting AI. Of course, the AI did not forcibly destroy us in that scenario. Trust, but verify.

If the AI's solution is so complex as to be beyond human understanding, well, that's a different issue.
Didn't you read what I wrote: making more money than highly qualified technical position... Of course it is extraordinary, that's why I am sharing... still few weeks to go, even if not over 100% it will be close and will be my best year so far...
In Python you can subclass builtin types and override __new__. Not every method can be subclassed with success, though, because of optimizations.

I agree it's the way to go, though. My typical tiny type in Python just has preconditions on string content.
In this case his one point of data would be enough to refute the original claim.
NYT isn't forcing these trackers into the user's browsers, ad banners are. You might say that's a distinction without a difference but I disagree, until you work with programmatic ad stuff it's difficult to fathom just how stupid it is, but also how unavoidable it is if you want to make money.
Read "Life 3.0" for a number of simple but very plausible scenarios for how super intelligence could escape containment.
And that one choses to do it, rather it chosen for you.
If you're a paid subscriber then I think it's morally OK to use an ad blocker on them. You're paying for what you're consuming, and in all likelihood you're only earning them a few cents to maybe a dollar from ads anyways. What you spend on your subscription drives way more value.
Thanks! Chnanged from https://cacm.acm.org/news/223361-taking-a-second-look-at-the....
It's not an attempt to derail "a necessary conversation". There's no conversation, since neither side is going to budge. And it's not a semantic argument, either - you're using misleading rhetoric to misrepresent the law as it exists.
I believe that Patreon's claim is that the bulk of that money is going to the payment processor, although that argument falls apart if they are batching your payments (which is what they currently do).
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But did it result in an exchange actually transferring millions of dollars out of the exchange to a real bank? That's the question.
The pledge is $1, what the patron pays is different from the pledge, that's the point. (It's not a good system but I'm not sure what you're getting hung up on.)
If ideas had any value, they would not be given away.

Ideas have no intrinsic value.
"Ranking Almost Every General in the History of Warfare"

Not even close to "almost every general". Even taking into consideration his own admission that he left out the Mongols, his analysis is obviously very, very Western centric. Somehow the omission of the most populous continent in the world and probably throughout history didn't dissuade the author from making such a bold claim. The most obvious omissions were the Chinese and Japanese generals. It's not as if those two countries didn't have a lot of wars, wrote a lot about war ("Art of War" anyone), or lack a historical tradition. Let's not forget the Indian sub-continent has its own history of warfare.

His comment about Rommel was kind of awful as well. Rather than trying to correct for why his model didn't generate some expected results, he tried to convince people that their perspective is wrong. Rommel may not be the impressive general he's popularly believed to have been but the author's understanding of Rommel is quite shallow. Rommmel's exploits goes back all the way to WWI. He was the youngest recipient of the "Pour Le Merite" when he captured over 9000 prisoners with just 150 soldiers.

This is an example of someone with technical skills applying those skills to a field they don't really understand and wrapping it up with a bold claim.
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This is why I have been skeptical of Patreon as a revenue source for working artists. I don't like the whole copyright regime and would drastically alter it, but the basic idea of a fungible copyright is a lot more bankable than renting a tin cup from a monopoly provider. Not hating on Patreon which I admire in general, but a single provider is undesirable compared to federated micropayments.
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Do you see this as being the final solution or do you think there will be more advancements in CSS-in-JS before it settles?
How big is big?
Your own link says it's less absolute than you're making it out to be:

> A comparison of congestion data from 1982 to 2011 by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute clearly demonstrated that additional roadways reduced the rate of congestion increase. When increases in road capacity were matched to the increase demand, growth in congestion was found to be much lower.

> ... one study ... found that "over a six- to eight-year period following freeway expansion, around twenty percent of added capacity is 'preserved,' and around eighty percent gets absorbed or depleted. Half of this absorption is due to external factors, like growing population and income ...

Though it is likely true that expanding metro lines into VA would be more cost-effective here.
Hackers Steal $70M in Bitcoin – Theft Prompts Shutdown of NiceHash
How do you determine the $70m?
Looking at the chart, you could liquidate $130 million and it would move the price down to $5200.
Kickstarter launched Drip recently: https://d.rip/
Well, there was the tulip bubble of 1637.
They are rarely completely offline. But, they've been experiencing all sorts of "minor outages" and partial service degradation. And when you can't trade or transfer between wallets, the fact that their portal is "up" doesn't matter much.
Is there supposed to be any content here? All I see is a giant image of some watermelons and links to other images of fruits and vegetables. The links are under "read our other stories" so I assume there is supposed to be text.
Vision is part of the puzzle--a large part in the case of self-driving cars. But blind people are way better than computers at everyday tasks, so I don't think that it's the Big Problem.

Translating to 3D is low-level and relatively easy. That's not the reason why we don't have household robots/self-driving cars.

Framing vision as "object attributes" and "correlate to prior knowledge" might be a good approach for current research. But humans do more--we understand what we look at. We form concepts and models of the world that allow us to adapt to very novel situations.

The main reason why we haven't solved vision, language, playing chess like a human, etc is that NNs are a poor approximation of human concepts. I agree that we probably need more compute and better compute.
Surely they'll join the ranks of other illegal numbers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
> freedom within the confines of what the state allows is not true freedom.

I guess most nations have regulations of what is or is not allowed. I can't, for example, buy my neighbor and press him into forced labor, or buy a meth lab and sell meth to my neighbor's kids in the US.

I guess I'd have to go to some failed nation state like Somalia to have that kind of freedom—a true libertarian paradise.

The reality of most nations is that they exist on a continuum. China is more authoritarian / curtailing of freedom than most, but less so than, say, North Korea. The US is less authoritarian / curtailing of freedom than many but more so than many developing countries that lack regulatory protections.
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That is the equivalent of Banks closing because of market panic.
This effect is more pronounced with lower-quality magnesium supplements, such as magnesium oxide, magnesium sulfate, and magnesium chloride. These compounds are insoluble in water (magnesium oxide), or their counter-ions are not absorbed (magnesium sulfate). Magnesium + glycine (specifically bisglycinate which is the magnesium salt with two glycine molecules) is more bioavailable and does not have a laxative effect since glycine is easily absorbed by cell walls. Magnesium citrate also does not have a marked laxative effect and is more bioavailable than magnesium oxide, but less bioavailable than magnesium bisglycinate.
Nobody is completely objective, to suggest that is to believe propaganda over reality which is again the opposite of objectivity.

PS: Really, pink elephants, now where you thinking about elephants or did I suddenly change your thought process... It is possible to minimize bias, but failing to take obvious steps suggests they are not even trying.
If the claim was that anti-tax people demand both not paying tax and that others do

But that is exactly it. They want all the benefits of living in a modern civilized society, but they don't want to pay their share of keeping that society going.
> I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like the 40 year-old GUI pattern just doesn't work for browsers anymore.

I think that you open more than one tab right away makes you bit of an outlier. I don't know if they collect this kind of data, but I would be very curious about the median number of tabs is among their users. I suspect most people use their browser in a very serial way. Check Facebook, check email, read the news then walk away.

If that's true, then maybe it's just a matter of priorities and constrained resources. Maybe an extension is where changes to the basic tab functionality belongs.

You've clearly put a lot of thought into this. Have you ever thought about building an extension?
Since there are people from NYT here, can you point me in a direction to help figure out why my streaks have been all messed up the past few months? Not sure if it's an app bug or something on the backend, but puzzles are retroactively being marked as being completed perfectly when they're not. Email in bio if you'd like to discuss more.
As somebody who doesn't have a background in finance, what are the legal obligations of an exchange to stay online? How can a user of the service be certain that an exchange is offline for technical or non-technical reasons? Let's imagine the likely scenario when the price suddenly drops like a rock and the exchange goes offline completely (for technical or non-technical reason). Could a user make a claim that Coinbase is liable for their losses because they were unable to access their coins?
You did if you were driving a hybrid vehicle. You went from free to $40.
Question for the AGI believers out there:

We have this, state of the art, AI which can turn the screws and hone in on some underlying reality about “how to win at Chess”, a formal game. Great.

How does this then extend into the social domain, where AGI would be operating? Like, how does AlphaZero optimize for “how to slow Climate Change”?

I can’t even fathom how it would even understand climate change without an army of scientists publishing new work for it to consume. And then on top of that it will need to understand how it’s adversary, Putin, will try to optimize for the opposite, “ensure global warming to open up our shipping routes and arable land”.

It just seems like a non-starter to me. Saying you could win at chess, so winning at geopolitics is just a scaling problem to me is like saying I can drink a bowl of miso soup so drinking the ocean is just a scaling problem.

It would seem to me that intelligence at the highest levels isn’t constrained by foreknowledge, it’s constrained by the consequences of past decisions made during the (inevitably ongoing) interactive learning phase.
How does it help, when displaying a tiny file selection dialog on an Android device?

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42491
I'm assuming you could use the SMS codes. At the homeowner's responsibility, of course.
I've been in software since the 80's. I've watched all the fads and cults rise and fall .. From General Electric to Kanban and back again.

Honestly, over the decades, there are very specific patterns in all the ism's, and its the recognition of these patterns which each new generation of ignoramus decides to make their own and turn into the Hot New Cool Shit.

So I feel its really necessary to point out that while, with the Toyota Method, there is very definitely a refinement of techniques that have been well-worn, and proven, indeed in many markets around the world - there are still parts of the human psyche of productivity which remain unexplored.

One of those aspects, I feel, is the obfuscation and neglect which occurs with every wave of computer culture.

We kind of don't really work on the reasons for obfuscation - because obviously this is not productive. Productivity means, getting the shit done, in a way that increases value - for the individual producers as well as the owners of the means of production.

Toyota works. The proof is in the fact that it is one of the biggest and best brands in the world.

But what doesn't work is the occlusion of methodology that occurs, which makes the revelation here in the 21st Century of time-worn, centuries-old methodologies, relevant.

We get this way because we decide to occlude, forget, neglect, and ultimately .. reject .. the ways of the masters. How many of us read this article, gave it a cursory glance, and decided to close the tab, for whatever reason: "its too preachy", "its a culture thing", etc. And what number of us actually decided to incorporate the Ohnno way into our thinking, for the simple fact that HN gave us the clue?

Really, what I would like people to understand is that there is a desultory, occluding factor, to these different 'ways'. The moment the marketing people take over a working technology, they decide to brand-differentiate, and this means forgetting the roots of it all. "Nobody thinks of the sugar; all we see is the cola" can only happen if we actually act on the basis of ignorance.

The point being, the Toyota way seems - like so many other ways - to have the principle purpose of fighting ignorance. Ignorance of oneself, ignorance of others, of the customer/user, of the managers, and so on. Ultimately, the Zen approach is, remember that you will always be forgetting, and express your current reality in such a way to defeat that. No successful brand is ever forgotten; no successful methodology can happen in a vacuum. Yet: it requires such a vacuum before you can find your own handle on it, and ultimately apply it with success.

"Applying it with failure", on the other hand, is a sure-fire to re-invent something else, 'brand new', again and again.

Don't you feel there is something inherently intrinsic to Toyota Method? Well, there should be a list of these feelings, by now, for those of us who have been paying attention for decades ...
57M user records can't possibly be a 500kb zip file. Even if you could decompress a single byte to a whole user record (i.e. there could be at most 256 different user records possible) then the compressed size would be 57 Mb, but because you can't, it would be at least half a gigabyte compressed. It's not something you can download as a side effect of exploring, you'd get it only intentionally or if you're fetching a whole database dump or disk/VM image.
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On some exchanges it was an opposite direction. Down to 12k then up back to 15k.
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Not smoking doesn't mean you will not get lung cancer.
I mean, why wouldn't they say that in the messages they've distributed to creators and patrons, then? If that's the case, they have needlessly caused themselves a tremendous amount of public headache by being disingenuous about the reason behind the change.
Anyone who has a job pays FICA taxes. They could easily have lowered those for low income people, but they didn't.
Don't even need the smart-locked container or refrigerator.
Amazon isn't concerned with what customers want but what is fastest for their deliveries. If they use the same app to open the door, and mark as delivered, then a lockbox would increase the time per delivery.

Is there a delivery person for Amazon who can comment on this?
Can you explain? You could also argue that when futures are listed on the 10th, there will finally be an easy way to go short on Bitcoin. For instance when you want to hedge a long position, or simply because you want to speculate on Bitcoin going down.

So the listing of Bitcoin futures on the Chicago exchange might not be a good thing for the Bitcoin price at all.
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In the same way that the AI’s series of chess moves don’t have to lead anywhere near victory, the system doesn’t have to build anything that resembles a car.

With this consideration, there are many more ways to go wrong in the car scenario.

Chess moves are limited by the chess piece selection and board.

Building something IRL isn’t really limited by anything; For example, you could combine just two pieces in hundreds of ways (tape, staple, weld, etc), in unlimited number of positions (off by 1mm, off by 2mm, off by 3mm, etc).
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I'd say that it is noteworthy that the bubble is exploding (and bursting)
For human vs AI there will have to be APM rate limits otherwise the AI can win with no real strategy[0].

For AI vs AI it could be interesting to see what strategies develop with two opponents with the ability to perfectly microcontrol their units.

[0]Zerglings vs Siege Tanks when controlled by AI with perfect micro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs
Not to mention if the box fails then somebody only gets into the box. If the door and camera rig fails somebody gets into your house.
It wasn't N programs packed into a DLL, it was one program (in a DLL) that acted like three different programs depending on how it was "started".

They were selling the same software as three different products.
Somewhat disappointed the Vision Kit for Raspberry Pi (https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/vision, https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/11/introducing-aiy-vi...) won't be ready before Christmas. Haven't found anything comparable exciting yet.
OK, we'll put "some" above.
Self-proclaimed Nicehash hacker explains hack on Twitter
well if you just use appengine without using a vendor lock-in service, i.e. using cloudsql instead of datastore, etc. than you probably won't run into trouble.
but it looks like appengine still has it's momentum (they actually added java8 support lately)
Well, that's not at all unusual, 99.9% of credit card transactions you don't know the fee the merchant is paying.
This should be at the top of HN. A tech company just cut the livelihoods of artists and many other important groups of people all over an artificial fee. This is disgusting and I hope a competitor beats them out ASAP.
I couldn't get through it. Rarely have I seen more words used to say absolutely nothing while completely avoiding actually addressing anything in the article supposedly being addressed.

"Love and Light,"

It looks like this guy might be getting his ideas from a certain show on Hulu.
That seems to be too low to have an effect if you are actually deficient according to the study.
Judging by the GDAX runbook, they barely have a couple of orders per second. They can't have performance problem at this scale.

I've seen exchanges running 10 or 100 times that amount with no problem, ran by only a couple of graduates out of school.

Either way, doesn't matter. Exchanges have no performance problem, it's a big queue, you just queue requests.
> How valuable is the property that other threads' GCs won't stop your thread if your thread bears its own full stop?

GC on a small heap is fast; especially since the language does not allow for circular references in the heap. Almost always, if you're you've got a large heap in your Erlang process, you're doing it wrong; large data generally belongs somewhere else like ETS, the in memory term storage.
If anyone would like to read more about the real lean techniques in software (not just kanban), I recommend Lean Software Strategies book.

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Strategies-Techniques-D...

The West has a tendency to cherry pick techniques from holistic approaches (for example quick path to mindfulness vs meditation and Buddhism). I suppose it's a cultural difference. In my opinion, it is really worth it to try to understand Lean as a whole instead of looking at kanban only.
Why would it be harder to place an item behind a locked lid to a box than a locked door to a house? If anything the box should be faster; if it were a smart device it could easily be programmed to be unlocked or even ajar any time it is empty.
I think you're over-thinking this. There isn't a huge crossover audience for engineer blog posts and general NYT audience, and I imagine the engineering blog posts do not go through the same editorial process content on nytimes.com does. That alone makes the case for using a different domain.
I imagine it's from a lack of mission/end goal. It may feel that you're just "floating by" right now. What are your end goals? What's your mission? I would recommend working backwards from that and setting timelines/goals.

Also, personally working from home as a solopreneur sounds like a nightmare for me. I interact at my best when I'm surrounded by others, though ymmv. If hiring is out of the question - spend $500 of that $10k per month and get a coworking space (WeWork, etc). If that doesn't help you, cancel the monthly contract.
If you're technologically savvy enough to hack Amazon, you can probably tell if the homeowners are at home without getting shot at. Like by ringing the bell.
I don't buy the perfect means of evading capital control argument. Look the mirror trading that a bunch of billionaires used to evade capital controls in Russia: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-28/how-mirro...

It also just involved a click of a button. Nonetheless it was uncovered.

Too often would be cypher-anarchists forget about rubber hose cryptoanaysis. And unlike gold, bitcoin are fundamentally non-fungible and traceable.

The biggest advantage gold has over bitcoin is 5000 plus years of history as a store of value. The biggest advantage bitcoin has over gold is its immateriality. Personally I think the former outweighs the latter (no put intended).
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>You exchange it for whatever currency you desire

Exchange how? Your entire argument assumes a functional BTC eco-system (and exchanges with willing counter-parties).

Without usefulness in transactions BTC's only value is whatever is agreed on. And in the absence of a use that is worse than fiat currency - at least that has legal backing rather than just agreeing that BTC has value as a value store.

It's the essence of circular logic: BTC has value since it is a store of value and since it's a store of value it has value...

>If you accept that there is a demand for such a store of value, then you must recognize the value of cryptocurrencies.

I do - just not BTC. Anyone sane will store their value in something that has an actual shot of being grounded in real world transactions. So ETH or whatever is a far better bet.
Is there a term for those who take advantage of the spread to make their money, essentially placing buy orders and then turning around and placing sell orders? Seems like there must be people making money off those who only "Take" deals and never "Make" them.
"Having to install an app just to unlock a door is an unnecessary barrier."

Amazon Key: unlocks your door with a app.
They could try a subscription model.