skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the current maluse of AI is about as likely to produce AGI as finger painting of a toddler is to produce a Mona Lisa, and the whole AGI drama is overblown way out of proportion. Right now the state of the field is such that no one can even begin to contemplate how to create the very basic underpinnings of anything remotely resembling AGI. That’s how fundamental this problem still is.

That’s not to say that there’s no way the humanity can be fucked with the more pedestrian “garden variety” AI that is with our technical capabilities.

It’s to say that AGI is a nebulous, unobtainable red herring which only serves to detract from the more immediate issues.
For most people that was great. It was microsoft finially listening to people who refused to pay so much for an OS.

I wonder how much it would take for people to wake up. Maybe if Microsoft came out in full support of Donald Trump maybe then people would start writing and caring about their privacy.
If our knowledge is so incorrect, how did you manage to send your comment to me from across the world?

The sentiment you are expressing is very tempting, but it doesn't give credit to the knowledge we have actually acquired.

It's difficult to discern between the many levels of partial knowledge (as all knowledge is partial), but it's what we must do.
Standard physics isn't really up for question. Newtons Laws still apply in the general case.

My teachers never pretended that quantum physics was a fully understood, concrete field. A lot of what they said was prefixed with "we don't really know if this is how it works, but this is the model".
There's still Super Potato at least.. but mostly I agree
In my first programming class (1981) - FORTRAN! - we keypunched cards, handed them to a clerk to run, and waited hours for the results. We learned to be careful and to think things through. But nothing like Knuth...

"When I was at Stanford with the AI project [in the late 1960s] one of the things we used to do every Thanksgiving is have a computer programming contest with people on research projects in the Bay area. The prize I think was a turkey.

[John] McCarthy used to make up the problems. The one year that Knuth entered this, he won both the fastest time getting the program running and he also won the fastest execution of the algorithm. He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system. And he basically beat the shit out of everyone.

And they asked him, "How could you possibly do this?" And he answered, "When I learned to program, you were lucky if you got five minutes with the machine a day. If you wanted to get the program going, it just had to be written right. So people just learned to program like it was carving stone. You sort of have to sidle up to it. That's how I learned to program." [0]

[0] http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Knuth/index.shtml
When I was working through his Purescript book (and later watching some of his videos) I had the same problem. He strikes me as one of these very intelligent people who have difficulty explaining what he's talking about because everything is so clear to him.

What I found with the previous things I've seen from him is that if I write some code I get stuck. Then I look at what he wrote again - lo and behold, he has the answer. Rinse and repeat. I've learned a ridiculous amount from him in this fashion :-)
While none of this is false, it's a bit of a misdirection to imply that the 'mighty MPEG' was a monolithic actor preventing this course of action from taking place. In fact, the individual collaborators that MPEG (or ITU) brought to the table were the same sorts of hardware companies, software companies, universities, research institutes, and media companies that are surprisingly familiar among AV1's contributors, and MPEG's licensing scheme -- the patent pool being its primary innovation -- was a way to seek mutually assured use of each other's work.

The story here isn't that the Big Evil companies behind the MPEG codecs were beaten by the Good companies behind the Alliance for Open Media -- the story is that the pool of companies is kinda-sorta the same or comparable, with plenty of them playing both sides, a fact not lost on the founder of MPEG [1][2].

[1] http://blog.chiariglione.org/2018/01/28/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261313
>> Monty" Montgomery, has a real gift for technical explanation.

He does. I love his posts. Some say you don't really understand something until you can explain it to someone else. By that metric he's probably in the top 5 codec folks in the world today.
And yet you need a car to get there
> Tons of equipment not legal for F1

Of course, it has also got some equipment that isn't spec even for a WEC car. This is great because it's dangerous and expensive but 100% done for fun, and it also hints at what closed-wheel racing might look like if they really took the gloves off. There was another hint last year when Toyota set some records at Le Mans (fastest around the track since they added the chicanes and within a second or two of the absolute record set by a Porsche 917 in 1971).

It won't happen but unlimited closed-wheel racing akin to the old Can-Am would really be something to see with today's technology.
I bet you’re right. AFAIK pretty much all but the cheapest TVs sold now (or at least 4K TVs) support HEVC specifically to support builtin apps for Netflix and similar. Unfortunately YouTube uses the competing VP9, which my 2 year old Vizio 4K TV does not support, but apparently devices like the Chromecast Ultra and 4K Apple TV support it as well.
Well probably not as a joke, but it's within the realm of possibility that it was moved there at some point in the past. This is pure speculation of course, but perhaps it was identified as a sacred object and carried there by a traveller sometime within the last couple of thousand years. However the likelihood of that is probably quite slim.
> hurting society

The same money is still spent, just by different decision makers. Shareholders may very well prefer the decisions being made by the private enterprise.
It's unknown who blamed SpaceX; it could have been the Senator from Alabama's staff.
I'm not sure that you need mobile hardware encoding to drive initial adoption. As long as streaming services and the like can start using it to save bandwidth, you have a clear win for a big segment of the market. Older codecs can serve just fine for mobile encoding until the hardware catches up. But if most existing phones can't decode it efficiently, it's going to be pretty stuck until that situation changes.
First class modules. And yes, not having typeclasses is a bit of a turn off too...
He's likely referring to XFS, which meets the requirement.
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> It is ok, we cannot be an expert on all areas.

> My focus is on full stack,

I'm sorry, imo those are two contradicting sentences.

But it might be related to a personal pet peeve of "full stack" developers claiming to be expert in most moving parts of the stack.

Only to post on medium this amazing db hack they found, to be called out in hn comments for not reading the basic docs of one of the core items in their stack.

I always look at Doctors for a bad analogy; why full stack developer is a bad idea. Sure the heart surgeon will be able to diagnose your broken leg. Might even be able to assist you with a cast. But trust him to operate? There a specialist for that!

Is this not the same for dev work? Designer, Developer split into 4 fields(desktop, mobile, frontend, backend), database admin, sys admin. All possible to be done by a "full stack" developer.

But I don't see you become a specialist or expert in any of the fields of your stack, if you don't dedicate to a few.
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>Yeah, so they are written in what, Pixie dust?

C#. Ever hear of it?

>It might be hilarous to you as part of the Android support team.

At least they're still employed. Windows support team - not so much.

>To us that actually have to deliver software with those tools and fulfill customer expectations, it is a chaos.

Compared to the Windows store, which is a cesspool of garbage, for both Windows apps and Windows phone apps I would say quality was the furthest thing from their minds.
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What's your fairly complex dapp about/for?
Wouldn't it? I'm sure plenty of iOS devs have Macs and understand Apple's ecosystem (since they have to right now), but if they opened that to people who aren't in the ecosystem, would it really have no impact on user experience? Mac and iOS are two different products but they both follow the Apple standard and appeal to Apple people. Limiting iOS development to Mac users means everyone who develops for iOS understands Apple at least enough to use their products for work.

Apple sells a very specific user experience, one they control soup to nuts. It's not for everyone, it's for a specific audience. Luckily we live in a world where there are tons of choices, and by far the more popular choice is "not Apple" according to every statistic I've ever read. They can afford to be picky, they can afford to turn off some customers, because there are a ton of choices that are the opposite of the Apple experience.

If you want a BMW, you want a BMW. If you want a car, you can have any car you want. Including an Audi.
Yes, I am about to complete my second bachelors degree in engineering and have done a basic level of research Re: dating techniques and know that most dating techniques rely on atomic properties which could also (but currently understood not to?) be affected by ie alpha/b/UV radiation. Or perhaps even exposure to ie bacteria (we are only really beginning to understand the interaction between bacteria and atomic level structures .. as apparent by some headlines in last 5/y or so)

But I am by no means what you might classify as qualified or moderately familiar in this field.
I didn't think you would post links to all of those quality UWP apps. Says a lot about the quality of UWP and what a failure its been.
I think I saw something about sleep deprivation has been shown to temporarily greatly relieve symptoms of depression for a day to a week or so.

Chronic sleep deprivation has the opposite effect though, so it isn't the most practical.
> but if there are penalties for opting out (such as not being permitted to occupy your own property) then I would consider it a tax.

I agree.

But I'm guessing that it's the same in Germany. They call them "fees" but they're really taxes. Except that they can't be used for other purposes.
I wish American Science and Surplus was as cool (to me) as Weird Stuff Warehouse. There is very little at AS&S that is completely unknown to me the way some stuff at WSW was. I'm glad it exists though, and their yearly outdoor sale is a little closer to the WSW vibe. A lot less computers though.
In the UK, I don't think you can opt to sign instead of enter a PIN if it's a PIN terminal and your card has a PIN set. Only if it doesn't have a PIN (as with American cards) will it then automatically ask for a signature. Isn't allowing the user to opt to just bypass the PIN a bit of a security hole?

There are a handful of places in the UK that don't have PIN terminals at all and do classic swipe-and-sign transactions, though. The one I encounter most commonly is the onboard cafe car on Great Western Railway trains.
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Go to the Electronics flea put on by the Hams. Monthly on Saturday mornings.
Unlike the chaos, constant churn and developer frustration of Windows Phone development, Android development hasn't needed to osbourne their development environment and tools every year because of incompetence.
The world after centralised capital might be a thing.
Garage sale people are early people. My mom deals antiques, and on the weekends when she goes to garage sales, she's out the door before 6AM. 5AM is maybe a little extreme, but 6AM is what I would expect of something that targets garage sale and flea market type shoppers.
Also a cyclist, and I think one of the reasons share bikes haven't taken off as much in SF is the terrain. Bikes are a convenient way to get from place to place, but who wants to get sweaty and scared riding around SF hills?
I understand - what I meant to say is that I cannot be sure that the array never ran into an ENOSPC issue prior to the snapshot. Given that, should I keep the old array around until I can do whatever is recommended to detect potential orphans resulting from the bug?

Edit: And thank you, again.
A good way to get around the long iteration cycles is to develop on subsets of the data or simpler tasks. With computer vision you can either start with something like MNIST (which might not always be ideal because you'll need to adjust your architecture) or take a subset of about a 1000 examples from your real training set and get it to overfit.

Another thing that helps is having a way to queue up multiple experiments. It's not that hard to set up with celery.

Also I'd really recommend starting with the dumbest baseline model possible and getting the evaluation pipeline around it working. You can then focus on iterating on it and measure how much each change moves the needle.
Thanks for helping make that release happen.
At some point, we're gonna have to stop pretending "Silicon Valley" is still built on silicon and come up with another name for the place. (Maybe, "Private Surveillance Valley".)
The only reason this is even a thing is because Musk's fans are involved. Every other launch on all of wikipedia is a "Success", "Partial Failure" or "Failure" - regardless of who is at fault. Only SpaceX would get a special "Launch success", because it's always everyone's fault except ~~Tesla~~ SpaceX.

Look at Arianespace's last "Partial launch failure" -- upper stage was developed by a completely different company but it was still a launch failure.

I think Northrop just didn't want to get involved in the silliness.
Where to find a business to copy? Drive around to find a simple business at which customers are lined up out the door. For example, see a successful burrito shop or espresso cart? Open a similar one in a similar neighborhood. Your chances of success will be a helluva lot higher than 20%.

... says the man who has obviously never done business in the food service industry. The failure rate of restaurants is shockingly high.
> But you only have to encode once

In real-time. If the encoder is too slow for that it is the bottle-neck.
It sounds like you are suggesting that checksums and other integrity features obviate the need to back up your important files.
Share bikes have a huge potential for the environment and overall, commute efficiency. While there may be bad parts to start, I think there's plenty of great parts to come.
This is the wrong forum for this advice. I think most of the people here are not looking for a median income or a simple business. They want to swing for the fences or transform the world.

Having said that, its good advice. Most people underestimate the joy you get from a good solid, routine job that pays well. And they overestimate the joy you get from a giant windfall ... such as you get when you finally take your startup public or sell it off.

Also, I have met far more douchebags among the ranks of lawyers and VCs in silicon valley than I have among the ranks of small business owners (my brother owns a couple small businesses and his circle is very down to earth).
you are exactly right: scheduling a calendar invite just reminds you not to forget to play Endel during your scheduled deep work session
Access it from here when you're on your phone: https://i.reddit.com/

I really hope they keep that option alive but the way they're pushing the Reddit mobile app, I'm not counting on it.
> Newtons Laws still apply in the general case.

No, they apply (or, rather, are reasonable approximations) in the specific case of objects that aren't too small, and that don't move too fast relative to each other, etc. That is, the common case, but not the general one.
Usually anyone referring to someone as 'toxic' is the one unwilling to meet halfway. Start bu realizing you are both terrified little humans, bridge the gap, and move on with life. No person is 'toxic', only or reactions to them.

Tldr; You can only fix you, so start on it.
"as a joke"

There's no need to project motive onto such a premise. One needs only to question the possibility of movement.

Religious rituals are just as likely, as well as being deposited with ani al droppings after becoming an unfortunate snack for some scavenger or carnivore. Also flood runoff, why not?
I've heard it is conjectured that the Basques may have made it to North America before the explorers reported "discovery" of the continent. It will be really interesting if this sort of evidence ends up confirming (or, more disappointingly, debunking) this legend.

But I find it interesting to consider that not all enterprising seafarers would have considered it a good idea for knowledge of exploitable resources across the sea to be publicized.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/
Yes, Google is developing a free AV1 HW decoder, as discussed near the end of this (interesting!) deck: https://parisvideotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AOM-AV...

For what it's worth, Intel shipped "hybrid" implementations of HEVC and VP9 for older products where the CPU does some work but the GPU's shader cores do shader-y bits (https://www.anandtech.com/show/10610/intel-announces-7th-gen...). I don't know how far that approach gets you, especially in mobile settings where you really care about power use. But you might see that before complete hardware decoders everywhere.

A use case that might be interesting before full hardware acceleration is to provide an improved still image format. The graph in the post is a great demonstration that improving video encoding and improving image encoding are closely related these days. AV1 has backing and went through IP review that may help it avoid being mired in a patent mess like previous proposals to replace JPEG. (Apple is using .heic, based on HEVC intra coding. Android'll support .heic in the next major version, but the HEVC patent situation will likely constrain how many external tools, platforms, etc. pick it up.) There's work on defining an AVIF format (https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-avif) and tech demos look great (https://people.xiph.org/~tdaede/av1stilldemo/). So, maybe fewer ugly JPEG artifacts in our future, partly thanks to that deringing filter mentioned at the end of Monty's post.

(I said more or less the stuff about stills above, with a couple more details and links, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16699000)
Certainly, I wrote this in another statement, but I'll repost it here:

https://twitter.com/21logician/status/831020059212541956/vid....

Purposefully misrepresents the opinions of those he disagrees with potentially, here. Not to mention how messed up what he is saying is.

https://twitter.com/21logician/status/813901825539788800/vid....

Maybe we should oppress Dawkins, and other atheists. Very hypocritical here.

https://twitter.com/21logician/status/813890243606802432/vid....

You need to be religious to have morals (unless you are Muslim, he hates Muslims...)

There is another video of him stating that women want to be brutally dominated, and that is why women support Islam... can't find the video now though.

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/615e3z/i_am_dr_jordan_....

Frozen was propaganda, in his mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjON3cwjILQ

Women should just have a family, not try to have a career or work.

There are plenty of examples of him being hypocritical, pseudo scientific, and anti-women. There is a good collection of this on the subreddit enoughpetersonspam.
No, Signal Desktop is NOT the same as WhatsApp web. You still need your phone for the initial setup (same as Telegram), but after that, the desktop app is untethered until de-authentication.

Also, it has a much more praised security and cryptography than Telegram, is always encrypted (Telegram is only encrypted in secret chats) and has a much more secure codebase, with more open development (Telegram sometimes takes weeks to release source code), reproducible builds and a more transparent history.

I do use Telegram (mainly for group chats), but I treat everything posted in it as I would treat a public forum like HN.
Most of the comments here seem to be about the cons of removing encryption or backdooring encryption, but I don't think the author is suggesting that.

I think the article is only advocating for a checkbox in the settings menu to enable encryption for any would-be communication medium, which is turned off by default. I'm not especially against this, so long as there are no detractors to enabling this option.
I figured the stats would be a bit different since the "IT office" I worked at was majority Asian while some other parts of the business and thus overall numbers might be quite a bit different
Do not call list is about avoiding annoying calls, not privacy
It's not an elaborate joke either, in case anyone is wondering:

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/afroman-makes-a-uhf-oscillat...
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Economics is no longer sane, if it ever was. Old wall st and new fintech combine to make a financial perpetual motion machine.
I still struggle mightily with it myself. If you're interested in pursuing it formally, a lot of what the old stoics said ended up in writing. Some of the most valuable ideas ever codified and they're freely available online or, if you prefer hardcopy, available literally for the price of shipping from various Amazon sellers. Good luck.
I'd avoid saying anything at all if the article wasn't factually wrong about RSS being a disused format.

And there's nothing factually wrong about RSS providing weaker data to ad-tech survellance. The only reason it's being pushed back onto the front burner, is because the Facebook election botch has got everyone spooked about analytics trackers, and lots of richer sources are going dark, putting RSS back on an even footing with the usual web tracker data sources, because everyone is blocking thirdparty scripts and resources.

Meanwhile, pretty sure the guy is operating as a tool for a paycheck sourced from the industry the article serves, and having qualifications only helps to support such theories, since credibility makes the opinion of a stooge all the more valuable. Maybe I should lump you in with him.
There's other rumours (is that the right word?) that English fishermen were very familiar with the Grand Banks as well, and could have used North America as a staging group
City bikes are huge in Washington, DC. I think there are now four brands of bike shares in the city.

It's also a great fit because traffic SUUUUCKS and there are a lot of healthy people who buy into the concept.
Nope. They wanted money up front via PayPal.
Sounds interesting. Perhaps I shall open it in another tab for later reading.
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