skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The maluse of AI is a continuum that ends with AGI. If we don't have a process for handling responsible disclosure of dumb AI that could kill millions then why should we expect that a process will be available once AGI is within a reasonable time horizon.

If I have other shit in my head that I'm worried about today who do I tell?
I recently heard a comment on a non-topical podcast along the lines that "everything is GMO". Your favorite herloom tomatoes at the farmer's market, the corn, the lettuce, your dog, the beef, your cat, yourself. GMO is "evolution, faster" or at least customised in a lab. If one thinks I should have a fundamental problem with this view, I'd like to hear why.
This one reminds me of when years ago I wrote about the "already-exists" startup fallacy/bias: https://medium.com/@halfhenry/how-to-tell-when-you-should-an...
You don't have to scan the entire sky. Based on knowing the the approximate launch trajectory, there are only a limited range of orbits where the satellite could possibly be. Satellites have very limited fuel and can only make small orbital changes.
That's not really true.

The data from YouTube or Netflix dwarfs what you'd get from a torrent distributor of a show or whatever.

Some pirate/niche markets may adopt a codec solely for some arbitrary reason, but those reasons (say, maximum compression, good open source tools) are normally orthogonal to what a streaming business usually needs (compression, but also hardware/software compatibility for all sorts of form factors, and commercial unencumberment).
> Additionally there is no such thing as pure green, because all radiation that green feeds on will also feed either red or blue as well.

You can exploit cone fatigue to experience a greener green: make the red and blue people play tug of war by themselves with high intensity, then if you immediately call in green's fresh strength, red and blue will be easily overpowered.

(Slight model inaccuracy: the cells themselves aren't the colors, they're just cells with low-, medium-, and high- frequency sensitivity. Interestingly, the color experience you get from activating just one type of cell is different from the one you get from monochromatic light at their respective spectral peaks. I find deep (long-wavelength) red, for example, to be rather different.)
I about 2 weeks ago and it was full of really old shit that you were so sure you would never see again that you forgot it existed. It was the type of place you were really happy to know existed for any computer refurbishing project you could think of.
To elaborate a bit: what I mean is, it is easier to build an acceptably performant system in Python than in C++.

Yes, an arbitrary algorithm will probably perform significantly faster in C++.

But that probably won't matter in a real-world system built from multiple integrated components, when the performance is more likely to be determined by the abstractions chosen and the system architecture in use. And IMO Python and its surrounding ecosystem makes it easier to make good choices in those areas.
I don't know what you mean by "not slaughtered, not meat". Can you please elaborate?
Well, it depends on the piece of code, doesn't it? How many people can actually run Google's search engine on their own hardware? Assuming they had access to the code.
I think they'd have to work a bit harder than that.

Even assuming they have continuous access to ebay, telco and mvno systems, they probably don't have continuous access to the computers of the individual reseller who's selling preloaded SIM cards. This is almost certainly one guy working out of his house.

No doubt, the NSA could hack that guy, but they'd have to do so deliberately. The connection necessary for mass surveillance is broken at this point.
from your link:

> Google's Serge Lachapelle notes that today's agreement is "not an acknowledgment" that VP8 infringes on any of the patents claimed by MPEG LA

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg0663...
Two-user encryption obviously can be made secure.

I think we're done here.

Your splitting of the hair on "secure but fragile" depends on the assertion that the US government has no interest in maintaining the security of conversations of all US devices? That's inane and insane, respectively.
"The choice for all of us working on that software was stark: we could either distribute the product of our work, or enter a legal morass, and getting it wrong could end up in court"

Is this not simply an economically expedient choice? To put the security and privacy of users below that of product distribution? How is this choice really different than any tradeoff a software company today makes about security?
>Electronics (physical things) require prototyping shops, which require physical space.

This is true. Look at any of the 70's and 80's computer magazines on archive.org, and you'll see only about 20% of the ads are from companies in SV. All the others are scattered in cities big and small from coast to coast.

It's amazing to think that small towns in Illinois and rural Virginia used to have big players in the hardware industry.

Now, with the exception of the increasingly rare spark from Apple, it's not about building innovative and interesting physical things anymore. It's about taking other people's money and shuffling it around trying to make more of it through half-baked startup ideas. Silicon Valley is just banking in slow motion.
Investopedia, StockTwits, r/Investing. Daily diet of WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC. And Robert Shiller's Financial Markets course at Yale:

https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252
Telegram is actually fighting the Russian government over the encryption keys, saying that it is impossible to hand them over (I assume this is for e2e encrypted secret chats). The consequence of this action is that they'll likely get banned (i.e. removed from app store). How much of this is a farce remains to be seen, since the whole nation, from casual users to small businesses to government employees use the app daily.

As a Russian, I do appreciate the fear that the "russki" brand instills in your soul, but I think you are rightly being downvoted for jumping to conclusions simply based on nationality.
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I'm worried about how I ended up reading this story...
Direct correlation.
> that's gonna need some backup as you're going up against the likes of foucault and nietzsche on this one.

Sorry, I don't follow. What needs backing up? That men are disproportionally represented at the bottom or that this observation is incompatible with patriarchy theory? Regarding Nietzsche and Foucault, I'm afraid I don't put much stock in philosophy as a discipline.

> besides, what happens at the bottom of the hierarchy is a non sequitur here. you can't just claim that power theory is wrong because not all men are at the top. that's an odd stipulation to impose.

Agreed, but that's not what I claimed! :) I claimed _patriarchy_ is wrong because _men are disproportionally represented at the bottom_. This is different than "not all men are at the top". Patriarchy predicts a distribution in which men are skewed toward the top and women toward the bottom (as you pointed out, this is compatible with overlap in the distributions); instead we see that the distribution of men is relatively flat compared to that of women (more men at the extremes and fewer in the middle compared to the distribution of women), but no measurable skew.

> this is also an odd statement. both men and women are crucial to species survival.

They're not _equally_ crucial to _reproduction_. The society with 49 women and 1 man is much more likely to survive than the society with 49 men and 1 woman. The society that prioritizes the safety of its female constituents is the society that survives. This predicts the universally gendered nature of work and distribution of power without needing to invoke collusion.

> the power dynamic has disporportionately placed value on "manly" work and less so on "womanly" work

Society is a complex beast, but here's my best attempt at explaining the most relevant bits of the system (this mostly applies to any time between the Paleolithic and ~1900, inclusive): A household needs to bring in resources and it needs general maintenance/overhead. The best way to bring in resources tended to be to render services to the community (market). The highest value services were often the riskiest. Because men are less reproductively critical, men specialized in the high-risk, high-value work while women tended to take care of the maintenance/overhead (like caring for the family). The men who were very successful at their risky enterprises rose to the top of society, and the men who were not very successful sank to the bottom. Even though men brought in the resources, they didn't keep them for themselves, but shared them with the family, thereby compensating their wives equally for their work.

> what do you think incentivized women to enter the workforce in the first place?

There were 2 major catalysts: out-of-home, high-value work began to get significantly safer in the wake of the industrial revolution and two world wars killed off tens of million of men, creating huge economic opportunities for survivors who were disproportionately women.
Had a great time watching this video last night. What that man does in his videos is truly cyberpunk.
They still have many narrow vertical electronics stores in Akihabara. You really still don't know what you might find. It is a real treat. I have been there three times in the past five years and each time has been roughly the same. There are at least a dozen store fronts for each class of component you can think of and they are nestled in these walkways underneath buildings, in alleys, or on street fronts.
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jan koum was ~31, brian acton was ~35 when they started Whatsapp
This was a nice article. I've enjoyed running this 2048-ai[0] every now and then. It's fun to turn on the browser extension and watch it go. It's come quite a long way from the earlier versions.

[0]https://github.com/nneonneo/2048-ai
Always more than you can afford. ;-P
Hey Dave, your lecture notes [0] helped us a lot when we were building our simulator [1]. Thank you!

[0]: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599d/06wi/

[1]: https://github.com/QCHackers/qchackers/tree/master/software/...
Typically it's a dedicated hardware block on the die of a larger chip, like AMD's UVD [1] and VCE [2] inside their GPU/APUs, or Nvidia's PureVideo [3] and NVENC [4]. Sometimes the line is even blurrier, like the Broadcom SOC in the Raspberry Pi, where various more general-purpose processors can work together to decode [5].

Then you have APIs that try to disassemble all the typical stages of video codec processing that applications can call and GPU drivers can implement, which serve as a bridge between hardware-assisted decode and application code. These are APIs like DXVA or one of the several in use with Linux [6].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC [5] https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv [6] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_accelera...
Nobody can read your secrets if you don't have anyone to send them to.
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is available now in Firefox Nightly; the beauty is Firefox can use (for example) Cloudflare’s DoH servers regardless of what the system’s DNS settings are—even on macOS: https://facebookexperimental.github.io/doh-proxy/tutorials/f...
Of course Uber's doing another shitty thing.

Dockless bicycles in Melbourne are being thrown into the river at an alarming rate, because people are sick of companies relying on littering in public as a business model.

So of course Uber is joining the party.
Tons of equipment not legal for F1, but there is no denying the 919 is an absurdly fast car. Porsche is getting very good at using electric motors to make fast cars into insanely fast cars. 918 is a terrifyingly fast car, 919 is one of the all-time great endurance cars, and adding a hybrid to the panamera has only made it quicker.

Mission E could be a real monster with the lessons porsche learns in Formula E. One of the biggest ways you can tell tesla isn't a car guy car company is they don't have a Model S race series to beat their cars into the ground. Racing will find your poorly designed parts awfully quick.

Fast 0-60 launches a couple times is impressive, but consistent hot laps on a track is much, much harder. Model S can do a couple hot laps before giving up. I fully expect the Mission E to have a lot less quit in it.
I can only hope, I didn't like his answers, from a security perspective.
The most recent GAO report (for which Northrop resisted requests to interview project staff[0]), blamed Northrop in part for the delays, citing “a manufacturing error and manufacturing process mistakes.”[1]

[0] http://spacenews.com/northrop-balks-at-agencys-request-to-in...

[1] http://spacenews.com/northrop-balks-at-agencys-request-to-in...
Great to hear the ZoL guys are right on this. Bravo.

It also reminds me why my NAS runs Debian..
This makes me really sad. This place was invaluable when hacking on old hardware, it was a true institution of Silicon Valley.
At least it's no btrfs. What a disaster that filesystem's been.
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When this technology becomes mature, what then is your opinion?

Are you as skeptical against all "noob tech" or just this one? Or just "artificial processes" in certain areas like food, whatever you count as that (why not farming or gardening too)?
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I have found writing it a fantastic learning resource for myself.
Your last sentence reminds me of this recent post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP-OPXK2ig and it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things.
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> In a paper pessimistically titled “A wandering mind is an unhappy mind,” Harvard psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert reported that people felt less happy when their minds strayed from the task at hand, even when they were dwelling on pleasant topics—and even when the task itself was not enjoyable.

The Paper is a much better read than the OP => https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/...
Eh, I don't know the exact details. I just remember what my boss's boss told my department at a staff meeting one day.

Maybe it was an initial fixed-term contract.
Of course, it also isn't intended to be.
There are no realistic prospects of building AGI with modern understanding and equipment. We'll probably need many generations and a paradigm shift (or two) in computer science before we can build machines that can run intelligence like a program, let alone being able to write that program.

Hence my comment about how you might as well worry about time travel and teleportation. They're just as likely to happen in any timeframe that you might be interested in. If you're going to be worried about how AGI might be misused, you can start worrying about how time machines or teleporters might be misused.

>> If I have other shit in my head that I'm worried about today who do I tell?

You could look at joining the Campaing Against Killer Robots, or look around for a similar group.
In order to observe Earth in a useful way the satellite needs large optics and/or large antennas. Changing the shape of those things or adding coatings to reduce radar reflectivity would make them ineffective as sensors.

Satellites also need power. Solar panels are big and have to point at the sun so no way to hide those. RTGs are also an option, but even with those there's going to be significant waste heat which shows up on IR sensors against the cold background.

And any large satellite will show up clearly on a regular optical telescope. Take a series of pictures over time and you can spot anything moving, either through direct imaging or because it occludes some other celestial object.
This task seems particular well suited for Markov models because it actually is a Markov process underneath. Also,
I don't know why, but I was particularly tickled by the sentence:

> At the risk of anthropomorphizing a large table of states and actions, which is what a policy is, I see here elements of strategies that I use when I play 2048 on the 4x4 board 6
Dave Cutler got a call from Bill Gates to build a next generation OS when he was 47! Circa 1988-89.
But those are the apps themselves. This is about the WhatsApp Web protocol which allows you to use WhatsApp from a browser window by pairing it with a live session on your phone. Since the API endpoint are their own servers and the client is literally just a website, they can update whenever they want however much they want.
>Apparently, they were selling some all-set-to-go boxes at LibrePlanet…

They weren't as far as I know. They had a one-off prototype running at their booth, but that model never made it to production.
> what do you suggest for people who cannot tolerate the taste of some tap water

Drink it until you get used to it, people are remarkably adaptable and will get used to just about anything if they're exposed to it long enough. In the case of water a month should be more than enough.
We will work out a solution for people affected so that they can get those orphaned files back.
I'd love to see this project on Github, though I'm sure that'd be highly unlikely - it's probably mired in a bunch of red tape, and there's probably some ridiculous technical reason why that wouldn't be feasible.
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Aside: I did laugh the other day when I saw a video of the Amiga Vampire FPGA enabling an A600 to decode and play MP3 files.

http://www.apollo-accelerators.com
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If only the media wouldn't feed the electorate the message that voting is pointless because they already know who is going to win in a landslide!
Reading your comments in this post, by now I must ask: what is your continued interest here? Are you honestly interested in "keep Humans natural" or similar? Are you in the meat industry?
This is so true. I liked and used Elm when I have the right to make final decision. But it's hard to convince others use Elm when coming to integrate with JS.

That's the reason TypeScript won. It intergrate with existing JavaScript seamlessly.
> Meanwhile the old/bad/bloated/poorly designed zmq

Hah, zmq evolved because the developers felt amqp became to bloated.
The chromatic number of the plane is at least 5
Not to be excessively cynical or downright insulting, (also, my knowledge of archaeology is feeble) but is there any way to verify that they found the bones there in the desert?

> The discovery is “a dream come true, because it supports arguments that our teams have been making for more than 10 years,”

Ten years of debate could be motive enough for some people to fabricate the finding.

EDIT: All that aside, assuming it is legitimate and we can trust the discovery, I definitely agree an absolutely phenomenal discovery
I just started using org-mode and I wish I started years ago. Inspirational, motivational, customizable and extremely efficient.
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Where on this planet do lions naturally live alongside deer? This what-if seems as unnatural as the lab meat you seem so concerned about.
Property prices were affordable a 10-15 years ago. Otherwise how would we have all these middle-class families living here?
I have been running ZFS on macOS (OS X), illumos and Solaris for a good 7 years or so now. A major part of the reason I switched over fully, despite some warts, was that I experienced actual and significant data rot from stuff I was carrying forward under XFS (IRIX), HFS, etc. I don't consider my personal stuff to go back that long, but I still have things from 1993 or so that matter to me. I did a review around 2009ish, and found that a number of old files had at some point or another become corrupted, including ones I know for sure weren't in 2004. I'd been following ZFS somewhat since Sun had demoed it, including a depressing spell after Apple almost moved to it then quit, but it was my own personal actual losses that pushed me to move over.

End to end checksumming and other integrity features just plain should be universal at this point. Should have been a decade ago or more in fact. We have so much incredibly important data now that is digital only and nowhere else, and memory and storage have both become very cheap at the general population level. It's shameful that anyone should still be losing data or experiencing anxiety years or even decades down the line. Integrity, basic levels of security/privacy, and flexible, high integrity replication should all be native level features of any data store system. "Decades old" filesystems just plain absolutely do not cut it, no does anything newer that doesn't include those promises at least as options. Bugs are unfortunate, and I hope this prompts ZoL and associated projects under the OpenZFS umbrella to double check their automated unit and stress tests. Sun rightly made a big deal of that on release. Even so, I wholeheartedly believe that ZFS or the like are far better primitives for a data storage scheme then older FS (or many newer ones for that matter).
Is there a stable (loaded word, I know) versioning file system available for Linux?
Could someone have moved it 45000 years ago as a joke like how Tesla launched a car for the aliens to scratch their heads in perpetuity?
"The experiment is particularly significant because it took place in human cells."
Some great points. Philip Koopman was also recently interviewed on the Smart Cars podcast.

https://medium.com/smart-cars-a-podcast-about-autonomous-veh...
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>Using a char type to store UUIDs is very wasteful and no wonder your indexes are so huge.

That was a hypothetical, its 22GiB using BLOB storage.

>Note also that if you need to expose your data, you can either expose the auto incrementing primary key (which leaks data, in that other people can work out growth rates of various models, like how England worked out how many German tanks were being built based on a auto incrementing serial number), or you create a another column (as someone else suggested) which is a uuid. Which you would need to index anyway.

I state that we use the auto-increment inside of the application, everything exposed by the API is a UUID. While we lose 32 bits of space per row, just one foreign key or index saves enough space to justify it.

Best of both worlds.

>Memory and disk space is cheap.

Not when you need to move from multiple r4.8XL to r4.16XLs (think multi-az, multi region). It would work out to around double the price, we can hire a developer for the cost of hosting that infrastructure. Even when your business has the money, you don't want to be the guy telling them to drop another $24k a month on hosting costs because we didn't think one year ahead.

This of course ignores all the issues that come with replication and partitioning, multi-master etc.
There's Yesod https://www.yesodweb.com. We use Haskell for our backend and Elm for our frontend at work, and we really enjoy Elm, but I'm very curious about Yesod and wonder if it's better.
From the article: "All of the diagrams in this blog post are in sRGB color space. That means that all colors outside of the sRGB gamut aren’t accurately reproduced in the diagrams in this post!"