skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all your "requests for research" are very narrow and formulated as specialized deep learning problems, basically enforcing a particular solution

If you're serious about AGI broaden the scope (e.g. along the lines of DARPA's open-ended RFPs)
This is what always amazed me about the AI safety groups... and mission statements for funding therein :
There is nothing to suggest the minds and efforts capable of producing AGI will not have solved this at a fundamental level. Absolutely nothing... and after-all something of high intelligence is within controlled and reasoned states. If someone declared they created AGI and it was behind a door and when that door was opened you saw a robot manically trashing the place, you'd clearly laugh.
People forget that every time black people in America started amassing any considerable collective wealth, there were plenty of discriminatory laws and violent movements ready and willing to take it away from them.

Greenwood, Tulsa always comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa
Probably people who believe that the payment they are making is unjust. Former scum landlord is charging you to repaint the walls because you "ruined them" when they were in fact pristine when you left, just because he doesn't want to foot the bill for finally getting rid of that 70s era mustard yellow color. You could fight it, but he has a lot more time for small claims court than you do, and you now live halfway across the country.
“Solving crime” sounds great as a sound bite or headline. But it is a heavy handed government action. It almost directly translates to removal of free will and the choice to dissent.
Dead butterfly design really ties the look together.
Does this include the half dozen or so things that my grandpa likes from "Conservatives for Canada" and the like?
Introduction to Game Theory (Part 1)
tl;dr Common criminals go with default security settings.

This is about to get even worse for law enforcement. To date, iCloud backup still offers a way for law enforcement to access data with a warrant. However that is about to change. Apple is about to roll out iMessages on iCloud, which sounds innocuous, but actually will premiere a major step forward in security: end-to-end encrypted data in the cloud by default.

This is huuuuuge.

The thing that has been holding back E2EE as the default is that it has sacrificed recoverability. That is, it has required a strong password, which is easy to forget, and if you forget it, no one can help you. So it's something you had to opt into. Not a default.

Now, Apple has created a backup solution that -- get this -- removes the need for a strong password. Sounds crazy, right? All you need to remember is your iPhone passcode. Obviously, this is brute forceable and can't secure your cloud data...

Except yes it can. They've implemented hardware security modules that prevent brute forcing. Then they destroyed the signing key for the HSM firmware. Neat.[1]

So, iMessages are going to transition to this, which probably means they won't be in the iCloud backup, and thus not available to law enforcement. And then it's probably just a matter of time until the whole backup is secured with E2EE.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U
Only if you ignore the social components. Immigrant groups tend to create support structures that aid newer immigrants from the same group. This is most powerful for groups who don't speak the native language but still impact social norms and networking.

The first wave of Asian immigrants significantly predated the civil rights movement.
You are one of those people that makes some OCR software writer's job a nightmare.
IME (Boston's Hubway), docked bikes are not reliable at rush hour. Even if there's a bike available at your point of departure, there's no guarantee of a slot available at the destination. I do use Hubways off-peak where it's much more reliable and I'm usually not on popular routes.

But generally, I'm riding my own bike and the days where I'm taking transit+bikeshare are rather low.
Having a 1000% markup doesn't make it a scam. The raw material is practically free so anything they charge is going to be a huge markup. There's lots of competition and people are willing to buy it. What's wrong with that? You're not paying for the water, but for all the other value that comes along with it. You can carry it around, or store it in your car, or whatever. You don't have to remember to fill up the water bottle whenever you go out because you can just get a new full one anywhere. That takes mental burden off people so they can focus on more important things. You can give one to someone else without worrying about spreading meningitis. You can take a carton of them on a group trip without asking everyone to rinse out and old milk bottle the day before. There's value in making people's lives easier.

What's wrong with using tons of oil? It's not being burnt so it doesn't contribute to climate change. Are you concerned that it's wasting the valuable oil that would be better used to power a car or power station?
This is really nicely put. It should be hammered home in response to pieces like this. Particularly the bit about people in abusive relationships, and also children of abusive parents. Vulnerable people need privacy much more than the rest of us. Even a shred.
While I can’t comment on if it would be possible from orbit, there are two components to receiving a radio signal - transmitter strength and antenna gain. These work together to provide a signal clear enough to be amplified in to something usable.

In a modern portable device the antenna is quite small and often close to other electronics, so the gain is not great. You can buy dedicated hardware that can receive over much greater distances.

Additionally device antennas are omnidirectional, so they pick up noise from every direction but the signal from only one. A directional antenna has much greater gain as it excludes most of the noise.
This may sound like an advert, but it's not - I used "Backuptrans Android WhatsApp to iPhone Transfer for Mac" last year when I moved from Android to iPhone, and surprisingly it actually worked!

I could export all my Android (Nougat) messages and media, and restore it onto my iPhone (iOS 11).

It was a bit dodgy though - it asked me to install an old (custom?) APK first to export my messages, and the iPhone restore process looked like an actual iOS system restore..
I have family who work in food service in the UK. Tips are NOT expected, nor is significant/depressing to miss one. It's common, but certainly not mandatory or "victimizing the least powerful person in the relationship".
Maybe the $3.5 billion dollar transaction was the product.
Have you been able to beat the index funds historically?
A desktop web application for learning Chinese and its character stroke order
Windows 10 Mail is already abysmal, and Microsoft wants to make it worse
I use a Berkey filtration system and feel mildly optimistic about not drinking plastic every time I fill my glass. From late September, 2017 [0].

> "There is nowhere really where you can say these are being trapped 100%. In terms of fibres, the diameter is 10 microns across and it would be very unusual to find that level of filtration in our drinking water systems.” With that being said, we know that the berkey can filter down to 2 microns and less, so until testing is done, we can only state that the berkey would be filtering out more of these microplastics than your town's municipal water filtering system

[0](https://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com/blog/category/micropla...)
The Great Belt Road. There are some good articles on it in reddit.com/r/geopolitics. But basically, China is willing to put up loans to build trade infrastructure, in the sorts of places where it would be too risky for private capital to do so (dictatorships, failing states, etc). They then make two (but only 2) demands: We want to be the ones to build it, and 2) If you default on payment for it, we'll lease it from you from that point on.

Unstable countries see those two demands as far simpler than WTO / UN type development, which also tends to come with things like human rights requirements.

And if they can't repay the loan, China will pay THEM to lease it out? Seems like a win-win.

Fast forward a few years, and China has helped prop up their internal construction companies, by giving them state sponsored projects on foreign soil.

And when the countries ultimately fail to repay the loan, China acquires territory over important infrastructure in foreign countries, not unlike how the US has military bases worldwide.
Adding DNS-Over-TLS Support to OpenWRT (LEDE) with Unbound
Vivaldi browser removes Facebook from default Speed Dial
Here's my bazillion-dollar question: How do you practically motivate those people to enter and stay in government? The insanity of the system is maddening, and even hard-fought positive progress is glacial compared to the private sector. I know smart, thoughtful people who considered government and finally decided they'd be far happier in the private sector.
习近平万岁!
Actually they did not. They must have a timer in a cookie.
Do you have a little NeXT device in your pocket called an iPhone?
> I don't see (yet?) how this directly solves the problem.

It solves the problem of Facebook getting bad PR.

I'd be shocked if Zuck gives 2 shits about any of this, beyond thinking about how he can utilize facebook to get himself elected.
I love this idea, but my two "deal breaker" worries are: (a) data backup, and (b) security. I hate that this is the case, but when comparing a "box-at-home" vs. a "corporate-run service", the corporate-run service is less likely to lose my data and more likely to apply security patches and updates ASAP. Even with 0days and all of the "hackers stole millions of users' data" posts, think the point remains strong; although, I admit that these losses shift the value proposition towards box-at-home.
NYC will never know how bad it is until they go out of the U.S. to such places in Asia like Thailand, HK, Taiwan, or Japan and experience those subway stations. There is no such thing as a "weekend service" and subways arrive on-time without question, there are clean restrooms and WiFi. The NYC subway is decades behind. It has remained stagnant in advancements and has now broken down due to lack of development and overcrowding. It's a problem.
Just to play devil's advocate: does democracy require privacy? It's not like the early 20th century where if you're were a part of the communist party you were suspect. We can pretty much say whatever we want (and we do) without fear unless we are actually criminals. I know the "if you have nothing to fear" argument doesn't hold up, but privacy is actually a relatively new thing in the human experience. And I'm not sure why democracy would fall apart without it.

But boy do I like privacy / hope it sticks around.
Nevermind that Facebook is precisely an “advertiser with specific political agendas”
it's not very organized for sure. but in research, barely anyone I know trains models from scratch just to use them afterwards.
In pytorch and tensorflow, you'd not even have to go to a model zoo page to use the most common architectures, the library will just load it on demand into a folder in ~.
So yes, using and sharing models is ubiquitous from what I can tell.
>upper class of FTE workers ... has strategically pushed for policies ...to bolster the economic success of some groups and not others, largely along racial lines

> His final recommendation is to address systemic racism

Not a good start from Temin. Its not like the entire upper class is outwardly racist like the first quote implies. If you want to reduce racial/class divides, maybe making the upper class appear to be a purposefully racist enemy isn't the best way to go.
This analysis made me think about a comment someone made about basic income (paraphrasing):

"If we renamed it to 'guillotine insurance', maybe the rich and powerful would get the point of it"
GDPR only applies in the EU.

Facebook already declared that they won't extend their GDPR compliance globally. So if you're in the US, you're not protected by it.
Linux

PostgreSQL

Redis

Blender
Boy oh boy is that an understatement. One of the ~15 year old ~70kloc projects I help maintain only has a handful of active contributors at any point. Even with efforts put into marketing it there's not a large pool of people to pull from.

I wish there was a formula for making things more attractive to contribute to (in both the short and long term), but it's a fiddly process.
That's only true if there was nothing internally relying on it.
I believe https://www.brookings.edu/research/work-and-marriage-the-way... is the research that is being referred to.
Okay, no. Stop a second. To use an analogy that HN might understand, doing that would be like using those giant javascript frameworks to create a distributed, dynamic website to serve a couple lines of static text.

The answer is blotting. You do Southerns and Northerns and you'll see exactly whether or not you have off-targets. This is super basic stuff, and very reliable.
Might be true over a 50 year span, but you'll probably spend 48 of those years in poverty.
VirusTotal link: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e88753917d7283715f0a4c633e...

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/X60nnAT.png

I'm excited to try it but because I'd be using it for sensitve/confidential work I don't want to risk it unfortunately.
Can you share the name of the documentary or where I can find it?
Of course, no one can't assert that any one treatment does or does not work without scientific testing.

However, we can make educated guesses about the overall success rate using other cultures. Ancient Europe had many dogmatic medicinal practices based on tradition (trial and error), yet almost none survived the scientific revolution.

Given pre-science Europe's high failure rate, why do you believe other cultures will fare better?
I toured JPL years ago and it sounded like the duplicate rovers were for testing maneuvers and software updates after launch. More for testing/debugging than a failsafe.
Is there a twitter client out there that satisfies the following:

- accumulate tweets, no chronological reordering
- just keep piling tweets up until I read them one after the other or decide to "mark all read"

That's basically how I used the now retired Twitter for Mac (despite it not accumulating tweets indefinitely).
I'll believe it when I see it. One simple privacy-focused solution Apple could have implemented since many years ago is keeping iMessages E2EE, instead of backing them all up to the cloud automatically and not allowing the users to disable the backups for iMessages unless they disable the whole iCloud backup (which is enabled by default).
You stated it yourself in post :
> there is absolutely no indication whatsoever that OpenAI would credibly reach this (vague, underspecified) goal before any of the other serious contenders.
> Nor would competitors have any requirement to include OpenAI if and when they were getting close.

In summary :
> No one of the intelligence capable of producing AGI is going to publish the full details
> People who claim they would have to engage in vague mental gymnastics and mission statements to try to convince people of the illogical.
> Those who develop AGI will of course address the safety problem internally to ensure their product is a success
> They wont be include outside competitors/consortiums who will of course exploit and use the intellectual property they are exposed to for their competitive advantage

The software industry is the software industry. Intellectual property is paramount. Nothing has changed. Google isn't giving 100% access to their source code or data sets. Microsoft isn't open sourcing all of their code.. etc etc. Suggesting that a new comer should for 'safety' reasons is a manipulative 'think of the kids' FUD argument.
I'd love it if someone made a slack desktop app using actually native code instead of javascript. I'd pay you money. Please, someone make this so I can pay you money.
What are a few examples of those cases, exactly?
That's wrong. Encrypt all necessary data with government-controlled public key. Government can get in, but hackers can't.
Interesting bit of trivia: SolveSpace comes from M-Labs, formerly known as Milkymist, creators of the Milkymist One video synthesizer. M-Labs now focuses on quantum information experiment control software. [1]

I remember watching Milkymist/Migen talks [2][3] given by creator Sébastien Bourdeauducq years ago and stumbling across the early SolveSpace site at the time in researching his background. It was already looking quite promising back then, and I got the impression they were using/developing it for their own CAD needs based on what I saw in their IRC channel. There's clearly a lot of talent in that group.

[1] https://m-labs.hk/about.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se0VhwgpzZg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zADdKAtHM1Y
Is this a serious question?

Maybe ask why America is the only democratic nation with uncapped campaign spending.
The SpaceX's FCC application[1] for their broadband satellite constellation came up in a recent discussion here. Page 65 has tables describing the parts of the satellites that are expected to survive all the way to the surface. These are very different kind of satellites compared to Zuma, but the tables (and the text they accompany) might give some idea of what kind of components might survive (until impact, anyway).

[1] https://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=...
Thinkful acquires Bloc [pdf]
By contrast, however, they offer no positive feedback whatsoever. At my school social media contributes positively to most people's self esteem because it is a constant source of positive feedback from friends on personal activities and memories. IDK why we are blaming Instagram for bullying and issues that have been around for years.
AV1: A new general-purpose video codec
What Is Meat? Missouri Is Working to Legislate Against Lab-Grown Alternatives
my experiences must be atypical, because at my recent 3 jobs spanning about 11 years, there has been a vast majority of Asian (Indian, Japanese, Chinese, et ) members on our engineering teams.
For reference: https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

Employers are supposed to make up the difference if the total with tips falls below minimum wage, but I don't think enforcement on that is very strict.
I did not say anything about web views, I just stated using native apps.

Webviews are unwelcome.
re: (b) Security

Security through delegation vs security through obscurity imo here, follow simple things like use non-standard ports and your changes of getting hacked are likely shockingly low even if your behind on patches.
Please define "crazy high pay."

http://time.com/money/4790237/ceo-pay-salary-compensation-in...

> American CEOs got an 8.5-percent raise last year, taking in a median of $11.5 million in salary, stock, and other compensation.
> The central point, he argues, is that the top 20% professional-and-up top crust of American society has enacted structural gatekeeping processes like many years of education...

I don't think that the top 20% put in education requirements as a way to systemically repress the less-well-off. Instead, look at the jobs that get you a top-20% income. How many of them can be done with little education? Sure, in software engineering you can be self-taught (though I'm not sure how true that is for someone just starting out). I don't want a self-taught doctor operating on me, though, or a self-taught pilot flying me, or a self-taught chemical engineer running the chemical plant a mile from my house.

Those jobs have education requirements for a reason. It's not "I got mine, and now I want to make sure you don't get yours." It's "If you mess up, there can be real-world consequences, and you don't know enough to not mess up without a thorough education in the area, no matter how much you think you know after you've taught yourself."

So the net result looks similar, but there are legitimate reasons rather than bad motives behind the education requirements.
> No one of the intelligence capable of producing AGI is going to publish the full details

This is what I'm talking about when I say "unsubstantiated." Do you recognize that this claim isn't true a priori?
Yes, because docked bikes need to be done in cooperation with a city or business to install a dock station. With dockerless, the streets where I live have just been littered with bikes and scooters.
Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds
I wonder if any supermarkets just ship empty bottles and fill it on location?
Perhaps this could help explain why you grew up poor and are now living comfortably, while other people grew up poor and are still poor.
Surprised no mention of http://www.freenom.com/ yet. Granted, I'd doubt anyone would want to run a business domain off this, but it's great for little projects and personal sites/experiments.
In a sentence, you have shown that you don't understand asymmetric encryption.
That would take a lot of political will to do something like that though and it would take YEARS! I don't think the US is a great market (right now) for city-bikes. Outside of maybe Manhattan & SF I can't think of any major city where a bike would take you places faster/better than another way of transportation would. When you consider all the hassles that biking as a transportation comes with, I doubt this has any large potential (compared to the Uber scale). Could be wrong though. I actually really hope I am!
The beta version of the slack app for macOS seem to be better https://slack.com/beta/osx I can run it all day without problems. The non-beta one, consumed too much RAM.
Definitely something I've noticed more in London, though I sometimes see "Suggested gratuity: <amount/percentage>" outside of London (generally not included in the price by default). Incidentally, suggesting a tip (especially including it in the amount by default) makes me much less likely to want to pay one.
> After all, what "educated" people thought Christ was crucified and then resurrected?

How many come to believe that having never heard it prior to completing their education?
"Visitors" was actually a feature up until a few months back.
They probably removed it from the front-end, but left it in the back-end. This is very, very common. There would be not much to "review."
youtube-dl (to download youtube content without adds painlessley)
I think it does make sense. VR content is still lacking and will be until the basics are figured out. Right now the most important part is getting content out there. With current gen stuff, we have pretty good hardware already, but not much content, and part of that is because the hardware is expected to advance quickly. It makes sense as a game dev to wait for the basic hardware of a 'VR headset' to be figured out.

Right now, there are so many potential questions: Should players be assumed to have foveated rendering? for good vr content, probably, however few headsets have any kind of FR yet..
Should players be assumed to have a certain resolution headset? maybe, maybe they have high res screen but GPU can only push it at lower resolution? How to handle text in a situation like this? Degrade the experience of high resolution users by making all text yuge? Ignore those with lower resolutions entirely?

Basically, I think content is best developed right now with a very high standard of technology. So its better to have clunky, uncomfortable, but very powerful headsets right now, so developers can create great content. Some articles will still be written about how 'VR is dead!' until after awhile someone releases a comfortable AR/VR headset with high resolution and foveated rendering and it turns out theres a trove of content waiting. When that happens, VR will truly be born. VR IS dead right now, because it has yet to begin its life truly.