skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't even mention several contingencies that, given the rest of the document, should certainly have been addressed:

1) Will they cooperate with aliens who offer humans AGI?

2) If a time traveler hands them AGI invented in the future, will they destroy it?

3) Do they support or oppose human/AGI marriage? How will they respond if one of their employees falls in love with an AGI and they plan to elope?

Also, in the unlikely event that AGI is some years away and in the meantime they come up with some statistical regression algorithms (what's known as state-of-the-art AI today, without the G, I guess), how do they address the harmful effects these algorithms already have on society?

This document does, however, make it clear that what we have to fear is not machine intelligence.

I am currently working on a fusion hyperdrive, and my charter (work in progress) is already shaping up to be far more comprehensive. They're phoning it in.
1 out of 28 is not most, and that was on a knife edge vote.
> Basically, while technically IQ tests are not banned explicitly it's such a high risk legal venture that almost no one does it. Instead, they use other proxies such as credentialism, SAT scores, etc.

Which have exactly the same legal problem, the only advantage is they don't have the “this is illegal” myth about them, so are somewhat less likely to be challenged.

But, the evidentiary requirements for them to be upheld if challenged is exactly the same, and most of them have as little (or less) scientific link to performance in the jobs they are used to hire for as IQ tests.

If you evidence that IQ has a particular weight in job performance, using it as a hiring signal with that weight is not illegal (thresholding may be particularly problematic and hard to support, but that's something a red herring—using an IQ test doesn't require using it as a threshold-based filter rather than a weighted input to a multifactorial decision criteria.

If you don't have that evidence and the use of the test has the effect of unequal impact against a protected class, it's illegal, but that's true of anything used as a hiring input, not something specific about IQ tests.
RSS feeds for Hacker News? Please elaborate.
Don't forget iShares too, which are usually traded commission free for many brokers (I know for Fidelity and USAA...). IVV has an expense ratio of 0.04% and they have other really low cost ETFs too.
Software which runs on an ESP8266 and publishes an MQTT topic
I'd really like this to evolve into a standard thing in our linux distros. By which I mean apt-get'able, which it looks very close to.

I have no interest in the play store but I would like my lineageos/fdroid userspace available directly to my desktop.
And you feel that it is morally defensible to maintain this type of one-sided relationship?
People's personal info can be a matter of life or death too. If yours isn't, you can count yourself fortunate.
The Wall Street Journal’s rocket reporter, Andy Pasztor [1], has had an anti-commercial space bias since as far back as I can remember. His sources appear to be Boeing and Lockheed Martin company men. His reporting echoes their world views, inaccuracies and all.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/news/author/1472
Even that realization of who to trust and who not is hacked allready.
Russia showed us how to do it- throw some fog grenades, and the blind can lead the blind again..
Subvert all the things.
I'm in the same boat. People's homes vary a lot, and any single wood is going to clash badly with at a large percentage of homes.

White (plastic or painted metal) is something that could probably blend in to almost any space.

(It also shows misplaced priorities, in my opinion, when the homepage mentions the Janka hardness of the wood. I don't care how hard the button is because I'm just pressing it with my finger...)
What's a theoretical pottery class got to do with this? Feel free to look up why teachers are currently on strike in parts of the US, or why the current US secretary of education is so controversial. This has been a problem for a good long while.

I'm not talking about educated people agreeing or disagreeing, I'm not sure where you're going with that. I'm talking about leaving people with the skills to tell the difference between something reported as fact and an opinion. It's about knowing how to verify, or debunk, claims presented without evidence. It's about being able to detect complete fabrication. After all, what "educated" people thought Pizzagate was real?
Your description "random stuff" is what in the US is considered a "well-rounded education."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/w... (picked mostly arbitrarily from a DDG search for 'well-rounded education') states the usual reasons for that approach.

For example, is the goal only 'to produce medical professionals in an efficient way'? Or does education also include 'acquiring general knowledge' and 'training in citizenship' (quoting that link).

There's also a complaint about 'what Duke University professor and interdisciplinary-studies expert Cathy Davidson describes as "the duck, duck, goose model."'

I had an odd exchange once, over lunch at a UK research site with mostly European graduate students. I found out that I knew more about European history than the others. My education in the US included a European history course, while most of the Europeans had specialized in science since they were teenagers.

Not that that knowledge has really proved useful ... but then again, neither has my training in quantum mechanics.
The infrastructure was that bad before the hurricane. The hurricane pushed it over the edge, but the real problem was underinvestment (and malinvestment) in capital plant, maintenance, etc. for decades. The best illustration: telco sector was pretty comprehensively privatized (at the cost of riots and almost civil insurrection) in ~2000. I can get gigabit fiber in much of PR for $60-80/mo, and service (cell and copper voice and cable and fiber) is competitive and largely was restored promptly. There are places on the island where cable providers have to run 20-35KW gensets to power their equipment still, but the Internet is up. There are rural areas where it's still down, but there is decent LTE basically everywhere. Compared to the power network, it's great (and when it's not hurricane damaged, is far better than the US telco situation generally)

FEMA/USG response was weak in the first month, but part of that was just the genuine logistical difficulty of supporting Puerto Rico vs. a contiguous state. The scale of the USG response from December 2017 onward has been beyond what I would have expected, and probably pushing the limits of statutory authority for political reasons.
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Caching GraphQL results in your CDN
So why is it important to be a multidisciplinary thinker? The answer comes from the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who said, ‘To understand is to know what to do.’ Could there be anything that sounds simpler than that? And yet it’s a genius line, to understand is to know what to do. How many mistakes you make when you understand something? You don’t make any mistakes. Where do mistakes come from? They come from blind spots, a lack of understanding. Why do you need to be multidisciplinary in your thinking? Because as the Japanese proverb says, ‘The frog in the well knows nothing of the mighty ocean.’ You may know everything there is to know about your specialty, your silo, your well, but how are you going to make any good decisions in life…the complex systems of life, the dynamic system of life…if all you know is one well?
Do you know there is a transit option called Taxi?
Took me several reads of this to figure out the context, but now I think I understand it.

I think this answers the question about how passwords at what seems to be a large financial firm are stored - after all, there's only one way to know which of the characters in the stored password are special...
That's exactly what I said to my other management team. :-(
> GDPR sets a bad precedent with local laws impacting foreign businesses.

The U.S. set that precedent 2 decades ago with the DMCA.

Don't like it? Then don't deal with EU citizens and residents. Don't like that? Fine, just don't go to the EU, or have any assets in the EU.
Yes, without a doubt. It takes many of the downsides of meat out of the equation (animal cruelty, environmental impact, use of antibiotics).

I don't know how the health effects would change though.
Expected about 100 lines more for actual performance. ;)
Just about all will support ChromeOS 67 including ARM. But that does not mean they all will get the new gnu/Linux without developer support.

Right now only the pixel book supports in ChromeOS 67.

Google will share more at Google IO as this is still beta stuff. The hope is it will be more than just the PB.
High-Integrity Performance Monitoring Units in Auto Chips for Reliable Timing
It's amazing that so much excellent software has been written over the past few decades using object oriented programing, yet this guy seems to be utterly stymied by it.

Maybe OO isn't the problem.
It is been studied: communes in Israel, child care in Russia, orphanages in Romania... it turns out that you can't usefully pay people to love children. Mothers will do things for children that paid workers will not do.

If that could work, then the children would love their paid caregivers, and the family ceases to exist.

Human relationships require time, and this time can not be scheduled. One must be there for the bruises and scratches.
I realize that Amazon has all sorts of guardrails in place, but I can control anything in my house with Alexa today, regardless of Amazon's prior approval, because I can make anything in my house appear to my Alexa as a Hue hub.

That's not even remotely true without a significant amount of physical hacking and a substantial amount of software programming. Most appliances are not smart devices and do not provide simple control interfaces, let alone APIs that can integrate with Alexa, et al.
yes, basically what you described.
This is a good idea, and if you build it, my company will be a client.
Docker is quite closed as well, so I am not sure if it is a good step in the right direction.
To me this doesn't mean "Sharing traditional AI research is dangerous," but rather "Our efforts may be best spent on less popular topics such as safety, policy, and standards research, so you may see us do less traditional AI research." This seems in line with their stated goals around safety.
Yes. I have used vcxsrv and it works fine. There is also xming.
You know they keep voting to keep the status quo, right? We seem pretty happy to let them switch it up, but they haven't chosen to.
I concede. I thought I was seeing all ASCII line drawing for the 'windows' in that screenshot, but in fact at least the upper right corner is actual graphics.
The End of Reality: The Era of Fake Video Begins
For those wondering, it was a GEICO advert from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flP-o0ydkvo

("Don't cheat the phone company, save money the legal way.")

I think the GEICO one is the most posted on the Internet because I also remember the same conceit for one of the "direct access long distance" numbers (Sprint's 10-220) and for, I think, 1-800-COLLECT.
How does the GDPR interfere with one’s right to lawful political speech?
Design is not my thing as well. I code - mobile OSes, XMPP clients, backend/frontend, native utils, games, various stuff (majority of this as FLOSS contributions, even at work ;)) I was never trained in design, I don't care about it that much. Yet I see all those wrong paddings and wouldn't do them this way even in a quick proof of concept.

I don't blame the developers, I don't blame the project. I'm glad they do such client and would probably use it over the official Slack client even with its current UI (I'm more interested in a solid XMPP transport though). I just noticed that some people genuinely don't see or can't put their finger on those issues at all, which makes them unable to think about it and fix them without external help. And I wonder why it is like that - what makes you see those misaligned things as standing out, while others don't notice it?
Yes. The code is also being done in chromium OS.
> Don't buy plastic disposable water bottles if you live in a developed nation

I´m playing with semantics here. But some parts of USA hardly count as developed states. As a country, the USA is overachieving in a lot of measures, but individual states found themselves at the same level than developing nations.

It´s difficult to apply the same rule to 10,000,000km2 of territory and 325 Million people.
Tanzania's new social media and blogging law, license and registration fees etc.
I wonder if legal drugs, unquestionably the only sane policy, are ever going to happen. People all over the world overwhelmingly and increasibly support deontological view of the law over consequentialist, ie. not banning something is interpreted as supporting it; only the signal matters, results are irrelevant. That's why marijuana is the only outlier: its use is becoming accepted.

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/15/11224500/marijuana-legalizatio...
Dammit. I thought JUMP was pretty cool and was planning on slowly shifting my commute to using it when possible (in order to add a small amount of exercise to my day). But I swore off Uber years ago and no amount of "but we've changed!" is going to get me to patronize them again.
It is so damn ugly that I prefer to keep my fans spinning the whole day than looking to that every day.
Are you talking things like buying minced garlic instead of a bulb?
> If I were not of the opinion that social media is more damaging than beneficial to humanity, I'd like to see a social network that limits the number of people you can interact with to ~100. Want to add a new person? Then get rid of an old one.

Better yet, come up with a platform that naturally incentivizes users to engage in more sophisticated interactions with a smaller number of people instead of shallow interactions with large numbers of people.
26% of the country (many who have now died) voted to leave the EU
Two things:

1) Jobs' ability to talk about strategic trends in the industry in such a clear way is truly rare.

2) Amusing how everyone thought OOP would enable a whole paradigm shift. Has that actually panned out?
The US is free to walk away and leave it how they found it, which was a worse state than present conditions, even after the hurricane.

No relationship is one sided - it takes two to make it a relationship.

The US doesn't need Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico needs the US.
IHaskell on CoCalc
"Freiheit ist nicht umsonst" just doesn't have the same ring :-)
Federation is a completely different story from a third-party client.
Common is a stretch compared to how common they are in the US. Banks in Brazil still give them to costumers, but I’ve never seen anyone use them. In the US, mailing checks around is a common occurrence.
I agree excellent software has been written in OO. However, priorities change as industries, hardware, and programmers themselves change.

I've found that OO is incredibly confusing to some people because there are many ways to do one thing. That can be a feature to some and a bug to others.

I've also found that OO requires a level of discipline (e.g. SOLID) that's almost impossible to enforce. I've known companies who essentially have someone on the team whose full-time job is monitoring the code quality of the OO code base. I haven't observed the same thing in functional code bases (though my sample size is smaller).
No, that would constitute sex trafficking these days.
Proper sanitation has saved more lives than vaccines and antibiotics. Check for example this well researched Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/How-much-have-sanitation-vaccination-a...
Governments that do this in Europe fail horribly and just increase prices by huge multiples, nothing else. Last year a whole division of a capital city (Prague) got pretty seriously sick because of government failure. Today in the morning the water did not run at all. Thanks, government.

I know HN is very leftist, so I expect downvotes. It'd be nice to have a discussion though.
Also the tags.
Sweden is also like that. You usually have to linger for two months before leaving after you've quit.

> what are they going to do if you don't show up

They will simply not pay you.

What you do when you're deep into a project like the OP describes is to quit your job by telling your manager that he's the worst you have ever worked for. Then one of three things happen:

1. He/she asks me to stick around for two months. I do and get paid regular salary during.
2. He says "hey, if you want to leave today, that's fine with me". I do but I wont get any more pay checks.
3. They are offended by my critique and says "walk away from you computer right now and never come back". I get paid for two months without having to work.

When #3 happens it's excellent because you will have two months of pay and enough time to find a new job if your resignation was in the spur of the moment. And no need to worry about bad references. When my up and coming boss calls my last horrible boss, someone who I happily divorced, things will work out fine.

Even though (middle?) managers are usually full of prestige and are quite easily offended, #3 has happened to me only once.

Although most don't, I try to utilize or take advantage of the system to the max in my quest to find a decent work place/project. I job hop a lot.
So Washington DC is not part of the United States?
Well, if you call it Data Science, people will come running to you with their Hadoop skills :).

I don't really know the answer, as I've worked with some teams that had strong analytics/CRO penetration, and some that didn't. Probably the main difference is exec-level support; making metrics part of OKR's or the design process pretty much guarantees interest.
What exactly is this, and why is it dated 2 days from now?
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Computers have proven fairly effective at augmenting or replacing middle management, but they haven't been that effective at replacing executives. These are two different skillsets: managers work to achieve a given goal more effectively and efficiently, while executives decide what the goals should be. The former is amenable to rational analysis, the latter is fundamentally emotional.

An economy with a gigantic computer-controlled execution apparatus controlled by a single individual or small group of individuals starts looking a lot like the totalitarian strongman model of Mao or Stalin. Would you want to live in a world where Jeff Bezos controls the whole economy? Mark Zuckerburg? Regardless of how efficiently they run their companies, it's a problem when they're the only arbiter of what should be available to society.

Put more succinctly, the genius of capitalism is that we can have Amazon and Walmart and Alibaba and Tencent and Google and Apple and dozens of other companies that approach the scale of the USSR's entire consumer goods economy. In Soviet Russia they just had Soviet Russia.
It’s not just having an eye for it; UI design is an entire field, and human computer interaction (HCI) has existed since the 70s. I think that a large part of the problem is PMs / managers / tech leads not understanding that design has subjective elements but can also be objectively good or bad, and that they can’t tell the difference between a design that is correct and works well but might not look very flashy vs something that gets lots of likes on Dribble but is awful to use. This feeds into itself and leads to more people thinking that they know what good design is (pretty) and hiring other people who call themselves designers who have no idea about the actual science behind it.
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Spotify was "forced" into IPO in a way: https://www.recode.net/2018/1/3/16847786/spotify-tpg-tencent...

> In 2016, TPG, Dragoneer and Goldman Sachs lent Spotify $1 billion via convertible debt financing, which was supposed to give the lenders the ability to eventually turn their loans into equity.

> The deal let Spotify bide its time before an IPO, but not too much time: The longer Spotify took to go public, the better the terms would get for the lenders. News emerged Wednesday that the company had confidentially filed IPO documents in late December.