skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a few references around here lately to https://wiby.me

I've made a habit of visiting to press "surprise me...", which delivers delightfully retro gems like, just now, the RollerCoaster Tycoon Technical Information Depot: http://tid.rctspace.com

It's a small breath of fresh air from the rest of the web that merges into a unsatisfying blur of over-produced, monitored, and hyper-optimised-for-engagement "content".
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Can you explain to me how being entertained more easily not an improvement? I'm not sure I understand.
> give an option to change my location

Don't we all? It's called teleportation.
You can see the text of all takedown notices from Russia here:

https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/Russia
May I ask why you have decided to not "make the jump"?
To be brutally honest, I must confess that as a European in a peripheral university, also working in an AI subfield, I feel a bit of glee about this.

Those elite American universities have been sucking talent away from all over the world, and working with an amount of resources that provide them with a considerable advantage.

Now they receive some taste of their own medicine.

Note: I'm aware that there is nothing bad in what those universities have done (probably every university would do the same if they could or knew how) and I shouldn't feel like that! But I'm just human, and unfortunately far from being a perfect human... and being beaten to results by people that have 3x as many PhD students and 10x as much GPU power ends up creating bitter feelings.
I actually really loved that. This is someone who doesn't take himself too seriously but treats the subject with rigor. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Jnth
Check out python sh: https://github.com/amoffat/sh
How can you be sure that there are no ways to invalidate your countermeasures regarding AGI if you aren't as intelligent as one?
Comments like these make me think about a bunch of cavemen trying to contain the terminator in a wooden cage, except this terminator probably will have a gigantic intelligence and thus be incredibly persuasive amongst all the things we can't imagine.
I think you're underestimating the amount of naïve people there are. I can see pretty much all of my family falling for a fake travel agent.
May I ask why you jumped from FPGA to software development?
Hope they save because "AI" won't be hot past 2020.
What's the point of having an intelligence that cannot interact with the outside world though?
Could be as simple as showing an on hover tooltip above the words that not everybody might know about (e.g. products they offer / projects).
How about install VirtualBox and use Linux OS?
It's not the physical space, it's the psychological space.

When I had a 50" plasma (this was a long time ago) all my furniture was pointed at it.

Now I watch the occasional movie or show on a macbook pro sitting on a coffee table (great screen and not much difference in relative size due to proximity) and my furniture, and the people seated on it, face each other at all other times. I find the room more inviting and conductive to conversation now.
> Thanks to the magic of complex distributed systems, corruption also isn’t stable: inconsistent data can become eventually consistent, and much of Sync relies on this property to work.

Oh boy. The whole article reads like a lesson in over engineering and trying to find the most complex solution. "But it's a really hard problem." - yeah, every problem can be framed in an arbitrarily hard context if you need to supply a group of people with work and resume-includable buzzwords.
I think for C compilation, Tup is probably better than make. It also has a couple of small syntax improvements compared to make. In particular, it's much better with commands that loop over targets and dependencies.

However, as someone who doesn't write much C, I went back to make. Makefiles seem to adapt really well to different workflows.

A lot of my makefiles look like "download this publically available data, scp this secret data off a company server, mungle all the data with some scripts, shallow clone this branch of that repository, run the program in the repository a few times under different conditions, make a chart of the results".

Tup really doesn't like steps like "clone this repository". Make isn't exactly great with keeping track of targets that output entire directories, but it does work.

I also feel like, for me, make has become more powerful over time as I've learned other tools. Specifically: being able to just magic up any old environment using Nix and be confident that it won't break, mashing data with things like jq, cut, sed and awk, and quick database operations with SQLite.
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AEAD is not enough. How do you decrypt/verify a 100 GB file with AEAD, without disclosing unauthenticated plaintext in a single pass? You need streaming AEAD like STREAM or CHAIN.
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I wonder which CSS declarations specifically are Chrome-only. It doesn't look like there's much needed to get it to render nicely in Firefox too.
> security disasters

would you argue that Windows is More secure? Yeah, there is Gnome and plethora of Linux desktops, but we're talking mass market. And I Am interested in enumerating the disasters, is there any not patched yet? Genuinely interested, as I'm a user :))
The short answer is because they are a hardware company. Selling software isn't what they do unless it's in support of selling their hardware.
I'me not underestimating the no of people who can justify fiddling expenses tho.
I am not sure why this point is not considered more seriously (maybe it is and I have just missed it). I feel that this article and most of the literature being written around this topic is skating around the issue without naming it. The real question here is what are we going to do when the AI we create begins to self replicate/augment their code/control logic? What are we going to do when the AI decides that in order to reduce the loss function they must act outside of the control scope and simply makes changes to it?

Some will say "not possible, how will the code recompile?" to which this article clearly answers...another AI will do it. We have to be honest with humanity here and say that we are seeking to create artificial life of which we will have no more control over than we do any other human. Oh and this new artificial life will be orders of magnitude more physically and mentally robust than us.
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Yes, I've succumb lately to reminiscing on the halcyon days of the early web too. I happened to be a teen then, so the memories are fondly intertwined.

I recently learned the term reminiscence bump that it looks like some folks are also enjoying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscence_bump
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Yes, and the only legal way to run macOS in a VM is when you run it on Mac hardware running macOS.
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Lol yes! Now, if I search something into google, guaranteed the first few links, not the ads, ar links directed to some store for a sale, rather than information.
Rsawe
For many people, what you call user-hostile behavior is either a good thing or a neutral, non-bad thing.

Most people don't care about upgrading or fixing their hardware anymore than they care about fixing their dishwasher themselves. They are more than happy to pay for someone else to repair or replace it, which Apple is known to do well if you live near an Apple store especially.
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My dream product from Apple would be a bare "Mac" in the form of an mATX motherboard paired with a macOS license. They could even make it very clear that they won't offer AppleCare or full Genius Bar service for it—a product for developers, hackers and gamers who are willing to self-support.
In your example, the Terminator, though locked in a wooden cage, would have actuators (arms, legs, motion). The parent specifically proposes not to equip the AI with those.
What's with this modern internet culture of calling everything "terrible" or "garbage" because it has some defects, even subjective ones?

I've watched this gradual change in the users of my own forum I started over 10 years ago. People with no skin in the game think so highly of their opinion that they use it to discredit and dismiss something as terrible garbage.

Seems related to the rise of self-entitlement culture: In this case, a free video series is terrible because you didn't like the voice.
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Comment est-ce que je peux déplacer cet e-mail ci? Il faut appuyer la vâche? Pourquoi?

I realise you were only joking but it does illustrate why i8n icons are difficult.
I worked for Xerox in 1979. They were totally focused on copiers. The management structure in the field had no idea what to do with the new technology. Classic Innovator's Dilemma.

Branch staff found out about new Xerox products in the trade press, not from sources inside the company. Xerox withheld crucial technical information from its customers.

Every new hire was issued a copy of "The Billions Nobody Wanted", a great book that ironically warned against the very malady that Xerox succumbed to.
Have they renamed it since Sierra?
> Probably best to take it back now.

Why? The internet isn't for us, it shouldn't be a quirky clique only for the technorati, it should to be for everyone.

"Normal" using the internet for mainstream, banal and commercial content that doesn't appeal to us is more or less the culmination of the dream. The world has been liberated (at least in part) and connected.

Let's please at least take a moment to appreciate what's been gained for humanity as a whole as we mourn the loss of our own cultural relevance in the greater scheme.
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I think it's Programmable Video Recorder?
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That is true, but nothing is as iconic as a plastic shopping bag.
What would be even more useful is if this would integrate with a web search engine somehow. E.g., search for a term, and it will first show matches in bookmarks, and then matches from the web. Also nice if this would integrate with the filesystem, e.g., it would show matches in documents/filenames on the local system.
I think the logical conclusion is that your iPhone becomes your portable mac desktop. iOs is a modified version of macOS, there are rumours of Apple potentially switching MacBooks to Arm, along with the "merging" of macOS and iOS apps that's also apparently in the pipeline...I can't see how Apple isn't planning to offer a phone that can connect to a keyboard/mouse/monitor to offer a desktop experience. I'm sure it will require a very expensive dock, maybe even with some computing offloaded to it (eGPU, extra cores, etc), but I'm confident it's coming!
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The image provided is not how AI would argue, it's how the author thinks it would do. Is it because it is fun to see how retarded AI could look like from the point of view of a human? When real AI emerges, nobody will be ready and recognize it, partially because of these articles, humanizing neural networks.
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Well here's a Google talk from last month https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSJx5slLEM
From what I'm reading, Australia is gearing up for this too.
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Au contraire, my friend, it’s only in the beginning of an upward hockey stick.
While I love RottenTomatoes for Movies, I find it abysmal for TV Shows. Here are some shows with a >90% score:

- Almost all seasons of Supernatural

- Seasons 3 & 4 of Veep

- Seasons 4, 5 & 7 of New Girl

- Season 2 of The Flash

- Season 2-4 of Arrow

Now I'm not saying that those shows are all shit (tho they are certainly not in my ballpark), but I doubt anyone thinks of them as 100% shows, in the same sense that Moonlight is a 98% movie.

The problem comes with few reviews (which is also a thing with more niche-y movies), which is probably amplified in later seasons, where reviewers who don't like it stopped watching.
> or the Latin/Roman angle?

I think the parent thought of that.
I am surprise that almost no one seems to be discussing whether it's right or wrong to be installing MacOS on non-Apple hardware.

I'm pretty sure it's against apples EULA. Shouldn't we as software developers care about that kind of thing?
Allow all devices to communicate together
Bfg
You're in luck! Syntopia generative art blog just published a nice intro

Building 4D Polytopes With WebGL

https://syntopia.github.io/Polytopia/polytopes.html

Personally, I like computational probability. Theoretically I believe it falls under the more formal rubric of "measure theory". With stochastic processes remaining a very active field. Particularly around nascent quantum computing algorithms, quantum walks, etc.

Probabilistic Models of Cognition

https://probmods.org/
The terminator is incredibly strong and could easily break out of a wooden cage. Like I said, don't give it powerful actuators. A more reasonable approximation would be a terminator head locked in a big metal cage. It might be incredibly intelligent (although there is really no reason to assume that an AGI would automatically be smarter than an ordinary human, especially the first few generation), but its persuasion and charm is limited by the fact that it is a detached metal skull with glowing red lights for eyes.

In addition, the cage could be design so that the power source for the AI is interrupted when the cage is opened, rendering it unconscious. Of course once you assume that it is arbitrarily more intelligent than the most intelligent humans, it might find a way to hypnotize people into doing its bidding just by winking in some magical pattern. But we don't see many dumb creatures being effectively mind controlled by smarter creatures in nature, so I doubt such flaws (if they even exist) are easy to exploit, even for a gigantic intelligence.
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I agree with you for the most part about the matchmaking stuff, but one lucky thing I've found while playing Heroes of the Storm is that if you play consistently at a certain time of day that isn't common like 7am-noon EST you can start to see a number of names over and over more frequently both on your team and opposing team. Eventually you start adding people as friends who did awesome and then they invite their friends and you add them if they were good and now I've got a slew of people who are as serious and/or as skilled about the game as I am, whereas for the longest time I played solo.

It's still not the same, but it's cool when you start to see the same names over and over, it makes you feel like the world went from an endless mass to something with size boundaries and you can tell who some of the other hardcore players are. You can hate them for always being too good or playing the same character and know what to expect, and then eventually they are a friend of a friend and then a friend.

In a similar vein, now that voice chat is there by default it can be easier to get to know people and connect or be repelled. People you respected as good players turned out to be super annoying weiners on mic, while others just regular dudes or gals talking about their life. It definitely feels like it brought a new angle to things.
From my perspective the difference is the control design loop.

To place a bomb is a linear bang-bang controller (pun intended) And the decision is already made wrt collateral damage

But to target a moving object from a moving object holding a gun on a 3-dof mount is an order of magnitude harder to control and the question of collateral damage is an unknown.
You mean because it'll take all our jobs, including programming AI? ;)
> Every job everywhere has an implied requirement that you will be able to communicate and work effectively alongside other humans. Since it's a requirement everywhere, hardly anyone will list it explicitly.

That is true. But there is a huge variability in degree, both on the side of the candidates and on the side of the jobs. I think most people would agree that saying "we need an efficient programmer" is insufficient detail. The same is true for a requirement like "needs to be able to communicate and work effectively alongside other humans."
M,gyhtg
I’ve also felt this experience when it comes to content creation for games.

I missed the modding communities in the late 90s/early 00s that had a sense of place and community. Things tended to gravitate around their IRC channels and those of the actual game. Was great to develop relationships online with not only the modders but the people developing the games.

As an example, Epic Games were super-accessible back in the Unreal Tournament 99/2003/2004 days to chat with on IRC and not just about modding or stuff related to their products. There were also some game servers where you know certain employees made it their haunt.

But now everything is hyper-optimized so both Epic and customers waste the least amount of time talking to each other to solve a problem. It definitely feels more like you’re talking to a corporation than engaging with a community of creators now.
The enforceability/validity of EULAs is debatable.
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Because it runs on top of Webkit?
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By that definition, not even Animal Farm is an allegory since Stalin and Trotsky are not abstract concepts.
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What makes you think that? Media? What are you including under the umbrella of AI? ML, Deep Learning? Are you in the industry?
Mggd
Have you looked at Prosody? They try to make it easy to setup and configure.

https://prosody.im
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No you can't do that either. If you are old enough to remember the 80's and 90's, these same people that are whining about plastic now are the ones that forced us to use it because paper bags were killing the trees. Oh fun fact they are also the ones that brought us trans fats as a "safe alternative" to using animal fat.
Even ";-)" would do the trick.

On the other hand, joke markers decrease humorous value for people who would get the joke without their help.
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There's still some for sure, but I can't help but notice how empty IRC communities are these days.

Bigger ones like #node.js/#javascript on freenode are about 10 people strong if you actually count the regulars.

Frankly I think something like Slack is a better middleground for most communities. People are filtered out because they have to be bothered to install Slack and join the community. Yet it has community-building features that IRC doesn't have, like the likelihood that someone will get messages when they are offline/away and that they will actually come back.
In nature, any given creature is only marginally smarter than any other.

Compared to a decent AGI, for instance, our level of intelligence is probably indistinguishable from that of your average bird or spider.

We're talking about birds getting together to design a system to contain a human, only on a much more extreme scale.

They'd try to contain us using bird-logic. Perhaps they'd ensure we don't attempt to flap our wings and fly away, since their experience tells them that might be an option.

It might never occur to them we could just kneel down and start a fire using the sticks we have lying around.
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There's no Apple hardware, if we're talking about computers. There's Intel CPU, Intel Chipset, Toshiba SSD, Kingston RAM, etc. The fact, that Apple puts their logo on top, doesn't make it somewhat special. And the fact, that Apple doesn't enforce its OS usage tells, that they are OK with that. They could easily make hackintosher's lives a nightmare: checking hardware IDs, etc.
There it is... Docker is fantastic when "it just works" but there is a huge overhead when it doesn't.
Signal doesn't entrust security to carriers. Messages are sent E2E encrypted to the registered device over the internet. If someone MitMs a device, the safety numbers would not match on either end.

Signal, and the Signal server operators, malicious or not, do not know the phone numbers of people you are communicating with (presuming the secure enclave on the server isn't cracked). Signal does know your phone number, so someone could figure out if you use Signal. If you're worried about that, or personal sharing of your number, you could falsify information to create an anonymous phone number, or you can just use Matrix or Wire.
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Hm, you are conflating a few things there. Bluetooth "scatternets" were first of all never standardized, AFAIK, but had to be implemented in the application layer, which led to vast incompatibilities.

Bluetooth profiles, and vendors restricting their devices to sport only certain profiles, are a good thing for compatibility, since it ensures (if done correctly) that devices (i.e. applications in fact) from different vendors can talk to each other.

"WiFi direct" is yet another completely different thing, that is meant for peer-to-peer connections (note: two communication partners) without needing an AP, which 802.11 consumer standards (b,g,n,ac) all did and do otherwise.

Also this standard has nothing to to with flash-mob gaming, and won't allow for it. This is AFAIK meant as a standardization of several so far vendor-specific efforts to extend networks through the use of several APs (similarly to how repeaters were used). Still a good thing, because it is no longer vendor-specific if my devices support the standard.

By expecting mesh networking to solve your applications needs you are IMO skipping a few layers in between. You want ad-hoc, high throughput mesh networks, stateless auto-configuration, service discovery, and quite a few other things regarding routing, QoS and flow management as well as connection management (reliability, multicast?)...

This is not the standard you are looking for. For now you would need to look for solutions in the application layer IMO.
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The fact that Apple actively takes measures to prevent MacOS from running on foreign hardware (including virtual machines) really annoys me

I tried a Hackintosh VM in VirtualBox recently, just to play around, and it was surprisingly easy. AFAIK all that distinguishes "non-Apple" from Apple hardware is an "SMCDeviceKey", a short identifier in the BIOS, and a few other (mostly cosmetic) version strings. With a VM, all you need to do is set those and boot from an ISO --- there are instructions around to create one from the appstore package. No modification of the OS itself was needed; it thinks it's running on a real Mac.
In my opinion it's more related to the fact, that people are actually creating very good content, so if somebody pushes something that is way under that value, you recognize and move away from it. I've watched tutorials on functional programming that took themselves seriously and used a normal, human voice to bring their point across and sorry, I consider those a lot better than this.