skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I haven't read those particular papers yet, one common pattern in the ML literature seems to be:

1) Identify a commonly seen problem with deep learning architectures, whether that's large data volumes, lack of transfer learning, etc.

2) Invent a solution to the problem.

3) Test that the solution works on toy examples, like MNIST, simple block worlds, simulated data, etc.

4) Hint that the technique, now proven to work, will naturally be extended to real data sets very soon, so we should consider the problem basically solved now. Hooray!

5) Return to step #1. If anyone applies the technique to real data sets, they find, of course, that it doesn't generalize well and works only on toy examples.

This is simply another form of what happened in the 60s and 70s, when many expected that SHRDLU and ELIZA would rapidly be extended to human-like, general-purpose intelligences, with just a bit of tweaking and a bit more computing power. Of course, that never happened. We still don't have that today, and when we do, I'm sure the architecture will look very very different from 1970s AI (or modern chatbots, for that matter, which are mostly built the same way as ELIZA).

I don't mean to be too cynical. Like I said, I haven't read those particular papers yet, so I can't fairly pass judgement on them. I'm just saying that historically, saying problem X "has been addressed" by Y doesn't always mean very much. See also eg. the classic paper "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity": https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1045340.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't explore new architectures, test new ideas, or write up papers about them, even if they haven't been proven to work yet. That's part of what research is. The problem comes when there's an expectation that an idea about how to solve the problem means that the problem is close to being solved. Most ideas don't work very well and have to be abandoned later. Eg., as one example, this is the Neural Turing Machine paper from a few years back:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401.pdf

It's a cool idea. I'm glad someone tried it out. But the paper was widely advertised in the mainstream press as being successful, even though it was not tested on "hard" data sets, and (to the best of my knowledge) it still hasn't several years later. That creates unrealistic expectations.
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Take a look at California's history of overtime laws for tech writers vs. software developers, http://andreas.com/faq-overtime/

> April 2000, overtime pay was enacted for all who work in California. A new law (AB60, Assembly Bill 60) established the 40-hour week and mandated overtime pay for work over 40 hours. In reaction, the NACCB (the recruiter association) made a number of legislative manuvers to eliminate overtime pay ... the original law gave everyone overtime pay. The recruiters wanted a new law to exempt Silicon Valley so that computer workers got no overtime pay. We tech writers wanted overtime, so the recruiter’s law couldn’t affect the tech writers. So we added our clause to their law: our exemption from recruiter’s exemption ... Engineers have always refused to organize or even to be aware of their interests: they think recruiters are their friends. One engineer said to me: “Engineers think they’re so smart that no one could do such a thing to them. Wow. They got really screwed.” The law is an annual loss of as much as $50-75,000 dollars per each engineer. Yep, it’s legal. The recuiters wrote a law to take away their money. ... If you’re an engineer, or you make over $41/hr, and you’re not covered by the NWU clause, the recruiters are stripping away your overtime pay.

Separately, a modern example of collective bargaining, timed for next week’s WWDC, https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-developers-union/amp

> a group identifying themselves as The Developers Union wrote that "it's been difficult for developers to earn a living by writing software" built on Apple's existing values. The group then asked Apple to allow free trials for apps, which would give customers "the chance to experience our work for themselves, before they have to commit to making a purchase." The grassroots effort is being lead by Jake Schumacher, the director of App: The Human Story; software developer Roger Ogden and product designer Loren Morris, who both worked for a timesheet app that was acquired last year; and Brent Simmons...
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Why is data a requirement to keep?

Currently has value with externalized downsides.
I would not recommend San Antonio, except if you've decided to work remotely (and can find remote gigs). Yes its definitely more affordable but you're very limited in the job opportunities to those in defense/IT kind of work. Rackspace was the big exception, but its not doing all that well recently. If you had to move to a new city, definitely go for Austin, even with the overpriced real estate. The opportunity-gap more than enough makes up for the difference, and Austin is booming.
> Nothing in that amendment specifically mentions the purpose of preventing totalitarian government.

You have to take into account the context. It was written and ratified by people who'd just staged a revolution against what they described as a "tyrannical" regime, often using their own personal weapons.

To note that the Constitution doesn't mention "totalitarianism" is to note that it doesn't contain an anachronism. It's a modern coinage that's not to far in meaning from "tyranny."
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We have very little military spending. The ukraine invasion was a very successfull testrun for Putin.
We in Europe we keep ourselve weak and defenseless. Why?
Yeah. You can even implement custom classes in Java/Kotlin and ObjC/Swift and interop them in dart.
If your function operates with a pointer to a struct you don't need to put the contents of the struct in the header file. You can simply declare the struct with

struct mystruct;

and then use `mystruct*` in the function prototypes. I think in C++ this is known as the PIMPL pattern.

I was also asking more about user-defined libraries than about the standard library...
> If they had learned from that mistake they wouldn’t be trying to wall the internet off.

They're walling off foreign political ideas and avenues for domestic political organization, not foreign technological advancements. They are very explicit about that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...
$60k is well beyond the minimum needed in rural areas. Hell, I went to college hoping to get a wage around $60k. I have a friend in the Indianapolis area who is supporting a wife and two children and owns a house and I would be shocked to discover that he is making more than that these days. It's always sort of funny to me how distorted the idea of a 'living wage' in flyover country is to those that live on the coasts in big cities. My sister's husband made $40k in the mountains of western NC (about 2 years ago) and was able to just barely support my sister and their three children. Now, that was a pretty untenable situation, so that's probably about as low as you can scrape (at least with a bunch of kids), but even they managed to buy a small house on that single (!) income. They were certainly on the poverty line at the time, but they were able to survive until he found something better.
Starting out, it helps keep cost low while still having presence in multiple platforms. I hate every electron based app I use but that's exactly what I would use in an early company.

Can't really say much about bigger companies though.
Yep, I used to run one... The problem is the "local community" aspect is gone... anyone can connect to these boards, but most people don't know how (or care to know.) It's not like the old days...
> DES ... it was never a NOBUS backdoor in NSA's own design

> Second, you can't argue that something is an NSA backdoor when NSA's only role in standardizing crypto relative to it is to make the standard resistant to it.

I'm not suggesting there was a backdoor in DES; I probably should have made that clearer.

> at the time differential was a NOBUS weakness

Exactly, this is what I'm talking about. This would (hypothetically) incentivise them encourage the use of designs that are vulnerable to the cryptanalysis method that only they know about.

> Dual EC is still a NOBUS backdoor. The "nobody but us" part of it is ensured cryptographically; breaking it likely involves solving the ECDLP

The fundamental problem with that type of NOBUS backdoor is that breaks when someone steals/blackmails/leaks the private key. This should be a concern to any agency that already experienced many of their secrets being exfiltrated by a contractor.

edit:

> (I think people generally used to assume that was true and I think that's less and less so every year)

I generally agree - this seems unlikely in practice, although I don't have good evidence for that belief.
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I have had many friends who work in fields which required them to join unions in the US (engineering, law enforcement, education, entertainment, etc), and I have never heard anyone say anything positive about them. At best, they suck a few dollars per month from your paycheck. Most commonly, they prevent the bad apples from ever being fired, no matter how blatant their behavior. Or a non-union person is not allowed to do a trivial task (like move a chair) because it's "union work". At worst, if union management decides to make you the target of a witch hunt, they can make it hell to try to find work in that field at any workplace in their jurisdiction. Who protects workers from the union itself?

I accept that unions have had a valuable place in society, and they're definitely still good for some things, but I don't believe their poor reputation today is "corporate propaganda". They seem to be one of those types of organizations that have outlived their original purpose, mostly, and now exist to propagate themselves.

Ultimately, it's just another power structure. The structure is neither good nor bad. What matters is the people. ("The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery.") Like every organization, over time they tend to collect the type of people who take advantage of that power structure.
7.x billion general intelligences do not think "as a whole" on much. I doubt it matters what even significant chunks of us think, at least not up to the point where pitchforks and torches come out.

For the relatively small group of researchers and theorists consumed by curiosity about the nature of knowledge, experience, and learning, AGI is a fairly understandable goal.

The more important questions may be how/why/whether entities with emergent-aggregate intelligence (organizations such as corporations, nation-states, political parties, international coalitions, activist movements, schools of thought, etc.) would have AGI as a goal. As individuals, we often tolerate and even willingly engage in (sometimes with zeal) all sorts of pursuits that we're "not on board with" because of the gravity of these aggregates. Even when we realize that the goals of the aggregate are incompatible with our individual goals.
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Britain had learned these lessons before the French Revolution : i.e. the English Civil war and the Glorious Revolution.
Agreed. Better an OTA update than having to wait at a dealer for recall work.
>Not paying wages according to the letter of the law is not the same as stealing money from people

I'll confess I don't understand this distinction.

>and employers, like most people who cheat on regulations, often can't or won't shoulder the extra cost if those regulations are suddenly enforced

I'm also confused by this transition from wage theft to the subject of sudden enforcement of regulation. Are you suggesting that the latter is the explanation for the former, and that this diminishes the ethical import of wage theft?

Lastly I'm also not sure why you're claiming it's theoretical. They put forward a specific number: $933 million derived from federal and state data on wage-and-hour violation settlements.
The false-positive/negative rates are the key here. If they are not too bad, then yeah, it may 'work' in the short term. If they are sky high, like most facial recognition is today, then it's not going to work. Word will leak out very quickly that the surveillance is worthless.
The X11 license (MIT has used multiple licenses so there is no single "MIT license") does say "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." but not doing so is not theft.

The grandparent poster is correct -- copyright infringement is not theft and the two ought not be conflated. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft explains why: "Under the US legal system, copyright infringement is not theft. Laws about theft are not applicable to copyright infringement (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vo...). The supporters of repressive copyright are making an appeal to authority—and misrepresenting what authority says.".

The GNU Project also recommends pointing people who misuse the word "theft" in this way to https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/04/harper-lee-kil... -- "which shows what can properly be described as 'copyright theft.'".

Please don't join people in getting this wrong. Even some of the most hostile abusers of that conflation have recanted (the MPAA was denied use of that conflation per https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-banned-from-using-piracy-and-t... and the MPAA's Chris Dodd admitted that conflation was wrong according to https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-piracy-is-not-theft-after-all-...).

The copyright holder in this case has options including suing, but calling what happened as "theft" is not an option and is unlikely to get anywhere with a judge.
It depends on if that 60k also comes with good health insurance though. Medical debt is a huge cause of bankruptcy and financial distress in the US, even for those who ARE insured:

https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/05/01/this-is-the-no-1-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/lost-jobs-houses-s...
American Fuzzy Lop.

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

And no, it's not the rabbit ^^.

It's an 'intelligent' (as opposed to purely random) fuzzer that is quite good at finding edge cases (it's a very/too short summery, please read the link for more details).
Oh, I am definitely in on all calls at this point. And thanks for the rest of the advice, I am trying to follow it already.
I think efforts to distinguish between theft and "wage theft" are an unhelpful distraction.

Theft and "wage theft" are both violations of law. The article shows that economic harm due to the latter far exceeds the former, yet penalties are light, spottily enforced, and usually involve no jail time for perpetrators.

I don't see any nuance in "wage theft" that should shield those employers who do it from criminal prosecution and jail if found guilty. If they can't obey the law, take them off the board and leave it open for those who can.

Finally, there's plenty of precedent for jail as a penalty in other economic crimes lacking any aspect of violence. Insider trading. Stock fraud. etc.
Co-determination / worker co-ops is a better route, since labor power has been blighted by pestilence.
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'Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.'
We have been using Verdaccio for a short time to host some private React components. It was a very easy and simple integration.
For less than the cost of a union, you can get legal insurance/pre-paid legal services. It’s possible for people to take care of themselves.
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https://twitter.com/mattmcfarland/status/620571336214056960 and related coverage at the time was where I came to believe these were level 4. It's fairly hard to get a specific timeline of this though.

Edit:

also articles like this: https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/13/driverless-google-car...

I think it's not considered "level 4" because of specific state exemption and the speed limit.
The VM may or may not compare, from some abstract standpoint, but:

1. the startup time and upfront memory usage of V8 and other JS VMs is incomparably lower (better) than that of HotSpot; and

2. Java in the browser was relegated to gray opaque squares, while JS / Wasm has control of the entire viewport and all browsers APIs.

Those two points alone make it a clear winner. Not to mention the horrible security track of Java, probably due to the complexity of its implementation.
> No garbage collectors out here.

Pack in, pack out. :)
This doesn't just happen for low-wage jobs.

I joined a dev team on March 8th.

By March 21st, I learned that nobody has been paid in 2 months.

Around that same day, the CEO went to jail for writing bad checks.

All other employees quit that same day.

I stayed on after CEO got out-- hoping the client who has been supposed to pay would pay. I was also offered 20k raise + moved to President of Software Development. I was hoping I could temper the CEO's risk factors and keep the business going and maybe get a paycheck, and help get the people who quit paid as well for their previous work.

I worked feverishly 100+hours per week to deliver updates... (keeping some of the IP on my own box --it only modified data, I'd run it locally then just export the data to mysql.)

I've still not been paid, I've filed wage claims, and still nothing.

I've since told the CEO and client, until I get paid nothing else happens.

Has any other developer experienced anything like this? It's so frustrating especially since I'm about to be homeless as a result... I'm owed like nearly 20k in back pay.
Just wanted to follow up on this. Looks like I was not the only one to have these thoughts.

>That drew criticism from media and commentators abroad who questioned whether the ruse and the false outpouring of grief and finger-pointing at Russia it provoked had undermined credibility in Kiev and handing the Kremlin a propaganda gift.

>One senior EU country diplomat who attended Friday’s meeting said Lutsenko had given a convincing explanation to justify the means Ukraine had employed.

>“I’m happy, others are happier than before. I’d say it was the right thing to,” the diplomat told Reuters, adding that Lutsenko did “acknowledge that the media reaction came as a surprise and that side should have been handled better.”

>Separately two television presenters based in Ukraine, one Russian and one Ukrainian, disclosed publicly that the Ukrainian authorities had shown them evidence of being on Russia’s hit list and were now living under state protection.

>A senior European Union official involved in Ukraine said the staged murder could undermine trust in Kiev if the government did not come forward quickly with evidence of what they claimed and the plot’s links to Russia.

source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-russia-journalist...
React native is used by Facebook, Discord, Wal-Mart, Baidu, etc etc it's not going to be abandoned. This is one person's random click-baity rumormongering tweet. Facebook showcased react native at it's F8 developer conference just one month ago. It's a great tool, use it if it works for you.
Given the scale of wage-theft in the US, as documented by this study, your emphasis on a narrow and specific concern related to inspections seems disproportionate.

I'm not saying this isn't a difficult burden for those who deal with the inspections, but in terms of priorities, huge numbers of people getting robbed by their employers would seem to deserve more attention?
> From the simplest cases like being ignored on PRs

You're not entitled to having your PRs merged, or even having anyone look at them. PRs not of particular interest to those maintaining the project simply get low priority. Especially with volunteer work, time is limited and while your PR might appear large and of importance to you, it may not look like that from other perspectives.
Is there a difference in power between individual and collective bargaining?
I would love to see law enforcement take this more seriously. But we should be honest with ourselves that in this moment in America, government is much more responsive to the needs of the rich. One only need look at the newspaper to suspect that, but studies agree: http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materi...

One of the fundamental problems with employer/employee relations is that employers usually have more workers than employees have jobs. Losing your job is worse than having an employee quit. This fundamental imbalance of power means that we'll always need ways to even things out if we want reasonably fair situations for employees.

Labor laws and law enforcement can cover part of that. And we should certainly pursue it. But I think people should also pursue collective action, be that as formal as a union or as casual as Google's workers all pressuring their employers to stop doing military work. Resilient systems always have multiple ways to keep a problem from getting out of control.
However, ants are not in danger of going extinct, and don’t seem particularly hindered by humanity as a whole. If your analogy holds, that could be good news for us. But it could also mean that intelligence is a special case, not the general direction and of evolution or the universe. Would you bet against ants out surviving us and our machines?
Pretty scant on evidence. I'd like a little more than two tweets from a guy that seems to have an idealogical slant against non-native development.
> The drone program is an assassination program which is fundamentally different than somemething like the f-35.

My point is there's no meaningful difference between dropping a JDAM on a particular target with an F-35 or dropping a JDAM on the same target with a drone.

Either way, you dropped a JDAM on a target. Doing it with a drone doesn't magically make the result worse or different somehow.
For a modern American police force in the Bay Area, for example, taking a candidate from academy entrant to fully qualified officer is a six-figure cost.

That's why many Bay Area LEOs focus their recruiting on recent graduates from other Bay Area forces.
That is a really simplistic way to think about this. Most of the crops that we grow today were perfected after millenia of selective breeding and cannot be found in the wild. So the only place you can find them are in human granaries and fields grown and maintained by humans. Without humans to harvest and cultivate these crops (fertilizers, tilling, irrigation) most of the crops would likely perish.

Although it sounds horrible, I can certainly imagine a scenario in which some kind of catastrophe would wipe out a large section of the human race, and perhaps most of our farmers/crop growers as well. A decade after this catastrophe if a post-apocalyptic human race gains some kind of political stability, it would be immensely useful to have this kind of vault to restart agriculture.
> helping the user

So much wrong in these three words.
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Very well put and also very true. Most people are absolutely unaware how fast big shifts happen. The invention of national-socialism with the foundation of the NSDAP happened 1920. A few years later a highly weaponized and aggressive Germany invaded Poland in 1939. 19 years from zero to war.
While I don't completely disagree with you, how would you propose researchers go about the problem?

If anything, machine learning is applied to real world problems these days more than it ever was.

For better or worse, AGI is a hard problem, that's going to take a long time to solve. And we're not going to solve it without exploring what works and what doesn't.
Java was promoted mainly by 1 company. Web techs are made in agreement by a consortium of Mozilla, Apple, Google, Microsoft.

This has a way better long term shot at making it.