skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, imagine you have three candidates: A, B, and C, and there are 50 voters, and the votes come in like this:

100 - A > C > B
100 - B > C > A
40 - C > A > B
10 - C > B > A

After round 1 of IRV, candidates A and B each have 100 votes, C has 50. C gets knocked out, 40 votes move to A, 10 votes move to B. A now has 140 votes, and B has 110, and A is declared the winner.

The problem is that the B > C > A don't get their second choice considered. Why does this matter? Look at it when you put the votes into pairs.

A vs B: 140 people think A > B. 110 think B > A.
A vs C: 100 people think A > C. 150 think C > A.
B vs C: 110 people think B > C. 140 think C > B.

C is actually the more popular candidate, but C LOSES using IRV!
My Galaxy S5 came with it and I was only able to remove it by rooting the phone. I wouldn't recommend anyone buy a Samsung phone, as that's not the only piece of bloatware that comes with their crappy modded Android.
Facebook (organization) admits Facebook (service) was used, etc. Conflating those things doesn't help.
> Instead, I use an Apple TV 4K

Which is what I'd do but unfortunately Google insists on using it's own video codec for 4k instead of H.265. Meaning your 4k AppleTV can't play YouTube videos at 4K. My smarttv can though... We use AppleTV for everything else.
Ask HN: What are some popular meetups you attend or recommend people to attend
> Is it too much to ask of AMD to handle both?

They are working on new GPU architecture to address it. It's something post Navi supposedly.
"CDC director warns that Congo's Ebola outbreak may not be containable" especially as the locals insist on following traditional burial methods such as washing the deceased and sitting in for days on end with cadaver.
Facebook now adds fbclid query string to URLs, busting CloudFlare’s cache
My personal definition:

Wisdom =

- Context Recognition & Heuristics

- Knowledge Utilization

- Social / Interpersonal Context Recognition

- Emotional Intelligence & Control
Game made with flutter running on desktops
Typically companies store CC info hashed with a per account salt, so you can sign up for another account with the same credit card
Okay, fine. I wish more people talked about Jeff Hawkins work at Numenta or cortical.io or sparse distributed representations. But in particular, Jeff's vision of understanding the neocortex is really cool stuff. If I could cast off the shackles of having to work for my money like a filthy commoner I think I would lean towards learning a more biology inspired approach like Numenta is doing.
Selficides-THe Gladiators of the digital age
This is interesting. I too am interested in simulations and fields like Artificial Life where we start with some basic building blocks and hope to allow something capable of evolution to form.

My question is always "where do we start?" because, as you found out, starting with the most fundamental physics simulation we can conceive of, we are unlikely to generate much of interest for some time, if ever.

But I do have a feeling that in order to get something truly novel and interesting it's going to have to "evolve" in an "environment" and the challenge will be in identifying whether a particular instance of primordial soup is on its way to developing more complex structures.

I strongly believe that the importance of the multi-billion year process of evolution is seriously underestimated by the AI community and that it's pure hubris to think we can short-circuit that entirely and simply reverse engineer the brain with fancy algorithms.
Another dodgy move by Facebook, this time not only tracking people (potentially without their consent) but also disrupting internet traffic.
Wait. A programming language written this side of 2010 stored strings in a bastardized sometimes-ansii sometimes-utf16?

blink

Why on earth not just use utf8 from the start? Surely no micro-optimization made possible by their choice could be worth such a convoluted design?
2FA on a throwaway device for offline BTC storage (CryptoWendyO)
> Intel is still king in high-end gaming performance

Not really if you consider the price per core. Normally designed games utilize all cores, and something like Ryzen 7 2700X provides a major benefit. Comparable Intel CPUs are a lot more expensive. Their only advantage is higher overclock frequency. But if you need to overclock your CPU to play something, that game is already poorly designed and is probably not using all cores properly.
The paper you linked to shows how a simple DL brute force approach (large model trained on lots of data) "successfully discovers important features of the context that decide the correct answer, indicating a good grasp of commonsense knowledge."

Which kinda goes contrary to your last sentence. Go figure.
Do you mean domesticated as in breeding for traits, or just raising them to be socialized with humans?
Yeah, I just have mine running on my primary desktop (an iMac), but I've done a bit of research on consumer NAS products and the Plex support definitely seems spotty.

As for Plex wanting to transcode things, I mentioned having some issues with my Chromecast Ultra, but even that wasn't too bad. There should definitely be an option to not transcode video at all and let my playback device tell me that if it really can't decode the file. As far as I could tell, that option doesn't exist.

I haven't had any issues with library refreshing with Plex on my iMac and movies shared over SMB from my Linux file server. Plex seems to watch the shares and do small incremental refreshes for new content very quickly.

> I don't care about "album art" type stuff; I don't download/store/play hollywood movies or music, so those features would be irrelevant even if I cared about them in general.

That's definitely valid. Wouldn't basically any playback device that supports DLNA (and can decode your files) work fine for that? For me, the library features are pretty important. I had done a lot of work getting Kodi on my Raspberry Pi setup how I liked it, then I switched to Plex which is just as good or better but with a lot less work and maintenance.
Food pyramid:

> The first chart suggested to the USDA by nutritional experts in 1992 featured fruits and vegetables as the biggest group, not breads. This chart was overturned at the hand of special interests in the grain, meat, and dairy industries, all of which are heavily subsidized by the USDA.

Calling this the recommendation of the “scientific community” is ridiculous.
I had one as a child, but it got mean when it got older. Similar story with lots of other semi-tame animals, in my (farm childhood) experience.

Those genes activated by puberty might be ones to target.
Maybe wisdom is like Pokemon, but instead of collecting cute cartoon animals to abuse, you collect heuristics.

At one extreme, people go through life and pick up new mental models along the way. At the other extreme are people who actively seek them out.

So age should bring wisdom, but not necessarily more than younger people.
This study is from 1999, before the internet as we know it, and long before children walked around with smartphones in their pockets. Its also very clear from you answer that you are a young person. I wonder if your answer will change when you are 75?
Interesting enough, a lot of productivity PCs still go for Intel in the form of the 18-core i9-7980XE. AMD isn’t necessarily a shoe-in in productivity either.
Like IRV, it’d help address the ‘spoiler’ issue where an emerging constituency is essentially penalized for growing strength, by sabotaging the major party closest to them. This, and IRV, instead gives them positive influence in proportion to their growing strength.

As such, also like IRV, it doesn’t totally end tendencies towards two major parties. Even fully proportionate representation systems often trend that way, and such coalitions aren’t all bad: they help sinplify choices, making the outsones of elections more gradual and predictable, and make it more likely some stable coalition that together represents a plausible majority can form a working government. But it still creates new competitiveness around the edges, that single-member plurality suppresses.
OSHA is much more vigilant in power plants than on random roofs.
I feel that jiu jitsu makes UFC / MMA less interesting.

I'm more interested in of the stand up combat sports like kickboxing.

I reckon UFC is missing out by not having a pure standup division, without the wrestling/bjj.

I know a former world champion kickboxer who says "Ground and pound? Where's the honor in that?". I thought about it a bit and realised he is right - where is the honor, sportsmanship in beating the heck out of someone on the ground.
Adding small amounts of noise is actually sometimes used to improve the performance of various AI techniques. It helps prevent overfitting.

In fact, if your technique or model is seriously affected by a little noise this is usually enough to brand it brittle and maybe even a failure, as it's a sign of overfitting. Anyone working in this field knows to look for this and will try to make what they create more robust.

The design of visual captchas is one obvious indication of just how successful AI techniques have been at image recognition in the presence of noise. It's no longer enough to make them a little noisy. In order to resist being solved by mechanical means, visual captchas have to include so much noise that even humans have problems recognizing them.
From the thread: "Facebook is doing this in response to Apple’s third-party cookie tracking protection that prevents FB from tracking users just by cookies/embeds, see https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention... 11. With fbclid, Facebook no longer needs to rely on tracking cookies to track users across websites."
CEO’s love their companies until it’s time to buy them
Ask HN: I have been on hn for 10 years, how do you get more karma?
Oh so "just adopt universal healthcare," it's so simple, I can't imagine why no one's attempted it.
This contract is very funny with the GDPR tracking cookie notice at the bottom
Consider that 25% of Christians and many people in India believe in reincarnation.
the depth of perl6 is shocking and easy to get lost in (in a good way). It's the sort of thing you could spend a lot of time mastering and really learn something new constantly. I think the sheer number of concepts mashed together (pretty well) is very educational.
I believe this to be true (embodiment as a precursor to cognition). So much of our early years learning is exploring how our various actions lead to a corresponding result. Touching a hot stove vs petting a soft cat, for example. And instead of just training 1 neural system at a time we're training all of our senses at once, which I think gives a significant boost to the brain's 'understanding' of the result of the action.
All it takes is one party member (out of 80M) lodging a complaint with the central committee.
The caravan is about 5,000 people. It's shrinking steadily. There are approximately 11,000 babies born each day in the US. This does not look like a real problem.
Embodied cognition probably matters a lot if you're trying to build a drop-in replacement for humans. But in principle if someone manages to build a disembodied AGI it would probably still be useful for many purposes including ones we haven't even thought of yet. Think of it like a special-purpose dedicated co-processor. We already have those for other purposes like math, physics, graphics, etc to perform specialized tasks that the CPU can't do efficiently.

In practice we're nowhere close to being able to build any sort of AGI so this is just a thought exercise.
WireGuard for iOS
"...enabling authoritarianism, predictive policing, and quashing of dissent" sounds adequately evil to me, but - you know - I get what you're saying.

Can you recommend any good reading about these threats?
Yes, I'm well aware of the history of the food pyramid. It was in my science books in school. It was taught and talked about in the public sphere as if every expert on the planet agreed that the grain based food pyramid was undisputed among the scientific community. If that example is too far away for you, how about WMDs in Iraq. Do you remember how "every expert" said they existed and how if you were skeptical you were a national heretic?
Did someone throw up on your sliding door mechanism?
I wonder why people were so eager to stop using taxis when Uber and Lyft came along?

Hmm. Gee. Someone should really look into that.
All of mine are local so I’m not sure how they would help. Maybe you’re asking what kinds of meetups? If so, I attend mostly ones that are relevant to my career, software engineering, and they fall into two categories: networking or networking plus educational
Probably backwards compatibility with NSString
It might be due to interop with Objective-C — Foundation's NSString uses UTF-16: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsstrin...
One (of many) reasons I agree is because determining causal relationships is far easier when you can perform 'experiments', i.e. make changes to the world see the results.

Another reason is that nearly all of what we call "common sense" is just knowledge about the real world rather than being some kind of abstract reasoning ability.

Note that embodied cognition doesn't require robotics. An agent can act in a simulated environment instead.

Note also that Deep Mind is very heavily focused on embodied agents.
What’s the worst that could happen?
PredictHQ exits stealth with $10M to help Uber and others forecast demand surges
Does this work for the case you have your email on your phone but you want to use the site on a computer? That seems more likely to me than the case that you have your email on your computer only, but it is neat to see that case addressed.
Swift's String implementation is just porn to me. They had a few misguided attempts in Swift 1 through 3, but their final design is truly marvelous and points programmers who have no idea about encodings towards the right solutions, like by simply counting grapheme clusters correctly, avoiding cloning thanks to views and not allowing for direct string[subscript] access without deliberately stepping down into utf8 or utf16 codepoint representations.

The fact that Swift is aiming for ABI stability, something neither C++ nor Rust have because we all rely on C for FFI, is very interesting.
Is Object Detection a Done Deal Yet?
I sense there may be a clear point here somewhere but you've failed to state it.
I think we don't need to go there yet. There needs to be a stage before that which is the ability to precisely debug the human brain. If you don't understand the brain, then embodied cognition will be impossible to understand. I think the theory needs to be tested in much more depth. Fortunately, you could create AI models to test the theory itself. AI can serve as a testbed of our understanding in biology.

Let me dive in on the idea of debugging the brain.

If we're able to fully record one's brain activity in a precise manner, then we'll understand much better how to create an intelligent system.

This is because very strong advances have been made in machine vision through a similar idea. Scientists didn't need much precise granularity to understand the visual cortex. The structure of the physical cortex is quite understandable: it detects detailed features and integrate them in bigger concepts until you finally 'see'. But I think for more abstract things in the human brain we'd need more fine-grained data and the possibility to replay that data (in the future), so mapping and recreating the structure of a brain (digitally) will also be needed for when I am talking about "the ability to precisely debug the human brain."

What is funny is that AI currently serves as a very crude check to see whether we really understand brains at all. Just rebuild the brain in AI and see if it produces the same result. So part of this ability to precisely debug the human brain comes from AI itself. Since AI can be used as a hypothesis to test our understanding of the brain.

Couple of things: animal brains are cool too, AI can also progress without understanding the brain and this obviously isn't the only thing that will leap AI forward.

But if human brains become more debuggable (either through questionable ethics or technological advances), then it will benefit AI immensely.

Also the ability to have hardware that would be 10,000 times as fast and software that would be optimized for a 10,000 speedup would help. I know that sounds a bit clunky but it does.
Idiotic? Is thst the vernacular?

Imprecise, subjective, splippery defintiions have been beyond useful science so often.

But it seems now the the best era yet to try and wrangle and quantify concepts there were previously too abstract for our methods.
You're describing a fantasy world as far as I can tell.

The situation you're describing requires several facets.

- Enough demand to warrant rent control having an effect.

- Not enough demand to make new units profitable.

- There is room for new development and the only roadblock is profitability.

In California at least, a subsidy would just be a payout to land lords without addressing the major issue of zoning.
There is also ring[1] which is somewhat based on BoringSSL. May be their priorities/philosophies are different. It is nice to see more crypto libs being developed for Rust.

[1]https://github.com/briansmith/ring
And if it leaks into the groundwater you only have to worry about the anti fouling agents you put into the tank, and anything leaching out of the tank lining.
Training an AI to write BuzzFeed clickbait headlines
Terai Nepal
How do they measure how wise a person is?
While I'd love to believe both IBM and VMWare are acquiring in the spirit of Open Source and innovation both are, sadly, chasing sales organizations who are looking at long term pipeline dry up in their legacy product models. Time will tell, especially for IBM, but the people running these organizations are truly not friendly to, or even remotely, understand OSS at the core. Nor do they care.

Acquisitions today are mainly to block competition early. While I'm painting a broad stroke most of these types of acquisitions do little to nothing for the greater long term good of the original products. What has IBM contributed to OSS in the last decade that's been of significant value? Then compare that to the money they make off repackaging these tools and "supporting" them. IBM is chasing dollars and relevance. VMW is trying to compete in a market they've not been able to wedge into helping them sell more seats for VSphere.

Both of these companies have, historically, abused OSS. It's disheartening to see that these monoliths have figured out to buy early and often. And through that playbook, ultimately, maintain control.
So when I was a kid I when visiting my family in Australia I tamed a Cockatoo. A Cockatoo is an Australian Parrot, After I left back for the UK, my aunt never forgave me. Joe, the Cockatoo became very dependent on the family.

I grew up on the Kings Road in London and a local shop has a pet lion called Christian. A film was made about Christian been returned to the wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuxO-C2IzE

In my 30's I tried to tame some foxes, using dog food as a sign of peace. They would enter my cottage when I had the TV on, but would never go closer than about 5 feet.

But it was quite cool having foxes in one's own house. It used to scare quests, who would normally think they were wild dogs.

BUT I know belive wild animals should be wild. We project meaning on them, that is our interpretation.
Oh, Dr Peschanski. If you're interested he was also into random trees https://github.com/fredokun/arbogen
Freezing a dependency tree isn't the point. The point is to avoid making a network request and to know that your dependencies will still be there 5 years from now.

Remember that one of the benefits of Git is that it's distributed. Even if you are hosting your own npm mirror, relying on it gets rid of that distributed advantage. It doesn't help you to be able to clone from the person next to you if you can't build without making a network request.

I'm not saying that this should be the norm for everyone. It obviously shouldn't be the norm for libraries. But it's not inherently a crazy or harmful idea.
Differentiable programming and deep learning with Julia
> Heads simply don't have bears on them

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSzPe...
I don't know what point you were trying to make. (It's easy to talk about living forever, but to imagine it? I don't mean merely a very long time but infinitely long.)
Yeah, that sounds about how it would go down to me. Ever increasing provocations until they get into a situation where neither side can back down without looking bad.
I'd assume that the drivers keep a bunch of photos of actual vomit on their phones, and then just use them when they decide to commit a bit of vomit fraud?

If that's the case, then Uber should at least save the submitted photos and implement some minor automated procedures to raise the bar from effectively zero to just a few millimeters above. Check the EXIF data and compare it to the ride data, and compare the photos to old ones. When a vomit charge is disputed, Uber employees could compare the submitted photos to old ones in case a driver took a bunch of different photos from different angles. Or if they want to put more effort into things, control the camera directly from the Uber driver app and only allow photos taken from the app to be submitted.

It wouldn't solve the problem, but Uber could at least put a minor speed bump in front of would-be fraudsters.
Ask HN: Can we please ban Dunning–Kruger and related comments from HN?
I'm getting sick of clicking on an HN thread only to see someone writing off the OP's post and/or observations as a mental effect. The only effect that posts like the Dunning–Kruger effect serve is to subtly insult the original poster and inflate the ego of whoever is writing the comment (in a "you have to be at least as smart and accomplished as me to even understand that I'm insulting you" kind of way).

Seriously people, it's gotten so bad in recent months that the HN community is now using it as an inside joke. If someone from elsewhere, let's say a Google search, saw such a post, it makes us all look like a toxic mess. I find it absolutely infuriating that we, as a community, openly tolerate such behavior. Especially since we supposedly have the blessing of YCombinator and several prominent tech outlets. Is this really the standard that we want to set?

Anyways, ranting aside, how can we improve the dialogue here? Do the mods have any input on this? We can do so much better.
A different example that hopefully will not result in some tangent about how rude Americans are or some nonsense:

I was a homemaker and mom for years. My sister had a serious career and delayed having a baby. When I was younger, I was sometimes weirded out by her framing. When I repeated things she said to other people, sometimes people actually remarked that she "spoke like a man" or similar.

I think there are differences in how men and women typically express themselves. Some of this may be rooted in different experiences that aren't per se gender specific -- ie men are more likely to be in charge and being in charge shapes language. Then men being in charge means men are more likely to emulate "boss" language. It becomes masculine by association.

But I think that a difference does exist in the aggregate.
Those seem mostly like arbitrary value judgments based on what you personally happen to be comfortable with. Ask more fundamental questions. Are we necessarily better off with traditions than without?
That post reminds me of late-night TV commercials for bizarre gadgets, which try to sell you on their nonsense by showing videos of ordinary people completely failing to accomplish easy household tasks.
If I was doing this I would at least limit the outbound bandwidth of the server to something like 1 Mbps or so. Won’t protect against more sophisticated attacks but would at least make any DoS attempts ineffective.