skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Acosta: As you know, Mr. President, the caravan was not an invasion. It’s a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S. And …"

That's where he's rendering a political opinion.

It would be quite different if he said something like "Congressman so and so said just yesterday that this is not an invasion and is merely whatever and could you comment" or "There is concern in some circles about your rhetoric in calling this an invasion..., could you address this concern or explain why you believe this is an invasion" or something like those -- but in taking the "as you know" line, he's directly calling the President a liar, taking a political position on the issue himself, and trying to bait the President into arguing with him (which of course the President did as he always does).
I think it's clear an important element of AGI simply involves traversing large search spaces: This is essentially what deep neural nets are doing with their data as they train and return classification results... and it's not unreasonable to think they can already do this with a performance on par with the human brain.

The problem is that there's a lot of additional "special sauce" we're missing to turn these classification engines into AGI, and we don't have a clue if this "special sauce" is computationally intensive or not. I'm guessing the answer is "no" since the human cortex seems so uniform in structure and therefore it seems to me it is mostly involved in this rather pedestrian search part, not the "special sauce" part.

(disclosure: I'm not a neuroscientist or AI researcher)
> Google, “[this activity I like] for dummies” and learn for a week.

Call me shallow, but everything I like to do is something I've researched exhaustively. This is also related to the reason why it'd be very difficult for me to come up with "30 specific activities [I'm] interested in".

Somewhat OT:
We are in a dawn of the second career (or third, fourth, fifth). As we live longer and longer and are required to support ourselves with our own pensions, we'll see more and more people giving up what they know in order to pursue enlightenment in some other unrelated field. Lack of employer sponsored pensions, continuing education, and vesting schedules is a key identifier [and has been for a while] to this.
How about these two?

https://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_y...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2011/sep/30/anwar-al-...
Counterpoint: Jim acosta is trying to get a specific question answered, and not looking for a "unique Trump interview".

Some people in the press will lob softballs and push out puff pieces. Others will ask questions they feel the people* want answered. There's no way you could ask Trump "What are the exact contents of your tax returns" and get an answer other than "none of your business."

*"The people" may or may not be large indicative of the public at large, and may instead represent a media outlet's primary consumers.
I live in Oregon.

It's not confusion so much as incredulity that this would seem disturbing to someone, especially considering it is so common that a major state[1] mandates it for some employees. California is an example that mandatory sexual harassment training is common.
I'm not a native speaker, but doesn't "We will update and expand our mandatory sexual harassment training" mean that trainings teach how to do sexual harassment, not prevent it? Shouldn't it be "prevention of sexual harassment"?
> MAX doesn't have the Caltrain problem because it is not at grade outside of downtown.

That still limits its speed for that area, and its capacity everywhere.

> You are comparing Portland to European cities which is not a fair comparison. Compared to any city in California, Portland is miles ahead.

Nah, transit usage is much higher in SF, and BART + Caltrain + Muni is better than Portland's system.

Anyway, like I said, Portland is one of the better US cities for urbanism, it's just that that's a bit like claiming to be a more honest-than-average politician.
...and here I am with my 2010 13' core2duo. 16gigs of ram, an SSD a variety of ports and flying along nicely. Still on the original battery and getting about 5-6 hours on a full charge.
This was possible since long (2013) but Google decided to keep it "banned" via policy which stated:

> An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/googl...

https://gizmodo.com/5995416/google-bans-non-play-store-andro...
The Jump bikes do great on hills.
Mandatory sexual harassment training is usually ineffective [0]. The real purpose is to limit a company's legal exposure.

Actually reducing sexual harassment or other negative behavior takes a deep change in a company's attitude and culture. You can't get it from a 1 hour seminar conducted by some HR drone.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-livin...
Sorry, why would you need to "use force" to prevent a followup question? Trump was literally refusing to answer the question. Journalistic norms going back long before the invention of the microphone say that's not kosher and you have to have an answer.

I mean, if we're going to throw norms to the wind and (literally!) push journalists around to control the questions being asked, then we probably don't want to have a press conference in the first place.

The solution is certainly not to have the secret service rough up Jim Acosta because Donald Trump doesn't like the question he asked.
Does anyone know what it costs?
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/9q15t1/the_re...
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/opinion/reagan-vs-patco-t...
Can anyone offer an explanation of how this impacts docker based deploys? Since the serverless docker announcement in August I've been hoping to move off of DO to now but it sounds like that won't be possible with a 5mb cap...?
Congratulations! You didn't have ignorant parents or people deep in the Ponzi scheme telling you falsehoods about the relative market value of CLAS degrees.
Gosh this is long...! Still at it :-)
> There's some redundancy; topics aren't being combined uniformly. For example, today has the story about Facebook killing 115 accounts in two separate batches

Yes, the topic aggregation algorithm is not completely fine tuned as of now. (See prion's comment above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18359975). It has false positives (combining news stories that really don't belong together) as well as false negatives (not combining news stories that belong together).

We are working on fine tuning the algorithm every day based on incoming news stories. If you stick around, you'll see a gradual improvement.

Thank you as always for your detailed feedback. It's not everyday that one has the privilege to interact with a greybeard.
Username check out. But to be honset, the Democrats also helped and people can't think for themsleves because of the school system
Not my story, but useful and interesting no less... Somebody I used to work with told me about a project they did (about 25 years ago now) where they were developing a movie on demand service for a cable provider.

Given the year, it used tapes to play the movies. The user would dial in with their phone, enter a code for the movie they'd want to watch, a motorized catalog system would fetch the tape, insert it into a player and then the user could control the tape player with their phone.

Well, it was a couple days before launch and the catalog system was still not working. They ended up launching with the system printing a receipt, then a human would fetch the tape and insert it into a machine. This went on for several weeks before the automated catalog system was working.

In hindsight, they realized it was actually easier to scale the humans fetching tapes than the machines and therefore the humans were even faster at busy times. System subscribers didn't even know humans were used in the beginning and it launched without a hitch as far as users were concerned. So, like many stories in this thread, sometimes it's easier to bootstrap with manual labor and it can scale with machines doing the right parts of the process.
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The 'sentence' is not correct English because it's missing important punctuation marks. In fact, it's not a sentence.

The definition of a sentence according to Google is: "a set of words that is complete in itself...". Without punctuation, it is incomplete; so it is not a sentence. Maybe it's a phrase?

Adding punctuation makes it a sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

...

Buffalo buffalo which Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

...

Buffalo bisons which Buffalo bisons bully, bully Buffalo bisons.
I'm a native speaker and it probably should be "sexual harassment prevention training" but I know a lot of companies shorten it to "sexual harassment training" the "prevention" part is obviously implied
I doubt it.

It's fairly well known, worldwide, that US immigration is farcical. People do stuff like wipe their devices because otherwise your guys might think it's reasonable to steal all of their data.

Annoying? Sure. Conspiratorial? eh. Their loss.
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I see, I admittedly didn't know that. Thanks.
I agree. Besides taking an Uber approach to sidewalk limitations, I don't really see any use case for this that a moped or bike doesn't do better.
Not actually true. There are plenty of hardware L3/4 switching/routing/flow acceleration chips. IP4 is fast on 32bit machines but IP6 is 4 times the word size there. Hardware does matter.
What happened in the past can happen again. See, every war in human history.
You’re mixing up the “MacBook” with the MBP. Pro is 13”, has four USB-C ports and fan cooling. Function keys optional on the (quite crappy) base models.
Consistently failing to take training required by your employer is absolutely grounds for termination.
> Blockchain is a Semantic Wasteland

Ironic that you would quote that article yet completely ignore its meaning in the rest of your comment?

Stablecoins are a superset of centralized voucher tokens like Tether.

Research into trustless price-stable cryptocurrencies is an ongoing effort, which realization will have a huge impact on the crypto ecosystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18287231

Price stability is as big a barrier to adoption as speed and end-user experience are. Discrediting or wilfully misleading the public on that point is harmful to the field as a whole.
This one is famous:

https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/03/05/unit...
Nope, nor was any of that necessary. LMDB works reliably with Optane DIMMs already, unmodified, by default. By default, LMDB uses a read-only mmap and write() syscalls, so it's the OS's job to persist the data. If you used the MDB_WRITEMAP option to write through the mmap, then you would indeed need to add explicit cache-line flush instructions. But that's not the recommended way to use LMDB.
This (and the internet in general) is pretty anemic on details.

Is this a VM on top of dalvik? I assumed DEX was deprecated in favour of ART https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/gc-debug.html
I mean it is still compatible bytecode (i think) but who knows anything about android roadmap anymore?
Well aware of that. They (board) were a tad too eager to see this happen and only 'supported' him begrudgingly.
Killing everyone! /s
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I feel a proof by induction coming.
Agreed, same here, I spend less time configuring our infrastructure and more time in code.
There's no reason you can't combine then, and frameworks like Tailwinds mentioned above let you make those combined styles through config automatically.

However, my point was that it's a great fit for React and other SPA frameworks, where you can just create a <DangerAlert /> component instead, and inside you can use component styles.

But whatever works for you.
"Base36 and base58 are the only common exceptions"

Isn't Ascii85/Base85 at least as common as those? Quoting the Wikipedia entry for it, "Its main modern uses are in Adobe's PostScript and Portable Document Format file formats, as well as in the patch encoding for binary files used by Git"

Python includes it as part of the standard library. Using the example from the WP entry:

>>> s = r"""<~9jqo^BlbD-BleB1DJ+*+F(f,q/0JhKF<GL>Cj@.4Gp$d7F!,L7@<6@)/0JDEF<G%<+EV:2F!,
... O<DJ+*.@<*K0@<6L(Df-\0Ec5e;DffZ(EZee.Bl.9pF"AGXBPCsi+DGm>@3BB/F*&OCAfu2/AKY
... i(DIb:@FD,*)+C]U=@3BN#EcYf8ATD3s@q?d$AftVqCh[NqF<G:8+EV:.+Cf>-FD5W8ARlolDIa
... l(DId<j@<?3r@:F%a+D58'ATD4$Bl@l3De:,-DJs`8ARoFb/0JMK@qB4^F!,R<AKZ&-DfTqBG%G
... >uD.RTpAKYo'+CT/5+Cei#DII?(E,9)oF*2M7/c~>"""
>>> import base64
>>> base64.a85decode(s, adobe=True)
b'Man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but by this singular
passion from other animals, which is a lust of the mind, that by a
perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable
generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal
pleasure.'
The Ancient Art of the Numerati
Just for fun, here are the top 10 problems I deal with every day. Are there technologies that solve these? If not, why?

1. Getting up in the morning earlier than my body wants to. I think I need to go to bed earlier but find myself watching TV or surfing social media/news.

2. Much of my work consists of repairing technical debt from stuff done 3-5 years ago with the best of intentions. There appears to be more money in this than architecting new software.

3. For lunch I go home and make a sandwich. This may very well be the highlight of my day. Is there a sandwich making machine?

4. I go back to work and work later than expected, usually leaving around 7 PM. The timer says I got 6 billable hours in, but I spent a day to do it. Is there technology that makes billable hours work better or is my efficiency really 50% or whatever. I don't know.

5. I go to the gym 5 days a week for 1.5 to 2 hours which includes 0.5 hours of cardio. I'm getting stronger but generally always look the same, and so does everybody else. I've been doing this for 20 years.

6. I go to the store on the way home and always get the same things. I could maybe set up some kind of delivery service. I worry that automation will put grocery stores out of business someday but am sick of going to the store constantly.

7. I drink a beer and watch Netflix all night. This is awesome. But is this the pinnacle of civilization? I don't know.

8. I see members of my family roughly once per week or less. They all live within 50 miles. Time becomes an inexorable march of lost days, each lost day growing more pressing in my mind as I fall asleep each night. The future implications of this are too painful to contemplate, so thoughts are troubled and fleeting.

9. I started a TODO list of inventions, projects I'd like to work on, etc. I stopped when it reached roughly 200 items. That was a decade ago, and I'd be surprised if more than a handful of items have been crossed off. Is there some kind of a machine that can lower my obligations each day to perhaps 2-4 hours so I can work on the things that might actually help the world? Or is this vanity, is it better to wait for them to spring themselves into existence within 2 weeks or 2 years, sometimes by just mentioning them on the internet?

10. Weekends are the hardest. The yawning mouth of obligation to family, friends and home maintenance stretches like a tunnel to infinity from which no light can be seen brimming from its depths. Holidays become a 2-3 month marathon of reactionary mode optimizing of the things that must be done like last year. A point is reached at which the distraction of daily minutia frees the mind from worrying about the things that will never be. As if all the technology in the world led to a place of maximum distraction, dilution and ineffectualism, each layer cementing the exhaustion beneath the one before. Where is the technology that gives me the time, that pays me the money so that I don't have to run the rat race anymore? If that doesn't exist, then is what we have now really technology?
Did you watch the real video? He didn't push her arm away at all. He was already gesturing with his left arm when the WH staffer approached.

If you watch the slowed down video, the only person doing the touching is the WH staffer...
https://twitter.com/SarahBurris/status/1060349547958951937
It looks to me like US is like an alien planet. What does arbitration even mean in this context? It's crazy that employees need to know these things.
The White House Press Secretary downloaded a doctored video from a conspiracy site and then uploaded it to Twitter to share it from the official Twitter account. The overlay makes it clearer than a side by side: https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/106045055781770854...

While this will get flagged for being "political" the technological analysis by various folks have been interesting.
that's cool, but no way I'm giving up the projector on my indestructible Moto Force for this particular phone.
I don't believe you:

If you put anything inside your PC, you'll have to look up how it connects :)

Even outside - whether it's USB-C or thunderbolt actually matters, HDMI vs Displayport etc.
That's my intuition as well. I'd expect AGI to arise once we put together enough various tools into an integrated whole. So for classification of sensory input, you'd build in a CNN or the like. You'd build in something else (RNN?) for NLP. You'd use something else for planning (which might also work as the highest level controller determining "what sort of tool should I apply to solve goal X?"
DeX is Samsung's brand for connecting their phones to a monitor and having a desktop mode.

It's not related to dex/art of Dalvik.
I've received some in French that were really well written (it's often not the cas) containing old valid passwords.

To begin I freaked out a bit, then understood it was too old to be meaningfull.

But seeing a password you know in the subject of the mail is a bit scary.

On a side note, while checking here and there, I found a website [0] displaying password leaked associated with emails. I don't know if they are ok or dangerous, so be carefull.

I tried with emails I knew where in Troy Hunt DB and it gave me the passwords.

It seems that now they just give you the 3 first letters, which is better than last week when you could test other people email just in case !

[0] https://ghostproject.fr/
By what chain of reasoning did you go from what I wrote to that response?

Of course state propaganda is as invalid as anyone else’s! And all states equally, too!

Neither attempting to block nor failing to block solves the problem of discovering what the truth is. The former because it presupposes you already know the answer, the latter because it’s trivial to algorithmically create endless variations and combinations of lies and truths so that there literally isn’t enough time to decide what to believe.

Even intelligence agencies fall for fabrications. What hope do the rest of us have?
In our upgrade guide we detail how you can break down a "server" that you would otherwise deploy as a monolithic container:

https://zeit.co/docs/v2/platform/upgrade-to-2-0#don-t-rush-t...

The limits are there specifically to help in that transition, to avoid the problem described in the chart. They're a crucial learning extracted from the beta we ran.
This seems to be part of a bigger trend.

Do you feel a bit of pain? Unacceptable. We got to make it go away. Medicate it until you don't feel a thing.

Could your kid scrape a knee on the playing ground? Unacceptable, wrap it all in rubber.

Could you be offended by some text in a classic book? Unacceptable. Trigger warning, counseling on hand, feel free to skip it or read it together with a group in a safe space.

Something someone said makes you feel funny? Unacceptable. Report, protest, de-platform.
Hadn't really thought of that. I suppose we could have retried by making a single partition taking up the entire space, and letting fdisk take care of aligning the start of the partition. But I assumed that alignment wouldn't be an issue when using the unpartitioned block device.
We use Stackery where we work for numerous things. We have a collection of stacks to run our app sync instance, apis, and pretty much our entire cloud infrastructure at this point.
I love using it personally.
Thanks!

I'm really glad you liked it! To be honest, I felt a little self-conscious about some parts of it, but generally, I'm quite happy with it.

It also helps that Dart is a familiar language without too much magic!
I've made some effort to provide a set of similar high-quality implementations available in PyTorch: https://blog.millionintegrals.com/vel-pytorch-meets-baseline...

In my opinion PyTorch code is easier to understand and debug for newcomers. Code is definitely lacking in documentation, but whenever there was a tradeoff between clarity and modularity in the end I've chosen modularity. Ideally I would like others to be able to take bits and pieces and incorporate into their projects to speed up time to delivery of their ideas.
Amazon is on the extreme end of the customer-privacy side. Wtf are you talking about? If you're going to put them in a bucket, they belong with Apple.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd...
I am of the same opinion..
Same thing with a media PC.
You could get some transcoder on your NAS (Plex?). Newer TVs support newer formats. Last year's LG OLED supports everything I could throw at it.
Seems like haxx domain is not great for interfacing with non technical people. I would even bet it could also be the case if he uses haxx email domain for US visa, he is not getting one...
I understand your frustration, but that’s a remarkably similar response that people had to automobiles first being introduced. Not to imply you’re a Luddite clinging to your horse drawn carriages or anything. Just that these concerns aren’t new.

The unfortunate reality is that nothing has solved the last mile problem for public transportation as well as these scooters have.

Say you want to go to the store two miles away and don’t have a car. What are your options? Walk for an hour round trip, take a slow bus if you’re lucky enough to have both where you are and where you’re going on a bus route, or overpay for an uber/lyft/taxi, which due to their cost structure are generally less cost effective for shorter trips.

I agree the safety issues are of concern, but there’s really no better solution currently to that problem, which has been the hardest problem to solve since the advent of public transportation.
I’m using a 4.83€/month (incl. VAT) VM from OVH to host 5 very low traffic websites in a Debian VM. No problem so far.

But I’ve used the tutorials from Digital Ocean to learn how to configure and secure it. They are very clear and well written.
Many NAS have that built in. My Synology can stream to an iPad with VLC just fine.
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If you need a job asap, your best chance everywhere is to ask relatives, friends and friends of friends for a stop gap position, then build from that.