skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I know you are not a bot?
>Unless AI can create a more intelligent versions of themselves on its own

That would be premise 6.
NYC and Chicago were the only two big cities I liked living in from a public transport perspective... Maybe that's why I ended up here in London!
It Never Mattered:Paris Agreement Just Revealed to Be Total Sham Trump Was Right
Increase transparency in one direction.
> Due to the scope of wildfires, fire insurance is untenable.

That's why for catastrophe risks like wildfires you have reinsurers talking that risk - e.g. catastrophe reinsurance market in Bermuda.
Yea, MTA also includes Long Island RR and Metro North. NJ has Path and NJ transit.

NYC isn't circular so going from Bronx to Brooklyn is 30 miles.
Thanks to Treble, this shouldn't be a problem for phones launched with Pie. It should now be possible to build a single system partition then flash it to any Treble device.

There are builds like this working on many devices right now: https://forum.xda-developers.com/project-treble/trebleenable...
Does this have anything to do with genetic modification? If so, this is really cool! But even if it's not, I hope they be successful with this because this will definitely save a lot of lives. I just hope the modified virus won't turn things around and make the person's condition worst.
Ask: What are some challenges in regulating Facebook?
With all the recent scandals and lack of accountability and checks and balances in place, it seems inevitable that regulation is coming to Facebook.

The Senate hearings have shown that those in positions to do something in the government have a knowledge gap - both in terms of technical and business acumen. I suspect they have mainly been taking most commitments 'to do better' on face value.

What are some challenges in regulating Facebook? What should a strong and effective regulatory framework look at?

PS: I also think Google and Amazon are going that way. But their models differ from Facebook. I would also like to know how the picture would look like for them.
Is anyone here helping support the Internet that allows pedos to trade images of their sex crimes?
Inside an Amazon Warehouse on Black Friday
SourceForge has not been fishy for a while now.
Specifically the author agrees with you
As a counterpoint I work in finance and work with a group of smart people that all check their egos in at the door. It's a great place to work. We also try to turn money into more money, it's pretty much the game of life whether you play it or not. It pays really well so I can't complain.

Is the job fulfilling? Depends on your goals - for me I've gained a huge knowledge of low level programming, and front line experience on how far one can go with both software and hardware to 'win' against other competitors in the space. That's invaluable stuff for me.

Is the job moral? Anyone who puts their money on the line knows the risks, this isn't stealing from the poor. People who invest must understand risk, and risk is really the only way things move forward in the first place. But it also implies there can and will be people who lose out.
I wrote a letter to the Sydney Morning herald about 15 years ago saying, OK, starting today, let's make all public transportation free, by not paying for it anymore. All it takes is everyone acting together. They didn't publish my letter. I really shouldn't have given up so easily - I still think it's a good idea. Just need to set a date and get everyone talking about it.
It's a little hard to forget.
> Just because we can easily imagine it does not make it easily achievable or even possible.

It is without question possible, because we exist. It is also possible to do it quickly, because again, we exist. The only thing that is unclear is:

1. How hard it is to do artificially.

2. How far from optimum the human mind is, and how complex it is to improve upon it.
I mean, it's your loss. There's great software there.
Thanks for sharing your opinion I guess?
Higher gas prices == more efficient usage of gas. And more incentive to move away from gasoline. Isn't that good for the environment and for society in general?
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Thanks, this is the first I've seen of the commercial side of solvers so very useful to have that kind of order of magnitude idea.
In context of this discussion, that would be future Superintelligence.
It doesn’t have to be an either/or choice, having both can work.

For example, I’ve just used vim-multiple-cursors¹ to rename a parameter to a function, and I could have done that with “straight” vim too. However, for quick operations a simple `C-n`… to select the name, followed by `c` to change all at once just /felt/ nice.

1. https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
> The Argument From Gilligan's Island

> A recurring flaw in AI alarmism is that it treats intelligence as a property of individual minds, rather than recognizing that this capacity is distributed across our civilization and culture.

This is a stronger argument in the post and we arguably did not know whether it is true when the post was made. AlphaZero destroyed the illusion in 2017. Thousands of years of human Go and Chess knowledge, played and accumulated in communities of many million players, were surpassed within hours of training.

AlphaZero is limited in its domain of application but there is no guarantee that all future AIs would be similarly limited.

> The Argument From Stephen Hawking's Cat ...

> But ultimately, if the cat doesn't want to get in the carrier, there's nothing Hawking can do about it despite his overpowering advantage in intelligence.

> Even if he devoted his career to feline motivation and behavior, rather than theoretical physics, he still couldn't talk the cat into it.

An average human can set up a cat trap, and lure the cat into it. They don’t even need to do it themselves; asking or paying someone else to do it is simple enough.

Humans don’t often fall into a similarly “obvious” trap but we fall for more subtle traps all the time: popularity, money, attraction, etc. A disembodied AI can use social engineering or financial incentives to get other humans to lure their targets into such a trap.

> The Argument From My Roommate...

> It's perfectly possible an AI won't do much of anything, except use its powers of hyperpersuasion to get us to bring it brownies.

Yes, an AI can decide to lie around and just try to get brownies but we know that some kinds of AGI are potentially very powerful for achieving real-world tasks and there are groups who try hard to develop them.

This is like saying an ancient bacteria we found from ten-thousand-year-old ice melted by global warming, or a group of advanced aliens who are arriving in three decades, could be totally harmless; just rest and don’t pay much attention to them.

Most arguments I have read in the post are weak, so I’ll stop here.
That would be much appreciated! I'd love to get involved with Django. Best of luck with the proposal!
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>Send a random Bible passage to a contact, or tweet it, or Instagram it.

>Ditto, but random Quran passage.

Trivia: Half of Quran verses consists of corrupted Biblical passages (due to the fact Syriac Aramaic text interpreted as Arabic), along with other half of weird poetic legal texts.
1. Gartner charge vendors money for their services and they charge clients for distributing their. ‘Knowledge’.

2. If you could see the $$ signs charged to vendors by Gartner for every vendor they list in the magic Quadrant would it colour your opinion of the magic quadrant and their recommendations ?

Journalists who have a vested interest have to declare it in any report - why should Gartner be any different ?
> There’s still an enormous leap we need to make before we’re making something that has the autonomous intelligence of a fly.

I mostly agree with your broader point, but why do you believe this? It seems to me we've built machines substantially more intelligent than flies, but it's a hard thing to measure.
It doesn't matter at all what is privately funded group's objectives were as long as it's above bar.

Does this look bad? Yes, very hypocritical. But people are allowed to work for private entities doing such things.
The Appocalyse: No Bright Future for Apps
HSBC Canada Forms New Partnership with Biz2Credit
More important than the change in newly minted coins is the fact that the miners (in this atypical case) are selling btc for fiat to buy energy to outmine their competition.
This appears to be non-high-DPI-aware on Windows (on Win10, the OS pixel-scales it on a 4K display). Is it possible to fix, or a fundamental Tk limitation?
The thought of "original internet equality" brought me back to the days where you would land on obscure forums via a search engine, and you would find posts by accounts like "str_master", "jsmith", "quizboy".

The most you could discriminate them by was their number of posts on that forum, moderator privileges etc.
Personally (but most likely majority of the people) motivation is so much higher when new knowledge can be applied in the short-term, and a pool of ideas like this comes very useful after e.g. reading the basics of a language.
This is why VR tourism should be a thing. If we all just do it in VR then we would not be harming these national parks. We wouldn't have to trash it. Yes, experiencing it live and first-hand is incomparable to seeing it in virtual reality, but unless we learn to discipline ourselves and stop trashing these national parks, there wouldn't be anything Instagrammable left for us to take pictures of.
Build more highrises seems better solution. Asia builds them on the cheap and on conveyor belt. And they do fine.
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High prices always disproportionally affect the lower classes which are also the most dependant on motor transport to get to their jobs (tend to live outside cities too). As such you're pricing a lot of people out of being afford to drive to work while giving them alternatives that are only affordable to the most wealthy (Teslas are still a luxury product only affordable to a low % of population).
I believe chess prodigies were supposed to derive their superiority by inference but studies have shown that a large portion of that superiority was due to superior pattern matching.
One thing we do know is that we don't yet fully comprehend how the brain works. It's a little early to say it contains nothing we cannot simulate. Quantum interactions do not require high energy physics.
Oh this is quite cool, I assumed it was developed in-house. Thanks very much!
I quite enjoy dull gOOGLE Tts got used to it
Then they cannot currently be able to stop Google taking their content for commercial use, right?
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Wash (obviously) discard any damaged leaves, use plenty of vinegar in dressing, vinegar is quite effective at killing bacteria, balsamic is best, salt, sugar, lemon juice also kill em.
Yeah. There are few tips.

Gibberish (No-mind active meditation) is a more flexible and workable version of Glossolalia.

Most important one, Do not judge the outcome of the process while you are doing it or after it. Your conscious mind will play a trick to persuade somehow you to not do it by creating a different kind of thoughts. Don't Reject them. Don't Accept them. Just observe.

Do it in a room which is empty or with minimum things in it.

It's better done standing than sitting and allowing the hand and legs to move in whichever direction they want. Again Don't JUDGE. Just observe.

Do it empty stomach if possible or at least 2-3 hours of Veg meal and 5 hours after a non-veg meal. This is to ensure your stomach digestion process does not get affected when you release your repressed thoughts in a vacuum.

Do it for 15 minutes if you are okay with gradual results which take few months, 30 minutes to 1 hour if you need results in days. I do it for 30 minutes daily 2 times, before going to bed and in the morning after nature's call.
My understanding is that Wittgenstein likely had metaphysics and certain philosophical problems in mind. I don't know what he would have to say concerning speculation about super AIs and their potential capabilities.
A bit too easy to book subscription model with clients that ask if they can pay next month because they are out of cash for this month... And a buggy old product that's no fun...
Caveat applies though - the hardware layer won't update in this case (which includes the kernel version), so you'll have original (old, maybe buggy or insecure) drivers even though the platform is updated.

It's a huge improvement (a lot of bugs are in platform layer, including the media/stagefright stuff), but not yet perfect.
> I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size

It is strange that an industry whose only purpose is to service the productive economy should be 20% of GDP.

Here's an interesting take of the downsides to having such a large financial sector within an economy: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/05/the-finance-cur...
Show HN: Simple and quick email notification using curl
What's wrong with distance based pricing?
> Complex Motivations. Maybe, but if not we are screwed.

And this is the key: we need to get lucky every time.

If we're wrong even once and a 'bad AI' gets created and obtains the ability to copy and modify itself, we've unleashed the most dangerous virus ever and putting it back in the box will be near impossible.
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Isn't that part of the problem? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall hearing from someone that the MTA sold a good portion of its real estate and so lost sources of income.

I'm not all knowledgeable in this, so if someone who knows more of its history can chime in please do.
Neat trick! I'm interested to know if this holds up on server configurations or is unique to client only. In addition to the published architecture differences between the two (size and exclusive layout), the prefetcher seems to behave differently in forward and reverse in SKL-SP.
>or a fundamental Tk limitation?

This.
But is it possible with the technology we have discovered so far?

> It is without question possible, because we exist. It is also possible to do it quickly, because again, we exist.

It's apparent that we don't know everything.
Sure, but why not other types of lettuce like red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, iceberg lettuce, or butter lettuce?
I'd like to propose a currency which value is linked to an intrinsic, unchangeable property of the human race: the amount of water needed daily by an average inhabitant of this planet. Mark that I state 'needed', not 'used' as that number varies enormously depending on where you look and who you look at. To makes things a bit easier we'll set this amount to 5 liters, this being slightly more than needed but still a small enough number to work with. 1 unit of this currency will buy you this amount of water both now as well as in the future. This should make the currency worthless as an investment option but stable as an exchange medium, just what is needed to allow this currency to remain viable in the now and in the future no matter how many very hungry caterpillars [1] try to hoard it. Call the smallest fractional denomination a Drop, 100 Drops are a Thimble, 100 Thimbles a Swig, 100 Swigs a Pail, this being the smallest non-fractional denomination.

Yes, there are problems here, e.g. how to organise emission of this currency into the market without creating the same problems as current fiat currencies. The basic idea of having a currency which by nature can not be used for investment purposes as its relative value is guaranteed to remain stable over time does serve a purpose but it needs some more thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar
How the outsized power of the City of London makes Britain poorer
> find places your customers are

> we used to take Cronitor

You clearly have skin in the game due to following your own advice.
My personal favorite to implement in order to learn a new framework (mostly GUI oriented): A RPN calculator.

Learn about stacks, state, GUI... Small enough in scope, lots of additional features imaginable.
Win against whom?

People with less knowledge. Less technology.

There should not be an additional layer of risk involved only because people bet on other people.

If I buy a share from company x, the success of that company should represent the share price. But that is partially true.

And NO enough people have no idea what they are doing. In Germany we increased the requirements for trading. You have to read stuff and sign off otherwise the bank will not allow you to buy certain products.

Is the job moral? No.
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This is a UI issue. It is translating stuff when you would prefer it didn't.

Plenty of users need that translation service, and use Chrome precisely because it offers translation. Imagine using hackernews if you didn't speak English for example.

The issue here is that translation is happening when it shouldn't. There is a setting for that, but it's fairly hidden away deep in settings. The UI issue is that it isn't more obvious.
It would seem so, but something in me resists reducing things that way. It feels incongruent with HN's principle of intellectual curiosity.

I do sometimes link to previous HN comments, but only ad hoc. And I have to remember things in order to link to them, which prevents it from getting totally static.
Writing a game should be on the list as well. You touch many of the listed topics, and some more, have to combine them in an efficient way, and also it's fun. And your can write games of any complexity level.
> You don't know what you are talking about when it comes to Tokyo, mate.

As I said elsewhere, I'm specifically only talking about the Tokyo Metro. I didn't include JR just like I wouldn't include the LIRR when talking about the NYC subway.

> Tokyo metro lines mostly only cover, well... the metro area. Not the suburbs or places where a lot of people live.

The same goes for the NYC subway. If I took the A train from one end to the other (uptown to queens), it's about 45km - only 5km more than going from Wakoshi to Shin-kiba, or riding the Yurakucho line end-to-end.

> 10 HKD goes a lot farther in Hong Kong than the equivalent would in New York.

I don't know how you're coming to this conclusion; Hong Kong is one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Obama's most recent Att. General, Loretta Lynch worked for almost 10 years at a super high-powered legal firm in DC and London just before Att. General.

Do we know how she was comped? By whom? How much? For what? What were her conflicts of interests with her very powerful clients?

She was paid by 'hidden people' via her firm. No doubt - and we have no idea who.

Everyone who's possibly going to be the US Att. General is going to have web of conflicts of interests in their history, a lot of it private.

1 year ago I don't think anyone could have predicted who would be the Att. General so I'm not sure this is smoke.

This guy seems to have some more obvious, more public conflicts of interests, those that don't like him should probably focus on that. I don't really like this guy, but then I don't know that much about him and I'm not American so I'm not going to say anything specifically other than there's nothing wrong with anyone working for a non-profit.
You cant blame yourself for that. Would you blame a front camera inventor for the deaths of people taking selfies on the edge of a cliff and falling down?
Before concluding that multitudes of researchers spent 3 decades and learned nothing of note it might be worthwhile to at least spent 5 minutes doing a search.

Imagine if you knew nothing about car safety features but never having been in an accident it didn't seem like cars are any safer or more dangerous than in the 60s.
Executives hire Gartner to tell them in PowerPoint format for $100,000 what their own engineers/professionals could have told them for free over lunch if they ever actually got out of their offices and talked to the people who run the nuts and bolts of the company.
To be fair that's not all on the back of the UK, finance is an international business in the UK.
Or get hounded by insider gold diggers if they find out you're wealthy.
A Roguelike.
Because it's being called a "replacement for Windows and MacOS". I take issue with that, because it's provably not. All use cases are valid. It doesn't matter if you're using it for work or play, there is no invalid use case as long as it works for that user. And if you're touting an OS as a replacement, you have to take that into account.
Just a friendly advice. Documentation, and especially the Readme file, is like the storefront of your project. When you have lots of spelling and grammar mistakes, don’t capitalize the first letter of a sentence, and don’t use punctuation correctly, your storefront looks ugly and not cared for. People will not bother looking further than that.
Useful only for very beginners. Very little actual data or code
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I agree. It's likely just matter. But we still don't know everything about matter.
I'm sure both operations, suitably formulated, are Turing complete, so I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make.
How to Live Your Epic Life and Escape Mediocrity Forever
Ironically, given the articles criticism of the simulation argument, there is an 'escape hatch' with respect of the ability of simulating a human mind in the form of the simulation argument: it is possible that human brains in our universe is just the tip of the iceberg and relies on a massive amount of computation 'outside' of the main simulation that is impossible to do faster 'in universe'.

Of course we have absolutely nothing to indicate that would be the case, but we also don't understand the brain well enough yet.
Nice list, but ‘anyone’? The first on the list is ”Find PI to the Nth Digit - Enter a number and have the program generate PI up to that many decimal places. Keep a limit to how far the program will go”

Easily solvable if you set that limit low and cheat. Just put a string representation of pi in the program, and chop it off at the requested length:

n = Input “num digits?”
if n between 0 and 8 inclusive
print left(“3.1415927”, n+1)
else
print “number out of supported range”

If you don’t cheat or if ”Keep a limit to how far the program will go” doesn’t mean what I read in it, I have my doubts anyone can write that program, even with support from Google.
I mean, the product you worked on was part of the causal chain of this, but that's something entirely different than responsibility. You might be considered responsible if you could have known that this would happen, yet pushed on nonetheless. In this case, however, I cannot imagine you could even suspect something like this would happen.

Of course, with the power of hindsight, you wish you hadn't worked on it. But you didn't have that power when you were working on it.

Anyway, not sure if this helps - I know it's easy to feel guilty for things like this. I'm not a psychologist, and everybody confirming you weren't responsible probably isn't enough to convince you of that. If you do feel guilt, however, seeing a psychologist might be a good idea.
This echoes many of my experiences in gamedev as well. It's really soul-crushing to be working on games that are poorly designed by people who has no business making games, or are designed to exploit some addictive impulse. It can really sap your enthusiasm for the medium as a whole.
1536 cores on Cambridge’s COSMOS SGI Altix UV2000 system:

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