skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We intuitively do know this and mankind has used different variations of this concept throughout human civilization. Sortition has been used for more than 2000 years to come up with fair representation of the population in governance [0]. A more contemporary example would be the jury system in the US. But, nice to have experimental results on this concept.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Emm.. I'm going to guess.. it's a dark pattern? :p

EDIT: So the part that could be improved is that it's on Twitter. But I guess it's easier to maintain it that way.
Not for app CPUs, some configurations were freed from FSP needs, because all code was implemented from scratch.
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Given the logo, (removed) homophobic comments[1] and error message, the blogpost on the topic[2], a developer's idea of a "welcoming and inclusive environment" [3], and the range of icons used in the tool [4], I think it's pretty clear that the developers do understand, and don't wish to change anything.

This comment[5] from a Debian developer seems an excellent summary of the issue:

"It's fine to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell women's underwear […]. It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair (and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw attention to the ad) […]

"It's IMO fine to talk about and show breasts in a game which teaches the names of body parts to children; or in an app that helps women to detect early warnings signs of breast cancer; or (Ian's example) in software controlling sex toys; etc. Because there they are simply on-topic.

"And it's IMO not ok to use the boobs theme for a web scraper or other software unrelated to boobs themselves, where its only function is to make a small group of users giggle while objectifying, offending or boring the rest of the world."

[1] https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/228/diffs

[2] http://laurent.bachelier.name/2013/12/weboob-the-asshole-det...

[3] https://git.weboob.org/laurentb/devel/commit/e4ed7bf8e384f4a...

[4] http://weboob.org/modules

[5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/07/msg00428.html
Meetup.com was founded in 2002. Doesn't the graph you posted show that the term "meetup" was in use prior to that?

Regardless, nobody used the term "google" or anything similar to refer to doing a search on the internet prior to Google's inception.

I think it would be a better analogy if "go ogle" was already a common phrasal verb for searching the internet and Google came along, removed the space and trademarked "google" essentially preventing anyone from using the original phrasal verb henceforth.
The beauty of science is that we never know anything with absolute certainty. However, things like burnt toast and cured meat have been shown to be carcinogenic. On the other hand, non-ionizing radiation has not been shown to be cancer causing despite a lot of studies. In that context, I would say it is absolutely absurd to worry about mobile phones without some clear new evidence.
Which is probably why these features were removed three years ago.
It'd have to be a really heavy planet to see obvious gravitational lensing effects (I.e. Sun size).

We detect planets in other systems by seeing them pass in front of the host star, or we detect them radiating IR, or if exoplanet is really big, with small orbit, it's gravitational influence on the host star (I.e. see it 'wobble').

In all cases, exoplanet is quite close in orbit to star.

By contrast, if a big planet is orbiting sun, but really far away (>x100 earth-to-sun-distance), it'd be to cold to detect it radiating any IR, it'd be too far to see obvious effects of it's gravity.
It's Enterprise slang for "we are big, so we assume everything we do works better at big scale, but please don't check if it's true, just trust us". (in this thread it might be true, usually it isn't though)
In the US everything is possible coming from a cop. Like being pulled over because you're black, having your car searched because it "smells of cannabis", and once nothing is found, they decide to seize $150,000 of your cash through civil forfeiture because you didn't blink the turning light long enough and one of the bills was a counterfeit $20. [0]

[0]https://theworldnews.net/us-news/celebrity-dj-says-deputies-...
Weboob package removed from Debian
AI is a confused soup of more or less (un)related concepts: agency, sentience, pattern recognition, unsupervised learning, embodiment, NLP, and goal selection - among others.

IMO the minimal useful definition of AGI would list a set of testable skills that would qualify as AGI, and a more useful definition would be based on quantifiable skill sets that would allow numerical comparisons between humans and AIs.

It seems pointless to speculate when AGI might be a reality when we have only the fuzziest idea what AGI is supposed to look like.
Watch as the incels and MRAs pick up your hilarious joke as an actual argument.
We changed the title from "SoftBank’s Arab Backers Balk at Planned Acquisition of WeWork". It's possible WSJ edited their own title; I think it had a quite different one earlier.
> Obviously it's not meant to be taken literally.

In that sense, we could also say that Minecraft has voxel graphics, since a lot of people seem to think so. It looks blocky, so it must be voxels.

I wonder which "voxel"-engine Minecraft runs on ;p
Any EU citizen is protected by GDPR if the company is doing business in EU. Doesn't matter where the HQ is.
Though in this apparently hyper-vigilant time in which we live, perhaps I'm not allowed an opinion since I am a male with only breasts and not boobs.

Of course you're allowed an opinion. Other people are allowed opinions too though, and if you're not going to respect what other people think (even when you disagree) then no one has any reason to listen to you.
Of course Linux can do this. I'm writing this very reply on a Linux system booted directly off a ZFS dataset.

% zfs list rpool/ROOT/default
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool/ROOT/default 14.8G 60.1G 11.9G /

Support for this exists in GRUB and initramfs-tools, and it works perfectly.

The GPL is not an EULA. It's a distribution licence. There is absolutely no problem in using ZFS on your system, and there's no legal restriction on what an installer may or may not do.
Who knows? Maybe certain modes of damage can result in something akin to hypertrophy in muscle?
There are some interesting comments further in the mail thread from Matthew Ahrens (co-creator of ZFS) and Alan Jude (has recently been working on getting zstandard into ZFS) that give more insight.

Matthew Ahrens[1]:

…Being "upstream" is more a matter of degree than an absolute ordering. In the past, most ZFS features have originated in illumos, and those changes have been ported to the other platforms (notably FreeBSD and ZoL). Looking forward, we see more features originating in ZoL. The OpenZFS community (including FreeBSD) is working to put in place technical processes to ensure that new ZFS features are available on all platforms. The original post in this thread was a proposal for how to do that.

Alan Jude[2]:

…The way that things have evolved over the last few years means it would be much more difficult to just import changes from ZoL. ZoL was originally far behind the OpenZFS repo, but as they were catching up, they were also fixing bugs and adding features. So there is not really a common point in the source we could start from to import ZoL commit by commit.… The biggest thing to remember is that this is still OpenZFS, and still run by the same developers as it has been. We are just commonizing on the repo that has the most features integrated into it.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-Dec...

[2] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-Dec...
Linkedin was particularly annoying with the "you are missing out a lot ... a lot has happened since ..." type of emails. It would also give me couple of non-existent new notifications ... abusing the red indicator badges
In my eyes, copyright should be limited to 50 years after the first publication or the death of the author. This would still allow for proper commercial use of the works by the author, yet put realistic limits on how long a copyright holder can block access to copyrighted work. Because beyond direct usage of the copyrighted work, it always creates a risk for genuine new creators that their creations are percieved as infringing on some random copyrighted piece.

For figures like Mickey, which are actively used, rather trademark law applies. While the early cartoons might expire in copyright, that only gives the public the right to use those cartoons, not to create random "Mickey Mouse" products. That is a reasonable differentiation in my eyes.
This is a problem in Europe as well. The new North south line in Amsterdam cost over 3 Billion to complete and took well over a decade to build.

China is indeed digging at huge speed.

My understanding with the Boring company is not that they are doing anything particularly special but merely doing things in a way that facilitates economies of scale. So, they standardize designs, equipment, logistics, etc. and they use automation. If you do a one off tunnel with a machine that will only be used for that tunnel, that doesn't make sense. If you are planning to do many tunnels that makes a lot of sense.
Does paying addicts to stop smoking work? If that doesn't then the same will apply here.
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> I have no idea why he did it instead of forking SBCL

It's basically explained in the video. He forked ECL, because he wanted to have a CL implementation based on LLVM and very deep C++ integration. ECL is already a C-based Common Lisp.

> SBCL is very good, but it’s hard to say how long it will keep being developed.

As long as people work on it.
Me too. And since most of my social circle have moved from Facebook to WhatsApp for messaging, I am now seriously concerned that WhatsApp is no longer secure... or wont be in the future under Facebook's ownership.
Plant modified with rabbit DNA able to clean pollution from air in homes
Z80 is not a Lisp Machine.

But the 1M memory is not in the address space and maybe there is some external CAR/CDR-processing, so the Lisp-part is actually executed elsewhere.

It is quite sad however that the Z-generation had to waste their time redoing old stuff instead of inventing something totally new: http://timonoko.github.io/jemma/smuisti.html
You might have a point here, but you forgot about the other way around: If I, as a small company, produce copyrighted material, I can still sue or settle with the big corporation that used it.
It does? There's quite a few counterexamples to that, such as airline fares, cars, etc.
One can always ask politely.
There is also Mu Online, a popular MMO. I honestly thought this was gaming news.
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I'm pretty sure vbScript as a language, or even the vbScript engine in Windows has not got any updates whatsoever in the last 15 years. It's still a nice language though, not to be confused with Visual Basic, (like JavaScript vs Java).
That's why the link to Twitter is placed under the "Hall of shame" title.
You’re so welcome! Thrilled to have saved someone else the debugging time. Enjoy!
Cortex also uses gorilla-inspired compression, using the Prometheus source code.

After compressing timeseries they are stored and indexed using a database-like thing, typically DynamoDB or Bigtable, but soon BoltDB will be an option.

(I am a Cortex maintainer)
You really should get the facts on how those systems actually operate.

I'm currently living in an european country that has a national health service that supposedly ticks all the socialist talking points, including free (in theory) access to emergency care, but not only is the service largely inoperational with year-long waiting periods for surgeries, including cancer treatments, but also has a disgruntle workforce who systematically complains they are underpaid and overworked.

The situation is so appalingly bad that the national health service even routes patients to private hospitals and clinics, ending up paying a hefty bill for the services they were supposed to provide in-house but are largely unable to provide.
That looks good! However, I already had my sights set on Isso (https://posativ.org/isso/). My static site generator coleslaw (https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw) already offers a plugin for this, so it is a more natural choice...
Survival is instrumental to any goal. Not only self replication would create that drive.
"Incel" is an actually offensive term, so you're a massive hypocrite.

Besides, how are men's rights activists somehow "bad", as you're insinuating? The reason such groups exist is because they're being actively oppressed by Radical Feminists.
You do not see the twitter iframe?
I would look at it the other way around, it is far more likely that if you train and compete with the best you will reach closer to your full potential than if you train and compete in “minor” leagues (thinking about sports, specifically soccer).

So, I think the OPs point was, if you could compare one individual with themselves they would perform/grow better in an environment with more performing peers.

I would add, not everyone with the “raw talent” can deal with the stress and pressure of competitive environments the same way.
You make a valid point (although another counter-argument has already been given.

But speaking purely in terms of human eye sensitivity this has been confirmed in an indirect way at least: the faintest star visible to the human eye (under perfect conditions) is comparable in light intensity.

EDIT: also, sky lanterns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_lantern
I love vb.net and used it extensively, but given the multiple writings on multiple walls, I switched to C#. While I prefer the vb syntax, I found that using two languages simultaneously is more cumbersome than using a syntax I like less for home projects. I find that muscle memory is a powerful tool.
I don't think this is a kick the TV type of technology. It's causing the microglia to activate, and I doubt it's causing any neuroinjury. Because the last people you want to injure are people with Alzheimer's.
Yes, the grandfather of deep learning. This is exactly my point. All the modern advancements in ai have nothing to do with agi.

And by the way I happen to know about both of the subjects of the article.
It would not be covered by GDPR, just like e.g. private emails containing PII about a third party are not in scope from perspective of the e-mail provider.
I found it useful to make sure there wasn’t something I missed
While initiating the conversation, I try to listening to the other person first before I speak anything. This way I clearly understand if there are any mutual or common interest/topics.

Before this, I used to interrupt in the middle of conversation and folks did not like it. I had to change my habit of not interrupting and listening patiently.

It gets bit difficult to continue the conversation if there is no mutual interest and takes a great deal of effort to continue having conversation.

Public/Forum/Group/Toastmasters discussion definitely helps to overcome the fear and anxiety.

Hope I am able to answer.
Some schools. My eldest did python on MacOS here in UK secondary school.
Have you considered the UK?
What's the best way to detect a massive iron ball in dark space? Can we ping it with radio waves?
> Embrace, extend, extinguish.

It's disappointing that literally anything that Microsoft does has this same comment right on top. Does it add anything to the discussion? We've all seen this comment at least a thousand times in the last 15 years. You haven't even taken the trouble to chalk out a plausible path for embracing and extending. Forget that, you haven't mentioned who they're embracing and extinguishing. At this point it's just repeating a tired meme for the sake of karma.

Not calling you out in particular, but here are other tired HN memes that can be reliably milked for karma

* If you're not paying, you're not the consumer, you're the product.

* It can be difficult to explain to something to someone when their job depends on not understanding it

* Joel Spolsky's article on rewrites
This sounds like a good thing overall, considering most OEMs can't even be bothered to update devices for Spectre that are older than 2 years.

However, I can't help but think that this is yet another thing on NSA/FBI's wishlist to Microsoft, just as most of the tracking stuff in Windows 10 seems to be. Say hello to "targeted malicious updates" by the U.S. government.

Yes, I know this was probably possible with the Windows updates already, but I imagine the malicious firmware will be much less likely to detect = the agencies can use this against many more people.
It's not that I don't like xml literals but I rarely use them. An XML serializer is almost always preferable. And they cause havoc in razor, where the editor is always confused between xml literals and html snippets.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, not the Kaiser Permanente managed care consortium. Same founder, but very different organizations.
That's a pretty fair compromise.
I don't see how. Those who want ZFS probably want to use specific features of it or for specific purposes but don't want to have to stop using macOS to continue working with ZFS volumes.
Reminds me of the "hot-babe" package from 2004: https://lwn.net/Articles/113644/
I did notice the mitigating question mark!

It's definitely a matter of interpretation. But the online medium is fragile, and if one person (me in this case) reads it as a swipe, usually a lot do.
I mean, it's cheaper and easier than pretty much any other method if you want to cause airport disruption. I'm surprised people haven't tried this already.
Except that their standard doesn't seem to consider acoustics at all, which is pretty insane to me.
Please don't post flamebait to HN.
Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings cause delays
Please don't do ideological flamewar, or any flamewar, on HN.
I often find in these discussions that Americans look with undue admiration over to Europe and imagine that the same stuff doesn't happen here.

But it does.

I recently got my wisdom teeth pulled out in Germany, and without my asking, the doctor sent me a pack of 12 Ibuprofen and billed me 24 euro, i.e. €2/pill. I didn't want them because I had 500 of the same at home, which I bought for 25 euro — i.e. €0.05/pill. That's a markup of 40x.
1:1 is more about personal and career growth.

My typical 1:1 goes like this

5mins - What's completed or achieved on the work side.

5 to 10mins - Career goals, training, new initiatives, poc, new tech stack, and other tech discussion

5 to 10mins - non-tech and about family, vacation, movies, sports etc...whatever applicable on non-tech.
"New inventions won't all be successful" thanks for the stroke of brilliance!
Fed raises interest rate for the fourth time this year
> I didn't realize you could disable local storage.

You are correct: there is no option to disable so we set to discard after 2 hours. Prometheus doesn’t write continuously to disk so the io is not noticeable.

To your original question, yes we could produce another agent from the Prometheus code which did discovery, scraping and sending but not disk storage. We choose not to as it’s another thing to maintain.

Also we want an option to queue on disk when the network link to push is down.

(I am a Cortex maintainer)
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> True libertarians also argue that all taxation is theft (if they're purists anyway), making road construction immoral.

No, it doesn't make road construction immoral in the eyes of libertarians. It makes taking money from other people, by force, in order to build a road, immoral. People are totally free to build roads privately and pay for it themselves, and even band together to build these roads.

(Part of where the standard libertarian argument falls apart, in my eyes, is that government in many ways really is just a scaled up version of "people banding together to build a road". There are there are legitimate moral/philosophical questions around opt-in vs. opt-out though).
Cool, let's do the same for programmers then. everyone here no longer is allowed to copyright or trademark software or hardware. If you want to develop it, you work for free, and you can flip burgers or something to pay for it. Because you know, intellectual property is bad and all.

You see how stupid this is?
> It's all anecdotal but the moment I see anything delivered by Ontrac I just assume it has a 50/50 chance of being actually delivered.

USPS does this in my area. I'll frequently get packages that are "out for delivery" switch to "delivered" at around 7:30 - 7:45 PM or so. Then they'll show up the next day.
Exactly! That's why I was confused - they didn't replace mongodb with colloquially "hosted" postgres; they stayed at the same level of (partial) hosting. I.e., they didn't "switch to hosted postgres", in any normal sense.
> Human brains are very efficient.

At some things, not all.

Subsymbolic systems, such as ANN are clearly good at some things and symbolic systems are better at others.

It is argued that symbolic reasoning is required for what we might call higher levels of intelligence (lets assume this is correct).

Symbolic systems have struggled in the realms of grounding a symbol to something in the physical world, because its messy and complex, i.e. the area where subsymbolic systems play best.

If we assume that ANN are approximately akin to natural brains, then can we take that they are examples of a subsymbolic system able to, with the correct architecture, produce (perhaps the wrong word) a symbolic resoning system?

Perhaps this emergence ontop of the subsymbolic processing is what humans (and others to varying degrees) possess. Perhaps in the past (GOFAI) suffered because it was going top down, or not even going down to subsymbolic to ground the symbols.

Perhaps ANN struggles because its not going up to symbolic reasoning.

Then also perhaps ANN (or organic brains), which evolved where reaction/perception give the critical survival advantage, then only much later did symbolic become possible and beneficial, however wit hardware that wasnt necessarily developed for that in most efficient way.

Being of the belief that ANN are sufficient for AGI (for 20+ years), and possibly offer an elegant solution, I currently think that they are at this time, not the most efficient (nor plausible with the current compute/hardware, or for many years (probably my lifetime)). Practical progress imho is likely in hybridisation of ANN and Logic (however I'm not referring to hand baked rules), and even propose a mixed hardware might even supersede a pure ANN or what evolution has provided in the brain.
Yes, it's clearly a cultural difference. I'll give you an example. In the nineties I bought a French software magazine with a CD with apps (I don't remember the name, it could be L'Ordinateur). Apart from demos, trials, shareware etc. I found a separate folder on the CD called "Charmes". I look inside - et voila! - I see the directory full of naked women. In a computer magazine! A major one! I can't think it could happen in the USA (or most other European countries for that matter). So I don't see any possibility of mutual understanding here.
I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion on HN, but

I think this is a good case study of why some companies doesn't allow its employees to blog about their company or work without going through some sort of process.
Mine's right in front of my head (frontal lobes), as I squint to read your comment.
It's not a link to Twitter (as in a redirect).

It's just repurposing Twitter as a CMS for their Hall of Shame. I don't see what would be the dark pattern here?
It's hard to say - "never ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity" is all very well, but on the other hand, sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity...