skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But when doing this with apt-get install, a lot of the time I find that when a new version of a package is released, the old one gets removed and becomes no longer accessible, so locking versions actually ends up resulting in _more_ build flakiness than just using the latest of whatever package available at build-time, which is obviously not ideal.

I would maintain a local apt repository for that situation.
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Do you think whatever cookie they may set can be compared to the personal data google has on you?

The world isn't black and white.
i’ve noticed this casually as well. i bought an airthings wave plus [0] a few months ago and the co2 and total voc readings seem pretty (but not perfectly) correlated.

i live in a drafty pre-war building and my co2 peaks at around 1500-1600 ppm at night with doors and windows closed. it troughs at around 500 during the day when i have the doors and windows open (~400 is ambient from what i understand). tvocs typically peak around 600 ppb and trough at around 20 (under 100 is considered safe iirc), with the same cycle as co2.

[0] https://airthings.com/us/wave-plus/
Well, there is no way to get a list of installed fonts via the browser, but I have thought about adding an input so you can try installed fonts. I just don't have enough time to tackle all the ideas I have!
Big law salaries are widely known because all the top firms pay in lockstep. The big spike to the right is 100% accurate.
The thing that makes it a bubble is that the supply is artificially constrained by local zoning laws. Eventually people will be fed up with the situation and they'll vote for a government that'll allow more development, at which point housing prices will plummet.
I think we'd be a lot better off if some of the people obsessed with doing something "globally" had instead lived a quiet life at home.
My parents go most every weekend. They're still stress prone.
A state actor using a rogue cert is MitMing the connection in a.very targeted way, and the site operator wouldn't ever see it.
The iPhone was late to 3G, 4G, texting multiple people, and a lot more. Apple has always taken a very wait and see approach.
In the field this is the idea of General Intilligence versus narrow intelligence.

Alexa, for example, is an Artificial Narrow Intelligence. It can process speech and then follow different scripts with instructions derived from that speech, but it often fails comically so you as the human have to talk to it just right for it to work. Not too different from a verbal command line.

Meanwhile a human personal assistant has general intelligence. You can just tell them what you want and they can understand and figure it out.
What?

Of course they chose.
They have received the same complaints about literally thousands of companies, and chose to advance these two first.

Regulators (no matter where) always make strategic decisions about who to prosecute and when. That's part of the job.

I'm not sure why we are trying to pretend they are robotic automatons who just process complaints exactly as received.
The idea of the singularity is based upon the idea of recursive self improvement. I'm not sure how your claims are relevant.
Ask HN: Best resource for macOS development?
Looking for a resource (book, video course, etc) that will teach me Swift and macOS development. I only find iOS ones.

My primary motivation is making native macOS apps for myself and in the future others.
One fun use case is that you can use proxies to detect accesses to nonexistent properties of JS objects, and you can then throw or log a warning rather than having them just return undefined. Unclear if you'd want to do that everywhere (due to perf reasons), but might might be a good thing in development/tests.

You can also use proxies to aid in code migrations. For example, let's say you want to migrate your frontend code from `user.id` to `user.handle` and eventually stop returning `id` from the backend. If you wrap server responses in a proxy, then you can warn in production if any code ever accesses `.id`. That's a lot more comforting than trying to search the code, and even in a 100% TypeScript codebase you still might have some dynamic accesses that the proxy would catch.

(I haven't actually done either of the two above approaches in a real-world scenario, but they've always seemed appealing, and I'm curious of others have real-world experience with them.)
it's about as annoying as finding the difference between a o or 0.

it's about cognitive load
"I have mixed feelings about the NYT piece -- on the one hand it has a lot of valid criticisms and brings sorely needed critical eye to _________; on the other hand it is sensationalistic, too long, and very unfair to _________ -- I guess they needed a villain for the piece."

I cancelled my subscription to the NYT because I felt this way about many of their pieces.
> there must be some way for it to interact with the physical world

that's the body
Despite the cynicism and his black and white predictions, I think his rhetoric still has valuable contributions. It forces others to take a true account of what intelligence is and what kind of intelligence is AI capable of in the medium term (evidence: this thread).

For some reason, this doesn't get enough attention and we have people like Elon and Stephen Hawking making dire predictions all over the place.
My #1 thing would be learning databases and data modeling - most of the time I've made mistakes at work has been because of a bad data model. Most of the time I've made slow software was because I lacked understanding of SQL queries.
Why are third party cookies allowed at all?
> CNIL forces bad UX pattern on EU users.

I prefer bad ux patterns over dark ux patterns.
Ask HN: What's the best way to do filesystem encryption on macOS?
Hello internet!

What's the best way of having filesystems that are 1) encrypted, 2) mounted on demand (not all the time).

Contenders are 1) encrypted disk image, 2) encrypted APFS volume, 3) 3rd party solution (which one?).

Which one is the best and why?

Thanks!
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> Alexa, for example, is an Artificial Narrow Intelligence [...] often fails comically

I'd venture that your coda nullifies the "Intelligence" part thoroughly and completely. She's an "Artificial Smart Assistant", at best.
> Google gets consent for many different personal-data-collecting services without sufficient granularity in how it asks for the consent

If you click "OK, accept all" on the CNIL site, it looks like that enables integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Prezi, SlideShare, Vimeo, and YouTube. Doesn't seem granular at all.
Sounds great for first job out of college not so great if you already have a good job.
They serve the very important purpose of giving citizens a feeling of agency. Without this, motivated citizens of democratic republics would have to resort to concrete action, eventually resulting in revolutions.
I'm saying that someone who works at one of those companies is living in a bubble.

Most of us don't make such extreme salaries. But also, most of us don't worry that our paychecks will suddenly pop.

If anything, most devs outside of SV and Seattle are underpaid rather than overpaid.
And I those attackers can still tell everything based on the target IP and the payload sizes.
The author does not care about security, he cares about increasing funding and power of the FCC.

> Mr. Wheeler is a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
> variable length noise
Just thinking... could this be achieved by simply adding some extra response headers on the mirror side? That is the response could contain some headers like

X-Unnecessary-Header-0: [random-string]
X-Unnecessary-Header-1: [other-random-string]
...

This could be enough to insert random-length noise without the need to invent any new protocol. Of course this would only be effective for smaller packages as I assume that headers size is limited and as a result this would significantly change the perceived download size only for smaller packages.
If we're running in a simulation, the host computation hardware may be different from what you imagine a computer to be. For example, we could be an experiment of "is life possible in a euclidean universe".
For the sake of argument, "spiritual" could be a class of physical objects that can only be produced by other spiritual objects. This is the old "vitalism" argument, which is generally considered discredited, but as the "hard problem of consciousness" is still unanswered, this is a small loophole that proponents can use to hang on to it.
It's much easier to make a plane that can fly than to emulate the particular way a bird flies.

They'll both solve the flight problem, so it doesn't really matter.

Flight is something extremely comparible to ai development. When it was developed, many companies were trying, and a lot of people said it was impossible. The problem space is also similar. We're not sure how to get there exactly but we may be close.

It was, in the end made to happen by an unlikely pair - not a large company with a lot of investment. I believe this might be that fate, too.
I too am surprised that companies are unable to reproduce the results finding their products harmful.
Those are ridiculously extreme alternatives.
> So you're reading a number and then -blurp- your mind goes "Danish" or "Norwegian" letter?

Yes, because my native language is Swedish, so I frequently come across this letter.

> Context doesn't come into play?

Would you use this argument against someone that said zero and the letter O are too similar? I doubt it, and I suspect your casual approach to this is based on the fact that you never encounter this letter.
I've said that they are good means, not the best means. And I guess the reason why they are paid so little is the higher profit margins of FAANG companies as well as probably the alternative in SV that you can found a startup and make much much more if you're good (and lucky).
I'm disappointed you're downvoted. This is a good discussion to have. A lot of problems that we, the human species, face, can be simpler to solve if there are less people!

We have some very clear problems to solve if we have a negative birthrate. Caring for elderly is very hard work, harder, IMO, than raising young children.

When we have a negative birthrate, how do we care for the elderly without it becoming a significant drain on our economy? We can essentially run government programs, like American Social Security, like a Ponzi scheme, because as long as population is growing, there's always more people who pay in than take out.

And, just "saving more" won't solve the problem, because then there will be a bunch of rich old people who can't hire help because there just isn't enough young labor!

Leads to a good discussion!
hardware - the body.

software - the mind aka the spirit.

hardware together with software is the runtime

the body with the mind make a human person, maybe that's the soul?? ‍️
It would be a large mistake to try to become a rank and file programmer at this point in your career. Unless your goal is to learn enough to be dangerous so that you can start a legal tech startup. Why not consider shifting your area of focus in law to something more palatable or relevant to your interests? Do legal work for startups or join a tech company as general counsel.
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> What does multi-dimensional even mean, in the context of intelligence?

Emotional

Logical

Intuitive

Social

Computational

Instinctive

Sexual

Experiential

and I can keep going, but you should get the point.
Define AI. Define intelligence. Kurzwiel's prediction are nonscientific and unfalsifiable. AGI is unscientific.

He really likes making predictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwe...
Counterpoint: https://engineering.purdue.edu/kak/RobotsWillNeverHaveSex.pd...
I don't mind it, using an image for zero that is exclusive is of course preferable. But seeing how common the "slashed zero" is, I think the least we can do is avoid making it more confusing than it already is.
Venezuela's oil situation is a Venezuelan government inflicted wound. The production declines due to governmental mismanagement are bigger than the oil price changes.

Crude oil production is down to 50% of what it was when Chavez took power. The refining side is even worse, with gasoline production was down to 17% of rated capacity mid-2018, and much worse since then. The latest report I could find had their biggest refinery operating at 5% of rated capacity, and often completely out of action.

It's not uncommon from late 2018 to now for Venezuela to be unable to export oil for periods because of pipelines and processing plants breaking down from atrocious maintenance.

For just a few of the issues, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDVSA
> hormones and protein signalling

They are control utilities, regulators for the brain, whose generation is initiated by the brain. However I think you are right with the need for human body. Without sensory input its state would collapse, I think it needs a world with constant stimuli to live in.
> Unfortunately, to get the last element we still have to do the clunky javaScriptArray[ javaScriptArray.length - 1 ] technique. This ... has always seemed like a major oversight in the ECMAScript standard.

Sort of an aside, but there's a stage 1 (relatively early) proposal to add an `array.lastItem` property that should finally improve things:

https://github.com/keithamus/proposal-array-last
If you really want to understand the fundamentals, look into writing a toy HTTP server from scratching starting with sockets. The language you choose to do this in doesn't matter quite as much, but bonus points if you use C and the POSIX API directly.

Once you have accepted a connection, you then have to decide how to handle multiple concurrent connections. Do you use threads? Sub-processes? select/poll?

You can then move on to reading/writing to shared state. Do you use memory? Files on disk? A SQL DB? If using threads/processes, is concurrent access to those resources done safely?

It's a long journey to do the above well. I highly recommend anything/everything by W. Richard Stevens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens
Have you looked at the licensing of the Lucida family of fonts (particularly Sans Typewriter and Console)? From a quick check it looks like just the old bitmap fonts are available for redistribution, and all the scalable varieties are proprietary, but I'm also seeing some contradictory information, so I'm not 100% certain on that. If allowed it would be a great addition to the site.
It's been done, commercially. It's proved noneconomic and technically problematic. Even without economic constraints, the US Navy reserves nuclear propulsion for carriers and submarines. It used to operate nuclear cruisers, but no longer does.

Several commercial nuclear powered ships were built, the Savannah by the US, and single ships by both Germany, the Otto Hahn, and Japan, Mutsu. All proved uneconomical, the Mutsu had major technical issues, and were either scrapped or converted to conventional fossil propulsion.

Among the more pressing problems is the size and loss rate of the civillian cargo fleet. From the United Nations Council on Trade and Development's Review of Maritime Transport: 2014. Total fleet size 47,601 registered ships, totaling 1.68 million deadweight tons. By type and deadweight tonnage:

* Container: 12.8%

* Dry Bulk: 42.9%

* General Cargo: 12.8%

* Oil Tanker: 28.5%

* Other: 11.2%

And those sink. With surprising frequency. From from "Monsterwellen", by Donovan Hohn in Outside magazine:

This is one reason merchant seafaring is still, by some accounts, the world's second-most-dangerous occupation, after commercial fishing. According to Imperial College London, 200 supertankers and container ships have sunk in the past two decades due to weather. Wolfgang Rosenthal, a scientist at the European Space Agency, which studies sea conditions via satellite, estimates that two "large ships" sink every week on average. Most of these, he says, "simply get put down to bad weather.'

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c52ll/shippin...
I don't subscribe to the "vitalism" argument. I am only equipped to assert that "spiritual" (as opposed to physical) primarily constitutes the use of language as a form of unique self-expression. It can be imitated in machines, but never duplicated.

(There's a good reason the Turing test involves language, and that computers can't form meaningful intent on their own.)

I don't know enough to extend the definition any further, though I'm sure it's not limited to merely that.
Amazon selling ads seems a natural progression after it started selling 3rd Party products alongside it’s own identical products nearly 20 years ago.

None of us are totally immune to Marketing/Advertising/Propaganda.

I would agree that Amazon’s product recommendations for me are terrible, with the exception of Kindle books.

I’m currently purchasing Kindle books at a rate 3-5x faster than I can read them!

I actually support a 3rd online advertising option as Google AdWords and FB advertising costs can be quite steep with declining bang for buck.

Disclosure: used to work for Amazon in the prehistoric age.
I had a chance to interview Ray and spend some time with him before he joined Google.

The way we met was very serendipitous -- I asked a question during a movie premiere about the nature of reality. He must have enjoyed it because later someone from his team sought me out to invite me to a VIP after party.

His publicist at the time said this was the best interview he ever gave (It's possible she says that to all the girls, but, I'll take it!)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-adams/ray-kurzweil-in...
I think (human)intelligence almost guarantees recursive self improvement; thus, if AGI = human intelligence or greater, it would also guarantee recursive self improvement.
1) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18949

https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7403

2. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1068 seems like it might satisfy your requirements. It doesn't seem to use the answer in its calculation, but I'm not sure.
> It’s easy to assume that a given set of habits correlate with survival

It is a correct assumption.

I survived this attack ... by not going to Afghanistan.
The Singularity is just millennialism [0] for secular technolgists. We still have a pretty paltry understanding of human intelligence. It seems unlikely to me that more and more iterations of AlphaGo will spontaneously produce strong general AI. My bet is no AGI within my lifetime.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism
What’s sad and stupid about it is that there are plenty of good web-based RSS readers out there (Feedbin, Feedly, The Old Reader etc) that will accept an OPML export of a Google Reader account, and most sites still publish RSS feeds. So there was no reason other than laziness for so many people to stop using it.
Its feasible to build a reverse lookup table of all registered domain names.
Because they're in Europe.
One can both be a former chairman of the FCC and care about security. I think you need to expand on your argument to justify your claim. Has the author previously opposed pro security proposals?
If GDPR required websites to obey DNT would it still be ignored?
your standards for acceptable software were frozen in time in 1985

Haha in 1985 Amiga had a multitasking GUI desktop in 512k and 7Mhz. Now we have millions of times more computational power and struggle to deliver an experience as crisp and satisfying.

I wish people still made software like it was 1985, that actually used the full power of the hardware for something useful...
Not any time soon, as far as I'm aware. According to [0] a fancy article from Business Insider, the rate of increase is 2ppm/yr, on average.

But many studies suggest cognitive effects of CO2 levels as low as 1,000ppm. See: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1510037

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-record-human-...
But then the Guardian also publishes opinion pieces outside of their opinion section as well.
Struggling farmer who planned his own funeral
Still, it would've been nice if the new RCS messaging system would've had end-to-end encryption by default. Or at least that 5G got strong protection against Stingrays.

But we all know why none of that happened. The wireless network protocols are designed with the "help" of the world's top intelligence agencies (and no, that's not so we can benefit from the additional security).
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> doesn't mean it's not possible

In general, that which nature has demonstrated is can usually be replicated. A bird (flight), a floating log (ships), a fish (submarine), an asteroid (space travel), etc. Nature has demonstrated intelligence: a human.

However, just like nature has not demonstrated superluminal travel, it has not demonstrated super-intelligence; so that is still a question.
haha. maybe no computer by the current definition of computer. but I would say that it's a bit extreme to say humans are going to be the only higher intelligence species.

the only thing that I think we should have disagreement on is if we want it to happen and of course the timeline.

for the if question: I believe we (humans) want to do this. Long term it is going to basically mean immortality and I would not think about intelligent machines as a new rival species, I would think of it as an evolution of our species - it's actually a great way of transcending our biological limitations.

for the timeline piece: I don't think it's going to happen within our lifetimes. I also think it's going to be a process where for a very long period of time we will be hybrids (we will augment ourselves with hardware that will make us smarter/more capable and this in turn will lead to us building even better and more comprehensive hardware. At some point we'll figure out that the biological part is just getting in the way and we'll completely remove it).
Unfortunately we are still vastly better at making a worse mouse (or cow) than a better one, to paraphrase biologist Anne McLaren. Sure, evolution did eventually make a super smart chimp, but it took 7 million years of tinkering.
I can't believe there are people genuinely afraid of a hypothetical powerful malevolent AI, yet seemingly not that concerned by actual climate change.
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So why not sample via netfilter and EBPF to filter?
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Hmm interesting, is it possible that the batch size for the tpu is larger? I'm guessing they might be using some sort of large batches to populate their giant GEMM cores
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You are greatly overestimating the amount of energy and time the average tenant will put into fixing anything in the property. I wish I could count on them to help in coordinating.
Learning and customizing someone else's boilerplate can be just as time consuming, though you will probably learn a thing or two in the process.
They cost money for both parties though so in that sense it's fair.
Unless it misleads people in to thinking they don't have to check signatures because they fetched it over HTTPS which is "secure"
I think #1 is mostly a pay issue. If two companies pay the same and one expects more hours, they don't pay the same.

(note, I'd also take a small hourly cut to work fewer hours a week, but as far as I can tell, the paycut I would need to take to do that is so large that I'm better off working a few years on and then taking six months or a year off and eating the tax and career disadvantages of that)

For most people in my area, #2 and #3 are also mostly pay issues. Like #1, it's not entirely pay, but the most common reason I've heard for people wanting to work places other than here (I'm in silicon valley, as you'd expect from someone trying to maximize salary) is that it's less expensive to live almost anywhere else in the world.