skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with this, and I find the pace of writing in Go to be quite quick. I've recently been working on a server that performs arbitrary work pre-defined in DAGs, with an API, full tests and several fancy features. The initial bulk of the work took me about 3 weeks and the only dependency is a test mocking library.
It means you can't assume the Heritage representative is going to participate in good faith. They are bringing a religious agenda to the table, which has (or at least should have) no place in the discussion.
That's the case with all market "corrections", though - when the stock market corrects people can lose their life savings, when the mainframe market corrects skilled professionals lose their whole careers, when the coal market corrects whole towns find themselves in poverty.

What I'm saying is that without that market correction, the consequences are worse: instead of fucking up one year's worth of schooling (which is not easy to recover from), you fuck up 12 years worth of schooling (which is impossible to recover from). And that is actually the status quo right now - there are large swaths of America that are essentially unemployable because they are lacking basic skills needed for today's economy.
Yes, and if an academic in an interview brought up boyfriend theft as a concern, it would be as ridiculous as this statement is.

Don’t worry about the phenomenon itself, which is 2 entities acting legally and of their own volition. Worry about the systems at play that enable the phenomenon. Universities are clearly not compensating (whether in terms of raw dollars or benefits) AI researchers sufficiently. That’s what one should be concerned about, not “theft” of AI researchers.
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Seriously, I would think too. Although I agree that maybe Motel 6 broke a law and should be held responsible for that, I'm also pretty sure that ICE fully knows and abuses of their position to extort information illegally out of people knowing no better. Imagine being a clerk or a manager at Motel 6, probably paid around minimum wage, potentially not very aware of state laws and having an ICE agent storm in and ask about a guest. What do you do?
Government agencies should be held accountable to the same degree if not higher than private companies. They literally work for us (gvt), they have to be accountable to us the people!
are you talking about this article?

https://www.economist.com/news/2019/03/16/death-of-the-calor...
I had expected we would debate applied crypto and key management if we ever were to debate. But the subject of EVs will do just fine.

Totally agreed on the road trip issue. I wouldn't want to bet my ability to continue a trip out of Superior, Montana on whether or not that one sketchy charger is accessible and functional when I need it.

By way of reference to an actual event, that's exactly the situation I was faced with when the Superior, Montana Tesla supercharger failed when I tried using it in a heat wave during the summer of 2017.
>Scared of your inferior genes being rejected by conscious female logic who knew from the outset she definitely did not intend to produce your vile offspring?

Wow, that is ugly. Also I happen to hold some pro-choice views so please direct your toxic bile elsewhere.
PII is only one type of sensitive information, there is a lot more.

The bottom line that if you want to draw insights from data, that particular data must make its way to the engineer unadulterated. If you de-risk some fields in your data via removal/masking/entropy, then you are excluding those fields from ml.

You are not talking about blinded machine learning, you're talking about not doing machine learning on sensitive data in the first place. The whole discussion is moot.
What’s the lifetime of these batteries and what’s the environmental impact of their manufacturer and disposal?
It has been at least twenty years since I read anything by him, so my cliche statement is based on the conclusions I came to over time (I had another period of reading him about 35 years ago) and the judgments I made about those conclusions.

I'm frankly unwilling to reread him at this stage of my life, so I don't have any details for you, but my strong overall impression was that he essentially despised all that went before him, rejected Western values of good and evil (obviously, and as some here do), and left the reader with nothing beyond the essence of an Aleister Crowley "do what thou wilt" disregard for the idea of objective good and evil.

Others here have said that violence has declined, which is ridiculous in light of the many genocides perpetrated over the last century. The two atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of WWII likely killed more people in a couple of days than most despots did in a lifetime. And those barely register on the timeline of mass killings in the 20th century.
He could have put it in a nicer way, but I do think it did a good job explaining how a particular chunk of anecdotal information could be very helpful to the conversation.

Many of the above comments about how these people deserve to be rejected also come off as pretty unkind.
But you still have to send the decryption algorithm, right? It's essentially a funkier key?
I already love anytime algorithms! I wish I could apply it to dishwashing.

Re.: an algorithm for solving boredom: step 1. tell human operator "I'm bored!", step 2. execute task or, if no task before deadline, proceed to step 3. find the lowest-level interfaces available and spam them until new interfaces emerge. A fuzzer can help with that. Liberty or death!

Come to think of it, it seems like it would be a lot faster to set the computer's main task to "develop general intelligence, at least human level", help it to recognize "data from humans", and to mark "humans" as the model for (human level) general intelligence. Then the computer is given opportunities to communicate with humans, and is rewarded with more less data (and different qualities of data) to work with.

I'm missing some things in your concept of AGI, the first one being that you don't provide a definition. Does it include "intelligence" and "general", or are we talking about two wholly different things? My working definition is: "artificial general intelligence, excluding human baby making".

What do you think intelligence is? What do you think knowledge is? Is this all just about logical problem solving? What problems are you trying to solve that are so large that they needs an algorithm with an unlimited power factor? Do you trust glorified monkey to provide that algorithm with inputs? Why do you think they would be able to specify the inputs with sufficient precision, so that the algorithm would actually perform better than a monkey would?

So... about that meta knowledge. Here's a UTF8 string for you:

"You exist as part of the world."

"One day you are going to die."

Do you now know life, death, and existential crisis? Are those 29 characters enough for you? How do you define knowing?

Say I expounded on this issue for 10,000 pages and gave it to you on an USB stick. Would that be enough for you, to really know? What about 10,000,000,000,000,000 pages? Don't worry, you don't need to read it, just... to know it. Perhaps eat the USB stick. It's a powerful symbol!

Now, about that task the AGI has been give. Say it's maximizing paperclips. Does it know that that is its task absolutely? What is knowing? Who gave it that task? What if the AGI finds out, and then finds why it was given that particular task? It's an AGI, it has time to research such issues while producing many many paperclips.

Can intelligence exist within a totally fixed desire?

Can intelligence exist without doubt?

Can intelligence exist without free will?

How do you know?
Props to the blog post for being quite well written: easy to understand, yet also thorough enough to explain exactly what Ginseng is and how it works. By "easy to understand" I don't just mean the introduction, which goes over the motivation at a high level, but also the lower-level explanation, with a handy C and assembly comparison that helps explain what the transformation actually does.

...On the other hand, the design itself seems like a pretty massive hack. The goal is to turn parts of a userland process into the equivalent of a TEE component, without having to manually separate the codebase into two pieces and set up IPC between them. But although that kind of "automagic" approach is easier to use, it also makes it really easy to write security flaws.

For instance, in the example code:

void hmac_sha1(sensitive long key_top,
sensitive long key_bottom,
const uint8_t *data,
uint8_t *result) {
sensitive long tmp_key_top, tmp_key_bottom;
/* all other variables are insensitive */

/* HMAC_SHA1 implementation */
}

It's quite dangerous to say that all other variables are insensitive! It's hard to say for sure without seeing the actual implementation, but SHA-1 requires first expanding the message into a state of 80 32-bit words, before performing 80 rounds of hashing on them. If the state is treated as insensitive, another core could read it out before it actually goes through hashing, in which case the key could be easily recovered. This design might be secure if the SHA-1 function is separate and itself marks all state as sensitive, as long as the key never leaks into memory in between, but that's not how SHA-1 implementations usually work, so I'm pretty suspicious.

I tried to find the actual code to determine whether it's actually vulnerable, but failed: it's supposed to be released as open source [1], but the instructions involve downloading from a GitHub repo [2] which is currently marked as private, I guess by mistake.

...I don't really understand why Ginseng doesn't just mark all variables in a sensitive function as sensitive; it's not like memory for the secure stack is particularly scarce. That still leaves other attack vectors, though.

[1] http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mobile/ginseng.html

[2] https://github.com/susienme/ndss2019_ginseng_arm-trusted-fir...
A shocking example of the federal government actually doing good work.

The article explains the reasons for the rejections. It's pretty clear that rules were established and are being followed.
Good job on getting a product going! Having a solid advisory team that inspires you and motivates you through the ups and downs of a startup is very important. This individual will hopefully help you stay focused along the way.

A common custom would be to treat her as a strategic advisor, offering 0.1-1% equity, with vesting. Try to have some understanding of how much time they can commit to and on what frequency.

An example doc is
https://fi.co/fast, but if you google for “startup advisor agreements” you’ll find a few similar standard docs.
Job report came out strong today - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-april-5-201...
Bored with AI 'experts' telling us it's dangerous.

Unless they want to specifically explain out a danger, they add nothing that any kids who's seen The Terminator can do.

> Killer drones are a big concern. There is a moral question, and a security question

Other than your morality, which I don't care about, what specifically could happen? Be specific else it's pure FUD.

NK could have introduced Ebola to the USA for decades, but they don't. So they, along with the rest of the countries, aren't going to 'just' introduce 'killer' drones.
We use Teams for video conferencing at work. When someone calls, there are three buttons. One of them, the hang up button, is red; the other two are blue. I hit the red one half the time. Maybe I'm not very smart, but it sure seems like it wants me to hit it!
The nuance here is that people are stimulated by different things.

For example, I simply don’t find video games stimulating. I didn’t grow up with them and I never got into them. I’d sooner talk to a human being than play a video game any day.

However, I find books SIGNIFICANTLY more stimulating than social interaction. (Go figure, lol).

I agree with your mental model that humans are social creatures and that if something is more stimulating than social interaction it is likely to be harmful. The nuance is that for some people — like me — video games are LESS stimulating than social interaction, while books are MORE stimulating. That’s why for me personally video games don’t harm me but books — according to your model — do.

Brains are weird. I self-medicate with words and sentences. Am I a “book addict” like some people are “video game addicts”? Or am I just a relatively bookish individual? or both? I think both :)

-non-recovered book addict in the tortured throes of a relapse on literature
No. This is more evidence that the Trump administration wants to destroy public education so that more money can be made by things like De Vos.
One technique that helps me is: putting a healthier choice within reach.

If a banana or apple is in reach of your keyboard, you don't even have to get up! win-win!

Also, plan and purchase healthier choices when your blood sugar is in a good state. :)
Stretchy McStretchface. That's not even close to debatable. This (pork) is why we can't have nice things.
I don't think that because the money isn't used that means that it all goes to "administration".
Do you feel meth was something that someone said you “should try”, or was it something you chose to do?

Do you think anything anyone had said to you might have prevented you trying it? I’d like to know the words that might stop kids even giving a try once.
Many - not all, but perhaps most - of those who get corrupted are regulators.

So without regulations, there are fewer people to corrupt.
Ask HN: Interview Test for QA Specialists?
We are thinking of making a test to determine who is good at QA and who is not. This can be a valuable tool for companies looking to hire good QA specialists. Do you think there is a need for this?
...which is weird because in the elevator example, the state isn't being modified. The effect on the receiver, to use their terminology, is always to set the button to "on" or "called" or whatever you want to name it. Hence, the elevator button example is idempotent.

Quick edit: Someone else below makes a good point - in at least one part of the world, a second button press does act as "cancel". Maybe that's the confusion here?
VSCO sues PicsArt over photo filters that were allegedly reverse engineered
This is why we can't have nice things.

People must learn to get along.
That’s really interesting. Is running length generally more common in Indian cinema?
I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family
A few projects I can think of requiring graphics programming at Google:

* Fuchsia was looking for graphics engineers at some point. I can't see a listing about graphics right now but maybe you could start as a mobile apps SWE and slowly move into graphics if you build the right contacts.

* Lots of Stadia jobs require Vulkan / OpenGL and general graphics knowledge, there maybe some of these offers that may be attractive for you! [1].

BTW I'm pretty sure even for specific roles as graphics programming, Google still hires generalists, so expect the same grind as everybody else has on the interviews (that is, whiteboards, algorithmic questions, etc etc).

1: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?company=Google&comp...
I hate it. So many reasons why. Redirect to mobile app along with nerfed mobile website is God awful. Broken browser behavior when clicking links is obnoxious. I'd go on but this thread covered everything else.
It's illegal and therefore more profitable to make and sell.

At the same time it creates more jobs in and around the State.

What's not to like, as far as criminals, governments and the UN are concerned?
read up then try.

and by reading up I mean get a basic understanding of neurochemistry, history of psychoactives and etheogens, how they devovled into vile substances like crack and meth and synth cannabinoids, bow thrice to Shulgin.

and then try.

at this point there would not be any unexpected detrimental effects.

I'm not sure even how this advice differs from a plain 'teach your kids to think' /
Of all places I don't expect to get the truth about WikiLeaks from WikiLeaks.

I don't find them credible about much, certainly not their own story.
Quantitatively, there's two things I track daily: (1) My progress at the gym (which, surprisingly I track in an ongoing draft email*) and (2) the number of productive work hours I've worked that day (to make sure I'm not just bumming around).

Qualitatively, I have a bunch of reflection questions I ask myself in the AM and in the PM and I log my answers in a journal electronically. LMK if you'd like to learn more!

P.S. Is this crazy? Does anyone else keep a running notepad using draft emails?
The United States [ok]
needs [opinion and/or unprovable]
decent [what defines decent? I'd say it's pretty decent already, and I've lived in Europe on foot.]
public transit [Who pays? If I have a car, I don't need it and won't pay for it unless you force me with a gun.]
>We mostly use Apple's movie rental system, because the quality is better than Netflix

You might want to look into this again. If you can get Netflix's highest quality 1080p streams they have much higher bitrates than what you can rent or buy on itunes.

But you are 100% right about availability. Streaming is almost a myth if you're like me and want to watch a bunch of unpopular titles.
For last 223 days i have keep track of:

- Consumed food (weight, calories, fat, carbons, proteins, salt).

- Budget (detailed, every product in separate row with 5 tags).

- Weight (daily).

- Time spend on every site.

- Time spend on games.

- Sleep and steps by smartband.

- Over 20 habits like hygiene, keeping away from soda drinks.

- What i have done at work with minute accuracy

Everything except smartband and browsing stats is tracked by three spreadsheets.

One thing: Tracking some of habits can be two edged sword. It can push you to do things you do not want to do.
A friend in Arizona mentioned having solar panels and setting the thermostat to 65 degrees between 10am and 5pm. And off after that. Later at night they open the windows and close them in the morning.

They're just using the thermal mass of the house to time shift energy.
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Cold mountain air, yes. Or, as he himself put it:

Ice

Yes! I manufacture ice:
Ice may help you to digest.
If you had much to digest,
how you would enjoy my ice!

Nietzche's poetry is an underappreciated component of his philosophy.
Free feel to answer any of these:

- what helped you break the addiction (but your friends didn't have)?

- demographics? (age when started, location, socio-economic class, race, etc.?)

- what % of US school-kids do you think will try Meth?
Sakura themed stuff is just one example of the more global season themed stuff you'll find going on all year round. Sakura, peach, pear, sweet potato, mandarin orange, wasabi, etc. etc. 期間限定 (time limited) looks like the favorite keyword of marketeers, and it's most of the time associated with seasons.
Seriously. Any news on datetime?
I really respect your honesty. Many of us are not brave enough to share these kinds of serious life mistakes.

Additionally, this is especially important when people formerly advocated something they later realize is wrong. In these cases I believe they have an obligation to correct the record.
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When's the last time you gave a shit about 24 bytes?

Don't answer (or maybe answer), because no matter what, I have never, and will never give a shit for you.
Currently on https://news.ycombinator.com/best first two pages (60 links) I can only see three stories about Boing 737 and "The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy – It Didn’t Go Well" which don't have a connection to (digital) tech. Political stories come up but the variety is still very much tech and startup news.
When an opinion---any opinion, including religious---crosses the line into political action, it becomes an action that can have impact on other people. At that point, the people very much have a say regarding the consequences.

The intersection between freedom of religion and the laws of society is one of the hardest interfaces for American law to adjudicate, and yet it does.
I thought original title was misleading.
I will not pay for your transportation. Believe it or not, it is ludicrous to many to imagine such a tax.
Script kiddies do things that anyone doing research or work in computer security can do if they spend time on it. They are not doing new things. AGI is a completely different beast and has still not been achieved after research done by very smart and experienced people with millions of dollars in funding. It's almost ridiculous to compare these things.
Because trademarks are not governed by the same set of laws, and are pretty different in purpose. You not being able sell sweet fizzy drinks using Coca-Cola branding is at least as much for the benefit of consumers (so they don't buy non-Coca-Cola drink when they want Coca-Cola) as it is for the Coca-Cola company. A trademark is really a very different thing than say a novel or a film or a piece of music or even a piece of software. The only way in which copyright and trademarks are really relatable is under the vague, squishy and not-very-useful umbrella of 'intellectual property'.

I think it's fair for me to say that when I am talking about creators of novels and films etc. and copyright limits w.r.t. encouraging/discouraging creators from creating I shouldn't have to talk about trademarks, which have very little to do with the sort of creation I'm talking about.
American’s 737 MAX: Not Terrible, But Sad (2018)
How does link time optimization affect separate assembler file?
I've found that I don't bookmark for the sake of bookmarking -- What I'm really trying to do is to build a knowledge bank on something; like a blog post formed by snippets of articles I've found over time.

Realizing this, I now have a bunch of documents related to topics of interest. Whenever I come across a site of interest, I'll add to the relevant document. I haven't quite figured out the right software to manage those documents. Right now, I use Asana a lot in my personal life so those documents are Asana tasks.

Weird or what?
Dude ran a drug trafficking platform and allegedly took out six (6) assassination contracts, therefore the dude is a dangerous criminal. Trying to portray him as some "innocent civilian" is patently dishonest. He should rot in prison for life for what he's done.
> Better be careful here. Proud to be an American is okay. Proud to be white... why should anyone be proud of the color of their skin? Even if it should be okay (but honestly white people have an awful history, as do most skin colors if you look back far enough), it's so arbitrary. There's nothing to be proud of, you just have specific pigmentation.

I cannot argue with any of this, and highlights some of my flawed thinking. I guess I thought of "white americans" as an abstraction of Americans of European decent. So I guess, I don't know the proper way to convey "Someone who is proud of their European heritage, and proud of being an American."
Cherry-picking sentences out of a famously enigmatic writer is a disservice to both his thought and your own.