skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your short-term fear is seeming to be validated over time as your listed "person-less" capabilities are constantly being implemented. I myself have lived brief bouts of the hikikomori lifestyle, although I still provide for myself as opposed to being taken care of by family as many are in the video you linked. But over the past few months, I've been prioritizing face-to-face conversations, especially with new people. This is the timeless, natural "neural net":

When we interact in this way, we isolate certain topics that are more relevant to our modern condition because both parties involved understand there is a time constraint. There is a sort of natural algorithmic process going on in both our minds because we are calculating the ideal things to say with this "new person". If we are speaking in proximity to other people, our conversation can take on a whole new shape because there is a "public" element and perhaps we are trying to dialogue for an audience that could eventually participate if they choose to. All of these mechanisms that keep people in check with each other are completely lost when out-sourced to programmed automation and looped control.

Perhaps it is not all bad though, because ordering through services like eBay/Amazon quickly and efficiently could ultimately save resources/emissions as we are having items routed to us that would historically take up space in a brick/mortar location. But the concern we are sharing here is that community is compromised when everyone has the option to anonymously do everything.
FWIW my S4 (i9500) is bricked with symptoms consistent with this bug. When I get some spare cycles, I'm going to hook up the emmc chip directly and see what I can do (there are a few pictures on there I'm hoping to pull off). Suffice it to say, I completely agree with your comment!
Any chance you can post some of these counterpoints?

At first glance I’m not sure how a book on altruism/compassion refutes the gene-centred view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection based on genes.
NLB is built on top of AWS HyperPlane, a hybrid system that has components distributed in our Nitro security system, and pseudo-central components that keep flow-tracking state. It's different from IPVS.
I would argue its a combination of miserable life circumstances and lack of availability of better options. Have you ever heard of the drug Krocodile? It's most prevalent in Russia, a cocktail of horrible chemicals cooked down with a little codeine. It's a death sentence if you use it for a year, and not a nice death either (consider this a massive understatement). Even the people who use it know this, they just lost the will somewhere along the way to care.
Although I will admit to have used/benefited from the myth that chess skill is related in some way to general human intelligence, it’s a myth.

Key differences between chess and real world: perfect information game, finite problem space, well defined rules. It blows my mind that serious people believe that ability to outperform human chess players using massive compute is some kind of major step towards AGI. If only it were that simple.

It’s not that people overestimate human intelligence, it’s that they underestimate the meta-cognitive reasoning that we call common sense.
Most skills are things that you can get better at.

I bought a nice fountain pen (well, a $14 pilot) and overhauled my cursive writing. It took about 6 weeks and I write pretty legibly in cursive. I'm more legible in various print scripts (that I have also worked on as an adult), but cursive is faster.

Admittedly, that is just an anecdote. But if you're curious, try and get better... you'll likely improve if you actively practice.
I believe the UI is great and will work perfectly on big-screens installed at stations. Kudos for making the app and such a nice UI.
Oh wow. Seeing one of those in the wild would be pretty life-changing I'll bet.
How Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was deleted twice (2012)
My one regret is not visiting these lines while I was in Peru. Due to climate change, there is danger that increased heavy rains in the region may wash the lines away that has persisted for over two thousand years...
I use a Raspberry PI Zero / 3 together with a phat dac for a bluetooth audio receiver / Airplay in my car:

Auto-Installer: https://github.com/BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audi...

PhatDac (hardware): https://www.amazon.com/Pimoroni-24-bit-192KHz-Sound-Raspberr...

Alternative (hardware): https://www.amazon.com/Audio-AUDIO-Raspberry-Better-quality/...

It can be controlled via buttons over bluez / dbus via infrared remote and buttons:

Button Shim (hardware): https://www.amazon.com/Pimoroni-PIM301-Button-Shim/dp/B07HCP...

Bluez API: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/doc/...

DBUS control script: https://github.com/sandreas/raspberry-bluetooth-receiver/blo...

Unfortunately it is not possible to set playback position via dbus (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50190477/bluez-and-dbus-...), so rewind 30 seconds is not possible atm.
It’s not a binary option unfortunately
If you date sb at fb or Google, you know what you get yourself into..
I like playing with guitar pedals, and circuit design is kinda like LEGO in that regard. The building part can be lethargic, or so frustrating it forces your brain into reset.
This.

This is one thing that GCP has done so brilliantly right - the projects structure. From an organisation point of view, this is the most seamless way of managing billing+access , instead of mucking about ARN crap.

It's puzzling that AWS has still not been able to roll this out. What's so hard ? roll out projects and put all existing customers in a default project.
Pet Feeders!

http://www.robpeck.com/2017/11/robs-raspberry-pi-powered-cat...
"... you stop feeling like you have to "help the company" all the time."

Yet the commenter was bothered by seeing others' opinions on AMP.

I understand your point. I agree. However, in terms of their "core business", "products", or the employees who research and develop them, I do not believe Google is comparable with a pharmaceutical company such as JNJ. I have worked in both industries.
Google has removed the original video from youtube over a "privacy claim" and have disabled responses on this medium post.

It makes it hard to give Google the benefit of the doubt when their stance seems to be "stop talking about it", instead of addressing the content of the video.
That's a really cool looking bird.
Try to write GUI code in Rust and then in C++.
As in, "unregistered to someone else", no? I could be misunderstanding both of you however, and have no stake in this discussion
New breakthrough in the field of noninvasive robotic device control
If you can find a version of circuit maker/circuit maker 2000 (and an emulator, it runs on windows 8.1 but no idea about Win10), it has some decent models of tubes in the standard SPICE library. UI is kinda dated but it's less unfriendly than LTSpice/PSPICE and way snappier/useful than the Web simulators out there.
If that's the case, they shouldn't be using the possibility of using skype as an excuse to reduce the availability requirements for getting ahold of 911
I got frustrated that I enjoyed writing on nice paper with nice pens, and yet I could type much faster than I could write. So about 4 years ago I started learning shorthand. I use shorthand plus icons as needed to pull out important concepts. It's really helpful. Most of the time very little transcription is needed.
So much bias, had this been liberal news media coming out with quotes from Google employee on how they plan to stop Bernie or Warren, then shit would have hit the fan. This post would have had 1000's of comments on why Google should be broken up.
2009? You are being generous. I'm pretty sure when I was managing BGP announcements for my small ISP in 1999 route filtering was a thing.
Sure, but we did figure out how to make things more robust and generalizable, at least for perceptual tasks so far. Knowledge representation and probabilistic reasoning are still non-existent, though. Moreover, nobody is even working on any of that, for fear of being compared to Doug Lenat.
Hey, any chance of a non MAS-link? Some of us still vastly prefer that method of installation. Also, this seems neat!
Chrome never used COM as part of its implementation.

My reply had nothing to do with it.

Naturally from Mozilla's employee point of view it is easier to ignore what I actually meant.
There's a demoscene magazine intermittently published in 'demo' form: http://www.hugi.scene.org/
So because most businesses according to your experience retain emails for just 30 days this feature is not needed.

I’m curious if anyone has worked at a place that retains email longer than 30 days, I know I have
I absolutely agree. Invasions are bad, crossing "community" boundaries is. I think that's also part of the "Internet Etiquette" to be learnt: what happens in one domain of the Internet should stay in that domain of the Internet. You don't bring your mischievous trolling behavior from Discord to Facebook, but you also don't bring your "comfortable-space" standards from a support group forum to a video game forum.

I acknowledge your argument that "diverse worlds" system may not be sustainable over time because it is unstable, particularly to new entrants who do have to learn the local lingo. I personally disagree, and would argue instead that that's something Internet users should learn to deal with. We've long had the solution for this: good moderation. You can have hyper-extensive moderation like r/askhistorians or Facebook support groups, you can have moderate moderation for spam and the like for things like generic hobby groups, and then you can have light moderation for spaces deliberately made for that. From heavy to light moderation, the burden shifts from the moderator to the user. Different Internet spaces should have different arrangements like this. While this solution may not be perfect, I argue that this is what works. I put this in contrast to another prevailing idea that all spaces should be like IRL (because that has maximal accountability and requires no context switching), and I argue that that's what will diminish the diversity and dynamism of the Internet.

I would further add a key ingredient to making this world is the tools provided by the platform to perform this moderation. That's one reason why Twitter, for all the good content it has, is also a mess, because there's no limit of cross-pollination of communities. Contrast this to, say, Reddit, which gives subreddit moderators significant powers to curate and protect their communities.
"- Crystal: ?; fast?; have not used"

Ruby is an extremely powerful language, with the only drawback of being truly slow. Crystal solves this problem with flying colors by offering almost full Ruby compatibility along with very efficient native code generation.
Unfortunately it's still young and lacks user base as well as ports to other architectures.
Thanks for the reply (and welcome to Hacker News)! So if I understand correctly, you ran across the paper because you're a regular reader of Science online, then Googled the title, and Google pointed you to the HN thread? I wonder if that was also the case for the others. My guess was that the HN link either appeared in a media story or started circulating on social media.

The more I look at it, the more I think what happened in the comments below is a remarkable example of cross-cultural communication. Not all of the communication was very high quality, of course, but that was to be expected under the circumstances.

I'd guess that the author is no longer checking the thread, because it's so rare for one of these threads to spark back up again after several days. I doubt that he was overwhelmed, because he was responding openly to criticism earlier, and it would surely be an interesting learning experience.

p.s. Your posts in the thread were very good: thoughtful and substantive, which is what we're looking for here. I hope you'll stick around HN long enough to see if it satisfies your intellectual curiosity. That's the purpose of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
A good firewall for a small network
I think your fear is misguided. People have been complaining about how technology is causing humanity to become more socially isolated for literally thousands of years, and the actual evidence has been that those complaints are unfounded. If anything, we've probably become more socially interconnected, but that's more due to the increased population density of our environs than technology changes.

What a lot of people miss, I think, is that human beings are fundamentally social animals, and we crave social interaction. And I say this as a strong introvert--as someone who has to be alone to recharge myself emotionally. Things like distance learning or working from home are not well-received by most people, especially not on a long-term basis. Sure, some people will find it comfortable, but those people are a tiny majority, and I should point out that it's not a new phenomenon: Emily Dickinson for the last 10 years or so of her life or so refused to meet visitors face-to-face and rarely left her house, which is more severe than most hikikomori.
What deforestation? At least in my country there's more forrest planted each year than cut out for all the purposes, including paper production. And given that, the rest of paper production process is pretty environment-friendly compared to producing a laptop.
“Huawei” is now a radioactive word – should the company rebrand?
You really think that this distinction holds up? Twitter, per se, not a public forum, but a specific account on Twitter (or what shall be the definition?) can actually be a public forum? And in doubt, who gets to draw the line?
> After all, what is common sense but "believe it when I see it" type thinking which is most certainly pattern intuition?

I guess I would argue that common sense encompasses something outside of pure pattern intuition, which is the ability to synthesize not just solutions to a known problem/question but to figure out what question to ask in the first place, across a variety of situations include some that have never been seen previously.

The overhype part isn’t just the Mechanical Turk later, although that’s part of it. It’s also the assumption that pattern recognition within any given domain can generalize to this meta-ability to essentially level jump outside previously established boundaries or “training data.”
> Basic things like JSON (de)serialization seemed pretty clunky

The built-in one is.. strange.

Newtonsoft.JSON is _the_ most downloaded third-party library for .NET: https://www.nuget.org/stats/packages I like it, very flexible, in a good way.
Mind sharing how you use Notepad++ to take notes? Why is it wonderful?
Do you imagine that engineers at Google just wander around with unaudited ability to disable audit logs?
What kind of projects should one do to get their resume accepted?
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I've never been fond of note taking in general, I found that I retain the most knowledge when actually trying to make an effort to listen, and actively trying to conceptualize everything mentally while the teacher is talking, instead of occupying myself with writing notes.
And what does this mean for youngsters in the game?
AirPods didn't exist in 2014. They were released at the end of 2016.
I recently had a training course on it. Makes you think differently. Point is, being in control of your silence is extremely important.
I love the idea, because there's something to almost ideal to me about the 3.5" floppy disk format. I wish I had some reason to use them today, and so I really want this to work. However the audio quality is just terrible; it may be intelligible, but it is unlistenable IMO.
And half the fun of dial-up downloading progressive JPEGs.
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Just like VB did not had and equal footing with C (VBX) and C++ (OCX), yet it did not bothered many non programmers to pick it up.

This is the audience that Microsoft cares about.

The kind of employees that outgrows their Office VBA macros, did not had any kind of CS background, and just wants to do some applications without having to create a custom IT order procurement for it, writing some code and dragging stuff out of the toolbox.
Email? Let's talk.
“This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site”
Me too! I was surprised to see the target length is 30 minutes. I think there's plenty of space for even much more compact podcast episodes, under 10 minutes in length. You can say an awful lot in 10 minutes.
Acronym already taken by Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle files!
As a further science project, why not liberate hydrogen through electrolysis? Much less expensive than helium, and greater lifting capacity...
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Have you ever worked for a Tier 1 ISP during a big outage? There is not enough personnel bandwidth in a NOC for everyone to get an individual response.

>"Ghosting one of the world's largest (as in utilised) companies is not wise for administrative, technical or PR reasons"

Oh the Cloudflare marketing machine. Largest by "utilized"? What does that even mean? Cloudflare is not a Tier 1, a Tier 2, or a major eyeball network. They are pretty far down in the pecking order despite what your marketing department wants us to believe. There's always some fuzzy stat isn't there?

Being too inundated to respond to everyone on the day of outage is a human resource problem, plain and simple The fact that you have taken this so personally is kind of embarrassing. What this blog post, the opportunistic marketing ploy and finger pointing have shown is a complete lack of maturity on your part. You want to call out Verizon for their behavior yet your own behavior is unnecessarily aggressive.
I wish firefox could use the locally installed certificate store of the OS. This doesn't seem to be possible. You have to manually export and import certificates into Firefox's store. And on IT controlled Windows and MacOS desktop's, certificate+priv key export is disabled. So, one needs to stick to Chrome.
Google is the worst offender of them

What are Google’s offenses in this domain?

given how monolithic and ideologically skewed their internal corporate culture is.

How are you measuring that?
Yeah, since a lot of people speed up podcasts anyway, why not speed it up prior to compression (or learn to talk faster)? (Of course, speeding things up 3x is a bit extreme!)
"the next time they need Verizon's cooperation to resolve an issue"
According to the Cloudflare post, they didn't get Verizon's cooperation to fix a partly-Verizon-caused issue this time, so what do they have to lose?
Project Veritas is truly some bottom of barrel garbage, probably worse than Alex Jones.
I have never seen an Instagram ad on my phone using both the Android and iOS apps. I don't know why, but there are certain accounts that have ads disabled (I'm not the only one [0]). I guess I just got lucky. My alternate accounts all get ads like normal. I don't think I would use Instagram if I got ads like my friends do.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/90166955/i-have-a-secret-ad-free...
I use Sublime Text for not taking when not doing it longhand, and I really like it. I think it's because it's an environment we're intimately familiar with, so there is nothing to get in the way of just capturing the information you want to capture.
Because (1) he's objectively well off, having a one bedroom apartment to himself in New York itself being a sign of prosperity and privilege; and (2) because he's around the 90th percentile income level, and if we don't tax him heavily we cannot afford an expansive welfare state.

People in the top 25% but outside the top 1% earn half of all income, $5 trillion, 2.5x as much as the top 1%. You need high taxes on that group to support an expansive welfare state. In Germany, Mr. NYC would be taking home $57,000, and he'd pay 19% VAT on cocktails in Munich.
If comments in the database are encrypted, it'll be possible to have secret discussions that nobody, even the DB admin, can read unless they know the original URL. And this can be done: just encrypt comments with SHA256(URL+salt). The admin will see that something is going on under a specific SHA1, but since there is no way to restore the URL, the admin will have no clue how to read the comments. It'll be pretty cool I think.
> perfect information game, finite problem space, well defined rules

Chess isn't reality, but the things you list are all mostly things that humans can't deal with either. Take imperfect information - humans can't make decisions using information they don't have any more than machines can. Humans certainly can't deal with the infinite (and their approximations to do so are probably measurably worse than those a computer uses, because a computer can use honest-to-goodness probability formulas).

Operating without rules is not clear cut, but most people do invent a whole heap of funny rules because they can't operate without clear rules either. Humans often literally hate and fear things that look different or don't follow all the funny rules they come up with.

These are the same arguments as are deployed against self driving cars - if a computer doesn't have the information needed to make a decision then neither will a human in the same situation.

The threat, opportunity and potential of AGI is very real. Once technology settles down and stops changing then we'll know that the situation has stabilised. But even as it stands what we have now would easily pass muster as AGI for the 1910s and it is still improving extremely rapidly.
Programming languages are software products, when they are done, it is time to move on.
What did you do to make sure that the research considers the culture and social differences among the countries? Because honestly I see nothing. It’s naive and biased to draw any conclusion from the simply experiments, let alone to measure and rank country’s civic honesty. For example, emails are not popular in many countries. And in many countries, for example China, people are more likely to return the lost stuff to the nearest list & found center or policemen.
> I am pretty sure C++ effectively passed C a while ago given good compilers

Citation? Every benchmark I've ever seen still has C coming out on top: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... . The gap has narrowed and c++ can be better in specific situations but it has not "effectively passed" C, not to mention uses less memory. Here is another one: https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...
I use a Rocketbook for taking notes, when I fill it up and all the pages are captures digitally (straight to the cloud provider of my choice per page), I just erase it with a do cloth and it's good as new. Pages are a bit like plastic, and you have to use their pens, but it feels like writing in a notebook and serves the purpose for me.
In person, taking notes on paper always works better for me. And when I’m on the computer (Zoom conference or Skype), notes on the computer feels more natural.
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Codec 2 is on my list to investigate in the near future. Couldn't find software on the target machines that supported it, so it landed on second tier.
Unless you are using Android J++, then you get some Java features at the expense of de-sugaring.