skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGI is a gradient, not an arbitrary threshold.

We are not capable of recreating human level intelligence yet, but our modern algorithms had become magnitudes better at generalization and sample efficiency. And this trend is not showing any signs of slowing down.

Take PPO for example (powers the OpenAI 5 dota agent), the same algorithms can be used for robotic arms as it does with video games. Two completely different domains of tasks now generalizable under one algorithm. That to me is a solid step towards more general AI.
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Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use
No. According to the article they are claiming that the law (stupid or not) doesn't apply because it would make it hard for them to do business. In other words they are arguing that since they can't comply with the law and keep doing business they should be allowed to violate it. That's different from claiming the law applies but is stupid.
> a Dota bot that's pretty good as long as you give the bot a huge advantage

Excuse my ignorance but what is the huge advantage? And what happens if you don't give the bot that?
Audi is, and was for a long time now, a 100% subsidiery from VW. The struggle you mention was one between Porsche SA and VW as much as it was one between the two Porsche family branches, Porsche and Piech. In the end VW kind of won and Porsche the automaker joined the VW group while the Porsche Holding became the (biggest) shareholder of VW group (including brands like Audi, Bugatti, Skoda, Seat, VW, Scania and MAN).

Audi was a major supplier of Diesel engines for the whole group, especially the larger ones which also ended up in Porsche Cayennes. The smaller Diesel engines came AFAIK from VW. True, the software came from Bosch and can arguably be used for development purposes. The exact role of Bosch in all of this is still not clear.

The only companies found to be using the Bosch supplied software as an illegal cheat device is VW so far. Maybe Mercedes did as well. BMW was, as if now, more or less cleared of illegal wrong doing. They still had to pay fines, so.

Other car makers are, as far as we now today, "only" using the legal loop holes. Still shitty behavior but at least legal. PSA (Peugeot, Citroen, DS and as of last year Opel) are themselves a major Diesel engine supplier and while they paid fines as well, if I remember correctly, they didn't use defeat devices.

EDIT: For clarity, PSA wasn't found to use defeat devices. They had to pay fines in France AFAIK.
Doesn’t FedEx own the USPS or vice versa?
Unless you love soldering wires to tiny little smt pads I'd recommend looking for one of the "development boards" based on the 8266 (or as others have pointed out in this thread the bigger, faster, stronger, esp32). Not only will you get some through-hole connections to some subset of the pins, but you'll also get an onboard power supply and probably a usb port for programming so you can get right to cooking.
Same here. Instagram is absolutely convinced I'm in Norway and no matter where I actually am (UK, Asia, Africa, USA) it only ever shows me ads in Norwegian... which I don't speak.
Advertorial?
I'm sure more Chinese companies use MySQL, Postgres etc than TiDB?
Java, c# and python are hardly hip and rank as some of the most used languages
In that regard, AlphaGo is a lot more impressive, not just because it is a vastly more complex problem to find a loss function for playing Go (compared to chess), but also because AlphaGo basically learned to play the game by itself without even having a model of the game rules initially (or so I've heard).

That said, I would still not consider it anything like generalized AI, if only because the set of possible (valid) actions at any point in the game is tiny, while in real-world problems it is basically infinite.
And, again to be fair, you can turn those off by clicking the gear in the upper right.

(maybe you can turn the Google stuff off in Chrome, too?)
Love the Cornell notes. Would you share your template ?
You might be confusing the historical use of the sigmoid activation function with probabilistic modeling, neural networks in the 80s were used similarly to how they are today, albeit at a much smaller scale due to hardware limitations at the time.

The development of neural networks is a major contribution of the machine learning community, so even if you’d like to split hairs about whether the “computer is learning” (“learning” has a a precise technical definition by the way), NNs are not “just statistics.”
Is consciousness a necessary component for AGI, though?
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My terrible interpretation is that this is a sense of identity or proto-national borders. “This is who we are, our people are spread far, extended to as far away as where this bird lives.” Beyond that it’s all ritual.

If only they had a kangaroo too, the ancient aliens crowd would go nuts. Alas, I guess I’ll have to watch tv, another identity ritual.
constexpr is much more powerful than just generating constants (although that is one of the bigger use cases). One of the things I like is how it simplifies doing static dispatch on template types, essentially using SFINAE under the hood but in a much simpler way to read:

if constexpr ( std::is_same_v<T, int> ) { ... }

Vs

template <typename T, typename std::enable_if_t<...>* = 0>
void fn( T t ) { }

Being able to generate constants using the language itself is super powerful as well (the below is a bit contrived, as std::string_view is constexpr and obsoletes this pattern):

static constexpr std::array<char[], SIZE> strs = { ... };
static constexpr std::array<size_t, SIZE> str_lens = calc( strs );
// Where calc() loops over the array and calls std::strlen, all at compile time
I usually just assume zero privacy anywhere these days. Your face is scanned, your image recorded, your license plate logged. Quite the world we have now.
It is also something else: if you take a paper note you have to actively archive it in some way at which point you might come into contact with it again. Searching for a old note on paper is like browsing backwards through the history of notes.

All of that would be entirely possible with a computer, but it would result in an inconvenient interface, where you can’t just search for a word or tag.

I have tried many ways to take notes but I’ve found myself always to come back to simple text/markdown files and paper based notebooks.

I manually type the relevant paper notes into the computer to make them searchable and link back to the notebook (e.g. like 2019/01 P.92) if I like to revisit the full note with drawings and all.

This means your notebook should get a name and a date and you should use notebooks with pagination..
Agreed

You'd want to play to the 'wisdom of the crowd'.

Perhaps some kind of voting on a selection of likely stocks?
> The fact that you have taken this so personally is kind of embarrassing.

What? I have said nothing personal.

> What this blog post, the opportunistic marketing ploy and finger pointing have shown is a complete lack of maturity on your part.

Ah. You seem to be confused. I am not affiliated with Cloudflare, and have not worked with Cloudflare at any point in time.
It’s a gradient but according to the marketers it’s basically going to overtake humanity any week now.
It's not, but most people (or at least, most people who grew up with computers) can type faster than they can write, so the operative comparison is between frantically writing and typing at a comfortable pace.
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I am a blockchain developer. I would be interested to hear more. My email is on my profile
Large scale colonization of Mars would require multiple inventions. We know this because we have a good understanding of what a successful colonization of Mars entails, and have a pretty good idea of the main technical obstacles. AGI, on the other hand, might be one breakthrough away or two hundred breakthroughs away. We just have no idea what makes intelligence tick.
Agreed. Unfortunately, as useful as it used to be I tend to not use Search Engines at all anymore. I've had to return to the days of old where SE's didn't exist in any useful capacity, and bookmark everything of value. It's filtered out all of the crap I used to have to wade through though. My only regret is that I don't see much outside of the regular websites I visit anymore, but Google was becoming less of a useful place to find new content anyway and I'm more receptive to finding new quality websites via Reddit or HN now.
I guess it's too radical but shutting down a business voluntarily if the rules are too onerous would also be a form of protest. Especially when the idea is that the business has allegedly been conscripted into unprofitable tasks.
These adversarial examples are generated in a very artificial way that will not be present in natural images (and if you’re thinking of security issues, the attacker needs access to your model...)

They’re still an interesting topic to explore but hardly evidence that neural nets don’t generalize.
> what happened to the actual people on the internet? People sharing their stories without getting paid to push a product?

Good old webforums. They are alive and well.
But I would be using it for other things as well. So I think a Pi 4 would be a nice to have.
Nom 5: fast Rust parser combinators, now without macros
The issue here is that this is like physics: You may not like it but you cannot beat it.

In my view it is simply 'physically' impossible for the world to remain unipolar under American so-called leadership.

It worked for a time because the only other developed pole was Europe (and Japan), which is not united with each and every country much smaller than the US.

But as the rest of the world develops then we fall back to a situation similar to the rise of the US in Victorian times: Whatever the British thought, it was 'physically' impossible for them to remain at the top.

This is not only because of China. India, the EU, maybe an African block longer term.

In today's world, war between 'superpowers' to find out who's #1 is also simply not possible because the cost would be astronomical and the result inevitably that everyone would revert to the stone age in a nuclear wasteland.

In 100 years this will all stabilise with the US being may in 3rd place, maybe just in the top 5. No direct war, but maybe a few proxy wars in the meantime.
Yes， Zhihu is like a Chinese version Quora. I do not know why others come here to express their opinions. For me, because I feel it is rude and inappropriate to send a email to the author, that is why I choose HN for seeking the answers(Hoping author may read my questions and answer me).
About Zhihu, I would say more commercial than Quora, reddit and HN. A lot pepole run their account as business, for example write novels, sale clothes, psychological counseling... And there are a lot high educated people answer questions from many different fields. Otherwise most Chinese would not even realize this paper in Science.
Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam
Man, I had a teacher in high school who forced us to take Cornell style notes for everything, it was so irritating at the time. Looks pretty neat now though!
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>Is consciousness a necessary component for AGI, though?

I always thought so. Like, without volition, it's just a really good natural language tool, and not a general intelligence.

What would an artificial general intelligence without consciousness look like to you?
There was also the tactile feeling of flipping through a stack of floppies looking for one specific disk. Now that everything is so high capacity, you almost never have to physically search for data. Of course the modern way is superior in almost every way, except it was a kind of wonderful sensation holding a disk box full of your stuff.
After years of inside experience with SBIR applicants and the various agencies I can say confidently that is largely a sham to funnel money to those who make friendships and scratch the backs of the various agency heads and their underlings. Also, the things I saw regarding how the agencies and their contacts exchange private data were frightening. People talk about the "deep state" of unelected bureaucrats. It doesn't have to be some grand plan to exert great power. These programs are robbing taxpayers to enrich a small clique with self-serving goals, returning little of value. The Idaho company of "solar freaking roadways" fame is an SBIR boondoggle, that should tell you something, and I think they made it to Phase II.
For the problem you’re trying to tackle, this startup has already solved it and will show you insights previously impossible!
Creativity and purposeful manipulation of human emotions are orthogonal concerns, even if often bundled together under the term "creativity" in context of arts.

To disentangle them I propose a simple test: take these 'impressive algorithmic compositions that resemble the works of J.S. Bach' and play them to people, telling them they were composed by a gifted human. Then ask what they think of their creativity, and of emotions the author intended to communicate.

That's creativity. As for purposeful manipulation of human emotions, this is harder and would require an AI with a theory of (human) mind, or some equivalent of that. Doesn't sound insurmountable though.
Representation learning and probabilistic methods are huge sub-areas of modern machine learning, just take a look at the proceedings of ICLR2019.
Once produced, viewing a hard copy has zero environmental impact. Every time you open a pdf or or whatever your iPad saves your notes as, (let alone sync it with Dropbox) a coal plant groans a tiny bit and a penguin dies.
I smell mistrust. How can they trust Canonical to not "innovate" again?
I think iOS has a compressed audio option under Music/eq.
But the issue here seems to be that even if you order directly from Amazon or a reputable seller, you could still end up with a product coming from a less reputable seller if it has the same barcode.
If I just wanted to drive around a city I’d grab a smart car. I have taxis to take me home at night when I’m drunk and the busses have stopped running. This solves a problem only rich people have: traffic is tedious. The rest of us just take public transit and listen to podcasts or music to bypass it.

From my perspective the idea of a self driving taxi is the opposite of public transit in the worst possible way: pay more so fewer people have a job and you’re even more lonely and alienated than before. If I indulge I’m just making myself and everyone around me more miserable, and no amount of marketing will convince me otherwise.

The area where I’d appreciate this the most is the country where uber and lyft haven’t reached yet, and that’s precisely the environment where self driving cars will take the longest to reach. We’ll see.

Plus, I can’t wait to see the game of “beat the shit out of the corporate empire’s self driving car for fun when drunk”.
You, sir, are a modern-time knight
Instagram/Facebook have some of the most sophisticated advertising technology in human history. They know my location history, they can determine the language I post in, and they surely have countless other data points they can use for advanced targeting.

And yet, Instagram is adamant that I speak Serbian and that I am in Serbia. I don't speak Serbian, and I haven't been in Serbia since I stayed in Belgrade for the month of June last year.

Good job folks.
Isn't USPS part of the US government?
I'm not sure that this study means that one should not take notes with a laptop (as the article's title would suggest). Everyone works differently: just because there is an average tendency for people to perform better when taking notes by hand, doesn't mean that you shouldn't use a laptop if your own experience shows that it works better for you.
The US could give up their priviledged position in the anglosphere and give all of us who are currently just along for the ride (i.e. weaker weatern nations) a real shot at the democracy they so fervently sprout. I forsee more colsolidation along the lines of the EU where western powers officially come together to maintain their top status, but as a whole rather than individual nations. A situatiom which comes with its own benefits & issues...
Thanks! Will do some research and then try to order the right one.
Making public keys factorable with Rowhammer
Not quite.

While I wouldn't trust a random stranger on the street with e.g. my money or private data. However, I have no problem trusting them to honestly and truthfully answer questions like "how do I get to X from here?" or "here, can you please mark my bus ticket in that marking machine over there and hand it back to me? I can't quite reach it in this crowded bus".

On the internet, however, I don't trust a random stranger (e.g. a youtube commenter, or a reddit user) with answering "2+2" correctly, let alone with something that involves my possessions, no matter how low-value they might be.
You're being too kind on point #2
I guess it varies from place to place. A lot of small town police departments are dispatched from a larger center. In those set ups, one dispatcher will be in charge of dispatching a channel, which represents a geographical area with a certain number of units working at any particular time. Their job is to read reports coming in, ask any questions they have to the call taker, and coordinate all units on their channel. It’s a very hectic job, and an emergency call can easily take more than 30 minutes to complete. They have to be coordinating units constantly, if you’re getting more than one call concurrently, there’s no way a dispatcher could do both.
I don't know the exact temp of course, but it felt very cold. Like sweater temperature and in 20C I don't wear sweater.
Looks cool but if the product is only available for "Enterprise" customers and the pricing is "Request Quote" that means it's expensive. At least the AWS pricing is published.
I agree. I think a big part of this problem is that smaller companies usually cannot afford AI research. I would even go as far as to say there are more AI companies than capable AI researchers, and this causes a large number of faux-AI companies poisoning the AI branding.
This is like most other AWS products that end up being an automated bunch of scripts that wire up functionality for you rather than being a full-fledged product.

GCP organizations, folders, projects, and IAM system is far better than anything in AWS or Azure.
Could something like this be used for synchronization in such a scenario? https://ncase.me/fireflies/
Github offers free private repos as well
Something seems off about this story and the way it’s presented. And techcrunch is an odd choice, unless everyone else passed on it.
> Chinese scene is largely isolated from OSS in the west and more often than not they are just leeching whatever the rest of the world produces in terms of software.

> I dont want to picture chinese people as parasites I want to just point out that the contribution from chinese devs and mainly their tech companies could be better.

Can you spot no Chinese company from these?

- FSF patrons https://www.fsf.org/patrons

- Linux Foundation https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

If you frequent Kernel lists you can find many Chinese contributors (from Redhat)

- Eclipse Foundation https://www.eclipse.org/membership/exploreMembership.php#all...

- Apache Foundation https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks

- Many Apache projects like Apache Dubbo https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-softwar...

- OpenSSL (exceptional support) https://www.openssl.org/support/acks.html

- Ceph Foundation https://ceph.com/foundation/

- OpenContainers Initiative https://www.opencontainers.org/about/members

- CNCF members https://www.cncf.io/about/members/

- OpenStack foundation https://www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/

- Xen members https://xenproject.org/about-us/project-members/

- RISC-V Foundation https://riscv.org/membership/

- OpenPOWER members https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/current-members/

Are these leeching by your standards?
Just like wars, in trade wars one side gets hit worse than the other, which is kinda the point I guess.

Also, just like trade wars, wars come at great costs to both sides, but they still happen.
“Dumbing Self Down”
I was scrolling on Google on how people felt about having to dumb themselves down in order to have friends and it’s very sad. You have people that genuinely have a hard time “meeting people where they are” mentally and feel alone with their own thoughts.

My 14 year old is now experiencing having to dumb herself down in order to have friends but she’s handling it ok for the most part. Doing much better than me, lol.

I guess a great question would be,

#1 If you struggle with dumbing yourself down to be in others company, what do you do to help deal with it?

#2 If you mastered getting over this feeling, what did you do to overcome it.

I don’t think I am better than anyone, it’s just some conversations are harder than others because the lack of substance and productivity. It makes me feel almost cavemen like. Having to purposely avoid some actions and what to say is tiresome ... I just rather be alone with my own thoughts but they won’t let me do that either lol.
Good luck!

I got a Breville Dual Boiler a few years ago and it was ok if temperamental for 2 years and 4 months. Then it died suddenly.

I had to pay Breville ~$400 for an out of warranty repair and drop it off personally at the local repair centre. The repair took two weeks and it died with the same symptoms a few days after I picked it up.

Breville refused to refund me for the repair attempt and it took escalating to get them to ship me a brand new replacement with 3 to 4 weeks estimated shipping.

I bought a Rocket instead and when the Breville showed up a month later sold it on Craigslist to cover a small portion of the wasted time and money.

The Rocket is much simpler but much more consistent. My wife a chef loves it but hated the Breville.

The Rocket did cost more but with regular home maintenance and an occasional service should last 15 to 20 years.
The details require a little knowledge of Dota, but essentially the bot only knows how to play a much simplified version of the game.

They play with a reduced number of playable heroes (5 of the 100+). Each hero changes the dynamic of the game and many heroes have unique interactions with each other, so this is a very substantial simplification.

Additionally, Dota is a game where mechanics (the ability to quickly and precisely click the thing you intend to click) play a huge role and bots have a natural advantage there.

Another important skill in Dota is watching everything that's going on, positioning your screen in the right place and paying attention to the minimap. As bots don't interact with the game via a screen (I believe the game exposes variables that describe the full state of the game that the bots can see), this is another advantage they have.
You didn't leave any contact details. I'd be curious to have a chat (email in my profile).