skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another data point, I take notes almost almost solely for increased recollection, I've never really studied them. The physical act of writing down a phrase or idea emphasizes it in my memory to such a noticeable degree that if I lack writing utensils I will mime the action; the physical notes themselves are rarely useful once made. I find this also works in settings that are not live, I am able to work through textbooks significantly faster if I take notes while reading in a similar fashion to a lecture.

I get regular remarks from people who don't know me asking why I'm throwing away the page of notes I wrote down in a meeting - it's because I'll never look at them again. But now the important parts of that meeting will be crystal clear in my head for the next couple months instead of the next couple days.
I suppose it's a subset of "well defined rules", but it's worth calling out explicitly, I think: Chess also has an objective (and trivially verifiable) win condition.

There are few interesting situations in real life where such a thing exists.
It sounds like you know a lot on this topic and have good information to contribute, but could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? For example, the rule that asks you to edit out the name-calling ("garbage", "bovine feces") is an important one.
That's odd. My experience was the opposite. Although the Opus one was a bit muffled and some of the low end was missing so I had to strain a little to hear, the MP3 was a cacophony of pops and whistles all the way through. It was annoying and hard to concentrate on. I'd take the Opus one every time.

I will say the music part was interesting. I could mostly make out the song on the MP3. On Opus, I could barely tell there was music there. A lot of it was just missing.
For now, Guardscript Goal is for the different SaaS services to use it, not for the individual website owners to use it to monitor the JS of SaaS services.
I think music will be the first of these milestones, and before long AI will be writing enjoyable compositions and pop chart hits.

Next AI will write passable stories, and then decent ones, and then marketable novels with a coherent plot.

AI assist tools will be able to help animators create scenes, backgrounds, and characters using just keywords descriptions. Then with the ability to write scripts will come the ability to create movies. It will take some editing to filter out the nonsense but we'll probably have AI film productions within 30 years.

That's my guess, purely based on what's been demonstrated so far.
Another cool Polaroid mod is the thermal paper Polaroid made by Tim Jacobs:

https://mitxela.com/projects/thermal_paper_polaroid
Actually I think D would be helped by removing features and focusing on really refining the existing stuff, especially CTFE which I think is the real selling point of D.
I despise the term Artificial Intelligence. This is all PROBABILISTIC MODELLING. Nothing to do with AI/AGI/whatever.

The computers aren’t thinking or learning. It’s just modelling fancy probability statistics.

E.g. classical neural networks are basically a load of linear regression equations with an activation function stuck on the end of each of them. No magic. Just lots of linear regression.

This stuff only works when:

1) you are trying to solve a specific problem that is suited to probabilistic models

2) you have a data set that is sufficiently large, varied and specific

3) the model is developed, trained, tested, implemented and updated in a rigorous and sensible manner
Call me a pessimist, but all went well for a couple of weeks until they all realized they needed reports that don't exist in the new system and all the users individually realized the new system didn't enable the thousands of workflows that people had adapted their old systems to do that the managers didn't know about.

By this time your sister had hopefully moved sideways with "another successful migration" added to her resume.
No it does not include the headers. Only the js file downloaded.
Of all the hypes going around (blockchain mostly lol) I think ai is going to have the most substance to it though. I would say the breadth of problems being solved are much wider and there is still a lot of research which hasn't really found its way to actual implementation yet
Paying a dollar for the entertainment of burning down everyone's investment would be a great deal for a troll.
Obetrol
Guessing that Amazon has some way for the seller to dispute the review, or they use some heuristics to determine that a comment is “on topic”.
Thank you, I have corrected it
3.5mm floppies combined a lot of factors that appealed to me. They were cheap enough you could give one to someone without wanting it back, they were contained entirely within the computer so no danger of breaking it off if you leave it in there too long. Unlike CDs they were rewritable and unlike CDRWs they worked properly no matter what PC I was writing or reading from. Not to mention the thoroughly satisfying "chunk" sound when popped into a drive. Network file transfers will never have that "shove the data right into the computer, bam!" feeling.
I don't know anything about Bluetooth. Does bluez always mount devices on /org/bluez/hci0/dev_${DEVICE_NAME} ?
More of a political move than a legal one, saying please don't ban us... But this trade war is a bifurcation of the world that was going to happen sooner or later. US is trying to tilt the table on its side. It's a bold move Cotton, let's see if it pays off.
SocialEngineered forum hacked and data leaked online
If you really wanted to crunch the size you could store the podcast as a text file and run it through text to speech when you want to listen to it.
I don't think that you need to limit creativity to the arts, which is unfair to machines because art really depends on human emotional quirks. That is even kind of the whole point of art.

What about technical inventions? Can AI invent, let's say, the process to produce aluminum? Or planar semiconductors? Or a rocket engine? These are also creative works.

(I do think that AGI soon claims are rubbish)
I usually just preassume I have zero privacy online these days
You are right, for now all the analysis should be done by the owner of the script. I'll think about adding a runbook...
Posting like this will get you banned here. Will you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?
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If you are billed only for the days you are abroad that makes sense but how does the user know whether or not the insurance is active?
Ask HN: I have an idea for an app / game – how to know if they're serious?
I had an interesting discussion with a mate over the weekend and the phenomenon of "I have a great idea for an app! You implement it and we can go halves in the business!" came up (he's started an indie game company and now gets approached like this by family & friends with app ideas).

This raised so many interesting questions - how do you know they're serious? How do you educate them about the process? Can it work out?

So, HN crowd - what are your thoughts? Have you ever been approached in this way to do an app where it's actually worked out? Have you guided people through this process? Do you have any 'tests' that you apply to see if someone is actually serious?
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Actually most modern neural networks are not probabilistic, they are deterministic function approximators.

Also your point 3) isn’t quite correct either, often a “standard” architecture and training procedure (e.g. ResNet50 with Adam) will work on a new task with sufficient training data and minimal modification of the model.
Posting like this breaks the rules at the top of the thread. Not cool; please don't. I'm not saying you didn't have a bad experience, but these threads are not a suitable place for getting to the bottom of what happened in any remotely fair way.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20087521 and marked it off-topic.
Note that the parent comment wrote interpret music not make it.

I am a musician and there were already impressive algorithmic compositions in the 70s using Markov chains, and today we use machine learning to create something that resembles the works of J.S. Bach.

But how is that creativity? Creativity means coming up with new and interesting things (and fair enough many musicians make quite uncreative decisions all the time).

These statistcal improvisators can come up with some interesting combinations but they are completely unaware of them and don’t repeat it ever again.

IMO we didn’t even solve composition, because it also requires a good feel for how humans react to a piece and how a given piece or instrument fits culturally and what emotions it envokes for what reasons.

Interpretation is yet another thing, it means interacting with an audience in one way or another.

To think we managed to solve composition by scrambling together some melodies from an input of thousand melodies and thinking we are done with the hardest part is hubris at it’s best.
I used a Wacom Bamboo Spark[1] during my Post-grad and am really impressed by it. You write on regular paper using a special pen (ball pen) and the notes get synced to their app called Inkspace. Your own hand-writing , regular paper. No dependency on Livescribe refills or special papers.
FWIW, I explored iPad + Pencil but it was too costly for my needs in 2017.

[1]https://www.amazon.in/Wacom-Bamboo-Digitizer-Tablet-CDS-600P...
Ask HN: OFAC/US or UN Sanctions Compliance for Startup
I am struggling to build my own tool to comply with these sanctions for my limited resource startup.

How do you other founders are complying to these complicated compliance issues? More so often that these open keep changing.
Hounding someone like this (in a job ad thread, of all places) is not cool. Please don't do this on HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From personal experience most routers they send to their customers are indeed rebranded ZTE routers.

This of course doesn't necessarily mean they use ZTE everywhere but can be an indication.
From my experience, I found that the Livescribe and their ilk depend on a razor/cartridge model. The pen itself might be cheap(the razor) but the refills/special paper (the cartridges) are ridiculously expensive. Any particular reason/hack you found to circumvent the prices?
Indeed doesn't seem fair, but that's the point for a Limited Liability Company. Who is in their right mind grant mining rights to a company that can't cover the consequences?
By this argument, humans also aren't general intelligences, because we haven't been able to write one yet either.
Not even an ant. If AGI is a human then what we have is the equivalent of synthetic RNA molecules.
Agreed and thanks for calling it out. It is so much harder to “learn” without obvious win states.
As someone who used Devise multiple times and always ended up regretting said choice in the long term, I am actually glad there is no Devise for Phoenix.

In one day I can quickly get something up and running with Guardian and have full control over how my app does authentication. Password reset and confirmation are easily done with Phoenix.Token without a need to touch the database.

Also, authorisation is a breeze on Phoenix. Take a look at Canada: https://github.com/jarednorman/canada - and it is only 10 LOC.
But that's precisely the point. A microtargetting solution for McDonalds isn't A[G]I, and as the article states - everyone knows it. But the brand power of calling something AI is too strong to resist it.
Would you please not use HN for political battle?

Also, you've posted a bunch of unsubstantive comments here. Please don't do that; we're trying for something better than internet default on HN.

If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Does the govt provide mailing addresses? Is there a law on the book that puts burden on shipping companies to block sender and receiver based on the provided addresses?

If not then I’m with fedex on this one.
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It can take two seconds to think of an idea and years to actually implement it. 50% is a tad generous for somebody who does no actual work.
Same here. It was really stressful trying to write everything down, to the point where I couldn't really focus on making sense of what was said.

Most good profs had a script with the important knowledge in it. Or at least printed out a miniature view of the powerpoint, to take notes next to each slide.
What would the "collapse of the US business sector" look like?
>We could say that an AI program should pass the Turing Test and many have written programs that more or less pass it. But so now, write a program that writes several different programs that all pass the Turing Test one better than the previous one.

That's essentially what machine learning is, though.
I have a spare RPi2 sitting next to my router and running InfluxDB precisely for collecting Luftdaten readouts.
Two related recent reads regarding how we came to be with regards to China.

First it was Nixon and Kissinger:

"Nixon argued, “containment without isolation” was necessary but not sufficient. “Along with it, we need a positive policy of pressure and persuasion, of dynamic detoxification … to draw off the poison from the Thoughts of Mao ... [although] Nixon said, years later, that his policies might have “created a Frankenstein” — and the family of nations he hoped would domesticate China finally has begun to take notice of the monster that has arisen in its midst."

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/449695-red-china-r...

Then it was the American companies:

"Well before Donald Trump was elected, the carping about Beijing's policies from the Fortune 500 crowd intensified. In the annual reports issued by the American Chambers in both Beijing and Shanghai, the number of respondents who felt the regulatory environment in China was worsening steadily increased. A senior executive at Honeywell in 2015 told me flatly that his company was fed up with Beijing's demands for technology transfer. Friends at CISCO and MIcrosoft said the same. Privately, the complaints about companies like Huawei stealing intellectual property also ratcheted up."

"After having spent so much time and money building out their supply chains, there aren't too many CEOS who want to spend more time and money rebuilding them somewhere else," says former USTR Froman, now a senior executive at Mastercard. And with a Presidential election now less than a year and a half away, the possibility that a Trump successor may not be a "tariff man" (or woman) also means companies are unlikely to tear up their supply lines, at least for now.

https://www.newsweek.com/how-americas-biggest-companies-made...
the general advice or best experience seem to be to team up with people that you have worked together with for a few years.

but as someone who effectively has been working alone as a freelancer for most of my adult life i simply don't have any coworkers or work friends.

and don't get me started on networking. i wasted lots of time at so called networking events, to the point that when i moved to a smaller city the lack of events felt like a relief.

therefore my only chance to find partners has been random connections.

so far the results were not good. the biggest obstacle being lack of funds.

i can't afford to work for equity only if i join someone else, and i can't afford to pay someone if they were to join me.

no choice but to keep trying
I do donate to Thunderbird regularly. But I'm not happy that Mozilla put it out as a community driven project some years ago. Last I checked several months ago, Thunderbird was going to be rewritten using web technologies. Firefox removing support for XUL extensions and moving to WebExtensions has been an issue for Thunderbird (since they share code).

When Gloda (global indexing and search) arrived in Thunderbird, it was a great feature. But it's not been enhanced to make it better and to allow narrowing down on results. Emails running into tens of GBs also cause performance and responsiveness issues, probably because of the mbox format (though I haven't had corruption issues with large folders like I've heard Outlook users having once in a while).

The biggest deficiency in an email client for me is the lack of proper Exchange calendaring support (no, most extensions don't cut it and have some issue or the other).

I will continue donating to Thunderbird even though I've stopped using it, because it's given me many years of good experience in the past (despite some issues and deficiencies). But unless Mozilla takes it back into its fold and drives it with a larger budget, I don't foresee it coming back to the glory days of its past.

Since my knowledge of the developments is at least a few months old, please correct me wherever I've said something inaccurate.
It seems similar to Ruby, but in the end it's more like Prolog
TL;DR - The money available to any one company is small (hundreds of thousands) which means it could only ever be a supplement. Since they are very difficult to apply for, it could be argued you’re just better off to spend time raising money from entities that can provide more capital down the road. Also, traditional capital can be spent on all aspects of the business. However, these grants are generally very restrictive on what the money can be used for.
Shanghai enforces waste sorting in efforts to improve recyling
If you keep breaking the site guidelines we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to do that. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and just using HN as intended? The idea is to post thoughtful, substantive, respectful comments, or no comments.
Great book! For anyone reading this on-screen, I created a tex file that adds a PDF outline, for easier navigation: https://gist.github.com/goerz/4c863a2fde1d3357113b95643d0ace...
I apologise, you're right, I was having a bad day. I'm surprised though, on a post with two downvotes?
> The idea I could do a better job than those authors while listening to the stuff for the first time is ludicrous.

Agree. I remember that I had one course that the prof couldn't really explain nicely and it seemed really hard. Then while preparing for the exam I actually read the book, and everything made sense and was quite easy.
Glad you agree now. Your comments yesterday make it seem you were quite stressed out from all of it.
That feeling of nostalgia when reading about 486 DX and Sound Blaster Pro.
Bringing the World Closer Together
Bringing the world closer together.
Your sense of being 'online' might be off when you are calling someone on your cell phone through the provider, this is very sensitive information for many reasons. It allows the attackers to do network analysis and to figure out stuff that even LE hasn't caught on to yet. This is problematic because people doing bad stuff that have third parties aware of this are vulnerable to blackmail, think local politician that is on the take on some public works project.
Garmin vivofit wearable use without the garmin cloud (2015)
Because this topic is becoming one of the hottest topic in Chinese ask and answer platform “zhihu”. I realized some answers mentioned this website because one of the authors in paper answers some questions. The answers from the author of the paper enraged us，because his explainnation was ridiculous and full of prejudice. As a email unfriendly country, even though Chinese may have email address, it doesn’t mean we want to use it in normal life. Besides, as far as I know, most people work in recipotions do not even have a email from the work place. Another answer is about japan， it is even more ridiculous. China and japan share a similar culture, the authors exclude japan because they found people will give the wallet to police booth. In china we usually give the wallet to lost and found box. I do not see the difference between police office and the box at all. Those are the main questions Chinese want to ask, and we need a answer. Sorry for leaving so many similar comments below this topic, but we want a reasonable answer.
Apparently you didn't get the targeted ad telling you that advertisers' dark patterns have become so sophisticated that free will is literally fiction now.

/s, obviously
Does marine animal bones sink with no flesh? Is it heavy enough to sink nets?

It could be a matter of a dumping ground for nets in one place and it floats around oceans while the unlucky animals getting caught in net bring net to sea floor.
Do you imagine this to be an impossibility? It would only take one.
> Sounds like the actual learning secret is "don't take verbatim notes", and the only relevance of the laptop is that it makes it much easier to take verbatim notes.

Yes, that's pretty much what it explains. The title "don't take notes with a laptop" is rather misleading. It's a well known fact that summarizing requires the learner's brain to actively process the information, as opposed to passively receiving information and copying. It wouldn't surprise me if summarizing on a laptop leads to better outcomes than using handwriting, as more cognitive resources would be available to process the information (rather than frantically writing).
I wish lectures weren't really a thing in their current format. Why just reiterate what is already available in text and video? Have students consume the theoretical material beforehand and schedule Q&A's or practical application sessions or anything else where the interaction between lecturer and student may become something more dynamic.
So, the actual issue is that transcription doesn't correlate with retention, and people who type tend to fall into the trap of transcription more easily.

There's nothing wrong or inferior about taking notes with a computer vs a notepad so long as you're not transcribing.

But, "Don't take notes with a laptop" is punchier.
another learning secret: take courses where the teacher gives you printed notes of the content he will present, and write down the occasional comment/clarification during class.
I know shallow, superficial tripe when I see it. Arguably a superset of most advertising, and the majority of advertising that actually sees the light of day, although not a total eclipse of advertising as a category of human activity.

As for Instagram, though. I have never seen anything on Instagram that wasn't something to be casually brushed aside as worthless. A large portion of the world does not see things this way.

I'm old and useless though, so please ignore my opinions.
Mostly, yeah. It is not perfect but we have a helper library we have written that handles most CRUD operations for objects and Connexion does the validation.
Applying for a SBIR grant is probably orders of magnitude more work than raising VC money in this market.
I usually take notes on paper as well.

Then I either scan them directly to PDF or take to effort to re-write them, if the information is to be better structured or shared with others.

Besides all the benefits mentioned by others, it is also a good way to rest my wrists from just typing.
Bringing the World Closer Together.ai in Paki
Nice workflow, and goes back to this comment somewhat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20271383 However, I'm not sure about the legality of recording audio without informing everyone in the room. In my country that would be illegal as some people have protected identities.
A great idea that I hope they can make happen.
Sounds like quite an undertaking though.
Flaws in LTE can allow hackers to easily spoof presidential alerts
You making profits off a charity organization is not the intended purpose of the Raspberry Pi foundation. Not getting 250k of those for your product is working as intended. You also shouldnt open a for profit restaurant cooking stuff you get from the food bank.
Historically, switches on the front of the machine.