skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGI as discussed by people working on it is closer to the Ship than to Data. The defining thing about AGI is that can figure its way around arbitrary challenges just like humans do, but not necessarily the same way humans do. There's a concept called "orthogonality thesis" that tells you that intelligence and values are orthogonal. That is, there's no reason why a powerful enough AI would have to develop values similar to those of humans (like Data, trying to be humans) - you could have an AGI that's smarter than humans in everything, but is "not really caring about you or knowing anything about being alive other than the priorities built into its software".
Ask them to draft up a business plan, including target segment, competitive analysis, pricing model, market penetration forecasts, customer acquisition strategies, marketing plan, funding requirements, etc. Lay out specifically what you're looking for so that it gets them thinking about the real problems that need to be solved.

Basically, unless they can make a substantial contribution to the execution of their idea, it's not worth 50%, or even 1%.

99% of the time, they'll either refuse, defer, or forget about it in a few days. The other 1% are demonstrating their willingness to put in work, and now you have a document that demonstrates their level of competence, and a launch point to discuss the viability of the venture and revenue split.
I'd love to use betterC more if it had dynamic arrays and assoc arrays. BetterC opens up opportunities such as WebAssembly too.
To be clear, by "strongly disagree with" I meant "strongly think they should lose the suit"...
> I VPN in to my home network, ssh into the pi using Terminus on my iphone, and 'aplay' the wav file

Once, when I was working away from home, someone unplugged the phone at home so I couldn't phone in. After becoming very frustrated, I SSH'd into my home server, and from there into the Mac Mini we used as a media station. Then:

- checked they were watching something using `ps`.

- killed that process so I had their attention.

- `say 'this is dad, I'm inside the computer.'`

- `say 'I want to phone you but you have unplugged the phone.'`

- `say 'plug it back in'`

Worked :)
Yes. Because we don't know it is an owl we should draw. It's equally likely AI is just three circles combined.
Which chi-fi earbuds fromi aliexpress you recomend?
It is actually quite difficult to enforce. You would need to have access to bank accounts of people to make sure they didn't received money for their stories. And even then, there are other forms of benefits, such as free passes, free products, etc ("gift") which leave no trace
I'm afraid I don't understand your question.
"3.5mm"

Careful with your units there.

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
I actually think AI will never really make great "pop chart hits", for the mundane economic reason that once we figure out how to make good music with AI, it will be possible to absolutely flood the market with that genre of music, making it impossible for any potentially great hits to stand out.

That said, I absolutely believe that AI-generated music can soon and will easily easily replace any sort of background or generic license-free music uses, where they simply need to be "good enough" rather than great.
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 where I host my personal website including a nextcloud instance, with it I learned more about Linux.

With the release of Raspbian Buster I am currently rebuilding it because it was the first one I bought so there was plenty of residual stuff from when I had no idea what I was doing.

I have a Pi 3b+ I use as a Pi-Hole, samba share and whatever I want to try at the moment. I have to rebuild it after I "finished" with my site.

And I want a Pi 4, or two.
Chip and Pin has been out in the wild for what ... 17 years in the UK where I am? And round a lot of the world. So far it has resisted cloning admirably.

I'm not saying Card-present fraud can't ever happen with EMV cards, or that customer liability is the right thing to have, but this technology really does seem to have held up well to attack. Possibly because there are just easier ways to defraud people...
So, by that logic if I make a desktop window manager that looks just like Windows, Windows is then Open Source?

I mean, really, what kind of argument is this? X builds a thing. Y copies the appearance of X's thing. An employee of X then claims that is evidence of X being open source.

If you want to refute my claim, where is the source code for HN?
Unfortunately the billions of trees provide only a one off benefit. Once they die and rot away the carbon is released back again. So you either need to prevent that carbon ever getting back into the atmosphere or ensure those forests are sustained forever. A useful approach to getting some carbon out of the atmosphere but we still need to stop releasing carbon.
Yeah, I managed to get our team members to use ElixirLS for this very reason, but in the end I found that it doesn't work when it matters. The good thing about ElixirLS is that at least you have to configure something to disable dialyzer, so by default to at least get some coverage…

In the end you need to some kind of compiler that does proper, rigorous and unapologetic type checking. If Alpaca could reach critical mass I could convince our project leader to use it, which would solve the problem entirely.

Sure, the ecosystem would likely remain the same in that the majority of people simply don't actually have any familiarity with strong, static typing, but at the very least you can now set up these guards yourself and you can have code that is much more likely to be safe and good.
> 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)

Q: Why should "frantically writing" be worse than - say - frantically typing?
Been meaning to blog about it, but not got around to it yet. Essentially it's just a (bunch of) USB-serial converters and the Seatalk data is converted by a Raymarine E85001. If you have N2k, you need a different converter, e.g. Actisense or better yet, a translator to NMEA0183, which is the de-facto standard for NMEA over TCP/IP.
Show HN: Func.Farm browser extension creates serverless functions from snippets
To be fair, Firefox also frequently displays ads for their own products (and sometimes affiliate links) on their new tab page. Maybe something like Opera would be better about that, but I don't know.
Are you telling me that this HN entry is anything more then an ad? I know an ad when I see one. Yahoo is full of them disguised as articles. And I kinda stopped reading yahoo exactly because of click-bait articles disguised as ads. So guess what was my reaction when I seen this one. I really hope HN doesn't go the same path.
Is there a list with the contribution and usage by country?

You also need to consider the language problem, I can imagine that people that are not as good at communicating in english would have less contribution in english language projeccts but would contribute to native language projects (I seen small projects on github, game modding sites) by people that are bad english, use machine translation but that want they share their creation.

Just yesterday I found a small project on github that I used for inspiration on how to solve a problem that had the code in english but all comments was in Japanse(I think) , my point is that you may not see the contribution that happen and you then assume those do not exist.
I fail to see how Cloudbleed and this event are the same. Cloudbleed was caused by a Cloudflare bug, true, but it wasn't caused by outright laziness (which this incident clearly was). Furthermore, unlike Verizon's distinct lack of communication regarding this incident, Cloudflare has generally been very good about reporting and communicating with the community.
Thanks for the information. So what happened is that the paper became a hot topic in a Chinese discussion forum, and some people there linked to this Hacker News thread because one of the authors was commenting here? Please correct me if I've misunderstood.

I'd never heard of Zhihu. When you say it's a question-and-answer forum, that makes me think of Quora. I wonder how it would compare to that, or even to HN.
Just like when you have a backpack slightly too big for purpose and you tend to add in useless junk, so too do people add useless software when available compute/memory is superfluous. Because you can.
The only nnets I mentioned were “classical” as a purposefully over simplified example. Yeah, they can model any function, but historically they were used for probabilistic density functions (if I remember correctly).

Most of what the article talked about can be done with much simpler models, which is what I get peeved about.

Also, yes, you can transfer learn with resnet. But if I throw my bank statements at it, it’ll do bugger all.

Similarly, if I throw new images at resnet in a silly way, it won’t transfer properly.
This is really disturbing. It made me rethink who I'm following.. I'm going to go through my feed, with a good cup of Hill Brothers cappachino mix (my favourite is the classic!) and really look hard at who's worth keeping in my followed list.
Thanks for the reply. What you're saying seems consistent with what some of the other commenters are saying (e.g. what kiki1124 wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20271586). So that seems to be the explanation for what happened.
How long until you can get flagship smartphone performance under a Watt ?
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There are not a lot of historical examples of a multipolar world that was stable and peaceful. There are competing theories, but there's a valid case to be made that if many nations believe they have a shot at being #1, they will inevitably go to war to find out.

Whereas the current unipolar system, despite its flaws, is correlated with the largest expansion of peace and prosperity in history.

I think a lot of what we are seeing in geopolitics today comes down to world leaders realizing that there could be another pole in this system if things keep going the direction they are going. And that second pole would be an authoritarian nation which is one of the greatest human rights violators on earth, has a million people in detention for practicing moderate Islam, claims sovereignty over Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong despite vigorous protest from all the aforementioned, and who shelters a neighboring hermit state that's always threatening to nuke the other pole.

Predictably you have dictators like the ones in Cambodia, Russia and Thailand who are enthusiastic about the idea. Increasingly you have resistance to it in the West and in allied stable democracies like Japan and India.
So your definition of successful and mature business is a management team that doesn’t give 2f?

Wow
There's optimism and there's being too vague to disprove. You might be able to dodge downvotes by adding more objective content to your comments.

History has played out a particular way quite a few times (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter). If you can tell us why today isn't like all the other days using facts, I'll bet the downvotes will stop.
It doesn't seem incriminating at all. When she says "the Trump situation" in this context it seems clear she is talking about making sure that foreign and otherwise nefarious actors are not able to game search results and the ad system to spread disinformation. Which is what happened in the last election.
We don’t have the time.

Anyway the response to WW2 shows we can adjust quickly to change.
Depending on your device... But for me it works with every audio capable device i tried (iPod nano, iPhone SE, Android Moto G7)
Since youtube tries to monetize ads, they would indeed be interested in your identity. Saying it is to prevent abuse is a pretext. People believing it would certainly have their trust be abused.
How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448678
AGI will arrive as soon as someone can arrive at a reasonable definition of intelligence.

Try it. Everything I've seen is already achievable by computers.
I used to work on fundamental molecular microbiology. We looked at what happened when DNA replication went wrong in E. coli.

What I used to do when writing or speaking about it was to start with cancer or antibiotic resistance as if anyone in my field gave a crap about either of those topics. Sure, we do care about those things in the broad sense, but we didn't consider ourselves to be on the front line of solving either of those problems.
pihole with my rpi1

retropie with my rpi3
I absolutely love this and I think the resulting photographs have a great charm. I wish I had the dedication to follow something like this through.
Hmm why not speak 10 times faster, then slow down by 10 times after decoding.

I havent decided whether this is a serious proposition yet....
> you want to protest it without going to jail you can do so legally by telling people it's a stupid law - while complying with it.

Isn't this what Fedex is doing? Complying with a stupid law but challenging its legality in a court. Not sure where you get the idea that Fedex is breaking the law.
Our company did a handful of these before we sought VC funding.

I have to agree with most everything said already.

You’ll starve before the contract gets funded - it can take years and you will likely be on a second generation of code by then.

It’s hugely political. We partnered with larger competitors and spent a lot of cash on legal fees and patent protections.

Net profit was just not worth it alone - but we had a few prestigious projects that helped us get on the GSA schedule, get FIPS and CC certified, and snag a few hard-earned customers.

Honestly I wouldn’t do it again unless it had a contingent long term contract.
That’s not a windows issue, it’s an unfamiliar software issue. Take a weekend to learn how Postgres handles accounts. It takes a little getting used to but it is very much worth it.
exactly... we don't even have a definition of consciousness that is better than Jacobellis v. Ohio - For that matter, I'm not sure we even have it that good. I'm not sure I'd recognize a non-human consciousness when I saw it. I'm not sure anyone would.

I mean, sure, I can totally see the idea that consciousness is maybe some emergent property of complex systems... in which case, sure, we could stumble upon it by accident. That is totally possible; we're creating complex self-replicating systems all over the place.

But as far as intentionally constructing the thing that will come after humanity? we can't do that until we know what, exactly, it is we are constructing, and as far as I can tell, we're pretty far away from any idea of exactly what that is.
Not all these notifications are fake but they can still be misleading.

I've investigated a few of these sorts of apps on Shopify. They do use actual customer names but how long ago those orders came in seems a little dubious.

I believe it's not so much to promote fear of missing out - other apps do that better - e.g. ones that copy booking.com's pattern of 'only x left!'.

Instead, they're a very good way to signal to potential buyers that the (usually small) shop is being used by other shoppers to increase trust.

Few people go in to empty restaurants.

It would be interesting to know if there are legal implications to lying about your visitors using services like these, though.
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Your notion of cognitive resources is most likely very different from your brain's.

As I recall, all the evidence shows that handwriting rather than typing - even when using similar strategies - has better recall. When writing, you can more easily draw diagrams, do very quick sketches, add arrows and links back to other parts of the text, etc. In short, you have more ways of contexualizing the notes and representing them in a spatial way, giving your brain another 'hook' to help remember them.
Preshared one time pad would be pretty simple. But just because it has wifi, doesn't mean you have to use it. The chip is bristling with io so running real wires is always an option (and hey, you probably have to power it by wires anyway).

There's definitely something to be said for not having the surface area of some hobbiest-grade linux distro on your door locks also. I'd like to perform a "security update" on my door locks just about never.

Anyway, the esp32 has a tls stack which is adequate if you want to go that way. Lately there are a handful of boards on the market that pair the esp32 with a PoE chip that are becoming my goto for little "iot" projects.
I think you can also cant the track, but I don't know if this is appropriate for a metro system.
> the audio quality is incredible, though required compute power is ridiculous.

LPCnet gives similar quality with much less compuation needed:

http://www.rowetel.com/wordpress/?p=6482

https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/lpcnet/

https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/lpcnet_codec/
I took notes on my laptop using OneNote - far better than Microsoft Word.

I used color for headings. Added bullets and numbers even when it wasn't dictated that way. Added acronyms - mnemonics to the headings. Marked out filler content while writing or immediately after class. Summarized, rewrote important parts in my own words. Marked areas where I'd have to reproduce verbatim.

Finally, for exams, I read using my Nook eBook reader instead of the laptop because: The glossy screen is tiring. And there are many distractions on my laptop - browser, games, movies...

Finally, while reading, I actively set questions and answered them after reading. This question method's far better than re-reading multiple times.

With all these, five hours was all I needed for a semester's worth of work.
You do have that option at the Enterprise level (and since there is no cost curve at the Basic or Developer level, it would be meaningless there, so Business is the only level that lacks the option but would make it meaningful.)
Thanks. Pressure sensing is actually pretty simple and cheap, unless you have a really large number of inputs (like I have). I was planning to switch to a matrix layout in the next version to reduce the number of ADC chips I need, but then I'll have to figure out how to mitigate ghosting.

I haven't used any of Sensitronic's producs, but they do have a lot of good information on their site about the various ways to use force-sensitive resistors.
Not to mention that I am also not fully convinced by the design of this methodology, I don‘t think one can conclude the civic honesty by such a convey. I mainly want to point out that I think this in the end is a cultural misunderstanding. If one of the authors has had consulted any Chinese about the design of the test, they would not have done this convey in China. Simply because any Chinese would know this won’t work in China based on the knowledge of Chinese culture.
>But this trade war is a bifurcation of the world that was going to happen sooner or later.

why is it inevitable? What do trade wars get us?

As I understand it, trade wars decrease the GDP of the world, decrease the total output and productivity of markets on both sides. I mean, certainly, it's better than a war war, but it's something that has great costs for both sides, and few (no?) Benefits for either.
What sensors for your power monitor?
We might be headed for the trough of disillusionment, but in terms of technology and industry applications, we are still in the early phase of modern AI (big data + ML).
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I agree that the issue is not quite as simple as "just let everyone do their own thing". I also don't know how I would ease my kids onto the Internet - I feel like it was a less dangerous place when I was growing up. My very subjective and still liable to change opinion is that it will come down to education, developing maturity Internet consumption over time, and the broad swathes of the Internet calling trash out when that's what it is. And of course banning the truly extreme sick filth.

(I have a whole separate argument on how I think the problem may be that the progressive movement has simply assumed that it has won the cultural war, and has stopped making effective arguments for itself, which inadvertently leaves room for alt-right type movements that are still actively recruiting and promoting themselves - e.g. the so-called "red pilling".)
That’s marketing to rich hipsters. “Handcrafted” machines aren’t better. They’re crap. You want a precision assembly line that makes consistent, replaceable parts.
"The report coincides with discussions among lawmakers about regulating technology companies, including through a bill proposed in April by Senators Deb Fischer, Republican of Nebraska, and Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, that is meant to limit the use of dark patterns by making some of the techniques illegal and giving the Federal Trade Commission more authority to police the practice.

"We are focused in on a problem that I think everyone recognizes," said Ms. Fischer, adding that she became interested in the problem after becoming annoyed in her personal experience with the techniques."

If we used programmer vernacular we might say she was "scratching her own itch".
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I was going to say this, I used to take notes the first couple of years of university and eventually stopped when I noticed that I learned better when not taking notes. It was preventing me from concentrating on the content... (plus I don't write well enough that my notes were nice to reread)
If Kim Kardashian gets paid to post a photo wearing a brand, is that an ad? What if she just gets paid to wear a brand for the day, and it happens to make it onto Instagram? And why stop there? If a TV show or Movie has some product placement in it, should a ‘sponsored content’ subtitle be displayed every time the product appears?

Trying to protect people from content is an endless rabbit hole of ineffective strategies that usually end up doing more harm than good. Why not just leave it up to people to take some personal responsibility for how they consume instagram content?
> How long until we could assemble an orchestra of computers that can interpret sheet music with feeling well enough to impress a human audience?

As others wrote, this will be the first to go. In fact, I believe current breed of NNs can do this already.

Artistic creativity is a trivial problem compared to all others. All you have to do is inject a bit of randomness to the process and then not tell people that the work was done by a computer program.

The "interpret sheet music with feeling" actually happens within the brain of the listener, who tries to connect the music and feelings it evokes in them to a vision of a human being who created that music. In other words, emotions are actually projected. The mechanism works somewhat well if the artist is a human with clear intent of creating emotional impact. But when the artist doesn't intend to create that impact, the audience will find one in there anyway. And so will they if the artist is actually a matrix multiplicator running on a stack of GPUs.

The same phenomenon happens in writing[0], but writing (and similarly, painting) is harder, because the sentences have to have at least some semblance of sense[1]. In music, anything that's not just pure white noise can get accolades for creativity if you insist hard enough that it was composed by a gifted human.

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- [0] - Ever heard of the stories about people building these whole towers of interpretations of a literary work, and then when someone asks the author whether they meant any of that, it turns out the whole edifice is just a pile of bullshit, and the author really just wanted to write a story they liked?

- [1] - But see https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-po..., in particular near the end of the post.