skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either you spent years just for them to nab the 50% whilst being utterly useless, or you make them do stuff too and before long they'll realize it's a lot of work and leave(though may come back to sue for that 50% if it ends up working well)

Either way they probably should be avoided.

If you really want to see if they are serious let them draft up a business plan, the amount of requests I've had from friends/family has made me very skeptical of all this though.
My fundamental problem with this viewpoint is that people appear to radically underestimate the amount of training data (all of it incredibly rich in context) that humans have had access to over the course of their lifetimes.
Right. There has been a lot of progress within the last decade in narrow AI, but AGI remains as elusive as ever.
Email sent .... :)
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying to avoid that here. I'm sure you can express your substantive points without that.

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>> We're not going to have AGI any time soon.

In your mind, how many inventions are we from GAI? 1? 1000?

Also, given we have our very brightest working in the problem space (MS, Google, FB, OpenAI ...) how long would each remaining invention take?

It seems plausible to me that we are only one invention from GAI, one novel combination of two or more existing solutions and that this may come from anyone and at any time.
To set a reference scale, how many tons of fish are in the ocean?
I’m not on Instagram, but I don’t think this issue is really confined to social media. I’ve become quite concerned about is how advertising is drowning out useful information everywhere else as well.

We recently had a baby girl, our first, and this has lead to quite a lot of internet searching. I’ve been completely unable to find anything resembling an authentic answer on google. It’s all commercial content trying to push products rather than give any form of useful information. The government sites, to their credit, work really well, but what happened to the actual people on the internet? People sharing their stories without getting paid to push a product?

In the end we ended up subscribing to a national NGO that does consumer testing and has an excellent decade long track record, but what good is the internet if you can’t find honest information?
There are too many flaws in this study, and the writter is a typical Mr Right. So I won't join the ridiculous discussion.

I just want to ask how much does it cost to make such a low-quality paper be published in the journal Science？
Of course they would. But it‘s an Alphabet company, so it‘s automatically a distopian nightmare and basically cyberpunk. /s

Which is not to say that the actual project plan shouldn‘t be heavily scrutinized. But a lot of the comments around it are just FUD.
> no meetings/standups in the morning

Would you have standups in the afternoon or are you completely against them?
The only notes I take are questions I want to pose to the speaker. The rest happens in my head.
Send me an email: bartus.csongor@gmail.com
You’re not judgmental at all, aren’t you?
"The 1995 Chicago heat wave was a heat wave which led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave".

That's in one urban area.
The DotA bot is a very specific subproblem. Look at the open worm project for progress towards AGI
I've heard students about using 1 shared google doc where the "multiplay" with their notes, so that they all chip in and even elaborate on certain questions.
Ask HN: Which companies provide 4hrs per day job for C/C++ software engineers?
I am a C/C++ software engineer. I would like to work 4 hrs per day and spend remaining hours on other recreational and enriching activities. How difficult, or easy, do you think it is for a C/C++ software engineer to find a 4hrs per day job? Which companies provide such opportunities?
Companies respond just fine to public scrutiny, caused by them being rightfully and loudly blamed. The way you lead people isn't the same as the way you lead companies.

Verizon was acting so badly that it's clear the pure friendly approach was doing absolutely nothing. And I'm sure Cloudflare is willing to give very real and pleasant engineering help if desired.

If Verizon doesn't want to talk to Cloudflare, that's fine too. This is not a problem that requires active cooperation. They just have to do their job.
Would you please stop using HN for political or ideological battle? We've had to ask you this before.

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the cost of highly specialized machinery is certainly a big driver. Plus that machinery is basically thrown away every time you go to a thinner process.

Also, figuring out how to maximize yields to an acceptable level must be a lot of experimentation.
The first one I did (back in the original Pi era) was this:

https://github.com/rcarmo/digital-signage-client

We then iterated upon that over the years, tried Android boxes, etc.
Yup, quite fast. On par with Go. Compiling Crystal is also fast and the language is beautiful.
Show HN: Dead simple text box app for macOS
Depending on the property's energy efficiency, in most of the continental European countries you'd need both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_average_temp...
> Revenue neutral carbon taxes are a fantasy, because they are pushed by progressive politicians, yet are deeply regressive in their impact.

I don't understand where you're getting that they're regressive. The poor don't have big mansions, they have little studio apartments which take less fuel to heat. They don't drive big SUVs with a single passenger, they take the bus or the subway. They don't travel by air or own stock in oil companies.

But they get the same tax credit as anyone else, so they pay less than average while receiving the same amount. That's not regressive at all, it's a net transfer to the poor.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using this site as intended?
My thoughts exactly. If I want to build something, I just do it, and I really enjoy it.
Where are you buying your paper? For example European paper is made from local wood, (re)planted in a sustainable way; also recyling. If you rely on extra cheap paper made from Brazilian wood that might be an argument. The stronger argument is that paper production is fairly energy and water-intensive.

That said, I would be highly skeptical that an ipad + pencil is more eco-friendly to produce than however much paper you use during its lifetime.
Where is the finished project pictures? It doesn't look like there are on the thread.
Toradex modules need just one or two voltages. RPi compute modules need like... five or so? Much extra circuitry. Toradex modules also have availability guarantees. I've seen both reasons rule out RPi compute modules.
Would you please not post like this on HN? Personal swipes and snark are what we don't want here.

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Thanks for the book recommendation.

We humans are really fascinating machines, continuously fed with a huge stream of data which we learn to filter and analyze. It takes time to accumulate the data and refine our pattern matching until we seem to be intelligent. It's hard to draw a line when this happens.

Maybe everything happens so fast and seamlessly that we consider it to be something magic and simply call it intelligence? Or maybe there really is something in there, reading in-between the lines, a soul?

We all know that each of us is looking outside from somewhere within a brain and you are able to influence your actions. But, is it some kind of feedback loop which can be reproduced mechanically or something supernatural?

As long as we don't know this, every attempt to recreate general intelligence may be futile.
I run a marketing agency that serves b2b start-ups. At least 25% of the time we're managing all the marketing - that is, it's outsourced to us entirely. So it's not crazy for marketing at least.
I don't think that's a great deterrent. Especially for a low cost item, I'm pretty sure it happens a lot that competitors would buy a few products of yours and then leave negative reviews as "Verified Purchase".
SpaceX STP-2 Mission Started Broadcasting
A plug for our (Cloudflare's) product — we support managed load balancing for UDP as well.

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/spectrum-for-udp-ddos-protection...

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-spectrum-with-load-b...
This is interesting, because certainly in the UK it’s extremely common to take advantage of government and EU money, either as an individual company or in partnership with an academic institution. It’s basically free R&D, and even if you can’t be bothered with the paperwork, companies have sprung up to work as a middleman doing all the boring bits for a cut of the money.
It is always a matter how good are those benchmarks written.

For example, good luck achieving in C what is possible to do in C++ with constexpr at compile time, and will require an additional runtime cost during the benchmark execution.

Or sorting data via qsort() versus STL sorting algoritms with templates, which in C always require the runtime cost of an additional indirect call.

Or now with C++20 contracts, validation of pre-conditions, which with C are only possible at runtime, while C++ can already make use of the information if available at compile time.

C++Now 2019: Odin Holmes “Hey C, This Is What Performance Looks like"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNw6Cz8Cb68
Having to support two different versions of the Elixir service during the rollout period is risky...

What if something goes wrong during the rollout? For example, if you change the database schema or upgraded your database engine or changed your back end authentication approach, it can break the old code. Then how will you know whether it's a problem with the old code or new code if many nodes are running both?
This article is... not great journalism.

Some Chinese startups are adopting open-source databases instead of Oracle and IBM. One of them, PingCAP's TiDB [1], happens to be built by a Chinese startup. And that's it? I was expecting to hear that the cold dead hand of the Chinese Communist Party was forcing this, but no, it seems to be simple capitalism at play -- nobody wants to pay the Oracle tax if they can avoid it.

[1] https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
I did a whistle box. A NAS for whistle blowers and journalists. https://github.com/Guiraud/WB

The Idea is for anyone to make a low cost NAS that allows a TOR service to upload/dowload files , pgp encrypted them with the key of the journalist, while having the simpliest interface as possible. I did'nt update for a long time tho.

There's a Slide in french language here : https://fr.slideshare.net/Fred2baro/la-whistlebox
> A good example of this is how a lot of people and media take 4chan posts at face value, without realizing that a lot of it is completely self-aware

But a lot of it is not, and a fair number of people do become indoctrinated to alt-right ways of thinking through that sort of medium, some of them going as far as murder.

I'm not saying "Ban this sick filth!" but I am increasingly of the opinion that such places shouldn't just be left to fester, because the genuinely twisted do go there, and they recruit, and that has real world consequences.
Applying this method of thinking, is there anything that we aren't one invention away from?
The security researchers are more than likely gagged and can't share which targets or any detail information of a finding this huge.
Best office spaces around San Francisco you hope your company can grow into
They're on the second page, e.g. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=sxf3te&s=9
I don't use this specific drive due to the fact that another company gave me a better deal for some marketing. But if I had to choose again, I would buy a dormakaba ED 100 or ED 250 (depending on the weight of your door). They support multiple opening angles depending on how you activate it.
Would you please stop posting inflammatory and unsubstantive comments to HN, so we don't have to ban you again?

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This might be your first instinct, but a new contractor would have to gain the knowledge KPN did on preventing these outages, there is no guarantee any other company would have better uptime.

Reminds me of the quote or story that someone rather hired an ops engineer that accidentally dropped a database than someone who didn't. As the first one would go at more length preventing to do it again.
Curious what is your yearly premiums? Is it a high deductible plan?
> If business really wanted end to end un-eaves-droppable confidentiality they would have mandated S/MIME years ago. The very nature of a store-and-forward protocol without end to end encryption pretty much guarantees you don't have confidentiality unless the entirely of your communication is within your organization, and even then, it's not really secure because most business organizations did not run internal encryption.

The problem with S/MIME is that it requires a CA to sign that certificate. There's actually very few S/MIME CAs out there. Part of the reason S/MIME was always preferred in a corporate setting (over PGP) was that it could be decrypted by gateway border systems, ie administrators. Office 365 also introduces Office Messsage Encryption (OME) which is basically a temporary mailbox on their server. (Like Tutanota, or OpenExchange mail Guard) for external communication.

Encryption is also not really needed when you're all emailing each other on the same company server, which is most often the case. Even when stuff is outsourced there's usually legal service level agreements to maintain basic confidentiality.

> Yes, Email is not going to die for internal business communication, but it will transform, and interactivity and dynamism are inevitable. Lotus Notes is a great example of this. Email is often used for workflow, for updates of real time information, and spamming people with status messages that link to dashboards is a productivity hit and produces information overload.

I don't think it will. Just because Google wants to do amp4email doesn't mean everyone else will. Email has been getting more secure with things like MTA-STS, but those have gone through the IETF. I don't think it will see any adoption outside of the Google ecosystem, particularly without a RFC.

Email is very much has a "you said this on this date", and it is as if someone sent you a letter in the postal mail. I don't see amp4email getting any use in the business world. I think it will mostly be for "promotional email" aka spam you've agreed to get from companies that you've done business with before and didn't uncheck that box that says "notify me of all your offers...".

Google also has a history of trying things out then canning them in the future. Anyone remember Google Wave? that was 'totally going to replace email as we know it'.
There are broadly two approaches to AGI. Behavior-driven or biology-driven. That's a cool biology-driven project, but for now, OpenAI Five is much closer to AGI than OpenWorm is.
And when you compare comparable things (ie same output 24/7 for the same duration), drivable solar and wind are not only more expensive, they also emit more CO2. This trend of replacing nuclear with unreliable intermittent energy is dooming us all.
Yup, and there's ClojureScript for that one :p
Rewriting contemporary notes some time later adds another filter/interpretation to the information, and if you choose to remove or rewrite things that now don't seem relevant or accurate (rather than checking with the information giver), there's a risk that the notes become diluted or lose details that are re-graded as unimportant but later turn out to be the opposite.

Always best to write good, efficient, consistently-styled notes once, and annotate changes/corrections on them if they are needed. It saves time too!
Many hospitals in S.Korea adopted my rpi based system. It is a network organized, synchronized, distributed video signage with weather/news web feeds and touch screen based vision acuity tester integrations.
The major key factor in it is a framebuffer driver by pure python which is open sourced by myself through Github.
https://github.com/chidea/FBpyGIF

Recent haul-over includes ESP8266 based remote power management.
Really? Thats not my experience at all that contracting earns roughly the same as permanent. Why would anybody do contracting if that was the case?

Maybe earning double is an exaggeration on my part though. For myself I earn 50% more as a contractor than as permanent (this is the net amount after taxes, holidays, accountant fees etc.)
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>if the Silvia is too expensive?
How does the USPS deal withe it?

They have the same problem and if they have a solution like an address list they should be sharing it with FedEx etc.
I for one remember UUNET being expensive transit, but rock fucking solid.
Australian hacker who stole share tips to make a small fortune gets three years
Open Source is the worst thing that can happen to the US tech in US vs China trade war.
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.
Adding to your list:

- Swift: C# like productivity, compiles to native code, however mostly constrained to Apple platforms

- Eiffel: RAD tooling, uses JIT for development, compiles to native code via C and C++ compilers for deployment, mostly constrained to enterprises that value correction above all and are willing to pay its prices

- Delphi: One of the best RAD tooling still around, with compilation to native code, while allowing all the low level stuff from C and C++; Mostly safe, suffers from manual memory management. Borland mismanagement placed it as enterprise devtool. You can use Lazarus/FreePascal as alternative

- Ada/SPARK. Compiles to native. Also enjoys fast compilations. For devs and companies that care about code quality. Besides GNAT all the remaining implementations have enterprise level prices
The solution is clear: prison.
The CEO knew that the company caused huge environmental damage, but lied about it. I don't think it could be simpler than that.

Of course the CEO won't go to prison, as he has too much power for that.
It would not be difficult for FB to add a “Ad” type for posts and be strict about enforcing this.

But they won’t do that because it will expose the platform for what it really is.
I agree that it's political since they seem to want something that is already the case.

Not sure, though that a "bifurcation" has to happen. We live in fact in a strange situation. The world in under a "Pax Americana" where the US are at the top and effectively rule. This is not a tenable situation especially with large countries several times the US' population.

The way forward a "multipolar world" and the role of the US is to let that happen peacefully and to play a constructive part. I am not convinced that this is their current agenda.
Yes, I went to an unlisted nearby audiologist who had never heard of IEMs (this was many years ago) and he did my impressions for $25, plus he shipped the impressions to the IEM manufacturer for me. Based on that experience I would definitely not try to take my own impressions, but leave it to a professional.
Taking a picture has always seemed like the laziest way to say that you're participating in class. I've found that people that take pictures of every lecture slide and say they'll look at them later are usually freeters who show up to lectures once in a blue moon.

To me, written note-taking was useful because it forced me to internalize the information in some way, even if it's only verbatim copying. My hand has to move to the shape of the letters, and I'd usually mouth out what I was writing; this forced me to experience the information in more ways than just listening to it. I can make my own annotations to a hand-drawn graph. Taking a photo doesn't challenge my senses in the same ways.

[1] showed that taking a photo improves visual recall at the expense of auditory recall, but I'd argue that lecture information more often emphasizes the latter.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976176948...
We've drawn a couple of circles and we want to draw the rest of the owl, and you're telling us there's only one step.
I feel the CLR version doesn't get as much love, because it doesn't really bring much over the JVM. It's a pretty comparable all around VM, with pretty much the same trade offs and use cases. I think that's part of it. And since the JVM one is always getting features first and has a more active community, there's little reason to try out the CLR one.

That said, some do, and the maintainers are active, so I'm sure it works well if you had reason too.
So robust and generalizable that adding a pixel here and a pixel there, too small to be even recognized by a human, confuse image recognition system to the point it confuse panda with gibbon?
> HN is not open source

That rather contradicts the submission you're commenting under.
Yes, they are substantially different processes.
Blame abstractions, and the fact that we expect a higher graphical polish to our programs and even just the desktop. Booting a Raspberry Pi straight into terminal is pretty quick.
It's astounding what mankind was able to achieve. Every invention is an ingenious marvel when you look at it in an isolated manner. But you could argue that each invention was based on previous attempts, combined, refined, either through complex analysis or through sheer luck.

Societal problems are a different beast. There are so many feedback loops, strategies and socioeconomic forces, that it's hard to find a clear cut solution even if you know the problem.

Stupid example: If you play Sim City, are you able to handle overpopulation, collapse of transportation and disasters? After a few games you definitely get better, recognize the patterns and handle accordingly.

So why doesn't it work in real life, climate change for example? Maybe the data is just too overwhelming, contradictory or incomplete? Maybe we just don't know any patterns which could help us? Or maybe we humans are simply not intelligent?
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I decided to skip them when I was in Peru too. Didn't see how I'd get much more benefit seeing them from several thousand feet in a plane than I would looking at photos of them.

Same can't be said for Machu Picchu, photos really don't do that place justice.
have you used it with elixir_ls? I find that in practice it catches about 80% of my errors before I send them to test.
So why show me ads...

To keep the brand in your head so you post about it on Hackernews.