skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of people who worked on AI (as graduate students, as ML researchers at hot startups for self-driving cars, as pure researchers or supporting engineers at Google or Facebook, and many other places), and then left because once they saw how limited the research was they lost hope it was going to happen before they died.

Also while I fully understand and appreciate the necessity of OpenAI abandoning the 'open' part, it says a lot about who is going to benefit from this technology when you have investors who want to make money. It's just ironically poetic in this instance.
? It's the same team and the same codebase.
I've got a wifi QR code printed and hung on the wall of my apartment. It's nice to be able to tell guests to just scan the QR code instead of giving them my very long wifi password.
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Linux users are tech-savy, know how to file bug reports ans help oberproportionally to improve a product.

May be another explanation.
ME: >>If there is a cat, leave that place. If you're unable to, avoid that cat.

You: >>Otherwise it's possible to inhabit the same room as a cat without interacting with it

So...avoid the cat? Like I said? Got it.
> consider that the possibility of annhiliation is already a very real and present danger (nuclear weapons)

What concerns me about the hazards of developing technology like AGI is not simply that it could be dangerous (governments already possess dangerous technologies), but that it may have a revolutionary high-proliferation risk. We don't yet know what the practical barriers to or limitations of AGI are; are we working towards creating a pure fusion weapon that you can git-clone?

For all the talk of safety, and that concerns can be addressed by mass distribution of the benefits, is this just wishful thinking? Is that just paraphrasing the NRA: the only thing that can stop a bad guy with an AGI is a good guy with an AGI.
Couldn’t people just parse the log files from their webservers?
This is slightly inaccurate. Pan-cancer treatments are rare but do exist, for example checkpoint inhibitors. They just work differently on every cancer and have different outcomes for each type of cancer. The single biggest factor right now on treatment outcomes is how quickly you find the cancer, because surgery early on is the best treatment, usually followed up with chemotherapy. These "miracle" treatments really are most impactful for late stage patients, especially those that aren't very expressive which means it's harder to find something to bind to the cancer cells and kill them.
Another example of “nonconsensual computing” from Microsoft. I don’t know what I’m going to do once Windows 7 reaches end-of-life next year.
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Hah, today I learned! It's a great feeling when you don't have to reinvent a wheel, thanks.

Now I'm just annoyed that more teams I've been on haven't set this up!
Dynamic Languages and Parallelism: How to Go from Broken/Slow to Safe&Efficient?
Show HN: Live-demo builder – Build a live-demo for your webapp within 15 minutes
Hi folks,

In the last few weeks I’ve been working on a platform targeted at webapp creators, to help them create a live-demo of their webapp in no time.

* What problem are you solving?

You developed a webapp with cool features that you believe provides great value to potential customers.

However, when potential users go to your landing-page, all they see is sentences like:

“Increase sales and conversions using our advanced analytics tools”
“Power your eCommerce/SaaS/business with buzzword”

The average landing-page visit to free-trial conversion rate is an abysmal 12%. Users aren’t even ready to commit for a free trial (afraid of giving away personal information, not convinced enough…). Can we improve that?

* Our goal

Allow potential users to actually play with your webapp with no commitment right from the landing page. This would convey the idea of your app better than any amount of screenshots, videos, or text ever could.

* The solution
Our solution is a platform that lets you create a live-demo of your webapp in no time. The live-demo will include:

- All webapp features (showcased on demo data that you add to your app)
- Optional. Guided feature-tours
- Conversion analytics dashboard (so you can see how many users the demo convinced to sign up for you webapp)

* Example

We created a live-demo for a webapp named Plutio. Check out their landing-page here:
https://www.plutio.com/

Here's the live-demo we created for them (click the LIVE DEMO button):
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* Your thoughts?

Would you be interested in a service like this on your own webapp?

If you don’t have a demo already for your webapp, what’s been stopping you from making one?

If you see any use-case for a live-demo in your app (for advertising, conversion, or otherwise), do not hesitate to contact us. We want to build the product around customers’ real needs.

Thanks in advance :)
There's not much more to do than create a quicker remote wrapper. The Git flow here is 2+1 steps: add another remote, push to that remote (+1 is to create the remote). It would be cool to see it built into a Git plugin or wrapper!
Assuming you're transferring a bunch of small files with `scp -r`? Try piping tar over ssh instead; it can be much faster for such use cases.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10026/how-can-i-bes...
The article refers to other behavioural traces in addition to forensic linguistics.

I imagine these refer to aspects such as how and when we login to systems, our patterns of interaction with everyday interfaces, paths we typically take online and so on.

Seems a fascinating area, anyone with other resources on this?
>OpenAI is not actually building AGI. Maybe it hopes that the things it is working on could be the path to an eventual AGI. OpenAI knows this, as does Microsoft.

Yes they are? They are making breakthroughs/incremental advances that required to get there, and building components along the way. It would be like you saying well Henry Ford isn't building a vehicle, he's just building a wheel, and a tire, and an engine, etc...
Gone from Major Outage to Degraded Performance in the space of minutes.

At least the status page is working. Was expecting all green lights like most other major cloud providers.
plumbing can be creative, but i wouldn't call it art.
Aside from the miniaturization, I'd be surprised if we couldn't make an exact simulacrum of a honey bee in software today, to the limits of our understanding of honey bees.

As with AI... a system can be simulated to a given level of fidelity without necessarily simulating the entire original underlying system.
Windows 10 is a sad joke of an operating system. It does not even deserve the name "operating system".

An operating system should be able to operate the system for weeks without automatic reboots.

An operating system should never ever just wake up from sleep on its own to install updates (with the potential to set my house on fire if the laptop is in a bag or something).

An operating system should not lie to it's users and trick them to sign up for online-cloud-stuff.
One of the things the anti-station crowd misses is that giant rockets like Apollo are pretty expensive and wasteful. Apollo was great for getting us to the Moon first, but not necessarily for continuing to go there.

An ideal would be at the very least a place for the lander to dock and refuel during the return trip. Then you don't have to haul a lander on every single mission, and thus can use a smaller/cheaper rocket with just the (reusable!) crew module.
Specific cancers at specific stages. Later stage cancer isn't usually considered curable once it's metastasized. They just move to Zero evidence of disease.
Sure, my family emigrated here: my father, who was born here as a first generation American--was just that; an American. He had No trace of an Italian accent (altough his parents barley spoke intelligible English), and in fact he forgot how to even speak Italian. He fought in WW2 as did his brothers (who were also American and spoke flawless English). They (my father and his brothers all got together and started a business after the war--though not a Fortune 500 company they earned an above average mid income living).

I contrast this with literally dozens of people I know, some good friends of mine who are here to only make money so they can return back to the native country--they do not consider themselves to be American, nor do they consider America their home, and indeed still refer to their native land as "my country". American can function as a Nation with some residents having this visitor attitude--but Not with 10s of millions of people who simply reside here. It's common sense.
Appreciate the note and thought here. I do disagree though, as it feels like the spirit of GDPR is to make into law the protection and privacy for regular people. Fathom does this to the best of our ability, and our code reflects our agreement with the spirit of the law.

Analytics is required for business and isn't going anywhere. The laws don't feel like they are trying to shut down analytics completely, they are just asking this type of software to do better. That's what I think we are doing with this—and there are no other analytics companies who come close to our level of obfuscation and non-tracking of personal data.

If the intent of the law is do better with privacy and data, we are doing it to the best of our abilities. It's not a skirting around the issue, we are agreeing with it in our code and logic for how our tracker works.
> AI (or AGI, as you call it)

AI and AGI may have meant the same thing a long time ago, but the term "AI" has been used almost ubiquitously to represent things that are not AGI for so long now, that I don't think the terms are interchangeable any longer.
It's easier on Pro, you get a Domain login option which just creates you a local account for you to use to get your machine domain joined, even if you're connected to the internet already.

The main reason for me to use local accounts is as an IT professional I'm often setting things up for other people who aren't present at the time.

Also if I set a Microsoft account up for someone then in their mind I am usually then the contact for any and all issues around that account forever which creates tension in my customer relationship.
I'm trying to figure out how one manages 24 and 48 hour prints without potentially setting the house on fire.

As far as I am aware, no FDM 3D printer is safe to run unattended, overnight without supervision. I know there are ways to make things safer, with various interlocks, fire suppression items (like those kitchen vent-hood pucks), cameras for monitoring, etc. But I still wouldn't trust just letting something like that run.

I've yet to do anything with 3D printing, so maybe I am just out of the loop on this. I do know that software and hardware has come far enough to allow for print stop/re-starting (such as when reloading filament in the middle of a large job). Maybe that's how these long prints are done without the danger?
I dislike Windows 10 for all of these reasons, but why does that mean it doesn't deserve the name of "operating system"?
To compensate for supporting more filesystems on Linux, they are now switching to a file manager-like application instead of the unobtrusive just-sync current option:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/dropbox-silently-ins...

Luckily they haven't ported it to Linux yet :)
Why is Dropbox better for you than MEGA?
The Five Sampling Algorithms a Data Scientist Needs Need to Know
True; some of the cheapest SSDs I've tested seem to just be the same package that would be inside a USB flash drive or SD card, hardwired to an SATA plug in a giant 2.5" enclosure!
It might help the Facebook workers, but it will hurt everyone else with a low wage job. The fundamental problem is that there are more jobs in SV than housing units, and you can’t build more housing units. The solutions are:

1: Some people work two jobs but only occupy one housing unit

2: Put more workers into each housing unit

3: New transport infrastructure to allow people to live farther away

4: Reduce the number of jobs

5: Somehow convince cities to build more housing
Hmm. Is there any comparison in features between the "normal" w10 and whatever the latest version of Windows Server is? At least a server shouldn't nag its admins with crapware and ads.
You might like to edit the line on that policy page that refers to "the most privacy-focused manor"... while a privacy-focused manor is an interesting idea, I suspect you meant "manner". :)
Genetically modified skin grafted onto child to save his life
It would be a bit absurd to remove support in the near future. It would make them seem very flaky.
you can be a mediocre developer and there's a decent job waiting for you making CRUD apps somewhere.

You can be an amazing/well-above-average writer/singer/other creative and make absolutely no money doing it despite all your efforts. the irony is that everyone wants to consume art but also wants to pay no money for it.
> Salary is a market value.

Were that true, global markets where the location of the seller is immaterial to the utility of the good or service sold and didn't create extra costs to get it to the buyer wouldn't have different rates based on the seller's location, by the Law of One Price.

> Your arguments read like “if a BigMac costs half a Dollar in a developing country then the BigMac is inherently worth half a dollar and should cost the same in the US”

A more precise equivalent would be “there is no rational reason for the same buyer to be willing to pay more to purchase a Big Mac delivered from a neighboring higher CoL city as an identical one delivered with the same latency from a different neigboring community with a lower CoL.” Local prices for Big Macs between countries naturally vary precisely because Big Mac distribution isn't globalized the way remote labor is, and a Big Macs from a McDonald’s in Turkmenistan is not an equivalent substitute for one from a McDonald's next to Market Street for a buyer in
Downtown SF.

Local wage policies for remote work are an effort by employers to present a rationalization to employees not to increase their wage demands to what the globalized market they are actually competing in will support. They will only be able to be maintained so long as remote work isn't widely offered and there isn't a meaningful competitive (on both sides) market; once there are enough competing buyers for any given kind of labor, competition for labor will see the best workers from low-CoL area consistently going to employers that aren't lowballing them.
20 years ago, software that included advertisements was called adware, and it was widely considered to be a form of malware. And software that sent out telemetry without the informed opt-in consent of the user was considered spyware, another form of malware.

Windows 10 is doing both of these today, but mainstream expectations for how software should behave have severely degraded. I fear the situation will not improve unless the public can be 're-educated', but a company with the brand recognition and legacy of Microsoft participating in these practices goes a long way towards further normalizing it.
Look, entire industries exist for being complaint with the letter but not the spirit of the law so I'm sure that this in no way meets the definition of a cookie as far as the GPDR is concerned.

However, this is absolutely a cookie. Scraping just enough information from the browser to create a unique but stable hash and then having the browser compute it every request isn't at all different from that browser information acting as the cookie.
Pretty similar to https://github.com/getredash/redash from a first look. What would you say are the main differences?
I think you're making a silly mistake actually giving this "too dangerous for society" line any validity.

I understand that this tech could be used for nefarious purposes, but this isn't world-ending tech. This is just hard to differentiate from human writing...

The choice to keep their "too powerful model" unreleased is more an attempt to stoke sensationalism out of journalists eager to report on "The AI too dangerous to release" than it is actually an earnest attempt at protecting society.

The dangerous rogue-AI is a Hollywood trope. We don't live in the Ghost In the Shell universe, we live in reality, and a text-generating algorithm isn't particularly dangerous when you think about it.
Skimming this thread I found only two important takeaways, are there any more?

1) It's really, really, easy to setup a second mirror that you can switch your CI/CD processes to in the event of downtime in order to avoid being affected

2) Unless you don't vendor your builds and some of your third party dependencies rely on Github as their sole distribution mechanism in which case you are SOL
> Shouldn’t we listen to the experts here?

When have politicians ever actually listened to experts?
The Cliches of Startup Culture
You're not going to believe this but it's broadly similar, you get Candy Crush etc. preinstalled on Windows Server 2019. Yes you read that right.
Bees also have sophisticated communication skills to tell other bees where to find food.
Do you do PRs? or have CI/CD pipelines hooked with GitHub?
What happens to a Microsoft login when you aren't online?
There are two ways people measure wealth: absolute and relative. You can also score it individually or societally.

If rich people are trying to maximize absolute societal wealth, you'd be right.

However, if they're trying to maximize absolute individual wealth, then they have plenty of incentive to exploit people. Labor history is full of this. If my workers aren't my customers and the choice is between putting a dollar in my pocket or a dollar in theirs, then a wealth-maximizer is going to take the dollar every time. Does that mean less global wealth? Very often. Does an individual absolute wealth maximizer care? Not at all.

People, though, are primates. Dominance hierarchies are part of our evolutionary history. We don't just care about absolute wealth. We care about social status. For many, power is its own end. Power and its signifiers. E.g., positional goods are hugely appealing to some people. (As a great historical example, consider the Shakespeare-style lace ruff collar. It was the height of fashion when it was handmade. As soon as machine-made lace became possible, they went out of fashion because they no longer reliably indicated wealth.) For these people, what matters is individual relative wealth.

For some people, yes, the exact desired outcome is them being on top and everybody else well down below. Does that mean they are less absolutely wealthy? Sure. Do they care? No. For evidence, just look at the historically enormous number of kings, dukes, warlords, etc, etc. Most of the world for most of history has been run with approaches that are miles off "greatest (economic) good for the greatest number". Conspiracy is entirely unnecessary to explain that, just individuals seeking social dominance by any means that come to hand.
This is a legitimate question and I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I don't have any sources, I only have first hand accounts of owners and people who have switched to tech companies.

However, you can compare the average wage of a line cook by looking at job listings and compare that to what was listed in the article posting, $23 an hour.
Definitely isn't.
Me too. That's awesome: I've just suggested it to our team. Thanks for sharing GP!

One serious question though: how do you deal with PRs when you do this? That's one area where it feels like things could be quite messy, especially if you have quite a few PRs going in throughout the day.
Employment has inelastic demand, people will work for anything to survive because they have to. It’s that or get your way into disability, which an increasing number of people do.
Buy a System76 machine or a Mac, you’ll never want to go back to Windows.
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i hate to be "that guy" b/c for me ... I'm honestly not evangelical about Linux. Honestly.

But increasingly, it seems like the saner choice.

My wife's Windows machine kept slowing down. I wanted to put an SSD in it but we didn't have the ability to do a reinstall on a new drive. So we put an SSD, more RAM, and Xubuntu on it. She's been smooth sailing for 6 months.

My sister (40), needed a desktop at home but was cash strapped, so i pieced together a machine and put Xubuntu on it. She's been happy with that for about a year

I put my elderly parents on Xubuntu about 2 year ago, and other than a printer ordeal that I solved, they've been smooth sailing.

it's not going to be perfect if you're a graphics designer or still need some kind of specialized desktop software where they're no web version, but I've been using it as my main driver for 6+ years now.

Price. Control. Privacy. Flexibility. Linux IMHO solves all of those problems way before you get to FOSS ideals or security/AV stuff. And i don't think there's ever been an easier time to do Linux on the desktop. Driver support is better than ever, most software being web software makes it better than ever. As does Electron apps or some kind of standardized packaging (Snaps, FlatPak, AppImage)
Maybe you use Blender differently than I do, but all modeling shortcut keys are still mostly the same and work the same way they used to. I don't use the left-side icons either (I'm not really used to that in a Blender workflow), but aside from using F3 to search for commands instead of space bar, I've been using the same modeling shortcuts from 2.79. Left click took about a week to get used to, but the only problem I've had with 2.8 so far is figuring out how the Eevee engine works.
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
> They are making breakthroughs/incremental advances that required to get there

They don't know that. We have no idea what's required to achieve AI. Now I don't know how long before Ford actually built cars he started saying he's building cars, but if Wikipedia is to be believed, it could not have been more than three-four years. Also, when he started building cars, he pretty much knew what's required to build them. This is not the case for AI.
Now that you solved your problem. Let me guess your next question:

I have two git repositories which somehow got into an inconsistent state: How can I reconcile changes in both repositories and resolve conflicts between mutable-metadata (branches, tags) in a sane way?
Not sure i got the answer to the question "Why Online Dating Can Feel Like Such an Existential Nightmare" from the article. Is it the "paradox of choice" ? This article goes from "But the most common responses to my post were not hearty cheers. They were lamentations about the spiritual bankruptcy of modern love." to eh, online dating isn't so bad, at least minorities and lgbtq folks can find people.
Definitely. Helps with people who disable JS as well. I've used this before https://goaccess.io
All Things Linguistic
All they say about the actual 'remote work', is there's a webcam meeting every day.
I almost down voted you in a knee jerk reaction. I believe that manned space exploration serves a very important purpose in advancing humanity . . . however, from the typical Congress critter's point of view, I suspect you're right.
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[citation needed] - were the Republicans complaining about this at the time?