skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hawaiian Electric finalizes largest-ever renewables procurement
Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
Nvidia Jetson-Powered AI Terminator Skill – The Nvidinator
I actually think that Ghost Babel (the Japanese name) on the Game Boy Color is a really underrated game. It's worth checking out if you have avoided it because of it being a portable game. It has a fairly elaborate story, a delayed intro scene, and actually pretty decent graphics for the GBC.
Would be nice to see an NVMe slot on one of these things. I’m guessing there aren’t even enough PCI Express lanes on RPi 4 to do that today.
“A few hours” doesn’t match my understanding of “commuter flight” at all. A few hours can get you clear across the US, and is more than enough time for someone to need to dump ballast.
My "guess" is they're offering $1B worth of Azure services. Which costs MSFT probably much less than $1B.

My "guess" is that it means MSFT has access to sell products based off the research OpenAI does to MSFT's customers. Having early access to advanced research means MSFT could easily make this money back by selling better AI tools to their customers.

Also a great time to point out that while "Microsoft is not a charity foundation" it does offer a ton of free Azure to charities. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/azure This has been an awesome thing to use when helping small non-profits with little money to spend on "administrative costs".
Startup Story: How Commander Keen led us to Sujjest Lunch
rockpi 4A is $39 and has an m.2 slot

https://shop.allnetchina.cn/collections/frontpage/products/r...
You can check your compensation here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
Glossier Is the Next Supreme
I understand and agree with you that IPv4 and IPv6 are OSI layer 3 protocols and UDP and TCP are layer 4. At the same time, the OSI model above the fourth layer has been widely considered mostly useless, and some have called into question the whole thing. Yes, RFCs exist that point to what you are saying. But again, I can 100% implement TCP on top of UDP without ever thinking about IP packets. And no, I don't care which layer 3 protocol TCP is using underneath, so long as I can initialize the socket properly and get the local/remote addresses. Take a look at a complete example of a TCP server: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f99/www/c...

Where in there do you see anything about ARP or ND? Or hops vs TTL? Or IP packet header sizes? Or header checksums? Or priority flags? You can take this code, add a couple of macros for getting the correct AF_ value and structs and the code would be 100% abstracted away from any mention of the underlying layer 3 protocol.

Google has been developing transport layer protocols on top of UDP for years now. Why? Because getting a new layer 4 protocol to work is nearly impossible. Yet, if we all agreed that it was something we wanted, they could easily do so, which makes these new protocols functionally transport layer. If it helps you sleep at night, you can say that they are temporarily exiled to be encapsulated in UDP, but really they'll return some day to their proper place in the OSI model.
For Microsoft, the investment will likely come from computing resources to support AI practices/tests, MS personnel and paying current OpenAI personnel (expensive due to their expertise). The findings and expertise will likely be used in the future to help drive improvements in Microsoft's stack (cloud computing, search engine, etc). OpenAI will be licensing some of its technologies to Microsoft

For OpenAI, it means the availability of resources for their main mission for the foreseeable future, while potentially allowing founders and other investors with the opportunity to either double-down on OpenAI or reallocate resources to other initiatives (Think of Musk, for example).

"Do people understand what "Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider" means?"
It likely means that computing power will be provided by Microsoft and that it may have access to the algorithms and results.
FYI Gitlab quite readily publicize their salary calculator at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c... .
Yes. I think many in their 30s and older have missed the new reality.

That more culture is being created on the internet on mobile platforms and apps they've never heard of (and in languages they don't speak) than ever before.

The weird web is alive but it lives in TikTok and WeChat etc.
Break and return are both expressions in Rust.

Item declarations, let statements, expression statements, and macro invocation statements are the four kinds of statements in Rust.
Here's hoping Microsoft applies some of these funds to inhibiting the source-IP-veiled bitcoin sextortions facilitated by its outlook.com offering.
I have a couple of family members who fall in the category you're talking about here, and here's what I've seen from them: 1) when you have a lot of assets, you still need to keep your eyes on them and have a system for monitoring and managing them quickly. But you never really get to the point of "set and forget". 2) You might be at a point where your income is essentially guaranteed for the rest of your life, and very adequate. But you probably only have a few (if any) friends in the same financial situation. That means that you might be able to stop working and just travel or do things you find interesting, but you will probably find that those things are only interesting for a short time when you are doing them alone. So you start a little side project for fun and for something to do, and it is successful and starts to grow quickly and now you are working again, because permanent vacation is honestly pretty boring.
Which is extremely well defined for OpenAI. One board seat, charter comes first. That's a legal agreement, not much open for interpretation.
At what point would you deem it a good idea to start working on AGI safety?

What "threshold" would you want to cross before you think its socially acceptable to put resources behind ensuring that humanity doesn't wipe itself out?

The tricky thing with all of this is we have no idea what an appropriate timeline looks like. We might be 10 years away from the singularity, 1000 years, or it might never ever happen!

There is a non-zero chance that we are a few breakthroughs away from creating a technology that far surpasses the nuclear bomb in terms of destructive potential. These breakthroughs may have a short window of time between each of them (once we know a, knowing b,c,d will be much easier)

So given all of that, wouldn't it make sense to start working on these problems now? And the unfortunate part of working on these problems now is that you do need hype/buzzwords to attract tallent, raise money and get people talking about AGI safety. Sure it might not lead anywhere, but just like fire insurance might seem unnecessary if you never have a fire, AGI research may end up being a useless field altogether but at least it gives us that cushion of safety.
I got another one for you!

It's 2019, and Office for Windows still uses Internet Explorer to render add-ins built with OfficeJS.

This is slated to be switched to Edge (regular edge, not the Chromium-based build) with Windows 1903 and a newer Office version, but damnit if my life isn't going to be hell debugging IE for a couple months.
I have no idea what your point is. Testing on a mac is pointless because RPi performance is limited?

Except the article showed the exact same performance in both places.

It started with: Why don't these cards designed for things like RPi actually show any improvement? Oh, they don't show improvement on any device at all, they are full of crap.
Ananas, a hackable data tool for beginners
Cyber threats from the US and Russia are now focusing on civilian infrastructure
That's what happens when you get a lot of people living together in a city or county.
my hot take is that it differs is that you plan to never automate some of the steps, if they're steps for a human to do. As part of onboarding, you might send out an email introducing this new human. The "description" field of this new human should be written by a person, not scraped from their linkedin or google, and summarized to less than 100 words by a computer.
WordPress is probably a fair one. I don't know that I've ever been on a *.wordpress.com site (probably wrapped in a custom domain, but that's going to be oblivious to me. Seen tons using WordPress as in the tool though).

Edit: just did a search here for wordpress.com to see if anything shows up from the site itself. There are entries, but everything seems to be a communication of sorts from WordPress to developers (vip.wordpress.com, developer.wordpress.com, etc.) or an article about WordPress.com that is on techcrunch or the like. I'll grant you that Hacker News is probably not the gateway to the Internet for kids coming up now, so that probably doesn't say anything of importance (just figured maybe something that someone hosted there may turn up, but they may be custom domained and at that point, very unlikely someone is going from that site to WordPress.com to start up a site).

I just mean organically though. Hate to sound old, but back then, Yahoo was basically a nested index and Google if it was a thing at that point wasn't a commonly known one. Yet Angelfire, Geocities, etc. were easily located because sites hosted on them were shared so heavily and drop the /something/something (edit: from the URL) and it says "hey, you can create your own for free here".

I just did a search for "free website" and there was Wix, Wordpress, Yola, and Weebly. Going to assume those are legit, but the rest of my results (which were way more common than those 4 entries) were offshoots of "[best/top/10] web site builders 2019" or some random other ones that won the SEO game.
His work with his company Thorn is really worth checking out. It's a great mission that he's done a ton for.
The problem in those scenarios isn't the auction, it's the seizure without compensation.
That's why I said not required; it'd be an optional upgrade. And another comment mentioned it's already implemented on Spirit.
The difference between shares and a loan is that shares have

a) no cap on the returns

b) give you control over the company

c) limited ability to sue if the company acts against shareholder interests

d) no due date

Differences a, b and c seem to be gone here. Would you give someone a loan where you have no ability to sue them if they never give you the money back? I wouldn't unless that person is very important to me or the money is insignificant. Neither is the case here.
It looks like window and isle passengers will push their elbows right in the torso of middle passenger. But it is hard to judge without actually sitting in such seat.
I think it depends on the airline. Most of the budget European airlines I fly with will allocate you a middle-seat by default if one is available when you choose the free "give me a random seat" option at check-in. I presume this is to give away their paid seat inventory as slowly as possible, and also because by giving the passenger the worst available seat you get more value from paying to choose your own seat. Of course: they have a limited number of middle seats to give out so I've found that a good strategy is to check-in five minutes before the online check-in cutoff time which usually yields window/aisle seats and frequently (~30%) exit-row seats.
But not really because people will keep changing things at a pace greater than natural selection and evolution.
Sounds like it alright but I've never used one as they aren't available in the language I mostly use.
Neither pickup artists nor 20th century philandering french existentialists would agree with that.
> Maybe they exist, but they weren't as obvious as they were then. When I first got online, I found a site that at least a few years ago was still around which was this chat site called 4-lane with the one I went to called Chatterbox. People would link to their pages hosted on Angelfire, and so it began. Now, everything is custom domained so it is hard to locate the Angelfire of today. If you blog, I guess there is Medium that links are posted of pretty regularly, but outside of that, I don't notice.

followed by later:

> I just mean organically though. Hate to sound old, but back then, Yahoo was basically a nested index and Google if it was a thing at that point wasn't a commonly known one. Yet Angelfire, Geocities, etc. were easily located because sites hosted on them were shared so heavily and drop the /something/something (edit: from the URL) and it says "hey, you can create your own for free here".

> I just did a search for "free website" and there was Wix, Wordpress, Yola, and Weebly. Going to assume those are legit, but the rest of my results (which were way more common than those 4 entries) were offshoots of "[best/top/10] web site builders 2019" or some random other ones that won the SEO game.
An event-driven MVVM alternative to Flux [pdf]
Back to preindustrial society? What to do with the 80% of humanity this can't feed?
> Things like click farming do extract wealth, but they increase systemic waste, meaning less value can be produced. That in turn increases the amount of desperation, making people more likely to join them in doing something exploitative just to survive.

Perhaps these click farms are just an evolving reaction to the PITA that is online advertising. It's the advertising industry that gets harmed by it and not some other poor people and it should eventually lead to more transparency for their customers, who would like to compare their traffic with what the adtech provider logged and isolate the fraudulent clicks.
Site crashed for me.
The purpose of OpenAI is to eventually lead to safe AGI. It's part of their core business purpose. Whatever they do with Machine Learning today is merely instrumental in leading up to that goal.

We certainly cannot feasibly build AGI today, hence OpenAI's use of the term "pre-AGI technologies".
I'd consider races of atomics with relaxed ordering data races, but those aren't UB per se.
Discussing the risks of AGI is always worthwhile and has been undertaken for several decades now. That's a bit different from the marketing fluff on the linked page:

"We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI"

Azure needs a few more years just to un-shit the bed with what their marketing team has done and catch up to even basic AWS/GCP analytics offerings. Them talking about AGI is like a toddler talking about building a nuclear weapon. This is the same marketing team that destroyed any meaning behind terms like 'real time', and 'AI'.
..... and?

Is your business' goal something different?

People can fly on different airlines. I used to treat myself to cityjet now and then for a nicer experience when flying DUB->LCY. But usually I took Ryanair, because I valued saving ~100 EUR more than a somewhat more pleasant flight and less time in transit.
Does "a publication like Forbes" even mean anything anymore? It's just a blogging platform these days, at least if you see the word "contributor". According to this there aren't even editors:

https://www.joshsteimle.com/writing/how-being-a-forbes-contr...
Great bit!
> I like it. You can make a joke, but if it's bad, you end up paying for it.

To quote John Scalzi "the failure state of clever is asshole"
This x 1,000,000. It really depends on what the website is trying to do. If the site is basically just text and images, then yeah. You have to fetch all that every time you go to a new page either way, so why try to re-invent the wheel? The more your website is an application, the more it usually makes sense to have a SPA, because you want everything on the website to react instantly to interaction. In that case, you're building a classic client-server application, and you want the interface code running on the client, not the server. Otherwise you introduce latency due to the communication between the two.

So maybe this is kind of obvious, but the whole purpose of client-side scripting is to make the site more interactive, right? If your site is completely static, you shouldn't be using client-side scripting. If you're site is very dynamic and interactive, you should be relying a lot on client-side scripting. Imagine writing a video game for the web where every key stroke was sent to a web server and every video frame was retrieved from the server. That would be way too slow due to the amount of interactivity involved and the latency introduced by the communication with the server between every frame.
Although I appreciate the attempt at transparency, there’s an awful lot of info here for potential attackers.

Examples: Where the CEO prefers to dine and drink, or how to send an email so it has a higher chance of being read (or acted upon) — the latter is quite helpful to phishing / whaling attempts.
While there certainly could be a shift back, it seems like it will likely occur because of edge computing. The cloud is still relevant here, but the question also becomes what a company could do if it had distributed sensors, etc. everywhere.

I’m not sure that this helps Redhat or IBM though as it really breaks how they currently license software. AWS also already has software infrastructure offerings here as well so they could already be positioned to benefit if the trend changes.
Honestly I am mostly just shocked they will end up paying anything at all.
Hopefully we'll see Mozilla clamp this down too.
My post got sent to the Minstry of Love. :-)
What narrative? There are extensive models! More climate chaos = bad!
Open AI has always had AGI as their real mission as far as I know. And always been serious about it.

It is a research mission. No one "feasibly" knows exactly how to build AGI yet. But still we have many groups publicly pursuing it today.

If Microsoft is giving them a billion dollars in this context, I assume that Open AI engineers and scientists will build out services for Azure ML that will then be sold to developers or consumers.

This type of thing is actually pretty normal for just about every company that is seriously pursuing AGI, since they eventually need some kind of income and narrow AI is the way for those types of teams to do that.
Fyi... A previous comment subtree that includes a comment on Gitlab financials from the CEO/founder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442952
i remember one company (i wanna say basecamp?) that pays everyone as if they lived in the bay area.

i found that to be super amazing -- if they are profiting like bay area companies, why not also pay like bay area companies?
Also true :-D
> My "guess" is they're offering $1B worth of Azure services. Which costs MSFT probably much less than $1B.

It's a cash investment. We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though.

> My "guess" is that it means MSFT has access to sell products based off the research OpenAI does to MSFT's customers. Having early access to advanced research means MSFT could easily make this money back by selling better AI tools to their customers.

I'm flattered that you think our research is that valuable! (As I say in the blog post: we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them.)
You cannot do CR retroactively.
Exciting announcement for the OpenAI team.

The wording in the press release reminds me of a question I haven't been able to answer for a while now. Can anyone point me to the moment in time when general purpose artificial intelligence was re-branded to artificial general intelligence? Is GAI that much worse of an acronym than AGI? What's the deal here?
This video only addresses performance issues, it doesn't really explain how to deal with a buggy compiler in general during bootstrapping. At that point it's probably best to just avoid using the feature that cause the bug in the second compiler codebase iteration when being compiled by the first.
I think the subtext is that flights aren't supposed to cost what cheap economy flights cost; they should be substantially more expensive. So you can "unaccept" the discomfort by paying for them what they should cost.

Is how I read the previous comment.
Agreed, it's a unique and energetic place.

Shame that it's going downhill:

* extreme inequality - fresh graduates will have to work for a decade or more before they'll be able to put down a deposit for a 150 sq foot "shoebox", while the tycoons with their mansions on The Peak are chauffeured around in Rolls Royce and helicopters

* gradual erosion of civil liberties

* air pollution

* ridiculous rents - any business will have the rent increased on it until they're just scraping by, if at all. Main Street mom and pop shops are replaced by luxury shops catering to rich tourists (in China, you have value added tax, luxury tax, and the risk of fakes - so they much prefer buying in HK). For example, more Swiss watches are sold in HK (with 7m inhabitants) than in any other country [1]

The indomitable spirit of the Hong Kongers is inspiring though.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/is-the-sw...
You find out! Soil doesn't magically turn productive you know, it takes an ecosystem to make topsoil.
Exactly, who cares about speed when all the microSD cards I try eventually become corrupt due to poor controller logic.
The Mohawk nation is very high tech compared to some of the others.

When working for an un-named poker company we had a hosted a server. When a hardware problem happened we had to drive and replace ourselves.

The cost is high and getting accepted requires knowing someone but safest place to host in North America for gaming related materials.

Remember bodog.. I believe they hosted game servers as well there.
Not booking the seat is a bit of a crap-shoot. I've also had cases on budget airlines where leaving it up to chance got me in the front of the plane, or in an emergency exit row. I guess no one wanted to pay a premium for those seats, so they were the ones left for random assignment.
Yeah.. My argument perhaps wasn't put in the best way, and yes, Tesla is growth-heavy, and probably could have been profitable already if they would have wanted to.

With what I said was more aimed at the argument that building electric vehicles isn't a straightforward business where there is nothing to innovate and the purpose is just to get profitable as quickly as possible. But yes, as you say, they invest it all back.

I wonder if the negative side in the whole argument would just like the profits and stock go up as fast as possible, and that is the reason for unhappynes?
You really can speak with children who aren't yours. Some parents will probably be upset or offended no matter how you approach, well tough luck for them. I think most parents will be shamed as an initial response but the key is your delivery. Don't be a jerk of adult. The child likely does not understand the consequences of kicking on a seat. Explain to the child that you can feel it and that it bothers or hurts you, it may make more impact than routing feedback through the parents.

It may not work. It may take some reiteration. The parents may politely explain a learning disability in which you just engage with them. The parents may give you a stinkeye. Oh well, kids need to learn how to interact with the rest of their world, and the parents who you seem to be most worried about are probably the ones whose kids need it the most.

Usually I find that parents are reasonable and appreciate other adults treating their children like small, learning humans rather than tiny monsters.
New York Times has a bit more context

> Mr. Nadella said Microsoft would not necessarily invest that billion dollars all at once. It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more. Microsoft is investing dollars that will be fed back into its own business, as OpenAI purchases computing power from the software giant, and the collaboration between the two companies could yield a wide array of technologies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/technology/open-ai-micros...