skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite all the negativity in replies, I try to remain optimistic that this investment in AGI-related research is going to be a net positive.

Congrats to the team, and break a leg!
I've written up my opinion on the deal that OpenAI gives to investors here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/azvbmn/n_o...

TLDR either the public is being conned or Microsoft is. And assuming that Microsoft probably has used top lawyers to close the deal, I doubt it's them.
Good list! I had not thought of those.

In which of those was the 2nd amendment used?

Having said that, weren't those slow change of the laws? I was thinking more about forceful events like the opposition to the Vietnam war, the yellow jackets in France, or what's going on in Hongkong right now.
Do you know what "investment" means?
India's historic moon mission launches toward lunar south pole
Is all this talk of AGI some kind of marketing meme that you guys are tolerating? We haven't figured out sentiment analysis or convnets resilient to single pixel attacks, and here is a page talking about the god damned singularity.

As an industry, we've already burned through a bunch of buzzwords that are now meaningless marketing-speak. 'ML', 'AI', 'NLP', 'cognitive computing'. Are we going for broke and adding AGI to the list so that nothing means anything any more?
Go buy a plane ticket right now. Don't even need a credit card to get to "choose a seat" and you will see, all the aisle and window seats are taken by default.

You have to pay extra to not get a middle seat.

It's actually a bit annoying to have to explain this to you based on your childish reply.
You don’t have to overpower the military with their nukes. You just have to make your region ungovernable without the military doing something embarrassing, or that would make the region of no value. It’s the Northern Ireland strategy.
AN/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network
What did Saddam or Afghanistan have to do with 9/11? Saudi Arabia and (I think) Pakistan were connected to 9/11, both countries that are US allies.

Understanding why the US entered Iraq is not hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsWcEoKfp4
The people you consider anti-free-speech don't dislike your ideas because they're weird.
Well, you can start by requiring the extensions to actually request all the permissions they use. Chrome does that now but has very coarse-grained permissions which makes it easier to hide malicious behavior, and in this case the permissions just weren't working so you could do something bad without the permission. The way extension permissions work in Chrome also means that extensions tend to request permissions they don't currently use, which means they can quietly pick up nasty behavior later on.

In the end an extension like Greasemonkey is implicitly unsafe because it's designed to run third-party content. You can't really fix that at an extension store/distribution platform level - so you put that dangerous footgun behind a permission and make sure users know what they're in for when installing it. I'm not sure what else you could really do since greasemonkey scripts rely on the ability to muck with page content.
None of those fights had a Second Amendment angle, except possibly the Black Panthers' demonstrations carrying rifles. Those events instead resulted in California gun control laws being created more than contributing to the Civil Rights Act's passage.
I totally agree, but safe languages have to climb a hill at least as high as well, and it might even be the same hill. I just think it's worth mentioning that if this kind of safety is important to you, then there are alternatives that are cheaper than a rewrite. Getting people to 1. care about the problem and 2. accept that there are tools that can help them -- be they safe languages or sound static analysis -- is, indeed, a hurdle.
Seems like a violation of YAGNI, and converting a function to a class is fairly effortless
Love to see someone trying hard to say "capitalism sucks" but not knowing how.
Introduction to Mathematica 1.0 (1988)
Yes. You get money and give control.
Hopefully this is good news for Bing.
The author has a point, but one of the defining characteristics of HN (in my opinion) is that sometimes comments are more valuable than the actual link.

Some HN comments are incredibly insightful and well informed, and some threads have real historical value (i.e. the original Dropbox and Redis posts).

Does someone keep an archive of legendary HN comments that you could share?
Still-truthful possible answers that say the same thing without raising flags: "Cost of living where I am as increased quite rapidly, so I'm looking to relocate to a more affordable area."

"I'd like to live closer to family, and my current work situation makes that impossible."

"I'd like to move back to my hometown, but there aren't a lot of on-site opportunities there, so I'm hoping to get a remote position so that I can move back."

You get the idea. You can be vague and still truthful, so that you stay under the radar.

On a side note, it's very odd that having a wife and kids is something you now have to consider "hiding". Interesting times.
Yes, but the effect is the same as if files were evicted from the page cache: They get reloaded from disk when next used. Better for cortana to take an extra 750ms to load than for your other app to run out of memory.
> Moloch is introduced as the answer to a question [...] - what does it? Earth could be fair, and all men glad and wise. Instead we have prisons, smokestacks, asylums. What sphinx of cement and aluminum breaks open their skulls and eats up their imagination?

> And Ginsberg answers: Moloch does it.

> There’s a passage in the Principia Discordia where Malaclypse complains to the Goddess about the evils of human society. “Everyone is hurting each other, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.”

> The Goddess answers: “What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?”

> Malaclypse: “But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!”

> Goddess: “Oh. Well, then stop.”

> The implicit question is – if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.

From the slatestarcodex classic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Paul Ford’s “What is Code?” for Bloomberg tech I think deserves a mention.

Super ambitious and rewarding. I tried to purchase a paper copy because I like it so much but felt ridiculous paying $80 for a magazine.
I want to take everything OpenAI says at face value (seem like good folk), but I can't help but wonder at the recent choice to keep GPT2 closed, on what seemed like pretty thin safety arguments to me.

Now, the demonstrated ability to produce new models which are closed, but maybe can be used as services on a preferred partner's cloud, looks very commercially relevant? How will these conflicts be managed, or is it more like "we are just a commercial entity now, of course we'll do this"?
They are but theres very low humidity. Water at that temperature would boil and we know what happens when we stick a finger in boiled water. For that reason 120C is bearable in saunas. For a short period of time though
Maybe there are more expansive plans, but TFA literally says it is for commuter flights: "Designed for commuter flights of only a few hours max, the S1 moves the middle seat a few inches lower than, and back from, the aisle and window seat"
It's literally the play book of police to infiltrate groups and if necessary cause havoc. This occurs the world over. Some police have rules similar to the rules of entrapment for more embedded actions (see the police in UK green groups recently) where they can't directly cause trouble but they can provoke and supporting. And this is what's documented and legally allowed! Ethically the world thinks it's right.

Where it gets shady is where they cross the line. There is often reports of protestors being arrested and showing their badge and going free...

Protestor groups do not have strategies to identify infiltrators especially non violent groups.

Some groups explicitly allow trouble makers to flourish like the black bloc where everyone wears black and mask to hide any trouble makers.
Like, a couple of weeks ago? Unpopular or unconstitutional laws and policies are frequently overturned in the US at the national and state level.
You need to network with people who run businesses with your language.
It also documents the process, which is often lacking for these one-offs tasks.
Using the “Dutch Reach” can prevent serious injuries to bicyclists
Congrats! So what's OpenAI's current valuation?
Well, hopefully if someone creates a benevolent AGI then it should be good news for everyone.
Because there’s no such thing. There are cures, or at least effectively so, for specifc cancers. There are treatments that are quantum leaps for specific cancers. But there’s no such thing as “a cure for cancer”
Ask HN: What public stocks are you invested in?
And what percent of your assets are in the stock market?
I don't think that's the behavior, though. The blocks don't get flushed, they're still in cache and get read back. Probably. Again, the system broke. You've got no guarantees about anything. Fixing an API isn't going to change that.
Of course I did that: I crossed out the address, and wrote in big black letters "return to sender, addressee not known at this address". That didn't help. I guess I should have used a sharpie to make the To: address illegible to prevent re-delivery!
Find out how the crowd will find you love
Google Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit for $11M
If Sopcial Anxiety Is Your Best Friend You Need to Get Some New Ones
Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects
sorry, your opinion appears to be nonsensical.

a cap of 100x on returns and limited voting power certainly changes the price investors are willing to pay for the shares, but doesn't invalidate anything or render shares worthless or anything of the sort.
> Does it actually? This isn't 1960 anymore... we know how to launch a rocket and get it the moon now.

I expect you to behave in similar manner.

Don't learn anything, it isn't going to provide any technological benefits to your company, since other people already know it.

There were already many people who knows, how to do things.
Does it mean, it isn't going to provide any value?

Well, if your thought is as narrow as such, then you shouldn't have learned any language and know how to speak. Because, it's something every human learns from one another.

It does provide scientific and technological benefits maybe not to you, but to India and it's neighboring countries.
OpenAi to for-profit OpenAI to billion dollar partnership with Microsoft doesn't give me the warm and fuzzy feelings I had when I first heard of OpenAI. I saw it as "we're going to save the world by building an AGI before someone builds SkyNet" today it is "We've got in bed with a company that had one of the most famous anti-trust cases in the United States and one of the most famous anti-competition cases in the EU".

And of course going after high school student Mike Rowe for registering MikeRoweSoft.com (Seriously Microsoft, exactly no one thought he was you).

While Microsoft isn't inherently evil, I mean one could argue that via Windows Microsoft is largely responsible for the widespread adoption of computers, it definitely makes me feel slightly uneasy.

I'd rather see OpenAI continue to be funded by donation, and eventually royalties/licensing of technologies it develops, not partnerships with companies like 'IBM 2: Electric Boogaloo'.

But what do I know, I'm a Morlock not an Eloi.
$1B dollar is a lot of money. Microsoft is not a charity foundation, so the suspicious is obvious.

> We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider—so we’ll be working hard together to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems.

Maybe it's because I'm not an expert, but what does it really mean? Do people understand what "Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider" means?

OpenAI is great, but suspicious is understandable from the users side when so much commercial money is involved.
I like that style, when it's done well! I agree it has a novel-esque feel, but that's not a bad thing IMO.

I can see how it would be annoying if you're looking for something specific, but not all articles are written to be consumed in the same way.
In situations where using full-blown configuration management has too much overhead I often do something like this by just copying the commands I run into a script to begin with.
It allows me to easily generalize a sequence of actions into a do-nothing template and doubles as documentation.

I'm very much against documenting concrete steps in a wiki if it is something that can be scripted. Such documentation becomes something that you must maintain, and faulty documentation is worse than no documentation.

I think that wiki documentation should be used to summarize workflows and provide context, but if you're writing step-by-step instructions, often you can just write a script with exactly the same amount of effort.
this is cool! Definitely will give it a look.
That's generally true in the US as well. The placement of combustible walls relative to property boundaries is constrained by building codes to mitigate the spread of fire via radiant heat from fire on the adjacent property/building.

Area separation wall systems [1] are about as close to "wood on the property line" as is allowed. But technically the gypsum board is the wall between structures (and for practical purposes both structures need to be built at the same time).

[1]: http://www.usg.com/content/dam/USG_Marketing_Communications/...
Why would the US population result to armed rebellion when it has a robust and largely functioning method of altering policy?
Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation
Inspired by the comments on the video I read "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson. I highly recommend this paper!
Because Jenkins has its own ssh client, that wasn't supported as of last year with elliptic curve based keys and I had to re-launch a bunch of servers in production to downgrade back to RSA or DSA keys because they were basically the only key types that Jenkins supported. Really not sure why Jenkins had to go this far to re-invent a cryptographic wheel (besides the usual "support both Windows and Linux" angle).
Polar Vantage V vs. M vs. V Titan Compared
[EDIT]: friendly -> non-friendly oops.

That's what seems so confusing about HN replies here. (Non-friendly) AGI is an extreme existential risk (depending on who you listen to).

I'm perfectly fine with rewarding the org that's responsible for researching friendly AGI to do it _right_ (extremely contingent on that last bit).
I believe they were using JavaScript is an example because it is a single threaded environment, while most people think of race conditions as being related to multi threading problems.
There was a petition at one point to have the rendering engine changed and Microsoft made some kind of vague promises to improve it. https://freshinbox.com/blog/the-outlook-team-reaches-out/

I would assume that it's not a simple technical change on their end.
Maybe they will use that 1 Billion on Azure fees lol.
Pretty sure these count:

ctrl+r (reverse search) on steroids: fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)

put a symlink to my dot files to a dropbox folder (always backed up .bash_profile or whatnot)

ssh tunnel to expose a port from a remote server on my computer: ssh -L 8500:localhost:8500 $remotehost

expose a port on my machine to the internet (demos and such): https://ngrok.com/

git bash prompt and git completion: know at a glance the branch I'm on and if there is un-staged/un-committed code. Allow tab complete for remotes and branch names. Lots of options here.

autojump (https://github.com/wting/autojump): `j foo` will jump directories to my /whatever/foo directory. Better than popd and pushd.

And before I had it baked into my prompt: `echo $?` to show the exit code of my last command.
OrdoEmacs grows one step closer.
This screams alarm bells of an acquisition to me.
PoC for RCE Flaw in Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Gateways (CVE-2019-1579)
But these steps already do nothing except say echo what should be done. How does that differ from your "literally do nothing" steps?
UK here. Already done.
Yes if you think weird stuff is no longer available on the Internet, look a bit harder.
I guess legacy tech will help here. I know that a lot of businesses still run on COBOL and will probably be willing to pay well. Anyone with experience in freelancing for legacy tech ?
Testing microSD card speed on a Mac is rather pointless because performance is (severely) limited on the Raspberry Pi through it's terribly slow interface, not necessarily the actual card.

Remember RPi 1-3 use a plain SPI interface, and even the new 4 only has UHS-1.
Back in 1996 a friend of mine with no computer training put together a simple website in Notepad and uploaded it to free web space provided by her ISP.

That doesn't happen today. People bumble along with Wordpress or services like Wix, but the customisation options for non-experts are very limited and generic.

Hosting has become much more complicated and confusing, and the web simply doesn't do simple any more. Even a small blog is a moderately complicated project, especially if it uses a build system. And building even a minimal independent commercial site requires very specialised skills and plenty of time.

There really isn't anything equivalent to AF/Geo. And even if there were, CSS and HTML - never mind js - are now so complex beginners can't just pick them up by dabbling.
That's like a month of CosmosDB storing a DVD worth of records!
I know. But India can. And India should. There is no one else.
Ask HN: DNS or HTTP based ownership verification?
Hi everyone,

Last week, I launched a marketplace (https://whobal.com) for buying and selling side-projects. Now I am trying to add business ownership verification and need your input to choose the right method. Here are the validation methods I am considering:

1. HTTP-based - Ask sellers to upload a file in website root directory.

2. DNS-based - Ask seller to add a DNS record like TXT.

Personally, I would prefer DNS-based method as it is easier to detect and I have already done something similar in another project. But I am confused whether users will be able to update DNS or not.

If you were a seller, what would you to prefer and why?

Many thanks.
I second this. Also, this example on GitHub doesn't work since html is not defined.
Tianamen was a gesture of pure non-violent resistance... and it ended up as we all know.

Non-violent resistance only works against rulers that are whitin a culture of respect for human rights and individual freedoms. I.E. it works mostly to protest against Western governments, but not against the Chinese one.
The last time people took the beating and laid down in China, thousands died and the event was erased from public memory.
Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases
The major problem is not disk write speed, which we can all agree sucks, but longevity and lifespan when used as a system boot disk and also containing /var and similar. The write wear leveling on a u3 microsd card is nowhere near as good as even a $50 consumer class ssd.

Small single board computers should move towards m.2 2280 nvme drive support, or at least one sata 6 gbps interface.
> In addition, a market for lemons usually requires a seller to be able to determine the value of goods while the buyer can't. On dating sites, both the user and the site itself are trying to "sell" that person to prospective matches. Neither of those parties has all that much better of a way to determine a person's match-ability, so there's not all that much asymmetry.

Well, the person posting their height/weight/photo knows whether it's accurate or not, whereas the person reading it doesn't; that's your asymmetry right there.
What about Wordpress? When I was trying to build my own site, wordpress popped up multiple times in my searches. When I tried it out, it didn't seem that hard to create your own custom-ish website. I don't think you even write HTML all that much, mostly it's a GUI.
Are you even a scientist that you are talking about dynamics of exchange of technology? I mean are you qualified enough to talk like this? Just asking in good faith
That definitely seems faster, I'll give you that:

https://i.imgur.com/bx1LUZD.png
I came here to say something similar. I'm noticing that I'm drawn to the argumentative comments, and I think the reason is not that I'm looking for for a juicy fight, but rather that I'm trying to expand my thinking. Watching the discussion play out helps me consider views that I wouldn't think of on my own.
Nytimes does that fairly often. Theres always an undertone of negativity about Indias space program. But they're just responding to market needs cant really blame them.
Maybe, but the historical reality is that in many technical fields, women and minorities have been underrepresented due to deliberately exclusionary policies. There's not really a need to say, hey we want straight white dudes to apply, there's no shortage of such applicants.
Study: Immigrants and their kids founded 45% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies
The same tactics where used at Tiananmen square, they know they work.
the thing is, nobody knows how to do that. it's not a money problem.
An AI Algorithm Could Change Breast Cancer Diagnoses
They don’t describe the terms of the deal.

Is it $1 billion in cash/stock?

Or $1 billion in Azure credits and engineering hours?
Don't forget the best food, drink and money as "Sacrifices."
Could one make a case in favour of China's one party system by likening it to Apple's tightly integrated ecosystem?

I mean, people argue that technology works better when one system controls the hardware, the software and the ecosystem around it.

Could the same principle apply to human society? Which is an order of magnitude more complex than a piece of technology.

Again, I don't know if this argument has been made before – or if it's even one I'd want to make. But I'm just curious if this is something people say?
I doubt it. Google is smart enough to fix the misspellings at search time, and the Forbes editorial quality doesn't look great all round.
Windows also had some chat application, hidden within the Windows folder, that allowed you to draw comic book style panels and converse using those over a network. I have never actually seen it used live, but it seemed like an interesting concept.
For me, it always displays the "you're offline" page.
Sure, and then what? The US still has bad relations with Russia, a dictatorial petrostate which has shot down a civilian airliner and sent its agents to murder people on British soil.

That's what I mean by "doesn't make China go away". Collapsing the CCP raises the question of what next. Going through a period of shortened life expectancy and government by organised crime but with a nuclear arsenal?
I've worked with fiberglass insulation before, is this stuff significantly worse?

I thought the worst thing that could happen to you with fiberglass would be to inhale the fibers. Isn't a mask and gloves enough?