skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know if it would be different had it been a US launch, but know for sure NYT has a history of trying to undermine any/all progress made by India, especially during the last term and the existing term of Narendra Modi Government.

It appears the NYT journos know more about India than Indians, who elected Narendra Modi by landslide majority (last and this term). NYT regularly tries to highlight isolated incidents as communal rift (standard playbook on India).
Electronics that constantly draw low amounts of power — such as some wall clocks, headlamps, or bike lights — work better with disposable alkaline batteries

I use low discharge NiMH rechargables in all of my battery bike lights and they work great, they'll last for about 3 months of my usage (I run the taillights night or day), but I charge them all at the end of the month (I have 2 sets, so one set's on the bike and one set is charged and ready to swap out). I'm on the same set of Eneloops I bought 6 years ago. Every year or so I have my charger run a discharge test and they are still within about 90% of rated capacity.

I'd have thrown away 24 sets of disposable batteries in that timeframe (since I keep an extra set of batteries charged, so it's a ratio of 1:12). I paid ~2.50 each for the eneloops when I bought them, so cost wise it's been a good investment, works out to around 20 cents each so far (ignoring the cost of electricity)

It's getting harder to find non-rechargable bike lights, my main headlight uses a non-replacable LiIon battery.
The hubris from these companies is insane.

"Just trust us, we're the Cloud™ -- what could possibly go wrong?!"

It's unfortunate the vast majority of people don't know any better and easily fall for tech companies' UX dark patterns.

Also, using local account on Windows protects you from about 19 out of 20 critical vulnerabilities:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3173246/94-of-microsof...
I think you can shorten that to "You need to network with people who run businesses". Valley startups excepted, high level executives don't usually care if you use Rust, Scala, or Befunge, or whatever. They want problems solved.
No mention of CO2. It does not seem to mention an opinion of the underlying cause of Climate Change.
There are knock down effects, so even if they aren't exactly competing for the same housing, pressure at the top easily works its way to the bottom. The low and high end markets are very much intertwined.
I study ML, and I completely agree with the quoted statement. Deep networks have gotten pretty good at recognizing correlations in data. That's not on the same map as AGI. I don't know what "pre-AGI" means exactly, but I would include things like counterfactual reasoning or ability to develop and test models of the world, which are far from our AI capabilities so far. (edit: yes I am including RL, considering the relative performances of model-based vs model-free, I think this is a fair statement. Don't mean to be pessimistic, just realistic and trying to set expectations to avoid more winters.)
What’s that like? I’m sorry that happened to you.
This is obviously false if you think about it for like a minute.

> Stealing from corporations is stealing from people.

Sure, whatever. It's still not immoral. I also think it's okay to steal slaves from plantations. "But stealing from plantations is stealing from people!" Sure, whatever, it's still not immoral.

> Besides, if you have a moral code that specifies who it is ok to steal from, you'll need to accept another's moral code that says it's ok to steal from you.

Total non-sequitur. Let's try this: Marxists think that capitalism is stealing from workers. You think that it's moral. Therefore, if you have a moral code that says that it's okay to steal from workers, you'll need to accept another's moral code that says it's okay to steal from you. Makes sense, right? No.

It's awfully coincidental that your concept of legitimate ownership just so happens to align with the concept given to your by legal and cultural authorities. It's almost like you haven't actually bothered to think about it for yourself. Can you give me an example of a kind of ownership that you think is illegitimate?
And the telemetry. I use server 2016 as my daily driver. I swear to god that there are issues with non domain joined GPO preferences. I've 100% had it reboot on me even when using sconfig to disable (download updates) and GPO to disable restarts. If I didn't have to use Windows I wouldn't, but I'm kind of stuck. Other than these issues from a usability pov and stability I really can't complain, it has been pretty great.
I've also had less screwups using the regular toaster oven instead of T962. I suspect that's because T962 uses IR heaters instead of convection.

I suspect so. Especially if one follows the advice of adding an extra heating element to their converted oven. It's not just about having more raw heating power, it's about having the heat coming from multiple places, so you get more even heating.
Considering that it is a claim from a _prospective_ employee about the interview process, the settlement of 35k per person seems relatively generous.
Because sometimes it's cheaper to settle, even if you didn't do something.
The incident says it was resolved but I still can't get to my profile page.
I am used to it being hot, it's not burning (at least not severely :D ) hot. Too inconvenient otherwise.
>Forming an opinion based solely on the title or the (perceived) author's bias without ever reading the content is a problem no matter where you stand.

First impressions matter. A job posting for an elite JavaScript ninja with 15 years of ES6 experience is going to have the creator of the job post judged very harshly, even if no other information is viewed. Sometimes that will be wrong, but it will be right often enough to be reasonable.

As for this particular case, an analysis of how they calculated the number has already been done by other who have posted under this same article. If you feel there is a flaw in their logic, you can reply to them directly.

>How is this different from anybody responding to a comment solely by attacking the person who wrote it and their political affiliations rather than attempt to discuss the actual content?

Because it is based on both the author and the content, and the nature of the disagreement is that the content is wrong for reasons that are only incidentally related to the author.

The argument isn't 'study is bad because author is bad. The argument is 'the combination of the author's own stated goals and the creative statistical freedom taken when calculating the figure leads me to believe there is significant bias in and behind this'. There is also a known issue of political groups injecting favorable bias in the work they do.

>Would you question a reply like "Please keep in mind that this opinion came from [a member of party X] / [a supporter of cause Y] so I don't think their opinion is neutral [period]" to one of your comments or remarks?

Well, I don't think any opinion is neutral (at least on matters of politics) to begin with and would overall trust someone who recognizes their biases more than someone who doesn't, even if that is stereotypical of me.
Blender is replacing an in-house tool, not software licensed from Autodesk. You might have missed the following section from the article

"We decided to transform a workflow centered on in-house software to a more agile development environment supported by open source and inner source solutions. This way, our research and development and pipeline teams could focus their energy on bringing innovative ideas to the table, while working closely with the creatives.

In that new workflow, Blender is replacing our in-house digital content creation tool."
I checked my doctors on that a few months back.

I found out that one of my doctors received $200K for the last reporting year from the manufacturer of my medication. The medication is $600/month. Granted the medication does work for me and insurance picks up most of it, but it still seems like a massive conflict of interest. I honestly have half a mind to switch doctors.
It humors me, that we still talk about playing chess when we talk about socalled AI.

That's how long we've come. Playing chess. On a superhuman level. Wow. What is superhuman anyways?
Gambled away a lot of the good will they garnered over the course of years. I've moved away and doubt will be back.
They mention CO2.
Under Priority Areas > Ecosystem Structure, Processes, and Services:

"Identify and quantify the effects of increasing temperatures, precipitation extremes, and atmospheric CO2 concentration on ecosystem processes, disturbance regimes, water, food, feed, fuel, fiber, recreation, other goods, and ecosystem services, and identify critical tipping points or thresholds for change."
They broke about 99% of the keybindings, however you can use a 2.79 keybinding set. The new tools on the left are 100% useless to me, but I have been testing 2.8 for about a month or 2 now and have gotten used to it. Yes I still use RMB select. If you swap to LMB select the entire functionality of RMB select isn't copied over to LMB select, it a totally different thing. This is really annoying, but one of the few bad things about 2.8.
You can find more details on https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/tips/
I'm skeptical that AGI will exist on our planet in my lifetime. I've no doubt that it exists elsewhere in the galaxy. If an alien species does come to visit some day, I think it more likely than not that it'll be an AGI.
Missoula or Albuquerque are nice places to live in. But, the supply of talent is very limited and not so diverse. In the Bay Area, you have so much talent concentrated that its easy to get people iff you pay the right amount of money(which is pretty high)
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> calling it "pre-AGI" pretentious to the level of delusion.

>I don't think you know what you are talking about. Do you do Deep Learning? If you are not actively engaged in the field, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss others who are (especially not others who are at the top of the field).

I do (or at least I try, I get money for my attempts though) and I concur with calling it delusion. So does Francois Cholet. So does Hinton to some degree, so does the founder of deepmind (or at least they did in 2017: https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/17/geoffrey-hinton-and-demis... ).

I want to like OpenAI, I think they did the right thing with GPT-2 and I give them a lot of credit for publishing things. That being said, I remain skeptical about AGI, highly skeptical about AGI being feasible, or the thing to worry about. I always make the argument that either research towards controlling an AGI/AGI alignment is a techified version of reserach into the problem of good global governance (in which case it is an interesting problem that desperately needs solving), or it is useless (because no matter how nicely you control the AGI, a non-accountable elite within the current system, the less-than-perfectly aligned government etc. will strongarm you into giving control to THEM before you come close to deploying it) or it is delusional (because you think you are smart enough to build AGI without these elites finding out AND smart and/or wise enough to do what is best for humanity).
are you saying you know the best interest of the people who accepted the settlement?
Just because you don't see the browser it doesn't mean it's not still there.

No, js/html "applications" are not desktop apps, they're web pages. Doesn't matter how you hide it.
Blender's build in file browser is really nice once you get used to it. The thing I like most is that a lot of shortcuts you use when 3D modeling also work on files. Things like box selection, invert selection with 'ctrl I', and select all/deselect all with 'A' all work as expected.
I suspect GP underestimates the scientific value of Apollo missions. It's so much difference to e.g. study samples brought from the Moon (and taken with reasonable care) in Earth labs than to send robots to do the same.

There is a POV that robots are good for scientific missions up to certain price point. After that manned missions become more cost effective.
Pricing looks comically cheap for SMB and above.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Putting Boots on the Moon and Mars
Same. I can do so much in vi already.
>Usually I find that parents are reasonable and appreciate other adults treating their children like small, learning humans rather than tiny monsters.

Maybe they should stop allowing their children to behave like tiny monsters. This just isn't a problem in many other cultures; you don't see children in Japan act like that. This is mostly an American phenomenon because people forgot how to be good parents in this society.
Pakistan sets up an "all-encompassing surveillance system of internet traffic"
For me the gold standard of Chat applications is always going to be mIRC. It supports a ton of plugins, consumes 10-50mb of memory and little to no CPU. You could be connected to multiple servers and channels with DCC scripts running and you still wouldn't notice that it's even running.

Even though Slack is using react now, they are still using electron under the hood. Which means it can never match the snappiness of a native application like mIRC.
When I last used PHP (about 5 years ago) it was common to use it via FastCGI "for performance". I'm not sure how true that reasoning was, or how the speedups of 7.x have changed things, but (Fast/S/whatever)CGI still seems prevalent.
Maybe because it is settled

Right, this is why it confuses me because it's been declared settled, a formal resolution outside of the court, the matter is resolved independently between the parties. It seems odd to settle this kind of class-action allegation while continue making statements about it after the fact.

Is my understanding of this incorrect?
It doesn't matter if the place where the phenomenon of consciousness takes place is "physical" or not. If the brain can interface with it, why shouldn't machines be able to?
The thing with “contributor” articles is there is no editorial oversight. They look at your record when they pick you, but after that you publish directly to Forbes.com. They might as well be blogs.
Past a certain point, the downsides of Electron outweigh the downsides of native apps. We've crossed that Rubicon years ago.
React Native Memory Profiling (JSC vs. V8 vs. Hermes)
Could you explain why Gerrit is better than the rest for code reviews? I have not used Gerrit in years (before I ever used github PRs) and I guess I don’t miss it, but also don’t know what I am missing :)
Electronics that constantly draw low amounts of power — such as
some wall clocks, headlamps, or bike lights — work better with
disposable alkaline batteries. Alkalines release power consistently
right up until they die, whereas a rechargeable battery’s voltage
gets gradually lower and lower over time, slowing down the device or
cutting off power prematurely.

This is very wrong, and makes me doubt the article's correctness. Every NiMH discharge curve I've ever seen is much flatter than a typical alkaline curve.

NiMH batteries drop down to around 1.25V pretty quick when discharging, but they stay around 1.25-1.15V for almost the entire discharge cycle. Alkaline batteries are almost dead by the time they get down to 1.2V.

So the reason why NiMHs drop out early on some devices isn't because they're out of charge, or because alkaline batteries have a flatter discharge curve (they don't). It's because some devices stop working at around a 1.2V cell voltage, regardless of how much charge is left in the battery.
No company has infinite resources. Maintaining native mac and windows apps to appease the few people who have an irrational hatred of electron doesn't make good business sense when those resources could be going work that actually improves their product in a meaningful way.
How much would've it cost to actually litigate this? I'm wondering if this settlement was similar to how much it would've cost to litigate and they just wanted the people to go away.
TV/Screenplay writers can make great money on a popular show/film.

Other than that you're probably looking at startup exit odds of ever making 6 figures - maybe a 10% chance.
Could be that the fix has been deployed but it takes time to propagate thru.
I would have expected sorting, like who pays the best rate. But I guess it's more like does this publisher pay in timely fashion or at all.
I don’t understand how there can be no comments regarding the fatal flaw of AGI which is that it will completely ruin the economics of the world. The world is the way it is now because humans are the only source of intelligent signal processing. That’s the only reason why humans enjoy the limited rights and privileges that they do. That’s the only reason why life has gotten better and better with advancing medicine and so on. This is a fundamental principle that cannot be escaped. It doesn’t matter how you slice it. But people defer everything to “ubi will work out somehow” or “nah humans will never be replaced.” Bringing god-like super-intelligent beings online is a fundamentally stupid thing to do. And preventing their development, relative to how disastrous their development would be, is very easy.

I have made many predictions here on HN and they all have outlined that cloud computing would be the substrate from which AGI will spring. Now we see this announcement. There is a reason why OpenAI is making a deal like this with a very large cloud compute vendor: it’s because I’m right. And that means I’m probably also right in saying that we can stop this if we want to. You can’t just build a computer in your bad yard. And the internet is very fragile. Some simple regulation and global awareness and initiative could control what comes out of fabs and shut down the infrastructure necessary for cloud computing. It would be very easy relative to the size of the problem.
Facebook's Libra gets new open-source competition; founding team from MIT
Aah, I see it on the bottom of Page 7. It does not have searchable text.

I wonder why it was not meant for distribution (did it make it past the draft stage?) & subsequently leaked by Politico.
This is the source of another huge peeve though: Microsoft's developers have largely forgotten local Windows domains exist, as selecting that the computer belongs to an organization defaults to Azure sign-in, and then dumps you off on creating a normal local account if you say "local domain instead".

The OOBE doesn't help with local domain setup at all for no conceivable reason.

Similarly, if you look at the new Settings app, it's support for domain PCs is close to nonexistent. Out of disk space, and going to the storage tab? Great, it'll tell you 50 GB of data is used by other users, but you can't see anything about who they are. Need to manage other users? No can do, Settings app doesn't even see domain accounts.

You have to go to the legacy Control Panel, System, Advanced Settings, and then User Profiles (a Windows 98 era dialog) to see domain accounts and their local storage use.
But every bookstore that lists this book have it for similarly high prices.

It's the same batch of sellers, selling across most all of those sites. Or to the extent that there are sellers who are, say, on Ebay but not Amazon, or vice versa, they have bots tracking the prices across all the sites. In either case, I find that you just don't get much price variance across book selling sites these days. I mean, sure, there are occasional exceptions, but by and large, prices tend to converge to a common value, or at least to a small range around that.
Macintosh LC Monitor Restoration [video]
I dunno, I guess I just thought the agenda was obvious given the "Why it matters", "between the lines" and "by the numbers" part of the article
There's still fraud in the NHS.

People who suspect fraud can report it to the NHS Counter Fraud authority.

They have a fraud awareness toolkit here: https://cfa.nhs.uk/fraud-prevention/fraud-awareness-toolkit
I have a script in our automation setup called "be-the-change" which takes either markdown or a wiki url as a parameter. It will output the markdown or wiki content, wait for the user to confirm they've completed the steps and then print:

Doing manual steps sucks, wouldn't it be great if this was automated for the next person? Be the change you want to see in the world.
Nobody has the resources for that. Some companies make OSes, and some companies send rockets to space. Those feats are also powered by thin wrappers over electron. /s

People seem to forget that C++ and opengl is cross-platform. And there are projects far bigger than slack, like ffmpeg and OpenCV that have existed for decades, always had very fast development cycles, with only a subset of the funding and money that Slack has, and stayed native and close to the metal forever.

A better answer would be, that Slack has deemed the benefits that would result from this as not that important. Or that the current team's expertise cannot handle the task. But they always looking into ways of improving the core product and experience.
> for a fast moving company with rolling releases

Name three major feature improvements to Slack in the last three years.

I can think of one, threads, which are a fucking usability disaster and should have been killed immediately. I can't think of a single other major feature.
Confident Cannabis (YC S15): Hiring Engineers, Product, et al.
Markets are a brilliant tool. We have to decide on the society we want, and use markets to shape it. Very few scenarios that make any sense would allow markets to function w/o purposeful shape.

I think managing a queue might be a better way to preserve everyone's dignity than letting raw market forces work it out. Either that or I think you'll end up paying engineers to make $50 sandwiches, which doesn't seem like it would generate maximal economic value for the parties involved.
This is great, but that ship long sailed for me. I still use Slack extensively, but for the past year+ exclusively in Safari tabs. Memory usage and Energy usage (I'm on a MacBook Pro) have both quartered (or more).
It’s an iterative rewrite, which is how you should do it. “Rewrites are bad” refers to a blank slate and reimplementing.
That whole flow is one of the insistent dark patterns I've seen so far.

I mean providing barely visible text that masquerades as an opt-out button is one thing, but only allowing local account creation if you're offline is a next level.
Is Sublime Text a native app or a web page?
/me waits on Pakistan router
What about React Native on the desktop?
They also are pushing NASA to send men to the Moon before Trump leaves office, without also giving them the budget necessary to do such a task (which honestly, with any budget, is still a ridiculously short schedule). They already had one main guy at NASA just quit because he knew this plan was unrealistic.
Instead of creating a useless currency, Facebook should of allied itself with 20 other tech companies and created a brand new city, in the middle of nowhere. One that was built from the ground up to be sustainable and affordable where everyone can walk or scoot to work. A city unhindered by zoning or burdensome regulations. Then connect it to some of the existing cities with high speed trains or helicopter buses. It would be a win win situation for everyone involved.
Silent, no gears, cheaper every day: electric cars aren't so hard to get used to
How to Ban USPS from Touching My Deliveries
> The best thing a city like SF could do is abolish its sales taxes. That increases the salary of everyone and particularly low-wage workers.

Not those, including inevitably low-wage workers, whose jobs are cut to balance the budget with lower revenue, including those cut as second- and higher-order effects.

Rebating the sales/use taxes of low wage workers (or simply the first $X for those also paying SF income tax), possibly making this revenue neutral by alos raising sales tax rates, would be more focussed.
"Ananas" alone might not be that bad, but "ananasanalytics.com" certainly is.

Bob Loblaw's Law Blog, anyone?
Free stock trading app Robinhood raises $323M at $7.6B valuation