skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what exactly they did here. How do they persist the hash between requests?

My guess is they use localStorage and sending the hash to their servers with each request.

So we are talking about a mechanism that’s just like a cookie.

As long as they don’t have any PII and can’t figure out who the user was, then I think the GDPR gives them an exception.

But “without cookies” claim is dubious!
I haven't thought of Java. As the sibling comment says, it's the case for C++ and C#.

In case of Java I agree with ernst_klim's critique, to me it's a poor language design choice. Dynamic languages are a mess anyway, but that's just my opinion :)
I think this is also true in the Spanish dialects spoken in many regions.
Summary of the release:

- The first iteration of Merge Trains [1] is released, allowing merges in the pipeline queue to run in parallel

- Merge requests for confidential issues [2]: there is now the ability to mark MRs on confidential issues as confidential, instead of having to work in a private repo

- Automated Let’s Encrypt certificates for GitLab Pages [3]

- Git object deduplication [4]

- Deploy Boards for Kubernetes clusters at the Group [5] and Instance [6] level

- Assigning groups as code owners [7]

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/merge_request_pipelines/pipeli...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/?ut...

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/?ut...

[4] https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/?ut...

[5] https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/?ut...

[6] https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/?ut...

[7] https://about.gitlab.com/2019/07/22/gitlab-12-1-released/?ut...
If this was the case we wouldn't see so many Electron apps. You just don't perceive enough of the upsides to see why the decisions are being made.
Doesn't your statement assume that they were all good enough to actually be hired?
I definitely didn't remember that, but yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
seems to have quite the religious background
We don't know whether AGI is possible or even exactly what it is. However, if a form of intelligence where adding more hardware adds more capabilities in the fashion of present computing but where the capacities are robust and general purpose like humans rather than fragile and specialized like current software, then we'd have of amazing power - brilliant people can amazing things. A device that's akin to an army of well-organized brilliant people in a box clearly would many capacities. So it's reasonable to say that if that's possible, investing in it may have a huge payoff. (Edit: the "strong" "AGI is possible" would be that AGI is an algorithm that gives a computer human-like generality and robustness while having ordinary soft-like-abilities. There are other ideas of AGI, of course - say, a scheme that would simulate a person on such a high level that the simulated person had no access to the qualities of the software doing the simulation but that's different).

The problem, however, I think another gp's objection. OpenAI isn't really working on AGI, it's making incremental improvements on tech that's still fragile and specialized (maybe even more specialized and fragile), where the only advance of neural nets is that now they can be brute-force programmed.
And KDE has kio-gdrive for the same thing with Dolphin.
"Guardrails" is such a cute little term. AGI is a twenty-ton semi filled with rocket fuel. Guardrails won't stop it from careening into an elementary school if it decides that's its most optimal course of action. Mostly because, despite the previous analogy; no one knows what AGI is. No one knows what it will look like. No one will know when we've created it. No one even knows what INTELLIGENCE is in humans.

How can you create effective guardrails when you have no concrete idea what the vehicle you're trying to stop is? Turns out, AGI comes along, and it's an airplane. Great guardrails, buddy.

And, you know, lets go a step further; you've got great guardrails in-place here in beautiful, free America. Against all odds, they work. Then, China or Russia pay one of your employees $250M to steal the secret. Or, they develop it independently. Are they going to use the guardrails, or will they "forget" to include that flag? A disgruntled employee leaks it to the dark web, and now everyone has it. I don't even wear a helmet when I'm riding a bike. How the hell can you expect this technology to be anything but destructive?

The only path forward is to speak with a single voice to the governments of the world, that we need to Stop This. AGI research should be subject to the same sanctions that nuclear weapons development is. You communicate with quips and cute emojis like none of what you're doing matters, but AGI easily ranks among the top three most likely ways we're going to Kill Our Species. Not global warming; we'll survive that. Not a big meteor strike; thats rare and predictable. But the work you're doing right now.
https://soundcloud.com/folkstack/sets/code-named-mixtape
Of course, you know that, I know that, we all know it - but our bosses don't ;)
Oxygen tests are definitely a part of exoplanet searches.

Looks like determining abiotic oxygen situations in the "goldilocks zone" versus potentially biotic or life-supporting is an ongoing field of exoplanetary research:

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/eliminating-oxygen-false-...

https://phys.org/news/2014-05-oxygen-exoplanet-atmospheres-l...
Technically they didn't admit guilt, but from a PR point of view they did.

So from that respect, they probably opened themselves up for further scrutiny from future applicants whether they engaged in ageism or not.

I suspect they feared during the discovery process things would be found in the internal communications that do show some kind of -ism or other things that would just look bad for them, so throwing $11m at the problem to go away quickly seemed better.
For a simple thought experiment take one human brain architecture (say it can operate at 100 operations per second), scale that up to a billion operations per second. It can think centuries worth of human thinking in a couple of hours.

If you have an AGI that has goals that are not aligned with your interests it'll dwarf everything else because it thinks faster than you (and can therefore act faster than you) in pursuit of its goals.
"Luxurious" is a term from psychology, where it's used to describe "ornamental" behavior, which may be hinting at something deeper. ;-)

In the particular case, I just found it interesting, since the duplicate outputs are already well established, before the text "withdraws" to monotonic functions (for which both inputs are used). A bit of an understatement.

Edit: I think, "luxurious" as used this way is a great term, because it doesn't attempt to apply any classification. It's just pointing out that there's a somewhat independent process, which consumes energy.
Was lucky enough to hang out with him and Marvin Minsky at Marvin's home in 2014, which PHW organized as a seminar. A generally surreal experience. Some things I recall: both had great understated senses of humor. PHW and Marvin even at their ages remained interested in 'figuring things out' but also were fond of laughing at what they didn't understand, or rather maybe where their knowledge gaps were. It was immediately clear why they were friends and colleagues.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20499070.
I bought and shared the "Space Funky B.O.B." source code (included in that collection) and the "Super Noah's Ark 3D" source code (not in that collection). Both came from 3.5" diskettes on eBay. Both are for the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom system.

Space Funky B.O.B. is interesting due to the amount of swearing in the comments of the source code.

Super Noah's Ark 3D is notable for many reasons. It is an unlicensed Christian game that used a pass through style cartridge. It is based on the Wolfenstein 3D engine, and actually included some emails from John Carmack and Rebecca Heineman from back in the day. A delightful insight into software development decades ago.

https://eludevisibility.org/2018/super-noahs-ark-3d-source-c...
This was my thought as well. I don't understand the objection to value judgements above.
Personally, yeah, I agree, my belief is that most the really long functions I've encountered have been awful unreadable bug farms. But I still think it's a bad idea for a static analysis rule. Two reasons:

1. Static analysis tools should not generate useless noise. I am already well aware that that function I just edited was 1,000 lines long. If I didn't break it down, it's either because I didn't think doing so would be a good idea, or because I don't perceive that to be a problem in the first place, or because I simply don't care. In any case, there's a 100% chance that I'm going to ignore any advice from the static analysis tool on this one. That means that such a rule is, at best, useless.

2. I'm generally not sure if my feelings about long functions reflect reality. I recently saw a talk about evidence-based software practice where the speaker claimed that nobody's been able to demonstrate a link between average function length and code quality, and not for lack of trying.
I know, I'm a React Native developer.

I'm just saying that "native client" doesn't necessarily mean separate Mac, Windows and Linux ports; furthermore, for a billion dollar company, a native client of _some_ kind isn't an unrealistic demand.
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Fascinating. Ill admit I've never traveled to Europe. What part is easier? My wife (an American citizen) has gone to Canada fairly frequently and clearing the custom is a quick formality. My narrow minded self can only imagine that short of not having a customs at all, it can't get a whole lot easier.
What do they mean by: "Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider"?

Being forced to use Azure for all your ML workloads seems a stupid constraint. For example, you might be comfortable with tensorflow/TPU and changing frameworks/tooling might be costly.
It's only recently become possible to run a remote-first company in an effective and cheap way. Give it time.
I'm generally upset at them over their weird ban-not-ban. I can understand they have to deal with credit card processors, etc - but please give the community clear guidelines and don't play the part of the censor.
So funny that it used to be the other way around, with nfc and a few other features

After iPhone 6 Apple took all the features that worked on android, adding them to iOS and got a lot of converts who never looked back
If you have an MSDN account, Get Windows 10 LTSC.
They've been "trying" for years. They may truly be trying, but the fact that they've neither succeeded in any meaningful way, nor made the choice to shut off the parts of their service that make the whole site scam-tastic and shitty until they can figure it out, show they don't actually care.

Probably this is because a non-trivial part of their revenue comes from the dark patterns and scams that make their whole site feel so much like the kind of flea market where you're pretty sure some of the stuff's stolen and if you ask around one of the vendors can get you some Oxy, but you wouldn't buy it from them even if you wanted it because it'd probably be fake. IOW I'm pretty sure their site and fortune's based largely on crime and generally anti-social behavior, else they'd surely have stopped it by now.
Ask HN: What's your $now_salary/$first_fulltime_salary and your $years_working?
Can Chrome OS get some of this criticism too??

Trying to setup one of those without a Google account taking 'ownership' of the machine first... isn't possible.
> 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...

When, in any OpenAI communication, have they ever implied GPT2 is world ending tech?

> 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.

Are you sure it won't be used to automatically post fake news or create artificial group cohesion by bad state actors? We can already do stuff like that, but this allows you to do it faster and cheaper. Don't you think that's at least a little scary?
The Github link is in the footer of the site, but the icon is very small.
Don't they do different things? GIMP is for general image editing. Krita focuses on painting?
Brains aren't magical, if the laws of nature allow for them to exist in nature and we see generalized intelligence develop and get selected for repeatedly then that suggests it can be done - it's just a matter of knowing how.
> Throwaway because I work at Google. I interviewed Cheryl Fillekes twice. I did not know her age, and it did not matter. He issue was incompetence. One of the very few "strong no hire" ratings I ever gave out.

Why bother with a throwaway... sounds like you've narrowed it down pretty well if ever investigated.
>In contrast, an arranged marriage is an existential nightmare because there is no choice by the individuals involved. Unless of course, they themselves make the choice to love that person no matter what.

I wonder if the 'island effect' applies to arranged marriages, and they end up working because of it. I think if two people are in the same, short standard deviation range of whatever criteria (looks, wealth, charm, etc) you use, its likely that they start to like each other no matter what.. (involuntarily ala love marriage)
You can also use gitea, which is setup very quickly as uses almost no resources
I get it. This is exactly how I ended up self-identifying as an agnostic theist. I firmly believe that by definition it is impossible to obtain evidence of metaphysical questions. And because of that, humans simply cannot confirm nor deny truth value of these questions. So this is heavily integral to my internal definition of the word faith: That I choose to believe, with the understanding that I will never "rationally" know.
Small survival kit for new 2.8 users (things you'll probably want to change/configure before use):

1. Set spacebar to "Search". A number of features either don't have keybinding anymore or it's hidden in an obscure menu. Search makes things easier like typing Spacebar > "Walk" > enter to WASD the scene (before it was just Shift-F).

2. Set "F" to focus (like any other 3D tool), in Blender it's still the Numpad . (dot)... never understood this decision. You probably want to change this.

3. Get used to the most used transform keybindings: Move (G), Rotate (R), Scale (S). You can type: `R, X, 45` if you want to Rotate in X 45 deg. This is one of the reasons I like to do basic modeling in Blender and not in Maya. If you need to bring the manipulator like in other 3D software tools, you can right click the manipulators on the left and add them to Quick Favorites (I prefer) or assign them new shortcuts.

Alternatively, you can just change your keyboard bindings to the "Industry compatible" preset in preferences, although I don't recommend this as you lose some of the good keybindings from blender.
Qualcomm wasn't available in Europe.
Yeah, giving away IE was super sketchy given their market dominance. Same goes for Chrome when you think about it.
Building offline-first web and mobile apps using event-sourcing
My point is that while the brain and neurons are very complex and inherently confusing, there are billions of lifeforms that operate on this architecture and do not display sentience or intelligence.

Secondarily, just because neurons are complex on technical level, it does not mean that they should be complex on logical level.

For example, in computers if you would look at the CPU structure, on a low level you have quantum effects and tunneling and very insane stuff but on a logical level you are dealing with very trivial boolean logic concepts.

I would be not be surprised in a slightest if copying and reverse engineering neurons per se would not be necessary and defining aspect of anything related to AGI.
I switched to Windows 10 LTSC and have been super happy. No Candy Crush shitware links, no Cortana, No Edge/IE (had to save a browser installation file to USB from another computer!).

You need an MSDN subscription however.
Feds Struggle to Stop Billions in Medicare Advantage Overbillings
What do you think about Recital 26? For GDPR, our stance can be found here: https://usefathom.com/data/
What a mess. Product mistakes like this generally show that the company is either desperate, or unaware of their customers.
I use xfs on Arch, and dumped Dropbox for Google Drive (with Insync) the second they made this announcement. It would be a pain to migrate back, so I won't.
I've been using Windows 10 for about 18 months now and, really, from the article, I have NO idea what the heck they are talking about. The problem is typical: The article uses ordinary words from a standard English dictionary but uses them in new ways not in the dictionary and not yet common. A word used in this way is a term and needs motivation, explanation, discussion, examples, and, at the least, definition -- and the article has NONE of these.

So, to start, in what sense is a "local account" or "Microsoft account" an account at all? Does it cost money? Do I get account statements? Do I get invoices? Are there return privileges? What products or services are involved? I'm about totally to blow my stack in frustration -- what the heck is an "account"????????

Then let's continue with "local" and "Microsoft" ....

In particular, with a "Microsoft account", what passes between us, from me to them or from them to me? What the heck is going on? Me to them? Of COURSE, I want Microsoft to know as little as possible about what I am doing in life, computing, with Windows 10, etc. -- all that is just NONE of their business to know.

Does someone actually understand what these "accounts" are all about?

The article is less clear than mud, and apparently it is clear as air compared with Microsoft. Soooo, I canNOT be nearly the only one who doesn't know. So, can someone explain and get the rest of us caught up?
This article has found fascinating new levels of click-baiting. The title is:

> How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts

The faded out subtitle is:

> The company eases up a bit with the May 2019 Update, however.

The article then goes on to describe at length how complicated the process used to be, and how evil Microsoft is for how having it so complicated. Then suddenly it ends with a few lines describing how it is much simpler now.

I guess the amount of clicks on the article "How the latest Windows 10 update allows for easier creation of local accounts" would be much lower.
All good enough to be hired AND that if they were, that the job they eventually did get paid substantially less. That is very possible, but it's still a loaded assumption indeed.
you can also self-host the GitLab community edition :D
A basic ray-caster using the canvas element
One of the first thing I did the first day at a new job was add business cat to Slack and set my status to business cat.

The response was immediate, positive, and it was my first conversation with a number of people about it. Everyone likes business cat, it's a great icebreaker.
Out of curiosity, how long has your company been in existence for? This seems like something a more established company could do more easily.
I think what you're terming a misunderstanding is actually fairly well known, but doesn't account for the magnitude of the sitution.

Here's a great article about a paper showing that humans prior knowledge does help with learning new tasks- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610434/why-humans-learn-f...

However, that doesn't account for how quickly toddlers learn a variety of things with a small amount of information. Even more important, you can also just look at things like AlphaGo- they train on more examples than could be accumulated in a hundred human lifetimes.

For these reasons I don't believe "more data" and "more training" is the answer. We're going to need to do a lot more work figuring out how humans manage recall, how we link together all the data, and I would be surprised if this didn't involve finding out that our brain processes things in ways that are far different than our current deep neural nets. I don't believe incrementalism is going to get us to AGI.
They settled and deny wrongdoing to limit the impact. Now we have to wait for another set of age discrimination lawsuits to get more info about Google's practices... or we have to wait for the Government to get involved. Settling, basically tries to get the fire out before the Government decides to see what is going on. Given that Google has a hiring committee that reviews all applicants, this doesn't look good for Google... It'd be hard to argue that it's just a few managers and that it isn't a systematic issue rather than an "unconscious bias". Any company arguing "culture fit" in hiring decisions is making a poor argument. It's also hypocritical when they state that they want "diversity" in opinions, workers, etc...

We may also get more insight if/when Google goes after Federal contracts which have reporting requirements and stronger applicant protections.
Batsh – A Language That Compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
Because it's still the best language for writing library routines along with a header file, which then can be used from most other languages with least runtime overhead.
How to add Semantic UI components to your Angular app with 0 frustration
> hose men have become shamans, priests, monks, gurus, and preachers

You left CEOs off the list.
Yep it's a pain to go and find your way to the join domain options these days. It certainly shows you the way Microsoft is thinking about these things. Domains with GPOs were a really sweet way to manage everything but MS have realised they can nickel and dime you to replicate the same functionality on a subscription model with Azure ADDS, so bend over boys.

All MS's stuff feels half finished these days. I believe they call it 'high feature velocity'.
Please point out to me, except for Vasilis Leventis (presumably), a party that isn't corrupt to its bones, dangerous or just plain insane. New democracy and what's left of pasok are so corrupt it's funny. KKE is ridiculous, and now we have a bunch of new fascist parties to boot. Syriza hasn't shown the quite the same levels of corruption as the other major parties, but they're just all over the place and are more like college activists who can't agree with each other than public decision makers.

I know some people who stayed because they "love" their country, almost all of them do so because some uncle/cousin/godfather of theirs is in some industry and they can get work through them.

Of course there are some people who stay (or come back) with the romantic idea of trying to help the situation out, and I commend that, but it's like throwing pebbles at a mountain.
I don't want to make a world a better place! Read my lips: mercy is for wimps! Life...Dreams...Hope...Where do they come from? And where do they go? None of that junk is enough to fulfill your hearts! Destruction...Destruction is what makes life worth living! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Let's destroy everything!
I took all my 034 tests in his office because I needed extra time. He would pack up and go work somewhere else so I could use his desk, would tell me to take as long as I needed before he left.
Compositional Deep Learning
> please, keep your hands away from single family houses and HOAs.

No. I vote for what I believe is best for society, and mandatory single-family home neighborhoods are terrible for it.

They're bad for the environment, and they're bad for inequality. The sooner they go away, the better.