skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's info on how to build the CLI on linux

https://github.com/box/boxcli/issues/55
This makes no sense. Mice can't write poetry. Expecting a 1:1 equivalence between human and manufactured intelligence is no more coherent than denying the possibility of human-bearing flight until we have planes as acrobatic as a hawk.
> Ok, so what does it look like when someone's argument is defeated rationally?

I was going to say "court trials", but it turns out that lawyers use fallacies and persuasive tactics all the time, so I cannot. :/ Maybe most of the time, in a trial?

> Who is the referee of when the defeat occurs?

The judge. :) (I know what you're angling at, though... who watches the watchers, how can anyone judge what is objective truth, etc.)

> What happens to that person if they don't agree with the referee, and persist in their irrational argument?

You can keep trying to show them why it is irrational. I've been able to show some people why part of their reasoning is circular, for example.

> What should you do if they don't go quiet?

Let them rot away in their collectively dim zero-sum-game worldview?

> What should you do if they never go quiet, no matter what you say?

"Never"? How do you know they will "never" go quiet? The anti-suffragists have largely gone quiet... The anti-mixed-race-marriage folks have largely gone quiet... Are you also present 1000 years in the future and somehow know these eventualities or lack thereof?

(It's almost like you're making an Appeal to Zeno's Paradox, here.)

> EDIT - it is incredibly apt that this comment is getting downvoted :-)

Those people are dumb and devoid of faith in their own arguments, because you don't seem to be violating the offtopic rule and your comment is pointed albeit reasonable. In the spirit of the very principle the original post was about, have an upvote.
This is why, instead of essentially promoting the next wave of "too-big-to-fail" monopolies, we should be trying to franchise things like this.

I had the idea a while back when someone I knew was getting the run around by Uber.

If someone developed a platform that catered to franchisees instead of end-users (and contractors) it would be easier for everyone. Easier to price the service, easier to pay the workers, easier to negotiate, easier to run the business in a smaller scale.

So instead of Uber or DoorDash having 2,000,000 contractors, they have 10,000 franchises with each one maintaining it's own affairs. Everybody wins!
Microsoft to pay $26M to settle probe into Hungarian kickback scheme
> Don't redesign the database schema at the same time you are rewriting.

Chances are, that's the problem though. You have to re-write because your design is bad enough that it's necessary. The only time you'd re-write without changing the design is when changing languages or platforms.
So based on my quickie checks... is this a task-based dynamic scheduling (as opposed to static thread-based scheduling) that extends out to CUDA / OpenMP / other backends?

Which sounds pretty good to me. I'm writing a very basic version of future + task based scheduling for Chess AI, so I think this methodology is very powerful. I haven't dug very deeply into your work, but it seems like you guys have a good idea of what you're doing.

Seems like a cool project. Unfortunately, my home computer is AMD Vega64, so I won't be able to use Legion. But its still got a methodology that I personally think, is really cool.

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The silly example that "sold" me on task-based scheduling was Intel's "Stupid Fibonacci" example. I think you guys should put a similar example on your website: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/506102

Stupid parallel Fibonacci is basically fizzbuzz, every programmer should understand it. And while its not very useful, you should be able to represent it in Legion in less than 10 lines of code.

EDIT: I see that your code actually has Fibonacci. Good :-) https://legion.stanford.edu/tutorial/tasks_and_futures.html

Well, I have nothing to contribute. Good stuff.
We're making the process more opaque. How can that scale to AGI? We'll be stuck at 80% done for much longer.

I would posit that while its possible, it will take so long on this tech stack that we'll find another in the interim that will produce better results. I'm not convinced this branch is the winner.
It's quite possibly a silent bug on the other platforms as well (i.e. relying on undefined or compiler-defined behaviour that just happens to work currently).

A new compiler / OS update / graphics card driver in the future might trip the bug on the platforms it seems to be working fine on currently.
Apple’s Heir Apparent Is More Like Tim Cook Than Steve Jobs
I am disappointed in the amount of blog spam posts that are nothing but ads for a company or service. Some times the actual post content is interesting, but the ending is almost always buy our stuff. Usually though it is poorly written to get the page views.
I will say that at least most flagship phones these days have internal batteries.
Supposedly IKEA LADDA batteries are rebranded Eneloops. It's not official, but the capacity and and discharge curves are the same:

https://petapixel.com/2018/02/16/eneloop-pro-20-batteries-ik...
I hope they will do a decent Linux port.
For example, maximum font zoom was limited by 150%. It does not allow to zoom more than that. On 13" screen with 3840x2160 pixels it is not enough. Fonts are too small
to read comfortably.
The High Priest of Heterodoxy
The difference is in the scale of the intelligence, not just the technology.

It's not so much a new human like intelligence that runs on silicon, it's a general problem solving intelligence that can run a billion times faster than any individual human. This is the part I think you're underestimating.

If you have that without the ability to align its goals to human goals then that's a problem.
Its called "ananas" in Marathi as well. Marathi is a regional language in India.
You are conflating identification of a person by behaviour analysis with matching an ID. What is the ID is irrelevant here - may as well be a hash. That just proves my point that this project is not compliant.
Really? I thought by 1940 physicists generally understood fission and theoretically understood how to build a bomb - they just needed to find enough distilled fissile material (which was hard to do). And indeed, once they had enough U235, they had such a high degree of confidence in the theory, that they built a functioning U235 bomb without ever having previously tested one.
As far as I know it's still used for Just Dance series. It definitely was when I worked on JD2016 and I don't think the engine was changed after that. And yes, in my (personal) opinion UbiArt was extremely difficult to use compared to some other engines within Ubisoft nowadays.

And yes, speaking of Ubisoft and open source - Sharpmake is a build management solution used by a lot of projects within Ubisoft and it was open sourced some time ago. Worth having a look.
I think the thing that's making it look a lot worse for Doordash is their hypocrisy in things like this: https://blog.doordash.com/introducing-project-dash-bbc61ac0c...

the critique goes :

1. rip off workers
2. workers are poor, cant afford food
3. launch BS "anti-hunger" initiatives which address about 1% as much hunger as they cause, but make customers feel like they are doing a good thing using the service.

it's not unlike how big oil companies like BP run tons of advertisements how they are so "invested" in renewable energies like solar, spending a tiny fraction of the money they gain by profiting off of generation of greenhouse gasses and also dumping millions of gallons into the gulf of mexico every now and then.
> Can we do something about it?

Yes. We are having success with ending cash bail in New York. The Bail Project does good work on this nationally. Outlawing RATs (deeply-flawed algorithmic risk assessment tests used by judges to decide bail and parole terms) is probably the next front. All this happens alongside decriminalisation of recreational drugs and civil offenses overly-eagerly categorised as crimes.
I think the difference is this:

randome example from above DeliverDash offers driver $7-12 range.

DeliverDash pays $7 with no tip, costing them $7

DeliverDash pays $7 with $3 tip, costing them $4

DeliverDash does not pay $2.13 hourly.

DeliverDash does not even have employees doing deliveries. They are contractors.

Am i reading this wrong?
Are you planning to open offices in Europe? Paris and London are hosting better and better AI ecosystems.
As a relatively frequent customer of DoorDash, I have a pet theory working. I have tried this "pick $0, tip in cash" approach and it works fine for the driver - they get the money, I get the satisfaction of knowing they got the whole tip, and I get to extract the maximum value from all the VC money subsidizing these delivery companies.

But I have also seen that I am now getting deliveries where I am 3rd or 4th stop and by the time the food arrives, it is cold. My conspiracy theory is that doordash is trying to drive me away from their platform because of my $0 tips. Anyone else notice this when tipping $0?
Thoughts on Wolfram and Open Source [audio]
Boy, this brings back memories. I was working at Andersen Consulting (AC, then Accenture) at the time our CEO, George Shaheen, left to join Webvan. The general sentiment at AC (at least amongst the grunts in my circle) was that we were glad to see George Shaheen leave, but were all left wondering if we should be jumping ship too, to join the dot-com boom.

The partners at AC were trying to hang on to talent for dear life because of the dot-com boom. When Webvan went bust many of the the partners/associate partners were quick to point that out, maybe as some kind of misguided retention pep-talk or something.

As a funny aside, there were some who used to call George Shaheen "George Unseen:"

http://www.bigtimeconsulting.org/remember-george-4

http://www.bigtimeconsulting.org/ceo-of-the-future-4

http://www.bigtimeconsulting.org/george-unseens-reward-4

http://www.bigtimeconsulting.org/webminivan-a-look-back-4
What do you mean by "7 times the return"? In productivity increases via. technology? In just the fiscal multiplier effect? In keeping decrepit, middle-of-nowhere NASA departments up and running?
They don't know what connection, if any, what they're doing has with AGI. For all we know right now, some botanist researching the reproductive system of ferns is as likely to bring about a breakthrough in AI as their research is. To me this feels like peak-Silicon Valley, the moment they've completely lost touch with reality.

People may also not be confused if Ben and Jerry's start an ice cream ad with mentions of AGI and the change of human trajectory and Marie Curie, and name it Pre-AGI Rum Raisin, but that doesn't mean the text isn't a beautiful and amusing example of contemporary Silicon Valley self-importance and delusion, and reads like a parody that makes the characters in HBO's Silicon Valley sound grounded and humble. Especially the "pre-AGI" bit, which I'm now stealing and will be using at every opportunity. Maybe it's just me, but I think it is quite hilarious when a company whose actual connection with AGI is that, like many others, they dream about it and wish they could one day invent it, call their work "pre-AGI." Ironic, considering they're writing this pre-apocalypse.
I'm compiling a list of reasons people doubt AGI risk, could you clarify why you think AGI is certainly far term?
your link is broken, the working one:
https://medium.com/engineering-varo/why-building-a-device-aw...
do you consider servers not declaring 100% of their tips theft as well?
Options like CLEP tests and even getting a GED after sophomore or junior year and going to community college early ought to be pushed harder. You can CLEP out of a solid year of college gen-eds over a couple Summers, with a little study.

May not apply to prestigious institutions but that's not where 99% of college students go, anyway.
OpenAI has achieved some amazing results and I congratulate them for their accomplishments, but labeling any of that as "pre-AGI" is intellectually dishonest and misleading at best. They haven't shown any meaningful progress toward true AGI.

When I was 10 I created some "pre-time travel" technology by designing an innovative control panel for my time machine. Sadly I ran into some technical obstacles later in the project. OpenAI is at about the same phase with AGI.
We had eye color before the discovery of genetics, too, so do you think, therefore, that eye color is not defined by genetics?
It doesn't matter if it is an IP or another identifier e.g. a hash. Person can be identified by behaviour and this is not anonymised.
You don't need write access to a remote for that remote to be useful. Two or more people can collaborate using public repos that others may fetch from but not push to. Then, in lieu of github PRs, you request other people pull from you with email or however you like.

If you need access control without VPNs or whatnot (or if you simply want something closer to the github workflow), there are other services similar to github that can almost certainly provide what you need, such as gitlab.

> "Also, the additional effort to manage multiple remotes is entirely nontrivial."

With practice, I'd say it asymptotically approaches trivial.
Not just inside a company network. CGNAT is pretty commonplace nowadays.
I suspect there's also a social proof aspect. If five of your six closest local friends get their shopping delivered, you're very likely to try it yourself. If you don't know anyone who does it, you aren't.
Last month we launched our website/job board to fight ageism in tech

we had a huge response launching here on HN and I believe it’s a hidden problem we need to tackle.

https://noageismintech.com
On the idea of leisurely pursuits:

"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."

— John Adams
I agree.

I'd like two things:

1) Tips to actually be tips, and OPTIONAL.

2) Real wages that are static for the restaurant (a base wage, calculated to properly compensate the employee without tips).

Please stop adding a hidden tax to items on menus.
When you come at it from the perspective that remote resources are the norm, and you assemble a computer from resources scattered across the network, local access becomes weird special case. Generally, you're running a file server and terminal as separate nodes, with an auth server somewhere else.

And if you're actually using the knowledge that some files are local, you get bugs and assumptions creep in, and now your software stops working in the case where you're running on someone else's network.

It's about transparently providing the same interface to everyone, and making that interface simple enough that implementing it is easy enough that it's actually done, and the interface actually gets used.

Then, if you want to interpose, remap, analyze, manipulate, redirect, or sandbox it, you can do that without much trouble. The special cases are rare and can be reasoned about.

Reasoning about your system in full frees you to do a huge amount.
Sounds like @benl has been afflicted with the "Cartesian wound". Such dualistic thinking and ideas like free will are ~hard for us to work through. But perhaps the more important, and immediately tractable, question @benl brings up is what our approach should be? Should we make an AGI or better IA, Intelligence Augmentation?

~hard

Daniel Dennett

From Bacteria to Bach and Back
>I strongly believe in freedom of movement so any legal or extra-legal means to do so are all right in my book.

>Laws are meant to be broken.

Those two statements sound a bit conflicting to me. Also, I don’t know how one can call green card marriage fraud “bending the rules” or a “workaround”. It is literally lying to USCIS in order to obtain a green card under false pretenses.
I would bet good money that when Starship makes its first safe return to Earth after a manned lunar landing mission, there's going to be some serious-as-a-heart-attack talk within the worlds' universities about pooling cash for manned missions.
> In all mainstream languages with OOP features methods by default are not virtual and cannot be overridden by a successor class.

Ruby, Python, and Java (among others) are relatively mainstream, but allow this (the former two have ways to do this with individual instances as well as child classes.)
how do you know it's the cook's recipe and preparation process and not that of a head chef or manager? The "cook" could just be pushing some buttons they were told to push for all you know.
Well, I'm saying that you're already trapped in the thing you're trying to avoid. I am too, everyone is. I'm not saying things will always stay the same or that we shouldn't do anything - I mentioned that we need more regulation. I'm just acknowledging that we have only a notional amount of control over our data. The data is distributed over such a large surface area and each node on that graph has a weakness to it. A large node like Google or MS will be a tough nut to crack, but a few small nodes (e.g. 150 million SSNs and other personal info from Transunion) will be far easier.

>The value of data increases exponentially with its amount. For example, mounting a convincing ID theft based on passwords to my LinkedIn account and the local computer shop is difficult, but doable, with the right skills and the right motivation, and for reasonably simple things (e.g. impersonating me to get interesting, but not particularly sensitive data from a former colleague who still works at a former workplace). Mounting an ID theft based on all the data that Google or Microsoft store about a person is a whole different story.

Right, so they would just hack Transunion and directly get SSNs and other personal info on 150 million people. Of course practically speaking, there are no 150 million "new" people who are just waiting to assume the identity of someone else.

Also as an aside if you were given the documents folders of 150 million people, you'd need a massive amount of storage space and compute power to run indexing, de-duplication and other automated tasks on all the various document formats before you can even begin mining any data from it. Though I'm sure the cost of that will come down over the next decade...
That's interesting, back east we called those kids "exchange students" and they were generally academically excellent, as well as adding to the diversity of the student body. And then they did well and got into US universities where they would presumably continue to excel academically.

I fail to see the problem.
I think a good bit of is it the fact that the example code on the redux website is _extremely_ verbose, and that most people who stick with redux for the long haul end up using a variety of shortcuts that make their code significantly terser yet still readable. I'm in the middle of writing a short presentation for my local jsx meetup on a set of simple rules for writing good redux code. As part of the presentation, I'm providing two repos for a webapp, one with the store written using the exact code style used by the redux website, and a second one using my suggested rules and IMO the result is pretty dramatic. Until I got to writing the 'official' style version of the app, I had forgotten just how verbose redux can be. I would NOT want to use redux if I was sticking to the 'official' example style.
> You just don't need it

I have a lots data that needs to be globally available between multiple pages and is largely interdependent (i.e. one update might affect multiple slices of the data). The data needs to be updated optimistically (i.e. we show updates to the user before the fetch succeeds and unwind if it fails) and the updates are triggered through a mix of web socket polling and user actions.

You're right that I don't need Redux for this project, but oh boy I really like using it.
With all this amount of profit and market share they should be more eco friendly and write a native client instead.
> Online identifiers for profiling and identification
> Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags.
> This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.

The thing is, you can't create profiles. So right now I could give you a single entry for our website

> NULL "" "https://www.usefathom.com" "bb9377f4cf33093765835a48e962a5dbd3168499abd12b120c8c118c86c41479"

How could we possibly use that to profile / identify? The hash (bb9377f4cf33093765835a48e962a5dbd3168499abd12b120c8c118c86c41479) is unique in the database table and never repeats.

I hear you. We don't rely on Recital 26 to comply with GDPR. I've not had the Recital 26 piece confirmed by a lawyer but it's a personal hunch / exploration. Hearing your comments on Article 30 are helpful, thank you, would like to hear your thoughts on my reply if possible :)
No worries. It's probably not helped by the fact that RF starts at around 20 KHz in EM at the same frequency where human hearing range ends in sound waves. So it's fairly easy to read a bunch of statements about frequency ranges and then mix up mediums, especially when EM contains a bunch of seemingly very different things, light, RF, xrays etc.
The idea of NASA becoming smart enough that it reroutes its plans around administrations is a nice idea. It's pretty hopeful. It also seems wrong: if it were true, NASA would've gotten us somewhere by now.
This project is a month old and maintained by a single contributor. Tread carefully.
I'm using a mac. QT_SCALE_FACTOR doesn't really help, and most of Apple's native apps are actually sized appropriately. It's everything else that's a problem.

Honestly, I think it's an accessibility issue. Most devs are simply used to the small GUIs, so that's what they build. They don't give it any real thought or put any actual design effort into it. It's the same with accessibility, it's not my problem so it's not a problem. And while native GUI's help with some aspects of accessibility, they don't provide the tools to make scaling easy and obvious so it doesn't happen.

And that's why people throw fits about software being inaccessible, because it's literally unusable for them. I'm lucky, I just want everything to be 20% bigger by default because it makes my life a little easier. Others don't have that luxury. That 20% can be the difference between being able to use your software or not.
Previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109455

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122521

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19099474

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19097719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19029801

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853232
I stopped buying books from amazon after getting few "new" books visibly used. Scribbled notes or giant greasy hand mark etc. If I need to drop off book for return anyway then I can make as well trip to normal bookstore (learned about very nice local one).
It’s probably the airline I’ve flown on the most. The flight attendants are nice, and you get a little ammenities bag. But none of that changes the fact that you’re packed into an economy class seat for x hours. The food is honestly not any better that other full service airlines either.

Honestly, I have no idea where you’re getting this from. There’s certainly economy classes out there worse than SG, but to compare it to any first class experience is complete nonsense.
Yes, that seems the opposite of the kind of deal you'd want to make with a hotly burning startup.