skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one shifted the goal post whatsoever in those cases. We've had computers that could beat humans in video games, and board games for decades. Improving those so they could beat better players was not thought to be impossible.

The same goes for writing text articles. Go on any /r/politics thread you'll surely see bots writing text that does a good job of convincing people that it was human written. So slightly, or even significantly, improving those is not something that people doubted would be possible.
I’m using syncthing for file sync, and testing out spideroak for backup (plus just a hard drive locally). I like the idea of spideroak because it’s e2e encrypted, or so I understand, and syncthing has just worked decently well the last few years.

I tried sparkleshare once but it only syncs to Linux, and you have to set up a sync server

Still rely on Dropbox for file sharing with others though (however, Firefox send is an alternative now)
"Due to an error, some users were accidentally exposed to the new app for a short period of time."
I suspect building them is in an environmental benefit in a lot of cases, a lot of people just buy huge packs of alkaline disposables and can't be bothered with rechargeables unless they're built in. I'd be interested to see the statistics but I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of people use disposable batteries given the opportunity.
Can standard microSD's survive standard reflow soldering? I wouldn't think they survive, but would be nice.
This is why the right way to support linux is to solidly support exactly one and only one distro, and then let the rest conform or work around it.
Amazon needs to stop with inventory comingling. They know it and refuse to stop, so they are culpable. I'm sure it would hurt their logistics to stop, but it also hurts cigarette companies to not advertise to children and we made that a law.

It is ridiculous that you can order a supplement where it says "sold by Proctor and Gamble, fulfilled by Amazon" on the product listing, and then receive a counterfeit product that was sent in by a different company. If they received it from a different company, then it wasn't "sold by Proctor and Gamble."

At the very least they need to give brand owners the tools to protect their brands- an option to put non-authorized resellers' shipments into a separate comingled bin, and have all the authorized resellers in another.

Right now the only option for a brand with a popular product to protect from counterfeiting is to not sell anything through Amazon and sue everyone that tries to list your products on Amazon- which might not even work and really hurts your market reach.
> Everyone does it

We don't. Obviously we're not at the scale of Gitlab but we do not care whether you live in France, Italy, Germany, Poland, NL, Canada, the United States or any other place. (But those are the places that our colleagues are in, and there are more on the way.)
The fact that the state of security or privacy is already bad is no reason to make it worse. Sure, "that ship" might have sailed a long time ago but that's no reason to send the rest of the fleet after it.

At one point, "the ship" of every tide that humanity has turned "had sailed". For example, there was a time when virtually every potent means of human transportation ran on heavily-polluting fuel -- and while we're by no means back to stone-age levels of environmental friendliness, we're still better off than in the 1960s.

> Do any businesses exist that you can apply this guarantee to?

No, but that's also why there is no company that I trust with a significant portion of my data over an indefinite period of time, nor with any data that I'm not comfortable sharing. (In fact, I don't trust any company that doesn't have a good retention policy -- thankfully, the GDPR makes it a little easier to filter those out now).

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.
There is selection bias (and other issues) not only in this study, but in which stories are promoted as well. E.g. this story presenting immigration positively gets to stay on the front page for some time, while a (admittedly anecdotal) story of Indian immigrants showing racist in-group preference at Intel (https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/19/korean-american-softw...) is flagged and killed.
Love it. Have found that the closer you get to hardware groups at any of the FAANG's, the higher the average age. Met several happily employed grandparents in the groups, adding value and telling the best stories.
You have to invest $1.2 million and have a net worth of at least $2 million, right? I wouldn't call that a pittance.
I expected such headlines from BBC, but not the NYT. Surprisingly, the BBC headline was much better than this one.
I don’t believe incrementalism will get us their either. We need many more 10x+ advances.
But I think it’s relatively clear where those advances need to be. I think simply by making 10x advances in maybe 100 or 1k domains we’ll get there. Neuralink for example, just announced many 10x+ advances, such as the number of electrodes you can put in the brain. Our lab is working on a number of things that will be also 10x advances in various sub domains.

Lots of advances in many fields will lead to something greater than the sum of their parts.

Edit: p.s. I like your comment about toddlers. As a first time father of a 6 month old, its been very intellectually interesting watching her learn, in addition to just being the greatest bundle of joy ever :)
Do these regions in India something similar to the tradition in some Mediterranean areas where it's expected that noone works in the hottest hours in the middle of the day, everyone's in shade resting, and instead you work both early and late in the day when it's not so hot?
We ask people not to do generic ideological discussion because it's boring and not what HN is for. A good example is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19987774. We don't need that here—it has all been repeated millions of times, is all predictable, and therefore is all off topic. We do eventually ban users who keep doing that on HN, so please stop.

Shadowban means banning someone without telling them. When we banned you before, we told you at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10883352 and discussed with you later over email.
Pull requests could be done through email using the git format-patch, git send-email, and git am commands.
100 agree. Although rather unclear, my comment was hinting at the fact that even if we all think that journalism is not what it used to be, cynicism shouldn't win over idealism...
I think contributing to GitLab itself would send the strongest signal of the three things mentioned.

Please note that this isn't required, we hire a lot of people who never contributed to GitLab before getting hired.

I've asked our recruiters to comment as well.
Doing god’s work
I was asking if you think it's equally bad for gay people in Iran and the west, or worse in Iran. Your first statement sounded like you think it's no better in the west, and the second one like you think Iran is worse.
Not sure what kind of company you work at, but I'd export a copy of your logs so you don't get canned
Actual quote if you didn't find it:

Eric Schmidt:

"I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don’t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric"
You could merge the feature branch into master (or whatever), resolve conflicts, commit, push and deploy.
why are you calling it an analytics platform when it isn't one?
I think this is a pretty big misunderstanding of the AGI issue.

Nobody is going to control the hyper-intelligent AGI if its goals are not aligned with human goals more generally. That's the nature of something being a lot smarter than you with its own goals.
Child of an immigrant?

Come on, let's add then grandchildren, friends, lovers, people from the same middle school etc. Most of the time those kids are 100% Americans, who often might not even know the language of their parents.

Source: I'm an immigrant, and the situation: "kids are speaking Russian with me, but between themselves they prefer to speak English, and don't ask me about their writing skills in Russian" is very common among my circle.
Photographers will tell you that using rechargeable batteries are the way to go when it comes to using flash/speedlights. They charge up much quicker than Alkaline and they either work or do not. Alkaline charges you flash at a slower rate and will give you weaker inconsistent power when they are dying (rechargeable give you all they can or just die out).
You know, I do wonder why people talk like that these days. I cannot recall a time when it was acceptable and I certainly wouldn't do it myself. But these snide comments are so common on OSS thèse days.
It's pretty surreal watching this conflict play out. I'm still shocked this is happening on the international stage and other nations are unwilling to take sides in the conflict.

I wonder what happens when the tension comes to a precipice and China sends in security forces to "maintain the peace". I hope for Hong Kong and the global economy's sake, it doesn't come to that. Although it seems like that's exactly what the Chinese state government is gearing up for.
If all software maintainers disappeared, which projects would you take over?
If there were some apocalyptic event which left all software projects without any stewardship, what projects would you think to be most important to take over? How would you organize?
The file browser interface is one of my least favorite things about Blender too, but apparently they're working on a big "Assets" update (a brand new interface for browsing and managing not only files but any kind of asset, like Materials etc) which will come after the release of 2.8, so, fingers crossed.
What do you mean? Video conferencing was already easy to do 10 years ago.

Looking back to the history of GitLab you are right that it just took 8 years to scale the company to this size, but I hope that others are already coming.
The CI/CD pipeline could also be done with a post-receive hook on another remote.
This is very weak reasoning, because you cannot identify an individual by IP either. This project looks like trying to exploit loopholes. The idea behind GDPR is to make sure companies log only data they need. This project looks into logging the data but without expressing why this is even necessary. Therefore I don't think this is compliant with GDPR.
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -Leslie Lamport
It's not about the mission, it's about the motivation. Societies only do great things with the proper motivation. Without the specter of American greatness being eclipsed by evil red Commies, what can get 2019 America to feel urgently this should be done?
> Therefore we should try and figure out a way to make it safe before AGI exists.

Makes no sense to me, how would you ever be able to figure out a way to make something safe before it even exists?

Someone who has never built a nuclear reactor most likely could not think of a way to prevent the Chernobyl disaster.

(OK, maybe this is a wrong example as someone who did couldn't do this either, but the point should be clear)
I'm not certain there's a way out of it. On Quora I've been seeing pedophiles creating accounts with the intent on pushing boundaries. It's pretty disturbing seeing it taken out of a literary context. I don't envy Patreon's task here.
I think the question is the alternatives. Say each of these vendors had their own top level online stores. What then?

Maybe you find the site through googling, and decide to buy the item from them. In a way, Amazon is like an extra layer of security to that model. First you can trust the payment channels, you can trust the delivery, and you can trust that you'll get some level of customer support. Beyond that, you know that they've attempted to validate the quality of their products, but in the same way your email provider does spam filtering, so it won't be 100% accurate. And finally they have the review system, which can help learn about that particular vendor or product.

It isn't perfect, but it seems better then that alternative.

Now as a consumer, you also have the alternative to not buy from vendors you don't already recognize and trust. But then you might go back to having the selection issue. What do you do when your trusted vendors don't have the item? Flr those cases, Amazon still seems better then the alternative.
Thanks for sharing that. I had a look at their stock options page: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/
and think that it's very misleading.

> The reason we give stock options instead of straight stock is that you do not need to spend any money to purchase the stock at the date of grant and can decide to purchase the stock later as your options vest. In addition, we do not provide straight stock grants since this may subject you to immediate tax liabilities.

Having worked at pre-IPO companies before, both these statements are untrue

1. Most companies issue RSUs instead of straight up stock. No one makes you 'buy' your RSUs.

2. Every pre-IPO company has a double-trigger vest condition where you 'own' the stock only at IPO or acquisition and you only owe taxes then (and most companies auto-sell a portion at IPO to cover taxes).
What makes you think they don't?
We are investing continually to have integrations with tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and JIRA.

I'm not sure why https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jenkins.html apparently doesn't support forks and our CI people to comment here.
Consciousness may not have anything to do with AGI. Besides, we haven't as a species defined consciousness in a consistent and coherent way. It may be an illusion or a word game. AGI may end up being more like evolution, a non-conscious self optimizing process. Everyone is talking about AGI but we can't even define what we mean by any of these terms, so to put limits on how near or far away major discoveries might be is pointless.
exactly, expected to be 5-10 times higher.
Anyway, with the amount of testing and verification we do on our product, desktop Linux is impractical.

And yet, there are many open source projects have the scale of a file synchronization tool or larger, that manage to work fine (and run a large battery of tests) across different Linux distributions, BSDs, and macOS.

I don't think it is impractical, it is probably just not a good business case.

(I don't necessarily agree, I think Linux users will typically send more fine-grained and useful bug reports and might help you shake out bugs more quickly.)
Yes, but that is significantly more expensive than paying of a license from a team which already has lots of other companies paying for licenses.

Though it is less expensive than trying to do the same thing when a proprietary dev shop loses interest.
This exactly when you break up a logically flat function into subfunctions, the names of those functions are simply replacing comments.
My face fell when I saw the code. I will actually henceforth use this as an example of this anti-pattern.

Whether or not the author was a Java programmer shouldn't matter - I think one should try to writing idiomatic code in any language, unless there are reasonable reasons against it.
As a Vancouver local, I can't recall ever hearing about termite damage. I don't know if we have them here. I've heard a few cases of carpenter ants eating walls.

Woodpeckers can be a problem -- they will occasionally try to nest in the side of a house. They also like to peck on metal siding. I think they do it to attract mates?
>IOW I'm pretty sure their site and fortune's based largely on crime and generally anti-social behavior

Honestly, isn't that what's at the base of the culture of 'disruption'? Look at Uber - let's take an established, regulated industry and just ignore the regulations long enough that we're everywhere and they can't shut us down.

Honestly, when I hear the word 'disrupt', I immediately think of shady, anti-social behavior.
> It's pretty surreal watching this conflict play out. I'm still shocked this is happening on the international stage and other nations are unwilling to take sides in the conflict.

Are you equally shocked that other nations are unwilling to take sides in the various political conflicts that we've lived through in the past decade in the United States?

Generally, it's prudent, in the geopolitical arena, for nation states to keep their noses out of other nations' domestic politics.
That is using "birthright citizenship" as a synonym for jus soli birthright citizenship. This article is looking at birthright citizenship more broadly and is including jus sanguinis in its definition of birthright citizenship. Virtually every country[1] has birthright citizenship under this broader definition.

[1] The only exception I'm aware of is Vatican City, where citizenship is based on appointment to a position in the church.
Amen: the best way to defeat any bad argument is to subject it to public, open, and fair scrutiny. If anything is true, it will stand. If it is false, there is no greater boon to an intellectual community than having publicly dissected and exposed for what it is.
Researchers build an automated system to patch vulnerable binaries [pdf]
just a guess but s/he may have been referring to just putting root filesystem on a USB drive, but still requiring the bootloader (and possibly kernel?) to be on sd card. It's a one-time "hit" that is completely negligible.
> Success here would show how much is possible with $146MM

… when you're paying Indian salaries. I'm pretty sure that paying NASA, ESA or JAXA engineers less than 12k USD/year [1] would result in exactly 0 of them staying on the job.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/india-aerospace-engineeri...
GDPR is for protection of personal data and we store no personal data. Please take a read of this: https://usefathom.com/data/
The issue isn't that the commenter was flaming a particular person but that the comment was going into a generic ideological tangent. That's a classic flamewar zone and off topic here. I'm sorry to tell you that it's off topic since you find it interesting, but we don't have much choice but to build firewalls around HN. Highly-charged political topics would take over very quickly otherwise; they are more impassioned and inflammatory (and important, arguably) than anything else that gets discussed here.

By the way, I'm sorry that I didn't have a chance to respond to you in earlier threads. I saw your comments and would normally have been happy to answer, but ran out of time.
Pretty sure we crossed the Rubicon in the other direction, as it was basically the popularity of Electron apps that forced Microsoft to abandon their own browser rendering engine in favor of Chromium.

If you had come to me 10 years ago and said "Microsoft will drop their browser and use Google's code," I absolutely would not have believed you.
I was pretty sure "say you wrote it" was an example in the original essay. Though upon review, Graham writes "almost verbatim".

Different publications vary greatly in their reliance on PR firms. At the bottom of the heap are the trade press, who make most of their money from advertising and would give the magazines away for free if advertisers would let them. [2] The average trade publication is a bunch of ads, glued together by just enough articles to make it look like a magazine. They're so desperate for "content" that some will print your press releases almost verbatim, if you take the trouble to write them to read like articles.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Thanks, I'll take a look. I tried https://volt-app.com a while ago but it had some bugs that made it unusable (for me) with Slack.

I'm also a bit concerned of using a closed-source client with Slack.
That was seven decades ago, and we are not even close to achieving insect-level intelligence.

[citation needed]

I guess this depends on what "close" is. For something as blue sky as AGI, let me propose the following definition of "close:" X is "close" if there's over a 50% chance of it being achievable in the next 10 years if someone gave $10 billion 2019 US dollars to do it.

I think this is a fair metric for "close" for a blue-sky goal which has the potential to completely change human history and society. It's comparable to landing someone on the moon, for instance. Now, let's pick the insect with the simplest behavior. Fleas and ticks are pretty stupid, as far as insects go. I think we're "close" to simulating that level of behavior. Of course, that's straw-manning, not steel-manning. If we pick the smartest insects, like jumping spiders and Tarantula Hawks, we're arguably not "close" by the above metric. Simulating a more capable insect brain of a million neurons is not an insignificant cost, and training one through simulation would multiply the computing requirements many times that. However, there are evidently systems which are capable of simulating 100 times that number of neurons:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-supercomput...

So I would say, we're arguably not "close." However, we're not that far off from "close."
Failure to launch: Parents are barriers to teen independence
Peter Thiel wrote about it back in 2014 in his book, Zero to One.

We have a different image of China and China has done a great job posing as next superpower but the reality is very different on the ground.

Rich Chinese want to get away from China by paying whatever price they can afford, this is not surprising at all!
Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force
While this is true, I think a more subtle reason to support Linux is the open-source scripts devs setup that may be mission critical.

I work in a bioinformatics lab, and I access Dropbox through the command prompt and do a lot of file cleanup through scripts for dozens of researchers, which is impossible on Windows or Apple.

This BTRFS reversal last year was a nightmare for everyone's research even though I'm the only one who uses Linux.
$26B dollar company and their $15.00 logo
@localvoid thanks for the investigation, Sinuous can get around this with the template module I believe.

Also Sinuous doesn't use the same library as Solid or S.js for tracking dependencies. I'll do some investigating if it has the same issue that you posted.
I suppose at this stage we should also ask about the parameters - role, level, experience factor, country and area.

Looking at Switzerland on payscale.com, for ruby devs, gitlab's compensation seems above average. Might be looking at it the wrong way, or it might be that payscale.com is horribly wrong (wouldn't be surprised).
that'll be for when they raise a billion and a 20 billion valuation
It's a session long affair, rather than a persistent affair, with 30 minutes apparently the arbitrary cut-off for a session.
Hong Kong Police Commander Coordinating With Suspected Attackers:
https://streamable.com/7wt53
It's great, that you got to interview stage. What I mostly found that most discrimination happens before someone gets to the interview phase, which makes sense, as it makes interviewing cheaper.

Most old people don't learn as many new things as younger ones, which makes it harder for older people who do to get the chance to prove themselves.
It might also be a possibility that this isn't possible to be replicated in an artificial way (that is, human beings maybe aren't smart enough to ever understand their own intelligence, even using all tools to their disposition)

In a certain way, brains are so complicated that (at least for the moment) they seem quite magical to us