skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1]. I think people keep chiding Japan because they are reluctant to address the so called “comfort women”.

They’ve issued a bunch of specific apologies specifically regarding the “comfort women”, beginning in 1992 and then frequently thereafter. At various times they have apologized several times per year.

The apologies are listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statemen..., culminating in a 2015 apology that was agreed to by South Korea to “finally and irrevocably resolve the issue”

And amazingly still the notion that they won’t apologize for it is commonplace.
Why are you mentioning wife and kids? Why would that ever come up in a professional interview?

Also, what does remote IT work mean? Are you using IT as it's used in the midwest to encapsulate software? On the west coast, IT typically refers to networking and helpdesk type stuff. I don't see how it's even possible to do that fully remote.

EDIT: Also, I recommend treating the blog you linked the same as Infowars. The owner is an Alex Jones-level conspiracy theorist, and her blog reflects that. She doesn't even try to hide her obvious contempt for men.
okay I'll concede your point that perhaps being bold could be bad publicity for the field. I think that's a reasonable position to take. I don't think it is correct, but I think it's reasonable. Even if it were the precursor to a drop in funding, I don't think the previous "AI Winter" was so long, in comparison to the century-long gaps in the advance of other technologies in history, (binary was invented hundreds of years before the computer).

I would definitely not call OpenAI delusional. I would say all OpenAI is being here is "honest".

They are simply stating what the math tells them.

"E pur si muove"
Maybe I didn't understand the article properly then. Their example of a data race is

account.activity = true;

Which two threads could perform concurrently.

Now from my understanding, the issue is that the hardware, OS, runtime and compiler might not guarantee that this assignment is atomic. Thus if two threads were to perform it concurrently, the result would be undefined, in that maybe the value ends up being true, or maybe it ends up corrupted, or maybe it is still false, or it will eventually be true, but for a while, if you read back the value it would still be false, etc.

Edit: Also I don't think you understood my example. When I lay out T1 and T2, I'm talking about two threads concurrently executing a = a + 1;. Which is a data race, by their definition. But I'm saying that the issue with data races are that they can lead to race conditions at the assembly level. Thus a data race is really just a race condition at the assembly or even hardware level.
Update: no arrests made of attackers

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/22/hong-kong-police-made-...
This. Linux has a ton of flaws. But Windows makes me pull my hair out when trying to do anything at all, or even just looking at the font rendering. MacOS has not been cutting it for me at all either. There's simply not enough control: things initially look pretty on the surface, but immediately break or have no flexibility when you look below.

A couple of examples that come to mind:

1. Key combinations. They're completely inconsistent across the software I use and frequently can't (easily?) be changed. Sometimes commands are cmd+key, sometimes they're ctrl+key. To delete the previous word (something I do hundreds of times a day), some kind of strange incantation seems to be required. The one that works in iTerm deletes the whole line in most other programs, so I accidentally delete work dozens of times a day.

2. Missing window manager features, even basic ones. I can't do focus-follows-mouse, I can't double-tap to click and drag, etc etc. Stuff that's obvious and present on basically every other system.

3. The keyboard (mid-2014 model) is much worse on this MacBook than my Dell XPS.

4. The story for terminal-based and open source software simply isn't as good as it is on Linux. Homebrew is great, but it's limited and can't compete with the convenience of the many binary packages on most distros. Software that's supposed to integrate deeply with the system in some way is a bit of a pain as well.

These won't be problems for everyone, but for what I consider basic power user features, neither Windows nor MacOS are up to par with Linux. But stability and hardware support in Linux is as good (in my experience) as at least Windows. I've had the same install on a rolling release distribution for 6 years without issues. I don't know the last time I found hardware that wasn't supported on Linux.
Pomme-stylo-anana or name it after Pikotaro!
Good for him, making this work. I think a version of this about Markdown/Pandoc or VI(M) would be similar; If you head to content-not-interface focussed models, you're forced to think about what you want to say a lot more than which transition animation to use to say it.

I found his comment about calendars/scheduling hard to believe. I've done one Apple iCal server deployment, never want to do that again. Google calendar, talks well to itself. Cross scheduling into O365 is a nightmare.
> why post it for the public?

Why not?

> the only judgement that matters.

Not really - you can have multiple target audiences. I.e. you can write for yourself first, and others second - the piece being relevant, with different focuses, for different people. Which is what the majority of these pieces tend to be (if they're not purely SEO gaming)

> narcissistic and time-wasting, a side-effect of having no editor to determine what is good for the publication, and no cost to cost publish an unlimited stream-of-consciousness

What's the problem with any of that? Is everything in life to be optimised purely for efficiency of delivery?

> The AI isn't in the "bullet-points" but in the search engine

My point was rather that some people here would rather boil everything down to purely a list of facts, without any element of story or framing.
Thankyou I will check those out.
why things on the RPi take so long? is the SoC still undocumented because of the NDA as before?
This is very cool and I use it from time to time, but it's not actually keeping anything synced afaik (it's equivalent to the web ui, but very nicely integrated in gnome).
you can totally push to each other dev machine as needed, so that covers reviews. and just get the guy responsible for maintaining ci to fetch from everyone machine and push to the build server, or you can configure that to pull from this guy pc if needed depending on your ci
Here's him talking at an Airbnb conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6vTaiPl6tA (He confronts an Israel protester who comes up on stage at https://youtu.be/z6vTaiPl6tA?t=155.)

He seems like a pretty smart investor.
> I flew on Singapore Airlines a few months ago and economy there was like first-class on an American airline, but with smaller seats.

With flat beds and everything? How can they possibly afford that?
Another downside -- creating a Microsoft account means agreeing to more arduous terms than you would if you only installed Windows locally.

Just as one example, a Windows EULA (last time I checked) does not include an arbitration agreement, and a Microsoft account does.

Using an online account isn't just an inconvenience or a privacy risk for the "paranoid" -- you're just flat-out giving up your rights by signing up.
Evernote web clipper
It's okay to break, as long as you break even?
You'd have to be insane to buy anything you'd put in your body from Amazon. Just this week I received an obviously used item that was "Shipped and sold by amazon.com" and sold as "new".

I realize they're trying, but Amazon is clearly failing to control the tide of fakes that is infesting their storefront. I find that for almost anything I search for, the knockoff/fake is actually the Amazon "recommended" item.
Do you think Github is nothing more than a 'central git' repo? Have you even used the site in the last few years?
To be clear, I don't think Deep Learning = AGI. I think it's just one important piece, but I think we are also making many other rapid advances in relevant areas (neuralink's 10x+ improvement in electrodes, for one).
Because last time Google denied doing something like this it turned out there was a paper trail all the way to the CEO.

(The top email basically said: why are you emailing me this. This is illegal. Don't create a paper trail!!)
define requirements and solicit bids. This isn't perfect (see: F-35)

Isn't the F-35 program criticized for short-circuiting a major part of the traditional procurement process? I'm not so sure you can completely compare the traditional procurement process and what happened with the F-35.
Philosophers should not be sanctioned for their positions on sex and gender
Isn't it normal for class-action lawsuits to have a low payout per person?
Natural Adversarial Examples Slash Image Classification Accuracy by 90%
Very interesting. My heart says "Let Hong Kong become part of Taiwan." But as unreasonable as mainland China is, I think they would be justified in objecting to US meddling in Hong Kong.
Tangentially related: I just turned 65, and am continuing to immensely enjoy programming. Current job involves embedded digital signal processing in medical devices.

My family came up with a new name for my category of programmers: the gerihacktric demographic.. :-)

I have interviewed with Alphabet twice, no offers. One time apparently it was a close call..

It would be fun to be the all-time record holder for oldest new hire!
> Does this meet the requirements for a site to avoid notifying users under the GDPR? I have no idea.

Not necessarily. It's a bit complex, but the fact that Fathom ingests personal data at all likely means that they must still be disclosed by whoever is using Fathom's code.

On the other hand, if Fathom were able to push data ingestion into the first party's infrastructure so that only aggregated data hits Fathom's own infrastructure, I'm pretty sure that would put Fathom in the clear due to the fact that they are no longer processing or storing personal data.

To Fathom's credit, I am a big fan regardless of the steps they seem to be taking with anonymization, and I will consider using them instead of GA for future projects.
> If AGI is achievable (seems likely given brains are all over the place in nature)

I don't see how that conclusion follows the antecedent.
Prove me wrong if it is so obvious.

As the people at OpenAI have rightly said, AGI is a compute-gated problem. It is a problem that can only be solved with very, very large amounts of compute.

The world has some total amount of computing power in terms of silicon based computation. For AGI to happen, there are two requirements: that this total be equal or greater than some theoretical threshold value for AGI and that the computing power is consolidated. So in layman’s terms, you have to have a lot of computers and they have to be connected in such a way as to efficiently share their compute. AGI will never come about if every individual computer were used to do research by separate entities but if all of those computers were connected into a single virtual computer, AGI might be discovered with them.

So clearly in order to prevent AGI, the best thing to do would be to address these two aspects. Prevent the total computing power of the world from growing and prevent computers from forming virtual meta-computers. Both of these tasks are in principle extremely easy.

Chip fabs are huge and expensive. Nobody is fabricating chips in their garage. This is just a hard fact. There aren’t that many fabs in the world and they are all highly susceptible to regulation. This isn’t prohibition of alcohol so please don’t confuse yourself. Nobody will be brewing chips in their cellar.

Let’s imagine that you could not regulate cloud computing. Let’s say the only way to prevent computers from offering their compute on a virtual market was to shut down the internet. This by default is the hardest way to solve the second aspect of the AGI problem and even it is very easy. This is because the internet is a large fragile collection of infrastructure that depends heavily on government cooperation. Nobody is going to string a fiber backbone for black market internet. ISPs cannot exist without regulatory approval.

If there were political awareness and motivation, and it was a global phenomenon, yes, it would be extremely easy to do what I’ve described. And since AGI is to the detriment of literally all people, it is not a far fetched scenario. And unlike alcohol in the United States, bootlegging would not be a problem. People in the USA think that banning anything whatsoever doesn’t work. It’s just fuzzy thinking, I can assure you.
Do you have a reference on the brain not learning with backpropagation? I'd like to learn more.
And even if there was a data breach where myself & Paul were held at gunpoint and told export the database, there's no personal data to do anything with. Not even in our Redis queue! Our database is very boring, anonymous and simple, and we like it that way.
A weekend replication of STOKE, a stochastic superoptimiser

A super optimizer is a type of compiler that takes a program and finds the optimal sequence of instructions that perform the same task as the original program.

A stochastic thing X is a thing X that uses randomness.

STOKE is a superoptimizer that finds optimal instruction sequences to perform a particular task by using numerical techniques which rely on randomness (markov-chain-monte-carlo/MCMC) to explore the space of "all possible programs".

Here, we re-implement STOKE for a tiny stack machine language whose instruction set is Push, Add, Mul, and And.
Sample output

* original: (nparams: 0 | [IPush 2,IPush 3,IAdd])*
[IPush 5] | score: 2.5 // constant folding: 2 + 3 -> 5

* original: (nparams: 1 | [IPush 2,IMul])*
[IDup,IAdd] | score: 2.25 // strength reduction: 2 * x -> x + x

* original: (nparams: 1 | progInsts = [IDup,IAnd])*
[] | score: 3.0 // strength folding: x & x == x

That is, we automatically disover those program transformations by randomly trying different programs (in a somewhat smart way).
I have a printout of a Pascal Othello/Reversi game I wrote in 1985 for a class, as well as some C and DCL stuff from 1986-1987. The oldest I still have online is some more C stuff from work in 1988.
Why would they now admit to doing something illegal? They just settled the case!
> a service that automatically consolidates them for you

What is the "them" you're referring to? Perhaps you're talking about consolidating multiple hosting services? This seems dangerous. What happens if Susan can access GitHub but not Gitlab and the reverse for Thiago. Susan pushes updates to GitHub, Thiago pushes updates to Gitlab and now you have to figure out how to reconcile the too.

Of course you have a similar problem if both commit different changes locally, but in that case it's generally agreed upon that the hosting service holds the version of record and that developers should reconcile changes against this.
Thank you! The question is does 21.5 inch force more focus, less tabs thus more productivity?
There's a recording of our announcement in case you missed it!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m4RJGLofox8
"Generous" is hard for me to have an opinion about. $11M is less than a rounding error for Google.

"Fair" isn't as hard. It's not fair, if (as I suspect) Google is guilty of age discrimination. There should be greater consequences than just trying to pay people what they might've lost financially from the discrimination.

Or, to put it another way: Google deserves to be punished if this was actually happening.
I use the bins right by the entrance of Lowe's and Home Depot stores. They also have bins for compact florescent bulbs.
Given the number of legal actions involving google, those people are probably extremely busy...
It's definitely normal for the class members to receive little payout per person, but a lot of that tends to have to do with astronomical legal expenses.
Not really - we're not sure if warp drive is possible given the physical constraints of the universe.

AGI is possible because intelligence is possible (and common on earth) in nature.
Starting a remote company is a cost-saving tactic, and the ability to often not have to pay SF salaries can be a motivating factor, especially in the early stages of the company.
> the less-than-perfectly aligned government etc. will strongarm you into giving control to THEM before you come close to deploying it

and

> 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 very good points and I share those concerns too, and have no good answers. I'm in the pessimist camp when it comes to AGI--I would be heavily it's going to happen but I wouldn't bet a dollar whether it will end up being good for humanity, as I haven't a clue.
Isn't the non determinism in this case the order of the compare and swap operations? And that non-determinism is the cause of the race condition in your example. Or maybe I didn't fully grasp your example.
Speaking as someone who built an analytics business while still maintaining an open source version of the code, I can confirm that it's hard. Sometimes it starts off as one small patch that only makes sense for the hosted service, but you can't push to the OS branch until the code is refactored to protect secrets.

I cannot give you any tips on managing your time between the two, but you may want to consider raising your prices. Back in 2011, we ran our basic account at $50/mo, Business at $150/mo and Enterprise at $CallMe/mo. We could probably have upped that after a year with all the new features we'd put in, but we were acquired before the 2y mark and dropped the first 2 plans.

We still maintain the open source version of the code, but neither of the original founders work on it (for me it's gone back to being a hobby because there are now people paid full time to work on it). We still get questions about the lag in updates. We typically do quarterly bulk pushes to the open source version now.
The Panasonic BQ-CC55 charger will charge from 1 to 4 cells, AA or AAA, in any combination. I've got 2 and they've worked great.
I think it depends a lot on your use case. If you just want a dirt cheap HTPC, then yes, there are lots of SBCs that will fit the bill, but the RPi also has a hardware add-on ecosystem around its particular camera and GPIO/SPI/I2C/I2S availability, and even though lots of other boards have those things available and broken out too, you're going to have to be willing to do a lot more leg work to get it all hooked up properly and working for a different SoC.
As a Linux and MacOS user I would never recommend a solution that does not work on Linux, unless it's effectively a free complement to something else the company is paying for.

As a Dropbox competitor I know that you've lost at least a couple of sales because with all the companies I worked thus far the only sync solutions used at the company level are Dropbox and Google Drive. And the later is only used because it's attached to Google Suite, but nobody pays for extra storage.

And all the companies I worked with have some Linux users. And I know, correlation is not causation, but I know that at least one of those companies haven't gone with Box because of missing Linux support.

If you haven't noticed lost sales it might be because companies with Linux users aren't even bothering to check you out.
India launches mission to land on the Moon
They pay you according to how much they think you'll keep. If your rent is $3500/month, you'll take home less than if it's $600/month.
I don't click Forbes links anymore. The garbage to quality ratio is just too high and not worth the gamble.
I'm curious as to why you think AGI will have an inherently bad effect on society. Personally, I have a hard time believing any technology is inherently good or bad.

On the other hand, if a society's institutions are weak, it's leaders evil or incompetent, or its people are uneducated, its not hard to imagine things going very, very wrong.
1.2V cut-off is ridiculously high even for alkalines. Looking at the charts from e.g. Energizer datasheets[1], it seems like going form 1.2V cut-off to something more reasonable like 0.8V gives you whopping extra 50% service life. Alkalines are definitely not "almost dead" at 1.2V.

[1] http://data.energizer.com/pdfs/en91.pdf
> doing deep learning, and do research on programming languages and deep learning for program synthesis.

That sounds fascinating. Could you link to some relevant stuff about languages and deep learning for program synthesis? I'd love to read more about this.
Thank you for publishing this! I work for a small fintech company and I find it really hard to get good data on what salaries should be outside of one-off anecdotes. I also agree that you should pay local rates. I looked at the non-SF California rate and found it to be more than reasonable.
We are writing Version 2 in PHP 7.3 with Laravel. We're pleased with it's performance (our hosted solution operates at large scale using Laravel) and it's our favourite language to work with. We'll be building the frontend in EmberJS and it will be incredibly fast.
Rising Thunder 18 Sniper Competition
The gen 1 LEAF I had did have some minimal wireless connectivity. It did allow remotely starting the heater/cooler among other things. However, it used a 2G modem and those networks are mostly shut down now so it would be unable to connect anymore. I expect that the current one uses LTE for its wireless, now.

What is the nature of your concern?
Throwaway because I work at Google. I interviewed Cheryl Fillekes twice. I did not know her age, and it did not matter. Her issue was incompetence. One of the very few "strong no hire" ratings I ever gave out.
Low-wage workers are not working for the city. The city pays very handsomely (400k police, 100k poop patrol, etc).

It is the city that has to tighten their 9billion a year belt.
> Have you even used the site

That's a variant of "did you even read the article", which the guidelines ask you not to do (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). That's partly because it's a putdown, but mostly because there's no information in it. Readers who know less than you do are here to learn, so a better version of this comment would share some of what you know.
Fun fact: You may find signs warning of the oak processionary moth in some of the woods in Vienna, Austria[1].

[1]: https://www.vienna.at/2018/05/eichen-wien-16-9-017650366-650...
A video overview of all new features can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nf0ui3qP2E
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
And so are US birth hotels. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-raid-l-maternity-h...