skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that technology is always a net zero, cutting equally in both good and bad directions, is fuzzy thinking. It is intuitively satisfying but it is not true.

Humans are a technology. When there is other technology that does intelligent signal processing better than us, we will no longer proliferate. It’s amazing that we can see time and time again the arrival and departure of all kinds of technologies and yet we think we are immutable.

The reason why human history is filled with humans is because every time a country was defeated by another country or entity, the victorious entity was a group of humans. When machines are able to perform all the signal processing that we can, when they are smarter than us, this will no longer be true. The victorious entity will be less and less human each time. Eventually it will not be human at all. This is true not just in war but everywhere. In the global market. It’s just a simple and plain fact that cannot be disregarded.
This reminds me of people telling their whole life story and how that rice pudding made them a better person when all I was looking for was the recipe.
State of AI 2019 Report
Have not heard of rsync.net but I’ll check it out

Edit: the platform link is lacking a right margin on mobile, and the landing page’s hero image resizes the page when the URL bar appears/hides, at least on iOS
I don't hate this copy at all; I absolutely love it! I think it is a beautiful specimen of the early-21st c. Silicon Valley ethos, and it made me laugh. Pre-AGI is my new meme, and that means something coming from a pre-Nobel Prize laureate.

What I'm interested in is how many dismissals of AI, most end up justified, can the field take before considering toning down the prose a bit, especially considering that the dismissals are a result of setting unrealistic expectations in the first place.
Sony's proto-Walkman that went to the moon
That list seems off. Multiple European countries that I know of should be on that list.
Hum... okay. Maybe I'm not understanding what is meant by a data race here.

So your example would be:

function f() {
lastTime = Time.now();
}

And now if we had threads T1 and T2 calling f concurrently, you say this would be a data race?

So I'm confused here. There's no bug, so a data race is not a category of defect the way race conditions are? Both your example and the article's example was a data race that is not a bug. Is there an example of a data race that is not a race condition yet leads to a bug?
Simone Giertz turned a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck [video]
I would not say so. Gimp is (arguably) a very long evolution of an mspaint that copyied many tools and workflow from a Photoshop, Krita is an attempt to re-implement Photoshop from scratch.

I wouldn't say Krita is not suitable for general editing, because Photoshop is also dual purpose tool - it is an industry standard both for digital artists and general photo manipulation.
What exactly does that 96% mean, though? It means that on some fixed dataset you're achieving 96% accuracy. I'm baffled by this stupidity of claiming results (even high-profile researchers do this) based on datasets with models that are nowhere near as robust as the actual intelligence that we take as reference: humans. Take the model that makes you think "sentiment analysis is at 96%", come up with your own examples to apply a narrow Turing test to the model, and see if you still think sentiment analysis (or any NLP task) is anywhere near being solved. Also see: [1].

I think continual Turing testing is the only way of concluding whether an agent exhibits intelligence or not. Consider the philosophical problem of the existence of other minds. We believe other humans are intelligent because they consistently show intelligent behavior. Things that people claim to be examples of AI right now lack this consistency (possibly excluding a few very specific examples such as AlphaZero). It is quite annoying to see all these senior researchers along with graduate students spend so much time pushing numbers on those datasets without paying enough attention to the fact that pushing numbers is all they are doing.

[1]: As a concrete example, consider the textual entailment (TE) task. In the deep learning era of TE there are two commonly used datasets on which the current state-of-the-art has been claimed to be near or exceeding human performance. What these models are performing seemingly exceptionally well is not the general task of TE, it is the task of TE evaluated on these fixed datasets. A recent paper by McCoy, Pavlick, and Linzen (https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01007) shows how brittle these systems are that at this point the only sensible response to those insistent on claiming we are nearing human performance in AI is to laugh.
Well, or they just want everyone to be able to access it? There is really no choice than to publish something like this in English. Just a guess, but I'd guess the amount of people ccessing it who are not native English speakers is larger than those who are.
> In the case of things that are purely visible I quite often first fix the thing and then write a test because the browser in my head is not always quite good enough to write a correct test beforehand.

This is what I was referring to.
submitted for your tasting, live code good music experimental sounds l^)

https://soundcloud.com/folkstack/sets/code-named-mixtape
The public library near us accepts them. No idea how common this is, but it is worth it to check yours.
I find this advice odd. I have to imagine that part of wanting to be a writer is also being recognized for your creative work as an individual.

Telling someone to write documentation that ultimately will be attributed to the company and only seen by the employees or technical end users is a bizarrely tone deaf piece of advice for a someone who wants to be a writer.

The final paragraph is a more human and less corporate drone piece of advice.
I second the curiosity.

As a second data point, last time I checked (I want to say >18 months ago), compensation for my area (Switzerland, urban) was also very low (around the 20th percentile).

Now, it is closer to the median.
Thanks for sharing your story. It is hard and we have to fight to not resent OSS because of 0.001% of the OS community. Open-source software has contributed significantly to our lives, and we love it, so we're going to be pursuing OS Version 2 regardless of a few angry people.
I believe that a different tool is needed for capturing notes and a different one for presentation.

Evernote does the capturing well enough. Both Evernote and OneNote allow capturing parts of a web page with their web clipper but OneNote's workflow is cumbersome.

I think about this like in writing (pg's model of writing essays), where you write a lot of ideas down in no particular order, dumping random thoughts as they come and then on subsequent "passes" you try to bring the scattered thoughts in order, arrange them in paragraphs etc.

Another tangential idea is Jupyter notebooks for research ("research" as in studying a topic). For example if you're researching a topic, you can use Evernote web clipper to do all the capturing from various webpages and then you would have curate/organize this information in a "jupyter notebook for text"/blog post. Maybe offer the functionality to add comments/marginalia (like distill.pub's implementation, e.g. https://distill.pub/2018/differentiable-parameterizations/).

Drawing snippets from multiple web pages and books also brings Ted Nelson's transclusion concept to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
It's a shame that so many products default to built in, non-replaceable LiIons now. For many products, it's nicer to have a replaceable rechargeable so you can pop in charged battery and go instead of having to plan for state of charge of yet another device.
Yes I agree. Also note the new in packaging yellow helmets etc, you'd think if they were actual protesters the protest accoutrements would at least be a little bit used (or knowing HK police, shall we say, thoroughly used)
How do you detect when someone doesn't get a lot done that doesn't work remotely?
You might think, but the Russians have been the world champions of espionage & subterfuge for at least a century. It is an enormous return on investment to deploy a few inexpensive resources and create havoc in your adversaries. Moreover, it is a win-even-if-you-lose situation; you don't need to get everyone to believe your dezinformatsiya (disinformation), you accomplish much even if people simply throw up their hands and say they don't know what to believe. The same with pushing extreme points of view in politics or hoaxes -- it pushes people to disconnect from their society, weakening that society.
I totally agree, and seriously hope that AGI is not achievable.

However, we don't need full AGI for the scenario you mention, automatic anything that is hack-able, which is anything that is connected to a network, can be a weapon of great destruction.

As an example, self-driving cars run on a model. What if they are hacked and uploaded with a malicious model which just wants to damage life and property. I'll say that hundreds of thousands of vehicles running amok would be a great weapon in any war.
For about $10 more, also see La Crosse Technology's BC700. It can do some neat things like measure the capacity that was charged or run a "refresh" cycle that repeatedly drains and charges a battery (up to 20 times) until the measured capacity stops increasing.

Like the BQ-CC55, it has four independent channels that can charge either AA or AAA in any mix. You can even run different modes on each channel, like charging 1 and 2 while refreshing 3 and 4.
The emacs bindings are fine (although I seem to recall hitting the escape key a lot). It's when you need to go past that and do power editing. I'm used to dropping into ex mode and using sed style regular expressions. Now I'm certain that there's a way to do that emacs. It's just that that was the point where I'd drift back to vim to get work done. I couldn't quite force myself to do things the emacs way.
These are great but toward the end of the charge cycle they make a lot of high-pitched sounds.
This definitely sounds like a bug.

docker volume prune says:

"Remove all unused local volumes. Unused local volumes are those which are not referenced by any containers"

If it removed a local volume that was being used by a container that is kinda bad.
Just stumbled upon this and figured it might be time to resubmit. I'm a little bit sad they didn't implement it Ash/Posix compatible - that would be the holy grail - but I understand that would have made implementation much harder.

You can try it out here https://batsh.org/

Previous Discussion (2014): 400 points - 124 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8254532
I can't help you with the why some SD cards are short lived, but if you want a longer lasting SD card, try the "endurance" versions. Most of the big brands have a version. They are a bit more expensive, but promise 25x the write life of a standard SD.

They are typically marketed toward video surveillance systems and dash cams. I'm not sure how the rest of a Raspberry Pi's performance would be effective.
I disagree - it seems logical to transport all of the earth's inhabitants to one side of the planet, and have them all push downwards at the same time.
lol hi alex
There's also a lot of value in the research NASA/JAXA/ESA/Roscosmos does in space. Some experiments are only really doable under long term microgravity The US runs it as a national lab and many companies use it for experiments. Maintaining it that way makes it way easier for companies to run experiments in space, with out the ISS each company would have to design, build and launch their own satellite for each experiment they wanted to do. That could be done but it would be very complex and quite fragile compared to having an established station where humans can do the work.
That's an easy position to take when you personally do not bear the expense of the extra bandwidth, increased hardware needed to ensure acceptable response times, and cleanup/reputation damage when you are compromised.

All of these things have a cost, and they should be balanced against the benefit seen by allowing open access.
27", unless you have a reason to not.
Slate’s advice columns are strange and a major traffic driver for the site
If an app is running on its own and not in a web browser, it is a desktop app. The language or framework it is written in does not matter. Do you consider VS Code a web page as well? What about Spotify?
> But Canada closed its federal programme in 2014 (some provincial schemes, such as Quebec’s, continue).

Only mentioned as an aside, but for Vancouverites, this has been very painful.

Uniquely Quebec manages its own immigration (let's not get into it) and they have an investor immigration scheme that essentially sells citizenship for a pittance. Of course since persons have freedom of movement there's nothing stopping persons who buy citizenship in Quebec for moving to Vancouver, which almost all of them do.

Accordingly while British Columbia has enacted various foreign investor taxes to try to limit the distortions from foreign money on the real estate market, there remain significant impacts of foreign wealth in Vancouver and BC.

Sadly federal politicians aren't in much of a rush to annoy the Quebec government by playing hardball on this issue as Canada has an election coming up and Quebec has heaps of seats in play.
This is a terrible idea. NASA is still the best agency in the world for moving humanity forward, even with bureaucratic inefficiencies. No other agency will have the funds to do what NASA does for non-military reasons.

For every tax dollar spent, the U.S. still gets about 7 times the return.
At the bottom, a link goes on to explain:

> The Compensation Foundation is a public, online, platform for collecting, sharing, and analyzing how contingent workers (freelancers, contract workers, creative professionals, permalancers) are compensated.

> Information clearinghouses empower workers to negotiate their compensation agreements and make more informed decisions about their careers. We hope that increased transparency will create competitive conditions for employers, as well as foster environments where standards and best-practices can emerge.
I am not sure how creating better pattern recognition software (let's face it, 90% of "AI" is pattern recognition) helps you achieve AGI. You selected a tiny slice of the problem and keep improving on it. Is this going to be enough to achieve AGI?

Downvoters please share why this is not true.

"the goal of creating artificial intelligence is to create a system that converses, learns, and solves problems on its own. AI first used algorithms to solve puzzles and make rational decisions. Now, it uses deep learning techniques like the one from this MIT experiment to identify and analyze patterns so it can predict real-life outcomes. Yet for all that learning, AI is only as smart as a “lobotomized, mentally challenged cockroach,” as Michio Kaku explained"

https://bigthink.com/laurie-vazquez/why-artificial-intellige...
> Oh, well, definition of OOP is a moving target

No, open recursion is the only thing that makes OOP a distinct paradigm. Without `self` you don't have OOP. [1]

> No, I'm defining a new enhanced math function

Yeah, no, you are redefining factorial in terms of different `pred` functions, and I'm simply defining `prev` without redefining factorial.

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/08/26/what-is-open-r...
Looks neat. Definitely a developer-designed UI.
We have been GDPR compliant for many months but our aim here was to meet E-Privacy demands.

We don't use localStorage... Read the blog post, we don't use cookies.
Because nobody is entitled to receive response packets from my computer.
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no.

Although, it isn't clear to me that humans can do that either.
> What has really happened is that the price on the systems have dropped steeply

What has really happened is that the core patents on FDM technology expired in 2009, resulting in an explosion of new approaches to the technology and now you can buy a home unit for well under $200.

3D printing isn't that terribly complicated and the required hardware has been around for decades. The only thing that made it expensive was rent seeking.
Yes, I'd imagine so in properly capped and lined landfills. But those are on their way out as our landfills are filling up up[1] faster than new ones built. More and more towns are moving to incineration.

[1] https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/us-landfills-are-fi...
Sure, but if you get a judge that decides that the penalty should be salary from the time you were interviewed to the settlement date for each of the plaintiffs, the cost could be many times higher. Not to mention this simply won't look good in the public spotlight, regardless of how right Google may be.

It's also almost impossible to prove on both sides. Even if Google has insane numbers showing how many young vs old people they hire, it's totally possible that the younger ones are simply more experienced with the technologies/paradigms Google is looking for. A judge might not see it the same way though.
We support Mac. That's rather challenging because Mac users are a minority, yet Mac development tends to be more expensive.
I definitely considered it, but it struck as more of a "host your own Github," where really all I needed was "host your own Git," which of course comes out-of-the-box.
Who said it was made by an English speaker...?

Typical. Smh.
No, way wrong, there would be enormous hardware costs to building a warp drive. There are near zero costs (possibly) of building AGI.
I sometimes look forward to outages like this just so I can read the post-downtime-resolution blog post that almost always follow. I find reading about how companies deal with issues when shit hits the fan to be really interesting.
Are other countries more, or less strict?
Those "dead" rechargeable batteries may have more life in them. Don't throw them away yet!

If your charger won't charge the battery anymore (showing the battery as "null"), there's a way to make it charge again.[1]

The technique is basically to use a paperclip to connect the positive terminals of a working and "dead" battery while they're both in the charger, only (unlike in the video) I do this with the charger unplugged from the wall socket. This only needs to be done for a few seconds for the "dead" battery to come back to life.

I used to discard many rechargeable batteries that I thought were dead before I discovered this trick. Since I started doing this, I've been able to keep using my old rechargeable batteries continuously, except that after a while they seem to hold less and less charge, so eventually I do get rid of them, but I no longer do so simply because my charger tells me they're "null".

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFapDUSOgnY
Sherman's March to the Sea is a nice example of how this plays out.
In enterprise sales, there's often a huge disconnect between who you're selling to, and who is actually using the product.

In which context it might actually be perfectly correct to say that you aren't losing any sales over it, even if there are thousands of users who would use Linux support, were it there.
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"Many wealthy people in the US are immigrants. Also, many wealthy people probably choose to immigrate to the US to start their business because of lower barriers to entry."

The data shows the opposite effect: immigrants usually come to this country with lower levels of wealth and income, but catch up within 20 years because of higher saving rates and educational attainment:

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/s...

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n1/68n1p31.html

If there's a selection bias, it's likely in other characteristics. Immigration selects for risk-taking, for example, because moving to another country is inherently a risk, and it also selects for people willing to work hard without a safety net. Both of these are characteristics shared with successful entrepreneurs.
This is just speculation, but...

The plaintiffs may have settled because they thought it was unlikely they would prevail if this went to trial, so it would be better take a guaranteed payout.

Google may have settled because they figured that the PR hit of a lengthy age discrimination trial would be worth more than $11M, regardless of whether they won.
The founding document of software engineering: NATO 1968 Conference
But users wait for that, I can get on with finding a new framework instead.
No, the bandwidth isn't shared as both sd controllers (sdhci and sdhost) are directly accessible using MMIO (and DMA).
I think this observation applies to software development generally, not just open source projects. In "The Mythical Man Month", Fred Brooks talks about the concept of "the surgical team". One thing he stresses is the idea of having a single, overarching vision of what the architecture should look like. This becomes harder to achieve as more people are added to a project. More opinions are tossed around and debated. Lots of people have lots of good ideas, but not all good ideas are compatible with each other.
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And the people at cern often publish literature that warns of the possibility of black holes? and advocates particle acceleration to be done by people with good intentions so that the black holes are kept at bay? Your comment is so full of holes that I can see through it.
Dropbox squandered all their initial goodwill & completely lost sight of what made them appealing in the first place.

Plus both my logins seem to be broken now anyway - in different ways. One just straight up refuses my pass manager saved password, the other accepts it then wants a 2FA then proceeds to refuse the password that it initially accepted.

I'll take somewhere else...
At $1500/yearly subscription, 30,000 licenses is $45 million a year. Don't foreget about everyone who works at Autodesk that isn't a developer but stil involved with the product. And then there are plugin writers (are there commercial plugins for Blender?) and resellers etc
That's the entire point of settling vs going to trial. The problem goes away and they don't have to admit to anything. They also make the plaintiffs sign lengthy NDAs to prevent them from saying anything about it.