skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not mention Carmack in my comment. Corporations. Facebook probably decided that having Carmack working on a minuscule market that is barely growing (look at headset sales per year, it's virtually nothing and there is no "acceleration" in sight either) was a waste of his talent.
You can buy permanent licenses of Office 2019, it’s $250.
I can trust John Carmack's words when he says in an interview, or on stage. There's a passion in his talks, a nervousness in blurting what he really feels, and those are really good traits, in my mind.

I genuinely felt a sense of disappointment when he moved to Facebook (via the Occulus acquisition). So yea, fuck you, Facebook and your manipulative, life values corrupting and PR machinery.

I place John Carmack miles above Zuckerberg.
Farmers? Farms have become very automated, you need less people to do the same work.
The paper addresses this. Rather than (futilely) attempt to nail down the "one true electorate", the paper defines an infinite family of comparators, depending on a hyperparameter which is, essentially, the choice of which environments get to vote and how to count their votes. Crucially, this doesn't change the truth of the structural theorems (except that some of the theorems require the hyperparameter satisfy certain constraints).

Indeed, any attempt to come up with "one true comparison of intelligence" (as opposed to a parametrized family) should be viewed with skepticism, because it really must depend on a lot of arbitrary choices.
Anecdotally, I've called g suite support as a "business" with one user about issues I've had with non-covered Google products like Android and gotten either good support or a referral to another support agent who solved my problem. No idea if I'd have gotten referred to someone as helpful without paying.
Making Link Tracking Scale – Part 1 Asynchronous Processing
> How?

I in Emacs info-mode. The prompt also has autocompletion.
A dog brain can't design an artificial dog brain, and a human brain probably can't design a human-level AGI. It will likely be machine-evolved on cheap, massively parallel hardware, with the key problem being speeding up evolutionary search.
Advancements in AI might arguably be critical for AR.
Dutch weed stinks more than American beer
Sydney couple launch 'Google for fashion' startup - theurge.com
Successful propagation strategies propagate, and therefore become prevalent. Life has no goal; it doesn’t try to propagate. It’s just the result of an evolved process that happens to correlate strongly with propagation. Most processes in organisms have an arbitrary first order objective like getting those happy chemicals. The fact that these first order objectives have a second order effect of survival and reproduction is a wholly unsurprising coincidence.
They are basically the same thing.

What are not basically the same thing are "he started seriously contributing to this kind of problem after a week in the woods" and "he spent a week in the woods a year ago and is ready to start contributing now. A year after that week in the woods."
You are spending money on the creators of content you read, which theoretically you care about (not getting that vibe though.). It’s like supporting someone on Patreon but it’s a different take on direct support.
The parent's point was that reaching AGI isn't merely a research problem, in the sense of X amount of person-hours of research by typical researchers will solve the problem. Rather, we need new ideas and new conceptual frameworks, i.e. new imaginative leaps to reveal the path forward towards AGI.
Somebody has to annotate the data.

Joking aside, I think for a lot of medical stuff the shift is already happening- there are less people going into certain fields (such as radiology) due in part to fear that it isn't a long term career. This is driving up radiology pay as the demand is outpacing the incoming supply.

While I ultimately believe that most things are going to get automated, I do agree that in the short to medium term were going to see AI augmenting medical professionals rather than replacing them. This is just the natural progression of things- the technology can start off with the low hanging fruit and gradually take on more and more of the work. This provides immediate benefit while building funding and knowledge that can be used to take the next big step.
Seems like FB is turning to a right-wing org, since they won't take down ads with lies against Dem candidates, and still have Peter Thiel on their board. Wow, trying to find citations, it's much worse: https://mashable.com/article/facebook-right-wing-social-netw...

And I wonder how many progressives still want to work for them, they could end up with a self-selection problem of only right wingers working for them...
Why not just use google?
I think your “superficial” qualifier is key - none of them are proof the trucker isn’t making good money.
AGI won't require hand-designing a copy of the human brain, though knowing some of the principles would help.
> John Carmack seems like a guy that would've made fundamental contributions to science, had he been born a century before.

I see Carmack as a very(as in uniquely) talented Engineer. Usually, engineers are not the type who do very well in pure research topics. And AGI is certainly a pure research topic, since we don't have a clear leading us there. So while it's great to see he is interested in it, now sure if we should have any kind of expectation there.
Web Scraping Can Be Used to Automate Dropshipping
it's a philosophy grad student making a point about economics. clickbait.
This is a common HN fallacy. The reality is that most software engineers wildly overestimate their own intelligence and are barely even competent at their own jobs. The notion that they could quickly get up to speed on another complex job is ludicrous. For starters most engineers struggle with interviewing people and extracting accurate information from them; that's one key reason why most new software fails to satisfy user requirements.
There have been multiple variations in other laptops. How successful they are, I can't comment on.

Screen in touchpad: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/asus-zenbook-14-ux434fl-ub...

Screen above keyboard: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/asus-zenbook-pro-duo-lapto...
Offering to have a call to sort things out sounds fine. Offering to record that call and happily post it to Twitter unedited seems ... unordinary, almost chilling?
> I think it's just that the people who make the goods often have no market sense and rely on outsourcing it for 90% of their sales.

I've worked on a few client projects that involved large, successful, but traditional consumer goods companies try their hand at a direct to consumer (D2C) model.

As other comments have alluded to, there's tension involved when a manufacturer starts to be seen as a direct competitor by their distributors. Shopper marketing teams can quickly shift from having incredibly collaborative relationships and partnerships with their retailers to adversarial relationships with cutbacks on shelf space and promotional support. Some manufacturers are more risk tolerant than others on the impact that a D2C channel will create, and that may be reflected in the pricing for their D2C channel.

But that's only one side of the picture. Even at clients that don't care at all about the risk to existing distributor relations, they can rarely make their D2C channel profitable, let alone cost-competitive with retail channels. At manufacturers: marketing teams are competent in mass market campaigns and retailer-driven promotions, designed and measured using approximations and proxy metrics (due to having limited if any access to consumer level information), digital teams are competent in creating promo microsites and brochure sites, and operations teams are competent in efficiently moving goods at pallet and truckload scales. And all of the vendor and agency relationships are also around those competencies.

All of that tends to work against the D2C model. Direct response, performance marketing campaigns tend to require a completely different skillset than your marketing team currently has (and the agencies they use have). Your creative, UX, and development teams and processes are likely not the best fit for the needs of ecommerce and conversion rate optimization. And you'll either need to outsource order fulfillment to a third party or be very disruptive to your logistics org when they have to mix in packing and shipping $50 orders with 10+ SKUs to consumers along with their usual duties of shipping $5,000+ orders of 1 SKU to a retailer. Plus your shipping costs will be incredibly painful, as consumers have come to expect shipping to be quick and cheap/free, but you'll need to use new shipping vendors for retail package delivery and likely won't have the volume to get all that great of prices.

Add up the inefficiencies at each stage, and even with pricing that isn't competitive with retail distributors, many manufacturers operate their D2C channel at a loss. They're happy if their loss is low enough to write off the D2C channel as a marketing expense and strategically important enough to subsidize. Breaking even and being self-sufficient is seen as a success, and profit (and growth) is only ever talked about when you need to pitch executives internally for a cash infusion every couple of years.
No, not necessarily. Correlation is not causation and what not.

If trucking prices go up, companies might opt to move more cargo at the same time (same amount of moved cargo, but less trucks on the road) or they might simply eat the loss (if they're already making massive profits) or any number of alternatives.

If we were to take your argument into absurdity, the best thing to do would be to reduce trucking prices to $0, because then we would fundamentally move a lot more cargo, which would drive down prices across all of the US benefiting a lot more than just the small minority of truckers.

It's an overly simplistic way of looking at things that reminds me of the assumption that raising the minimum wage would cause the prices on everything to hike up by the same amount.
It was a mix of cash and shares (not sure on the split), but I checked the stock price for fun - holy shit it has nearly tripled since the acquisition 5 years ago.
I'll take that as a no.

> There’s no investigation of the physical or natural world going on

I just quoted them describing their observational method! Do you just not believe psychology is a science?

> unless they really think they’re modeling how humans are able to talk

I've lost you. They're not generating birdsong. What do you think WaveNet does exactly?
As someone who's worked on the other main manufacturers...that's simply not true
Thank you! The Teamsters union (and locals), which actually represent truckers, supported AB5.
This reads like a horror story prompt of some kind, eerie!
One could argue that’s true, and that being bad at things is part of what makes general intelligence (artificial or otherwise) so powerful. Optimizing for goals about goals and redefining the objective
Problem space on the fly
This space desperately needs some new options.

The legacy players are a mess, the new cloud native offerings are overly Engineering focused and immature, and the few startups in this space are recreating the legacy solutions in a SAAS formats

Go forth and claim the significant checks that I and others plan to write for these mediocre offerings.
Nature published "A PhD State of Mind" in 2018, with this blurb:

Recent surveys have linked academia and PhD studies to a risk of experiencing mental health issues. Despite the lack of extensive data, the negative impact of the stresses of lab life should not be underestimated, and PhD students and research trainees should be supported.

It was discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19322834.

Repeating a comment I made in the above discussion, here are a couple of relevant quotes from Freeman Dyson (who does not have a PhD):

“Well, I think it actually is very destructive. I'm now retired, but when I was a professor here [Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton], my real job was to be a psychiatric nurse. There were all these young people who came to the institute, and my job was to be there so they could cry on my shoulder and tell me what a hard time they were having. And it was a very tough situation for these young people. They come here. They have one or two years and they're supposed to do something brilliant. They're under terrible pressure — not from us, but from them.

So, actually, I've had three of them who I would say were just casualties who I'm responsible for. One of them killed himself, and two of them ended up in mental institutions. And I should've been able to take care of them, but I didn't. I blame the Ph.D. system for these tragedies. And it really does destroy people. If they weren't under that kind of pressure, they could all have been happy people doing useful stuff. Anyhow, so that's my diatribe. But I really have seen that happen."
That's my point actually! :)
> 1. Biological brains are non-differentiable spiking networks much more complicated than backpropagated ANNs.

Actually it's not so obvious that the brain is not differentiable. If you do a cursory search, you'll find quite a lot of research into biologically plausible mechanism for backpropagation. Not saying the brain does backprop, we just don't know and it's not outside of the realm of plausibility
This feels somewhat obligatory...

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There's no point in recycling most things curbside. Even in the places where the garbagemen don't grab the recycling bins and toss them in with the landfill trash, the things that curbside recycling takes are easier, cheaper, and better to just make new.

It's not like it's steel, or lead-acid batteries.
I think it requires you to actually interface with support to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you are you.
Except we already have the floor. It's called being labeled an 'employee'. Independent contractors are a way of companies getting around the floor.

So you either modify the floor so that contractors have the same benefits as employees, or you make them employees. Both of which are fundamentally the same thing.
The problem with the "field of researchers" is that most of us aren't geniuses. We're just plugging away at problems, like normal people.

The opportunity for a genius is to come in, synthesize all existing information on the subject, and then come up with a novel approach to the whole thing.

In some part, I think that is what Elon Musk has been able to do effectively. He comes into a field that already exists, reads everything he can get his hands on, and then outputs something novel. You can only do that effectively if you have the mental capacity to keep all that info in your head at once, I think.
I chose a clear biological difference to illustrate the point that was being argued, about one sample population disproving the larger trend. And it's not an unsupported claim there is plenty of science and argument for why men and women choose different careers.

Please note that this doesn't discount any actual gender bias that may exist. The biological claim is only that men and women in general have a given set of personality traits. That isn't controversial science. It also isn't controversial because it doesn't claim that men are better engineers or better anything, just that more in general may naturally gravitate towards certain activities.
The forum of a VC firm doesn't seem antithetical to that at all.

No one here is claiming that software development doesn't make fat stacks and viable businesses. It just happens to do it by perverting humanity. Moving us further away from our ideal environment.
Speaking of tungsten...

It's impossible to find actual tungsten rings. Every search turns up tungsten carbide labeled as tungsten.

It matters because, besides being immeasurably cool on its own merits, it's denser than gold.

The only way I have found to search for pure tungsten is "elemental tungsten", although there's hardly anything to find.

The best of those is a pure tungsten cube on a stand, 3 cm cubed, that is shockingly heavy.
These methods were invented decades ago by Penrose (1971) [2], as a way of visualizing and improving on Einstein's summation convention [1]. Similar "string diagrams" were popularized for various categories by John Baez in "This Week's Finds" (TWF) [3], with extensive applications to QM by Coecke [4]. There are other modern examples all over the interweb [5] ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation

[3] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week79.html ff

[4] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ss2014/programme/Bob.pdf

[5] https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/
I recently "retired" to do the same, and logic here is - there is no harm in trying, if you have resources (of course, he has magnitudes more).

You can get up to date in the field in under half a year of extensive reading. And many of those scientists are too busy solving more specific goals, that their labs set. I doubt there are more than 1,000 researchers in the world specifically working on AGI.
The New York Times’ Obsession with Trump, Quantified
> You are simply saying to your employer (or potential employer) that I have this need (healthcare, mothers' room, 4 day workweek, whatever), and that were they willing to provide that you are going to work there.

You are simply saying to your employer (or potential employer) that I have this need (disabled toilets, minimum wage, safe working conditions, whatever), and that were they willing to provide that you are going to work there.

Should we end government disability regulations and let workers negotiate it for themselves? Is it really too much too ask governments to provide a base regulation for prayer rooms like they do disabled toilets? Minimum working conditions have always been set by government, especially for people who lack job mobility, which is why I consider a privileged few campaigning to do it at there tech corp to be selfish.
I agree with each item but I'm not optimistic. Even brick and mortar stores are demanding phone numbers and emails to complete in-store transactions now. I used to fight a war of wills refusing to provide either until Home Depot associatesstraight up said they wouldn't finish the transaction and no one had authorization to bypass the email field when I tried to buy a freezer there.

I since set up an email alias with fastmail to deal with this crap. I recently had a similar thing go down at DSW -- they sent my junk account via my alias 4 emails in the space of two days.
Now if you had a restaurant that tried to claim their staff were all independent contractors (because they worked for multiple restaurants in the same chain) in order to avoid complying with labor law, you'd have a closer analogy.

That's Travis Kalanick's "Cloud Kitchens".
Chrome > Menu > Recent Tabs

Pulls tabs from all devices you're signed into
Because all of those use cases already have purpose built peripherals that would be more appropriate to use with a stationary workstation. Laptops benefit from something more portable and general purpose.
Sorry, I don't agree. There have been a number of successful start-ups that monetized publically available data in their products. Real estate and finance come to mind, but there's a ton of data, you just have to grab it and make sense of it for someone who's will to pay for that service.
@bgdkbtv - After spending 5 years in the industry, watching how people shop, Google does not solve the painpoint when you are trying to really hunt down a specific item or style of clothing.

This becomes clear when you look at some of the ways shoppers go about finding the items they are looking for. A great example is the FindFashion or the FemaleFashionAdvice Reddits:

They have over 1m users who are actively looking, discussing or trying to hunt down a piece of clothing.

Google images is currently the next best thing, but this contains a whole load of junk too.

What we are doing at https://theurge.com is curating, on a very broad scale, the best brands and stores from around.

Disclaimer: I am the founder and therefore, might be biased :)
I work at a financial institution that is going the reverse, potentially because of internal issues - the dev environment is underprovisioned, and I guess they can't/won't beef it up, so all the developers are going back from virtual desktops to fully loaded for local dev and testing.
Hmmm. That's good to know.

So in that case you have to replicate across three regions to get 6 nines. So one component needs 9 copies running around the world to have 6 nines for the component.
I think it sounds fine in a case where you want the truth of what was said to be widely known.
Microeconomics is the best Economics!
I develop iOS software as a hobby and a job. In order to support the newest iOS versions - Apple will support one major OS version behind, but what happens when 10.17 hits?
Much like C, which also requires floating point support. WebAssembly implementations for tiny IoT environments can emulate floating point in reliance on people not using it heavily, just as you'd expect them not to run Node.js. But at least the developer has the option, which can have significant value, such as during exploration and experimentation phases.

Similarly, compilers like GCC will synthesize 64-bit arithmetic inline for i386 and other targets lacking 64-bit support. These days few people think twice about using 64-bit data types even though 32-bit processors are still in heavy use. (Though, AFAIU emulation has largely moved from compiler to the instruction decoder or microcode.)
About bloody time, Apple.

Too bad I bought a ThinkPad back in June after THREE YEARS of ESC'less computing. This after almost two decades of not even looking at non-Mac machines.
With real rock stars, or movie stars, the manager of course reports to the star and serves at their disposal.

Manager may have some challenging performances lined up and the creative operator has to really toe the line, but the purpose of the team is to support that to the best of their ability.

Anything less, and the desired expression of talent might be dampened. If this is too severe expect the star to move away toward a more functional arrangement.
Sneaker drops are notoriously bad experiences due to how many people and bots are hitting the website/app.

I’m not sure your single experience of the worst case shopping scenario for Nike is representative of the average costumer experience.

Besides that, as someone who has bought Nike/Adidas gear on Amazon, it can be a very bad experience. Description information is often lacking, especially if you are trying to see if this is the most recent model or care about sizing information, let alone if it’s going to be a legitimate product. And if it isn’t, good luck being able to immediately tell it’s fake.

I can definitely see why Nike thinks this is a costumer experience improvement (as well as all the business benefits too, of course).
Seriously. It's especially laughable to say that a room of software engineers could become journalists, of all things. The vast majority of the SWEs I know, even the rockstars at FAANG companies, can hardly write coherent emails or give a presentation during a 5-person standup meeting. To think they could write entire news articles is hilarious.