skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, anyone can also do manual backpropagation of a very small modern neural network with pencil and paper, and yet it took decades to be there.

Everything is easy in hindsight.

And that's without mentioning that the specific result you are talking about is an infinitesimal progress when compared to "AGI".
Commingling only happens when there is no seller barcode sticker ("stickerless inventory" in Amazon's terms).

So I believe in your case something else must have happened.
"learned pacifism as a self-preservation strategy" this is an interpretation, not what the bot intended to do, in other words, you're reading into it
They still have to pay the merchant fee which can easily be 3%. My rent before we moved was $1700 and some apartments rented for $2100.
Tencent open sourced its distributed graph computing framework: Plato
Not OT for the thread, but you’re not alone with Catcher in the Rye. I first read it in my 20s and just did not like it at all. I’ve got friends who say that it helps to have read it as a teenager, because it’s easier to identify with Holden, but man, reading it now I just get so tired of his whining.

I’m going to keep trying, probably, because so far it’s one of the only big classics I haven’t liked. Anyway, maybe we’re both idiots!
> This project is far from credible. All the things I did were to satisfy my own curiosity. With that being said, the bigger limitation I can see is that I only had access to a few stories. I also cannot validated the neural network prediction, cause in order for me to do that, I would have to write a content, come up with a title and then post it choosing words that triggers a good value on the neural network and post that history on a Friday noon, to see if my story succeed.

This is from the Github project.
Wow. So is that why I am getting incessant spam calls and they only need to hear me or my voicemail greeting for 5 seconds to be able to impersonate my voice ever after?
> Independent restaurants still have to comply with the law and provide a basic level of care for their employees.

The analogy is not 100% equivalent, as truckers in question are independent owners and operators.

Closer restaurant analogy would be someone opening a taco truck, and getting hired to cater a small event. California now says that whoever hires that taco truck is responsible for benefits and other labor regulations, so pay up or hire caterers from a well-established corporate entity like Wendy's. For analogy's sake let's also consider that the taco truck owner has already invested a six-digit amount into their [now useless] food truck.

This benefits large established corporations in favor of small independent businesses.

It helps no one, as truckers always had a choice to go work for one of those large corporate entities (the churn in corporate trucking is consistently high, which is why you tend to see those "We're hiring" signs on the back of the trucks) if they wanted a full array of benefits and schedule/routes set by someone in corporate. For whatever personal reasons (larger take-home income, benefits provided by spouse, ability to choose preferred routes, schedule preferences, etc.) they chose not to.

For what it's worth, labor law specifically carves out restaurant owners and their family members (including things like minimum wage). Truckers want the same carveout.
That's not new though. In 1984 a senior editor at the Times was making less than a junior bond trader at Pierce & Pierce.
Chomsky and Herman discuss this in Manufacturing Consent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Good video / overview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
> Leaving out USB-A ports isn't a solution for you

USB-C is faster than USB-A. Eventually all technology becomes obsolete and it's time to move on. Removing USB-A and forcing me to switch to USB-C is helping me adopt a technology that is popping up everywhere.

I believe modern smart phones now charge via USB-C? A colleague in work also has a power brick that can charge his laptop via USB-C.

USB-C is here and we'll only move over to it if we start implementing it. Use an adapter if you're not in a position to swap out A->C for a while.

> This just stinks of fanboyism ...

And this is just a shallow insult, hence why you've been down voted.

> ... like removing the headphone jack from iPhones ...

Which other manufacturers immediately did too.

> ... but it's revisionist history to imply people like having the change forced on them at the time.

The iceberg is melting. The cheese is being moved. It's time to change and for the better. It's easier to be comfortable and complacent, but that's not how reality works.

I don't want to research and keep up with the latest in IO technologies. I trust Apple to make good choices for me so I can get on with solving problems. That works out for me in a positive way far more than it impacts me negatively.

I'll continue with a (roughly) five year cycle for upgrading my MBP and a two year cycle for my iPhone. And I'll continue to trust that Apple's engineers are smarter than me and are making intelligent choices for me.

You're free to not trust them and do as you wish.

EDIT: In fact I'm actually finding it annoying how most new devices are USB-C and I don't have USB-C on my 2014 MBP. I want USB-C as power bricks, HDDs, pen drives, and more, are switching over (because it's the right then to do). Very soon I will be obsolete and you'll be telling me I need to move on...
There is a W3C standard for web payments. If the website supports the standard, it supports Android.
Yeah, I've heard similar at the Fortune 10 where I work. We could barely get our legal/compliance/privacy team to meet with us on it. They said our approach is wait and see, that based on the verbiage they see basically no risk of any real litigation resulting from it in the current form and from a business standpoint not to waste time with it.
I’ve had 3 logic board failures I can recall, 0 losses/thefts.
I feel like you’re reading more of a value judgment into my post above than intended. When I said “programmers are overpaid” I mean in the very specific, arithmetic sense described in my post. Programmers are overpaid relative to what an even distribution of income would produce. (So are doctors, lawyers, advertising professions, and indeed almost all white collar professionals.) The point was merely to refute the idea that jobs paying $60k are “underpaid”—the economy doesn’t produce enough for all jobs to pay like programmers make.
I bet those people don't read comments on HN, so I'm not too concerned.
There is a huge governance issue as you note (honestly, most of this should probably belong to the patients but disentangling that from the parts that are clearly the providers is tough). A lot of the data generated isn't at the right granularity either, because it assumes another human in the loop to interpret. This can somewhat work for AI, but also be an impediment.
Great article (from 2007), including the fact that was a railway worker!

Here's the website of the article that OP is referring to.
https://peco-uk.com/pages/railway-modeller

(different magazine)
Yeah, and if they do sell any amount, someone inevitably complains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qj8p-PEwbI
That's where come to die the MacOS open source community made irrelevant by the Apple notarization.

It's like these strange place full of dead elephant in africa.
The point is it’s not possible to send such small quantities with fiat currencies. If something becomes popular, those small contributions add up.

BAT can also be used for paywalls, VPN payments, pay-per-view streaming and other smallish transactions. As the BAT ecosystem grows, there will be more incentive to transact in BAT, so there’s not so much of a need to convert to fiat.

BTW, BAT is up nearly 8% as I write this, presumably on the news of the Brave 1.0 release. There’s a decent chance that BAT is worth significantly more 2 or 3 years now; we’re still in the early days.

Finally, because BAT uses the Ethereum ERC-20 token standard, it automatically interoperates with the Ethereum ecosystem, including being able to be converted to other ERC-20 tokens, including stablecoins like PAX and GUSD, which are designed to always be valued at $1 per share, kinda like a money market fund.
The main concern is not that it's like Skynet and wishes us harm, but that it does things harmful to us because the means to accomplish the AI's goals are at odds with human values, which was unanticipated by the human creators, since the AGI is coming up with its own solutions. And the AGI doesn't have the same values as humans, so it doesn't care if its solutions are harmful.
Everything you said makes sense except for the part where prices go up. Why would prices go up?
And you can’t compare an Apple to anything non-Apple. So as far as Apple laptops go, USB-C, adaptor or forget it. You can get adaptors so small you barely notice them. I’d rather have 4 USB-C ports than 3 because they scrapped the bandwidth of one to put in a old port. Most people keep apple laptops for years, and I doubt we’ll be using standard USB much longer
Interview for Time Management
Did not know that. Thank you!
What do you mean "creepy animism"? You mean like SJW-type stuff? I don't understand.
FYI I also just decided that I am going to work on fusion.
Ha!

I started in my mid-teens. I was told: "It changed my life!".

I've read it every three years or so (even for the decade-plus that I've lived out of the US, once in Japanese!), and ... I just don't get it.

I probably don't get Moby Dick either, but I find it to be remarkably funny, and not a whiney teenager, so I'm going to give it a pass.

Thanks for the comment. I have a bit of a hang-up about how much I don't get "The Great American Novel" (as a born-and-bred rural American, I should get those, you know? :-) )
That only works if Dockerfiles are layered in such a way to maximize caching (many are not and naively pack many changes into a single layer). Yes there are block-level dedupes but that's a transparent feature of most storage systems and not a competitive distinguisher of Hub vs ECR/ACR/Quay.
> They should strive to build reliable data collection means. That's the prerequisite to efficient 'AI',

It's necessary but not sufficient. The biggest problem in most applications is labeling, which either doesn't exist at all or is insufficient in most clinical workflows.
I meant in my example about undiagnosed lead in Flint. Once you notice that the AI detects people in Flint under-perform, why would you want to modify the AI to avoid the AI detecting that?

Your cancer example doesn't answer the question, which is a pity because I mean it when I say it's not a rhetorical question. I honestly want to understand your point of view better. In the cancer example, we wouldn't go in and filter the training set to force the AI to think that rich people have higher cancer than they actually do, etc. But that's precisely what it seems like people want to happen with AI: they don't want us to condition on wealth/income, rather, they flat-out want us to filter the training set to force the AI to think group A and group B are equal when that's not what the data says.
He's not leap frogging it. He's leaping to the next level from its shoulders.
What I love about this project is that a lot of it is glue code.

It is an integrated development environment because it takes existing tools and integrates them, not rewrites.

I also like that you can develop plugins in the core language (like elisp + elisp, unlike C + vimscript), this removes some of the "impedance mismatch" between "native" and "scripted" parts.
Imagine when they can also generate the visuals of the book to show you the book as an auto generated video
Influencers in Finland who post on Instagram say this post is sponsored by X?
EU confirms all new cars will be fitted with breathalysers from 2022
California is kinda the undisputed king of both.
"What if?" To me that's the least compelling form of argument. I feel it stinks of a real lack of effort and insight.

What about the long and awful history of unintended consequences from "good intentions" ?
Different than GNU, true. But at work I support a system on AIX and I find the commands almost an exact match to AIX user space. The only notable difference I found was ksh, but AIX has ksh88 which 'echo 1 2 3 | read a b c' works.

Cannot get more enterprise that AIX :)
Why do you think she's telling the truth? Have you talked to any mods who think stackoverflow made the right choice, but way too late?

I have. They say her behavior from start to finish was incredibly rude and explicit in stating her plans to ignore the policy.
Downloading one of the Task Templates and attempting to expand the zip file on OSX gives: Unable to expand "hello-real-world.zip" into Downloads. (Error 79-Inappropriate file type or format.)
For the NY Times, the assertion that most of their revenue comes from advertising just isn't true. 60% of their revenue now comes from subscription fees, and advertising's slice of their revenue has shrunk consistently.

https://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/5gNimvTR/New...
In 2019 socialism, workers owning the means of production is oppression.
One big problem is there are biases we're supposed to ignore, but we're not good at (able to?) ensuring this deliberate blindness in ML.

For example, we're generally not allowed to discriminate based on gender, but even without a gender field, ML will happily imply a gender out of its firehose of other data, and discriminate based on it anyway.

"AI finds that employees are less likely to stay at the company if their names end in 'a' and they score higher on 'cultivation' rubrics" This same AI then recommends hiring applicant 2 over applicant 1. Is this allowable?
Net drop of supply (truckers) I think was the reasoning.
Installing an OS is something emphasised by enthusiasts but is nothing whatsoever to do with ordinary computer use. Most people don't even know where their files on their existing system are (let alone what they are). They will never go through what to the vast majority would seem (and be) an impossibly arcane technical task.
Important Changes Coming to YouTube (Coppa)
I just got an email from YouTube about needing to flag content as "made for kids" or "not made for kids" with more details at https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9527654.

This is strange. For example, I have a math instruction video. It is not targeted at kids, but kids could watch if they want. If we are trying to protect kids, shouldn't we be flagging videos as "child inappropriate" rather than flagging it specifically for kids? Like, I get that they want a special protected zone for kids where they can be sure that the ads and (lack of) comments are appropriate. But it feels like such a half measure.
No one expects him to emerge with a fully formed AGI. By through experimenting he might contribute some new incremental but still useful improvements.
I'm not for the adversity score either but if anyone deserves an adversity boost it's people living in the projects.
Sure, and I'd love to see prices for those too. $200/m I doubt, though. Purely search though, nothing else from Google (I pay for my email/etc)

To say though that Google has to get a piece of the $200/m that some blogger makes assumes of course that Google is the ad provider. Not sure, but it seems like a weak argument.

I wish I could start seeing the real no-ads costs here.
It has a very high correlation. Also ability to generate money.

Pro NBA player and pro violin player are both hard. The pro NBA player is paid more, but he generated a lot more wealth. Most orchestras rely on donations just to keep the lights on.
I'm unable to download, the server is returning 502 - bad gateway

http://updates.bravesoftware.com/service/update2
In theory, you're absolutely right. In practice, that doesn't work in any sustainable way. Selling services (whether in the form of support/consulting/dev hours or hosting) can work, but selling the OSS software itself... not so much.
> Without Docker everything new becomes a project on its own where you need to call in "ops" for the smallest of things.

I hope that one day we will stop echoing that or framing it as a bad thing.

It's always good to involve people. Writing, build and running software is a shared responsibility.

I truly believe that if you be nice with your ops, explain what you want to achieve, they will help you. It is a two-way street.

It is not a tool that will "fix" how humans interact.

Also, put yourself in their shoes, it could be that:

"With Docker everything new becomes a snowflake on its own where you need to call in "dev" for the smallest of things." -- or uncompress the image and look around how/what a specific image does things when it start, place app/config/data files, etc...
Fantastic summary,thank you for this. You should really put this and similar stuff in a blog. Would love to learn more about this side of physics.
Here’s your magsafe solution, it took seconds to find:
https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Charging-Compatible-Interfac...
What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit(2018)
Why is it so sensitive to word order?

Esp8266 USB input Manufacturing: Bad: 0.0775 - Good: 0.9290

Manufacturing Esp8266 USB input: Bad: 0.9992 - Good: 0.0009
And programmers are probably not the ones who will come up with AI ideas. I'd bet on mathematicians that prove those Fermat's or ABC theorems.
It's quite something when what is considered a state backed propaganda outlet can so easily call out the Guardian.

If this is the era of fake news, what comes next?
There is a counterpart company in China called FlashEx that is doing pretty well (just raised Series D in 2018) right now, focusing on same city on demand shipping.
Oh my, this is a no-no, the pets are biting the hand.
PE firm appoints former ICANN executives to top positions. ICANN lifts price caps on .org registry. PE firm acquires .org registry. ICANN executives acquire stakes in PE firm.

I don't know how this kind of behaviour is qualified legally. Probably something like "free market capitalism". But on a personal level this feels just disgusting and corrupt. Things like the .org registry that are unique and as such cannot be subject to competition should be controlled by a public entity in the common interest. I say that as a long-time owner (or rather renter) of a personal .org domain.
There are few AI researchers (maybe around 5 or so) that could credibly claim technical accomplishments of any sort in the same ballpark as Carmack's.

People with this level of track record should not be underestimated, there aren't many of them out there... They matter.
Almost every cloud service (icloud, dropbox, box, onedrive) now has on-demand access to files to download them when actually opened.
The beginning stages of MBP "depression".

I wonder if Apple would bring back the 17in chunky boi? That thing was a beast to carry around, albeit somewhat more feasible than it's competition
People want to build as close to the ocean as they can, they also want to build in a safety factors After all that 34.8’ is the highest level ever recorded. Is 30’ is good enough how about 25’? And when you go down that road it gets very non linear with 10’ being almost worthless and 40’ near total protection from storm surges.

Thus it’s not a question of absolute levels, but rather safety factors and insurance premiums that are at issue.

PS: Though this is simplified as it’s both storm surge and high waves that cause problems, but that’s another story.
> Software compiled just 2 years ago often won't work on the same distro today. It's insane. And the OS is full of things like that.

That's equally true for Windows, and there is no OS called Linux, you don't have to be an evangelist to know that
Let's hope Boston Dynamics doesn't hire him. ;-)
> In my opinion, the most likely outcome of this law is that some truckers retire and sell their rigs to big corporations, some decide to work for big corporations, and prices go up for everyone who ships goods or buys shipped goods. Unless you're in asset based trucking and looking to expand, the chances are that AB5 is going to hurt you, not help you.

So why won't the logistics companies simply swing this to: "A load is a starting point X. The destination is ending point Y at time Z. Bid for it."

The problem is that everybody wants to control the hours, control the price, etc. rather than letting people actually bid for things and control the variables themselves.

And, to be fair, if you want to impose control on the employee variables, well, that's not really a contractor now is it?

To be fair, I would much rather see a law along the lines of "for every 40 hours of contract work--you have to supply the equivalent benefits (healthcare/retirement/vacation) as one full time employee or get fined the equivalent amount of money." That way, the whole "We'll subcontract it because it's cheaper" actually gets whacked for being cheaper for fobbing off the externalities but not if cheaper is simply that subcontractors are more efficient."
To clarify how awful the news is:

The predicted the Kuwaiti oil fires would burn for years and be a global disaster. When they were put out in six months because crack teams from around the world converged on Kuwait and invented new techniques, we did not break out the champagne and dance in the streets around the world. We barely noticed as we moved on to talking about our latest crisis.

It's essentially brainwashing. It's not objective reality. Objective reality would celebrate something like that as vigorously as we lamented the expected coming disaster. But we never do.
IMO the outdated info problem is the biggest one Stack Overflow has right now, much worse than posts getting flagged as dupes on a questionable basis. Theoretically, you're just supposed to add a new answer that's better — but you almost certainly won't get the checkmark, and you probably won't even get more votes than the old answer (since your answer will only get search traffic and not front-page traffic, and you're already below all the other answers to begin with). So Stack Overflow slowly transforms into w3schools.
I don't follow that. What would prevent (perhaps quite slow) simulation of a larger system of such neurons? E.g. N-body problems are analytically beyond us, but can be simulated to arbitrary precision with certain trade-offs.
>The loads hauled by these truckers aren't going to magically vanish because the employment laws have changed, which would strongly suggest there will be about the same number of jobs in the end, since the same amount of work still needs to be done.

Well, not by magic, by well understood economic principles. It would be very unusual for the demand for shipping to be inelastic to price. So as prices rise due to labor cost increases, demand will fall.

I'm not advocating one way or another. I'm simply saying the impact can be reasonably anticipated.
I was invited by the dev to test v5 but for some reason he got busy with work and slowed the development down.
I’ll take this opportunity to just put out some thoughts I have about intelligence, wisdom, AI, and AGI.

In general, building/switching contexts in your head takes intelligence (and the more intelligent you are, the better/faster you are at it), whereas already having a context in your head is wisdom.

I think of the current state of AI as us being able to teach computers a few very specific contexts, i.e. imparting wisdom to them.

An AGI would be actually creating intelligence. And they are not the same thing at all. In fact, some might say your conscience/soul is just this brain context switcher/creator in action. An AGI would have consciousness.
mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux
Carmack never struck me as the type to chase the money from fad tech to fad tech. On the contrary, he seems keen to chase his own interests, and by now I suspect he is financially secure enough to do so.
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