skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you can talk your way past two factor auth, it is useless.

No, it just means you use a different 2FA. Here's some examples.

- Gov ID

- Pushing to a private repo

- Checking if IP matches historical records (hell, since they're fingerprinting everyone, why not use that?)

There's problems with 2FA. Mainly that it is on your phone. Phones are pretty valuable devices and it isn't unlikely that they get stolen. Even if Google backed up Authenticator to Drive, how do you get Authenticator back on your new phone?

It isn't hard to come up with a hundred scenarios where things fall apart. This is why there are different levels of security. But my GitHub isn't so sensitive that if I lose access I don't want anyone to ever get access. Yet at the same time it is sensitive enough (and GitHub is attacked enough) that I don't think just a user name and password is sufficient. Where's the middle ground? Even with YubiKeys I have to have multiples (as a backup in case I lose one). There's such a thing as "acceptable security levels."

We're trying to make things easier and safer for humans. But that doesn't mean they aren't still going to be human.
> And normal doctors do not? Are they infallible? Does papal infallibility apply to doctors to?

Also Australian, not a clinician but I work in health.

Where I have seen the best use of computers working hand-in-hand with doctors is around the areas of clinical risk and funding.

Computer systems that prevents a clinician from prescribing a lethal dose, or prevents a known adverse interaction between drugs have already saved lives in Australia. In hospitals which have properly implemented these systems, drug mistakes have dropped dramatically.

On the funding side, I have found that clinicians are very interested in ensuring that the maximum public funds are available for their patients as soon as possible. If a patient fulfills the requirements for a funding stream, the clinician wants to know about that immediately so that they can start providing their patients with those services. This is especially important in community care situations where patients can receive at-home support to maintain adequate cleanliness and hygiene in order to keep them out of hospital (hospital being bad for the patient and bad for the public purse).
the recent result on 15% optimal learning error rate for binary classification, could have been derived with pencil on paper by anyone...
Mr. Elusive (Jean-Paul van Waveren) was the guy who wrote the bot code for Quake 3: Arena, not Carmack.
I would like to apologize for the barb, and then pose the same question. Programmers getting paid well is a result of capitalism, they are valued and in low numbers -- if this was not so, if they were in great numbers, they would not be paid as well. This is basically capitalism. Where do you take issue with this?
Do the interstates make a profit? Municipal roads in New York? The economic reason to improve transportation is that reduced travel time leads to greater communication and commerce which increases growth. This applies as well to subsidizing rail as to subsidizing automobile use and rail is vastly safer per passenger mile.
China's Tencent Server Design Will Use AMD Rome
if a dataset is really valuable, it wont be available for public consumption/copying, and, like nike, won't be selling itself on amazon
Linux is not a desktop operating system as it lacks the integration that made both MacOS and Windows excellent desktop OSes. The LUG guys think whatever they want, but for a p50 user Linux is not even an option.
Not being constrained by the publish or perish treadmill is a huge plus.
Why would they purge SSH keys when they don't purge anything else? Why not just purge the whole account after a year of inactivity, if they care so much about space?
Whether or not this is smart, I’m just here to highlight the obvious BS of this statement: Nike claims to be removing its product from amazon so as to "elevate consumer experiences."

ugh.

Fluffy
Subjective
Possibly wrong

I don’t need a massive hero image of a sports star to order gym shorts or a gym bag. I’m just searching amazon for what I need. My "experience" is worse if I never even see Nike's products, not better.
I’ve wondered about this myself. What is the solution? On premise cloud like openstack?
> The real problem is that NPM wouldn’t be around.

I wouldn't call that a problem.
Sorry but this is a very disingenuous stance.

The only way you would find new products or services is by 20th century word of mouth or search. And search is built on a mountain of ad dollars.

Are you claiming that you don't need Google?
I just used that with yeti.com and it's actually amazing how well it works.
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While what you say may be true, the snide side-attack feels very much out of place. There is no reason to have introduced it, as your comment about the pilot being considerate, measured, and thoughtful stands on its own.

And yes, it's a lovely read.
Jeff Bridges is an excellent photographer.
China's mega shopping event sold more in 24 hours than Amazon sells in 2 months
Just out of curiosity, how do you define a genius programmer? (vs regular programmer).
Sometimes, but mostly not.
Content adapts to users that pay. Advertising is not all that lucrative, especially if you are not that big.
Curious how you are managing disk encryption for all those devices, if you are at all.
Containers are terrible for bureaucratic institutions. It moves security patch management to the development org that builds the containers and development orgs typically don’t have the tooling/process to do this.

Source: consulted for a company that got bitten by allowing containers without a patch management process for vulnerabilities.
Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
If you can craft a gene[1] to express some particular phenotype (a big if), surely you can craft it to express itself without reliance on epigentic[2] chemistry.

[1] I understand gene to mean some ill-defined, not necessarily contiguous set of genetic sequences (DNA, RNA, and analogs) with an identifiable, particularized expression that effects reproductive (specifically, replicative) success. I think over time "gene" has been redefined and narrowed in a way to make it easier to claim to have made supposedly model-breaking discoveries.

[2] Some others on HN have made strong cases for why epigenetics isn't a meaningful departure from the classic genetic model; just a cautionary tail for eager reductivists who would draw unsupported conclusions from the classic model. See, also, note #1.
Would love to see something like this with an infrastructure component, teaching automated deploys on AWS/GCP/Aure and a CI pipeline.

Also it would be nice to see how to accomplish the same task across different stacks and languages.
You're way off on this one. A lot of those use cases don't work because texting is an asynchronous communication channel unless it's got some sort of automated system behind it. The reason you can't order takeout or make a reservation through text is because you come to an impasse if the person on the other end gets distracted and doesn't respond. The value in something like UberEats or OpenTable isn't in message passing, it's in state management. With UberEats if a restaurant closes suddenly or doesn't take your order within a timeout period, both you and the restaurant are notified and the state of your communication is updated, so there is no confusion. If you text or slack or whatever your order to a restaurant, and the person on the phone doesn't respond, you're fucked. How do you know whether it's safe to place an order somewhere else or not?

Sure, every restaurant could build their own automated system that texts you back and manages the communication, but that's never going to happen when there's already a managed, standardized service available.
There's something that seems to make train sets much more universal. Compare it to slot cars which are nearly identical technologically but don't have the same geek cred. The only complexity difference is that you get some track switches if you're lucky, but I remember some slot/rc car systems having things like that too. The other big difference is the speed, maybe being slower let's the analytical or imaginative parts of the brain engage?
Ive is gone, perhaps function over form will be the new aluminium.
Used to be. I expect the price of McMansions built in the last 20 years to plummet as people realize they cost more to heat, clean, and maintain, without providing commensurate value.

A big house can have value, but not the way they are typically built in the US. A valuable one has a big-enough living section with a separate workshop, gallery, or apartments. American zoning laws tend to forbid it, so the workshop is often labeled a "garage". Your garage can be as big as you like, but you may be obliged to conceal how you use it.

Strange but true, Americans have been taught it's normal. Like diamonds.
I'm generally positive about capitalism. I think software developers are not going to make anomalously high incomes forever and if people want to enjoy it while they can, mazel tov. The corrective to software developer overcompensation isn't to artificially restrict their income; it's to break down gatekeeping barriers to the profession, which is what I think will happen.
How long until they walk back the touchbar though? I figure if it was useful to anyone it would be cloned by now. I cant imagine they're holding onto that feature for any other reason than to save face.
So, opiate synthesis and delivery?
My wife and I spent $30 on our rings. No precious metals, no stones, just unadorned bands.

We're quite happy with them.
At least where I work, everyone, including ICs is responsible for mentoring new and less senior co-workers.

> To give an example, think of a flying airplane. Would you give a power to make "strategic long term decisions" regarding the flight to someone who bothered to go to flight school, ground school and had been certified as a pilot? Or to someone who hadn't done it, but is an excellent politician, people's manager and could mediate conflict well?

I don't think this analogy works. The manager decides which routes to fly and ultimately who flies which ones. Presumably some routes are preferable, and there are competing priorities between routes. So the manager picks the routes to fly, addressing external conflict, and then alloctes people to routes, handling any internal conflict.

The manager isn't on the plane. The rest of your comment doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
The problem with the analogy is that the car, by far, is not a general transportation device. Practically, most cars are solving a very constrained transportation problem: moving on roads that humans made.

We don't have anything remotely close to a wetware-enabled transportation device, something that can move on flat land, climb mountains, swim in bodies of water, crawl in caves, hide in trees.

Within the constrained problem, the machine exceeds humans. But generally, the wetware handles moving around much better.

Same with AI: in a constrained problem, the AI can excel (beat humans in chess and go). But I doubt we will see a general AI any time soon.
I worked at Intel in 1998 as a young engineer a few years out of college. Back then they were riding high on their CPU monopoly.

I left in about a year and a half and moved to a startup company. My issue with Intel was that, as a monopoly, they had grown fat and complacent.

I am not exaggerating when I say that in 1998-99, engineers were working maybe 4-5 productive hours in a week. Political savvy and alliance-building were the most important things for promotions and influence.

Those who actually produced good work had credit for their work diluted through many layers of management. You could do something amazing and your manager's manager might present it in a powerpoint to the company without mentioning your name at all, and acting like the idea was his all along.

I'm surprised the company has lasted this long. Its a place where mediocre people gather.
He must have some very good advice on getting a good nights sleep. Makes all the difference IMHO.
Any brand who cares should dislike Amazon. As a consumer, at least half of anything I order on Amazon is fake, and Amazon gives no indication of caring at all.

Hence, if I order a pair of Nike shoes on Amazon, there is a good chance I receive an absolutely inferior product and blame it on the brand. Once that damage is done, I - and a perhaps a portion of my friends - will never buy the brand again. Ever.
Probably the biggest change was the introduction of personal computers, which were primarily marketed towards boys at the time. It should come at no surprise that the result of a huge marketing apparatus appealing solely to one gender would create a generation or two of predominately male programmers.

When you examine the fundamental nature of programming though, not much has changed. In fact things have become significantly easier over time.
Very few, at least for STEM fields. If you look at notable scientists in any given field, their main contributions were in their expertise area before the thing that made them famous. Teller had already made serious contributions to physics before the atom bomb. Jennifer Doudna (CRISPR, CAS9) was the first to see the structure of RNA (except for tRNA) using an innovative crystalline technique. Planck is mainly known for quantum physics, but made huge contributions to the field in general.

It's hard to think of many famous scientists that weren't already well known in their field. Some stand out. Einstein, for example, had a fairly lackluster career until his Annus Mirabilis papers. Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves) bounced to and from various jobs. But largely, the idea of the brilliant outsider is like the 10x engineer. It exists, but is rare.
> I think that was by union contract rather than by law.

Time and a half on sundays is not CA state law.

Source -- A guy that recently programmed overtime rules into a computer system.
AlphaZero has coded all the rules for the respective three games, they do a tree search and their neural network output layer has exactly n neurons for max(n) possible moves. Although it's impressive they don't teach it heuristics and strategies, it's a very specific task.

What about pigeons predicting breast cancer with 99% probability, rats learning to drive cars, monkeys building tools?

Rodents stand a bigger chance at learning Go than AlphaZero spontaneously building stone tools and driving cars.
The entire point of 2FA is to avoid someone taking over your email and then being able to access _anything_ tied to that email.

The same can be said for strong encryption, where losing the keys means you have no chance of recovery. I'm not an advocate of defaulting to things like full-disk-encryption for that reason (and know people who lost a lot due to that.) I guess the underlying problem is "humans are fallible, strong security is not", and that risks "in the other direction" aren't often mentioned; would you rather have the risk of being hacked, or of losing access to your data forever?
v5 is supposedly coming soon; it was supposed to be ready by the end of October[0].

[0] https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub/pull/2599
Yet, it never really is.
Honestly we don't even know enough in the psychology department to possibly arrive at AGI anytime soon.

BUT if anyone can clear a hurdle or two...
Isaac Newton spent most of his life pursuing alchemy and obscure theological ideas, and found it a real nuisance whenever anyone pestered him about math or physics.
I don’t think they are betting on an existing source of revenue. They are betting that there are enough users of the free product, and a strong enough brand, that it’s worth trying to build a new business on top of those assets.
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> It's a really common fraud scheme because it's not uncommon for regular people to do that.

Lol, no. It’s a common fraud scheme because users of stolen credit cards can’t update the billing address. They would love to be able to use a stolen credit card with an address matching their drop location.
They're clearly vying for a place next to vi. Or maybe the v language, depending on how you pronounce it.
Open source does not have to be charity. You are allowed to sell OSS. It's not even against the spirit.
> If anyone can hack AI, it's Carmack

Pretty sure you don't get to AGI with some hacks.
AGI is not an engineering problem but a research problem. John Carmack is good at putting stuff together but how good he is at coming up with novel concepts for an open research problem remains to be seen. Even the rocketry example that is hailed here as a success mostly wasn't. That doesn't make me happy, it would have been far nicer if Armadillo had succeeded, more competition in that space is better. But for all the work done it was more of an advanced hobby project along the lines of those guys in the Nordics than something that moved the needle scientifically.
zero as in directly connected to its instruction set
So you also want the media industry to die as well? Too bad, but most of us don't.
Mac OS, or Mac OS X?
It's just a portmanteau of vim and py(thon). What's wrong with it?
The analogy is closer than you might imagine. The rock is not at all rare, and the bitcoins are often mined with other peoples' money.
Similar problem in Australia - lots of Chinese in Western Australia leads to overfishing of native Abalone stock: https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/the-ch...

Restrictions on fishing are getting tighter every season since more and more people go in
Following up on “John Carmack gives up on aerospace” and hopefully not followed up by “John Carmack gives up on AI”.

I like the guy as much as most, but so far it seems like he has been wandering around. He’s had much success in the early days of 3D video games and that’s about it. A guy of his calibre would probably make a good impact if he joined one of the expert teams like DeepMind. No matter how smart he is, AI today is a completely different ballgame then what he was part of so far. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t see him making any sort of breakthrough on his own, with his son. Maybe he wants to spend more time with his family, which is great, or he drank koolaid about his own legend. Odds are against him, heavily so. Good luck, in any case.
I would love something like this for a non-web-dev skillset. Does anyone know of anything like that?
Most people would host that API using AWS, and there you are.
Binding tools for Xamarin which allows C# to interoperate with Swift
That's more like it :) Now imagine what would happen if that price went to $20 or even $2; even better if it was mono crystalline. That would be a game changer.
I.e. a cheap computer and off-the-shelf software.
Assuming they are deduping based on content hash it shouldn’t be that big a deal. Worst case it’s the size of npm itself.
If you were "coerced" to enable 2FA, that was a decision made by one of the organizations/teams (company accounts) you were a member of, not GitHub. You had every option to leave it disabled, but, per that team's policies, you would have lost access to their repos.
Yeah, "quantum mechanics and cognition are very complex and therefore equivalent", sorry I don't know who to attribute the quote to.
"I think it would be cathartic to talk to someone you trusted but who is now gone."

It would be cathartic, but in this case you wouldn't be talking to them but to a computer, who (at best) is pretending to be them.

I think it's kind of creepy, when you really think about it, and it reminds me of the aversion the creator of Eliza had to his creation when he found out that people were spilling their guts out to it and treating it as a real person.

Which isn't to say that it can't be helpful to talk to something that's not a real person (and especially not a formerly living person you once knew) can't be healing. But if people get confused by these machines in to thinking the machines are actually people close to them that died and are now living again, that will make them vulnerable to some really serious manipulation and delusion.
Until recently my threat-analysis concluded that it wasn't appropriate to run encryption on these systems (I use other systems that do use encryption). But times are changing, and now I'm starting to look at running FDE on everything. It will be a major exercise to convert, but I'm starting to look at the various options.

I'd be interested to know what other people do. If anything.
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Maybe, but if I were designing this thing, both as an engineer or executive, it’d be a point of pride to me that the thing we advertise as the best laptop is actually the best laptop.

Especially if I know people are going to ask ‘wtf, why 720p’?
You know who just might be full of total bs is Ben Goertzel.
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Thanks for the thoughtful response.

I currently use a combination of Backblaze for everything, plus manual S3/Glacier upload through the aws cli, for only my photo assets, for redundancy. It's "ok", but not great. Like I mentioned, I'd love something like a Backblaze, but without the requirement for 30 day syncs.

Your setup is totally respectable, but I'm hoping to find something that's very much of a one-button set-and-forget vs having to manage anything myself. Possibly 2 of these services at once, in case one of them craps out and I'm stuck with no backups.
That's lovely. Thank you for posting this.
As I understand it, if it's overfitting, testing on a second random sample gathered in the same way as the training set should degrade performance. That's not the case here.

(Though maybe the term as used in industry is less strict.)
Wasn't this already done by Goertzel's SingularityNET? They raised $36 million in 66 seconds (note: I don't recommend trying this).
Incidentally, I was asking you specifically how you felt about it, not the parent or the OP. Also, in addition, the "how you feel about it" does not really mean emotionally, it means what is your opinion on systematically mislabeling links.

In my opinion, trying to hide the freely available version of open-source code is not a "crime" but it is unethical and very likely breaks the spirit as well as the requirements of the open-source license.

Thus I think what the OP means is that it is "illegal" in the sense of breaking the license and it is unethical in how it misleads you.
Most people probably already are. The marketplace is just another distribution channel.