skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have to. A general AI doesn't imply consciousness inner experience.
> It’s just a renderer that calls home with hardcoded references to Google’s services.

And unless you believe in ghosts putting the calls home back when you aren't looking, that isn't a problem for Brave [1].

[1]: https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...
It’s not a stretch to imagine it being framed as fraud for false representation, or at a minimum infringing customer protection laws (not a crime). What bugs you?
Related post on the official Go Blog: https://blog.golang.org/go.dev
Time domain solutions do not exist for more than a dozen neurons. At least they did not when I took a computational neuroscience MOOC a couple of years ago. State of the art at the time was the nervous system of an earthworm. That is, if you consider what you actually need to do to simulate how potentials will change in the brain over time give a certain starting state and stimuli, the math gets so complicated (and awkward) so quickly that it's not really tractable with the mathematical (or simulation) apparatus we currently have to go beyond such trivial systems.
Collect and sell the data is a strategy.
> Yes, law enforcement should use this model to determine where to assign police resources to minimize crime.

And if an activist engineer deliberately biased the model to avoid indicating disparities in crime, then we will have sabotaged police's abilities to allocated resources. Hence, why this assumption that disparate outcomes are indicative of a biased model is a problem
Are you guys hiring any new grads?
With Karabiner, I never have such issues. Caps Lock becomes a normal key. The light is never on. Caps are never. actually locked.

It's a key that's drastically oversized compared to it's barely measurable amount of regular use.
Sigh. So, a common misconception in astronomy education, is that the Sun itself is yellow. It's common even among astronomy graduate students at, err, a first-tier institution for both astronomy research, and astronomy education research. Indeed, you can roughly guess who has/hasn't done the 'common misconceptions in astronomy education' class by asking them "[A five-year old asks...] What color is the Sun?"

So it's utterly without surprise, but a sad commentary on the state of science education, that I see... (via image and video search)

ABCs of Space and 8 Little Planets have yellow or orange Suns. Pop-up Peekaboo! Space has no Sun, but yellow stars. I had hope for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: I Know Exactly What You Are which used white stars when explaining twinkling... before it explicitly said the Sun was "yellow", next to something the same-ish orange color as the "Red" dwarf a few pages back, and one page before a yellow Sun. Moon’s First Friends, and Planet Hunting, and... ah well, I'll stop there.

The handling of scale is... never mind.

To be fair to astronomy graduate students, among first-tier non-astronomy physical-sciences graduate students, a common response is some variant of "it doesn't have a color; it's lots of different colors; it's rainbow colored" - misunderstanding color, rather than a classification scheme.

If some country ever aligns its science education content incentives with the creation of robust understanding... it's kind of hard to imagine where they might end up. But that's not us.
>OMG! I was wrong. The tickets/issues/demands/complaints - not questions - were beyond belief!

Welcome to the real open source community where there are people, not robots, involved. People tend to suck sooner or later (unfortunately).
That's a great example. He also spent a long time at The Mint.
Is that really true though? It seems more like he's good at a medium difficulty problems in a narrow subdomain of software development, which is saying something a bit different. I might even say he's good at hard problems within that subdomain. How transferable those skills are is the most salient point. Assuming peak genius level intellect (which, I don't know, maybe?) It would still take something like 4 or 5 years to reach expert level knowledge in such a complex domain.
“Elevate consumer experiences”, huh? I also call total BS.

I’m not a sneaker guy, but recently tried to buy a launch pair of sneakers as a gift - only available by Nike’s store. It was a terrible experience with their storefront - crashing, erroring out, empty HTTP responses, app errors, redirect loops, self-emptying cart, etc. Finally got to chat with someone at Nike support after trying for an hour - sold out. They seemed completely indifferent to their storefront being a technical dumpster fire. Essentially, “better luck next time”. No thanks, I’m done - there will not be a next time.
To be fair aerospace was never really a full time thing and was budget restricted. Given fulltime and Bezos money who knows.
If you made a robot big enough to carry the human (and the human sensing/feedback machinery), you'd basically have Battletech, right?
I'm not in Carmack's league by any stretch of the imagination but I earn a living with being able to absorb a lot of data on a new field in a very short time so I have some idea of what that is like. When other people have already done all the hard work for you that's very easy going if you have some basic knowledge that you can integrate the new stuff with. But that's an entirely different matter compared to actually moving the needle on new stuff, this takes years at a minimum; and is not something that you can do by reading up and then rolling up your shirtsleeves. If only it were that easy. There are 100's of John Carmacks in various fields, I've met a couple and while in the past this sort of attitude was a prerequisite to being a scientist (in the 1800's every scientist was pretty much a polymath, there wasn't all that much knowledge to begin with) nowadays any science worth doing is going to require a lot of specialization first.

This is akin to the way - on topic - computer games have developed; in the early days almost all games were made by individuals. Now it is all studios and teamwork, very rarely does an individual still manage to break out of the mold and the level of expectation that we've set. But when it does happen (Minecraft, for instance) it can be a runaway success.

Anyway, I wish John the very best but I think the chances of an Armadillo repeat are somewhat higher than of him coming out of his closet with a working AGI, and just in case he does I'm not sure the rest of the world is going to be ready for that (entirely different discussion, there are plenty of SF books and movies exploring that theme).
And now we have been blessed with VR chat more than 20 years later.
> Those professionals should not pick this tool if it does not solve their problems. I'm confused as to how this isn't clear.

I'm not sure why you're under the impression that individuals get to choose what computers their employers issue them.

Not all of us get to choose the computers we use to do our jobs. I've had several company issued Macbooks, and have worked in Mac-only offices.
Mozilla: Text to Speech (TTS)
Bit Color
For example: people who are entangled in the court systems are required to answer their phone. Even if they're not convicted and are out on bail, they still must answer the phone -- it could be their bail bondsman. If someone's on parole, they must answer their parole officer. So as part of the bond contract and the parole contract, you must answer the phone.
I deploy big complex projects this way.

I've built sophisticated automation to achieve this, so it's all reproducible.

I just don't use Docker that's all. It doesn't bring anything to the able that I can't achieve more simply some other way. And it has it's own problems.

I've been a sysadmin for 25+ years and I've administered production DNS server, mailservers, web server, app servers, routers, switches ...

I think stuff like docker and k8 appeals to people today because it promises that you don't have t understand any of that old stuff.

But to me it just makes my life harder because I don't need the underlying tech abstracted away. If anything it makes my life harder to add an unfamiliar layer on top.

I'm not worried, there will always be market for guys like me. When the fancy new stuff stops working, someone has to fix it.
Yes, you are right, but that's not their only service and they are CDN first, that is just another service. Also a big difference is that you can install a cert on your server, so the traffic between you and them will be encrypted too. They can still man-in-the-middle you though, but they seem more transparent and security conscious than a one-guy shop.
The Next Graphene?
Hi, the web page in question has always had something to say what's going on. It's not beautiful but it does tell you that things are happening.

Right before it kicks off the call to the server, it lights up something to say "Submitting feedback", and as soon as it finishes, it flips that to "Feedback saved" (which now has a time attached).

Odds are, most people have never actually noticed the first message, since it is quickly replaced with the second.

The messages appear just to the left of the button which was just clicked (and right under the text field). So, in theory, it's right by where your eyes are looking anyway.

But, here we are.
You can only use Apple Pay in Safari. But if you use the standard W3C Payments API, a Chrome browser running on an Android device with suitable security will use Android Pay just like an Apple device running Safari will use Apple Pay.

Apple Pay is Safari’s implementation of the standard. Apple stores your payment information and uses the Secure Enclave for authorization. How could Apple ensure a secure path on non Apple browsers or on non Apple hardware?

What’s the use case where you would use Apple Pay as opposed to your hardware vendors implementation on a non Apple device?

Just a snippet from the standard.

https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.
I've got experience with JS, TS and React, and am looking for something in MTL. Are you guys hiring any new grads?
I was in broadcast journalism for 20 years, and these numbers seem about right to me.

When I started out, small market media outlets would find ways to pay recent J-school graduates sub-minimum wage and make them feel grateful to even get that. A surprising number of journalists, even TV news anchors, will have second jobs in small markets.

A place that tried to recruit me in Indiana wanted me to report the news in the morning, then sell advertising for the news in the afternoon, and half of my pay would be sales commissions. Naturally, I turned it down. I dated a newspaper reporter who did her reporting second shift, then worked third shift at a small factory.

Once you get to a medium-sized market (30 and up), you can make enough to survive, if you don't have a lot of debt or expectations.

It really wasn't until I got into a top ten market that I was able to keep up enough to stop getting calls from bill collectors. Once I got into a top-five market, then I could live well.

I loved journalism. I loved reporting. I loved telling stories. I hated the pay and the industry and got out.
consistency?
I'm sure an algorithm looking at the current state of the world would surmise Europeans are geniuses when compared to the rest of the world population. Totally ignoring the $150+ trillion of wealth stolen at gunpoint over the last 2+ centuries.

The blindspots end up being extremely problematic.
>I didn't ask how the parent comment felt.

There's your problem - expecting people to be rational and not emotional :/
> I donate to youtubers that cover current affairs.

Where do those YouTubers source from? Most likely it’s more established news organizations.
You should have spent a couple of minutes instead of weeks to use something like Lego, certbot or even Caddy, which makes it fully automatic. Sorry, but you wasted weeks reinventing a worse wheel than what already exists.
I was researching for really good open source text to speech programs yesterday and I ran into this project by Mozilla. By the way here is the best voice output I’ve heard from it [1].

[1]: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-565970875/ljspeech-logistic-wa...
I see the same narrative in normal joes outside the political sphere. Some people really rely on mitigating risk to the point where work or income is guaranteed.
I don't think its so much that they fall for it but that people create fake images that confirm what people already believe and the viewers deeply want the image to be true and will not think critically.

Verifying an image is not impossible. You just have to consider:

* Who took the image

* Do they have any reasons for wanting to fake it?

* Was anyone else able to verify they saw or took a photo of the same thing

* Is anyone in disagreement with the content of the image

We don't need image manipulation to fool people on facebook. Recently a random image of a park full of rubbish was used with the caption that this was the result of a recent environmental protest but the image was actually months old from a totally unrelated event. People believed and shared it because they wanted to. You could just as easily write a text post saying you saw a bunch of rubbish after the event and you would have almost the same effect.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0605-1#Abs1

I'm not sure how worth the study is, given the sample of 482 and the test duration of a week only.

> Volunteers with adequate sleep (>7 h) had WGS-LTL that was on average 356 bp longer than those with insufficient sleep (<5 h) (CI = 74.573–636.538, p = 0.016, adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, and BMI)

I don't understand how many base pairs the WGS-inferred LTL is supposed to be, and what percentage of base pairs over a week this mean.

> Telomerecat was used to estimate WGS-LTL for this dataset

I can't figure out how accurate telomerecat is. A research paper doing comparisons is not freely available (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306926988_Comparati...)

Anyways, albeit it's difficult for me to assess the validity of this research, it very well reinforce my confirmation bias that sleep is the best actionable improvement we can bring to our lives, whether it be for longevity, memory retention, sport performances, ... :)
> A cell is too many components that by blind luck happened to find ways to work together

Can't tell if sarcasm.
People have approaches. There's no end to half-assed "I thought about this for 10 seconds, how hard could it be!" solutions, really old approaches from decades ago where the brightest academics thought they could lick the problem over a summer, and some new public or hidden approaches that might be promising but (I can't know of course) I predict will still look a lot different than the final thing.

I think a big reason there are few in AGI is due to PR success from the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and friends. They make a good case that things are unlikely to end well for us humans if there's actually a serious attempt at AGI now that proves successful without having solved or mitigated the alignment problem first.
What's a useful definition of what AGI is? If you have a computer that does some clever AI stuff, what criteria do you look for to decide that it has a general intelligence?
Egoistical, moronic dilettantes (Dunning-Kruger effect) believe they know better than subject-matter experts with their comparatively almost no or no experience.
Such articles are crafted to create outrage among the uninitiated. They like to pretend that "bias" did not exist before, and AI is introducing it. Every time we, as humans, make any decision, we're "echoing biases we're fed". It's 100% intractable to rationally think about every decision, so we almost never bother, and when we do, we second guess like crazy because rational decisions often do not agree with our biases. And guess what, most of the time our biases are _right_. It wouldn't make any sense from an energy conservation standpoint to have them otherwise.

What we should be aiming for instead is not the total lack of bias (an impossibility if you are to learn anything at all from the data), but _explainability_. A system must be able to show me the set of statistics that led to a particular decision. I.e. women in Los Angeles area are known to be much safer drivers according to this subset of data, so we offer a lower insurance rate to women in Los Angeles area, to use just one hypothetical example. Such systems are a rarity nowadays, and research into them is relatively sparse.
Not true.

The Lightning Network allows microtransactions on the bitcoin blockchain quickly and cheaply; since it went into production last year, over 10,000 nodes have joined and there's over $7 million in network liquidity: https://1ml.com
why do we need this kind of technology? cheating?

It seems anti-human
And you're also confusing correlation with causation here. Yes, "governmental policies have discriminated against African Americans and prevented the accumulation of wealth" is a valid hypothesis, but the data you've presented doesn't show it.

Showing causation with whole-group statistics is very, very hard.
> In AI we have a number of sensory systems seemingly solved: Speech recognition, visual object recognition,

Do you have examples of those systems which are competitive in general use rather than specialized niches? The cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, etc. are good in the specific cases they’re trained on but fall off rapidly once you get new variants which a human would handle easily.
I doubt he will sit at home working on it alone for long.
Most articles aren't archived or have also been scrubbed. Or only have a single recent version archived. For instance archive.is has entries for maybe 2000 out of the 10s of thousands Snopes articles. Of those, less than 5% have multiple archived versions.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/*

This isn't exactly the type of site I'd usually reference, but this woman recorded quite a few page delta's about gmo food and Monsanto, and the Snopes pages getting edited after large ad buys by the company.

https://foodbabe.com/do-you-trust-snopes-you-wont-after-read...
To some people it's the only way they play any games (that's me)
The Prize is an excellent history, though one with some very curious omissions.
Not true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
I can imagine AGI just fine. Doesn't get me one tiny little bit closer to being able to make one. There are several ways in which one could go about such a development, all we have for now is an existence proof and none of the paths pointed out so far have been viable. Whether John will come up with novel path is not really an imagination issue but one of very deep understanding of the problem space, what has been tried so far, why it did not work and then to come up with something that either fell through the cracks as non-viable and then to recycle it in a way that it is viable (the current neural net applications are like that) or an entirely novel approach. The latter will likely come from an outsider but it would be an extremely lucky shot to hit something workable; the former may be a possibility worth investigating.

The reason why the latter has some chance is there are sometimes approaches tried early on in a field that can't succeed because something else needs to be invented first; or the computing power required is prohibitively expensive. Carmack's skills and ability to absorb knowledge might help to spot such an opportunity.
It's hard for me to see how you didn't refute your first paragraph with your second.
Well, the holy grail is general AI that can also write software and develop hardware... then it can develop itself.
Sometimes it's not that the data itself doesn't have value, it's that to get the value out of that data requires a lot of blood, toil and treasure in human capital to extract.

That's how data companies make money, by doing that work for you.
And tiny. Why is this a good thing?
they mention the professor stating this, could have at least hyperlinked to his studies that are relevant to the statement. Sigh, bad journalism.
Bold undertaking even for someone as distinguished as John Carmack. I can't help thinking that this is too broad a goal and requires more theoretical work than engineering. Maybe making some self-replicating robots that can mate and give offsprings would be less ambitious (perhaps I am underestimating as well).
I have no idea what he is capable of adding to the field, but I'm quite happy to see a long time proponent of free software enter the field.
Luckily it's git and you can just change the remote config of your local copies.
Debugging: step, step into, step out, run/continue
Usually the 'backhistory' of data is only of limited value. For use in real world applications in finance, consulting or business decisions, the last data point is usually pretty important.

Think of the price for data on the prices of stocks. If you want to know what AAPL traded at one month ago, that's free, if you want to know what it traded at 15min ago, that's $25k, and if you want a feed which shows the actual bids and offers, that will run you $2-15mm + infrastructure.
As I mentioned further up in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21532097), BAT is an ERC-20 token and can be easily converted to a stablecoin, which is pegged to $1 USD per token. So if you can avoid that if you want to.
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Eh what ? You are a conscious machine, manufactured from organics.
Evaluation doesn’t make it science.

There’s no investigation of the physical or natural world going on, unless they really think they’re modeling how humans are able to talk. But they’re not — they’re trying to create a system that works no matter how unnatural it is.
Nobody will want to work in a research program under this guy. He's just way too mean, and being mean is a no to researchers. Also, as other commenters have mentioned, this is a demotion.
Your friend is in the wrong here for not discussing terms up front. Maybe an honest mistake by him. Tell him whatever you’re comfortable with and walk otherwise. But this “friendship” is likely over regardless of the outcome.
ELI5 of my comment:

The comment I replied to is not nearly as pithy as it thinks and comes across as more corny than commentary.
He also had a residency in Las Vegas for a bit that could have provided some longer periods of little relocation needed.
The amount of hubris and cynical populism in this comment is almost breathtaking.

> and some say that the news is just a loss leader for the media a

If you use the phrase "some people say..." at the New York Times, you're fired, because it's international shortcode for I-just-pulled-this-theory-from-....

You don't know that, and that's not terrible. But you should at least be aware of how little you know about the profession you're so keen on ridiculing.