skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is for audio, not video, as it's my "thing", but for the past year I've been doing all my video interviews with a Shure SM57 mic plugged into a nice preamp, into a good interface, and they've all gone much better than phone interviews. No one's ever said "wait, could you repeat that?" or "You're breaking up a bit". There's something to be said for smoothing out conferencing so it makes it more lifelike, and I'd assume that's even more true for video.

Or put another way, can you find any high-profile Twitch streamers using their integrated webcam/mic?
So what goes beyond physics in the human brain?

Because we can simulate physics.
It's the 'legal system' - and everything else.

German/French car companies, with long and historic ties on many levels to say, Poland, can fathom the risk of going there, especially with a long term view.

Volskwagen can plan decades ahead in some facets.

It takes 'a whole team' i.e. government (local, Fed, EU), probably financing/banking on both sides, political buy-in etc..

But for a new US company to go to Czech ... is asking for trouble.

The difference between E/W Europe is definitely centred around competitive advantage and long-established industries - but I'd argue more than anything it's 'good governance' at every level, private and public. And it's the same all over the 'developing' world.
No, you can’t push the envelope in AGI after a week in the woods. That must come off as pretty insulting to the hundreds of world class scientists who have been working in the field for decades.
> Progress in AI is due to data and computational power advances.

I think you'd be surprised how much progress is also being made outside those two factors. It's sort of like saying graphics only improve with more RAM and faster compute. We know there's more to it than that.

In many cases, the cutting edge of a few years ago is easily bested by today's tutorial samples and 30 seconds of training. We're doing better with less data and orders of magnitude less compute.
No, it is absolutely not the norm.
This sounds like an immature attitude to take towards the people that work with you and just makes you sound like the stereotypical basement sysadmin that needs to control everything and knows better than everyone else.
This is utterly terrifying. What can we ordinary people do to protect ourselves from this stuff?
My thoughts exactly.

They've pulled off a Google or Facebook level of domination over their market, it's incredible for a rather old industry.
I'll level with you, if all I had heard was soundbites, I'd be skeptical myself; it's a bit like Neil DeGrasse Tyson telling you he's going to unify gravity or something. This guy can go and adlib a 2 hour talk about implementing subsurface scattering, and build it from the ground up in a commercially viable way.

This dismal, dimwitted "advanced" filter and sort industry has recently started training all their employees in and vomiting all over every consumer with is nothing, worthless, and at best lunacy.

All it takes is patience, know-how, and insight. For that, Carmack fits the bill.
Arguably Python got pretty far, being refined in the process, before the floodgates broke. I mean look at Javascript, C, C++. No contest.
i've heard he was pretty good, i didn't realize he was this widely respected and admired. I remember him for that fast inverse square root hack but that's about it.
Is it a bug maybe? When you go to the page and select an amount of money it will change the button text to "Pay&Download" instead of just "Download". So maybe the default was just meant to send you to the file.
I have a very hard time picturing how someone could have freedom without privacy.
On one end of the cable yes, the other end has a USB-A connector.
It guarantees the userbase is elite.
That makes sense. What makes source networks essential if there aren't any scoops?
Good Doom pun
This is not wrong but it leaves out a huge amount of hard work which wasn’t in the cool kernel hacking space. LXC is a significant accomplishment but Docker solves a number of other non-trivial problems which made mainstream adoption harder – it’s like the people who say Apple just copied someone else who had a touchscreen device without comparing the whole product.
The main issue I've had with any bsd system isn't the system itself but the settings and configurations of packages. Often defaults are different for no other reason than the package creator thought it might be a minor improvement in some way. I'd rather be using a more thoroughly used set of packages. The few times I've used non-Ubuntu based package sources I often find I'm contributing to make it just work. Now I'm not saying that Ubuntu packages are always right but I'd like the authors of the software choose defaults and if they get fixed/changed it happens in a given version on all systems.
Yes, non of those matter to me. Jack port does.
Sad to see him leave VR but honestly I feel shipping the Quest was a huge achievement and is a product that sums up what his original vision for VR was and the only VR device so far with any mainstream potential
Starting this week, I’m moving to a "Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.

I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time.

As for what I am going to be doing with the rest of my time: When I think back over everything I have done across games, aerospace, and VR, I have always felt that I had at least a vague “line of sight” to the solutions, even if they were unconventional or unproven. I have sometimes wondered how I would fare with a problem where the solution really isn’t in sight. I decided that I should give it a try before I get too old.

I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI).

I think it is possible, enormously valuable, and that I have a non-negligible chance of making a difference there, so by a Pascal’s Mugging sort of logic, I should be working on it.

For the time being at least, I am going to be going about it “Victorian Gentleman Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home, and drafting my son into the work.

Runner up for next project was cost effective nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that style of work.
The option to download without paying was deliberately removed: https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/issues/3548#issueco...
Huh? One week is more than enough to go through Siraj's videos.
I think any monumental leap forward is going to come from changing the way networks are motivated. Simple back propagation attempting to reduce the error from a fixed objective have proven to be useful, but doesn't actually resemble how more generalizable intelligence works.

I think getting the feedback loop integrated with something that behaves more like dopamine/serotonin/pain feedback is going to be the likely direction we'd need to go. Basically, the network needs to be able to form new objectives and recognize when it's meeting or failing at those objectives, rather than just optimizing its network to be less and less bad at predicting specific outputs.
An Oculus (by FACEBOOK) exclusive
Data by itself is cheap.

Data that has an useful business or predictive purpose that is clean and constantly updated is not cheap at all.
Go hunting with a self bow or spear, and cook your kill over a fire. That'll connect you with your ancestors going waaaay back.
True, programming is much easier now that you can use words to code, and have programs do all of the actual work of turning that code into usable machine code for you.
BAT is divisible to 18 decimal places, which means you can truly have micropayments that cannot (easily and cheaply) be done with dollars.

How do you tip $.0035 for a tweet?
The opencog website is a great resource.
Going directly to the specification is a bit too intimidating but here it is:
https://wiki.opencog.org/w/CogPrime_Overview

You might just begin by learning the list of NLP tasks and how good are the state of the art at it.
The cognitive architecture that needs to be created to achieve AGI will one way or another be a composition of said tasks, which are the primitives.

You can discover such a taxonomy here:
https://github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-progress/blob/master/R...

Also you might be interested by learning logic as a big task is to translate natural language into queryable, logical forms.
I was turned on to Adidas recently and have found the shoes and clothes to be of superior quality, actually. I am sure all brands have more affordable, lower quality product lines, but maybe yours weren't authentic.
kustomize only covers some simple (but common) use cases. If you can use it, you should since its modifications are semantic. Generally I find it is good for handling known differences between a few environments like local and production.
But it isn't capable of replacing helm.
But Norway is in the EEA, where the GDPR also applies.
John Carmack could set up a Patreon for us to watch him vlog his progress, and could earn more than most of us ever will.
The TSA cares.
Just a shout out to "Working Copy" app on which I have two nearly finished books and a coupe of websites
I truly wish they were. I buy a new laptop every 3-5 years. I always check for Ubuntu pre-installed - or any distro, really, but unfortunately that's always on the "Developer Series" on a single model that's less sleek than the others for 3-4 times my budget. I can never seem to find a sub $1k laptop with Ubuntu on it in a store (online or brick).

It blows my mind that I have to pay a lot more money for a computer with a mature free OS on it.
It's unfortunate, but I'd consider it a feature that you're not able to sign in without access to the physical devices linked to your 2FA account, i.e. it shouldn't be possible for someone with access to your Email account to be able to "phish" their way passed 2FA access.

Nevertheless the anxiety of losing the physical device with all my 2FA logins is what prevented me from enabling 2FA on most of my accounts until I was referred to Authy (authy.com) where you can sync your 2FA across multiple devices including your PC, which other than being very convenient, the effortless syncing + redundancy gave me confidence to enable 2FA on all my accounts as the redundancy ensures I'll still be able to access my accounts if one of my devices is broken/lost.
It's impossible to know whether you're getting counterfeit stuff from a reseller.
I wonder if there's a way to configure a double-press of left Shift to enable Caps Lock, like we're used to on phone keyboards.
No, I am arguing the opposite.

That they are /importing/ that tyranny, and most people seem to be unaware of it.

Imagine if Buddists at Amazon had protested and demanded their own space for shrines? Or any other religion that has observational requirements?

The US is being blind to oppression of religious freedom under a false ideal of what that freedom really is.
1. I didn't say he was speaking about socialism/capitalism in this thread, I said he'd been speaking about it a lot lately. [1]

2. It wasn't meant to be a snark (though I can see that it came off in a bad way, and I regret that), it was a genuine question taking in consideration his stated views in past comments, and I actually just really wanted to hear his thoughts

3. While I have your ear, and while I see that you seem to be defending rayiner against any critique he receives; presumably you guys are thus on the same page on this, so I would like to hear your response on the question I posed to him: programmers getting paid a high wage is a manifestation of capitalism, what's your problem with it?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21520234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21446484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21442814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21438960 etc.
You're citing an actual biological difference in human biology to try and support an unsupported claim of a nonbiological difference...

One that is refuted by the history of computer programming, which used to be a female-dominated field back when programming was significantly harder than it is today.
I wish people stop posting articles behind pay walls
Don't be absurd. You're acting like he's Neo from The Matrix, capable of downloading kung-fu directly into his brain.
What a weird future it would be if Carmack turns out to be the one to figure out the critical path and get it all working. An entire field of brilliant researchers be damned.

History books (for as long as those continue to exist) would cite AGI as his major contribution to society, and his name would be more renowned than Edison or Tesla. An Einstein. None of his other contributions will matter, as the machines will replace it all.

Just daydreaming, though.
why not sell them directly through an API instead of paying an amazon tax?
Fritzing and I never got along very well, but if we did, this sort of nonsense would change that.
Fortran Compiler for Sinclair ZX Spectrum Rediscovered After 40 Years
That depends. At least your whole page layout can be dedicated to what you actually provide.

Though I suspect popup system ads would become old soon too.
> I don't know why mental illness like PTSD would in any way impact our ability to procreate as a species or at an individual level.

One wonders if you could imagine anything that might in any way impact an individual's ability to procreate and have surviving offspring, if you don't see how significantly heightened suicide risk, being volatile and potentially dangerous to be around and restricted in normal functioning might in any way impact an individual's success in having surviving offspring.
> leads me to believe he may already have some novel solutions on how to tackle the problem.

> That's exhilarating but also terrifying. Our still-barbarian level human systems are still nowhere near ready to deal with the socioeconomic problems that may arise with AGI.

I think you are reading way too much into his statement. It's extremly unlikely that he just magically figured out a way to tackle the problem (just knowing where to get started would be massive).
Probably, yes. Unless they turn it around in a big way and IPO one day, your typical rank and file is probably out of luck here.

The good news is they have a lot of engineering talent so if you’re a hiring manager then now is a good time to begin directing your recruiters to poach aggressively from there.
> If we had the means, should the web as a whole be append-only?

Yes, probably
Black Facebook staff describe workplace racism in anonymous letter
If you can explain precisely why we cannot build a conscious machine, you could become one of the most revered, and potentially wealthiest, researchers in the world, as I presume such a proof would necessarily introduce unknown and very useful science.

I personally don't believe modern machine learning is remotely close to AI, except perhaps the very lowest rung of the ladder of self-serving AI definitions. I base that belief on what seem to be the unknowns, reinforced by predictable failures[1]. But I have very little reason to believe it's impossible. Not even the possible necessity of quantum effects would seem to preclude it. Heck, we've already begun harnessing quantum effects in materials science, computing, biology, and other areas.

Unless you mean that whatever we could eventually come up with would be more biological than machine or that only a human could think like a human, but that seems more like word play, the kind of game AI believers play. (That said, that poses an interesting question: which is more likely to be achieved first--a designed-from-scratch, DNA-based cellular intelligence, or something not based on DNA or otherwise mimicking existing organic life? If at all, of course. Also presuming such a distinction isn't in fact hopelessly quaint and naive.)

[1] I'm not a naysayer. While I never believed self-driving cars were around the corner (not even 5 or 10 years out; you can Google my HN comments from years ago), I have no doubt the science has been useful and can and will and is put to great, largely unseen use, as is typical of most science.
> The Linux desktop is still a clusterfuck today.

This is true enough. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with why it's not more widely used, given that it applies to all desktop OS's (each in their own distinct ways).

> Bill Gates doing bad stuff 20 years ago has nothing to do with it.

Well that's just not true, is it? If you successfully conspire with governments to force your OS on children, and with computer manufacturers to force it on purchasers, then this 'bad stuff' has a positive effect on your market share. It's not the only reason for Microsoft's position, but it's hardly insignificant.

If Linux had been forced on schoolkids and consumers for a couple of decades, do you not think it would be more widely used today?
Oh those are some spicy peppers!
I think this is a prime example of where AI could go wrong. When people just talk about social media AI curation they don't really understand it. But I personally really wish social media would do less AI curation, who knows what gems we've missed, just because they're maximising for our instant satisfication.

Kinda spooky even, who knows, social media totally might have already killed companies that sounded too different or even just political ideas that differ from mainstream (or sponsored) views?
I'm not a big player on the field.
I'm specialized in semantic parsing and argument checking.
I'm the first to my knowledge to have made a syllogism (and more) checker for English.
Also, I have allowed researchers to beat the state of the art on constituency and dependency parsing (but simply by sharing knowledge of the state of the art to other researchers).

I do this on my free time so I'm not productive, but I have designed an intermediary language (IR) for natural languages that seems very promising.
> I can't tell if he was serious about that comment or not... Considering he builds rockets with free time, it could go either way.

Nuclear fission shocks you but not AGI?
To be fair, they said proficient and not world class or inventing new material.
Thanks!

For sure a list of real problems but I am wondering if one time donations vs a solid income stream can solve this.
I never said that, where the hell did I say he pushed anything? All I'm saying is he's shown to be insanely productive and effective and I think he can catch up to the body of research (created and shared by those hundreds of scientists) to become a real contributor very quickly.
What a turn-around Microsoft has had: if you'd suggested to me 10 years ago that something like Docker should be acquired by MSFT, I would have recoiled. Yet here I am in total agreement.
This can work for simple projects where the dependencies are all similar but it doesn’t scale well and, if you’ll forgive the unsolicited career advice, I would be worried that the breaking point is “We switched to the cloud and told your boss’s boss’s boss that you had been holding us back”. I much prefer finding some balance which doesn’t position you as the Department of No.
Isn't that a bit pedantic? Perhaps Im conflating PTSN and POTS. The fact that you have publicly addressable phone number is the important part.
If the disk is encrypted (and it should be) and the encryption key is stored in a secure enclave (like the T2 chip) or uses a machine specific key (UID), then having removable or swappable storage isn't helpful either.

In either case, you're not accessing any stored data from a broken Macbook.
Crap! When I thought VR was hitting its stride with the oculus quest.

For anybody who hasn't played an untethered VR experience, I highly recommend it. It makes a world of difference with games like Echo combat and Beatsaber. Tons of fun. It reminds me of the first time I played wii bowling.
Seems to me they did adjust their pricing, and in a way that is both transparent and fair, i.e., that doesn't force check paying tenants to subsidize card paying tenants by raising overall rents for everyone.
That's not true. To go from a novice with absolutely no experience with guns to a person with a concealed carry license took one day of a seminar in a southern east coast state.
Getting BAT on an exchange is needlessly complex and painful (and actually impossible for a lot of people without handing the exchange all their personal details up to and including passport).

I would much prefer to just give brave my CC details, regardless of what internal currency they’re using for rewarding content.
First you should not mix CentOS 5 packages into a CentOS 4 system. That is how you create a problem in the first place.

Building software on top of frankenstein build environments is how you end with broken software, and should not be encouraged :)

Let alone development environment.
I would only pay more to invective adoption of Apple Pay. Hopefully others see and adopt it too and try to win back business with a lower price with Apple Pay.

I won’t pay extra convenience fees just for online ACH. I’ll just use my bank’s free bill pay service to mail them a check and they can deal with having to deposit paper.
Same. Amazon also lost my trust. Buying expensive fake items is not something I would like to do.
> "A recruiting agency uses a predictive model to recruit computer programmers. Due to the way the model was trained, it excludes qualified women (not OK, a clear misapplication of an algorithm)"

Philosophically wrong or not, perhaps excluding those hypothetical women from consideration is the quote unquote optimal approach to allocate recruiting resources. Why this is the case is irrelevant; the onus is on society to 'shape up' and remove the reasons the group 'women'[1] are disqualifying themselves from the fair model.

Of course assuming good faith in model design, training, implementation, etc.

[1] Ditto for men as kindergarten teachers - employment (e.g.) being a zero(ish) sum game, so long as more women are teachers, some other profession will contain an outsized amount of men (and vice versa). There are reasons[2] why more women are kindergarten teachers than men, and any fair algorithm and effective algorithm would be expected to make prediction on these reasons or proxies thereof.

[2] Or there would be an even gender ratio.
What has the elite userbase of Haskell produced? Almost nothing.
Coming very soon - hopefully ready for KubeCon
Singapore scientists produce in-vitro human skin
I'm increasingly unconvinced that anything but an economic incentive like this can. Like the risk this appears to present anyway.

As an aside I love that expression, I have not heard it before and it's great.
True - I love the boring US states! I have fond memories of a coast to coast US trip in 1992, early summer, stopping at small towns in mid America. Everything seemed so peaceful, sleepy, and warm, and the people so friendly. Watched a meteor shower one night, went to an open air cinema another. Lovely.
I went searching for it too, couldn't find this anywhere either.
Yes, law enforcement should use this model to determine where to assign police resources to minimize crime.

The justice system should absolutely not use this system for any purposes, since justice is based on the circumstances of the individual case in front of it, not the societal statistics which apply in the aggregate but may not apply to that specific case.
Yes, but let's not assume the the hundreds of other scientists in the field have just been twiddling their thumbs the whole time. It is preposterous to assume that someone largely new to a highly specialized field can somehow start pushing the envelope within a week. Yes, JC is nothing short of brilliant, but these sort of assumptions just set him up to disappoint and is also highly unfair to all the other hardworking brilliant people in the field.
Does anyone care if they don’t get paid until they earn a full dollar?

Saying I earned 0.00045 BAT is fun, but doesn’t actually help me with anything until I convert it to dollars anyway.