skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mistake, I thought I'd put it in there originally! Usually I throw an "EDIT:" in, but it's possible I made the edit so quickly after posting that I didn't think anyone had started replying yet. No offence or subterfuge intended. :-)
You’re watching corruption in real time Here. Lorena Gonzalez is openly condemning the court system and corporations are flexing how much they’ll spend if they can’t cut a deal.

Regulations like these lead to lobbying which leads to corruption. This isn’t about “justice for workers” - it’s a shakedown by politicians in a single party state.
It's nice that he's doing this and I wish him well. But thousands of very smart people have been working on AGI since 1958 and many of them initially thought they could crack the problem in a couple of years. They made a huge amount of progress, but the more progress we make toward AGI, the farther away the goal seems to recede.

AGI is very much a research problem. It's not going to be solved with a clever hack.
Agreed. The closest I've found is using:

https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+...

I just add "-repo:org/repo-name" for the repos in my org I want removed from the results. Plus, it tells me what I need to review.

As long as you don't open email notifications about PR activity this page will show a blue indicator so you know which ones have been updated since you last viewed them.
My mistake, it's like saying there's a pathogen that makes you like rainbow bumper stickers.

Dr. Cochran thinks that gay men lisp because a pathogen has affected their brains. But most gay men don't lisp. It was only ever a cultural thing, it was never universal, and it's mostly gone out of fashion in the last few decades.

He says that preferential male homosexuality has only been observed in humans and sheep. This is utter bullshit. Homosexuality has been observed in hundreds of species, including primates, mammals in general, birds, reptiles, and arthropods. This is not new research: over 450 species were known in 1999.

It goes on and on. This kind of ignorance might have been understandable, if not excusable, in the '70s, but Cochran was writing in 2005. He's making confident scientific assertions based on lazy, decades-old stereotypes, and there's no excuse for that.

To answer your question: no, I didn't read the article, because I read one sentence and concluded that it was horseshit. I should have taken a closer look before commenting, but I've done that now and my first assumption was 100% correct.
Hermitian matrices are always complex matrices, and A^* is a standard notation for the conjugate transpose of a Hermitian matrix. I didn’t find either of those strange, and I studied math, not physics. Nor did I notice any use of \equiv anywhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian_matrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_transpose
The longest running web comic on the Internet called "Jerk City / Bonequest" uses Microsoft Comic Chat to render

It is 20 years old this year, and has never missed a day.

https://www.bonequest.com/7541

(May not be SFW, depending on where you work)
Deep-Rooted Mythology of Sacred Trees of the World
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." — Mahatma Gandhi
Yes.

From about $100k to maybe $300k. After that I might be able to afford more.

There's no doubt it could be an attractive product (assuming a bunch of stuff about how it works) but as a practical matter, living longer doesn't make me any wealthier, so it'd have to come out of my discretionary spending. While I might not have to save for my retirement due to age, I'd probably prefer not to have to work 50+ hours a week forever, so I'll probably need to save and invest such that I can get a sufficient income to enable me to follow my interests -- some will involve being paid, others might not.

Once I've acquired a house, or perhaps a couple, and have investments providing a post-inflationary, capital-preserving return that I can live off, then I'd likely look to move beyond a basic salaried employment into something more flexible.

But if I still need to pay for my "live forever" pills, there's a limit to what I'd be prepared to fork over on an ongoing basis.
Even decades ago I gave such reported concern with photographs more credence than the typical western account of it. I also wondered if the translation was precise enough -- could it (in some cases) have reflected a concern with "essence" more generally? Even without reference to a soul the concern can be a bit immaterial.
A Quick Guide to Getting Started with Olympic Weightlifting
Huh just assumed he got a bigger piece of the oculus sale.
Moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
When you're searching for the arrow keys, the break is one thin line only in the middle of one key. When the keys are half height, there is are two large gaps to find. The difference is a few mm vs almost a cm and 3 targets to find vs one.
Only the toolbar gets hidden. WYSISYG editing is still enabled.
Such a model is objectively biased regardless of where and how it's applied - it prefers X over Y, and that's bias by definition. The hard question here is deciding whether any given bias is ethical or not.
> edit: just to expand on this, I'm declining to respond to your overly broad request, in the same way that I would decline to respond to someone who, after taking 10 minutes to roll out a beautiful SquareSpace template, mocks the tens of thousands of computer science grads who fail to be even 0.001% the success that dropout Mark Zuckerberg is.

No, you're declining to reply because you don't know anything about journalism and are talking out your rear end.

See? Anyone can play your ridiculous game.

> Your original comment, without further clarification on your part, carries an amount of arrogance and likely ignorance that doesn't feel worthwhile to engage with in good faith.

What on earth are you talking about? You claimed to know something that I don't, and asking you to provide something more specific besides just saying I'm "ignorant" is perfectly reasonable. All you've done is gotten pissed at the fact that I don't see journalism as being as rigorous or valuable a profession as you believe they are, and you're reading my intent through that lens. Would you believe me if I told you that I am genuinely trying to describe the situation in an honest way?

> And recent counter-examples to your belief are plentiful.

Can you name a single one? Surely, you are much less ignorant about this than I am.

> If it were possible to throw a bunch of software devs into a room to create a "functional news organization", then Facebook would not be throwing millions [0] at existing news orgs for the rights to display article headlines and previews

First of all, I never said that software engineers + wordpress = The New York Times. Everyone seems to forget that there are tons of news organizations out there that aren't even a 10th of the scale of big-name newsrooms.

Second, Facebook paid those organizations as an incentive because publishing articles in Facebook potentially threatens their ad revenue because it could draw users away from their own websites. Facebook wants people to stay within Facebook and not navigate away when they look at a story, and they have the money to make that happen. Lots of people read NYT, WaPo, etc. It's an audience Facebook wants to keep. This has nothing to do with how monetarily valuable journalism is or how much talent it requires. These organizations were selling their audience to Facebook.
> (edit: I'm not claiming he's a field expert in a week guys, just that he can probably learn the basics pretty fast, especially given ML tech shares many base maths with graphics)

This may be his biggest impediment. ML has gotten very far with looking at problems as linear algebraic systems, where optimizing a loss function mathematically yields a good solution to a precisely defined (and well circumscribed) classification or regression problem. These techniques are very seductive and very powerful, but the problems they solve have almost nothing in common with AGI.

Put another way, Machine Learning as a field diverged from human learning (and cognitive science) decades ago, and the two are virtually unrecognizable to each other now. Human learning is the best example of AGI we have, and using ML tech as a way to get there may be a seductive dead end.
In a small market, there aren't going to be enough Twitter followers to be noticed for a book or movie deal. And even in markets large enough for those to be possible, they're one in a million or less.
Wow this is awesome thank you!
I've been dabbling in AGI and it seems like the field has a lot of low-hanging fruit. I'll bet Carmack can offer some significant contributions.

I'll take an opportunity to plug a paper I recently published on comparing relative intelligence. The punchline will illuminate the low-hangingness of the fruit in this field.

Suppose X and Y are AGIs and you want to know which is more intelligent. For any interactive reward-giving environment E, you could place X into E and see how much reward X gets; likewise for Y. If X gets more reward, you can consider that as evidence of X being more intelligent. But there are many environments, and X might do better in some, Y in others. How can you combine those pieces of evidence into a final judgment?

The epiphany I had (obvious in hindsight) is that the above situation is actually an election in disguise. The voters are interactive reward-giving environments, voting (via their rewards) in an intelligence contest between different AGIs. This allows us to import centuries of research on voting and elections! In particular, by using theorems about elections published in the 1970s, I was able to provide an elegant notion of relative intelligence.

The notion I provided is elegant enough that some theorems can even be proved with it, for example, formalizations of the idea that "higher-intelligence team-members make higher-intelligence teams". Which emphasizes the low-fruit-hanginess of the field: as obvious as that idea seems, apparently no-one was able to prove it with previous formal intelligence measures, probably because those previous intelligence measures were too complicated to reason about!

Here's the paper: https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEIVU.pdf
I don't understand the licensing of the parts library. I wanted to use it in my own tool I was creating and I see from the parts library LICENSE.txt:

> All graphics and documentation of Fritzing are licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareALike 3.0 Unported.
See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for the full description.

But in their FAQ they say:

> However, we do not allow the use of Fritzing part graphics in other software systems at the moment. If you think we should make an exception for you, please contact us.

What gives? Is it creative commons or not?

If you are someone who creates a part you want it to be available in every software out there. You don't want to create the same part in Eagle and then in KiCad, and then in Fritzing, and then in 5 other ones as well.

Submitting it to something that is Creative Commons has that expectation.

Fritzing is effectively saying, it's "creative commons" but we're still allowed to completely control it and prevent others from using it?

That's exactly the opposite of what CC says. WTF?
> It's hidden until you click the 'A' icon

It enabled itself by default for me. Clicking the 'Aa' does hide the extra UI elements, but doesn't disable the auto-formatting.

> It doesn't take up any extra space

It doubles the height of the input box when it's visible.

----

I don't mind the feature (in fact, it's nice to get immediate feedback on Slack's "almost Markdown but not quite" syntax), but I can see why others do mind.
Between Jerry Brown and Pat Brown one single family has ruled the state as governor for over 40 years combined.
Whether I'd want to migitate it is entirely based on the content of your dissent. That's my point really.

There's all kinds of dissent which should absolutely be moderated away on a forum like HN.
obviously ultimately you need observation, but I think this article (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...) makes an intuitive case that having better researchers gets you greater insight per unit observation.
It's been the macOS default for a few yeas. Before that, we usually assign Cmd+Space for this (in Windows it was Ctrl+Space for switching language and Shift for toggling between English and Chinese). Then Siri came so the combo stopped working. Possibly it was then when Caps Locks became the default.
I can't speak to their reasoning, but I value having multiple similar answers.

They often differ slightly in their assumptions or implementation, which can help in grokking the core concept of the answer and not getting distracted by implementation details, especially for languages and domains I'm not very familiar with.
> Technical question: what is the difference between the Supreme Court ruling[1] (I _think_ I linked the correct Dynamex ruling) and this new law?

The new law codified the Dynamex ruling but also added some new industry-specific exceptions; outside of those exceptions they are essentially the same.
Main issue is that I prefer WYSIWYW to WYSIWYG. There are many reasons why one may be preferable to another in various situations but I find that I prefer WYSIWYW for my workflows
Ok, that's more concrete. So, to give a specific example: a friend of mine runs a photography business. He's independently established in the trade.

Sometimes, he subcontracts for others when they have a job they can't fulfil on their own. At other time, he has subcontracted work out to other photographers. They are also independently established.

1. This is banned by the California law?

2. You approve of this restriction?

To be clear, these people aren't employees under the law in Canada, our jurisdiction. California seems to be redefining the word "contractor".
Yes, those are the facts, but why is that a problem? Why is Dean the responsibility of Walmart?
And now, without a boss!
Surely the mitigations are not the same as "doing proper acl during speculation" in the first place and have a worse performance hit?
Thanks for grounding the discussion with a little microeconomics.
Boston Dynamics isn't doing AGI.
> he extolled his frustration with having to do the sort of "managing up" of constantly having to convince others of a technical path he sees as critical

Yes, he seemed to put a lot of effort to try to get things through FB internal politics, and not always successfully. I really wish his experiments with a scheme-based rapid prototyping environment / VR web browser had been allowed to continue [1]. VR suffers from a lack of content, and VR itself is well-suited to creating VR content, and his VR script would surely facilitate closing that loop among other things. Although now four years later I guess FB has a large team working on a locked-down, limited world building tool (closed platform, no programming ability). Oh well.

I don't think this is the end of this wave of VR, but at this point I wouldn't be at all surprised if say Apple or someone else ends up bringing it to the mainstream instead of Facebook. [2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/racket-users/RFlh0o6l3...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/11/20959066/apple-augmented...
What’s the diff?
I wonder what people will have to blow into next. Europe was already one of the safest places to drive.
a bicycle ride in the Port of Oakland seeing idling trucks, shows many hundred very sketchy "contractor" truckers who I doubt have seen the kind of large, steady number of dollars you are quickly citing there.. the condition of their vehicle, their health, their English language skills and other superficial indicators would be the evidence
That kind of licensing is the toxic bullshit I'm talking about. Ignore and avoid.
So Apple and Google are now in the personal finance game. Facebook is trying to launch its own currency. That's some big names coming from pure tech backgrounds entering the banking world. This can't be a coincidence, right?
Unity3D works reasonably well with VCS when using Text format files, as an example of a GUI development environment.
I might install one app per hundred sites that annoyingly prompt for notification permissions, though.
"Don't try to take back your open source code."

Why not? It's yours. Burn it to the ground if it is too much trouble, maybe people will stop being ungrateful.

We control our code. If we feel like open is good, fine. If we find out it has negative externalities - why put up with that?
So much of our technology is built up on many layers and nobody knows how anything works anymore.
He should first work on figuring out if AGI is possible. Why assume the human mind is computable?
> over 40 years combined

Are you counting in base10? I count[1] 6 terms of 4 years each = 24 years.

67% off. Not bad for government work.

If your argument is a Democrat in the governorship, since 1942 it's (R=47, D=30). Since 1958 it's (R=31, D=30). Republicans are at least equally to blame for California's governorship.

In practice, the governor is largely about qualities of a single person. The legislature is heavily skewed D/blue because that's how density votes in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Californi...
Law enforcement will just coerce the CA system you've suggested to secretly improperly issue certificates. Just as it does with the current CA system. Problem not solved - it's just hidden.

You conflate content trustworthyness with origin sureity but a CA system doesn't even provide that.
I loved this - it was a wonderful hybrid of direct chat with simplistic graphical representation of how people would express themselves in chat before the existence of graphical emoticons.

It would be interesting to create something like this for the MUD experience.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but words sometimes can be worth a thousand mental pictures.
I'm surprised this is still up at 18 minutes.
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> And if those results change, so will the algorithm's outputs! But asking the algorithm to make the change seems to be a bit much.

The problem is that the output of those algorithms is used to drive decision making that has the effect of maintaining the status quo, by removing opportunities to change it.
The more people working on this, the better. I don't expect him to crack the problem but contributions are welcome.

John is smart, has a reputation, has resources, is well connected and has time. I hope he suceeds.
I think most 2FA-supporting websites will let you regain access to your account if you lose your 2FA device but still have your password and email. Similarly to how most 1FA websites will let you regain access to your account if you lose your password but still have access to your email.

If Github is doing something different than most websites, that needs to be very very clearly communicated at setup time, otherwise people will assume Github behaves like other websites.
Cool.

I bet people in 2200 can't wait to figure out what version of node they need to run a specific gulp version from an obscure error, caused by an underlying dependency's reliance on an deprecated built-in (true story).

After figuring out that issue, they will need to debug why a specific package's version is broken, only to find out the maintainers 200 years ago hard-coded the century.
No, he adds the numbers up to accurately provide a maximum value that's low enough that his point is proved regardless of how far below it the real value is.

The survey design, reduced to a trivial example:

Select all that apply

- A: 100% select
- B: 50% select
- C: 12% select

Suppose there were 100 people. There is no way to imagine overlap that leads to more than 12 people selecting C, as you claim.
How do you set that floor if not with this (or similar) regulation? I'm 100% with you on increasing education, but that has a delayed effect of many years. And even with the delay, there will likely always be some people who need to make rent or feed their kids who'll accept the equivalent of a $5/hr job because it's all they can get. I was once that person, filling out quizzes on amazon's mechanical turk for what was effectively about $4/hr. I appreciate having had the work, but it still feels like a loophole around having a minimum wage.

I've been on the 1099 side of the fence for a handful of jobs. It's a difficult place. You're on your own for a large portion of taxes and likely need to make estimated quarterly payments, there are no benefits (health insurance, etc), and there's a tangible lack of stability compared to a standard W2 situation.

The only solution I see is twofold, first providing adequate social services so that people can survive reeducation / changing careers and then legislation exactly like this which ensures that employers act in a manner that's compatible with long-term social stability.
I think when this was written everything seemed pretty great. In 3 years it all looks like '90s to me, crossing his criticality into non-risky bets and slanting non-tech plays as some kind of tech-level margin plays (real estate, kitchens, delivery etc). There's a chance some of these non-tech plays turn out to be great monopolies (primordial Amazons) on a very extended time scale, but they are effectively using investor greed/incompetence to do so.
My Verizon bill is $200/month and my Internet bill is $150/month, so the numbers seem about right.
I believe the person you replied to was commenting on the advantages to Docker, not the customer, and how (blocklevel is what I inferred) dedupe makes the quantity digestible to Docker's pocketbook.
The org that doles out .org websites just sold itself to a for-profit company
cool, but it's not 2003 anymore.
Oculus was acquired for $2.3 billion, so he'd need to have owned nearly 50% of the company to become a billionaire from it's sale.
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You don't think that the difference between a 1:9 ratio and a 1:3 ratio constitutes "wide variety"?
Avoid it if you use Mail.app. Otherwise doesn’t seem too bad. Performance isn’t an issue.
Tab will be a printable shape.
One can do bad things and also donate a lot of money later. See also Family, Sackler
How did you rule out other attributes in the voting, such as charisma, political environment, society wellness, etc?
The Gumption Trap
Magnesium case. Call it the NeXTbook
> Drone trucks that follow a real driver are more realistic than fully automated trucks.

So the following trucks don't need the drivers that would drive them today.

Things change. Not always the way we predict. I do expect much to be automated, not just trucking, because about everything else that is streamlinable seems to have been done, and companies or executives don't seem to be able to survive unless they find some way to cut costs. Status quo is not good enough.

Automation is Checkov's gun on the wall. It will go off.
You don't control copies of your code made under the terms of the irrevocable world-wide license you gave. You don't have to host it, but you can't stop other people from doing so.

Copies of your code are effectively no longer yours once you've licensed your code. So, essentially your code, as it was, is no longer yours. You don't own it in any meaningful way. Deal with that fact or don't post it in the first place.