skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
B2C - not team internal chats.

It will have “jumped the shark” once there’s an SMS button on the business listing that Google Maps displays.

Instead of the wonky/creepy Google demo which did speech to text and then analysis and then text to speech relayed over to the business, every business will just communicate directly with customers over text.

It’s not that this isn’t already done (to some extent). And more so in some countries outside of the US.

But I have no doubt it will become the primary/preferred way to connect with any business, to the point where you will text with an 800- number long before it would occur to you to dial an 800- number to get service.

Like for example, the warranty claim I just made on my Dyson handheld vacuum for a battery replacement. Search for “Dyson warranty claim” and they tell you to dial their 800- number. Now their phone helpline is absolutely the best of the best, but even still most people would [will eventually] prefer to interact via text.

Another example, making a reservation directly with a restaurant (which I prefer to do versus using OpenTable which will take a cut for doing nothing), is a perfect usecase for texting. Also ordering take-out if you already have a favorite order saved, obviously all the notification type things which make sense over SMS instead of email, making an appointment when a dedicated app is too much overhead, etc. etc.
One of the best AI uses is prevention. You can have a personal doctor AI at home, monitoring you 24/7.

That AI could diagnose many diseases before there are any visible symptoms.
Could Venice be raised, as Chicago once was?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
Email in profile. Point me to decision makers and I’ll make the case on my own dime.
Just get a time machine, put on your wifi and you don't have to think about it anymore, it will just backup every day in the background. You can easily restore into another macbook using the builtin restore functionality. Apples solution to this is really good (still struggling to do it with the same ease with Windows without 3rd party software and Linux).
Well, it's a research paper, not a tutorial.
People don't seem to like the additional "convenience fee" when they're paying their bill online, though :P

(which to be fair, is indeed more convenient than paying it in-person.)
He might have wanted a transparent mute button until told that it would be $5 per unit and would delay the start of production by 4 months.
Same topic and seems to have more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21530860
I don't understand much of the article, I was mainly looking for a breakdown of how exactly it costs $300 per month. I've never heard of amything similar so I'm curious now. That's a crazy number when for example most basic income proposals are $1000.
That's the very comment that stood out the most to me as well...
LinkedIN profiles that mention Docker

Mar 2015: 14,000

Mar 2016: 50,000

Dec 2017: 178,000

Nov 2019: 534,000

Still going up!
> many journalists are not only very well educated

So then where exactly do you disagree with me? I never said that I don't appreciate journalism. What am I ignorant about?
On a mac that's just the enter key.
> While not exactly wrong I would definitely argue that "a fair bit higher" is a gross mischaracterization.

"A fair bit" isn't particularly precise but it does means "quite alot" or "a large amount" so think it is a gross mischaracterization to call it a gross mischaracterization. If we are being pedantic, "Several times" is more accurate than "many times" since many generally means a bit more than 4 or 5.

> Depends how you frame it

I don't think so. Practically speaking, all that matters is comparing absolute risks of different causes of death in a specific situatio. For a foreign tourist the risk of gun related homicide in the US is significantly smaller than the other risks of death (such as cars). The relative amount of that risk compared to other countries isn't practically relevant. The risk of drowning in a locked dry room is many times the risk of drowning in a bathtub with an inch of water, that doesn't mean that the risk of drowning in that bathtub is practically relevant (unless you are a baby or extremely drunk/drugged).
John Carmack is practically a machine.

He's openly talked about his work ethic in a bunch of places. He's the type of guy who after a life time of coding calculated he's 100% efficient up until 13 hour work days and then he drops off[0]. Although he did mention working those long hours is often best working on multiple things instead of 1 topic but maybe with AGI there's a bunch of different avenues to explore.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8&t=4773
Yeah, totally agree. Most uses of Docker are of the "Junk Drawer" variety.

A bunch of disorganized unpinned dependencies get thrown into a container that will work in a reproducible manner only until one of the upstream deps changes.

This approach also allows people to get away with deploying an app without truly understanding it. That's always been a good recipe for success.

Another poster claimed that it's mainstream practise, so what? So was running your web-server on 90s era IIS. Not that that was good idea either.
Not being educated in anything to do with AI or machine learning, it seems to me that "amplification algorithms" is exactly what these systems are. When I look at a DeepDream image, it appears as though it has amplified many defining characteristics of the original images.

Conceptually, reinforcement learning seems very similar to biological positive feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms have guided human development, and cognitive bias is an innate aspect of being human so it stands to reasons that non-biological systems developed in the same way would exhibit biases.
CCPA states that data is valuable and specifically calls out trading for "other valuable consideration" as part of selling.

Therefore (in my read) if your business is "giving away" data, it would inherently be for "other valuable consideration".

Especially since the law calls out 4 cases where sharing data is NOT a sale or valuable consideration:
1) When a consumer is sharing data with your business so that you can help them interact with a 3rd party business
2) Your business is sharing data to tell 3rd parties a consumer now wants to opt-out
3) Your business transfers data to a 3rd party to get a service from a service provider (and the data stops there, it can't be sold on)
4) Your business is acquired

Edit: typo, confusing sentence
Mac market share cratered around the turn of the century as result of a stagnating operating system (MacOS 9) and then use of uncompetitive PowerPC processors. Since OS X and the switch to x64 processors they've been slowly crawling their way back, but they still don't even have the market share they did in the mid 90s.

And the OEM licensing never much affected Apple to begin with since they make their own hardware.
Yeah it sucks, BUT if they are not going to add it how about throwing a nice hub dongle in the box for free? Something that gives me card reader, a couple USB ports, ethernet, hdmi. that would take some of the sting out of it. Since you can buy a good one for $50 this is not a huge deal considering the premium price you pay already.

Also while you are at it include the Apple Power Cable extension cable too. Crazy that is not included.
This is so vague as in borderline sarcasm. Okk, it’s AGI but really, what is it? Reinforcement learning? Combining symbolic AI with modern advances? Deep learning theory? AGI is a vacuous term. And no one knows which path would lead to something similar to human intelligence. That itself is a matter of research.
> after searching around it seems like I had to enable the non-free repo and install an extra "libavcodec" package.

Isn't ffmpeg a basic dependency of Firefox? Can an Ubuntu user explain how it's possible to install Firefox without its dependencies?
Why would you want Github push notifications? Nothing on Github is urgent enough to disrupt your life like that.
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Same topic and seems to have more conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525592
RIP, will be missed:(
Hold for control, tap for escape. You'll never go back. :)
Given the potential liabilty consequences, this will invariably lead to a lot of false positive. There is a high chance that this ends up increasing costs.
Are there such systems? Every paper I saw use trivial models which are unlikely to be used in real life. Like this article, which checks gender associations for words like “money” - that’s not how one would be using AI for hiring in any practical way!
He's staying as Consultant CTO for Oculus (which FB owns).
Most likely, custom installed libraries and tools (./configure; make; make install), that were never packaged. And a package manager, that can't even tell you if any of the installed files were changed, after they were installed.

Just a guess...
Same exact thing with the Robinhood infinite leverage. People tried to defend them saying “robinhood isn’t responsible because it’s just a bug”. Being ignorant of FINRA regulations and refusing to fix it when it has come up multiple times is not a bug. Not every fuckup is “a bug”. Calling it a bug does not release you from all liability.
"cost center vs profit center" are the same thing as "bottom-line vs top-line" (as I referred to) just different audience.

I'm not saying that people that cost money don't provide value but your compensation will always be minimized by management and bad managers will look for reasons to remove you from the balance sheet, even if they're bad ones.

If you're bringing the company money, the company could be literally on fire and you can still command a sizeable salary.
I believe this is tautological.

Mass market products compromise. They simplify. They market, advertise, etcetera.

A truly mass market GNU/Linux distro with the clout of a Microsoft or an Apple would inevitably, I believe, end up forking off into its' own barely compatible universe.

If we're lucky, the 'old' universe sticks around. If we're unlucky, it fragments the ecosystem too much and the proper power user OS falls apart.

Android is an example of precisely that.

I've been using Linux for my entire adult life. All of the reasons that people give for not using it are reasons I use it. "It's too much tinkering", "I had to look at a config file", "I wanted to compile something to change it", etc.
Interplanetary Transport Network: unstable orbits → fuel efficient space travel
Team leader should not work anything but to delegate any upcoming work to team members and follow up/control it's execution and status
In extreme cases he should be able to get any sloppy/overdue task and execute by himself in perfect way as showcase for dedication and quality of work and as an example to others
I have this exact setup on the Thinkpad in front of me. It is great, and it's hilarious to see my phone's lockscreen pop up on the screen when I end up charging it with that cable.

You know what else this laptop has? Two ports I don't recognize (thunderbolt and dock?) on the left, and on the right, two USB-A, ethernet, SD card reader, HDMI, and headphone jack. It's a false dichotomy to say that you can only get the one-port connection by throwing away all the other ports you might need.
That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
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Unfortunately no discussion of exactly how this $300/month is calculated.
The things you all listed are possible pathways to the goal. All he said is he wants to start working toward the goal. This guy is serious business, he's never been one to spew BS. He's a real deal, no bullshit computer scientist with leagues of novel accomplishments under his belt.

I wouldn't bet against him when he sets his mind to something.
The third bullet point of the above question (which you still haven't addressed) directly addresses this.

The problem is not that the model outputs reality. The problem is that the model _incorrectly_ produces not reality, based on facts it _did_ learn from reality.

That is, there is a fact pattern in reality, but the model draws an illogical conclusion based on that fact pattern.

So, I'll ask again. Could you directly address this point from the parent post:

"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)"
I assumed that because you didn't override the parent assumption. The Register may compete with a very narrow section of the times, but I wouldn't call them competitive (and I doubt many others would either). For example, only one of those outlets regularly breaks stories that are reported on in every other outlet and only one of those outlets has our highest politicians regularly read and quote from it.
Which is presumably the research he intends to do over the next few months? E.g. reading around the subject to determine where best to focus his efforts.
New big data jobs in oil exploration?

Yup: https://www.oilandgasjobsearch.com/Oil-and-Gas-Jobs/Search/B...
Why should I care? The community (both drive-by and commercial members) is extremely productive, and together we make it useful at work and at home, and that's good enough.
On one hand, we should always evaluate if we are suffering "the grass is greener over there" effect.

On the other hand, Aaron Sorkin explains[1] in 3 minutes how the USA is far from the best place to live and what made us great when we were better in those different ratings.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw (NSFW audio)
I think the real naive are the people who are doing it as a day job.
> But the ecosystem around dollars is so parasite-riddled that if you tried to move cents for each ad you didn't see, you'd end up paying more in transaction fees than would make it to the content creators that you're trying to support

This is flat out incorrect. Brave as a company can easily consolidate payments such that fees are minimal.
It's funny this came up. Before Al Jazeera shut down their American operations, I met with a number of software engineers in their employment who were embedded with news teams and whose primary responsibilities were to do journalism.

They were trying to recruit more. This was 5 years ago. They were ahead of the curve and I think they were so ahead of the curve they realized that journalism was a dead end here and closed up shop.

Also "learn to code". heh.
He also said he'd be working on the AGI on his own, pretty clearly not at FB.
You forgot to mention, crucially, that neurons in close proximity affect each other, which is just one of the things that makes modeling of more than a few neurons in time domain a complete non-starter. It all results in enormous systems of PDEs which we don't know how to solve yet at all. You could say that we do not have the right mathematical apparatus to model any such thing.
How do you ever know?
I think his expertise in video game engines and rendering has a lot to contribute here.
This is what I see as the breaks being put on this kind of surveillance.

At some point, everyone is monitored, once the playing field is leveled to include people in high-profile positions also being monitored, I think there will be at lease some revolt from a legal perspective.
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He might as well casually work on Faster Than Light travel, or a Grand Unified Theory.
Unless you're really having cognitive decline, you can probably pick it up again if you need it much more easily than the first time. We forget stuff we don't use, so forgetting maths probably means you've been doing something else with your life. Maybe that something else was better than repeating the same maths over and over again? I have repeated some of the same maths for 10-20 years in my work and it's depressing in a different way - I'm not improving much. I'd be happy to forget the old and learn some new. Knowing about eigenvalues doesn't make me feel particularly fulfilled. Any 20-year old physics student can do that too.
That's unreasonably cool. Do you think it consumes more resources than if they just gave you more than 64K to work with, or do you think you were pushed to optimize further because of the limitations?
Yup, this is pretty much the reason I go with Lenovo Thinkpads. 14" fits nicely in all my bags and is big enough to see two things side by side.

So yeah, Apple is not even on my radar if they don't offer a 14" form factor. I also don't use other Apple products, so there's little reason for me to compromise.
Yes but not in AWS land. Committed SLA for availability of entire region is still 4 nines irrespective.
I get factor of safety- (and phi etc for LRFD) what we're talking about is beyond the required factor of safety. OP designed the part using required multipliers, but the department checking the design wanted an extra 10% strength.
Did you read section 3 of the paper where they evaluate their system?

> We primarily rely on crowdsourced Mean Opinion Score (MOS) evaluations based on subjective listening tests. All our MOS evaluations are aligned to the Absolute Category Rating scale [14], with rating scores from 1 to 5 in 0.5 point increments. We use this framework to evaluate synthesized speech along two dimensions: its naturalness and similarity to real speech from the target speaker.

They're testing if the generated speech sounds natural with a well-defined and reproducible experiment. That's science.
he is 49 this year, considered as one of the most genius programmer on earth. There are professors still doing real work at 90+ year old(yes, the UT professor goodenough for Nobel prize), John has a long way ahead, best luck!
I don't know how much this applies to others but I really don't want the people that I transact with to have my facebook identity. Plus I don't want that track record following me around.

Unlike other communication that is more ephemeral, it is very likely that any monetary transaction will be permanently and irrevocably attached to the facebook identity.
Check out the movie with Jon Hamm, Marjorie Prime, screenplay by Jordan Harrison. Without spoiling too much, there's a company that can create holographic projections of loved ones which a woman's family gives to her as a gift which is a hologram of her deceased husband, but when he was a young man. The interesting part, narratively, is that while the holograms are near perfect physical recreations, their personalities and memories must be trained by those who knew them, family/friends which raises the question of how we're perceived in fragmentary and contradictory pieces depending on whose doing the training and the amalgamation of a person that's ultimately constructed from these parallax accounts. The writing is actually quite strong and the only scifi aspect is the holograms so I wouldn't say there's much of scifi crutch. I know it's not PKD and there are similar Black Mirror episodes, but I thought the drama itself was robust and displayed the range of Jon Hamm to be someone other than Don Draper.
Who are you referring to? I feel out of the loop here.
I was wondering why his tweeting about graphics and VR went to 0.

We've gone back into the part of the cycle where VR is an odd curiousity again, haven't we?
If your odds were very low to begin with 50 % more wont make much of a difference.
Actually, it’s a reduction because the ads are in categories you are interested in, which is done on your machine via machine learning.

Right now, you don’t have to interact with ads to get paid, though that may change in the future.

It’s way less intrusive than pop-ups and full screen interstitials, which I hate.

Disclaimer: I’ve been a Brave user/tester for a while.

Edit: if you decide to opt-in, you decide how many ads per hour you see. That seems like a reasonable trade-off.
As much as I appreciate Apple's U turn on the idiotic design of the butterfly keyboard switches, I still:

- cannot even begin to understand why these things lack an important usability feature like MegSafe: there is really absolutely no reason why it cannot coexist with the ThunderBolt I/O (4 TB ports, one MegSafe: charge it however the heck you want).

- find the presence of the castrated TouchBar an offense to users. It seems they just want to shove it down our throats whether we want it or not.
Just make it optional: I'm sure that there are certain users out there that love it but every single peer of mine [1] hates the sole idea of something like that.

[1] I'm a software guy in the Valley
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Carmack built rockets and id bought $100Ks of NeXT machines to make Doom so I wouldn't put it past him to have incredible amounts of hardware... even at home. Considering his position at Facebook and that he is industry famous he probably has access to data and cloud resources that a researcher outside of OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, etc. normally wouldn't have access to. He could also raise money relatively easily to pursue more intense research.
“ The new Magic Keyboard also features a physical Escape key” - really? It was there as a physical escape key, Apple removed it, put it back in and called it, wait for it ... a physical Escape Key.
Companies pay what the market will bear.

If you're bringing in millions and could be replaced easily you'll make peanuts. If you're bringing in millions but don't negotiate your salary at all your employer will generally happily pay you less than your work is "earning".

If you're a dev for a newspaper you'll be paid around what other similarly qualified devs make irregardless of whether you work on their subscription system (allegedly profit center) or on the backend their journalists use to post content (allegedly cost center)

Edit: I absolutely agree our terms mean the same. That's why I said I was just providing the terms so people can Google existing articles on the subject.
DOOM 4: AGI confirmed.
You guys really get high on your own supply don't you? It's a toss-up these days whether something from computer science or a programmer will either enhance or erode the human experience and quality of life.
I suppose I'm guilty-ish too... in a way... My ideology (the relevant one anyway) is that people should argue their case, at least briefly. But I ask/tell people to do that without a supporting argument, which always feels like an odd and somewhat dishonest thing to do. Sigh.
It's just a signup page. Some of us want a lot more information before signing up for anything.
I don't want my data in the hands of any cloud service. I'm sure theirs works well between all their products for you and many others, but it's just not for me. :)
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> The fourth amendment just says searches have to be reasonable, not that they have to be done pursuant to a warrant.

The only reason it doesn't say that is that it's inherent in the term "warrant". A warrant is exactly the legal authority to use force on behalf of the government contrary to the rights which the law would normally guarantee, which is a prerequisite for performing any search or seizing any property (absent the owner's consent, of course). Any law purporting to authorize searches is a warrant, though not necessarily a constitutional one. There is no such thing as a legal search or seizure without a warrant. There are only unauthorized, and thus illegal, searches and seizures, and unconstitutional warrants.

If "reasonableness" were enough on its own—in other words, if obtaining a warrant were not a necessary part of the process of conducting a search—there would never have been any reason to place further restrictions on the issuance of warrants, and the entire second half of the 4th Amendment would be void.
IIRC google et al never share your data with third parties. Instead, they use it to target ads from third parties.