skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon had been a default for me for a long time, but the knock-offs have gone so far overboard that I consider it about a 60/40 that I'll get the actual product I ordered from the actual manufacturer I thought I was buying from. And now that most shippers will get it to me in 2-days, Amazon's not as special as it once was experience-wise.

Now I choose Amazon as a last resort after checking the manufacturer or other more reputable vendors. In cases where I need something immediately (and can't get it at a brick and mortar), I'll check PrimeNow as I haven't received any knock-offs there yet. But the selection there is pretty limited.

The Worst category in my experience, by far, is batteries. I haven't even bothered with shoes in a few years, but Zappos tends to be a better experience in that regard. I realize, of course, that Amazon owns Zappos, but the experience is all their own.
So what's the end game there - using voicemail as a poor man's texting?
Actually this is a very generous interpretation. If people aren't willing to compromise and instead simply accept the death of their offspring then the outcome will eventually be the death of their offspring.
Shell Oil had a Cray 1 and an ncube when I worked there in 1989. Chevron had a Cray 1 and a raft of IBM mainframes in 1990. Chevron's DC was set up for visitors so every cluster had a sign describing the computing power for that system. Total compute power was very important because it meant they could do more analysis on seismic data to refine their oil and gas lease bids.

Chevron had so much seismic data they required (from memory) six robot tape libraries. They were ganged together so the picker robots could hand tapes between cabinets in case all drives in a given cabinet were in use. It was cool as hell to watch the camera mounted right above the picker flying around this dark wall of tapes to go grab one.

One of Shell's Quality training videos was about The Guy Who Lost The Tape; seems a seismic data tape was mislabeled and lost, causing Shell issues with bidding on a lease. Their Deming-style quality training was all about preventing that sort of thing happening again. I dare say their data was more valuable in total than the hardware.
USB A was very easy to ruin as well. It might look strong but usually its just held on with a couple of solder joints which I found very prone to bend enough to break the device if it ever got an up/down force on it.
From relativity to quantum theory – our physical world explored through coffee
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> It's the kind of problem that requires incredible amounts of data, hardware, and theory to make any progress.

I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite was true, at least with the theory part. AI didn't really go anywhere for decades, because people focused too much on theory.

Otherwise, there's a lot of data and hardware at your disposal, even from the comfort of your home.

> Wouldn't it make more sense for him to join a cutting-edge team, like DeepMind or OpenAI?

You mean they guys that are training with videogames that people like John developed?
And they make money by you having to buy BAT to give it. Either with the information gathered from which ads you view or by having to buy it to begin in the first place.
the irony is that the more people talk about it sinking, the more tourists go to spend money there, prolonging the sinking more.

i live in manhattan/new york and this reminds me of the pattern of antique/collectible stores that always advertise they are going out of business and prices are 80% off.

i believe venice is sinking when its all underwater. i've been to venice. it's great. it's NOT sinking. total bullshit.
reddit.com/r/agi sometimes has interesting stuff. Although its often pie-in-the-sky articles that have no actual implementation.
It was libavcodec-extra which I presume isn't a dependency, or otherwise the stock Ubuntu ships with broken dependencies out of the box but I'd find this extremely unlikely.
I think you're on the wrong site if you're wanting to criticize software development as a career and suggest it does more harm than good
We know how to replace doctors with nurses. It works well, in many cases.

It's really a political problem.

People don't seem to have enough motivation to politically fight to replace doctors with nurses, and doctors have a lot of power and motivation to keep their jobs.

And what about powerful actors from inside the system ? Hospitals, Insurers, etc ? In general, everyone gets a share of revenue. So why bother reducing that ?
Also, and not that a bit of competition is bad, but doesn't Cloudflare already provide this service?
My grandmother was an analyst for Gulf/Shell going back into the 60s. She was a resident FORTRAN/COBOL expert that was recalled in the 90s after retirement.

Data and systems analysis at scale is definitely not new to them.
I have a usb-c monitor connection, and of course the usb-c charger - so any third device requires unplugging one of those. In my case that's a usb-c yubikey. That dongle gives me an hdmi port I can't use (HDMI on the 13" pro can't drive a 34" monitor) and a usb-a port I can't use (I was good and got usb-c perpherals!).
Heard about this and didn't upgrade. Maybe you can find the old binary until they fix it.
why would being born in the current century preclude one from making fundamental contributions?

You are making a common mistake of assuming that just because someone is good at something like programing computers the same skill would translate identically to a completely different domain.

If anything he is lucky to have been born in an era where his skill of programming computers could be put to use - otherwise his talents may have gone to waste, he may have ended up toiling fields his talent untapped and undiscovered, like that of millions before him.
Yes, but the result was simple enough in hindsight that it should probably be in every introductory linear algebra text.
I like the bear and bull case.
My pet project I will likely never have the resources to work on would be AI-generated 3D virtual environments based on old photos / videos that you could navigate in VR and relive long lost memories

I'd pay a good amount of money to be able to relive certain experiences from my childhood with that level of immersion
Even at Oculus, he worked "from Dallas", but spent a huge amount of time working at home.
I'm generally inclined to agree with your first statement, but not very sure what's the point of your second statement.

There was a 50/50 chance 100 years ago that discoveries in chemistry or physics were immediately weaponized. I'd say GP's analogy still holds, yeah?
zero interest rates = vc multiples going up over time = ponzi finance.

it's the nature of time.
Unfortunately VR has turned out to be an intensely nauseating puke fest for many of us.
Ask HN: What do you use to backup your personal files in 2019?
Hey HN,

I'm trying to pick a tool that will require little work on my part, and will safely and affordably backup my personal files. That's photos, documents, movies, and all other sorts of stuff I might have accumulated over many years of being a computer user / hoarder.

The requirements are:

* I would store around 10 TB of data, of all types of files, but mostly made of RAW photos.

* Everything is in one place

* Everything is stored in the cloud, with some pretty high guarantees or the data not being lost

Some options I've used / considered:

* Dropbox - not that much space, but overall pretty convenient, even though it's not clear how easy it is to lose files in it if you accidentally delete something

* Backblaze - infinite space, but you have to have your external drives plugged in every 30 days to prevent it from deleting those files, which is a hassle

* Arq + S3/Glacier/B2 - more manual effort, and also could get more expensive, e.g. $40/mo at 10TB for storage alone. Also experienced some corruption issues in buggy past versions of Arq.

Please advise.
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> To be fair, though, a LOT has changed about the nature of computer programming since 1965.

Has it though? The Von-Neumann-architecture was already a thing back then, programming languages (BASIC, Fortran, ...) already had many of the things you are still using today (such as for-loops) and any algorithm and data structure thought up back then is still perfectly usable today in most modern languages.

Sure, the whole tooling and library situation is not comparable to back then, but the fundamentals haven't really changed.

Consider these things:

- Binary search trees (1960)

- Linked lists (1955)

- Quicksort (1959)

- Hash tables (1953)

Looking back I rather have to say I am not impressed with advances in practical computer programming since then. The only major change was the introduction of type systems and OO imho, though these were technically a thing already back then too on an academic level.
5 takes care of 1.
Brain-like computer chips could address privacy concerns, greenhouse emissions
It's all fine :).

I thought that "stock return" is the [exit price]/[entry price], for an asset that does not pay dividends, no? exit/entry still requires a log() to be normally distributed, for example exit/entry is non-negative, wile gaussian is of course sometimes negative, no matter what the mean is.
Then they should also support Android. Apple isn't the majority anymore.

Even if Apple Pay comes to others I won't use it. I absolutely don't think Apple has better privacy than anyone else.
It's just so strange. H.264 decoders are free now, because Cisco buys a huge unlimited license for their good software decoder every year, maybe Firefox doesn't have the ability to link against that?

Shipping a web browser package without a functioning H.264 decoder, for most people, is like shipping a kernel without mouse drivers.
I took it as "not even I would experiment with nuclear fission reactors from my house".
> You're supposed to be making profits, not happiness for your marketing team.

These two things have a strong positive correlation. Marketing teams don't become happy just because you get a newsletter. They become happy because you engage with the brand and the brand makes more sales. Which in turn makes for more profits.
Yes, I meant "at will", sorry ;)

I was told about a support call with a US university a few years ago and the director fired the sys admin in the middle of the conference call. It was in the EMEA time zone (like 4am central). Everyone heard about it because that sort of thing just wouldn't be done here.

The guy had done nothing wrong, he had been up all night trying to fix the problem, and the director came on the call and lost it.

I always think in that environment so much of your energy must be spent on ass coverage and politics over working.
There is a lot of data collection. With everyone using EMRs massive datasets are available. They just aren't available to people outside the walled gardens for PHI/privacy reasons.

At Kaiser Permanente, I regularly train models on 10s/100s M patient/dr encounters. Our transformer language models are fine tuned on multi-billion word corpuses. Some of our models do real time inference on millions of patient notes per month.

The thing is, from data governance standpoint our org, and most other health orgs, just aren't comfortable sharing this data with outside businesses or even each other. And of course orgs like KP strongly don't believe in licensing internally developed products to other health orgs.
> Next step would be a gitops service that will integrate with AKS

That means Weaveworks swallowed up soon then[1], with its Flux GitOps for Kubernetes[2].

[1] https://www.weave.works/

[2] https://fluxcd.io/
Actual link to the paper, which is way shorter than the article about the paper and does include equations: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03795
From what I understand, quantum effects being essential to the process is a fringe belief. Penrose is probably the most famous 'serious person' (sorry Deepak Chopra) to espouse the idea, but I'm inclined to believe that might be a Linus Pauling/Vitamin C sort of scenario. Penrose started from the perspective of believing there must be quantum effects, then began fishing for physical evidence of it.
Clearly a big part of these approaches is the affect of placebo. Placebo is also a big part of the impact of many parts of western medicine. In clinical trials antidepressants barely outperform placebos for instance.

You've raised a good point that this makes it even harder to determine how well something is working. Was it 100 percent placebo or did change take place outside of the effect of the placebo?

However just because the placebo effect is present doesn't mean we should dismiss it out of hand.

The term "scaling out" and a "boring environment" to me requires a treatment as simple as for instance setting a broken bone. A procedure like this is very easy to train someone to perform and there is relatively little in the way of differentiation between patients. An arm is an arm, it's very easy to see the problem as well as to see how a treatment is working.

But for instance in the case of acupuncture or qi gong or yoga, it would be very hard to replicate on a large scale. The practitioner matters a huge amount, as does the exact condition of the patient. Is the patient actually trying ot do the yoga? Is the acupuncturist good (most aren't). What kind of yoga is the person doing? Is the yoga or qi gong teacher leading them in the right direction for their particular issue? It isn't nearly as simple as a routine medical procedure.

I'm not saying that all of these treatments necessarily are effective. The issue I have is how quickly some are to dismiss treatments as not being backed up by evidence when the evidence will be very hard to come by, and ignoring the nuance involved. Personally my experience has led me to believe that acupuncture done by someone that knows what they are doing will work more than a placebo. The same certainly goes for qi gong in my personal experience.
Guessing, but:

> ...one can multiply any eigenvector by a phase e^{iθ}...

and:

> As a consistency check...
Unfortunately VR turned out to be an intensely nauseating puke fest for a lot of people.
That's going to take a beating from GitHub's repository service especially when GitHub actions can automatically build containers and dump them in that repository.
The biggest missing piece is WaveNet, which is Google's proprietary voice-synthesizer. With only the models trained for this paper, the best you could build is a voice-recognizer. As far as I know, Google only allows people to do TTS with one of their provided voices.

I don't expect them to open it up until other companies/academics have achieved similar results. It's too much of a competitive advantage right now. Alexa, Siri, etc all sound like robots compared to WaveNet (google assistant).
Second this; doesn't render well for me on Firefox Preview for Android.
Are you really that sure that the approaches to increasing the generality of AI being taken by LeCun (self-supervised model learning), Hinton (capsule networks) and Bengio (state representation learning) are all "total bullshit"?
I had the same thought! I submitted a request for one of the 'free' one month buckets of non-profit consumer geo-data, and clicked no auto-renew. could potentially have some value (though I don't think much). I don't know how much due diligence they will do or if they will just accept our request automatically.
The thing is most of these people who dont see flaws in the model were raised by women, probably have sisters, and probably have girlfriends or wives.

Wait until they start applying these models and ignorance takes flight against groups that they don't associate with, Muslims (most Americans don't personally know one), blacks (most Americans don't have a solid grasp of their history in this country and the resulting outcomes they now suffer), etc....
There's a picture of it, to be fair.
ChromeOS also has lower market share than macOS (despite running on far cheaper hardware) and I don't consider ChromeOS to be desktop Linux.
As someone who deals with HIPAA every day, it really bothers me that Change Healthcare is there even if the data is "anonymized".
Hehe, I love CS, but give me significant advances in physics, chemistry or medicine over some new "breakthrough" in machine learning.
What is your source for saying AGI will probably wipe out humanity? How could we ever even attempt to guess at the motivations of something we can barely comprehend and doesn't even exist yet?
You appear to be referring to shell scripts. I do not have an opinion on shell script capitalization. However, my opinion on capital keywords in SQL is that it is a relic of an older time when it was used to help visual parsing of the query.

Going further I’m of the opinion that color syntax highlighting does that job far better thus rendering the capital convention obsolete.

Note: you may have a different opinion than me and if you do the laws of the code formatting holy war demand that I assert that you’d be wrong.
The “everyone will lose their job” articles are usually conflating the current state of the art in AI with artificial general intelligence, which is still just science fiction.
Yes, join the echo chamber or get out.
Yes - it doesn’t matter whether it was prior to their marriage or not.

It seems entirely possible that DHH has 20x her net worth.

Perhaps that’s involved in their decision making, no?

See: https://twitter.com/gsbanksupport/status/1194022629419704320...

“In fact we do not know your gender or marital status during the Apple Card application process”.

So your comments about them knowing her gender are either false, or they are lying.

The analogy of your examples is invalidated by GS’s statement that they didn’t know her gender or marital status.

And yes - I agree that there may be some implicit bias in a scoring algorithm somewhere along the line, or some other systemic influence. As I have said, I’d like to see the investigation look into this possibility.

But “I got lower credit than my spouse”, simply is not evidence of sexism, especially if the spouse is 20x richer.
This doesn't surprise me at all. He went on a week long cabin-in-the-middle-of-nowhere trip about a year ago to dive in to AI (that's all this guy needs to become pretty damn proficient). (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)

As recent as his last Oculus Connect keynote, 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. He's clearly the type that is happiest when he's deep in a technical problem rather than bureaucracy, and he likes moving fast.

On top of that, he likes sharing with the community with talks and such, and ever since going under the FB umbrella, he's had to clear everything he says in public with Facebook PR, which clearly annoyed him.

He's hungry for a new hard challenge. VR isn't really it right now since it's more hardware-bound by the need for hard-core optical research than software right now. With the Quest, he (in my opinion) solidified VR's path to mobile standalones. It's time to try his hand at another magic trick while he's on his game.

John's the very definition of a world-class, tried and true engineer/scientist. He's shown time and time again the ability to dive into a field and become an expert very quickly (he went from making video games to literally building space rockets for a good bit before inventing the modern VR field with Palmer).

If there's anyone I'd trust to both be able to dive into AGI quickly and do it the right(tm) way, it's John Carmack.
Your example of a room full of software developers running a newsroom appears to be a newsroom that wasn't run by software developers, and which failed.
You can't, and they aren't.

https://adexchanger.com/the-sell-sider/third-party-data-is-a...
High intelligence in one technical domain translates well enough to competence in other technical domains. Carmack isn't just a programmer, he is a highly creative technical problem solver. However, AGI does seem orders of magnitude more complex than developing 3D game engines.
Pure physical modeling are likely a bad representation for the phenomena resulting in intelligence, especially granted we've simulated it with much simpler discrete structures. PDEs may even be disastrously bad, like trying to describe a line in space with a table of points, instead of the degrees of freedom.

I would imagine that a PDE may cover diffuse behaviors governing say, how learning happens mechanically, but it is almost certainly a language/representational barrier, the relationship between the structure of the animal mind, learning, and seemingly simple phenomena, like afterimages.

The molecules are arbitrary and the timescale doesn't matter.
You're ignorant about what journalism actually entails, especially journalism that is consumed and found to be useful (i.e. what anyone will bother reading, nevermind paying for).

It's no different than someone arguing they can be a successful software engineer just because they've literally created "production ready code" by incorporating Bootstrap.css and jquery.
How do you get all that functionality? Especially the multi finger swiping and the last line of the file
For an organisation that is supposed to be protecting civil liberties and free speech, I am disgusted in the snowflake handling of this matter. Snowflakes have no place in computer engineering...
More like "John Carmack has well-balanced life priorities and has decided to do a really cool moonshot project with his son instead of making even more money"
The article has a link to their paper on arxiv. It's actually easy to follow and very short.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03795
Other way to read this: big corporations are slowing down on VR. The market has not taken off as rapidly as they expected so we will see more moves away from heavy investment in VR.
In particular, those of us using tracers need to understand the frequency of what we instrument, as it relates to overhead. I came up with a frequency table for Chapter 18 of BPF Performance Tools (out soon).
It's not science. Human brains are very recent in evolutionary terms. What a frog or a peacock does is a result of many orders of magnitude more time under natural selection than the age of modern humans. People guess that this or that behavior is because of natural/sexual selection and pass it off as science with no proof just because the word evolution was mentioned. It takes a very long time for something to become an instinct. Given how much human brains are capable of, I just think the most Occam's razor answer is culture and mimicry rather than somehow some {{uniquely human behavior}} having been important enough to survival to become an instinct across the board.
You can view the list of standard library packages at https://pkg.go.dev/std?tab=packages.