skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that’s useful and interesting. Good on Google for keeping the two activities (and cookies) separate.

[Edit: oof, I found my search history after all so most of this is moot. It’s under “Other Google Activity” ... “Web & App Activity”. I guess it would be nice to see the words “Search Activity” a little more prominently, but still, my bad.]

I can’t help but feeling that both cookies (and their associated histories) count equally as personal data.

Anyone who gets hold of my devices can use the cookies to get my history. I can use the cookies to get some of my history in some form or other (I can’t get my own search history, but I can see it partially in typeaheads on the desktop site.)

It feels half hearted that I can’t pull up the entire dataset, but then I would surely be grateful that no one else can do the same thing if they steal my login.

(I also accept that some of this is just me arrogantly pushing back on being told “no!” by Auntie Google, when I feel entitled to a yes.)
He just gave the general domain of the project, it would be weird to start this kind of semi-retirement on a very specific domain. I see this as the broad topic of interest that he will be investigating, but any actual research will be done into narrow fields, wherever some interesting idea hasn't been fully explored yet.
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I love fictional giant deathbots. In reality, I'd be happier with giant robot gladiator fights.
> 2. Ion channels may or may not be affected by quantum effects.

In a sense, everything is affected by quantum effects. However, with neurons, they are generally large enough that quantum effects do not dominate. Voltage gated channels are dozens to hundreds of amino-acids long. Generally, there are hundreds to millions of ion channels in a cell membrane and the quantum tunneling of a few sodium ions in or out of the cell will generally not affect gestalt behavior of the cell, let alone a nervous system's long term state. Suffice to say, ion channels are not dominated by quantum behavior.

Largely, we have the building blocks to replicate neurons (as we currently understand them) in silico. However, as is typical with modeling, you get out what you put in. Meaning that how you set your models up will mostly determine what they do. Setting your net size, the parameters of you PDEs, boundary values, etc. are the most important things.

Now, that gets you a result, and it's likely to take a fair bit of time to run through. To get it up to real time the limiting factor really ends up being heat. Silicon takes a LOT of energy as compared to our heads, ~10^4 more per 'neuron'. If we want to get to real time, we're gonna need to deal with the entropy.
That's not true unless the license specifically transfers ownership or it's just public domain with no license at all. In the latter case jurisdictions differ in how they interpret that.

I dislike the sentiment here. Open source was supposed to be a mutual gift culture, not a take culture.
> Cockroaches

CockroachDB
Or, assuming you don't believe in souls, "real" brain's suffering isn't real either. (The brain is just a machine, right?)

This reminds me of the idea that free will doesn't exist, but that we have to act as if it were.

So by analogy to that, maybe the AI isn't really suffering, but you have to act as if it were.

More food for thought:

Some surgery blocks memory but can be incredibly painful. Do we need to worry about that? Is the suffering that the brain can not remember "real"?
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I want to know how the hell they get it to begin with. CMS releases procedures/prescription data. But it is always totals by provider and it is provided 3 years in arrears. And that is only medicare data. How are they getting private pay information?
24/7 pokemon go.
In most regions where users would bounce off a different default and manually override it to Google (thus denying us an ethical defaulting opportunity), yes. Mozilla found out the hard way in 2014 December when they reset default from Google to Yahoo! in the USA, and most Firefox users Whisky Tango Foxtrotted back to manual Google setting. (Verizon and Mozilla bailed on that deal and Mozilla is back with Google.)

The good news is that we are partnered with DuckDuckGo already on private tabs, and as a promoted alternative engine -- and now we are switching default search in key European countries to DDG. We feel DDG's quality has risen enough, and certain countries are privacy-focused enough, that we won't lose too many users via default search override setting back to Google.
What amazes me is that all this math works. This kind of tricks "lets assume this clever 3x3 matrix describes how it works" makes sense if you're reverse engineering a 3D rendering engine, because you know there is some simple math under the hood. The fact that our world obeys simple mathematical equations is surprising.
The article's phrasing doesn't seem that correct: yesterday's historical curiosity is not necessarily today's historical curiosity (today being 3000 AD).
The project is called "Holy Grail", and the plastic embossing with the 'invisible barcodes' seems to be the cleverest part. Does anyone have experience with this sort of technology (using or developing)?
My favorite AGI so far is Cyc.
Configured with 8 TB? That is more than they allow you to purchase with iCloud... wonder how that will break things
That you no longer own your code is effectively true. It is also not true. Of course, you likely still own the copyright - the sole legal right to distribute copies of the code. The thing is, copyleft - the prime principle under which open source and free software operate - is a brilliant legal hack; it makes owning the copyright essentially meaningless.

You see, as owning the copyright means that only you have the right to distribute your code, free software/open source licences make that ownership meaningless by granting a licence to anyone who has the code the right to distribute the code - under certain terms, usually the same terms as under which they themselves were allowed to distribute the code. That is, you may still own the copyright on copyleft licensed code - but the distinction of owning that copyright is pointless because its purpose and benefit is replaced by that of mere possession and distribution. The copyright becomes effectively worthless and even more worthless if you incorporate other's copyleft licensed work into your own - because then you can no longer easily re-license it.

Hence 'copyleft': it turns copyright on its head.

Still, you're technically right; so, congratulations for that, I suppose.

¯ \_(ツ)_/¯

Open Source/Free Software cultures are mutual gift cultures. It's just that no take-backs are allowed. If they were the whole exercise would be pointless.
I would argue that this is exactly the space he should be in.

AGI is a very active research position that arguably lacks the engineering/real-world arm that I believe Carmack could provide.

His early work in 3D graphics and math are supportive arguments for that. Research ideas turned into viable real-world systems.

Is it too early? I think us armchair hnews users can go back and forth all day. But in the end, we'll only find out the answer after the fact.

I hope all the best for him in this. I think this is a perfect space for him to fit int.
Yeah, but we aren't. What's your point?
Would be wonderful if you can document it in the README, I think a lot of people would love to be able to use the full power of Xcode.
There is no "shortage" of truckers. Never has been and never will be. New truckers can be trained in a few months. Customers and employers just don't want to pay.

Claiming that there is a shortage of workers in a particular field is generally nonsense. Is there a shortage of gold? No, I can buy as much as I want tomorrow ... at the market price.
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I wonder how much overlap there is between the group of software engineers who eschew writing documentation and the group of software engineers who believe they could start a functioning news organization the next day.
This really takes me back. Microsoft Comic Chat, for better or worse, was essentially my intro into the internet. I must've been maybe 10 when I started talking on it, and after they wound it down I switched to MSN Chat, and then quickly onto IRC itself. It was a certainly innovative, but maybe its ability to get kids involved in the internet (at a time it was sort of the wild west) contributed to it going away.
I'm skeptical of this assertion. It mimics some bits and pieces of the only GI we know about right now; that's as good a start as any, right?
It's only a problem if you are moving in the virtual world using a different method than what your body is using in the real world. If the VR world is a simple 1:1 mapping and you can walk around in it as you do in the physical space, there is no vection.
So because of vitalism and dualism whoo whoo.
Just want to say I frequently see your comments not get many replies, and at least in my case it's because you're so comprehensive and right I don't have anything to say.
You must have confused us for Binance, then.

Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years, showing ill will used to justify bogus claims. Somehow you always fade away under rational discourse. It's boring but I'm happy to have another run-around again.
There will be different skintone, multi-gender, tab emoji.
Hopefully you don’t mean running the Rosetta Stone software on Silverlight! OMG
As impressive as AlphaZero surely is, I don't think it ever got a proper comparison to Stockfish. It was running on a veritable supercomputer while Stockfish was running in a crippled mode on crippled hardware.
Holy shit, as someone who drinks zero alcohol when I have to drive even many hours later, this is such a stupid idea. So now many responsible (and non-drinker) drivers have to pay for that crap when buying their new car? Good move to make your citizenry hate you even more, EU.

I dislike the EU from a leftist point of view, since their elite is a corrupt network of incompetent backslappers who seemingly don't care about their citizens. Juncker? Von der Leyen? Barf.
I think you'll find that right and wrong are often murky or politically motivated.
Yeah, it's "time taken to transmit", not round trip time or even one-way end to end latency. It's useful if you want to know eg. the minimum extra latency being added to other network flows because your NIC is busy transmitting this packet for the next n microseconds.
Vuichard Recovery Technique – How to Escape a Vortex Ring State
The scary thing (imo) is that we don't know where the line is for consciousness - if there even is a line. We've got no problem swatting flies, wonder if it'll be the same with spinning up and spinning down fly-level AGIs.
1. I believe the term is “hand waiving”
2. Yes, or maybe worse they have no business model.
The "voters" are not humans, but environments. A simple example of an environment would be a room with two buttons, one of which rewards you when you press it, and one of which punishes you when you press it. Independently of anything like charisma, society wellness, etc. If X figures this out quicker and pushes the "reward" button more often than Y, then we consider this simple environment to "vote" for X in the intelligence contest. (See the paper for the formal definitions.)
Let's see what happens when C-suite levels lose access.
> Lorena Gonzalez is openly condemning the court system

Can you explain your thinking here?

From my reading, the law she wrote/sponsored was largely aligned with the Supreme Court of California interpretation of the Dynamex case.
I've never understood this argument. Right now we have decided implicitly as a society we're fine with the current level of care. If we can provide that same level of care cheaper, what makes you think health care providers will decide to pass those savings onto patients in the form of more care for the same price?
Scientists develop superfast-charging, high-capacity potassium batteries
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Unless that website is Wikipedia. Another great achievement.
Given that this really looks like a generalization of Cramer's rule, I really doubt it is computationally more efficient.

Maybe if you want to know only a few things about the eigen-vectors, or only a few.

For a full solution, I really doubt it.
On a technical complexity scale, plain text is a hell of a lot less complex than CSS + JS + remote deps + whatever.

Complexity is the enemy of reliability. A principle first stated in 1958 in The Economist.

https://books.google.com/books?id=aDsiAQAAMAAJ&dq="complexit...
I want the pendulum to stop swinging. This means everyone needs to stay in the middle.

No religion at school and no religion at work, it's a balance that makes sure one doesn't oppress the others.

When a group of people are given a pass because everyone is afraid of them, then we have the start of tyranny.
Agreed. Deep learning has revolutionized AI and anyone hoping to contribute to AGI is going to have to master DL first, and probably a lot more AI like a variety of probabilistic methods.

That's a challenging learning curve that's not much different from earning a PhD. And then, to stand out in AGI, you're going to have to integrate a dozen kinds of cutting edge components, none of which are anywhere ready for prime time.

At this moment in time, I think any attempt at implementing AGI is going to be half-baked at best. For now, a Siri / Alexa that can do more than answer single questions will be challenging enough.
The answer is “humanity”.

We are our own worst enemy.

Greed uber alles.
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> California now says that whoever hires that taco truck is responsible for benefits and other labor regulations

The law says no such thing. The biggest change from pre-existing law regards the second prong of the new law, which asks whether the type of work is within the usual course of the hiring entity's business. This is the same test in pre-existing law, it's just that this test is applied strictly rather than only given weighted consideration.

Are you a company that organizes and dispatches taco trucks? You're likely effected. Are you a company that hires a taco truck every Tuesday for employee lunch? I'd bet money that you're safe. Are you a family hiring a taco truck for a birthday party? It's ludicrous to suggest the new test imposes a legal burden on you.
Ask HN: Are Your Glasses Uncomfortable?
I find it pretty hard to get a pair of comfortable prescription glasses for myself.

Wondering if it's just my problem, or do a lot of people also feel that their glasses could have been a lot more comfortable?
How the Disney dream died in Celebration (2010)
Worst case,

1. How does this affect renewals in the near future and further down the line for select companies and more generally?

2. How does this affect new registrations in the near future and more generally?

3. Why are newer tlds more expensive for specific domain names?

4. How do we prevent these registries from becoming overpowered landlords?
I don't think I have anything special configured for my Mojave setup and these seem to work for me. In particular, I use Ctrl + Shift + F2 (on my external keyboard) to focus the menubar and then I can use Ctrl-b and Ctrl-f to navigate back (left) and forward (right) between menus, Enter to select a menu, and then Ctrl-n or Ctrl-p to navigate next/previous entries in the menu, with Enter again to select.
Go as Glue: JSON and XML and PNG = PDF
In our small town in very Northern California along the coast, the local paper, which is struggling to survive, having just been bought out of receivership, has decided to start delivering the paper via USPS to avoid this law's ramifications with the paper delivery router people.

So more jobs lost, thanks to legislation to protect a certain group of people.

Hazlitt would have recommended examining the law's merits prior to passage to see if it 1) Benefited only a group of people, not the whole, and 2) Did not help the whole in the long run (paraphrased).
It's HN so only the best sarcasm is allowed here. That is good sarcasm. Bask in it.

Source: Commenter name is DBZ character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
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Similar to Gojek and Grab in SE Asia. They're basically bike couriers but on mopeds. You give them an object and address, and they'll take it there. Faster than the mail, obviously; and much more convenient than navigating through SE Asian traffic yourself.
Boom v2 an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core [pdf]
Are we suggesting that humans don’t do the same thing?
During the upgradability era, it was still cheaper to up your ram and storage yourself on day one than through apples gouging. You could even put in more ram than apple even offered.
This is genius. Why haven't i thought of that :(
Isn't this a solved problem? I thought different plastics can be accurately differentiated by multispectral imaging?

i.e. that the problem with recycling isn't in identifying the plastic, it's in separating and cleaning it?

Plus recycling plastic is pointless - it's environmentally better to burn plastic for energy.
WASM doesn't need a JIT, it needs a compiler. Unlike a standard JIT, you don't need decompilation and instrumentation. WASM is also designed so that browsers can reuse their JS JIT as a WASM compiler. Even from a JIT perspective, the difference between a lightweight JIT (eg. LuaJIT) and the heavyweight stuff used for JS is huge, and then the gap between JS JITs and Graal is a second such chasm. This equivalence is a false one.

Graal is not designed to be verifiable the way WASM is. We learnt enough from applets to not repeat that mistake.

GC is a distraction; WASM's opt-in is much better than Graal's by-default for use as a general compilation target.

WASM wasn't chosen disingenuously. Nothing else filled the role. If something did they would have used that instead.
I wonder if you could add a `python --fast` mode that disables certain rarely or uncommonly used dynamic features that enabled the python runtime to JIT or do something clever.

Alternatively, doesn't disable, just does unwinding like speculative execution on processors.

Alternatively, is basically just adding PyPy to CPython.

I guess no new ideas here.
How do you know who downvotes you? Isn't it anonymous?
"With the Quest, he (in my opinion) solidified VR's path to mobile standalones"

Yes and I really wished he hadn't. Before he joined oculus they were working on the rift2, he steered them away from that to focus on mobile efforts.

I do see the appeal of mobile vr but at the end of the day it is basically an android phone in a vr headset.

PCvr is already 2 big steps back in graphical quality from desktop games. Mobile vr is like 10 steps back. 8 more steps than I'm willing to take even if it affords me mobility.
Those cases are typically milled to accuracies within a thousandth of a millimeter for an ideal balance of weight versus thickness.

If you try to remove any material to further reduce weight, you are likely to seriously compromise the integrity of the case.

You could always try forging and milling your own case that is trimmed down to the same tolerances (or better), using lighter materials. Maybe titanium?
All environments are not created the same, and therefore not equal. If you feed 100 environments that are nearly identical to each other but favor A, and 4 other environments that all favor B but are all dissimilar to each other, then although B is more generalized, A would still win.

Since you have no formal way to compare environments to each other, you can't prevent this from happening. Therefore you just pushed the subjectively as to which AI is smarter to which environments are chosen by the user to run against.
Wasn't his shadow volume technique quite hard and original ? He's not just plumbing things it seems.
The article also mentions speed limiters that use gps to determine the speed limit of the road you’re on and prevents the vehicle from accelerating beyond that limit.
We are giving up freedom of religion to appease one single religion. It's the start of really bad problems down the road. The demands and acquiescence is the issue, not the room.

You can't demand anything in the US right now from an employer on the basis of religion unless you are of one religion. All the others are ignored, or wouldn't even dare to make demands.

And this is done under the threat of violence from that religion.
Not exactly. The acquisition was mostly in the form of Facebook shares, which I expect have increased in value since.
> 25 s Making a coffee

Instant coffee?

Maybe French press, if the water is already boiling.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2019/09/11/the-driv...
> Knowledge is pointless when poorly articulated.

Only as pointless as giving someone eggs and a pound of flour when they want cookies.
Reminds me a little of Bob too.
180 000 units of VR headsets is pure pocket money for Facebook. And that does not even register in any kind of hardware sales charts. PC sales are more than 300 millions per year, and smartphones sales are more than 1.5 billions units per year. VR headsets don't sell at all.
Something at a progenitor level that no one is aware of but which is called by certain actions
Wait, what would be the point of 2FA if you could reset access to the account with just 1FA, password and email?
Owch. Sheriff Chad Leonard was the arresting officer who is accused of overreach by arresting the pen testers, according to this statement from the pen testers themselves:

https://www.coalfire.com/News-and-Events/Press-Releases/Coal...
Dev tools is the most accessible.

uMatrix can disable CSS for any source, including 1st-order references.

There are extensions which will disable CSS as well.

Alternatively, you can view under a console mode browser (lynx, links, elinks, w3m, etc.), and see what appears.
Thanks. I looked into it and apparently the new gap is 2.5mm vs 3.5mm on the 2015. I hope it's enough.

If so, the next Air with the new keyboard and quad core Ice/Tiger Lake gets my money.

edit: or ideally a 14" Pro
Yes that's right. But that's a limited scenario. Not the true unbounded VR experience that we really wanted.
Just preheat the board, get your hot air station, heat and remove those bad modules, clean the pads, add your solder and remount some new ones before cleaning up all that flux you were using. Then reinstall macOS and restore your backups.

It might take a few tries before the solder balls up correctly under each pad. Use plenty of flux. Maybe give it a ultrasonic bath.

Source: YouTube
We are a global catastrophe.
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GitHub Arctic Code Vault
Physical coercion could be used to describe the action taken when property taxes are not paid, loitering or vagary gives offense, etc.

I never signed the contract, either. Nor did my parents, and I would bet that goes back a few generations.

So rather than generalizations that can get out of hand, I prefer to focus on smaller, one-on-one and one-on-a-few situations where different choices of conduct can be employed - I prefer non-coercive, voluntarily entered-into agreements.

I hope to check out the video, thanks for the link.
So-you do mind giving an example. Telling.

Never trust someone who says they deal only with facts.
What happened to Lua plugin support that was discussed early on for v3?
There is currently a mass misunderstanding of religious freedom in the US. We have the freedom to say "no" to any belief we don't agree with, and that includes religious demands of employees.

The only reason Muslims get what they want is under the threat of violence. And US employers are scared of this, so they give in.