skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. What may happen - possibly relatively soon - is that banks will refuse to provide mortgages over a certain length of time for certain property. Property which is not mortgageable will take a serious haircut in its value. Very quickly, those properties will become “stranded assets”. What will be the likely policy response? I suspect governments might step in with insurance and guarantees. Why? Because in the Anglo world, our economies and arguably culture (ref your dinner party conversation) are organized around increases in house prices, not their collapse. Governments are always pumping house prices ever higher to inject “feel good” into the economy. The parallel is a bitcoin whale, especially in the UK.
Bringing up armadillo wasn't meant as an example of success in business but rather as an example of ability to dive into new fields effectively. They did some cool stuff in their short run, and there's an offshoot company still going.

But yea, I agree with your general point. I'd just note that having that ability to be insanely productive in working on things people haven't done before means to me that if it's possible for someone like him to really get good at this field, he's probably gunna do it.

Who knows how far you can get with just "putting stuff together." That's what Edison did.
Current ML technology probably has little or nothing to do with whatever technology will eventually be needed to produce true AGI.
You should've bought the processed 10q and 10k data ranging many years for all US stocks. I bet you can get that for under $1000.

This is the most basic securities data that exists in finance, perhaps you can even get it for free from some Yahoo or other retail data source.
As predicted by Andrew Yang. Read "War on normal people"
30,000 people flying to Davos once a year is not a major or substantial driver of global warming. If you calculated the carbon dioxide released by that action, it would be a very small fraction of all human activity (there are 7 billion of us after all)

Not sure what “rooking the masses” refers to, but if you’re talking about policies that would lead to increased fossil fuel consumption by the world at large, that would be the correct target if you’re focused on global warming.
I've never received a warning?
It's better than no benefits created by predictably tight-fisted California business.
> there's no attempts at making something special, they're just the McDonalds of entertainment.

They used to be much more experimental as an animation studio but some of those projects didn't do as well. It'd be great if they could alternate between telling "safe" stories and passion projects like Fantasia or even films like Tron but I guess it's hard to pitch something risky when you can get a guaranteed hit by doing it by the numbers. The last movie I think they really took a chance with was Treasure Planet and that movie was pitched over and over for more than a decade before they agreed to make it.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

My point was that if only fraudsters were shipping to non-billing addresses, we wouldn't need to specify two addresses when making a purchase.

In itself, shipping to a non-billing address is not a scheme. It's what people do. That's why that is an option to begin with, and that's why all shopping sites support it.

If it was uncommon for people to ship to non-billing address, then it would cease being a fraud scheme, because we would be able to use this as a reliable indicator of fraud -- or we'd not have this option to begin with. Therefore, fraudsters do that because it's not uncommon in general.
I keep re-reading my post and idk how it reads as a claim that Carmack is going to re-invent the field or something. All I'm saying is it's possible for him to become a player, just like you suggest.
Normally the developers wouldn't classify images themselves (their time is too valuable). In any case, I think failing to detect a face as human should be rare unless the photo has very poor lighting or the person is almost hidden.
I'd argue that you can have a successful news organization through producing lots of profitable content that has poor journalism and poor writing, but is sufficiently aggressively optimized clickbait - and that's the cause of the current degradation of news quality; good news and good writing have become neither sufficient nor absolutely necessary for success in news (or "news") industry.

And that's even not that new, already a hundred years ago there were highly successful news organizations that thrived not despite but because of bad journalism, exploiting misleading sensationalism to its full potential.
Doesn't honestly sound very promising but I would still like to see the IR and stuff if that is online.
Pedantic: it had gems, and was a jewel.
I also think being able to override votes to nuke an incorrect answer would be handy, I recently begun getting involved in HTML/CSS for a somewhat obscure project, some of the older answers around front end topics are extremely dated and incorrect by today’s standards (flexbox, for example, deprecates a bunch of hacks). Sure there might be the correct response 3-4 answers down, but I shouldn’t need to dig for that.
Some thoughts:

1. Blog or keep a journal. It may help you sort this.

2. Stop reading/watching "the news." Most news is bad news. It's known to negatively impact mental health to focus overly much on it.

3. Actively go looking for positives, a la "count your blessings." It can help counteract our tendency to only not bad news and not acknowledge things that are going right or doing well.

4. You might consider confronting your fear. Perhaps you could volunteer at a hospice.

(This list not comprehensive.)
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
> even rodents can outperform state of the art models at general tasks.

Rodents? Try insects [1]. In the late 40s and early 50s, when neural networks were first explored with great enthusiasm, some of the leading minds of that generation believed (were convinced, in fact) that artificial intelligence (or AGI in today's terms) is five/ten years away; the skeptics, like Alan Turing, thought it was fifty years away. Seventy years later and we've not achieved insect-level intelligence, we don't know what path would lead us to insect-level intelligence, and we don't know how long it would take to get there.

[1]: To those saying that insects or rodents can't play Go or chess -- they can't sort numbers, either, and even early computers did it better than humans.
> If you have a license that says that you must pay money to operate it commercially, that’s another way to make money from OSS.

No. Absolutely not. Licences which add restrictions based on field of endeavour are not Open Source licences. Period.

https://opensource.org/docs/osd

Point 6. Period.

> You can sell the compiled artifacts as well.

Yes, of course you can sell the service of providing compiled binaries. Everyone will be annoyed if you charge for the builds of your software - but that's your prerogative. Someone else will just provide a free unofficial build (See CentOS, etc) if it's useful. Suit yourself. shrug
Don't be trite; You're well aware that hack in this context means to understand/make progress.
Eh-- this is completely allowed by open-source licenses. If you don't need the library, don't use it. If you do need the library, download it another way (it's legal) or pay for it.
I like the Game of Thrones intro with the elaborate mechanical world. They should have filmed and episode in that world :-)
Cheaper for them, just not for you. Same as the dug ones, really.
>The loads hauled by these truckers aren't going to magically vanish because the employment laws have changed, which would strongly suggest there will be about the same number of jobs in the end, since the same amount of work still needs to be done.

>I read this as: truckers will no longer be expect to supply their own $150,000 trucks to get into the business.

Loads formerly carried by owner/operators and small fleets will in steal be hauled by Swift, Schneider and the like. Those are the kinds of companies that have enough people to absorb these new laws with little cost other than shuffling drivers and trucks around to comply.

Owner/operator and small fleet is where truckers go after they've put in their time working for the bottom of the barrel driving sweatshops (the big dry van companies). Removing those small operators is basically removing the part of the industry that sucks the least to work in.

This is basically the trucking equivalent of replacing the independent sandwich shops with Subway and saying it's no big deal because meals are still getting served. Sure it may be an improvement for some people but the rigidity that comes with working for a big company (yes I know it's a franchise but the franchise tightly controls each location so bear with me here) be bad lot of the people formerly working for the small shops.

>I read this as: truckers will no longer be expected to "comply with the laws, wink wink" to meet impossible schedules in ways that legally aren't the contracting company's fault.

This doesn't remove the federal electronic logs mandate and DOT working hours rules.

Edit: improved restaurant analogy.
+1 as a current member of a Big Tech product org and a trained journalist.

The basic information gathering skills of a junior reporter would be completely foreign to most engineers. These are real skills like navigating a FOIA request or pulling financial information from public filings. Soft skills like effective interviewing, structuring an article, translating technical topics to non-technical audiences, writing good headlines.

If your idea of a functional newsroom is a wordpress instance, sure, but the hubris here is cringeworthy and demonstrates a clear misunderstanding of the work that goes into good reporting.
Luckily dongles/adapters are cheap.
Ideally they wouldn't just drop the equation in as-is, but break it down and explain what all the parts mean. Then people would actually have a path to engaging with the real work being done instead of a parallel-universe pop-science version of it.
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Working Copy is an amazing app! The GitHub iOS app works really well with Working Copy.
Good / bad / ugly ...

The good: unlike 20 love letters to Bret's work previously upvoted on HN, this response pays it the respect of considering whether it has inherent shortcomings.

The bad: this essay cites Donna Haraway approvingly, which places it firmly in "critical theory" territory, which for some of us flips the bozo bit. Way too much grad student virtue signaling, and while I genuinely admire her decision to think through Dynamicland's PARC heritage, the OOP bits don't work.

The ugly: the author notes Dynamicland's commitment to "working closely with the Oakland community", then blows it off. Having visited Dynamicland, I can confirm that they are serious about being a particular human space. If you're going to challenge their vision (and we should IMHO), you need to grapple with their actual vision, which is of people gathered in a room working together. No "creepy animism" there.
The insidious thing is that Disney is making an increasing share of all the things, too.

I don't understand why they were allowed to buy 20th Century Fox.
Ask HN: Did anyone publish (or start writing) a book in 2019?
And maybe share something about the book and/or the experience?
Brian May receiving his PhD in astrophysics gives me a similar feeling.
And 50% of nurses, nurse practitioners, and PAs graduate in the bottom half of their class too. Why do you think they are not the ones whose jobs are going to be automated away? If an AI can handle the easy cases, it won't be the doctors, who are able to deal with the complicated cases, who will lose their jobs.

How much of an average doctor's day is really appointments like this where they just check you lab values and ask you if you're doing okay on your medication and send you on your way? A large number of these cases are already handled by nurse practitioners and PAs. Doctors in my experience spend more time seeing the sicker patients with many chronic medical conditions where the more in depth knowledge of pathology and pharmacology that they spend those years of training acquiring inform the questions they ask, the tests the order, and the physical exam they preform.

I don't think the large majority of PAs and NPs really want to step into the same role as physicians. The number of PAs and NPs who were rejected from medical school and then chose to take either of those routes is probably very small compared to the number who chose to become a PA or NP because they wanted that role and not a doctor's.
> star wars series

Ouch. Good point. Even The Last Jedi trainwreck (RT 44% audience score, record $150M drop after first weekend) STILL made the top 20 all-time grossing films (ignoring inflation).

But nerdy stuff is cool, remakes are cool, rebels are cool...it's got fundamentally popular qualities. Put that into a good marketing engine, check the boxes and you've got a money maker.
You might think that, but when I was in Brazil, ordering food by WhatsApp was commonplace. The restaurants would, generally speaking, answer very quickly. Some would send you the daily menu every morning.
to someone that will likewise not answer any calls!
Have owned laptops for about 20 years. Their internals take a beating inside of bags and such. Most of them I have owned had the power connector fail. One had a GPU become de-soldered in 2006. Zero of them have been lost or stolen.
That's me! Lots of lessons influenced our decisions on GitHub for mobile.
NASA Names Most Distant Object Ever Explored ‘Arrokoth,’ Powhatan Word for Sky
"The Secret of Scent" by Luca Turin [0] if I remember correctly goes into research that indicates that there may be quantum effects that explain how shape/chirality of molecules affect smell.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Scent-Adventures-Perfume-Scien...

So it is plausible that nature may have evolved to be affected by quantum effects.
I wonder if it has any correlation with people who close the lid but continue running heavy workloads on their machine. The extra heat could possibly be a cause for delamination.
Got it, thank you for sharing your thoughts.

> it's to break down gatekeeping barriers to the profession

What are some good ways to break down these gatekeeping barriers, in your view?
That's true for some, but not those that are going to be losing their job.
how do you pronounce the < > symbols? i mean, 'redacted' is already a pretty strange thing to say by itself.
Independent restaurants still have to comply with the law and provide a basic level of care for their employees.

Now if you had a restaurant that tried to claim their staff were all independent contractors (because they worked for multiple restaurants in the same chain) in order to avoid complying with labor law, you'd have a closer analogy. Ultimately this sounds like they wanted to get away with offloading the risks of trucking to the individual rather than deal with it at a business level.
Hit it right on the head.
What a joke. Carmack is going to sit at home and solve what teams of scientists can't do in decades.

I'm complaining less about Carmack wanting to spend his time doing this and more about the comments here acting like he is some 10000x research scientist.
Here's Terence Tao's blog post about the identity: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-...
The real moneymaker is what's under the hood of many machine learning models: data laundering and labor externalization.

Consider this: a good deal of open datasets are stolen. People had their faces taken without consent. The data was tagged and labelled for pennies per image on some server farm. Wrapping it up in machine learning can effectively black-box what it is you're actually doing.
Discrimination against fields of endeavor (like commercial use) in the license means it's not Open Source software anymore.
You can leave a comment-only review on the iOS beta that we released today, but we are committed to adding line-by-line commenting for Pull Request reviews before we launch broadly. I originally didn't think that it would work until our engineers built a prototype and changed my mind.

And since review comments are saved to the server as pending, you can even start a review on your phone, then finish on your computer (and vice versa).
Is that a miniature B-24 Liberator?

I was lucky enough to help hand-crank one of its props[1] once, and subsequently watch it take off. The rumble and the noise of the engines were majestic.

[1]A part of the take-off procedure, see https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/29561/why-do-gr...
DJI wants to let anyone with a smartphone monitor nearby drones
The iOS app is 100% Swift and the Android app is 100% Kotlin.
He had a lot of help behind the scenes and has been credited with things that aren't his. I respect his achievements more as a regular smart guy than a bonafide genius. He described the math in rocketry as being basically solved in the 60s and video games being far more complex as a project, so that was really a step down in difficulty. His VR role is the same field as his primary skills, impressive work but not an entirely unique role.

I'm glad to see he's aiming big with his billions and time. This is what rich people should be doing. Hl3 Gaben!
This is odd language. If you can only give work to employees then by definition it isn't subcontracting.

This would therefore appear to ban subcontracting, as that normally occurs within the same industry.

A sensible reply would have either said that I'm wrong, and normal subcontracting is not affected. Or you could have argued that subcontracting as described in this wiki is morally bad.

But instead you made neither point and appear to think I'm merely confused.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcontractor
From experience in plenty of industries, your statement is incorrect. Most places suck at security and blocking removable storage, but likewise suck at far more important controls (eg application whitelisting) for it to really mitigate much in the first place
The way I see it, people like this when they have the time and inclination, should make an attempt.

You never know. Fresh eyes can sometimes see what others may not.
Look MA! I doing journalism right now!

Writing words - an opinion piece no less - and somebody - THE PUBLIC even - actually reads it.

Take that journalist! I bet you can't just write code with the ease I just wrote this very article!
This has been top-of-mind since we started on the app. We're heavy users of the app ourselves and are prioritized WLB features already. The last thing I want to see is our app used an excuse for people to work more. Instead, my hope is we can help people work more efficiently on their own terms.
Doctor time is most of expensive. It makes the most sense to automate away their mundane or lower value work first, vs NPs, RNs, or CNAs (who all do more hands on work compared to an MD, but also have lower costs per unit of time). It is silly to continue to have humans do low value work if it can be automated. Save that time for higher value work.

This is not about replacing people wholesale, but giving them better tools.
For anyone interested in the CarTalk collab, I found a video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GywCgivT_no
Cult of personality much? Don't get me wrong, Carmack is one of a kind. But seriously, "if Carmack doesn't understand your idea => your idea is hopeless" -- this can not be healthy.

EDIT: I'll elaborate a bit. In my experience in both industry and academia I've witnessed numerous occasions when brilliant people would get things wrong, ignore a brilliant idea, follow a hopeless research direction, etc. etc. Authority matters, but _nobody_ is flawless.
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You're damn right. Make it easy for users to use your code, to get help when they need it and don't entrap them via lock-in mechanisms so they can leave when they need to leave and they'll beat a path to your door.
Most all the photos I've turned up are garbage :| I can tell it's massive and also very detailed but the photos are all too close and too far away at the same time to capture either end of it.
Right, even Einstein had some serious academic training and mathematical chops. But I would argue that he was a bit of a wild card, because he was unable to secure a teaching positions and looked very mediocre from an academic perspective. But fair point, even the geniuses had formal training and instruction.
Interestingly, the way you pair it with the Mac is to plug it in. When you unplug it is magically paired. It was embarrassing how long it took me to figure this out the first time.
I work at Namecheap and we've been vocal about ICANN's decision to lift .org price caps. Happy to answer any questions from an industry-insider perspective.

P.S. Only upvoting for exposure, not endorsing the acquisition.
If you consider the quality of most academic research papers, then some insults are called for...
Don't worry npm and cockroaches will be the only things to survive a nuclear war
Yes. Sometimes more, sometimes a bit less. See https://levels.fyi
I think I agree with you?

Way back when (not that far back, from my point of view, but longer than many denizens of this site have been alive), we used to have usenet and ftp sites and tarballs that compiled (usually) on some subset of Unixen.

I liked that. You could throw up period tarballs, with Readmes (they were .txt, not .md, but close enough), and usually had instructions like ./configure; make; make install.

People could yell at you on comp.graphics. Usually they didn't - and often discussions would ensue. Maybe I was young (if I ever was?), but it felt pretty zen to me at the time.

More recently, I had a package - I forget what it was - I think it might have been a python package that would take PlantUML-like-syntax things and turn them into SVGs or something. I put it up on github thinking that this would be the equivalent of throwing a tarball over the wall.

OMG! I was wrong. The tickets/issues/demands/complaints - not questions - were beyond belief!

I've never asked for compensation for an open-sourced package - high or low quality - but I could see that the shrill demands might drive one to want to demand compensation!

These days I've more-or-less retired back to throwing tar-balls to people who know me and ask me for them. I still ask for no money. I still respond to emails with questions. But I refuse to be held hostage to "the community".

Serious question to Parent: Does that make me a selfish asshole?
You use \equiv for definitions instead of :=, ^* for complex conjugation instead of \overline, you refer to the Hermitian transpose as the adjoint, and you implicitly assume all matrices are over the complex numbers.

There are also other little things like some of the phrases as pointed out in a sibling comment. Physicists really do have their own distinct style.
No, I actually understand it as solving it with unexpected tricks.
I wonder what makes you think so? Because of low polling #? Just curious.
Scale cinder blocks 'aint cheap.
> On the other hand, OSS has become critical infrastructure

Those for whom it is critical are not forbidden from paying for its maintenance, if they need it.
So?

Why would anyone create an AI system that doesn’t work the way they want it to work?

What a ridiculous article and topic.
An interesting thought: The license of your open-source software will become irrelevant if this is cracked open in 1000 years because everything will be public domain, assuming copyright laws aren't changed drastically, but it's interesting to wonder about what future humans will think about the open-source license movement of the 1980's-to-present.
That's fitness that can't be faked.
I'm not sure I want AGI to succeed, given some of the possibilities. Sure if it plays nicely alongside us, amplifying human society, that's great. But if we get relegated to second class with the AIs doing everything meaningful, then no thanks.

But it's still a fascinating endeavor.