skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook says government requests for user data have reached all-time high
> ... affects other professionals and their ability to do their jobs efficiently.

Those professionals should not pick this tool if it does not solve their problems. I'm confused as to how this isn't clear.

You have a choice: a laptop with USB ports and one without. You can buy either or. If you need USB, do not buy the laptop that has no USB ports. Buy the laptop that does have USB ports.

The latter solves your problems, the former does not.

If the next generation of that laptop does not have USB ports, and you still need them, do not buy that new generation and find another laptop/tool.
GitHub loves ICE.
I'm in finished vehicle logistics, and I've worked directly with a wide variety of truckers, including three years in California. You are very right that the amount of cargo that needs to be moved will not change because of this law, but you are, in my opinion, wrong about everything else.

I don't want to stereotype truckers because it is a diverse group. But I will say that in my anecdotal experience, this is a job that tends to attract people who want to be left alone. These are people who value freedom and hard work above everything else and many of them will change careers or retire if they are forced to work for big corporations. The average trucker is 55 years old, and many of them will just sell their and retire if AB5 is not overturned.

Supplying a $150,000 truck is not at all a barrier to entry. There is a major shortage of truckers and employers are offering free training, big sign on bonuses, and high starting pay to attract talent. Walmart, which is certainly not known for paying its employees well, pays truckers an average of almost $88,000 per year--and Walmart supplies the truck. The people spending $150,000 on a truck are doing it because they want to, not because they have to. This is not a medallion situation.

As for your "wink wink" comment, ELD's have been mandated since the end of 2017, and even companies that are small enough to not legally be compelled to use one are often forced to comply due to customer contracts. (Shippers want the data the ELD provides to offer better ETAs to their customers.)

In my opinion, the most likely outcome of this law is that some truckers retire and sell their rigs to big corporations, some decide to work for big corporations, and prices go up for everyone who ships goods or buys shipped goods. Unless you're in asset based trucking and looking to expand, the chances are that AB5 is going to hurt you, not help you.
If you'd like to play around with it you can still find downloads by Goolging "mschat25.exe"

Here is a proxy script that will allow you to connect to a modern IRC server: https://gist.github.com/richardg867/bb19ca2b03545f71ae15

Edit: another fun read was the methods for getting third party IRC clients to connect to MSN's IRC servers directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Chat
https://www.mirantis.com/company/investors/
This has already been attempted for nearly a decade, by traditional journalists and outsiders (e.g. Demand Media), and the number of successful/sustainable/functional such companies is as infrequent as any tech unicorn, so the empirical evidence does not support your argument.

> 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.

No argument there. And the golden era of American journalism – e.g. the 1970s to 1990s – produced great journalism and printed money for its owners (30%+ profit margins were not unheard of), but it's because established outlets had a virtual monopoly in their regions, especially newspapers (because TV/radio killed the need for evening newspapers, and in smaller cities, multiple newspapers).

But it has never been easy to create a successful/functional news org by just doing journalism. Just as it has never been easy to build a useful tech startup by creating production ready code.
It is funny that we have the "techies" (programmers, engineers, etc) designing and managing these social media platforms when the techies are stereotyped as awkward and antisocial.

Who decided that software developers should have the final say over how people interact? I feel like there's probably a field or two of experts on that that should be being consulted.
When Algorithms Decide Whose Voices Will Be Heard
But not towards AGI. We're just improving on narrow AI after recent breakthroughs thanks to the hardware being powerful enough and large datasets being available.
I think if they were taught (i.e., if they looked it up on youtube), they'd be pretty good.

I remember about 20 years ago being just fascinated by the folks hired by my dad who came to do construction at our house, the key thing I learned watching them was that you needed the right tool for the job at hand (and you don't even have to own a lot of it -- you can rent from Home depot a lot of the big tools).

Insofar as smart coders are good engineers who know what tools to use and follow directions, they'd be pretty good at it. I do most of my car work in my garage myself, and I'm planning to build a room in my basement next year myself. Not only is it not that hard, it's actually extremely fulfilling and fun to do it yourself.
I don’t think either Brave or a custom advertising solution are unethical. It just seems like the barrier to entry to getting your own advertising solution up is a lot higher than setting up a site on squarespace, and that most small site owners can’t roll their own advertising solution.
possibly magic mushrooms?

https://vancouversun.com/health/local-health/b-c-counsellor-...

IMHO this is the first important existential barrier to break through. Nearly everyone goes through this, the sooner the better.

In this pursuit the Serenity Prayer is great. It sounds cliche, but repeat it enough it and becomes profound and comforting.
One could only hope that ICANN is one of the organisations so targeted.
> You don't infect the host with the toolchain's packages; you install the toolchain's packages in the toolchain chroot.

Infect is a too strong word, because normally the cross compiler will coexist well with your system. But you are right about the chroot, throw it away and start again, repeat. That is great!

I normally install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf + qemu-user-static and enable binfmt. It works well for building armhf, but I can imagine for things like ESP32 where you don't have the toolchain sources and etc.
Absolute drivel not worth reading. All politics and pontificating. Linux desktop lost because the market did not want it. That is the system we live in. Rants about Bill Gates needs to be in jail are nonsense (and I used OS/2 until 99!). I had a BeOS desktop also. They lost. Gates for whatever issue you have with his hard nose legal business practices is doing a ton of good work via his foundation. Linux desktop lost the battle, get over it. Be happy it won the war as it is in most embedded systems and almost all the servers in the world. By this logic I should be mad about that because Solaris was so much better as a server.
"Launch Ladies" was a kickstarter project.[1]

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jameyerickson/launch-la...
It’s seems to me that this could be much worse than shoes.

For example, how am I supposed to know if the Sandisk flash drive I bought was directly from the manufacturer, and not a 3rd party who is part of an industrial espionage effort? How about a Yubikey?

This is likely not just a problem with Amazon, but it sure would be nice if they gave me an option to buy things directly from the oem, guaranteed.
How about “wrote the Doom engine, then the Quake engine”. Good start?
> Stop reading/watching "the news."

This. News is new, not necessarily deep or important, usually neither.
While reading this, I see a lot of negative comments, but here's something to think about.

Machine Learning and AI isn't about producing a perfect solution; that results in things like overfitting. Instead, think of Machine Learning as a human being. No person is going to be prefect and no single person is going to be able to please everyone. Instead, it's about building a solution that generally speaking, provides "good results". Subjective, 100%.

The project just started. Once the OP starts adding new features to the data set and improving the data set itself, I'm sure the results will start getting better and better. At which point, it'll be a good system to "test your subject lines" before posting.

What's the worse it could do? Tell you a subject is great when a bunch say it sucks? I've clicked on many head lines that I thought "sucked" but ended up finding the content very useful.

Great job to the OP and keep it up. This type of work isn't easy but certainly can be fun. Fk all of the negative opinions and keep on keeping on.
Good for him. For AGI development, I wonder if the behavior of people playing multi player VR games on the Oculus platform could be used as training data.
I sometimes feel sad because I think of Comic Chat as that dreadful thing that vomited nonsense into IRC channels. But my kids would absolutely love this, and tech should always have space for playfulness.
"Italy has also invested billions of euros in a flood-protection system known by the acronym MOSE, but its offshore underwater dams have yet to be completed."
Seems like this would be easy to actually test instead of rely on a single anecdote. And the simplest explanation is a bug though I don't believe the story at all. There are probably multi-year-uptime bot servers in the wild right now.

Reminds me of when I was new to Quake 3 and found an amazing server: it was always full of players and full of non-stop action. I played with these people all the time after school. Nobody said anything, they were 100% business which was cool. I would often congratulate them on nice kills or commentate on my victories. Everyone was about the same skill level.

Eventually I realized I was playing on a server that simply filled empty slots with bots. I was the only human player.
Ok. The program Is interesting. No more side track to other 2fa, ...

What is the issue of archiving like this may I ask.
That's an argument against using Brave.
As a beginning amateur woodworker with an extensive Youtube education, but now being overseen directly by an actual professional woodworker, and without intending any snark or malice, let me just respond to that: "hahahahahahahahaha".

Watch someone hand-cut a dovetail (heck, watch 10 different people hand-cut them), then get a chisel and a coping saw and a marking gauge and try it yourself. It is not easy, even if you (as I did, to little effect) condense all the video tutorials you watch and the chapter in the Tage Fried book into written step-by-step plans.

You can absolutely do it! I'll eventually be able to do it semi-competently, I think. But I doubt you'll get there without learning to respect the challenge at least as much as you respect the work that went into getting you to a comparable level of coding aptitude.
Here is the study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5

Our criminal justice system has a heavy financial penalty component, I can see how this nickle and diming of certain economically at risk communities can result in more crime.

Ferguson is a great example, where the city made a large percentage of it's revenue overpolicing minorities (in many cases even planting drugs etc... As video evidence and DOJ investigations showed). This resulted in many escelations of fines/warrants/arrests for not being able to pay simple traffic/jaywalking etc fines.

Putting people in a position where they have to choose between paying rent/medical bills /food or escalating fines (for non payment). Also in many cases, if they could afford a lawyer these outcomes would be very different.

MLK talked about the "2 Americas", this is what the other one looks like.
Yes, info is horrendous, I hate to say this about a free documentation system, but they could not come up with a worse environment if they tried.

But the good news is I read GNU is moving away from INFO for something else, forgot what it was.
But your Applebee's analogy makes no sense. Loads delivered are loads delivered, and nobody cares that Applebee's took over their local restaurant because the owner changed. Besides, if everyone has to work for these companies, the excuse of "it needs to be this way so you can get your foot in the door" for bad working conditions is removed. Trucking jobs with large companies suck because we let them.
I think you’re mistaken. We’ll be smarter in the future, which means we won’t slap the space bar like primates anymore...
I was raised Catholic and still consider myself Catholic. One aspect of Catholicism, oft ridiculed, is an emphasis on sacred mysteries. In Catholic theology these aren't simply a way to explain miracles. Rather, the tenet is that there are aspects of the world that are unknown and even unknowable. Thus there are limits to what can be theologically positively affirmed or categorically rejected.[1] So to say that a machine could never have a soul is to say too much, at least in the context of Catholic theology.

You're entitled to your belief, of course, but simply asserting the existence of [Christian] souls and an inter-relationship between souls and intelligence isn't sufficient to make your claim.

Discussing souls is probably not appropriate subject matter on HN, but I thought it was worthwhile to make the point that even religions can have and utilize the concept of unknowns to self-limit its theological reach. Technically speaking, orthodox (small 'o') Christians (Catholics, Orthodox, mainline Protestants) only need affirm the Nicene Creed and nothing more, just like, AFAIU, Muslims need only affirm the Shahada. Thus, an orthodox Christian is supposed to affirm the Trinity, the resurrection of Jesus, etc, but otherwise free to accept or reject machine souls, notwithstanding additional doctrinal strictures of particular denominations that might dictate a particular choice.

[1] This is why you see seemingly radical priests quoted as admitting that aliens could have souls. (And also why it's so easy for Bill Maher or Michael Moore to find a priest to make seemingly contradictory and outrageous statements; more often than not the priest is playing them more than Maher or Moore understand, they're just too cynical to appreciate it.) Catholicism is hardly the only religion, or even Christian religion, with such a concept. But it's perhaps gone to the greatest lengths to develop and integrate the concept with modern logic and science.
Thank you. I write and edit professionally and am constantly amazed by how often people overestimate their own writing abilities, especially if they are very skilled in other fields. There is a difference between "using words" and "writing". The thought process usually goes: we all do the former every day, so how hard can the latter be? (Also, there are non-writing skills that are hugely important in journalism.)

The original post about journalists vs. SWEs is a comment on the content-mill, lowest common denominator nature of huge swathes of the current online publishing landscape, not about the difficulty(??) of Journalism vs. Coding or whatever.
If it could, that would mean rationalism as a philosophy would come back into play, whereas empiricism has been dominant during the scientific revolution.
> out of work

You don't sincerely believe that stuff will stop being delivered if this law passes, do you?
No, not at all. You don't owe anyone anything - but please consider their demands an indicator of unmet need. Github and other platforms make it easy for users and colleagues to contact project engineers and maintainers with new demands and PRs. You also get so much more exposure and help - but it's not without downside, as you say.

Of course, you're free to step up and solve their problems or ignore them. Offer consulting services if you'd like. Thank you for your code and your generosity either way you choose.

But, and this is key, if you choose to ignore the issues/requests and/or only accept consulting contracts to fix them: be up front about it in your README. Turn off issues on github and put the fact that you don't accept PRs in your repo notice/description.

Now, if you do that, don't be surprised if someone forks your code and picks up the maintainership. Don't try to take back your open source code. Don't complain about the other party's stewardship - a role you explicitly chose to abdicate. Don't sabotage the community.

Those are pretty much the very few things that would make you a selfish asshole in my book, friend. Thank you for your code and I'm sorry other people can be real assholes sometimes - especially to people who give their hard work away to prevent others from maybe having to do the same.

Fortunately, there are usually others who will step up and help maintain the project and deal with these demanding ungrateful bastards - seek them out openly, they're invaluable friends. If we're upfront and honest with each other about needing help - we're stronger together.
We still haven’t solved language nor intelligence.

Like what is language, what is intelligence? Some of the smartest linguists and philosophers would proudly declare they have no fucking clue.

Making Alexa turn on the lights or using Google Translate are cool party tricks though.

Idc how many Doom games ya made, but I’m sorry to say a bunch of software engineers aren’t gonna crack this one.
For those interested in continuation of Be spirit, check out Haiku OS https://www.haiku-os.org/
You are talking about AlphaGo. AlphaZero was not given any prior knowledge of the game and is trained exclusively through self-play -- and it outperforms Monte Carlo tree search-based systems such as AlphaGo and Stockfish in chess 100-0 with a fraction of the training time.

AlphaZero is also capable of playing Chess, Shogi and Go at a super-super-human.
There's a strange political narrative (in California and elsewhere) that people can't possibly make their own living without being ripped off.

All it's doing is taking freedom and choice away by squashing freelancers, not creating any new opportunities.
Function call overhead is on the order of several 10s of clock cycles (round to 100, not 10), or a few dozen nanoseconds. The actual impact of function calls is usually not so much the overhead of the call itself, but rather on the fact that function calls tend to be barriers to analyses and optimizations.

Context switches are closer to about 1µs in the best case, with interprocess context switches maybe reaching 5µs. The time here is much more variable because the really painful thing is the effect of TLB flushing and other microarchitectural state going completely haywire.
GlobalTimes accuses Guardian of manipulating videos of HK violence
You do know that if anyone has forked your project, they have a complete copy of your work. That said, if they don't opt out... well then I guess your work IS going to be archived.
> constrained problem

human AI also evolved by solving constrained problems, one at a time. Life existed before the visual system , but once this was solved it moved on to do other things. In AI we have a number of sensory systems seemingly solved: Speech recognition, visual object recognition, and we are closing to certain output (motor) systems: NLP text synthesis systems seem a lot like the central pattern generators that control human gait, except for language. What seems to be missing is the "higher-level ", more abstract kernels that create intent, which are also difficult to train because we don't have a lot of meaningful datasets. Or maybe , we have too big datasets (the entirety of wikipedia) but we don't know how to encode it in a meaningful way for training. It's not clear however that these "integrating systems" are going to be fundamentally different to solve than other subsystems. It certainly doesn't seem to be so in the brain, since neocortex (which hosts both sensory and motor and higher level systems) is rather homogeneous. In any case, it seems we 're solving problems one after another without copying nature's designs, so it's not automatically true that we need to copy nature in order to keep solving more.
And judging by how crappy content they produce they are overpaid ...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Icarus Verilog [0]. I used this extensively when I was in college around 2002. Open source, used to only support FreeBSD (my first BSD exposure), but is cross platform. It saved my ass, as I didnt have to compete for limited lab time on the few Solaris boxes with the proprietary tools we used in my VLSI class while studying EE.

I was sitting on my living room floor with my FreeBSD laptop punching out my project while others were waiting in line at 2am for lab time.

Fun times.

Wrote all of the components for a basic 8-bit ALU while watching with Mothman Propechies and sipping some Bourbon. Wrote a C++ program in that time, too, to generate exhaustive tests for all components. Icarus was fucking awesome for all this. As a commuter student my last 2 years, not having to hang out waiting for time was awesome. I got a lot more sleep, and a lot more done.

I've not kept up with its development, but its apparently now cross platform and still under active development. Any amateur interested in Verilog should definitely give it a look.

[0] http://iverilog.icarus.com
> they're made of plastic instead of flesh

Just the words I was looking for.
Cool, I hope he makes blog posts or videos or something, so we can follow along at home.
But there's 100s of world-class researchers working on this problem already.
So which are you going to do?
Scientists call it a "Just So" story. They know everyone is tempted by them, even themselves.
Sure. My point is that supply and demand does not in fact map directly to talent and difficulty.
There is nothing proprietary about Apple Pay on the web. It’s an implementation W3C Payments API.
This is probably true. And the big gains were made years before deep learning was a thing :)
They have no idea whether you would have bought something or not. Look at it through the lens of how much money you spend in a month, and what the average margin is on the things you buy. When you look at it that way it's not crazy to think there would be enough positive ROI indicators to justify that much marketing spend.
Which will be the cognitive part. The machine learning is more like perception. But perception needs to be tied into an understanding of the world where inferences can be made and one can adjust quickly to a changing environment, while learning new domains or even creating new combinations. This also includes the social-emotional world of humans and language (and not just translation), of course.
Coinmarketcap Launch: New Liquidity Metric to Combat “Volume Inflation” Problem
Hell, I welcome the fork!

It's why I toss it over the wall: "This was useful to me for a moment. Maybe it might be for you too. Good luck!"
Yann LeCun's [0] comment on the post:

Welcome to the club, John.

A word of warning though:
There is no such thing as AGI.
Reaching human-level AI is a good goal.
But human intelligence is very, very specialized.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun?fbclid=IwAR2e9mzCqS...
These models were at MoPoP in Seattle a while ago, big StarTrek exhibit there.
The nice thing about medical reports is that a lot of factors conspire to make it an easier problem that the general case.
Hulu makes it very easy to enjoy the content while avoiding ads. Just pay them the ad free rate to offset their lost ad revenue.
The authors papers can be traced through Google Scholar and other sources (though giving the specifid study in the OpEd would have been thoughtful). His homepage at NYU Stern does not list recent papers.

I suspect this is the paper in question:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w24700