skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t be so sure. I mean it’s anecdotal, but I rarely buy things. I buy all my clothes from the same internet store, and I do mean all, I have five pairs of shaping new tomorrow pants and when they get worn I replace them with the same damn pants. I heard about them from a coworker who uses them. Almost all my purchasing habits are like that, and I suspect I may not be the only one on HN.

I do click on the occasional Kickstarter boardgame advertisements, but I never end up backing because we always end up playing bloodbowl anyway.

On the other hand I do subscribe to the internet part of a Danish news paper that along giving you access to articles also removes all adds for paying users. I guess that’s sort of what brave wants to do, but who wants the hassle of buying alt-coins and reporting the taxes on it?
This simple environment is a form of the Multi-arm Bandit Problem, which has been researched and productised long ago. It's being used in advertising among other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
That he is leaving oculus is big enough news to be here on its own.
Wouldn't that most likely be the Snapdragon 410?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526982
Cool, any idea if it has mobile screenshots? And also the network speed?
Smartphones solved the portable monitor problem. What humanity needs now is a truly portable keyboard. Something that you can carry as easily as a smartphone and that lets you type as conveniently as on a good laptop keyboard.

Are there any promising attempts at this?
Screen is too small for dev work.

I use Termux on my phone with a bluetooth keyboard occasionally and it works really well for light dev work. I wouldn't want to work in it all day, but if you're just hacking a shell script or some nodejs stuff you don't need a massive monitor.
I like that you put Danielewski in (almost) same sentence as Einstein. HoL is a stroke of genius!
Ah, you've almost described the contemporary profession of being a Machine Learning Priest.
I buy the allergy friendly one of the store brand that I’ve never seen an advertisement for. Since it’s the store brand the type variates since I don’t always shop at the same store.

But you’re right, I probably buy Coca Cola (and like it better) instead of Pepsi because of life long branding. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an online advertisement for Coca Cola though.
True, but AlphaGo is specialized on a very specific task where planning and deep thinking is a basic requirement for high level play.

We don't need to think 10 "turns" ahead when trying to walk through a door, we just try to push or pull on it. And if the door is locked or if there's another person coming from the opposite side we'll handle that situation when we come across it.
Generating papers is research. I don't understand why you dismiss all papers as pointless.
It's the rear camera that's activated...

https://twitter.com/neo_qa/status/1190639141979140097
After the recent postings about various nuclear weapons, I went down a wiki-fork-bomb and came across this, the "Disney Bomb". According to TFA anecdotally this bomb and even category of bombs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb) was inspired or even triggered by a propaganda movie produced by Disney studios (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Through_Air_Power_(fil...).

This arms race in bomb and armor development is fascinating and terrifying at the same time. One place where this is seen very clear is in how armored vehicles (afv, tanks, etc) and their armor develops over time compared to the kind of rounds that is conventional at the time. For example, I was surprised that explosive reactive armor wasn't as efficient by itself nowadays since it's common to use very long, hard, needle-like projectiles that aren't as affected by ERA. Some tanks try to alleviate this by introducing a large void space and distance between layers in which the "needle" will tumble, losing lots of energy. See eg the turret front armor of the strv122 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsvagn_122). That angled thing is mostly empty air.
This was honestly quite impressive; it was billed as a "failure" because he got his frequent flier miles confiscated. It was a total success except for the fact he went and bragged about his shenanigans on social media. Would have gone great if he'd kept his laptop shut.
Dell's DA300 can do 4k 60Hz with DP1.4 though.
And intel added dp1.4 support starting with Ice Lake.
If you wanted to write your own JVM or port the JVM to a different OS you had to pay something like $1M. I wouldn't call it big money because there aren't that many OSes. J2ME phones also paid royalties (which led to the Android lawsuit).
Ok, we've frontloaded Chaucer for you in the title above.
I did my msc thesis in AI back then writing a dedicated simulater for a specific robot used in autonomous systems research. You find that especially when trying to faithfully reproduce sensor signals you need to dive deep into not just the physics of e.g. infrared light, but also the specific electronic operation of the sensor itself.

But that kind of realism is not needed for all AGI research.

I also spent some years on using evolutionary algorithms to evolve control networks for simple robots. The computational resources available at the time were rather limited though. Should be more promising these days now that your commodity gaming pc can spew out in 30 minutes what back then took all the labs networked machines running each night for a few weeks.
so does this match what you describe?

https://epiphany.pub/@shi-yan/introduction

(A github for learning materials that allows people to collaboratively create content. )
great question. This test's version is desktop/good 3g, but putting in feedback for a mobile version.
> it only addresses memory in 64KB pages

is this by the standard or implementations?
>> Maybe we can find solace in the fact that is or will soon be infeasible to avoid, so we needn't try to avoid it.

It's the meager solace of the absolution of personal responsibility - there's no way to avoid it, so at least no one can say "why did you allow that to happen to you".
if you're curious about testing different networks based on mobile, you can give this a try - https://www.chinafy.com/tools/global-speed-test?
Facebook Tracks You on Android Despite Not Having an Account
Sounds like Allwinner: "Our tools will allow you to flash, backup and clone any Allwinner-based device including but not limited to C.H.I.P., C.H.I.P. Pro, PocketC.H.I.P., Popcorn Computer, Kettlepop and various Banana Pi or Orange Pi devices" [0]

So, maybe something like the Allwinner H5?

[0] https://community.popcorncomputer.com/t/popcorn-web-tools/10...
I had one of these. It was really nice hardware but the OS / UI horribly complex (bit like Blackberry with multi layered menus) and battery life wasn’t great.
> forcing management to pay higher wages,

Independent truckers don't have management. They make more money and don't pay union dues. That's the whole point, and why the Teamsters want them gone.
Well pointed, thank you. I did some looking and it seems the 'dog sniffing ovarian cancer through the belly' hasn't been reproduced in any controlled study yet (that i could find). Could just be via breath/skin secretions/etc.
The pinebook is a laptop with a 14" screen, this is aiming to be far more portable with a 4.5" screen (can we even get phones that size anymore?), so they're not really in the same category. It's competitors are more like the GPD pocket (https://www.gpd.hk/gpdpocket2) which I've been umming and ahhing over getting for a while as a machine I can do some coding on while commuting or laying in bed.

The silicon keyboard probably allows it to be smaller without fat fingers becoming an issue and this looks like a better form factor for my usage than the clam shell of the gdp. My big issue would be whether or not it allows for multiple keys to be pressed at once.
The other day I brought a large furniture and no other option but to transported with the trunk of my car open. The car has "protective" beep system whenever the car drives with the trunk open or with seabelt off. So my car was beeping the trip...it almost drived me insane.

It is so sad that I can no longer control what my own car does. This is only about to get worse as tech improves.

Heck our phones and computers are probably sending thousand of telemetric information right now and we don't know or control. It just a matter of time until cars do that to, and we cant not longer control who to utilize our own cars.
I love the idea of using the Sims as a platform, as it's a place where it will be blatantly obvious that 'effective' AI without built-in ethics is repulsively inhuman.
> How long has photo manipulation been around? And people still fall for it every minute of every day.

People fall for headlines every minute of every day.
Anyone interested in this might consider the GPD MicroPC. It has become my go-to "fits in a cargo pocket" computer.

They had a battery controller issue initially with the Indiegogo batch, but that has been solved on the ones you can get from Amazon now.
I am reminded of his programming retreat :).
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2110408722...
I like how they treat the robots and the human on equal terms in the photo label :) No need for a second renaissance anyway.
Didn't notice given there's no way to see if you have an unread reply. Sorry!
https://outline.com/psTmaB

https://web.archive.org/web/20191112155656/https://www.bloom...
The point is that you can more easily and clearly sandbox the wasm plugin. If the python implementation tries to send http requests but the wasm sandbox has no network access you are safer in wasm than in python.
I feel that's something the EFF could sue against
Yes, AGI is as much or more cognitive neuroscience and philosophy than computer science right now, but a lot depends on the approach one is taking. It's funny to think you have some kind of working model you can throw research data against to see how it holds up, and then doubt yourself when you spend 3 hours on Twitter arguing over fundamentals with another person that is also convinced of their model. A lot of popular ideas sound crazy (or non-workable), so you just have to accept that whatever idea you are pushing is going to crazy as well.
Also, built-in support for Tor, WebTorrent, MetaMask and IPFS.
Not quite a pocket pc, but famously and recently, the librem 5[0]. My comment below wishing them luck hinted at this, it's almost expected for them to falter during delivery, ghost everyone and disappear because it has become a sadly familiar pattern around these open source electronics in small factor (phones, pocket pcs and the like).

[0] https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...

HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369733
Microsoft’s A.I. and research chief Harry Shum is leaving
>In conclusion, your entire comment is a collection of the very worst, lazy and dishonest arguments and excuses for advertising.

And yet you couldn't address any of them without dodging the material part of the argument in favor of faux outrage, generalities, and personal preference topped off with a belittling logically unsound conclusion.

Cool.
Obligatory XKCD citing: https://xkcd.com/224/
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825473
When you ask HN about Bay Area housing, the fact rent/tax was low when you moved in doesn’t justify freezing it now...
> 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.

Sigh. I assumed the whole point of hiring John Carmack is that you trust him to identify critical problems - and to find the best way to solve them.
It’s just silly how women get away with this. In a equal world. Imagine if a man said I like the cultural aspect of you staying home and cooking/cleaning while I work and it’s non negotiable.
Fair enough, but I have had one in the last 7 years, and so has my sister. Hard drives in both cases.
Great article. I was recently wading through this problem for my work setup. I was going crazy wondering what the actual technical limitations were with USB-C vs Displayport over USB-C versus Thunderbolt. I ended getting this WAVLINK dock for $150 with Thunderbolt 3. If you want Dual 4k montiors and USB 3 output + power for your laptop I recommend this.

https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-DisplayPort-Thunderbolt-Charg...
The twiddler is a chording keyboard that leaves one hand free and with the strap, can be used while walking.

https://twiddler.tekgear.com/
Ceteris paribus, of course.
Was looking at these micro pc's and one of the more annoying things is that `|' is not in its usual location. I was hoping to install linux on one and having the pipe in a nonstandard place might take getting used to.
Time to fork ICANN. We knew this day would come, it is time for a DNS schism.
Ask HN: Do you write tests before the implementation?
I mean how many of you stick with this test driven development practice consistently? Can you describe the practical benefit? Do you happen to rewrite the tests completely while doing the implementation? When does this approach work for you and when did it fail you?
You are indeed right. If I wasn’t on mobile I would have searched for an alternative URL, in my ingenuity I thought to give some community service by anticipating the downtime to users that read comments first(as I do)
Honest answer:

I have lived in Austin for 10 years off-and-on (I had a startup where I had to drive 6 hours to a different State every 2 weeks for 3 years). I have lived there permanently for 7 years.

I have also lived in Houston, 2 other cities in Texas (including Midland), 6 other states in the U.S., and was not born or raised in the United States.

For the last 7 years, I have also worked for companies where the tech headquarters were either in NY or SF.
That's because you're ignoring the actual article and the discussion around the article and going on a tangential rant.

You're basically "feeling comfortable" derailing a conversation to talk about what you want to talk about instead of the actual topic.

Classy.
Why is a 17lb cat ok in the passenger area but not a 22lb cat?
What are the odds one will work with a MacBook Pro?
What scientific work has Carmack done?
The wrong part of that inequality is the backlash that man would receive.

Ideal world, both of them feel free to express their wants clearly and early. Equality in being shamed for wants is a bad equality.
California fur ban has some Wisconsin farmers worried
If you look at papers from corporate AI researchers (FAIR, Google Brain, DeepMind, OpenAI, etc) they pretty much do whatever they want.
I merely meant that top mathematicians are substantially smarter and can work with concepts that are beyond the reach of even top programmers. We are generally good at recombining existing building blocks and using existing tools. Mathematicians can build new concepts. If I had the money, I'd try to convince the top mathematicians to work on AI full time.
Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Triggers Federal Inquiry
There are many free public datasets available on the web.

I have an open source project on crawling public datasets and make them searchable in one place: https://github.com/findopendata/findopendata.
But it makes consumers feel better about their decision.
Imagine you're a techie and wondering if this very minimal refresh to the iPhone is worth buying?

"It's our best yet"
or
"It's made for pros"

I mean, as you pointed out, it's fancy PR/textbook examples of good PR.
There are lots of ideas floating around. Everyone who has studied the field has ideas. Ideas are cheap, results matter. The problem is we don't know if any of these ideas would work, and proving an idea requires lots of data, simulations and compute.

Being good at grasping the theory is just the first step in a thousand mile journey. The problem of AI is not going to be solved with a neat math trick on paper, but with lots of experiments. Nature has taken a similar path towards intelligence.
You don't even need designers or perfumes.

Reviewers apparently even complained about fakes of this product[1].

I guess the margin must be immense, when you can have a knock-off manufactured for a couple bucks and then sell it for "half price" compared to the original.

Your "savings" won't lead to a happy kitchen experience, though.

[1] https://ch.kuhnrikon.com/en/kitchen-essentials/kitchen-essen...
Using GitHub Actions to Check Builds
I regularly programming on my iphone using the blink shell[0] with an external keyboard. I'm actually more focus when programming on the phone instead of a desktop/laptop. However when any kinds of visualization are involved I immediately go to desktop

[0]: https://github.com/blinksh/blink
The day when starting a receiver fixed the transmitter
If you continue to break the site guidelines, we're going to end up having to ban you. I don't want to do that, so would you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here? They include: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He’s not working on AGI with Facebook.
Strongly agree!
Posted just two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516427
Makes you feel good.
Clicked on Business and got "an unexpected error has occurred". Also, mobile experience is very much treated as a second class citizen on this site.

First thing I'm greeted by is "Unlock for $9.99". Instantly off-putting.

Curious though how real world does it go? I've got a course I've paid for lined up to do as my next project after I'm done with my current one which is making a clone of the internet banking experience of the bank I use. That course is a full AWS Serverless project that assumes you've already got AWS Developer Cert level of knowledge and the course is about how to a make production grade application. Pretty excited to go through it.

The real-worldness of being taken through something that is realistically complete to a production quality level is something I find pretty compelling because it's something ordinary tutorials never give you. That's worth money.
I saw this headline and was briefly excited for a moment that a USB-C hub finally existed. That is, a device like an ethernet hub or a USB hub, that would turn one port into several other ports of the same kind.

This is an article about USB-C port replicators. Four years into this and not a real single USB-C hub exists. I’ve never seen such a botched rollout.
In unsafe rust you can arbitrarily increase the length of a vector/string by modifying the stored length. You do not need to forge the pointer itself to break the pointer's invariant.
I was at the Mountain View library earlier today and noticed two slabs of the Berlin wall are on exhibit out front. It's a surprising coincidence to see an article on Berlin wall fragments on HN. In any case, if you're in Silicon Valley, you can stop by and take a look.
Implementing Blockchain for Good Governance. Is It Feasible? – By Laura Cullell
Idk i would love good answers here
It's a fallacy to say that Engineering is "harder" than Journalism and expect that to mean anything. They are different skill sets. Is being a Mechanic harder than being a Musician? These are meaningless comparisons.
Social media. simple just likenow!
I would rather prefer windows
The Pursuit of Creativity Can Make Algorithms Much Smarter
I've been excited about AGI for a while, mostly because it wasn't a very competitive field, until now.
Because of societies high cat beauty standards.
I've been told the USB-C spec doesn't allow for hubs like that.
Not as portable as you might like, but I carry a vortex core[0] with me to program on my phone. It weights around 440g and is very programmable.

[0]: http://www.vortexgear.tw/vortex2_2.asp?kind=47&kind2=224&kin...
I planted a poinciana on my nature strip about 6 years ago along with 2 dozen or so native grasses and shrubs to fill the area along the fenceline. Legally it is council land so they could rip it all out if anyone complained.

What we found though was the council actually worked around all the natives even when they had to replace the mains water pipe. They also remove underbranches from the poinciana to keep it clear for pedestrians. A few people did break branches off when it was at an awkward height but not a problem now it's 30ft high. Makes a huge difference as it overhangs the driveway and out over the road.

If you're thinking of doing this, definitely plant natives and stay away from powerlines if it's a big tree and you shouldn't have any problems. Was hoping a few neighbours might have done the same but no luck.
And I disagree violently. The deepmind folks are on salary and every year they need to prove that they are worth the money. This applies to Demis himself: he needs to prove that his org deserves this gaziliion of dollars per year.
I believe you're right. But that makes me really wonder why any pimply faced teenager in Kentucky, who downloads a dozen songs illegally gets the full hammer of the law crushed on him, but Amazon can get away as a mass distributor of fake goods.

I wonder if they're more careful in Italy or France, since those countries take a very dim view on fakes, entities that sell them and even buyers.

Buying knock-offs in Italy can cost you a fine of EUR 7'000[1]

[1] https://www.godsavethepoints.com/italy-knock-off-goods-fine-...
USB-C hubs are not permitted by the spec.
Let your friend enjoy too!
Booking (iirc) forbids hotels from having better deals on their own site than what they offer on booking.
Whats a BI stack is is Bi?
It's interesting to hear. I have not seen a lot of Macbooks in any of the companies I worked for nor the one we partnered with in germany. At least in software development, in creative domains (photo, video) things are different.

In north america Macbooks seem to be more or less the default hardware (also mainly my personal impressions - since I moved there).
Dont die . One word . thats it!
They do mention Penrose notation in the linked arxiv paper[1], as well as Cvitanović's Birdtracks[2] which let you do calculations on representations of groups.

They claim they're making it more accessible with pedagogical examples (and innovations in representing differential vector calculus).

I still prefer index notation. Their notation looks pretty intricate and I think it would be really hard to do long calculations in it. It's also not clear to me how you'd generalise it to non-commutative vector algebras like in quantum mechanics.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.00892.pdf

[2] http://birdtracks.eu/
W3Schools helped me alo.t i know thats not a book but just a shoutout to all my questions!
The need to generate publishable papers means that a researcher can only participate in activity that leads to such a paper. He can't try to work on that idea for 5 years, because if no big papers follow, he's toast /he'd probably lose funding long before that).
Meal-kit subscription service Plated is set to close by the end of November
Nice - I like how basically every site I test doesn't work in China. Didn't realise how badly sitse perform there.
I made an effort to address the argumentative core of your argument. It's hard, because there is no core to the argument, just a kitchen sink of bad assumptions and weak arguments.

And let me assure you that there is nothing "faux" about my outrage.
“When remedies are over griefs are ended”
Twiddler.
I am waiting to see just how many times you can actually fold / unfold before the screen breaks.
Why the downvote? I had enabled limit ad tracking and at least when I updated to iOS 13, limit ad tracking was suddenly turned off.