skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any interactive reward-giving environment E, you could place X into E and see how much reward X gets; likewise for Y. If X gets more reward, you can consider that as evidence of X being more intelligent.

That's an odd definition of intelligence. By that definition, a bird is more "intelligent" than a human at the task of opening a nut. Seems like "fitness" would be a much more appropriate term.

It seems especially strange to consider this work in the field of general intelligence. Nothing about what you just described is general. By this definition, a chess bot is much more intelligent than the average person. I don't think we'd say a chess bot has general intelligence.
The vaccine controversies are more subtle than can warrant an outright denial. The Japan legislation of 1994 widely cited, some cases were proven to be unrelated to the vaccine, however it was ultimately a moral question of whether the government could mandate a medicine, even with a proven public good, if there was any non-zero risk of complications. Which is a standard admittedly difficult to achieve.
He will be surrounded by brilliant peers, sounds good.
Better for the environment and traffic to not have two vans roll up to your house a day.
You ever think that cattle are exploiting humans to genetically propagate themselves more successfully than any other large mammal besides Humans?
With another dataset that is non-anonymous, you can cross-verify with the anonymous data to increase your confidence of who they are. This happened when Netflix released anonymized user ratings. Researchers were able to deanonymize some users by using IMDB ratings.

https://www.wired.com/2007/12/why-anonymous-data-sometimes-i...
Fusion John, we need you in fusion research. It's only 10 years away
This is easy enough to answer by looking at the provisions in the bill.

https://iccoalition.org/top-news/california-dynamex-decision...

> The Court adopted an “ABC” test for determining “employee” status for purposes of the wage order, which presumptively considers all workers to be employees, and permits workers to be classified as independent contractors only if the hiring business demonstrates that the worker in question satisfies each of three conditions:

> (A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact; and

> (B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and

> (C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed for the hiring entity.

Your friend's subcontracting would be covered by case C. The problem becomes if that subcontractor that your friend sometimes works with only ever does photography work for your friend, and isn't "engaged in an independently established trade" they might run into problems. At some point that starts to resemble a part time employee.

> C Factor: Is the worker customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed for the hiring entity? The Court interpreted this factor as intending to identify an individual who independently has made the decision to go into business for himself or herself, for example, through incorporation, licensure, advertisements, routine offerings to provide the services of the independent business to the public or to a number of potential customers, and the like. The fact that a company has not prohibited or prevented a worker from engaging in such a business is not sufficient to satisfy this factor; rather, a hiring entity will need to prove that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business.
From 2004, when people used CRTs and not LCDs.

Maybe still relevant, but you should at least keep this in mind.
Guy sounds like he’s projecting his loathing of his ex-girlfriend onto people who want to live rurally or something. Also, his use of the word nostalgia makes no sense.
I don't see why that's not GI. That HI enables us to do incredible things, far beyond what we evolved to do (we evolved to hunt and fuck and exist in small groups, not to do quantum mechanics).
Uh, he's taking about a paper route. Like a paper boy.
Remember that video game, riding your bike up the diagonal street?
So yeah, those jobs in that small town will end the same way they've ended in every town, with mail carriers
Can you explain more about how the OOP bits don't work? Also, how would you challenge their vision?

The article falls in a bit of an uncanny valley, I think. It almost makes sense, and could be more irritating than it is.
Unfortunately we probably don't get to choose and I'm pretty sure we all know which of these is more likely to get funded (well, maybe not the giant part though).
how do you type "e_{ijk}"?
Either way, indirectly or not, Google makes money from people looking at ads. What would happen to "advertisers" if everyone blocked ads? Would the whole industry collapse? It's hard for me to see how that wouldn't affect Google.
I have so much respect for Disney and Bob Iger in particular. But something feels lacking about a single company controlling all the best-loved stories in a culture. It’s like a monopoly on sentiment.

Until the last 100 years or so it’s been the case that a given culture’s stories — folklores, mythologies, and religions — were in the public domain. And while they were at times subject to tight control, e.g., non-vernacular liturgies, they were more typically “owned” by everyone.

I don’t mean this as a criticism of copyright. I support copyright and how it incentivizes cultural creation. But I wonder about whether there’s space for more stories we all own, that can be interpreted by everyone, and, most importantly, that create the same powerful feelings of attachment Disney is so good at creating.
Free (libre) software sort of faded into existence, simply because the notion to copyright software faded into existence, and free software sort of relies on people to consider that software can be copyrighted in the first place. "A-2 System" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System is roughly the first open-source software, although I'm not sure an explicit license text even existed.

The second question is what will enter public domain first, business-owned software or individually-written software. If the latter, which open-source developer has died the earliest?
Sounds like a new version of Pascal’s Wager
I learned RDBMS systems via Oracle, the default is READ COMMITTED isolation level, seeing people from non RCI systems experiencing RCI is always interesting. Good little article.
Energy Datasets, Models, and Softwares at ACM
The idea that the expansion of TLDs, sold as some sort of democratization of domain names, was anything other than a money grab is a joke. It's exemplified by ".sucks" forcing trademark owners being extorted to pay to protect their brand. As soon as ".sucks" is played out financially, look for ".isshit", ".killsbabies", ".molestspets", etc., etc., to spring up to monetize hedging haters.
Seeing Is Believing? More Like Seeing Is Buying
What is actually being argued is the cult worship of a particular engineer. I am against cult worship, so find the fact that Carmack is entering this space simply not news worthy. Yet here it is.

Do I wish him the best of luck and hope he cracks the problem? Of course, all the same I would wish that of an upstart PhD student. Yet, the announcements of a brilliant PhD student attending a university to work on AGI is somehow not on hacker news.

This is cult worship of the personality Carmack has amassed, perhaps completely accidentally. When Carmack actually achieves something interesting let us discuss it then, not the mere announcement that he will try, as if that means anything. Read: it doesn't.
It's not even a new lawsuit. It was originally filed October 5, 2018: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/casdce/3:2018cv...

The story seems to be created based on a PR release (https://millerpublicaffairsgroup.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/i/5...) that CTA issued after amending their complaint (https://01a3edcb-713b-4446-a7f4-8c833b6d990e.filesusr.com/ug...).

The Fox article is just an AP release: https://apnews.com/7f23a934b6514560a2c9f3bb5ee326c0. I guess the author emailed the press release to the politician and went from there, threw in Berkeley because it was in his inbox too.

There are other articles, e.g. https://thetrucker.com/california-trucking-association-two-o... has a Teamster's union source (but no politician).

https://www.routefifty.com/management/2019/09/california-gig... from September has some of your prized trucker sources, they basically say the same thing as the association except they sound more scared and anti-union.

There's not much to see here besides the continued death of journalism in mainstream news.
It's not about empathy, it's about realism and cost/benefit.

I, for one, am not against assistance to those that are loosing their home, but that assistance needs to be the most efficient one. Remember, any efforts and resources being spent assisting this particular situation will be taken from some other issue yah needs them. At what point does one say it's not worth it?

Venice is a beautiful city full of art and culture, but at this point it's fall seems inevitable. It's sad, but it's the way of the world, things rise, flourish and eventually fall.
A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's
Can you please read the Show HN guidelines and follow them in Show HN threads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Note this also from the site guidelines:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was literally just researching tts (text to speech) programs yesterday and I believe Mozilla’s open source (open source in this case meaning weak copyleft) TTS [1] also uses Tacotron and is trying to implement multi speaker tts currently [2]. I literally just posted Mozilla’s TTS to hacker news [3] without even seeing this which made me experience a bit of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon [4].

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/blob/master/README.md#major-t...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21532189

[4]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Fre...
We have a saying in French, loosely translating to "Your freedom stops where mine begins". Limiting car speed on streets means the street is a bit less dangerous and less car-centric. Better for pedestrians and cyclists.

Plus the asymetry between automated speed controls vs human drivers can't last much longer.
If you have AppleCare you won’t have to pay for that replacement. After 3 years, you would, however buying a laptop with an inferior OS just in case one day a machine catastrophically fails is like riding a horse because you are afraid your car might fly off a bridge at some point in the future.

I know I am anecdote-land, but I have never in 20 years of using Macs, had one catastrophically fail. Or fail at all for that matter.
Time to wind down all the .org domains of more than trivial import.
Even the rocketry example that is hailed here as a success mostly wasn't.

This demonstrates how hard the problem is. When you're tackling a really hard problem "mostly not a success" is a success. Most people faced with the same problem would return "no successes".
A dog brain can't design an artificial dog brain, and a human brain probably can't design a human-level AGI.

That's ridiculous. A dog can't draw a dog, therefore a human can't draw a human?
The wonderful world of insects
That's an interesting fantasy, but I see no evidence that people will go from paying happily for content to refusing to pay for anything. People have been paying for video for a hundred years, and there's no reason to think the business will die now that technology has drastically decreased distribution costs, lowered production costs, and increased quality.
_Never At Rest_ by Richard Westfall is the authoritative biography on him.
> "Doom" probably won't be remembered by then.

Given that DOOM has been ported to virtually every platform known to man, I’d argue the opposite.

Besides, in many instances, art survives while knowledge doesn’t. I suppose the digital age is different, but you never know!
It begs the question, though: is the development of AGI contingent on some magical breakthrough, or is it a matter of endless tinkering and cobbling until we've got something that works?
Different article, same title, 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10434974

Related from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19528250
There are multiple movies of all the stories that the Disney classic animated films are based on. Most of them are not made by Disney... Indeed, at least 3 of them are produced or distributed by Netflix.

Copyright doesn't stop people from making movies about folk tales. The cost of making a movie and the generally low returns do.
Yeah I believe in this too. It's not exactly politically correct to say so for a number of reasons, but if you listen carefully to some public intellectuals, behind the scenes they believe the same. For instance, noam chomsky will talk about how the ability for humans to speak language is hard coded. That if we really were some piece of clay to be molded, noone would be able to run their own life.
This is an awesome explanation and imo much better than the article! Thank you!
Can you expand on why you think his Wikipedia article refutes what I said?
How about "faster than anything interacting with them (so effectively infinite"? (I agree that calling it infinite is a little weird, although it's better if one considers that infinity is usually shorthand)
Here's a list of 20+ discontinued Microsoft products in the realm of communications. Comic chat is on the list.

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
Viewpoint Toward a Computer for Visual Thinkers (1988)
This could have some implications in the computational expense of trilateration for GNSS?
> about a year ago to dive in to AI (that's all this guy needs to become pretty damn proficient). (edit: I'm not claiming he's a field expert in a week guys, just that he can probably learn the basics pretty fast, especially given ML tech shares many base maths with graphics)

To be honest anyone who has a very good working knowledge of Linear Algebra can learn much of ML-math in a day. There really isn't anything mathematically super-sophisticated that is in popular use today.
https://www.foodglad.com/food-calorie-burn-calculator
Just start typing in a food, choose one from the choices offered, and find out some useful/interesting ways to burn off the calories.
> 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.

Isn't context switch also where spectre/meltdown mitigations hit the hardest, too?
"Wow, there are a lot of people in this thread arguing whether or not John Carmack has the right skills to help AGI, or about the specifics of his knowledge.

Do you all realize you're arguing about nothing?"

Absolutely. I should mention why. AGI is an open field. AGI is opennest of open fields. Advances in deep learning tell quite little about what AGI will look like. We don't know if AGI will be a hundred incremental innovations from deep learning, ten deep advances from deep learning or five incredible advances with only a slight relation to deep learning. We don't know if it will just appear when 100 super-computers are hooked together or if a genius at home on their laptop could cobble it together. Sure, you could extrapolate and say compute has mattered more than theory, so far. But you could also say impressive things have been done but they haven't approached robust generality and there's something we're missing. Pick the approach but then you'll have to see if it's possible.

Etc.
Stop staying up late to watch DUST on Youtube.
This point is incorrect. There are unfortunately many companies that sell consumers' information directly [1][2]. I understand people have hatred for big companies collecting advertising related information. Nevertheless, it's misguided to pretend the industry of directly collecting and selling private information doesn't exist. Your ISPs can and do collect much worse data about us. The potential damage is much worse. I'm more worry about the lack of oversight on that industry.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/t-mobile-sprint-...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2015/09/30/when-and-w...
They should assume some water will get in (it almost certainly will) and plan around that.
Implemented in hardware? Software? Protocol flaws? By ISPs? By other infrastructure operators?
you over-estimate the amount of training they receive.

physicians usually hit their stride 5-10 years before they kick the bucket.
GitHub launches a mobile app, smarter notifications and improved code search
Yes, Brave's approach is interesting. No, there's no reason to think that Google will have a problem finding other ways to fund services that people like and use. They already charge people for Docs, Gmail, and YouTube. Search is funded by non-display ads, which most ad blockers don't bother with because their relevance means people like them.
It absolutely does not - please cite this.
This could have some implications in the computational expense of trilateration for GNSS applications. "Optimal trilateration is an eigenvalue problem" <title of another paper>.
Insurers and hospital would only love to keep inflating bills higher and higher, and high physician comp help to justify that.
You know of 0 species that would strongly disagree, because those several million species don't have the capacity to agree or disagree on whether "wiping out humanity is a bad thing". And you don't speak for them, no matter how much caring about the planet you think you're doing.
> Plus recycling plastic is pointless - it's environmentally better to burn plastic for energy.

Source please? This seems very counter intuitive.
You can also type on a smartphone without a physical keyboard...
Always liked him ... humble dude .. will he give us the fast inverse square root for AGI ???.

But I suspect that "intelligence" is not so structured and reducible as we would like .. it somehow just works.
New Genetic AI Algorithm Automatically Evolves to Evade Internet Censorship
Depends on the incentives placed on ops.

All too often, they're responsible to handle things breaking, but not responsible for getting features out the door.

Hence, they become a huge gate to get anything out; they have no incentive to help you.

Meanwhile, you get dev owning some of the operational burden, and it works pretty well. Until you have compliance needs to separate them.
ShaderToy FX Coding: Twisted Toroid
Could you list a few fields of research where "X amount of person-hours of research by typical researchers will solve the problem"? I can't think of one.
Why tech has failed to innovate in education?
Tech has been a success in e-commerce, social networks, transactional apps like uber or ebay. It has however not made a significant dent in education. Why ? What do you think is the reason ?

I have a hunch why thats the case. The reason is that past success in transactional business has biased tech industry towards solutions that are transactional. Education is anything but transactional, unless you count selling books as education.

The success of past has put a filter which prevents good eductech companies.

Education is a workflow that spans easily months or years to be effective. A good startup in this area would avoid being transactional, instead it would learn from success of another tech process that is long drawn. That is making good software. The kinds of process that helps to make software development more effective are the kinds of process that would make long drawn learning process effective.

This begins with github for learning lessons which allow people to collaboratively create learning lessons. The best ones created by community would float to top based on approaches similar to guthub stars or npm downloads.

So much about learning effectively is about creating and and managing content flow and collaboration.

Today creating and sharing text, photos, videos, audio is extremely simple thanks to advances in tech and mobile.

Today collaboration in real time over internet is increasingly easier to add to any app. And this is not restricted to chat.

Today algorithms can do great job of helping you discover learning content as thousands and millions are created by people.

All this and more would in my view would create an education platform for tomorrow.

Let me know what you think ?
"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. Isaac Newton, a posthumous child bom with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage."
By that logic you should definitly buy lottery tickets.
> Where do you think /proc came from?

UNIX 8th Edition (http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pdf) and SRV4 (https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_f...)

A better analogy would be /dev, but that was already part of Unix from the beginning. Plan 9 is really about per process, user mountable namespaces implemented by 9P-speaking user processes; basically what you said, sans the origin of synthetic file systems and file-like objects.
I wish I had forgotten about this. Hopefully this webcomic's persistence is actually due to it being a PERL script riffing on dadjokes.txt and whatever reddit lol monkee cheese stuff from 2012.
The average Google offer is way higher than Amazon. There are stats to prove this. Even without the offer the benefits are way better. The hiring bar is higher. Look around you...very few people make the opposite move. You will probably retort with some hyperbole. But everyone knows that this is the truth.
Guide to Create Your First React Native App
> I get why SO chose their current aggressive stance on dupes, but it's probably time to try something else.

Work is under way here and elsewhere: https://forum.codidact.org/

Based on my past actions I guess I would be happy to donate a few dollars to anyone who makes a better q/a site and makes me aware of it.

By better I mean:

- important current database (allowed with current licensing)

- rewrites the meta game to make helping (answering) more valuable than administering (deleting).

- raises bar to asking questions (stack overflow seems to always be crying over all the stupid questions they get yet the thought of raising the bar for asking questions never seen to get any traction)

- have a karma tax or something on questions and contributors: just because someone was the most valuable contributor or something was the best question two years ago doesn't mean they still are.

- don't split into many subsites for every topic, if people want to ask it and other people want to answer it and it isn't illegal or scary or anything, bust leave it alone. Karma tax will take care of it in the long run.
VC Tweet Bot: a hacky parody of silicon valley
3D images created from single speck of foam
A big part of the problem is separating food vs non-food containers made with the same plastic - this tech can help with that by identifying the use even after the label has been removed and the package partially crushed.
This sounds like an immature attitude towards the stereotypical sysadmins that you expect to just 'deploy your shit'.

See how this can swing both ways?