skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and it's not necessarily an overt thing. As an example, we were very gender indifferent with our first daughter. She loved "boy" and "girl" toys. And colors. She loved snakes, reptiles, bugs, spiders, etc. She loved to get dirty and roughhouse, which we were fine with. She was mostly the opposite of the girls our local parent friends were raising, whom weren't even allowed to play in the dirt.

For her 4th birthday, we had a reptile guy show up. She was the only girl child that would touch any of them, let alone let snakes slither around on her. She loved it.

It's not like we shut her off from girl stuff - her only cousin was an older girl that liked "girl stuff", and our kid looked up to her. We just always presented them as equal options for her.

Once she got into preschool things started changing. After a year, now there are boy toys and girl toys. Colors are gendered. Bugs and reptiles are icky. Dirt is yucky. And so on.

I'm not going to make a claim that any girl I've never met has or hasn't been affected by society to like "girl" things. But it would take an act of god to convince me our daughter wasn't.
My proposal is intentionally moderate. If I had my way, I'd go further, but this is something I've thought about and think it may be palatable to those at SO who want to preserve the strictness and maintain respect for those who contribute. You still have to put in a lot of work to figure out how things work, but if you do the work you get credibility.

I see it as a way to meet in the middle.
if you comparing to this laptop, you should be comparing the x1 extreme gen 2... oled screen, equiv processor, same ram, lower storage (8tb == another laptop on apple upgrade pricing), trackpoint/nipple v trackpad. at that point your comparing effectively os (win/linux v OS X), on hardware pricing the Thinkpad is quite competitive and cheaper. bonus nvidia for folks that want to do ml, vs amd graphics, which afaics have pretty poor support in any major ml framework.. to which the answer is cloud.. at which point Chromebook ftw.
It is, but there's so much social pressure.

A decade ago, I bought a $4K diamond as an engagement ring for my now-wife (I didn't know about moissanite then), and my colleagues gave me so much shit since I was spending significantly less than 3X monthly salary. Thankfully, my wife agreed with me. We remain happily married :)
I've worked at Google and a newspaper (Chicago Tribune). I can guarantee you that a room full of Google SWEs could not start producing an edition of the Trib one day later, though they could absolutely put words into articles.

There's so much more that I want to say to you but I'll leave it there. You are wildly incorrect.
Background: I'm an engineer who has previously worked on research related to misinformation and built data tooling for news organizations, and I now work at a news organization myself.

Journalism is in a bad place in the United States. The number of journalists has shrunk dramatically, particularly at the local level, over the past decade. (In case it isn't immediately clear that journalism is a public good, the decline of local news has been linked to increases in local corruption and borrowing costs/debt as well as a decline in civic engagement in communities: see https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/l... for a roundup).

I think there's a lot of work to be done from a number of angles in this space, including exploring new and innovative business models for news organizations; leveraging advances in technology and data science to improve existing products; and encouraging shifts in consumer attitude (similar to the way that attitudes towards paid entertainment content - movies, music, etc. - have shifted over the past 15 years).
The article specifically covers this. Current AI is missing common sense for example. This could be lethal for Ned.

Along with that Ned is probably fooling himself already. It takes a skilled human to ask the kind of non leading questions that might even lead to the truth of what the problem is.

So far Picasso's statement still holds true "Computers are useless, they can only give you answers" (ok "useless" is an unfair accusation. Answers are useful but you need a human to ask the question and judge the answer. Picasso's statement holds true for art though.)
The Crystalline Entity from 'Datalore' in the first season of TNG was CGI, and was recreated from scratch for the remaster:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Crystalline_Entity#Back...
The size of an industry and the number of people that it employs is hardly a measure of how it benefits society. People are employed in the global spam, fraud, and mafia markets, and they spend their income on such wholesome things as housing, groceries, computers, expensive wine/cars/vacations, art. Doesn't mean that the industry contributes positively to society.
They're Pro because they block out the noise surrounding you when you're trying to work in a godawful open-plan office
You forgot "he who shall not be named"...

/ok, maybe his project falls under "total bullshit"...
When you don't, the local files that haven't been accessed in some time are deleted and only a local alias is kept. Next time you need it, it'll be downloaded.
Do you have a goto resource to watch/read for someone new and kinda interested in the field?
If you're implementing a VM, it's straightforward to do this by counting the number of virtual instructions executed for a given "process" and switching to the next one after so many executions. This is, in fact, how Erlang's VM works, and how it's able to achieve preemptive multitasking entirely in userspace (and therefore avoiding the userspace<>kernelspace context switches).
We need more people like him in AI. Super happy!
What do you think of m*modal? (If you've heard of them)
I’m not a paying customer so my anecdote maybe isn’t useful, but there’s so many databases that typically I just brush them off, but this one grabbed my attention because of the name.
This is a very artfully written statement. It avoids the most more devastating headline of “John Carmack Stepping Down”. (Yes, going part-time isn’t the same as leaving entirely, but still).
Yeah rotation matrix are not hermitian (note that you don't need to show the eigenvalues aren't real, you just need to show it's not self-conjugate). The OP may have been confused by the fact that you can make a rotation matrix of eigenvectors of a hermitian matrix, which diagonalises the original matrix into two conjugate rotation matrices with a diagonal matrix between them.
It's somewhat terrifying that a single company will effectively own the majority whole market for blockbuster films in NA.

Disney has always been a juggernaut but sheesh it's enormous now.
Back when they first introduced the Touchbar they offered MBPs in both configurations and the price difference was $400 for the same model with and w/o the Touchbar.
`start-process notepad -Verb runAs`
Writing can be art. Not all writing is art. Plenty of professional work is denominated in writing (expository writing, persuasive writing, contractual writing) that clearly isn't art. We're all writing here. If we're artists, it's in the "Sandwich Artist" sense.

There are works of journalism so carefully written that they have artistic value, but most of it has no such pretense.
Imagine inventing artificial general intelligences and then there’s some public outcry for products powered by natural, organic intelligence instead.
I like the mobile site as well, but it covers only maybe 20% of what you can do with GitHub. Where is the releases page??? The second most important page on most projects!! And there's many others missing. It's not like that part is just non-optimized - there's no link to it at all. Why do I still have to edit the URL to i.e. download an update for an app?

What's there is good, but most of it simply isn't there.
I hope he doesn’t trigger a Phobos Anomalie
> If you haven't tested your backups, then you don't really have backups.

Backups are boring.

Restore from backup is quite exciting.
The linked article already has what you’re looking for. I can’t imagine anybody that would find it useful needing a simpler explanation than that.
Lessons from a Product Manager at Google
It would be very easy for Linux to increase its market share: make it easy to run Android apps.
Man, BeOS was amazing. I don't really have anything else to add, but damn did it crush Windows and Linux desktops of the time. Performance and general UX pleasantness, both. And it was at least as stable as they were (yes, the Linux kernel rarely crashed—but xfree86 crashing was almost as bad as the whole system going down, if you were using it as a desktop).

BeOS felt so good to use.
I don't understand how he could contribute to the field of AGI research from home, by himself, and maybe with his son. It's the kind of problem that requires incredible amounts of data, hardware, and theory to make any progress.

Wouldn't it make more sense for him to join a cutting-edge team, like DeepMind or OpenAI?
How does that work? Or does it only work for snaps?

I used Ubuntu 18.04 recently, it still asked.
But time and effort does enable better pipelines to improve future data quality. Garbage in, garbage out, don’t collect garbage.
Stress testing the health care system – CSH
Yes, I started that "trillionaire" thread too.
It appears to demonstrably rebut the comment to which it responds, which implies that the problem isn't that software developers make six figures, but rather that everyone else doesn't.
Dev-Prod Parity in the Real World
What if you have to plug two or three usb-c devices?
I'm not hugely disappointed with Linux's marketshare per se, because that doesn't affect a Linux user's life as much as you might think. It does what I need it to, stably, and I rarely run into old annoyances like hardware compatibility or incompatibility with specific tools I need for work. It's encouraging that Mac OS and now Windows (with WSL) have made some effort to become more reasonable Unix dev environments too. The dollar cost of the OS on new machines doesn't seem intolerable; you can do a lot with a cheap Chrome OS or Windows device.

There are problems today that might not exist in a more Linux-y world, especially the remarkable power of a few huge companies to shape users' computing experiences. On the other hand, if Linux had had some huge commercial backer, whatever popular distribution won could have ended up with similar issues. In any case, my preferred desktop "winning" is not the only or best solution to those problems; users get some support from market forces (which I think we can partly credit for useful cheap devices and Microsoft's transformation) and where they don't help, well, regulation, including antitrust regulation, is always out there.
> I don't understand why people always discount suicides among gun deaths, as if suicides only happen to "other people".

Probably because the interesting statistic is not "gun deaths" but rather "fatal gun-related accidents" and "homicides" (with or without a gun involved). Suicides don't just "happen"; there is no "risk of suicide" which could be affected by the presence or absence of any particular tool. If you don't want die from suicide, the solution is as simple as not attempting suicide.
Even if data loss is entirely mitigated by backups, storage failure can also be a thing, and mitigating that issue used to be a matter of making at least one of your backups bootable and on media you could swap in, so this didn't take down the whole device. Not sure what techs do now, but I'll bet it involves more downtime and less continuity.

But data loss is an issue. Network backups are great, and I use them, but they're bandwidth bound. Local external drive backups are great, and I do them, but less frequently. And I don't test my backups (yet)... do you? Having removable storage -- or even storage that's reliably accessible in the face of other component failure -- provides an extra margin against the risk of loss that can creep in even with a set of responsible backup habits.

What's the pro of soldering storage to the board that outweighs these cons?
On the other hand, one of the primary advantages that the US has over Europe in hiring software engineers is that they pay them dramatically more. If US companies started paying less I could see software engineers leaving for countries with higher standards of living.
I'm in software dev, my dad was in geophysics, he's always had a much better work computer than me.
What the hell is a "functional article" though?
I remember that some OEMs (including one or two major ones) had started to go this direction, offering "naked" PCs without an OS at all.

Microsoft's response was to demonize the practice as encouraging piracy. Their argument was that obviously nobody wants a computer without Windows, so people buying them that way were clearly intending to install a pirated copy.
Blockchain is not just a data structure. It has an associated political philosophy (ancap) and get rich quick schemes (ICOs/currencies).

When NoSQL was big a decade ago nobody thought it would upend society or make everyone millionaires.
Only 10/15% ?
On what level of net income ?
Everything I've ever read about Carmack suggests he'll do his best on his own at home. Much of this work can be done on reasonable hardware, and he's always been really good at getting a lot out of reasonable hardware. Further, if he needs enormous compute resources, he can get it at any of several cloud providers.
Something as simple as simultaneous horizontal scrolling can go a long way with a side-by-side diff and that should be pretty damned simple in a browser.
Maybe post it on Twitter instead
Meal-Detection Technology Brings Artificial Pancreas One Step Closer to Reality
I recently had to set up Ubuntu 19.10 on a friend's laptop with a dead keyboard so had to use the on-screen keyboard. For some reason the keyboard wouldn't show up in the installer's text fields so no way to enter username, password, etc. It works everywhere else, but not in the installer, presumably because it's using the wrong toolkit out of the dozens of GUI toolkits available and the rest of the desktop doesn't recognise its text fields properly.

So unfortunately I still have to agree - how come the built-in installer program not play ball with the built-in accessibility features, and why wasn't this tested?

Logging in with the OSK also had a quirk - if you request the OSK on the login screen, common sense would suggest that you also want the OSK to persist once you're logged in... but no - once logged in you have to manually go in settings and enable it again. This is not a big deal, but just having someone think about the UX would've taken care of this.

Finally getting Netflix to work was annoying; Firefox is actually nice enough to let me know that the page requires DRM content and offered to enable it in one click without arguing about licenses or non-free software, but it still didn't work... after searching around it seems like I had to enable the non-free repo and install an extra "libavcodec" package. I figured it out, but I wouldn't blame a casual user if they gave up and said "Linux sucks".
“if you can’t teach it to someone else, you really don’t know it yourself”

-- Richard Feynman
Well, I would first like to read an economics paper that investigates whether the premise is true at all :)
From the guy who brought us Commander Keen.

Applying intelligence to artificial intelligence has happened before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakey_the_robot. One of the contributors to Shakey was Alfred Brain.
Check out CadQuery. It's miles better then OpenSCAD.
I completely disagree with the assumption that because something has been done for 60+ years it won't be improved by new, extremely relevant technologies. Amazon is very effective at both OR and organizational dynamics, but they found massive savings by using ML to predict demand and thus inventory/costs (Research is here - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.11053.pdf).
I think he said he's LEAVING fb...
Where and how are you working on AGI? Are you at opencog or Cyx?
To be fair it’s often not clear whether Facebook are trying to reduce integrity, or create it. :)
Might be a little burnt out from the "cutting-edge team" at Oculus who painted him into a corner with technology that could never work, as it made every user sick.
I don't think there would be enough storage capability to store that many node_module directories.
Artificial diamonds are more flawless than natural diamonds. And natural diamonds are not rare. And they’re not forever because they burn easily.

These are all things you’re not supposed to know.
I actually emailed them about discounted prices for students and their suggestion was to just use it in unregistered mode.
I think we just got 50% closer to making AGI happen.
A64FX Arm Chip Gets a Big Push from Cray
1. Smashing a schooner glass at the pub and collectively yelling "Taxi" as a visceral response (this must have taken generations to embed).

2. Keeping mental tabs on which mate always ducks out before they buy the round and making up for it at a BBQ by grabbing a beer out of their Esky. Possibly leading to a fist fight at around 11:30PM and then making up at around 12:01AM.

3. "Sorry mate" as the default response when you're unable to grab the door for a stranger because you're a few CMs too far away.
I'm sold. Now try to convince the people who are important to convince and have a good laugh. Reliable data collection is the biggest challenge for modern medicine. A challenge far greater than getting better statistical models.
Of course the next-gen system(including people and machines) should be proven as trustworthy, before being used.

Nobody here is against that.
Arm Makes Headway in HPC, Cloud – WikiChip Fuse
Box. (YouTube)
i say this with respect and humility, but i am very surprised at the naivete with which John addressed the subject of AGI. he is so casual about it -- not only the idea of working on it but also the idea of it existing at all. he seems oblivious to the gravity of that discovery. it is not just "very valuable," it will be earth shattering and probably wipe out humanity. and its his side-project. and his son will help out.

John is the perfect representation of what is wrong with peoples attitude toward AGI. aloof and naive.
Do you and your family exclusively use laptops and phones manufactured after 2017 without any external peripherals? Because it's still hard to find USB-C on anything else. Even some of Apple's own devices still cling to lightning.

Sure, some motherboards, peripherals, and displays have type-C ports, but they're still very much the exception.
It depends. A marketing team worth their salt won't do things that substantially increase bounce rate just to capture a few emails.
I think I sense a bit of sarcasm, but doing things you care about for free is an essential part of the free market, something the cronyists, the trade unionists, and the communists never respect, it seems.
John Carmack seems like a guy that would've made fundamental contributions to science, had he been born a century before.

Computer science now occupies the place physics once did, in its impact on moving the world forward.

Best of luck to him, I look forward to seeing what he produces!
It might make sense for him to join a team like DeepMind, but we could guess that the "working from home by himself" bit was a lifestyle change he wouldn't compromise on.
Registers should have zero latency. They're literally within the same part of the CPU that decodes the instructions.
I think many people expect that a lot of the missing "special sauce" for AGI (if anyone can figure it out at all) is going to be something for which massive GPU power isn't a key factor.
My view is that you want many people working independent from each other towards the same goal, and that everyone working in one group could hinder creativity/lead to groupthink
Because of course he is. Because John Carmack.
Right -- and I would absolutely put Venice in the overwhelmed category. When I travel I try to experience the local culture as much as possible and I simply wasn't able to find it in Venice. I walked around the city for hours (which is a lot, Venice is very small) and the parts that weren't overwhelmed with tourists or part of the university were completely lifeless.

Most of the locals live on the mainland, anyways. Venice itself is a living museum at best.
Progress in AI is due to data and computational power advances. I wonder what kind of advances are needed for AGI.

1. Biological brains are non-differentiable spiking networks much more complicated than backpropagated ANNs.

2. Ion channels may or may not be affected by quantum effects.

3. The search space is huge (but organisms aren't optimal and natural selection is probably local search)

4. If it took ~3.8b years to get from cells to humans, how do we fast-forward:

* brain mapping (replicating the biological "architecture")

* gene editing on animal models to build tissues and/or brains that can be interfaced (and if such interface could exist how do we prevent someone from trying to use human slaves as computers? Using which tissues for computation is torture?)

* simulation with computational models outside of ECT (quantum computers or some new physics phenomenon)

Note: those 3.8b years are from a cell to human. We haven't built anything remotely similar to a cell. And I'm not claiming that an AGI system will need cells or spiking nets, most likely a lot of those are redundant. But the entropy and complexity of biological systems is huge and even rodents can outperform state of the art models at general tasks.

IMHO, the quickest path to AGI would be to focus on climate change and making academia more appealing.
Where does sign on v(i,j) come from? The arxiv paper says that it is possible to extract the phase factor, but it does not say how.
I feel the same way about my favorite programming languages. I'm glad there aren't giant Haskell conferences that are more concerned with making the language "friendly" and "accessible" than making it useful. This is what happened to Python, etc, and I don't think it's a good thing.
I know someone that had a fling abroad and their fling began asking for money for treatment over facebook

The American assumed it was a scam and the person did die

I have often found that truth is stranger than fiction, and people are too conditioned for fiction that they can’t perceive truth
>Runner up for next project was cost effective nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that style of work.

I can't tell if he was serious about that comment or not... Considering he builds rockets with free time, it could go either way.
So the textbook way is:

1. Roots of characteristic equation det(A-λI)=0 give the eigenvalues.

2. Solve (A-λI)x = 0 for each eigenvalue to find each eigenvector x.

It seems very plausible that step 2 can be reduced to an equation.
The article mentions a companion paper about how this was used to speed up physics computation, so it sounds useful at least in that domain.
If you have knowledge of a crime and make it easy for the people committing the crime to cover it up or actively mislead investigation you will almost certainly catch some sort of charge. If you're not well to do that charge will probably stick. Meanwhile the cops that turn a blind eye or cover for cops falsifying time cards, keep their mouth shut about planting evidence and drive their drunk buddies home from the scene of the crash get what?

And that's not even counting the massive double standard when it comes to lethal force.
>> eliminating "works on my machine" build problems

This was eliminated way before Docker. Amazon had this problem solved around 2009 when it was not a new thing in the company. LXC also predates Docker. I think you are talking about immutable images that can run on any OS. This is what Docker introduced. This is not as ground breaking as people try to make it, this is why commercial success avoided them at the first place.