skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Game AI has nothing to do with AGI (or even regular AI) beyond the surface level description OP provided. The reason game AI hasn't progressed in the last few decades isn't because technology is holding us back - after all we can already achieve impressive machine learning feats using current-gen GPUs - it's because bad NPC AI is by design, so players can learn to overcome them and succeed. Very few people want to play a game that always beats them. Most games use simple state machines or behaviour trees with predictable outcomes for their NPCs because it would be a waste of effort to do anything more, and actually negatively impact the game by making it less fun and burning engineering time on things the player won't benefit from.
You are getting down-voted because you didn't read the article.
I'll keep it simple, so that you can't keep obtusely ignoring it: there are stats on rape. So they are fact. There are no stats on "women's assertiveness". So they are not fact.
Apple is being careful with implementing rushed, poorly specced standards.
Really interesting article! This quote was particularly insightful and thought-provoking:

"Teens in America are in touch with their peers on average 65 hours a week, compared to about four hours a week in preindustrial cultures. In this country, teens learn virtually everything they know from other teens, who are in turn highly influenced by certain aggressive industries. This makes no sense. Teens should be learning from the people they are about to become."
Read "Three Laws Lethal", by Walton.
This issue was the genesis of the short-lived VirtualLink effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualLink

VR headsets wanted four lanes of DisplayPort, USB 3.1 for data, and power over a single connector, and no existing standard supported that.
I remember reading sentiments like in the late 00's and early 10's and feeling justified in feeling that I at that age was being infantilized by society and that teenagers and people in their early twenties are more capable if they were given just, as the article puts it, not just more freedom but more responsibility. Today though, more than 10 years later, it seems the pendulum has continued to drift even further, with some people suggesting, as the article hints, that adults aren't really adults until perhaps 30.
What should we learn from the Ayodhya case and the verdict?
What's more movies get privileged in a weird way over other things. Avengers: Endgame brought in $2.7 billion and is the highest grossing film of all time. Only 5 films ever have broken $2 billion.

Phantom of the Opera the musical has made $6 billion, blowing Avengers out of the water. Wicked the musical has grossed $3 billion, more than any movie ever made. Same for Mamma Mia!.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) made $600 million in the first 72-hours, far more than any movie ever. League of Legends makes $1.4 billion a year, again more than any movie ever made. Fortnite makes $2.4 billion.

In the UK, more people watched The X Factor than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The book Diary of a Wimpy Kid sold over a million copies in its latest installment.

Yet none of those things enter conversations about cultural affinity in the same way movies do.
I try to go for a walk or swim. While I don't work as a developer, I work with many of them - and during the day we make wonderfully sedentary creatures (save our fingers), so I find that going for a walk tends to help me unwind from my day and be more creative the next.
You've asked for example of management that doesn't involve politics, I've given mentoring. It's apolitical. There's no reason a whole company couldn't work in that style. There are other styles and other cultures around, different from a style common to big corporations in the states. I'd guess in Japan corporate world you probably can find unique styles that are also apolitical. I'm not sure.

I think your analogy works. And it seems that we agree, it'd be stupid for a manager without pilot's training and expert knowledge to make or impact "strategic long term decisions" that impact the flight in a flying airplane. And we likely agree that interference of a manager (who is used to exercise power) will likely make negative impact on rational expert decisions of a pilot.

Regarding "strategic long term decisions" outside the airplane - we can just look at the recent example of Boeing debacle with 737 MAX. Again, a good question would be - would the situation be better, if the company board had people that had bothered to go to flight school, ground school and had been certified as pilots?
FTA:

> An ex-WeWork employee says Neumann frequently pushed hard to cut costs associated with office furnishing, a major expense.

How much could the furnishings have possibly cost? They lost 1.25 billion in the third quarter[0]. Sounds almost like fiddling while Rome burned.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/13/wework-q3-2019-earnings-lost...
I believe "speed up" in this sense is really akin to how Cramer's rule lets you write down a relatively neat formula for the solution of a linear system, not that it would actually help with performing the calculation numerically.

Computing a full set of eigenvalues of a numerical matrix is pretty slow and the eigenvectors almost come for free; it seems like a very computationally backwards way to get n+1 full sets of eigenvalues only to get slightly incomplete data about the values of the eigenvectors.

I don't know anything about the physics of it, but I doubt that the researchers had numerical matrices that this formula helped with; I expect it was all done symbolically instead.
Most interesting part is the patent picture that shows how they avoid a crease in the screen: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/US000...
To the last comment within the article: yes, we’re accustomed to laggy websites. Most sites have tons of chatter/bloat/trackers. Refreshing to encounter those that don’t. Thankfully HN is fairly low-bloat itself.
of course you can!

you only need to press ENTER (to create a newline) and BACKSPACE (to exit the current block). You never need to press TAB
Do you hate click bait?

Do you wish the "free" content was of higher quality?

Do you think a insightful blog post, youtube video, or similar content is worth rewarding the person who made said content?

Seems like the main evil of advertising is that it doesn't directly reward the maker of the content. Most of it is sucked up by the middle men who siphon off most of the money and force the content providers to work ever harder for their ever smaller fraction of the proceeds.

Using brave seems much like using Patreon to sponsor your favorite content providers. But instead of trying to manually set a $ per month per provider you can just use your eyeball time to control each content providers share.

Seems like the internet where brave (or similar) was popular would be a much nicer place than the current advertising.

Wouldn't you be willing to pay $20 or similar a month if that meant zero ads for you and your favorite sites got more money than they get through advertising today?
I use display-link dongle as port of USB-C docking station. It plugs and unplugs well, but driver uses a lot of cpu and there is no graphic acceleration. Not sure if would handl 4k video. Great for IDE.
Like relu?
The VR vs AI comparison is interesting to me, because I think both technologies have come in “waves”. However, I think this is the last VR wave - it’s going to be on a steady gradient to ubiquity now - whilst I believe AI will winter again and there are many more waves to come, and decades (centuries?) to pass before AGI.

Reasoning being:

VR is just making what we have better. Better screens, better refresh, better batteries, better lenses etc etc. I don’t see any roadblocks.

AGI, by contrast, is not going to be a better DNN. Harder to convince people but thinking is: brain neurons are vastly most sophisticated than digital; we don’t even fully understand what neurons do; we don’t have anything other than a vague understanding of what the brain does; it is apparent that we engage in plenty of symbolic reasoning, which DNN do not do; DNNs are fooled by trivial input changes that indicate they are massively overfitting data; from what I’ve heard from researchers at top AI companies/institutions DNN design is just a matter of hacking and trying stuff until you get that specific results on your given problem, so I don’t see where DL research is actually headed; improvements are correlated with compute power increases, indicating no qualitative gains in the study of learning.

I’m incredibly impressed by DL’s achievements but I believe at best current methods could serve as data preprocessing for a future AGI.

I’m actually quite glad that AGI is so far off, because I don’t think that it’s likely big tech companies will use it responsibly.

VR OTOH is very close and is going to change everything (and IMO is likely a necessary step towards AGI).
That'd be excellent pay in most of rural America (the ~99%).
Half of you folks here are like teenage girls in highschool gossiping with each other about Kristen dumping Drew and instead trying to date Paul.
I believe this too, I think everyone in the field should probably first study the biology, workings and evolutionary mechanisms behind it. I think you first have to understand why actually such level of "GI" exists in humans, what's the actual purpose upon which it evolved. In a perfect world without constraints we would never exist (or life at all), because there would be no constraints that shaped us. Our mind and the way we think is built around the world we live in. Without all the sensor (and other chemical / inside the body) inputs the brain would not work - it would stop to work after the body and inputs are detached (even if you kept supplying all the nutrients). I don't think you can just "store" or encapsulate GI on digital storage because you would have to emulate all the complex environment inputs which it needs to function in a comparable way to humans... We are the "product" of the environment we live in.
Well, the Rosetta Stone was just a mundane tax decree and that does not take anything away from it's significance.
Most importantly, polish the tool.

I'm not going to get my boss to pay for something that is made out of duct tape. If you want to sell something to people who probably know how to build it themselves, you need to impress them with something shiny. While it should work perfectly most of the time, it should also come with helpful error messages when it doesn't like the input. If I come across some cryptic, ungooglable internal error or access violation or assertion where I'd have to contact support to even understand what's wrong, I'd rather delete your tool immediately.
You can overload any function in c++. It's multiple dispatch.
> There's the adage in the enterprise space that, if you haven't tested your backups, then you don't really have backups. Most consumers, and even professional users, aren't likely going to be in a position to verify their backups before they actually need them.

This is why having more than just one computer is beneficial. Because I jump between multiple laptops, desktops, and other devices, and perform my work and other activities, I bring with me copies of my data between devices by necessity, whenever I need that data.

And I think that is actually the way to do it. Not to focus so much on trying to keep multiple copies of all of your data since forever, because then you get bogged down in details about keeping everything in sync and everything organized, but instead to just focus on the data that you actually need, and being conscious about making copies of data when you use it.

In the past, when I was using fewer computers, I had one computer that was sort of the canonical location of data. And I’d access it over the network and work on my data there. It had great uptime too. On the order of months. Then one day there was a power outage and that was when I realized that I had no idea what I had set as the password for the full disk encryption on said machine. Ooops :^)

I lost a fair bit of data that day. But I learned something too, and that learning has shaped my habits in how I deal with data and I can proudly say that in the years that have passed since then I have been able to hold on to all of the data that is most important to me.

I almost got blindsided by 2FA a couple of years ago, because I didn’t know that the keys for the second factor were intentionally kept device-local. But thankfully I was changing phones with the old one still functional and in my possession and was waiting with performing factory reset until after I’d set up the new phone and seen whether or not I had all that I needed. So because of that all I needed to do was to log in with the 2FA of the old phone on each service I had it on, temporarily disable 2FA and then reenable it with the new phone and when I did that I also saved all of the new 2FA keys so that in the event that I might actually end up having to switch phones because the new one broke in the future I would not end up locked out of my accounts.
Want Custom Quotation- Get It Done with T Shirt Printing in Delhi
That is so nice! And I thought I had it made a few years ago when I lived two buildings down and three floors up from the best Indian restaurant in town and would call them to place the order then go downstairs to pick it up twenty minutes later. Calling. On the phone. Pfft.

The daily menu thing is especially endearing.
There has to be a mechanism where you can get your account back if you provide some form of identification. I know that you get into other issues that way, but 2fa without a mechanism to restore account in case of phone/code loss (or inability to access, which is somewhat likely if you don't keep multiple copies of your codes) is pretty stupid.
However, data collected for that "legitimate interest" may only be used for that specific legitimate interest. They can't turn around and use it to end-run the consent requirement.

Also, the "legitimate interest" of the business is required to be weighed against the interests of the data subject, so it isn't a blank check.
I wonder how this is even patentable.
.eth, the Ethereum Name System. https://ens.domains/

You can register an ENS domain here https://app.ens.domains/

ENS is mature, but the tld is not yet wired into dns. For now there is a bridge of *.eth.link, eg. https://almonit.eth.link/, see https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/ethdns-9d56298f...
And yet Quest beats all other headsets.
I think it's more that I'm using the app/program/protocol in a way in which it wasn't meant to be used.
Reminds me a bit of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk
I understand and I will endeavor to avoid any comments that may be mistaken as such in the future.

My question in this instance, although a bit antagonistic, was actually totally sincere: the fundraising fraud issue was a big legitimate criticism of Brave a while ago, and I was curious if it was still valid, having not heard anything more on the matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
Who asked for this? Why? Who has a problem with the current height of phones? What will this enable? Did Motorola hit some kind of pocket-height-limit for their dream of an ultra tall phone?

I'll be happy if this becomes the CmdrTaco comment for the 2020 revival of the Moto Razr, but I doubt it.
These people know what they are doing. Even while optimizing for size, they kept the full set of control keys on both sides of the space key(s).
Breach affecting 1M was caught only after hacker maxed out target’s storage
What do the younger readers think of this?

What got me is "30 is the new 20". That may be mostly economic, driven by student loans keeping twentysomethings broke and the decline of middle class job openings.
I would say that being a success instead of a failure is something new. The JVM was successful but not for plugins, nor for embedded safety.

Also the fact that many vendors have reached a consensus on both a MVP and an update process to future features looks like a win. If Sun, Microsoft, Apple, and Google had all been on board with the (supposedly free software) JVM the story would have been very different.
To be honest, diff on mobile is a narrow use case. Also, given git's treatment of lines as atomic units of versioning, the data model didn't lend itself to mobile friendly views
Not holding value is a different thing though. The permanent gift creates an obligation to keep it.
Pure Text Social Networking
Note that this is not final. I haven't given any serious thoughts to it. We'll discuss pricing if this works and businesses are willing to pay for this service. At this point, this is just an experiment.
It's nice being rich.
PhDs are fundamentally not about a team effort. They are about recognising a single persons ability to produce and communicate novel research in a highly specific area. Unrealistic expectations are as much a part of this process as they are anything else.
It is intentionally not portable.
> I'd be happier if there was some notion of an inherent value in my eyeballs

Your eyeballs only have value if they’re willing to look at things that other people are willing to pay to have you see. Thus ads.
Artificial Gaming Intelligence (AGI).
My point is they are not constrained to working on ads, or anything specific, and their work is not pointless.
Is this maybe an American thing? I live in Germany and I know nobody of my age who got a diamond for their engagement or wedding ring, including friends from other countries.
Human survival, like composing hackernews comments and learning about Golang.
What kind of development is feasible on Mobile? I hope it's on hobby projects though
We should support public goods like the Ethereum Name Service https://ens.domains/

You can register a domain at https://app.ens.domains/
Oh you sweet summer child. If you want to buy a laptop these days, you have to shell out 300$ for what is basically half of the motherboard and connect it externally over USB-C.
>>I think it's quite unlikely his solo work in a new domain will leapfrog an entire field of researchers.

Sometimes, an outsider with his novel or even a different way of looking at things can contribute disproportionately to a field.

Even experts have blind spots, often they show in the form of bias. If you know something is hard or near impossible to do, you are unlikely to try. If you don't know at times it's possible to stumble upon a solution by merely bringing a new way of thinking to the table.
This isn't going to change. You should do everything in your power to get a better supervisor, particularly for your dissertation research. You're early enough in the process that starting a new project, or modifying your current project, is completely worth it to get a better supervisor who actually supports you and will help you graduate. Talk to other grad students to see what they think of their advisors.

Also you should try to find other faculty (and possibly postdocs) to advise you who aren't your supervisor if at all possible, and try to form an informal group of grad students to meet periodically to discuss research and grad life in general.

And remember it is a marathon not a race, so overworking is usually unproductive unless you are up against a strict paper deadline (even then it's unproductive but may be worth it in the short run.)
It's very hard to quantify attention. And also, is that the most important? Quantifying a reward should not be given to an algorithm. That's the only reason why things like this[0] happen.

For me the best way is either a Netflix style network (like safari books), or something like [1].

[0]: https://unhashed.com/cryptocurrency-news/are-fake-websites-a...

[1]: https://taler.net/en/
Just made electric cars mainstream...
"Researchers in England may have finally settled the centuries-old debate over who gets credit for the creation of calculus.

For years, English scientist Isaac Newton and German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz both claimed credit for inventing the mathematical system sometime around the end of the seventeenth century.

Now, a team from the universities of Manchester and Exeter says it knows where the true credit lies — and it's with someone else completely.

The "Kerala school," a little-known group of scholars and mathematicians in fourteenth century India, identified the "infinite series" — one of the basic components of calculus — around 1350."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/calculus-created-in-india...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_School_of_Astronomy_and...
Wouldn't it be fun if the next Newton turns out to be the guy who wrote Doom and other FPS, games that were blamed for any kind of surge of violence until the GTA games show up?
Discussed on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8597556
Given the standard quality of innovation in patents granted, this is better than average. Check out this patent for instance article about a patent amazon filed for a photo-studio setup
https://mashable.com/2014/06/07/photographers-shouldnt-be-to...
> Once upon a time doctors would taste urine samples!

"Ayurvedic physicians (5th/6th century BCE) first noted the sweet taste of diabetic urine, and called the condition madhumeha ("honey urine")." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_diabetes

A more palatable way to diagnose diabetes is to check if your urine attracts ants and flies.
If Haskell is your thing, this may be of interest

https://lukelau.me/kaleidoscope/
Yes. The good news is that most of the mass will probably not reach escape velocity and eventually gravity will do the job of pulling it together.
Easy. You show that Samsung spent a zillion dollars trying to make a folding phone and the display still creases. Best way to demonstrate novelty for patentability is to point to an expensive failure to solve the same problem.
You might also like umatrix for this, it gives unmatched control over blocking resources.
Quite suprising Motorola couldn't push the navigation bar down slightly, that wastes a lot of space at the bottom. I know the article says android needs a rectangular navigation bar, but a lot of phones with rounded corners on the display just crop the navigation bar (e.g. Oneplus).

Would this have been possible with that much larger bottom curve, or are there parts of the Android UI that would be cut off? The little hint that comes up to switch to portrait/landscape mode comes to mind.
(For reference, the Motorola brand is now owned by Lenovo, so presumably this could be considered a Lenovo phone.)
I think in this context, minimalism doesn't mean "lacking important parts" like a keyboard or mouse produced by apple, but rather, something you can use without a graphical server, not gobbling up memory by embedding your program in a locally running browser.
I laughed at the example comic, deadpan is always great
I am using Caddy internally in fleet mode and Node.js. Caddy takes care of SSL negotiation, provisioning, and renewals. My Node.js app sits behind Caddy and proxies requests to the origin. I am trying to create an edge network where SSL is negotiated at a location that is closest to the users. Caddy is battle-tested, but managing multiple Caddy servers, monitoring them and backing up the certs can become cumbersome. That's the reason I am trying to automate the whole process for businesses.