skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low impact can also be stressful for me (I might be unusual). First, there is guilt that you are being paid all this money to twiddle your thumbs. After you stop feeling guilty for the wealthy corporation, you realize that you aren't fulfilled if you aren't achieving anything meaningful, which causes you to go on a stressful hunt to scratch any real impact out of the available work.

Then after still achieving nothing, you get nice ratings on your performance reviews, and then you realize that barely anyone is actually having any real impact. There is an enormous organ you are attached to that absorbs money to write fluffy annual performance reviews.

Then you eat ice cream in the nap pod hoping that you can feel content with your extreme comfort, but the most meaningful change in your mental state is a mild brain freeze.
Microsoft's Yammer cert expired
What to Do About Bias in Algorithms
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)
I think you're being far too generous. Low end would be systems which just about meet the system requirements, regarding CPU, GPU and Memory.
Ok, Locutus.
personally i think the line of code that the today's internet owes it's thanks to is:

$(document).ready(function(){});

If it wasn't for jQuery, no one would be programming web applications the way we do today. jQuery was THE single advancement in creating the modern web.
I just read the article (what I assume is the article) and I would not characterize flagging of it abuse of the system.
Because that requires a level of courage beyond removing a headphone jack.
We did not purchase the training data, we licensed it. In retrospect it was clear that we had obtained the license to use the data to train a model, but not entirely clear whether we had licensed the rights to commercialize the model (e.g., sell the weights on our fairly generic neural network.)

That said, lots of things start getting confusing, when confusion means owners of the data might make millions off an acquisition.

In this case, it was medical data. The owners were technically the sovereign that licensed the medical data to us. But technically, the medical images had been read by independent doctors who only granted an upstream license to the sovereign to use their reads for medical diagnoses for patient welfare -- not to downstream license the reads to help someone else train a model to theoretically put doctors out of business.
Well, XFCE resource usage grew with GTK3, probably :(. But there's something off in their test methodology. They claim to measure idle RAM usage, and there's 2x difference between tests, on same distros..? (for comparison, my Arch XFCE install takes 480MiB after boot)
I agree that pricing the externalities is fairly counted, but the GP comment framing it as a subsidy is still dishonest: someone could easily read that Stat and decide that you can add the $N trillion from carbon tax revenue to the $5T in removed subsidy, and they'd end up overcounting by about $4.5T
There's no reason to believe we fall anywhere in said saga
Huh? AlphaZero doesn't have opening or end game books, it just learned to pay chess by practising, an inhuman number of practice games.
Social media and sensationalized news is definitely not helping. But I think the bigger issue is lack of community and close social bonds.

Americans have significantly fewer close friends than previous generations[1]. They're much less likely to know their next-door neighbors[2]. Church attendance (which has traditionally been a major source of social capital) is way down, especially among young people[3]. Membership in civic organizations like the Masons and League of Women Voters has virtually disappeared among young people[4]. Adult sports leagues have sharply declining participation[5]. Even family reunions are disappearing[6].

These trends all started in the 1980s, well before social media and clickbait headlines. Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone in 2000. In a lot of ways I think modern Internet culture is a reaction, not a cause, of our social atomization and anomie. People are lonely and searching for human interaction in any form, even if it's just culture war bickering with strangers on the web.

Of course the problem is its a poor substitution for real-life relationships. Online interaction offers a temporarily relief of loneliness without conferring any of the long-term mental health benefits of actual social interaction.

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=550938...
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/daily-digit-americans-dont-kn...
[3] https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christ...
[4] https://prospect.org/infrastructure/strange-disappearance-ci...
[5] https://www.athleticbusiness.com/Recreation/slow-pitch-softb...
[6] https://www.wyso.org/post/family-reunions-tradition-decline
It's definitely a 5. I would expect that they'd use the same tool to cast the '9' as they would the '6' (just turned 180 degrees), and the character in question pretty clearly has a different angle connecting the "bulb" to the "feather" than the '9' in the year.
And unfortunately it seems like the question that many people are willing to give Apple a pass for.
And yet Usain Bolt still runs.

The impression I got from Lee Se-dol in the Netflix documentary was that he had a lot of his identity tied up in this (particularly being the best Go player in the world). Not a huge surprise given the time and effort required to do it, but there's probably a healthier mental framing (I think Kasparov has a healthier one).

If people give up on learning or doing something every time someone or something else can do it better then there's going to be a lot of disappointment as things continue to move forward.
I quit media and social media and almost don't use my phone anymore. It worked for a while but after a job change and a move I feel more isolated than I ever have. The existential dread of how the world is doesn't help. I feel hopeless and terrible and it's effecting the relationships I do have and my work. I'm seeing a therapist and started working out and cooking for myself more and it seems to just be getting worse.
> Is it such a mad rush to push reviews online?

Yeah, it's a huge deal. You want to be selected by The Algorithm to be the authoritative review, and being early appears to help.

Is that good? Nope. Can the reviewers change this system? Not easily. So here we are.
We are not Linus' audience.
We've seen that suicide rates in very poor countries tend to be quite a bit lower. This leads some, my self included, to hypothesize that it is the cliff that one can fall off of in society that causes more of these issues.

In the US, a person can go from making an upper middle class salary to barely being able to feed and house themselves in less than a year.

If a person has a criminal record(even a misdemeanor) and no college degree, their odds of any type of success plummet.

With high divorce rates and custody issues, many people find themselves unable to regroup social and spend the rest of their lives essentially alone.

As we have a more and more polarized society of winners and losers, we will see drug use and suicide continue to increase as people lose hope for improving their situation or cannot cope with significant, and likely permanent, regressions in their quality of life.
'Your argument is as morally repugnant as racist arguments' as a response to 'I don't think machines will ever capture human aesthetics or emotions' is ridiculous, glib and ugly.
After reading a couple of case studies on their website, it looks like GUIs... I'm guessing they use something similar to AutoIT with screen recording. I worked on a lot of AutoIT back in the day... This is probably a good market to get into for any saavy entrepreneur.
> Is it such a mad rush to push reviews online?

From what I hear, yes. The first video with a review get all the initial clicks, and is therefore recommended over all later reviews, since they have a higher click count. This compounds, and any later review is essentially doomed to obscurity.

> If your clicks go down because you wait 48h with a review to make it properly, that sounds like a serious problem...

Yes, many people have complained about this phenomenon on YouTube, but YouTube does not seem to want to change it.
The solution is to ban development in large stretches of North America, tear down the fences, and return the land to an open ecological preserve, like it was before colonial settlement in the 19th century. New England underwent something like this after farms started being abandoned in the middle of the 19th century.
Could be a landmark paper. At a minimum, it shows that all evaluation methods should completely negate teacher's impact on height. It seriously calls in to question a ton of research that I would have assumed to have been good.

Excellent work by those that wrote the paper.
You are correct. The country is currently projected to be majority Amish by 2200.
On the Pi at least, once you've got a card set up you can `dd` it onto another card. Saves a lot of time when rebuilding. I tape them to their respective cases so they're easy to find when needed.
Oh look.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339362
Nobody "deserves" to stay in another country unless they are there legally.
The Bomb in the Garden
I have a Surface, easily the most popular x86 tablet.

Running Linux on it had been a nightmare, I tried surface-linux and that just broke sleep.

To this day I cannot reliably get Wi-Fi to work out of sleep despite trying every fix in the book.

Sound breaks out of sleep.

Hi-DPI support is still a joke, which is a problem when most (all?) high end x86 tablets have hi resolution screens since they're meant to be used up close.

At one point I started to get logged out every 60 seconds if I tried to put the cover on it. Turns out hibernation was improperly configured, so instead of warning me, it'd log me out, try to hibernate, then try again 60 seconds later.
> It's fairly close to what I have in mind, but it's also mostly static, I believe. It would need enhancements to handle interaction and UI updates better.

XAML Behaviors and Storyboards have been around since very early in XAML history. They aren't fun to write by hand, which is why originally they were a "Blend thing" focused for Designers mostly (and a lot of the XML namespaces still have "Blend" or "Expression" keywords in them) and the non-Designer Developer story for them has always lagged behind, which sometimes seems a shame because they can also be really powerful.

> And I'm not sure about its cross-platform abilities, but I haven't tested the limits.

There was the brief period where Silverlight was very cross-platform. Xamarin and Uno and Avalonia all seem healthy and to imply that XAML works well cross-platform.
Why China Is Building More Coal Plants Than the Rest of the World Combined
>Ubuntu shipping with 3.34 is realistically when the bulk of Linux desktop/laptop users will see it.

Fedora is up there. In 2019 Fedora may potentially have a larger "desktop" user base than Ubuntu. Often times people will lump in Ubuntu based distros as Ubuntu, inflating Ubuntu's popularity, but in this day and age Mint probably has more desktop users than Ubuntu.

Ubuntu's popularity is being reduced to AWS these days, but lets be fair here: Who uses Ubuntu as their primary desktop of choice when there is better distros for every user need? Right now, Ubuntu is the goto desktop OS for those who want to run two gpus on a laptop and that's about it.
It’s significant, for sure, but I’d probably go with XMLHttpRequest as even more significant for web apps.
Worrying about our future is not useless. As people worry about things, and as they grow older and become our leaders in government and business, they can push to improve our world. We didn't get to where we are today by people just relaxing and not worrying. Thinking about the future, and worrying about problems, is what drives us to a better place.

Some anxiety, therefore, is a good thing. But when there is too much, it overwhelms people, it is a real problem.
I prefer to call them wizards, it sounds more... magical.
Similarly, is there a simple way/tool to generate ascii diagrams?
This is about human drive and what's the point if the computer will always be better. In a way it makes the game a bit less fun because it somewhat kills the elusiveness of it all and the human aspect of men trying to surpass each others feats. If a man cannot beat a machine at a task where they are to compete directly, what's the point of trying at all if the machine will always be better?
Legal USA residents and citizens have been detained for months by ICE, JSYK. Believing your legal status protects you from having your rights stripped is leaving us all vulnerable.
So Russia would annex a portion of the US and not trigger war or any conflict?

Yeah, no that's highly unlikely.
Is there anything inspired by this in JavaScript land?
I hate, HATE, HATE touch screen interfaces in cars. They lack the tactile feedback that I prefer to rely upon when modifying a setting all while keeping my focus on the road.

Voice commands are hit and miss with my accent (a mix of english and canadian french) so they don't work really well either.
Sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying some group paid for bot upvotes on this HN post? Or they only paid for tending on other sites, but HN's upvotes are organic?

And what would be the point of paying for trending on this article? Is there some sort of political gain that could happen by this being shared? Previously you mentioned ad revenue. Usually it would be a losing venture to pay for tending on an article then try to recoup that money via ads on that article.
The underlying policy predates Macron, as it was decided under Hollande (albeit Macron was his economy minister). The policy is to raise taxes on gas little by little to reduce its usage, and that of diesel even more quickly so that the prices of "normal" gas and diesel would converge by 2022. [1]

Macron decided to go faster than initially decided by Hollande. I would not call that a "fast one", especially given that IIRC it was announced during his electoral campaign. Macron electors are mostly urban middle class, so are not affected by taxes on gas that much...

[1] Here is a graph (the article is in French): https://www.ledauphine.com/economie-et-finance/2018/10/24/pr...
> ICE is terrifying whenever we travel

As a child of immigrants and proud American, I’m not sure “terrifying” is a fair response. It’s certainly uncomfortable. But it shouldn’t be enough to push one (here legally) into depression to the point of suicide or drug use.
I think achieving superiority over humans is practically solving the problem though. Solving chess or go by going through a complete search space seems more like a hardware/computational goal than a practical ml/ai goal.
Then it seems you'll stay in this depressed state for a while longer. I agree 100% with what OP said, having experienced the benefits for myself. I never actually 'quit fb' or whatever, I just lost interest after realizing how constantly bombarded I am with stuff that has absolutely no relevance to my _actual_ life.

I wish you all the best and brighter days in the future.

EDIT: oh, btw your comment resonated with me because of the 'scream into the night' thing. That's also how I felt when I was a teenager who was into punkrock. There's this sense that your suffering somehow accomplishes a sort of martyrdom. But it really doesn't and it only helps to further one's negative thoughts.
I've tried a lot of meetups ranging from things like board games to hiking to organized sports, and while they're nice ways to find activities, in my experience most people show up in groups and it is vanishingly rare to see the same people more than a few times.

Volunteering and local community events seem more promising, but they have the same general issue: at least in the past few years that I've been attending them in search of community, you rarely see the same people more than once or twice.

Thanks for taking the time to offer advice, though.
I don't even know how to respond to this. Do you really believe "yelling at the fucked up shit" will do anything positive? There is no change without actual action. If anything whining in to the wind will just exhaust and alienate people.
Self-driving cars is a terrible comparison, especially since the state of the art right now is that the best human drivers far outpace the best AI driving, in both skills and flexibility.

Plus, you only have to outsmart the car AI once to 'win' - e.g. just override one 'drive into the highway barrier' or 'run over that pedestrian' AI mistake.
Crypto is a relatively inefficient market. Equity markets are too efficient: there are too many smart players and alpha is very hard to find. Crypto is a little easier, though that is changing fast.
Comparing modern technology with decades old technology and claiming it's a fair comparison for safety standards is wildly disingenuous.

How many modern vehicles spontaneously burst into flame? I could easily believe it's orders of magnitude larger than for Teslas, but when you make comparisons like you did it just discredits your entire argument.
That's the point; WL have never had any bias. They just publish genuine documents. They don't care whose ox is gored. The ridiculous conspiracy theorizing on display for the last three years says nothing about WL and everything about USA.
In my experience, there is no "we" and "them". People can spend years apparently spreading love, peace, kindness, etc., and then for whatever reason become generally vicious and cruel.

Someone mentioned fear--I think that's part of the reason.
I met someone who once worked a summer changing addresses from all uppercase to mixed case. I was once given two employees for a day at my job to change the file extensions in a folder of HTML documents. Why don't our bosses understand what we're capable of?
Not really. A z/OS program is allowed to call a pretty arbitrary mix of classical MVS APIs and UNIX system calls. There is no strict separation as such between "classic MVS programs" and "UNIX programs". An MVS task isn't classified as a UNIX process until it makes its first UNIX system call (exception: programs launched via UNIX system calls get classified as UNIX processes even before they start executing) – some programs start issuing UNIX system calls as soon as they start, but a program can run for hours or days as an MVS task, and then suddenly out of the blue start making UNIX system calls, and then at that point the MVS task will be "dubbed" as a UNIX process. (To be a UNIX process, the MVS task needs to be assigned a UNIX security identity – UID and GID – which is the job of the security subsystem – RACF, TopSecret or ACF2 – if the security subsystem isn't configured to assign a UID/GID to that MVS task, all UNIX system calls will fail.)

Compare this to Windows NT, where each executable was marked as belonging to a primary subsystem (Win32, POSIX, OS/2, etc) which is fixed from the time of process startup. In contrast, z/OS offers the flexibility that any MVS task can potentially be "dubbed" as a UNIX process at any time. Or similarly, look at WSL1 in Windows 10 – a process is either a Win32 process which is allowed to call the Win32 API, or a picoprocess which can call Linux system calls, you can't mix Win32 calls and Linux calls in the same process. (You can do it via two processes, one Win32 and one WSL, communicating over IPC; by contrast, z/OS allows mixing UNIX and classic MVS APIs in the same process/task running in a single address space). So the separation between "UNIX" and "classic MVS" in z/OS is actually a lot weaker than in Windows NT, which is why the "personality" term which was used in the later isn't really applicable to z/OS.
> Give the world-champions each a copy of AlphaGo on equal computers. Have them play Go against each other WITH computer assistance. I guarantee you that a more beautiful and perfect game will result.

Probably for a few years. Very soon the input from the human agents will be indistinguishable from the noise in the AlphaGo algorithms.
The deposit used to be $1k because they were short on cash. Now they are not.

What is better than cash if you don't need it? An accurate predictor of demand. This is likely what the small $100 deposit is for.
>social individual

There’s your hive
Wow, yes it is. You're right, I just hadn't seen the final outcome of that.

It's not a knockout victory, it looks like only 57% of members ratified the new contract, but it's an impressive show of solidarity given how tiered employment has weakened unions. Salaried workers got less overtime, hourly workers got better rates, and temp workers got PTO and full-time opportunities. Plus, post-08 hires will be brought up to pre-08 wages, which has been a concern ever since the bailout.

Even if it's not an overwhelming win, that's impressive news for UAW keeping its influence across a growing range of workers statuses.
I thought it would be interesting to revisit this oldie given the recent hullabaloo ;)
the rest of Donbass
Maybe you could find some local groups that do things. My city their are walking groups, motorcycle riding groups, knitting/quilting groups, bowling teams, various other sports teams. There are countless volunteer options as well. I took up motorcycle riding this year and you meet people on the road at stops as you ride. It is very rewarding and there is a huge sense of comradery. Can I ask where about in the world are you located?
This downturn is a uniquely US situation vs stable nations that are both poor and rich. I my opinion it is basically the effects of inequality causing regressions in living quality advancements writ large across the population.
The size of chess is approximately 10^50

Computers cost about $0.01 / GFlop (10^12 operaions);
$1e47 for 10^50 operations.

The world economy is $1e14/yr.

That's 1e33 years to check every chess position, using all of Earth resources.

You'd need to find symmetries to collapse the search spaceby a factor of 10^33