skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did that. What now?
Don't forget illegal drugs and kiddie porn!
I can’t afford healthcare at all, but I have to pay for it regardless, either through fines or insurance. I’d take 1970’s prices and service over today’s if I could.

Your anecdote about education being better goes absolutely against what I’ve seen first hand. My parents, who went to College ~40 years ago, paid a fraction of what people do today even accounting for inflation, and the quality was far higher. Smaller class sizes and higher standards than today’s student loan fueled universities, meant that getting a degree was a big deal, unlike today.
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Seems like bfloat16 is only available for TPUs in TensorFlow[0-1].

[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/21612

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/21317
Yeah, love that article. I'm slowly building a large foldaway 'kotatsu' coffee table using a mixture of ikea (ovraryd) and amazon/ebay parts (foldaway hairpin legs, centerpost, kotatsu heater).
No, the allegation is: "Virgil Griffith provided highly technical information to North Korea, knowing that this information could be used to help North Korea launder money and evade sanctions."

What you wrote is basically the DA storytelling with the string of evidence that will help convince a jury.

While on their own, 1-3-4 are not criminal, they reveal the defendant's mindset.
You can not get exponential increase of energy efficiency. In some cases you even obviously already know the limits. At one point or another you will always be caught by physical realities; if all your activities are tertiary and highly valuable, great! But what do you eat? How do you heat? How do you move the basic goods to you?

So the best you can get from where we are now are constant factors, either in a direction interesting for us (increase of energy efficiency) or not really interesting (from the energy needs point of view) but much needed and even ineluctable (lowering carbon emission and/or lack of petrol resources) -- and that's because we are already VERY far beyond the negligible impact on Earth point. Classic economic models are based on the approximation, now long gone, that resources are free. Still some are attempting to replace physical activities by virtual ones, to save the models (I don't really understand what's the point, but whatever): this does not hold, because you can not replace everything and worse: even just the essentials are problematic.

So the question is actually not: "[do] they need their electricity and washing machines?"

The question is rather: is there even a physically/politically/etc. reasonable way for everybody to get that; and actually even just to stay durably in a not too much chaotic world.

And frankly this will be a HARD problem to solve. To the point relative peace in the industrialized world is clearly at risk, IMO.
That's right around the time ROHS was introduced. The entire electronics industry had massive growing pains in the switch to lead free solder.
You must consider the same same items in your decision to be closed-source.

Your second point, that is exactly what I wish for.
A video call would be just as illegal. If he insisted on giving individual advice to NK instead of just publishing the same information then he needed to cease being a US person first.
I just used the one in their docs. You don't need any other guide. If you have trouble with the vm,try something simple like virtualbox
Heavily modified Rippetoe (strong lifts). It’s a 5 day plan focused on form, ie, power/fast concentric, slow count eccentric. My current major goals are 400lbs deadlift & muscle-ups on the fat pull-up bar.
It would be nice if you can contact the owner of the site so we can ask some technical questions here.

I guess the first request is to have a few screenshot of some usual cases. Does the site have some public pages that can be seen without registration?
They are business hippies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEKaMd-T28
I think the challenge is defeated by the fact that we can clearly see which one are AI cards vs human cards, and can also decide who to support. Therefore it's hard to tell if people are supporting one side or the other because they like the cards better or because they're making a point.

It would've been a lot more fun if the writer of each card was left secret, and people simply voted for the best cards, then at the end they would do a tally to see who had the most cards in the top 30 or so.

I guess pitting them directly against each other sells more cards though.
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Scott Aaronson has a nice blog post[1] on the same subject. Basically, information is a physical thing in the universe and is just as important as space or energy or time.

1: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3327
I was from more of a "heavy programming" and "get into the maths" guy in my 20's. Now in my 30's I am more get to know philosophy, get to know humans or humanistic stuff. Software devs, should really get to know Platonism and how it is not applicable to real life to stop searching for those perfect abstractions in code....

Second part is Intellectal Property rights, contracts. Non compete agreements so no one signs those shitty agrrements.
Volunteering to help out enemies develop sophisticated money laundering schemes is most certainly a crime, you know what they want to do with the information. Just like flying to mexico to present to cartel leaders about how to utilize hlockchain to avoid shipping cash is illegal.
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> From the proof that if we have free will, so do particles to some extent. To the notion that quantum computation may happen in the brain.

The question remains, what reason do we have to believe that only a living brain, and not a silicon analogue, can tap into those features of reality?
https://youtu.be/1cOP_jLG6l4 is a very interesting keynote answering some of my questions.
If you're interested in a similar solution (albeit closed sourced and managed) that works in a non-cloud, fully off-line (re: internet) environment. Take a look at http://www.hubitat.com. It supports zigbee, zwave and wifi devices and has strong compatibility with the smartthings ecosystem.
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The _d in the imgur link renders it as a thumbnail, here's the full res version:

https://i.imgur.com/vU783Xo.jpg
You know, I searched for it but I just can’t find it. Perhaps I’m mistaken about the source.
$600 fine first offense. Double second offense. 5 demerit points for each offense. Not as extreme, but not ignorable.

Summary of Quebec demerit points: Demerit points last for 2 years, and if you have more than 8 and are under 23, you lose your license. Five demerit points would also add approximately $170 to the cost of license renewal. Points also make insurance more expensive.
Not if you're an astronaut or pay attention to the horizons curvature and other simple observations.
I think it’s okay to recognise the shorthand and not feel bad about it. The author of this article clearly doesn’t think he’s describing all culture. I didn’t from the link title.

We’re humans, we cut corners. We all understand the intent.
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There are many consensus algorithms available and nobody is using proof-of-work you're mentioning in enterprise setting.
I both strongly agree and strongly disagree with your comment. Not sure, I think this makes me a consultant (smile)

Yes, it does boil down to questions. However questions drive out language, so simply saying that "scrutinizing the question" is the real work is both true and incomplete.

It is an important point, though. Thank you.
The problem is the "more than ever" part. Nobody is denying there are problems (and there always will be), but the collective situation is better than it's ever been before.
Are you really going to fire the writers if they lose today?

No, we’re not monsters! We’ll wait until after the holidays.
In this case, I'm suggesting a world where someone isn't using any VPN services themselves, but their computer ends up infected with this Oxylabs "residential proxy" malware.

In such a case, if the person is then charged with cybercrime, a cybercrime expert hired by the defence could do discovery on the confiscated computer, find the Oxylabs proxy installed on it (which the defendant was unaware of), and then present the fact of that installation on the witness stand as an alternative explanation for any evidence of wrongdoing that the prosecution presents, creating reasonable doubt.
Which is the reason why Apple should enter the TV market. The argument against it from the likes of Benedict Evans to Horace Dediu has been TV is a low margin business, but so are all the Android Phones in the bottom 60% of the market. I still dont get it.

And since Apple TV sort of means 5 to 6 different things [1], they might as well make an actual Apple TV set to make it even more complicated.

If there are two things that I think Apple should really do, are Wireless Router and TV. I dont want a Google Nest WiFi or Amazon Eero.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21438152
Argh, that article! Those are metaphors at some level of representation!!! You could argue in the same specious way that a computer is not a computer because it is really a bunch of atoms interacting via non deterministic quantum mechanical rules so it can't really implement deterministic algorithms and error free information storage.
The three conditions stated in the article basically are the set up for reinforcement learning, (which can be implemented at some level of abstraction on a computer) and the question about if a representation is required or not is a mathematical one. For linear systems with gaussian noise the optimal control this is an answered question, yes you optimally estimate the state, then you base your controller off the optimal estimate. For more complicated systems it is unclear if the representation is required or not, but it sure seems reasonable that some level of representation is required. In the baseball example they are still talking about keeping a constant optical line, not what happens to raw optic nerve inputs. It has a reduced dimensionality representation!
Thanks dang, will bear in mind for future submissions.
It's a shame that the origami association folded.
I really like that idea of highlighting comments in different colours based on the prefix used. Very cool stuff, I will try to work that into my own workflow. Thank you for sharing!
Sonos recently introduced the One SL speaker, which seems similar to the Sonos One but without Alexa.
A blog post I have written regarding the *real* problem about data collection
I would hesitate jumping to the "justify the status quo" conclusion because of a truthful comment saying things are better than ever.

The fact that billions have been lifted out of poverty in the last few decades is an important note and definitely deserves merit.
It seems like in this case he didn't so much have to wonder about whether what he was doing was a crime, since he asked and was informed by the State Department that it was.
When people say the US is business friendly, I think they’re really observing that the US is big-business friendly.

Convoluted taxes allow big business and the very wealthy to evade them more easily.

Convoluted bureaucracy makes it easy to get ahead by working the loopholes, which you can only do if you’re big enough.

Same thing for other legal matters.

All of this is really a cautionary tale of regulatory capture pushed by vested interests, usually at the expense of working people.
I'm about to publish a groundbreaking study which also demonstrates that eating five double quarter pounders with cheese and fries a day will lead to obesity.
Operations is the level of analysis between tactics (how do I fight when I get there?) and strategy (why am I fighting at all?).

The USMC calls that "campaigning". See MCDP 1-2 [1].
Campaigning is about which battles to fight and where. Strategy includes economic and diplomatic issues, but campaigning is purely military.

Military history can be divided into two parts - before machine guns, and after machine guns. Before machine guns, bunching up was good tactics. After machine guns, it was terrible tactics. Too much of WWI was about learning that the hard way.

[1] https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCDP%201-2%20...
Why on earth did he agree to those FBI interviews where he admitted all this?
And there are those who are tortured to ensure they don't get (enough) sleep.
How would that help? It appears to provide a subset of Home Assistant's functionality.
That's an odd assertion. What kind of things do you think most projects do? I'd say most projects have network IO happening (querying databases, storing data to e.g. S3, communicating with other web services), in which case async absolutely is helpful and far more performant.
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Does the image move in real time or is that my imagination
although every €10 increase in annual household cost decreases voter support by about seven percentage points.

The boldness of the article’s title doesn’t pair well with this hidden detail.

Phasing out coal, with nuclear already in the process of being phased out, is going to be a multiple of those annual 10€.
Yes it does. I guess you can see some profile pages and groups that are not listed as private. You can also see pages of topics like this: https://www.dhamick.com/topic/thebesttopic

Also the about and contact pages.
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I agree with you that humans are very different from optimization machines in that they have some freedom in what they choose to optimize. Alan Newell made this point a long time ago, back then attempts were made to describe humans in terms of control theory. It works up to a point, but autonomous behavior needs the faculty to set goals independently of pre-programmed optimization points as well as current situational factors. Humans, Newell argued, should be understood as knowledge systems that operate on their representations of the world, but are equally adept at simulating the world in their heads, and create knowledge beyond current representations.

The article, however, is rubbish. As psychologist, I cringed throughout. It is a blurr of half-baked ideas and ill-understood controversies from cognitive science. The author manages to write an entire article about information at its core without ever properly defining information, not to speak of representation. In the sense of Shannon, or course neurons are channels transmitting information. What else would they do?

And of course we can decode that information even from the outside, even down to discrete processing stages during the execution of mental tasks (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejn.13817). And if there are truely no representations in the brain, as the author states, how do we plan for future events that are far beyond the horizon? And even if you reject all that, there is DNA in the brain that is literally information and expressed (decoded and made into protein) ALL THE TIME.

Regarding cognition, the good Mr. Epstein has not grasped the difference between computers and computability. I don't think anybody is looking for silicon in the brain. The smart people are asking how it is possible for a complex system to operate in a complex world without an outside unit directing their behavior. They ask "How how can the human mind occur in the physical universe" (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/?post_type=publications&p=14305)? How is it that we can do the things we do? How do we set goals, plan steps to achieve them, and choose the right actions for implementation?

I get where you are coming from and I agree with you regarding a dangerous misunderstanding of AI, especially ML. But this article is not helping putting things in perspective. I am willing, however, to concede one point to Mr. Epstein: His brain is dearly lacking information, representation, algorithms, or any such marker usually signifying intelligent life.
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So, you would think the people that are so appalled by this would not be eager to make sure the government has the only and final say in firearms the citizens are “allowed” to own.
@ianmiell awesome post. Part of the issue: The word “culture” does not fully describe the intentional “Org OS” choices that need to be made to optimize how people can better work in a knowledge economy. https://drodio.com/creating-an-open-source-culture/
Where are the Terms & Conditions?
No other government entity is laying claim to it.
Have you browsed his Twitter? Does he strike you as a criminal?

People like Eric Schmidt’s daughter tweet and post about NK in maybe less than legit ways? Should they go to prison for five years?

In all sincerity: why are you cavalierly apologizing for the US government (just 5-6 years guys and he did bad things! no need to worry!)?

I’m being harsh with you because you’re defending a government that’s about to destroy this guy’s life (to send a “message“) and based on his Twitter he’s like you and me and I don’t think you realize that.
What is Guantanamo Bay? Is that OK because it wasn’t specially under the patriot act, or was it? Is this a better scenario than Obama ordering the killing of a US citizen and separately his teenage son without due process?
Back in 2012, my former boss forced me to use marklogic as a database to ingest and help display positional data in real-time. Unable to get marklogic to work without building fairly complex caches around it, I then decided to look around for a database, which would have performance properties of a cache. With none found (I missed redis somehow) and no money to spend on KDB, I started to cobble together file based storage and cache to work as a cohesive unit. Let me tell you, I learnt a lot more in that one year than my prior 15 years developing software.

Addicted to learning new things, I doubled-down on turning the storage+cache idea into a functioning database, without realising how hard it was to turn this idea into reality. Unwilling to give up, and fast forwarding to almost 2020, I'm asking you to provide feedback about what I've accomplished so far. QuestDB is currently usable as a single node or embedded, whilst not yet supporting horizontal scalability (on our roadmap in 2020'). Thank you for your time, I look forward to hearing your honest feedback.
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I think the next step for physics could be potentially in establishing the link between abstract information and what is perceived as "real matter".
Ethical decision making and being in a position where being unethical can easily cause tragedies and jail time for you is different. I specifically meant right and wrong. Many jobs are simple enough to where you can follow the law and company guidelines and be ok.

Good example: truck driver, they have a ton of rules for everything due to how easily a simple mishap like not sleeping enough can get a person killed. They don't need to know much (if any) about ethics they just need to follow the law and rules.

Scientists,archaeologists,politicians and other professions involve new concepts and discoveries for which existing law and rules do not have coverage and as such require the professionals to know and excercise ethics in a consistent and acceptable way.
That's not what was asked for. However I understand where you're coming from and am with you. I wish I had the chance to use TLA, or all the other goodies that seem ruled out by the results now and damn the bugs! mindset.
It's not directly derived or related to the VxWorks family - it's derived from what became Wind River's Rocket.
The comment was about universal Bayesian brains and other things that are quite a stretch to say the least. Of course, since our brains are made of physical matter, they must perform computations that other physical matter can perform.

The trap is to think about the brain in terms of things we find impressive, and about things we find impressive as being like brains somehow. Therefore analogies to steam engines, computers and deep learning. And these analogies have always turned out to be silly.
Yes, it's like git but access to the repo is defined in the repo itself (using public key cryptography); likely with virtual machine (if it's ethereum, which is likely). There's not much more conceptually there.
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The intent of the law is to prevent individuals from harming each other. Exactly who was harmed, or risked being harmed, by this person talking to North Koreans about crypto currencies? This is a case about the state abusing the law to suppress free speech.
Bash, apt-get, chmod, vim, grep, cat, crontab, python3, pip3, httpd, sqlite3, ps, ls, top, df, lsblk, ifconfig, iptables, perl, apt-cache, chown, nano...
> At no time did GRIFFITH obtain permission from OFAC to provide goods, services, or technology to the DPRK.

I think in this case intent matters. If you ask permission to travel as a formality, but provide some goods and services while there then that’s very different things.
What kind of storage though? Last I talked to some engineers at powerplants here in EU, they said that pretty much all places where you can build high efficiency storage (accumulation lakes / pumping powerplants) are already taken and in use. Now they state of the art is considering even horribly inefficient storage ( < 25% ) and that's going to require a lot of space and resources.
There is no real evidence that we have free will, and the general "suspicion" in the field is that we don't. Yes the brain is made of particles, but their arrangement is very particular and very complex, leaving cognition and all other things the brain does to almost certainly be emergent phenomena. Boiling down to single particles is like trying to reverse engineer a Tesla by focusing on the fact that it has iron atoms in it.
> But the IP metaphor is, after all, just another metaphor

With no apologies to the UNIX metaphor of "everything is a file", my favorite starting point for [pretending at] explaining intelligence/understanding/recognition has long been "everything is a metaphor" ;)
> I believe it's identical to the more well known Z80 CPU that saw massive use during the 80s in scientific calculators and many arcade machines.

Interesting that the Z80 seems to be so relatively unknown (as home computer CPU) in some parts of the world. Apart from calculators and arcade machines it was in many home computers that were popular at least in Europe (the biggest being the ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC), and Japan I believe because the MSX standard was popular there. And it could run CP/M which was the standard office software operating system before DOS, and was the reason why Commodore added a Z80 CPU to the C128 (in addition to the 6502).

CP/M was (most likely) also the reason why the Eastern Bloc choose the Z80 as its standard 8-bit CPU architecture. While 6502 clones were produced in Bulgaria, it was a complete underdog compared to the Z80 on the eastern side of the iron curtain.

Oh, and not to forget: the Nintendo Gameboy also has a Z80 CPU, although stripped of some instruction ranges.
If I remember correctly Kahneman said not to do this though and to just go by the quantitative evaluation you mentioned in the previous point. 'Final decision will be a collective decision of the hiring team'
Indeed, with the same trend happening in Switzerland, Austria and in EU parliament elections.
I don't see any disrespect in there?
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