skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because you have to be human and mortal to understand it to credibly contribute and share the story of what that means to be.

Aside from directors, authors, artists, etc, who have demonstrated this to be false, an AI could conceivably synthesize the experiences of every author that wrote on what it means to be human or experience mortality and create a story that captures the essence of the experience better than any one person ever could. Having the first person experience doesn't induce a superior ability to communicate features of the experience.
Tim Berners-Lee Launches 'Contract for the Web' to Govern Internet Giants
Superhuman's Onboarding UX
Many borders are reality. Try to trespass a border and watch who captures you. That's the entity which controls the border.
Tracking the Eye of the Pilot – ETH Zurich
It very rarely hit the actual bandwidth limit. It would start out close to it for a while, then drop down. And down. And down. Until it was using like 2% of the full bandwidth, but never completely stalling.
Uncle P: Challenging the Unknown
Life is tough. Sometimes we're dealt an unfair hand and left wondering what happened while trying to pick up the pieces of our broken dreams. Experiences like these can leave us feeling lost and afraid and cause us to put up walls around ourselves for protection, refusing to leave the safety of our comfort zones. Uncle P Challenging the Unknown by Alfredo Phipps tackles what it feels like when our world crumbles around us and how we can move forward with confidence and purpose. The story follows several fictional characters whose lives intersect when they are invited to attend an event led by a man named Uncle P--an event that goes on to change the direction of their lives forever. Come along on the journey and learn to embrace uncertainty and enter the possibilities that await you, gathering the courage to take a leap even when life seems scary.

November 28, 2019

Barnes and Noble / Amazon / Xulon Press / Itune Apple

ISBN: 9781545680889
At least in principle it is possible to annotate a PDF file while leaving the original file as a prefix of the end result. The directory of objects is at the end of the file, so the annotation software can build a new tree of objects, referencing any unchanged parts of the original, and append its own directory which the reader software will find. I don't know of any PDF editors that do this, though.
Perhaps also true, most of the energy was spent during training.
I agree, just want to mention that a fair number of actual climate scientists are also fans of nuclear. One example is James Hansen, who spent a chapter advocating advanced nuclear in Storms of My Grandchildren.
The "well regulate militia" loves and supports Trump.
This should be a tweet not a medium post.
In the spirit of over generalizations, Tim Ferris says that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. So let’s say mom and dad are gone by 6, you’re at school by 7. You get a different teacher every hour but the cohort of students in each class is substantially the same. You have soccer, gymnastics, karate, piano, etc after school and then you’re at home around 6. Dinner is a quick affair. Then it’s homework and bed. Mom and dad are spent by the time they get home and retreat to their device which is you’re queue to do likewise. Now I agree that throughout the day a kid might encounter dozens of potential mentors but when You examine time spent and substance of the encounter, it’s got to be enormously isolating to a child. Rather than five positive relationships where values are discussed and real mentoring takes place a kid basically receives empty knowledge via retail / transactional delivery. How is this anyway similar to how we grew up as kids?
I think the answer is quite simple, computers don't "kill" anything by themselves, for any new technological invention like AI you have a choice about whether you like it or not. What I'm saying with that is, that given the negative sentiment so many people have towards AI, I find it very unlikely that most of us will suddenly stop doing things just because some AI can do it better (look at chess).

If AI's make music as well, why would I care? I still listen to the music composed by Bach and other ancient composers, more than 300 years after they lived, and their music is still being performed today.

I think the availability of AI's will only make a difference where their effects on humanity are beneficial (that is, tasks we don't like doing, for the most part).
> E.g. the US has ~8x the per-capita carbon emissions of India.

Thank you for pointing out the very obvious elephant in the room: both China and India, nearly 3 billion people, cannot live like the United States, but they are on a trajectory to do so, and we in the west have no moral high ground to tell them no. This is the #1 reason we are totally hosed in the long run.
That's totally fair as well. Although things worked out pretty well, I have stayed at long-term jobs for longer than I probably should have.

One key is probably to really ask yourself why you want to make a change (or why you're hanging around if you don't really like the situation). If you have good answers, that's fine. If you don't...

Ultimately you have to make decisions based on incomplete information and with the knowledge that no situation is likely to be perfect.
The article should probably have lead with that. ;)

This bit though, seems kind of sick:

> ... in some cases, students who transferred out from the University of Farmington after realizing they didn't have classes on-site, were still arrested.

Sounds like they went after students who realised it was fake then transferred to a real Uni too. That's not good.
I know a guy, he worked at MSFT, and we worked together at FB. Combined he had 10+ yrs of tenure and at one point he was L8 I believe. I assume he has $10m+ net worth. He "quit big tech" and now has a non-profit startup, with funding from a philanthropic tech foundation. That seems like a good way forward, you can continue working in technology and code, it's exciting bc it's a startup, there's social good, but with the funding you can pay yourself a salary so you're not burning your net worth (which is invested and cumulating presumably), and since you're already rich you don't mind if it's non-profit.
What about finding "Divine Moves"?

While an AI Go player may always be able to defeat a human player in points, it still can't recognize or explain a truly beautiful move or strategy, even if it is the one that is carrying them out.

When it comes to competitive endeavors I've never been as interested the best individuals, except insofar as they are more likely to create the best moments of play - especially moments that reveal profound truths about the nature of the game itself.

What comes to mind thinking of this is a quote from Samuel Anders early in BSG:

"... In fact even the games aren't that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block ..."

The nature of Go has changed, but the game still deserves to be played and explored.
Google has major offices in London, Munich and Zürich where this does apply
Ten ways to use CO2 and how they compare
Designing a Permanent Personal Identity
1. It’s $145/kWh

2. You’re counting all energy use, I’m just counting electricity

3. $200/kWh * 400 TWh is $80 Tr not $80,000 Tr

4. That’s not “just one day”, it is >4,000 days because the battery can be recharged that many times

5. Even if you forced everyone to accept blackouts until this would be completed (won’t happen), they would occur at night.
Any product of real complexity is too big for any one person to hold in their head with sufficient detail. That's why we have modularity. (Microservices are just one kind of module boundary).

In my experience, central leaders want to impose grand sweeping worldviews that just aren't true when you get into the weeds of particular use cases. The Director gets a pretty architecture diagram but the engineers actually building and maintaining the feature live in a train wreck. And for what? You don't actually need uniformity across unrelated parts of the system. Architecture shouldn't be about a director's view of his kingdom, but about engineers' ability to sustainably deliver business value, which starts with using the right abstractions for the problem at hand.
Digital sandtable helps CBP visualize terrain – GCN
> None of them provide native, single-source-of-truth declarative configuration that is easy to reason about, pure, and guaranteed to deliver sane results every time (vs. something managed via a classic CM system).

Firstly: the Nix language isn't pure. And neither are some base Nix library functions.

Secondly: You may find it easy to reason about. Many of us have not had that experience. Trying to do work as a developer, I felt it was absolutely miserable the instant I needed to depend on a new package or a new runtime. Every language had slightly different conventions and rules. You had to relearn how any specific package worked to integrate it with another, because there often wasn't sanity. And if you DID need to somehow interface with something outside of Nix (say, a vendor binary not in Nix) you had to use an unreliable environment hack.

And of course, the tutorials and docs didn't actually cover the majority of concerns on how to add new stuff folks will inevitably have, except for a trivial C executable.

In one case, after spending a week working out how to add a package to enable a Haskell binding to said package correctly, I submitted package updates that took MONTHS to propagate into the main repo, so I had to start pushing my fork of the nix repo from machine to machine via github on my own to manage multiple machines. It was pretty ridiculous and I regretted my choices.

I like the Nix philosophy. I respect a lot of the people on the project. But I am not a fan of the "it is all fine and well-baked and I'm sure you can use it too" approach a lot of Nix proponents decide to take.

You could absolutely arrive at a solid installable image for ANY major Linux distro.

> Yes. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Raspberry_Pi

That's great! I'll have to try it again there if it has packages I want for SDR work that are not comically ancient.
If that would make you more happy, Apple maps are incredibly bad in Russia and nobody really uses them. Google maps, Yandex maps, 2Gis and some other local maps are miles ahead.
Please don't copy/paste comments here. I know it's tempting on complex contentious topics, but it's not how conversation works, and HN threads are supposed to be conversations. Boilerplate is the extreme opposite of curiosity.

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If you want to bring an earlier comment into the conversation, the way to do that is to explain what it is and link to it.
We should note that Kasparov was actually wrong at the time. Alpha Zero has proved this by smashing Stockfish every time it plays it. The contemporary thinking around chess theory including the measures that DeepBlue would brute-force towards were inherently lossy and nobody figured it hard enough.
Technically, at that time DeepBlue could have been beaten by understanding Alpha Zero's theorems before Alpha Zero discovered them.

So there was a window between the 90's and today where a human player could have discarded the traditional measuring sticks of "trade-value" and beaten DeepBlue.

Maybe that's not true today or maybe there's a further theory out there?
First, you’re conflating language with national identity here, second you’re completely ignoring Crimean tatars that we’re repressed and mass deported from Crimea by Stalin, third you’re not making any sense anyway, because just because major chunk of local population wants to secede - can’t be ground for annexation and starting war, that’s just idiotic.
There is a "compare" function. But I think you can only compare 3 or 4 at a time.

But in many cases, I think silver is the sweetspot for anyone who plans to use a moderate amount of healthcare.

Bronze if you just want catastrophic coverage.

The plans above bronze rarely offer much benefit for the price.

I would focus on comparing all the silver plans.
This is very cool. Curious, roughly, how much did this setup cost?
While that's fair, I must point out that the link offered is noted as NSFW. Perhaps you wait to click on it when it's after hours.
Real, authentic music generation is a harder problem than go or chess, but I'm not sure that makes it any more emotionally difficult for a future writer to face a true musical AI than it was for Lee Se-Dol or Kasparov.
NVIDIA on Wayland is still ridiculously broken and NVIDIA has zero desire to fix it. The "solution" is to continue using Xorg.
I understand quite well the connection between static type systems and proofs, and how compilers work. As pointed out by another user here, an amazing amount of optimization can be done while maintaining the dynamic nature of the code and, in my opinion, while doing data analysis this is an absolute necessity.

As for static typing providing a proof of correctness, yes, many times I have wished that Python had better static analysis so that I didn't have to run my program only to get an error halfway through. On the other hand, when writing an experiment I rarely know at the start what the eventual design will look like. It is rarely worth setting up a fully expressive type system at the onset, so I wouldn't really get many of the correctness guarantees aside from existing types. My experience with mypy/PyCharm has demonstrated that a surprising amount of type inference can be done in dynamic languages, which allows me to catch most errors prior to runtime at this point.

While Swift the language might have support on Linux, last I used it (~ 8 months ago, when this initiative was announced) it was cumbersome at best. See the Swift for Linux initiative which, while being a fervent supporter of getting Swift working on Linux, admits right in the introduction that it is not great:
http://swift-linux.refi64.com/en/latest/

As mentioned there, even when I got the core language working I was smacked in the face with another of the core issues with Swift: the ecosystem is anemic, at best, on Linux. Almost all of the libraries are MacOS only.
Leaving the field won't help, the whole damn world sucks.

You have to accept that there's no perfect alternative out there, you won't tomorrow magically find a system with no flaws, and system design is hard because the world is constantly changing and you don't have perfect information. If you just chase "something better" because you can't accept things, you'll continue to be disappointed.

Once you accept it, you can start trying to make your little corner of the world better. Not perfect, but better. It's more satisfying than shouting into the void.
"neutral"

There's going to be a wave of unpalatable changes imposed on society due to financial stresses, automation and an aging baby boomer populace. I expect the term "neutral" to gain prominence in an attempt to marginalize people's perceptions of how disruptive these changes actually will be on an individual level.
As someone who went through the pipeline, GNOME is not actively hostile to new contributors, and is actually really friendly, as long as you agree with the overall design and direction of the desktop. In one of the cases, I'd say that what happened was that there were two competing methods for how to fix a performance issue, and some of the maintainers involved were not graphics experts, so I was able to guide the team to determine which version to land, which happened to be the version by Canonical.

Canonical's version: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/189

Endless's version: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/402

This is much more well-understood now that open-source is popular, but it wasn't understood very often back in the day, which is that maintainers have the power to say "no", and do so frequently. If you are a new contributor and you try to change the design, you won't have a great experience.
> no credible scientific body has ever said climate change threatens the collapse of civilization

WWII didn't lead to the collapse of civilisation either. I wouldn't envy anyone who lived through it though.
One other thing... before users sign up, perhaps you could tell them what will happen to their data if you are ever served by Law Enforcement with a Warrant to give them some user's data... If the answer is that you're going to give your users' data to Law Enforcement (the right answer, as far as I know), then your "private" / "privacy protecting" service -- really wasn't all that "private" / "privacy protecting", now was it?

It would be far more honest and up-front to tell prospective users that their data will not be private in/under all conditions/circumstances...

If you lose would-be users because of this, well, at least you showed honesty and integrity...
"Devin Nunes' Cow" is obviously a satire account. As the judge ruled, a cow clearly can not tweet so nobody reasonably can believe that is actually his cow.

"ZweinerforTexas.com", "ZweinerforTx.com" are not obviously satire, they look like normal campaign urls and are clearly made to deceive.
I'm sure apple will try to spin this as having courage
Perhaps you know more of kazinator's history than I do, but that HN account wasn't even created until 2014, so saying kazinator is the one who started this very old argument requires some extra evidence.
What about horses?
Alexa, Are You Disappointed in Me? Amazon’s Voice Gets More Range
I'm sure they'd have said the same thing about a computer being able to win Go not so many years ago...
On the other hand, it must be sobering to realize that even with an entire lifetime of practice, you will never be better than a simple residual network trained for less than a week.
To answer this question: yes, OpenVPN can handle multiple users/connections simultaneously.
That's a pretty extreme example.

Here are the results for NY times:
https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.nytimes.com/

Barely drops page size or power usage.
US ranks #68 out of 100 in mobile video quality, loading time, and buffering
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I've used this for awhile now as a quick way to control some things on my raspberry pis running in my home from my phone.

Sometimes you just want something quick and a little bash script is perfect. For example, I use getmail to periodically fetch my email from all of my email providers, gmail, hotmail, etc.. Whenever I needed to get email quicker (like if I was sent a security code or something) I had to SSH into the server and manually call getmail to fetch it before the scheduled time. With pushback I have a little simple script that gives me the ability to do it from the pushback app and it is a real time saver.

Here is my script I used in case anyone is interested:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
result="$(curl https://api.pushback.io/v1/send_sync \
-u <my_token>: \
-d 'id=Channel_379' \
-d 'title=Check Email?' \
-d 'body=Choose from the actions' \
-d 'action1=gmail' \
-d 'action2=hotmail' \
-d 'action3=personal')"
if [[ "$result" == "gmail" ]]; then
getmail -r gmail
elif [[ "$result" == "hotmail" ]]; then
getmail -r hotmail
elif [[ "$result" == "personal" ]]; then
getmail -r personal
fi
sleep 15
done

I've used it to also notify me when long running commands finish, as a way to add manual review to an otherwise automated process, etc.
Want to know the worst part? Chase* edited his comment to add those parts you quoted. It's not surprising I guess he has "CCCP" on his IG avatar: https://imgur.com/Oh1OlfD

* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cpursley

>about: chasepursley.com
Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus in mice
It might be hard to judge. Some people will insist that generated music is bad, because it's just their subjective opinion, even if 90% of random selection will find that music good.
And thankfully we've been lucky enough for your important contributions as well.
Maybe FP forces some degree of added conformity to the code. But I find code maintenance and readability has more to do with the person writing it than the tool they used IMHO.

FYI I am in fact an FP fan, and I use FP principles in a large amount of my code. But I've seen some seriously convoluted and confusing FP code just like I've seen behemoths of objects with twisted internal state manipulation balancing on blind assumptions and false guarantees of order.
One of the things that struck me in the interview is that they conpared Excite with Google on top quieries.

Getting the top quieries right is relatively easy by hand, the real question is how the engines performed on random queries.
They were independent in the interwar period, technically lots of the Western USSR/former Russian Empire formed independent states after the First World War but only the Baltic states are usually considered to have been occupied by the USSR AFAIK.
I guess the value of everything is purely subjective. But if you suggest the only legitimate value of art is the immediate aesthetic impression, then I disagree. The historical context is definitely part of what makes art interesting.
FWIW I think I'd reverse the order of poker and StarCraft -- I think Poker's already beating world champion pros regularly, but last year's SC2 champ (Serral) doesn't think it's at his level yet, which is corroborated by its MMR being lower than his on ladder. And DeepMind seem to be winding down their SC2 involvement now, without issuing a challenge to him.
so i just installed it, and like, right away i notice every app always opens in the top left of my screen and their positions are not remembered?? :(

speed seems irrelevant if windows cant be arranged lol. google is coming up empty. is this a bug?
As a fellow Hacker News commenter, thanks for pointing this out.
Fedora, despite being awesome, doesn’t have the name recognition or market penetration that Ubuntu does. Ubuntu shipping with 3.34 is realistically when the bulk of Linux desktop/laptop users will see it.
I've spent so many years playing and hearing about how Go will not be solved in our lifetime that the day AlphaGo won 4/5 games v Lee Sedol marked my personal timeline into what came before and after. I walked around all day in a daze watching people as they go about their daily lives as if nothing had happened.

I've heard it said that man landing on the moon was like that for them, but I didn't understand as it was the only world I knew.

Now I can appreciate that these were the firsts of many singularities yet to come in AI and space exploration and I hope to live to witness a few more (but not too many).
Gnome 3 doesn't let you configure an alternative wm. KDE does but it's broken by default with minimal wm. For example it wants to start a full screen window that would normally be the desktop interface over everything.

It's questionable how much value is added by running a plasma session over simply running KDE apps and services.
>> The horror of a bad a trip didn’t necessarily teach me anything other than to respect mushrooms much more than weed.

Give it time. It can take a decade of reflection to untangle/parse.
I'm not sure climate change would not be felt by billions.

Food prices, drought and heatwaves are big threats.
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To maybe better answer this question, I've found this for example: https://gist.github.com/hcooper/814247