skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like half of the country are speaking Russian at home and at work too by the way. That doesn't mean they don't know Ukrainian.
I never used the app and the button to cycle noise cancelling through off/high/low works just fine. What am I missing?
Most of the important stuff is in busybox and gcc (maybe Python.) Cache those and their dependancies and you have most of what you want.
I feel like commercial activity finds value and removes it from the system.

To create value, you need to give someone else money. If I wanted to build a better society, I'd make sure everyone had the best possible education. Paying for this would bankrupt me, maybe even bankrupt the entire country. But with every single person in the country walking around with a deep understanding of music, art, mathematics, engineering, and science... as a society, I'm sure we'd do great things. Value would be created in the very long term, but not for me, the potential investor.

Then on the other hand, we have things like automated trading. That boils down to asking a bunch of people "will you pay $5 for this $4 bitcoin?" Anyone that says "sure!" just gave you a dollar. Do that millions of times per second, and you remove as much value from the system as possible.
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Chart: Age-Adjusted Percentage of U.S. Adults Who Had Ever Used an E-Cigarette
And yet somehow people still claim that the rise in depression is down to us 'having awareness'.
Lists don't make good HN submissions, because the discussion ends up being about the lowest common denominator of the items on the list, making it generic instead of specific. Generic discussions are less interesting because there are fewer unpredictable things to say. When threads turn generic, they become repetitions of previous discussions, and usually turn nasty, almost as if that's what the mind turns to for amusement in the absence of new things to chew on.

It's better to pick the most interesting item on a list and submit that. Curiosity thrives on the diffs between a new thing and other related things.

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> Come on, none of us are really "human" anymore since the advent of cell phones. We all use our cyborg-capabilities to search the internet and fact-check ourselves every day. Programmers use stack-overflow to teach themselves programming and remember obscure details (using our cyborg capabilities to tag, search, and sift through information ever faster and faster).

Sure and any of us could jump on a motorcycle and fly past Usain Bolt in the 100m, but that kind of misses the whole point of the competition.

> Give the world-champions each a copy of AlphaGo on equal computers. Have them play Go against each other WITH computer assistance.

Won't the winner be the one who just takes AlphaGo's recommended move every time without changing anything?
When Russian Empire, AKA Jail of Nations, fall apart, all nations were officially granted power to make their own national countries. Then Russian Federation started war against these independent nations and captured most of them back, killing dozens of millions in the process, but existence of these new countries was not disputed (except for few ones, like Kuban People's Republic, etc).

It's not same as separatism. It was similar to fall of other empires.
> (2) it may be that the world champion human/computer team is the one that defers 100% to the computer, which seems uninteresting.

AlphaZero doesn't have any randomness built into it, does it? Which means I can build preparation against the lines of play AlphaZero would want to go down.

I think you're underestimating the human, and also overestimating Google's laboratory experiment here. No one has really played "Cyborg Go" yet.

The first casualty of "Cyborg Go" will be AlphaGo in its current form: its clearly inadequate for AlphaGo to play deterministic. Random play MUST be incorporated, lest opponent's preparation sends it down the wrong path.

If I know that AlphaGo plays slightly worse on 3-4 opening (or 4-4opening, or maybe even the 10-10-opening), then that's what I'll do. Give me a copy of AlphaGo and I'll be able to find a weakness somewhere.
Here's a comparison to the rest of the world:
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-r...

This is an interesting topic for a number of reasons. It's tied up in political questions like immigration, taxes, healthcare and education. And there are unresolved economic questions like, "how will capitalism survive the end of endless growth?" Sociological questions like, "why did everyone stop having babies?" And then there's the environmental perspective, "Are we already hopelessly past this planet's carrying capacity?"
I didn't say "ban it". I said that a variety of options were on the table.

As for disagreeing with it... I can disagree with it until it takes on the force of law. Then I'm required to agree with it, or at least, to live with the consequences. Political speech takes on an aspect of force in a way that other speech doesn't.
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There's a large subset of people who, for whatever reason, are particularly attuned to ideas and fears around societal collapse, authoritarian takeovers, and other threats to their personal liberties.

That's not to say these fears are completely unfounded -- they've been realized before many times throughout history. But when faced with questions such as, "Would the US military turn on the people?" they're likely to assess the risk far higher than the average person would. They're also far more likely to be libertarians.
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Computers do not play chess with humans without breaking the rules of tournament play. When you play in a chess tournament, you are not allowed to look up the opening of your game, and you are not allowed to look up the best play for simple endgames. Chess software has opening and endgame databases built in. In a chess tournament, you cannot move pieces during analysis. That is what computers do. I understand that humans do study openings and endgames and analyze by moving around pieces in their heads.
Other than in general terms, there's no comparison.

The birth rate declining is normal in terms of industrialized countries... people educated enough to use birth control and who have availability tend to have fewer kids. The rest of the world hasn't caught up yet, and probably won't in time to avoid problems.

The birth rate isn't declining because "America is in decline"... it's declining because people are choosing not to have children. The wisdom of that choice is open to discussion, of course.
To be completely honest, lots of open-source is full of this sort of drama and ego (Linus, Theo, Stallman all have major cult of personalities, and similar problems appear in KDE and the distros too). Don't judge GNOME for following their peers.

Is it exhausting? Oh, yes. It's why I quit and now work on proprietary software full-time; that environment burned me out.

Is it a problem solely with GNOME? No, it's all throughout the Linux and FOSS ecosystems. If you want to fix it, you need to fix it everywhere, not just GNOME. But turns out the people that stay around to contribute to these projects thrive on this sort of stuff, so it's hard to change.
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Because no US general has ever defied the president...
The parent question was about the stagnation of total comp in top N tech companies, which I directly addressed.
I'm currently in high school and yes we are very angry about what is being handed to us. Bad job prospects, vilifying success, socialism, over priced college, loss of privacy, increased racial divide in society etc.

I am determined though to persevere and change the world for the better.
Right below "Minimum Security Standards" is "Can it snoop on me?"

Camera: Yes

Microphone: Yes

Tracks location: Yes

Further down it ends with "Facebook has a history of betraying users' privacy and trust. [..] The question comes down to, does Facebook have your best interests at heart when it collects all the data this device is capabal [sic] of collecting on you. In the past--from Cambridge Analytic and beyond--the answer to that question has way too often been, NO"
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I'm curious as to why gun advocates trust the candidate who says they want to confiscate guns less than the president engaging in authoritarian and corrupt behavior.

The whole point of the right to bear arms is that they're meant to be used against the government when they overstep their bounds. But what happens when the people who bear said arms agrees with how the government is breaking the law?
Its trending on all news outlets today (radio tv etc). The status of a story on HN isnt relevant to that point.
They said Deep Blue, not Stockfish. Stockfish is vastly stronger.

I'm not sure how big the window was, if it existed, but it seems like it might have. Kasparov and Deep Blue themselves were fairly equally matched, it doesn't seem impossible that Kasparov + AI-aided theories would have a window of advantage over the Deep Blue -> Stockfish evolution.
> and probably never will

Do you mean that human intelligence is not general enough to recreate functions of existing physical structure that implements general intelligence?
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There's a difference between:

https://news.ycombinator.com/news - These ones are fairly stationary, and if I recall only change through popularity, please correct my if I do not understand the site's news algorithm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest - These ones are rank by most recently published.
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Even George Orwell couldn't imagine people would pay the Big Brother to watch them.
Another way to look at your metaphor is that research on exercise physiology has shown the enormous importance of rest and proper nutrition during training. Prior to cars, getting from place to place and access to optimal nutrition were both mediated by transport over long distances.

AI is the future of Go because it enables those new perspectives and new processes by which human players can learn. AI is smart-dumb, looking for patterns beyond the human capacity, but limited by the data on existing human players that has been provided to them.

Strava hasn't made running races pointless. I can compare my runs to others but that is a very different metric then beating them in a head to head race.
Well, before 3.30 GNOME wasn't even remotely usable, so I would still call that progress. Make it work, then make it fast.
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That was my first thought when seeing this... IIRC, XAML had a similar rendering option as well.
One of the first features I built for https://histre.com/ is annotating websites. I find tagging, grouping and sharing those notes to be incredibly useful. My girlfriend was trying to shortlist Airbnbs and places to visit for a recent trip and it was satisfying to see how Histre make that really easy.
Not an invalid point at all. The only question is how long it'll take to come to pass.

I disagree with the "relatively near future" part, but rest assured, AI rights will eventually be a thing.
It's not all of humanity. Just people in industrialized nations, for the most part. The third world has babies as much as they can as often as they can.

So many of our "first world" problems wouldn't happen if we'd just help out the third world with education, opportunity, and other basics. Too bad living in the industrialized world doesn't mean one can't be foolish or racist.
The Ukrainian/Russian mainland war is a separate issue from Russians living in Crimea wanting to be reunited with their countrymen.
From what I hear, the CCP is displayed as bearing the brunt of the Japanese assault in Chinese textbooks, with the KMT only playing a minor role. I guess they want to avoid the KMT looking like war heroes whose weakness after the war was abused by the CCP to seize power.

EDIT: For anyone interested in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the civil war that followed it, HistoryLapse (by HN user domnuprofesor) ran an interesting series of articles, starting with this one: https://en.historylapse.org/japanese-invasion-of-china-durin...
The article doesn’t do a good job of highlighting that the decrease in pregnancy is mostly (maybe entirely?) among teenage girls. Maybe kids today are having less sex or maybe they’re better at using birth control. Either way, this is a good thing.
The locking down of the API is done to prevent competition, while being publicly framed as a privacy enhancing scheme.

> The Switcharoo Plan turned out to be an idea whereby Facebook executives would deprecate various APIs that its developer partners depended on for fear that those developers would one day compete with Facebook directly, while publicly announcing that the changes were intended to promote privacy.

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/11/8/20953623/facebo...

Nothing Facebook says publicly should be trusted.
Denmark was occupied most of war. Russia had an actual state army fighting Napoleon, it was not random peasants. You are simplifying American history too.
Yes, that was confusing. I've repunctuated above.
Machines don't need these rules. Cars don't need to be symmetrical any more than an antenna or other structure[0]. This is exactly analogous to how AlphaGo/AlphaZero played strange bad-looking moves.

[0] https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-alien-look-of-deep-l...
Thumbnailing is one of those things that's difficult because it's a desktop service. Windows / OS X has one desktop, so there can be a tighter integration between the toolkit and the desktop. My recollection is that thumbnails in GTK+ work fine assuming you have the GNOME thumbnailer running, but lots of people use GTK+ outside of those environments, and it doesn't work there.

This is usually when someone says the word "standards" and expects everyone to go "oh, we haven't thought of that!", but standards take a lot of work, and if there are disagreements in the design and direction of the system, no standard is going to be made. My recollection is that thumbnailing was just one of those things.
The explanation "they might use the computer to cheat" simply indicates to me that the education system is not keeping up with the times. As for "it's too expensive", Raspberry Pis go for like 30 GBP, those schools have computers anyway and everyone has a phone now. As for "they'll play games" I don't see how this is the concern of the school.
It seems that the jury’s still out on that one. Man vs horse marathon is mostly won by horses, and by a long margin.
In the end, there was no transition of Perl 5 to Perl 6. Recently it was decided to rename Perl 6 to Raku, freeing up both languages from decades long entanglement. https://raku.org

Not sure what this would imply for a future Python 3 -> Python 4 transition.
Last year parts of fbs service went down. What's interesting is that WhatsApp, Instagram and Fb all broke in the same way in that people were unable to send or receive photos.
I work for Google and have never had a deadline during my years there. I tend to set up my own goals, sometimes I meet them and other times I don't, but nobody has held me to any dates.
You've looked at the security features (which, as sibling comment points out, is related to, but not the same as privacy), and stopped short of reading the full privacy review.

A lot of commenters have made the same mistake, so perhaps this is useful UX feedback for Mozilla.

The title however, is NOT misleading. To copypaste the parts nobody seems to be reading:

Can it snoop on me?

Camera: Yes
Microphone: Yes
Tracks Location: Yes

How does it handle privacy

How does it share data?
data about your Portal usage –
how often you do video calls, what
apps you open, what features you
use – can be used to target you with
advertisements across Facebook. The
company may also share specific
demographic and audience engagement
data with advertisers and analytics
partners.

Collects biometrics data? Yes

User friendly privacy info? No
There was a Chinese Legend that the best person in Go is not one who beat every single opponents, but in absolute control, which means he could play the game and always end with a draw.

I certainly think it was more of a myth, as it was used in context to play Go with the Emperor, and always play to a draw or lose by a stone. ( You cannot or not allowed to win against the Emperor )

I wonder if this is now possible to achieve with AI.

And why do they not move on to AlphaZero, which was better than AlphaGo Lee played against, and when AlphaGo had two stone advantage, Surely they can now test with level of playing field? And next step to only allowed AI use a specific amount of energy, or the energy an average human brain consume?

I mean right now my guess is that DeepMind is likely using thousands if not millions times more energy to make those moves, that is like an Army of million against one General.

And what real world productivity can we adopt and use from DeepMind?
That’s being way too anthropomorphic. You could just as well say it aims to minimise the pain of Go, but neither interpretation is warranted.
It feels kind of surprising that this doesn't exist (yet). There are only a handful of reasonable moves per turn, and given the unbelievable amounts of moves that offline chess engines can process given time and server farms, I'm just surprised that doesn't overwhelm the reasonable branches at some point into forcing a win. Maybe someday.
On top of all that, we also need deep packet inspection and filtering. All the data flowing into and out of the sandbox must be inspected while in the clear by filtering software under our control. If the packet is known to contain nothing but a unique identifier for tracking, it gets blocked. If it also contains useful data, the identifier is either deleted or anonymized before the packet goes through.

ISPs, companies and governments can do it for surveillance, censorship and security reasons. We should be able to do it too in order to empower ourselves.
It's hard to get good comparisons, but over distance individual horses don't seem to out-perform human distance runners.

When humans used horses for rapid courier service they used relay tactics to take advantage of the horse's higher top speed, one horse might only run for an hour or two, before the rider reached another outpost and swapped a tired horse for a fresh one. In this way the relay could move something hundreds of miles in one calendar day. The Pony Express managed news of a US election from one coast to the other in just over a week.

If you can't use relays human and horse performance seem pretty similar, dozens of miles per day but not hundreds. The horse's top speed is higher, but it is rapidly exhausted, fast gaits like the canter are too exhausting to sustain for hours at a time.
That was armed insurrection, not terrorism.

The difference is more than just "the winners write the history books". The methodology was different. The patriots/rebels/insurgents weren't setting off truck bombs in city centers in the hope of making people not oppose them, and not just because they didn't have truck bombs. They weren't trying to assassinate the governor. It was fundamentally a war, not terrorism.
AlphaZero uses Monte Carlo Tree Search. It definitely has randomness built in.

I'm with the other guy; I don't see how a person could make the AI play any better.
(I was going to write a heartfelt cry for the Monarch butterfly. But if you can't see the horror of extinction I don't know how to make you. "We have no law to fit your crime.")

One way or another, our civilization is going to change radically in the next couple of decades.

We will have to make radical changes to how we grow food: https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/11/water-could-limit-our-abili...

> There’s an anthropologist friend of mine, a guy called Steve LeBlanc–he runs the Peabody Museum in Harvard–who wrote a book once called “Constant Battles” about pre-civilized human beings and how they actually lived. Not the fantasy version, where they lived in, you know, the Garden of Eden and wore flowers in their hair, but the real ancient world where food shortages, including ones that you could die from, were a regular occasion. And his rule of thumb is “people always raid before they starve.”

https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...

> “We shouldn’t be forced to choose between lifting people out of poverty and doing something for the climate.”

That's not the issue.

The question before us is whether or not to rejoin Nature after our divorce or continue on the exploitative blind path and crash, hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou Nature is I-Thou not I-it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

We have the technology (applied ecology) to "save" ourselves in a fun and graceful way:
http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/redesigning-civilization-with... Including carbon-neutral fuel production: http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/
> "With the debut of AI in Go games, I've realized that I'm not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts," said Lee. "Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated."

What a whiner. Quitting Go because you can't beat computers is like quitting track because you can't run faster than a car.
Okular was my favorite PDF annotator until I got my Surface Pro a couple of days ago. I still haven't figured out what's the best PDF reader with pen input, any recommendations?
Excellent well I can see that this PAID for "TRENDING" (tm) on all platforms works very well. Now to locate the Billionares who PAID for this trending tactic. Foreign or domestic? Who wants to guess?
Using JS for partial page updates (whether that's a full single-page app or something smaller) has the potential to consume fewer network resources across multiple interactions.
This is the current state of online poker. I enjoy it in the spirit of the game as a fan but it's definitely made earning potential and barrier of entry much higher. Poker stands on a net negative economy so the game is converging to a point of being unbeatable unfortunately.
I ran a triangle trading arbitrage bot on Coinbase that was profitable at the end of 2017. But a few weeks later, it was losing money on hard to diagnose slippage. The number of “opportunities” also collapsed, which indicates that other bots were doing the same or that coinbase was doing this internally.

I pulled the plug. Tried to run it on Binance but the websocket only updated once a second, so there was way too much risk.
Population change is going to have wide-ranging effects on society and the economy. Already, the shrinking size of generations is putting smaller colleges out of business and is expected to hit the housing market hard in the near future [1].

Immigration will have somewhat of a mitigating effect, but sentiment has been pretty anti-immigration for a while. Worse, the rest of the world is experiencing the same decline in birth rates [2], and is developing so fast that the economic argument for a resident of another country to emigrate to the West is shrinking. (Why learn another language to live in Denver, when Shanghai is faster-growing and more modern? [3])

To be sure, there are lots of confounding factors, like the universities and social freedoms available in the West, but on a 50-year span we should expect to see some dramatic shifts due to these demographic evolutions.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ok-boomer-whos-going-to-buy-you...

[2] https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3039064/chin...

[3] https://a16z.com/2019/10/30/the-power-of-qr-codes/
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