skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I see this as a version of the tragedy of the commons, in which (for example) many people overfish a particular set of waters [...] if and when the public, governments, and investment community recognize that they have been sold an unrealistic picture of AI’s strengths and weaknesses that doesn't match reality, a new AI winter may commence.

I think this is not only inevitable, but necessary! This time around it has been a lot more useful, due in no small part to the advance in hardware since 1970s.

Unfortunately this has caused many important people to believe far too much of the hype and not see it's current limitations. As a result they have started integrating it into important part of our societies - i find this alarming - not for the reason most people find it alarming i.e "because it's too smart", but because it's far far too dumb in combination with people assuming it's very smart. I think a lot of this problem stems from inappropriately anthropomorphising ML with terms like "AI" when we are no where near the stage that we need to have the philosophical debate about where something is sentient or "intelligent". The ML we are doing with NNs is still at the "tiny-chunk-of-very-specifically-engineered-piece-of-brain" stage. It's important people understand this before we start integrating what are essentially basic statistical mechanisms into our societies.

For those in pursuit of better ML and things like real AI aka AGI, I also think having the hype blow away will do more good in the form of clarity and lack of noise than it will harm in lack of funding.
> I would argue that learning of an emerging product and preemptively buying the domain is not cybersquatting but more like IP theft.

Or how about investment? If you can see the future, pay for the valuable domain before it's valuable, then get your return by selling it to the company that wants it. Isn't that quite a lot like giving money to the company in exchange for a share of the profits? The risk is that you might misjudge and waste money on worthless domains, just like traditional investing.
I found a video of the Dutch team testing the 'unfolding' mechanism used in the NCLE. It looks like a spool that unwinds.

NCLE antenna deployment test - 25x: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hca3MeX-8rw

Web page with video: https://www.isispace.nl/projects/ncle-the-netherlands-china-...
GNU's own page on GNUnet https://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/ redirects to gnunet.org, so I would think that it is associated with the GNU project.
As another comment[1] mentioned, the software is mentioned in gnu.org as a GNU package[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21672653

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html
If you hit something, the momentum has to get dispersed somewhere. If the hammer didn't suffer, the car did.
I think that was the point: since it's normal that an ISP gives you an email address with webmail and some mega/gigabytes space, why not a messaging service supported by mobile carriers?
Easy to learn, hard to master, as simple as opening a browser tab to get it up and running. It was a perfect storm of tight gameplay and low barrier to entry. I also suspect many people hadn’t come across a game like this before- I can’t even name a multiplayer top down shooter like this save for Continuum.
Your comments in this thread have broken the guidelines with swipes like "Of course you completely missed the point", "Leave it to the internet to read a comment and take it the wrong way", "Sigh", "Sheesh", and so on. That's just the sort of thing users here are asked to avoid. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and edit all that out of your comments here from now on?

Also, please don't use allcaps for emphasis. That's in the guidelines too.
You should use both. Download wikidata and use the manually curated interconnected data available. You could argue it was compiled by the largest pool of neural networks ever assembled. Wikipedia data was curated content that was hierarchically and painstakingly interconnected by humans, the most advanced NN we know of :).

There's now discussion about how neural networks can succumb to data poisoning / adversarial attacks, because there are no immutable facts. Adding a mostly immutable fact table can help keep things grounded in reason. Most of these engines support complex inference abilities that can lead to unexpected connections.

ES is not really dead. It feels like many rules engines changed their names to "AI Intelligent Agents"-type wording to describe their product. Rete algorithm is similar rule based calculation, is still used to calculate FICO score, which you could say fits into the problems that may be better served by the latest Neural network models. Allegro graph lets you query using prolog and is often used for governance and compliance tools. RDFox is one of the latest inference engines that made major advancements in turning first order logic in datalog into parallel computation.

I'd imagine if you can build a neural network that can successfully interact with a ES knowledge base you could easily make a neural network as good as the one that won in jeopardy
How much? A luxury car door costs $10K+
Exactly. I remember asking a prof in undergrad what the spectrum of a single time sample would be. He didn't give me a straight answer, but I realized later that question was equivalent to asking what the average age of a single person was.
ReactOS is entirely usable, if niche. GNUnet isn't usable. The home page describes it as "not ready for usage beyond developers", "still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance", and "unlikely to provide good anonymity" -- it's unfit for purpose.

Hurd is an abject, embarrassing failure. Individual developers have produced more stable, complete operating systems as a joke (like PonyOS) than the entire GNU project has managed in 29 years.
Actually version MScSim v0.2 released & there are binaries for Windows (32-bit) and Linux (Ubuntu 18.04, 64-bit).[0]

Linux users also should install data package[1] (in Windows binary all data bundled)

FTR, I'm not developer of MScSim.

[0] https://github.com/marek-cel/mscsim/releases/tag/0.2

[1] https://github.com/marek-cel/mscsim-data/releases/tag/0.2
>We have the right to speech coded in law because it is meant to keep the state at bay - it isn’t given to us by the state, it exists apriori.

That's certainly true, but it's worth asking what the justification is for the 1st amendment, i.e. what makes speech so special (after all, we have lively debate on most other amendments, such as the 2nd and in the past the 18th), and to say that freedom of speech exists a priori is just as true of speech as it is any other action, including actions we would count as murder, or theft, etc.
I second this call!
>> there is possibility that Russian troops might not leave when the exercise is over.

Why they would do that? Unless you organize a pro-West revolution like in Ukraine. It is possible but making people dirty poor and desperate can take a decade like in the latter case.
Section 8 pays about $1200 for a 2 bedroom in my city.
According to Adams, we should forgive him for creating Dilbert more than 20 years ago. It's not him anymore.

People change. And Adams is now certifiably insane.
It implies that that original ones were unsafe and banned.

> However, since 25 May 2007, it has been an offence for bull bars that have not been approved as compliant with those safety standards to be sold.
> There's a reason almost no widely used language implementation relies on ref-counting. CPython is the only real exception and they would switch to tracing if they could. They can't because they exposed deterministic finalization to the user which means now their GC strategy is a language "feature" that they're stuck with.

Reference counting and address-semantics (which prohibits moving objects, so even if you work around the refcount, you can only do a tracing GC, but you don't get to compact) are deeply ingrained into CPython's C API as well, which is very widely used.
I much rather support the efforts to port to guile. Guile is the base of quite a few GNU projects and some effort has already been made on that front. For example one guile based tool I really like is mcron, a cron replacement/augment.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
Typical headline of a VICE article. “HACKED”... “implemented with errors by some telcos”.
There was a brief moment in time when South Florida had a growing software industry. IBM had the T-REX campus (from the air the buildings were assembled in the shape of a dinosaur) where this thing called OS/2 was being developed. As a kid I got to beta test a lot of games and office apps on it. Then one day IBM moved everyone to North Carolina and half my friends disappeared over summer.
Speech is special because it is the only thing that a person can do in order to think and formulate a structure about the world outside of direct interaction. If you prevent people from being able to think stupidly then you prevent them from increasing that potential structure to a more articulated form. You can’t force people to think at a certain level, they have to discover this. Besides, who says what formulated structure of reality you come up with is the right one anyways? Seems a bit presumptuous.

Action has consequence, this is certain. Thought has consequence only artificially. People have to be allowed to do this. If you don’t allow this, then they can’t think at all
I think it comes down to the definition of "publishing".
> Trump did not in fact win the most electoral votes by convincing the electors.

That’s not what I meant. It was really just an analogy. I meant that Trump aimed to win the actual election as performed by the electoral college, not the popular vote, since the popular vote does not determine the election. Trump convinced the states that mattered, not the electors. In the same way, Scott Adams would have it, Trump is skilled at convincing people who matter to the issue currently at hand, not the popular opinion of all people in general.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665984
True, and that's a good example. I guess what I'm really wondering is how many languages are written in clojure. Clojurescript for instance is just clojure compiling itself.
My idea was more about how a change in expectations of the business models of the current providers would possibly have such a negative impact on future growth and revenue predictions, their stock price couldn’t handle a revelatory switch to just being dumb pipes.

If society wants dumb pipe providers, we’ll have to radically alter the business ecology of the telecoms sector.

Oh, to have a modestly profitable and much less ambitious dumb-pipe provider eat all their lunches!
GNUnet is AGPL as well.
The Lox Language is another teaching tool by Bob Nystrom with many implementations [1] and a great (work in progress) book [2]

[1] https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/wiki/Lox-...

[2] http://craftinginterpreters.com/
It's a hypothetical example based on actual customer cases. Change the units to BTC/LTC/whatever if you'd like to make it more precisely simulate the user interaction.
Iron Eyes Cody (Famous Native American Who Wasn't)
What do you mean by lack of faith? Not trusting mathematical proofs?
Statistically most likely from a ≈25-100mb US connection while developed countries the world over have had gigabit for a decade...

Our internet is quite a bit behind because telcos in this country don't have to meaningfully compete. Plenty of legislation has cemented their market dominance through artificial (and unnecessary) barriers to entry with practically no accountability for shoddy service and infrastructure. Remember when Verizon received billions in subsidies to bring fiber to NY in the late 00s and ran off with the money with no penalty?

https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-verizon-internet/
I’m not a lawyer. Issues with Iran aside. A Delaware C corporation may need to pay its employees actual wages. Not equity. Not complying with labor laws is a known method for creating legal problems later if the company becomes successful. Business practices that might work for proprietorships, partnerships, and LLC’s don’t scale out to C corps. Good luck.
Like everything about the Amiga: in 1985, implausible; in 1989, excusable; in 1991, unforgivable. And by 1994: punishable by death.

(See also, though with timeline offset and/or scaled: RISC OS, MacOS.)
The “PPP” in the graph is easy to miss, but is what makes the comparisons possible.
It’s also free of the notorious inefficiencies of insurance-bound medicine. So the profitability doesn’t necessarily translate to higher cost for the patient (at least comparing out-of-pocket prices). It’s almost like an actual free market!
I had my second trip to Minsk last week to work with a local IT company.

I was very impressed with the technical skills of the people there. Belarus and Minsk are advanced in many ways (metro with trains every 2 minutes), electric busses (powered by capacitors, not batteries), mobile phone (MTS shop at the airport sells a $9 SIM with unlimited data for a month), Yandex taxis beats Uber, etc, etc.

The main downside I noticed was meals based on meat and potatoes, not many vegetables.

All in all, I now am curious to find out more about Belarus... Need to spend some time learning basic Russian now!
When I saw this item, I thought not of misinformation produced about AI, but misinformation produced by AI.

Some of the Google searches I have done recently turn up
mostly automatically written articles that plug in numbers and facts but make no sense at all, because there is no real understanding. (Yes, this is probably not "real" AI, but it's the sort of thing people are and will be trying to apply AI to)

It seems to me that there is no way to get to a serene, well-functioning society that utilizes intelligent machines, because in the process of developing software that can digest and write intelligently about topics humans are interested in, we will inevitably come up with less intelligent software first, that produces plausible misinformation far cheaper than humans. And economics will drive out, is already driving out, real research and journalism. Human society would be drowned by automatically generated misinformation by the time a machine is truly intelligent, whether that is in a couple years or a decade or longer.

I'm increasingly thinking that the people who are worried about artificial intelligence ending the world as we know it have slightly missed the mark - superhuman intelligence is a singularity that we are approaching, but we are going to be ripped apart by the tides beforehand and maybe that will prevent the endpoint from ever happening.
Why not just use twitch.tv for something like this? I'd be much more likely to watch if i could follow there.
But they aren't Gates' contributions. He doesn't have anything to do with modern Windows operations. Windows 10 was built by people that he never met. Why does he deserve the proceeds of their work?

Why does he deserve it virtually tax free?

Why does he deserve more than the average MS worker can make in a million years while doing no work himself, just because he owns some pieces of paper?

Seriously, you could have worked at Microsoft as a full time engineer from the time before the genus Homo evolved to the present, through 100 ice ages, and still not have been paid as much as Bill Gates has in his retirement. How can you possibly justify this?
I don't get this? It checks against a limited list of websites if a username is taken. So what? This is hardly doxxing or "smart". Simply a faster method than the manual way, except it doesn't exhaust all avenues of search.
I'm thinking of making a game in my spare time for fun with Godot. Did you enjoy using Godot?
Lets take this from a perspective of stress. Stress is highly correlated with life length, with those who has good stress management having longer lifer. What is good stress management? Among other things good social support. Bad stress management is things like substance abuse.

So why do men have worse social support than women? First we can look at is how society reward men who focus their time on social networking compared to a focus on career and higher income. On average, how do society react if a man choose a high social job such as nursing vs a high income job such as construction, and then compare that average for women.

The second thing we can look at is a more obvious one. On average men are more likely to be childless than women. It should surprise no one that having one or more children does increase the probability of a social support network at old age.

The third thing is suicide which is the single largest cause of death for men until age of 65 (if I remember right). Suicide is highly correlated with untreated depression, a illness where it is well know that men is in the receive end of discrimination. Very few culture has any tolerance for men with mental illness, and this again is correlated to social support and in the long run stress management. Men with mental illness run higher risk of handling it alone compared to women.

It should be noted here that for the age groups where "drive aggressively and/or drive motorcycles" is relevant, suicide is still more common cause of death. I will also include the age groups of people who say "watch this".
I’ve really been enjoying the recent blog posts. The one about the idea maze / design space of building out a PKI was especially good.
I never got OS/2 installed as a teenager. I had everything set and I had run into everything that could go wrong. The computer store I bought it from and sold for seasonally (At 13) was sure I was just a stupid kid. I brought it into the store after 3 days and it was everyone's personal project to prove me wrong. It never worked.
The Pechenga Oak Tree is 2000 years. Imagine a cell line being content playing a support role. For thousands of years. Without trying to spread itself. I find that amazing and mysterious. Unless all long-lived lines in a tree have a shot at spreading?

There must be some interesting game theory to keep everyone aligned for that long.
since GDPR went in effect (mid-2018) there are consequences for not reporting breaches, and it's evident in the data. Would be interesting to have a geo breakdown
The incentives just aren't there for what you are asking for.
> If only you could simulate the entire Kafka infrastructure in a JVM so that messages can be published and consumed without relying on Kafka... After all, you just want to know that your application components integrate correctly; you aren't trying to test Kafka.

It depends on what one is trying to test. For simple connectivity, sure. If one wants to test more advanced features, this could be not enough.

By the way, it’s possible to run entire cluster in tests. Here’s an (older) example: https://github.com/radekg/kafka-cluster-tools.
I don't think you could come up with a better critique of the problems with silicon valley today than "this product wouldn’t have billions of users, but you could charge the elite few quite a bit for using it."
Actually got a invite to Urbit... but haven't got the time to understand/install it.

Is it an OS? Will it affect any dev work I'm doing now? I understand that this is a huge and large project and support the fundamental ideas behind it, but maybe a super-distilled version of what exactly it is to the layman would be a bit better (in addition to what's already there).
There's arguably a market for commoditised secure messaging/queueing, baked into the standard radio silicon, that's a few steps ahead of sms.. Finance, email, voicemail, etc. P2P.
The project founder’s wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

It has leaked over to the project WP page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit

I personally choose not to run this software or support this project. YMMV.
Detect and xplay and yutru are there now. Still devastating the restof us paeons.
1. Outsized rewards don't imply outsized contributions, rent-seeking exists. The contributions don't even have to be positive, see Facebook.

2. Outsized contributions shouldn't result in outsized rewards. The marginal utility of additional wealth is much higher if you're poor. Inequality is inefficient. Also, if you are rewarded as much as you contribute, your net contributions are zero.

> Even our poor have modern conveniences, access to emergency healthcare, generally safe food and infrastructure.

Dude. Emergency healthcare and generally safe food isn't something to be proud of unless you're a developing country.
You’re probably right about the OP, who has managed somehow to alienate his way into homelessness, a rather extreme case.

On the other hand, selection bias. For every “out and proud” right-winger in the valley getting lynched by an angry mob, there’s hundreds more conservatives, libertarians and even centrists keeping their heads down and trying to avoid political conversations because they know that being their “authentic selves” in such a situation would be a career-limiting move.
In the case of patients with dense breasts, which in the article undergo MRI, an argument can be made for PET in both availability and cost now that these patients are in MRI territory. Also, organ-specific PET is working on the resolution problem but I'd agree that if you were to put a patient into a run of the mill PET scanner there wouldn't be much clinical usefulness.
I guess for many of the players of old, it was because of the community, that was comprised mainly of HN folks. So, the chat was very nice and interesting.
I wrote this a while ago but it seems relevant to the idea of distinguishing speech from action (e.g. the articulation about how action works vs the action itself)

It is my view that the purpose of writing, talking, or producing content in any form is a way of furthering ones thoughts (or rather: to think). Thinking is more than just having something come to the surface and accepting it as is. Thinking is actually a system of steps to produce structure through:

Allowing anything to come to the surface of realization
To notice that it exists, or to take notice of a thought/realization
Generate one-to-many sort of multi-dimensional avatars that represent something that can generate alternative countering arguments, agreeing statements, appeals, or even basic realization of whether content is germane
Engage in a discussion that allows the conceptualization/realization to be advanced so that more structure is ultimately produced
Thinking can be done in many ways. This system, when done only in your head, is actually quite difficult to do, and it's not obvious that you actually have all the information you need to construct some form of reality around what you're trying to do, although sometimes you do. Instead, one other way to think is to talk with other people. Talking to other people provides a space for exploration and thinking to be dynamic and interactive as a result of being able to rely on "other people's brains" to generate more realizations and avatars for countering arguments/agreements/appeals.

This is also why it's important to allow people to speak freely when given the chance because if you aren't allowed to talk stupidly, then you won't be able to think, and if you can't think then you won't have any new additional structure to reality. If you don't have additional structure to reality (or the way things might be) then there is less potential that you will be able to manifest yourself appropriately in the space that is conducive for everyone to work productivly together.
Looking through the comments on reddit, there are a number of people people stories about how something similar happened to them and it turned out that either 1) they had been mailed a new card that was intercepted and successfully activated by someone, or 2) despite what the bank claimed, it turned out the transaction wasn't actually a chip transaction, so these are probably good possibilities to look into if this happens to you.
Yup, and I got a few downvotes for my trouble.
A smol comic about Clojure