skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, here I am, bringing up something no one seems to bring up in the thread. One would also logically come to the conclusions that disparate AIs with disparate interests would find different things to express, to make music about, to draw about.

What distinguishes music written by AI from music made from humans? I have a story to tell. If the AI has a story to tell, one that speaks to our human emotions, it might make good music. But the point is to communicate. Even if you take, for example, someone else's words, fit them to a different model in a different field, viewpoint... You might get interesting things. You could make a cover of someone else's song, with your twist. Adding your emotion to the melting pot. AIs might be good at that, just like that, but only through communicating. Just like us. We have no idea whether they'll be better than us at doing it, or merely equivalent. We have no idea what is lossy in our sharing of mental models. Perhaps it is an unsolvable problem, which we will find out in the same way we found out about Gödel's Incompleteness.

It seems to me like we fail to understand how unique we are. We are in a unique position to shape what comes after us, and we are blind to how much we unconsciously select for things. We have an innate mental model of "humanity" we are trying to transmit to machines, and I am not sure we fully grasp it well enough to make sure we are creating something like us. We fail to do it properly to humans, sometimes, who actually do share most of our instincts and habits. Something entirely different from us? Color me skeptical.

This kind of debate only highlights this, to me.
Russian dairy farmers gave cows VR goggles with hope they would make better milk
>Technically, what my source did was wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet/telephone/fax through false pretenses); had he done it through the U.S. mail, he could be facing mail fraud charges if caught.
Yeah, I'm pretty confident that a true thought experiment can't lead to wire fraud charges. "Security research" seems like a more popular, and reasonable, umbrella to hide behind.
I have been working on AI/ML since 2007, and this is what I had read too (repeatedly). That Go is incredibly hard to conquer for a computer, and it will be a long while. So when this actually happened, I was shocked/surprised.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a standard term in that line of business. I did some work for an RPA company a few years ago. They have a nice explanation of the concept here:

https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/products/robotic-pr...

Many more examples:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Robotic+Process+Automation
Nah, just ahead of its time.

It will be our grandchildrens' flame war. No need to fight it here and now.
Awesome! I wanted to have something like this for ever and planned to build it myself using a combination of gmail and Flow or something. Now LastPass , 1Password etc. need to integrate it so every time you generate a new password you can add a random email to the mix.
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> even today most important software powering modern computing are written in C, this speaks volume about its simplicity.

C code is simple in the sense that it closely matches the simple binary interfaces of the compiled code: plain symbols with simple calling conventions. Anything more complicated than this presents a seemingly insurmountable barrier to code reuse thats leads people to rewrite stuff in C.

The current situation is any code that's meant to be reused will be written in C so that every other language has access to the resulting functionality. The higher level languages either have much more complicated binary interfaces or are completely virtualized so code reuse is extremely difficult. C++ and Rust can export C interfaces but the benefits of those languages are not available to the users of the code because the interface has been reduced to C.
I mean, computers are vastly better than humans at many things, I think you need to accept that and find the fun in sharing a game with a computer involved or with another human whose playing with another human in a like-for-like match with witt and skill being determining factors in the result, not a super advanced AI/algorithm.
I agree with this, but I’m pointing out the examples provided are more than a lack of tact- it’s choosing disengagement and by disengaging assuming no one else has legitimate worries or lives a life different than them. It’s an apathy that’s the same side of the worry coin.
I don't think you can translate that problem statement into programmer speak without a specific understanding of the problem space and the original manual process.

My best guess is OCR plus whatever redundant checks are necessary to prevent errors, plus CRUD apps and whatever else is needed for occasional manual intervention.
Hmm, I see what you are saying. I'd like to see a comparison between the effects of established placebos on the brain versus psilocybin. My hunch is that the mechanisms are quite different, but maybe there are some interesting similarities.
True, we will always have the rich in our society. HOWEVER, the rich got richer at stupendous rate in the last few decades, while the rest got poorer at increasing rate.
It's sobering if your culture had over-romanticized the ability to do so for centuries.
This was a fascinating article. Thanks for sharing.
Is it really surprising that this administration didn't run anything past the IT dept?
I am a PhD with 5 kids under the age of 10, people think I’m crazy.

My new thing is telling people I have 10 kids, then saying ‘just kidding, only 5’
On your average project, how many people write code? I'm guessing less than 6. The op is talking about problems that generally start to manifest once the number of programmers are more than the amount of people that can reasonably crowd around the same computer/whiteboard discussing architecture at once
This... thing in your house is only one Privacy Terms & Conditions update away from tailoring ads to scare you into voting for whichever political candidate promises to not pursue Facebook with an AntiTrust lawsuit. If that isn’t terrifying, I don’t know what is.
OpenQKD
These guys are always looking for good coders. Fancy moving into Lisbon or Porto?

https://www.siscog.pt/en/

https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/scheduling/siscog.lh...
I think that's self-evident, thank you.
> you're probably not going to know or have much in common with your neighbors.

Almost all people have a surprising amount in common. The human experience is pretty predictable.

It's just that we perceive that our neighbors are different from us.

One of the best ways around that is to put yourself in a situation where you actually bump into your neighbors. Basically that just means being out in public at "third places".
Correct, the US is unique in developed nations in that it does not have much of a safety net so most people tend to fall much harder and faster than they would in another high wealth country.
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Suggested title: "The remarkable capabilities of the Apollo computer"

The computer history is very interesting, but the title is clickbait. It acknowledges that the smart toaster is computationally far more capable, and unconvincingly tries to justify the title by arguing that the moon landing is more important than toast, which I doubt anyone's ever disputed.
AI as we see it today is just a mirror reflecting us in a collective way. This little excerpt from Gwern’s efforts training GPT2 on classical poetry [0] absolutely spoke to me:

“How the clouds
Seem to me birds, birds in God's garden! I dare not!
The clouds are as a breath, the leaves are flakes of fire,
That clash i' the wind and lift themselves from higher!”

As someone who grew up in Appalachia, I have never in my life encountered a more visual, visceral description of autumn leaves than ‘flakes of fire’. It’s perfection, and maybe a single human is behind it, but more likely we all wrote it.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2
Depends. If the paper is dense you're taking hours per paper, rereading many times and rederiving details. You can skim through many you don't want to dive deeply though (if it's a topic you just need a feel for).
"We observe that data movement between the main memory and conventional computation units is a major contributor to the total system energy consumption in consumer devices. On average, data movement accounts for 62.7% of the total energy consumed by Google consumer workloads." [0]

[0] https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/Google-consumer-worklo...
This would be problematic for people who've paid income taxes for their whole lives and have planned retirement based on the current system. Assume a $1.5M nest-egg and a safe-withdrawal rate of 4% per year. Ignoring capital gains taxes, property taxes, etc, this leaves you with a modest $60,000 retirement income. Based off your proposed figures, that wealth would have a $20,000 annual tax bill, which is 1.3% of the total. Now, since the safe withdrawal rate is 4%, you can only withdraw 2.7% for your retirement income, which leave you with $40,500.

In other words, your 1-2% tax has reduced the passive income by 33%.

Of course, it would be much easier to grow the retirement account without income taxes, which would likely more than offset offset this reduction. For people who have paid income tax and planned their retirements based on the current system, this change would be devistating.
Doing something like offloading the GIL could be a bridge too far, and trigger a new language?
> 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.

An accurate metaphor would be a person on a motorcycle competing against another person on a motorcycle.
> We don't need this "drama"

Speak for yourself. I don't mind when reviewers use emphasis.
In that context, it would probably have to be those with widest appeal, which comes with it's own criticisms.

But, in almost any particular human artistic sub-niche with it's own definition of "best", the same principle will hold, with compensation and skill level being well correlated. It's also typically not even close to linearly correlated either, most of the compensation lies at the far tail of "best".
Uses one TCP port instead of a UDP port range like mosh makes it easier to use through a firewall. Nice.
> It deploys software bots to input data from scanned loan applications

Read document using OCR

> then check that everything is in order

then verify the consistency of what you read with other data sources that you have available (SQL database, web APIs, CRUD webapps, etc.).
>Tim Ferris says that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

IMO this no longer holds true with the advent of the internet era. You're now spending equal amounts of time exposed to a countless number of people. Even if you aren't physically with them, and even if it's a one-way relationship (i.e. they are not aware of your observance and existence), they are still influencing who you are.
> Instead put a tiny fraction of the computing power necessary to build this book into self-training.

Do you believe that AlphaZero could continue to improve dramatically with another 6-months of training? Or if it can improve at another 6-months after that? At some point, the network will reach a local maximum, and it will be unable to improve beyond that.

Characterizing AlphaZero's moves through big-data analysis is innately going to become useful as self-training plateaus. Even Google wasn't able to get more than a few months of training in before the plateau.

At which point, it will be more reasonable to characterize the weaknesses of the network and build an opening book. Avoid the positions that the network was unable to learn about. Etc. etc.

Opening books, at a minimum, would grossly improve AlphaZero's play at competitive levels. Anyone with an opening book of AlphaZero's mistakes will be able to push AlphaZero into a mistaken position.
Wow. This article says almost nothing at all.
My only issue with othernet is, from what I've been able to tell, you only get to see what they determine you can see.

In other words, they're shaping the perceptions for you, rather than giving you the raw data to decide for yourself.

You can view some folks online feeds[0] to get a feel for what data they let you see.

[0] https://forums.othernet.is/t/online-othernet-feed/6186
This whole train of thought is silly. People still want to play chess, the existence of computers that are better than them is irrelevant. Nobody is going to pivot from playing chess to this, they're just going to play chess, because nothing is stopping them.
I wonder how the charts look if you graph them on a log scale. Wealth concentration is exponential by nature.
the data had already been scanned, so they're just processing it. i'm a programmer and this is very clear to me.
Seriously. Especially when something seems like a bizarre choice in the code, I'll provide a link if there is a corresponding GitHub issue or code regarding it.

I've never had an issue with GitHub issues regarding linkrot, but it happens quite frequently when linking actual source code, especially code not in your control. Not sure what a better solution is for that, unfortunately.

I generally justify it by the anecdotal observation that the code is generally not being used anymore by the time the link dies out, but that is far from an ideal justification.
Aren’t there more than 100 countries?

This should be broken down by city...
I'm always going to enjoy a person coming and showing a bit of themselves through their music.

That's not something we can really lose without losing something that connects us. People want a story. That has sold since the beginning of time, and it will keep selling. People will keep being moved to music, giving money to the artists that inspire them, and that requires connection. Maybe an AI/human team would make some really incredible stuff, and I'd be willing to pay for it if it makes me feel something. I think the human touch of "selection" will never truly leave, even if only in the listener's mind...
> Pretty much every website needs JS to function as intended.

True, but I prefer them to function better than intended.
Even if it is 100% deterministic (which I'm not convinced of, especially seeing as how distributed and thus ordering-dependent it is), if it's the best in the world, how does that help you compete against it? In order to take advantage of its determinism you'd need to be better than it, and nothing else is.
Sorry, but this doesn't make much sense. Playing Chess and Go to start with is already a kindof questionable use of anyone's time. But if you know that a computer will demolish even the worlds best players, transforms this into a hobby. There is literally no point in spending 20 years frantically training a useless skill that every computer can do better.

Mankind should focus on skills that computers can't yet compete at. Hopefully the point in time will be far off where computers will beat humans at everything, but likewise, once they do, there is no reason for the human race to continue to exist.
Notice the word skim. Yes when I'm trying to figure something out I often have 10 tabs with papers open and I'm flipping between them.
Pick one big problem to care about, then commit to at least weekly action. Leave the other problems to other people.

Personally, I only have 3 weekday-hours outside of work/sleep/cooking, plus weekends. Half is spent socializing or relaxing, the other half I channel environmental concerns into volunteering in science activism (education, campaigning, networking, and donating to PACs).

Outside of climate and science, I don't really follow other news above local politics. My reps are aligned with me on Trump. China/Hong Kong, same, plus I already boycott Chinese goods. Staying current on all is depressing... but individually acting on one thing is meaningful and motivating.
The author of the story claims he has no financial position in any company he reports on in his bio, but it doesn't say he doesn't write paid editorials.
The question of which fource contributed the most in a war is actually not that easy.

For example, the answer of who defeated Nazi changed significantly in the last 70 years in Europe [0].

[0]: https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year...
a man also can't beat a car in a race, so what's the point of athletics?
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>On every measurable metric

Life expectancy has dropped for three years running.

Don't blame it on social media. It's bigger and deeper rooted than that.
>Personally, I think the idea of completely cutting off from social media isn't something that most people can (or even should) do

Incoming anecdotes...

I'm not so sure. I think the only solution is total cut-off.

Remember that the goal of social media is to get you hopelessly addicted and to give away as much information as possible so that THEY can make vast sums of money off your content. They employ thousands of brilliant minds who's sole job is to break down your will power with dark patterns and deep psychological tricks to keep you clicking and scrolling.

No one posts their fuckups, or their bad side, or the boring stuff like doing the ironing or cutting the grass or being stuck in traffic: the normal, everyday things. All you see is edited highlights.

You only see aspirational things that most people will never achieve. That they haven't even achieved.

In fact, I know a guy, a model, who has shunned social media now but still has friends on there who constantly lie and do stuff like buy a bunch of Calvin Klein clothes and pay for their own photoshoot with them wearing it saying things like "Big thanks to Calvin Klein for the gear" etc.

It's utter bullshit from one end to the other.

It's an addiction we have as a nation and the cure is abstinence.

Edit: used the word "stuff" a bit much :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
Twitter will remove inactive accounts and free up usernames in December
Yes a few other users have mentioned integration with password managers. I agree that would be extremely convenient, but this would obviously be up to the password manager to integrate it using the API.
Let me see if I have this right: robotic process automation means automating ordinary desktop software by simulating cursor and keyboard inputs?
Not directly, rook provides a storage backend for in-cluster workload persistent volumes.

In theory you could manage kvm machines with kubevirt and back the machines with PVCs from rook. I have not tried this and would be curious how the performance is.
Why aren't you a professional Go player, then?
Wow, this will be great to read comic books and graphic novels!
Fedora supports 32-bit boot out of the box, even on actual 64-bit OS's. The Debian multiarch image does as well, but the 32bit-boot/64-bit OS arrangement fails if secure boot is on, so make sure to turn that off beforehand in the firmware UI.

AIUI, Ubuntu doesn't support this.
> If you think about it, contraceptives are extremely similar to an antibiotic whose target is human beings.

We don't really know that. There are environmental stressors that lead a species to adapt; there are also stressors that cause a species to go extinct. I think time scales are really important here. Bacteria evolve much more rapidly than humans. But the rate of creating new antibiotics and contraceptives are probably in the same ballpark.
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> The problem with using height is that there is already evidence that taller people are more successful due to hidden biases.

IIRC, while it has been shown that taller people are more successful, and everyone says it is due to "hidden biases", those hidden biases were not in fact shown.

A competing theory that I am familiar with, which provides just as good (if not better) explanation is this:

Height is a (bad) proxy for healthy upbringing. Your maximum height is essentially genetically predetermined. But to actually attain that height, you have to have good everything growing up -- good food, good health. If you do not have access to nutritious food, or you are plagued with diseases that impact your growth (.. or treatment for them [0]), you will be shorter. So:

Tall = Tall Genes + Good Environment

Short = Short Genes + Good Environment ; or Tall Genes + Bad Environment

Thus, tall people are correlated with good environment growing up, and shorter people less so -- and the theory is that it is the environment you grow up in that explains your success, rather than some hidden biases.
I wonder, what’s the purpose of this? GSM is going away and being replaced with IMS which is essentially SIP over a specific APN.

Does this problem also apply to data links (from my experience I’ve never had issues maintaining a data connection despite roaming between cells and even countries)? If not then I don’t see how this effort is worthwhile.
> socialism

That... is not it.
Because disposable emails are trivially used by casual users and companies see phone number as harder to falsify (correctly, IMO). It's not impossible, obviously. We know SMS can be hijacked and spoofed, but the casual user won't be doing this, today.
I think you address a very salient point vis-a-vis birth control. There are many women who otherwise would be bounded to natural reproductive cycles that have created a never before seen phenomenon in society, and that is the childless self-sufficient woman. This leads to lower future-time orientation in the population since consumption is not compounding as fast as if it were directed towards progeny. Society becomes more self-serving as a necessary effect, with accompanying lower moral standards to boot, eg The Kardashian Effect.
> If you really believe the media, any media, is reporting things accurately in 2019 you are not thinking critically or actively searching for the truth.

Please tell me which media source you consume that's telling you the other media sources are lying to you.
That's not the normal meaning of solved in regards to game theory.
Young people with college degrees and debt will never own a car, never have a family? This seems like a gross exaggeration. I know many people with student debt and they all manage to have a car and relationships/families.
I'm not sure what you're saying with this suggestion. If somebody has what they perceive as a minority opinion, they shouldn't feel shamed into not voting in kind. Anonymous voting subverts that awful societal problem.
I don't think Earth's resources are strained. I think we're approaching capacity, especially in the oil industry, but so much of the food we produce is thrown away.
In Go and modern Chess, computers don't need human help for the game-related part, as long as they have sufficient computing hardware and energy. That's what AlphaZero showed.
I'd like a bot which ripped the articles from Bloomberg and created a simple lightweight output. It's Getting to the point where I avoid anything on Bloomberg.
Hopefully this is just coincidence; a few bad years so to say. However, based on my own experiences and having a few friends die due to drug overdose I can say I think not. I wouldn't even know where to start when it comes to placing blame or if it would even help.

I am 33 now and if I have noticed anything in my lifetime it's that people seem so much more divided now than in previous generations. I look at my mothers generation and all the amazing things people accomplished with civil rights, women's rights and environmental action/protection here in the US... that I can't help but feel like we have dropped the ball.

Perhaps the media has simply poisoned my mind s/t I feel a need to absorb blame. Perhaps our generation simply has more complex and overwhelming problems than previous generations. Either way, I feel as though we have all disconnected from one another despite the fact that our generation is more connected now (smart phones, tech, social media) than ever before.