skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that the majority of of professional services spending is on accountants and lawyers. The Independent Audit report itself likely costs a 6-figure sum. Depending on how much accounting is done in-house vs outsourced, some of it might also fall into professional services.

The bulk of it is likely going to lawyers. A lot of the in-kind donations fall into the same bucket:

> In-kind service revenue and expenses recorded in the statements of activities consist of contributed legal services. The amounts of specialized contributed legal services as revenue and expenses are $2,748,512 and $156,191 for the years ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The value of contributed internet hosting services for the years ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 are $32,722 and $58,390, respectively.
I want to know why law enforcement allows a private organization to seize private property based on some algorithm.

I have heard bad things about shadowserver in the past. Now I wonder how much other collateral damage they have done over the years.
I wonder how they propose to solve exceptions, destructors, constructors and overloading while being more compatible with C than D. Apparently a beta was promised for "early 2019" according this: https://github.com/cforall/cforall but nothing is forthcoming.

Already announced in 2007: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2181
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If a site feels unusable like this it's because you're the not the user. News sites, for example, are SPAs because they want to sell you ads. It has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the business using it.
Maybe people working in ML separate AGI from consciousness / self awareness / sentience but I don't think anyone else does. (If so, what is general non-human intelligence?)

Saying AGI is around the corner is like saying "cloud backups for consciousness" is just around the corner. We don't yet:

1. Understand the location of consciousness (if that even makes sense). We think it's in the brain area as that seems to be our CPU. Our knowledge stops there.

2. Understand the physics of consciousness. Is it some sort of emergent-y brainwave pattern thing? Again, pure speculation.

So, we're assuming:

1. Machine learning is in any way analogous to what processes our consciousness arises from. Which is just horse shit, repeated because someone decided to call college level math a "neural network".

2. If we do enough ML simultaneously we'll cross some threshold into sentient-computer land.

3. Or, there exist "magical algorithms" that will do the same.

A self-driving car is as self-aware as a calculator. It's not going to start learning, in earnest, or solving problems at the level humans can. Ever.

Our level of problem solving requires conscious awareness (theory of mind, imagination, et al). We won't be able to recreate that until we understand our own. There's a distinct possibility that is, by definition, unknowable.

But, hey, let's keep bullshitting greedy investors and scaring technophobes. The computers are taking over!!
Thanks for open sourcing this! This seems like precisely the kind of tool I‘ve been looking for. One thing that would be really great is support for HPC schedulers like SLURM. It seems relatively straightforward to add, so I might give it a shot myself.
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Both Waymo and Torc's cars are already driving in rain and snow (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKiWM1KjIm4).

> The thing is, there are much more situations than a human can handle than the best pattern matcher of the world can. Some situations just require reasoning beyong pattern matching and current AI are all about correlations but have zero causal reasoning ability.

Sure, but are there many situations where reasoning is required to not have an accident? I mean, humans aren't great at sudden reasoning either, it's something that takes time to engage in. I don't really care if my car just can't handle tricky situations, as long as it doesn't hit anyone or stops in the middle of the highway.
(which guidelines of polite discourse did I break in order to deserve downvotes?)
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Normally, if you did any setup before pointing the domain to the host, or if you connect via ssh, then you at least have seen the ip and probably have it recorded in files like ~/.ssh/known_hosts.

But generally, the better your setup is documented, the better you can detect or diagnose when something goes awry.
Why is DNS allowed to anything other than internal resolvers when the source is an internal host. Any network, even a home network can do this.
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In python since 1999: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.python/DfzH5... :-)

(Though not in the stdlib til v2.1, April 2001)
The way I would expect this to work is that there's a system service that just generates location data and handles things like GPS radio driver communications and such, which provides an API for everything else to get location data from it.

Everything else would have a setting to enable them to access that API, including any other system services that use location data to do anything. So the icon saying Location Services are enabled would literally just be saying "yep, this phone is communicating to GPS satellites and calculating it's location". I don't know if that's actually how this works though.
But why would you even try going for criticism of an article before even reading it?
That doesn't fix the issues mentioned. (Whether it's an "alternative" stdlib for C is debatable; nobody ever said that glibc is "the" stdlib for C…)
You could easily do that by having sub-companies of Google instead of sub-companies of Alphabet.
The server is up. However, it is possible that at your end "susam.in" is still resolving to a sinkhole address.

I have created a mirror of the blog on GitHub Pages for you. Visit https://susam.github.io/blog/sinkholed/ to read the mirrored blog post.
Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later
> The other day I was thinking about some kind of online service that would let you join a D&D like distributed party

Sounds like a virtual tabletop, of which there are many, some with fully licensed support for D&D and other major TTRPGs (Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, etc.)
Incompetence deserves no praise when the mistake gets fixed.
The server is up. However, it is possible that at your end "susam.in" is still resolving to a sinkhole address. I have created a mirror of the blog on GitHub Pages for you. Visit https://susam.github.io/blog/sinkholed/ to read the mirrored blog post.
I play a fair amount of a regular scale FPS (12v12 max) and it happens fairly regularly that I end up being the last one alive in my team and have to face off multiple opponents.

I don't always succeed but the pure thrill of trying to survive what is usually a virtual death sentence is something really powerful and when successful so exhilarating.
> I don't quite get your criticism here. Russ's Minimal Version Selection algorithm is a package version selection algorithm that does not require SAT solving.

That algorithm also doesn't handle updates though, which is quite a big limitation.
That's orthogonal. I don't want the app/website to know (and make decisions based on) whether or not it's being blocked or not... We can/should do IO/compute blocking in addition to faking input.
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

I carefully considered the above objection when I first wrote my essay, but I decided against removing the cancer analogy. I though that making an analogy that would be remembered was important. For what it is worth, I myself am a cancer survivor and even after 10 years of it not coming back I still sweat bullets every year when I do my annual cancer screening.
Dream to Control: Learning Behaviors by Latent Imagination
The rocket situation is not clearly similar to this one. In the first place, these craft are controlled by varying the speeds of the different rotors. That means that the thrust is not "in line with the angle of the craft".
The even added with for structs member usage in a block.
Who owns the return value of new_point?
> but in the real world a government that imposes these kinds of game restrictions through something like taxes only forces the advantaged players to pull out of the "game" completely (a nett negative for those reliant on their advantage long term) and move their advantage to another "game".

This would be true only if profits are the only motivation for humans to do anything... and that is not true.

Also, currently, there is no other "game".
Apparently the new iPhone is known to trigger trypophobia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/12/iphone-tryp...
I've seen no definitive information about the nature of these residential proxies. They might be NordVPN customers in the US. Or they might have installed some app with a bundled proxy server. Or it could even be outright malware.

But in any case, it'd be cool if people could determine whether their devices are being used as NordVPN exits.

I've run about 300 tests so far, on a few of NordVPN's US servers. And I've hacked a simple test script, using hashed "X-Akamai-Pragma-Client-IP" values.[0]

Just save the code block at the top as "test.sh" or whatever. Then do "chmod u+x", and execute. It'll prompt "IPv4 to search for?". Type an IPv4, and hit "Enter".

This is howling in the void, I know. But so it goes.

0) https://pastebin.com/YYc9Kuax
Thank you. Was very disappointed to not find that in the discussion.

Looks like it’s already being trialed for military C-12 planes.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-internet-ser...
> This reaction is almost certainly a taught cultural behaviour.

On the other hand, chimpanzees raised in captivity have been known to scream in fear when seeing snake-like objects such as pieces of hose.
Actually, SO's obsession that the answers should contain code ready to copy/paste is flawed. They'd rather give them fish instead of teaching them how to fish.
Most people use sites like these to pirate the "swill" you despite so much.
Its not that flawed though. Showing 1000kb instead of 1mb could be interpreted as a deliberate decision.
Its what the British had to invent to not die.

Exactly. G&T is essentially an important preventative medicine, and I should drink it more often so I won't get malaria here in the North East of the UK.
I’m very surprised that no one here has mentioned the Cyclone language[0] yet. It seems to me that it tried to address the same niche as C-for-all.

[0] https://cyclone.thelanguage.org
The UX is poor. Haggling should be automatic. Make it an auction - allow everyone to post their offers and then the seller can take the offer they accept based on price, location or whatever. To make it work, the offer has to be committed as long as it is posted. Hey, come to think of it, isn't this a description of how stock markets work? The ultimate haggling.
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say"

https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-...
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128
There is no issues with languages, packages, or what not.

Random code snippets from the internet are obviously completely unsafe. There is therefore basic "due diligence" to apply when considering using one such snippet:

1. Very carefully read the code to understand it.

2. Test it (corner cases/threshold values are the trivial things to test for such a piece of code doing conversions)

In general I do not copy-paste code snippets. I use them as examples of how to perform a task or how to use an API, then I write my own code.
This also avoids IP issues.
The reason why Tesla opened offices in Iceland
What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in
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I would help you from setting up a simple-blogging site to making complex admin-panels for the application.

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This makes sense - and additionally as higher speed internet becomes more prevalent, it's almost become expected to serve more images and videos and for those to be higher quality.

That's a total guess, but in general I'm of the belief that a higher hosting bill does not necessarily imply waste or that something nefarious is afoot
It becomes much harder to justify buying a self-driving car if there are many parts of the country where I can't drive it. Even a mid-tier sedan can be driven all the way up the west coast from southern california to Seattle as long as you have chains and wait for the pass to be open. Waymo's cars are designed to not even have steering wheels, last time I checked...
> but in the real world a government that imposes these kinds of game restrictions through something like taxes only forces the advantaged players to pull out of the "game" completely

Given that there is plenty of evidence that relative deprivation is a major source of disutility, getting them to exclude themselves from the social milieu in which other people exist would be a net win, though less than that of them staying and complying. But, objectivist fantasy novels aside, there's not a lot of evidence that that's a significant effect in the real world.

The people that are actually most successful in modern society understand the role society plays in the utility they derive from success a lot better than some of the wannabes that imagine how they would deal with similar success.
I have heard just the opposite: that having a decade-length endowment is generally a sign of hording by the non-profit, and unlikely to be contributing to the mission. What scenario is there where Wikipedia is still providing value and fulfilling its mission but can't raise funds for a decade?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
NASA's exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst
As an aside, if you play games competitively and you want to get better you should _always_ seek better players to play against. That's how you improve your game: you set the challenge just above your current level. The "just" part sorts itself out because players significantly more advanced will not find it very challenging to play against someone much weaker, so you 'll get fewer games against them anyway.

Another thing is to play people you don't know and find new playing partners often. That helps you avoid getting stuck in a rut.
How did you get from "pull over, turn around, or call for help" to "meh, humans make mistakes too"?

A completely non-AI self-driving solution could be cautious and responsible, and sometimes the cautious, responsible thing to do is pull over.

So while what you say is true, I don't think it's relevant to whether or not AGI is required for self-driving.
The function that calls `new_point`, the value is moved. Similarly, consider the following case.

struct Point a = new_point();
struct Point a2 = a;

Assuming `struct Point` has a destructor, this would move `a` into `a2`, and prevent accesses to `a` after `a2` assignment, as `a` is no longer considered to be alive at this point. C++ has a wrong default of cloning instead of moving, but a new language could fix that.
>If you can’t disconnect on the ground I don’t see why spending a few hundred bucks to fly to a distant destination should be your lifeline to disconnecting.

There is a difference between "disconnect" and disconnect.
The intriguing role of module criticality in the generalization of deep networks
Sad to see a daily mail link on hacker news
I don't know, depending on your definition of improvement, yes. But would you want to live in a world where humans are bound to rules 100%? Where "bending the rules" to the smallest extent is punished?
I have had similar experiences in the past that I have speculated might be a result of malicious intermediate parties. I only made that guess because when this happens, it only happens for sensitive domains of value (more likely it's my confirmation bias and CF is just buggy)
Amazon and Verizon shook hands to Push 5G in Cloud computing expansion
The Linux Desktop That’s More Elegant Than Mac and Windows 10
> human drivers handle it on reflex

I'm not sure we can write off human subconscious behaviour as "not general intelligence". It might not be the conscious, self-analytical reasoning that we tend to think of as 'intelligence' but there's a whole bunch of things that humans 'just know how to do' after practice without being able to explain how we do it.

> Figuring out outdated map such as not driving into a lake, damaged or unfinished road can be done without AGI reasonably well

Yeah, I think a lot of that could be solved by having a hierarchy of different classifiers (maybe they do this already?) so instead of trying to identify every individual object in the world, you can just detect "something large in front of me" and hit the brakes. You don't have to care particuarly what it is, you just have to not hit the thing.
Did that military agency plan for it to damage Merck? Or was that an accident?
Lack of any obvious vision or ideas: a safe pair of hands. The similarities are there, and not just Sundar/Ballmer but Sundar/Ballmer/Cook. It seems visionary CEOs like to appoint non-visionary successors. Someone who won't make big changes to their baby.
> In the age of Go and Rust, which already have a hard time finding niches

To make the time even harder, in that niche space, you already have decent enough languages like Nim and Zig etc.

So yeah, the market is really pretty saturated, I don't even have time and project idea to try them all, let alone bring them to work.
One free trick to getting a better fit is to try on more than one of the “right” size for the same article of clothing.
Domain names are not property, and this is not under the pervue of law enforcement. The country registrar (NIXI) is working together with someone to prevent abuse of their systems. When you purchase a DNS entry, you agree to this sort of thing as part of the ToS.
I think people tend to forget how often WhatsApp experienced outages in the early days.
Open Innovation in OpenAIRE
I think the reason they went for this is so that the sub-companies would not be at risk if Google (the search engine / advertising giant) had a problem.
Metrics and 1 Blog Story
The simple, readable, loop-based snippet mentioned in the article also works for the edge cases. Sometimes it's better to not be so clever.
Whit what's just happening with the .org sale, anything can happen, even a sell-off of wikipedia is on the table I guess...
For people who don't like doing just 1 thing
>> This problem (pattern matching, cross referencing experiences, deducing truth) mirrors the SDV problem pretty well.

May I be a pedant?

"Pattern matching" is how regular expressions are normally used to match a string in a text. "Pattern recognition" is what, e.g., a machine vision algorithm does when it identifies a dog in an image from the features of the image. In a discussion about self-driving cars' AI capabilities, it is "pattern recognition" rather than "pattern mathing" that is relevant.

"Pattern matching" was also used by the OP in this thread:

>> Navigating a construction zone with a flag man directing you on the opposite shoulder requires a brain, not pattern matching.
what metrics you track for your blog?
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

Charity Navigator is a fine organization, but they do have the flaw of having to take the charities word on what the core mission is. If the WMF says they need 350 employees -- or 350,000 employees -- to accomplish the core mission, Charity Navigator takes their word for it. If the WMF says that flying people to exotic locations for Wikimania meetings is needed to accomplish the core mission, Charity Navigator takes their word for it. If the WMF says that building a search engine to compete with Google is needed to accomplish the core mission, Charity Navigator takes their word for it.

My position is that Wikipedia was accomplishing that core mission just fine in 2008. I was an active editor in 2008 and I did not notice any pressing needs that were not funded because we were spending 4.3% of what we are spending now. What, exactly, are we doing now that we were not doing ten years ago that justifies us spending 23 three times as much money to do essentially the same job? I could see spending 5 times more, but 23?
For children, retribution comes before gratitude, study suggests
Same for FF preview.
Something like a missile attack on a Samsung factory is so easy to investigate and get conclusive evidence about what happened. Within hours or days we would know with almost certainty if it was an act of war or something else (accidental firing by the South Korea military or something...).

Consider something like Stuxnet, it took years before it was truly discovered and attribution could be made, at least in way which would hold up in a lawsuit about insurance claims.
I don't see that obsession, I have given plenty of prose-only answers that are the most popular one for the given question.
> What happened really can't be blamed squarely on anyone

Call this a "distributed denial of responsibility attack". It's very convenient that there's no one point of easy blame, that means that nobody has to change.
Their response sounds like BS tbh.
Given that the FDA is a product of a democratically elected government that is ultimately accountable to the people, while the BBB is a 'non-profit' corporation, accountable to nobody, I think you missed one other important difference.

If I don't like the FDA, I can vote for someone who will fix it. I happen to think that they have, overall, done a far better job than most examples of industry self-regulation.
musl is just another implementation of the true stdlib. I think what they want is an alternative to standard-conforming stdlibs that fills a similar niche - in other words, a "non-standard" standard library.
It changes the benchmark, but you still have to be good enough for your level to win. You don't get the wins for free. It's still fun and it's still challenging (if implemented correctly).

It also allows the stronger player to improve.
Standards really have changed if that's true. What should I make of this, then?

> While the translation itself is copied in the elegant hand of a scribe, the corrections and additions are in “an extremely distinctive, disjointed hand”.

Is the whole Tacitus page to be considered part of the "corrections and additions"? The Daily Mail article shows an example of a correction, inserting the word "Calme" which is clearly written sloppily even to modern eyes. But it also implies the whole page was written by her, picking out one example of a "hastily formed letter 'd'".