skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the thought experiment where I can duplicate myself with a robot. Who would benefit? Me, having eterernal vacation and my robot doing my job for me, or my employer who lays me off and uses a robot instead?

Clearly, if the latter would happen, and we are on that path right now, we are bound for a distopian future.

Old economic models don't work anymore, we need radical changes. If we don't plan them, they will come in the form of either revolution, or brutal repression (ala China).
Not exactly doing it for free
End-to-end double-ratchet encryption with epoch key exchange
Yup, it's the Amazon model.
Medieval cities used to do this; essentialy a transition from a small town to an actual city, i.e. "we are no longer able to fit the place to nature, let's do the opposite thing then."
Not so weird. Palantir put a GUI on Hadoop/whatever and that was enough to sell it to every government for citizen inspection. It’s the GUI that gets the contracts, not the technology alone.
not much I'm afraid. Or they didn't tell me. Company doesn't want to pull attention to it so they are hushing it up
Except SPV as Satoshi described doesn't work, so the trade-off becomes "can users simply trust miners" to which the answer from experience is a resounding "no".
Exifer
I like the concept, but I think it needs some work on the design and functionalities. I feel it's a bit too basic for my needs.
How is basic loop unrolling is "not even close" to the expected result when you explicitly ask for optimization with O3?
It does work here. Oh, in the US. Got you.
There are systems of algorithmic inference that are not conservative. Constraint satisfaction and logical deduction can create novel insights.
more context: https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1213356702399115267
The closest Fry's is almost 800 miles away from me according to Google Maps. Currently if I want something local I go to Best Buy, but I remember the days of CompUSA...

In its inimitable way, Maps responds to "Fry's Electronics near <my town>" by crossing out "Fry's Electronics" rather than showing the closest one.
I actually really want a stripped down phone
- but without some of the popular messenging apps it's effectively a non-starter for daily use, both from a business and a personal perspective.
As long as you don't use the phone much, they won't see you have a cheap phone either. The Light Phone 2 seems like a rather small smartphone. Without the music feature (offline Spotify is OK) it is still not very useful to me though. I used to run around with a walkman. Then I had an iRiver H340 with 40 GB (when everyone was running around with ~4 GB iPods). I'm not going back to no music with me, pre walkman years. I had one with me since elementary school because I was so bored.
Amazon does not employ warehouse workers they are "associates". At Starbucks a waitress function is named "partner". Brilliant piece of doublespeak.
Gosh! There are like thousand github repos that do these stuff. This could become a tool to prosecute a lot of unwanted people like DeCSS.
>If it were me, I'd create a system where you get free games and treat it like a currency. If someone is being an asshole, just turn in your token, you leave the game unpunished and you get to flag the player(s) that caused you to do it.

The issue there is that the game has 10 players in it.

Say you have only 3 "leave" tokens per month. That's small and will probably only slightly address the issue.

If the average player plays 30 games a month, they can leave up to 10% of their games.

And if someone uses this "leave" token, can you really punish the other players for not wanting to play a broken match? You can't require them to burn their own leave token. So it's one leave token, and everyone can leave.

If 10 players leave 10% of their games... then on average, there's one missing person per game. And most of those games will simply end.

Then, when you have 5 losing players, they have 15 tokens between them per month. With 30 games a month, your players can leave very roughly half the games.

Matchmaking aims for 50/50 win/lose.

You could literally just leave every losing game. And the other team would do this if you were winning.

You would only really get a few serious games toward the end of the month when all 5 or 10 people happen to run out of coins.

This system would actually probably just make people scream death threats at their own teammates for doing too well because the only proper way to win a game would be to eke it out at the last second.

In other words, the toxicity is built in to MOBA gameplay inherently and can only be suppressed.
I sense that they will hurt themselves more with the imposed additional bureaucracy, hindering business and collaboration - the latter being a key aspect in efficient research, not to mention multinational companies already living on the area.

Also, how effective could this regulation be with so much knowledge and open source code already disseminated in the field?
You have to look at that in historical terms. Until very recently the vast majority of sexual exploitation cases where dismissed using a form of victim blaming, normally by pointing out the agency the victims still had but didn't use.

I'm not saying you're wrong but people are understandably hyper sensitive to those points as until very recently they would be used to dismiss victims. It'll take a period of time (atleast a decade, likely a generation) where victims are regularly listened to before that sensitivity starts to go away.
None. I am technical startup founder.

My company just got break even so I live with the minimum wage possible but it's growing at a good pace.

Work life balance is both great and terrible. I work with my girlfriend. Our life is really flexible but we have customers calls every day. No days without a single call for the last 2 years. But I love what I do.
Scientists just found one of the world's largest flowers blooming
And having a GUI. It appears you can simply export a binary framework (with or without source) and let the buyer build an interface on top of it. Building an interface is not terribly advanced work and can be done by fresh bootcamp grads even...
The world is not enough
If you must allow for the failure of one engine, adding more engines reduces weight.

2 engines: You need to install and carry 200% of the engine power needed to fly the plane.

3 engines: You need to install and carry 150% of the engine power needed to fly the plane.

4 engines: You need to install and carry 133% of the engine power needed to fly the plane.

It is really quite interesting that twin-engine planes are cheaper to operate than planes with more engines. The engines in twin-engine planes should be larger and thus more expensive in every way. It seems that larger engines must be discounted somehow, either by the manufacturer or by the maintenance crews, or that there is a scaling factor that hugely effects efficiency of large passenger jet engines.

For example, are maintenance costs dominated by paperwork? That could be enough to overcome the extra expense of needing powerful equipment to lift and otherwise manipulate the parts of a huge engine.
That looks good! It's an interesting way around the problem, just put an Alexa/G Assistant terminal in and you can interact via voice and avoid the phone all together. But that thing runs YouTube too??

Dual SIM is nice. If it could tether I'd buy that next time I go on a long holiday (edit - it does!). Non removable battery is a pity too, but I've never actually needed that.

I've been tempted by the CAT S60/61 though.

I wonder, would it be worth making a service that works over voice calls, not the Internet? For example have a phone at home that automatically picks up and relays your call into an Alexa or something, then you can hear the response. Minutes are so cheap it might actually work.
I learned Native Android via Udacity courses. I did all of them in two months. Teaches from beginner level and goes to Advanced stuff gradually.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough.

There was a time when a software engineer didn't get basic stuff. A time when languages like C were developed where there wasn't an associative data structure baked in for example.

It wasn't because associative data structures are a secret tech that requires great insight to uncover. It is because the field was new and people hadn't cottoned on to how basic and important having access to hash-maps is. Times moved on. Now basically all modern languages have hash-maps as a basic data type.

'AI' is in that early phase where the engineering world is still getting excited over stuff that will basic practice eventually. BERT and GTP2 are signs of how much computer power Google/etc's researchers have access to, not signs that the architectures are fundamentally complicated or somehow hard to work out if you live in China. AlphaGo for instance was breathtaking as a standalone project, but not hard to implement.
Awareness of cracking is high, but if you own a PC that can play these games you can afford 60$ to pay for the game. Or you can just wait a little and get one of the millions of games on Steam for approximately no money.
Curious how world politics will change once electric vehicles become mainstream and there is little need for oil.
Perhaps any of these, depending on the materials. Color stability in the long run is rarely a concern.
OK, then imagine 100 billion people. Scale isn't the point of the experiment - the point is bounding expectations based on probable (maximal?) capabilities.

Perhaps a post-Singularity AI will have wild capabilities beyond our comprehension, but that is outside the scope of this experiment.
Pro-Soleimani messaging floods Twitter following general's drone strike
Naieve question: Are there any repositories (e.g. Hosted at github) that one should mirror?
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Building data-driven engineering culture – Lessons from Booking.com ex-CTO
I know a few words, but I've learned that ignorance is bliss here. You don't hear any negativity.

Difficulty? It is all relative... I know 30+ computer languages, but can barely speak english (haha). =) So for me, both would be impossible. Vietnamese is tonal + context and I just don't hear the tones at all.

A few other ways to look at things... yes, I miss out on a lot by not knowing Vietnamese, but at the same time it is a low value language in all other countries. I won't need it elsewhere and I'm not sure I want to live here forever.

Not knowing the language has made me tune my other senses more... I can usually pick up on what people are talking about just by gestures.

The other thing I've noticed is that I just don't have much in common with people who don't know english... there is just so much that you miss out on in the world that cultural values and judgements tend to be vastly different.

Travel. Live in other countries. Pay attention to what is around you. It really gives you immense perspective that you don't get otherwise.
Cantata for the railroad: How art and technology created a united continent
No one has ever written bug free code. Lots of people have found bugs in code. That's all I think the difference is.
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"... boost oversight of exports of sensitive technology to adversaries like China, for economic and security reasons..."

I think economic is the keyword here. From what I gather this is not the first time the US is doing something like this. I am pretty sure other countries have done the same in their particular areas of concern. They're just not as mighty and famous as the US so nobody pays attention. So much for free market.

Anyways I think it is a little too late and all it will accomplish is - opening a window of opportunity for other players.

Also because it formulated way too broad and has an escape clause (apply for a license) then it might offer an unfair advantage right inside the US. Big companies will get it and for smaller it nay be more difficult. Same as patent system. Company like Apple can patent my cat with little troubles. Me: not so much and I speak from experience.
OpenBSD is based in Calgary because Theo lives there.
This ignores the fact that Bill’s team hasn’t been working on the project and is most likely just going to slow things down.
i try to buy as many games on gog as possible now.
Denuvo is based on VMProtect, at least in part, which implements DRM through virtualization and encryption of the original code. Since it takes days to "crack Denuvo", I'm guessing they are cracking the encryption key or doing some sort of statistical reassembly of the raw code from a sample base. In either case it doesn't sound like there are any insiders involved, no.

https://vmpsoft.com/

The back story is that at some point VMPSoft was suing Denovo for buying a single license of VMProtect and then using it to roll out their own DRM system. It was a complete LOL really. They ended up settling out of court.
Fuzzing will just give you more random predictions, it doesn't remove any inherent biases in the training data.
I think your list is prejudiced, people bike in all of those circumstances.

Here are bikes for disabled people: https://www.vanraam.com/en-gb/advice-inspiration/news/bike-f...

Similar trike type bicycles have been used for ages by elderly & disabled people. In northern winters even with more than 10kg of cargo :)
When I took nuclear physics there was no mention of any bombs. It was just introduction to standard model without QFT. I also took some chemistry courses and no one cared about dynamite or whatever unless if were directly working with dangerous chemicals in labs.

I’m not sure maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention in class. But I’m pretty sure atom bomb making is more engineering than physics so maybe that’s why we didn’t care about it.
Company that made Doppelganger-like product is flourishing. They are selling it`s product to governments and other companies for ton of money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace
The Elephants: A system for better living (2013)
"I've yet to see any AI platform that is mindbending"

1. Siri / Alexa and similar for voice recognition and doing basic tasks.

2. Face recognition for uploaded pictures on Facebook.

3. Lots of people use FaceID on iPhones.

4. Tesla and other SDC systems: yes, it's not good enough for general use, but the fact that it mostly works in California is pretty cool..

"Mindbending" is subjective, but these all use DNNs, and are used by millions to billions of people every day. So it's incorrect to suggest that all DNN use-cases could be replaced with "doing basic math with a multivariate normal distribution".
Clojure is good for this because it's a parasitic language it sits on top of and interops with JavaScript, Java, .NET, Erlang and their ecosystems, npm, maven etc

Learn the main language once and you get incredible reach, for every new runtime the core language is practically the same
Wow, a solution for a problem we never have to worry about in Asia. Why can't your government just crack down on theft so that people can be allowed to use their laptop wherever they want without fear?
If a government

1) wants to acquire a geospatial imagery recognition program;

2) does not have the tech themselves;

3) can import the underlying tech without interface;

I highly doubt a restriction on GUI export will stop them.
I’m confused by the edit, was there originally a response to this comment?
When you extend your thought experiment to the CEO and the management of your company then they should be replaced by robots too?
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I think there's a vast difference between discussing porn and discussing the technical details of porn websites. I'd never discuss the former at work but I have discussed the latter, albeit only with colleagues I know well and when it was directly relevant to technical problems we were discussing. Also not in communal areas.
You're correct in that I'm grouping authentication and authorization.

The three types of tuples would include:

An identity (E.G. a person at an address).

Proof that you are that person at that address.

A list of things you're allowed to do at that address (IRL laws, or for a computer account publishing as that address/etc).
If I slap my friend Tom once a day, train an ML model to detect which of my friends is going to be slapped next, and then find out it always predicts Tom, the model isn't biased against Tom: the model is correctly showing me my own anti-Tom bias.

I don't get to stand there and blame the model when I'm the one doing the slapping.
I bet that within some years, this idea will surface and gain momentum. Keep it as a side project.
"""

The environmental groups know they have been successful. Commenting after the Kyoto negotiations about recent media coverage of climate change, Tom Wathen, executive vice president of the National Environmental Trust, wrote:

"... As important as the extent of the coverage was the tone and tenor of it. In a change from just six months ago, most media stories no longer presented global warming as just a theory over which reasonable scientists could differ. Most stories described predictions of global warming as the position of the overwhelming number of mainstream scientists. That the environmental community had, to a great extent, settled the scientific issue with the U.S. media is the other great success that began perhaps several months earlier but became apparent during Kyoto."

"""

Those were the days. And now we are back to square one.
This uses GNU-specific extensions. Always use the GNUmakefile filename instead of just Makefile to avoid this sort of confusion. And, to allow for environment variable and CLI overrides, use the ?= operator instead of := for flags and command names.

Even better, use CMake, Conan or Bazel instead.
I think we are not that dependant on oil right now either and we are just used to continue the same failed tactics if the past. The people who make these decisions are just not making them economically and they are just used to continue the same policies.
I believe the emphasis here was on the generic right of disseminating research not on judging the necessity of a specific technology for particular audience.
The Light Phone and Punkt both have a disadvantage: they're not rugged while they are expensive. On the long term I'm interested in a dumbphone for my child (and I am interested in living a disconnected life, on top of that, myself, with an offline e-reader and an offline DAP serving me quite well), but it needs to be rugged. If it is not rugged and not durable, then what is the point of using such? You can't take it for hiking, you have to be super careful with it like an expensive, normal smartphone.
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- A million packages that never really seem to be in sync

- A ton of different ways to do the same thing (Expo or not for example)

- Documentation is always outdated

- You still have to deal with the most annoying part of native apps, namely compilation and certification. If it was a book it would have the title: "Native apps: the shitty parts"

- Doing the same thing twice with this package management and build system (or ten times...) can yield a different result

- JavaScript is an awful language, TypeScript makes it more tolerable but you can't really escape the problems JavaScript has
The kind of ass kissing and begging that I saw among my peers that got all A's is real alarming

I see the same from some new graduates, begging their managers to sign off on something, they don’t seem to understand the difference between an academic grade and work being of a standard to show a customer.
Maybe there is indeed an argument to be made to raise antibiotics prices in general to limit it's massive overuse.
Verizon’s 5G comes to (parts of) Los Angeles
> Mossadegh thought he was in the clear, but Roosevelt hadn't given up. He orchestrated a second coup, which succeeded. Mossadegh was placed on trial and spent his life under house arrest.

Never become complacent.
I think this is a common misconception when it comes to judging Karl Marx perspective on capitalism: he didn’t say that a worker in 2020 is going to be absolutely worse off than a worker in his days if capitalism continues — quite the opposite: he said workers will be better off than they were in his days. What he did predict however is that the rich ones will even better off still.

If you try to look at how much much of societies gains go to which wealth bracket and how much they actually do for it, this gap widened considerably during the last century and has become a real threat to these western values of liberty and democracy, especially because the rules of civilization and democracy exclude those on top.

One doesn’t really have to be a marxist in order to want to go back to a resonable wealth/wage gap. One doesn’t have to be a marxist to demand the rich should pay their taxes and follow the rules. I’d argue that every conservative in the very sense of the word should stand behind this as well.
... and we’re dependent instead on rare earth elements and the like
I think recasting prescription from "so you should" to "and here are the inferences now available" can be reasonable. The issue is when the inferences from discovered patterns are invalid and implicit - as per predictive policing or follow about ads on the web. An inference such as "this is almost certainly the component that is causing the most faults and will cost the least to replace" is reasonable and valid to me, and so a machine offering it would be valuable.
They've been keeping about 40% of the lights at the nearest Oregon store turned off for the last 6 months or so....
No, because that’s impossible. Are you going to teach them to distinguish between l and I in sans serif fonts? Or one of the look alike Unicode symbols? That roads leads nowhere but blaming someone else for a problem you brought yourself. You can’t trust links by visually inspecting them.
One hope is for more stability. But I can imagine a duality where countries developed enough for EVs will decouple somewhat from countries developing on oil. This assumes oil remains vastly cheaper for under developed regions.
Just uninstall the apps on your current phone that are distracting.
Most western people are very negative about countries like Iran, China and Russia because they are the 'bad guys'.

Well this article again shows that there are few countries that will not gain power over dead people. It's sad but true.

Now imagine you were living in Iran and came to know about the work of the CIA. Whould you think the USA is the greatest country in the world and democracy is the way to go?

I think it would be best if we look at people in other countries without judgement and try to understand their point of view. Leaders are to blame but most of the people in this world are just living their life.
Conservative or is not yet full context aware?
Honestly, I think you are seeing things here. Nowhere in the original message do I detect even a hint of irony.

Maybe this is something that is only visible for you because of your particular situation (e.g. someone always uses that phrase)?

To be honest, I’m more bothered by the lack of a question mark though.
The scalability constraint is a fundamental one. A single cryptocurrency cannot scale beyond a certain TPS without sharding. But sharding reduces the decentralization of each shard. Also, rebalancing existing shards when adding new ones also introduces its own decentralization problems.

I think the way forward for acalability will be multi-chain. Each blockchain has its own accounts and own token but is connected to other chains via fully automated DEXs. The blockchains will form a hierarchy of chains with the most trusted and busiest one at the top. I think there will be a trend to make a consistent payment API so that any cryptocurrency can be used in the place of any other, online shops will use on-chain DEX trade price and volume data to determine which coins they accept and for what value.