skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is more immediate problem to solve: AI-to-Zuck or AI+Zuck alignment?

1) AI-to-Zuck alignment problem: Align AI to it's master(s).

2) AI+Zuck alignment problem: Align AI and it's master(s) to the rest of the humanity.

Zuck is just stand-in variable name for any tech billionaire CEO, corporation or governing body, could be people running OpenAI, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, China or Pentagon. 2) seems like the problem for humanity and 1) as the problem for Zuck.
As someone who has to teach GA, may I ask what you tried and what you found difficult? I see problems with the non-standard notation, for example. I also think that it is much easier to understand 3D-GA starting with 2D or even 1D, and of course using a non-formal approach (as we do with vectors). It is also hard to find nice examples between the very obvious and very difficult stuff.
Which liabilities? Most open source licenses come with a WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND clause.
For starters, don't give contractors projects so large they're an existential threat to the company. Northrop Grumman makes billions in profit every year, and the JWST has been in the works since 2003. They (and their insurance) could afford to pay for the fuckups.

When a bank collapses, the FDIC steps in, takes over operations, and ensures it keeps running while they find a different bank to take it over.

It's a rather fascinating process: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102384...
Getting shot is probably not a risk that they’d have been willing to take, given that they were holding (supposed) get out of jail free cards.
Cool!

Have you seen this cartoon? It's something I remembered from way back, and finally found it again!

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2569
They say Geometric Algebra is "the new language of physics" and whatever else; my problem with this is that, unlike, say the calculus of differential forms (or tensors), it does not make sense in more general manifolds which are at the heart of the modern theoretical physics. Geometric Algebra, therefore, is more like something that, sure, could be taught in high school in an attempt, for example, to streamline elementary vector algebra and thus eliminate some nasty questions (should they arise); yet, there is some mental load to it that may make it not worth the effort...
Teaching the parable of Chesterton's Fence to every programmer would save billions annually.

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
I doubt it's a turn-off for corporate buyers in the large, but it's absolutely a turn-off for dev teams within corporations. Especially nowadays in an increasingly Agile world where everything is due 2 weeks from when you start work on it.

A developer might be quite willing to go to their manager with, "Hey, can we buy X? It will cost $Y, and save us $Z worth of time." But "Call for a quote" is a quagmire: They can't (and don't want to) negotiate prices themselves, and they also don't want to annoy their boss by causing them to spend the next 3 months being hounded by sales people.
When I'm looking for a dev I want to be able to quickly see if they have a specific set of skills. I literally can't read 50% of the skills on your resume without some effort. That stop me moving forwards.
It works for Japan I guess, but it's often more important (well, to me at least) to discriminate by country than by language.
Wiki mentioned this and also doubted it. China is another source.
To be honest, I’m genuinely not sure what you’re saying.
It's a different class of error though. You can have code that ensures transactional integrity everywhere in the case of power failure, but that alone doesn't mean it handles network partitions, 429 responses, timeouts, token expirations, corrupt responses, etc efficiently or correctly.
The example behavior has a long term goal that a sufficiently advanced intelligence would deduce.
This is a standard tactic of those in the deplatforming business - to claim that everything they are deplatforming is the same thing as advocating for genocide. It's a terrible argument, and the moral equivalent of asking somebody if they've stopped beating their wife.

If you can't make a good argument for deplatforming a specific person based on the specific things they've actually said, then maybe, just maybe, you're the bad guy.
.google does not have any MX records
I meant $2k just for the business side, in addition to your monthly expenses.
...for sufficiently small values of "I".
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Interesting, in the local language of the Italian region I was born (not Sicily), 'mafiosu' is used as a compliment for someone dressed elegantly. I always thought it was odd, but now it makes sense.
Most companies, especially small ones, lose money in their first 2-3 years...
Because it's huge (perceived) risk for (often) little gain. These projects (I'm especially familiar with research) aren't known for code quality and following best practices regarding security etc. So you open yourself for shaming and casual hacking for some unquantifiable benefit of open-source contributions.
Apple were (and still are) openly hostile towards any sort of third-party interpreters / runtimes on their platform.
What is the best way to accept payments in Latin America countries?
Is a world processor like Paypal or Stripe will help me or do I need another provider? Wich one? Also, can my company receive the payments in USD or do I will need to open a bank account in those countries to receive the payments?

Thanks in advance!
> “It's fine to use a library that understands them and just continue making the important parts of your game.”

Oh that's indeed absolutely what a game dev should do.

A 3D engine dev however, might do well to eat the math leading to the understanding of quaternions, and by extension Clifford algebras (the underlying/original theoretical structure leading to geometric algebra). You get to understand how particular variations in n-dimensions of this structural framework are isomorphic to all numbers like R, C, H and much more. (hyperbolic! dual!)

It really paints a whole arch-picture, a meta-framework to unify all possibly kinds of numbers in one's mind (including the geometry of these numbers and ring operations, with a 1:1 equivalence between geom and algebra).

Note that this is why, I think, some strong proponents of GA (which I find myself agreeing with in that regard) would have it enshrined in K-12 education in lieu of linear algebra — because the intuition of GA is really great / second-to-none, and intuition is all that most math students in high school will ever retain afterwards (they won't do math again, ever, not really). The argument being that people who need more (from linear algebra for calculations notably) can learn that complicated and non-intuitive stuff later (university), building on top of a good base intuition nurtured in GA / Clifford.

So, the 3D engine maker, people in robotics, anyone working with spatial representations of any kind (even abstract, like research with multilinear models) would do themselves a fantastic favor for a lifetime to learn these topics. It's a no-brainer, really, from the other side.

It's delicious math!
My concern in the original comment is that 'being entitled to' can end up eroding the more fundamental right.
lol. I'm actually one of them. "e^tau*i=0" is my preferred form. I don't tend to bring it up because we're a little crazy and I don't want to draw attention to myself.
Consultants can be granted Non-Qualified Stock Options (NSO).
Or, the government should not stop us from doing these things. The government is for the people, by the people, not some overlord we need to ask permission from.
So what else does this operator do? It’s not commutative. Does (x * y) * z still equal x * (y * z)?
That isn't nearly enough. It only applies to 65+ or with disability who make $35k or less.

This is part of the problem is that people are unwilling to compromise. On one side you have those who view even the risk of a single person being displaced by gentrification and rising housing prices as unacceptable.

On the other side you have those will accept nothing less than displacing everything. I make enough that I don't care, and I don't really want to live in CA long term (from NYC).

But I think a primary residence carve-out that applies to everybody would be a good compromise, but that seems to be a dirty word in CA politics.
I’ve heard something like the following: “Any sufficiently useful AI research is considered a field of its own not relevant to AI, and, thus, the term AI and worthless research stays synonymous”

e.g. keyboard autocorrect, travel route finders, web search.
Was just discussing this with friends on social media.
I noticed a few things:
1. The question of whether your mind races with thoughts is separate from the question if whether you hear an internal monologue. Some of us have a lot of thoughts racing but they aren’t necessarily in the form of a coherent voice we hear in our heads.
2. Some of us do run through conversations or monologues in our heads sometimes, but we mouth the words or even say them out loud. (And by “some of us”, I mean me. My preschooler has caught me doing this several times already :) )
3. Raising the question of whether we have such a voice or not can influence whether we have it. As with everything, observing something changes the nature of what’s being observed.

I, for one, have many racing thoughts - and yes some of them verbal, if I’m preparing for a conversation with somebody - but others are more abstract or visual and spatial. For example, I can’t really make a decision with verbal sorts of thoughts. If I’m listing pros and cons, by the time I get to the end of one list I’ve forgotten the start of it... I think sometimes I need to imagine things more spatially to see them in my head at the same time.

Also - Somewhat related, I read awhile back that not everyone can visualize things in their head. Like, imagining something you’re inventing or haven’t seen before. This really surprised me! I can’t believe somebody CANT do that, maybe they just have a harder time doing it?
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Previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823
General American English
Are you sure that your work is fulfilling?
I agree with the classmates, they in the movie don't tell themselves mafia because they aren't cops. They are called family, I had the doubt to respond but I visualized the movie before by https://www.cinecalidad.plus to make sure
Open source alternative: https://github.com/attio/google-ad-fixer
This is called "SaaSification" and there is a debate over to what extent it violates the spirit of open source and what if anything ought to be done about it.
I guess most non developed countries? People just walk into the wilderness and plop down a free (money wise, not labor wise) house.
> SpaceX is charging NASA about $220M per launch of the Falcon 9 -- the same rocket they price on their website for $62M...

To be fair, that doesn't include the cost of a Dragon capsule, nor the extra steps NASA flights involve. It's the "stick your ready-to-go satellite on top of our booster" price.
For research funding, the sweet spot is the flashiest idea that seems extremely likely to work.

It’s hard to get grants to try something really out there, especially from the NIH or NSF; DARPA is a bit more adventurous. Pilot data helps with this, but those experiments cost money too, so one approach is to make the project sound almost, but not quite, obvious in light of existing work.

At the same time, it’s also really hard to get funding to confirm something that everybody “knows”, even when the underlying data is actually not very convincing. These experiments need some hype.
Were and mostly still are, except now they're the one making the rules. They became the very same thing they were getting away from.
(Not an expert at all)

Maybe everyone else is just as stressed as you?

It's like any other skill I guess, everyone is bad the first time, and you get better with practise.

>I would love to know whether that particular interviewer solved that particular problem when they encountered it for the first time ever

Why not ask, when they ask if you have any questions?! If that's the one thing you really want to know, why not.

Also, I've found in a lot of situations, people freeze or freak out imagining the worst thing that could happen, but that very state, living like that in fear, is already worse than anything that could come from external things going badly as possible.

Be kind to yourself! Treat yourself like you would treat someone you really love. It sounds like you're really torturing yourself.

Can you flip from mentally being in a position of begging them to give you something, to offering them what you have? If you really think you have nothing to offer, apply to work somewhere you can feel you have something to offer, or educate/train/tool up/learn more until you do.
Haskell's unit type is what other languages call "void", the type with exactly one value (not counting 'undefined', Haskell's dirty little not-secret). That's different from Unitype/Any, the type that contains all values.

Bob Harper uses "unitype" which is a pretty strong argument for the name's validity
The apps don’t even need to think of spam, that would be handled by the mail server just like all other spam.
Dagobah.biz was an amazing collection of flash based games, videos, and tools. Highly recommend archiving from there
The geometric and exterior products used in GA are non-commutative too.
I learned what a relation is, everything looks like it can be compared to other things.

I learned what a function is, everything looks like a mapping between two sets.

Wait...
Honestly that just sounds like someone terrible at managing risk and money! As a self employed individual coming up on 10 years now the first year or two was rough, but if you build up a safety net and properly manage money there are no sleepless nights worrying about the next big fish.

It also takes a while to realize that working more than 8/hrs a day is not sustainable. You'll be less productive in the long term. So really even as a self employed individual it's better to work less than a full time job imho.
> During my last year of self-employment I took home ~$400k in cash, and lots more in early-stage stock

You've lost me here. Are those ealry-stage stock of yourself, giving you were self-employed? Or you made side jobs with cash+stock payments?
They are also up in Montreal, Canada.
Russel Buffalino from the Irishman (Joe Pescis character ) had final script approval for the godfather. Russell Buffalino also acted very much like Vito Corleone
When he allowed Al Martino (played johhny Fontaine in the godfather) to return to America under his protection after he had fled the USA after an attempted shake down by murder inc chieftain and Gambino boss Albert Anastasia.
Maybe it's easier to remember that lookbehinds are evil from an implementation standpoint, and even in Perl have arbitrary limitations. If you see lookbehinds, look away! If you see lookaheads, go ahead.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a back-end tech lead to scale urban mobility tech
The other choice is to not focus 100% on products, but rather, consult and work on your products on the side, and dial back the consulting as your products attain viability.
Artificial intelligence-created medicine to be used on humans for first time
How are you any different than the other “armchair epidemiologists” in this thread? If anything, I’d say you’re worse than others as you want to profit over a potential pandemic where thousands may die.

The stock market has taken a hit over this outbreak fear. Go place your contrarian bets there if you’d like.
Swedish health authority says woman is confirmed to have coronavirus
Early C used type punning instead of casts; e.g. from the Sixth Edition kernel:

/*
* structure to access an integer
*/
struct
{
int integ;
};
Big Thief’s Two Hands is notably missing from his albumdaily recommendations.
I believe clients compensated them with stock.
Ada and RISC-V Secure Nvidia’s Future
Soon on mobile, we'll have to go to next page to see organic results. First page will be all ads.
Nah, but it's hard to launch a successfull product; if it wasn't, everyone would be doing it.

I'm doing contracting work for multiple different customers, long-term project, and I generate 100-200k of revenue on a yearly basis from that. That leaves me with slightly higher salary than if I'd work for a boss, but I have tonnes, and tonnes more freedom and time for my kids. It's just not possible to scale that past 300k/yr, because there's only so much time you can sell.

Once you have a product, you can scale it through the roof, since a digital product, if set up well, has negligible costs, will allow you to earn way more, but only if you find something that people want bad enough to pay for and a large enough group to pay for it. Loads and loads of people have the skills required to build a product, but not a lot have the right idea and marketing to go along with it to make it a success.
Can you elaborate on that or provide a link? The OP made it seem like it was strictly more general, and I was getting excited to dive in through that route.
Well, linear functions have the nice ability to be composed together, resulting in another linear function (which can then be composed, etc).
I get the choice. It's unintuitive for basic types to be wrapped in a maybe mondad. People expect addition, subtraction and division to return numbers. To have division be the only operation to return an optional is a bit off.

I get the choice of why it wasn't done with haskell even though I disagree with it.
There was a large sign at that intersection that said no left turn, which I disregarded because it was 6am and there were no cars there at all. Of course it's still possible that someone reported it, but that seems fairly unlikely.
good for you?

for most of history everyone worked for themselves. one could argue the modern day corporate structure is completely unnatural and doesn't fit (most) everyone.
I really don't understand why you were downvoted.

There's a flowchart from MIT about what AI is[1] since so people here seem to have an incorrect idea about it, and disappointingly hn is not immune from that.

[1]:https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612404/is-this-ai-we-drew...
It is definitely not that, since the article shows that a^b = -b^a. I suppose that it's the choice that ij = k as opposed to -k?

I'm not sure, but the article's implication that nobody else cares why things work to be distracting and insulting.

> Personally, I have always found it important to actually understand the things I am using.
Does that really explain why the 20-40 age group was affected more than expected?
As other replies have said, the math is kind of important. The idea of a tattoo harkens to the story of the discovery of quaternions: Rowan Hamilton was out for a walk in Dublin, trying to figure out how to generalize complex numbers. He was walking under a bridge when he came up with that equation, and carved the equation on the bridge.

His carving, if it ever existed, is gone. But there is a plaque on the bridge commemorating the event. It reads:

Here as he walked by
on the 16th of October 1843
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
in a flash of genius discovered
the fundamental formula for
quaternion multiplication
i² = j² = k² = ijk = −1
& cut it on a stone of this bridge.
> You've lost me here. Are those ealry-stage stock of yourself, giving you were self-employed? Or you made side jobs with cash+stock payments?

Clarified here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202222
Don't try and get people to educate and improve themselves and instead let them babble mindlessly?
Technology against Chaos: how workflow automation can beat recruiting challenges
And the only asymmetry there is do matching with done, as opposed to od, because od is the program octal dump.
They don’t create the internet rofl. The quality of HN comments is toilet bowl tier.
my mind is not racing, unless I am trying to solve a problem or if I am having irrational thoughts (from a bad interaction, a breakup, etc)

My mind feels more reactionary at times, as if some stimuli is provided and then I think about it. I definitely have the internal monologue but it's not happening all the time.

I'm also the type of person where you tell me something and I'll have to think about for a few hours/days before I can get back to you.
I wish this idea would die. It doesn't need to be like that. It is possible to take a more relaxed approach to your own business just as you might as an employee.

Sure some people overwork but that isn't unique to running a business, you will find those people in big companies as well.

Also my experience was that having a family, owning a property and being rooted in my location gave me the support I needed to succeed.
I'm not sure where you're getting that idea. Are you thinking the target audience of this content is only for people developing JVM languages? It's not, it's how the vm and compiler work at a low level and optimize your code.
There's a few points here so I'll try to unpack them in order.

Historically, and still today, sheriffs tend to be very picky about when they choose to mandate non-enforcement in their jurisdictions. The most recent examples are the 2nd amendment sanctuaries, the refusals to comply with federal laws regarding marijuana, and refusals to detain illegal immigrants. The cases where they exercise this power are very often extreme, and unpopular. And as the sheriff is a real public servant and not a hired gun (which I mean literally, in the case of most police departments) they serve at the pleasure of the people.

If the police chief orders a police officer to make an arrest, the officer will be fired if he doesn't comply. A sheriff can't be fired as they are a constitutionally protected official. Further, a sheriff (this varies state by state) can often go so far as to effectively eradicate the existence of a law in their jurisdiction - this is what's happening with 2nd amendment sanctuaries now. Basically, it works because unlike a police officer, a sheriff can say 'I'm not using any resources to enforce this law, period. Oh and you can't do anything about it.'

Lastly, removing elected officials varies from place to place. It's universally easier than removing a sitting president and has the advantage that it's actually possible which isn't always the case for typical police (who are almost universally loathed for their lack of accountability and public recourse options).
Bloomberg has also developed a drop in replacement for std::string with SSO, and has a very well documented header file.

https://github.com/bloomberg/bde/blob/master/groups/bsl/bsls...
Or, better yet, e^pi*i + 1 = 0. (My personal preference is E = mc^2.)
You mean dictators then (no rules except for the ones we want you to follow :-))
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Well, he is asking us to be shallow, but going down that route is also dangerous if you go too far. Then you can end up like a certain current president of the United States.

"I try to step back and remember my first shallow reaction. The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience."
I have kids although they are grown up now. You might be confusing me with the OP.