skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most "AI" is a scam but "blockchain" is far worse of an offender. "Blockchain" has zero utility in the business world. Its only use case is decentralized, censorship-resistant protocols. No one is trying to censor a shipping company's supply chain manifest. No one is trying to censor JP Morgan's bank transactions. The people who need it are dissidents, deplatformed people, people who cannot get bank accounts, or people trading contraband. Not exactly areas to extract an industry from.

Half of these altcoins do not have working software. In 2017 the ICOs did not have any software at all, just a promise on a homepage with a button to send money. The other half do not scale or do not meet their own basic requirements. The oldest, most venerable project Bitcoin had an inflation bug a couple years ago that would have let anyone counterfeit an unlimited amount of coins.

At least the AI scammers show up with code.
Nvidia proprietary plus Wayland is a no-go as of now. My solution to Nvidia is "just use AMD". They got decent offers for low and mid end.
This seems like a bit of an over reach no?

I've looked up wire fraud in the US and it seems to come with some properly serious penalties:

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.[4]
If software that continuously listens to the microphone is normal this makes it harder to keep track of apps that should not do that.
The Amish use tech differently than you think. We should emulate them
Simple online tools to provide a fast SSL report
I think it is software, or at least it can be fixed in software. Which is what makes it so frustrating.

My workaround is to configure the whole thing as a joystick then use JoyToKey to convert it back to keyboard inputs. No stuck keys.
There's literally nothing unreasonable about what was written.
C++: a language where you need 10 friggin lectures just to learn to pass variables around. I'm sincerely sorry for anyone who is forced to use this mountain of flaws of a language out of legacy reasons. We as humanity need a plan to reduce the number of C++ lines being written, then to phase out C++ code altogether. This sick roadshow by the ISO committee (and that numbskull Stroustrup) of adding features without fixing any bugs has got to stop.
C++ is just horrible, and using it is a waste of time.
Mongo DB Installation
Compromised encryption machines gave CIA window into major human rights abuses
Guessing all of you suffer from over-generalization too. One time someone told me I was "too meta" and I thought it was a compliment.
Ultimately, that's what made them stop: somebody (or most likely, three somebodies) was going to get killed.
> “It’s possible to envision a time when there are professors of the literature of computer programming. Maybe some programmers will be minor poets of the 20th Century. The trouble is that programs are written in a language there’s no audience for. It’s like Nabokov’s book about Gogol where at the end he says that if you really want to know anything about Gogol, there’s no way around it, you gotta learn Russian. It’s sort of discouraging.”

Today computer languages are mostly easier to learn than a totally new human language I guess.

I still thought this one was quote-worthy.

Also: is it just me or was writing in some ways better before?
I guess they serve the same purpose as a vcs commit ID - something to paste into a search engine to buy more of the same. Getting back to the true purpose of brands, not a marketing thing!
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Per what you say, it takes 9 key presses on HP and 8 key presses on a soviet to calc same expression. Which one is more effient ? ;)
Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East novels proposed a super weapon ARDNEH which did just that, but being fantasy both sides unleashed their own versions and the effect became permanent.
You definitely have good points, but since the post I responded to gave Alexa as an initial example, I kind of took that as baseline.

I can't really argue with anecdotes, but I can ensure you that a whole lot has changed in Machine Translation in the past 7 years, starting with Google introducing Neural Machine Translation[1] to replace their statistical model, which would often behave in the way you described. That's why I specifically included idioms, which hadn't really been possible until then. It's not yet perfect, but it's crazy good at what it does and only getting better.

I know AI Dungeon was really wonky, but I also said it gives us a glimpse of what may be possible. Because the way it interprets natural language is really something else (granted, that's the underlying model, of course). It's really a product still entirely in its infancy. And I don't think AI Dungeon will take the world by storm much more than it has done thus far, but I could imagine countless applications for a similar but improved technology.

I don't know, OP was asking for products and services, and I gave some examples. Are they flawless? No. Is most technology flawless? No. Will there be growing market for somewhat imperfect AI-based applications? I surely think so. In the end, humans aren't flawless either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Neural_Machine_Translat..., https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.08144.pdf
Germany Approved Gpg4KDE for the Transmission of National Classified Information
Dissecting a Web Stack
C++ Move Semantics – The Complete Guide
Tuesday: The Court Was Seated
Full title: Gpg4KDE & GPG4win Approved for Transmission & Processing of National Classified Information (HN doesn't allow long title)
You might also want to look at the Firedrake project [1]

[1] https://firedrakeproject.org/
Even when I managed to click on the link itself it only brought me to the page I was already reading (the Gibson article)... were you able to find anything else about them?
Oooh. What does it have in it?

A home-made .NET-to-Java transpiler that requires custom builds of the CLR and JVM?

The 300MB of random data at the end of the Windows XP install CD?

An encrypted archive containing the set of folders comprising the entire source code history (the top level of which has an alarming number of entries named like "revert_v5_bug [Final] - ACTUAL CURRENT") (because some developer has OCD about backups)?
> If I write a decision tree algorithm, is that AI?

It depends how that decision tree is produced. If you wrote it all by yourself, it's not. I mean, you just wrote a plain algorithm by yourself. A decision tree is a program, and vice versa.

If, OTOH, the tree is inferred from examples (good old CART for instance) or if it is generated on the fly (good old alpha-beta for instance), it definitely AI.

And actually, I'd say it's a good definition for AI. AI starts at the moment you don't write the decision trees / algorithms yourself but, instead, write a program that will produce the actual decision tree / algorithm.

Writing a program? Not AI. Writing a program that writes a program? Definitely AI.
Other banks in UK do that as well, shouldn't they all be reported for this?
Locust Swarms Ravaging East Africa Are the Size of Cities
Jeans and Sill are both textiles?
There's knowing to ask the right question, and then there's asking the right question in the right way.

That situation is tough though as you're working through both ego and office politics.
I love tech. It pains me to come to the conclusion that in Facebook, we have created something that should not exist: an addicative worldwide mob where peddlers can sell emotionally manipulative ideas to the people least able to handle them, whether it's clicking cows all day long or believing Elvis is still alive.

In defense, I don't think anybody that was on-board at the beginning realized this. I do, however, feel that anybody in the last decade working at FB should have been smart enough to figure out what was going on. They just didn't care.
Germany Considers Imposing Speed Limits on Autobahns
Considering how software development has become relatively lucrative and so many want to throw themselves at this, it's bound to create a large pool of incompetent engineers. Specially because this isn't an industry that is regulated like medical doctors or architects. Given that, I think it should be relatively easy to find 10x performers on different teams.

However, to find a 10x guy in a high-performing team, that'd be a sight :)
Judging from the number of stars of the various git repositories for different languages, there are a few people using it but not a whole lot. The most popular implementation seems to be php based. That suggest to me it's still early days for this. E.g. the Java implementation only has 13 stars, which is not a lot. Also it has a native dependency, which is not ideal. E.g. JWT has a pure Java implementation from oauth0.

JWT has been out there for a few years and there are many uses of it that are fine. I've used it in the past and it was easy set up and get started with. The main criticism seems to be that users have too much wiggle room to do silly things like using alg=noneor that certain widely used algorithm combinations have some weaknesses. I guess that's valid but not a huge concern if you know what you are doing.

Paseto looks like it improves by narrowing down the choices to some sane choices, which is a valid approach. Of course IETF could update the relevant RFCs to use the same algorithms for JWT at some point.
Pretty soon I think there will be a market for CCTV cameras that use a tamper-proof module to sign the video output, with a unique key and a key chain back to the manufacturer. Video evidence simply won't be admissible unless it's signed, and you can present the undamaged camera in court.
That sounds like a typical zookeeper or zoo vet. The difference between zookeepers and animal traders is that animal traders deal in constant streams of new specimens. Zoos and labs are more closed.
I think the point was that if the retaliation ICBMs fail in the same way, we as a species get a second chance to resolve the conflict without extinction.
Multiple submissions, none getting any love from the HN crowd:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343512 (sciencedaily.com) : 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294539 (engadget.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22267183 (sciencedaily.com) : 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22256968 (iflscience.com)

The writing in some of the articles isn't helping, confusing voltage with power, etc.
Use the GNOME Character Map¹ program, or your local equivalent². Not everything needs to be a web site.

1. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap

2. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap#See_Also
>Like maybe, a social network that doesn’t manipulate us, or scan our faces without permission, or build dark profiles of everyone, or read our personal messages, or

Heh. Fat chance. The next generation of social networks will be coming from China because China is the perfect incubator for this category of software. You'll yet wish for Facebook.
I didn't investigate. It was whether the "unifying driver" or the "g hub" app for macos if you want to check.
The conclusions are of little informational value as the same is going to apply to practically any pathogen-borne disease (unless a vast group of the elderly had the chance to acquire prior immunity, as is the case with some strains of flu being similar to those from the past, in which case younger people are at a relative disadvantage).

What is more important to realize about the virus is that (1) a death rate of 2% (20 times that of flu) would still be considerable given its relatively high infectivity rate and long incubation period, and that (2) the fact that 20% of the cases require hospitalization would put a significant strain on even the best healthcare systems should it become widespread.

Separately, any data-based inferences are only as good as the underlying data, and there have been some doubts as to the completeness and veracity of data available. Even the WHO chief has effectively spoken to that effect.
No need for manipulation; cutting is enough. The turning point for me from "doubt, but verify" to "default to believing it's an outright lie" was the infamous fish feeding video[0].

If manipulation becomes commonplace, more people will default to "doubt", which is good.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-trump-impatiently-dump...
I never noticed, but now that you mention it, there's like a 3s delay when loading my page, and then the page loads in 300ms... Strange. I wonder whether a paid version would improve the performance?
Turning human bodies into compost works, a small trial suggests
slightly related to this, I read somewhere recently that deep reinforcement learning doesn't really work. Has there been any progress on that front since?
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I've been renting a $3/mo ARM C1 server from Scaleway for 5 years now (a physical microserver) and doing exactly this. It handles being on HN frontpage without a hiccup. I'm very happy.
Knowing AWS SES rules and seeing the lack of context from your post, I'm going to guess that either you're embellishing the story, or your content quality is low enough that users see it as spam. 50 a year that is one a week; I need to be super motivated to stay subscribed to a 1-a-week email from a single content provider.

Bounces also have their own system and should be handled by your email system as well.
Kind of off topic, but I'm amazed by this website's home page with the "steps". I like the format. Jordan Belfort said in his book that one key characteristic of good salespeople is that they take control over the sales process, making any kind of potential customer walk the steps you have defined as your sales process. When you take that lead and master it, you can sell to virtually anyone in front of you.
A quantum technique highlights math’s mysterious link to physics
The article also explains that this is intentionally falsified by the Swedish police and lists emails as evidence that this tampering took place and contradicts the womans initial statement
Well... laziness is the mother of invention or something like that.

Has anyone about 40 lines of code with an average line width of 80 characters? I have this rather spare region that doesn't look nice on the mini map.

But seriously, I think the reasons are mundane and developers often have an ample list of problems to solve, so easy solutions for some of those are used as much as possible. Ensuring only one process runs at a time is probably just a feature that invites negligence.

It shouldn't happen, but I am not surprised.
Well, the solution is easy : implement it everywhere the best you can, and make it optional so that you can disable it on slow hardware.

It's basically the way software updates has worked for ever. Only since apple ( because it controls both the hardware and software) do we see features not deployed on old hardware because it may eventually not give you the best experience.
Whether that amounts to reasonable doubt is something that could be determined by a jury in a court of law following rules of evidence and procedure, if Assange went to trial.
There's nothing wrong with the title. Obtained means "To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way".
The Castle Bravo test is a good example of that. More than double the expected yield, simply because our model of Lithium 7 was inaccurate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

Big errors like this have all been tested and modeled away, but the problem is exceedingly complex, and I am just as certain enough uncertainty remains in the current models to be a genuine concern.
Compilers are AI?
I'm wondering from a theoretical perspective how large does a company need to be to effectively challenge the government? I know the USA government is a huge employer and holds vast quantities of stuff, but how large does a company have to get to compete with that? Is it the same size, is it only 50% of the size, is it something even smaller?

At what point in relative size is a company too large for the government to handle and the government has to go to war with it in order to keep power?
It's because "artificial intelligence" is a very broad expression and doesn't say a lot when you're in the domain. You won't find the expression "computer science" a lot either, it doesn't mean "computer science" is a sensationalist expression only used by journalists.
sorry yeah i mean parallelism. Is the model an event loop running on single thread , like with with node.js ?

When you say you don't need it, don't you use crystal for developing backend APIs ?
I don't use Quora. Quora just pops up in my search results all the time.

There is nothing innately Indian about Quora. Indians are just overrepresented on it.
Which is quite literally what my script does :)

Think about if the title said "800K email addresses obtained illegitimately", and what you would interpret the meaning of that to be.
Of course you need some tech stack discipline and the dev team needs to operate as a team not a bunch of individuals - the team has to be able to support the system if a single developer wants to go on holiday.

A mess of a tech stack is more of a problem for developers making future changes than it is for production ( if you have fully automated the deployment, monitoring and service recovery ).

ie the problem of a mess of a tech stack isn't due to being developer led per se, it's a problem of a lack of team working and organisation - which can happen in any team or situation.
I've had exactly zero instances where I could copy and paste literally.
I mean that is the whole point of federated services. If we just end up replacing one big silo with another (even if its OS at start), we haven't done much.
I've been brought into several moribund projects similar to what @leroman is describing. Usually you are there to push past the bullshit. Often the problems start with someone similar to what you described in your original post.
The guys who coined the term "AI" strongly disagree.
You know, people said the same things about Porton Down when the Novichok nerve agent was released in Salisbury UK. It was mightily suspicious that this nerve agent was released just down the road from the UK government bio&chemical research station. But the Russians have practically admitted to it now.

Wuhan is a huge city, larger than London. It's unsurprising that it has a lab that researches coronavirusee. It's especially unsurprising that the Chinese would be researching coronaviruses as they were previously affected by SARS-1.

Everybody should keep an open mind to all possibilities when the Chinese government is present. It's not wrong to consider the possibility that this might have been an accidental release. I just don't see the evidence for it.
So these scammers have a better customer support system than Google?
The repo says "An exercise in minimalism." – Looking at the code, there is nothing minimalistic about it. Perhaps in terms of C it can be called that, but in terms of programming languages in general, this cannot be called "minimal" at all.

The code quality is terrible. Few explaining comments (actually mos of those are only 1 or 2 words, so not explaining anything at all) and almost all variable names consist of 1 or 2 characters, which do not say what the thing actually is. Then to achieve this arbitrary goal of doing it "in 4 functions" (actually procedures) loads of stuff was apparently stuffed into 4 those 4 functions, so much so, that they are longer than a whole page of code. Most of it looks like gigantic switch statements. It's horribly written code. It looks like what I think of as a C nightmare.

I will admit, I could not write such a thing myself. I lack the knowledge for writing such a low level stuff, do not use C, and if I had that knowledge to do it, my inner drive to do a cleaner job than anything remotely looking like that code, would prevent me from ever sharing such a thing with anyone in public. At least group cases into procedures as it makes sense. Even people writing this low level type of code should be aware of how unreadable that code is, right?
The screen they are looking at isn't showing them all the numbers. Though it isn't fantastic as a security measure i admit.
You're implicitly suggesting that the bank can either pass on the costs without people noticing, or that they have no competition, so they can set fees and interest rates to whatever they like. I don't think either is true. We do regulate banks, and this is why it's vital.

You could just as well say the cost is going to be paid by the shareholders, the public (in the form of reduced taxes), or the employees.
I'm a fan of Code_Aster at the moment.
It has a massive amount of documentation due to its provenance from the nuclear industry. The only downside (for me as an exclusive English speaker) is, it's all either in French or machine-translated (including functions and parameter names) which adds an extra layer of difficulty.
I would disagree. What you're describing above is the difference between machine learning and AI. AI is a broader term that encompasses machine learning.
This is awesome! I love how this is independent of setting up your own server. I wish there were a little bit of more documentation though - I am unsure if this will work on my kindle (PaperWhite 2015).
Way easier. It is hardly noteworthy for a programmer to know a half dozen programming languages well, but a person who knows a half dozen human languages well is.