skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, but I wonder if it shouldn't be the labels which should be prefixed instead of the registers?
The reason I brought up those situations is not that they were unfair — although they were, that wasn't the point. It's because Gatling predicted that his wonderful invention would diminish exposure to battle and disease overall, reducing the total of harm done by warfare to humanity — not just to the winning side.

He was spectacularly, world-changingly wrong about that.

In the same way, praveen9920 is predicting that "suicide drones…actually means limiting collateral damage". "Collateral damage" is a euphemism for mass-murdering civilians on the side of the military you are nominally fighting against, which is a war crime if done intentionally.

Praveen9920's optimistic predictions are likely to turn out to be catastrophically mistaken, like Gatling's, and for very much the same reason.
Due to the Covid-19 lock down, my company was forced to accelerate our automation program. We did in months what we had originally planned to do in years. As we are able to open our operations center further, it's clear that we'll be providing fewer jobs than we did before. At least some part of that is the result of automation. I can't help but think this same pattern is playing out at other companies right now.
That's shallow (funny, but shallow).

It's about stability. You carved a nice spot where you found joy and financial ... well .. stability. And now your life might go to the toilet. There's no guarantee that your next job will be

1. Fulfilling in itself

2. Provide the same income

3. Provide the same secondary benefits (colleagues, hours, boss, etc)

And.. automation is not even a guarantee that what your were producing is gonna improve (lots of chances it may but it can go the other way too: cheap commoditization)
I agree there, except for the domestic organizations. They could develop crude drones but not the hypersonic loitering kind —I’m not even sure they’d need that. Hypersonics only make sense when you need to penetrate stiff air defenses and get to destination to neutralize the big armament from reaching altitude.

They could be used by the US, Russia, China, India, Pak, Israel to “decapitate” “rouge” regimes incapable of retribution.

Mexican and ukranian drug orgs? maybe crude non hypersonic for whatever political purpose.

Or imagine the ndraghetta having the crude variety during the time they tried offing magistrates quicker than the state was able to convict the perps... or the Italian red brigades...

!!
Knowledge comes before acceptance. Apart from those of us who live on tech sites, normal users would be completely clueless.

Even among those who know, only a fraction would be bothered enough to take action.
No, it's as simple as "Turn On Linux" in your Settings menu
The scope of the Hindu Scriptures are vast. As such a proper guide is needed to help the enthusiast navigate them. I highly recommend Windows into the Infinite: A Guide to the Hindu Scriptures by Barbara Powell to every student.

Coming to The Vedas themselves, they are quite voluminous and make for a very dry reading. The classic english translations are the ones by Ralph T.H. Griffith. Recently Bibek Debroy has translated The Vedas into english though i believe it is highly abridged and simplified. This might make a good starting point.
Lol, nice. I worked on littlecomputer3.com. I look forward to playing with this!
Safari too. I just discovered that modern user agents don't include table borders by default in their stylesheets -- at least, choosing Develop -> Disable Styles didn't make the table borders appear.

I'm having flashbacks to the chiseled borders of Netscape.
Yes, but I know some of the apache.org SRE so maybe my view is biased.
> This article comes too soon

Most estimates a decade ago forecasted massive automation-caused job losses by 2020.

> How long have we been able to use millions of entries to machine learn?

How long did mechanical looms need to show they wouldn't become sentient?

> I imagine

I do to. But based on current technology, we have no idea how to achieve these goals. We can't even model how or when we might do so. This implies a deep lack of meta knowledge.
I don't know any companies in this day that doesn't collect users' usage and analytics. Very few do better by making it opt-in
Tencent also - https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/
My signal doesn’t require my last name though I’m on iOS

https://imgur.com/a/VTdTLv5
$ grep vendor_id /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
It's useful to distinguish eating meat from the way most livestock is raised in the US.

My understanding is that most livestock are raised in small pens, never get to go outside, and are physically debilitated in one way or another. In what would amount to animal cruelty if they were pets. I'd love to see statistics on the matter, though no one involved is incentivized to share information so I doubt there's much to find.

Merely eating meat is one thing; participating in the factory farming system that produces the meat you find at the grocery store is quite another.
It is at the top right in a search icon. Right underneath his about me link.
To the extent that those of us who are making a positive contribution to society can slow down and impede the progress of those who are working to put more and more power in the hands of trained killers with more advanced weapons, we will have a better future with less destructive conflicts. Of course it is better to impede the progress of those whose weapons are pointed at you than the progress of those whose weapons are pointed at them.

Eliminating weapons entirely seems unlikely.
After the whole Signal’s PIN and SGX saga I am convinced Moxie is NSA/CIA asset. Maybe not from the beginning, but at some point they have decided that this is ideal point of influence and made an offer (not necessarily financial) he couldn’t turn down.
> However Microsoft has de-emphasized inline assembly and doesn't allow it on amd64 or ARM.

That's just sad :(
You're going to compare that to Fuchsia, an OS that will compete in an already occupied space?
> The reason for the 100g is there are racks and racks of BS that pull down their images so aggregate we can hit 100g with a fully non-blocking Clos fabric.

It may not pan out in practice, but in theory isn't that the perfect usecase for p2p image distribution?
Interesting use of zola, been thinking about trying gatsby.js perhaps Zola as well now. Has anyone used either?
I miss Roger Ebert.

I honestly watch fewer films since his death.

Maybe this list will change that.

Also "Spirited Away" is on the list but doesn't seem to be included with prime.
> Due to the Covid-19 lock down, my company was forced to accelerate our automation program

This sounds like the centre of the distribution catching up to the frontier moreso than the frontier advancing.
I wonder if the motif of the eagle with its wings spread originated from around this time. In case you miss it, look up at the doorways to the levels; truly beautiful work there and very well preserved (probably due to it being out of normal reach).
That’s fair. One of the hardest parts is being conscious and cognizant when shopping for food what we’re buying-ways to do this could include actively reading nutrition tables on food packaging and through this you start to get an idea of what certain foods do for you and you begin shopping with a purpose versus shopping to make the fridge look full.

Strategically Replacing meat with certain veggies and legumes for example can get you that protein and carb kick but also are a great source of fiber while being easier to digest. Depending on your personal diet choices you might find a bag of beans not only costs less but can get you the same amount of carbs and proteins per serving across multiple servings than a single serving cut of meat.

Some beans for your thoughts ;)
Networked storage but that won't be as fast as native drives.
I thought about this article in context of the recently reposted piece "There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence" [1]. While it may be true that we haven't been able to automate new kinds of jobs, maybe we are just moments away from having an AGI that would make that kind of automation easy. That would contradict this article's claim that the narrative around an incoming automation revolution is bullshit. Just as likely, though, is that we actually are decades out from AGI and that kind of automation.

[1]: Link to the piece: https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/, recent HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23401328
As others have mentioned, it's an officially supported feature and it's well integrated into ChromeOS itself. It's still "Beta", but it's now in a really solid state.
It’s a second significant issue for last year with IBM( absolutely inconsistent for critical infrastructure (we are FinTech)
The book is available free in Portuguese and in French from Gutenberg.org: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9685
Hmm? Section 4 has the details of their setup (below). It’s 32 V100s, or just under $100/hr including reading the data out of BQ. They don’t even mention how long they trained for, because presumably it wasn’t material (if it were, they’d have probably used more than 32 GPUs so they wouldn’t have to wait).

The details section:

> 4.1 Training details
We use a transformer with 6 layers, 8 attention heads, and set the dimensionality of the model to 1024. We use a single encoder and a single decoder for all programming languages. During XLM pretraining, we alternate between batches of C++, Java, and Python, composed of 32 sequences of source code of 512 tokens. At training time, we alternate between the denoising auto-encoding and back-translation objectives, and use batches of around 6000 tokens. We optimize TransCoder with the Adam optimizer [25], a learning rate of 10−4, and use the same learning rate scheduler as Vaswani et al. [45]. We implement our models in PyTorch [39] and train them on 32 V100 GPUs. We use float16 operations to speed up training and to reduce the memory usage of our models.

> 4.2 Training data

We download the GitHub public dataset available on Google BigQuery . It contains more than 2.8
million open source GitHub repositories. We filter projects whose license explicitly permits the re-distribution of parts of the project, and select the C++, Java, and Python files within those projects. Ideally, a transcompiler should be able to translate whole projects. In this work, we decide to translate at function level.
Super interesting. I believe we have a kind of reflex to also find part of 'us' in our role in society. And that it's not just an american culture bug.

Striking a balance between the two is subtle I suppose.
Ha. I’m an alum of Yale Patts 306 course. He’s a character! Happy that the LC-3 is still around. I regularly use the basic knowledge I gained that semester in my understanding of software.

Our first assignment in that class was a program written in binary with manually addressed jump statements.
I always looked at sudo as being something between me and chmod 777 and inevitably bricking a distro.
> If you look on github, there are a bunch of chinnese repos. But there arent state of the art implementations of things

Wow, I'm impressed! Such a unique skill! I've never heard anyone do this! Be able to judge the implementation of an entire group of Github repo's grouped by language! Can you do Japanese repo's next?
> maybe we are just moments away from having an AGI that would make that kind of automation easy

What evidence do we have for being closer to AGI today than we were twenty years ago?

My point isn't that AGI is useless. But it's currently an article of faith. Faith is fine. Faith is essential. But isn't a good way to make huge allocations of resources.
Really cool. Reading through your incremental discoveries (aka going down the rabbit hole!) reminded me of my own adventure with building a typo tolerant search engine (you can see it here: https://github.com/typesense/typesense).

What began as a simple side project 4 years ago has consumed a significant part of my free time over the last couple of years.

Web assembly is certainly going to open a lot of new avenues for doing interesting things on the browser.
Search is all kinds of borked, even without that.

I had a file I was working on recently, "vuln2.docx". "vuln2" won't bring it up, but "vuln" will, alongside the other ones I had been working on. WHY?
So once this loads, it sounds like it could be made to work offline. That might open some interesting possibilities.
i appreciate the advice but this doesnt really answer my Q. Electron is a requirement from the client. Also our team is not experienced with developing pure native apps, just React, ReactNative and JS.

We also need a stand-alone experience for the end-user so web wont do.
Yes, all the unemployment/stock market value/income statistics all leave out the most important metric - the feeling of security, or insecurity I should say. Volatility is high, people can see it and feel it, and it shapes their decisions.
oh I need to try that - I had this feeling that there was a more stateful version but for ..... some reason ... reaching for a new dependency felt easier at the time haha. Thanks
I think a lot of people that are in the AI/Tech space are probably a bit detached from the realities of non-tech businesses. While you talk of "new tech" being AI and deep-learning, I'm still in the process of implementing barcoding systems in warehouses. I think the vast majority of businesses just aren't ready to move into the data-driven AI space that you call new tech. They're 20 years behind it.
Economics noob here: the paper concludes that past automation is predicted by 2 key factors: pay and employment. What does that mean exactly?

Are they saying that higher a job pays, the more likely it is to get automated? Or the other way around?

Also what does 'employment' refer to exactly? Is measuring how well the demand for labour is being met in a certain job?
It uses _so_ much memory. I recently added an extra 16gb stick to my laptop, maybe I'll give it another try.
You need to try it 1st dude...

There is no query based language, the runtime API is generated from your DB layer, and is fully TS/JS, so there is no new language to learn. It is just TS/JS.

You don't know which API to use? Type a dot and all APIs is there, this is called Intellisense.

So, it is not `like every other multi-SQL-flavor-SQL ORM and query builder`

`I think the best approach to this problem is a single-SQL-flavor query builder that attempts to match SQL as closely as possibly`, you do not work with GraphQL, do you...

Knex. I think Objection.js is much better.
Right so my point is Gatling was right but not completely right. He was right that it could minimize the need for military personnel on the possessors side, rather than overall reduction (which is more or less fantasy, but may have some truth if the foe gives up earlier than they would if they thought they had some chance at winning, though like I said overconfidence can result in difficulties incurred by going further than prudent —for your side).
> There's no guarantee that your next job will be

> 1. Fulfilling in itself

> 2. Provide the same income

>3. Provide the same secondary benefits (colleagues, hours, boss, etc)

Given how the job market is trending in favour of uber/postmates-style gig work (for people who aren't working in specific skilled trades) , I'd say it is guaranteed to be worse in all three aspects.
Yeah I think the backblaze does great work for backblaze for their hard drive report I can’t wait for him to talk about the WD SMR fiasco!
His assertion that we could always be one discovery away is not false, it's just irrelevant. The article states no evidence that there's been any past effect of "increasing automation" and assumes the near future will look like the recent past. Just inventing AGI wouldn't actually change much the next day, it would just be a new paradigm, and things would eventually change... so I agree with TFA.

(Also, AGI would be not so useful. Humans are notoriously difficult to work with, and we seem to have General Intelligence. It would have to have a strange concoction of motivations to be immediately --- or even eventually --- useful for anything that we would want to automate).
I don't see the connection between being impossible to predict and being actuated by will instead of the underlying physics.

Even if no being in the universe could possibly predict the behavior of a system that includes an intelligent being and even further suppose that due to true randomness it was in fact not predetermined. I don't see how it would make the entity's actions determined by their own thoughts instead of the smaller scale pieces of the system.

If its truly impossible to predict and we have the perception of having free will and in fact if many things including our own life experience truly are explicable in terms of thoughts, will desires, actions does it really matter if the particles made me do it?

What is the practical differences between free will and not?
Still, would it be morally preferable to genetically engineer lions to eat grass and replace normal lions with herbivore ones?
FWIW the link for "The Bicycle Thief" (1949) links to "The Bicycle" (2015). Great list though. It would be interesting to see the thing done for the AFI and BFI top 100. (Although I suspect that most movies on the AFI are probably already on Ebert's list.)
Show HN: Web app that makes conversations more fun
It's a web-app that makes conversations more fun by giving participants different rotating objectives to hit while having a normal conversation. No one knows what the other participants are being prompted to do until the end and it is meant to lead to outrageous conversation. The demo is also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhNJlGzTHEQ
Wasm can be cached!
Is it just me or does it feel like this timeframe was too short?

Personally, I expect the largest disruptor of jobs to come from autonomous driving, but we're still 5-10+ years from seeing that hitting the ground.

As far as today is concerned, I largely agree. ETFs BOTZ and ROBO have increased, but not in such a way that would suggest huge automation revolution.
> How long did mechanical looms need to show they wouldn't become sentient?

Ah, thank you. That's handy phrasing.
I've been trying to decide if inflation would be bad for stocks. I frequently see anonymous internet people say/presume it would be fine, or talk about "asset inflation" as though printing money would obviously inflate stocks.

However, my first instinct is, wouldn't it be like the 70s, when stocks got down to single digit P/E ratios? Inflation, historically, seemed really really bad for stocks. But then I think, well, that may have been because of the gold standard which distorted things until we were forced to give up on it.

So I was thinking along these lines - the big American companies are multinationals, which means they run businesses that have customers and costs largely in local currency all over the world, while they are going to have stock priced and dividends paid in US $. So maybe they are essentially immune to inflation now. If the dollar halves, they will just go on doing what they do, and twice as many dollars will come out.

Maybe the world is not dependent on the dollar because of globalization.

I wonder if we might see the same pattern with respect to dollar inflation as COVID - the huge and high tech companies will be unexpectedly advantaged, while the smaller non-multinationals will be seriously wounded.
How Knowing Your Audience Should Impact on Your Web Design?
Looks brilliant, thank you!
accuracy reported are usually from standard test conditions. In practice, deviation is high.
Teaching compilers works in most cases, but not all of them. Sometimes the language just does not have ways of expressing things to the compiler that you would like it to know. (For example, how would you explain to the compiler that reading within the same page will not trigger a fault? Such a guarantee is often used in vectorized strlen functions, for example.)
The article had a lot of great individual points, but it doesn't seem to make one coherent point.

Personally, I've begun to cautiously subscribe to a form of panpsychism, where what we call free will (and perhaps even consciousness), is the same thing as quantum fluctuations, but at scale.
Isn't a DB naturally embrace 'visually'? I mean, there is a table. Every time I think of a table, I get a picture in my brain... xD
> If the western world wants to try and influence the energy usage in India and China et al then we need to get our consumption down while advancing the state of the art in renewables because can afford to do so exactly because saying "You need to not have the same living standards as us to save the planet while we use as much energy as we want" isn't a reasonable argument in the slightest.

I don't think this is accurate. As you point out France has a relatively high power consumption per capita but has nearly half the CO2 emission than China per capita. This is insane.
Disclaimer: I have no military experience.

Your points on the lessons he mention are very valid. The particular part of the book that matched your description of "this might not work for non SEALs" was when Jocko described how he took full responsibility for a near friendly fire incident. He goes on to say that he earned a lot of respect for being the type of leader that would take accountability. He points out, IIRC, that this respect was gained from both the enlisted men and the officers.

I remember reading that passage and thinking "I've been in plenty of orgs where if someone did that, sure, the 'enlisted' aka line employees might respect that but the 'officers' aka middle managers would immediately think: 'Ah ha! Here is some noble minded fool we can dump our problems on!' "

I'm exaggerating somewhat but only to reinforce the point that I think the book is excellent and agree with you that the lessons taught don't ALWAYS apply.
heh, I should make an alias for no-break space (code point 160/00A0) + 'grep', because I type it so often when I pipe and get:

Command ' grep' not found, but there are 17 similar ones.
Maybe I'm not the only one :).
> So yes, Microsoft has publicly said if they detect a music track that may have been downloaded 'illegally', they will 'package it and all your info and send it to the feds'. It isn't spyware if you partner with the spies.

This was just part of the clickbait fearmongering that spread across various news and conspiracy sites before W10's release. From what I recall, it was to do the content clauses surrounding OneDrive/Office 365 (ie, you can't use OneDrive to host your illegally acquired content) that people somehow assumed would apply to their local documents. Microsoft made the privacy policy wording a lot clearer after that and have said numerous times that they really don't give a damn about your local files.

> Microsoft decided to go into the data business with Win10.

The advertising subsystem in W10 is actually pretty well isolated to the Windows Store and your Bing web searches, and it doesn't involve your personal information (just keyword/demographic based targeting). Your telemetry data isn't used for adverts. Microsoft Ads as a whole doesn't really make a ton of money for Microsoft so they don't invest a lot into it.
> What is bad is treating it as an unassailable fortress

It's also a pretty bad architecture/design failure, for a TEE to share computational resources with untrusted processes. I heard the decision to do so at Intel was due to marketing considerations outweighing the security concerns: Customers didn't want computational resources going fallow for the sake of security.

I'm skeptical about whether a truly trustworthy TEE is possible, but it seems even less likely, given SGX's architecture.
Yes, in general. Most Rust code will go through a libc, though, which will make the syscall internally in assembly and expose a C interface.