skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, there is some innovation happening in the space. Here you can find the latest eink technologies:

https://old.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/h0ujo1/what_is_the_be...
I'll quibble with a little bit of this.

"AlphaGo Zero showed the world that it is possible to build systems to teach themselves to do complicated tasks."

It didn't do any such thing. The game of go has a huge number of potential moves and outcomes, but the rules themselves are trivial, the board position can be measured in a handful of bytes and gameplay always and only progresses in one direction. And judging a good vs bad outcome is just a matter of comparing two numbers.

Go is challenging and interesting for humans, but it's not remotely as "complicated" as driving a car or translating a language.
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Yes it works like this: first they keep them hungry, then they buy the land.
Strange. Can you open an issue with logs and docker version?
>> Graphql will -never- return you unwanted data. Because you wrote in the query exactly what you want.

But couldn't you intentionally or unintentionally write a query such that it returns too much data and borks the system? Un-intentionally is the worrisome aspect.
Snowden passed his trove of classified info to two papers: WP and Guardian. Snowden never published any of his trove, he relied on these two papers to determine what was newsworthy and publish it.

WP published various parts of the trove they deemed newsworthy, and ultimately won and accepted a Pulitzer for this.

Then the editorial board signed and published a statement that said some of what was released from the trove actually wasn't newsworthy and were reasonable and legal defense programs. The editorial board recommended that because of this Snowden should be charged. In the editorial itself they acknowledge that the illegal behavior that was discovered can't be used as a defense in court.

The WP was offered and accepted the responsibility to parse this trove and publish only what is newsworthy. They messed up and published a couple documents that weren't newsworthy. They never publish any kind of apology or correction for it, instead they indict their own source, and recommend he be charged for that!

There's an unprecedented level of malice and incompetence displayed here. Look at the revolt in the NYT newsroom about the Cotton op-ed, and compare to literally not a word said in opposition to the WP editorial (which was written and signed by the editorial board, unlike the Cotton op-ed). The WP is rotten throughout, and shouldn't be held in even the slightest regard as a newspaper when they use their position to destroy the protection of sources that journalists fought for so long to preserve.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/edward-snowden-doesn...
Question: is there a consequence to MIT's library system? Do they lose access to that publisher's journals for the patrons of their libraries? Or are their subscriptions to the journals a separate business deal? How does this all work?
> Also there seemed to be no substantive discussion prior this about the police using Rekognition until it became a hot button issue.

There was substantial discussion on this topic. Your ignorance of such discussion is not the same as the discussion not existing.
if you want to be rigorous about it, you can often talk in terms of elements of the set of subgradients rather than gradients, and the convergence proofs for many of the popular optimization algorithms still go through.
but being in the US, I don't really care if a foreign government looks at my social media (what are they going to do?)
Yep, which is what makes your original comment so interesting in this context.
Thank you for your suggestion! We're working hard to get a demo video out and intentionally left space for it. But sure, we can add a placeholder image till then.
The incident you’re referring to is Ruby Ridge. There has been much more disconduct by the feds than just shooting guy’s dog, and his acquittal did not hinge on the fact that they shot his dog first.
This isn't related to that, and the same thing would have happened no matter where it was hosted. It was a DMCA issue, not Microsoft giving themselves special treatment with GitHub.
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The use of surveillance technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Why would you say this?
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I think the main reason people don't like it is aesthetic.

If you told people that whatever else was happening, you always made time to have a conversation with your wife at least once a week that wasn't purely transactional (discussing the week's meal planning, children's school schedules etc.). I think people would think that was a good idea.

Using a "corporate" term for it, rubs many people the wrong way.

Secondarily, some people are uncomfortable using scheduling for personal relationships in general because they feel that these things should be spontaneous. That is, this should be unnecessary because you have deep meaningful conversations with your wife all the time as a matter of course.

That's nice if that's the case, but what is not so nice is the attitude that if it doesn't happen spontaneously then it is somehow illegitimate to schedule it.

When I was younger, I thought "date night" for couples was unbearably gauche. Surely, going out for dinner, going to a concert was just an inevitable part of a relationship? If you're going to plan it, you might as well move to the suburbs, buy a Subaru, and give up.

I don't think that any more. If you're living a life where spontaneous time is indeed filled with activities like that, that's great and no need for cringy "date nights". Realistically for a lot of people that's just going to mean sitting at home eating takeaway in front of the tv.

We are in a slightly odd place in society where it is considered a bit lame to try. Society feels that it is indeed better to go out for a nice dinner than to sit on the couch watching sitcoms, but society is also a little uncomfortable with people who put effort into doing that rather than it just happening effortlessly.
It’s been a long time coming, but I am curious to see how OpenAI’s research output is directed and impacted by market forces.
You should look at APRS[1] if you're interested in ham radio:. It's designed for message routing and location data.

[1] http://www.aprs.org/
Indeed, Wikipedia arguably has a deletionist bias[0].

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
> Having someone who makes nothing and shares nothing log on to tell you how you should have done things differently is unwanted and not at all useful.

Until you're trying to sell your work instead of just exhibiting it.
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I’m also an academic. Hash each paper, then hash the hashes. Publish the result with the proceedings. After year one, include the hash of the prior year(s). Problem solved.

Recently I downloaded one of my old peer-reviewed papers. The “archival” service added a spammy logo to the bottom left corner of each page.

I’ve been meaning to find the original and put it on my web page. Honestly, I might just add a list of all my papers with links to SciHub instead.

I’m allowed to post them on my personal web page according to every copyright agreement I recall signing.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/05/29/feds-seek-incentives-...

"Japan, which has the third highest rate of transit ridership in the world, found no infection events linked to commuter trains after performing rigorous contact tracing on almost 17,000 confirmed cases."
These are valid concerns but in 2020 very easy problems to solve. There’s little reason why a small consortium of institutions couldn’t build a very robust system to accomplish all that. Use digital signatures and distributed mirrored storage and problem solved. Charge a very modest fee to members to cover fixed costs and make it free to the public. Heck a few we’ll organized S3 buckets with a search engine attached would be better than a lot of what’s out there today.

Not to pick on academics but the commercial publishing houses basically prey on the stubbornness of the academic community here. In the pure private sector someone would come along tomorrow and make Elsevier and others obsolete and they would go bust quickly. MIT is making the moves that might just whip something into shape to remove Elsevier’s role in the market.

On “high impact” if the top universities in the world en-mass unsubscribe from the commercial players that will change quick.
> A captive population is part of what creates an incentive to seek power through violence.

I'd say it is almost the reverse; the desire to establish a captive population is what leads one to seek power through violence.

> If people have freedom of movement, it's much harder to subjugate them by holding land.

If you hold land by force, you can thereby deny people freedom of movement in any direction. That's actually the only way to deny people freedom of movement, whether you concentrate on the inbound direction (as many countries do whether or not they also care about the other direction) or the outbound direction (Cold War East Germany, for a well-known example).
Especially in Hong Kong.
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I don't make a habit out of doing sanity checks on the SMART reporting of drives I test. My tests log that data, but I haven't written anything to parse that into useful information. I can't recall noticing obviously wrong or entirely missing SMART data in any drive I've recently tested.

I'm curious what your SSD is and just how old it is, if it isn't giving you any SMART information. (Maybe you need to run `smartctl -s on` before it'll show you the stats it has probably been tracking all along?)
Less than a million years ago, a supernova exploded just 600 light years away
No offense taken. Weeding out for accuracy is a fair and important concern, and there's no reason to assume a random person on the internet is the expert they believe themselves to be.

Though I'd point out that unless wikipedia has a team of people whose expertise equals or at least vaguely approximates my own (or that of any expert that might contribute), I have to raise the question of whether that's really what they're filtering, or simply something that superficially looks like accuracy to someone unfamiliar with the material.

It also assumes that the inaccuracy of the current articles is less than the inaccuracy of articles under a hypothetical alternative moderation policy. That might be true, or it might not - chase away enough contributors and you're left with one-sided, stale information. I imagine that's fine for an article on the simpsons, but maybe not great if you're looking up leukemias.
Though I have yet see any heavy-duty image manipulation program that doesn't resemble Photoshop.
In general it is fine to put whatever your job title is. If you are a Grand-Master Senior Foobar Engineer, that's fine.

It's silly to use things like "Thinker, dreamer and entrepreneur".

Most really great people I know only use something like "System Engineer" or "Software Developer" though. I know this super-experienced guy who has "Programmer". There may be wisdom in removing adjectives.
OP suggestion is kinda strange, I don't see how it'd ever politically work out for their to be a separate group doing the job that you should already be doing. That group would have to have political cover from way on high, which really just brings us back to, "it starts at the top", no?

To be fair, my org is shares similar problems to his descriptions. But I couldn't imagine the bru-hah-hah amongst not just managers but line engineers if a new group was created to do all the fun stuff basically. People are aware they're on a treadmill but that don't want shoved in their faces.
Since the demos on this page use zero-shot learning and the used model has a 2020-05-03 timestamp, that implies this API is using some form of GPT-3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23345379 (EDIT: the accompanying blog post confirms that: https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/ )

Recently, OpenAI set the GPT-3 GitHub repo to read-only: https://github.com/openai/gpt-3

Taken together, this seems to imply that GPT-3 was more intended for a SaaS such as this, and it's less likely that it will be open-sourced like GPT-2 was.
We can’t judge what is important and what is not. This is a job for the future historians in a millenium.

What historians really need is accounts of how regular people went about their business, without a filter applied by the one recording that account. The internet archive is an excellent resource for this, but only if it is preserved.

Previous ages failed to record what was needed to properly understand that age, not because they lacked the capacity to do so, but because they didn’t consider mundane things worth recording.
Good point. As with so many other things I ran into throughout the day, it comes down to "how many hours do I want to dedicate to searching docs and forums, tweaking obscure settings in config files and rebooting my Pi to try to get it to do things my macOS/Windows 10 laptops do out of the box?"

(Also, can you link to what the setting is or mention it? I'd love to give it a try and see if I can get it working with my LG 27UD68-P.)

And that's just the thing. I think there are a lot of people in the HN community who are saying right now "geerlingguy's an idiot, it's so easy to tweak all these settings!"

But I care more about picking something up and starting to use it immediately. Defaults matter, and ecosystem matters. And it's not like the Pi Foundation is not trying—things have improved _vastly_ in the past decade. And that's why I tried this experiment finally (the Pi 4 is mostly-adequate, hardware-wise, for what I do).

But I now know some of the things I would want to see before I could consider moving all my non-text-editor/k8s/infra-dev work over to a Pi-based or even Linux-based desktop.
Although I've listened to it a lot I wouldn't really describe the wall as beautiful, it's quite jarring in places. Comfortably numb is kind of beautiful. I'd choose dark side of the moon or wish you were here as beautiful though.
The trick is that they advertise it for $1500 and report up to the government it was $2000. That’s the point of the trick..
In one of their examples, they note “They saw ratings hover around 60% with their original, in-house tech — this improved by 7-8% with GPT-2 — and is now in the 80-90% range with the API.”

Bloomberg reports the API is based on GPT-3 and “other language models”.

If that’s true, this is a big deal, and it epitomizes OpenAI’s namesake. The largest NLP models require vast corporate resources to train, let alone put into production. Offering the largest model ever trained (with near-Turing results for some tasks) is a democratization of technology that would otherwise have been restricted to well-funded organizations.

Although the devil will be in the details of pricing and performance, this is a step worthy of respect. And it bodes well for the future.
I can't see the original tweet, so I don't know the full details. But my first reaction to hearing "weekly one-on-ones with the wife" is that it sounds impersonal and disrespectful. You don't describe personal relationships with business jargon.

It's an unspoken social rule, so maybe the person who said that wasn't aware. If that's the case, they deserve leniency for an honest mistake.

Or, maybe the person really thinks of their relationship in terms of a business arrangement. Maybe the husband and wife have a mutual understanding of that. Or maybe the husband sees nothing wrong with treating love like a business transaction, and the wife does. Of course people would call that out, to re-enforce the norm that this is not okay.

So what's the reality? You don't know. You don't know this person, and they don't know you. So why are they posting this, to an audience of strangers, who have no context for their remarks? And why are you replying to it, acting like you understand the context?

Twitter is designed to nurture this sort of discourse. It's the perfect medium for drive-by commentary, arm chair experts, and context-free conversations. Not to mention, the perfect vacuum for bad faith actors to spread bullshit.
Please borrow some integrity and own your words. You wrote that there was no substantive discussion.

Now that you have been proven completely wrong about that, you are pretending that there wasn't mass-market discussion instead, which is different.

Lame.
Wayland offers performance and security improvements over X, and is seeing rapid adoption on GNOME-based distributions. Since both Intel and AMD properly support Wayland through the GBM buffer API, Nvidia is going to be left behind unless they start improving or replacing their EGLStreams API instead of leaving it stagnant.
They do indeed. But then they realise that copy-pasting repetitive authentication and validation boilerplate everywhere leads to inconsistencies, bugs and at worst security issues.

Then they build their own abstractions. And then, congratulations, they’ve spent longer than they should have to end up with a worse version of Django, that nobody but them finds “clear” or “unambiguous”.

If only we could capture these common, repetitive and important patterns and put them in some kind of library. A “framework”, if you will. That way you don’t need to copy-paste this stuff over and over again, and anyone who knows the library will find it clear and unambiguous!

In fact this is such a good idea that I’m going to do it myself. I’ll call the library Franz, after a famous pianist.
I would also think of various phrases that need a lot emotion applied. e.g. for sensitive situations like someone's death, or for positive feedback like a wedding or a birthday or a thank you

Maybe also if she has a favourite book or a favourite quote, get those recorded too.

Back it all up!
> The problems solved by static analysis are not the big problems

Then these companies that spend millions on static checking there device drivers must be really stupid !
There is a Go client that is distributed with Kata Go and was built for that purpose: https://github.com/sanderland/katrain and is distributed as a pip package, making it very frictionless to install.

With a tool like this, instead of waiting for a Go pro to visit our local Go club to review our kifu, I can have my game reviewed move by move until the end (not only the first n moves).

I can still have questions for pros, but they would be more specific.

Now, playing a superhuman intelligence bot can be unfun. Now matter how much effort you put in a move, you will just keep making your outcome worse with every move.

Another important use-case is that the AI can also tell you if a joseki is actually joseki, and how to refute a bad joseki move.
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> If you're not lending more copies than you have, how is that not a reasonable argument?

That's the crux of the problem, though. The Internet Archive originally followed that model making that very argument; that argument hasn't actually been tested in court and the legality of it isn't settled, but publishers were generally looking the other way. But in March, the IA lifted the limit, allowing an unlimited number of people to read the same book on the grounds that closing physical libraries created a national emergency.
How small of a chance of her losing her ability to speak are you talking about here?
Was it a real FB crawler or a random buggy homemade bot masquerading as one?

Check here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/craw...
Glimpse is a better name anyway.
If I take a copy of Harry Potter, and remove every scene that Dumbledore is in, that doesn’t make it fair use for me to distribute a pdf of that copy.
Microsoft's stake in OpenAI doesn't seem to be publicly known.

> Exactly what terms Microsoft and OpenAI have agreed on with this $1 billion investment isn’t clear.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/22/20703578/microsoft-openai...
I have a LinkedIn account for quite a few years now after some initial hesitation and the bad feeling never quite went away given the fact they still scrape address books and other dark patterns.

I used to leave it on "not interested in new work" because I already got so much spam, but then I flipped the switch in March because I temporarily lost all of my customers at once due to Coronascare and I had to scramble for new work.

Most leads that I get that I wouldn't get before are pretty high quality I have to say. I do see that once a new job lands that matches my profile multiple recruiters reach out on the same day for the same job and I see the same opening repeated several times over.

I don't understand why the job market needs to be so opaque.
> A restful API also has the problem that if you want fine grained auth, you'll need to remember to add the policy to each controller or endpoint, so not that different.

This is dependent on the framework, just as it is with GraphQL - for example, with ASP.NET Core you can apply an auth policy as a default, or by convention.

> Despite efforts to ensure that filtering was fairly generic, there was a lot of adhoc code that needed to be written to handle filtering.

I've never seen this problem with REST backends myself, but I work with a typed language, C#. Again though, this is more of a framework thing than a REST/GraphQL paradigm thing.
Cool indeed! While language-to-code (where code is a regular, general-purpose language) has only recently started to be workable, text-to-SQL has been a long running application/research area for semantic parsing.

Some interesting papers and datasets:

NL2Bash: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08979

Spider: https://yale-lily.github.io/spider
Interesting usecase! Currently, the tool allows creation of datapoint along with reference transcripts. From what I understand, you wish to fix the subtitle start and end time while keeping the transcription for that segment same. If yes, we plan to add an enhancement where you can pass annotations aka segments with transcripts. This should solve your usecase.
Wasn’t the legal age for smoking just bumped up to 21 in the US?
If Gimp implementors had spent less time on "light-hearted and fun" and more on boring but actually important stuff like rendering text well, I might not have spent the last decade or so steering everyone I possibly can away from Gimp and toward Photoshop for professional work.

I took a chance on the Gimp because I believed in the cause - I wanted it to be a viable alternative to Photoshop. It very nearly cost my firm a contract big enough that losing it would probably have put us out of business - and would certainly have put me out of a job. Software that screws up that badly doesn't get a second chance.
There isn’t an obligation to be bad.

But there are things in life that people generally feel lose their meaning when subjected to the dispassionate tools of efficiency and productivity.

For many “engineering types”, we may not feel the distinction as acutely (isn’t all the world just problems to solve?)
Well it didn’t start with fraud, back in ‘87.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "endgame" in this kind of bare context. If you are asserting that this is a cool setup then I agree.

Coincidentally, I was just on their site this morning looking at their wood paneled workstations.

I'm personally not sure about pop!_os though. I would have like them to offer a mint option as part of the standard builds.