skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s easy to sit here and say what their goals “should” be, but it doesn’t change the fact that they never claimed it’s an AGI.
I think there's an interesting rhetorical split and contradiction.

The same politic groups, that would argue that teachers are the heroes of society that we can't live without, are now arguing that school must under no circumstance resume. We must indefinitely put off in-person schooling.

What? Is this the best we can do? Does this even measure up with scientific reality and risk calculation? Are teachers really that simultaneously important/unimportant? If the grocery baggers are working and handling the crisis well enough, so should teachers. It's clear that there's a class element to "essential worker." And this entire profession that seems to love the praise they generally receive from the left about how indispensable they are, are now suspiciously absent from the essential worker category.

You can only conclude that the social and mental development of children isn't essential.

If they cared enough, they'd use this crisis as an opportunity to start hiring younger teachers in droves to build up the workforce with relatively inexperienced teachers who aren't at much risk from the virus (at least compared to some 50-60yo teacher). But I suspect unions would stop at nothing to impede adaptive, efficient, and creative solutions.
I agree with you, in the context of working in a corporation. It's not a bad thing to pick tools and structure your workflows around them, because sometimes such tools serve as 'mental anchors' for standardizing a process.

The article seems to focus on personal productivity tools, for which the author's conclusion might relatively hold to a fair extent.
First saw that pic on the rage against the machine album cover. This form of protest has since then spread to other parts of the world. I feel that immolation hits harder than protest signs and marches, the people doing the protest must be desperate, at the end of their rope, to see no other option than to do this.
Thank you Kavir, so glad to have you in our early beta club :) And congrats on your recent project launch! We're considering limiting the number of Cuppas to 5-7 per week soon!
Network printers are less problematic on Windows, too.
This (and the parent) both require a kind of paucity of vision or imagined capability -- endless subterranean hospital hallways and infinities of military bunkeresque quarters would indeed be abysmal, but there is no particular reason we could not instead build sweeping open spaces full of light and life and visions we've never dreamed, if we were so capable as to profitably settle a rogue world.

Sure, it could (and likely would!) be hard to make it not suck to live in a place like that. But if we're going to indulge in wild future space colonization fantasies, we certainly don't need to stop and get mired in the economic feasibilities of the potential lifestyles there to the point that they become depressing.

Imagine "Halo", not "HAL"!
Spot on. Some things just need to be good enough. Spend effort on solving the problems with the biggest impact, your workflow and tools don't deserve that much attention unless it's completely not fit for purpose. Also changing your process and tools too often and too drastically usually makes things worse. People spend all their time keeping up with changes to how things are done as opposed to actually doing things.
Could somebody with GPT-3 access please ask it what words come after "person, woman, man, camera"?
Username and password doesn’t inherently have an HMAC+timestamp, so it has to be kept alongside payments. A certificate could be a one-time transaction, so the payment could be logged while the certificate is issued, the only worry after is if timestamps are present in the transaction method and timestamps are present (obviously) in the certificate, then correlation is still possible. Perhaps a workaround would be to take orders at any time but process orders in batches, where payment for all customers and certificate issuance for all customers happen at the same time/date. Or decouple certificate issuance from payment such that payment can occur any time and what is provided is a certificate that was previously generated/allocated at the start of the month or year. The downside to the preallocation is that the certificate private key would also have to be known in advance, it weakens security, but is perhaps an acceptable trade off for privacy. If transaction proof is possible, perhaps again with an hmac secret, you could provide proof of transaction at the start of the next month to keep the certificate issuance secure by presenting and issuing key material at a later date from when the transaction occurred. Actually, an hmac probably isn’t tamper-resistant enough given its value, unless you include a timestamp and correlate to transaction dates, or use a really long secret, or both and rotate the secret, perhaps. So you’d exchange payment for tokens, and tokens for certificates, decoupling the two. If your tokens are trusted, you could sell multi-year certificates or multiple tokens at the same time at the cost of reduced privacy if different features or timestamps are present in the tokens or transaction cost.
There's no special treatment, and we've banned you more than once for using multiple accounts to spread this false claim.

Edit: actually, neither submission of this article made HN's front page. I'm reupping this one (using the process described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links back from there) because it's obviously a solid, substantive article. No, that's not special treatment, because we do it for a wide assortment of such articles when we see them. There's a partial list at https://news.ycombinator.com/invited, if anyone wants to see what I mean by wide assortment.
Traffic accidents don't follow a pattern of exponential propagation, nor do most other "everyday risks of life". A new virus is certainly exceptional circumstances warranting exceptional response.
"The big move covers the little move" https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
I had a free Saturday after some boring Friday sales meeting/presentation in London maybe a decade ago. Decided to take a field trip to Bletchley Park instead of wandering aimlessly in London. I just loved the whole experience (including the train trip and the walk from the Bletchley train station) so much. I want to do it again, so I hope it will be able to keep going.
I have been thinking lately that the app stores, the food delivery apps and others, are reproducing on a b2b scale what happened with the industrial revolution, when factory owners became effectively monopolists of the job market and, in a framework without rules, forced everyone to work on the terms most profitable to them.

Perhaps then what we miss now is the possibility to unionize businesses with respect to the tech/ internet giants. Form providers unions (e.g. restaurants, app developers, etc.). Force every single web or internet store to provide a switch to allow each provider to stop and restart their sales/ deliveries at will and display messages explaining why. Organise coordinated strikes in which those businesses halt their sales en masse until their demands have been met.
So HN rediscovers NAT traversal yet again...
In an authoritarian regime everyone with a computer looks suspicious.
But this isn't pointing to a fundamental limitation of statistical models, only a limitation of the text corpus. If you had a billion pages of text written about some town and the text included descriptions of travel distances and locations, the model should eventually develop a good representation of the town and relative locations. But of course without such a seed of spatial information, it will just make up plausible data. A human would behave similarly when forced to write a story while lacking critical information.

>Statistical approach to such problems is dumb.

Well, expecting your model to extract a spatial representation of the world from text is a dumb approach indeed. We interact with the spatial information much more directly. But our ability to navigate is fundamentally just a process of capturing regularities in our sensory input.
Supermarket's profit margins are in low single digits.
How did you find the migration?

Lightroom -> Capture One was an upgrade. Even when the learning curve is taken into account, I found C1 to be superior piece of software. It's faster, its color editing is better, and the default look it gives me was just better, at least for my camera.

Photoshop -> Affinity Photo was painful. I'd estimate the pain to be "moderate". It misses some features I want (color calibration targets support, some layer blending modes) and some others are not as great (no smart sharpening). Affinity UX of working with layers is surprisingly painful and the attention to detail in the UI is poor. But since 90% of my time is spent in C1 anyway, I found it tolerable.
British author, arts advisor, and educator reformer.

Personal blog, contains a brief obituary: http://sirkenrobinson.com/

Likely most known by his 2006 TED talk, "Do schools kill creativity?"

https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_c...

Some previous HN content. Active discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3064256

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895437
Not something I want to specifically post on this account for some reasons, but quite a good amount. All squandered in the most misfortunate way though. Quite sad all around, haha
And you'd definitely want an app, where people could chat, share their stories... :)
There's a short précis at his personal blog: http://sirkenrobinson.com
Oh yeah definitely, I've looked into that as well. And there are some small x86 based maker boards like the Udoo as well. How cheap cpu power and computers in general are getting is more what I'm amazed at.
My thinking there wasn't because of BPEs, I think it's a graph traversal issue.
I used vidir yesterday for something that would have been more annoying with other tools - if you swap the numbers at the beginning of the line, then you'll safely swap the file contents. Useful if your TV episodes are named the wrong thing...
Does a service being part of the “5-eyes” really mean anything? I mean, this list makes it sound like being in China is a better alternative than being in Canada.
Yep I’ve done that but honestly it takes a lot more work than the youtubers make it out to seem. Much easier to just source from garage sales or thrift stores.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245930
Yes. Not these two though
> are a bit.. underdeveloped at that front

Nice euphemism. Yes, it is one the areas where America is truly a backward nation. Here's hoping we can finally correct the systemic issues undermining our representative democracy and can thus have a more progressive government come 2021.
Show HN: Yunolone – A crowd-sourced platform for item availability in stores
Small flatbed (flatbad?) scanners like Canon's Lide series are very cheap and light. Not quite as small as a pull-through scanner...
I'd take a couple different checkouts for a 30% discount on some goods. The problem for me is if I can only get their goods through their checkouts.

I do think the 30% is a bit absurd on reflection. I think OP properly framing it as 30% of our money is an important insight.
There's also https://i.reddit.com for mobile. I personally prefer using
the reddio [0] CLI and tuir [1] TUI for Reddit on the desktop.

Ultimately, the best Reddit experience is less Reddit.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio

[1]: https://gitlab.com/ajak/tuir
If you don't approve of copyright extensions, you're free to limit yourself to pirating only things produced before 1970.

If you don't approve of the publishers holding copyright, you're free to just boycott them...and pirate nothing.

You don't meed to watch/play/read whatever it is they've "robbed" from artists.

Instead, you help yourself to the artists' work without paying anybody a dime. And you want to spin that as some sort of moral victory over evil corpos?

You're no different from the "multinational corporations" you pretend to deride, you place no value in artist's work and will gleefully take it for free while wrapping your head in half-remembered editorial anecdotes about the evils of copyright.
Select VS Code folders and workspaces by relevance
Don't know about Thinkpad, but my previous Asus laptop won't boot unless the monitor is connected.

Most things I use Pi's (Raspberry and other flavors) for are headless.

Sure I could probably fool around with a logic analyzer and try to figure out some way of fooling the motherboard it has a monitor, but meh, Pi's are cheap and easy and just work.
CloudCustodian has offered this for quite some time. We use it at our company in all our accounts.
Please. Not another category of victimhood.
It's worth noting that the business model for this group is to treat a landfill a little differently to boost methane production. But in the end they're still keeping the leachate on site, and some of the water escapes as vapor (they dewater the methane before burning it).
Yabai is awesome. You can partially disable SIP, which I believe is required since the scripting extension needs it to interact with the dock. But you don't need to completely disable it.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Disabling-System-I...
Depends on the service and whether you are trying to hide from somebody who can issue a warrant or you are just trying to hide from corporations who sell your data. Also depends upon the level of encryption. For example, spider oak can hand over encrypted blocks of data if served a warrant but can’t tell even what your file names are in those encrypted blobs.

What specifically do you have in mind?
Buying food is necessary to stay alive. Kids attending school in person is not.

If there were a real plan in place to ensure safety, and if adults were willing to sacrifice in other areas like going out to bars then school could work if we had consistent isolated groups.

As it stands, at least in Ontario, there's been a strong push to "open up" bars and restaurants etc which to me is public mixing incompatible with the mixing of students in a class. Pick one: school or everything else.
From what the wikipedia article described, it sounds like the publicly-known relevant technology simply isn't far enough along to comment intelligently. e.g., the propulsion system was allegedly based on a stable isotope of element 115, but the best we can say is that of the isotopes we've found (and publicly described), we haven't yet found one that's stable.

If (big if) there were aliens on nearby star systems, it's fairly likely they'd follow something similar to the Star Trek 'Prime Directive', which "prohibits Starfleet personnel and spacecraft from interfering in the normal development of any society..." [1]

If that were the case, their actions would match fairly closely the supposed alien sightings that have been reported over the years. To me, that possibility is enough to consider the general nature of his claims not outside the realm of what our species' encounters with aliens would look like. Tech that's a little to far beyond ours for us to analyze intelligently, encounters between our governments and their emmissaries, occasional slip-ups and public sightings, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive
Hey Alex, thanks for the thoughtful comment. We're very early in the journey so had to stick with only 1 use case to calibrate acquisition well.

I love the idea of connecting speakers with educators trying to help students get into tech. A lot of communities have reached out to us as well to run "Cuppa for X" programs to build engagement within their network. It's on the roadmap!
One of the nastiest things I've seen from the "analytics startups" espousing how they're GDPR friendly and compliant and privacy friendly is that they advertise stuff like CNAME cloaking, using random URLs or hostnames for data collection, etc.

This is incredibly disgusting behaviour: the end-user has EXPLICITLY signaled intent to opt out, gone out of their way to try and protect themselves while blatantly signaling that intent that they do not want it, and the "privacy respecting and caring new not-like-the-other-guys" data collection service is attempting to repeatedly force itself on the end-user, sometimes trying multiple times pretending to be different hostnames, lying about what it is, etc.

I have seen bullshit "analytics" SaaS bruteforce its way through dozens of generically-named cloudfront or akamai hostnames until they find one that works.

No matter what you are collecting, this type of behaviour is evil and abhorrent. Someone saying no a thousand times until you find a disguise that works on them is not consent, or a yes.

> Are analytics evil, even if their sole purpose is to improve user experience? Let's say that we are building the infrastructure in a city, if we had stats on what streets have daily traffic jams, that would tell us a lot about the behavior of the people, but would also allow us to better direct traffic and reduce those issues.

Server-side analytics can do this fairly well.

But it is always a slippery slope - I have never, ever seen this proven otherwise. You count (raw number only) on average travel time or # of cars at an intersection. Okay. Nothing else - just when a car trips your wire you add one to an integer associated with that day or something. Few people would have an issue with this.

But now you want more. Now you set up licence plate scanners at every intersection. Now you store them in a database so you can tell if the same car is driving the same way and at what time each day. But wait, someone offers you money for this data, possibly even more money if you also run recognition and guess vehicle make/models in real time. And now you have a large database of people correlated to where they are at what time open to retrieval by others.
>So that means third parties have the legal right to put on Apple phones whatever they please? I think not.

It just means that the argument was terrible because Apple didn't 'built the market themselves'. Developers and third parties are what made smartphones so valuable, and Apple is a part of that, but not some sort of messiah, and not even the major contributor. the market value of everything that runs on the phone is much larger than the phone.

As to what should be the case, yes I think people should have the right to run on their phone whatever software they want. If they only want to run Apple software they can do that no problem, there is no downside here. What are you afraid of, too much competition and freedom? If the Apple experience is so great they've got nothing to lose.

Also applies to game consoles in my opinion. I'd love freely moddable console games and if developers could publish on a playstation without paying fees to sony or being limited by them. I'd love to see platforms unlocked so that there is a maximum amount of opportunity for everyone to do what they want with it. That's how creative things are made.
> The battery energy density still needs to improve somewhat but that is happening.

"Somewhat"? The energy density needs to get better by a factor of like, an order of magnitude to be competitive.

And it's still going to require human pilots for at least 10 years even aside from that.
The Student-Blaming Has Begun
I believe honeybees have closer to a million neurons, not 100 billion - according to this wikipedia list [1] - but perhaps it makes more sense to count the total number of neurons in the entire colony.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
Gary Marcus doesn't claim that they claim that it's an AGI, so I really have no god damn clue what y'all are going on about here.

Clearly, the point I'm making in the top comment is the following: OpenAI apparently restricts access to people -- even very highly respective scientists -- who happen to be critical of their previous work. It's impossible to prove intent, but limiting access for people like Gary Marcus is while giving access to tech journalists likely to write breathless hype pieces is odd behavior that deserves to be criticized.
This has popped up a bunch of times before:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=macOS%20Security%20and%20Priva...

It's not good. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17904304
The profession of research scientist is the profession of making money from theories.
If I recall it is not a matter of physical collision but disruption due to the gravitational fields.
No, it's long gone.
Apple requires that apps provide a way to signup, but Apple has no say over whether you already have a paying account with Microsoft. Apple wouldn't even know.

I'm okay with Apple's vision of intermediating my digital relationships with regards to the iOS platform, most especially for summarizing all ongoing app subscriptions.
sd: Fast and intuitive sed alternative written in Rust
> Username and password doesn’t inherently have an HMAC+timestamp, so it has to be kept alongside payments.

I don't follow your logic here. A userdb record could simply consist of user+pass, service level, static public IP, and an expiration date - essentially the same information that a certificate would carry.

The existence of a user record is certainly more legible to the legal system, and might help support a court order to actively surveil that "user's" activity. But from a technical perspective of what information can be gleaned here, they're the same.
Sorry - a bit too subtle for me... Not sure what you mean.
It is next to impossible to calculate the profit of any business unit in isolation . As it extremely difficult to split shared costs . I have enough time in my life doing ABC (Activity Based Costing) to know how it usually goes.

I did not say they made profit, I said they made , in my part of the world made means commonly revenue not profit.

The 50B is well established estimate of App Store revenue.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/apple-app-store-had-estimate...
Implement an emulator for a fantasy CPU in JavaScript
The list of alternatives just makes me lose hope of cutting out Google. They are lightyears ahead of the alternatives in so many categories.
Or use something like rEFInd as intermediary firmware.
>I found the bigger issue to be the stuffing supposedly neutral comitee with friends in dispute with Leibniz, so that they rule your way....

I certainly don't agree with this, but that is because my ethics are informed by a culture in which these things are considered bad. I believe there are cultures in which it is the way things are done, and in my readings of earlier centuries their ethics were not ours.

>These and others are major assholery issues, major ego issues.

There is a particular relatively famous programmer that I think of when I think 'asshole programmer', back when I used to go to conferences I would see him get up and tear down medium level programmers during their sessions. I don't want to say his name in case I ever have to confront him, as I like to keep my powder dry. I have met other programmers that were just as big jerks, although without this guy's accomplishments.

Obviously the programmer in question accomplishments pale in comparison to those of Newton. So I believe if I met Newton I would think - what an asshole!! but I would also somehow feel his contributions to the world did something to make up for his social inadequacies. So I guess I'm saying when I get my time machine after checking kill Hitler off my bucket list I probably won't be going to punch Isaac Newton in the nose for second place.

>And we even could avoid whole dicussion here, had people were not insistent on "just a slow to make friends".

Yes we could have avoided whole discussion here, if we just agreed with your viewpoint. But I don't agree, and so the discussion evidently needed to be had.

on edit: also the committee stuff sounds like a lot of the stuff I read about malfeasance in academia so - again sounds like sort of garden variety asshole there.