skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me this was google search response was mindblowing. I searched for it some time ago without the “springer” but I added it now, because some (good) reddit explanation is now the top result. But if you go to that springer page it is an endless technical document and google just found the perfect sentence out of it.
Now THIS is a bicycle for the brain!

If this is not amazing to you there is only one possible explanation for that (by the almighty himself):

> The only thing I find more amazing than the rate of progress in AI is the rate in which we get accustomed to it
- Ilya Sutskever

[1] https://www.google.de/search?client=safari&hl=en-gb&biw=414&...
That is a different argument than the comparison with the Apollo mission, and entirely relies on believing that the end-goal itself, a crypto-currency based financial system, is a net good in itself.

The Apollo argument was more compelling because it didn't require any value-judgement of the end-goal (but it was less appealing to me for the reasons I outlined). It is an argument about the process, regardless of the results (in the end, the lunar landings in themselves were a symbolic victory more than any great advancement of science - the science happened on the way).

We can go into arguments on why I think the end-goal of crypto-currency believers a la Satoshi would be a net negative, but others have covered it pretty well (deflation, fraud, money laundering, having your life savings destroyed by a hack etc).
If it isn't an AI in the way you describe, science fiction just calls it a computer or a computer program. Because that's what it is, calling machine learning AI is just a continuation of a trend calling various things AI in an attempt to get research funding.

The Star Trek board computer (as imagined in 1966) is a human-language interface for a program that can look up information and do computations based on high level descriptions. Some of the commands given to it arguably require "intelligence", and any attempt to replicate it today (of which there are many, all of them fall flat) would involve machine learning. Yet the computer wasn't conceptualized as a living entity with personality, as opposed to for example the Culture Series where ships are AIs with superior intellects.
Except audit rates do rise with income, especially at the extremely high levels that are analogous to Fortune 500 companies:

$0: 2.04%
<$25k: 0.69%
<$50k: 0.48%
<$75k: 0.54%
<$100k: 0.45%
<$200k: 0.44%
<$500k: 0.53%
<$1M: 1.10%
<$5M: 2.21%
<$10M: 4.21%
>$10M: 6.66%

Per https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-are-the-odds-be...

(Your article concurs: "Only households with income above $1 million were examined at significantly higher rates.")
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It will be grateful if you can share how you established root cause.
For many people, those calories doesn't need to be replaced with anything.
In 1996 the average household watched about 5.5 hours of TV per day.

The peak of TV watching was actually around 2010, it's gone down since then (although still above 1996 levels!) -- replaced of course with internet use of various kinds, including kinds that could be considered "fiction consumption" as well as not (social media I would only consider fiction consumption as a joke!).

Another thing that has gone down since 1996 is leisure reading time (again they don't usually count social media as leisure reading though).

I don't have numbers on how much time a medievel European peasant spent listening to stories, plays, or narrative music.

People may have on average more leisure time than they had 500+ years ago! As you say, "The luxury of doing that en masse simply was not possible." But now we're talking about a different thing, the OP's claim was that "we invest so much time and energy into fiction, far more than did any of our ancestors" because of a crisis of moral shared meaning, not simply because of an increase of leisure time.

The leisure time of people in different social positions in different times and places is another (interesting) question, but I think people have always chosen to use much of their leisure time (time not required for material survival) and energy on fiction.
Ah, found the PDF - the URL changed at some point before disappearing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190527041657/http://people.csa...
Well, there's something I didn't know. Thank you for the time and tab savings!
Core banking systems are some of the most horrendous examples of legacy tech debt and duct tape barely keeping a system from falling apart in the whole industry. Pick any large bank, BoA, PNB Paribas, Deutsche, Goldman, JPMorgan, etc. and they all have a widely known reputation for paying poorly, requiring significant extra work hours, offering zero career growth, offering zero opportunity to work on interesting projects, and have some of the most bureaucratic environments with no freedom, no ability to innovate or introduce new ideas, of any industry.

If you want to be underpaid, constantly worrying about sword of Damocles layoffs, pushed to work unpaid overtime all the time, all while your job causes skill atrophy and you become unemployable anywhere else because you only do maintenance on a mind-melting abyss of legacy tech debt ... then work in banking.
I think it's way clearer!
Nice reference.

Reaching target hosts multiple jump-hosts away, and going the wrong way through multiple firewalls segregating those lans, is another use-case of tunnels I've found handy.

i.e.

your_remote_client_host->internet->fw1->lan1->fw2->lan2->fw3->target_host

Target_host can be reached by doing tunnel-in-tunnel-in-tunnel-in-tunnel. Each tunnel gets you past one firewall. The final tunnel you can just ssh to fw3 via a local tunnel and a local port on your_remote_client now takes you straight to target_host.
Yeah, I read an article about this last night. This isn't fundamentally different from how fiberglass works: a bunch of fibers embedded in a bunch of epoxy. That the fibers were at one point a tree doesn't mean I'd put this material in my wood stove on a cold day in February.
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I sympathise with your general point although as an aside I'm not sure this is accurate:

> Feynman loved physics long before physics became world-changing.

Feynman was an intensely practical person and learnt a lot about physics from e.g. fixing his neighbours' radios as a child. And radio is certainly something I'd class as "world-changing". He loved physics because of the things you could build and create, and did not enjoy abstraction or generality for its own sake.

A better example for your argument might be Hardy, who explicitly stated that his love of number theory was partly due to its abstraction and uselessness. This was long before it had critical applications in cryptography.
This is why it takes forever to build a nuclear power plant.

This kind of 'normalization of deviance' is normal in normal construction, but has to be either reworked or formally normalized in critical work.
You probably already know enough of machine learning and can study other topics in order to make ML more useful, for example:

- Real marketing(people misunderstand marketing as sales and advertising) that is the study of people's needs

-History, in particular History of inventors and inventions that really changed the world, like paper(also papyri and pergamine) Gutenberg press, crossing the Atlantic on a ship,electricity, bicycles and Ford cars, antibiotics, rockets, nuclear power, Internet.

-Read books on innovation, like "The Innovator's Dilemma" that talks about most innovation having organic growth, looking so small at the beginning and then growing proportionally to itself. Almost everybody that cares about absolute things, like fame or fortune, ignoring it at first because the absolute value is so low.

Once you do that you will literally "see the future". You will recognize patterns that happened in the past and are happening right now. And you will be able to invest or move to those areas with a great probability of success.
Isn't the main attraction of AGI to enable systems to reason about and deal with out-of-domain situations? Can you get there with a purely data-driven approach?
Many people hate surf and turf. How about we don't start a pointless discussion about individual foods when there are endless variations at all levels of preparation complexity both with and without meat?
Satisfying.. A 5 star review for this..
Lem has also written about the trouble with black boxes in charge of policy (similar to the paperclip factory problem).

His advice seemed to always be for the human civilization to better engineer our future and stop playing it fast and loose.
My first house was a condo in a building which had been built about ~2 years before I moved in; I joined the board as the developer was transitioning out and handing over responsibility to the tenants.

This sounds exactly like what happened with us, just on a grander scale. Things like the post-tensioned concrete construction where the steel post-tensioner cables were left exposed to the elements, severe life-safety issues, electronics and machines which died far too early from being under-spec'd and improperly installed.

The developer, of course, had incorporated a new company just for the building, and it was super easy for them to let it go bankrupt. In the end we managed to recoup some costs, but had to raise everyone's fees to cover the reduced lifetime of some of the major structural elements of the building.
I'm 5 year older and I agree. You can also have a lot more fun by mixing board games / (drinking) card games / beer pongs in the same party.

It's becoming pretty common to know a few amateur DJs / music creators and if you have some decent speakers they happily mix for a part of the night. When they're done it's back to DJ ipod.

There is also plenty of raves where I live. I feel the atmosphere is much more enjoyable there than in night clubs
AI is not always humanlike, and when it is, it’s because it is a good fit for servitude. I remember a story of a planet with small tetrahedron bots that formed protective clouds to destroy electrically active organisms. T-series were humanlike for a reason, other bots were not. Starships often have AI that is not even a person. Social fiction is just the most popular, because it is the same old drama, but with robots.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought of L-space.

It’d be interesting to see if you could get something like GPT-3 to heavily weigh a given author’s corpus when generating output and see what it spits out for “Detritus and Carrot walked into a dwarf bar...”
In fact Alexander's work has been more influential in software than in architecture.
This article is currently popularity #364, on page 13 of news.ycombinator.com.

When you say you "casually browse through HN," may I ask how you're doing that
and how a "back issue" post like this comes to your attention? Thanks.
ML is more or less a parlor trick, my car still can’t drive itself, laptop still can’t have an original idea, iPhone can’t find a cat under a blanket, Google translate still sucks at Mandarin <> English, still no new Bogart films. I’m more worried about aliens then AI at this point.
> Why would you increase their wages, unless it was because of human decency?

Even human decency only gets you so far. Restaurant margins are thin, and a different restaurant owner won’t hesitate to start selling burgers at a lower cost if lower priced labor is available. And most people are very price sensitive when it comes to commodity food items.
From a grad student's point of view who currently uses "deep learning" to solve problems, we're nowhere near that kind of general intelligence. Neural networks are very good at approximating various kinds of functions given lots of redundant training data, but they have never shown the flexibility of actual human brains (as in creating new neural connections with only sparse experiences, along with deductive/symbolic reasoning). To really mimic human brains, we first need to know quantitatively how our neurons communicate with each other and form connections in our brains (more exactly, the differential equations in which voltage levels change among neurons, as well as the general rule of how new connections are created/destroyed.) Even after figuring out the bio-mechanics, it's going to be a hard task to implement/approximate this in silicon, and would probably need huge breakthroughs in material science and computer architecture. Copying state from a human brain to silicon would be as much as hard, since that will need incredibly high-definition non-destructive 3d scanning technology. I'll bet we're at least 100+ years for humanity to even try attempting the things you're talking about. We also have to consider that in the next few decades, the world in general will be far more busy trying to deal with the drawbacks of globalized capitalism (as well as dealing with climate change).
Finally a tool for this.
To a point, but that trust by the public can be easily swayed and destroyed - see Biden pick Janet Yellen and her recent comments about how BTC is used for and good for nothing but criminal activity including that by state sponsors of terrorism.
Social media is no place for Covid-19 vaccination cards
I use the wordlist from Oren Tirosh’s mnemonic encoding project: http://web.archive.org/web/20090918202746/http://tothink.com...

I can't find the post that linked it, but it had a very nice scheme.

EDIT: found it: https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/

EDIT2: one-liner to get a random word from the file:

cat wordlist.txt | tail -n +2 | sed -E 's/\s*(\w+)\s+/\1\n/g' | sed -E '/^$/d' | shuf -n 1

i.e. <print file> | <skip first line> | <split lines into words> | <remove empty lines> | <choose random line>
and yet the same machinery decided to translate the director of a movie as "direktor" in germany. I guess your quote applies there as well!
I hate to say that the scene #2 in Berlin is completely nuked (big ones are relatively okay like the one you mentioned)but the small beloved venues are almost all gone which is bread and butter for the scene. If they aren't, don't think they'll survive till the end of 2022 it seems like, unfortunately.

There gotta be something to survive but I don't see any yet.. It'll be very interesting to see how scene changed after this era.
Unbelievable that a journalist thinks this is an objective account of the cryptocurrency sector.
Science fiction hasn't prepared us to imagine machine learning because machine learning in its current state is too boring to be central in science fiction stories.
Join permaculture channel on matrix or IRC over at freenode. We agree.

Otherwise here is an old but free book which lays out a sustainable path to grow healthy humans and planet by working with nature:

https://archive.org/details/permaculture1adesignersmanualbyb...
So almost everyone who teaches in a US university is a automatically a 'professor'?
AFAIK there is no controversy that Finnish and Hungarian are distantly related. There is however ongoing debate whether the Samoyedic branch should be considered equally related as the Finnic and Ugric branches within the group (meaning whether Finno-Ugric and Uralic languages are synonymous or not.)

Nonetheless, in casual usage modern Finnish and Hungarian are completely different. The similarities are revealed only by an advanced study of the grammar and the comparison of the entire vocabularies. (Dis)similarity of an individual term is meaningless.
Is WPA Enterprise any better?
You'll need a mapping for the server names anyway. If you have a large datacenter, I hope it's stored as configuration of your infrastructure as code tool, if it's small, you won't need to check it every time.

Anyway, is prod-web01 that server with an outdated web server that you keep because of that one system that couldn't migrate, the one with a Java server that runs those proprietary tools, the one with IIS that runs that FOSS code that the developer decided to write in C#, the one supporting your main applications or the one you insulated in a special network because it hosts a powerful API that you don't want to expose?
Right, those are good points. But the article is from a blog that claims the following: "Futures of Work is a blog offering radical and critical thinking on ongoing and emerging issues associated with work and employment."

It feels unproductive to me that a blog sporting such a claim looks at the automation problem, and instead of critiquing our cultural connections of work, wealth, and value, critiques the automation systems trying to improve the future. I think being a luddite is neither critical, radical or a response to anything that is emerging. Its a knee jerk reaction based on fear, like you are saying.
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Literal ~. Its input as a sequencenot as a modifier. Iirc the sequence ~h or ~? prints a little help page
An alternative could be where a coin could be directly proportional to a tree planted! Its value would go up as the tree grew bigger. Think of a carbon sink. While it would come with its own loopholes like having invasive plants. Its an interesting way to have an alternate. One could even expand to other similar sources which could aid to a better future.
Either the dealers eat the club or the club eats the dealers.

The dealers ate the Hacienda. It's over as soon as the club has to hire enforcers to keep the dealers in line - because the enforcers are also hired by the same dealers. And that gets... complicated.

It's a fair bet it's the other way around for the headline clubs in Europe, and possibly a few US cities (NY, etc).

This may suggest interesting things about who ultimately owns/manages those clubs.
This only applies to browsing where the user's cache is present, yes?

At least in Firefox 85.0.1 Desktop and 85.1.1 Android (when I tested) clearing the cache also nukes the favicons as well.

Also, I get different hashes when I test on demo.supercookie.me after clearing my cache on mobile, and also across Private windows on desktop.

The statement "[...] even in the browser's incognito mode and is not cleared by flushing the cache, closing the browser [...]" is misleading, at least where Firefox[0] is concerned.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...
Here's a more recent blog post: [1] and a published paper on arxiv: [2], describing the latest version of the algorithm which is implemented in fast_float C++ library [3].

Coincidentally, I've participated in this as well recently by implementing the algorithm in Rust (fast-float crate, see [4] for the source and benchmarks). It is insanely fast (easily over 1GB/s on an m1 machine) and beats all of the existing float parsers I'm aware of by a large margin, at least on the datasets we've tested it on.

[1] https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/29/number-parsing-at-a-gigaby...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.11408.pdf

[3] https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float

[4] https://github.com/aldanor/fast-float-rust/
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Not necessarily - the change might be to make an environment that's less stressful to humans (e.g. humans might like an environment where they can see what's coming and avoid being ambushed).
I think you've missed the point of the article, which is that authors usually construct the options in such a way that the morality thereby displayed is ultimately an easy and comfortable one for the reader. The article is a paean to fiction that is uncomfortable and therefore capable of helping us push at the boundaries of our increasingly outdated ideas of morality.
I didn’t know that Tom left observablehq.

https://macwright.com/work/

I used observablehq (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275849) for a nonprofit project in 2019. It was a enjoyable experience.

Glad to see he has some downtime and wish him the best.
IIRC they did say that no customer data was leaked/ that there’s no need to worry.

Need to check their press statement again later.
Fixed supply, algorithmic cryptographic validation of transactions, psuedonimity, no centralized control by a human-like entity.

Each of these turns out to be a net-negative in my view:

- fixed supply means that people are incentivized to hold bitcoin instead of spending/investing

- algorithmic transactions mean that there is no way to reverse a mistaken transaction or a fraud; it also means that losing the key to your wallet is irreversible destruction of the money contained in that wallet

- pseudonimity means that it is very hard to track money laundering and other illegal financial schemes

- lack of centralized control enforces all of the others and makes it impossible to prop up the currency based on the current needs of the economy

I also understand the distrust of fractional-reserve banking and most complicated financial manipulations, and I wouldn't deny in any way that these have been misused very often at the benefit of the rich and powerful. But, at least with the current system, citizens have some amount of democratic control over their financial system, which they wouldn't in a pure Bitcoin world.
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Have you read much about Reconstruction?

It is a period of history absolutely essential for understanding how we got to where we are, which is often not taught at all to schoolchildren.

It began with Black elected legislators and city council members and increased Black economic activity and equality and integration. It ended with the return of de facto Black serfdom and disenfranchisement in the South. And that's when they started putting up the statues. (Who is "they"? It wasn't Black people putting up the statues, was it? So who won and who lost?)

Heather Cox Richardson (who has gained recognition lately with her daily posts on politics) is actually a historian, her book is titled "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America"

Here's a New Yorker article by Adam Gopnick with the same title, which is actually a review of a different book by Henry Louis Gates. It gives you an overview of how Reconstruction went.

> One mistake the North made was to allow the Confederate leadership to escape essentially unscathed. Lincoln’s plea for charity and against malice was admirable, but it left out the third term of the liberal equation: charity for all, malice to none, and political reform for the persecutors. The premise of postwar de-Nazification, in Germany, was a sound one: you had to root out the evil and make it clear that it was one, and only then would minds change. The gingerly treatment of the secessionists gave the impression—more, it created the reality—that treason in defense of slavery was a forgivable, even “honorable,” difference of opinion. Despite various halfhearted and soon rescinded congressional measures to prevent ex-Confederate leaders from returning to power, many of them didn’t just skip out but skipped right back into Congress.

These are the people who had the resources and power to put up those statues...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/how-the-south-...
You didn't answer my question. I don't need a condescending explanation of how science is supposed to work, I need an explanation of how science is supposed to work when dissenting voices are silenced. Remember, a year ago the "official line" in many western countries was that masks are useless and/or harmful, and there was a large-scale censorship effort against people who were claiming that masks were useful. Even though we now consider this to be a fact, it used to be labelled "disinformation" and censored. You think that science can work without freedom of speech? What a joke.
A crime gang, with one big crooked boss and 100,000++ minions carrying loot and giving vigorish
Maybe they problem is the word "need". How do you interpret the word in this context? I read it as "are legally required to", which is a thing that can be true or false.