skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subfield of AI for handling decisions which are context dependent and which yield rewards (or minimize costs) is reinforcement learning. Even a shallow familiarity with this family of techniques raises a number of reasons why automating a CEO is deeply challenging:

1. Specifying the problem to be solved can be very subtle. The article throws in an example of scheduling maintenance in a transit system. That's a case where someone can specify some utility function around service disruptions, cost, etc. Companies are complex.

2. The space of actions available to a company at any point is extremely broad, and also hard to specify.

3a. An agent needs to learn from something. This can take a couple directions. Roughly, "off-policy learning" learns from the actions and outcomes of _another_ agent with different internal rules etc. Perhaps we have incomplete data of this sort (business school case studies etc leave much information out). But you need a _lot_ of data, and it needs to cover the same sorts of situations that your agent would get around to. And some actions probably the software agent _cannot_ copy (e.g. doing an interview on Sunday news program).

3b. "On-policy" learning is improving your agent from the past actions/outcomes of its own decision-making. Normally this means we need some simulation environment in which to let the agent learn. How do you simulate the whole economy, and market forces with which a company interacts? After learning in a simulated environment, you likely need to further improve (and test) in the real world. In this domain, I think that means you have to be prepared to let a computer program run many companies into the ground.

4. Without a decent model of the world around them, RL agents have a harder time attributing outcomes to specific past actions. You beat your earnings estimate, but which of the bajillions of decisions made over the past several quarters is most responsible for that? I think human CEOs actually do a questionable job of this, but an automated one would be worse.
No. But it's generally common knowledge. Here are some articles

https://fortune.com/2019/08/20/stock-buybacks-debt-financed/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/29/buybacks-companies-increasin...

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11393

From the last one:
"Data on the percentage of buybacks
that are leveraged are inconsistent. For example, the bank
J.P. Morgan Chase reported that leveraged buybacks
accounted for 14% of overall buybacks during 2018, which
it said was the lowest percentage since 2009. But Yardeni
Research, a respected securities market research firm,
reported that they were 56% of the total."
Theoretically the ETH PoW fork will drop in value relative to the original ETH. That would decrease the mining reward and result in less mining (and more GPUs returned to gamers).
It's difficult to prove you wrong. It takes forever to do so.
> - This doesn't even solve the issue.

Right you are, but for a different reason: Face masks entirely break Apple Pay. If you have an Apple Watch, lucky you, you can use the watch to pay instead. If you don’t? Well, tough luck.

Unlock with Watch apparently does not work with Apple Pay.

/e: Wasn’t aware of activating Pay using the code. Oops. :D
If they're fuel powered drones, they need to refuel. Plus that's potentially expensive to operate depending how many you need and how heavy they are.
You can stake with Avalanche (AVAX) today for a smaller price which will be decreased in near future. ETH like all other classical nakamoto algorithms have a limit on number of participants in consensus. Avalanche has no such limit on decentralization without sacrificing security or throughput.
Awesome links. Here is a contrast to that exhibit. It's a video since I can't for the life of me find a catalog of the exhibit.
https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/madison/human-interest/2020/02/...
Most software environments are not the right environment.
I feel like most engineers are pretty good at working remotely (c.f. all of open source).

Managers however seem to have a very hard time adjusting. If I were to give some "best practices" for remote management, they would be:

* Don't worry about how your reports are spending their time. If someone doesn't get back to you, they are busy.

* Don't factor an employee's location into their compensation.

* Minimize meetings (this is for non-wfh too, but it's much easier when people are remote).

* Allow people to leave their cameras off during calls.

* Don't worry so much about flying people to meet IRL. It's expensive and disruptive. It may also introduce politics that won't exist if everyone stays remote.

* Realize that a lot of what people think of as "management" is actually unneeded babysitting that's a vestigial cargo-cult from the industrial revolution. Your job is to hire, motivate and unblock. That's pretty much it.

I wonder if the role of manager will go away and be replaced with more specialized roles. I actually think it might be nice for a company to provide a therapist for people to to privately talk to. That's always been a weird roll that managers often play. It would be nice to vent to someone who doesn't get to decide your next raise. Between some level of HR outlet, product management and mentorship, I don't really see a dedicated role for what we now call "manager".
first commit:

https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/commit/3e12c5d1bb89...

love the second line comment:

#stolen from pcc

good developers copy, great developers steal
Fireballs streaking across the sky spark hunt for space garbage
I built about a third of a NES emulator. The nesdev wiki is mostly decent, although there's a fair number of things where it seems like the first people to figure things out got stuff kind of backwards, and if you flip it, it's a lot easier, that's the sort of fighting the specifications I think you're talking about.

All that said, emulating the CPU was pretty fun. There's a CPU test rom out there you can run with tracing and compare to the published results. I also got the background tiling from the PPU done, but the foreground processing has a lot of steps, so I indefinitely paused for now.
Also, I had amazingly poor performance, so I wasn't super motivated to continue.

The 2600 has a very similar cpu, but the very limited Stella output chip means most games are very timing dependent, which means you have to be super accurate, which adds difficulty. I think you should try to be cycle accurate anyway, but it's easy to mess that up, and having some freedom would be nice.
Nothing of value loss, the youtube app on Roku is very glitchy and the entire ecosystem of Roku is very ad supported and user hostile. I would expect voice commands within the youtube app to stay within youtube.

I am 50/50 on youtube music/youtube, but youtube app includes music so it's a general hard to decipher request but genereally if I want to voice search while I'm in youtube, I want it to stay in youtube.

I don't understand why people flock to it/use it.
> The multiple layers of abstraction. The AbstractFactorySingletonProxyFactoryBeans. All the singleton static classes, and builder patterns, and the stuff that just makes me shudder these days.

If you chose to write that kind of code and then hate it, that's all on you. Neither the Java language spec nor the JDK make any effort to steer you into such baroque complexity. Keep it simple, best Java code is very simple.

I wrote Java for about 20 years (many of them at Sun) and have never written a AbstractFactorySingletonProxyFactoryBeans or anything like it. Don't do it.
The S10's in screen reader drove me away from the platform and back to an SE2 w/ TouchID....it was that unreliable.

Have they fixed it?
there will be decentralized & trustless staking pools such as RocketPool, where even if a loss of funds occurs the loss is subsidized through the entire protocol.
I remember when in early 90's somebody was saying there will be a computer in each house. At the time I thought - good luck with that, computers are so expensive (I was in my early teens back then so my opinion was not particularly useful because I had no money and computers in my country were very expensive compared with average wage).

Then in late 90's somebody said internet will be in each house - again I could not believe :)

Later somebody said people will do shopping through internet - guess what my opinion was ;)

Later somebody said everyone will have a smartphone - at this point I thought my gut feeling is probably wrong - even if I was happy with my mobile I thought my spending habits are different than those of majority.

Later somebody said everyone will be connected to the internet 24/7 on their smartphones.

So I missed most of the wave purely because I had no imagination and no business acumen.. I can image value of people who do see those trends early.
worse. if you can't associate with such people, then you can't work to change their mind either. i remember a story about someone who made friends with kkk members, and one by one managed to turn them away from the kkk. that probably took some time for each person, during which he had to have been seen associating with them.
This is all very silly.

Upper management is payed a lot in stock to assure loyalty to ownership. This is a crucial component to enforcing the shareholder theory of value: a legal prerogative that was being eroded in the mid 20th century as industry became more complex, workers became more empowered, and absentee ownership had a harder time holding onto the reigns.
If Amazon didn't have Jeff Bezos, it would probably still be a bookstore today.
Stripe and Lyft Move to 1 Year Vesting
I am a solo staker and its been a blast learning about PoS and participating in the community. Right now you can earn ~7.8% rewards if you lock up your eth on your own validator. Once EIP1559 goes live (July) and the full transition to PoS merge around the end of the year there are some folks on the ETH research team who see rewards conservatievly going to ~25% [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/drakefjustin/status/1384124998084792324?...
The real story is the woman with beard emoji and two new ways to represent vaping
I said most kernel or embedded. It's lovely that there are all sorts of embedded devices nowadays capable to support a style of programming indistinguishable from a general-purpose system, but that's not the only or even most relevant case. There are also billions of devices out there - not just 15-cent microcontrollers either - that don't lend themselves to that style because of real-time or other requirements. Even within a conventional system, there's a ton of stuff in the kernel - pre init, board support, most storage and networking - that can still use a per-request-arena approach to good effect but can't fork a process.

As I said, if you can fork all the time you probably shouldn't be using a memory-unsafe language anyway. Nothing you've said so far has suggested otherwise. The basic techniques for implementing your own memory safety are still valuable and worth discussing for people who aren't in Easy Mode all the time.
You can borrow against it.
This is only one of many smart weeders.[1] John Deere has "See and Spray". There's some unhappiness among farmers that this is tied to the "John Deere Operations Center", so the learning part is centralized and the machine is dependent upon a paid service.

[1] https://www.agriculture.com/technology/robotics/the-future-o...
How inconvenient. Waiting for a CD/DVD to be delivered, ripping and cracking, saving it to my NAS where it cost even more money in form of storage space vs having a 5$/month vpn a raspberry pi with a harddrive connnected to it and just clicking download for whatever i need, whenever i want. The Idea of netflix and other streaming services is geat, i really like it, it's just the cable-tv-packagification that annoys me.
Good thing we’re talking about ebikes with great torque that make short work of hills, right? LA is ten times less smoggy than when I was a kid, thanks to cleaner cars and no electric vehicles.
I was merely stating what I expect to happen, not what I want.

It sounds pretty bad to me as well. Not worse than poverty, but meaningless and boring otherwise. Some people will make their own meaning, but many won't.
"What's special about this ceremony anyway"

Pretty people, pretty dresses, (happiness?). Things you will never experience with your 9.5 $/hour salary.
Meta-heuristic algorithm inspired by color-changing beetle
IMO Roku should make a rokutube site and wait until Google decides to abandon ChromeCast and comes crawling back.
Not illegal unless it is monopoly abuse somehow.
> Proof of stake is awarded to those with the largest stakes, which favors state-sponsored miners and works against decentralization.

Hopefully it won't be too bad. Here you can see the current involvement from different parties in the beacon chain https://beaconcha.in/charts

Currently "others" is ~52%, Kraken is 2nd with ~17%

I'm trying to understand a similar graph for Cardano (another PoS chain), but not sure I can tell anything from it about the distribution. https://cardano.bytemaniac.net/istoria/
It's pretty much guaranteed at this point. The staking network has been running since Dec. 1, with over 3% of all ETH staked so far. The initial migration is simple to implement and a high priority for the devs. Community support is very high, and once everybody switches to the new fork the miners have no influence.

The miners could keep running the old PoW chain but it's unlikely to have significant value. Exchanges will support the PoS chain and some are already offering staking services. Tokens collateralized by off-chain assets will use the PoS chain. Etc.

With the PoW chain having little value, miners will be deeply unprofitable and most of them will have to quit. Moving to other chains isn't much of an option because other GPU chains have little aggregate value.
DJI has some demonstration of target pesticide spreading drone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfdWYztSqUI It's not as targeted as laser, and it has residual problem, and requires the crop to have resistance, or the pesticide/weedkiller to be specifically targeted.

But I think it might be possible to focus sunlight to generate energy to kill weeds, not through battery or generated electricity.
I won't say it's for everyone. But for ADHD specifically, my personal experience is that pair programming is a godsend. I am able to use half my regular dose of ritalin while pairing.
Because masks were promoted as protecting others, not the wearer. This didn't recognize that people put their own needs ahead of others. Seat belts can protect me in an accident. So I wear them. With masks, (especially if I am young and not at much risk) I think "if someone is afraid of the virus, they can just stay home, why do I need to change what I do?"
Does that mean something for our usage of graph? Is there folks out-there who would benefit from being able to know stuff about a graph just by knowing it has pentagon in it? ( or vice versa )

The article is enjoyable to read. I smiled at "well, we can't do a general proof at the moment, and it might be a lot of work to do so still. But, if we put a hat on the pentagon, we can prove it"
there is in fact a fast-merge proposal that has community & dev support with a preemptive date of October 2021, if we're conservative February 2022. Once the merge happened PoW will be shut down and all transactions will be validated by the Proof of Stake consensus.
Google Assistant on my Pixel 4 will search in foreground app if I ask a query so you might not be correct in that respect.
You can't just enter your passcode for Apple Pay?
macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
It is very reasonable revisit the assumption that fighting nature in this way is a reasonable course of action.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. - Einstein

There are some promising reports of enhanced agricultural outcomes from reduced inputs based on alternative strategies such as seedballs, dense intercropping, crop inter-rotation, less intense land use and higher biodiversity. Major issues with such approaches seem to be homogeneity (required by large scale distributors) and difficulties with autonomous harvesting or increased labour (increased yields are no good if you can't harvest them efficiently).
Excellent point. Small details about your working environment, or lack of a routine, can hugely throw off your workday, and thus your productivity. You should generally pay attention to the lighting, noise level, and comfort of a work space. If you find yourself distracted by anything, you might consider changing your environment. Habitual repetition by way of thinking about your environment or making explicit choices can lead to the establishment of longer-term habits.

Someone should write an article with that advice in it...
The conversation around Mitchell Baker's compensation was particularly illuminating, I think. Why do nonprofits pay CEOs millions a year? Because executives expect to be paid that much, and it would be demeaning to pay less.
Vocation Vacations.
> quiet streets for kids to ride bikes

Getting rid of cars would solve that problem regardless of density.

> large public parks

Denser everything else frees up more space for parks. (I sometimes think of a "fractal density" which is high on average but has tons of variation to keep things beautiful.)
Of course to unlock the Apple Watch, you'll be wanting the Apple Ring...
Because after your 12 months you can't use the profile any more. Better to label what you pay for accurately.
Nbterm: Jupyter Notebooks in the Terminal
>The advantage with tractor-pulled is lower cost and higher reliability.

Based on what? The cummins engine they're using is bulletproof and a rounding error in the cost of the unit. Hydraulic motors will run for 10s of thousands of hours without any maintenance beyond a fluid change.

People in this thread keep claiming tractors are fully autonomous, which model? If they aren't fully autonomous, what farmer is volunteering to spend hundreds to thousands of hours in their tractor doing nothing but putting along at 5mph stop-and-go while this thing zaps weeds?

https://www.protocol.com/john-deere-farming-ai-autonomous
This sounds like a much more efficient way to practice monocropping, enhance fragility, and capture economic value by increasing dependence on non-local food sources.

In other news: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/pacific-northwest-s-...
It's definitely something people differ on. I basically never turn on a TV in a hotel room and hardly ever have TV on at home as mostly background--unless it's a webcam or something like that. I actually dropped my live TV last year because I hardly ever used it any longer.
if staking with a pool. if you run your own validator you currently receive about 7.8%

https://launchpad.ethereum.org/en/
Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)
In other words, normal market forces. The same reason you're paid whatever you're paid.
The crypto/wallstreetbets world shows there is some extreme risk-taking at the margins. But this is not the sort that's important, I think. The rate of entrepreneurship is declining in the US, perhaps due to higher corporate concentration or the cost of not having regular benefits (healthcare primarily). The effect of such a decline is much more pronounced when multiplied by the hundreds of thousands of communities that small businesses like restaurants impact.
Because VP9 is much, much cheaper for:

- Google, who doesn't have to pay royalties

- Google and consumers, who can enjoy better compression and lower bandwidth

- Consumers, who can enjoy a much more mainstream video encoding format in not just YT but pretty much every app.

Google doesn't want to write off 45% of the set-top market right away, but at the same time it's 100% in the right to demand Roku support modern royalty-free codecs going forward.

Roku fights pretty much everybody nowadays and as someone who's been dealing with full-screen ads and missing apps on my $1000 TV, I have no sympathy for Roku whining about needing to support a modern codec.
Interesting that it's possible, but it's probably not ethical to misdirect people about the intent of this. Some people experience what we might see as misinformation as their culture and identity, and pretending we aren't building technologies to detect and exterminate it is pretty dodgy. Unless we think these tools will only ever be in the hands of 'good' people?

Being able to detect the tribal flavor of information so that you can filter it out is what got us into this mess in the first place because it indexed on creating outrage bubbles for clicks. Growth comes from opportunity, which usually comes from something being shitty, so militating and cleansing the world of badness isn't doing anyone any favors except consolidating the role of the cleaners.

When you ask the question, "whose contextualization engine?" and the whole premise falls apart, it becomes clear they have earned any mockery these engines are designed to sheild them from.
I don't think that's a good analogy for the statement given. I think a better analogy would be "the difference between your floor and the top floor isn't the problem, falling out the window is the problem."
Sure that is a one-stop permanent solution for a plant which grows back its leaves very quickly but the question is, how can the plant thrive enough to harm other crops if you defoliate it every day?
For such a long piece, this is disappointingly light on any details or discussion about how one would go about building a "Contextualization Engine."

I mean, we all saw what happened with Microsoft's Tay Bot [1] -- any system that attempts to factor in user input is ripe for abuse. Who would control what context is valid, and what context is discarded? If you decide to factor in "all" content, how do you rank it? Is it simply a factor of popularity, or are trusted sources given more weight? Who is a trusted source?

I don't mean to sound overly pessimistic: I agree with the author that context is the biggest thing lacking from the internet today, and is a valuable tool for fighting misinformation. But any discussion like this needs to pretty immediately grapple with the intricacies of how to implement context -- and what context really is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
My Face ID is completely broken after getting water on my "waterproof" iPhone X. I downloaded the beta in the hopes of using my Apple Watch to unlock my iPhone without Face ID enabled. My employer enforces a device policy with passcode required immediately and auto-lock in 1 minute, so this would have been really nice. Unfortunately this feature only works a) with Face ID enabled and b) while wearing a mask. Not exactly just "Unlock with Apple with Apple Watch".
"woman with neck beard" emoji would go long way in promoting gender equality in computer and related fields.
As a Roku user who thinks Google takes a pretty hostile approach to anyone using their App on Roku, I disagree. If I'm in an App and search, I expect my search to be localized to that App.

That being said, f*k Roku and their voice remote. They've been pushing that crap hard. Showing prompts on screen for upwards of 30 seconds to push the Mic button. I don't want my remote to have a microphone or be able to listen to me.

I replaced my Roku remote last month because the one I had started having connectivity issues and missing clicks all of the sudden. The first thing I did with the new remote was pop it open and rip the microphone off the PCB with a pair of pliers.

I really don't want an Android TV or Fire TV, and I'm not really keen on Apple TV either but Roku is making it really difficult to stick with them.
You can still use Apple Pay with a passcode.
The problem I have with CEOs is when they're doing a good job they make $$$ but when they're doing a bad job they still make $$. When a company goes down, they have golden parachutes to ensure that they're safe. Meanwhile, workers get shafted.
I imagine it was an autoincorrect of "could imagines have..."
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