skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even at that, Downtime is already a feature. Personally I'd want the mindless browsing feature on all the time, but it would be fairly trivial to assign it to Downtime same as other quality-of-life features already in the OS.
How often do you use YouTube? Personally I am a very heavy user and in my experience the obsession with a new video kind you watch only lasts for a few recommendations unless you lean into it.

I would guess about two thirds of the channels I consistently watch I originally discovered through algorithm recommendations. I think it works extremely well.
I think the idea is that attendants are much easier to train and thus replace quickly than drivers are. All they have to do normally is push a button saying "it's safe", more or less. Perhaps very rarely they'd need to go into the tunnels to reach a stuck train, but that's exceptionally rare. In a squeeze people could be trained to do the normal tasks in a day or less.

DLR safety - aren't you agreeing with me? The DLR is not perfectly safe but in reality people accept it. Nobody is clamouring in London for the DLR to be shut down on the grounds that it's a death trap. London society has made its peace with the level of safety the DLR provides. Would more safety be nice, of course. Is it actually a hard requirement that blocks other upgrade projects? That's not at all clear and the argument you're making here is the same circular one the article makes - automation upgrades require safety upgrades because the regulator (+other undefined people) say they require safety upgrades, and the regulator says it requires safety upgrades because automation requires safety upgrades. But the link between these things seems rather brittle.
> no one has really approached this type of bet sizing from a rigorous perspective beyond the relatively simple Kelly Criterion.

Kelly Criterion takes into account your bankroll at the point of betting, so it does take that into account

I haven't understood your points further than that - minimizing risk of ruin (taken literally) is typically equivalent to not ever gambling at all. No gambler would agree with that, by definition of them being a gambler.
They have an applied division which applies ML to Google products. I suspect they are very valuable in $ terms just for the work listed here: https://deepmind.com/impact. Google's entire business from the start was doing research and bringing it to the masses, so this shouldn't really surprise anyone.
Takes a thief to catch a thief :-))
I am not sure if this is entirely what you mean, but for a game Red Dead Redemption 2 can scratch this itch. The natural environment, ecosystem, and weather effects are amazing. You can easily just avoid the main game and just wander around the environment, and there are a lot of woods to walk in!
When I walk through the woods, it's like the environment scrubs my mind of accumulated exposure to mental poisoning. When I scroll a news feed, the platform tries to jam my mind full of the most saccharine palaver possible. I end up feeling less like a prism, and more like a pack animal.. Perhaps there's a midpoint
How does he resolve that humans achieve the ability to "abduct"? I just don't buy that there is something ineffable about humans - and even if there is, why can't we just plug that process into a computer?
Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious. Marvin Minsky.
AI memo No. 603. November, 1980.

https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt

>JOKES and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious

>Marvin Minsky, MIT

>Abstract: Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the
mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden"
thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense
as for other comical subjects. In this essay I argue that the
different forms of humor can be seen as much more similar, once we
recognize the importance of knowledge about knowledge and,
particularly, aspects of thinking concerned with recognizing and
suppressing bugs -- ineffective or destructive thought processes.
When seen in this light, much humor that at first seems pointless, or
mysterious, becomes more understandable.

>Introduction

>A gentleman entered a pastry-cook's shop and ordered a
cake; but he soon brought it back and asked for a glass of
liqueur instead. He drank it and began to leave without
having paid. The proprietor detained him. "You've not
paid for the liqueur." "But I gave you the cake in exchange
for it." "You didn't pay for that either." "But I hadn't
eaten it".
--- from Freud (1905).

[...]

>In the 1912 edition Freud, still perplexed about the purpose
of nonsense, recounts a joke of this form: {11}

>"A man at the dinner table dipped his hands in the
mayonnaise and then ran them through his hair. When his
neighbor looked astonished, the man apologized: "I'm so
sorry. I thought it was spinach."

[...]
I think we're not anywhere near a level where a car could drive fully autonomously just with the local hardware, without a detailed data set of all the roads and real-time updates on conditions. That data set needs to be continuously maintained.

Also, they'll probably need a liability insurance for cases when their autonomous car inevitably gets in a situation where it has to choose between killing it's passengers or killing someone outside the car.

Of course, they could offer a pricing model where all that is paid up front, but I doubt it would be very attractive.
I'd like to know the death rate of infected unvaccinated people who get covid again against vaccinated people who get covid and get sick.
Basically, any problem with a solution fits into RL: reward of 1 if you are AGI and 0 otherwise. Go learn.

This setting on its own is meaningless! The “how” of the RL agent is not even 99% of the problem, it is all of it.

Given our understanding of both DL and neuroscience, it is not even clear to me that we can say with confidence that Neural Networks are a sufficiently expressive architecture to cover an AGI.

The human brain is a deep net, sort of, but there is also plenty going on in our brains that we don’t understand. It could be that the magic sprinkle is orthogonal to DL and we just don’t know about it yet.
There are theories [1] that part of the brain's function might work at the quantum level. If true, we probably won't be able to really understand what happens by measuring it this way...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
Model 3 is a much better proposition on features and price though.
Antigen tests (the rapid test kit, results in ~15 minutes, sample taken from the nose or thread) are not the same as antibody tests (blood test for prior infection, has to go to the lab). You need the former for travel. Afaik, the latter is not accepted as proof of prior infection, you need a positive PCR test from at least 28-ish days ago.
For me the only situation I consider "ok" for mindless browsing is while keeping and eye on the kids. Reading a book or anything else that requires concentration is impossible because you have to look up / intervene every x minutes.

The whole mobile online experience has become so bad, it's soul destroying. I don't go near social media anymore and prefer to just read interesting things. While not signed in to Google (because f*ck that), every search I do is met with a Google disclaimer I have to tap 3x to reach the bottom and tap once more to "agree" (no idea what I'm agreeing to). If you tap the wrong way (too quickly?) it zooms in and you have to use two fingers to zoom out again.

Then whatever site you end up has a cookie disclaimer, an "enter your email" popup and often even a third one with some promo crap. So often it's more than 5 fiddly taps just to get to the content and then you have to hope there's no paywall.

Infinite scroll is a complete horror show. I find myself mindlessly doom scrolling through job and real estate sites, tapping likes while I'm not even looking for a job or a house.

I can't quite live without smartphone (GPS, music, audiobooks ...) but I almost wish they were never invented.
You’re probably thinking of the Latitude Society, by the creators of the Jejune Institute. Invites were given as blank white cards that would swipe you in at an anonymous building at an appointed time, kicking off the first part of the experience. https://nonchalance.com/latitude.html

There weren’t elaborate practical effects per se (there were some cool builds, like custom arcade cabinets) but many extremely talented experience designers worked on it so it felt very magical.
For companies and business travelers, this is perfect.

Let me elaborate: If you purchase an asset, that is seen as a store of value so you need to spread out the tax reductions over the useful life of the product. But like this, self-driving is taxed as a service, not as an asset. That means all expenses are immediately fully deductible. Also, that means you can buy an affordable used car, gain full tax benefits (because the previous owner waited through much of the useful tax life already) and then upgrade to self driving and get full tax benefits again.

For me personally, that means this feature would be effectively free because the tax savings cancel out the price.
I totally get it and often find myself doing the same. Mostly when I missed out on winding down in the evening in a better fashion. Then I visit the sites with the 'engineered engagement' and polarizing content and find myself quite literally taken for an emotional ride.

It's hard to find content that doesn't overstimulate you in that state. Sitcoms and chill twitch streams work so well exactly because the extent of what is happening is safe, predictable and confined, yet the process is slightly different every time.
> just in case I die and my family has to figure out the intricacies

I'm reminded of how so much of what we know about history is because of the diaries and correspondence that happened to survive to the present day. There are surprising gaps in what we know about day-to-day life in the distant past because nobody bothered (or was able) to write it down.
my dad was asking me how to get rid of that yesterday because it was annoying him. i noticed that he also had the cortana search box on the left of the taskbar and asked if he ever used it and he said no. all these years it's just been there taking up valuable space and then 'new & interests' appears out nowhere last week and starts talking up even more valuable space. my poor dad had about 8 programs open but there were all squashed into the middle of the taskbar. makes me wonder about how many other people are living in these awful conditions
Meth taken orally at an equivalent dose is probably indistinguishable from racemic amphetamine subjectively. At least until you come down, anyway. Meth has a longer half-life.

Amphetamine smoked would be the same too, nearly. Maybe slightly slower onset. Negligible difference compared to that provided by smoking versus oral. It's the speed of the come up. The most euphoric part when one takes stimulants orally is usually the first few hours. When rapidly administered, that hits instantly and with full effect and then fades pretty quickly. (So you are very inclined to take another dose an hour or two later.)

My advice? You probably don't want to experience it. I've missed it since the first and second and only times I smoked. Realizing I was strongly craving a drug I had used twice is why I got out of that game. Some experiences cannot be unexperienced. There's nothing much interesting about that state, psychologically or intellectually. It's about what you think it might be if you have some experience with stimulants. Just all at once and very hard and you will be awake for two days after.

Meth is simply dirty. More neurotoxic than amphetamine and lasts too long. In a perfect world, we'd probably move all the meth addicts onto a supply of Dexedrine. Even if they're high as kites at least their brains will rot more slowly.
Recently greek letters were introduced to remove the geographic stigma [1] , so that would read as "the Alpha strain now being the main one in Sweden"

Besides risking moral overtones ("the British strain? Typical - when they aren't being Hollywood baddies they're busy incubating viruses") it only tagged where a strain was first isolated, not necessarily its geographic origin (not that it actually matters whether the Kent variant actually came from that Home County)

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/covid-19-variants-del...
Bitcoin serges 8% in single day
So you agree that iPhones should be used in whatever way the user wants, including using a different app store? I mean, it is a choice that you disagree with but for some reason it should be taken away. Why?
Why does one exclude the other?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01483-0

> Coronavirus variants get Greek names — but will scientists use them?
From Alpha to Omega, the labelling system aims to avoid confusion and stigmatization.
What is the evidence that “we have reason to believe that over time, immune defenses from COVID-19 infection seems to decline”?
No not really. Deep Mind is almost all cutting edge agent-oriented reinforcement learning, hence the nature of the claim they're making. The impact on Google's business from AI has come almost exclusively from other kinds of ML, or that's at least how it appears from the outside. E.g. replacing Google Translate with neural translation doesn't seem to involve RL and certainly doesn't involve agents playing video games.

Deep Mind is best understood as the following bet: if we can train an AI that can learn from "its environment" and do the sort of things a human would do in that situation, then we have achieved AGI and from that ... business ... will follow. Hence their focus on video games as a training environment.

This sounds intuitive but is actually a very agent-centric viewpoint and most AI doesn't resemble this type of thing at all. Most AI deployed so far doesn't have anything resembling an environment, doesn't have any kind of nexus of agency and doesn't need to actively make decisions that then feed back to its own learning, only make probabilistic predictions. And in fact you often don't want an ML model to train on the outcomes of its own decisions.
That’s not true. Many advertisers and even newsletters try to figure out which of their emails you actually read and when, so they can optimize subject and date/time for better effect - e.g. emoji in subjects on Sunday get better hits with person X, finance data on Thursday evening with person Y.

They used to be able to tell where you were reading it from geoip, but google killed that by proxying all images through their servers as of a few years ago.
Well this won't apply to you then since you never use the public highways anyway, right?
Use cpulimit to free up your CPU – Fedora Magazine
I think the main criticism in GP was that the friend's group also cut ties, not just the person being put "at risk" by such a friendship.
Also, "toxic influence" makes it seem like the friend was, by themself, toxic, while it looks rather than this was a "dangerous relation" (big difference imo).
> This comparison is disingenuous.

You say that, but then you make a completely different argument for why Apple is a monopoly. I'm just responding to what you've said, without using my well developed psychic powers to divine what different point you meant without saying.

You started your post with a point that is so weak that it is indefensible. Apple creating a virtual store and having a 100% monopoly in it simply isn't remarkable. That is how stores work, the store owner has near total control what is in the store to their benefit.

If your argument is that it is incomparable to a normal store then well ok, but you're going to need to argue that. A reasonable person could see Apple's store as comparable to an actual store. Apple very likely does.
If you're not a designer, use a template on a provider like squarespace. Follow their design guides, copy from sites you like. Don't get too fancy, stick to the basics.
>They just assume the money is real, because "move to the south or the midwest" is always an option for them, so they can cash out and keep a bunch of it. Some of us already live in these places, and don't have a magic "high quality housing at cheaper-than-my-home-market rate" place to escape to.

Yeah, it's absolutely disgusting.
Out of all these I like the conditional app unlock

They should extend it to certain urls too!
That's totally different scenario in my view. This is like comparing robot-vacuum and fully fledged android housekeeper. If it can do 100 and 1 thing - sure you can pay 10k for extra value.

TBH it is hard to believe that it is required to have 8 $/h to have autonomous vehicle. Once we have the technology Google will build efficient data center with custom chips and the price will go down to X $/month. On top of it - I think the model will have to run locally, so it would make sense to pay upfront for extra hardware they put in your car and not that much for maintenance.

We are just not there yet, we don't have autonomous driving - we have better driver assistants.
What I would pay for autonomous driving? Zero.
Actually I would even pay not to have it. People shouldn't be given incentives to waste more time into their cars other than the strict necessary, and autonomous driving would make things easier, so that a 5 hours trip becomes two movies and a nap. And workers will accept more and more telecommuting at outrageous distances. No thanks, I'll rather keep hating driving.

Disclaimer: after last year accident I had to say adios to motorcycles probably forever, so driving for me would suck no matter the vehicle; it just has too many wheels. When one enjoys driving, the better Tesla/whatever model just can't be on par even with the crappiest motorcycle. Car lovers can't understand.
I wouldn't compare it to a walk through the woods, more like walking through a busy street with angry people and advertisements screaming at you all the time ;)
This is already happening with property ownership being coagulated in cities. How is this a surprise
"never" (I know you didn't say that, but it's implied), is a pretty strong claim. Like with Searle's Chinese Room, I find these kinds of impossibility arguments fairly weak and full of semantic problems. Whenever people argue "consciousness", or "general AI", or "meaning", it's always an exercise in moving the goal posts.

When I read abstracts like this: "Cybersemiotics constructs a non-reductionist framework in order to integrate third person knowledge from the exact sciences and the life sciences with first person knowledge described as the qualities of feeling in humanities and second person intersubjective knowledge of the partly linguistic communicative interactions, on which the social and cultural aspects of reality are based. The modern view of the universe as made through evolution in irreversible time, forces us to view man as a product of evolution and therefore an observer from inside the universe. This changes the way we conceptualize the problem and the role of consciousness in nature and culture. The theory of evolution forces us to conceive the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities together in one theoretical framework of unrestricted or absolute naturalism, where consciousness as well as culture is part of nature. But the theories of the phenomenological life world and the hermeneutics of the meaning of communication seem to defy classical scientific explanations. "

My confidence isn't increased that this book has anything interesting to say. It sounds like the kind of post-modernist verbiage coming out of a lot of humanities departments. I mean seriously, why anyone in a STEM field actually write a sentence like "modern view of the universe as made through evolution in irreversible time, forces us to view man as a product of evolution and therefore an observer from inside the universe." Like what is "irreversible time" adding there? It's kind of redundant, and the awe-inspiring implication: man is a product of evolution, and therefore an observer in the universe? Earth shattering. And all phenomena, from fundamental life sciences to culture, are part of nature? No one's ever considered that before.

My guess is, if you asked a STEM major to write this abstract, they could sum it up with 70% less words. They'd also drop implicitly obvious claims that no one disputes.

I'm betting that this is book is just a less philosophically rigorous version of Searle's argument, given the implication that emergent phenomena "seem to defy classical scientific explanations".
You also have to buy the car as well.
Bangladesh to monitor TikTok after girls lured by traffickers
The paper is creative commons licensed no signup necessary to download

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437022...
IMO they dropped the most important thing from the old name. Meaning that transfer.com would have been more clear that wise.com. But who am I to talk about branding.
The developers building the complex are going to be insulated from having low-income housing in their vicinity.
That is if you believe biological general intelligence is the end goal of evolution, which I believe is highly unlikely.

Intelligence is simply a special side-product of evolution, there is nothing general about general intelligence. Many organisms can thrive without it.

There is also a non-negligible chance that all organisms would die out before reaching intelligence. We are fortunate to live in a world that produced us.
Vaccinating is literally training the immune system to look for a specific protein and treat it as a threat.

When your immune system learns how to fight off a virus, it does it by creating antibodies for a specific protein - treating that protein as a threat.

They're effectively the same thing. The only thing the vaccine does differently is it doesn't exponentially reproduce in your cells.

So anyone who survived Covid by definition has an immune system which can recognise the virus and attack it. Otherwise they wouldn't have survived.
The police doesn't care about you, they want promotions like most people do. Solving cases with big values helps, imagine trying to get promoted by solving petty crimes.
But do note that if such a thing existed, the actual resolution leaks information about your actions (the fact you are reading it / hovering, etc)
Well maybe the daily commute isn’t light usage and therefore isn’t the best case for pay as you go.

There are plenty of other use cases that fit really nicely, replacing a taxi for a night out, occasional long journeys, times when you’re feeling too tired to drive.

But having said that, I don’t see why we wouldn’t just expect to go autonomous all the time. Free or included in the price autonomous driving would be an obvious opportunity for any competitors.
> and killer apps like the spreadsheet that is still a computing interface out of this world.

I wish the expressiveness of tabular data representations was more obvious to more developers. All you have to do is sprinkle in a little bit of relational calculus and you can model literally anything as an xlsx document. Then, unlike virtually every other programming environment on earth, you can hand that document to any other non-technical human in the same business and they will immediately understand what you are trying to show.

9/10 times the spreadsheet will give the business what it wants, assuming you invest enough time in developing a decent one. The only reason you should add code on top of that is if you identify additional value-add with persistence, validations, systems integration, concurrent access, fancy UIs, etc.
I get what you are trying to say. But I despise the fact that they tried to blame everything on two engineers.
> Stylus worked on windows and mac, but on linux

Here comes your problem (which I actually mentioned in my above post). Choose hardware designed for Linux if you want it to really work. Why don't you complain that your Windows installation does not work well on a Macbook?