skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it'd be really hard to prove any single tool provides you a specific productivity boost. Most engineers probably have a tool-set. Which means all those tools work together nicely. Taking one of them out, as well as adding one, might break the whole setup. Usually established engineers are not working in a vacuum, they already have their setups in place, so justifying a 3% extra cost might be very hard to justify for very unclear benefits, if any. I'm not trying to make a definitive argument, just some food for though.
A friend of mine worked at a company that at one point was searching for "that red light feature"— meaning, a feature in their app that would get users to check their phones while they're stopped at a red light.

Thanks, I hate it. I wish everyone would embrace the Humane Tech ethos (https://www.humanetech.com/), but it turns out there's a lot of money in being an asshole.
I suppose that there’s no guarantee that it was motivated by sexism. I think some authors choose to use such words even when they aren’t entirely sure because it’s impossible to be completely sure and so they think it’s better to flag cases somewhat inaccurately rather than not at all. I don’t really agree with this, but on the other hand I don’t know what else I’d do.
Sorry for the stupid question, but what do people mean by capitalism?
Given that the U.S. has already been involved in Haiti, and that the President was arguably not legal (i.e. there is no current valid President), I have little doubt.

The Taiwan precedent makes sense in the abstract, but militarily the prospect of potentially being in conflict over Taiwan makes it all the less likely the U.S. would let China get a foothold that close to it.
I get it, JS is a weird language, but simple things like "is number" are still easy enough to do in JS, especially, when ints and floats are all just "number" in JS:

function is_number(val) {
return typeof val === "number";
}

With a function that easily written, no one should have any excuse to depend on a third-party dependency for it.
No, that's not a lot. It's only 1%. Much less than the cost of lockdowns. Obviously less than 150% of the population gets infected in real life.
Like some of the other people here, I'm not going to assume 100% that this is real until more of the facts come out. That said, I wouldn't put this past people from 4chan in their crusade of nihilism and destruction.

Of course 4chan is not a monolith and there are plenty of peaceful people there (especially outside of /b/) but at some point it becomes obvious that this is a place where some very dark people meet up online to do dark stuff, sometimes out in the real world.
Matt Levine on Robinhood and payment for order flow, in February 2021: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/robinh... (https://archive.is/jlhzz)
What are the criteria for determining if a corporation is "effectively a government"?
I'd love to know the 'design patterns' of works like this Knights of San Francisco game. Did the author use a workflow engine, a rules engine, functional event sourcing, a nested pyramid of if-then-else doom?

I have a sense that this space is somewhat unexplored. Text-based game world simulation is a relatively underdocumented (to my eyes) form of the 'game UI overtop a database manipulated with game logic rules' type of games, of which Simulation games are at the complex end of.

There are things like Twine and Inky that offer variables and conditionals to prewritten bodies of text, but doing composable texts worlds that change their state based on the accumulated choices of players over the course of their time seems to be a complex feature to build and extend, whether in Twine or another tool. Dialog simulation systems that remember what options you've done and give you additional options or changes over the course of the game are sold as products online. Heck, someone recently patented a 'grudge' system that a popular game (League of Legends?) used.

Or maybe I've just been looking too closely at it. I've been working slowly for about the past 2 years on an automation system for a tabletop RPG (non D-20 system) to speed up battle generation & resolution, trying to incorporate all of the various rules that say 'in X scenario, if Y conditions are met, gather this information from the user, then apply its Z effect like so, but also let the DM / user change any of the above or ignore the entire thing before you do so', so while I've ordered Designing Data Intensive Applications in hopes of gaining more insights, this problem certainly seems like a big thing to chew on from my self-taught programmer's POV right now.
> And some things are abominations, by the way. That’s a legitimate and utterly necessary category. It’s not just religious language, nor is it alarmism or fundamentalism. The international community agrees that human/animal hybrids are abominations—we shouldn’t make them to preserve the dignity of the human, despite their creation being well within our scientific capability.

This is nothing more than an appeal to authority, no? Even in this proposed axiom there's plenty of room to disagree (even if the author rejects that there is)
> Google Ads will still follow people around the web through latent signals

I'm not sure what you mean by this?

Google Ads has committed "once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products." -- https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/a-more-privacy-fir...

> even if wrapped in something like FLOC

FLoC doesn't allow "a few actors [to] obtain competitive advantages by collecting data from across websites" since everyone sees the same number of identifying cohort bits.

> other parties like KISSmetrics will continue the fingerprinting cat and mouse game

Historically, the TOR browser was pretty much the only one that took fingerprinting prevention seriously, but it's now a substantial focus for Safari/Firefox/Chrome. I do think fingerprinting groups will continue to have things that work when third-party cookies go away, but I don't expect it to persist that long after? I also would not be surprised to see a regulation here, since I (not a lawyer) don't think fingerprinting is compatible with the GDPR or the other regulations it's inspiring around the world.

(Still speaking only for myself)
I would say all of the above, with a general transition from rules -> statistical -> black box as time goes on.

But you're right that being fast and smart is pretty hard. You almost always have to sacrifice one for the other. Different firms operate on different spectrums of this speed vs smarts divide: some are faster and dumber (relatively), some are slower and smarter. But everyone is trying to up skill (analogous to moving up on the value chain), because the markets have gotten fiercely competitive at the nanosecond to millisecond scale, especially on american venues (CME for example is a straight shark tank).
Amazon donates Lumberyard project to the newly formed Open 3D Foundation
I really doubt we will have the capability of building "a machine in the likeness of a human mind" in my lifetime. Present AI systems are essentially just function fitting. Building big probabilistic systems that we optimize with loads of training data. This is a far, far cry from the "strong AI" that people are so afraid of. I really think that people writing these sorts of pieces have an understanding of AI that's more rooted in fiction than engineering.

It's interesting to ponder how we should go about building and interacting with "strong AI", and questioning whether we should even build it in the first place. But I really don't think any detailed moral frameworks can be built when we have no real idea of what a "strong AI" would look like.

Also, it's worth reminding people that in the Dune universe the Butlerian Jihad led to millennia of stagnation and control of society by a narrow elite: The Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit, and the Landsraad.
In the scenario that spawned this thread, much of the healthcare inflation costs are borne by a state’s public health option. In some states, all or a portion of housing is as well.

Again, I totally understand the skepticism about the long-term viability of social security. I also foresee retirement age adjustments up (they make some sense since people are living and working longer) and I also think that the income limitation on Social Security and Medicare tax will be increased in our lifetimes without offering proportional additional benefits to those paying to deal with the insufficient size in the working populations.

However, the original misconception that started this thread was that a million in cash is required to retire in the US, and it’s simply not, and it’s not the intention of US policy to make that situation come about. It may inadvertently happen due to economic stress, but the same can be said about any western country’s expensive public welfare programs.
Once again even that doesn't mean anything. Companies will absolutely weight the benefit of breaking a contract against not breaking it. If the company decides it is worth it, they will.
leftpad was a small amount of code too. If it’s a small amount of code that’s design stable and downloaded often, it’s an extremely strong candidate for inclusion in the standard library.
Typical security engineer opinion. This "feature" is costing the industry tens, perhaps hundreds of million of dollars in wasted salary hours but it's worth it to you in the off-chance .1% are even potentially affected. Because only your job matters.
"AI alarmists" are worried because the worst-case outcomes of AGI are mistakes you cannot ever fix.

All the rest of these are bad, but they are problems we can fix given time and thought, because we will still exist. Extinction-level events decrease all future human utility to zero, and so should be treated with extraordinary care.
What's more important are multiple readable entries for an object! And for those objects not to disapear unless the ref count on them is zero. The quintessential example is a library... By linking it into a directory the program has acccess to, you expose the library to the program. By using a hard link, you protect that library from being erased by another user
You would, sure.

99.9% of etsy userbase would not.
It's particularly bad with x86 due to the enormous variety of encodings and prefixes accumulated over the last half-century in the architecture. For example, the two instructions:

mov rax, [table + rax*8]
mov [table + rax*8], rax

plus some lookup tables make a Turing-complete subset: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/files/mov.pdf (With jumping via conditional faulting done with an invalid MOV, of course.) There are many other subsets. And even C compilers targeting them: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

Even better, there are multiple encodings of those instructions. And even better than that, there are Turing-complete subsets comprised only of printable ASCII characters. And even better than that, there are subsets of x86 the instruction set that can masquerade as readable English text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317

If your program counter ever diverges off to start executing unsanitized user data on x86, you are potentially pwn'd.
There is still no evidence for that.
imho precision is a chimera which often leads to an excess of certitude; acceptance and awareness of uncertainty often leads to better decision-making.

Put another way, a laser pointer is not a very good tool with which to explore a cave, unless you can systematically measure it over the whole cave, an expensive and time-consuming process. If you're exploring a new cave, you might be better off with weak omnidirectional illumination like a lamp.
What are the requisite “correct essential steps” and how did you determine that they will necessarily lead to an AGI?
> The more I work with parsing, parser combinators and writing grammars for little languages, the less often I find myself using or wanting to use any regex at all.

Surprise: The most common parser combinator libraries do backtracking. That's exactly the problem. Any solution as widely used (if not overused) as regular expressions ends up exposing a number of dark corners where the design isn't as clean and tight as you would want it. There are lots of better ways, but most of them are specialized and are totally unsuited for significant areas where people need something.

That said: yes I've used LR(1) parsing (not LALR) using a library that uses parser combinators with a good interface, and it's more powerful than regex and worth it for the right usecase.
But the code you posted is not what the code in this package does. If all you need is the code that you posted, then you should absolutely use that.
Steve Wozniak on Right to Repair
There are lots of animals that can beat us at specific neural tasks. So I don't think it's helpful to think in those terms. For example, our visual short term memory is bested by chimpanzees, at least on certain tasks used to measure it across both chimps and humans.

Lowly mice likely have better olfactory capabilities than us. It wouldn't surprise me if their brains can handle some very specific things better than we do.
> ... anything goes in a real emergency. However you should stay legal when there's not an emergency.

I'm in full agreement, and I failed to emphasize/make that point. I figured it went without saying.
Yes, FLOC and similar technologies, are another way to track users, but this time in the browser. We really do not see that as being any better. In many ways it is really worse.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-ge...
This is why sometimes you end up with BOTH a traditional ETL data warehouse, for common, structured reporting and analytics and also an unstructured data lake(s) that pull raw data in from many sources to allow for ad-hoc exploration.

But like others have said here, eventually you might find a novel pattern or something worth tracking on a regular, go-forward basis, and will want it to built into the data warehouse, for all of the various benefits a data warehouse provides for everything else it does so well.
It’s the 10% that gets you. To safely operate a car in all reasonable situations might very well require Strong AI. The car needs to be able to problem solve and make inferences about road conditions up ahead.
512MB are enough to play 720p video with a good video card and good mpv/mplayer settings.

I think even 128MB would be enough under cwm+mplayer if the iGPU is at least from 2006/7.

For games, meh. Nethack, Slashem, IF (frotz), MSX emulators with the Metal Gears and the Konami Games, and Mednafen.
Depends on the area, but IIRC the VHF/UHF HAM bands in some cities are almost as bad as CB radio at times. I remember a couple of decades ago LA had a big problem with jerks and unlicensed idiots spamming the airwaves.
"What Happened To You" by Oprah and Bruce Perry https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-You-Conversations-Resil...: This helped me to wrap my head around concepts I've been working on for a long time. How what happened to you affects what you're doing now. It also has advice about how to "fix" some of it with small, controllable doses of discomfort.

"What Makes Love Last" By John Gottman https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Love-Last-audiobook/dp/B00...: The underlying premise of this book is that love, friendship etc., are based on trust. It relates some of it to game theory in a way that really clicked with me.

"Becoming The Kind Father" by Calvin Sandborn https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Kind-Father-Sons-Journey/dp/...: This really helped me connect with my internal voice and taught me that it's ok to create a group of people you can communicate your upset feelings with and how to manage that.

There were a bunch of books that I read to understand how important physicality is to all of this. I can't think of one particular one to call out. You need to sleep enough, eat well, get some movement, and get some meditation. There are some other physical things that are helpful. I see a somatic therapist and we do therapy while she works on my body. Of all of the therapy I've ever done, it's the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFqotaIc3Dw this before bedtime has been a game changer.
It even goes both ways: most species change their environment to better accommodate their needs (beavers dam rivers, termites build mounds, forests modify the soil and create their own microclimate, etc.).

So it really is a complex system of adaptation to external conditions, modifying inanimate aspects of the environment to meet our needs and interactions with other species.

Human technology and -activity is not unmatched in scale (cyanobacteria are still the champions - completely remodelling Earth's atmosphere), but no other other species had the means to do it so quickly. We seem to strife for a mixture of artificial (houses, streets, technology) and versions of nature that we're fully in control of (from fish tanks and zoos to parks and gardens).

This need to "tame the land" even extends to other parts of the universe, hence the concept of "terraforming", even though adaption even if by artificial means would be much less complicated, quicker and "more natural".
Again that's ownership rate not user rate. It's also all about "crypto like bitcoin" not "bitcoin".
My parents live in Haiti. This looks like it was an inside job/collaboration. He was assassinated inside his home, in the middle of the night. His home has multiple gates/barriers to get inside, very secured by guards, yet
only him died. No guards or 3rd parties were injured. No resistance or loud gun exchanges to prevent them from getting in. His wife was shot and injured, but is currently stable in a US hospital. From what I heard, the gunmen were all Spanish speaking. 5-7 of them arrived in multiple cars, killed him and left without issues. Very disturbing, but that's the world we live in.
I live in EU and there are a few things that have changed:

- tons of remote offers, even with technologies like Java where in the past very few offers were remote

- salaries significantly up compared to 1-2y ago (getting 90-100k eur for a remote position in EU was rare, now it's not surprising to see such numbers)

- companies shorten interview processes, both in terms of numbers of rounds but also the time the whole process takes. In the past companies could reply to your application after a week, now I saw a few cases where a week after applying they send an offer
In modern mixed economies, people on the left say that whatever is less than ideal about the economy is capitalism and people on the right say it is socialism. So it’s in the eye of the beholder, terminology be damned.
Because ethics in engineering is mostly about codified rule compliance rather than the deep navel gazing taken by actual philosophy students. The latter also rarely yields useful answers. Crack open one of the "professional" engineering ethics guide books and 90% of it is thou shalt not build a bad bridge/engine/circuit because it is very bad and you should report your boss to the authorities if they do. I never understood the moral uppity and delusion those engineers have. If a bridge falls it is bad, unless if it is explicitly designed to kill enemy soldiers, then it is good. You can extend this to drones and enemy schoolbuses and the entire defence industry if you want. The so-called "engineering ethics" field should rebrand and follow the financial industry. You follow guidelines because the compliance department demands it to cover the company's derriere. If you don't, your company will get fined. Skip the self-righteous morality because its only purpose is to reduce the principle agent problem for the managerial and asset owning class.
pretty good.

do you know which one is a pain in my ass??

that's right, numbnuts -- ALL of them!
Is it really valid to talk about "the Taliban" over a period of somewhere on the order of 40 years?

The term referred to a particular group and generation, I thought, that grew up in the wake of the Soviet invasion.

Obviously the young men with rocket launchers in the news are not the same people decade after decade.
The paradox is:

- Our problems are getting more complex. We need better AI.

- Better AI is a threat.
Deepspeech project is closed by Mozilla. Developers fired. Now they are Coqui.
The point is the FLOC is surveillance as well. You are still profiling users. This has got to stop.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-ge...
Not really sure I understand this. If you play it long enough you bankrupt your country and the virus always wins. Is that the secret message, or do I just not know how to play?
My point is that it's three big tech companies that got sued, so it'd be normal to read about that here, and nobody would have reasons to flag the post.
Tiny nitpick, but quite a lot of birds are nurturing despite not being mammals. You can find altruistic (or at least mutualist) behaviors in many other taxa.
Yes, if you prefer eye candy photos to public safety. By the way will James Webb wield a modern eye candy capable sensor? Not sure about that.

There is few worth from remote sensing unreachable (even in theory) objects. Kepler already proved theoretized Goldilocks Zone rocky planets and, in general, provided a lot of data for non-field research (less exciting than Hubble photos indeed). Last, but not least, what's the JWST's mission exactly?

Also, from taxpayers' money perspective Kepler's component quality was complete disaster.

So, I'd better invest in more Martian/Jovian probes than in revival of obsoleted project. Such revival is very similar to Russian GLONASS (a competitor to 1970s NAVSTAR) programme reboot.
Car tyres don’t have any issue (there’s plenty of car/rail crossings) so I can’t see why a plane’s would.
I wasn't particularly surprised by this. I've got a copy of an unreleased "Arduino" product that was never going to be open source that I beta tested for them.

I suspect a large portion of the community is not averse to people supporting themselves on these sorts of projects and frankly, open source efforts do not seem to have a track record of supporting the people who support them.
How does an unconscious person disclose their blood group and genotype, that they are diabetic, that they have a history of migraines, that they have an allergic reaction to X medications, or any of the other things that are more immediately and more dangerously pertinent in a medical emergency than their sex?

Should we start putting all of these things on general-purpose IDs as well, since medical personnel need to know them?

As an aside, it seems to me that it's only profoundly healthy people that wring their hands this much about sex in medical contexts. Those of us who actually have to pop in and out of hospitals fairly often know that there are a host of other things we would need a new doctor or nurse to know first, and know that there are already ways to communicate existing conditions to the people that need to know them: medical IDs.

In the case of the police officer, this might be a shock but I am 0% in support of taking unconscious, unresponsive people into custody and not to a medical facility (and it's frankly completely baffling once again that you seem to think that the police officer is supposed to process someone that is unconscious into jail. Just...what?).
What if biohackers injected themselves with mRNA?
* AI research already has high barriers to entry because the required computing resources are expensive.

* Self-driving AI will be heavily regulated for reasons not related to other AI regulation.

I don't see how more AI regulation would financially help Tesla or Elon Musk. In fact "more regulation of self-driving" is something that many Tesla competitors and critics support.
And some of them, such as Google, are working on FLOC... This has got to stop now.