skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGI is coming. In a contest, the only chance humans have is to work in tandem with AI.

Horror in the face of these changes seems to presuppose that humans have some inherent essence to lose. We're material. Nothing of consequence to our consciousnesses is beyond or beneath that. The more quickly individuals can shed any sense of preciousness with regards to being human, the more quickly they can integrate with the tools we'll need to survive.

All human knowledge is accessible through language. Gopher and GPT-3 emerged within months of each other. Within the next few iterations, one of these models will be able to change and reproduce itself.

The tide is coming in. Better to grab a surfboard than stand at the shore shaking your fist at the ocean.
As a European, I have to ask the obvious question: What?

People are being charged for having solar panels? I understand there needs to be a fee for hooking up to the grid etc., but I think here you get that and more back by feeding excess energy to it.

Could residence of those states get off the grid and instead install many large batteries?

I don't know a lot about this stuff :)
Please dance the Amazon Verification Dance.

I cannot fathom any good use for this technology.
If it is as you say, how come Trump isn't still president?
There are multiple labs in Wuhan. Wuhan institute of virology is the main on people like to talk about but there was indeed another lab a block or two away from the wet market. I don't know if both were doing virology experiments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Center_For_Disease_Con...
Wikidata is interesting. But it is a centralized approach. Is there an interface which gives the full breakdown of sources and where you can, through a chain of certificates (like those used for ssh and https), verify the sources?
Depends how closely you watch your spending on food. I'm so disconnected that I only learned just now that we have a soda tax. I will still buy my favorite sludge water without concern for the price.
I'm...skeptical. Mostly that in a city where houses stretch into the millions now, people forego a can of Coke over a 20 cent price increase.

Soda consumption has been on a long decline since the late aughts. I even noticed as much anecdotally - often when dining out I would be the only one or maybe one of two to order a soda at all.

I'm completely willing to be proven wrong, but the data set is much too small to conclude anything either way. Why not include the top x cities, instead of just one 200 miles away? Because it rains a lot in both?
I was in the same research lab as the author, but from a different school (BU). When I found out that most of my peers were also doing their master's part time while working, I wished I could do that. But as an international student, there are a lot of restrictions. I had to do it full time (3-4 classes per semester), and I could only work 20 hours part time on campus, usually as a TA and/or research assistant. I did 3 jobs to max that out since most jobs only required you to work 6-8 hours a week. I could only do one internship for my entire degree. My total cost for 2 years was $117,889. BU did not have scholarships or aid for international students, because saying you need aid is admitting that you lied on the visa application. Then I had to pay $7800 to work on my thesis over the summer, which I chose not to finish because I wanted to start working earlier. To make up for lack of work experience, I pretty much did open source contribs 40 hours a week while working on my thesis and TAing. There was a period of 10 weeks where I was putting in 80-100 hours between school and unpaid work.

It was still worth it in the end. Similar experience coming from no CS undergrad. There were about 3 good classes that were very valuable, like Algorithms, Cloud Computing, and Embedded Systems. The rest was not that great, especially with remote. When I think about ROI compared to a bootcamp, it's a tough one. Really successful bootcamp grads are already self-selecting going into the bootcamp, same with the really smart students in my master's program. But going to a master's program seems to have a better ROI just based on quality of instruction/institution alone.

6 months after graduation and my pay bump has more than covered it. I was feeding the master's program cash cow, so I think of it as I'm helping fund my US and green card classmates' master's. Most of my peers had 50% or full ride scholarships.
The world is so incredible dependent on China for just about everything from the simplest tools to cars, computers and medical equipment. My guess is that it would change nothing, we would still be letting them produce everything for us because it is so much cheaper, and keep letting them grow their economy at record speeds.
Do smell next.
I don't disagree that it can be useful (eg. from one of the other projects mentioned in the thread: https://github.com/Netflix/vectorflow/blob/master/src/vector...), and I definitely saw plenty of people that liked it. I think it existed in the same realm as a feature like lisp macros which are incredibly useful but when overused can turn the code into an inscrutable mess. The question for me was always how much the community would use or overuse them. When talking with other people it seemed like their own use of UFCS was obvious, but then again they wrote the code so of course they were going to understand it.

Without knowing any of the associated types and members how many interpretations could the prior expression 'a.b!c.d' have with UFCS and parens-less calling conventions (and any other feature that might contribute to different semantics)?

b!(c.d)(a)
b!(d(c))(a)
d(b!c(a))
d(a.b!c)

Might be more? Don't get me wrong I see the benefit. The vectorflow example I think is a good use case thought because it allows a more natural conceptualization of object -> member access -> conversion rather than having to call to!ulong(W.length) which forces the reader to start with the (pending) conversion. You get this same dataflow/conceptualization benefit in threading macros in clojure (->, ->>, etc).

Anyway, thank you for all the work you've done.
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But isn’t that inevitably the final form of any highly complex tactics game (in lieu of a better word) humans create? I guess we reached the ceiling of what we can fathom on our own, so the logical next step is to hand over to robots that can grasp a wider range of possibilities, and learn from them.

I once heard someone say people will never be able to understand God’s plan, just as a dog will never be able to really understand why their owners do things the way they do them.
I feel like this is a similar threshold; a humans mind is incredible, but not perfectly suited for thinking in advance, or calculating probabilities.

So I guess my point is, while this certainly feels a little scary, I think it’s just a consequence of the game, and probably okay.
So you knew about my site before I posted it here? How - where?
Thanks for the honest feedback - that is exactly what I am looking for.
I know the design is not the best and we have plans to make it more modern.
If I will implement an OCR API then I have to support good service and the uptime must be good.
Currently I have ads from Google AdSense on my site so there is a business model - to get great traffic and revenue from Google and then when the API is ready I could have subscription plans.
What other OCR providers do you like or look professional?
Yes, you are right the tech is just one part - that is one of the reason I am looking for feedback here.
Thanks again - great to get your valuable feedback.
I don't quite understand the need to mandate racial caricaturizations in every modes of communication. I would find it upsetting if every pieces of texts and quotes were prefaced with an "origin" indicator to aid forming prejudices. Why have it in manga?
> Unfortunately neither of these articles actually ask Tim…

Yes, let’s just ask Tim and Marc! This is not ancient history where we’re forced to draw inferences based on limited information.
Teaching how to code is broken
An open letter from the President of Kinesis, to the ZMK community
If your fear of these people badmouthing you is at the top of your worries - your problems absolutely don't end there! It's not like the entirety of your presence is their startup's core competency. Just leave formally as you should and part ways like adults with different things going on with your lives. I wish you the best.
> In 2013 Mozilla spent $197M on software development and $30M on general/administrative.
> In 2020 it was $242M and $137M.
> The future-focused servo team was not the place to cut a couple million.

Wasn't it just after 2013 when the replacement
politically-correct CEO got quadruple the pay of the
not-politically-correct engineer CEO?
Not that science benefits from censorship, but that game theory sometimes necessitates it.

Imagine a scientist with significant political cachet. This allows them to receive more funding, do more science. They cannot optimize their behavior only for truth-seeking, because that fails to maximize their political capital. If they optimize for the former, they will be replaced by someone who is better at the latter.

Any scientist that relies on external funding must balance science with politics to continue to do science, sometimes this involves censorship.
There’s no shortage of people regularly inhaling carcinogens either.
If I'm not mistaken, this comment of yours is itself a violation of HN guidelines.
An interesting article, but rather undercut by the fact that he highlights quantum computers as the same situation. Twelve years later, they exist. They work. They have APIs! Yet the development process displayed all the negative symptoms he highlights. How can we be confident fusion is different?
There is nothing that suggests it should be any different than human learning legally. As long as the output is significantly unique, it shouldn’t have any copyright issues.
> It seems like PCIe is trying to become more like Infinity Fabric (AMD) / UltraPath Interconnect (Intel).

So far CXL is pretty strictly a leader/follower type approach, not really suitable for a more symmetric relationship like you have in a multi-socket system. But maybe one day..
I don't think extending a server bot to support OAuth/SSO can be that hard.
Adaptive ventilation and maybe even heating of rooms depending on the number of people present.
But aren’t 10s of thousands of people dying from self-driving crashes?
That sounds a lot better than the tens of thousands that die with humans at the wheel.
It does feel like there hasn't been a proper airing of exactly what gain of function research has been going on (whether or not it led to this particular virus) and how governments have supported it. I suspect it's because, despite being a "hindsight is 2020" moment, a lot of people would be angry, and at a lot of public policy scientists involved in the response.
I have a self-hosted nextcloud that was not to hard to set up. Its video chat quality is not that good, but that could be on my client side. It is on a $5/m Vultr vps but that's just because it was convenient to spin one up near my geolocation to save a little latency. Otherwise an even cheaper vps wouuld be fine.
https://centraluseuap.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/servi...

We have build a web client + REST API that allows to use the API for free for small personal projects.

https://konfuzio.com/en/ocr-api/

It supports handwriting, correction of HOCR text via the webrowser, automated language detection.

We use the text to allow large enterprises to train document categorization and data extraction AI in a low/now code UI.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.
Well, politically speaking, sanctions would certainly be possible - if not for the virus they (hypothetically) created, then for what would in retrospect look like (in this hypothetical) a clear attempt at a cover-up.

That said: it doesn’t even need to go that far - whether the response should be punitive, it doesn’t need to be. The scientific communities in China and the west are collaborative and could negotiate agreements not to do GoF research. US groups were funneling money into China to do GoF research on coronaviruses, which could be stopped.
Praising sodium_malloc as secure annoys me. Its memset is definitely not secure. It is just not skipped, but it is not meltdown secure, so prone to sidechannel attacks. My fix was rejected, because a secure memset would be too slow (flushing the caches). So the headline should be fast crypto, in opposition to secure crypto.
These generated pieces look extremely similar to real human art so they look very expressive to me. And you can even add your own input by hitting refresh until you get something similar to what you wanted.
Of course a tintype is a different technology from fast film or plates, or whatever this photographer was using.

However, you're incorrect about the lack of usage in the timeframe specified: "Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s, but lesser use of the medium persisted into the early 20th century" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype

Besides, the GP comment referred to the era, to which I was responding.

Your explanation is not without merit, however: "One common explanation for the lack of smiles in old photos is that long exposure times — the time a camera needs to take a picture — made it important for the subject of a picture to stay as still as possible. That way, the picture wouldn't look blurry." — https://www.vox.com/2015/4/8/8365997/smile-old-photographs
> The cables from officials regarding WIV safety have been verified. Just because it's on the opinion page doesn't mean it's false. It has way more credibility than some random virologist's claim about WIV safety on Reddit. Period.

The cables were written by an entrepreneur and a manager, and the opinion section isn't willing to publish them. That's not lawyer speak, that's the lengths you have to go to in order to interpret a shady opinion piece that goes to lengths not to provide the actually interesting information.

> There's no agreement that this virus hasn't been engineered. Ralph Baric has said that just looking at the DNA it's not possible to distinguish whether a virus has been engineered or not. Alina Chan had raised this point and Vox has even made a correction on their article [1]:

> A previous version of this story stated that SARS-CoV-2 had been definitively proven not to be a bioengineered virus. While an August 2021 US intelligence report concluded, “Most agencies … assess with low confidence that SARS-CoV-2 probably was not genetically engineered,” and many scientists agree with that assessment, it was an overstatement to claim that the theory has been definitively ruled out. The introduction and conclusion of the story have been updated to reflect this lower level of certainty. (h/t to Alina Chan, biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, for her critique and input)

You can't prove a negative. That's all the substance in what I've quoted.

> Please don't spread misinformation.

Where have a I tried to prove a negative?

> Viruses escape labs on regular basis [3]. Someone else on this thread also posted a link of a recent virus escape from a Taiwan lab.

You should read my reply - from that article, the infected scientist was at the time not wearing his PPE. The infection was due to his incompetence, and wouldn't have happened if he was actually following BSL4 regulations. It seems his colleagues saw this and thought it was fine.

> This is not the first time a lab leak happened and virologists tried to cover up. It happened during Soviet era in the 70s [4]. The truth came out after the fall of Soviet Union.

Don't try to beg the question, please.

> A bio safety expert has weighed in and also expressed his concern about possible lab leak of SARS-CoV-2 [2].

Now we're finally getting somewhere. I assume who you're referring to as a biosafety expert is James W. LeDuc. All he's saying is that it's a possibility and that it needs to be investigated - so I don't see the disagreement. This was in April 2020, before a lot of the evidence we are relying on came out. Beyond this, his interlocutors points seem not be factually accurate, or at leasy hasty conclusions that later did didn't bear out.
> Ok. What is the art of building things that are good, but violate some constraints of the real world?

Science fiction.

Somebody designs user interfaces for use in Hollywood movies. They don't have to be practical or even feasible, they just have to look cool.
I would've thought it was the default for many parents; my youngest child is pretty persistent with her polyphasic sleep...
Really depends on the reasoner in use. I'd really take most current public benchmarks on reasoner performance with a grain of salt, as most implementations out there are mostly academic-grade non-production systems.

E.g. Stardog does most of their reasoning via query rewriting (and also lean on some restrictions). That way you can leverage DBs to do what they are good at. If you can then on top of that build some clever caching or incremental computation, you should be fine for even pretty huge dataset sizes.
This isn't really creativity is it? I like to call stuff like this statistical copying, and indeed, the linked Wikipedia article on GANs says:

> Given a training set, this technique learns to generate new data with the same statistics as the training set.

There isn't a creative process here nor any creative introspection going on. While the technical results are impressive, this article does not address creativity even superficially, and just slaps the label on. There isn't any AI either. It's machine learning, i.e., statistical models and algorithms.
The documentation on how to run it is in the readme. They've only got pre-release builds available on their website, since the tech isn't production ready yet.

I've been compiling it locally and playing with it. I run it like:

$ servo https://news.ycombinator.com

To do that, I've got an alias set up to point to my dev build.

alias servo='f() { /home/tychi/SourceCode/servo/mach run --release $1 };f'
> Continuing to write new C++03 is just masochism

disagree. this keeps things simple, readable and maintainable. beyond STL i havent found need for any new data structures or algorithms. i roll my own for domain specific (audio/graphics).

> Discipline builds with use. I recommend it

sure daddy. perhaps if the c++ committee had discipline they wouldnt have added these crazy things to the language too and made it a mess that it is today. however we masochists are pleased with the concession offered by stroustrup's one-liner: 'if u dont use it, u dont pay for it'
Maybe they should just change their name to LostPass and everything's fine again
Any system with a market needs some kind of exchange token. The fiat paper money we are using is nothing more than that and having a universally accepted token is a desirable thing. I would argue that some inequality is not only necessary but maybe even desirable since it provides incentives to interact with the market. Since we want our - tamed - market to be efficient in resource distribution, we need to maximize its reach.

> Those who own their means of production are typically more productive [..]

I think you are on to something here. Ownership - especially close ownership - fosters a certain interest that the thing owned is put to good use. That can in many ways lead to increased productivity.

I don't think that a state-enforced market would be a good thing, but a tamed market with players like the Mandragora Corporation - which is successful in the current "capitalistic"[0] market and refrains from corporate management excesses - I consider a viable alternative. (Not that I see how such a transformation could be pushed.)

> Those who can organize other people can amass more productivity and therefore have more money.

Or it is the people that have money have access to the means of organizing other people and the necessary liquidity to setup and maintain an initial structure to profit from other peoples productivity.

(Another factor is the tight social circles that these moneyed groups form; elite universities are not as much elite because of the quality of their education but because of the familiarity it breeds between the scions of wealth.)

Humans are - in general - thrifty and entrepreneurial and creative; given that they don't have to put their and their families' livelihoods at risk. That risk-taking ability seems to me to be one of the deciding factors why wealthy people get wealthier: Even the most ingenious business idea might fail. For a rich family at worst a good business lesson. For a poor family at worst a catastrophe.

[0] Quotes because our current crony-capitalism looks more like neo-feudalism than anything else.
I'm going to jump in here, because I wanted to make a point about conspiracy theorists, too.

What pisses me off most about this is that now it's so much easier for a conspiracy theorist to believe in government cover-ups of big, important things. One of my family members is way into all this stuff, and next time I tell him cancer isn't cured because how would all the experts across the globe all simultaneously keep that a secret--he's gonna point at this.

People can be stupid and believe really crazy ideas, but let's not have governments and experts lying to the people they represent.
Yes, that is why I explicitly stated it in my comment that I use insiders.

However, it is not so simple, I only started using insiders because of the aforementioned problems with IPv6 which were not solved in the regular releases for 2+ months, but were already solved in insiders.

It is not so simple as to say all of these bugs wouldn’t happen if I used the stable release branch. It goes both ways. I got some new bugs and I lost some old ones, it is a two-sided sword.

And even the stable releases are too buggy too really rely on it, because a lot of bugs and/or problems (also some I mentioned in my comment) are present for months/years.
It seems like the transcriptions in that R press release don't include everything?

It seems like some of the text might be missing.

For instance on page 14 the greyed out FOIA is pretty long but they only write "…[Eddie Holmes] arguing against engineering but repeated passage is still an option…"

Is that the actual word for word text of the redacted email or is that just the congressional staffer's summary of a longer paragraph that refutes the point they are trying to make?

Also kind of odd that some LA was allowed to not only bring paper to transcribe but also they release it. I guess it probably isn't classified in that case, but then begs the question why it didn't pass FOIA
Given media lab's recent history, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/media/mit-media-..., it's a big shaky to get the substance of this project.

Media lab, given its name, is very good to show attractive demos, just like media outlets. The style is just not familiar to a computer scientists or software engineer.
Yes it has that, but also no it's not the same. DDR5 has no link-level error correction. The faster and faster DDR5 bus is entirely unprotected on consumer devices.
Photographic technology developed rapidly between the heyday of tintype (1870s'ish) and when these pictures were made (1890s). See my other reply for some readings to learn more about late 19th century photography.

(Also, photography was invented in the 19th century. I'm not sure why you make such sweeping claims about a whole century when exposures went from taking hours to fractions of a second over the course of it.)
Easy? No. Also highly unlikely and against every treaty etc. But bigger wars have been fought over energy security, so not entirely impossible. And with Russia, China and USA fighting injust wars left and right, it seems Europe is the only major power that still cares a bit about internationally acceptable.