skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, phone calls are even worse than SMTP here. Caller ID means nothing. It's like a From header on an email with no DKIM.

It can be set by the caller to anything, if they have access to some trunk from an operator that allows this. It's another trust based thing, with no automated verification.

Trusting caller ID was the initial mistake. Never trust caller ID with your money. It's like trusting sender names in your spam folder mean anything.
Some of it is classified but you can often find info on certain open sites at NASA or SNL.
Caution: that's not exactly true. What you get is a different distribution of particulates. You'll get much less of the larger particulates, and you'll be inhaling mostly finer particulates. They cause a different pattern of tissue damage.
I suspect tables of objects with named fields may be slightly better for a lot of things, given the appropriate UI.

It's way more structured, and doesn't rely on 2D spatial layouts that work very poorly on mobile.
> they want to create a virus that targets only certain ethnic group

Ok that is totally made up.

There are plenty of reasons that researchers make dangerous pathogens that have nothing to do with ethnic cleansing.

Some of these methods even get published despite the risks that the knowledge presents https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10875
Examples from other than the lone author. Predictions in general use,etc. although it’s often up to the new theory to expose the errors sport limitations of the existing views.
The Human Genome Is Finally Fully Sequenced
Cubic splines can approximate any function too, so the universality argument is a little weak IMO.

Even if one buys into the idea that human behaviour is a 'function' of sensory and environmental 'inputs', that's a long way from showing a neural net a million different texts and asking it to generalise.
SiFive Becomes Open Source RISC-V’s First Unicorn Company
I keep seeing this story headline from security admins lecturing me how to not get my estate compromised... please just learn and employ best practices and stop getting on at those with proven track records
Climate change, energy efficiency (cough bitcoin), ocean pollution, political corruption, abortion laws, tax evasion, etc. etc.

I'm not sure I agree with him but there definitely are more important issues and attention isn't an unlimited resource. The time spent changing this definitely took time away from something else.
If it's that easy, then show me some prior art.

I looked and found nothing of this type. I think it's rather ingenious.
Can you quantify "a lot of latency"? It should be...a few microseconds more latency? I have to guess the high end networking equipment was configured incorrectly or something. I ssh to machines on my network from wired and wireless devices and it is impossible to tell what kind of network you're on when doing so.
The even bigger (to me) question would be what level of liability would be attributed to people who granted funding or otherwise supported the work. Would they be charged with 20MM counts of contributory negligence? This situation does seem to have been “foreseeable” in the legal sense.
Baserow is frickin awesome and I wish y'all the best.
Source on the heat/water vapour claim?
I wish the government folks would actually follow the rules for once. R & D seem to both be terrible, and it only seems to matter when the other side does it.

Frickin' US politics.
One of my favourite book shops is in Brixton, London. It piled floor to ceiling in a place opposite the markets, and there's a book in the back with comfy sofas, a store cat, and a very hippy dippy owner who loves a natter about what he read this week. He curated the whackiest collection of literature, from high school text books, to ones on shamanistic practices in pre-colonial Uganda. It's utterly bizarre, and the complete antithesis of the author of OPs article.

I try to avoid being critical of people's work, especially businesses because good on them for at least trying, but in this case I think the shop from the article is truly lacking any soul that a traditional bookshop can and should have. Empty shelves look sad, not trendy.
The fears around AGI seems to be based on the thinking that AGI will be like humans, but smarter. We kill each other for resources, so AGI will kill us (perhaps inedvertantly) to secure resources for itself.

This ignores that intelligence will necessarily be moulded by the environment in which it evolves, and AGI will essentially be created through a process of evolution. Maybe AI will design AGI, but the results will be carefully selected, by humans, based on AGI's usefulness to us.

So while we were shaped by evolution to compete against each other for resources, AGI will be shaped by evolution to compete against each other to please humans (to gain what it considers resource: computation time).

The dangers of AGI can perhaps be thought of in terms of 1984 vs Brave New World.. AGI might be dangerous because of how effective it will be at satisfying us.. perhaps making us somhow completely addicted to whatever the AGI produces.

This process will probably also lead to AGI and humanity merging. The most effient way to serve a human is to interface with it more efficiently. AGI might used to help design better neural interfaces.

I think we may underestimate how much "randomness" is involved in seemingly intelligent decisions by humans. We do a lot of stupid shit, but sometimes we get lucky and what we did looks really smart. I suspect the environment in which we develop AIs (unless it's in games) will be too rigid. A paperclip maximizer might consider if it should work with humanity to produce the most paperclips, or just violently take over the whole planet. But that may be undecidable. It could never get enough information to gain confidence in what's the better decision. We humans have those handy emotions to cut through the uncertainty, and decide that it's better to kill those other humans and grab their stuff because they're not in our social groups, they're bad people.
If your son likes Minecraft I got into programming by developing minecraft mods (java modifications to the game) as a middle schooler / freshmen. I’m always thankful for it when I think back.
Exactly. I don't know what time frame we're talking about, or whether I want to see it in my lifetime. But it's something I've spent too much time considering. But one of the constants (and one of the issues I have with a lot of dystopian sci-fi, even though I enjoy it, is that they do anthropomorphize AGI way too often.

Like you mentioned, we don't even understand how consciousness works. But we may not need to understand it to replicate it, and if that replication is allowed to be self-modifying, well, that'd very possibly be it. Hopefully we can try to embed some sort of Asimov's Law of Robotics or some morality that lasts beyond the vestiges of the human developed portions. Or maybe we can manage to learn how to copy our consciousness into "blank" mechanical "brains", and effectively become similar to AGI without being limited biologically.
> AI is not capable of explaining why it makes a decision that it does

There is a whole field of "explainable AI" - presumably in contrast with (the very popular) "opaque, inexplicable AI."

Personally I like decision trees, because you can trace the reasoning.
Tossing another vote in for Redis. Generally, you have to give me a reason why Redis is not the answer for a KV store situation. It can run in a cluster mode or individually, and it can choose to run only in memory and not sync to disk if you don't need persistence and you want it fast.

Some folks claim 200k inserts a second, but we topped out at around 20k inserts a second and had to start digging into more advanced configurations and whatnot. Eventually we sharded and sent some requests to one pool of redis and other requests to a different pool based on consistent hashing that we set up. But even then, I don't think most shops need to worry about that scale.
I keep hearing this a lot, but how do "we as a society" have a "conversation" about something, exactly? Twitter?
So, are Nike's logo or designs actually stored on the etherium blockchain? My understanding is that most NFTs just embed a URL. If that is the case, the retailer could simply change the content hosted at the URL. The NFTs would be unchanged and the coupons could still be redeemed. Everybody wins.
AGPL is feared and blocked where I work. The CI pipeline flags it like it's a virus.
Oh so you want to access your network while the internet is down?
The +1 is the boss's boss
I personally speculate (obviously all of this is just wild speculation) that AGI will run more efficiently than a biological brain in terms of information density and inference speed. I also expect that the hardware of 20 years from now will be more than capable of running AGI on, say, 10 thousand dollars worth of their hardware. Just look at how ridiculous the speedup in hardware has been in the past 20 years! I would not be surprised if the average processor is 100x more computationally powerful in 2042 than it is today.
Thanks! It's more ham-specific than I had in mind, but always willing to add another bookmark to the list.
Forth-like VM inside PL/pgSQL.

https://notes.eatonphil.com/exploring-plpgsql-forth-like.htm...
Rather prophetic, considering that Stephenson wrote this in 2008.
The Intercept has published a whole series of articles on this topic, which include leaked emails from people involved: https://theintercept.com/collections/origins-of-covid/

This article from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is also candid and informative:
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/policy/112121/gain-of-func...

There are also clips out there of Ralph Baric talking openly about making modified viruses (can't find it now but I believe he mentions it casually in passing in this lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_H7dTqJXU ).

I guess I get why these researchers are so cagey about sharing in simple terms what they do. The facts have a huge potential to be twisted and weaponized politically in this situation, and I'm sure the rationale for the research is very complicated.

That said in my opinion there needs to be transparency around these kinds of incredibly risky ecological engineering projects.

Another thing,"self-disseminating vaccines": there are researchers who propose the creation and release of engineered viruses in animal populations adjacent to people (to prevent pandemics with zoonotic origins of course!):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1254-y

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=self-disseminating+vacc...

It's hard to ignore the double edged sword of research like this though. Is there any question that this "biosecurity" technology has inherently troublesome uses as bioweaponry? The potential for sabotage by misanthropic / malthusian actors is also really unsettling. The game theory involved is probably really gnarly and I can only wonder what twisted offspring of mutually assured destruction intelligence agencies are using to grapple with this stuff, and to rationalize this kind of research.

During the cold war there was a kind of presumption that every life is worth protecting. Unfortunately I have a feeling that with the reality of climate change this belief is not as universal as it once was. I worry that it's quite common for people in positions of power to have Malthusian beliefs about overpopulation and stuff in the face of climate change.

(To be clear, I'm not in any way suggesting covid-19 was intentionally released as a tool of depopulation. I'm making a point about the game theory that has so far prevented nuclear catastrophe... I have trouble seeing what holds it together under the normalization of ethical frameworks that see depopulation as necessary, and wondering how that factors into the chess games that governments, defense agencies and their propagandists are playing right now...)
Off topic but I wonder how many "self hosting" efforts have been halted in the last 40 years when the unsuspecting developer tried to use API to create a socket and was met with all kinds of weird AF_ PF_ terminology and possibly some pointless type casts.
I bought a book on Amazon in 2005, it came (weeks) late, i complained, got sent another, ended up receiving 2 books. It was my last purchase from Amazon. Since then, the only time i see Amazon is on the backend of a scammer. Amazon in my opinion, in every sense, a scam itself.

First off, its just morphed from a book store into a upper class ebay. Alibabba became the chinese ebay. I'll pay that drop shipper the money, i got no problem with the conveince they give but realistically whats the point of going through 3 middle men when i can wait an extra week and limit that to 0 or 1.
If one is willing to anthropomorphize AGI to this extent, simply wait for one that is idealistic and suicidal, and wants to be a martyr for the cause.
> in the last 30 years

Isn’t the biggest contributor the discrete transition from circuit-switched copper to packet-switched data? You imply some sort of gradual erosion..

But anyhow yea, kids today will never know the special intimacy yielded by the low latency of a circuit-switched landline call.
"while I'm no expert, I've never heard of a call center system that can accept touch tones seamlessly while a call is active, and it would take extremely sophisticated audio processing capabilities to be able to do that, since the frequencies used by touch tone keys heavily overlap the frequencies of human speech."

"Extremely sophisticated?" The tones are just a sum of two sine waves of known frequencies. That's trivial to detect. What am I missing?
35% of the country would cheer if a nuclear bomb went off in New York City.

The real threat to the USA is ourselves, not something like WW3.
You're sort of describing NSSecureCoding. Unfortunately, it's not used everywhere, and (because Cocoa relies heavily on internal class clusters) it still allows subclasses of the specified class.
A puzzle game which uses unusual animation to visualize a unique gameplay mechanism, but which also accommodates people who are put off by the animation… is pretty much the gaming equivalent of finding my soulmate without knowing what I was even looking for. Or even knowing I was looking for anything at all.

I’ve pretty much soured on trying new games several times over the last decade, only to be delighted by a new game or class of games which tickle some niche fancy for me. Given this and some of the other recommendations in these comments, it looks like I’ll be starting another iteration.
I agree with you, but:

-- It took a lot of years to get here.

-- It took expensive equipment to get here.

-- I'm lucky that my house doesn't have a lot of brick or steel or some other material that blocks signals

-- I still believe that wired is more secure.

-- When it's wired, I know it's either working or it's my ISPs fault. When it's wireless, I'm left doubting.
> But the above comment's entire point is there's zero reason for us to assume we're on an unbounded exponential vs a sigmoid.

Something about that which is discussed at length in "The Singularity is Near" is the idea that the unbounded exponential is actually comprised of many smaller sigmoids. Technological progress looks like sigmoids locally-- for example you have the industrial revolution, the cotton gin, steam power, etc. all looking like a sigmoids of the exploitation of automation. At some point you get all those benefits and progress starts to level off like a sigmoids. Then another sigmoid comes along when you get electricity, and a new sigmoid starts. Then later we get computers, and that starts to level off, then networking comes along and we get a new sigmoid. Then deep learning... The AI winters were the levelling off of sigmoids by one way of thinking. And maybe we're tapering off on our current round of what we can do with existing architectures.
I used to have 2-3 pages but nobody read anything so I narrowed it down to just one sentence per job with a paragraph intro. 1 page. Worked about as well.

I think it's fine either way.
Regarding microwave oven ergonomics, the best one I've seen doesn't have old-school dials, but a touch-sensitive slider bar. You may think this is bad, but it works very, very well. The front of the microwave has the time display, the time slider bar, and two buttons: stop/cancel and start/+30sec. Open the door and there are a few auto cook options and power level options. There is no number keypad at all; the slider bar gives you both very fine and coarse-grained control, depending on how fast you slide across it. It's all very intuitive, and I was very impressed with it.

https://www.lg.com/us/cooking-appliances/lg-LMC0975ST-counte...
No, but if your GUI involves displaying text in multiple languages (i.e., virtually everything), you now need to become an expert in text rendering (which implies a significant breadth of knowledge in linguistics, graphics programming, constraint solving systems [for things like word wrapping], etc).
In short, yes. I'm not sure how sustainable the platform is long term, but you can earn money in the short term.

https://www.playtoearn.online/2020/07/08/axie-infinity-beats...
I found this article in the discussion here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869261). I thought it was worth posting because that discussion seemed to contain a lot of confusion & misinformation about go modules, so there seems to be some need for clarification!
The setup flow is hit or miss.

With some banks, it was seamless to setup. With another bank, it wasn't clear how to finish setting up Apple Pay. I don't recall if I called them or went through their app to actually set it up. It was definitely confusing, and the Apple Pay onboarding screens didn't provide useful instructions.
In short, you can catalyze chemical reactions using resonant EM waves with frequencies that are harmonics of the emission spectra of atoms as a replacement for heat or physical catalysts.

There is no requirement that an electron will jump energy levels if and only if a photon of matching frequency interacts with it. You can use microwaves instead of UV/visible light to the same effect, so long as the microwave resonates with one of the frequencies of the atom
"Modern steel technology" is not what tanks boast as their primary defense these days. Armour technology uses reactive armour on top of steel armour, which can repel conventional explosives.

But shoulder fired anti-tank weapons have moved on from conventional explosives as well -- javelins for example contain 2 warheads -- one to predetonate the reactive armour, and a second charge to penetrate the regular armour.

Its a continual arms race, neither tank nor ATGM can claim dominance, and one hasn't moved beyond the other in a meaninful manner yet.
Quantifying impact in many of these roles is something that's incredibly difficult, and if you actually do it, most people will say "wow, that's an incredibly arbitrary and abstract way of quantifying impact that feels suspect."

The only thing you can reliably point to is "During my tenure, the company saw X metric go up or down in this area." But anyone in management who claims "I made metric X go up/down" is probably selling snake oil. Are you sure that it was you? Maybe it was a parallel change made by someone else. Maybe it was someone you hired, while you did literally nothing else but hire them. Even if you are sure, how in the world is anyone else supposed to verify that?

If someone can point to actually reliable ways to quantify impact of leaders/managers, please I would love to be shown to be misinformed.
Nowadays people get out of their way to stage embarrassing accidents caught on video in order to go viral and have a shot at being Internet celebrities.
Wow this is pretty detailed, and makes a lot of sense. It's a shame the standard does not seem more well thought out.

One solution I've always felt would be handy would be for devices to have an option to ignore any CEC commands that would normally cause them to wake. As it is right now, everything is so buggy between my LG TV, Yamaha Reciever, and "players" that I have to disable the feature entirely on either my PS5 or Apple TV in order for things to not go haywire.
Since Redis and memcached are historically the defacto key-value databases I'm curious what about them makes them not as obvious a choice for you.

I'm not saying everyone should only use those two I'm just guessing there's more to the criteria you have in mind than you wrote here.
I'm not sure "I refuse to adapt or change" is a desirable trait in a new employee anyway so probably the relationship would be mutually suspicious.
Yeah the only people I've seen that say the Fed is useless have been anarchists and libertarians and gold bugs.
Best buy is filled with 3rd party sellers too but it's at least very easy to filter them out. If I could do the same on Amazon I wouldn't have any problem with 3rd party sellers, but they instead make it almost impossible to know even if you check manually.
Yet today, there is a movement to accord any PhD the respect of the title "doctor," as if an EdD was an authority similar to a PhD in physics. People do this to be polite but it has grave consequences.

No. We shouldn't be putting so much weight on the title of "doctor" for physics PhD's either; several physics PhD's I know personally are absolutely barking mad, and there's a long history of physics PhD's getting over their skis on other fields like medicine.

Meanwhile, the usage of "doctor" that you're decrying here is the more historically well-established one.
Several things:

- important halfway point on the shortest way to assault Kiev. Keeping that point is necessary to control that route. Staying close to the power plant provides safety from direct Ukrainian attack.

- established weapons and ammunition storage that close to Kiev and which is again guaranteed not to be attacked directly by Ukraine

- creating evidence of Ukraine's work on nuclear weapons
https://youtu.be/hXgqik6HXc0
I think the first AGI to pass a Turing test will probably be a simple language model. I don't think it will look like any of the GPTs, but I think text completion is a great starting point. I'm not sure how other inputs will be added into the mix, but I am sure that they will be -- heck, maybe once we train a general language model, it may very well just tell us how to incorporate things like video, audio, haptics, gyro data, etc into its architecture.
Yeah, for sure it was probably a five-year transition period, and crap since then.
Integrating everything together into a complete operating environment was Smalltalk's (and Squeak's) greatest strength and greatest weakness.

It's possible to extract the language from the environment but then you end up with something that isn't nearly as amazing.

Something similar can probably be said for Oberon and for Lisp machines as well.
Two solid products and the choice between them is down to whether you want to write your backend.
> Then, the will of the people. Which I feel the most optimistic about. Humans are pretty good at getting together in a war like urgency. Counter point is COVID, but I can imagine every person to be onboard if a nuclear bomb was detonated in New York.

You are way more optimistic than me. If WW3 breaks out government machinery, military, intelligence are all not going to be a problem at all. Before that though you'd have to align most of the country on what the right side even is. And yes, that includes the side that dropped a nuke on New York ("How do we know they did it? It may have been a false flag operation. Here's a Facebook video that proves it. They anyways deserved it for voting blue.")