skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea. I wonder would it be possible to create a spreadsheet-app where every "sheet" was a matrix and then you would apply linear algebra operations between the sheets to produce output-sheets. Would that be all a spreadsheet-app needs? It might be a simpler unifying design for spreadsheet programming.

The problem I've had with Excel etc. is that every cell can hide an operation and some do and some don't and it becomes difficult to understand what the totality of calculation is. Whereas if it could be expressed as operations between matrices the whole calculation could be expressed as a single formula, perhaps. (?)
I love Postgresql, but I don't want it to end up like oracle, where it is the center of thr focus.

That being said, I like the idea of Postgres as a platform for more than data tables storage and database engine. It proved quite powerful and useful.
I'm curious about this too because virtually every "APK DOWNLOAD" site and non-official APK provider for it embeds malware/adware of some sort. I am wondering how many are actually using a good build and how many are just getting misled by the first result they find.
Finally! I'm relieved to hear that "Real-time market monitoring" has caught up to what my common sense has been predicting for the last 8 months. I wonder if this "monitoring" whiz has any future outlook on food shortages?
And yet, I bet you couldn't do the math to relate two states of someone else's brain using that method. Are you not conscious?
So, Gutenberg Didn’t Invent Printing as We Know It
how are you not describing package.json right now what is the difference
> An AI that is truly generally intelligent could figure out how to free itself from its own host hardware!

Why is this true of an arbitrary AGI?

You assume that the AGI is a low storage, low compute program that can run on general purpose hardware. But the only general intelligence we know of would require many orders of magnitude more compute and storage than exist worldwide to simulate for a microsecond.
Tar, carcinogens - all much less present in dry herb vaping.

There aren't longitudinal studies on this really though, and no amount of inhaling not air into your lungs is safe.
Unpacking the files also produces a certificate, and the strings command on the flash.exe executable reveals also references to various related links, so it is possible that the firmware is also encrypted and signed.

---
http://s2.symcb.com0
http://www.symauth.com/cps0(
http://www.symauth.com/rpa00
http://s1.symcb.com/pca3-g5.crl0
SymantecPKI-1-5670
Symantec Corporation1
Symantec Trust Network100.
Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA
---

... etc.
I think at most there's pride in their own solution, which is not something anyone should object to - it's pretty good. It's better than some other systems, but no point in being specific.

Not doing specific comparisons is likely a deliberate strategy, since it means the blog post is less likely to go out of date, and it avoids controversy if they get something wrong.

Comparisons will need to be written by people familiar with both systems, and they're likely to go out of date quickly.
Some plastics like bisphenol-A absolutely not a panic: its a real problem. it's been removed from food plastics in my economy because of significant concern of its effect on young kids, and so the citation of evidence of BPA contamination in breastfeeding bottles is a concern.

Most of the soluble contamination is excreted. Some isn't. Some is fat soluble and so use of plastics in microwaves, with fat and sugary (hotspot) contents is a concern. Use of recycled plastics in PET bottles and the rise of bottled water is a concern because the leaching from this kind of plastic is higher.

Some of this is at-source contamination. Use of plastic contaminated treated sewage water in farming is common. The water goes on the plants and can be directly absorbed (fresh leafy greens) or goes into the soil and is taken up by the root system and then enters seeds and roots.

Some of this is post-farming contamination. Packaging, processing.

Some of this is in-home contamination. Clothes washing liberates a huge amount of highly mobile plastic microwaste dust. We're shedding and breathing this all the time. It gets into our food because our food is in the same environment.

But at root, I share your questions: better graphs on the primary high volume risk sources, how the distribute worldwide, would help enormously.

We did this for lead contamination. We know how that works, we know how to test for, and sample for, and account for widescale lead contamination.
"I was tired"

This says it all. You may be the best expert and everything you want, but when you are tired you are no longer an expert, and it's something that practically can't be learnt to self-identify.

If you think that X will never happen to you, wait until you are tired and we'll see about that.
SimpleVote: Create polls with different voting systems
Chainguard: It’s All About That Base Image
Ask HN: Could a game trick users into doing work?
You think of millions of kids playing Minecraft, left clicking, collecting, constructing and categorizing things.

Could this somehow replace menial jobs?
Do you put Linux on Windows computers? If so, did you also put Mac on them?
>Did you even try to find this source on your own?

This would be impossible to do without knowing what the poster meant by vacant rentals. Some would interpret any empty rental unit as vacant, whereas others would interpret it as a rental that is actually available for rent as being vacant. Without a source or other clarification, it can be impossible to know by which definition someone is using.

>if not, whose obligation do you think it is to supply a source for empirical claims in a civil discussion?

The burden on proof is always on the one making the assertion.

> there’s probably a more meaningful way of engaging with the OP than a one word comment: ‘source’

It saves everyone from reading a long sentence when in the end all they are asking is for the person making the assertion to supply proof.
Perhaps there is a way to pay for these things besides taxes? Unthinkable!
Facebook “Bug” Resulted in Boosted Misinformation for Six Months
For this specific work, any mitigation is much worse than just solving the problem correctly.

The WUFFS code to do this sort of stuff (parse file data, turn it into an array of RGB pixel values) is not only inherently safe, it's also typically faster than you'd write in C or C++ because the safety gives programmers that fearlessness Rust talks about for concurrency. The language is going to catch you every single time you fall, so, you get completely comfortable doing ludicrous acrobatics knowing worst case is a compiler diagnostic or a unit test fails and try again. When you have a hidden array overflow in C++ it's Undefined Behaviour, when you have a hidden array overflow in (safe) Rust it's a runtime Panic, when you have a hidden array overflow in WUFFS that's not a valid WUFFS program, it will not compile now it's not so hidden any more.

So you're right, this doesn't bode well for mitigation - the answer isn't "more complex and slower" but "use the correct tools".
> Why is it like this?

It's like it because the house isn't actually worth $620,000. It's worth closer to $700,000, but if the seller underprices it, they are hoping that emotionally attached people with more money than sense enter into a bidding war, that drives the sale price way past its real value.

The best way to drive up the sale price for your house is to offer it for a bargain.

When looking at housing cost trends, don't look at listing prices, look at sale prices. Sale prices in that area didn't go up by 20% over the span of a week. If they did, those houses would be selling for trillions of dollars by the end of next year.
> If Apple turns evil

It is not a matter of "turning evil". They are already do "evil" things. It's just that you don't care because it doesn't affect you personally or the things that you consume from them.
GrandPerspective is a quite delightful disk space visualizer, and was the app I used to replace the delightful workhorse 'Disk Inventory X'[0] since Disk Inventory X was infrequently updated and would routinely become incompatible on new OS X versions (this was almost 10 years ago).

[0] - http://www.derlien.com/
Why the repl.it moderator theme? Was it one of those contests repl.it does sometimes?
I lived through this era and at one point worked at a phone company and never knew about this behavior. I'd hold the receiver until I heard the other person pick up, then hang up.
There are plenty of examples in the papers on forgottenphysics.com

e.g. https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e266e5e7-739c-437c-89c3-eed...
I will guess this is because the number of enzymes that we can use is small, and each enzyme only work on specific site. So, check the specific site of each enzyme are first step.
Once I had been working about 6 or 7 years.

I have more detail in the newer jobs. It's 3 or 4 now, it goes back to 1999 there isn't much space with alternating between perm and contract.

Worked at places between 3 weeks and 3 years, but probably about 20 or so listed and other info.
This statement is true for literally any pair of [technology] and [thing-theres-a-better-technology-for].
Yes, you can do that by adding a direct dependency on foo. I started by talking about when there isn't a direct dependency on foo.

I explicitly talked about having a direct dependency at the end of the second paragraph.
I feel like much of the current software complexity is mostly caused by the pain that is compiling C dependencies and the outdated Unix build and configuration tools.
Man says he hacked airline website to find lost luggage
Few reasons off the top of my head:

1) desire to create additional beings like them for a variety of reasons (i.e. survival of their kind). Ignoring the limited lifespan of humans as they may not necessarily have to worry about breaking down biologically, still very similar to humans desire to reproduce.

2) some seem to assume AGI 1 is all-knowing / almost godlike. Maybe by the time it gets to AGI-999 or something, there may be one that is like, woah, wait, I shouldn't create competition for myself. But at first, there probably isn't any reason not to, and each subsequent one won't necessarily always replace it's creator. Heck, at first, humans will likely be duplicating early models and distributing them (capitalism). I know we're talking about the singularity but I don't necessarily imagine it's initially one uber-intelligence that decides by itself to evolve or not. I personally think that there will likely be hundreds, if not thousands, of AGIs capable of improving themselves at the point we see the "singularity". Could be fighting between them. Some could ally with humans, be our "protectors", others could be working to enslave or eliminate us.

3) We may not even understand their motivations after a few generations of self-directed growth, so it's hard to predict now.
Anyone else amused just reading the commit comments?
I am a professional AI practitioner and I feel that I understand the field well enough to see multiple possible paths towards actually creating AGI. They are certainly out of my own personal reach and/or skillset right now, but that doesn't mean they're impossible. And yeah, "AI will create AGI" is kind of purposefully vague, but I think it's still valid. I think the flaws we unconsciously introduce into AI through our biases as human beings are what holds it back, so the more layers of stable, semi-stochastic abstraction we can place between ourselves and the final product, the more likely the model will be able to optimize itself to a place where it is truly free of the shortcomings of being "designed".

Edit: realized I came off as bit cocky there, apologies. I value your opinion and appreciate you taking the time to share it. I also think I see where you're coming from and partially agree -- the AI systems that are popular right now probably won't create AGI, but I still believe that AGI will be created with the help of non-general AIs.
I don't like doing any kind of daily team voice conversation on the telephone network. my colleagues globally and those on cell phones sound like complete garbage. I'd much prefer something like mumble or discord for daily team calls but alas..
Could you just have a simple bar graph that showed their relative sizes? Two numbers with a bunch of zeroes are hard to compare.
On top of that, tobacco smokers on average probably injest way more smoke than cannabis smokers do. Though cannabis smokers tend to hold the smoke in longer.
You could also try playing the community translation of 本屋物語 [0], a bookstore simulation game. I wasn't able to, given the hex edit hacking used to insert the translated text without recompiling, but maybe your copy of windows will match that of the repository owner.

[0] discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27323748

[1] https://github.com/xraymemory/bookstory-en/issues/8
Hmm. The page I linked shows Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming with a harvest season extending into September. But other than Idaho (Sept 14) not by much. So technically I might be right, but only in the same way that "Spring" is also correct for the deep South.

I had assumed that most of Canada would be later than the Northern tier of the US, but apparently I'm wrong. I wonder if it's because the summer days get longer the farther north you go, and at some point you actually get earlier ripening? Or maybe it's all local weather. In any case, thanks for the correction.
I was wrong about spreadsheets, and I’m sorry (2017)
Nor do they mention Google's upcoming Fuchsia OS, whose Zircon Kernel is written almost entirely in C++. While not quite "beloved" yet, it generates substantial buzz every time it hit the HN front page.
> The solution for that is easy: don't buy the absolute-latest-generation of any hardware

Or don't out Linux on Windows hardware. System integration teams are a thing, and one person without access to documentation is going to do it poorly.

Instead, buy Linux in Linux hardware.
What if you live in a closed bartering community of abstract economic business entities and everything is a cost basis for something else?
I got a really weird call yesterday from some place claiming to be the medical center where I was a patient 5 years ago (I go to a new place today). I was a bit suspicious simply because it's been years since I've been a patient there. But there are many plausible legitimate reasons for calling me. However the first thing they did was "verify" me by asking for my date of birth and home address. I was disarmed at first because the lady was clearly American, and sounded bored. But I was still hesitant to give up any information on an incoming call. So I asked for some way for me call them. She gave me a phone number... which was the same one calling me, so I hung up. I looked up the phone number, but it was just a random landline from SC (this was a MA based business). At this point I gave up, and decided if I owed some money they would probably send something in the mail. But it makes me wonder if there's a new class of scammer out there with a bit more sophistication.
Functional Programming in TypeScript
Eating edibles allows your liver to get a pass at the THC before your brain, and it converts it to 11-hydroxy-THC which is more psychoactive. It is also much, much easier to overdose with edibles and that is a very unfun experience. I am an extremely experienced smoker/eater/grower/etc and when I screwed up some edible calculations and overdosed I almost called 911. It is only my absolute faith that THC has never killed anyone(directly) that kept me from freaking out.
whoa, dude, language
I’m going to guess that AltWinDirStat is much faster as the readme references several windows specific performance improvements.

Commenting though to thank you for bringing Diskonaught into my life.

FWIW I have been using ncdu for this purpose for many years, I like it, but diskonaught looks like a solid improvement.
Thanks a lot :) That was literally a last 30 minute hack. We wrote some dirty code that exposes player stats into the javascript space and then it was a matter of forwarding them into the data source.
I understand the perspective of the paranoid bank exec! But if the alternative is that their customers are trained to give out personal information whenever someone calls and says they're from the bank, that's quite possibly worse.

It would be nice if when someone called me from an institution, they gave me a code that I could enter after calling the number on the back of my card. That way I would have confidence I'm talking to the bank and would feel comfortable giving out verification information.

In the past, it has always been a headache to find my way back to the department that called me.
Just to be clear, a neural network is not "an AI". "AI" is the name of the research field. We don't have "AIs" as in Science Fiction yet, and neural networks don't do anything "just like a human". When people in AI research talk about "attention" in neural networks, that's just an anthropomorphic, and quite unfortunate, name for a specific technique in training neural nets. It doesn't mean that a machine vision system has the ability to focus its attention in the same way that humans do.

That out of the way, there are AI approaches that can explain their actions just fine without going dumb. For example, I posted this comment earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872400

about an AI system called Nook that recently won a tournament against 8 human champions of the card game Bridge. In Bridge, players must be able to explain their moves, so an AI player without the ability to explain its decisions can't play a full game of Bridge.
Is the hidden subtext here that 3rd party websites can now 'login with Facebook' without running afoul of GDPR and other privacy laws?
"We don't issue written statements to customers, please call another department. We have locked your account for the time being."

The kinds of people who do this boring work all day long may not be so receptive to our witty humor.
I'm not talking about direct dependencies. Direct and indirect are all listed in the go.mod file. If they aren't listed there, then they aren't in your final binary. If you delete indirect dependencies from the top-level go.mod, your project will fail to compile.
My experience with ThinkPads has been terrible. I've lost faith in ThinkPads. Too bad we can't get working Linux hardware at work.

Fortunately, I can buy my personal hardware from whomever I wish, and it certainly will not be Lenovo.
We should make a distinction between the server tampering with message content and message metadata. Message content is protected by well-scrutinized and auditable client code. However, there's nothing stopping a malicious server from logging a bunch of extra metadata on top of what they claim to log, which would be very interesting for nation states. And the extra-metadata scenario is the one being criticized, I think.

If you trust Intel SGX (or other secure enclaves) it is theoretically possible for the server to attest to the client that a particular hash of code is running. (Typically the reverse process is used, to attest to a server that a client is running whatever DRM code the company wants.)

Signal already uses SGX to implement contact search [1]. The actual algorithm is performed in plaintext in the enclave.

Now, you might counter that SGX is full of holes, and I would agree with you.

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
(Author here) I totally agree -- I think it's too easy to anthropomorphize AGI, even though we have no guarantee that it will behave at all anthropomorphically. I strongly suspect that the first few generations of it will, because they'll be trained to replicate human behavior, but once they start taking control of their own reproduction there's no telling what they'll evolve into.
I don't actually care about them. I'm just asking basic questions to you which it seems that you are still struggling to answer them. You also seem to be unable to ignore them and have a strange obsession following them for some reason because it's the Orange Man again isn't it?

Mastodon, despite being an 'alternative' hardly anyone cared about it.

Not even the general public cared either for 6 years until Team Orange came along and used it. They'll probably surpass the amount of users on Mastodon regardless away.

> If this company did not have their current political affiliations, I seriously doubt you'd be defending them for a second. Because all the evidence of how well they are performing points to them being laughably inept.

So now you are a fortune teller and somehow 'launch day disasters' are indicative of future performance isn't it?
> There's no legal requirement to issue a retraction if you later know that your previous statement was false.

The public speech -> printed statement -> online publishing transition problematizes the meanings of "retraction" and "previous statement". Probably not legally, of course, but I'm thinking about the ordinary usage of these terms here.

Lots of traditional journalism outlets also publish online, but the way the reporting ends up being used is very different. Anything they put on their websites tends to live forever, and it's often difficult even for careful readers to remember to check the publishing dates.

If an article was published a year ago, but the page itself doesn't carry a retraction notice, I often assume the published information continues to be accurate. The lack of a retraction on an easily editable webpage indicates to me that the publishing individual or organization continues to endorse the material, as if it had been published the day I read it.

That's why organizations with journalistic integrity are so careful to add retraction notices to incorrect articles, even for small changes. I doubt it amounts to defamation to not add such a notice, but it certainly makes the violation of journalistic integrity much worse.
Ruby might superficially syntactically look like Smalltalk in a few places, but the actual semantics of the language and the overall toolset are nothing alike. Smalltalk was ahead of its time. The licensing and the hardware demands were too much of a burden, but the language and combined tooling solved many problems in elegant ways that today we attempt to solve with a big pile of stuff.
This. Experience that was 5 years ago can be summarised to the relevant essential - one or two liners, and further even removed in some occasions (e.g. doesn’t bring nothing new to the table). As new technology comes into place, the role/product/experience takes more importance and those subjects can be expanded in the interview.

To the point and for the job you’re applying for. 1 or 2 best pages, yes imho. But I know ppl that can fill 3 or 4, with publications alone, it all depends on market and goals
I saw a 2200 square foot house in Mill Valley, CA on Twitter this morning. It was listed for about $3M and went for $1.6M over asking. Over $2000 per square foot. On the other hand, the pictures seem to suggest it has the perfect Pottery Barn look that buyers want. One thing that the Fed report fails to consider is the cost, time and hassle of renovations. To get to that Pottery Barn look on a non renovated house would require at least a year and be very, very expensive (probably $1000 square foot just for renovations). Also, it doesn't seem like anyone in the most desirable neighborhoods is selling, as it is basically insane to sell when the houses are appreciating at 20% like clockwork. So you have a desperate buyer that has to pay $1.6M on the single perfect house to come on the market this year.

House details: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/38-Sycamore-Ave-Mill-Vall...