skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline's a bit of a stretch compared to what is really going on.

We're nowhere close to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and we may never get there, because humans with malevolent intentions, bolstered by algorithmic utilities, are already quite dangerous. Give a capitalist or imperialist a computer and you have something far more dangerous than any robot that exists now or will in the next 50 years.

AI (which, in today's world, is mostly advanced statistics) isn't inventing racism, of course; it's picking up on the racial injustices that exist in our society. A loan decision engine that is allowed to use ZIP code (or similarly precise residential information, given the history of redlining) will discriminate against racial minorities not because "the AI is racist" but because it's picking up on preexisting social inequities, like the fact that even in 2022, black Americans get fucked over on the job market (longer periods of unemployment, more likely to be the first ones laid off) and suffer financially as a result.

The fact that human culture is adjusting to unexpected innovations (including, in Go, those generated by programs) is not new. Scientific and technical progress have been major influences on human culture since they have existed.
Mystery House (1980) seems to have been the first (in the adventure game genre): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_House

The artist clearly didn't understand vanishing points.
As developers, I've come to believe that complexity is the worst sin we commit. Everything we talk about can be traced back to this issue.

This is largely due to paying attention to Rich Hickey and learning Clojure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
Yes, although many of the students in the story weren’t interested enough in learning, had “low morals”, “no honor” and some apparently were scumbags, as a group they were somewhat efficiently solving the problem of passing the class… that’s not nothing!

In the real world the solutions to your problems can’t be found online, or if they can it’s valid to search them there (and lawyers will charge you a lot to do that). Collectively searching and distributing a solution is something young people are quite adept at (e.g. gaming wikis).
all numbers rounded. I live in a city near Boston.

total budget: 300MM

school budget: 100MM

attributable to maintenance/keeping things running, including debt service: 92MM

fire and police: about 20MM each.
Weird that there’s so much resistance to the importance of figuring out (philosophically, practically) how to align AI to human wishes.

The problem is already playing out right in front of our eyes, and that’s with humans in the loop every step of the way.
I didn’t know that, great news!
If I could relearn mathematics starting from elementary school, I'd get my hands on the AOPS books (Art of Problem Solving) and go through them on my own. They inspired my daughter sufficiently to pursue a math major in college.
I agree. I practically gave up at this point.

While YT still sometimes is able to surface some interesting gem, IG is horrible. I had my search feed pruned and cleaned and was content with what the algo surfaced for about two weeks. Then from one day to the next, seemingly arbitrarily, it was back to tictok style crap, political enragement porn and clickbaity bs.

But even YT is getting worse every day.

I am glad that I do not rely on recos to consume media. I avoid Spotify, Amazon Music or Netflix exactly because the more often than not do not contain any of the things I like to consume (or hide it behind additional paywalls in case of Amazon).

I feel old, but I remember a great source of music discovery being the head of the music department of a bigger local drug store. We talked a lot and he always came with a bunch of "here, listen to this" back when you could prelisten CDs in the store.

I had little money and he knew that. But every now and then I would find a great piece I absolutely needed to buy. I could have bought way more if I had the money back then. He was a great guy and I still listen to music he recommended to me.

I have not found anything the likes in any artificial algorithm yet.
> you say you are eco-friendly because you do anything with a bike/public transport in a city. Yes, you are, needing only a hyper-polluting industry around to let you live that way, a hyper-polluted set of infra around

A bike is polluting? What do you use, a horse or a magic carpet?
> It got through Covid without collapsing aswell

Where "not collapsing" means tens of thousands of people died preventable deaths and hundreds of thousands of people suffered preventable harm because the NHS wasn't able to provide healthcare in a timely fashion to everyone who needed it.

Where "not collapsing" means people now have ten-hour waits for ambos, or ten hour waits in an ambo outside ED departments.

Where "not collapsing" means massive cuts to the services provided, leaving people mostly without NHS dentistry, with limited access to GP care, with cancelled elective care, etc etc.

Where "not collapsing" means preventable child and mother deaths because of unsafe maternity units.

Watch the news for ambo services this week.
> sharing a curve

It's beyond me why is this even allowed.

Are you grading results of your educational effort or are you organizing a beauty pageant?

Not grading on a curve should be part of academic integrity standards.
I had newly found and was exploring this concept of European night trains only last week so don't have concrete experience with planning this yet, but I did see notes in some places that you can disembark until 7am even if the train arrived at 5:something am already. If it drives only from 23:00--02:00 then I'd imagine you're out of luck indeed, but they do accommodate this problem in some cases.
And the metro area of Berlin is twice as large as the one of Paris, with not even half of the population.
I don't recommend anyone wanting a quick intro to scheme or lisp or even making a scheme or lisp to read SICP.

If you enjoy SICP that's great but if you don't, don't let it stop you.
I recently came across Ur/web. It makes some promises that are quite attractive. One of the benefits of having a DSL rather than something general purpose is that it can make these promises in a more comprehensive and focused manner.

But despite being around for a while now it didn’t get adopted very widely.
You may find this resource useful. It was written by Susan Rigetti (née Fowler) [1]:

So You Want to Study Mathematics…

https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

She also wrote:

So You Want to Learn Physics…

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Fowler
The rail network that the Prussians built in the second half of the nineteenth century was probably the most significant factor in their smashing victory against France in 1870.

So if the incentive is military (and sadly the Ukrainian Russian war is a reminder that war can happen even not too far away from Germany) Germany has proved its worth in making a dense railway network, possibly more costly than the French one, but very effective once built.
In my spare time project I use a bloom filter, here:
https://github.com/loda-lang/loda-rust/blob/develop/rust_pro...

I use 4 bloomfilters for rejecting programs that aren't present in the oeis database. First 10 terms are computed, and reject if the terms aren't present in the 1st bloomfilter. Next 10 terms more are computed, and rejected if the 20 terms aren't present in the 2nd bloomfilter. All the way up to 40 terms. If a mined program has possible 40 correct terms, there is a chance that the program may compute the entire oeis integer sequence correct.

Shameless self promotion: If you have cpu resources to spare, then please contribute to LODA, an open source project for mining oeis integer sequences.
https://loda-lang.org/
That's literally what was said above? Did I misunderstand this sentence or was this person wrong?

> high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross
Abolition looked totally wrong at first, but the next step increases the size of the title and makes it look more balanced with the rest of the page.

Sci-Fi doesn't need to be all slab-serif and uppercase, but I think the author's suggestion captures the usual clichés about the genre pretty well. It's a decent introduction for typesetting a typical Sci-Fi book. Web pages, not so much.
Sometimes "Does anything in this category exist?" is constantly needed and must be as fast as possible - especially if the answer is often "No", while "What is it exactly?" is more rarely needed and it's OK that it's slower.

The Bloom filter gives you quick "No" answers for much less size than a hash table, in exchange for not being able to answer the second question at all.

We built distributed database software, years ago when 40GB was a lot of data, and that used Bloom filters so that if you asked "Show me everything about vaibhavsagar, tialaramex, dang, and celeritascelery" it could do a Bloom filter check, identify that there isn't any data about celeritascelery and dang and immediately cut in half the work to be done, before going to the disk to pull in actual hash tables where records for tialaramex and vaibhavsagar would exist if the positive from the Bloom filter wasn't a false positive.

The UX is nice too because it can make typos instant. For every municipality in Texas, show me the CesusCount. Instant zero records. Oh, right, not CesusCount I wanted CensusCount with an N.
IMO even CS degrees are worth much these days. I know too many CS graduates that can't grasp the basics, and their work suffers from it. For a recent example (which I hope doesn't get picked apart): even with help they can't guesstimate the complexity of simple algorithms they write.

Genuine interest is a requirement, a degree isn't. Anyone wanting to measure knowledge is even more fucked than we assume.
Oh man you are in for a treat :D So not only does Poland tend to have dubbing, they traditionally had a single "lektor" doing the dubbing in any given film or show. One guy, usually older, reading the Polish lines for all the characters. Here's a nice article on it, but there's a video after a few paragraphs if you just want to see what it's like.

https://www.chido-fajny.com/2017/10/polish-lektor-one-weirde...
Thanks for the tips, I'll definitely look into them.

EDIT: And thanks for the tip from godmode2019. I upvoted you both.

However, they don't change the fact that pip by default assumes a decent Internet connection, with its short timeout and no resume on downloads, and thus is unusable with anything less.

Again, IMHO that's simply unacceptable for the official Python package manager.
Related "Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28155134 And the hardware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469566
It's quite interesting that some say it's an anti-pattern while in Go it's the standard way to name interfaces.
Exams are a bad way of learning… but a good way for a university to filter out slow down people that would devalue their degrees.
There's an awful lot of hand-wringing in this article -- and I can't say that I disagree. This is alarming technology, the stuff of a mid-tier SF dystopian novel. But while the article is heavy on the alarm it offers...no solutions, no suggestions, nothing beyond a vague hope that some regulatory agency will require PimEyes to...confirm their users' identity (KYC, in other words).

Clearly the fact that PimEyes is headquartered in Dubai escaped the editor's geopolitical understanding -- this exists! It's a thing! We can't just bury our heads in the sand and hope the US government buries it under that greatest of American exports, crippling bureaucracy.

To be fair, I don't have any solutions either other than "wait for my own generation to die off." But I'd love to hear actionable (or even blue-sky hypothetical!) ideas for how we can deal with our rapidly disappearing right to privacy. I don't think we can reverse this clock -- I'm not even sure we'd want to! -- but is there anything we can do to, I don't know, ameliorate the consequences somehow?
Nope, government funding of Boeing's SST was cut in 1971, while the SST ban over the US was enacted in 1973. It's fairly certain that had Boeing made an SST there wouldn't have been any ban.
I wonder if those unlicensed people had liability insurance, and, if so, if the insurance companies charged more due to their lack of license?
Use Arial everywhere?
Just like college loan forgiveness, cheating just screws those who follow the rules.
It surely is, the infatuation in the 1990s must have been insane. I think Polish employers' treatment of workers is a product of that and high unemployment of that period. "Januszex" mentality is still going strong.
I would recommend reading the guidelines for commenting on HN [0] if you create quotes like this:

> you might need to visit a mental health care professional or read a text book

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit:
Esp. the first section about comments:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Clojure from the ground up: macros (2013)
Yeah, that's the biggest challenge, kickstarting specific regions. Oftentimes at first there are drivers but no passengers or vice-versa.

What you can do is set your commute and leave the app installed in the background. Others can send requests to you once they join or the app can eventually remind you that there are others along your route.
I've mentioned this before - I'm using the melodies I've created together with my AI songwriting assistant as input for further training. This requires human judgement and I only have around 100 melodies that I've judged as good. But the training set is small, so together with "bad" melodies, this already makes a difference. I don't know if I'm the first to do this for AI art and be able to say that there is a difference (lower loss on the validation set of human melodies). Over time, it could result in style drift and increased originality and I don't see why it couldn't be done for AI-generated images as well with some more effort (because the training set is much larger).
At least 50% of startup stock options are now worthless
If one compares Germany with the France, Poland, Italy or UK, then Germany is a haven of stability. There must be something good to this 'slowness'.
Yes, I agree with you. I put a notice to inform which languages have been translated by machine.
Human translation is a time-consuming task and is being done over time. Also, Our community is helping us with some language translation.

+Text on the home page has a context, so its machine translation is horrible :-/ The translation problem will be fixed in the next few weeks.
> I know I will get downvoted for saying this

I doubt it, but I downvoted you for saying that. No comment anywhere has ever been improved by adding "I know I will get downvoted for saying this, but". Please don't do it.
It’s a 16 billion dollar market cap currently.
Latest Firefox on Debian 10

Edit: Nevermind, my security settings prevented the font download. Not your app's fault.
The 747 had to be adapted/modified to carry the shuttle, but the fifth pod to carry a spare engine was built in on some 747 models.
Also add:
- debt service related to infrastructure
- higher transportation related costs, eg for school buses, fire fighting, parking related building costs
But I agree Strongtown arguments tend to ignore other big cost categories.
In 10 years, AI will find this, rather than sociologists. AI would just do everything while humans live in a zoo.
> But you should need a batchelor degree if if you want to be a high level specialist, programmer or architect

alternatively, I have seen people with long CS degrees but who cant code for their life. degrees are just papers.
> Remember that a bloom filter only answers yes/no questions.

Will, to nit-pick: the results from querying a bloom filter are either “no” or “maybe”, where the strength of the maybe varies from “are you feeling lucky?” to “almost definitely” depending on how well it is designed for the data it has been populated with.
I am dating myself but I'm old enough to have watched the Simpsons episode where this word was invented in its first airing. Maybe it is a word now, I mean it's no more or less ridiculous than other words, which somebody just made up at some point too.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-crom...
I have seen plenty of bad code monkeys who had high grades, the idea that the current 'high standards' give us better programmers is unfounded.

The issue is that modifying a Wordpress theme is just as much of a job as optimizing a low level 3D rendering pipeline or writing facial recognition software. One of these is not like the others and the issue is that universities fail to realise this and just try to teach everything.

In my mind we would need to abolish the idea of a general programmer and move towards specialization.
The correct solution to the vr isolation problem is to have passthrough AR, then digitally remove the helmets of the other people in the same room.

That way, as long as everyone is wearing a helmet, it looks like no one is wearing a helmet.
I love that someone took the time to write that snippet and scatter a few 1980s references through it and yet somehow failed to register that the entire concept is off by...two and a half decades?
AR simply has no known value to users, the best SciFi has to offer is sex ads while walking down the street.

AR is technically impossible with current and near future tech.

All these companies are lying and faking and delaying to collect $ while people like HN are stupid enough to believe in them.

Zuckerberg's latest video blanked out the "AR" glasses. Google also lied and used fake demos glasses in theirs. Magic Leap = lol

The far easier and probably useful VR has gigantuous issues to move forward. For instance there's no way to create content. $100 million games go to half a billion dollar games. People don't want to move their heads when relaxing. At best it might be useful at work where people are forced to do things but that's also contentious, most people don't even want to turn the Zoom camera on.
Spaghetti is not minimalism, it's quite the opposite. You should minimize dependencies, minimize every function, avoid repetitions, etc. What you mean by MVP that evolves into spaghetti is called "incompetence".
Scrum is like communism, it doesn't work, stop obsessing over it.
I don't know if it's popular in France, but another very simple idea that eliminates cheating entirely is oral exams. They're still done a lot in Italy. I once literally inverted a binary tree on a whiteboard :)
Obviously there are exceptions to the rule, but any look at voting demographics shows people of your generation and older are fare more likely to vote tory and brexit than people born after the 1970s. Comparing the how people voted a generation ago, in 1997, or in 1979, and age is a far larger indicator
These things happen, the finance team and the hiring team are generally different people.

I would have tried to negotiate for a larger settlement, two weeks to sign an NDA is actually pretty reasonable to me. Assuming you didn't burn any bridges on your way out of your last company, you should be able to just go back.

I've done it, I don't think him telling the entire world is going to accomplish much. Maybe you'll get a couple of retweets, but that can also scare off future employers.

Generally, you should take your emotions out of the equation, and evaluate what's going to benefit you the most. Is mouthing off on Twitter really worth $6,000 or $10,000?
Marvel and Graph Database
That would be shared unless it imports it with the "standalone" keyword.
The article talks also about a new night train connection between Paris and Berlin.
Imagine fantasizing you can actually lock the borders to any country that is not a continent of its own.

All these obvious plans have been tried, and failed. All that sciency talk sounds really smart, but doesn’t hold up in the real world.
"AI" is not.

Current DL models are just solving math problems, more or less. "Culture" they produce is not much different than other procedurally generated "culture".

For instance, my friend uses L systems to compose music. How is that different?
Not buying any of it. If we judge by previous longevity, my guess is that Garamond will be the only one of those fonts still in use in the 30th century.
You're in the scrum cult dude, get over it.
I take it you either haven't been to many central railway stations, or were pickpocketed on one of your first times through and now feel (understandably) unsafe there? Also not sure what you mean about the toilets, you think they're lying in wait there or do you mean 'dare' from a hygiene standpoint?
> I never heard someone bragging that he is a doctor after watching YouTube videos

Yet real doctors actually believe the bullshit they get from medical reps when it comes to prescribing actual drugs that goes in patients bodies. I will let you ponder how successful that strategy is.
This recent Ask HN covered similar ground:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31488608

Older discussions I shared on that one:

* Susan Rigetti’s “So You Want to Study Mathematics…”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30591177

* Terry Tao’s “Masterclass on mathematical thinking”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30107687

* Alan U. Kennington’s “How to learn mathematics: The asterisk method”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28953781
Alarmingly accurate? In other articles, mostly about AI bias, the NY Times was alarmed by inaccuracy.
Sure, but then the reputation should be "German stability" and not efficiency.
These days, free speech is a far-right idea, apparently...
Was looking for this! I’m a Chemical Engineering grad who’s in a Computer Science masters program currently. Comparing the two, the collaboration in my engineering classes far surpasses anything that’s occurred in my CS classes. Almost everything we did in Engineering would have been considered “cheating” in CS. In retrospect, I definitely learned more than I would have from the collaboration and environment in undergrad.
IMO the word "measurement" is over-utilized in this space. My layman interpretation is A interacts with B, collapsing each other's waveform from the perspective of the other. At some point in the causality chain my eyeballs might be B, but there's nothing special about my eyeballs vs. a sensor vs. a piece of dust.

Someone more knowledgeable might be able to say what interpretation this would be considered, and how it differs from competing ones.
You would get slightly more controls than airlines actually, due to the fact that trains are simply physically bound to rails.
With a Bahncard 50, one pays between 60 and 80 Euros for an ICE from Hamburg to Munich, one way. My Lufthansa flight next week is 300 Euros. There is also the Bahncard 100, which currently costs 4.144 Euros for mostly all trains and public transport for one year in all of Germany.
Indeed, unlike say, California whose high taxes have helped create a robust electrical infrastructure which hasn’t randomly started fires destroying entire towns (and killing dozens) and doesn’t have rolling blackouts each summer.

Is that what you mean?
So, we assimilate knowledge from others, and add it to our collective consciousness?

We've been doing that with other cultures for the history of mankind. I think it would be interesting to track this diffusion as a scholarly interest, but I don't think it's sufficiently novel to worry about, for the moment.

After all, the worst case has already happened, the AI has learned our worst habit (greed) and used it to commodify our dissent, and we're still here.
The best solution is to report the cheating and have some F’ing integrity. Cheating or tolerating cheating is never ok. Full stop.