skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changes are good. But as the skill requirement keeps rising, more and more people will find themselves unemployable in principle. Sure, it may be a transitional period, but what are you going to do if suddenly half of your extended family will depend on your income?
The Monte Carlo implementation randomly searches an infinite search space for possible solutions (right?). I'm not sure if that counts as an approximation but it does make it computationally tractable. Does anyone know if the only room for improvement in computable AIXI is with the method of exploring the solution space?
Firstly, it's mostly monounsaturated fats, which are not necessary in a diet. In order to justify pouring olive oil on a meal, it would have to be really nutrient dense, but nothing could be further from the truth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981002
While it is pretty freaky, I think the point of Shodan scanning IPV6 devices that use the default pool is to detect linux-based IoTs that use the default NTP settings, which is kind of the reason why Shodan exists.

It is unlikely that Shodan is going to hack your Raspberry Pi specifically because then people will go after them. But hackers of many hat colors will use the freely available information it gathers for their own purposes, so act with this in mind.
To turn it around; maybe browsers don't utilize space very well?

Imagine if we could divide a tab into regions of sites instead?

Having a maximum line length is the humane thing to do, unless the person has phobias of empty spaces, of course. :>

The links you provided are not for the user, but for the designer. Text, however, is a global means of communication, so it should get better treatment, and care in general. Especially by browsers.
That's contestable, but even granting the point, a "sufficiently close approximation" in the sense that we currently know how to run would require more computing power than is or likely ever will be available in this world.
I would love to see your consulting model. You speak as if keeping a full sales pipeline while making multiple clients happy is a simple thing.

I'll agree that a single person consultancy is 0 risk. I can accept a job offer tomorrow and stop accepting new clients.

But growing your consultancy is just as risky as any other business, if not more so. You don't have a wide range of low paying clients, like a SaaS model. You have a few high paying clients. Any one of them leaving (or not paying) directly affects you and your employees.

I live in Washington DC, so I see this constantly. A large government contractor loses a re-bid on a contract, and they fire the team that was working on it. Fire them!

Not speaking for anyone else, but having to fire people every time a contract goes away sounds risky to me.
I think a core problem that the author identifies is that it's very easy to find markers of programming ability, and those are the things we've optimized for, while its much more difficult and time consuming to determine if some one has good judgement. You can be an amazing engineer, but being an ok engineer with good judgment ("do we REALLY need to do this?") generates more value.
In my experience (unless weather is a factor) most taxi's will park where fares may show up and wait with the engine off, but even if they leave it running idle, idle still uses much less fuel than traveling to the given home, which could be literally anywhere in comparison to where the vehicle is when it drops off a fare, or goes to where a fare may be found.
> 760 calories and not a whole lot of nutrition

Well, I do eat more than just a single meal a day. I also had a salad that day, and a sandwich on whole grain bread. It's not like every meal is a big slab of meat and a couple servings of one vegetable.

My main dietary planning since early September has been around carbs, because my glucose levels have been creeping up, even though I had not made any dietary changes. My HA1c hit 8.9 early in 2015 [1]. I cut back a bit on sugary drinks, and it dropped to 8.1 by early September. Then I started aiming for no more than 40% of calories from carbs, and by my next test 3 months later it was down to 5.9. I hadn't actually intended to cut calories, but as a completely accidental side effect my daily calories ended up half what they were before, so over that 3 months I lost 45 pounds, and have lost another 15 since then. My blood pressure is down noticeably, too.

For my 2016 food tracking spreadsheet I added a column specifically for sugar, and am thinking of modifying my "40% from carbs" goal to allow a higher percentage from carbs as long as the percentage specifically from sugar stays down. That will flip a lot more fruits and vegetables and grain-based products into the "go ahead and eat a lot of these" category.

From blood tests and food tracking, as far as I can see the only nutrient I'm low on is protein. I'm getting on average about 75-80% of what is recommended (based on the 0.36 g of protein per pound you weigh guideline). So, I like to toss in a delicious slab of meat now and then to boost the protein, like I did in my steak and corn dinner the other day.

As long as I feel fine, and my blood tests continue showing no problems, I'm just going to keep on doing what I'm doing, because it is leading to good steady weight loss and is almost effortless and should be sustainable indefinitely.

[1] And yes, this is with medication.
They use the same image set on their other popular image library http://fengyuanchen.github.io/cropper/

I find no issue with it and had it open at work. Emma watson is slightly older than myself maybe that's why.
What do you mean firstly?

You said Olive oil is NOT healthy. Can you explain how pouring saturated fat on a meal is supposed to improve it?, don't come back at me like I'm trying to mix things up.
The reason many are against AI is that it will reduce all humans to the same low level of stupidity, compared to AI. The ultra wealthy got that way by exploiting the intelligence gap that enabled their ascendancy. AI will take their money in a blink and no more champagne in private jets for them. I say bring the AI as fast as possible .
'My Personal Vendetta': An Interview with Hong Kong Publisher Bao Pu
It's exactly this short term that's the problem. Long-term we'll all be merry and living in cloud cities on Venus. If we get there. If enough people suddenly find themselves obsolete, our civilization may not survive short-term.
I use DuckDuckGo as well and I was affected by this.
I think you're overestimating "all the machine power in the world".
Actually, Marx was saying the exact same thing about machinery unemploying people that HN is saying every now and then(I don't have a firm opinion on the matter, I just found it amusing to read the same argument made 150 years ago; Marx actually credited a whole slew of other economists with making this argument.)

The quote (from https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price...):

"...one might infer, as Adam Smith, in whose days modern industry was still in its infancy, did infer, that the accelerated accumulation of capital must turn the balance in favour of the working man, by securing a growing demand for his labour. From this same standpoint many contemporary writers have wondered that English capital having grown in that last twenty years so much quicker than English population, wages should not have been more enhanced. But simultaneously with the progress of accumulation there takes place a progressive change in the composition of capital. That part of the aggregate capital which consists of fixed capital, machinery, raw materials, means of production in all possible forms, progressively increases as compared with the other part of capital, which is laid out in wages or in the purchase of labour. This law has been stated in a more or less accurate manner by Mr. Barton, Ricardo, Sismondi, Professor Richard Jones, Professor Ramsey, Cherbuilliez, and others."

(I personally am not a huge fan of Marx's writings, mainly because of the strong contempt for humanity that I feel emanating from them... incidentally I've recently stumbled upon this one, though.)

A scary analogy in favor of this argument is, a horse cannot economically perform almost any job today, hence most were slaughtered though few were kept for amusement. That happened after horses had a very good run where every improvement in technology increased "horse employment." If a machine exist to outperform a human in any conceivable job, it's not very different (and then you get to the discussion of the political options.)

A counterargument is that up until now this argument was wrong many times, and that we're very far from an AGI, or even from machines beating humans at every possible task.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

This circuit element is basically a synapse (I simplified this a LOT, fyi). We have to implement memristors better into the existing chip architecture. As is, they are just really low power static memory systems.

Also, that your mind is different than your body is, well, just false. These AIs need better input devices to 'learn' from, just we learn too. Mobility is key, you can then just bump about and make mistakes, the keys to learning.
It will be different because automation has never before been able to fulfill all human niches. Automating one job just freed up people to work in other jobs. In particular, automating physical labor freed people up to work in cognitive tasks.

This time it's the entire human niche that will (eventually) be automated - all cognitive tasks as well as all physical ones. That's the difference and why extrapolating from the past doesn't work for AGI.
What will the AI be doing at that time? Won't it it be cooking food and taking care of the health of people? The rise of technology does lead to increased concentration of wealth, but that doesn't mean the rest of us will be starving.
Precisely.

"If the Luddite fallacy were true we would all be out of work because productivity has been increasing for two centuries"
Google Drive makes use of it, as do thousands of desktop programs.
The Landscape of Parallelism – Michael Wong – Meeting C++ 2015
That stuck out to me, because those auto-video ads were one of the major reasons I uninstalled the facebook app entirely. Quickly checking some things on my phone while walking down the hall at work, or while some code runs I don't want to accidentally play some loud nonsense, and that happened often enough for me to downgrade my mobile facebook experience back to the browser. I still use facebook, but not the app.

That sort of jives with this anecdote as well:

"When the company redesigned the News Feed in 2013, it looked great on the iMacs in Facebook’s headquarters but made the product harder to use everywhere else."

Most computers aren't macs, let alone iMacs. How could you possibly miss out on testing for even one other thing? It's weirdly close-minded given what facebook is and how it presents itself.
Because of the "high voltage."

AC versus DC is not all that important by itself. What's important is transmitting electricity at high voltage.

Transmission losses come from the amount of current you pass through a conductor. More current equals more power lost to the resistance of the conductor.

Delivered electric power is equal to voltage multiplied by current. Higher voltage means lower current for the same amount of delivered power, which means lower transmission losses.

The AC versus DC thing comes in because you need lower voltages for practical applications (it's hard to run a light bulb off 100kV) and that means you need to transform between different voltages. Transforming AC between different voltages is pretty easy: an AC transformer is basically just a pair of coils with a metal core, easily built with 19th-century technology. Transforming DC is much harder and requires much more advanced technology.

For the 19th-century battle, this meant that AC was the only one that could be transmitted at extremely high voltages. DC was limited to serving very small areas because it had to be transmitted at the same voltages which would be used at the destinations.

Today, that difference goes away, so the advantages and disadvantages are all about much smaller secondary effects instead.
The proposed framework introduces measures that would eventually allow cable and satellite customers to use whatever set-top box they want, as opposed to having to rent one directly from their provider.

I had hardly considered that possibility, but I embrace it. I don't like my box at all:

* It doesn't store data through power outages: If it loses power, it loses the channel guide and takes maybe 20 min. to reload it. How hard is it to store that data locally?

* The channel guide takes ~20 min. to load: How much data could there be?

* It wastes energy: It's power on state uses 29W; it's sleep/off state uses 22W. What does it need 22W for? Think of all those cable boxes in all those homes, sitting there unused and wasting 22W. My cable provider is just imposing this on cost on its customers and the environment. Regulations require other electronics to minimize their off/sleep power usage; something needs to be done here too. (My prior box used 29W on or "off", so 22W is an improvement.)

* The DVR doesn't stop/rewind/fast forward responsively, so it often over/undershoots the point in time I'm seeking. It's capacity is also very limited.

* The remote still requires line-of-sight. Plenty of tech exists to save me from this headache; my remote for another device simply uses Wifi, for example.
Second article about the development of my Notegram project
AI/the corporations running AI will be owned by the super rich. How will that take away their jets? If anything, it will give them more power.
Blind spot monitoring sensors.
It all depends on the research group... I see a lot of activity on Facebook when an interesting paper comes out. Also https://www.researchgate.net/ is quite popular, but mostly for pre-publication discussions. The whole http://arxiv.org/ system is designed to stimulate discussion before a paper is published.
Our web app uses right click in a few places mainly as a convenience to power users. The same functionality can be found by using visual indicators, but may take a couple more clicks.

Overall I agree with the parent comment. Right click and long-press are hard for non-power users to find/discover.
I believe a better corollary is: "Yes".
That doesn't really help, if you make an NTP request to a remote server, the server and all elements of the network path will know the source IP you used. You can't avoid that without also avoiding getting the response from the request.

Using a broadcast time source (CDMA/GSM, GPS/Galileo/GLONASS, WWV/WWVH/international equivilents?, ATSC broadcasts, etc), or choosing a trusted time server would be alternatives; you could also use a telephone time service and leak your phone number instead of your ip address.
There are too many facets to this.

Clyde likely has fewer but very good job prospects, but better job stability and higher pay.

Alice probably learns little day-to-day if she makes a living setting up Wordpress, and likely has lower job satisfaction than, say, Bob.

I'd rather be Clyde, but then I like spending my time coding, thinking and analysing, and tend to be fairly unproductive.
You are probably overestimating the speed at which these new technologies destroy jobs. It's not like today someone invents a self driving rig, tomorrow every single truck driver is out of business. Adoption won't be so fast.

It'll be a while before anyone is going to trust a load of valuable goods with an AI. There are security/theft issues, edgecase AI failure issues, loading unloading, etc.

We've seen entire industries leave the USA. Probably within your lifetime.

That said this can have devastating effects on economies. A lot of cities in the rust belt have felt this impact.

But the opposite can happen. One of the huge reasons US companies offshore production is because of labor costs. If you reduce the man-hours / product, it makes sense to open back up domestically.
This is interesting, but really, why are you not running a firewall on incoming requests to the NTP port? No fuss, no muss, no scan.
People who worry about dangers of AI understand that too. However, figuring out how to make a safe AI may be much harder than building a powerful enough AI in the first place, therefore they argue it's worth to start working on AI safety now.
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
I don't know if we are there yet, but it certainly seems to be trending towards consolidation. I don't have any data to back that up, just my impression from around town.

Of course that could have been due to macro trends around volatility that have reversed recently as well, I suppose.
See the null object pattern.
Encapsulate all such behavior you've mentioned with appropriate OO patterns, and stop writing procedural code spread all over the place that has to rely on comments to inform you about the right way to handle the bad data. Handle the bad data cases simply and specifically.

Feel free to add some code that explains your use case and where you think such comments are required...
Google AI beats a pro at the game of Go
The phrase does not imply that the strategy is beneficial to the company. Microsoft employees often used the phrase when they thought the strategy is detrimental to an individual product and the company as a whole.

Gates was directly responsible for imposing strategy tax during his time at Microsoft.
If the goal is to lose weight, the minimum which ought to be done is replacing fats (9 calories per gram) with carbohydrate (4 calories per gram). That's why eating a potato over nuts is recommended (not that you shouldn't eat nuts - they are great in their own way).
Well, can you explain how adding any saturated fat improves a meal, or not?
the same exact lessons can be applied to any long-term goal such as fitness / weight loss. some people "get it", others just don't.
More context: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35420579

Video from Nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-dKXOlsf98&feature=youtu.be

Video from us at DeepMind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbqykXVx0A

tl;dr: We beat a professional Go player 5:0 in even games, something previously thought to be 10 years away.
The latter two are people with money, not people known for their intellect. Facebook is a PHP site with Weimar Republic levels of technical debt. Theoretically he could buy something interesting, but he's still have to recognize it as interesting, and while I wish him luck, I don't see that happening.
Did you download the dataset and create a data_stage_three sub-dir?
Yes, while what Zuckerberg will try to do by himself is pretty standard from an academic point of view, it's great that he tries to find the time to learn those. He's a young dad and must have a busy job so I think it will be tough but who knows?
Thanks for the info, and again, I really do appreciate the feedback! I don't want people to have to make up their own rules for things simply because the defaults aren't sensible. For this particular project, certain UI considerations were deferred until later. I never expected this post to garner more than a handful of views, so needless to say, it was an abrupt call to action to start fixing those things once it broke 10,000+ views.
I have known a few entrepreneurs and invariably they showed they were such by their behaviour, attitude and approach. They did not need someone to tell them or need to stop and ask "Am I an entrepreneur?", they just got on with being one. The same applies to a cartoonist, or comedian etc. Often in fact these people do it despite advice from competent people and even their loved ones. Advice like: "What, why give up your place at an ivy league university to go open a car wash, that is just crazy!".
If we can ever develop general AI that actually works, even if pretty dumb, will have far-reaching effects all over society long before it can rival human intelligence.

A lot of jobs don't require much intelligence, but some. Like cashiers, warehouse workers, machine operators, etc.

That kind of automation will benefit "The ultra wealthy".
This is a great tribute to a wonderful team. Even after all these years I'm still using Fusion despite having left VMware three years ago after over a decade long stint.

As I understand it they're just off-shoring development to China. VMware already has a development team in Beijing, so they're consolidating development there instead. Never mind that it's just as expensive to build a product there, and that the brain trust with all the institutional knowledge is in Palo Alto.
Hmm, the ten-key is a turnoff but could be a benefit in the financial industry I suppose.

I have been waiting for a 2016 refresh on their developer edition, anyone heard any news about it?
I read that post as "your diet has the right proportions of things, just too much of them? Great, just eat less of your existing diet. Still not losing weight? Eat even less!"

I agree with you that changing your diet seems like generally a much better idea.
There is also this other dimension that at some point things will get automated to a point where work will be optional for humans. Times will be very good right before the robots take over.
emumeration of ipv6 hosts is likely to be the goal here, not a scan of NTP ports.

The normal ipv4 methods of "scan the entire address space" fail in an ipv6 world, so shodan needs some way of mass havresting ips for them to gather scan results for...
A machine with a random address that makes no (direct) contact with the outside world will be a lot harder to find in a 64-bit address space then a 32. As soon as it talks to the outside world though (by talking to public NTP servers in this case) that difference is rendered moot.
And especially in this case, you have to install a few extra packages to make it work, then download the data set and (if you're on Linux) adjust the path to that data set so that it doesn't use backslashes.
Thanks for your input.

Right, people tend to bring these up on Facebook, but it's typically a scattered discussion.

Are there any Facebook Groups in particular that you know of that facilitate informed, rational discussion?
NTP Pools are effectively anonymous.
Man saves money on train fare by flying from Sheffield to Stansted via Berlin
Cracks me up that he mentions painting as little more than a side note. "Oh yeah and I paint sometimes too." This from the guy who went on to create what is arguably the most famous painting in the history of art.
Thanks for the link - I'm going to read the paper as soon as I can.

In the meantime, if you have time, could you elaborate on: "All tasks which require intelligence to be solved can naturally be formulated as a maximization of some expected utility in the framework of agents."

Is this proven in the paper, or assumed true outside of it?
No, read the history of PHP. It started out as just a hack for a school assignment. It accumulated hacks to do different things over time. It didn't ever have an explicit design effort until way long after it had been adopted around the world and they decided they might try to make up for some of it's cruft.
Google does, inside Spreadsheet, Docs, etc.
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While I don't edit video, I still consider myself a "pro" user. I'm a developer like many here, and, like many here, enjoy doing my work on a rMBP. I bought it with the understanding that I wasn't going to be upgrading the hardware inside it. I got the specs I knew I would need. If I need to upgrade, Macs retain their value better than most (if not all) of the other manufacturers, so selling this one and replacing it shouldn't be a problem.

Sure, I sit in the coffee shop with it sometimes, but I don't drink lattes (americano usually), and I don't just browse the web. My rMBP is more than a toy, and I get real work done on it every day.

I'd wager there are a lot more like me than the "pro" user described in this article. Now you tell me: who should Apple cater to more?