skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easiest way that probably anyone on HN (who can fizzbuzz) can help is with data management. So much stuff is still done by hand that could be easily scripted.

Researchers in our institute were amazed how easy it is to use e.g. google forms to gather data in a reasonable format. Once you get data in a reasonable format you can help them with transforming it/joining it with other sources/cleaning them up. ETLs and data integration are often completely foreign concepts to them.

And that's researchers, you might still start calling them quite computer-competent after you talk to the people in the clinic. All the research is for nothing if it's not brought to "bedside" to benefit the patients in a clinical setting, outside all trials. For that you need to make sure genomics pipelines are automated and reproducible and only clinically relevant information gets to the oncologists (or other doctors) deciding on treatment. This is still not quite there even in the best places.

I think most of the really world-changing stuff will just be hard work on relatively easy problems. It's hard to get excited about these (compared to the latest neural networks or distributed high performance systems) but they need to get done
I have one.

He has always said the chances of SpaceX succeeding was very slim - but at what point(after any particular technical achievement) he realized the this might work out.
So at night before bed, I need to use a non-caffeinated version? Now I have different tubes, depending on the time of day.
You're kind of right. Let's say they find the right uses for existing tech that's not being used as it should.
Not to mention that equipped with a bike and the coaster [1], you could easily make it between Downtown (either Santa Fe or Old Town), and Sorrento Valley in 40 minutes. Granted, there isn't a super safe way to get to / from the Old Town station.

[1] http://www.gonctd.com/wp-content/uploads/Schedules/Coaster-S...
Thank god, Cuban is a smart guy and it would be unfortunate to see him support such blatant ignorance.
Arguably, yes. Of course, the power requirement to recharge a battery for a calculator (in a decent amount of time) is a lot less than that for a modern cell phone. Same physics if your level of detail is Ohm's Law but very different in practice because we are talking about charging a phone batt in a comparable time to plugging it in.
I've been on contracts that are flat billed based upon 40 hours / week but no overtime is chargeable. The problems start when more than 40 hours / week is regularly expected to perform assigned tasks to standards of the contract and there's little control you have over the client putting barriers in place that make you less productive making the true hourly rate at least 25% lower.
I recently built a small three 'page' game for a trade-show booth. By using Ember, I was able to: try out a new CSS framework based on flexbox, save data to localstorage, capture images from the webcam, have 'data binding' of variables so that they updated on the page when I changed them, and deploy to surge.sh in the first hour.

All-told, it took 20 hours, 7 of which was me getting used to the intricacies of developing a full-screen "App" (no scrolling) with flexbox and implementing the designs. I'm good with vanilla JS, but there's no way I could have done all of the coding (three 'game' pages, three 'admin' pages) in less than two days.

I guess the point is, a framework that you know and are familiar with can halve the time you spend on a project. I find that to be especially true with Ember because of the CLI tools and all of the various addons.
I always thought a simple solution to this would be that you cannot sell your drugs in the US for any higher than the lowest negotiated price the drug is sold for to the other rich western countries.

For example if Drug A is negotiated to be for sale to the socialized medicine systems in Canada and France for $30 it cannot be sold for more than that here.

This allows the company to set whatever price they think is reasonable but without the US subsitizing their costs. It also allows the companies to sell their drugs at low prices to developing economies so that the people living there can still have access to lifesaving treatments.
Did anybody test the mice for physiological changes, and specifically reduced testosterone levels?
In Matt Ridley's "The Red Queen", he mentions research about how low testosterone levels in both males and females cause this type of behavior.

Maybe there's an evolutionary adaptation that lowers testosterone production during times of high population, and in the artificial conditions of the experiment that adaptation exhibited itself too strongly?

That would also explain why mice taken out of the experimental environment didn't rehabilitate. There are other studies cited in "The Red Queen" that suggest that levels of testosterone are largely determined by the mother's environment and stress levels during gestation.
> I'm excited I may be able to play with C# again in the very, very near future.

Can't you just install windows as everybody else and start playing with your programming languages of choice?
Think about the reduction in what would be owner operated small businesses like shops and restaurants - go to almost any town (not city) in America and half or more of the commercial district is franchised or corporate chain stores.
If that's the thing, then I am with it.
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And make sure there's ice
I've heard from interviewers that he's notoriously difficult to interview. He doesnt trust reporters and usually has certain questions they cant ask him.
I agree with a lot of what she is saying, but two points:
1) The basic solution outlined is 'do a lot of work'. Which is kind of a no brainer, you will learn if you do a lot of work. The tension is how do you get the most productive learning out of the time that the student has

2) The US only recently moved from memorization and rote learning to focus on understanding for a reason. The reason ultimately is the students werent excelling under that regime.
I hope I was thoughtful enough to be worthwhile here. I also have the feeling that maybe I was just frustrated because I wasn't your target audience.

You're absolutely right that Musk's vague handwaving shouldn't convince us AI is deadly, and too many people parrot those lines without criticism. Seeing your responses, I have the feeling that you know this ground and simply weren't writing for people who are already familiar with the orthogonality thesis and the specifics of the topic.

(If that's true, then my frustration was simply that I thought you were claiming to rebut AI risk, not specific AI risk claims. Sorry.)

1. Searle and Mary's Room and the like are definitely fascinating. I think I just didn't follow your transition from "this is interesting" to "this is a good guide to AI risk". (And yeah, I misjudged how important you considered it based on length and block quoting.)

2. I think I still go further. I do think that AI is an X-risk worry. I think that 'unpredictable' still has the potential (within, say, a century) to be a world-altering crisis. Fundamentally, nothing here persuaded me that the Bostrom/Yudkowsky fear of a bootstrapping intelligence is less likely than I already thought.

And I think that limiting our analysis to the individual-level problems of AI error and bias and side-effect are threatens to blind us to that. But those are still problems worth discussing, and they may have reciprocal insights with the x-risk problem.

You did close it off nicely. Consider it a pet peeve, because I hate "I don't know" as a way to justify a specific course of action. I'm not sure that's what you're doing, but I've been annoyed by that quote serving that purpose in the past.
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Water often has some levels of fluoride naturally.
Not only, but it's a very Aristotelian perspective on human interaction. I'd caution not to cheat rich analysis through binary thinking, but then again, I'm not the billionaire here...
Waste is relative. A smartphone uses around 1% the electricity per year of a refrigerator; I don't know if upping that even to, say, 10% would make all that much difference in the grand scheme of things.
Please don't take the comments too seriously. Especially only an hour after the story's been posted. Let the downvotes and the flags take their toll.

Yes, people on the internet will be negative. No, that doesn't mean you should respond to them.
"I remember when this idea came: in our small co-op dorm at Radcliffe, Everett House, in the dining room, where you could study and typewrite late without disturbing sleepers. I was twenty years old, working at one of the dining tables about midnight, when I got the first glimpse of my other country. An unimportant country of middle Europe. One of those Hitler had trashed and Stalin was now trashing. (The Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1947–48 had been the first event to rouse the political spirit in me.) A land not too far from Czechoslovakia, or Poland, but let’s not worry about borders. Not one of the partly Islamized nations—more Western-oriented…. Like Rumania, maybe, with a Slavic-influenced but Latin-descended language? Aha!

I begin to feel I’m coming close. I begin to hear the names. Orsenya—in Latin and English, Orsinia. I see the river, the Molsen, running through an open, sunny countryside to the old capital, Krasnoy (krasniy, Slavic, “beautiful”). Krasnoy on its three hills: the Palace, the University, the Cathedral. The Cathedral of St Theodora, an egregiously unsaintly saint, my mother’s name…. I begin to find my way about, to feel myself at home, here in Orsenya, matrya miya, my motherland. I can live here, and find out who else lives here and what they do, and tell stories about it.

And so I did."

I really like this piece of writing (apparently it's an excerpt from Ursula K. Le Guin's introduction to a new edition of her unpublished first novel). Reminds me of all the time I spent making up imaginary places, ostensibly for a D&D campaign that never came to fruition and turned out to be more about making impossibly elaborate maps of imaginary empires. Unlike Le Guin who was obviously very driven and productive, they never resulted in anything. But on the other hand, at some level I think I became a professional historian because of those maps.
10% less efficient?

I think charging my phone loses about 5% in thermal losses at the connector (because it gets warm)

10% is both not important (in this context) and unfortunately optimistic
I've found a lot of observations in this article to align with my own personal learning and teaching experiences. Memorization, even in analytical fields, is important because it allows us to chunk smaller bits of information together and skip evaluating every detail--it decreases the size of the "mental stack", if you will. Because recalling a fact from memory tends to be less demanding than applying rules to derive the fact, more cognitive reservoir remains for the novel parts of the larger problem.
I think there always will be "dominant groups", as long as being in group is more beneficial than not being in one - simply because even an uniform random distribution is not perfectly uniform when you build it point by point.
So you sue me and get a judgment for $100,000.

If I felt that I owed you nothing, surely this counts as a "loss" for me at trial.

If, however, you had originally sued for $50M and I felt I might owe you some money but no more than $1M so I decided to fight it, the $100k judgment would be considered an enormous "win" for me.

What data does your analysis use to distinguish between the two scenarios given that the verdicts are identical?
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On the assumption that it happens? Well, you covered the more likely ones. Let me add one more.

3) Advances in molecular manufacturing (Drexler-style!) allows us to construct atomically perfect transmitters and receivers. This, somehow, increases efficiency to north of 90%. And increases range, too.
Are Tesla's energy storage solutions available anywhere outside their vehicles?
This article was written by Barbara Oakley who also teaches the most popular MOOC in the world and also my favourite MOOC called Learning How To Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

She also a upcoming book titled 'Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential':
https://www.amazon.com/Mindshift-Obstacles-Learning-Discover...
I just want to read the whole text without signing up for some stupid app. Why oh why is this so hard in 2016?
Two points for your consideration:

#1: We clearly have the resources to publicly invest in innovative technologies like electric cars, AI and space travel. So why must these investments go directly into the hands of a few individuals to make all the final decisions (and who have bad habits of not paying their workers btw)? Why can't we make these investments through democratically accountable teams, perhaps via some academic mechanism?

#2: When you make a risky investment as an individual in a startup, you expect to get a commensurate return on that investment if the startup becomes successful in the marketplace. Why don't the collective investments of the public in Musk's ventures come back to citizens in a kind of public dividend?
Would you mind sharing the code for this?
You can't even raise money on AngelList. It's just yet another shitty (okay, decent) jobs site.

Why the hell AngelList can't create Kickerstart-for-Startups after all these years and significant funding is beyond comprehension.

1. Have startups fill out a YC-like applications.

2. Get investors to write the good checks.

If AngelList can't do this then it doesn't need to exist.
Rationality and belief in human evolution (Kahan, Stanovich, 2016)
I'm always amused when I have a polar opposite experience to someone's virulent assertions, which is definitely the case here.

Edit: in a further comment, you assert an unspoken insult being communicated in a perfectly neutral sentence. I guess what I'm saying is I bet you bring quite a bit of the negativity you experience to your interactions.
Why hire someone with 10+ years of experience over all when we can hire someone with 3-5 years of experience in our tech stack?

Or so it's been explained to me.
They'll have to find or build a 3Mb/s Ethernet anyway. Ask around; maybe someone still has a 3Mb/s to 10Mb/s gateway. If they can get to 10Mb on coax, they can get an off the shelf box to go to 10baseT and to the modern world.
You seem to harbor a bit of negativity towards some HN commenters... :)
Gmail only != email. Seems that the Google propaganda over all these years stroke hard.
Huh, I hadn't seen Retroarch before. Interesting.
I've had this argument with other people in the past and am willing to have it with you: the idea of a new and unprecedented amount of government "meddling" in the otherwise "free" market is a myth. The sea change of the 20th century lay entirely in bringing the machinery of government to bear in favor of people it had previously been used against, and against people it had previously been used in favor of.

And of course the people who previously were favored see this as new and invasive interference, because they had grown so used to being the favored parties that they simply took for granted that "free market" = "system rigged in my favor".
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That site barely loads for me and I can't find an archive/cached link. I would expect a RIR to be able to handle this internet thing a bit better.
Much better than that, actually: http://visualgdb.com/

This one has been around a bit longer, too, and despite its name is now much more than just a pretty face for GDB but rather a full cross-platform development environment which has IntelliSense everywhere, handles the installation of toolchains and BSPs for embedded targets, building kernel modules (with VisualKernel addon), etc.
That sounds like the obvious approach. Premature optimization and all that.
Relative age effect
Berkshire Hathaway is successful because they invest in monopolies/duopolies
Hmm... you guys sure have pretty thoroughly sanitized all references to Stud at this point in code, documentation, READMEs, etc.

:-(
In the case of real estate, that is precisely the case. Land is a zero-sum market devoid of any meritocracy.

Considering that housing is a pretty huge expense for the majority of people, it's a legitimate gripe.
Yeah, inquiring minds would like to know. I'm in Boulder right now for a conference, and looking at Zillow, it's f'ing insane. Prices seem to start at $1M.
> I would have thought that the technologists were above such petty envy.

That's a pernicious assumption. Technologists are still human and are vulnerable to the same emotions and biases of the hoi polloi.
Its about god damn time!
We were also built from the ground up with microservices and had the exact opposite experience. Faster shipping (more value to end users), more predictability (APIs designed/behaved similarly across functions despite polyglot tech), much less coordination overhead (deployed dozens of times per day with a < 10 dev team, pre-release backends well in advance of the user-facing parts), etc. We had to invest a lot in infrastructure, but that was worth it for many other reasons as well. Dozens of repos is annoying, but not for a technical reason (a lot of SaaS like Bugsnag and GitHub used to charge by project).

The biggest downside is it makes shipping an on-prem version nearly impossible. The infrastructure and the software are so inextricably linked that it is not portable in the least bit.
I mean more in the sense of issuing an acceptable id number. It would probably be a stretch to get a Notaries public to do that.
Angel List the site is fine, but they really need some sort of verification or moderation. When I was looking for an internship there were a bunch of sketchy non-companies willing to pay me... $0. After I graduated it was easier to find real companies, but then it's just the same as other job sites with companies that get back to you months after applying. The design and look of the site comes off as more professional or trustable than other places, but it's not curated. At least force people to be honest about a lack of pay.

With of all that said... two of the three jobs I've held were found there.
I addressed this elsewhere (on your 'ask for criticisms' post), but I think I misunderstood your intent.

As a rejection of Musk/Gates/Hawking, I definitely endorse this. Those voices are pushing a questionably-informed view of the topic (Gates a bit less so?) that's had far too much public influence. Something (the title? my own biases?) led me to conclude that you were trying a larger response to the AI community, which is what I objected to so strongly.

That's a great summary of the point (as I meant it). I saw that it was addressed at the end. I still came away with the feeling that the middle was irrelevant in light of it (again, perhaps not if you're responding to Musk), and the response was inadequate, but this may be about scope and intended audience.
I think that in europe we are more relaxed and nobody would not care this type of jokes. You would only tag the guy who did this joke as asshole and move on.
As an avid tooth brusher and caffeine addict I'm struggling to understand why I would want this? Can you elaborate
The equation should have per-subject weights to modulate the "how many people" part. For instance, if my app helps Mr. Musk be 10% more productive, that's more impactful than helping Mr. Smith be 10% more productive.
Yes. Tesla Powerwall, a home battery.

https://www.tesla.com/powerwall
He's so well spoken (albeit a little stutter-y) that I'd be shocked if he wrote like this
I suppose there are many aspects in regards to aging. The concept of young vs old I suppose is a strange cognitive shortcut to apply when what you really care about is fitness at a particular activity. All the more reason to dispense with it!

I am curious, did they need to retire because they no longer possessed whatever it took to dance, or was it because people in their industry assumed they no longer could, or simply because they needed a more lucrative job?
I mean yes but that's an awful lot of effort and storage space taken up to install it and I don't have much storage left. I would much rather use it natively on Mac OS X and Linux with the option of deploying to Windows or Linux. When it's as flexible as Java in that way I'm going to use it :)
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What I'm getting at is that A. isn't really a problem at all - if one doesn't have the marketable skills to "win" a job then pointing at any one issue (age, in this case) is simply coping / self-serving, because what I meant by turnabout is that "do unto others" is a principle that the world doesn't run on and thinking otherwise is naive whether 25 or 65.

It is completely discriminatory in B. when the only people who could possibly meet those inflated expectations can not logically be under the age of 30. I've seen this far too often to dismiss it as occasional - it is/was systemic.

It's the burden of the accuser to claim they were discriminated against because of age, and as we can see, there's no qualms with making lots and lots of articles and "think-pieces" out of the hypothesis. Sometimes "older" workers have unreasonably inflated senses of skills and/or worth, and can't take the ego blow, so, off to coping (see A) above.

Haha thanks for the armchair therapy with D., it's worth every penny from your barely 30 perspective.
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You are lucky, then.

I need it at customers place and also in the office - the WiFi is unreliable (but only on Macs, Thinkpads do not seem have that problem, go figure), I'm losing connection and the only way to reconnect is to toggle the WiFi off and on. It quickly gets tiring and the thunderbolt adapter solves that.
Yet rotary phones were still very common in the 80s, and my grandparents still had one in the early 90s. So people born in the early 80s, which qualifies as millennial, very likely used them.
I was able to scroll through the full transcript (7 pages) within the scribd frame, below the youtube and soundcloud frames.
Furiously trying to go back to the last page makes me frustrated. Pretty sure that this is very high up on my personal Web app sins list
Slightly off-topic question about WaveNet:

In the paper, they say that they double the dilation factor up to a limit and then repeat:
1, 2, 4, ..., 512, 1, 2, 4, ..., 512, 1, 2, 4, ..., 512

The doubling of the dilation factor makes sense to me, but what is happening with the "repeat" part? I don't understand what they are trying go do. Wouldn't make more sense to continue doubling?
Right. But remember, this applies to cases where you can prove that your SSN has been stolen, which isn't enough to get a new one (if it were about 2/3 of Americans would be able to get one, most likely).

The big problem is that the SSN is completely, utterly a bad idea in the 21st century, but nobody is working on a superior replacement because things aren't "that bad yet".
This made me chuckle a bit. Also a huge sbt fan, but I see were the gate comes from (the learning curve)... :)
CEO - Chief EXECUTION officer. Isn't building and designing the "big piece" of execution. If he's involved in the actual execution then that means is a company laser focused on "executing" its vision.

I just wish more middle management at my company knew how the product worked.