skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would fall under basic things? I feel that the average user just wants their computer to work without having to think too much.
I guess he is alluding to a popular conception of welfare recipients as people who are only content to collect their checks, and don't have any other aspirations or financial/social stakes.

Which might apply to some, but is a huge carricature on the whole. And even where it does apply, it's more because of a lack of opportunities and felt sense of systematic injustice rather than people being actual lazy stereotypes due to DNA or something.
Ok, I guess that is just a question of semantics. I likely could have phrased it better but the underlying point still stands that an increase in foreclosed homes will lower the overall home value in an area for the reasons we both listed.
Things like this makes me worried about the future of the USA. How can a country succeed in the future if they reject reality? I know Fox News is not representative of all US media, but even the president admits that his worldview is based on whatever the news editor cooks up that day.
There's this: http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf

>We thus designed a brief questionnaire and distributed it to four groups of experts in 2012/2013. The median estimate of respondents was for a one in two chance that high-level machine intelligence will be developed around 2040-2050, rising to a nine in ten chance by 2075. Experts expect that systems will move on to superintelligence in less than 30 years thereafter. They estimate the chance is about one in three that this development turns out to be ‘bad’ or ‘extremely bad’ for humanity.

This survey is a few years old. Discussion and knowledge about AI risk has increased considerably since then. And AI itself has made remarkable progress in that time as well. It's amazing how much progress there has been in AI in just the last 5 years. Who knows where it will be in 40 years. Look where computer technology was 40 years ago.
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> I don't know. Americans were fine claiming the "high ground" the last time a bunch of states and territories tried to secede and forced back into the union with military force.

Slavery.
Unfortunately I only have a non-answer for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738310

I would love to debate this issue, but it's very complex and I do not have the time nor energy right now.
>For me, I'm looking forward to a AI grammar and contextual spelling checker that will make all grama nazi's obsolete.

I'm not. I feel like human language is meant to be fluid and to evolve as we do. This would potentially lead to more of a global monoculture than we are already starting to get.
Let's talk about Sweden's Twitter account
Surely, NBC, CNN, etc try and do this also?

Note: Don't take this to mean I, in ANY way, support Fox News.
US and Canadian companies never stopped drilling in the oil slump. Instead they drilled down and left the last XX feet to the oil there/capped.

That's one of the reasons that OPEC won't be as effective as they want to be.

Of course if OPEC is that successful, I imagine the US will just find a way to export more instability to the region. Forcing them to need more income.
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You can vote and contribute as much or as little as you like to the functioning of society. That would be the point - but it is a fun experiment to think about the world in a different way. I'm pretty certain we shouldn't give people who are rich such excessive influence. Probably what would really happen is the exact opposite of what I want the system to do and everyone would vote for fascism for a laugh.
Given the amount of publicity this repository has gained I will make sure do put more work into documenting the code. And also add references. Thank you for your feedback!
I agree that it is a myth, but that statistic is misleading, the definition used for "plane crash" is not one most people would agree with.
It's a majority of electoral college.

It's up to each state to choose their electors (plutority of popular vote, as you said being the most common, though not the only method).
I don't care about the broader point being made, because it was made in part by deceptively taking something the ADL said out of context. My contribution to this thread is simply the observation that the ADL hasn't exonerated Bannon for antisemitism; they've done practically the opposite thing.
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Glad that you liked it!
Some of the comments in this thread are the exact opposite thing I would expect from this community and it is shameful. It's unfortunate that the top comment is one of these which could steer some people away from reading further.

As many others in this thread have pointed out, Cerebro is a pretty cool app that borrows from some core OS functionality and improves on it. Is its design 100% perfect? Maybe not. However, instead of commenting the application isn't exactly the way YOU would have done it and complaining try offering some constructive criticism.

If the app is memory hogging, not following best coding practices, or you have a cool idea of how something could be done instead share that feedback and offer better ways to do things. Not only does this benefit the developers working on this app but it helps others who may be working on becoming better developers themselves.

I myself am a naive developer. However I enjoy developing in my free time to keep myself thinking and I enjoy learning new things. I frequently visit this community to see what others are working on and looking at all the cool applications that people develop is a great way to pass time. If I had worked on something really hard, posted it, and then received some of these comments I would be extremely discouraged.

That said, if a Cerebro developer is reading, this looks like a really cool improvement on Spotlight (I use OSX). Keep up the good work and don't let the negative comments in here discourage you or your team!
> I tend to view an unemployed human as an awful waste of computational resources

This feels like a pretty strong over-application of the computational metaphor, my friend.
When people argue that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic

Just FTR, I'm not trying to argue that.

Criticising Israel (or for that matter, Jews) should be totally ok.
Those assets, if you're referring to consumer debt, are owned by anyone with a retirement account (or pension) with financial sector stocks in it. Considering that just about any diversified portfolio probably has a broad based US equity portion, that is probably the majority of employed people.
Thanks - I understand peering and BGP. My question was meant to ask if Linode has any known peering issues.
> I know Fox News is not representative of all US media...

No? I mean, maybe they're the most egregious, but I'll bet each and every media outlet bends things from time to time to fit a narrative.

Look at the live reporting that happened during the election. There was a lot of sputtering going on when THAT didn't fit their narrative.
I completely agree! But it is a very difficult problem because the job security of so many individual members of Congress depends on gerrymandering. Obama and former attorney general Eric Holder are working on an initiative related to this, though.
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These AI pieces remind me of the FUD surrounding genetic engineering in the 80s and 90s. Which is ironic because with the advent of CRISPR and related discoveries genetic engineering might actually be the threat to worry about now.

Edit: typo
I would bet that people not respecting standard safety procedures in airplanes cause less damage to people around them than the same people driving cars. By your argument we should ban people from driving cars, because they jeopardize people around them.
Is there an established, rigorous definition of "high level machine intelligence"? Or even a concrete list of sufficient criteria? Every single discussion I've encountered leaves the notion undefined, or just "I'll know it when I see it"
The politics in Sweden are exactly the opposite of what Trump has in mind. The Right wants to pretend that Sweden is a mess so they can justify their own policies. They know that their electorate swallows whatever they tell them, because, well, they swallowed whatever they said during their campaign. So why change now?
So basically something similar to FoundationDB?
Why is my scoring system so much worse than the current ones? They can exist in parallel, no need to participate if you don't like it.
The Right is so keen to vilify Sweden because they care about and want to prevent the disintegration of the nation, whatever that means. If they didn't care, they wouldn't complain.
My friends and I spent the last few months building this. You make a profile with your name, email, and resume, and then all the jobs you apply to have this info pre-filled.

We've got about 5,000 jobs on there now, mostly with tech companies in NY and SF.

Would love some feedback!
That article is ridiculous. Yes, I understand there is a country culture that supports Trump, but let's not pretend they live some special life of toil and oppression at the hands of the liberal elite.

Sure, they might believe in their victimhood, and Trump is fluent in speaking that language. Doesn't make it true. We all struggle to survive in this economy and we all have our own problems -- the difference is those of us who will not drag the country down by supporting a transparently dishonest conman in an attempt to lash out at those we perceive to be doing better but undeserving.

Justifying this perspective is a fallacy.
I've spent a lot of time implementing realtime sync algorithms too, and I strongly agree with your comment above. I hope the CryptPad devs haven't gone too far down the rabbit hole of the CS literature, instead of reasoning carefully from first principles.
That docker file downloads Calibre over HTTP. Awesome!
I used Launchy for years but then when setting up my last day to day laptop switched to Wox (http://www.getwox.com/) after trying Hain. It was too limited at that point.

On Linux, I use Super (Windows) key to use the inbuilt launcher which meets all my requirements. If Windows had anywhere near this level of usefulness in its start menu I wouldn't need the third party Wox.
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The real holdback for FPGA's and indeed any development of software is and how easy is it to translate requirments into reality. That is an area that general CPU's hold over FPGA's, but that will only narrow as it has over time. Just some distance to go. But then Intel recently brought a FPGA company and with that, they can cover any niche area's today as well as any expansion tomorrow in that area.

As for AI, that needs to run upon hardware and whilst Intel is known for hardware they equaly do software and like most large companies. Often easier to let the little chaps do all the work, pick the best before it becomes big and buy them. Which can be cheaper than starting from scratch yourself and reduce the financial risks, whilst still getting in on the returns using smaller companies as research for a much more diverse skills and talents along with increased financial budget combined than any large company could dream of expending. So in some area's it is easier to have in house skills that can keep track of what everybody else is doing in that area and how it is progressing so that you are ready to swoop in and borg that lego block for your collection and reduce your financial risk greatly. More so in area's that are still very much maturing.
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The profit is not the pile of money remaining at the end of the year. Other accounting measures (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow_statement) are closer to what you're thinking, but are not without issues.
Are there Jepson results?

https://jepsen.io/
To understand what is happening ("How can a country succeed in the future if they reject reality?") you need to understand the concept of ideological subversion and the role played by the demoralization of a people.

Highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4
Article 4, Section 4

>The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Also, explain Napoleon who was Monarch over the Republic of France
It's interesting that in a thread about how ai's are a threat to democracy people are suggesting replacing a human process with an algorithm.
Very interesting, thanks for the tip!
News organizations certainly reported on it. Here's one example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/us/jewish-groups-and-unio...

I'm sure there are lots of other examples. I certainly heard of it repeatedly. But I would not call it "vital."
Also, the more indebted the consumer, the higher the impact of rising interest rates on consumer spending. Every time the Fed raises rates by 0.25 percentage points, consumers need to pay an additional $10B in interest per year. Consequently, the rate of interest increasing by 1 percentage point today is not the same as it increasing by 1 percentage point pre-2008 (when total consumer debt was lower).
Because Scandinavia has countries that are aggressively left-wing and really successful at it. These are the places that prove that liberal ideals work. And they've accepted a tremendous number of refugees.

So ideologue right wingers are desperate to see them fail, as proof that Muslims are intrinsically hateful and that Scandinavians are chumps for falling for leftist ideals.
All this makes me think a war is being cooked up though the stance on Europe doesn't make any sense to me. I thought China is the "issue" now not EU which still pays the price of the latest NATO war(s).
Also see the media reporting on Trump's "voter suppression efforts", which were targeted advertisements to, say, Haitian-US citizens about some horrible things the Clinton Foundation did in Haiti. Apparently informing people of bad things a candidate is associated with is 'voter suppression', because it will increase the odds that the people won't go out and vote for that candidate. Using the same terminology, the Trump Access Hollywood tape was far more of a voter suppression effort than any targeted facebook advertising, but that for some reason falls under the guise of relevant and informative information.
That is an important point, but it's not a point that falls out of the country's consumer debt to GDP ratio. The first question you should have with a headline like this is, "is $4.1 trillion a strange number in its proper context".

The comment upthread is pretty valuable (as is 'cylinder's rebuttal).
Micromanaging a zerg rush isn't productive management?

Some of the better minecraft mods require some exercising of your 3-d design abilities and budgeting skills and navigation of dependency trees. There is a certain lower cognitive limit to make a cobbleworks in modded minecraft and above that there's a lot of engineering going to time/space tradeoffs and energy budgets and various design criteria. Not to mention making it look nice and troubleshoot-able.

There are also secondary effects such as you can make a great pile of economic activity by shoving kids thru schools to give them skills that are not economically useful in general or if you have X economically useful job slots opening per year you can make twice the tuition revenue by graduating 2X the number of kids and blaming the individual for individual failings when the macro effect of 2x supply impacts 1x demand. Or the school produces grads ignoring the effects of ageism, racism, sexism, but the employers are certainly under no illusion they need to be as color blind as the schools. Then when the only work they can find is as baristas or maybe nothing at all, perhaps a lively home life as a minecraft player will tranquilize them to the point of society lasting a little longer, squeezing blood out of a couple more rocks, getting that national aggregate student loan debt to a higher score than ever, before the great reboot that rights all wrongs.
> But the GPUs also have new destinations: notably data centres where artificial-intelligence (AI) programmes gobble up the vast quantities of computing power that they generate.

Should not it be "programs"? Or is "programmes" used in some dialect of English I am not aware of?
Because this is the nogo alternative of a false dichotomy designed to support the other presented route.
This is for mining or password cracking.
It's not myth, it's narrative. Antebellum slavery and Jim Crow were narratives[1]. Even worse, they're narratives based on phrenological "science".

[1] see also a novel "The Klansman", the Word of that narrative made flesh and into "Birth of a Nation" , i which the modern movie was born.

Sacrificing individual agency to mythic protections has a name. It's collectivism. And it takes quite the storyteller to kill that sort of story.

The housing crisis? "Housing never goes down." Vietnam? "The domino theory." Manifest Destiny? "Go West, young man."

The problem is that we're adapted to narrative as our principle means of information exchange. So we try to construct counter-narratives. Those work just about as well.

The antidote to narrative is rhetoric.
Do I have to provide a link for you? I'm genuinely serious about everyone ranking (linking = rating) each other for positive contribution to society and then allowing them to have more of a vote. Maybe rankings would be a bit more like chess than PageRank but I'm convinced we could come up with something fairer than it is now.
Still, the AI matches you into an "audience" which is targetable. It doesn't tell the advertiser that they're advertising to John, Jane, and Joaquin, specifically.
ISOcline.com has one approach, building an analog neuron , and digitizing the inputs and outputs to minimize noise .

As a proof of concept they did a GPS chip , with 66 times higher energy efficiency.

There are others working on analog neural compute , some released good research results .
Thats what Atkins claims he did. He said a trip to Mcdonalds is fine-just leave out the bun
I've always heard Moldbug referenced indirectly, but I never made the more direct connection, nor the Taylor commentary. Thanks. I suppose the question here is whether it is possible to escape the Cathedral; that is, whether the Cathedral is a panopticon whose construction was long ago completed and within which we already reside.
See my reply to krastanov.
Perhaps you are looking for a direct democracy, where citizens would take on the responsibility of the legislative branch and vote on each and every bill. I think there is a good reason why direct democracy doesn't work except on the smallest of scales.

I wouldn't want to live in a society where all of our rules and laws are determined by popular vote. That is a tyranny of the majority. With all due respects to Thomas Paine, just because a majority believe something to be true does not make it so..."common sense" is bs.

Also, calling our version of democracy a "sham" or an "illusion" is ignorant at best. That people are dissatisfied with the results or that opinions can be manipulated does not make it any less so. It is ultimately our own fault when we have things like single issue voters, a lack of voting and/or people who only vote during presidential election years, and those who fall for sloganeering.

There is a reason that billions of dollars are spent on political elections and not simply rigged. It's because your vote does matter.
Looking at principal balances is all wrong. GDP means nothing in this instance either.

What matters, and what lenders look at, is debt serviceability. Lenders don't want principal paid back, ideally you just keep paying interest for life.

Let's say median household:

Income: $4000/mo

Rent: $1500/mo

Other necessities: $2000/mo

Let's say $500/mo "disposable." It's from this that the interest needs to be paid to service the debt on that $12,600 (actually, that's per person; there are 2.53 people in the median household, so $32k debt). What's the average interest rate? Maybe 10%? That's $266/month just for interest.

Now, economy goes into recession, consumer loses income and will first stop paying unsecured debt (credit cards, student loans), then auto loan until repo, then finally mortgage. And keep in mind median American doesn't have a lot of liquid savings to cushion. If there's anything, it's in 401k or home equity - and now is not a good time to sell. But many are forced to, further increasing supply when buyers are scared off, so prices keep declining.

Everything starts to be sold and assets get repriced. More seized cars at auction. More foreclosed houses. Banks restrict credit. Everything spirals down, quickly. Cashed up HNW investors willing to take the risk buy up firesale assets with cash and hold them. Maybe prices recover eventually, but now more assets are held by fewer people, and you've moved further into inequality.

The US is very much a credit driven economy. That's why the credit crunch of 2007 had such a severe impact.

This just happened a decade ago, and it seems people have already forgotten what it's like.
To a certain degree, yes
I work at a huge advertising company that's using machine learning and personal information from cookies, etc. All I do is manage devops work flows. What am I supposed to do, quit? Where am I supposed to get a job with no ethical concerns?
"Not dischargable" means you can't rid yourself of them easily through bankruptcy. It's the nature of most loans that you can't remove them from your portfolio; you have to pay them off.
Is the alternative of interacting with some other, less supported/ubiquitous/documented package preferable?
Malicious propaganda will plant seeds of negative associations no matter how blatantly false and/or out-of-proportion the original statement is. This will probably make it harder to use Sweden and the Scandinavian countries as a good example with regards to basically everything - not just immigration.

An example of this is the immigration related clarification article from the Swedish government that even made it to HN. That shouldn't even be needed for such disproportionate bs. But it just works.
Trump is the President holding back Cap and Trade fossil fuel legislation favored by progressives.

Plus coal miners are a symbolic working class constituency that want Trump to end coal-burning regulations for US power plants.

But OPEC is on a path to doom anyway because the perfect storm of electric vehicles and battery storage for utility scale wind / solar plants will likely cause a peak in transportation fuel demand in the 2020's. Trump's energy secretary Rick Perry will encourage this development.
The press is being undermined by its economics. Trump just smelled weakness and attacked.
Would it really be so bad? Cultures/beliefs/values vary tremendously from region to region, and smaller country subsets would be able to iterate faster to support their own value/belief systems.. Texas and related states that join it's new union could be as red as they want, California and those who join w/ can be as blue, and have things like Single-payer healthcare, no public prisons, no anti-immigration laws and open borders. -- U.S. as a super power has been waning for awhile now, and will continue to do so. Rome conquered the entire world, yet somehow a group of germanic tribes brought it to the ground. -- Every empire in history has fallen, America is no different.
There is no American carnage. That's the problem. We are, on average, the safest and securest we've ever been. Issuing travel bans fails to recognize economic interdependence, thereby drawing us into conflict. Putting Iran "on notice" draws us into conflict. Having a president who asked Russia to perform opposition research for him on July 27th, 2016 draws us into conflict. We need to stop.