skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First we proove that a lawyer exists. Then we leave it to a grad student to find one.

IAAM.
The strongest military on Earth couldn't defeat a bunch of illiterate people with 40 year old guns in terrain they knew well.
The difference is that previous automation was a force multiplier. Today's automation is a mind multiplier.

This is unprecedented territory. It really is different this time. I hate all of the "singularity" hokum, but it's getting really hard to predict what's going to happen.
OK, but any ideas on the tool front? I'm not being facetious, I've just decided that since it's a de facto free-for-all I might as well retaliate against bad actors rather than waiting for people to grow a conscience.
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People have been saying that for years. The question is how crazy can things get before the bubble bursts?
I never understood this logic. Investors want unicorns but it's not like they're going to hate you for only giving them a 5x ROI.

Most startups either fail or become small businesses. Investors are giving you money to fund a business that you own. Depending on the terms you can, and should, use that money for whatever you want.

Its the investors problem if 5x returns aren't good enough, not yours. Does the bank call you to complain that your mortgage interest rate is too low? No. They gave you the loan with what they thought was reasonable terms at the time. It's not your fault they gave you the money too easily.

You should be focused 100% on building a successful sustainable business. Investors can fuck right off if they push for risks that could turn their 5x return into 0.
I guarantee that communication is small compared to what the weather simulators require. Deep learning systems typically work fine on large-bandwidth, medium-latency systems. They are highly tolerant of async updates.

Most parallelism in DL uses coarse exchange, although I agree wrt to large models. That's similarly true for every supercomputer application (it's the only reason people use supercomputers now; it's much easier and faster if your system fits on a single system).
You have to have a history of documentation and written warnings to validate the cause.

The UK is the same. Actually, most civilized countries have similar laws. You can't sack people at will (something I personally believe to be a terrible practice) and you have to have a good reason to do so. Never had a problem firing people that had to be fired. Just keep records, do things by the book. It isn't as onerous as it sounds. Send some emails, send some letters, most of the times nothing will be a surprise for anybody anyway.
Robots don't destroy jobs, but that rapid change can lead to high unemployment when the labor market can't effectively retrain or relocate.

America is in a particularly bad place. High consumer debt, poor adult education access, low taxes on the wealthy, global market for low-skill labor, naively blaming job loss on immigrants/"globalization"...
Wow. I wonder how much a query that searches the content of all of Github costs (if you're not Google). This page says the dataset is 3TB+ https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/github and presumably most of that is content.
well as long as they are honest about enjoying the brutality i guess they are being consistent!
But in that case, you've never been able to upload code to github, right?
Nintendo is competing against two competitors with impossibly deep pockets: Sony and Microsoft. They can't do a loss leading razer-and-blades sales model where they lose on the system but make it up on games. Thus every system they sell since the entry of both competitors has to be both profitable and price competitive.
My parents spent a couple of grand on a new (Labrador) puppy a few years ago. After doing a lot of research, they found a breeder who deliberately breeds for good hip health (which is a big problem for Labs in general). Their main reasoning is that our old (also Lab) has had hip degeneration, and didn't want to see a dog go through that again.
The forward-only time machine in Futurama is probably the only paradox-free time travel premise that's possible. Even that had a giant plot hole re: the motion of the planet, solar system, etc.
> I had an expectation of privacy

You probably shouldn't, and most certainly don't legally have one.

In this case, the recording device was in clear view.

More broadly, the vehicle is owned by a party that has a vested interest in protecting its value. The driver also has prerogative to be able to record incidents / interactions with users so that he can report damage / throwing up. The driver also has prerogative to protect himself from legal liabilities in instances of rape, kidnap, theft, or violence.
Yea, I probably would have leaned toward calling the bluff. Organizations like Everytown use the NRA as a boogeyman in enough of their campaigns that it's almost assured that they'd get a ton of earned media out of this.
yes? no trial was held, for the most unfortunate of reasons, but if it had it would not have been based on an "an EULA violation" alone. The court would not have been able to accept the case as EULA violations are not criminal offenses in and of itself.
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>"I’d now had been experiencing a heart attack for about a week."

>Holy cow. I didn't realize this was possible.

It sounds more like ischaemia than infarct - so probably angina paectoris, not heart attack.

While we're at it, anticoagulants don't make your blood "thin" - they work by disrupting the coagulation cascade and have no effect on viscosity.
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> because uber made his medallion worthless

Uber didn't make a medallion worthless any more than regulatory capture made it valuable.
I believe this is squarely where Nintendo lives, in the family space. We have all of the consoles available to my kids. The only ones they play? Wii and Wii U. Don't care about Xbox or PS because of the Nintendo's first party titles.
Wasn't that nonsense big news in the 90's?

How come we are still alive?
Most individuals care less about jobs in aggregate and just care about their own particular job. They especially don't care about the number of jobs at the global level. There are many people whose job will be replaced by robots and whatever expertise they've learned over the years will become useless. They will need to transition to an entirely new career and start over. If they are over the age of 40 they have to also fight ageism and the fact that their future work output potential is more limited to an employer's eyes.

This whole idea that we don't have to worry because automation creates new jobs seems totally ignorant of this reality (and the political consequences).
Low barrier to entry, crowded space, and low margins...can't imagine this company (or any of the small guys) still being around 5 years from now.
Nobody uses "floating point number" to mean "a number that could theoretically exist in a floating point system I will invent for you after you tell me the number". That's not being pedantic, that's insisting on a wrong definition.
$ echo 'Oroville Dam: Photos reveal extensive damage as operators stop flow down spillway' | wc -m
82

Something had to be left out to meet the 80 character limit for submission titles. (82 is 81 + null). Omitting the subordinate clause seems not unreasonable to me. YMMV.
For binning data in spreadsheets for histograms etc, I typically use text() to set significant digits, and then value(). It's also good sometimes to make sure that 0 is really 0.
nvm, I don't need remote debugger with this. This is web based, it launches a little web service. I can run the service on the remote system. This is as good as remote debugging!

really cool!
How does one afford 25k (+ interest)?
When an ad agent solicits an advertiser, they literally are asking the advertiser to pay for the production. That's how ads and productions work.
Promise chaining explained
Wouldn't a graph database be a more suitable tool for that kind of task?
Take a look at https://cryptup.org (disclaimer - my project). Encryption can be made easy.

RFC4880 may be ugly. Yet great design can still turn it into a good user experience.

I don't think anyone considers TCP/IP pretty. Who cares? When I open my browser, I see none of it.
You can tell them that taxation isn't theft because taxation is legal and democratically decided, and theft is not legal.

They will probably argue back, "in both cases you're taking something by force," but there are lots of pairs of things that share some traits but not others.

Sharing a trait does not make the two things the same thing (i.e. prison vs kidnapping, again, one is legal and one is not).
All I really need is something where I can look at people and it reminds me what their name is, and maybe a little blurb about them that I've written previously ("met at party jan 2017. Making RPG about wolves").
Is the DevOps position not yet posted or did it get filled already?
very nice paper - one of my colleagues discovered it. I have been trying to understand the details but I do not see how your stacked dilated layers are arranged. "d" is mentioned once but no description given
Try8085: Looking back at an 8-year-old project
The computer itself has been a mind multiplier since the beginning. So I don't think it's fair to say that this is something completely new.
6) It's all part of God's plan

That sounds like a cheap shot but the sad reality is that there are quite a few people who seriously believe that this is part of the rapture/apocalypse/tribulation revealed in Bible prophecy and that attempts to prevent or even mitigate against it are satanic.

Of course that's completely bonkers but we have to remember that there's a significant contingent invested in the idea that the bible is literally true and the realities of modern life are essentially illusions designed to test people's faith. I don't know exactly how many people believe this, but I'd bet on about 5-15 million people in the USA.
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How does this differ from the threejs editor?
Agreed, the jobs are moving to new places and skillsets, but many US voting demographics aren't.
But creators designate it. So they decide.
The only thing I really know that came out of Russia is Nginx

Russian techies are among the best in the world, and the stuff they work on would surprise you. Companies like Luxoft write in-flight software for Boeing. Outsourcing to Russia and Eastern Europe is massive. If you have a seriously tough problem, get a Russian to fix it. Source: My late wife was Russian, and a software developer. Have worked almost exclusively with Russian developers for the past years. They do amazing stuff, with a fantastic attitude.
Similar to Greenkeeper.io for npm?
I really am not enthusiastic about our ability to technologically address a system as complex and poorly understood as the global climate. Our answer should be what India is doing, planting hundreds of millions more trees (restoring the american chestnut with the blight resistant variety is a start), reforming agriculture based on long-term perennial/silvopasture models and soil carbon capture, reducing the travel and industrial footprints of modern life, etc. These are all things that make more sense than geoengineering both in terms of their ease of accomplishment and the likelihood of unforeseen consequences they might produce. They also happen to be really good things for health and happiness.
Forget the law for a moment. A company profits from the infrastructure a country provides and therefore has at the very least a moral obligation to help financing it. It is a deal - company pays taxes, country provide infrastructure the company needs.

If a company then tries to avoid paying its share of the infrastructure, the company is breaking the deal. If doing so does not break existing tax law, that does not mean the company is in the right.

All this is of course fuzzy, but when a profitable company pays zero taxes, you can certainly not claim that you believed the amount of taxes you paid seemed reasonable to you. And the company should of course be held accountable for this even if it did not break any specific tax law. Not paying your share is a breach of the deal.
Why would you need AI for any of those scenarios you mentioned? I agree about your last point though.
Is that under the assumption that payroll tax, in the long-run, is a tax on real labour income? Btw, I wish you guys the best of luck. It's surprisingly complex and difficult to explain. Just in case it's of some use, check out page 285 for a discussion on CFTs (followed by a discussion on payroll tax): https://taxreview.treasury.gov.au/content/downloads/final_re...

EDIT: This gets even more complex/interesting if you are of the view that labour-value add will be an increasingly smaller share of total production value-add in future (i.e. due to automation)...
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For my part, I don't see a need to try out a more capitalist health care system when there are lots of people showing a good working socialized model in lots of other countries.

I'd say, go with what works.
How many distinct 'experiments' (as it were) have we actually seen with respect to automation? I often wonder whether we are drawing from a very small sample here, where we look at a handful of distinct automation cases and conclude that we're all pretty safe. Is our experience with automation that old or varied? Have we ever faced the prospect of a range of "considerably less routine" manual labor (e.g. driving) being automated at the same time as a large number of white/pink collar tasks? The industrial revolution isn't that old in some senses.
Removing the videos isn't a reasonable accommodation, it's removing the offering to the general public that creates an obligation for reasonable accommodation, thus avoiding the bother of litigation to determine what reasonable accommodation might actually be required.

Berkeley was compelled to remove the content, they chose to in order to avoid the costs of resolving the dispute, to focus on unquestionably compliant content moving forward.
When your company is the web and the web is your company

When you openly celebrate really nerdy technical achievements

When you incentivize and promote side projects and open source

There grows a camaraderie with the projects and tools that make the web what it is, and the volunteerism that open-source projects require

Really inspiring.
The new thing is that computers can learn to learn.
As long as the current taxi service is doomed first, it all is OK.

Taxis can improve their service, other companies can compete with Uber, etc. All these solutions are acceptable.

Current taxi service in most cities is not acceptable. A small number of cities have good taxi service. Most cities don't.
"They were happy to see employees spontaneously self-organizing to put their 20% time to good use."

Reminded me that I heard that Google's 20% time had generally like 10% participation and has had a number of conditions including manager approval for the last 4 years. Is this article breathing new life into the myth of 20% time or does this reflect the revival of the process?

Either way, incredible accomplishment on the patch army!
Difference in preferred or proficient language are not a disability under the ADA, AFAIK.
> Geo-engineering projects could not
> come too soon

And also, treating climate-change deniers like a cross between holocaust deniers and flat-earthers can't come soon enough.
The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and Spillovers [pdf]
I was thinking about automation and job loss recently. I tried to make a simple model to understand what happens.

Can you guys critique this thought experiment? It makes it seem like it won't be a problem.

There are three people on an island. One catches fish. One bakes bread and the other one owns the land and takes a portion of the of the fish and bread.

Let's say one day the land owner recieves a machine that makes bread and catches fish. He can either continue collecting rent plus his new production. Or he can not collect rent since he doesn't need it. But in either case the other two people are no worse off.
I also speak Japanese and English, but I learned Japanese while living in Japan in my 20's. Did you grow up in Japan or in a western country? I'm wondering if, as the blog post implies, that the situation/period in life in which you learn the language changes your personality in that language.
It's actually incredibly interesting to read how the developers individually responded to each of these PRs.

It would have been great to see a count of how many PRs have been accepted.
I don't think they would they care about births. Having more humans would just reduce the technological resources available to provide for their personal happiness.
Everytown is funded by wealthy people like Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett. If there aren't enough other donors to give them the resources that the NRA has, it might be that there aren't enough people who support their agenda enough to donate. They are not "the little guy".
What are the good arguments agains revenue tax? Say 1,5%
> And so unless you have some other level of complexity that make humans special it is in fact going to be more or less impossible to think of a thing an AI wont be able to do better than humans.

If we reach the point where AI can do all human jobs better than humans, that would put us firmly in a post-scarcity world, where humans no longer need to work jobs at all.
> 90% of genetic variance in human races exists in the African continent

Counting neutral variation (the vast majority of genetic variation). You can get plenty of variation in non-coding DNA from drift without any effect on the variance in a trait. In fact, you rarely actually get effects on highly polygenic traits from drift without selection (imagine random directions chosen independently for each of the relevant alleles, and think in terms of the law of large numbers).

If you're getting this from Oded Galor or Deidre McCloskey, they're generally smart people but don't understand population genetics well.
Unlikely. All the European cars I've seen also have the signals on the left stalk. However, this is the US, where the steering wheel is also on the left.

It sounds like your car cheaped out and kept the same control layout for both LHD and RHD versions. Having never driven in a LHD country, I have no idea what other car companies do about this.
Why? Grocery shopping is extremely inefficient and has to be done weekly by almost everyone in the world. It's not a small problem that they're solving, so large amounts of cash (and a high valuation) makes sense.
The lighting.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com page isn’t working
This isn't true with e.g. decimal64.
Yes they did, the colors are so much brighter than my future
I feel like that difference is overstated. Weaving was once a highly skilled profession requiring intricate control by an intelligent operator yet it was increasingly automated even before the advent of computing.

I think the difference in what we consider "force" work and what is "mind" work is highly subjective to the things we've grown used to thinking of as menial based on the technology we've learned to take for granted.

The new forms of automation seem to be doing nothing but continuing the same gradual trend rather than offering some kind of paradigm shift. For example I have yet to see any automated systems replacing human creativity, when that begins to happen then we really will be in uncharted territory.
In that case, I'd like to see their terms of service re-worded, as "You grant ... rights, or affirm that you will only submit content that is under a license which grants these rights".
StdLib launches Python SDK
Pure capitalism, the real world system dominant in the industrialized West in the 19th Century for which critics coined the term "capitalism", has all of those things.

The unrealistic fantasy later capitalists developed as a propaganda to sell capitalism doesn't have those features, but then it also has nothing to do with anything that is, has, or ever could be, realized in the real world.