skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the parent is referring less to a system that can construct a single model without an explicit schema, and more to the thing that'd be a few steps after that—the ability to:

1. dynamically notice world-features ("instrumental goal features") that seem to correlate with terminal reward signals;

2. build+train entirely new contextual sub-models in response, that "notice" features relevant to activating the instrumental-goal feature;

3. shape goal-planning in terms of exploiting sub-model features to activate instrumental goals, rather than attempting to achieve terminal preferences directly. (And maybe also in terms of discovering sense-data that is "surprising" to the N most-useful sub-models.)

In other words, the AI should be able to interact with reward-stimuli at least as well as Pavlov's dog.

Right now, ML research does include the concept of "general game-playing" agents—but AFAIK, these agents are only expected to ever play one game per instance of the agent, with the generality being in how the same algorithm can become good at different games when "born into" different environments.

Humans (most animals, really) can become good at far more than a single game, because biological minds seem to build contextual models, that communicate with—but don't interfere with—the functioning of the terminal-preference-trained model.

So: is anyone trying to build an AI that can 1. learn that treats are tasty, and then 2. learn to play an unlimited number of games for treats, at least as well as a not-especially-smart dog?
Everything is getting faster. Just fucking accept it.
> The last part reminded me of google training a bunch of robot arms [1]. Haven't seen much being done with it, does anyone know if anything is being done with the data?

The data gathered using aforementioned robot arms is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/brainrobotdata/home

Google (specifically Google Brain Robotics) is continuing research on this. Exciting time to be alive.
News need not always be editorializing.
Hi, I created a helper for those who want to use websocket with react.
The goal was to facilitate usage of websockets with react and redux, but redux is not required.
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I wasn't able to find anything about a fridge, but some searching found a Sears catalog from 1959:

http://www.aei.org/publication/appliance-shopping-1959-vs-20...

From that page, it looks like the price of the washer, adjusted for inflation to 2016, is $1756.12. A comparable washer today, from Sears, appears to be somewhere in the $400 - $600 range, or about 30% as much as it used to cost.

Data for today's washers: http://www.sears.com/appliances-washers-top-load-washers/b-1...
probably in the distant future. i dont really see the benefit of using them over straight runways.
Any references? I tried to find something but I failed. I'm assuming we are talking about something different than UPS + going to sleep? It seems very tricky to just keep RAM powered.
I don't get why you're being downvoted. Anyone remembers the years after RoHS went into effect and e.g. NVidia's mobile GPUs started failing left and right due to no one having experience with lead-free solder?
Commission for regulating the digital taxes in USA
At some point, making food/housing/healthcare cheaper seems like a more achievable goal than finding work for people (who are in theory competing with AI).
>> but what if apples start to cost 25% of what they currently do? What if we extrapolate that across all fields? ... do this with everything we need...

That's great, as long as there are new jobs, or a decent safety net(which i doubt).

>> The answer historically has been that entirely new types of employment are created, ... It's usually hard to see looking forward, but somehow it's always worked out.

It's not always worked out - remember horses ? and what about the terrible transition period ? but let's leave that.Is it really that hard to see looking forward ? That's a more interesting question:

So before the industrial revolution, rich people bought a lot and a variety of clothes/foods/things/services(doctor/lawyer/cook/traveling/transportation), large houses, etc . So assuming things would get cheaper, they'll be more available , you could imagine that regular people will want those things,a lot of them, but maybe with even more variety(more people). So you could imagine a consumer culture.

And the same for the business side: businesses wanted advertising, transportation, financial services, manufacturing, knowledge, etc.. So if all those things will become cheaper - and better, you could assume they would want more and more of them.

And furthermore - before the industrial revolution there we're many problems - the world wasn't ideal(you got sick, life we're boring). In general , we can assume many of those problems will get solved, so they'll create new demand.

So so many new jobs! And we know all that - we've seen it happen!

So why the hell we cannot think of new jobs ?
- It's being built by a handful of people (I remember seeing the original author complain he doesn't really have the time for it)

- It's a hack on top of TypeScript compiler

- It gets broken by TypeScript upgrades and is usually several weeks behind TS version upgrades.

I'd be really wary using it in production
I'm in Australia and have mostly fisher paykel and that has been my experience - can recommend
While still in experimental stage, I'm hoping the pure JS version of Closure compiler will solve the problem to a large extent.

https://github.com/google/closure-compiler-js
If you have an example of a politician who is against this kind of thing, please tell us. Seriously, I'd like to see how they describe their position.
I have a theory that this is also being done with cars sold specifically in the United States. I spent some time abroad in South America a few years ago and I'm convinced our crappy cars wouldn't hold up a year driving on the unpaved roads and rocky desert terrain the resident's down there are used to. Meanwhile, my Argentine friend's 1980s Peugeot, missing electric windows and cd player had been on the road there for DECADES. This got me so intersted I looked up the most popular vehicle I saw thinking that would be my next car here. Well guess what? The Toyota Hilux isn't available here. They claim the Tacoma is the same truck just engineered for American emission's standards. I'm not buying it.
There are tons of web apps out there that allow you to post and give you the URL all without signing up for an account or identifying yourself.

I created https://mypost.io as a way for people to get things up on the Internet in seconds without registering for an account or even identifying your email. It does not log your IP address or require any personally identifying information about you. Easy to use as a regular blog. Easy to use with HTML and CSS added so you can customize the way it looks. Even allows for you to remove all the default CSS and add your own.
It's hard to gather from this post what exactly happened. Does anyone have details?
Yes, accusing a specific company certainly requires proof. So I apologize if I was defending that.

You say "astroturfing and shilling exist". It is likely a "very high" percentage. "Very high" does not need to be 60%, but it is relative. Even 10%-20% is very high, which I think the ratio might actually be. It is just too attractive--the bang-for-buck ration is just too sweet.

Please note, I don't say this with pleasure. I'm an honest shop and it is painful seeing competitors astroturfing.
I thought the same thing. This is by no means really trustworthy sources, just top Google results, but still:

According to http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html a washer and dryer set cost around 500 USD (in 1953 USD) which according to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com would be around 4500 USD in 2017 USD.

Since I'm not from the US I don't know what's popular there, but if I look at http://www.homedepot.com/b/Featured-Products-Popular-Laundry... it seems like they go between 500 and 1000 USD. So between 4.5 to 9 times cheaper than in 1953.
check out Hyperledger for a FOSS blockchain community of projects: https://www.hyperledger.org/
Then I'm not sure if "powerful" is necessarily what I look for in a language.

I have three priorities when programming:

1. Correct
2. Understandable
3. Fast

Priority 1 is non-negotiable (code should be correct, or the rest is moot). Priority 2 is negotiable in situations where priority 3 isn't, however I've had this happen perhaps a handful of times in the last 25 years.

Being able to produce code quickly is nice, but unimportant if the code isn't likely to be correct, understandable or fast. Productivity in production code is measured in how you achieve the above.

Likewise it is nice to have code that is easy to refactor and doesn't require duplication, but duplication is more permissible than the dogmatic avoidance of duplication when it is detrimental to understanding or speed. It can also lead to unnecessarily bothersome abstraction or spending too much time creating abstraction where the domain doesn't naturally lend itself to abstraction.

(Note that points 2 and 1 tend to dictate that duplication should be avoided: it isn't about the typing saved, it is about correctness.)

Priority 3 could be elaborated as "quick response times and avoidance of unnecessary resource use". Any idiot can write code that does X. A craftsperson writes code that does X well. A valuable craftsperson can do X well and quickly. Be a craftsperson.

For rapid prototyping you can throw the rules slightly overboard, but when you write production code things count.

Abstractions and language mechanisms that can give you static guarantees are good when they help you achieve the above. They are counter-productive when they conflict with any of the above. It is easy to become counter-productive when you try to satisfy some dogma.
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This seems like a good time to link to this prescient 2002 TED talk from Daniel Dennett on "dangerous memes":

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_dangerous_memes
> The best appliances today, by the way, are made by Bosch/Siemens and Miele. None of the other manufacturers come close, period.

Because "Made in Germany" is a badge of honor and the German giants take care to not damage both their own brands as well as the "Made in Germany".
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A political circle-jerk masquerading as a tech article. Vintage hacker news.
Honestly I believe it needs to be priced less, if possible via use of coupons. I believe ghostnoteapp needs ubiquity and integrations so people buy it to add it into their workflow, as opposed making it the workflow.
Dang is right, accusations against a specific person/entity are serious and require solid proof. Could even be illegal.
Sorry but I'm not drinking the Miele Kool-Aid any longer. Maybe in the past they were great (my MIL has a 20 years old washing machine that's going great) but not the new stuff.

Both my washer and dryer failed within 2 months of each other after 6 years.

The dryers main board failed and price to repair was nearly £350 just for the part.

The washers pump and some kind of water sensor failed simultaneously, leading to a constantly filling drum that wouldn't be emptied. Que the film style comedy of water vomiting forth from the soap dispenser tray all over the kitchen.

The warranty is only 2 years standard (thanks for that at least EU) but anything more is paid. No 10 year guarantee anymore!

And mine wasn't the only newer Miele I've seen with expensive early failures as other friends have been caught too.

General consensus of the repair technicians I spoke with was all to get the cheapest non-condensing dryer (white-knight was mentioned as reliable but super cheap to repair if needed) you can and an LG washing machine for the sealed direct drive motor which comes with a 10 year [EDIT - seems they've dropped it to 5 years only now] guarantee.

Bosch dishwasher I'll concede is still going strong after 7 years. And It's really been abused (no filter cleaning for first 5 years!) so I take you point on that.
Good point. Lou Gerstner wasn't going to jump from IBM right when he was starting to reap the rewards of his work.

The only case I can think of where execs jump around fairly quickly in "turnaround" situations are those who specialize in getting a company ready for a sale.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440526
It looks like this is your own project. It would likely be better posted as a "Show HN" if it meets the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Well, what did the masses that used to be farmers do when we moved from 50% of the United States being farmers to the current levels of ~2%?

Didn't that work in the opposite way, though? New opportunities appeared that pulled (sometimes forced) people away from farming; it wasn't like there was a bunch of unemployed ex-farmers who suddenly started finding new jobs.
It uses intuition to play, which is how humans play, but it does it by considering way more positions that humans.
The price for Bosch/Siemens made in Germany is about twice as high than the ones made elsewhere.

But that's partly because they only make the top end models in Germany, with mid-range models being made in Spain or Poland, and cheaper models in China.

They should last longer, be quieter and have all the extra features, but I'm not sure if it's worth double the price.

I always use last generation high end stuff (refurb or used), and fix it myself.
Thanks! This is exactly the kind of comparison I'm looking for (other fields are still welcome).

If I look at the link you provide, I see an improvement which is great. However, the improvement seems to be somewhat linear year-on-year. In the original post, the first sentence is: "Some think the excitement around Artificial Intelligence is overhyped. They might be right. But if they’re wrong, we’re on the precipice of something really big. We can’t afford to ignore what might be the biggest technological leap since the Internet." Am I right in assuming that there is the expectation of AI/ML to have "hockey stick" growth in the (not-so distant) future? If so, what kind of methods could possibly make this real? If anyone could give me some papers, an essay or some words to search for this would help me a lot. Essentially, I am intrigued why there is this expectation of hockey stick growth. If my premise is wrong, please enlighten me too.
The post rambles for a long time and slings some mud against braintree. Their claim is that they couldn't do a wire transfer from their merchant account to their business account. Looking on braintree's website they don't appear to support Serbia. https://www.braintreepayments.com/en-si/country-selection?re...
One forum user put together a <$700 complete PC with an adequate GPU. You definitely don't need >1 GPU.

Or you can use spot instances, as a sibling comment mentions - about $0.20/hour generally.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883954

The general response seems to be "Hell, no!"

Also submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13901392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13900955

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890437

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13885124
LOL. The "free market" always goes for building ever more luxury apartments for the rich.

Housing is a human right and needs to be regulated as hell, otherwise you end up like London.
The only brands I ever buy are Miele and Siemens; they're both German; Miele has always been family owned; not sure about Siemens (huge conglomerate).

Miele machines are expensive but indestructible. Siemens ones are very strong and not much dearer than other brands.

Are those not available in the US?
Rich economies could (barely?) afford that, how could mismanaged economies afford a basic income given they don't have much in the way of economic might to afford a basic income. Think Indonesia, Bangladesh.
Few things I would do differently, granted I've never struggled to the level the author has latest Linux Mint and a new XPS 15.

1. Always wipe the disk/trash all partitions and install Windows 10 fresh after you rip out the keys. OEMs ship crapware city with some nasty nasty things sometimes. You will also get back a decent amount of extra GBs from recovery partitons.

2. Linux distros all come with Gparted, use it for resizing.

3. The nVidia drivers are ready to go in additional drivers, don't know why he was installing ppas ( picked wrong release? )

As a golden rule if you have brand spanking new hardware and things are not working, upgrading your kernel to bleeding latest will usually solve things. ( 60% of the time it works evertime! But no seriously, you may need to roll up your sleeves and compile RCs with custom patches )

4. OSX like gestures work out of the box very nicely on Cinnamon. It's a shame he couldn't get it going, might be worth spending a little more effort on getting it running. Forcing it or xorg to reconfigure might work if something screwed up with the driver switching?
> We can't say it is related, but we can't say it's not related either.

...and that's why you should leave it out of the headline.
Look for a brand called "Speed Queen". They generally make commercial washers, but have a few home units they sell as well. They're all built like tanks, and some still have old mechanical controls. I have a mechanical set, and love it.

https://youtu.be/O8L9PIjYngk
That's a fair point, I hadn't considered that. I still think leaving it out of the article is fair though. Since we don't know one way or another and there isn't anything pointing in that direction just yet.
One thing that shouldn't be discounted is survivorship bias. The machines from the 1960s that broke early on aren't around anymore. The only machines from the 1960s that are left are those which last a long time.
Well that could be due to the different markets.

A US car manufactured to withstand south american unpaved roads would be largely wasted. 99% of people won't ever use them in that manner. So money is spent on things they will use (like infotainment systems and more "creature comfort" stuff).

In an area where unpaved roads are more common, the suspension might be beefed up, thicker steel used, an overall hardened vehicle, but the interior will be a shell of what the US car would be.
Exactly, when comparing the size after gzip compression, minifcation itself is often not worth the hassle. To get any serious benefit out of Closure Compiler you have to annotate your source code, not use certain conventions, and generally worry about things breaking.

That's probably just fine when you are transpiling (i.e. Google Web Toolkit) but its a PITA for everyone else.
Yep, even if you play games 24/7, you wouldn't be able to see them all. Time management is the key. Trying to focus on the important stuff in your life, but also filling your free time with games if you like it. There will always be exceptions, but you should stick to the thing you love. This is my guide to life also :)
Bracketed paste appears to be a third party plugin. I have no reason to believe it is has been rolled into an official Vim release.
The ability to rollback "bad" transactions would be key in being able to comply with legal requirements, resolve contract disputes, etc. Plus having Sybil proof systems require PoW or PoS both of which could be difficult and inefficient for a market specific solution. E.g. why would people want to run a miner for pork chop trading? PoS might work though but still requires a founding core group that's trusted IMHO.
But what about the time spent moving it around/waiting for the technician/trying to repair something clearly not designed to last/shopping for a new one?
While I acccept Alpha Go as 'real AI' (I watched the match with Lee in realtime, and years ago I wrote and marketed my Go playing program 'Honninbo Warrior') I agree that Alpha Go is not a general purpose AI.

Deep learning has been personally career/interests changing, but I still think that we should be building hybrid neural network / symbolic AI systems.
No one has mentioned chiggers.

Those thing will eat you alive in tall grass. I have 18 acres I don't mow, and don't live on. Though the house I do live in, in suburbia, I keep that lawn mowed to keep the chiggers at bay.
At least one thing I can say right away is that they have taken care of a lot of small hygiene factors. Things like the rapid compiler, the "go" command that has a lot of nice things built in, the way they did away with formatting discussions (although I can't articulate how it differs from other languages that try to do the same....probably the tooling).

The Go community also prefers libraries over frameworks. Coming from Java, and its humongous, cancerous framworks, that's a BIG selling point. I notice that when someone posts a link to a "Go framework" I get slightly ticked off and I feel resistance even before I've clicked the link.

As for the language: I don't know yet. It just works for me. :)
> The main problem beginning Japanese learners often face is that they are taught polite form before plain form.

I often heard that the rationale for doing so is that learners don't sound impolite. It kind of makes sense, but on the other hand, I think it's also part of the "日本語が上手ですね" problem, that is, for the Japanese, the polite form is rather advanced.

Anyways, I do agree that for learners it would all make more sense to start from the basics and learn the polite forms later. Textbooks tend not to, though, sadly.
Use Reader mode if you're on iOS.
If talking about motors, they used to use copper for the windings.

Now they use aluminum wire, which works perfectly fine, until there is a power surge in which case the aluminum overheats and the motor is now dead.
"The only explanation..."? What about "never attribute to malice..." and Occam's Razor.

I think a more likely explanation is that in the majority of cases when shopping for an appliance and your choices are a $1500 one and a $2000 one, you buy the cheaper one. This forces manufacturers to compete on price, and to cut costs wherever possible to remain profitable.

Additionally, I just spent 30 seconds googling and a washer/dryer set cost $495 in 1953, which is ~$4500 in today's buying power. You can buy a cheap washer/dryer set these days for $500 on sale, which is pretty incredible. I don't know what super heavy duty high end washer/dryer you could get these days for $4500, but I bet you could find one that would last 50 years.
Realistically, before talk radio and before the internet. both diversified the point of view and the later gave way to an incredible number of sources to include the view from elsewhere in the world.

the problem I think is that many inside the beltway don't understand this or want to. look at all the complaints against non traditional media sources being shown preference in the WH. Yes some of it is politically oriented but their real fear is that it cements in the minds of many they the press doesn't is not just certain big papers and television sources, it is anyone who can create an audience and deliver the story.

that is beneficial to all. the more voices the better and less likely the message will be controlled, manipulated, or simply one sided.
If you have customers on ancient smartphones and the engineering budget to manage the complexity ... go for it! :D
> Outside of the sexual harassment claims

"They look much better if you ignore this one massive problem!" is not a defense.

> literally none of this is different than any other huge tech company out there

"Everybody else does it too!" is not a defense.
Looks like a prime opportunity for whoever is manufacturing AK-47 these days to come in and disrupt the market with a washer dryer.