skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying it isn't absurd I'm saying it isn't comparable to feudalism.

(It is indeed a terrible argument for the point I'm not making).

In feudalism a single person is the entire state. His wealth isn't comparable, disregarding the extra rights that are conferred from literally being the law of the land as a monarch.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521926674/climate-friendly-coa...
As long as you recognize that this is just nutjob conspiracy nonsense, then yeah... I guess it's entertaining?
The Science of Sleep: Regulating Emotions and the Twenty-Four Hour Mind
Yeah, I was thinking about that too. He's definitely the closest.
Minor nitpick: We definitely do not know whether everything is discrete. There are plenty of quantum mechanical phenomena that do not have discrete spectra (you can have light of any wavelength for instance (with some caveats at the extremes of the energy scales)). We also do not have theoretical or experimental proof that space-time is discrete at the Plank length-scale - all we know is that our current theories break at that scale.

See https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/9720/does-the-pl... (the given answer is pretty great, but beware, the author is known for being a bit hostile in his non-physics opinions)
Netflix for example does not work over vpn so the router would have to have a way to manage exceptions.
My fault: I read your comment in the context of the two comments directly above it visually, which were talking about differences of culture, rather than in the context of the comment you were directly replying to, which was talking about standard of living. I certainly agree that Denmark and the US are closer in standard of living than North and South Korea are.

Sorry for making you pull that data, but thanks for responding with data.
> that decoherence does not completely solve the measurement problem

It's kind of funny how the problem keeps getting pushed to higher levels of "meta":

If you consider the experimenter and his system, measurements of (non-eigenstate) quantum systems appear indeterministic to him. However, the state of [experimenter + system] is governed by an entirely deterministic equation that follows a reversible, unitary path through time. Great! But the problem is that you then have another experimenter who measures that composite system, and the outcomes he sees likewise appear indeterministic. So now you consider the system of [experimenter 2 + [experimenter 1 + system]], and we've got infinite regress — a.k.a. the measurement problem.
A lot of work was supported by the photographic artists union (Союз фотохудожников СССР) which received government grants and income from journal subscriptions, photo book sales, and sales from international gallery shows. Antanas Sutkus talks about it in this interview: https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/opyt/intervyu-sutkus...
does Carbon (https://carbonads.net/) not provide a similar offering?
Handy tip for those on a mac using terminal - type a command and press cmd-ctrl-shift-? to get a man page pop-up. (People with touch bars can just tap on the man page icon.)
That's not about what he did do or did not do. In reality there's no concept of "fair pay" or "just earnings". In fact, Bezos doesn't even matter, personally. What matters is that he owns an asset (Amazon) that appreciated in value. Obviously, his "net worth" is tied to this holding. It appreciated because it provided desirable services.

Now, preventing it can be done in two ways, and only two ways - either limit Amazon's appreciation in value (curb the company), or limit the person's holding in Amazon, meaning that if you started as a founder of a company having 50% of the total shares, your holdings will decline as the company's worth rises. Does this seem reasonable to you?
I'm on mobile :-/

I'll post again once I'm back at the PC.
Whatever economic system may be in place, it will be possible to profit by making better decisions in that context, but that doesn't prove the superiority of that system, and it doesn't make it "terrifying" to wonder whether this or that emergent phenomenon is a feature or a bug.
We may be able to get by with lower salaries than America if Americas immigration system continues to lag. It's easier for potential AI brains to immigrate here than the States under the current climate. I do agree that this is only of limited advantage, but it's something.
I feel like because of structural and tax issues with our society, American style salaries will never be a thing here. That probably means that we will never be the tech power house that America is, but I think we can compete pretty effectively with Europe in getting the brains who, for whatever reason, choose not to go to America. And hey . . . second best ain't that bad.
It is fact. Feel free to disprove it if you can.
> expenditures are 4 trillion

Your calculation is making my head hurt. I assume by 'expenditures' you mean the US governments budget is about 4 trillion? If so, your $14trillion represents expenditures by the private sector. So if we build a bridge or something it doesn't count into your 10x, for some reason. Sorry this whole argument makes no sense to me.
There are loads of sources for it, it isn't as odd as you would think, it is even listed on wikipedia with lots of nice sources. Apparently "their number is thought to be increasing." and "In one case, a double defector re-entered North Korea four times." [0]

Edit: I added the link to the nutrition study below also. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_defectors#Double_...

[1] https://synapse.koreamed.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.41...
Were you forced into having that child in the first place? We don't need children for farm work anymore (in first world countries).
You're saying net global merit is a zero-sum system?
Wrong. This argument is intellectually lazy, and serves only to let you feel smugly superior to others. I suggest that such comments be flagged in the future.
> Here is a model of waves, as in light or sound, but not as in water waves or electron waves

How water waves are different from sound? Water wave are sound, aren't they?
until the competition is completely annihilated, jeff is not content.
Video games that show 'limited view of the value of women' make teenagers sexist
This car is great. But for $7,000 I can take a risk on a Nissan Leaf and put $30,000 back in the bank.

And for $2,000 more you can just get a Model S [1]

[1] https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/6029938589.html
What makes you anxious? Try to take a deep breath before you do whatever it is, and then just do it. Tell yourself whatever it is, that it will work out and things will be fine. And if you want to get over it, try to expose yourself to it more often.
Amazing work! Was the audio synthesis also done in the GBA in the above demo?
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Surely less bad than the status quo.
lol @ 7 billion ad impressions during the entire lifetime of an AD NETWORK. I get 1.5 billion ad impressions a month on my 1 site alone.
It's really a function of land cost. A high rise unit costs about $30k more per unit according to here: http://www.humphreys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/MFT_FL-0...

There are also costs that developers do not directly pay for but a city pays for. Maintaining all of the miles and miles of road, metro, pipes, power lines, police patrols and so on is more expensive than the equivalent amount of people in a smaller space.
Whilst we do know for sure that solar and wind have an accident rate per install. This is going to kill more people than spent nuclear fuel, which of course does not seem to matter. Turns out installing large pieces of glass high up on buildings is not the safest occupation on the planet.

If you calculate out the total amount of victims for this, it turns out that even if we melt down a nuclear plant in every capital on the planet, solar will still kill more people than nuclear would under those circumstances.

So the reasoning here eludes me: perhaps it's that people don't understand nuclear so it must be bad ? It's how we got to Trump ...

TLDR: public opinion takes an idea. It declares it a bad idea. Comes up with much worse ideas for it's given criteria and enforces conformance to those ideas. Solar and wind both kill more people than nuclear, short term and long term.
That's pretty much what we have in Australia — except the campaign period is much shorter still, around 6-8 weeks.
Back in the early 80s, "Pompeian Graffitti" was one of the most heavily thumbed books in my high school library (all male; everybody had to take Latin and most did Greek). I learned some verbs that didn't even exist in English.
He provided more economic/productive value to the world than 100,000,000s of people.

Idk about "working hard" or "merit" because who cares if someone has to work super hard for 2 days to produce the same results another person can produce in 10 minutes.
I was trying to figure out what the "earnings" would be. I probably should have just used 18 trillion and been done with it.

Argument is humans aren't on the same scale as governments (even comparing exceptionally rich humans and middle of the road governments). It is easy to verify with a few minutes of thought.
In China, Deals Thought to Be with Disney Turn Out Less Than Magical
This is sad. I based my idea for a free software friendly ad network on this, and pitched it back in 2009. It became AdBard, and for a while it was quite popular in the free software space.

http://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard

A big problem for free software sites is finding ads that respect the users freedom while promoting products which are not harmful to computer users.
\usepackage{fontspec} and you're done. \setmainfont{Palatino Linotype} to just use that, \newfontfamily\secondary{Times New Roman} now you can just stick in {\fontspec{\secondary} blah blah blah} for bits you need styled in a different font for a few words/sentences/paragraphs/however much you need.

And if you need the automatic TeX style replacements (like turning `` into opening quotes - personally, I hate that, I'm writing text, not programming - then you can pass in TeX mapping instructions in [...] blocks, covered by the fontspec manual: \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Font By Name} and \newfontfamily\whateveryoucallit{Font by Name}[Ligatures=TeX])
Is this a plot line for a new episode of HBO's "Silicon Valley"?
Could it be network lag from a remote server? And when doing single commands the prompt doesn't appear right away, so it seems slower?
Funny to find this top comment, since I just had this exact train of thought an hour ago. It went something like this. It's a common unexamined platitude that it takes a huge amount of work, and especially sacrifice to be able to live well. That might well be true under certain conditions of, say, undeveloped agrarian civilizations. It shouldn't still be true of ours, and yet it is. Our infrastructure and supply chain create so much abundance of every imaginable thing, from necessities, to frivolities, to luxuries. There's no way that it actually requires a huge amount of toil and pious sacrifice for each person to earn their share of this abundance. And yet it does. Every time I try to discern why, it always comes back to the same thing. Everything is owned. On the very large scale, everything is owned by a relatively tiny handful of people. And those people absolutely depend, for their absurdly outsized fortunes, on everybody else working for them. The owners of everything want you to work for them.

It's exactly as you say. It's feudalism. Wealth inequality is feudalism.
Canadian-American here who was eager about the possibility of working in a Greater Toronto Area company. At one startup I was offered the equivalent of $35k USD per year.

I currently work at a startup in SF making almost three times that amount.
Perhaps true, but one "robot" can do the job of 1,000,000 radiologists whereas one robot might be able to do the cleaning of 2~3 cleaners at best. It's a software vs. hardware scaling issue.
He did it correctly... Except he didn't account for the time value of money, which would have made the salary side even stronger.
I'd love to hear more on this. Also, since no person is an island, any plans to boost pay for supporting staff and engineers?

Just so we're clear, top ai pays like $250k USD for entry level with no real cap, but senior staff can easily take home $500-900k
Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

The industry has literally been saying this for more than 50 years.

The practical barrier to reprocessing and burning spent fuel isn't technical or political: it's economic. Fresh Uranium is just too cheap for reprocessed waste to compete.
Is this something anyone has done? Seems like you would need lawyers to draw that up, but it appeals to me on a philosophical level...
Could you list a few other cities which are known for such peculiar mannerisms? I was told Boston has its own stripe of the "Seattle Freeze".
I find all of this incredibly interesting. If I could, I'd at least make a quick wiki of these observations. Frankly I think this is one of the elements that would figure prominently when considering places to move to, whether within the U.S. or globally. More so than weather or abundance of restaurants or even neighborhood walk scores!

edit: Earlier, HN didn't let me reply to you perhaps due to some time threshold I'm not aware of. So replied to myself. Deleted that post now.
while i don't disagree, you still have the option of not responding. Also I think what you mention is more of an issue with integrating systems with open standards. The alternative is using a closed system that only belongs to one vendor or revising the open standard to support privacy
IIRC this is the situation (or with a slightly different mechanism such as regulations affecting only large companies) in e.g. France and some other European countries, but an unintended consequence is that the ownership structure of large corporations becomes complex and usually spread across multiple countries, such as the infamous tax-avoidance strategies used by IKEA. This creates a barrier to entry that makes large actors more entrenched in some cases. The best way to see this in action is to compare the ages of the largest European companies (e.g. BASF) with the ages of the largest American companies (incl. Amazon, Google); the largest American companies are generally much younger.
I couldn't resist, just grabbed one off of ebay for $16, curse you for posting it!
When in the modern era has there been technology that was not illegal? Guns, radios, printing presses...
Yes. Weight is a symptom, not a cause.

Eat too many carbs/sugars -> more insulin which yields more body fat.
How to Use Technology to Outsource Pet Care
> I really enjoyed the frustration of the article's author in trying to attribute Ted Chiang's writing to his personal life or history.

I thought that recent article in Vanity Fair about AI risk and Elon Musk was a great example of this instinct to try to reduce everything down to personal traumas or monkey politics. Apparently Musk cannot really be concerned about AI risk, it has to be some ulterior reason: perhaps he's envious of Larry Page! Or it's propaganda for Tesla! Or desperate attention-whore behavior (because he doesn't get enough attention?) or something, anything, which is not, y'know, being worried about creating intelligences without builtin human morality & limits.
Clicked on the link to read the post and it said the page was blocked by my ad blocker... oh the irony!

More seriously, sad to see them go but this does reflect the reality of a market shift in this space.
it is not about the government being objectively awful, it is about the government regulating. A great deal of the tax code is about giving certain groups tax breaks while preventing other people from using those to create loopholes to avoid taxes. The conservative tax lobbyists actually want to reduce the effectiveness of taxation not its complexity.
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As someone who lived in Toronto and now lives in SV, this is great news for the region, which is flush with talent and is really doing everything to support researchers and entrepreneurs. However the cost of living(COL) is prohibitive, maybe even more than SV and the ratio of salary to COL is definitely higher than SV.
> Since you are a programmer, you do not know what science is, even though you may believe you do. A hint: Computer science does not contain science, just mathematics.

He probably wrote this half in jest, but it is actually a serious issue in fields like Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision that are have their intellectual roots in Computer Science.

Papers in CV and NLP are about data structures, algorithms, software engineering methods, neural networks, statistical models, and so on. They do not discuss anything in particular about the structure of language or the properties of images. This is because they are descended from CS. In CS, exemplar results are ideas like QuickSort and Dijkstra's algorithm. These algorithms work on any list or graph; you do not have to know anything special about the particular properties of the list or graph you are operating on.

As an illustrative anecdote, I went to an NLP talk given at MIT by a well-known Google/Berkeley parsing researcher. He gave a talk about a system that used neural networks to do sentence parsing. In the QA session, I mentioned the idea of verb argument structure, and asked how the system would learn, for example, that a verb like "persuade" or "argue" can take a that-complement, while other verbs cannot. He didn't really have an answer, because it wasn't the kind of thing that he worried or thought about. My guess is that he did not consider such a question to be relevant to his field.
That's a fantasy. An analogy taken too literally. People lionize John Galts and imagine that they are their organizations. They aren't. Just because he started it and called the shots doesn't mean he literally is Amazon. That's a fanciful way of thinking and it's disastrous for us mortals to take it literally. Amazon is all the people working there, who, while well-paid compared to all the other serfs, actually get a paltry share of the fortune they generate collectively.
Interesting... Can you elaborate on said old school languages?
I was under the impression that the deaths from solar are from mining the resources to produce the panels which doesn't happen in the US.
Unless it's convergent encryption or if the user has a way to share the key across apps.
Former Citizens Bankers Say They Faked Data for Customer-Meeting Program
No they can't because it requires a surprising number of details to be able to do all the things a cleaning lady actually do. Getting in between the books, under the rug, up on the shelves, cleaning the toilets etc.

If a robot could do all that we would basically be close to a general purpose AI. We aren't even close.
Steven Strogatz's Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos [1] is a great introduction.

[1]: https://westviewpress.com/books/nonlinear-dynamics-and-chaos...
Neuromorphic, Quantum, Supercomputing Mesh for Deep Learning
the AMP link really masks the original domain wow, thought the article was written by google for a second :/
Well, water waves can either be surface waves or pressure waves. The latter is the same mechanism as sound.
... wait, there's an incentive for corporations to pollute? I think 'The Tragedy of the Commons' is a better explanation for that, but I see what you're driving at.
This isn't thinking far enough outside the tiny box of this specific economic order at this specific point in history. For example, we could have co-ops instead of corps.
> year to date (from 1-Sep to today)

This year to date data skips the summer season and includes winter!
Does a YC batch (june-aug) last more than 90 days?
This is because I am contemplating bringing our whole team (all French) on an ESTA (VWP) if selected, which is actually a substitute for B-1 for <90 days stays. Having a few extra days to arrive and depart, would also be great. Couldn't find anything from quick googling. Any help?
Part of the problem is that people are capable of getting to "FPTP is kinda bad", and they have heard enough about experiments with instant-runoff and scoring (incl. approval) methods, where some election had a weird result, that they realize a single-winner system won't fix things, but everyone's conclusion is:

"some kind of proportional system"

You can't implement a real government with a metasyntactic electoral system, obviously. You need a specific system. I think the answer is Schulze STV, but most people don't know what that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_STV
Modern branch predictors have made switch-based interpreters more viable: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document
> The key thing in monarchial feudalism is that a single person is the state

No, that's (approximately) monarchical absolutism. Feudalism is completely different, because the state (insofar as that term is even loosely valid for feudalism) is a bunch of people, arranged in heirarchy, but each with both rights and obligations both up and down the heirarchy, not one person with absolute power. That's why the transition from feudal government to absolute monarchies in much of Europe was a big deal.
A colleague of mine was involved in verifying the software that controlls the shut-down procedures of the Darlington [0] plant. Now he's working on proofs of block-chain ciphers of some sort or another. I don't believe he's quite rich but he can certainly be rather selective of job opportunities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlington_Nuclear_Generating_...

update: added link
What's wrong with just doing SHA1?
What you're saying makes sense, but doesn't at all jive with the reported 99% satisfaction rate in the pilot program.

Wouldn't more than 1% have noticed an increased tax burden? Or perhaps the focus group wasn't diverse enough.
What could you possibly be doing that is so private on Disney premises and that makes you freak out about tracking? They know you're in the park, they might as well know when you're in the bathroom or eating lunch or taking a ride. It's not like they're tracking you after you leave (or are they?)...
>Both parties have their own flavor of expanding the powers of the government, while no one in office is advocating reduction of government power.

Not everyone is interested in across-the-board reduction of government power. I understand it appears to be your view, but you need to be careful to treat that as another political position, not as a global constant.

>I maintain that both parties are the same, neither is capable of delivering real change

I think it's a naive fallacy to have the base goal being some nebulous thing called "real change". When things like Obamacare and gay marriage and raising the minimum wage and protecting the environment, like Obama did and Clinton would have worked for, can't be called "real change" because they aren't the perfect solution some liberals/libertarians would want belies a privilege in not being a member of the classes that these things really affect, which coincidentally are not classes often represented well in the tech industry or on tech boards like this one.
That video is a classic, I'm pretty sure most Australians watched it in school, and remember this scene: https://youtu.be/rm3hd1pxHME?t=44
Who here is trying to spread Christianity and "Civilisation"?

If we have the power to help somebody in another country (without, say, bankrupting ourselves or causing some other harm), why don't we have a moral responsibility to do it?

Certainly we can disagree on what realistically and specifically should be done, but can agree that, in principle, humans are obligated to help other humans?