skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two kids, one 6 years old, and another 4 months old. Since I cannot spend more time in the office, I'm required to be more productive. I discovered "less is more" principle this way - by putting in less time, I actually achieve more. Also, at home, ususally I have at most one hour to spend coding my semi-hobby project. And this way, I discovered that it can be a very productive hour. Another upside of having constantly inquiring "explain me like I'm five"-type son is that content of my brain's RAM is instantly swapped out several minutes after I pick him at kindergarten. Bottom line: I rest better; spend less time; I'm more productive. (and earn more money)
Explain how it's less aggressive than the travesty of law that just got voted in to make the entrenched interests of American health care even more entrenched.
It is useful if you start thinking about products whose prices depend on the prices of other things.

Suppose that I'm a SPY trader. I need to know where a bunch of other things are trading in order to figure out where I should be quoting SPY.

If I only know those prices on a second stale basis then I can't get my hedge off and so I can't quote SPY as tightly. I lose, investors lose, and investment banks win because they're better adapted to trading where prices aren't clear.
The real kicker is that an AI controlled aircraft wouldn't be as limited in manoeuvrability as one that has to sustain a human.
TweetsDoGood donates to Planned Parenthood when Trump tweets
> I don't see how the normal arguments of self-reliance and accountability translate to sickness, which is by definition out of our control no matter how self-reliant and accountable we are.

The "Just World Hypothesis". Many supporters, either overtly or subconsciously, believe that people get sick because they "deserve" to in some moral way. The universe is punishing for their sins, so why should taxpayers pay them off?

You can see an example of this worldview in this thread in fact, with the comment: "People who drive their cars recklessly and who speed pay higher auto insurance premiums. People who choose poor lifestyle behaviors (smoking, drinking daily Cokes, not exercising, drug use) were subsidized by those who 'drove safely.'"
That's understandable but this really isn't the place for that.

Personally, I've been talking about how ridiculous it is in the office. Also, my parents are poor and directly affected, but blaming Christians isn't beneficial to anyone except the elitists who passed this bill.
That's a very clever comment, but I think you should include something indicating why for those who don't know how HFT works.
Maybe this is a regional thing, but I'm British and I'm not sure I've ever heard a first language British English speaker use the word "auto" for a car. I'd have said that was purely an Americanism.
This legislation is a complete mess. That said, I'm bleakly optimistic that if it succeeds in breaking healthcare for enough people badly enough, the pushback may give us an actual shot at a single-payer healthcare system in the US in my lifetime.
Frankly, this is a "problem" we would be better off solving outside of Facebook. They should not have so much power in the first place. And people should not be living so naively as to "need" a company to "police" something before they can trust it.
Our health care story in the United States has been killing people for decades, yet here we are.
So were you expecting free health insurance or were you expecting no health insurance?
Is this satire? Are you serious? Do you know people get all kinds of illnesses at all ages and do you know that hospital bills are so high that even gainfully employed people in "real jobs" would have trouble paying for them with all their life savings? How much do you think a stay in the hospital is? How much do you think insurance will cost you if you have a medical condition? What if your insurance drops you or you lose it somehow and now you can't afford new insurance because you got sick?
It's not necessary to apply sophisticated models like random forest/neural nets to cricket. It's a sports for which humongous amount of data is kept meticulously; also we're trying to predict pretty standard stuff like who'll win the next match. Standard regression should be able to perform very well (and it does).
> Similarly self conscious AI can emerge without people having good understanding of the source of the consciousness.

Any evidence? It's fun to think about, but most people who think this are guilty of one of the mistakes I've listed. Or don't consider it a mistake. Or are not programmers.

AI, as long as it is software, is programmed with a very specific understanding of what is being programmed. Every line of code is intentional. Nothing exists in between the lines.

> guiding this evolution

AI is perfectly guided. Every program is completely understood (insert incompetent programmer joke here). Every symbol is typed with purpose on purpose.

The point is, Roger Penrose is not talking about programs. He's talking about physics.

When a programmer successfully emulates consciousness, every line will be deliberate, and they will know exactly how they did it. Not only that, if their program behaves like real consciousness, the programmer will have had to have knowledge of real consciousness. Otherwise what they've built would be something else. Something exciting I'm sure, but something else.

All of our models (and programs) are based on our understanding of the real world. Hence, they are simulations. The deeper our understanding of the real world, the more accurate our simulations.
I like the following anecdote of Darwin's (though it's from quite a bit later in time):

Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee, and spiritous liquors: they will also, as I have myself seen, smoke tobacco with pleasure. (6. The same tastes are common to some animals much lower in the scale. Mr. A. Nichols informs me that he kept in Queensland, in Australia, three individuals of the Phaseolarctus cinereus [koalas]; and that, without having been taught in any way, they acquired a strong taste for rum, and for smoking tobacco.) Brehm asserts that the natives of north-eastern Africa catch the wild baboons by exposing vessels with strong beer, by which they are made drunk. He has seen some of these animals, which he kept in confinement, in this state; and he gives a laughable account of their behaviour and strange grimaces. On the following morning they were very cross and dismal; they held their aching heads with both hands, and wore a most pitiable expression: when beer or wine was offered them, they turned away with disgust, but relished the juice of lemons. An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men. These trifling facts prove how similar the nerves of taste must be in monkeys and man, and how similarly their whole nervous system is affected.

- "The Descent of Man"
The maltodextrin is the primary calorie source in Soylent, but it's a much slower absorbing sugar (higher glycemic index, so it doesn't completely fuck your blood sugar) than the plain old sucrose you get in literally every other meal replacement drink.
That's besides the point. I don't agree with the law and I'm not a Republican, but categorizing large groups of people don't benefit anyone but those in power. Such nearsightedness belongs on Facebook and Twitter, not HN.
I agree. Just cricinfo statusguru is a huge treasure trove, in addition to several ball by ball datasets from games.

Any links to something interesting to read that you suggest?
For me, the feature that keeps it in my pocket every day, versus being able to ditch it when I feel like being in the real world, is the phone part. If it was just a PDA I'd leave it at home most of the time.
There is this really great paper about space leaks and arrows: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cab9/4da6e4b88b01848747df82...
Honest question: how is it transferring wealth from the poor who by the very definition don't have wealth? Other factors aside, it seems to me more that it's halting the subsidy.

The insurance cost is not the core of the problem. It never was. The problem is that healthcare costs have become so prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of the population that it is effectively bankrupting to undergo anything other than a simple outpatient procedure.
to me this is a perfect example of how incredibly indifferent capitalism can be to creating value. no one is bad here, per se, but its useless as far as i can tell, and someone gets very very rich. nothing wrong with capitalism of course, but i feel the need to keep harping of the fact that it doesn't necessarily imply anything about value or desert.

edit: every time i make a comment along these lines, its interesting to see... it seems like HN is split about 50/50 on this. is it that this point is trite? or that you disagree?
Thousands of people will die in the process, it's a high price to pay for a political win.
In C# or Java, it's easy to get a lazy collection and force it into a list or an array. Is it possible to do the same with haskells (lazy) lists?
Other food manufacturers have been around for a lot longer.
Having gotten married recently, things have already changed quite a bit, before even having kids. I have a similar job and commute as you do.

I also recently had the opportunity to change jobs and made it a point to join a place that doesn't believe in working long hours and staying late. (I used to work in an infamous place for long hours, then I left that to cofound my own startup which was again long hours even if more flexible.) My team here is totally fine with my 9:30-6:00 schedule with working from home 1 day of the week. This is currently how I balance it. I predict having kids will throw a wrench at this scheduling again and I'll have to re-adjust. As for side projects, it's pretty much fitting it in spare minutes on the train commute, when the wife showers, etc.
Not exactly, a firm like Virtu makes money due to volume and volatility. If the market goes up, they make money, if it goes down, they make money. They don't make money when they break things, or when the volume (and volatility) is low.

Source: Worked at Madison Tyler / Virtu for over 4 years, but left before their IPO.
before HFT these transactions were run by human market makers from giant banks who skimmed hundreds of times more profit off of them (this is the reason that you hear about it in the news all of the time)

Someone's job is going to be to sit between the people who just want to sell and those who want to buy- when we talk about liquidity it's just this. The fact that you're directing your anger towards some robots who are ruthlessly driving each other to the minimum possible gap between the buy price and the sell price on this is bizarre
I mean, paper can't get intercepted as easily as a phone, so...
> Well, a lot of very intelligent people never achieve their goals either.

They're not intelligent with respect to the goals they're not achieving. Or they're competing with other people that are more 'intelligent'. There are (of course!) confounding factors but, all else being equal, the more intelligent agent should win.

Let's use a concrete example. Consider someone that's very good at solving math problems but is unhappy with their job. What's the problem with just considering that they're intelligent with respect to solving math problems but bad at (all of the skills necessary to be good at) finding a satisfying job?

Achieving goals, winning 'games', etc., seems like a really useful and really general way of measuring the effectiveness of things and that seems pretty close to, if not exactly, what intelligence is (if it's any one thing in particular).

> I'd suggest that intelligence is not the achievement of goals but the formulation of goals.

What's the motivation to define intelligence in that way?
I get a lot done. Having more responsibilities means I focus more and dilly-dally less. I focus on what's important. What I lose in hours, I gain in ambition and focus.
Every car could observe its environment, refer to the map, and send back any conflicting information to DeepMap, so that the map database would be updated in real-time, and pushed to all cars in the area.
Humans and computers have different strengths though. Just because humans can't do something good doesn't mean computers can't, and vice-versa.
aka pure capitalism, which is very darwinistic, by design.
Nah, the bugs are already traded underground. The nature of the situation means the bets might be done underground, too.
It is also practically speaking kind of worthless for actual numerics compared to, say, LAPACK.

People who grouse about Fortran have almost never used it for its intended purpose. It solves a problem, and does so very well.
People who mention Julia, Python or Rust as replacements for Fortran simply do not know what they're talking about. You can do equivalent things in C++ or C, but you really shouldn't most of the time. Just as you shouldn't try to code up fancy data structures in Fortran.
Whether or not ai programmers and researchers are attempting to create consciousness, the question of whether it's possible for them to do so is relevant to people who are interested in what consciousness is.
This is a tautology and not an answer to my question. It means that you don't actually know how to define your belief system.
Yep, I'm a huge fan of this for this reason. I've spent a lot of time in my life messing around with cmake, scons, custom bash scripts... you name it, trying to get around C++'s shitty dependency management. And then recently I picked up Ruby, for the first time in a year or two, to write a little chat bot... 'gem install' is flawless across my Windows desktop and my Linux laptop, easy to depend on a specific version, easy to upgrade, etc. Tbh I'm pretty jealous.

e: does anyone know if this has any relation to Boost's b2? I know that was originally based off of jam which is not related but the name is so similar I can't help but think I'm missing something :(
Here's a short article on the issue from Feb 2017: http://spacenews.com/u-k-could-be-locked-out-of-some-aspects... and a better one from last summer: http://spacenews.com/britains-quitting-the-eu-but-will-it-be...

TLDR: ESA is separate from the EU, but there are significant projects like Galileo which are EU projects - and the EU wants to be built in the EU.

Surrey Satellite Technology is a UK company -- despite being majority owned by Airbus -- and currently builds the navigation payload for Galileo.
Because the stock exchanges are private companies that profit from every trade. It's in their interest to keep making everyone trade as much as possible. I doubt anything is going to happen unless all exchanges agree to institute the same policy, or a law is passed to that effect.

I don't know why you're being downvoted. It's a legitimate concern.
Certainly that's possible but both parties rely on the rule to block poor legislation, or so this article​ from The Hill claims.

https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/senate/33166...
Yes, you're right. My uncle calls him by a nickname (it's a Bengali thing - you have a public name and a private name, and your private name is only used by family and close friends),hence the error.
Not trying to attack here - I'm seriously trying to help - but you must have been consuming calories you weren't aware of.

For example, in my own experience counting calories, oil is always the killer - it's so calorie dense and sneaks into everything when you're cooking.

You need 2400 calories a day to maintain weight, were supposedly consuming 2000, and were (off the cuff) burning close to 1000 a day from running and other activity.

There's no way you'd gain weight at 220 lbs effectively consuming 1000 calories a day. I've lost weight eating more than that at 180 lbs body weight.

Counting calories is very difficult. It's so easy to over- or under-estimate.
> but "subjective" is not the same as "meaningless", even less when nearly everybody that experienced it has the same assessment.

Subjective on its own don't have to be meaningless. It can be subjectively meaningful. However, use a subjective statement to pass as an objective support, that is meaningless. So if OP and you are merely commenting on the status of mind or his and yours, that is fine -- and I do learn something in that regard. OP, and several other commenters, did not seem to realize they are substituting their (personal) subjective opinion to objective reasoning, that was what I pointed out, in case it become useful (to them).
My local bus stop has had an e-ink display showing when the next few bus routes are due, since last summer. I don't get to use it that often, but when I do it's often broken or stuck displaying wrong information. Just last week it was replaced, and this morning I noticed it appeared functional, but less accurate than Google Maps and Citymapper.

So much potential, but seems to be poorly implemented by Tfl.gov.uk
But most accountants suggest you don't take that deduction since they tend to be audited at a much higher rate.
Cloudron is the best of its kind, I always recommend it to non-technical people that need self hosted services.
The article doesn't say anything about what data the AI had. Did it have full access to the simulation, or did it have to "see" the opponent's plane, the terrain etc a bit more like it would in real life?

That could make a big difference. It's easy to make a self-driving car for instance if you can feed it the position of every other car in the world, with their movement data, and all other obstacles.
So, I have 3 kids, 8,6, and 3.

> I commute every day 1 hour in each direction.

I know some people are stuck in this situation but I would really recommend finding something closer or getting a fully remote job.

I have had a 100% remote job for the past 5 years and it has made all the difference. I wake up, get the kids breakfast and then head over to the standing desk and get to work. Since we homeschool I always eat lunch and dinner with my kids. Working remotely is the only way this would be possible.

> where do you take time for your side projects or studying new technologies

I do this mainly on the job now, currently learning/implementing Terraform and studying for AWS exams. Take on new challenges at work etc. I also freelance, where I am exposed new tech and challenges.

> full stack developer

There are tons of remote jobs for that skillset, I really encourage you to look elsewhere.
The serving size is the whole freakin' point. If you were to consume 1 bag of the Soylent powder, or 5 bottles of the pre-mixed drink, you would have exactly 100% of your RDA for most macros and some micros (+/- some modest amount) for a 2000cal diet.

This breaks down easily into per-meal replacements especially for the powder. Half a bag is half a day's needs, and so on.

That is literally the whole reason Soylent exists. As far as I know, it's the only product that works that way at that price point.
Nearly 80 percent of US display ad spend will be programmatic in 2017
Whirlpool acquires Yummly
Isn't A-GPC [0] proven to act just in the brain?

[0]: https://examine.com/supplements/alpha-gpc/
> Just wait for the next big solar storm.

So when that happens, it will be important to have the option.

Until then, since I have no reason to run a "production database" on my workstation, why would I want ECC?

> we're always right on the edge of having memory with so many errors that it's unusable.

That's fine by me. Living here on "the edge", even with overclocked memory, my system is the most stable system I have ever owned.

I really can't see any reason to use ECC on my desktop apart from fear of hand-wavy potential issues.

Is my personal experience so unique? Are any of you actually experiencing instability that you are sure is caused by physical memory errors that are fixed by using ECC memory?
The CEO of Vanguard likes HFTs.

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-f...

"We actually have a really good perspective on this, and there's no question in our mind that the cost to investors through funds has come down," he said.
A change can be very bad for a group within a country, but better for the long-term self-interest of the country as a whole, though.

If a globalization measure pushes a large number of Americans out of jobs temporarily, it could be the basis of such a "populist uprise", but couldn't it be better for the country as a whole if it opens up new areas for economic growth, even on a purely self-interested level?

And couldn't part of the gain for America be in building up a prosperous nation with trading ties? Not to mention the lower risk of conflict with another nation with whom America has such ties?
A tangent: I find it interesting that people associate that certain kind of minimalism in interface design with the Japanese, when Japanese web-pages, app GUIs, etc. are pretty much the opposite of that aesthetic.

In architecture, landscaping, civic design, painting, flower arrangement, music, poetry, etc.—sure, there's a specifically Japanese minimalist aesthetic. But in interface design?
Most of the American people dislike the ACA (well, "Obamacare"; the ACA has much better support, despite the two being different names for the same thing) for reasons unrelated to it's actual content.
Ahh great work! Will def check it
I have a pet theory that anti-HFT sentiment is stoked by banks and other entities that aren't able to compete.
i'd say it is a bug of capitalism that HFT is a profitable line of business. it's easily fixed by taxing, but maybe it's already taxed properly, i don't know.
i am still wondering how comes that nobody came up with a phone application for linux computers.

I have a 3G modem in my ThinkPad X220 and i am fairly sure it is technically capable of doing and receiving phone calls.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14266209 and marked it off-topic.
My partner and I pretend we're divorced.

We noticed before we had our first that our friends who were divorced with kids actually got out once in a while, because they shared custody. So we have what amounts to an oncall schedule - certain days I'm 100% in charge of kiddo, certain days he is. There's some exceptions for commute stuff - daycare is closer to my work- but this means you sleep in on your weekend day off, and you can schedule nights to game and hang out with friends, etc.

Most of the time we aren't out; kiddo is fun. But the difference between hanging out with a kid and being in charge of them getting their needs met is pretty significant.

Re: commute, I'm hauling the kiddo in with me on my bicycle, dropping her off at daycare, and heading to my work. It's exercise and commute together and I love it. It's about 40 minutes one way, so I have to be careful about not over training, but it's awesome otherwise.

Edit: We also do side projects on our off nights. And we pay people to clean/do the yard work, which also does a lot for free time.
That's helpful feedback on missing context from our post. Thanks.

This series by VICE articulates the sometimes subtle distinctions between legitimate monitoring software built for enterprises and parents vs this particular software (which they deem "stalkerware").

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/inside-stalkerwar...
Energy-Free Display, IonTouch Technology, HP Labs, Palo Alto
I can't help but to think the problem is being intentionally framed in an unhelpful way.

The problem is their ability to front-run people. They shouldn't be able to get a more accurate view of the market than anybody else, and they certainly shouldn't have the chance to roll-back their actions after they get a glance of the results. Frequency of trading is irrelevant.
That one gave me food for thought : "A website for your secrets"
This work might give you some ideas even though it's a bit dated:

http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/

Also, COGENT for lowest-level stuff being wrapped for use in Haskell somehow might be interesting. Used on ext2 filesystem already.

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/cogent.pml