skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think many continue to underestimate human beings. It reflects a curious mix of lack of self awareness, a certain capacity for self aggrandizement and hubris, reductionism of basic human tasks and confusing under-achievement in others with general human potential.

A lot of the current hype far from demonstrating a firm grasp of the problem rest on reductionism and betray a shallow child like perspective of humanity.

AI is going to take a far greater understanding of ourselves and our environment that we currently possess and like all advancement it will be exciting when and if we achieve it. Self driving cars will happen, but in far constrained and controlled environments than our roads today putting a perspective on current capabilities.

Car manufacturers have been extremely slow to adopt technology and have been stuck in a time warp for nearly 20-30 years. Had they been faster a lot of the tech and sensors that deliver better situational awareness in self driving cars today would have made our roads far safer than they currently are.
Staying on earth is running a server without a backup. We all know how that ends.. Work oppurtunities for data retrieval companies.

Other planets would be our species redundancy at the very least.

Playing it out, our sun will run out off fuel eventually. Mother nature is immune to patience. It will come.

Saying no to space travel for survival reasons is the definition off "ignorance is bliss". The sun is here for a few million years, "what do I care" right, I'm long gone anyway.
Cold calling might not work for the first few customers. Instead, you should find friends or friends of friends to sell to at first, because even if you have the best pitch, and they would use the product, it might be that they're very overworked and they don't have time to speak to you.
There are actually two of these: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/tesla/edison
Now you can just shove this in electron and have java apps everywhere again!
The 32-bit Vax 11/780 was introduced in 1977 and IEEE 802.3 was not finalized until 1983. So they could/should have done something about it I think.

Come to think of it, the Vax was little endian (like Intel).
A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
Kano's Pixel Kit is a charming introduction to coding
I read your comment as, Im against sexual harrasment.. BUT dot dot dot..

I can only imagine the type of cretin that would benefit from your idea of keeping "the pendulum from swinging" so as to protect the accused.
And yet we don't have have an AI which could tell us if a photo is a bird and win at checkers (or tic-tac-toe). Our current AI is stuck in widget-land and it might solve some small, interesting tasks but we don't know how to even approach the harder stuff.

It reminds me of that problem where anytime we do something new in AI, it is quickly defined as not AI. I think that is totally correct because what we're doing isn't actual AI! We're going to enter another AI winter once lay people begin to realize the limitations of the current state-of-the-art. My prediction is that this will happen once progress on the self-driving front stalls.
AI is amazing. Hype isn't.

Look at something like smartphones. We all pretend that the iPhone invented the segment... but I had a shitty PDA that was a 2nd cousin to the iphone a decade before, and a functionally equivalent if not polished iPaq in the 2003/2004 timeframe. I used Google maps on a AMPS data plan in 2005.

AI is a tool, and just like with "natural intelligence" that we walk around with in our heads, its foundational but only transformative when we apply intelligence to solve problems. There's no magic.
Some of the groundbreaking robots you’ll see at TC Sessions: Robotics next week
What about the fact of a open system, unregulated by the feds and off-course zero middle men in transferring internationally. No need of a hosted wallet if the BTC address is registered for every individual and he/she can keep a encrypted key on dropbox or some shit.

Also it would be a deflationary economy allowing people to avoid mutual funds, investment funds to beat the growing cost of living when they retire.
The superfluid Universe
I wonder how a simple site like profit on a mobile ad, I assume it's only good on certain bumps of viral traffic and even then would get around 300 a month. If it's doing well then I need to pump out some simple mobile sites
I was expecting these to be in horrible suburban office parks.
You just needed a bit more research. With a FB page or Google Maps/Yelp profile, why is a website needed? A vet isn't the kind of business where you need to read info and be sold on it. You just find the nearest good one and go when you need to.
At Long Last, a Revised Patent Policy for IETF: What’s Behind BCP79bis?
> they do not prove that general ai is possible

Is there anyone who seriously believes that AGI isn't possible? I thought the only argument was about the timeline. To me it's absolutely inevitable, even if it may not be in my lifetime. I mean if we really can't do it with computers, then we'll just genetically engineer a giant brain in a vat or something. Still artificial! But unless you have some convincing evidence that human intellect is at the very limit of some speed-of-light-like universal constant, you bet we'll build something better. Eventually.

All of these articles basically make me think of a newspaper in 1915: "What if human flight is a failed dream?" Just wait, buddy. Rome wasn't built in a day, or even a decade.
I'd argue that the classifying images successes do indeed qualify as dumb but fast. Not to say it was not a difficult problem to teach a computer how to solve, but if you ask a 5 year old to pick out all the pictures that contain chairs they could definitely do it. Vision & identifying things is a problem that even very dumb humans can easily solve, but all of us do it relatively slowly.
Neither Vive nor Rift have been selling very well recently if the Steam Survey is any indication. PSVR numbers are better but I don't think they're that impressive either.
Bad luck to announce support for `every cloud` the day alibaba cloud reaches the frontpage
It is still way too expensive. I like VR and enjoy gaming but not enough to replace a PC that comfortably plays everything else I want to play.
Accessing memory locations ending in 0x7?
Gather round the campfire folks, James Mickens has a story to tell:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
10 Mistakes Tourists Do While Visiting Phuket
Concentration camps reveal the nature of the modern state
Wonderful guide, thanks for sharing!
Well, there's the simple fact (or what seems to be a fact at least, might not be true) that the reality of physics confines us to this rock, more or less. We don't travel faster than light, so at best we can achieve a Mars colony dependent on Earth supplies.

So yeah, I'd rather just focus on developing survival strategies for our rock. But the whole discussion is maybe a bit off topic here too.
Thanks for putting this together. I recommend you check out

https://sebastianraschka.com/

the author of Python Machine Learning. He's great at explaining things, wrote the bets intro to ML book IMHO and is a good Twitter follow.

I also humbly submit my own guide, from the perspective of how to approach studying it amidst all the resources available:

http://karlrosaen.com/ml/
You don't think self-driving is a hard technical problem? Come on man, that's obvious BS.
> There is definitely a chilling effect in the USA

Perhaps with individual whistle blowers, but definitely not with the press. I agree the USA is nowhere near perfect, and I always fear it will become more like China rather than say much of western europe (which still is far from perfect).

> These two (and other) methods of state violence against expression are worth considering when choosing a region for a cloud services provider.

If you want to associate with a better run state for your cloud service region, you have much better options than China. Not that Alibaba is bad at all, I have friends who work there and it seems to be a decent company by Chinese standards.
so much unhappy talks about the internet recently, I wonder why there isn't startup doing network service on top of NDN and IPFS for a better network
Thanks!

Although, since an ASIC is application specific, couldn't you pack more cores (since you can ignore the circuitry that you don't need) or otherwise optimise for the application? If you can do more work, or do the same amount of work with less energy, then it could still be worth it.

I am obviously ignoring a rather important factor: its unlikely a "small" player could make a more performant ASIC than a "big" player like the GPU vendors, who have invested billions into building high performance hardware in a cost effective way. I'm not really asking "why don't people do this", but rather asking if its possible at all given a big enough budget.
This has been submitted quite a few times in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=karpathy.github.io%2Fneuralnet...
Worm by JC McCrae is the best superhero epic ever written. https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/...

Don't spoil it for yourself - enjoy all 1.6 million words and let the story unfold :)
I can't tell if there's an intersection of Church and State. All the top results at https://www.crossing.us/intersections/church/state (for me) have Church Street/Road intersecting with State Highway X or similar.
Show HN: Particubes
Here's a figure showing the density of sea shipping routes:

https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch1en/appl1en/mariti...

Immense swaths of the sea just aren't visited.

>You could pay them to deviate from their optimal course in a systematic way so as to cover more ocean with each voyage.

The financial pressure for punctual shipments is possibly far too great to consider route deviations, especially if they mean longer times at sea.
It's a lazy filter - and I don't mean "lazy" in the entirely negative sense.

If you get 4000 pitch decks per year and ultimately make 15-20 investments, you need to whittle that down fast. Having half that volume be "cold" and just tossing it gets you down to a more manageable number quickly. Might you miss some gems in there? Sure, but you don't need 'em all, you just need 15-20 solid ones.

Another VC might think differently. This just says don't go to this particular VC to raise your seed.
It's good to see that he analyzed the problems to see why his client base wasn't interested. The reasons had nothing to do with him, which is good data to have.

The veterinarians I've seen are booked from dawn to dusk, so "too many clients" is their issue. Why advertise when you are already booked solid.

Those retiring and those who want no tech are also valid complaints and little can be done about either.

He focuses on the fourth reason he can do something about, they want to see a portfolio of their sites done for other vets. That is a reasonable move.
This one always makes me giggle when driving through it but didn't show up on the site:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Antonio+Pkwy+%26+Avenida+D...

https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Antonio/Banderas
https://www.crossing.us/intersections/democrat/republican

Who would have thought that only one would exist in...Memphis.
Interesting article. I have a similar business (websites for physicians). I was very lucky to get some introductions and leads through my personal network (being a med student myself, my parents having a lot of physician friends).

A thing a was quite successful with, was redesigning existing old websites. More building a new website than just redesigning. But most of the clients I worked with had already a website that was just ugly or outdated or both. That made sure that they at least see some value in being found on google
Not mine, but just found out this cool easy voxel art iOS app.
GitHub – s3-environ
Uppy v0.17 is here: Instagram plugin, StatusBar, file detection and restrictions
There's also
https://www.crossing.us/intersections/bill/ted
Saw a headline yesterday that Oculus is coming out with a $299 headset next year.
Unfortunately, it's not actually an initialiser. Type confusion is really common in Ruby programs, sadly.

The construct in parent assigns 1 if foo is "falsey", not strictly if it is nil. Even if foo is already initialised but contains a "falsey" value it will be assigned 1.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History - a byte was in the process of getting standardized at around the same time.
Agreed.

AI/ machine learning is really expensive to most companies. The ROI just isn't there for a lot of business domains. I don't think we'll ever reach a full AI controlled society for the sames reason the world will never run out of oil: supply and demand. As demand rises so will price, and at a certain point it's cheaper to employ people.

That said, there will be swaths of industry that are more easily automated that will be (and already are), but there are much larger areas that will still need people doing the 'plumbing' with excel and phone calls.

My guess is there's going to be a continued trifurcation in the white collar work force that we've been seeing for 20 years.
1) The MBAs: they will continue to run the show for the vast majority of businesses. 10%
2) The tech kings/queens, barons, and knights: they will run a few of the mega-tech businesses. The rest will work for the MBA's and get rewarded nicely. 10%
3) The information plumbers: proficient at writing/reading reports for the MBA's, working in excel, calling who needs to be called, and moving stuff to the right space when the machine doesn't know how to (e.g. when the tech royalty messes up). 80%

Then there's the blue collar class. Most of the changes there have already begun to happen. The loss of jobs in manufacturing will be echoed in some other industries (e.g. trucking... we'll still need truckers, just not the same % of the population).

The standard solutions for these changes people propose is:
1) UBI: I believe this is a pipe dream that helps the tech royalty sleep at night.
2) Training: Covert Blue collar jobs into the while collar plumbing class. A nice idea, and has merit. The problem is white collar is office, and most blue collar employees _HATE_ the office.
3) Infrastructure: hearkening back to the United States CCC, beef up infrastructure projects to replace loss of jobs in the blue collar sector. This is not a bad idea, but has funding issues.

Any I missed?
Used to get told the same thing for GP2 EBS and R3.8xlarge limits in us-west-2 all the time. On a couple occasions was told no, that increasing the limit wasn't possible due to existing commitments in the region, so I'm not entirely sure if it's a canned response or actually a legit concern of theirs.
Devil's advocate - if the experience of VR is completely indistinguishable from reality, is it not just reality for the consciousness experiencing the VR?

We experience sadness, happiness, joy, and despair, based on sensory input, which is supposedly a manifestation of the world around us, but maybe it's the abstractions we build on top of that matter which are important. Maybe the experience of VR fishing with my dad is imperceptibly different from actually going fishing (better, even, since the simulated fish isn't full of microplastics and our two stroke boat didn't poison the water) - If my VR avatar and your VR avatar build full, rich (as far as we can tell) experiences together, and generate real sensations of joy, then I'm not sure it's so different from doing the same thing in reality. In either case we're manipulating atoms in ways we find pleasant; in one case those atoms simply happen to be in a computer.

As a thought experiment, say you could build an entire copy of our civilization, but at half the physical size - its experiences would be no less rich, I think. Lower carbon emissions too. Now make it a hundredth the size. Or a billionth. Maybe modeling this inside a computer isn't so different from that scenario.

Having everyone hooked up to VR all the time sounds like a hellish nightmare, for the record, but I'm not sure why it bothers me as much as it does.
The “singularity” hypothesis extrapolates exponential growth from the recent boom, but ignores the fact that continued exponential growth requires scientific breakthroughs that are unlikely to be solved for a hundred years, if ever.
I'm not saying it's a good language or not. I haven't written in it enough to determine that. I know enough to say that anyone who says it's not a "Real Programming Language" is full of it.
Is Linyos Torovoltos a joke name?
Scope is a Facebook Messenger bot that identifies songs from lyrics/titles
A Simple Link Shortener in Rails
Aw. And I was hoping Chapter 3 and 4 would be finished sometime soonish. It's the only part of the guide that you can learn from by example.
My contributions to CPython during 2017 Q1
They started doing this about a year ago, and I remember some of the AgileBits folks telling me I was full of it: local vaults were still first class citizens, nothing to worry about.

I moved away back then, because the writing on the wall was clear.
||= is an operator though. It's Ruby, and it hides away unnecessary details once you take 10 seconds to read about what it does, so I don't think that's a fair example for what you're pointing out. Now if we're talking about endless chaining of enumerators all on one line, then yes, that bullshit needs to stop.
Perhaps a counterpoint would be that the opportunity cost of colonizing mars would be better spent by first solving the existential issues here on Earth.

Once we have figured out how to achieve homeostasis on a planet so plentiful in resources as our own, then we could start looking to do so elsewhere in less favorable environments.

Mars is extremely barren and has negligible capabilities for life support.
They remind me more of cold fusion.
You may be interested in the following:

Practical BFT: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
The Night Watch: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

Generally the idea is to assume that there will be fewer than k failures out of the n nodes you have.
The big problem with AI
To add, look at where you can add business process automation and self service and if or how that could optimise work throughput and reduce overheads. A lot of that has been commodotised in large enterprises but in smaller ones there may be some gains to be had.
You've probably never heard of the world's most popular chatbot
Twice.

Once when I was still practicing law - references are really common in that industry (as is your law school and whether you did law review mattering 5-10 years later!)

The other time when I worked in higher education. It was a technical role, but it's really common in higher ed.

Both times, those references got phone calls. As a matter of my own process, I won't submit references until we're close to the offer stage.
Roku reportedly launching IPO in 2017
Localization is a hard problem. Too many factors to consider. If you are building a MVP, I would advise not spending too much time on it. You can certainly leave some placeholders in the application if it fits but building a full blown localized product is 2-3 times harder (in my experience).

You also said "which hopefully will have global applicativity."

So you are not quite there yet where you know for sure that it will be global. What if it doesn't or takes you a while to first validate the market in general ?

My advice: Build the MVP quickly, validate the product and then think about localizing if you get enough traction.
Maybe this "not intelligence" stuff is way more useful than strong ai.

And sure, each solution tackles a limited range of problem, but a lot of problems can be solved or made easier by this approach.
The results are already above and beyond anything ever achieved by strong AI research.

Edit: Sorry, only now I realize the point of your comment. Yes, there is no indication (in my opinion) that current achievements will lead us to strong AI
What this "NASA-style powerpoint" refers to is the fact that the content would be better presented as normal flowing text instead of set of slides that are overpacked with text.

On the other hand this presentation is not that bad, at least it does not have bullet lists nested five levels deep where text size does not match the nesting levels and such things.
According to that rumour that headset is a competitor to Daydream or Gear VR, not the Rift or Vive. (IOW it doesn't have 6DOF positioning). So it'd be good for passive consumption but not so great for games or content creation.
Is it safe to say that VR still has another decade (at least) before it gets any kind of wide spread adoption? I was hyped a couple years ago for VR but it feels like its fizzled out.
This is really cool. We're a one-man shop (me) that uses Heroku though. Even though I can get on AWS or GCP really quickly with this (but probably not because we have a Rails back-end and React/Express front-end), I wouldn't then know how to best leverage/manage it. So this is a bit of a non-starter for me.

So far I'm seeing this as useful for side projects at most. The layer isn't opaque enough where I can troubleshoot serious issues and its too new to know there won't be any. More layers add more complexity in the early stages, over time though this could get quite compelling.

But it is a really cool thing.
You should let them know. Ask if it's okay, but more importantly, get them your resume and let them know what you're interviewing for so that they can speak to the relevant parts of your experience.

That said, I'm an open reference for a few folks, meaning I've told them to list me as needed and I'll pick up the phone. I know these folks pretty well, and they know me well enough to know that I don't need to prep for something like that.
I assume this is the Santa Cruz headset? The big thing with that one is it's standalone -- my guess is that it includes electronics similar to a smartphone.

My question is whether I'll be able to connect this new, cheaper (better?) headset to my PC for gaming or whether it can only be used standalone. Given the PC specs required for current VR games, I can't see how a system builtin to the headset could provide a comparable experience.
so what are the chances that a significant portion of the population was being paid more than they are worth? Whether because of skill set or simply the industries are adversely affected by more competition?

there are certainly people getting raises, so is this limited to specific industries, regions, or other category? Is there a break out where raises are occurring versus where they are lacking?

anecdotally, personally I have no friends in my circle who made mention of no raises. poor raises sure, but that is always relative to expectations
> They want to see a portfolio. It’s tough to get off the ground because of the chicken and egg problem. Vets who were showing some interest always wanted us to “provide some references”: the problem is that no one wants to be your first client.

So why not give one away for free ? In exchange for a good reference (if they are happy).
Here’s How Americans Spend Their Time, Sorted by Income
We're in the trough of disillusionment.
Seriously. I didn't think the article was going to be just prettifying a 1 liner by hand. Looking back, it's actually cringe-y that he calls this reverse engineering. You know what real reverse engineering is? Figuring out the code from the output image only.
If you haven't done a two-column high school geometry proof in a while, this might seem a little strange. I'm a geometry teacher and created this mostly for my students to practice stringing together math statements in a logical order.
Afrika's regional open data platform
Show HN: Sentence construction game for children based on Google Image Search
6 Ways to Learn from Failure, and Beat Success Odds
I thought it was based on time.
I'm running a one-man shop too. And I deployed many websites to Digital Ocean/Vultures with the help of Docker machine, 5 minutes from starting the VPS to the website is ready