skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. Central banks can only influence the process, but what really decide the creation or "extinction" of money is the demand of credit in commercial private banks.

In a way, the system is self-regulated.

In fact, all the "fractional-reserve" thing is a myth. Banks loan when they see the opportunity of profit, and then they search for reserves. Not the other way around.
From the link you reference:

> Premise 2: No Quantum Shenanigans

> ...

> the mind arises out of ordinary physics. Some people like Roger Penrose would take issue with this argument, believing that there is extra stuff happening in the brain at a quantum level.

And some other people would take issue with the idea that you can talk about a simple physics that excludes quantum physics.

> But for most of us, this is an easy premise to accept.

I'm out.
> I bet if you'd interview the average world-citizen they'd not be so convinced.

I bet if you interview the average AI researcher they'd not be convinced. All the progress we've seen can be summed up as doing dumb things quickly. Obviously that's a bit reductive and some of the dumb things are less dumb than they were before but it's hard to deny how much progress depends on our ever increasing ability to do mechanical things faster than ever before. "Dumb things quickly" is also closer to the truth about the current (and forseeable future) state of AI than all the pop-culture bullshit about super intelligence and robots taking over.
Factor in cost of living and they dont live the life of milionaires.
Strangely, I feel the opposite. That the in-crowd is aware of the limitations of AI and the average educated citizen is largely fearful of the incoming implications of highly advanced AI.
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Per Wikipedia [1] the successful Thai auto industry is a perfect example of using protective tarrifs to develop one's economy. They slapped huge tarrifs on imports, then shifted to taxing fully-assembled imports to grow their parts manufacturing, then gradually eased restrictions after they'd been able to develop a superior domestic parts manufacturing industry.

Protective taxes. Domestic growth. Expertise. Drop taxes and start telling everyone else how great free trade is.

It's a pretty winning playbook.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Thail...
The 1Password app is a good product but the subscription model they are pushing is going to turn people off in droves all of whom will go seek out the next stand-alone password app.
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'The world as will and representation' is probably the most important.

I would actually just recommend a book that does a summary of all his books, that's enough in my opinion.

His stuff is very hard to read and I often had to ask professionals who then translated or explained it to me.
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Fun article! Thanks for posting. Geoengineering is too narrow minded. We need star system engineering!

As, by-the-by, how important are "habitable zones" to the Drake equation these days?

We have an abundance of earth-life adapted to almost any temperature conditions commonly found on earth. Doesn't this imply that the total viable is wider than what we find here?

How cold could a planet be and still have chemosynthesis?
> Is not what software engineers should spend time on, definitely.

But hey! Your editor can easily boilerplate all that... boilerplate!

I think Go will continue to grow until we finally have metrics that say that coding something in Go might get you fast-running code but will be slower to code and hell to maintain.
Since bubbles popping are a random and impulsive source, the spectrum of the detected noise will be the resonance of the glass plus a white noise floor.

48khz is not overkill. Acoustic emission sensors used to detect signals like this typically use many times that sampling rate.
Sounds like OP is trying to regurgitate Wait but Why.
Sounds like there is a market for a novel product so that to Chinese people your service is fast as if inside China, but your infrastructure is actually outside. Kind of like a bridge over the Great Firewall, but just for a specific company. How could that be done, and would that be legal in China?
I think the answer can be venturing out into space. It's a logical next step for mankind.
Is it unethical to have kids in the era of climate change?
The unit doesn't change how high a jet flies.
Unless you are a master of corporate-fu: You're going to be so popular! :)
I agree with you. But typically when people make such an argument, it's about where we spend money.
"If"?!?

Don't worry, uninterrupted exponentially improving AI certainly will not happen.

Exponential growth requires a uniform medium to support it, which -- of course -- it quickly exhaust.

The idea that smart AI will produce smarter AI which will produce even smarter AI seems wildly simplistic and I'm surprised it has any traction. Why assume it would be a linear progression... a given advance might require a leap that even the smarter AI can't make directly. Or, the problem may become exponentially more difficult at a rate outstripping the advances. And those are just really simple objections. In the real world, progress on big things is messy and complex.
Wow this is a HACK. In the old-school getting-things-done-I-dont-care-if-its-ugly-but-it-has-a-certain-elegance-to-it sort of way. Well done.
They'd never feel hungry. They'll live 20 years longer on average. Have access to a diversity of food and entertainment experiences that would make their heads spin and drive a vehicle that by 1940s standards would be considered a marvel. Even the richest people alive in 1940 didn't have access to any of that.
A very updated article on recent technologies.
The Judgement Day scenario is a strawman. Of course humanity will not be replaced by killers robots over night.

When we learn how to connect our brains to computers - without our eyes, ears and hands as bottlenecks in between - humanity's views about the world and life itself might change significantly. Strong AI is not even required for that to happen. There will be brain mines in rural Chinese sheds.
I don't see how they go from 'but it might not happen yet' to 'failed dream'. The fraction of things that humans can do which machines cannot is shrinking monotonically. One of two things will happen - either humans are unbelievably close to some 'maximum possible intelligence', or computers will one day handily beat us at everything. My money's on the second scenario.
But it's hard and we don't understand much at all about us, and the things we built after thinking we had some gigantic insight are kinda not as great as we hoped them to be. Therefore, doubt is appropriate. (as is working on further progress)
I created PythonBooks as a side project.

The website is a guided repository of Python books and currently lists the best 100 books. It classifies these books into fine grained categories and shows the best books in each category. It has filters for Python version, free and non free books etc. For the beginner book section, you can even filter the books by topics that you want to learn.
I knew what happens :)
The archive.org guys might be interested in something like that.
It's still a dream, just not a very pleasant one.
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Seems I can't edit my post, but:

I think I'm simply wrong here. I was envisioning "breaking" as being incompatible with Go1. If Go2 was a superset of Go1, it would be allow Go1 code to run flawlessly in Go2 and still allow any new keywords/features.

My assumptions were incorrect, and writing my reply to you sussed it in my head. Thank you for your reply, sorry for wasting your time :)
Radiohead also released an EP of OK Computer B-sides called "Airbag / How Am I Driving?" It's absolutely brilliant, but relatively unknown. If you haven't heard it seek it out.
The problem is you need it to be expensive to change a block, so the seti work needs to depend on the transactions it signs, else it is too cheap to produce modified block chains.
In this context the term singularity means a point in time in the future where certain technologies become available and open up such vast possibilities that it's impossible to predict what will happen beyond that point.
I am working on a long-term project (an app for collaborative voice translation). Since I will be running out of funding for this project by the end of the month I tried spinning up an "easier" side business: selling websites to veterinary clinics.

The idea is that I know well about webdev, and my gf is a vet, so together we could provide a good quality service to vets.

Turned out, there was nothing "easy" about that!

We discovered about the danger of trying to sell what you are able to build instead of what people wants. We discovered the pains of cold calling.

It was a quite formative experience so I did a quick write up yesterday.

Feedback is very welcome since we still intend to keep pushing a bit in that direction before we give up!
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You are better off squaring the signal. Applying an FFT to get the magnitude will smear your signal in time. I suggest you look into acoustic emission detection.
I wrote an SSH server in Go to try to get the best of both. ssh -R 80:localhost:8888 serveo.net. Automatically gives you a subdomain, has features for HTTP inspection/replay, but nothing to install.
> Now skip forward from 1940 to 2010: apart from our obsession with little glass rectangles, the world would be fundamentally familiar.

This is similar to summarizing the discovery of space-warping technology by "Except for everyone's pockets now being bottomless Bags of Holding, the world hasn't changed much."

It misses the fact that computers are involved in everything today. When you listen to music, the sound is undistorted thanks to computers. If advertising shows a smiling woman, her face is prettier than life thanks to computers. When you see a plane flying overhead, it is saving fuel thanks to computers. Even mobile telephony requires computers. (Imagine having an operator in every cell tower, manually routing calls.)

It is easy to overlook, but lots of little details of our modern lives would seem utterly impossible to someone from 1940, and I don't think this kind of change is going to stop anytime soon.
Thank god you didn't mention singularity!
Great list covering all the domains and its state of the art! Would have liked to see more stuff on industries, manufacturing domains
Why in god's name did they make it 14?!
Isn't A.I. already 'real'? I use Amazon's & Netflix's recomendation systems everyday?
TL;DR

Researchers trained ravens to exchange some tokens for food. Presented with a choice of 15 different objects, majority of the birds picked the food tokens and stashed them for up to 17 hours until an opportunity for exchange came again.

The author believes this passes as the pinnacle of a 4 year old's planning abilities.
Interesting links, though blaming AI does not "solve the problems of today" seems naive. It does.

P.S. Funny that google suggests to search for "what can't we do without AI" instead of "what can’t we do without AI" ;)
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Thanks! I'd not heard of acoustic emission detection, I'll look into that now.

Do you think my sample rate is high enough for acoustic emission detection, as I notice in your other comment you mention they often use sample rates many times higher.

Also is there a particular paper you'd recommend regarding acoustic emission detection?
What aspect is causing it to be slow for you? Note that there are definitely some areas of Go I find terrible, and SQL is one of them. Check out the SQLx library, it's far less painful than the stdlib SQL is.
You know how solving 90% of some problem takes 90% of the time, and solving the remaining 10% takes another 90%? I have a feeling that with self-driving cars we are not close to 90% yet, not to mention the last 10%. There is a huge difference between "hey, this prototype kind of works" and polished product ready for consumption.
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This makes so much more sense now, thanks!
Money is a human-made construct, productivity is all about people wanting to work on things they are passionate about - whether that's having a healthy family or Elon's escapist plans of colonizing Mars. Once we have UBI and automation in place - which will lead to properly managed capitalism - then everything can become very efficient. The foundation to this working is people being healthy and community being healthy, real community where we have time to have deep discussion not only online but in person - which is currently greatly lacking. What currently keeps most of us engaged is economics, the requirement of a job. Once UBI is in place worldwide then things will really start moving.
We will make humans brains more computer-like instead of making computers more human-like. Some day, the last cyborg will replace their remaining flesh with metal. Strong AI the hard way.
Oh I definitely agree there, I didn't mean to say it was flawless. When I wrote that, I was more thinking of the UX of vendoring.

Eg, `import "foo/lib"` pulls seamlessly from vendor, which is a really nice UX if people want to vendor.

With that said, I still think a proper package manager Ala Rust Cargo.toml will be better. Here's hoping Go's `dep` solves this crap basket :)
Serveo lets you expose localhost to the internet using only SSH
Consider findings such as this one:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-has-more-than-100-times-high...

It may be a lot harder than we think. In turn, it may take much much longer than we think. Perhaps we will trash this planet before we reach the point.
Though there may be real limits to AI, the author's superficial treatment of the matter includes few facts, and no understanding of how the techniques and mathematics underlying modern machine learning are substantially different than what researchers were focusing on in the 80s.
So to respond, yes I generally suggested the above for dry climates, I have also lived in humid climates and agree to all the comments regarding them.
However I am willing to bet we use electrical heat pumps out of sheer convenience even in climates that offer alternatives.
That having been said, even for humid environments, the ground often offers us solutions that are more efficient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-coupled_heat_exchanger
They do however ofcourse require engineering and support from society to adopt.
It's https://www.desmos.com/calculator , really neat online tool
Aren't the Chinese essentially just playing on foreign greed for access to their domestic market, in an era of saturation in most of the rest of the world?

They've been dangling the "access" carrot on a stick in front of myopic shareholders and corporate management for 30 years, without ever delivering.

It's great if they want to grow their internal economy. But call a duck a duck: it's done at the expense of freedom for anyone who chooses to engage.
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. What is that purpose?

I though it was so the people of the country have better lives.
It'll be interesting to see if the UK invests in such automation, as apparently migrant workers are less inclined to pick fruit for the UK, post-Brexit:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-lates...
Ask HN: Anyone using Sphinx for non-documentation websites?
In the recent years static site generators have skyrocketed in popularity [1], presumably with GitHub's push of Markdown.

I have worked more with reStructuredText for a while and I'm interested in the usage of Sphinx specifically; it's in 28th place in terms of stars, but that tells me little about types of its usage in the wild. Sphinx Documentation lists a number of "Homepages and other non-documentation sites" [2] (there's also my personal use for lab website including teaching materials [3] not yet listed), and there is a thesis extension [4, 5].

Anyone using Sphinx for non-documentation websites? Homepages, blogs, course teaching, lab notebooks?

[1] https://www.staticgen.com/

[2] http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/examples.html

[3] https://lab.miletic.net/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4609769

[5] https://jterrace.github.io/sphinxtr/
Just restricting ourselves to the developed world: Being able to call anyone in the world from your home? Not having to worry about food scarcity? Not worrying about being drafted into an army? Political and technological differences have drastically changed life between 1920 and 1990. I bet any 70 year epoch that covers the development of the internet or mobile phones, will have the same features. Who knows what's next.
I use one GOPATH and work on dozens of projects. I would hate it if I had to change GOPATH often. In Go, if you find yourself fighting the system, chances are you are doing it wrong.

'go get github/user/project && cd $GOPATH/github/user/project'.

And to avoid dependency issues, I use one of the many vendoring tools. Currently 'govend'.
"I bet if you'd interview the average world-citizen they'd not be so convinced."

That's as maybe, but it doesn't mean it's not going to happen.. Granted it's easy to see the possibility of AI taking over everything when you're working with it, but I don't think ignorance of the field has any bearing on whether it actually happens. It was popular opinion in the 1980s that video phones will "never happen" because the telephone system couldn't handle the amount of information needed for pictures to be transmitted, and that's clearly no longer the case.

I'm merely an interested observer of this stuff, who is slowly learning programming. But the vast majority of people I speak to (and indeed teach) are totally oblivious to the advances that are being made, or their consequences. But that doesn't mean that some of them will not have particular jobs available to them in 10 years time because of the progress of which they are unaware.
Those two wars were different from one another, in respects that are/should be central to your argument, like the UN's role.
But even so, the law of diminishing returns kicks in here.

The more a field is neglected, the higher the likelihood that there's some low-hanging fruit left unharvested.

Article author should go play a few hundred games of Civilization.
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This is reminiscent of the Bicameral mind concept presented in Westworld. The ability to have a sense of time and plan for it and meet a goal is essential to sentience.
Could Rust's typesystem catch unaligned pointer dereferences?
I don't think the point is feeling completely calm when things are going bad.

For me, at least, one of the points of stoicism is learning how to take a step back and look at the situation through more rational lenses, and then figure out how to deal with it.

Take the situation you mentioned: failing to support for one's family. I think someone who strives to practice stoicism would do something like this:

- What are the reasons I'm failing to provide for my family? Am I spending too much? Is my salary too low? Is the place I live too expensive? Does my family spend too much money?

- Of those reasons, which ones do I have full control of? (This is were you can actually act on).

- Which ones do I have some control of? If your family is the cause of financial distress, there are some actions you can take (like talking to them and explaining things have to change), but you can't fully control their actions and thoughts.

- Which ones do I have no control of? Don't worry about these, there is nothing you can do anyways. But here is the catch, you are eventually going to worry about them. This is what people fail to get about stoicism. It is not a silver bullet that is going to take away all your worries. It is an instrument to help you overcome them, with reason. It takes some practice to get good at it.
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Most data is proprietary and out of reach of researchers, so we don't have examples. I am pretty sure manufacturing companies will have internal teams which will be working on their internal data.
I'm all for more comparisons with better methods, but isn't demonstrably superior lane-keeping enough to seriously question the GP's assertion that European car makers are quietly far ahead in AV capability? By all appearances, the A8 can't even change lanes like last year's Model S - I can imagine scenarios where Audi could do better at other tests, but I'd sure bet on Tesla to do braking/parking/etc better.
>The rights holders and/or distributors have every right to demand certain conditions for you to view their IP. Information isn't free unless the holder says it is

So you believe "rights holders" rights are unlimited, and they should have the power to demand anything?

Surely not. "Right Holders" have only the very limited rights granted to them under copyright law, some people including myself believe they have too many rights but they sure as hell are not unlimited like you seem to imply. They do not get full and total control over their content, only the control allowed under copyright law which has many limits and exemptions including but not limited to fair use rights for the public, and a limited in duration term which they have those rights

The purpose of copyright law is NOT to protect the creator, it is promote useful sciences and exchange of knowledge. Copyright is to help promote creation FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD, not personal profit. People seem to forget that

Copyright today seems to be at odds with its constitutional purpose, its legal reason for existence
While I liked 1Password and even was one of the first to try the cloud offering, the latest decisions shook my trust to the point I moved to KeePass.
haha. i hear you. i'm kind of more into the idea of Facebook saying something like "caution: seems like you're kind of being a dick!" before you post a comment.
"You just ordered a lawn mower from us. Here are more lawn mowers for you"

"You might like this movie because you have watched other movies with _the_ in the title before"
Machine learning is American version of the "5th generation computing" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
The author made the mistake of citing specific examples that weren't very good. It's odd to me that's there's this conflation of ai with the singularity. Strong ai is only one path to the singularity, others being human augmentation, and group minds. Also, the idea of this all being a 'failed dream' was addressed by Vinge in this talk[1]. He picks a metric, then tracks how it would develop in the case of a singularity never happening. Very enlightening to see his thoughts on this.

[1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02007/feb/15/what-if-the-singula...
Thanks Patrick; this is the first time I've heard of Atlas and it looks like a great service. Is there a floor of what you expect from applicants, i.e., is a website showing some viable product required before an applicant would be considered competitive?
> All the progress we've seen can be summed up as doing dumb things quickly.

Multiplying large numbers, playing chess well, and proving mathematical theorems were widely believed to necessarily require intelligence, up until when a machine could do it.
Please don't comment on receiving downvotes. It's frowned upon in the guidelines. Your other comment stands on its own and doesn't seem heavily downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html