skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't compare AI to mars colonization. AI is coming in strong, we've made tremendous progress - mars colonization is still in its infancy / theoretics. AI's a constant-moving target of a definition; by all accounts, we've "achieved" AI already if you'd ask someone from 50 years ago. Art, music, conversation, research, ... If he wants to say "what if the Singularity never happens," that's fine and good - but it just seems weird to me to say "what if AI never happens." It's like saying "what if self driving cars never happen" just because he's not yet driving one.

False-starts: in this regard, AI is like VR. VR had its own winter too, after Virtual Boy and the like. We're in VRs second stand; same as AI. And in both cases, both are making a very strong case, and making lots of money. I'd put my money on both horses now.
Thanks for pointing that out. That book came out very recently (a week ago?) and my database is a few weeks old.
We have been dreaming this dream a long time now and are no closer really. I'm sure you've all done this - one of the very first things I ever made was what was known way back then as an 'expert system'. It determined which particular disease you had by means of a series of interview questions from 'Robodoc'. I drew flowcharts and planned it all out with the limited set of diseases, symptoms and remedies available to me and was as you can imagine nothing more than an horrendous spaghetti of if-then-else (or maybe even switch-case statements) the fall through answer (when all diagnoses failed) being 'take two aspirin and go to bed'. Even then I thought 'bah not enough data - the bane of the computer scientist!' I think I was about eight at the time. Looking back now I think it was cute. Anything other than flu and rabies and you were in trouble. Is Robodoc closer to Watson than Watson is to HAL? People are conflating AI and machine learning. They think AI is already here. Personally I don't think any one team or project will ever solve AI as real intelligence is an emergent property.
It's not a competition.

Investors have some limited pool of capital or bandwidth and want to conserve it for the companies they think are most likely to be successful. We are not constrained in this fashion.

We need to know what the business intends to actually do, mostly for compliance reasons. A working website or prototype we could look at makes this easier, but we know there are a lot of ways early stage startups get to market. We can be flexible -- if you don't have a website but do have a deck, we can evaluate that.

We (and our partners) have a notion of what companies are a good fit for Atlas, and it's not quite as broad as "every business we could legally transact with." It's described in more detail in the FAQ, but broadly speaking we're looking for businesses that are intrinsically international and/or ambitious and technology-enabled.

The world needs more hair salons, too, but we'd probably not work with a hair salon at the current moment in time. We're not confident that the thing we are building is appropriate to their needs yet, and want to stay focused while making something for our core audience.
I would say that ARM v6 and later is a major step forward, but is v8 that really seems to be similar to Intel finally. The v6 was able to deal only with single fetch/store unaligned instructions, but things like accessing a double or multiple words with the same instruction would raise an exception.
I'm the same way. Four drinks is too much for me. I usually feel I the next day after 2. I.enjoy drinking for the duration of the act, and every moment after that is mostly regret.
Nitpicking, but I would suggest reversing the chronological order of Publication Year. Newer release years towards the top.
That's a pretty interesting goal. I haven't thought too much about this, but for that to happen we'd need some high bandwidth brain-computer links. Then those new VR systems with brainlinks would also have to be cheaper than all the existing traditional gaming platforms. Add the gaming system upgrade cycle to that (5-10 years). So I'd wager it won't happen for at least another 30-40 years at least. That said, I can easily see VR system sales being in the billions with just 10 years. It's just that traditional systems will outnumber VR systems for a long time, especially if a VR system also depends on owning a traditional system.
Taking a low paying job can hurt future earnings, but generally I agree with you. I was once reviving enough unemployment that many full time jobs would have been a payout, at the same time unemployment was not even enough money to pay rent. However, taking a job to slow the bleeding would have been more appealing.
Not really. Demand, by definition, is the willingness and ability to pay the price to acquire what you are looking for. A job that doesn't pay sufficiently to attract people into the role is a job that was never part of the demand in the first place. Since the demand is not real in these cases, there is no additional demand pressure on the price.

Anyone can say they want to buy a new Ferrari for $10,000, but that does not mean Ferrari should get excited about a new customer. It's all imaginary.
I spent months as a fully qualified lead trying to buy a Watson product and simply couldn't. Had calls rescheduled, canceled, got on the phone and a kafka-esque experiences with a sales person. We gave up and just built out what we wanted to buy..
This technique reminds me of Quinzhee huts. I've been building them for years but I never considered scaling them up to create proper infrastructure.
Q&A with YC Partners at the Female Founders Conference [video]
but you didn't, right?
People from good universities do co-ops, internships, and side work. They know the frameworks already too. And then you have some who don't, but come from MIT or CMU and pick that stuff up faster than I can link to the tutorial (well, once they're done complaining its not Haskell anyway, lol)

Though it does remind me of a company I worked for that hired a lot of bootcamp peeps, and it was hailed as a giant success by management. Meanwhile the rest of the team was grumbling about having to do 2x the work as they had to pick up the slack.

(Now, obviously, I do know some people who went through bootcamps that do amazing. I also know some 100% self taught engineers who are now Principal engineers or similar at Google or Microsoft. The above is just what I've seen to be the common case). Teaching React or how to build an API controller to someone we just hired is never the bottleneck. Interns pick that up just fine, no matter where they come from.
VR is not going to happen for general productivity purposes, but it will be handy for some specialties. Then they can invest in better, more expensive equipment.

VR is such a closed off experience right now, I would schedule it under Dreaming. Sweaty too, with today's gear.

It asks a lot for what it can deliver for now.
A decade seems like too much. Maybe 3-5 years. You know that expression "wait for the third generation" - I think it applies to VR headsets, too. I've also tried both Oculus Rift and Vive and despite what some may say, 1440p is just not enough. I feel like 4k needs to be the bare minimum resolution, so I don't plan on getting one until it has a 4k resolution. There are also other kinks to solve in the overall technology/experience, so waiting a few more years could pay-off.
I created https://github.com/adtac/climate a while ago. It's basically a lot of shell commands in one tool.

(Note: it's mostly an educational tool; for example, you could enable an option to make climate print the actual command before executing so that you can learn your way around using the shell effectively.)
When healthcare premiums are rising double digits annually, there is no money to increase salary.

We have to decide a basic level of healthcare every Citizen is entitled too and if you want more, the individual pays for it.

Cutting taxes on the already wealthy isn't a stimulus, but putting $18k ( avg annual HC premium ) back into pockets the middles classes will stimulate the economy because they will spend it all.

Cutting taxes on the wealthy just slows the Velocity of Money.
When Debuggers Lie by OkCupid
That's actually a very good point because people are more likely to look for recent books. Will change that in the next update.
Scientists explain what “The Uninhabitable Earth” gets wrong
Isn't that basically the same? In the past, you could use the W3C standards to build a browser which would display everything except plugin/ActiveX content. Now you can build a browser which can display a higher percentage of content, including audio and video, except DRM restricted material.

This seems like an exceedingly fine distinction between the web as it works in theory and as it has actually worked at any point in its history since the number of browsers exceeded 1.
Social media success: 6 brands to learn from
Yes, but in the army you are told to obey its superiors and to follow the hierarchy. The top of the pyramid is the president. Who will challenge him?
How big data helps Transamerica attract, retain customers
A lot of service jobs are driven out by high cost of doing business; entrenched existing businesses are the source of re-election funding.

My neighbor bakes nice cookies. I have programmer money. You can guess whats supposed to happen here, but legally can't happen. Some education might help a little with WRT food safety, but it doesn't matter because the purpose of the government is to prevent her from going into the cookie baking business and compete with existing processed food factories.

The ultimate micro-brew isn't some multinational corporation spending lots of money on branding, but its the guy down the block. That of course is incredibly illegal, because the multinational corporation decides whats legal or illegal.

My wife's favorite hairdresser became unemployed due to the cost of health insurance; for awhile she cut hair at home on the side, but the .gov comes down heavy on that for obvious financial reasons.

Some sort of ideal world for lower IQ / lower functioning people would require better government. Rather than the government existing solely to protect Nabisco Inc sales, you'd have to refocus it entirely on safety and small business support services so my neighbor can sell cookies.

If my neighbor did all the homemade baked goods for my entire subdivision, I'm not entirely sure she's be poor, either. If she ran a 50% profit margin and everyone in my subdivision dropped $2/day for baked goods service (like she'd hand deliver you a hot loaf of bread every day?) that would be 6012500*0.50=$180K profit per year, not bad for an area where the median household income is a hair under $60K. Of course the purpose of the government it to annihilate small businesses in favor of large businesses.
Inter Region AWS VPC Peering
BANNED IN LONDON
Proteins are the machines produced to atomic specification by a genetic blueprint encoded in DNA. The are the tools life uses to accomplish most of its tasks. Proteins are formed like 'beads on a string' - a chemical single-dimensional chain, where twenty different chemical 'amino acids' are mix-and-matched. The amino acids are strung from an 'N' terminus to a 'C' terminus in order to produce nearly every machine all biology uses for every task a cell might need to survive - structural, chemical, metabolic, energetic, sensation, etc. Once produced, the chain of amino acids folds in on itself in 3D, and many 'motifs' or 'domains' have particular functions as sets of tens to hundreds of amino acids. The software, Pinecone, allows you to characterize and then mix-and-match those domains to produce protein machines with novel function. It is essentially a 1D CAD program that outputs 3D atomically defined objects, but compiles down to DNA that nearly any organism can read. It's not all that different from a molecular Kerbal Space Program - a hardware store for protein domains - but one where you can press 'print' and get your DNA delivered.

- Protein Domains: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=protein+domains

- How proteins are made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7uCskUOrA

- Visualization of protein machines in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y

- Economically, socially & therapeutically valuable Proteins:
https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/

The basic concepts and terminology are a mix of biochemistry and molecular biology and are describing organic machines that are thousands to hundreds of thousands of atoms, and a couple of nanometers in length on a side.
True! The internet is made of cats[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM
Building an Ecommerce Site Is No Longer Time-Consuming and Costly
I do agree that something was lost.

How about "for change to happen, we need your feedback"? I think that conveys the message and request accurately and succinctly.
In fact, the world already hit "peak child" some years ago. The number of children in the world has stopped increasing. That means that the world's population is now only growing because of life expectancy increases and not because of increased numbers of people being born.

The population will continue to grow for a while because of developing countries' life expectancy catching up with developed countries, but unless there are drastic technological breakthroughs to improve life expectancy beyond where developed countries are now, the world population will stop growing fairly soon.
Based on the perceptual bias the author let slip, I'm surprised that graph wasn't labeled "Bastardy".
> women were actually already consumers

But what about extra discretionary income which would stimulate extra demand (another car, another vacation, another gadget, home services now that both partners are working)?
A diesel emissions test you can’t game? We try it out
Wow, this article isn't scientific at all, in the least.

>As mentioned in the previous essay, single parenthood correlates with a number of social maladies.

>The best environment for these children is a home with their biological mother and father. Marriage is statistically the best way to ensure these environments for children. Healthy marriages create stable families. Stable families create strong and safe communities. Strong communities create prosperous cities. Prosperous cities create successful nations. Successful nations advance humanity.

Citations needed. There's no proof of any of this, it's just the social norm we've had for centuries. "We've always done it this way" isn't proof, and the way our society was before ~50 years ago was actively bad and oppressive for many members of society, particularly women who really were second-class citizens, unable to vote or hold most jobs.

Personally, I think it'd be better if people joined into polyamorous groupings; it's better for kids, and provides a more stable home life than only having 2 parents. Don't ask me for citations; you'll just have to take my word for it, just as the author of this article did.
That it shouldn't have happened in the first place? That our legal process is pretty damn broken? I have a similar story in NYC except I never sued so I didn't get a check. Just a massive waste of my time, energy and money and no recourse.
Wrong article?
It is not Facebook's right to decide how much VR should cost. That's what a free market is for. They do believe in the free market, right? Right??
Ha! But did that accelerate our maintenance backlog? Never mind the money; its about the physical infrastructure we've got to keep up.
Wow, qrify is pretty clever! Aren't there multiple encodings? I wonder how easily this could be used to generate the densest encoding?

EDIT: ...oh, it sends your data to a public service, which is not what I would prefer. But the cleverness of the service (rendering the pixels via ASCII) seems like it would make a great local utility.

Another EDIT: the encoding lib is LGPL, support for ASCII rendering contributed by Ralf Ertzinger --
https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode
No, you do not have those rights. You have the rights outlined in the terms of service of the given distributor you bought it from.

Some like Amazon MP3 are much more liberal in terms of what you can do with your purchased media, but you do not own the rights to copy it, sell it, or rent it. If you don't believe me, try and do it.
bullshit detected
States, or Nation States, are not just an organizational structure. They are THE organizational structure of the modern world. It is no coincidence that concentration camps are created by modern states and not for example tribes or criminals.
There is no intersection of Technology and Liberal Arts
https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Technology/Liberal%20A...
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Our systems are almost all running on Linux and most of our code is in Python, with the full scientific stack: numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn to name a few of the libraries we use extensively. We implement the systems that require the highest data throughput in Java. For storage, we rely heavily on MongoDB and Oracle.

We use Airflow for workflow management, Kafka for data pipelines, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker for containerisation, OpenStack for our private cloud, Ansible for architecture automation, and HipChat for internal communication. But our technology list is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.

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lol, hosting data on a Chinese server. Yeah, no thanks.

In all seriousness, this is a great solution if you are willing to participate in the oppressive, communist dystopia that is the Chinese economy. While the monitary incentives are definitely appealing, I can not in good conscience do business in such a disgusting political climate.
The article is a PR piece for "Keiyaku Kekkon", a japanese marriage partner startup.

I quickly read through the text - and wondered what I had learned. It does not present any interesting conclusions, or back its statements with data.

Here is the exec summary of the startup's business model:

"Keiyaku Kekkon is a marriage-focused dating website with a twist. The name is Japanese and literally means "Contract Marriage." Users create their ideal marriage agreement and match up with a suitable partner.

Unlike typical dating sites that match people based on personality, Keiyaku Kekkon matches people based on their marriage contracts. Users can spell out exactly what they want out of marriage and exactly what they have to offer."

[1] http://keiyakukekkon.com
Bhagavad-gita 1972 edition by Prabhupada
Yup, I think Quanta and Nautilus feature the best science writing in the world.
> Citations needed

There are studies that show that single parent homes correlate with certain social outcomes. The next dozen leaps, however, are way out there or patently false.
The FAQ entry does not state that the Go compiler boxes escaping variables (it doesn't, AFAICT). How did you arrive at that conclusion?
Much of this is just how computer parts get cheaper over time. VR may end up like trackballs which never replaced mice, but still sold millions of devices.

PS: I flat out will not buy a Facebook product which may be contributing to HTC’s $799 Vive is continuing to sell better than the Rift.
> If people are voluntarily opting out of marriage and family

I'm not married, I'm in a long term committed relationship, I have kids. The article seems to think that being married and having kids is somehow the same. It's not.
It's a small passerine bird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuthatch
"Our moon is almost half the size of Earth" Oh really???!! What universe are you living in? The moon's radius is about 1000 Miles, Earth's about 4000. So about 1/4 the size and only about 1/80th the mass. (Yes, 1/80th, look it up).
The problem is choice and losing choice in the future.
If you have not done so already, (and for many others commenting on this thread), in your situation you might get a lot out looking up "The Sinclair Method"; "Dr. David Sinclair" and "Pharmacological Extinction". Some useful links below.

[1] http://www.thesinclairmethod.net/community/viewtopic.php?f=5... -

About The Sinclair Method and How It Works
[2] http://www.centersite.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=11132...

[3] http://www.cthreefoundation.org/about-the-sinclair-method.ht...

[4] http://cthreeeurope.com/the-5-steps-to-curing-alcoholism-exc...

Why Isn’t The Sinclair Method Used More Often and why have so few doctors in the US/UK heard of it?

[4] Best explanation: https://www.quora.com/Can-naltrexone-normalize-the-drinking-...

[5] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/overcoming-addiction/20...

[6] https://www.addiction.com/expert-blogs/why-isnt-the-sinclair...
When a topic like self-driving vehicles comes up, the Hacker News crowd is mainly in favor: “Creative destruction! Disruption! Go go gadget robots!” Not surprising. How many Hacker News readers drive trucks or taxis for a living? How many regard commuting as an enjoyable hobby?

Photography, on the other hand, is a very common hobby in the tech community. And the comments here seem to reflect that this effort strikes a little close to home: “Those pictures are lousy, if you find them appealing you have no taste! Just because they're 'professional' doesn't mean they're good! Machines can’t replace human judgment, they have no soul! I bet that machine had a lot of human help!”

Tech people may tell you great stories about meritocracy and reason, but in the end we are just emotional monkeys. Like the rest of humanity.

Those of us who can accept this may at least aspire to be wise monkeys.