skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one that's only found in the suburb where I grew up: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/analog/digital
1. Check if they have a facebook page before pitching a website. If they do have one then dont waste your time.

2. A website is a bad stand alone product to sell these days. Can you combine it with something else?
Marc isn't saying you should focus on networking at the seed stage. You should focus on building + customers and just not try to raise your seed from a16z.

a16z isn't a seed focused fund. They prefer waiting for more proof points, and they're willing to pay a premium for that (Series B).
These things are not "intelligence" though. they are gimmicks that can only be applied to a very limited range of problems.

These advances are advances but they do not prove that general ai is possible.
Agreed completely. I'm an on-again/off-again hobbyist photographer, but my personality tends to focus on the technical and processing stuff most easily. As such, I completely recognize the limitations of this aspect of photography.

I personally enjoy learning how to use tools so I like messing with processing techniques. Since I'm very much an amateur, it's an effective way to improve the objective quality of an image. Still, it has made me very aware of the limitations when it comes to improving the subjective quality of my photos.

Essentially, I can save an underexposed RAW photo or use levels, curves, and masks to improve the quality and balance of lighting and color...but it will never fix a poorly composed shot or help me to better understand how to get a point across.
I agree that throwing away the physical books would be stupid, but the index is ready enough to rebuild if we ever need it again. And in a post-computer world search times in the order of days or even weeks would be acceptable: when looking up crop rotations a few days more or less won't make or break your harvest
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> But... we will

that is a belief. not a fact.
Apparently it's US government involvement that caused companies like Google to be so successful.
Some tools are for people who live in terminal but want to do things outside of computers- weather/currency/stock et al. May not be related to everyone.

But there are some tools which are compute related and I'd recommend everyone try once:

1) cheat. Total lifesaver. I used to backup my histories but I no longer do so since most commands I use have an example there.

2) qrify looks good, not sure how often i'll use.

About crypt: I'd suggest installing openssl and using tools in there. Crypto is hard to get right, not to dissuade anyone from trying to create but as an end user, always use something widely used.
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That was created with Adobe Acrobat Distiller -- That font isn't CMR, it's New Century Schoolbook (The Supreme Court likes that font as well). There's also a "gpospec5" font (perhaps GPO is the Government Printing/Publishing Office). I could only find a handful of references the the gpospec5 font, including this one [1] on the previous healthcare bill. Windows user ERN was involved with both, so I would guess he's a GPO employee.

1: http://blynken.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-care-bill-geek-st...
That's one of the problems with discussing AI and with whom you discuss it with: it can cover relatively simple stuff like recommendation engines all the way up to the stuff that Boston Dynamics works on. Both have completely different trajectories in terms of what they are capable of.
My grandmother was a child in 1940. Despite hours of patient explanation, she has absolutely no comprehension of what I do all day. I sit at a computer, I type some gobbledegook and inexplicably get paid for it. Everything else is a complete mystery. She just doesn't get the fundamental concept of general-purpose computing - that the same physical object can do infinitely many things. To her, the little glass rectangles that I stare at might as well be enchanted amulets.

We occupy the same physical space, but we live in completely different worlds. I can summon a chauffeur-driven car or a hot meal with a few taps on my magic rectangle. A genie in my pocket can answer seemingly impossible questions when I utter the magical incantation "OK Google...". In the eyes of my grandmother, my $200 glass rectangle makes me practically a warlock.

I can imagine a Sumerian sage in 2017 BCE remarking "apart from our obsession with little clay tablets, our society has changed little in a millennium". It might be easy from that perspective to dismiss literacy as a trivial fad; from our perspective, it is easy to take literacy for granted and overlook the transformative impact it has had on our society.

Weak AI is already here and already changing the world, it just suffers from a fundamental perceptual problem - AI that works is just software and software is boring. For decades, playing chess was seen as a grand challenge for AI. After Deep Blue's defeat of Kasparov, chess AI had become merely chess software. Our attitudes flipped almost instantaneously from "of course a computer can't beat a human at something as complex as chess" to "of course a computer can beat a human at something as simple as chess".

Google Search isn't AI, it's just an algorithm. Fully autonomous cars will stop being AI the first time you fall asleep at the wheel and wake up at your destination. Wolfram Alpha isn't AI, Siri isn't AI, content-aware fill isn't AI, Amazon's stock control system isn't AI. IBM Watson is briefly AI when it's winning a gameshow, then quickly reverts to being software.
I haven't used AWS for a year, but last time I saw this it was crypto coin miners who didn't know how to use the spot market place properly. This was way back when Bitcoin was first spiking, and for about two weeks the price of the compute instances was ridiculous (CPU mining was still a thing). This was confirmed later by an AWS person.

If you look outside the default us-east-1 region you often find prices are more stable (though not always as cheap)
Indeed. Raven are not very much religious and don't tend to celebrate religious holidays.
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We stay on this rock, we die on this rock. Confining ourselves to Earth isn't a survival strategy, it's giving up. Rebuttals would be appreciated, though!
This is a bit like saying that matches beat us at making fire. A more accurate thing to say is that matches allow us to make fire more easily and efficiently.
Does everyone nowadays only write software that is some messy desktop rendition of a website?

The kind of software I write doesn't exist in a vacuum where all it needs is to run AMD64 code, Linux syscalls and a canvas to draw on. It needs to interact with the system, figure out what drives you have inserted, play nice with keychains and whatever..

You can't flatpak that.
A lot of products I think find initial traction and then flop because SV is a shitty test city.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1137953...
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The classic AI (as in the AIMA book), it seems, got it right - heuristic-based search, guided by feedback (to improve an heuristic) is what intelligence is in general. Every living organism posseses intelligence (by the process of trial-and-error, which is a search, to "learn" an "optimal" heuristics with selection by the process of evolution) of some kind relative to its environment. This is how a bacteria fought viruses, for example.

The problem is to find a good-enough heuristic, or to "extract" one from the actual (not imaginary) features of the environment and "train" it. This is, roughly, how ensimes has been made.

This second goal is murderously hard, because to select right set of features which adequately represent some aspects of reality (as it is, not as we imagine or know it is) is where humanity is still failing miserably.
there's a pretty good book out there "Data Science from Scratch" it's all in python and really lays out the workings of popular data science / analysis algorithms without relying heavily on external libraries.
Wow, what an overly saccharine blog post. Way to reek about insecurity over your own product when your prose comes off as nigh-Orwellian and you get everyone in your team to grin as hard as (in)humanly possible and kiss their own asses in the comments.
It means new user (hence green color).
Ok, I'm not a systems developer (I'm a full stack / cloud developer), so I don't usually work with systems that introduce analog faults (operations in software tend to either succeed or fail with an exception).

The only place I have encountered something like this was on an Arduino board where the use of a buzzer was causing a voltage drop that affected the logic of the code. (It appeared that a delay function returned immediately instead of taking 250ms, which sped up the loop.)

Question:

How do you actually implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

I found this in Wikipedia:

Byzantine fault tolerance mechanisms use components that repeat an incoming message (or just its signature) to other recipients of that incoming message. All these mechanisms make the assumption that the act of repeating a message blocks the propagation of Byzantine symptoms.

Is verifying the interpreted input value the primary way to design for Byzantine Fault Tolerance?
> Maybe I am doing it wrong but do people create and destroy a container thingy every time they run a test?

I create and destroy a container every time I:

* Run a test

* Start a command line environment for debugging (Ruby mostly, so usually "pry" with all my apps libraries loaded)

* Build anything (e.g. update the installed gems via bundler for Ruby)

* Run any scripts that are part of the app.

It means I can be sure I always run things in precisely the environment the apps will run in, including the right interpreter or compiler, right dependencies etc. - nothing "leaks" from my laptop. Nothing "leaks" to my laptop. I can trivially test with multiple different interpreter/compilers etc. without convoluted "environment management" tools that tend to be language specific. Bugs in my script are also reasonably well contained (though I won't trust Docker for isolation as sole protection against hackers, I trust it for isolation against my own stupid mistakes most of the time).

Bind mounts of the source directory ensures I can do live reloading of code etc. when suitable, so I don't need to restart those containers all the time.

Typically starting the Docker container is one of the fastest parts of the above - often my makefile will not just start a Docker container, but for simplicity run the build whenever I do anything (like run the test suite) to make sure I run it in the newest version of the container, and thanks to extensive caching that too rarely adds more than a few seconds.

In a CI setup like CircleCI, though, the "cost" in time of this when building remotely is pulling the relevant source images from their registry, and the images can be fairly big, especially if you're not specifically going to some effort to keep it down in size.
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> Google Photos already picks out objects in photos to make photos searchable by keyword, removes obstructions (eg. fences) from photos. Tesla cars already automatically follow the speed limit, automatically brake, automate lane changes, etc.

> A few years ago this article might've had a valid point, but not anymore.

Not that I entirely disagree but we had the stuff above a few years and arguably several years back already.
A politically relevant one: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/donald/moscow

(It's actually the intersection of "Don" and "Moscow". But judging from the other street names here, "Don" was probably intended to be the river in Russia.)
PS VR effect.
>Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure

If by "profligate" he means "wasteful in the use of resources" then this whole thesis falls apart immediately.
Thats still a lot of money for something you're only going to use for ~6 hours
It seems to me one could add sensors to existing cargo or other ships and have them collect data during their regular activities. You could pay them to deviate from their optimal course in a systematic way so as to cover more ocean with each voyage. No need to charter a ship or pay a crew to do this stuff.

This is similar to how OpenStreetMap uses GPS to gather mapping info from normal people making normal trips. Granted a lot of people go out of their way to gather extra data, but if everyone contributed a GPS track of every journey that would not be necessary.

Same thing, if every GA plane had a GPS and downward facing camera we could gather detailed imagery from much of the world.

TL;DR; Don't charter mapping expeditions, instead add automated mapping gear to vehicles that are already going places.
His point is:

They didn't say newest generation, only next and next may in this case refer to

- "next after kepler" (parent's assumptions) or

- "next after current" (other commenters' assumption)
Nice work. This is what I hoped would eventually come out of P3P (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P) alas it wasn't to be.
Great article, this project just begs the name of Redisberry Pi
A lot of the infrastructure we use today is so old that it's crumbling, and has been for years. Few people are interested in doing anything to fix it.
your username will appear green till you get a certain amount of karma/upvotes.
Good, that no such intersection exists, or it would immediatly collapse into a black hole: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Chandrasekhar/Schwarzs...

It does not exist, or maybe it exists, but only in superposition: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Heisenberg/Schr%C3%B6d...

Sadly, non computable: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Turing/Church

Computable, but only by partial Integration: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Hamilton/Lagrange

For friends of modern art: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Pablo/Salvador
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Exactly.

When arguing something works you can't just ignore how often it doesn't. Development Economics is not so simple.
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i will remember that one about risk. makes good sense.
I wish I could be flattered that my book "Flask by Example" appears above the seminal "Two Scoops of Django" in the "Web Development" section[0], but instead I'm just left wondering how "Popularity Score" is calculated. We're only given:

"The scores are based on a combination of the popularity of the book and relevance to the topic. The best possible score is 100 and the worst is 0."

[0] http://pythonbooks.org/topical-books/web-development/
The US doesn't have a great firewall they force all data to go through which they utilize to weaponize javascript served from their own companies to international citizens. China does this. They used their great firewall to modify Baidu javascript to serve malware to international users to turn web browsers into a DDoS against github. All because github hosted projects that allowed Chinese citizens to read the uncensored web.

So, no, you can't trust anything hosted in mainland China. And, no, it's not the same as the US.
That happens not infrequently. 1#x ondemand is the ceiling bid for spots. It's the result of a bid war amongst two or more big customers who really don't want to be evicted.
> automation is eradicating our jobs. But — unlike in the past — new ones aren’t being created to replace them

He presents no evidence to support this claim, and it is most likely false.

If you remove resources from some sector, and people become unemployed, but total resources were increased due to improved efficiency then those displaced people will more than likely figure out how to get some of those resources rather than starving to death.
Computers aren't substantially different from 18th century looms. The perception that computers are intelligent is a mere illusion.
Sad to see no fractional-GPU instances. A 4xlarge is massive overkill and unaffordable for our use case.
If Mr Altman wants humans to level up, I think he could make a start and do better in listening to women who have recently complained about happenings at YC.
And the "Vive is winning" effect...

Is there anyone who prefers Oculus' IR over Vive's LIDAR?
I don't think it's morally wrong. I think it's great for China (and the Chinese people, government support aside).

That said, they, like Britain and the US before them, deserve to be called on the discrepancy between what they say and what they do.
The first one is just curl wttr.in. Which is IMO easier to remember.
sage: p=2^255-19
sage: sqrt(GF(p)(-486664))
6853475219497561581579357271197624642482790079785650197046958215289687604742

The formula in Wikipedia is not wrong, but note that it maps E_{a,d} to M_{A, B} with B = 4/(a - d) = -486664. curve25519, and pretty much every Montgomery curve, is defined with B = 1, so you need some extra twisting to get there.
You can still trick the best image classification techniques with objects that to the human mind are clearly not what the machine says they are. Machines do not reason in the way that humans do. They don't have a concept of a self that exists in space-time. Humans can make inferences about images precisely because they have an a priori understanding of space-time.

You will always find that those who have faith in strong AI also have faith in a reductionist approach to human intellect. That is, they are behaviorists and neuroscientists and not philosophers and poets.

What makes great art is not the notes that make up the melody but expression of the human condition.

Machines do not make art. They make meaningless objects.
Why? Truth is we're hoping to find a miracle out there when it appears that it's all just rocks and nuclear fireballs. What do we do after space?
Looks like a sound design based on a cursory inspection :)

Question(s): Do you offer any appliances? The reason why I am asking is for computationally intense workloads where the same data may be shuffled around multiple times between processors. Can one e.g. set up MemSQL with RDMA over Infiniband?
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It seems to have trouble with street names that don't start with the search string. So it didn't find the corner of Antonio and Banderas, maybe because it's "Avenida de las Banderas".

Nearby Antonio and Oso Parkway was no problem, though.

https://www.crossing.us/intersections/antonio/oso

Then again, it doesn't have a problem with the San in "San Antonio Avenue"

https://www.crossing.us/intersections/antonio/flores
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In any scenario where society or technology breaks down enough for these skills to be useful, the majority of the population still won't miss them. Without industrialised fishing and farming (which relies on oil and huge production chains) we don't have nearly enough fish for people to filet or grain for people to make bread (let alone beer). And statically speaking you will be starved before your vegetables are grown.
In the late 90s, the startup I worked for made a marketing deal with IBM. We were mostly running Sun hardware, I was in charge of IT purchasing. After I made it clear we would not be migrating to IBM hardware, they went after my job.

The tradition was still going at that point.
> You need to sell the sizzle not the steak.

> the more risk you can absorb the better.

Wow..I needed these reminders.
>URE does not have to corrupt data, if you use a proper filesystem with checksumming such as the ZFS.

No but afaik there is no way to recover data once ZFS has declared it corrupted. (ie, no parity)

>The strain of rebuild have been known to kill many arrays, both RAID5 and 6.

I haven't actually encountered that yet. Despite that, a RAID 6 can loose a disk, so as long as you don't encounter further URE's after loosing another disk, it's fine.

If you're worried about that, go for RAIDZ3 or equivalent. With something like SnapRAID you can even have a RAIDZ6, loosing 6 disks without loosing data. The chances of that happening are relatively low.

>When a disk fails, a RAID10 is simply in a far better position as it only have to read a single disk

A RAID 10 is in no position to recover from URE's once a disk has failed unless you reduce your space efficiency to 33%.

I personally favor not corrupting data over rebuild speeds.

Striping might be complicated but that doesn't make it worse.

It might be acceptable too loose a music file, but once the family image collection gets corrupted or even lost on ZFS because a disk in a RAID 1 encountered a URE, it's personal.

I'd rather life with the thought that even if a disk has a URE, the others can cover for it. Even during a rebuild.
Don't serve any javascript from within China to users outside of China. Remember when the Chinese government used the great firewall of China to modify Baidu analytics javascript passing through it to setup an international DDoS against github? Hosting your stuff in mainland China for consumption outside make you a party to that happening again in the future.
It structures the world of relevant python books quite well. Thanks, I appreciate it!
This is useful. I haven't seen such a comprehensive list of job sites elsewhere.
Two Scoops of Django is one of my favorite books! As to how popularity score is calculated: I used the Amazon Bestseller Rank of the book to assign a score for popularity. This rank loosely indicates how many copies of the book were bought recently. I found this to be well correlated with quality (I know many of these books by experience, and I found that the ones that I already knew to be good books rose to the top). In addition, when you filter for topics in the beginner section, another score is assigned based on relevance to those topics. This was a bit more work. I went through the contents of the book manually and tagged each book by the topics it covers and the percentage of the book devoted to that topic. After the relevance score is computed, it is combined with the popularity score to get a final score.
I did. I was a shitty lawyer, though. Best decision I ever made.
Perhaps it may be the increasingly worrisome and out of control political climate?
I believe parent meant "why they would prosper".

Essentially: if you turn your country into {other country, except with cheaper labor}, then you kill the uniqueness of your national identity. Which is one of the biggest assets you ultimately have in international trade, if all countries were economically alike.
I think it is cute that the Amazon adverts that is on the side of the screen leverage the names you entered into the search bar. Quite clever actually.
I personally consider another possibility :

AI is already here and we're all slaves to it already, we're just in denial of being in control.
It's just a matter of interpretation.

Right now, machines dominate our life from the moment we wake up till the moment we go to sleep with our phones beside us.

It runs the world - guides the ships, planes, cars, drilling machines, financial system and so on.

The symbiosis makes us feel like we have a say - in practice, any of us can do absolutely nothing to stop it or change its course.

Our power starts and ends with the branch we're working on - then our pull request will be merged into master - and that's pretty much the value of the company we're working for - source code for apps that run and interoperate in the cloud.

The illusion is that we're doing it for other people, the reality is that we do what the machine requires us to do so that it's even more pervasive in everyone's lives.

Overexposed to machines, people are too numb and apathetic to notice or care about whatever new app or service or product.

Well, it's just another way to look at it, otherwise there're lots of great things about the machine - maybe it will even save us from ourselves - question is, why ?