skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would argue this person has no business working with AI with this sort of myopic thinking.

What kind of thinking would you suggest would permit someone to 'work with AI'? Should they be quaking in their boots before being allowed to work at the altar?

You could argue (and with substantially more basis in fact) that Twitter and Facebook have elevated each individuals utterings to broadcast status and that even without decentralized AI networks all the effects that you are listing are already present in the modern world.

It just takes a little bit more work but there are useful idiots aplenty.

Your SkyNet like future need not happen at all, what we can imagine has no bearing on what is possible today and that seems to me to be a much more relevant discussion.

> AI is going to lead to the extinction of all human life on this planet and this is coming from someone who generally disregards conspiracy theories as paranoid fear mongering.

Well, you don't seem to be able to resist this particular one. So your 'generally' may be less general than you think it is.

> We have every reason to be afraid.

No, we don't. I haven't seen a computer that I couldn't power off yet, SF movies to the contrary.
Hyperinflation of government-issue currency or bitcoin?
There's something scarier than a grenade-toting drone
AI Is Here to Stay- but How Does It Impact the Quality of Our Lives?
Probably right, and I do intend on seeing it in person when it gets to SC. Sadly, not everyone will have that opportunity.
Portugal's performance in perspective: Only three people for every million die of a drug overdose in Portugal, which puts one of the eurozone's poorest countries in a different league than rich international powerhouse Germany (17.6 per million) and in a different universe than social democratic utopia Sweden (69.7 per million).

There's a fascinating documentary called American Addict on what nearly happened before this happened:

"In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. He proclaimed, “America’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive(Sharp, 1994, p.1).” Nixon fought drug abuse on both the supply and demand fronts." [source]

Before criminalization, the trend in society was to start treating people who are afflicted with addictions like the sick people they are, rather than like criminals. There was an entire movement toward recovery as a necessary way of life for some people who cannot moderate alcohol intake (or drugs or whatever), just like insulin is a way of life for diabetics whose pancreases can't moderate insulin.

Addiction is not a moral issue; it should not be criminalized. It is a medical issue. It is a mental health issue. When it's caught early enough, and treated with the proper mental health regimen, it does not have to be debilitating.

Instead, what happened with war on drugs was mass-market criminalization... essentially forcing alcoholics and addicts forced into debilitation (hiding / shame)... leading to further desire for escapism through the addiction. It's a terrible cycle, and the worst part of it is that some counties have made things like DUIs into their bread-and-butter mainstream source of revenue.

It's hard to say what the trend today is going toward. The privatization of jails is especially disconcerting; like society wants to trick itself into thinking that the more people it has locked up the "safer" it is.

[source]http://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/parado...
> Who would weigh themselves down with a high cost phone in your pocket when there's one on the wall?

This was correct. People aren't carrying their high-cost phones everywhere because they want to make telephone calls. They're just called "phones" by coincidence.
my new favorite README.md template
It's because we care about our mission and want to support it and promote it. We're entirely self funded from our own personal finances, so trying to suggest we have some other purpose to our work is a little odd...

We want to bring attention to the important problems and people working to solve them, and contrast that with things that are distracting from that.
Presumably end users who are compiling from source wouldn't want to enable -Werror though.

If you are an application developer and a compiler X gives warnings that compiler Y doesn't for your application, then ideally you should probably fix the warnings from compiler X. An end user probably doesn't care either way, they just want to compile the program without any issues.
And this is why the intersection area in the Venn diagram of "people that use -Werror" and "people that use multiple compilers" is labeled "people who are making their own lives difficult, for no obvious reason".
But we're talking here in the context of an iPod Touch.

Moving all your audio onto a SD card is exactly what a SD card is perfect for.
Yes, they are relative values. The whole point of the article is to make a relative comparison of temperatures now to what they used to be. It's not trying to present absolute measurements.

The average reader gets no meaningful understanding from "Global average temperatures are up 0.5 degrees Celsius.

But looking at a graph like what's presented here, you can realize that a person in 1950, if asked what the weather was like on one of those red days, would tell you "It's goddamn hot, I can't remember it ever being this hot here." and now we get those temperatures all the time.

If you want raw data and absolute comparisons, there are plenty of places to get it. This is an NYT article written to help people understand in concrete terms that things have changed.
The Concorde flew the path of totality in 1973, remaining in the shadow for 74 minutes.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8qwk/the-concor...
Pepper away! I love my little corner of the country and love talking about it :)

There is lots and lots of publicly owned land in Eastern Oregon. "Dispersed" camping means camping somewhere that isn't a developed campground. You can do that just about anywhere on National Forrest land (without a permit), and on lots of BLM land. Check with the forrest or BLM district in the area you're camping for the specifics. That said, lots of people are planning to do dispersed camping for the eclipse, so you might have to search around a bit for a good spot thats accessible to a class C or A motorhome.

You should stay off private ranch land. The forrest service and BLM can give you maps so you know what land is public and what is private.

If you're thinking shopping-center parking lots, the shopping centers in Grant, Harney and Lake (the area I'm familiar with) are small. Its not uncommon to see one or two RVs camping in some of the larger ones, but I suspect the eclipse crowd will be large enough that store managers will need to limit the number of RVs in their lots.

In addition, lots of people are renting out their land for RV and tent campers, so you may be able to find some of that available if you're willing to pay.

Finally, I should emphasize the degree to which the eclipse crowed will overrun local services. In Harney county, whose Northen border is near the Southern line of the path of totality, there are fewer than 10,000 people who live in more than 10,000 square miles. Estimates are that as many as 50,000 people will be in Harney county for the eclipse. In the path of totality, the ratio of visitors will be even larger. You should not rely on being able to buy gas or groceries, or dump your RV tanks in a timely fashion.
Depends on the format.

I found a company that took those public property records and made them searchable online on 1 website. There's a huge difference between finding a phone book in the right area and manually searching by name (you need to have a rough idea of where I live), vs going to the correct county website and searching my name (you still need a rough idea of where I live, but it will be easier since you don't need physical access), vs being able to go to a single website and find out where anyone in the US lives (all I need to know is you're in the US).
Stocks that don't pay good dividends should be reinvesting that money in future growth. At some point in the future the company will then increase its dividends.

If stocks are a zero sum game then so is business in general. But business isn't just a giant casino. Useful stuff is produced.
Nicotine is pleasant, it's a nootropic. If there's less in your chosen method of absorption, you will try to compensate.
Have you written any development posts like this? I'm sure everyone on HN would be really interested to hear your thoughts about this post, and how it compares to the development of agar.io. Did you sort of just get lucky with the game mechanic, or was it something that you put a lot of thought into? Was agar.io originally supposed to be a different game?
Best Buy eliminating 400 remote positions; employees will be offered other jobs
My issue is that, while of course you're right that one can't know for sure, some people conclude that simply not being able to know justifies whipping up a frenzy and (in all likelihood) wasting part of a billion dollars that could go to, say, more productive research even within AI/ML.

Anyone could make a long list of things it's impossible to know for sure that would destroy humnaity. Many such things are vastly more likely to do so than malicious AGI.
> In fact, Chollet links a whole series of essays worth reading:

Appeal to authority. You're not presenting any substantive rebuttals, just assuming it's not a concern because someone else with credentials said so. It's identical to alleging that I'm only worried because Elon Musk says so.

> The frustrating thing is that people with insane amounts of resources and disposable income get swallowed up by these Basilisk-ian non-concerns, while very real pressing issues like Police Brutality, Wealth Inequality, Lack of HealthCare, etc. are deemed too boring for enthusiastic action.

Nice strawman. It's also pretty disrespectful for you to assume my socioeconomic background. I live in the United States and have to deal with the issues you pointed out on a visceral basis. That has nothing to do with AI though so I'm not sure why you're even bringing it up.
CodeView debug info is supported in Clang.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twzd06NqGU
Price dumping is a great way to destroy competition and has worked effectively in the airline industry (presumably this fits into your high barrier to entry category). The ebook market is presumably easier to enter but far from easy.
> The problem we have now is that 80% of heroin is laced with fentanyl (at least in Vancouver), and it's causing a huge overdose problem. Even cocaine and MDMA is now sometimes cut with fentanyl.

When you give criminals a monopoly on the supply of recreational drugs, it is predicable that quality will be a problem. Potencies will vary, purity will suffer.

The solution is legalization combined with more health measures.

> stronger penalties

How anyone can think that stronger penalties are going to solve the problem escapes me. We have the evidence of 75 years of unrelieved failure of a punitive approach. This is an example of "If something fails, do more of it - That Might Work!".
Can’t agree more. Also the “invention” of android is debatable to me. Wasn’t a rushed response to iOS?
It is like saying that if people need X amount of calories and you decide to put them on a diet by just giving them smaller portions, they will simply eat more portions to hit the calorie level they need.

If they smoke for the nicotine, they will smoke until they get the amount they crave. If they smoke because they like something else about it, then they won't. But most people smoke for the nicotine, or they would have some other habit instead.
Doesn't matter. In something like this, your purchase order would almost certainly have not settled prior to the initial jump in price, unless you're an insider.
"3/4 or 1/2 the maximum day-night temperature difference" says eclipse2017.nasa.gov[0], space.com has more details on that[1]. If this drop means the air cools below its current dew point you get fog. Seen and felt it twice with partial eclipses (both of which just happened to be where I was, so no loss).

[0] https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/typically-how-big-temperature-d...
[1] https://www.space.com/37201-solar-eclipse-temperature-drop.h...
But on the other hand Microsoft's compiler, linker, headers, debuggers are tested together for the OS releases they support. clang-cl doesn't have that advantage. I guess Google is picking up clang-cl maintenance to make sure it remains compatible with various dependencies MS changes.
Andrei Bely. Nabokov considered Petersburg one of the top four novels of the century (his other three were Ulysses, The Metamorphosis and In Search Of Lost Time).
A Koch front group is putting out misleading attack ads on electric vehicles
> argue against automatically generated encoders/decoders since it's easy to accidentally introduce breaking changes to your API by renaming a record field / class method

Can anyone further substantiate this argument, I feel like it's not very strong as is.
I beg to differ. FP with Clojure is pure joy. Spec, which is due out soon with 1.9, is also the next best thing to static typing. Some would even say it's better.
>Amazon isn't a horrible corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies. I call your attention to "Anti-competitive practices" and "Treatment_of_workers".
Hi. I created this small Go based web app because I couldn't find anything out there that created web image galleries from just AWS S3 buckets. All the existing solutions that I found need you to upload images via their web interface.

I created this because I wanted to upload images to S3 in bulk, using something like Cyberduck, and then have the image gallery created around those images.

I'd love to hear your feedback on this. And any suggestions about this Show HN as well, as this is my first one.
It is legal to camp on any Forest Service or BLM land. Sometimes this is restricted in very popular areas and should be signed (as one might expect, a lot of California public lands are so designated). I have not camped much in western Oregon, but eastern Oregon is mostly public lands where you can camp (unless they make special rules for the eclipse). Have fun.
Please don't post uncivilly by dismissing the experience of others and making unsubstantive generalizations like this again.

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I believe you can do 3, but it would take a non trivial amount of work to do so.
The scale of government which interests people is a direct product of the issues that interest them. Want to influence school policies? Almost 100% a local ward/district issue. Want to have a meaningful impact on almost anything else? It all happens at the state & federal level. In some states (CA being a prime example), a huge amount of even normally local education policy issues have been taken over by the state because of the way schools are funded.

I have known plenty of people who went into local government and left after 3-5 years, because the fights are just as hard as at the higher levels, but the chance to engage in meaningful policy creation is almost nil. The professionals use it as a training/credentialing circuit, and the regular citizens generally seem to leave permanently.
I'd like to review and give feedback
> Problem being, a lot of people would get absolutely screwed by that, and end up losing their home.

Would there be many? Certainly, there were some cases pre-prop 13, but prop 13 wasn't narrowly focussed on protecting homeowners. Those were exploited as pretext, they weren't the motivation.

And you could make it protect homeowners while fixing the local government incentives by providing a refundable state income tax credit for 100% of the property tax due to assessed value increases beyond the existing Prop 13 limits. You could do this without or without, modifying the 1% fixed rate.

If you don't want that big of a subsidy, you could just allow homeowners to defer without penalty the excess amount until transfer of the property. Still stops people from being priced out of their homes.
First proof that Facebook dark ads could swing an election
You can find both grazing cows and vineyards WITHIN the city limits of Zurich, less than 3 miles from the center.
Is Naive Bayes really ever the most practical choice? Yes it is a simple, fast algorithm, but it's usually a non trivial step below other simple models in my experience and doesn't seem to show any major advantages. The results shown here seem good but bag of words models usually do better than you might think on supervised NLP. So what's the motivation?
I know plenty of people that have built interesting software using the JPEG compressor, I know only a handful that would be able to explain to you in detail how the DCT powering it works and why it is able to achieve the compression ratio that it does. Obviously being able to understand all that will give you an advantage but for most 'mortals' jpeg_compress and jpeg_decompress is all they need to be productive.

fast.ai aims to bring a similar high level of understanding first and then backs that up with the basic principles of the theory being machine learning rounded off with a bunch of real world examples in code of classes of problems that you are likely to encounter.
Accelerated particle colliders are not exactly equivalent to AI. It's not as if I can just build one in my garage. Anyone in the world, regardless of intent, can train a neural network to do what it wants. Extrapolate this decades down the road at the point that AI and its capabilities are much more sophisticated. Do you want to put money on the likelihood that it's all just going to go down smoothly?

I don't even know why people are arguing with me. The idea of replacing human life with AI isn't exactly controversial in the realm of futurism.
I think you are still confused about what constitutes money laundering. Accepting money from a criminal in exchange for goods or services is not money laundering, yet your whole post is about that.

Like, let's take the complication of know your customer out for a second. Of course you should not be prosecuted because a bank robber comes to your store and uses the money he stole to buy something. But if you are keeping fraudulent books in a cash-heavy business to conceal the source of tens of thousands of dollars you or your associates made through criminal activity, why shouldn't it be a crime?
I think Ethereum has a lot of potential and really love the platform. With that, the language options that work on top of the EVM are quite awful. There needs to be considerable investment in either building better options or building EVM compilers for well designed languages.

Something functional would be great: OCaml, F#, Haskell with immutability and formally verified abstractions for dealing with the blockchain.
The way --watch is implemented is pretty, mmm, crude.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/597962/223424 lists saner alternatives for the major platforms.
It was added in 3.1 (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_1_release_notes.html) and uses bcrypt under the hood.
As someone who grew up w/o a/c in FL, it's doable ... in a house built before the 1950s so it wasn't designed around central air.

High ceilings, entire house on cinder blocks so there's a 3 foot crawlspace under the building, a large porch, roof-vents, etc. Florida cracker style.

It helps that we had the option to visit the public library or movie theater for a/c on the worst days, or go to a public pool.

Worst is to live in a house designed for a/c but not using it. Did that one summer, because we weren't home during the day and wanted to save money. Just left the windows open. Mold started to form, so we decided it was better to run the a/c with its built-in dehumidifier.
> It is hard for me to empathize with Musk’s fixation on evil super-intelligent AGI killer robots in a very distant future.

This reminded me of a talk by Andrew Ng I watched recently [1]:

"Worrying about evil AI robots today is a little bit like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars ... how do you not care ... and my answer is we haven't landed on the planet yet so I don't know how to work productively on that problem...of course, doing research on anti-evil AI is a positive thing but I do see that there is a massive misallocation of resources."

Nice talk all around if you can find the time.

[1] https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=37m45s
Please stop violating the guidelines by posting uncivilly here.

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He wasn't talking about you, he was talking about Musk.
To be honest I'm not sure, PR, marketing and such is not my strong suit. (Also, just wanted to add that any insider knowledge I share is solely on iRobot culture, and I cant divulge any insider info on technology, only whats publicly available. Sorry for the disclaimer, but this account is tied to my real name, haha!)

If anything I would say that there is some good information on the webpage they need to make sure gets out there. I'd also say that they should get out there and talk about their vision for the future more. Colin has talked a lot about his vision of a smart home, and how iRobot can bring a lot to the table by providing users a map of their home that is updated fairly often. As such I think they could get people more excited by not just saying "no we arent selling your data", but by showing the potential. Imagine being able to say "OK google, vacuum all the bedrooms and mop the bathroom", and having it dispatch your roomba and braava. Or saying "Alexa, have you seen the tv remote?" and having it respond "the roomba spotted it inder the couch when cleaning earlier".

(Not necessarily saying this is what is being worked on, again just my impressions I got that Colin / the leadership there is more interested in making cool bots and working to make a true smart home a reality, and willing to let users have access and share the kind of data a mapping robot can bring, and less about becoming a data/ad broker.)
Ars longa, vita brevis

It is not the responsibility of sensible people to persuade every last person in existence of the wisdom of a course of action; that's a recipe for paralysis.

What we have here is someone who expressed an aggressively ignorant counterfactual position and rebuffed polite encouragement to consult primary sources. Perhaps the person is trolling, perhaps they're just a fool, but either way people who make objections in bad faith do little other than waste time, and making endless excuses for them is a further waste of time.

This is why I said elsewhere on the thread that it's time to just move on without the buy-in of that part of the population that rejects the reality principle.
I built a car that is being controlled by the Twitch chat. Here’s how…
50 Cent is another guy who himself has made lots of money [0], and been technically bankrupt [1], but somehow did fine [2].

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-tweeting-about-hnhi-2...
[1] http://nypost.com/2015/09/05/heres-how-50-cent-went-broke/
[2] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/50-cent-to-end-bankru...
'Very few examples of valuable applications to society or the economy.'

Not true. RL has been applied often in production system inside the bigger Internet companies. They are just not published.
Many, many startups in the valley have raised on convertible notes (aka debt) first.
They can distribute the build over multiple machines easier with clang. That is reason enough for the move.