skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your business is located in an area with free parking available to all, that's not income.

If your business is located next to a parking garage that costs $400 a month to park in, and it pays the $400 each month so you can park for free, that's income to you.

Imagine your CEO makes $1M a year. But he tires of his high marginal tax rates, so instead negotiates with the board of directors to only take a $500k salary while the company pays a $5,000 a month lease on his $200k car, a $20,000 a month rent on his $2M condo, and $200,000 a year for his parking, premium healthcare, meals, groceries and personal travel expenses.

Should he only pay taxes on his $500k in cash compensation now?
If you plan to live in a world with that much stimulus, it probably is a good thing to learn to filer it.
> It gives you the chance to read the article while having the vision there too.

That is not a thing that an actual human is capable of doing. A human has two eyes which must be fixed in the same general direction, and one brain. As convenient as it would be for some interface designers, humans are not octopuses. The cocktail party effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect) is a useful thing to keep in mind when considering the limits of peoples' awareness. It happens for a reason.

You may think you can read an article and watch a video at the same time, but the fact is, no, you cannot. One of the two things is making it very hard to focus on the other.
Easy for people in this forum. Not easy for the general population. Also it's terribly insecure. It would be much easier to be say 'I trust App Store' and add it to the known sources and be able to keep unknown sources blocked.
You jest about WalMart but actually if they are a monopoly then yes they could be though of as common carrier. A much better solution is to break them into pieces.
Learned something new, thanks.
This doesn't look terribly user friendly https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-....
Edit: And in testing I can't have multiple profiles open at the same time.
Gab? What is... googles

oh god its a social network by Pepes for Pepes that we are only hearing about because Google doesn't want to have the White Boy Hate Twitterlike in their store, hahahaha

Personally I liked Twitter a lot better before it became the place you could go to get into arguments with racists and Nazis with frog emojis in their display name, and this is one of the things driving me away from it. Having political arguments is not my idea of a good time, and nor is supporting a platform that lets people reinforce these sorts of views at each other or harass people who don't share them.

YMMV, I guess. Please go tell an angry racist idiot off in my stead if that's the kind of thing you enjoy. Unless you are one.
Speaking of Convair, It's always a shame to read about all these companies from they heyday of aviation - so many companies making so many planes. I went to the Aviation museum in Ottawa and looked at all the forgotten names...

Canada used to have multiple brands of aircraft manufactures, making multiple combat planes. The USA had a plethora of manufactures I can't even keep track of them all.

Now? We have just Bombardier, who makes solid passenger craft and fails to make large jetliners and LRVs.
It varies greatly here in Victoria. I've seen Jr. positions anywhere form 30k to 80k. I've also seen senior positions as low as 50k. Java seniors earn around 115k. People from Vancouver say it's worse there... Keep in mind the Canadian dollar is significantly lower than USD right now, 100k doesn't get far at all.
A side note - I work for a company that is/was a SPAC several years ago. There is a ore case which could benefit SV/startup types of firms: the ability to make multiple small acquisitions and very rapidly create a larger business. In the case of the company where I work, several smaller consultancies were bought and gave us better ability to deliver a broad array of services to our clients. In SV tech companies, especially small ones that deliver more feature/function type tech rather than fully fledged businesses, this could allow them to merge and cooperate. If the founder of the SPAC buys the right businesses, this could be substantially better than the standard IPO or acquihire.
Two related issues, both worthy of attention. I agree that one may be more urgent than the other.
What you've described for unsupervised learning is really closer to reinforcement learning, where you get rewards without any information. True unsupervised learning is more like "figure out the clusters of these n-dimensional vectors".
Your statement is exactly the incarnation of Moravec's paradox. You don't see the amazing things that a 5yr old (even a 2yr old) can do, exactly because these things are completely obvious to us. They become much less obvious once you want your robot to be able to do these same things. At that point these things become horribly difficult.
I don't think that's unreasonable, but as things stand today that's not what the CIA (or any other US intelligence agency) is for. It's like wanting a hammer to work as a screwdriver, even when the latter is appropriate.
Baltimore's Leakin Park: The Scariest Place in America
I get what you're saying, but I don't think he was speaking explicitly about AGI. To me it didn't sound like they were leaving the applied problems he has worked on. Maybe I'm reading too much between the lines, but so far there haven't been any major successes in un-supervised learning models and he's suggesting here that rather than continue with the models that have had success up to this point, it would be more worth the energy to start again at a lower level, rethinking the problem, in order to achieve similar results unsupervised.

This may be where my limited knowledge is my handicap, but I didn't think you would need an AGI in order to achieve unsupervised learning. There would still be an input and an output as there is now -- but instead of massive datasets used in training the models could simple experience the problem in real time, adjusting and learning based upon new results. Of course unsupervised learning models could contribute greatly to the pursuit of AGI, but I didn't think AGI predicate unsupervised learning models (which is what I am taking from the article -- or more like article abstract -- here).
As I mentioned above some of this goes back to application design. Ideally if you are layered correctly the application components of the system that own data should not talk to the outside world except in very narrowly circumscribed ways.

Unfortunately most real world systems that have internet access are created in far from ideal conditions.
I use instagram, twitter, and snapchat because the user interface is sleek and the influencers of the network, not because of engagement growth hacks that are not sustainable long term.

Yes I would rather have a billion dollars than have a billion users with a dollar each. One is capitalism and the other is socialism, I think capitalism is just more natural.
I'm a millennial. I don't want any kind of suburb.

I refuse to live anywhere that isn't well-connected/dense enough to provide a good lifestyle completely car-free (i.e. all travel is quick, ubiquitous and convenient on foot/bike/public transportation). I do not ever wish to drive and this is not possible in any suburban development.
> I wonder if Cognition Builders could have a more passive offering where you could ask on demand things like "what did we agree to last week when we were talking about so and so..." It would be more like a life logging perfect AI for you to use as you see fit for things like reflection or accountability.

That's literally straight out of Black Mirror ;) ("The Entire History of You" - S01E03).

That said, if we're to have this, I'd say this is a perfect example of something that should be a product, and not a service. I might want such cameras, but I would never want them operated by a third party.
Why not institute a carbon cap and trading market, so internal combustion engines pay their external costs, and not subsidize anything? in that case renewable technology investment will be much more attractive without the costs of government picking ideas from only the best funded lobbyists (like Solyndra and the friends of Gore).
Because Disney world fills up all emotional unhappy holes...

Rather give them a secure and happy family than materialism.
How to validate if people will use my product?
I am a tech guy at heart and I am trying to build something that will make me money and people will want to use. I have built the first version and people are signing up but will they pay I'm not sure.

So now I am trying to reach out to people on LinkedIn and other places. They are mostly people who might be using a similar product in the field of marketing. Also, the product I am building is not something very innovative it has a quite some competition but I think the market is big enough and I can get a share.

My end goal is to understand if people have existing challenges so that I can tailor the product to solve those pain point and get some USP out of it. I'm sure people have cracked this before. Will you please give me some tips?
Nicely put. It's hard to get the orders of magnitude across; that's a good example.

One could argue that the "didn't say 'never'" was implicitly understood. What I don't think most grok is then-incomprehensible scale change; those loading multi-ton 5MB storage units on airplanes couldn't imagine a half-terabyte on your fingernail.

https://imgur.com/uqKOX

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1nA6XRpXXXXX1XXXXq6xXFXXXy/200...
You're also forgetting that for an app store you have to keep that setting off because all the apps that come from that store are still from 'unknown sources' which defeats the purpose of having that security check in the first place.

I really could care less about Gab but I would like to mark the packages from F-Droid as trusted and still distrust others.
No, why would "your conscious self" know any of the answers? The problems biological organisms face aren't even well defined enough to have "answers" generally.
Practically speaking, this doesn't seem tremendously useful an idea. Global comment threads are most often a universally repulsive mix of incompatible opinions (case in point: YouTube.) I'll never allow comments on my blog, for instance, because I want to encourage discussions on fora where like-minded (or at least matched intellect) individuals can have a constructive discussion, as happens here on HN.

What would be useful, I think, would be a standard that openly links content to where it is being discussed. I think this would lead to a great surge in discoverability, in terms of both content and communities.
I think the point is that just because companies are making money off of AI advances, that doesn't necessarily mean we won't hit another AI winter once we hit a ceiling with current techniques.
Queries with %text% syntax do not use indexes by default.

You can use trgm module to index this kind of queries.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/pgtrgm.html
There is a Pattern always
Ah that explains things perfectly, sorry I misinterpreted you.
Try RedoxOS
written in Rust
Apple isn't dumb enough to think they have a choice. When Android finally figures out watches as well as Apple, a hundred watch makers will start chipping away at the phone market. Apple has always been smart enough to try to cannabilize its own products if cannibalization was inevitable.
NASA must be well aware of the triple redundancy logic you're describing since they themselves used it on the Saturn V in the 60's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Launch_Vehicle_Digital_...
That still puts the onus of correcting issues on the public (must sue a large, well-lawyered corporation to rectify incorrect information), and it has a lot of knock-on effects (loose libel laws seem like a very bad thing for a free press).
Annoying stuff is always annoying, but the major complaints about flash were centered on security holes and excessive CPU utilization.
There's still a limit on how much people can post, it's just more forgiving than Twitter's increasingly-archaic 140 characters. IIRC, Mastodon defaults to a 500 character limit, which is more but not War and Peace more.

(Personally I would remove the limit altogether and just hide everything above 500 characters behind a "read more" link; this would let people write as much as they want/need to without cluttering their friends' timelines any more than a hard 500-character limit does. But that's my opinion, not the Mastodon devs'.)
So war over a couple emails? I'd rather not servicemen die to retain the illusion that the DNC isn't corrupt.
Truly one of the greatest writers in journalism today, too. Excellent wordplay. One from last week with the pun about ether killed me. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-06/the-fall-...
"but here I want to stress what an old and dull idea this is. "People should be able to sell equity in themselves" is a perennial Finance 101 dorm-room musing -- as I've mentioned before, I wrote a paper about it in law school -- that has been tried repeatedly and never really gone anywhere, because (1) no one wants to sell equity in themselves and (2) no one wants to buy it. The obstacles are not technological but human, but people are going to keep trying to solve them with new technologies until human nature finally changes. You won't sell equity in yourself for dollars, but for ether, sure, knock yourself out. Cryptocurrency will give every dubious financial idea a second act: It didn't work before, but what if we tokenized it?"
Interesting that you assumed it was a "he". It was the child's mother: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/opinion/harvard-michelle-...
"transformed the Chinese keyboard into a 'smart' peripheral, much more sophisticated at taking instructions from the user than its static, rather stupid alphabetic cousin" - also can ensure what you type conforms to CCP dictates - see also: newspeak - pinyin ban incoming?
Could you please cite the studies you're referencing?
Reddit has found a way to reduce hate speech that actually works
Sure. For historical context, it's hard to do better than http://www.paulgraham.com/re.html:

For consumers this new world meant the same choices everywhere, but only a few of them. When I grew up there were only 2 or 3 of most things, and since they were all aiming at the middle of the market there wasn't much to differentiate them.

One of the most important instances of this phenomenon was in TV. Here there were 3 choices: NBC, CBS, and ABC. Plus public TV for eggheads and communists. The programs the 3 networks offered were indistinguishable. In fact, here there was a triple pressure toward the center. If one show did try something daring, local affiliates in conservative markets would make them stop. Plus since TVs were expensive whole families watched the same shows together, so they had to be suitable for everyone.

And not only did everyone get the same thing, they got it at the same time. It's difficult to imagine now, but every night tens of millions of families would sit down together in front of their TV set watching the same show, at the same time, as their next door neighbors. What happens now with the Super Bowl used to happen every night. We were literally in sync.

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Android's Play Store, iPhone's App Store, Reddit and HN are all channels that define our generation. When you point out someone's project to a coworker and they say they already saw it on HN, that means you're both being influenced by the same channels. It molds you far more profoundly than most of us like to admit to ourselves.

Hacking was, briefly, a respite from this. When computers weren't synonymous with business, you had to love it. You invested your time and money into it because it fascinated you, not because it was a good investment.

You also had access to the entire ecosystem. You could see what everything was doing, and how everything worked. If you didn't like something, you could just change it.

In return, you owned everything. You were free to take whatever you needed and to contribute however you could. Ideas and skill alone determined the outcome.

It wasn't quite that simple; ideas still had to be promoted. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html

But they could be promoted and they could win against the objection of any higher authority. In fact, it seems strange that any authority could ever have been in a position to decide Emacs' fate.

Yet that is our present world. Apple doesn't like you? Gone. Ditto for Google. These are the authorities you answer to. You obey masters; we all do.
As a long-time user of Credit Karma, I'm curious if anyone knows anything damning about the company that could change my mind about using them for nearly all my personal finances?
Libel laws are a terrible idea; there's a reason the US has a special law against extra-territorial enforcement of UK libel law.
Learning to crawl. Learning to perceive depth. Learning to walk. Learning to pick objects. Learning to hold balance. Learning to hold balance while picking an object. Learning to handle liquids (such as food or drink). Learning to avoid dangerous situations. Learning to ride on a bike. Learning to see. Learning to interact with other agents. And so on and so on.

The list is almost endless. In all of those cases, if there is any supervision it is minimal.
It would be trivial to establish strong countervailing precedent using the Twitter app. Specifically "including for content that encourages violence", as Twitter has been rife with completely unmoderated calls for violence against "Nazis" over the course of the last year.
I would make the same argument if we were talking about Samsung/Amazon branded phones as well. The issue is that users can't put app stores they like/want in that same privileged position.

In my case I would like to put F-Droid there but unless I root my phone the best it can do is download the APK and notify me to install it manually.
Many of the strange VTOL planes of that era are in the Hiller museum in San Carlos.

(Basic problem with thrust-type VTOL: the plane needs so much engine that it's all engine, no payload. This works for fighters, which are are all engine anyway, but not for much else. Thrust redirection is mechanically complicated, too.[1])

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW28Mb1YvwY
LifeLock has been running ads for several days now making fun of these services. The tagline is something like "What good is monitoring credit fraud if they don't stop it too" and then showing a character such as a security guard in a bank robbery saying "Oh, I don't stop robberies, I just monitor them. You're being robbed."
Not exactly. Gamil, Hotmail etc. are some successes that had clearly centralized email despite remained on the same protocols.
Build an Instagram/Facebook/Snapchat following and get products or paid to promote products from other companies.
Yes, your argument is based on the idea that fingerprints can't be leaked in practice, which is false.

It's worked for years against a variety of scanners, and is likely always going to be viable because of how scanners work -- a thin overlay can be made of things that are indistinguishable from a finger surface to the scanner, but which triggers the critical points.

If you think that's changed in the past few years (which you seem to), I would appreciate something a little more substantive than your random comment on HN.
Sarcasm doesn't really play well on HN. What can I say? I was having a bad day.
No one ever said that all millennials want to live in the suburb, so...
Can't say I'm disagreeing with you. In fact, I'm not. To illustrate, I think it is far more likely we'll have "Jarvis" before we are building our own analogues of the human brain (or better).

I do want it to happen, though. And I think it will, in spite of whatever model wins. It's just too interesting a problem. How that takes shape, I can't dream of predicting. (eg. How soon will or understanding of the use of organics in computing advance to such a level)
I usually love these kinds of war stories, but this one was anticlimactic. This would have been the first instinct of anyone who's ever tried to open a PowerPoint they got over e-mail – "oh, one printer shows the wrong font? I bet the font's not bundled, and one machine just happens to already have it."
I feel the same way that you do, but I worry that the realities of the housing market are going to drive my family to some stupid suburb where I have to get a car and spend 30 minutes every morning screaming inside it.
Just ML is never going to lead to an AGI. There are lots of other things that need to be first understood about intelligence, common sense reasoning, cognition and other things which we don't have a clue of (though some think they know it all), to build an AGI.
> Rather give them a secure and happy family than materialism.

GP's comment sounds like that's precisely what they're doing. They're using the money to give their kids a fun and memorable childhood.
I have used connect a number of years ago. I think it may take a week or so to get approved. (relatively painless process) Once approved it took me maybe a week to get the payment functionality working. I was a much lesser developer then as it was essentially one of my first forays into api's and web development.

After approval a skilled developer could absolutely bang out the core functionality in a weekend.

Using regular stripe for direct payments is even easier and you can have a fully functional payment system / shopping cart in a few hours.

My above statements though in no way reduces what Patreon has done, they excelled at execution and driving traffic to their service as well as excellent usability. No small feat and not easily reproducible. Much the same as the way Facebook succeeded and myspace and friendster failed. Vision and incredible execution.
How many robots have you interacted with?

5-year old humans have picked up a lot. For instance, I knew about the dangers that hot surfaces, sharp objects, angry cats, and big sisters represented.

I had learned to walk, run, swim, ride a bicycle, and catch a ball.
"Could be" is not "should be." I would argue that neither should be thought of as a common carrier. There's no natural barrier preventing you from distributing code through other means to run on Android devices, or from setting up your own store to compete with Walmart (probably Amazon is the better parallel here). I don't think "remove any editorial discretion" is a useful answer to any of these scenarios. Decentralization and lack of control is not the panacea that the the-internet-should-be-radically-open crowd thinks, for reasons that a brief history of (mis)use and tragedy-of-the-commons type scenarios illustrate.

But maybe I should hedge this position by learning to write malware so I can have a leg up when the floodgates open. :)

EDIT: Animats makes a great point above in his comparison to railroads. Very apt-sounding comparison. Slides my thoughts around to consider that the difference today is how low the stakes are for would-be content creators - in the past you were much more likely to need a business case to justify, today things are so cheap you might just write an app to troll. If there are policy changes needed, seems like that shift is where they would come from, and that we haven't really talked about it from that side much.
The Daily WTF has a trove of similar stories. https://thedailywtf.com
Thanks, that's a crazy story.