skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something often missed when talking about GAI is that we humans are built by our genes in order to facilitate their (not our) reproduction. Genes don't care about anything, not even reproduction (except in the sense that water cares about flowing down hill), but one of the tricks they use to advance their "agenda" is to build brains that do care about things.

A lot of what we call "intelligence" is actually a side-effect of caring about things more than it is evidence of thinking. In particular, it's a side-effect of caring about the kinds of things that advance our reproductive fitness. For example: Hofstadter laments that, although computers can now trounce the best humans in chess, they don't look for "elegant moves" or decline to play and have tea instead. Hofstadter cares about these things because chess is more than an abstract mathematical construct. It is, like all sporting events, a social construct, one that distills the essence of competition where the participants care about who wins and who loses. And all of this derives from evolution where genes that build brains that care about winning competitions outperform genes that don't.

One of the things holding back computers from being GAIs is that we have not yet figured out how to make them care about anything, and so they cannot possibly understand the visceral difference between winning and losing, or the emotional angst of being up against a deadline or deciding to take a risk. All of these are part and parcel of everything we humans do. The ability to do math is just an interesting and useful side-effect, but it was never the main event.

Personally, I think it's a good thing that we don't know how to make computers care about things because once we figure that out they really will become potentially dangerous. Our desires are hard-wired into us by our genes. Once computers have desires of their own, their interests may align with ours, but that's not a given. And if they don't, that could be a really big problem.
Perhaps not really that big a deal, but the first consequence I can think of is draining battery...
Except that the WOW signal is fully explained now as due to a hydrogen gas halo around a solar system local source that the dish was pointed at at the time.
And of course the cost of proper maintenance would have been much less.
To illustrate the point: dietary fiber, which contains a lot of calories, is not digestible. Eat as much as you can, but you will not get one calorie of energy from it. So just based on that, where calories come from matters.

There is a difference between fat metabolism and sugar metabolism. They use different metabolic pathways, in other words the process by which a fatty acid molecule becomes ATP (the ultimate source of cellular energy) is very different from how fructose (which has to first be converted to glucose in the liver) becomes ATP.
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How many times do we have to do what?

Google is absolutely selling your data to advertisers.

If you mean they won't sell it to them in raw form I guess you're technically correct, and I'd of course agree with you, but I don't think this is the parent posters point.

They aren't being altruistic by not doing this; if they did they wouldn't be able to monetize it anymore.

Am I misunderstanding something here or are you just being pedantic?

It's the same reason I'm an iPhone user. I'd rather deal with a company whose business model is to sell me overpriced hardware rather than to "sell my data to advertisers"
Well... obviously... otherwise why would they be doing it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Turing test is actually super easy to beat given enough resources. Just have enough data and imitate responses.

Chat bots already can convince humans that they are human. Not reliably, some people can still tell the difference or ask tricky questions.

There are only so many ways to tell if someone you're talking to is a bot. Bots can already spit out meaningful sentences.

It's the person who is testing the bot that's the limitation. They need to have VERY good intuition about when it's a person being silly or a bot that can't quite find the right response. If you read the Wikipedia article on the Turing test, you can see that computers have already been able to pass it.
LOL. Those are all clearly legal businesses. Warren's job is to find the highest return investments for his investors, not make fine ethical distinctions. And still, he refused to buy tobacco companies 40-50 years ago even though they perfectly fit his criteria for great investments.

In the case of Wells Fargo, Warren invested nearly 30 years ago, because it was a great business. 10% shareholders don't get to hire and fire management, or even pick board members. He's been very critical publicly of management and the board, going so far as to suggesting directors return 5 years of pay as recompense for their failures. He's also sold shares, which he almost never does in existing investments.

Maybe Davita is a loser, if so it won't be his first. He's been great at detecting management bullshit during his career, but he's not perfect, he has no supernatural lie detector. Guaranteed he didn't pick Davita because he thought they were misleading patients. Aside from the ethics, that's a horrible investment, you can't build a lasting business on fraud.

As far whether Buffett can ethically deploy the amount of capital Berkshire Hathaway has, it's a hugely silly question. BRK has $250 Billion in net capital. The S&P 500 comprises the largest 500 companies on the NYSE & NASDAQ exchanges, which have a total market value of over $20 Trillion. There are nearly 6,000 more public companies on those two exchanges alone, and that doesn't count thousands of companies on foreign exchanges, and tens of thousands of private companies Berkshire could purchase. Or the thousands of bonds and other fixed income investments that have billion dollar capacities.

In total his universe of possible investments is likely close to $100 Trillion, having capital comprising 1/4000th of that universe doesn't require making any ethical shortcuts. Buffet's large capital base is a hindrance to his returns but he doesn't care and never has. He no longer can achieve the 40% annualized returns of the Buffett Partnerships, or the 25% annualized returns of Berkshire when it was far smaller. But he's still beating the market by a substantial amount, and that's all he cares about.

Go read Barbarians at the Gate. Buffett was quoted about what a great business tobacco companies were. "It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty." But he passed on an opportunity to make a bunch of money off the RJR Nabisco takeover. "I'm wealthy enough where I don't need to own a tobacco company and deal with the consequences of public ownership".

And that was the 80s. He's far wealthier now. Some Buffett quotes.

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."

"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body"
"Improving patient outcomes" is quite possibly the most disgusting, 1984-esque buzzphrase right now.

It's worded so that like, "who could be against that?" is what anyone would think.

So some shady ads pushing startup is out there trying to handwave how they're making everyones life better and improving outcomes, despite not providing any innovation.

It would be like saying my meth dealer is improving my life outcome because I have more energy now.
Note for those who it's relevant for, this is not usable in a commercial setting.
Basically map https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/basics.broadcasting.ht...

So OP would've converted from indexing numpy arrays in Python space
Stock trading is just one of many ways aimed at making capital available to whomever need it. Without capital Olivetti may not have existed in the first place (assuming they borrowed money during their existence).

You may blame lax of regulation in this regard, which may be fair. But blaming capitalism in general is disingenuous
It’s really simple: For a bookie, if a customer is winning money, then you are losing money. Doesn’t matter if they are helping balance your books or not. So why take their bets?

Likewise, bookmakers will happily take bets from guessers all day long. If they are lucky enough to get a ‘whale’ placing huge (but dumb) bets, they can easily lay off those bets elsewhere to manage their risk. They don’t need skilful gamblers to help balance their books.
I also hate hardcover, always preferred paperback, much easier to hold while reading.
Complex carbs?
I now prefer knocking stuff up in my pet chosen MVC web framework. I can be more more productive when I need to tweak thing that way.

With output caching performance should be on par with static. Or can use one of those programs that downloads a website to convert into static files if required.
> For cooking, I understand olive oil is unhealthy (I think you create carcinogens as a side-effect), as are many other oils, but that coconut oil doesn't do this because of its different melting temperature.

I believe the situation with oil is a bit more complicated than that, and you're generally fine with olive oil unless you make it smoke, which is fairly non-trivial to do, despite its low smoking point. There seems to be some debate on the topic: http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/03/cooking-with-olive-oil-fa...

Coconut oil in particular actually has a low smoking point. If you want to be safe, you want Avocado oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point
Yes. However don't let that kind of thing open for exploit. People tend to like these kinds of disasters as opportunity to make hefty profits.
I quite enjoyed riding the bus in London. I can't say that for many other cities. It was very clean safe and the integration with Google Maps was awesome.
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If that's how you define abstract data types in C, then I'll stick to my current practice of not defining abstract data types in C, for obvious reasons.

> A common approach is the use of "ops" structures containing function pointers that are filled depending on the type in use.

Maybe you're confusing ADTs with objects? They aren't the same thing at all[0]. The point to ADTs is delimiting the scope where implementation details (e.g., whether a set data structure is implemented as a red-black tree or an AVL tree) are relevant. The point to objects is deferring until runtime the decision to use this or that implementation (e.g., callbacks). ADTs in general needn't pay an indirection tax. And using objects when ADTs suffice for your modularity purposes is a sign of being a very stupid programmer.

[0] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf

> If you still pick C for writing your program, you probably don't mind it or have some other reason for sticking with C.

The latter.
It’s not rigging. If you place a bet and it wins, they will pay you. It would only be rigged if a bookmaker decided whether or not to take your bet after the event.
Why should people trust someone else instead of using their own brain to evaluate arguments?
>The problem is that from a customer perspective, an ebook == hardcover in nearly all ways. It has the same story, it is written by the same author, you can read it at home or on the bus. There's no difference. In fact, some might argue ebook > hardcover since it takes up no space and you can use a Kindle and all the features it has.

The problem is that despite that being so, ebooks also have zero incremental costs. People recognize that, and so they resent eBooks costing as much as hardbacks. If eBooks were only and explicitly > hardbacks, people would happily pay more, but there's more to it than just value.
I'm not saying the economic aspect is very good, but I would make 2 points: they are more or less on time, and nobody got hurt. That probably desserve a shower of money.

Those people were using the biggest dry ice making machine in the world to try to pour not too shitty a concrete on schedule, next to a blasting zone, under a leaking gate (yeah, the gate is leaking it just stopped leaking because the water is lower than the gate now), under high voltage power lines, without anyone getting hurt.
"The Obesity Code" by Jason Fung goes into all the issues from the article in more detail. He references studies that seem to prove sugar substitutes cause weight gain rather than correlate with weight gain:
Sucralose raises insulin by 20 percent, despite the fact that it contains no calories and no sugar. This insulin-raising effect has also been shown for other artificial sweeteners, including the “natural” sweetener stevia. Despite having a minimal effect on blood sugars, both aspartame and stevia raised insulin levels higher even than table sugar.

Fung, Jason. The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (p. 172).
Depends on what you mean by native? Most of us are transplants, even those of us who went to high school and university in the area. All the natives I know aren't in tech.
So what does that say about the medical practitioners on the front lines prescribing this shit at these insane levels? Hippocratic oath means nothing? Kickbacks from the pharma companies too sweet to ignore?
If your BMR is 750-1000, you're likely a female shorter than 5' and/or weighing less than 100 lbs. At that point, you are likely severely underweight and probably shouldn't be trying to lose weight.

I'm not denying that there are other reasons to eat a diet with greater nutritional density, but trying to convince people that CICO is wrong is far more harmful than trying to convey that it is literally the most important factor in trying to modify your weight.

If you want to make changes in your life, you need to know the right things to measure, and your caloric intake relative to how your weight changes is the single most important factor for people trying to lose weight. If you're not even doing that, it's unlikely you'll succeed, as millions of people who struggle with their weight will understand.

Once you've convinced people of the value of that, it then becomes more productive to go into the value of high protein intake and strength training to further improve body composition, the importance of eating a diet centered around fruits and vegetables, etc.

For people that are severely overweight, getting their weight down will have the highest impact on their health.

>Nobody is suggesting that CICO and the insulin theory are mutually exclusive;

Taubes literally argued this in the paragraph where he quoted the biochemistry text.
Worse than literal drug dealers, because they took the Hippocratic oath and have a much more informed understanding of addiction and its repercussions.
"Supreme excellence consists on breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu
How do you know when the parent poster knew what? Must all Apple users know the entire history of Apple device DNS usage? Where is the universally known documentation on such usage?
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The issue with CICO isn’t that it’s wrong. It’s that it isn’t helping us solve the epidemic of metabolic disorders.

While true (it’s simply a restatement of a law of thermodynamics after all) It’s an unhelpful, apparently mostly irrelevant model.
This sounds unreal, but I found a place that was $210 a month about 6 years ago. The area was sketchy and the place was crap. Best thing about it was that it didn't have roaches.

Since college funding is usually on state level you have some latitude with where you initially move. Going to a community college in a farm town doesn't sound like a blast but it's probably the easiest way to make things work from a cash flow perspective.

Your friends/family are likely to think your "master plan" is crazy too lol
'Obvious deficiencies'? What do you mean?

There forks of both Chromium OS and Android which are successfully running for a while now.
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"Ungentrified"? Is that a euphemism for a place you'd want to live turning into the kind of place where you're afraid to go out of town for the weekend because all your stuff will be gone when you get back?
I find it interesting the default commentary to this sort of event - ballooning budgets on underbid projects - assumes that bad faith on the part of the bidder is the problem, and that if only we could punish these few bad apples - punish those scheming, underbidding contractors, then the problem would disappear.

It seems unlikely that bad faith is the primary cause. Yes, there are really contractors and owners who do act in bad faith, like the Trump organization, but these are unusual, and highly publicized. Punishing dishonesty seems like the easiest problem to solve, and it's easy to rally around for a quick and cheap victory. But I have seen these run-up bids for decades and no amount of punishment has ever seen to stem the flow of these events; it seems as if every city and state is infected with this problem. Either we are in a system where bad apples are so numerous that punishing a few has no meaningful effect on incentives; or we are in a system where bad apples are so rare that we punish good apples mistakenly, and can't figure out the real cause for our poor planning. Until we move on from the assumption that a few bad apples are to blame, we likely won't be able to discover the real underlying problem.
Typical for California, and in fact experience tells me to doubt that this will be the last increase.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/316201-brief-history-64-billion-ba...
I agree, and if a 5G base stations is really required on every corner... then screw it! You can't get decent coverage of more than one carrier over significant fractions of the country. I sounds like 5G is more likely to emerge as a super WiFi than as a cell phone standard in the US. Transitioning to greater use of MIMO within the 4G standard would significantly increase bandwidth without requiring more stations.

And it might just save us money... we need more 4G with good coverage than ultra-high bandwidth local service. We might get it and better WiFi, if the FCC doesn't sell off all the spectrum to our non-competitive tri-opoly. In China they've already committed build it so they will come, anyway.

The one new thing 5G actually helps with is low latency (less than 10ms rather than less than 100ms) ... which is mostly useful for dumb terminals, twitch games, and perhaps VR.
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>No, that was just inevitable technological progress.

So you're discounting their accomplishments because a company was destined to enter this niche?

Nothing happens for free. It's the result of thousands of man hours. Github has done a lot of good in this space, and there's nothing wrong with showing some appreciation.
I know of Pharo (have used it a little bit) as well as Dolphin, Squeak, and VisualWorks. I've only talked to someone who has actually made money from a Smalltalk app once before, although I'm sure it's not that rare. I'd like a little more information on how efficient they are...etc besides just seeing a few success stories. Thanks for the help though, always nice!
His job is to assess the long term value of the business, part of that is an evaluation of the content of managements character. He's bought at least a hundred businesses, and invested in hundreds of public companies. He's proven a great judge of character, but that doesn't make him perfect.

Clayton Homes makes mobile homes, which are super cheap homes for low income people. Their customers are poor credit risks and default frequently, so Clayton compensates by charging high interest rates.

So is Clayton preying on their desire to have a home?

Or is Clayton offering people who can't afford traditional homes the opportunity to have their own?

Should their customers instead save their money for many more years till they are able to afford a traditional home and improve their a credit score to get a better loan?

Critics of Clayton greatly over-simplify the ethics of its business and how it runs it.
The road toll has been on a steady downward trend since the 70s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths...
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I'm not talking about DNS usage because neither were they. They were talking about being able to fully control their iOS device, which has never been the case, even dating back to the original iPod.

There is pretty universal documentation on that called "every sentence ever uttered about iOS since ever".
Worse, implosion of the Chinese market affects us all. We're all interconnected for better or for worse.
> but if sqlite only talks SQL

What does that mean? Like any RDBMS, SQLite is interfaced with in SQL, but can store and process binary data just fine.
What's the side project? I don't get it. Microblog and contact page isn't a side project.
Well that’s a different issue isn’t it :-) you’re now getting in to management effectiveness - do people really need to do 60 hour weeks or is there something severely wrong with the factory...

Definitely all related though. In this case to bring it round to the start, I am focusing on the “how much does the average worker earn” problem. I have a little experience is human resource budgeting for a small team, and my establishment was represented in FTE.

Thanks for the chat, it was interesting.
If that's true then in my four years of college I never experienced those topics in the way that best conveys them.
I'd expect somebody commenting about "the 'new' Apple" to have awareness of Apple's historical activity, yes.
>AlphaGoZero just proved, that unlike AlphaGo, you can start with nothing, and still succeed.

There are various types of AI. The type of AI AlphaGo is something that needs computing power and smart people. The kind of AI you see in Google Photos and Translate is what needs large amounts of data.
Exercising less can also make you loose weight. Muscles are heavier than fat, if you loose them you'll get lighter.
That isn't going to solve this overrun. They got on site, dug down and discovered that they were going to need a lot more concrete.
Let's not confuse the issue by taking about freedom of speech, at least without acknowledging that the rules for commercial speech have always been different (and much stricter).

I don't really know anyone who thinks "Remember the good old days when cigarette ads were on TV?" (that was a thing). Prescription ads on TV are a relatively recent thing anyway (really 1995 in the US), one in which a powerful lobbying group used their money and influence to help write the rules.
> They're just hypes in certain circles like silicon valley.

Which is probably one of the most widely spread culture on the internet ( I think ), by virtue of being highly tuned into tech.

In this day and age, minority opinions greatly magnify themselves to seem like they are a) common and b) widely accepted.

Diets are no exception, some more than others.
When was the last time you saw a lump of meat arc and spark?

Actually, Google "microwave meat sparking" and you'll find plenty of videos --- but in almost all the cases, the meat is cut in a very specific shape (with sharp edges) that makes it concentrate the RF, and of course being a microwave oven the power density is very high. A human body is, to a rough approximation, a bag of water. It will heat, mostly evenly, when exposed to RF (some parts like the eyes do not have good cooling, hence are more dangerous to irradiate, but this is still a conversation about power levels many orders of magnitude higher than a phone would produce.)
Also the same with comic book stores and vinyl record stores.