skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that there is some hyperbole in the article, I think it's worth pointing out that this is a fundamental (if not the fundamental) business concept: Buy/make a thing for price x and sell it for price x + profit.

$200K/mo is a little much for this kind of low-hanging-fruit but easy/easier money DOES exist. Your next startup doesn't have to be a blockchain AI distributed whatever whatever that's going to change the world.

If you can afford to use distribution centers (there are some that come ready made and will drop ship and do stuff for you), and can find a niche/gap in the markets and fill that niche/gap until it's no longer there.

That said, this is low hanging fruit (basically arbitrage), and difficult in practice, as logistics (storing, shipping, inventory, etc) is hard. If you can do it easily, odds that others can too, and more will enter the market, and reduce your profit margin.

I also don't need millions to feel like a success at such a startup -- If I were to make a setup like this (and I know people who have, though they focused on specific niches), and get away with 50K a year or 100K a year, I'd be very happy (assuming the logistics were little to no work after initial setup costs).
So, uh, I'm still at the "I don't even know the extent of my ignorance" phase of understanding current ML tech; I haven't even gotten to linear algebra in my math education. I'm working on it.

However, I do spend my days around (often fixing computers for) people who do seem to understand machine learning... and as far as I can tell, we're still in a phase where machine learning functions like a fancy sort of filter... a way of determining if this new piece of data is more like this set of training data or the other set of training data.

While I totally see how that could be super useful in designing business applications, I mean, I could totally use some sort of ML filter to take the boss' words and match them with something I know how to do, or with something you can solve with an existing ML library... and while I can see how something like this could potentially help to replace me, I don't see what it has to do with artificial consciousness.
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This should be only an experiment at best. Please don't waste so much time trying to turn a tool into something that it is explicitely not.

If you just want an IDE experience use one that already exists. If you want to build your own out of plugins, use something like Emacs that has something like that as a core feature.

If you really want to learn vim though, then please learn the IDE that it is already integrated in: Linux. Linux based OSes are the most extensive IDEs because in the past nobody thought there would be a difference between a programmer and a computer user. So it's the most complete system that you can find. And additionally to solving all your programmer problems you also learn an OS and its components on the way.
Yes. I think Youtube inherited the culture of the old web. Lots of amazing channels about obscure interests. Household repairs but also welding, machining, woodworking, electronics repair, obscure retro tech, distilling, etc.

I guess it forces the presenter's personality into the spotlight a bit more than pure text and images. Probably attracts a slightly different kind of person. But I think the same spirit is there.
Personalization is what happens in threaded systems. In threaded systems the number of viewers and participants in any given thread extremely rapidly approaches 2, then 1, then 0. Your analog of how problems are solved has nothing to do with the reality of how threaded systems work. In reality it would be:

1. -> 1.1 -> 1.2 -> 1.1 -> Airplanes
1.
1. -> 1.1 -> 1 -> 1.1 -> 1
1. -> 1.1
7. Hotdog -> Apples -> Hotdogs -> Apples -> Hotdogs -> Apples -> Hotdogs
1.
1. -> 1.1
Descartes -> Nietsche -> Russell
1. -> 1.1

It's the key problem. When people isolate themselves from everybody else, there's no real progression in the discussion. On HN I can't even find new posts if I wanted to! When I last posted, 15 hours ago, I mentioned there were 86 posts made. That did not include mine. There are now a total of 89. So including yours that means one solitary other individual has since posted in this thread. I wished to locate his post to see where he fit in our little discussion, but alas that's not really practical in this model of discussion.

The reason posts die rapidly is because there is no notion of chronology. When you look at a post from 3 days ago you're mostly just going to find comments from 3 days ago. Now go to literally any reasonable size chronologically ordered forum and you'll find interesting topics that in many cases have been actively going for years, and it's phenomenally interesting to be able to clearly see and follow the changing views, discoveries, and so on over time.

Like you're inadvertently alluding to, I think this format is more popular in large part because it's a minimal effort, rapid response game. It's certainly fun and addicting, but I think it has a very negative effect on the overall level of content.
A signal?

“A month before the 1987 crash, my cab driver said he started day trading,” said Scott Kelly, CEO of Black Dog Venture Partners in Phoenix, Ariz. “A month before the real estate crash in 2007 in Arizona, my cab driver said he was getting into flipping real estate. Last week, my Uber driver said he just started trading Bitcoin.”
>I guess you have to think like that to do the work you do

I don't think you need to start this on a free to play/social networking site/on-line shopping developer forum.
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I’m sure it’s a safe bet. However, 20 years is a long time. And, 2037 will be as different from 2017 as 2017 was from 1987. I suggest hedging your bet by raising kids who are flexible and adaptable.

For instance, when I was a kid, parents who wanted their kids to have a ‘better future’ knew that college degrees were the sure thing. And, we all know how that turned out. 20% of my close high school friends are now low-wage post-docs with $100k in debt.
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That is more of a difference between general device and specific one-use device.

"A modern phone doesn't really do much a phone from 5 years ago can't do"

It can run a game old one could not run. It shows more text on the screen, so reading is easier and faster. It does make difference between "I will rather open a laptop" and "reading on the phone is just fine".

"Will anyone really notice 2gb of RAM vs 3gb of RAM?"

Yes. The result speed improvements and the smoothness of operation are direct result of that.
> https://about.qwant.com/job/ninja/

What a disappointment, I was expecting some job requirements regarding the handling of shuriken, nunchakus, sword fighting, art of camouflage, ...

Ah, and something like the graduation note of Shaolin Temple, in case of attendance.
What do you mean the FBI's NIT used basically the same thing? Do you have a source?
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Download Stranger Things Season 1, 2 Episode (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10)
As gt says, it depends a lot on the subject. I’m very interested in biological anthropology for example and here it works fine. Sometimes I have to go back to video versions of the lectures.

Generally speaking, except for aubjects such as history I don’t think it can be used as the sole approach to learning, but many cases I think it can be a useful part. You’ll need to hear things more than once anyway!
There'll always be a part of me that wants to learn vim better and set something like this up.
Then there's the other part of me, that just uses Sublime instead.
It's probably one of those bluetooth fans.

http://list.qoo10.sg/item/XIAOMI-XIAOMI-XIAOMI-INTELLIGENT-F...
much appreciated, thanks!
You can go even further by using FZF+ripgrep, it's so much faster.
It pains me to say this, but, back when "Gamification" was a major growth tool, I read this book so that I could identify potential avenues for "gamify-ing" the product that I was working on, but, the stories of the addicts are really what drove me away from even considering that for what I was working on.

I'll +1 on it being a really comprehensive book.
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At first glance that feels like a different kind of spin on Ted the Caver.
> Just like I don't get 100 IPv4 addresses on my phone, I don't get a block of IPv6 addresses. There is nothing I can do about it.

Sure you can. Do the thing the people whose ISPs give them zero IPv6 addresses do -- use a tunnel broker. Or a VPN provider that gives you a real IPv6 address block.
The waybackmachine link didn't work for me, but this did:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Congratulations, really cool and innovative! Have you looked into ArtMatic and how you can create a tree of functions ? It allows to create mutations that give results very similar to yours.
I was greeted with this message -
'Your access to this site has been limited.'
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If they saw the person's username, then they can keep tracking that username. Same with any type of cookies. Https obviously makes it harder to do on sites they don't own, but it still works on http sites and https sites they own.
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Since we are talking about postgres, please let me go a little OT

Is there any interests in a RDS as a Service?
So basically setting up and running a completely fault aware postgres cluster in any infrastructure, either public or private?
> that would require shipping one item every 12 minutes assuming he never sleeps and works all of the 365 days

He uses Fulfillment by Amazon, meaning after he buys the products he just ships them all to Amazon and Amazon will ship them to the customers when the orders go through. That saves 90% of the time required to operate a business like this. All he has to do is find and buy products where he can make a margin significant enough, send them to Amazon and list them in his store.
Drinking is a voluntary activity but we still have alcoholics, gambling addiction is the same. Of course no one is forcing people to gamble but similarly no one is forcing a heroin addict to keep taking the drug.
https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-index-th...

Although they just show Bing results for me so don't know how much of their own index is actually used.
"Jeff Dean, a google engineer", he is some sort of Chuck Norris of coding. I would not call him that way.
That’s a rather good article. I will digest that today.

I’m currently using Cypress’s PSoC line (4200M boards) for a couple of personal projects. The reconfigurable hardware and analogue parts actually kill a lot of external hardware. It’s pretty amazing and ridiculously cheap. Visual Studio is the IDE for this.

https://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/processor-microcontroller-...

Note: don’t just jump into these if you think it’s just a better Arduino as the learning curve is extreme. You really have to know your stuff before you open the box.
wonderful idea and very natural
I love telling people about that study. It's so cool. And when they removed the glasses, in roughly the same span of time their vision returned to normal. Really makes you wonder about the potential negative impact of certain sensory augmentation during adolescent development, such as glasses or hearing aids, and how we could possibly avoid such negative effects.

I don't know why other similar sensory studies haven't been done. For example, trying to rewire the nervous stimulus system, such as trying to make a peripheral touch stimulus on one part of the body register with your proprioceptive system as a different part of the body, or inverting the inferred location of a sound with special headphones and feedback.
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Unless you are more interested in foundational philosophy than solving problems of immediate relevance, I suggest you just ignore the "consciousness" debate. It is mostly in a state where people can't even agree what the question is, but everyone has their favorite answer to it.
Might be good if the date could be mentioned in the title:-)
Agree completely. If you are running a TOR service/browser you should at least have an option to block all data that wants to move outside of TOR. Imo, the option should be enabled by default. It is better to have a "broken" service rather than risk leaking the real IP.

If I recall correctly, wasn't silkroad and alphabay compromised by such a flaw? silkroad leaked the server IP through the captcha and I think something similar for alphabay.
This is basically the stance of every serious practitioner that I've seen (ie the stance shared by everyone who directly works with theory/code to train models, as opposed to those who talk about AI at a high level).

Right now, we have these systems that are effectively ungodly complicated spreadsheets. They're great at a variety of tasks, some of which seem impossible for a non-intelligent entity to perform (neural machine translation is wild to me).

But that's all the systems are- super complicated spreadsheets. There's no way for them to start replicating consciousness without massive advances in the field.

Having said that, there is a road from where we are to intelligence- if we can create a network that performs arbitrary interactions online, and figure out some way to create a positive feedback loop for intelligence, like AlphaGo Zero did with their policy network & MCTS, then we might be able to figure it out. But we're so far away from that that I'm not concerned.
That is, in fact, what I mean.

He is claiming he is a commoner, and he is claiming he is not being taken seriously; I do not think either of those claims hold water.
>No recurring revenue, no actual customers, no secret sauce. Maybe some proprietary data models, but doesn't really sound like it.

So exactly like most of the 100s-of-millions valued internet startups?

(But in this case, actually making a profit)
Not the best examples considering both alcohol withdrawal and heroin withdrawal can be fatal.
> the obvious search engine optimization to look for anything with "tomatoes", "seeds" and "grow" being definitely wrong in this case.

I'm going to side with google for once: you should be doing your search in multiple steps, acquiring more specialised vocabulary as you iterate on your searches. Starting from seed, you'll end up learning that they're fertilised eggs, which you'll use in your second query which'll start digging you into domain-specific academia where younll assimilate enough keywords to have a pretty good idea of what you're looking for in domain-appropriate terms
2. I used to work in the gaming industry too (not slots). If you're on the other side you just realize in the long run gambling is a losing proposition so you won't be pursuing the activity as hard. Also that job is a consistent stream of income.

3. Yes, but they are designed to be as addictive as possible. I'm quite appalled by online slots (Android, iPhone) where no money is at stake, but coins can be purchased, and the amount of coins purchasable is adjusted based on how much you play. I'm thinking Zynga based games primarily.

5. That's fair but a weak argument. 100% of people who go to the theatre or eat out spend money, but the amount is fixed and known up front. I guess you can say the same for slots when the payout percentage is up front, but still, Vegas wasn't built by giving away money.
Jeff is a manager nowadays. His coding days are in the past. Although, like Chuck Norris, he certainly has proven he can kick ass.
> Its not planned, it just works out that way

Oh come on, this is some doublethink if ever I saw it.

> Every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted

No- the employees would be out of a job if the addicts werent in there, they see both sides of the coin, winners and losers, and have a completely different perspective on gambling. If anything I’d expect employees to be more immune to addiction than anything else.

Your arguments 4 & 5 can be applied directly to hard drugs without modification.

I don’t think gambling or what you do is immoral, but if your line of thinking is how you justify your job you should think again as it sounds like it doesn’t match up with your own morals.
That is argument for experimentation against theorizing. Math people have awful habit of theorizing and even rejecting experiment that is right there in front of their eyes. They will argue for hours based on what systems/people/departments are assumed to do in simplistic model they did in their head, ignoring what is actually happening. They are also masters in cherry picking when it comes to history and it is especially bad when they talk about history.

They also have tendency to take conflict like the above, completely ignore politics and motivations that drives the arguments (meaning involved money), pretend it was all technical question people magically could not figure out until someone did something simple.
>a centralized server connected to the internet does all your application, storage and processing

You can have more than one server in your AWS account.
Most security advice is always dumbed down like that. "Always do this" "always do that" without actually explaining why or the risks of doing it etc.
Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hpndb2...
>$200k/month isn't even close to $8M/year.

He said $8M total (over 4 years), not $8M a year.

If one is going to discredit the article, at least they could read it carefully.
I don't exactly agree. While the internal hardware does tend to receive less emphasis now, the physical build quality has increasingly been given a scientific treatment, and for good reason: it's the part that matters the most! A phone with an inferior camera, screen, and battery life is a worse phone for most people. So there are lots of reviews that subject these elements to tests with measurable results. That really wasn't the case years and years ago: the fact that the features of a device actually worked was often novelty enough.
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Software and burnout, how to get gratification?
This is a bit of a confession I guess: I've never worked on software that actually got used. I'm 29, and I'm seriously considering a career switch. Since I was 12 I've been glued to various screens. Saw the advent of the internet, the rise of smartphones, and not one but two AI booms. In 2010 I finished my undergraduate in Artificial Intelligence, and went into the big world (with a sidestep PhD in Epidemiology/Genetics that I never finished). But here's the thing, in all those years of programming (PHP, Javascript, Java, R, Clojure(Script)...roughly in that order) I've never made something that had actual users. I started off with various websites, which were fun, but not very profitable. Went on to do more "complex" things. A startup on web annotations that got nowhere, a system for preference based group formation (think meetings, parties, etc). Software that does Bayesian statistics for randomized controlled trials, web applications that do Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning on PDFs of academic literature. And now a vast tool that does semantic search and analytics on medical publications. The catch: no one uses them. And it's silly, you can follow all the best practices, do everything right, and still it's utterly useless. The past few months I've been wondering: is it really worth it? Where's the fun in all these high-brow advanced pieces of software. I know, somewhere, that it's about validation, finding a niche, etc. But really, where are the people who enjoy what I make? It would be nice for a change to find those. And, I've gotten increasingly cynical about it: most software is really just about nothing. Unit tests, e2e tests, type safety, distributed computing, etc, I've gotten the feeling that it's all about nothing. I just wonder what it's like to work on something with actual users sometime. Maybe I just suck at my job, time for a career switch?
actually good idea
You can be conservative about adding dependencies and still end up with hundreds. Database driver, database utilities, gRPC framework, monitoring & metrics, CLI & configuration tools, /x/ packages such as crypto or net, logging, linters, libraries to talk to other moving parts like Rabbit or Vault, and then all the transitive dependencies like yaml, toml, websockets, and the various 'standard' helpers the authors of your dependencies use... all for a microservice and administrative tool... and one part of the larger project.
Now if somebody from China can make a list of the cheap micros under 1-2 RMB, now that would be a nice list for super low cost stuff.. that I'd be very interested in...
The learning curve is steep but learning Vim is worth it.
How does qwant pays it bills? How do you do business? I didn't see any advertising, and there are no paid subscriptions, is the project funded by the EU?
> And about her point of being sexualized - what if a guy had his face photoshopped onto he-man and that guy complained about being sexualized because now his face is on a shirtless strong dude.

That would also be against the code of conduct and in poor taste. Don't measure with two measures - and neither should the organizers. Even not shirtless superheroes are overly sexualized, near-impossible male standards of asthetics, strength, and personality traits like superhero levels of patriotism and whatnot. Denying it's not problematic because it's men is applying a double standard.
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but blockchain AI ICO developer sounds more cool to my friends :(
For that price I'd believe you can get only those without packaging
I don't find the font all that good looking. In general, I'd say Material Desing beats this.
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if you wrap each word in quotes it works the intended way.

eg. "tomato" "seeds" "grow"
"We redesigned the search space so that AutoML could find the best layer which can then be stacked many times in a flexible manner to create a final network."

I was literally thinking the other day how one could train a neural net to build better neural nets, and here it is. Such a simple and powerful solution, building up layer by layer, choosing the best version each time. Really exciting stuff.
A limited version already exists. Some RAID systems will enter a read-only mode if the array falls below a configured threshold of redundancy.
Flappy Bird was successful, but it wasn't Pacman-level successful.
Aside from drugs and alcohol, which are addictive, it has worked wonders for tons of other things...
Note src vs source in the original comment. Go forces you to change everything else to conform to gopath. I use go a lot and am used to it now but IMO that is a Bad Thing.
easy identify methode
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Sure, for San Francisco according to https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-income-tax-rate-on-a-100k-... it's 34K USD of state and federal income tax on 100K, so you pay ~34%, plus healthcare costs.

In the UK, 100K USD is ~75K GBP, and according to the excellent tax calculator here https://listentotaxman.com/76467? you pay ~32% if you don't count Employers NI (which no-one would ordinarily in discussion, and really if I am to make that adjustment I should really ensure the grossed up amount was 76K, but it will make at most a few percentage point of difference), and if you do it's ~39%.

It's quite possible I'm missing some taxation or complexity on the US side (FICA?); I'm UK resident not US resident. The UK side is correct.

Other notable tax differences that come to mind include:

* No worldwide income tax in the UK

* Capital gains is a single rate in the UK

* No property tax (we have Council Tax instead, and the average for a Band D property in England is £1,484/year)