skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a Bias about something you dont have to "spend" as much brainpower to reach a conclusion.
Its what allows us to function in our life because thinking everything over again would be too taxing. We would get nothing done. So we rely on social cues(thats the way most people do it...) our own experience in the past( biased data..) to make decisions.

So biases are kind of the necessary. But in some instances the extra effort for unbiased decisions is worth it. Ignoring "Educationism" as a recruiter should be one of it.
But to eradicate a bias is kind of Impossible. Its just possible to change or replace it with another one.
Forgetting can be a wonderful blessing.
For most people "forgetting" is a valuable phenomenon. There are lots of minor injuries and torts which are better off forgotten than recalled. Doesn't even have to be things other people did to you, but things you did yourself while learning.
This was well thought out and exceptional work. Particularly how you drew up a diagram of the project types. I can tell you put time into these examples and you conveyed the meaning adequately.

The author of the article also made this: https://pixelart.academy/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Retronator48k/videos

Just impressive. I anticipate good things happening in the author's future.
The kind of data Tesla collects is useful for general self driving, less so for solving hard cases. For that we need simulations and real life enactment, like Google does. We already have the basic data, we need the special case data now, or we could use the driving data from Tesla to discover new special cases.

Simply putting more SDCs on the road does not guarantee they will focus on the data they need.
The way we are wrecking the environment. Possibility of nuclear war.
Yeah, that does make sense, I think even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will be remembered in the same manner as Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie where the name is familiar but doesn't ring a bell whereas a contemporary of that time, a modern-day Mark Twain will still be remembered.
Maybe not, if humans have set foot on a bunch of other celestial bodies in 1000 years. In that case, perhaps only Armstrong would be in history books as the first human to set foot on a body other than Earth.
sub-heading:

-> CEBR[0] publishes World Economic League Table and predictions

So what you're saying is that this UK company (CEBR) that periodically updates its economic league table[1] based on data it collects and collates should stop doing so and go out of business. Or are you saying that Bloomberg, a company that focuses on financial terminals and journalism, should stop reporting financial information like this?

I wanted to add a snarky, "Truly groundbreaking comment" but I managed to stop myself.

edit: added link to league table report, can be yours for just £195

[0]Centre for Economics & Business Research "leading economic forecasts & analysis" https://cebr.com/

[1] World Economic League Table 2018 https://gcp.global/uk/products/welt-2018
Nvidia Ends Support for 32-bit Operating Systems
I don't think we can underestimate the Chinese power to innovate either - consider Shanzhai[1]. What comparable practice do western cultures have?

Sharing and mashing up IP without restriction and less regulation could be a serious challenge to competition in the traditional sense.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai
"For many, ambulance rides are prohibitively expensive"

Third world health care.
Could he just said "I didn't call for ambulance, charge the guy who did"?
When you have coins at an exchange, all you really have is an IOU from the exchange. This (and every other solution) for getting coins from forks requires you to prove ownership of an address with a private key. This is by design and is never intended to work with exchanges such as Coinbase.
Thank you for the recommendation, I may just pick it up.
So soon, out of top 10 economies - half will be from Asia: China, India, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia. Two from Americas - US, Brazil. Two from Europe: Germany, France and One from the Atlantic Ocean - UK.
A total extinction event is pretty unlikely: a nuclear war could perhaps end our civilization, but there'd still be folks around, even if their lives were harder. It's believed that we've already as a species gone through a very small population bottleneck, and homo sapiens can probably survive a nuclear war of even the worst kind.

That said, a thousand years is a long time to research a Death Star I suppose.
I agree. You can tell he puts a tremendous emphasis on accuracy and quality, but sometimes you make mistakes when you are operating on a shoe-string budget.

Overall his stuff is pretty accurate. When doing a series that's like 20 hours long, you're bound to say something inaccurate from time to time. While he does do a tremendous amount of research for the shows, and he tries hard to be accurate, he is also a master story-teller.

I surprises me a little that he didn't make a big deal about it. I would think he would correct it. In fact often he opens a podcast with correcting any errors from the previous one. Not sure I fully buy that. Would like to hear Dan's side of the story.
You're right, I made a mistake. Just reviewed the table of contents on Amazon and it looks pretty short, and not particularly theoretical. Also poorly reviewed. I don't remember how it got on my list but I'm removing it.
China doesn't need either innovation or to catch up technologically. They have 5x the population of USA. They can be lagging far behind and still have a larger economy.
How is Uber any different than taking a taxi to the hospital?
> Humans do have the advantage that our vision system can draw on a huge repository of real-world knowledge and has been fed with decades of high resolution training data.

My impression was that ML image recognition systems have exactly the same to draw on, non?
> Religious figures, hopefully, will lose their relevance.

People have been saying that for thousands of years. Hasn't happened yet, and isn't going to later.

That's essentially what the story of Hanukkah is all about. The Assyrian Greeks wanted the Jewish culture, but not the religion. Instead they got a religion that persisted despite pretty much the worst humanity has to offer - and has flourished despite it all.

If they couldn't do it, no one in the future can either (and science was just as important to them as it is to us, so don't try to use that as a "this time it's different").

It's also really not a nice sentiment. Virtually every single thing you consider a positive can be traced to ideas that came from religion. (Charity, helping your neighbor, community, law, proportional punishment (i.e. [the value of an] eye for an eye, instead of life for an eye), praising being a good person instead of a powerful person, the desire to give life meaning instead of hedonism - the list is almost endless.)
Solution: Self driving planes.
Also, they actually email the x-rays to a different hospital where the cost of radiologist labor is highest. Happened to me.
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Dat doesn't match that description. It has funding from a few different orgs with respectable endowments and is focused on solving real problems for non-tech people trying to share data.

Beaker is interesting because it's enabling things that aren't possible on the HTTP web, and (again) focusing on making it stupid easy for non-tech people do things. Meanwhile, the major browser vendors' idea of forward motion amounts to working on things that web developers can use to impress other web developers and maintaining existing barriers to entry.
It's a bit simpler than this article outlines. How much you are remembered is based on what your accomplishments/stores/press/etc are recorded in.

For example, if you were a world renowned inventor and everyone wrote and communicated about you via clay pots then your memory is only carried on as a function of how many clay pot readers there are. Since all clay pot readers are dead and the medium itself is dead, your memory is dead. This is assuming no one transcribed the text from clay pots to whatever new communication medium came next.
> You can go to virtually any corner of the Earth, walk in to a shop and find that roughly 50%-80% things in there are made in China.

My iPhone was made in China, yet the bulk of the purchase price goes to pay Apple (US) shareholders and employees - very little goes to Foxxconn (China) shareholders and employees.
> I think it's not enabled by default now

This is easy enough to check with a simple Google search. (It's still enabled by default).
The only way to travel in a SDC is with a set of diagonal pliers and screwdriver in you pocket.
China invests in solar, renewables and R&D while the US cuts science funding and tries to keep coal alive. With the current leadership Chine will overtake the US much sooner than 2032 and rightfully so.
A) It's the power centres that we remember, because they make the decisions - most notably, Royalty. The articles comments are off on this - maybe 80% of UK Royal heads of state are almost household names in the UK. Even around the world.

B) 'Religious figures, hopefully, will lose their relevance.' - as we dive into selfish consumer materialism, and narrow minded scientific materialism, the better religious figures words are more important than ever now, I for one wish some legitimate leader would come along in this regard.

C) Musicians - Mozart, Beethoven and Bach are still household names.

The one's that will be around:

QE2, Hitler, possibly Obama - I think American academics will create a big historical thing around him and America is a 'big power' they have the ability to bend history. Think JFK but times 10, and more globally oriented. Mao especially due to his foundational status of the new Chinese state - and they are huge. Possibly Stalin. Gandhi - depending on how Indians decide to propagate his history. He has some really ugly spots that we overlook.

Possibly Marx and Adam Smith as 'founders' of economics.

Maybe another common thread is 'those who are the foundation of something' - because Bach, Beethoven and Mozart are taught in Music class as kind of the kings 'basic of music' (even though they were not there at the start). No matter how many music genres we go through, at music school the rudiments will likely still be interpreted with them in mind.

Any serious Monarch that lasts more than 30 years will get a spot in the textbooks at least.

As for Scientists - how many can the average person name past 'Einstein'? And FYI - Einstein had a marketing/branding campaign behind him that he was aware of and somewhat weary of. Niels Bohr? Oppenheimer? Walk down the street nobody knows who they are. Maybe if they get a particle or theory named after them ...

Athletes not really.

Actors - this is a new one - because we now have the ability to record performances for future generations. Maybe the early actors will be minted as 'the originals' and be studied for 1000 years ...

The kind of history we have post 1900 will be very different than before because now everything is recorded and written down. Imagine if we could just pull up Billy Shakespeare on YouTube ...
Healthcare in the US is so bogged down by regulation, standards, certification, etc, that there's really no room for competition. You have to buy the X-ray machine that's 40x overpriced. You have to use the software that's 200x overpriced. You have to hire the guy with 8 years of schooling.

American healthcare could be a lot better if we just allowed more breathing room for competition
I don’t understand the scenario you proposed or it’s relation to the simulation hypothesis.

However as for the latter part of your post anything which is external is irrelevant.

Basically it doesn’t matter if the universe is a simulation a hologram or a marble it has no actual impact on our reality since it’s ohtside of its scope.

If we are being tinkered with it does not detract from our reality in any way it doesn’t change anything since if we are in a simulation then an administrator who modified your code is on the same level as natural law, they are a part of the universe not our peers.
The problem is that there is no distinction of kind between these two types of discrimination. The only difference is of accuracy.

For instance, say I am consciously biased against hiring black people because I believe them to be generally less qualified. This is the same type of discrimination as not hiring a credentialed doctor because I believe them to be less qualified; not only difference that one of these beliefs is factually inaccurate. When you say that activists are only talking about the "bad" discrimination, you implicitly sweep under the rug questions about the factual basis for discrimination; and end up treating questions of fact as if they were questions of morals.

Unfortunately, determining relevant characteristics is incredibly hard (especially if people know what measures you use). Instead we use our intuition and gut feeling. It is important to be aware of inaccurate intuitions we have to improve our assesments. However, there is no easy way to tell a-priori what discrimination is based on an accurate signal, and what discrimination is not.
Ramses was probably only recorded on stone tablets for quite some time, they stopped that a while back and he is still remembered :)
We'll all be blown to smithereens by then, my friend
gamma ray burst

vacuum decay
Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options
I completely agree, but I don't think it's a winnable fight. I think it's so big and so entangled with everything that the only thing that could ever pry it loose is some kind of fundamentally transformative event that results in the complete dissolution of our entire economy and/or nation.

Trying to make any progress through typical political avenues is hopeless. You're casting your vote into an ocean of voters that don't even see health insurance as a financial product, they see it as healthcare itself.
That's an impressive volume - was it all for the same technology column? And were they articles that required research?
My computer locked up so I didn't finish the whole video, but I did find it interesting. The list of inaccuracies seemed fair, but I don't think any of those ruined the overall message and mood he was trying to set. The Robert Newman video was interesting (and funny), but the bashing of the US seemed a little over the top, and I think he has some marxist tendencies (which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I agree with many of marx's criticisms of Capitalism. I'm just not convinced there's an alternative with less greed/corruption/power seeking politicians). Will probably finish the video when I get a chance. Thanks again for the reference.
We're also working on decentralized/P2P tech as well, currently storage+computation+ledgers+DAGs are covered pretty well in the article, but CRDTs are also a must for most projects: https://github.com/amark/gun . The article seemed to mix in some blockchain/cryptocurrency projects as well, but seemed out of place (for instance, if they were mentioning those projects, why not also Ethereum?).
I've taken my cats (in their carriers) to the ER on Uber several times. Generally, they don't have any issues and are quite empathic to the situation.
UWP apps without the Microsoft AppStore
Buses are not always full. Their average capacity does not have an order of magnitude advantage.
On the other hand, instantiating/specializing a container to hold up to 5 items can be a perfectly reasonable thing to do, depending on the application. It might be a design requirement that a safety-critical program never has to restart due to heap fragmentation, for instance.
If Uber says 5 minutes, it might be 7, or even possibly 15 if things go very, very wrong. Heck, if it's gonna be 15 you know this ahead of time because you can see the driver making wrong turns.

If you call a taxi service, and they say "15 minutes," it could be 30, 45, or 60. Maybe they're mussing with the truth, maybe they're outright lying. You don't know, and without the map showing the driver, you have no way of knowing.
Here's a common essay structure I've picked up on, from many sources(From Eliezer Yudkowsky's rationality articles to John Oliver's Last Week Tonight)

1. Introduce a problem/concept - can be a social issue, bias, or a useful cognitive tool.

2. Define/explain what it is.

3. Give several examples or studies.

4. Call to action - propose a solution, debiasing, or a practical real life application.

Also add an intro that grabs attention and promises value.

This seems to work well and I like it a lot, it gives me a pretty universal way to write on many subjects.
Ask HN: How does it feel to be (very) intelligent?
Tragic, yet admirable in every way. Whenever I read something like this, I can't but wonder how I would handle it if I were dealt those cards. Would I be a mess, would I be in a constant state of uncontrollable panic, unable to process or accept the inevitable. Or would I face my conclusion with dignity and peace like Eric did?
Surprised nobody has mentioned Elon Musk yet. The best, and possibly only, contemporary bet for lasting fame.
> outside small well-mapped neighborhoods will not be ... economically viable.

Hmm... but aren't the small well-mapped (and high-density) neighborhoods where almost all the money is?

You see way more conventional cabs roaming Manhattan and the Chicago Loop than you do on a county road outside Minot, North Dakota.

Also, there's no reason they couldn't keep some human drivers for trips outside the dense core regions. The apps know where you're going before the car is even dispatched, after all.

"This guy is going from the Art Institute to the Field Museum... send him a robocar."
"This guy is going from O'Hare to a farmhouse on the outskirts of Kankakee... send him a human driver."
Mars is the first planet we would set foot on outside Earth.

The moon is nice but we are far more likely to actually colonize Mars first.

In short - it will mark the ACTUAL expansion having started. Who woudn't remember that?
This really depends on where you live. Harassing and other similar situations are very common in Taxis where I live, while Uber drivers seem to be well-behaved.

None of my female friends dare get into a Taxi due to, well, harassment, (some have stories of groping, attempted rapes, etc.). Generally, they'd only take a taxi in groups, or walk.
Uber seems to be working well in that regard (at least for now).
Functional programming. Loops usually have some kind of mutated state and in FP you use constructs like map and reduce. No for or while.
I think they mean remembered in the public consciousness rather than remembered at all --as in having a record of the person [as in the Sayers example].

Now, it's true that we might have some more people in our consciousness if some of those people had been recorded in more durable media --or that they had a written medium at all.
Some British may not like it but the UK is a European country by geography, too.
What you'd be arguing for is, instead of revamping the way cars work, revamp the cities themselves. I feel like the market tends to side with whatever is the "lowest initial cost of entry" when picking which direction to go in, as much as I don't agree. So, between the choices currently available - what is the option that is the lowest barrier of entry financially?
It's entirely reasonable because the literature shows that it is true. Work is leisure you get paid to do and leisure is work you pay to do.

If your society doesn't allow that state to come about then it is because it has been deliberately designed to have fewer work opportunities than there are people that want them. If you construct society so that there are always more work opportunities than people who want work then competition and automation automatically gets rid of the crap jobs.

And yes there are people in factories that love their jobs. It takes all sorts to make a world.
Our democracy needs two decent parties, and at this point the G.O.P. seems to be irretrievably corrupt.

As it stands, we have one decent party - the Libertarian Party. Voting for either of the other parties is just voting for more of the status quo. If you want change folks, it's time to remember the old saw "If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten".
Should people who aren't naturally gifted at interpersonal interaction simply accept their reduced prospects of social, romantic, career and business success? Try applying that logic to any other skill that doesn't come naturally.
I disagree about Obama. He did nothing special as compared to other presidents. He will be remembered as much as they are, but not any more than that.

As I think back pretty much the only thing I remember about him is healthcare, and that's he's the first half-back-half-white president.

That's really not much, as compared to other presidents.

Even Trump's antics will not be remembered in detail (how many do you remember from 6 months ago?) He will be remembered in a general sort of "said lots of dumb things" kind of way, as a trope basically.

Want to be specially remembered as President? Start [or end] a huge social program, or make peace in Israel.

PS. For Einstein did you mean weary or wary?
My take on the problem (predates Graeber's book though): http://250bpm.com/blog:44

TL;DR: Firms are not people and can't strive for efficiency. Only individuals can. Once the financial incentives of individuals are misaligned with the financial incentives of the firm, the firm is going to lose (and pay for useless jobs).
> You do realize that most people won’t accept that, right?

That's why we have courts (and insurance).

Conventional vehicles kill people all the time, sometimes through provable manufacturer negligence. But we still have them.
America doesn’t want this. We vote against these designs time and time again. Nothing short of China style totalitarian urban restructuring will make US cities walking utopias.
>traced to ideas that came from religion
None of those ideas necessarily came from religion.
this is also witnessed by many businessmen from Taiwan. they concluded that Chinese living in China can't afford to eat $1 instant noodle, the example they described is that once someone opens up a cup of instant noodle in public, people gather around him/her and start to look at the instant noodle in jealous.

:)
Look to a company like DGI, founded and based in China. They seem to be blazing a trail in a tricky technical market: consumer and industrial drones, and manage to be the world market leader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJI_(company)
Or when the value of your alts is less than the cost of a Bitcoin transaction, which as of today would be around $30.
No guarantee that the definition of "planet" stays the same for 1000 years. Hell, it's already changed once in my lifetime.

If we end up colonizing other worlds, it's likely that future space colonists will regard a "planet" as any habitable world, whether it's actually a planet, planetesimal, moon, or asteroid. Armstrong's accomplishment would stand in the record books in that case.
Lonely
neither are roads.

it doesn't matter how full the bus is when the road is empty, but the number of cars that a bus is taking off the road at peak road usage time is pretty close to the full capacity of the bus, in any bus system i've ever ridden.
If you’re blind you can also get free audio books from the library of congress[1]. The selection is more limited than audible and you need a special reader, but it is free. My father who’s blind uses both services actively.

1: https://loc.gov/programs/national-library-service-for-the-bl...
Perfect recall is not necessarily a desirable thing. Black Mirror explored some aspects of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You