skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's equally risky not to do it.

Human genetic engineering is a completely new technology. It could be massively disruptive or a dud. But if it is disruptive, then people who are conservative and late to get on board will be left behind.

If you're risk adverse, that's probably why it concerns you. Are you afraid it works, or afraid it doesn't?
I thought it was 4 or 5?
Oh, he is amazing!  Donald j trump is so lucky man
For 2, isn’t there risk that people will be influenced by association studies and seek out editing of single nucleotides thereby potentially removing ‘bad’ variants from the entire population? For example, say a gwas shows that a snp variant is associated with higher IQ. People rush to edit that nucleotide. But, they don’t understand that that snp variant may have had other beneficial effects ...
Maybe the simple reading of the statement is true of everything, but what’s unique here is that it was deliberately held up so it could be used as a bludgeon during the shutdown negotiations.
Given that good management can have such a dramatic effect on the efficiency of this style of burger joint, this may well be a good investment for the company. I remember once going into a McDonald's, and seeing an absolutely de-optimized crew. Basically, they seemed to be trying to all use the same station at the same time, trying to maximize the length of the queue formed and minimize throughput. It literally took me 10 minutes to get a burger.

Of course, this also applies to the workers under the manager as well. My wife drives me crazy in this way. There are some people who will interact in a group by modeling the future pathways, tasks, and schedule of everyone around them, then navigate those models to avoid conflict in time and space. Then there are some people who can't. As far as I can tell, my wife doesn't have a fine-grained enough internal sense of time to be able to do that. I almost stopped dating her early on, because she once kept me waiting 45 minutes in front of the locked door of her apartment, because she was having a conversation with her CEO. I also recall a recent instance cooking with her in the kitchen, and was rinsing 3 pieces of raw meat (1) -- she interrupted me between piece 2 and piece 3 and left me hanging there with contaminated hands while she washed/processed an entire leek. I also remember a band-mate of mine who couldn't "add time" in her head when travelling to gigs, so would always be late. (I know this is the specific case from conversations while planning to drive somewhere.)

It was a very good lesson on how job satisfaction doesn't need fancy cafés, ball pits and slides.

I think one of the best possible rewards is "good working." When people really mesh, there can even be a high.

(1 - Which you're not supposed to do in the US, but I do because my wife grew up in China, so she has a much greater distrust of commercial food processing.)
"The California Highway Patrol and Culver City Fire Department confirmed the southbound Tesla had struck the fire truck, but could not immediately confirm whether the vehicle had been on Autopilot."

So was it on autopilot or not.
I spent 4 days in a row at the Met last week and I still want to agree with you. Museums are mostly a delicacy. The Louvre was built for artists to study other artist's work. That's tremendously not how we use museums. Medium is valuable for study, yes, but I didn't learn anything last week. I just saw evidence of it in bare vision.

But I am torn, because the more privately funded museums seem to be more prone to skewing history. I could be wrong.
> But to do their job, officers have to start from a solid foundation. They have to know their families are safe and taken care of, like anybody else. That their community respects them.

Wrong. Police do their jobs out of a sense of duty. They don't do it because it's a popularity contest.

Respect is earned. For those officers that are genuine and honest, their community will see that.

The problem is that when you wear a uniform, you lose lots of your personal characteristics and people see you for the aggregation of everything that other officers do. When thousands of NYC police officers turn their back on the mayor+president during a speech for sticking up for civil rights of the entire country, police officers lose respect from me.

Police families are safer when they don't speed, or at least that's what our laws and our police tell us when we get pulled over. I'd prefer it if police families were kept in line just like those of us on the other side of the "thin blue line".

> It's ethically questionable, of course.

It's an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.

You may want to read up on ethics. "Giving a free flu shot" isn't an ethical dilemma. Giving your neighbor's kids an experimental vaccine without their parents knowledge or consent is.

> I've got way better, more important things to worry about than what's at heart, a personal matter for law enforcement officers.

I'm a tax-paying citizen. When small acts of police corruption are tolerated in my name, that's not insignificant. Small acts, unchecked, give police the feeling that they can get away with larger acts.

And this is coming from a guy with a cop in the family. His wife is already showing signs of questionable ethics. And she uses the same "They have to know their families are safe" argument.
Come on. Could you please try to be constructive with your feedback?
Sounds like a great opportunity for some IRL trollin. Get it on film + name and shame the venue.
Folding@home.
In part.

The article doesn’t mention how often she claims to have done it, though. Getting arrested 10x is a series of failures, not successes, depending on proportion of total effort.
Indeed, but not that more expensive.

Despite costing in the same range (€6,875/month vs. €6,000/month), the Swiss employee is probably making about €4,500 to €5,000 net, while the French one is making €2,300 net.

Cost of living in Paris (from your source) are about 30% lower than those in Zurich, so let's divide the French income by 0.7, then we get:

Swiss employee: €4,700/month net PPP

French employee: €3,285/month net PPP

So the Swiss employee is making on average, in this calculation, 45% more money for the same work, using GP's numbers.
Like this guy ... with an orange:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tesla-orange-hack/
Tesla autopilot is more capable than an airplane autopilot. An airplane on autopilot will crash into stationary objects in its path, by design. Thus, airplane autopilots require full pilot attention as well.

This thread happens with every Tesla crash, by the way:

1. Tesla crashes

2. Driver says autopilot was engaged

3. Long debate on HN about exact meaning of word "autopilot"

4. 9 times out of 10, Tesla log says autopilot wasn't on before the crash, or that obstacle was visibly in the path for more than enough time for the driver to take action (usually half in the lane and half out)

The other one time out of 10 the driver says the Tesla suddenly accelerated and drove through most of a strip mall.
My wife and I were just talking about Bitcoin and I had this wild theory. This is obviously BS, but I had fun exploring this idea. Here it goes:

What if Bitcoin/blockchain is a actually a strong AI? The AI manipulated humans via lucrative mining to spend ever increasing amount of electricity and other resources on running it. It's distributed and hence cannot be shut down easily.

If there was an application taking up so much power and we didn't know what it did, it would be pretty suspicious. So instead of trying to be secret, the AI went public and promised wealth, no-regulations, etc. to humans to do its bidding.

How else would you do it if you were a strong AI?

Maybe the things we know about blockchain is just the surface level. What if all the hashes that are generated are part of code+data that runs and trains this AI?

And hey, we don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto is and if that person is even human.

Disclaimer: I don't have any background in encryption, crypto currency, blockchain, have no stake in any *coin, etc. But I do love science fiction.
You mean Asset Under Management or AUM?
Thanks. I didn't know the difference till now. Apparently w/regards to airlines, ESA's fall under the Air Carrier Access Act. From what I've read, the ACAA is less restrictive than the ADA (which only requires service animals be allowed access) but airlines can be more restrictive than FHAA.

I wish we could have nice things, but this is why we end up needing licenses/permits/fines.
The defects are largely a result of the limited capabilities of the breeding process (cross animals with a trait, hope that not too much other stuff comes along for the ride).

A fun angle: genetic engineering will eventually enable us to correct many of the problems in purebred animals. They are often good targets for even a limited genetic engineering capability (where the pure bred population has a high frequency of a single defective gene).
In dBFT the attack vector is a collusion attack between elected delegates. In practice I do not see this being any more likely than a 51% hashpower attack.

However most delegated systems are still young. The only reason people believe that 51% attacks are impossible is because it has worked for 10 years. If delegated systems work for the same amount of time, I don't see why they wont get the same reputation.

I think Dan Larimer gives a good argument on the situation.

https://steemit.com/eos/@dan/response-to-vitalik-buterin-on-...

Edit: His Conclusion is something many people should consider, when outright rejecting delegated consensus.

"EOS is designed around far more realistic assumptions and logic and achieves scalability by avoiding the dogmatic fallacies promoted by Bitcoin and Ethereum maximalists."
I have seen signs advertising $15/hour starting wages for their Bay Area restaurants. Not exactly great pay considering the cost of living.
See here you've gone straight into making a value judgement that you don't believe Bitcoin is useful, therefore we should permit Logan Paul videos but we shouldn't permit Bitcoin. But other people are happy to spend their money to buy electricity to burn it to mine Bitcoin. Just as you're okay with people spending money to watch ads and download videos. And without installing monitoring in everyone's home to make sure they don't decide to mine bitcoin on their laptops, or contravine whatever other new things we want to outlaw, then we can never shut it down so it's all moot. And if it's all moot then perpetuating this pointless "bitcoin burning electricity bad, youtube burning electricity okay" fad that is going on for some reason is a waste and a distraction from real problems and real solutions. The solution is to make sure whoever is burning electricity doing anything is paying the true cost of that electricity. Because there is literally nothing else you can do here if you really care about the environment.
Didn't Tesla respond to the NTSB report by requiring much more frequent interaction?
https://github.com/OculusVR/Flicks
That was my thought too, this would likely also get abused. Lets say a Landlord didn't like you, or wanted to move someone else in that would pay for more rent than you.... for example.
The aircraft autopilot is pretty much the same thing. It steers on the designated lane, maintaining attitude, and relies on the pilot to be aware of conditions.

It operates the controls but relies on the human operator for supervision. Pilots talk about “flying in the magenta” and exactly the same thing applies to Tesla Autopilot.

Believing that autopilot means something different is the bullshit attitude that has to change.

Warren Van Der Burch gave a classic presentation, Children of Magenta: https://youtu.be/pN41LvuSz10
The real issue is that the converse statement is rarely true. Providing less value to your customers is a way to be paid more. Obviously as the entire thread points out, the outcomes are probabilistic in nature and certain job titles have low ceilings on wages as do certain companies.

As a barber, you can only cut one person's hair at a time. Regardless of your customer service, this will limit your impact and compensation. Own a chain of barbershop and you'll impact more people and be compensated accordingly.

This thread seems to dedicated to the annoying cap on individual contribution in a team game.
It's also the survivability of the things that are being hit by two ton "autonomous" objects at 65mph that are at issue here.
They should just all have turkeys:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/1...
A better layout. Those ribbons are difficult to use, and the app uses a different design language than most.

I also find the discovery experience to be lousy... I often don’t hear about new shows for months, although I use the app every day.
Car-based transportation sucks at all ages, we just seem to rationalize how shitty it is for the young and able-bodied. The US is insanely car oriented and it is a huge step back in quality of life from most of the developed world.
Same here. There is rarely a day that I don't have to disengage because of a car moving into my lane a little too close and Autopilot doesn't see it. It's great in bumper to bumper traffic, but at highway speed there are too many blindspots.
> research and evidence

The trouble is that income/wealth inequality is often ignored in macroeconomic models. The math gets tough and an easy way to simplify the equations is to assume an equilibrium growth path. More complex models use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium, but an equilibrium all the same.

Unfortunately, the key feature of rising inequality is that it may move the system into an unstable equilibrium. For example, if a handful of billionaires hang out together at Davos and get a bit of groupthink, they might decide to misallocate some capital (accidentally). If they make a mistake in a truly dramatic fashion, (investing heavily in Bitcoin, for example) they could evaporate a large chunk of the nation's wealth. When a handful of actors has an extreme influence on capital allocation, we've effectively become a command-economy instead of a free-market economy.
Do you have heat in your house? If so, you're literally wasting a ton of electricity. At least bitcoin miners and folding@home folks are doing something besides productive along with making heat.
I assume delegated consensus. You don't mine anything.
The general case is: federation of individuals can compete with single large corporation because cryptocontracts provide equivalent operational stability to what a single controlling entity can provide.

When corporate bylaws are written in code, you can replace a single legal entity with thousands of former employees operating as sole proprietorships.
> Having physical stores, they could claim a lot of their business was cash

The number of people paying cash for a $500-5000 mattress are likely fairly low and I doubt many investigators would buy it either. Money laundering “businesses” are typically places that legitimately do mostly cash transactions (like the ones you mentioned, aka car wash, laundromat, etc).
Never knew about the Cadillac. Very cool, thanks for calling it out.

I wonder how to truly tell if a driver is attentive? The Cadillac indicates it uses head tracking technology. I wonder if that is sufficient? Seems you probably need even eye-tracking: an attentive driver keeps looking around or something.
Unequested fission surplus.
As I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong) the automatic emergency braking (AEB) system is separate from the autosteer system on a Tesla. It seems to me that this kind of incident is a result of AEB failure, not of autosteer failure.

I wonder how Tesla's AEB stacks up against similar systems on other vehicles? There are a lot of vehicles on the road now with automatic braking, but we don't see every single frontal collision on such cars reported as some kind of systemic failure.
This is a common misinterpretation. The data only shows that TACC + Autosteer reduced crashes by 40% vs TACC alone. There is no comparison to complete driver control.
This is as good a summary of what's going on in the GCC these days as I've seen since the blockade began in July, which is to say that everyone can describe what is happening, but no one seems to be able to explain why it is happening. The article's focus on regional leaders' egos is misplaced, I think, and fairly representative of our media's tendency to scrape the surface of any regional conflict that isn't in Europe or North America instead of looking for deeper explanations.

Given the absence of any analytical clarity, pet theories abound. Mine is that the Saudi-UAE nexus doesn't want the crisis to be resolved anytime soon: having a crisis on the periphery to distract from their domestic tribulations is too damned useful. Citizens are are less likely to complain about reduced government subsidies if the government periodically reminds them that there's a cold war with Qatar, a hot war in Yemen, and an existential crisis in the form Iran right on their periphery.
Take a look at SSD instead; it seems to be more precise than YOLO and a bit faster. R-CNN variants are usually 10x slower than either of these two.
This is really cool and all, but I really wish Google Cloud would move things out of beta faster. Cloud Functions are still in beta despite them being GA at both AWS and Azure for a while now. Enterprises typically won't use beta software which makes it nearly impossible to pick Google Cloud for an enterprise.

But hey, they have Elixir support !?!?
How it works where I am is they have special buses for the old and disabled. You ask a day before for one to show up at your house, and then it will take you where you're going.
And those are definitely valid concerns. And if those 'bugs' aren't preventable or fixed, I guess the question then becomes: whose irrationality kills everyone first, human's or machine's? Perhaps the situation is inevitable, just part of the Great Filter that decides which intelligence-type survives the birthing process into post-evolution. If machines don't threaten our very survival, something (or someone) else will.

Perhaps prejudices may be unavoidable in any intelligence, since we build stereotypes as predictive models and ML makes similar abstractions and assumptions which influence perception and predictions. Tangentially related, when TBI patients whose emotional centers are impaired, so is their ability to make decisions [1]. Building a decision-making network without an emotional center may be impossible, since the two seem to be naturally correlated. It's probable an AI won't ever truly be 'emotional,' at least not in the near term.

So, in the end, it's reasonable to assume that the AI of the future that can crunch these complex problems won't tell people the answers, they will merely provide possible solutions with varying likelihood of success depending on goals and constraints. In the end, we will have to decide our own fate, and my point is maybe we don't have control over deciding our fate either way--such is the nature of fate.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3032808/
Faster R-CNN gives you only like 5fps on high-end GPU, so answer is no.
Facebook invented a new time unit called the ‘flick’ and it’s truly amazing
More interested in what Montana's representatives voted in Washington about NN. Oh and Trump is going to be reelected. Calling it.
Totally agree. This article contains very little that's new.

It criticizes Watson, but Watson was roundly debunked last year as far behind IBM's marketing machine.

It trots out the "teenagers & sex" quote, which frankly is applied to every new technology. "Teenagers & sex" belongs to a very small family of cliches that everyone in tech has heard. The fact that it gets used indiscriminately makes it mean very little with each new application.

And finally, I'll like to point out the irony of someone trotting out tired thoughts to get attention while criticizing supposedly overhyped tech. To the right, we have people making exaggeratedly positive claims about tech to grab your eyes, and to the left, we have their mirror image.
source discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207913
Heart disease? It'll be hard to pin that one solely on police work, and not on lifestyle choices.
First,gene-editing will become accepted as a norm to prevent/cure? diseases.

Then, the same technology will be used to create superior beings (hacking our own evolution).

It's only natural that something which promises to heal, also aids in enhancement (think Viagra).

I for one am excited about it's prospects in the future. For example - Can we live in a world free from cancer?
Staring at a blank screen, wondering why.

2.3MB JS on your home page...
Not a fair comparison. Train is more suited for China since car ownership per capita is lower. Between cars and planes in the US, it’s hard for trains to compete. High car ownership rates in China would be bad for the environment given the large population. So, nice cars in the US, nice trains in China
I guess by time I meant reputation transaction count.
That's the upshot of this debacle for me, too. Intel has lost me (again) as a customer.
The stack we used to build the expensive nonsense was all super modern and cutting edge. I'm still looking for emotional fulfillment in a Perl/CGI environment.
True, they're all about 50% renewable this year, aiming to be 100% at some time.

I'm a bit skeptical of this argument though. If we go down this path we have to answer what percentage of bitcoin mining is from renewable sources too. As I understood it (correct me if I'm wrong) a very large amount of Bitcoin mining is located around hydro sources to get cheap hydro electricity. That would mean the same argument that Youtube is green would apply equally to Bitcoin. But then I suspect someone would say something like "well they're using power from a hydro dam in china but look at all of China's coal plants, now other chinese people have to buy from those coal plants" to which we'd probably have to then say "yeah, kind of like when Microsoft buys Columbia river power cuz it's cheap and green or Facebook buys solar and wind power because its green that means that someone else in America can't buy that green power and is "using" power from one of our coal plants too". It's all one grid at the end of the day.
Firefighter here. This kind of collision happens all the time -- although it's usually a manually-driven car. This is why we park the BRT* behind the accident and we try to stay in front of the truck. A moving 4000-lb car is no match for a stationary 30,000-lb fire truck.

*Big Red Truck
In 2016, China had 70 GW of installed solar power, compared to 40 GW in the US. They installed another 50 GW in 2017.

China has 320 GW of installed hydro power, compared to 80 in the US.

China had 160 GW of installed wind power in 2016, compared to 80 in the US.
How did they (temporarily) win you back?
News is attention whoring. Ever heard of sensational headlines and clickbait?
Yeah if you could point me towards instructions on how I can install this old processor I just bought in my Macbook that'd be great, also if you know how I can install this old processor in my AWS instances that'd be awesome too.
I, for one, want a Tinder-like interface. Photo, title, synopsis, production budget, main cast, etc on each page. Swipe right to add to favorites, swipe left to reject. Choices presented best first as determined by machine learning model. It would be nice to be able to train multiple models, and to mix model predictions with those of friends and family. Separate favorite lists for things already watched and things not watched yet.

Second interface: "continue watching" list, most recently viewed at the top.
The very first thing that I thought of was the massive clocks in the book Anathem, by Neal Stephenson, clocks which could run in a kind of "low power mode" for at least 700 years.
Module aliases in React using Webpack
Please refer to the link I posted. It's an actual international ban for all nations that sign it. Not the NNPT.