skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall there being a Twitter account with a username zero characters long. I've only seen retweets of it, because of course, https://twitter.com// is treated the same as https://twitter.com/.
Thinking like an engineer: to hire good engineers, you need A) good engineers to apply for the position, and B) to tell which of your applicants are the good engineers. Those two conditions are necessary and sufficient.

As other commenters have noted, A boils down to “offer lots of money.” Some really interesting fields may be able to offer less out of “cool factor,” but odds are you’re not hiring for one of those fields- all your potential hires who claim to think CRUD apps are fun and intellectually stimulating are just lying. ....So A is simple, if you’re honest with yourself and bite the financial bullet.

B is a problem that is apparently beyond present-say technology, and quite possibly not possible to achieve at all. There are code-testing sites that go beyond the standard CS interview, but how can a several-hour exam test someone’s ability to manage a codebase over months or years? In particular your company’s codebase, which will have many important idiosyncrasies and be a very different environment than any project the hire has worked on in the past. ...We’ll likely have flying cars before we figure out a halfway decent solution for B.
You don't have to accept it. You can protest. You can explain. You can vote. You can paie for service respecting you. You can educate. Maybe there are others things to do.

There is always a choice. Most people saying there is none are just choosing one cost against another and say it's not a choice. Not blaming, i do the same.

But we could avoid the disasters, living by thinking about the society ou simple everyday actions produce.

However it's not only very hard to do, but most people are not interested in doing so. Or even to consider the question of society, or how to live ones live.

Living on auto pilot is one of humanity's biggest problem. It helped us a lot when we were in survival mode, but now that our own construct is the only real danger to our existence, it really is an hindrance.
> The whole point of a smartphone are third party apps.

No. The point of a smartphone is to expand the scope of what can reasonably be done so they it can be considered more like a computer than a dedicated device with a narrow, defined set of capabilities. Jobs was right that the quality of the iPhone's browser was sufficient to raise it to that level.

Of course having 3rd party apps raises it to another level. It would have been a death sentence if the iPhone proceeded for too long without them while competitors developed a robust app ecosystem but that was never the plan.
Yes. I think in the long run we'll look back at the death of Moore's law scaling as the beginning of a new era in innovation. Since it will no longer be possible to defeat clever chip designs through "brute force" process shrinking we'll see an explosion of new (and old) designs.

It is my hope that more fabrication for existing node sizes will be built such that prices will drop precipitously, enabling even small teams such as university engineering schools to design and build radically different computer architectures and actually have them fabricated.
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From the link (since you didn't read it):

"Formally agreed by the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1960, the SI is at the centre of all modern science and technology."

And:

"The seven SI base units, which comprise:
...
The kilogram (kg) - unit of measurement of mass"

It is factually the definition, and the fact you don't like it is completely irrelevant. The fact no one has explained it to your satisfaction is similarly irrelevant.
You realize there's a much wider spectrum of the university and college experiences that are financially supported by student loans than "country-club atmosphere far away from home", right? And that these are not solely used by "kids"? If so, then I would hope your internal question would reflect that level of nuance.
Golang bindings: https://github.com/golang-ui/nuklear

Never used it myself, but looks interesting considering the current state of go's UI programming options (i.e. fairly limited at the moment)
"B and lower grades"... what? If you have some magical process to separate the "B and lower" from the supposed A, do tell. Even if you had such a process money would be the mechanism to capture and retain the best people, so yeah, money is still the solution to this problem.
I feel like a lot of the "trouble" they'd have invading Taiwan is the near certainty of US intervention.
If the hypothesis this article is aiming to strike down is that there is currently a clear path to solving AGI, then it's simply fighting a potential misconception of the masses. The reality is that recent advances in AI, while not providing the full picture, are quite strong. Object recognition ten years ago, even at the level of 2011's Imagenet results, seemed impossible. The downsides to deep learning mentioned in the article, are both clear side effects of the formulation, and simultaneously being addressed by the community in various ways. For what it's worth, I'm with LeCun and Hinton on this one. The abstract human reasoning required for even high level perceptual tasks is difficult for humans to consciously dissect, but it could easily be that it's actually relatively mundane when subjected to appropriate representations.
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"more pixels" is quite an understatement. From 320x240 and 640x480 to 1920x1080 and beyond (Sony made a 4K phone!).

But from EDGE to LTE, from weak single core processors to 64-bit 4/6/8 core beasts, from no GPU to what would be considered desktop grade back in the day, from shitty 3gp 144p videos to hardware accelerated 4K H.264/5/VP8/9…

Yeah, people still do messages, but messages now include high quality multimedia edited on device.

Also, web surfing rules. Opera Mini on J2ME and others sucked, it was nothing like the modern mobile web.
Embodiment is part of the picture, but I also am not sure that we have yet developed structures that are capable of learning in the way that humans do, no matter how rich the environment.

Rocks, flatworms, and the Hoover Dam all have embodiment in the same complex world that we do, but none of them will ever coherently debate philosophy, because they have no structures capable of learning to do so. I’m not convinced that our RL agents do either.
Then the medical history is the problem, not the flue. A sane robust body is not supposed to be killed by the flue. If our society produce people that the flue kills, let's focus on those causes. Not the flue.

It's like focusing on making all houses flood proof. Most houses don't need it. If one needs it, relocating the house is probably a better idea that trying to make a new law saying all house should have floaters. The problem is that our society let us build houses on floodable area, not the flood.
The way I like to phrase it is that the future has two main "attractors": Star Trek and North Korea. If ubiquitous surveillance is unstoppable (and I reluctantly conclude that it is) then the primary differential is whether and how much the folks in power have privacy from the rest of us.

It's worth pointing out that, done right, in return for your privacy you get an end to war and crime. That's a hellofa trade-off.

As a daydream years ago, I thought up a thing: public surveillance kiosks (like the ones I understand they are trying out in New York) that have cameras and large screens. They work by randomly exchanging (nowadays I can just call them) "vines", video snippets, and displaying them. So each kiosk is displaying vines from the others around the zone (city, world, whatever) and there's a very simple UI: tap to rewind, click a button to escalate. Anyone who sees anything weird on a kiosk can easily review it and call attention to it (like 911 but lower intensity.)

This would achieve a monitoring function without any special privileges and with limited privacy impact. It would have to be part of some larger system, but it hopefully gives the general "drift"?
There is an upcoming Xbox game (Crackdown 3) that uses web-based GPU processing to share compute amongst players in a multiplayer game.
1) This is Jürgen Schmidhuber claiming that ANN-based AI will soon become as intelligent as small animals, then within a decade of that, as intelligent as humans:

But I think that within not so many years we'll be able to build an NN-based AI (an NNAI) that incrementally learns to become as smart as a little animal (...) once we have animal-level AI, a few years or decades later we may have human-level AI, with truly limitless applications (...)

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? Interview with Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on Deep Learning

https://www.infoq.com/articles/interview-schmidhuber-deep-le...

2) Here's a quote from DeepMind claiming their DQN system is a stepping stone towards Artificial General Intelligence:

This work represents the first demonstration of a general-purpose agent that is able to continually adapt its behavior without any human intervention, a major technical step forward in the quest for general AI.

Human-level control through Deep Reinforcement Learning

https://deepmind.com/research/dqn/

3) Here's another example from MIT Press:

“With appropriate uses of the deep learning technologies, we could be a further step closer to the true human intelligence.”

Deep Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538431/deep-learning-mach...

4) Here's Elon Musk telling NIPS that auto-cars will be significantly better than humans in 2020:

Now at the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) yesterday, Musk said that they could achieve some level of full self-driving within two years, but that the more important timeline would be 3 years, at which point self-driving capabilities would be significantly better than human drivers.

The quote doesn't mention deep learning, but he was at NIPS talking about deep learning.

Elon Musk updates timeline for a self-driving car, but how does Tesla play into it?

https://electrek.co/2017/12/08/elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-...

I believe, Eliezer Yudkowski et al Singularitarians have redoubled their efforts to convince everyone that the Singularity is Coming bolstered by the recent successes of Deep Learning- although youwon't find Yudkowski at least trying to make any specific predictions about AGI, or about anything.
I’m not sure how your point relates to the shared experience of individual alienation, but is the child you speak of really free from their parent’s influence if they’re living their life via the same broken mechanism?
Except for Elon Musk, who with all due respect, I believe does not count as an informed person in DL.

It really bothers me that he (who is clearly an excellent entrepreneur and human being in general) makes such strong statement on a topic he is clearly not an expert in and is so vocal about it too. Given the amount of influence and number of online followers he has, I find this irresponsible.
> The US spends $4.x trillion every year on social programs

Source?

> About 65% of all US Government spending is going to entitlements at this point

Source? And does this include military?

> At the current rate of growth, entitlement spending alone will consume all US Government spending in about 30 years

Source? And is this just the "current rate of growth" frozen in place or does it take into account ways that that rate of growth has been changing as well?
> This. I mean I feel like anyone could make an awesome economy if they were given trillions and trillions of loans, told they could ignore all environmental regulations, and had, at least initially, a bottomless pool of cheap labor with no rights.

I mean, how is this different from the US or British Industrial Revolutions?
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well, if you were careful enough when you bought that "The Dark Side of the Moon" LP vinyl you'd have a collectors item but - most importantly - a media record you can play anytime you want without having had to pay thousands over the course of a lifetime. Just a little cash 44 years ago.
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I believe that those 2 statements aren't mutually exclusive. To paraphrase Peterson it is important to participate in groups as we progress into society from a dependent child relying on our parents into the various groups we socialize in. It is important to have a strong sense of self and individuality but equally important to know how to participate in groups and when to hold societal norms and when to challenge group psychology.
The idea is a external format for applications that can be embedded as a object. Not a replacement for web browsers in any way.
What does that even mean? It's an Xbox, they all literally have the same variations of hardware. There aren't 8000 different build specs, there's at most, what 8? How could compute sharing provide any possible enhancement in experience at all? If anything, it's eating frame budget and it shouldn't.
No doubt given a giant step ahead by open source initiatives such as TensorFlow, ironically.
The Chinese government's R&D initiatives are what's making the difference here. They've further laid out specific goals for particular technologies such as automated vehicles, drones, medical diagnosis, and machine translation, and their rate of R&D spend is on pace to overtake the US in the coming years.

For all its faults, their leadership has their eyes properly set on science and technology as a means to challenge the US economically and militarily. They're incentivizing the proper areas where they want industry to operate, and are better poised to take advantage of it. The US government is hampered by dysfunction in comparison.

Would hope the US sees what's at risk here, and moves from underestimating the threat, to overestimating it and taking massive action as they often do.

Better summary here: https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/coming-tech-war-china
He doesn’t say soon.
China was extraordinarily unindustrialized until recently. Their GDP per capita was $317 in 1990.

~25 years ago they had 3/4 of their population living on $5 or less per day. ~15 years ago they still had half a billion people living on $3 per day or less. Today they still have a quarter of a billion people living on $3 per day or less, one of the poorest large population segments on the planet.

China's total manufacturing sector output was a mere $100 to $150 billion in 1990, about 1/10th that of the US. In 1990 China had only 3% of global manufacturing output value, today it's about 25%.

China still has 250 to 300 million people living off of or doing subsistence farming. They have the most backwards and inefficient farming systems of any economic power. South Korea's farming is about 40 times more productive. 20 years ago, it was even worse. Their subsistence farming was so bad in the late 1980s, they had half a billion 'farmers' producing enough food to feed only a few hundred million people at low calorie levels; the US accomplishes the same thing with three million farmers. China had a ratio of farmer to provided ratio of sub 1 to 1, the US is typically around 1 farmer/farm worker to 100 provided for.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-farmer-productivity-2...
People want to hire great "engineers" by asking them to write stupid functions on a whiteboard 4 hours in a row. That's after 2 phone interviews of 45 minutes each asking the exact same stupid questions. Are you guys looking for CS students or engineers?
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How about "long skinny networks" over "short and fat networks". Deep maps to profound in my mind rather than just talking about lots of layers.
Yeah I don't actually care enough about this conversation to read your entire post, especially since you're pulling up dictionary definitions and shit. My original post said "getting positive reactions is addictive because of dopamine" and my follow up said "getting positive reactions is addictive because of dopamine".

Same point. Same goalposts. Same location. Feel free to disagree, but I know what I wrote.
For modern industrial applications, the safety circuit is often (edit- see child comment's note on safety PLCs) managed by discrete safety relay hardware such as the AB GuardMaster or Pilz PNOZ. There's a good chance these weren't even available at the time of OP's application!

A common configuration involves emergency stops, guard doors, light curtains, etc. being wired in a pair of loops with the relay. The relay continuously monitors both loops (usually with a phased pulse train), and any interruption or crossover will trip the unit. Only when the loop states return to nominal will the relay permit a reset to re-enable the outputs.

The safety relay's outputs are generally connected to dumb hardware interlocks on the various dangerous bits of the machine.
That's interesting; I still use a Nexus 7 (2012) as my main mobile device. It's occasionally frustratingly slow, but I haven't found almost anything that wouldn't actually run on it. Is the iOS ecosystem worse in that regard, or was the iPad even older?

I agree with the Google Apps thing, though; my employer gave me a new but cheap phone with just 4GB of internal storage, and I'm always having to cleanup so I can install anything new. And an SD card barely helps, lots of stuff simply can't be moved.
I don't believe that's true for any modern browsers. They all use hardware accelerated rendering in the common case of drawing to a canvas that will be composited on-screen, and make a copy into process memory only when you access the pixels with a call like getImageData().
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My plan of action is result-driven: incrementally port nuklear's demo overview.c file to python. Each new piece of that requires adding more ctypes bindings.

Help/patches are welcome, as I only have limited free time to implement this.
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This is a really interesting article with a lot of insight into the way that human societies function and spread, and how the Culture works with those ideas.

The thing I find doubtful though - the novels are essentially an exploration of a type of society that may happen if technology progresses in a certain way. It's interesting and fun to read about, but we don't have any particular reason to believe that technology will work in such a way to make such a society possible, or whether it's actually practical if it is.

The nature of technology tends to direct a lot of the ways that societies work. The Culture essentially depends on the development of "perfect" AI. That we eventually figure out how to build General AIs that are smart and effective enough to accomplish useful things, yet never develop a desire to do things other than what their proscribed role is. Why do slap-drones become slap-drones? Do they have to volunteer for the duty, or do they just get manufactured with a desire to be a slap-drone that never changes? Can they actually be effective if they aren't capable of thinking about what they're doing and why? If they do change their minds, can they retire or switch to another job and be replaced? Who gives them their assignments and operating parameters? And the same question applies to all of the other drones and Minds and other machine intelligences that operate all of their factories and orbitals and GVSs and such.

The Culture also seems to be built around everybody in it cooperating with the general goals. In our actual society, there are lots and lots of people who disagree with the general goals, or work towards pursuing different goals that not everyone agrees with. We try to form parameters for how far you can go in various directions and how to deal with people who go past the bounds. We're also generally open to the idea of that - some of those ideas and goals might be better than what we have, so it's good to let them be tried at a small scale so they can be observed and adopted more widely if they work well. We don't see much about how the Culture would deal with such things, mostly just some people and sub-societies that leave or declare themselves separate for various reasons.
What are you talking about? You’re able to access random pixels, yes, but first you need to copy them to normal RAM. Canvas 2D and WebGL are both hardware accelerated.
Well, I get the feeling a lot of AI experts see some real potential for AGI to arrive sooner than expected, but they will be the first to admit that current techniques are insufficient and it would require some smart team to significantly augment current techniques with major new ideas.
AABB Trees (Axis Aligned Bounding Box) might be an option. Most realtime collision detection systems utilize them.
True, why go through the motions of taking money then giving it back. Sounds like a great way to waste money through government inefficiency. It could possibly be efficient, but we should expect it not to be.
This is evidence that the Chinese education system is not inferior. Nothing more.

The argument about AI lead is based on other facts, not particularly this one.
Well, you have to multiply it by the number of translation units.

Also, I like the point made in the sibling comment by moefh. Are you sure you don't need to tokenize?

Can I see your implementation? I have looked at a few implementations of C preprocessors, and they're not simple.
Imagine robots taking away jobs. Now, do you think less people will require social assistance, or more?
I wonder about this:

> But to grasp China’s economic achievement, and its ramifications, it is imperative to ask: Why has a market economy directed by a Communist state become the world’s second-largest?

Was China ever really a communist state? They've said so, of course, and talked the talk. But maybe it's more accurate to say the China remains a Confucian state. With an overlay that looks a lot more like fascism / national socialism than communism.
Of course - this is total bullshit - trying to tell people what they can do with their own dna.
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There's way more at play than the loss of productivity of one person. Entire families are impacted, not just the addict. $375k in impact per addict? That could even be a conservative estimate from what I've seen with the impact growing up in the 80s. Everyone who comes into contact with the addict is losing so imagine 10 people per addict losing at east $37.5k and that's how you get that number.
Absolutely, great example! I have looked at quite a few implementations of preprocessors, and they're not simple.

I don't trust anyone who thinks it's simple without actually having implemented it -- and tested it on real code.

One older thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945552
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Mining guy here. I have done plenty of feasibility study works for lithium projects over past few years and in general;

There is a lot of supply coming online from hard rock lithium sources in the next 12-24 months, especially from Australian spodumene sources.

Demand side is heavily from the Chinese electric car market. Smaller cars, only 5-6kg max LCE per car. All other demand is a small percentage of what Chinese demand is estimated to be.

And yes you are right, we have been using satellite imagery for decades, it’s just a lot easier now.
Not sure what you mean by a single-axis kd-tree.

Z-order + sorted array/tree/etc. is a generalization of an oct-tree. An octtree is just z-order combined with a degree 8 trie. And an octtree is simply an encoding of a 3-d grid.

So I really don't understand your objections.

Also, I haven't tried NN search using z-order, but range searches work very well. The partitioning induced by z-order adapts well to all sorts of distributions.
Take a look at http://openhatch.org They try to match potential contributors with projects based on the needs of the project and the skills of the contributor.