skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To give additional evidence why Eric Schmidt's comment has a basis in reality (and to reply to many sceptical comments here):

* 9 out of the top 10 algorithms for the Stanford Question Answering Dataset are by Chinese teams, backed by HIT & iFlLYTEK, Alibaba, Microsoft Asia (in Beijing), NUDT & Fudan University, and others. They beat out teams by Samsung, Salesforce, CMU, and Facebook, for example.

https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/

It is not like others do not try. This is a highly commercializable area of research and there is no requirement to publish the technical details of the submitted solution.

* Based on publications from 2015 onward, Peking and Tsinghua University are ranked in the world's top 5 for published papers in top AI conferences (at #3 and #5).

http://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2017/toyear/2018/index?ai&v...

* China plans to add AI and programming courses in primary education. It is likely that soon, if not already, the proportion of US middle and high schools that offer computer science courses will be lower than China's.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0828/c90000-9261282.html

* Most Chinese kids spend a significant amount of time working on their academics, even outside of school (whether this is good or bad at the individual level is different from the main topic of discussion here), while the same cannot be said about most American children.

* Since 2000, China's team was no. 1 in International Math Olympiad 12 times (out of 18) and 5 times at no. 2

https://imo-official.org/country_team_r.aspx?code=CHN

* Mathematics is an important foundation of AI. One needs to be relatively competent at math to understand most AI research papers and even textbooks. The level of math required may look basic to some HN readers but it still takes many years of focused learning to master for most people. Many smart people do not master math simply because they haven't spent the time.

The difference in math skills between the US and China high school students is evident in PISA 2015 results. My back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the potential proportion of AI-capable natives in China could be 5 times as large as the US. Since China has more than 4 times the population, the potential number could be 20 times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15569339

* China is doing everything it can to attract back their top talent as well as those from other countries. A reason for pollution curb, which starts to become successful, is to satisfy talent's requirement for quality of life. They have instituted a competitive program to attract global talent. (At the same time, the US is not exactly sending a welcome signal.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Program_(Ch...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/technology/china-us-ai-ar...
The 50 year history of AI research portends the difficulty in surmounting secondary obstacles unearthed by each new AI technique's innovations. The limits of deep learning are almost certainly no different from past statistically-driven methods in reaching comparable limits, especially those obstacles that show no signs of vulnerability to the slings and arrows inherent in rich semantics. The recent article by Doug Hofstadter in The Atlantic on using DNNs to do machine translation highlights this nicely.

To date, no work in DNNs has shown any potential for redressing problems of the common sense knowledge needed to know when your translated sentence is semantic nonsense. Likewise, no statistic-based learning method has shown itself capable of tapping into much less creating the deep knowledgebases and wealth of relations that give bare facts the semantic meaning needed to convey or understand subtleties in messages that are more than trivial.

Deft mimicry may win a Turing Test, but complex syntheses of thought (like writing a fictional story in which characters have internal thoughts and hidden motives that depend on relationships, subtexts, and dependencies) — no form of AI has yet shown any potential to solve such problems. Too much internal state and complex relations must be modeled, much less, the ability to extend and translate these to many possible worlds — as humans do every day.

No, statistics-based AI techniques (like deep nets) show little promise to grow indefinitely unto full (wo)manhood.
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Yes, we can acknowledge that Japan had significant industry. It did well compared with the other East Asian economies which were very un-free at the time.

It did poorly compared with the US free trade economy. Even at the outset of WW2, their military equipment was inferior to the US, except in a few places (the Zero, the Yamato). Japan was economically defeated long before the bombing of Japan got in gear. Early battles inflicted disproportionate losses on the Japanese military due to inadequate equipment and supply.

Japan knew their only hope was a quick, devastating surprise attack followed by a peace agreement.
There are a couple domains for which I'm pretty sure sight is required. Photoshop for instance. Is there any way this program could be made accessible?

For all the others, I wonder if a command line interface wouldn't just be better—sometimes not just for the blind.
Another great work is "On a Happy Life". https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56075/56075-h/56075-h.htm
It's a truism and as such it doesn't really say anything meaningful. The limiting factor is "sufficient compute resources". Assuming that a general artificial intelligence is possible and can be coded as a program, then whatever that program is could be created by something as dumb as a random number generator.

Of course, given that it seems obvious that any program which encodes a general artificial intelligence will be complex, I expect it would take longer than the expected life of the universe to generate it with a random number generator using all of the compute resources available on the planet. So it's theoretically possible but practically impossible, which makes the OP's statement essentially pedantic.
They tend to work in private then open source later.
Yes, which is why they're not the dominant superpower - the US is. Nobody intervened to stop the many US invasions over the past decades and still ongoing. China isn't able to do that except for tiny uninhabited islands.
I learned of something called principal agent problem not too long ago and now I want to fit it everywhere (when all you have is a hammer yada yada). I think it works here

Even when HR is perfectly operational, it favors the institution over anything else. Of course, in real life we have difficulty favoring the institution over the management.

I imagine some questions are out of HR's reach though. Why is the pay highest at the top? Why should a supervisor need more pay than the people they supervise? Why can't we make all pay information public in a public company? Could we recruit, hire, and keep talented people (especially at the top) with something other than simply better pay? How "hands-on" should HR be?
It is a non issue thanks middleware.
while(passes_turing_test(general_ai) == false) {
general_ai = generate_random_code;
}
No, most even small machines arrive with a kind of "Safety Integeated" right in the PLC. Even the smallest PLCs like a Siemens S7 1200 are now aviable with Safety Integrated. So Profi-Safe and ASi-Safe are very common. It does reduce A LOT of wiring. But of course brings new problems, for example RJ45 jack and plugs sometimes break the connection for a very short time if you touch it and you lose a safety packet over Profi-Net and .. boom .. emergency stop.

Special if you use a lot of drives in a machine, any kind of Safety Integrated reduce the wiring a lot and makes cabinets much much smaller.

But on the other side, for just once, yes I like Pilz PNOZ. Easy to use .. and I'm pretty sure you can buy a PNOZ even in 100 years.
To which companies does this not apply?
Ethereum is currently worth >$83B

The 50 biggest YCombinator companies are worth $100B [0], so I'd argue the project does really good.

[0]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/2017-yc-annual-letter/
Just like Apple, Sony and Nintendo.
Nailed it... I used Arch for years but moved to Fedora. Fedora is almost as up-to-date as Arch, but without the breakage.
Only if this impacts reproductive fitness.
> At that time there wasn't any nation in the world that could compete with the US in war production mode.

That's right. Aren't free markets and free trade amazing? :-)

The Soviet Union in WW2 was heavily supplied by the US.
good explanation but I can't help but wonder, wouldn't your immediate family's immediate family by extension also be your immediate family? at least within the same generations that your immediate family cover (aka your siblings are the immediate family of your parents and they are the same generation as you so wouldn't it make logical sense to refer to them as immediate?)

not trying to cast shade on any arguments made already or anything im just legitimately curious about it from a logical perspective
Are you sure the question is not "Why is it so hard to hire good engineers if I do not want to pay them good money?"
Was China ever really a communist state?

What's communist and isn't needs to be defined by what happens in reality, instead of being defined by comparing it to the kindest interpretation of a utopian ideology. One might also tiresomely argue that Nazi Germany wasn't really fascist, given how radically it departed from Mussolini fantasies of a fascist state, or even Hitlers own fantasies of a thousand year Reich. But we don't, because at this stage it's tiresome. Communism is no different.
Whose poop is that on the lawn? DNA testing is cracking down on offenders
Would alway appreciate some help with this:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

It is an open source real estate website builder
These are great riffs on the originals :-). It’s amazing what people can do when our cultural treasures are in the public domain.
See the history of credit reporting in the US for a counterpoint (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Fair Credit Reporting Act, etc.).

I expect that companies won't be able to help themselves and that they will eventually spasm in abuse of ever-more-accessible personal data so egregious and evil that people will take notice.
I assume if he has a child, he isn't one himself? The context of the discussion is the effect of social media on children. It's entirely plausible to me that one could think that children's development is susceptible to harms from social media that are less of a concern in adults. Or at least that adults are above the threshold where we'd consider them competent to cope with these things themselves.
1. Vulkan is an optinal 3D API on Android 7.0 and later devices.

2. Vulkan is not allowed on UWP apps

3. Even on Switch, Vulkan is not the primary 3D API.
"Regardless of whether you actually need all the features on offer, it comes down to how many features a vendor has."

I have to disagree with that. Essentially all of recent economic history says there are at least three ways to compete at any given time for all services and products: superior price, superior product, superior marketing/sales/brand, and various combinations of those.

For my own reference, I aggressively shop on price + quality. I'll take 85% equal product quality with a required baseline of features at a lower price point. Generally speaking, there will never be a time that you can't compete by lowering price, while maintaining a certain minimum ~85% good enough quality level.
> They are the first country in history of their size to industrialize and become a world power.

Are you implying that a very large country becoming a world power is somehow an impressive achievement?
If you can’t prevent it is a higher standard than most make it out to be. For most it’s “can’t prevent it without discomforting myself,” which is no standard at all.
So basically,

1: pledge that affects child processes

2: restricting access to parts of the filesystem
Composite operations ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende... ) are achievable only on bitmap/frame buffers.
And OpenGL's frame buffers are not famous for their performance.
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Maybe this time IS different.

But if you want to assert that this time is different, there needs to exist evidence.

Such evidence should not be speculation. Such evidence should be things like "These quality of life metrics are going down, for these groups of people right NOW".

If this time is actually different, it should be measurable and provable, through quality of life or economic metrics.

But I don't think thats true. I think that society IS ready to handle the supposed "mass unemployment from entire categories of jobs being eliminated", as proven by the fact that it IS doing so, right now, because quality of life metrics aren't decreasing.

For example, the current us unemployment rate is around 4.1% (source: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=current+us+unemployment+rate)

I think a 4.1% unemployment rate pretty much proves that society is NOT devolving into a mass unemployment where robots take everyone's jobs.
I'm deliberately going slowly, because I want to see what the big companies will do. This is because the interpretation of the rules is going to be important and 'custom and practice could be as important as the directive itself. I am not treating it as an IT exercise, I'm treating it as a corporate culture exercise. We are already PCI compliant, so we are already competent at ticking boxes.

The part that really concerns me the most is around email sign ups on our e-commerce site. We worked really hard to get the sign-up high and to get people to respond to the medium, and I am most concerned that 'un-pre-ticking' the box is going to reduce sign ups.

Regarding security of data, coming from PCI compliance I would say the fundamental question to ask yourself is do I really need this data in the first place?

From talking to consultants I don't think many SME's have done very much as yet.

I don't think there is anything for the SME to be scared of in GDPR, if you are a running a genuine business and are not a data hording/selling freak. The fines have been talked up, but the fines were large under DPA and no-one ever got the max!

On an aside I have been collating (but not yet curating) lots of resources on GDPR, I was thinking about a small site and mailing list, if that interests anyone?
He should measure that on proportion. China has way more people. So in that regard, the Russians are very good, in fact, probably the best, but they are constrained by their country and economy. The USA imports talent and uses that talent creatively in the economy. If we stop importing talent we are screwed. If we stop increasing our population size we are also basically screwed. China has a billion or so people to feed. They own global manufacturing. A push to robotics and AI based technologies will cause some major disruption to their internal economy.
I agree 100% with all of this. Deliberate practice is necessary, but not sufficient, for high level performance.
Thanks. Experiences like yours are why I'm always wary of the pushes to make access to services exclusively online. They're usually an attempt to cut budgets by throwing the people who need it more under the bus.
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The “don’t talk to HR” is the general case. The more specific one is don’t talk to them till you’re ready to leave. That doesn’t mean you don’t keep a log of transgressions and talking points prior. It’s critical that you do. But if you approach HR with anything involving wrongdoing on the part of someone associated with your company then you better be ready to leave as well. It’s not how it should be, it’s how it is.
I think the article mixes up and confuses two different concepts.

One is that social media might amplify "normal" social conditions, such as bullying, to an unprecedented degree.

The other one is the misuse/abuse of social media as socialization substitutes by children, leading to isolation.

Social media can bring a lot of benefit to everyone, even children, if they are used to augment and improve our real-life, face-to-face interactions. But they cannot and should not substitute them.

Some argue it's just about how you use them. That's not true. Companies like facebook use psychometrics, sociologist and psychologists to optimize their software for something, and that something probably never is your well-being.
We can use regulation to enforce this. You can be the most active and social person there is, but a properly designed piece of software that filters and controls all your social interaction can destroy your social life and mental health. Especially if you're 9 years old and most of your life experiences come from a screen.
The whole point of the web was not to have people write directly to bitmaps, to leave the presentation up to the rendering platform.

In the quest for eye candy we're losing what made the web great to begin with.
You're right that there's no process to quickly and easily separate them, however for enough money people will endure a long and difficult process, which is the point.
If you're building a unicorn yes you will need serious capital but otherwise not necessarily. It is still possible in 2018 to bootstrap a SAAS startup.
> forced trade

Nobody was forced to buy opium. The force was in removal of the force preventing people from buying opium.
Your baseline features aren’t necessarily the same as the next customer. That’s we’re the breadth comes into play.
And like the nyt make it damn near impossible to cancel without talking to someone on the phone. I ain’t got time for that.
Or, as the old saying goes: the market is able to stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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>But the title still obviously is false. Obviously practice increases your musical ability.

There's nothing "obvious", unless you can counter both the results and the explanations given in the study. And they haven't redefined anything.
I get spammed by cybercoders even though I click unsubscribe and report spam all the time.

The other issue I have is that the search function doesn't update... I try to search for an email from the day before and it won't show up.
This is too generic, and hard to apply to one market space or industry. Beware of broad brushes like this.
Results are all that matters.

All the top devs I know have had to put the hours in. Same as all the top lawyers and all the top engineers.

If you can be in the top 5-10% of your field while never working more than a 40 hour week and no side projects or out of hours study then more power to you.

But that's rare.

When I was, arguably, in the top 5% I was working 45-50 hours a week at a great job and doing 2 hours a day self study on top.
I'm going to venture a guess:

I think PG's "Blub paradox" [1] applies to all kinds of skills, generally. In very open-ended (multi-dimensional) domains, a practitioner who's achieved level "B" will not generally be able to appreciate the additional value of a practitioner at a significantly higher level "N >> B" -- at least not enough to compensate them at a correspondingly higher level. In a constrained evaluation (like a few hours of interviewing) the probable outcome is that higher-level practitioner will be considered slightly better, with a lot of strange stuff thrown in, of unclear value; after all engineering is a very open-ended domain (unlike athletics for example, where just by watching for a few minutes you can say someone is much much better).

Since engineering skill is so multi-dimensional, one key to hiring well is understanding which characteristics are super important for the specific role, will therefore be compensated appropriately. Looking for generic "good engineers" will probably be a waste of time, or very hard to accomplish. Correspondingly, companies which can compensate well to acquire people with specific skills will probably lure away engineers from other employers who value them as just amorphous "good engineers".

To be able to hire good engineers, the hiring process needs, at the very least:

1. Good engineers as part of the selection team, so that they can select good engineers.
2. People who understand the (additional) value brought by good/great engineers, so that they can make the decision to compensate accordingly.

PS: All this assuming that the business model is functional (i.e. the business can afford to pay a good engineer's market rate) and the work being done actually requires the additional skills of a high-quality engineer.

--

[1]: PG's article on the Blub paradox -- http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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I am glad earthlings chimed in here. To the space aliens that may not have met someone who shops at Walmart: I buy things that are not the absolute fanciest. Simple things aren't just cheaper. I like them more.

I also (gasp) buy groceries. That's Right! I'll spend money and still have to put work in myself to get value out of things!

I've also sat down in a room to sell software! As an engineer! I could shake their physical hands!

Probably sounds gross to you, but that's how most Earthlings roll.
I started Searchify in 2012 bootstrapped (Search as a service). My goal is not to "beat" my better-funded competitors, but to simply outlast them. So far, one down, a few more to go.
Is your naive preprocessor implementation complete and standards compatible C99? Or just some bastardization of it?
If not the 600 MBps bench is as good as useless.

What's the C preprocessor speed of GCC/Clang/MSVC? Any benches?
From the other side of the interview table, how do you tell apart engineers from bulls__t masters, who take credit for their team's work without ever having a positive engineering contribution?
The Fake Steve Jobs Diary comes to mind.
The baseline features concept for a SaaS company trying to compete, is a formula of hitting enough of the market.

Generic example: 85% quality, lower price point, baseline of features that covers 65% of the market's needs. Each additional feature beyond a certain core, broadly speaking, will tend to have a diminishing return in regards to how much of the market needs/wants it.
This article is kind of weird. The push for 48 volt is mostly about secondary systems that need a lot of power and doesn't have much to do with "mild electric" or whatever it is implying.

The 21 HP direct boost mentioned in the article is going to be for performance rather than running on electric, the vehicle comes with a 1 Kw-h battery (~5 minutes at full output).
And yet only one side (between me and the people I condemn) actually controls what the law is like and helps inflict pain and harsh conditions upon millions of people serving time.

So what I "sound like" is quite irrelevant. Except if you believe that people who cherish revenge and punishment of inmates will one day replace the people population based on my wish.
Well, being the single industrialized country in the world whose soil is not constantly being bombarded by enemy force should be pretty amazing (compared to the alternatives), but I'm not sure what that has to do with free markets.
For me, the primary takeaway from this article is the absurdity of copyright lifetimes that keep a book published in 1947 out of the public domain, printing money for people who had no part in creating it.
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Agreed that you need both talent and deliberate practice for chess but you also need to start early.

For becoming a chess GM you need 3 things: talent, grit(deliberate practice), starting early(10-12 is okay, 18 is too late these days).

One interesting aspect of starting early AND also persistent grit is being the youngest sibling in a chess family.

For example Hikaru had a master level older brother and of course there's Judith. The youngest siblings are ridiculously competitive against older ones.
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On re-reading, I finally get it: it's Google Maps 1.0, not iOS 1.0.