skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that would still be Android. Which means they'd still be beholden to Google, having to support their code, maintain compatibility with their design decisions, etc. That's not a good place for any serious business to be in.
Humans might not.

Human culture and civilisation might.
I host over 30TB of excellent climate date here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/azimuth.

These datasets were collected from various government agencies as part of a larger collaboration with John Baez and a couple of other scientists from the Azimuth Climate Data Project: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/azimuth_backup_project/

My server has a 1Gbps connection and can support sustained downloads of very large files. Unfortunately, the data isn’t well documented, but I’m working on improving that in the future. It’s organized roughly according to the agency it’s sourced from on a directory basis.

The archive includes datasets from NASA, NOAA, EPA, USGS, NCDC, CDC, EIA, FDA, USDA, DOE, and various subdepartments thereof.
Having not defined what intelligence is and having not declared the nature of General Intelligence, you're sure an aspect of clearly defined weak AI is a significant contribution to 'AGI'... Interesting.

> It's true that AlphaZero's knowledge is unable to be generalized for other systems

Interesting admission.

> This is the first piece of the puzzle of more general AI.

The first piece is generalized intelligence. Architecturally, it looks nothing like Alpha Zero. However, you feel :

> Generalization, I would consider as the second piece of the puzzle to more general AI.

How is that the second piece? It's the piece.

> Generalization may be achieved with potential research in transfer learning, model based RL, symbolic network. But without a stable RL algorithm such as DQN as foundation, generalization has nothing to stand on.

So you're of the belief that current approaches are compatible with and are the underpinning of Artificial General Intelligence while Hinton is convinced one needs to scrap it and start over. Sound advice is being ignored and there is a clearly entrenched decision to continue pushing along w/ iterating weak AI. I came here to test the waters.. The commentary and the K-value feedback I've received so far informs me quite profitably.
I was quite surprised that my 2010 car does provide power through that outlet when it's off. What's your basis for saying _most_? I only have two datapoints myself, so can't generalise.
There is another article [1] that speaks very similarly about how niche unique things become popular and ultimately subverted. It (being [1]) speaks about subcultures being completely dead and I disagree with that. They are just transformed in the wake of the internet and the beginnings of social media. I would even say that due to sites like Reddit and Patreon more subcultures exist and are more diverse than before.

[1] https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
I read most of it. I suppose if you're interested in IOTA you should read it, it puts IOTA in a terrible light. Check this out:

Ethan (MIT):
> I am shocked that you would call a hash function deployed in production, with "a 800 million dollar bug bounty" as Dominik put it, a prototype.

Sergey (IOTA):
I see Greek wasn’t your favorite subject in school :), don’t worry, word “prototype” is similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_pattern, not to what you thought about. It is also important to keep in mind that all distributed ledgers are currently in a “prototype phase“.
It appears quite many of the richest people in China have no political ties now. In fact most rich people in the past decade are either in tech (there are plenty of them as China's tech industry is not any less vibrant than silicon valley now), or in real estate. Yes, Wang Jianlin is from a red family, but there're many that're not.

Plenty of my alumni from Zhejiang University founded their own companies in China. I don't think they are any different from startup founders here in SF.
Apple to launch branded over-ear headphones as soon as this year
Someone who has done it before at slightly smaller scale. To grow a business from $50m to $200m in five years hire someone who grew a division from $10m to $50m in five years, ideally at a company where not every division grew at that rate.
2018: Bitcoin goes full bubble. You'll have more mainstream experts implying it will hit $1M. The more technical people will pull out entirely or try out altcoins. Bitcoin has a limited window to step up their game. Possibly see ETH take over or even Bitcoin Cash.

It would either be year of the altcoin or crypto crash.

Longer term: Increased H1B restrictions and high Silicon Valley land prices would make investors look for alternative cities for early stage investments. It's unlikely this city will be in the US.

Also I foresee "startup" not being a buzzword anymore, replaced by "side project".
Whats the deal with letsencrypt? If anyone can get a certificate for the domains I own, it can't stop man in the middle attacks. How is this any better than a self signed cert which throws a hissy fit when you visit? Thats a browser issue to me not an inherant technical advantage. Anyone can get a cert from it including criminals. Google sometimes makes the news when they revoke a cert authority because of criminal activity (I think). How often do people check under those locks to see what it is? Google.com at a wifi hotspot could be something completely different and you'd not know. I'm sure I'll look like a fool when someone explains it to me.
Sorry if I gave that impression. I have no problem with lots of perspectives. I specifically asked if anybody had made room for, uh, the poor people.

Considering my response has already gotten one "Well you're obviously not poor if you read this", and another asking for clarification of my opinions on non-poor people, I guess this wasn't the place to make that point. Sorry.
Begging only works if the number of beggars is few.

When streets have 300 beggars on it, good luck making any money. I live a few blocks from skid row.
I can't answer on where to best find this data, but it is compounded by many industries. Particularly, manufacturing and the transportation of raw materials that are transformed into products by other manufacturers and then distributed to distribution centers, and then again distributed to local regions and retailers. This, for every last little thing. If you want to talk just plastic bottles, we consume 1 million bottles a minute. In the summer, when working outside or when I used to work in smoldering hot factories, I would drink about 4 large sports drinks a day during an 8-12 hour shift (there were 2500+ employees and never shutdown).
Now add just vehicle emissions. Everyone driving to and from work, or to buy all the things. You drive and purchase a banana. That banana probably traveled 2k-3k miles in fossil fuel powered transportation. It's a compounding problem, of all the things. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace...
I don't know the answer, I'm not involved in those things, as I say in my profile, my opinions are mine. In my opinion, it might be better to do this through the W3C or IETF, but I don't have the context, so that's an ill-informed gut opinion.

Perhaps there's a perception that the W3C is premature at this stage, as things are quickly evolving and standards committees usually standardize stuff after there's been some proprietary experience.

The W3C might not even be the right venue. For example, changes to JS go through TC'39, whereas changes to protocols go through IETF. Lots of XML/SGTML spec work has been done outside the W3C. I don't feel knowledgeable enough to make an informed comment.
Advertisers do. If the economics stop making sense then the content stops being created. As a consumer it’s not my concern as to how money is made. That’s the creators job.
I do, but I wasn't aware that Rust was considered in the ML family (ML as Meta Language, like SML/NJ). I'm somewhat skeptical of that.

What I see from Rust is a lot of the really great things from functional languages (esp. strong typing) and beyond, but applying them to a language aiming as low as C. That's certainly interesting.
Part is just experience. You have to have seen enough different kinds of people and systems work together to understand what works and what does not.

I think another part is simply nomenclature. There's a joke about the only two hard problems in computer science: Cache expiry and naming things. It's a joke because cache expiry reduces to naming the keys correctly if you do it right.

Basically, if the different parts of the system don't have sensible names that represent what they actually do (and that there are, indeed, different parts of the system), then there's an architecture problem.

You have to have an effective metaphor for the way that you want the system to work, and the problems you want each part of it to solve, or nobody will be able to understand the entire thing.

I run into this often. People have a functional but struggling system designed with the "big ball of mud" pattern, where you just keep slapping gobs of code onto it until it does what you need, and then they want someone to come in and "do architecture" at it. This predictably fails.

So, there's your heuristic: if it has good names, and the pieces do what they say on the tin, you're on the right path. When something starts to have responsibilities that aren't under that name, you should move those responsibilities somewhere else and name them appropriately.

Edit: There's also a second-order level where you start to recognize the way that cross-cutting concerns happen in different areas and design a piece of the system to handle that concern in an organized way. You can probably think of a bunch yourself, but an easy example you want to handle earlier rather than later is logging, and another significant one is authentication
Well yes, it's completely arbitrary! Those with the luxury to act irrationally will sometimes do so, I guess. And economics doesn't do a good job of explaining it, so the root of this branch of the comment tree was kinda right when they said traditional economic theory is a ass.[0]

Adversity and scarcity breeds a precision and a ruthless attention to detail that prevents that $50 from escaping. Meanwhile abundance leads to a relaxing of all such, and maybe even a dulling of that skill. Being born into wealth I imagine would put you at an even bigger disadvantage in that regard... though I might be okay with having such problems...

[0] I'm paraphrasing of course and I changed Law to Economics. http://www.bartleby.com/73/1002.html
I was homeless for nearly 6 years. I got off the street last September. I am still quite poor. In fact, my bank account currently has zero in it and I don't get paid again until the 1st.

I fairly frequently give my opinions on HN about poverty, homelessness, housing, women's issues and the negative impact being female has on my earned income.

I try to be judicious and not do it too often. Testifying from firsthand experience often turns into a pile on of people pretending to care and pretending to want to help while mostly virtue signaling, doing nothing for me and dragging my name through the mud by insinuating that I somehow must have made poor choices and it must be all my fault, never mind the larger societal forces under discussion.

I often worry that if I speak up too much, I will eventually be banned for disruptive behavior, never mind that I feel that a lot of the problem behaviors are due to how other people choose to react to me. When enough people pile on with problematic replies I can eventually get frustrated and lose my cool and then I feel like that will all be blamed on me and an excuse to say I am just badly behaved. I get a lot of downvotes and flags when I finally lose my cool. This tends to not happen to people talking at me like I am not really a victim of circumstances, I just am stupid, incompetent and not trying hard enough.

I try to then give it a rest for a while and avoid such topics because I would prefer to not wind up rate limited, banned or otherwise penalized for daring to be the token poor person giving my two cents. Privileged people tend to have no idea how to help me. They tend to say really shitty things to me. They often want me to shut up because I make them uncomfortable.

I am pretty thick skinned, well educated and come from a much more privileged background than I realized for most of my life. Most poor people are not going to stick their neck out like that. They are too vulnerable and can't afford more trouble and are very well aware that expecting rich people to be genuinely respectful and caring towards them is simply a bridge too far.

It generally works better overall for the formerly poor to try to cast a little light on such subjects. It is much less of a shitshow.
> true poverty is a lack of those things and a lack of hope that your situation will improve.

I'm not sure where your second criterion comes from. I don't think "poverty" excludes anyone who aspires to someday leave poverty.
I freelance, so I consider 30 min travel vs $50 saving differently, depending on how much work I have, when it ought to be done by, and what I'm billing at. If I were billing at less than $100/hr, and had enough slack, I'd of course make the trip. But if I were behind schedule on a $75/hr job, I'd probably pay the extra $50.

But damn, people working 15 hours per day at minimum wage might also pay the $50, if they can't readily get time off work.
4 years. It matters.
Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System
While the Candy Japan lost the revenue on YouTube ads, I wonder how those posts, that hit front HN and certain Reddit subreddits convert.

Would you make money back, if you would include all the signups you will get within next 96 hours? The "mistake" cost you real money, but on the other hand, it allowed you to generate a content on a very interesting topic, that surely will get you thousands of new visitors, right to your website.

Also, the animated video is... well, it is not good. You can easily get highest quality animated videos on Fiverr or PPH for way below $1K.

I would suggest you get featured on unboxing video of some semi-famous guy. I am sure, you will get much more conversions for your buck since those channels are watched by people willing to buy a product.
i grew up poor, and it was frustrating to see the stupid mistakes my family and people around me would make over, and over, and over. then people like the researchers in this article say infuriating things like 'their bad decisions are just because they are cognitively tired, and actually many of them could be even considered shrewd!"

being cognitively tired does play a role, but more so because they are cognitively lazy. their bad / lazy decisions are confounded by the fact they are trying to solve problems caused by making bad decisions in the first place. on top of that, most dont value education.

i typed a long story but deleted it. in short, 4/6 of us siblings dropped out of school, those same 4 had a large life insurance policy from the airforce which they blew almost immediately.

we have so many opportunities in this country, but it still does require that we go to school, work, and use our head. i am aghast on how so many people simply refuse to THINK. so many people with money problems have no idea how much money annually they spend on ANYTHING. how can you even begin to talk to someone about getting out of poverty, if they wont even calculate how much they are spending on that 5$ starbucks and 600$ phone.
"new, original thought" to the employers probably just means that they can deal with a problem that doesn't fit into the general workflow or one that they haven't been specifically trained to do.

As an example, the payment system at my pub went down a few weeks ago and the staff where clueless on what to do, the accepted short term solution (at my insistence) to write down who bought what (we all have accounts) so they can be put into the system later. This is a simple, trivial example, but in jobs like that it makes you manager material.
I think comments like these are more likely propaganda than real experiences.

They keep feeding you the lie that you're going to be successful if you keep believing in the system.

When we all know statistically America is worse than ever before.

You read the parent comment and think the poor and just lazy and all your have to do is work yourself a slave and suck corporate dick.

But it's never a top comment adding that helping the poor could reduce the problem. Nope, it's always the corporate stooge.
DFW put it nicely in "Authority and American Usage", and it's stuck with me as a pithy counterpoint to this kind of teleology.

Describing pinker's thoughts on linguistic descriptivism:

Steven Pinker's 1994 "The Language Instinct" is a good and fairly literate example of this second kind of Descriptivist argument, which, like the Gove-et-al. version, tends to deploy a Jr.-high-filmstrip SCIENCE: POINTING THE WAY TO A BRIGHTER TOMORROW-type tone...

I think it's a lot closer to the truth to say that humans tend to be human throughout history, for both good and ill, and that this alone is why neither anyone's idea of utopia nor dystopia will ever really happen. We're always somewhere in the middle.
"It is not "complete bollocks",it just not as efficient as it appears to be."

That's a contradictory statement. If it was as efficient as claimed it wouldn't be bollocks. But it isn't, thus, bollocks.

"(with a split power supply - positive, negative and ground) would have the same noise immunity as binary."

[citation needed]

I'm not a EE, but my understanding from EE friends is that isn't true.
You being 17 when that happened helped a lot too. If the same happens when you are 40 or 45 getting out of the gutter would be nigh on impossible.
By working with people who know how to do it, and learning from them.

There aren't many shortcuts one can take in that area -- the big difference between junior and senior developers is that the senior developers have experienced what can go wrong, often learning from their own mistakes and the mistakes of their employers, so they are better able to make design/architecture decisions.

If you're a junior developer and you don't have good senior people to learn from in your job, it's time to start looking for another job.
Since the function import in the signature is the only way to create a value of the abstract type sorted, and the implementation of import is given as Array.sort, all values of type sorted have indeed been sorted.
His track record for these sorts of predictions isn't very good. Fortunately for him, predictions that fail are usually forgotten.
His competitors are already doing this very aggressively (based on a number of channels I've unsubscribed from because I don't want to watch them eat candy), so it seems like it works.
This is why I hate the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness"[0] with a passion. Really hate it.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/
so... I did say to myself to be a good guy and not to use ad bocker... did you try that on your site?!?
These are the best books for learning modern statistics–and they’re all free
> When you want distrubted-db, yeah you need to design

But one shouldn't be designing for implementation details. Usually, we start technologies out with leaky abstractions, and gradually get better at it. A good example is game development, where it used to be that you always used the drawing method of the display and the clock speed of the cpu to your advantage. Nowadays, we've moved past that, because it was working on horrible abstractions, and because the technology underneath improved.

I'm not saying I have a solution, and I agree that this problem rears it's head the most when you start bringing in distributed storage. But my point stands: these databases run on a highly leaky abstraction, and that's a big problem going forward.
I have a safety net and it has enabled me to take risks I never would have if failure meant homelessness for my family.

I think that's why all the trimmings of a "socialist" society are so attractive to me.

I hear what you're saying. You felt motivated because there was nothing to enable your coasting. But it can also work in the other direction.
A lot of things are wrong with this ad.
That is a lot of money to spend without an experienced media buyer or consultant.
> I specifically asked if anybody had made room for, uh, the poor people.

But what does this mean? Unless someone is specifically arguing that poor people should not comment, how is anyone not "making room for" the perspectives of poor people?
It really depends. There was a time when what i could have spent on Starbucks was equivalent to at least one main meal, so splurging on a drink like that was a luxury of sorts for when i had extra funds-- this was at tertiary school and got by with a PT job.
In most societies being poor is shameful, asking for help is twice as shameful. Even if someone that is poor and read your comment will most likely post an answer.

When poor people get things for "free" (like charity, I hate charity) they actually pay with pride and dignity.
I can only imagine it is agriculture. No facts to back that up though. Raising crops and livestock is energy intense though
Agree, that’s why it must reach beyond online trading activities. One person can have many cards and emails, but not so many faces or names or real affiliations, so we’re going to target that. I knew it’s very difficult in the past but with the current environment, I think it’s doable.
The specifics are highly domain-dependent, but at a high level, you need to be able to identify every resource and process in your system, how those processes utilize (or should utilize) those resources, where the bottlenecks might be, and have a plan for how to resolve the bottlenecks given the capabilities of the resources and processes. That is, you need to be thinking at a level of system components, not code.

Unfortunately, most of the above knowledge isn't taught in schools and comes mostly from experience.
Don't forget all the factory farming and raising cattle to feed billions of people - methane emissions from cows are very significant.
I can't believe Steven Pinker isn't met with outright ridicule. The cult of positive-think is strong - I imagine anyone criticizing him publicly would be seen as 'being negative'.

Steven Pinker uses statistics to argue that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness are on the rise, both in the West and worldwide. It attributes these positive outcomes to Enlightenment values such as reason, science, and humanism. [0]

Enlightenment values? Humanism?

Did we not just live through 2 world wars, a cold war, etc? What is USA's military budget again? 597 BILLION USD in 2015? (Google 'usa military budget')

Some humanist world power we have, it doesn't even provide health care for it's own citizens, while letting them buy guns!

Some humanism that is... Shall we go down the list and discuss how humanist China is?

The book concludes with three chapters defending what Pinker sees as Enlightenment values: reason, science, and humanism.[4] Pinker argues that these values are under threat from modern trends such as religious fundamentalism, political correctness, and postmodernism. [0]

One of the top three concerns for humanity, according to Pinker, is political correctness... I don't even...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
Agree, that’s why it must reach beyond online trading activities. One person can have many cards and emails, but not so many faces or names or real affiliations, so we’re going to target that. Still, we need a lot of data to provide anything meaningful. I knew it’s very difficult in the past but with the current environment, I think it’s doable.
So a the goal is a bunch of people can have their claws in the code base and avoid this reaction [0], but not necessarily code optimization, just as long as everything is highly modular and works independently of other parts you're kosher.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGpDGJoe6P0