skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prerequisite is existing knowledge of ML syntax I guess. Cause I couldn't fully follow.

And can someone tell me how its different to Java Interfaces or Classes?
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And? It's normal for words to drift in meaning over time. You have to deal with the reality of language, not "how it's supposed to be".
Your advice from your first sentence holds true, and extrapolating too wildly is unwise.

MAYBE driverless cars become a reality and quickly at that. MAYBE that makes drivers in the west redundant just as fast. But worldwide? I think people underestimate how inexpensive labour is in places like Bali, let alone Kenya.

No one knows what will happen, or what new industries will be formed as a result of these changes, and the warnings are all good and well, but there is much doubt in all directions, and crazy policy implemented to avert a disaster may be just as bad as doing nothing.

That's why this whole new level of automation is so scary: no body has any clear idea what will happen, and the policy shift is really, really unclear.
Another article claiming that there is a coming AI jobpocalypse based on the fact that "this time it is different". Every author focuses on the negative impacts of a new technology instead of what it will enable us to do. In order to believe the doomsayers, you have to ignore the entire history of the industrialized world. I do not find their arguments very convincing.
Internet Outragism affects us even on simple forums. It goes deeper than social media. It all started with the eternal September.
It took the actual OS makers decades to realise the same thing.
>"Among other decisions, Pai's FCC rolled back broadcast TV station ownership limits, which could help Sinclair complete its pending acquisition of Tribune Media Company. The merger would let Sinclair, which the Times describes as a "conservative TV giant," reach 72 percent of TV-owning households in the US.

>"If the merger is approved, the conservative broadcaster would be able to air politically biased programming to more than 70 percent of the US population," Free Press said today."

This is the real problem, regardless of why Pai pushed for rule changes. The centralization of media is one of the main causes of polarization in society and therefore one of the great challenges our society must overcome. Sinclair's political leanings are irrelevant. If they were a "liberal" company this would still be a very bad development.
Disappointing that it doesn't mention "maximizers vs satisficers" which is a good way to look at things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
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Good HUD is hard. The problem is the length of the lightpath. I've done some experiments with this, your best bet is to place the screen somewhere on the right hand side and project via a mirror onto the windshield. You'll still have to deal with sunlight reflecting off the mirror into the car and you will need a super bright lightsource to be able to use it in daylight. The best solutions end up in front of the firewall to minimize picture distortion.
I think you are only thinking of supervised learning's capabilities, which I assume is the field of your AGI research? I'm working with reinforcement learning and DRL research, and RL was born to address the short coming of supervised learning. DeepMind is arguably the forerunner in RL right now, and AlphaZero is the crystalline of their RL research.

Yes, AlphaGo uses NN and other SL techniques, but the core is very much DQN based RL. No amount of SL can effectively play go and invent new moves. RL can already solve a large number of real world problems with a rather simple algorithm, from self driving cars to video games to NLP. RL can tackle all those problems with pretty much the same core algorithm. The question lies less in IF RL can solve more general AI problems, but rather HOW to solve it. From a high level view, we are having a lot of trouble with its convergence properties mathematically and its extreme sample inefficiency. This is the reason why Boston Dynamics doesn't use much RL, Waymo doesn't use much RL, simply because they can do much better with current techniques without going RL.

AlphaGo is still a major step forward regardless, because it's one of the biggest leap in RL we've taken in the recent years. It suddenly lets RL stably converge on solutions more than we could ever before. AlphaGo's contribution is more than just that it built a specialized Go bot, but rather a much more stable RL algorithm that lets us approximate non linear functions (majority of the real world applications are non linear). If I were to put my money, AI could very well be entering a new era with AlphaGo and their DQN.
> I don't know how news websites choose what stories to write and feature, but it seems absurd and getting worse.

That’s what happens when your business model is contingent upon capturing maximum eyeballs per character. It seems like each story is a subtle plug for some product or service these days.
https://www.freecalypso.org/

I know the person behind this, but not sure of the status
You mean the point where everyone asks "why am I still here?"
That product owner might have a good point. Far too many engineers I know think 100% coverage is a reasonable goal and spend way too much time writing unit tests that don't add much value or worse add negative value.
I've once left a car that I fully intended to buy because the dealer would not deliver it with a DIN slot. I absolutely hate integrated audio/media/navigation solutions, they always suck and a couple of years down the line nothing will work with them.
If I drank milk, it would have shot out of my nose.
Build quality wise, iPhone is on top and samsung is the closest.

What I mean is the form factor (thickness and bezels) and the material feel. These points really matter when using a phone. Phones are pretty much there performance wise, now what matters is 'the experience'. That is screen quality, and handling.
Trains are actually an excellent platform for all the equipment necessary to run fiber. They can have not only the heavy trenching equipment, but the endless spools of fiber on hand as well.

They literally drop a plow into the ground and lay the fiber in the resulting trench, then just drive the train forward to lay more cable. Very efficient if the route's planned out in advance.

Some interesting examples: https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-fiber-optic-cable-laying-ma...
I had a friend who works as a lobbyist for Comcast.

He works ~4 hours a week and makes $600k+/year (eat your heart out, Tim Ferriss).

Basically because, before leaving the public sector, he rose to the right rank at the right department within the right government agency, and knows the right people there well enough to go to lunch with them frequently.

Until we completely ban money in politics, this will never change. It's just such a good investment that these companies can afford to deluge their problems with money until they're gone.
Green is the only guy who could take something as novel as zsnarks and latch it onto a trusted setup (you need it, but it should have been 50 Peter Todds) and optional privacy. He trolled Monero with this same kind of vehemence when he should be turning his critical eye on zcash--so let's not pretend he's an infallible god when he can't even get his own project right. Also, if you read the side convo between CFB and Aumasson you'll get an indicator of why CFB was correct (also polite when someone intelligent listens).
What? McDonalds had automated ordering kiosks in China long before the US. The one near my apartment in Beijing got them in late 2015.
The Pew numbers conflate completely different sources to deliberately underestimate the net count. For entrants, they count only working head-of-household adults. For exits, they count every single person leaving, even children. They then just subtract the latter from the former. This process understates the net entrants by a factor of at least three. Keep that in mind when quoting Pew, which is an interest group. On their "5 Facts" page, they even say, "the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. was lower in 2015 than it was at the end of the Great Recession in 2009", which contradicts even their own data, let alone the CIS reference you cite.
I believe this is a Tim O'Reilly quote, but in any case it's exactly right: "Technology destroys professions, but creates jobs."
More detail: http://www.enterprisegarage.io/2017/10/when-technology-destr...
Sounds like a really great fellow. I hope they find him and can help him.
I don't know. I really liked Microsoft's phones, but there was no Google Maps, no Google Inbox, and bunch of other apps that I use daily were missing.

Software is the problem for these OSes. The only way to be able to compete IMHO is to make it compatible with APKs, installable via a store.

Otherwise, it's a nice effort but you'll never reach the adoption necessary to make it worth continuing working on the project.
Do you have any examples of news outlets doing this? I find it happens frequently with my local media (neighborhood blog) but gets less common at the city level. I would like to support any outlet that does this.
Imagine if you could chip in a bit of money to pay for a follow-up article. This type of reporting isn't cheap.
The system is designed to give a Green Card in around an year.
You can file for an EB1-3 as soon as you move to US.

Process is:

PERM - 3-4 months (EB1 and EB2-NIW don't need it)

I-140 - premium - 14 days

I-485 - can be filed concurrently with I-140 - Takes around 5-6 months

Green Card - 1-2 months within approval of I-485.

Of course this is the best case scenario, which doesn't involve company delaying, bad law firm and RFEs from USCIS. But the system is designed to be done within an year!

I know colleagues who have gotten their Green Cards within an year.

And unfortunately, I know more about the immigration system that I should be knowing :(
You might find this an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

It discusses the intersection of profit motive and story selection, from before the public internet was even a thing. The form changes, but the incentive structures remain the same, and if anything intensify.
Added waterproof liner under kitchen and bathroom sinks so water leaks don't damage cabinets. Also added battery powered water leak alarms.

Got tired of carrying laundry downstairs, so I changed one bathroom cabinet drawer into a laundry chute.
Bali and Kenya don't manufacture cars. They import leftovers from the first world after they are at the end of their economic lifespan. So even if the effects will arrive a little later there they will arrive, and in the worst scenario the new cars won't work on their roads.

> No one knows what will happen, or what new industries will be formed as a result of these changes

No, but we can make some pretty good educated guesses:

Anything that does not require a skill that can't be automated will eventually go away. How long the transition will take will be a major factor in whether or not it will be a smooth one or a terrible one. I hope it will be a century or more, I fear it will be a decade or less once the keys to AGI are unlocked. Worst case it will be shorter than that. In the last two cases: buckle up.

> and the warnings are all good and well, but there is much doubt in all directions, and crazy policy implemented to avert a disaster may be just as bad as doing nothing.

That sounds like a global warming piece.

> That's why this whole new level of automation is so scary: no body has any clear idea what will happen, and the policy shift is really, really unclear.

Yes it is. As far as shocks are concerned this will be one of the biggest that humanity has had to endure so far.
Looking up the definitions of obscure words is one of the tasks where I hardly ever go any further than the very first page of the search engine results.

That is I don't even click at the links: the condensated summaries usually contain the definitions (from multiple dictionaries).

I'm not sure how this works out for the actual content providers.
You are welcome.

> Do you think navigating politics is easier in academia than in the private financial sector?

I assume there will be some level of politics everywhere. I have friends who have told me sad stories about things they've seen in academia, so I know it can get ugly there too. None that compare to what I've seen in the financial world though. Not even close. I can't get into that stuff here though.

But more importantly, it's critical to my mental health that I leave and do something else. So that's what I'm doing.
> The skeptic in me would say that the new rulers try to discredit their predecessors with allegations of corruption.

The public servants are the ones that do this, not the new politicians. These actions involve police, judges, etc.

The allegations of corruption are there for every political campaign. One party will try to discredit the other one to lower their amount of votes. It makes little sense for politicians to bring corruption cases out of a political campaign. And sadly enough corruption is usually not one of the top topics of political campaigns as all parties have some corruption cases and most voters react the most to other more divisive - and probably irrelevant - issues.
I don't care what you think and whether I can convince you of anything.

Your response about false positives and false negatives is a strawman argument. Why does a low false positive single out non Indians and not Indians? Also, this is not only a phenomenon with Google - the same is true for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix etc. All have 100s (if not thousands) of eng roles open right now and is up for grabs whoever is qualified.
This is a really good summary of how it tends to play out in the real world.

In particular it is the readiness aspect. When time has come to actually think like a business, and be less of a passionate founder of your own little baby.

Lastly, on the last point, I'd offer a slightly different pov in that these people will drive out cost that you might have overlooked, or have some sort of personal opinion on. These people will be ruthless on empty costs and you need to be okay with that.
Speaking as someone not at all involved in this space, I'd love for Google to take smartphones waaaay more seriously. I feel like in an effort to make Android easy to adopt and customize they have let the "feel" of Android suffer. I hate bloatware on every new phone. I hate that phones differ so greatly. Something invaluable to me on an iPhone is the switch to silence alerts.

I wish Google would define a "standard" like Intel has with what is and what isn't an "Ultrabook". As in, to be a "Nexus" phone it must have a minimum resolution of ..., it must last for x hours of video playback and x hours of wifi use, it must have the damn alert-killing side switch, it must have a camera of a minimum quality (megapixel/zoom/can record at 1080p@60hz), etc...

Google should be defining what an Android phone is in terms of hardware; define a brand other makers can adopt so customers can trust the standard to at least cater to those needs. And that isn't even getting into how fucking awful the Google Play store is. What a malware magnet.

Sorry this is somewhat off-topic, I just feel this is how Google has lost us and why we seek alternatives.
How to keep him interested. Show a bugs life?
David Berreby's book "Us and Them: The Science of Identity"[1] pretty much agrees with you, and makes the case that the less rich/diverse someone's identity is (in essence: the more "single-issue" they are), the more likely they are to have a narrow view of it and to cling to it regardless of its validity.

His conclusion is that an individual should cultivate multiple identities, so that each one is enriched by the others and becomes more nuanced in the process.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Us-Them-Identity-David-Berreby/dp/022...
Aww, being lil' salty little "hacker" around here for getting this piece of FUD wiped away?
Denying people the right to vote.

This can take many forms. Virtually the entire citizenry can be denied the right to vote, as in autocracy. Poll taxes disenfranchise the poor. The combination of felony disenfranchisement and racial disparities in enforcement of criminal laws yields a situation where racial minorities are disenfranchised as a group.

Other shenanigans can limit people's choices, such as the restriction of candidates in Iran. Of course the first-past-the-post system used in the US also restricts choice in some ways... But "disenfranchisement", I'd say, specifically pertains to denying people the right to vote.
It's one thing to lower tax on investment income. But the problem with capital gains taxes is that they don't just cover investment income, they also cover lots of earned income. Stock options, IMHO, should never be taxed as capital gains since they were "purchased" largely with an employees time. And they're not the only form of capital gains that derive from selling your work product. If we are to cut capital gains, we also need to restrict capital gains to pure financial investments and ensure that every form of compensation for work is taxed as normal income.
Yikes, major misread on my part. Whoops.
Furthermore, there's no way that would be allowed in the EU. All the same I can see airlines trying to justify it on the basis of assessing risk.
This is actually based off the Mozilla project - 'boot to gecko'
In this context, yes, it means that written right or wrong is the same difference.
If you damage your bootloader, no amount of recovery partitions is going to help you.

ARM SoCs are slightly different in this regard compared to PCs. On PCs, it takes an extra effort to damage UEFI or BIOS.
Just to be clear: The Oxford English Dictionary has 21,728 pages in 20 volumes, covering around 300,000 entries. It's quite fun to browse (despite the shortcomings mentioned in the article), so give it a try if you have the chance.
Interesting. I quit electronics once I figured out that software gives me 'infinite parts' at a zero budget. My ability to play around with electronics was always constrained by my parts budget. What kept me going was the ability to scrounge old stuff from the garbage and take it apart for parts, but then it was the luck of the draw and once things got really integrated that route was closed off.

So now anything that I do that has to have an effect in the real world is put together with the absolute minimum in interface hardware and the remainder is software.
Wouldn't that change the non-redacted parts of the document? Or would there be a cover page with a story about a boy and his dog on every FOIA request?
> Better to go reading up on the experiences of others, asking about the experiences of others, talking to people who express interest, etc.

True. That's what I'm doing, because a bunch of people here have expressed interest. I am curious why people thought it was interesting.
> Mabl is a machine learning test automation service that learns how applications work, identify bugs, and provides context on what causes errors so they can be fixed.

> The solution is designed to enable users to easily create automated tests using a Chrome plugin. It uses machine learning to automatically fix tests when the application changes, and aims to reduce the time spent maintaining tests as applications evolve.

It seems like it's focused on automated code-free testing on the front end of web apps, especially for teams that deploy frequently (CD) without necessarily having tests in place. Sounds interesting enough.

I combed through their blog for a few good posts:

Original post from the team - https://www.mabl.com/blog/meet-the-mabl-team

How it works - https://www.mabl.com/blog/maintenance-free-automated-functio...

Getting started guide - https://www.mabl.com/blog/how-to-create-test-scripts-without...
If it's a dialer feature then you can just install any dialer which provides it.
Actually you do want to oversell less... But you do this by raising the price. They don't really want to oversell to the point where they have to accommodate the overage.
If the demand for the flight is higher then they expect, they could charge more and still sell all the seats.
It's not really the same as for horses. Horses in society lost control of their own reproductive rights. Horses existed to fill jobs because people bred them to meet a demand. As demand for horses declined, fewer horses were bred.

We have the opposite situation with humans. Individual humans retain their reproductive rights. Most of them don't decide to reduce the supply to meet a reduced demand. For a time, China did impose a restriction on reproduction, but that just resulted in many (mostly female) babies being killed or abandoned.
Agreed. And the "perfect weather" is also debatable. I was there twice, in August and in December. Both times it was too cold.

I wouldn't want to move there, but I'd love to stay for a month or two. Too bad that's not possible for me yet (neither rich nor able to work while staying in the US).

Maybe this global work permit thing that the UN supposedly looked into a while ago actually does happen one day...
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Prague has Rekola.cz, a local company started from scratch. There's been some demand during the 5 years that it's been in service, and they cooperate with the city hall well, but the service is tiny and limited to city centre - we'll see what happens this year, with Ofo coming in.
O(1) is not constant time. It's bounded from above by a constant times 1 for sufficiently large values of N time.

In particular, sin(N) is O(1) despite never taking the same value twice.
I started working on Breef Daily this Thursday while bored out of my mind on a tour bus with my University's Symphonic Band. It's a customizable mailing list which sends you the top content from the sites you select every morning.

Right now everything is hand curated, but I'm working on some scraping scripts which should automate the process quite a bit and I can do some fancy AI tricks to make the emails nice to read. I'm also working on adding more and more sources every day.

I already have about a half dozen subscribers from techy friends and family, and they are giving me some valuable feedback but seem to really enjoy the content that I'm producing so far.

I would love some feedback on what you think, how I can expand on the business model, or any thoughts you think are worth sharing. Thanks in advance!
It will take time for the new jobs to appear and people to be retrained, just as it did during those past instances of great change. Meanwhile people will be unemployed.