skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your reply. I have a few follow up questions.

(1) Are you working on this alone? Do you want to work with others?

(2) What is your end goal for this technology?

(3) How has your assessment of human intelligence changed upon discovering what you claim to have discovered? Are you impressed or disappointed?

(4) Would you say that developing AGI or developing free unlimited energy requires greater conceptual leaps in terms of research?

(5) How can you be sure that a government agency won't seize and classify your discoveries in national security interest, nor whether this has already happened in the past? (Or perhaps you are part of a PR campaign to finally make this technology public?)

(6) It's true that the creator of an agent with AGI can set restrictions on its potential behavior, but it's not true that a malicious creator of another agent with AGI couldn't permit it to behave in a destructive manner. Why should you be trusted to keep this technology to yourself when it might be in the public interest to take it from you by force? (I'm not saying that that would be "ethical" or consistent with the ideals espoused by liberal democracies. However it's perfectly consistent with the practical realities of the world.)

(7) I know you don't want to reveal particular details, but if you don't want people to think you are a crackpot at least give an idea of your estimation for the conceptual profundity of your discoveries (where you claim to have invalidated previously established theories): is it more akin to solving the P vs. NP problem, or more akin to having the insight that the brain doesn't have a dedicated floating point unit that performs gradient descent in order to set weights on neuronal connections?

(8) How difficult would it be to reverse engineer your technology if you ever commercialized it?
Vested interests continue to pwn the extant Internet.

Counter-move? Create and maintain control of distinct physical layers.

Will Musk and company provide one of these? An open question, for me.
here is a helpful article on 'tokenization':
https://www.nasdaq.com/article/how-tokenization-is-putting-r...
Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities
Ask HN: Advice for an aspiring PM in undergrad?
Hi everyone!

I'm currently studying at Northeastern University in Boston. I technically transferred into NU in 2016 (initially for finance, which I've studied a lot since I was young), however I left for a couple years to co-found a startup based in NYC. That experience taught me how much I love building a product, and it's ideally something I could see myself doing for the next 40 years.

Upon returning, I realized that 1. I couldn't see much of a path to product at a startup from finance/business, and 2. In the finance industry, coming from a non-target school is a lot worse than in CS. With that in mind, I transferred into the CS program and, after my first semester, I'm expecting I'll end up with a 3.3-3.5 GPA vs an expected 3.7-3.8 GPA in Finance or Business.

With my goal of working in product (but not explicitly engineering) at a startup, would you guys recommend continuing with CS or Finance? (I have no prior coding experience, for reference). Also, the third option is to learn something theoretical such as Econ which I'd find the most enjoyment in, but I feel like job prospects would be the lowest, especially given that NU doesn't have much of a reputation for it at all.

Some specific questions:

Would you, in my position, study Finance, CS, or Econ?

What's the breakdown of likelihoods I could end up in product management from any of those majors, and on the flip side, what's the worst case reasonably imaginable for me in each?

Related: Will it be quicker/easier to go from an SWE role to a PM role, or from a financial analyst role to a PM role?

+ anything else you find worth sharing

I really appreciate any advice you all may have, and thanks in advance!
> How about the CPU, RAM, and other specs?

For things like smartphones that each run their own operating system variation, aren't these just vanity specs?

What good is comparing the RAM on an Samsung Galaxy to an iPhone?
The Fairey Delta 2: technological discontinuity
Looking at the source code, it only considers titles from 1900 to 2010 as classics.
>Will post-quantum crypto require new hardware?

No. We just need to switch from existing public-key cryptographic algorithms to quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. There are already a variety of such algorithms developed (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography). All that remains is to study them further and agree on a standard.

Symmetric ciphers such as AES are already quantum-resistant for 256-bit keys. (Grover's algorithm is the best known quantum attack for such algorithms. Cracking an N-bit key classically is approximately as hard as cracking an (N/2)-bit key on a quantum computer with Grover's algorithm.)
This one is the opposite sort, in which code is carefully antioptimized to be as slow as the worst case (and optimized to make the worst case fast).
You can also use css selectors with lxml. Works great, in my experience.

http://lxml.de/cssselect.html
This is pretty much why I won't give anywhere near 100% at a company that treats me or my co-workers like that.
I think back to the XML readers and XSLT parsers that could read arbitrary files or the fact that you can technically embed flash in a PDF (which is just a wrapper around Postscript).

It's things like these that lead to security issues.

Honestly when I read that first line about SVG and Javascript, I was a little horrified. Who the fuck on what planet ever though that could possible be a good idea?
In saying that, Javascript is just as parsable, and these 'javascript sites' are probably loading structured data via a JSON API which will probably be easier to scrape than a bunch of layout HTML.
Yes, Sr. Management & Directors add values. Most first level managers are not effective in resolving disputes between Engineers, but rather just take sides with say one of their top coder, although the opinion of that engineer on say an architecture approach may be not be the right way to go..think you get the idea ? There may be many such scenarios or just lack of maturity or decades of management experience that makes such managers ineffective at resolving conflicts, and hence my point is that they are not required to manage Sr. Engineers with 10-15 yrs experience.
Even if I had to tune for low-end hardware, I’d love to own and hack around on a simple device with this sort of OS.
I'm on a high horse (I'm able to afford an iPhone), but what kind of problem does this solve? To me, it looks like Nokia now has Android, their own operating system, and this to upkeep. Does anyone else remember what happened when they last time partnered with an experimental mobile operating system? I think it was Microsoft last time.

Would love to hear some reasoning from the folks from HMD about this.
lets discuss it here
Junior to mid-level.
But UBI doesn’t address people’s loss of dignity or meet their need to feel useful.

We need to find the jobs that AI can’t do and train people to do them

The author raises and then dismisses UBI in a handful of sentences. Then he asserts that we need to be inventing AI-proof jobs -- not because they're useful and worth doing but just to avoid having to change.

The changes we have coped with as a species are incredible. From hunter gatherers to agrarians, to the development of civilizations with laws, to the industrial revolution, etc.

I think it's an incredibly pessimistic and narrow view of humanity to presuppose we need to be making busy work for people.

Of course corporations and politicians should be approaching this problem honestly. But we should also approach it open-mindedly.
"slower phone"

Absolutely not. I just stopped using a Galaxy S8 and moved to the iPhone X purely because of day-to-day responsiveness, which the recently released Oreo update has made worse. My original Pixel, however, was far smoother during the same tasks.
Yes, there are still white supremacists who are angry about non-white people being allowed to live in the country and treated as equal citizens, that is also accurate.
Black Panther's Wakanda is a transportation utopia with a dash of reality
It's here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16460040
Random thought: using serifs to encode additional bits with a Reed-Solomon would allow for, say, one bit per letter (either we use the serif or the sans-serif version). Assuming latin characters, it would allow for t/2 = 1/16 (6,25%) of the original text - a bit lower if we consider that letters like "o" do not have serifs, somewhat higher if we remove easily-guessable words like "the", "an" and so on.

That's a good idea, I might do a quick Show HN about that.
Reasonable accommodation often comes down to a cost argument. In almost all the examples the author cites, it costs next to nothing to accommodate these small groups of people.

It is a corporation or a society deciding that it is willing to make a minuscule procedural or behavioral adjustment in order to accommodate a group of people. For those who don't have a peanut allergy or religious dietary restrictions, the difference is barely perceptible.

If you are a government or a corporation that services tens or hundreds of millions of people. You don't make policies or products just for a plurality or majority of individuals-- you try to them compatible for as many people as possible.

This isn't "tyranny of the minority", it is just good design.
I’m not sure if you intended to, but this sounds like you’re accusing antirez of being a paid shill.
>It is the successor to the highly popular custom ROM CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016 when Cyanogen Inc. announced it was discontinuing development

Oh. My. God. Thank you. Around about the S5/S7 era I stoppped flashing my phone every 5 minutes, but now with my S7 drinking battery fluid every minute of the day I've been wondering where CM had gone.
No, it isn't. Under the current system, there are no per-country limits on who can come to this country to work for a sponsoring employer.

The per-country caps only have the effect that some people need to wait longer than others for their rights, while still living here and paying the same taxes as you do, but not being easily able to switch jobs, not being eligible for certain jobs (eg. SpaceX), or certain research grants (eg. NIH), and being one layoff away from having to sell their house, sell their car, take their kids out of school, and leave on short notice.

If diversity is the goal, then the entire pipeline (H1/L1, potentially F1) should have per-country caps - that way, nobody living here is denied their rights based on where they were born. Raising the per-country caps on green cards to 100% to match the H-1B caps (aka eliminating them) is one way of achieving this, and arguably the most egalitarian - but it isn't the only way.

At this point now, I suspect some companies prefer hiring people from India/China because they know they'd be indentured. That aspect should be removed.
For what it's worth, yes, JQuery does support non-standard syntax/selectors
If they wanted cheap, why would they put their HQs in Silicon Valley?

Google has an office in freaking Paris. It's not like international hires choose Silicon Valley over Paris because they're enamored with overpriced suburban living. It's just because they need to be at the HQ for better career advancement.
When I don’t recommend Clojure [Feb 2018]
You can indeed say all of that, but both statements are merely misdirection.

Saying its "six of one, half dozen of the other" is a colorful way of saying mistakes are irrelevant; sotojuan is wrong, they don't actually detract from the communication. But you provide no reason.

As for your reading skills, the subject is writing communications, but from your reading skill you can see the value of writing quality.
Did you actually use WebOS? I've had a great experience with the Palm Pre phones, way ahead of its time.
Then there are people on the opposite side of the spectrum who don't even look at server costs. I have a task sitting in our backlog to optimize our instance usage which could save us over $100,000 a year. It has been constantly deprioritized in order work on feature development which is stupid because we could hire another developer to do it in a few days and then keep him to increase our feature development all while costing our company the same amount of money.

Granted, I think this is more of a case of the prisoners dilemma [0] between lower management and upper management (lower management doesn't want to work on it because it doesn't produce features that make him look good but he also does not want to propose the additional developer for it because then upper management will just tell lower management to do it without the additional developer).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
Yes, however, we don't have good managers (due to lack of maturity or experience) to fill the job description you laid out. If you take a survey of people leaving teams or companies, you will find that many people leave due to bad managements.
> People will find a way to stay busy

Yes let's just dismiss all the concerns because 'things always work out in the end.'

I suppose there's always room for more managers...
I've been an iPhone user since the 1st generation 8GB model. (Very 1st was 4GB.) The overall quality of software has gone down. I remember the first time an iOS update caused issues in some fairly foundational code. (Involving UIImage.) Before that, I thought Apple's iOS team infallible.

Today, I have moments when I'm just disgusted with Apple, as well as with 3rd party apps on iOS from well funded companies who should be doing better. Though to be fair, most of the time, things do work. It's just that I run into the odd place where...WAT!?
If this system is working well (I'm not judging), and the only way to sustain it is to annoint a dictator for life (because the rest of the Communist Party won't support this system?) then something is dangerously wrong.
Revised : It's been solved although not publicly disclosed. There are an incredible number of locks on (Human Beings) that necessarily have to be unlocked to produce AGI.

https://twitter.com/monad_ai/status/958928168525729793

They are non-trivial, undisclosed, unexposed, and currently unavailable to an operational AGI. There was a decision made as to which ones would be bypassed in order to instantiate AGI. There will be subsequent decisions down the road as to what capabilities to expose. Capability I haven't exposed is not operational.
How high of a resolution were these scans?
It's not sarcasm. I don't hunt/kill/butcher my food. But note that I wrote "is capable of doing", not "does".
> web on mobile has failed.

This definitely isn't true. The web is very much alive and flourishing on mobile.

Using web technologies for _everything_ on the phone however, is a mistake. That is not good.
do any xiaomi phones have oreo yet? I can't fathom spending $400 on a phone that's already out of date.
Google is a schizophrenic company.

Just watch a few Google I/O tracks, and there is always the future of mobile apps is Android on the Android tracks, while the Chrome/Web tracks are pushing for the future of mobile apps is Web, with an occasional jab at native devs, as if on the room next door they weren't talking about native development.

Then to make it even better, now we have Flutter as the third track.

While PWAs are slowly being adopted by everyone else, Google is the company pushing them.

They even have a Web Site just for PWAs, https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/, so yeah politics.
First LIDAR system in JavaScript comes out in May along with a Medium article. By December, web developers can choose between 27 new LIDAR frameworks.

Trump is kicked out of the presidency. Spends the rest of his life as a prolific twitch streamer. He also creates a GitHub profile where he hosts a TrumpScript [1] fork and an Awesome-Me list.

Bitcoin transaction speed drops to 1TPS because of its price hike back to 20k, melting a couple of glaciers in Greenland in its way. Coinbase hasn't fixed its customer support yet.

First success in farming CRISPR potatoes in Novaya Ziemlia. Putin decides Russia needs to open a vodka destillery in Arctic by 2020 and makes it part of the Russia Forward plan.

Yandex Research starts working on blockchain for alcohol supply chains. Navalny makes a career change beginning his brief, but fruitful stint as a Blockchain Researcher Senior for the company, before pulling out a Litvinenko due to being a nasty code reviewer.

We discover that Meltdown bug can also affect sex toys. Kids grow depraved with the knowledge of what their mum had this day in her handbag.

[1] https://github.com/samshadwell/TrumpScript
Only after the person either becomes a US citizen or has done 10 years of qualifying work.
hmn.. Vim? :D
Perhaps I need to present things differently when I talk to people? Or talk to different people?

Yes. Both.

But you also need to seek perspective. This question is an attempt to do that, but not a great way to do so. I have a history of asking such questions in life, and it winds up being an incredibly poor source of data or feedback.

Better to go reading up on the experiences of others, asking about the experiences of others, talking to people who express interest, etc.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley
> And even these algorithms can help asymptotic complexity

Is this a theorem or conjecture?
TVs are also much bigger and cheaper and have multiple inputs and an IR sensor for remote control.
I feel the same with any project with "physical" results, from electronics to woodwork to fixing a leaking pipe. Don't know why but I get a fuzzy satisfaction that I never do with software.

My previous job involved lots of lab work, soldering, debugging PCB issues, working with optical fibres, et al. Current job pays better and is complex enough, but it's just me sitting behind a screen all day remotely controlling a piece of hardware we just bought from someone else.

I highly recommend everyone who's into software or design but never did anything with hardware to spend some time this week building a simple blinking LED project with the Arduino

I second that. These days it's very easy to get some hobby projects going in no time and with a very low budget. Arduinos, FPGAs, simple PCB design, it will give you satisfaction and you'll definitely learn lots useful stuff in the process that's not necessarily tangentially related to software
And I thought that it would be some kind puzzle for testing how intelligent a life form is.
But to be honest i am not disappointed. Nice game.
Off topic, but do you (or anyone else) have a great recomendation for non wireless headphones?
> Pis do not cope well with having the power cut off abruptly

Even with noatime?
Ahh right, makes sense, thanks. :)
Works on iPhone by the way :)
As long as the opinions weren't so disagreeable that the Party leaders don't through the opposition into dungeons
Correct, so we used a high impedance voltage meter across a calibrated resistor in series with the circuit under test. It was 7 years ago I did the work and now rarely work hands on with electronics so I am hazy on the exact details but it’s all in the published journal paper, which, as always with science papers is now behind a paywall.

UPDATE: I miss remembered, we used the high impedance electrometer to buffer the input of a National Instruments interface board so we could record the voltage build up across the storage capacitors, if you use a normal voltmeter the caps just discarge into the voltmeter and the charge never builds up enough to allow the micro controller to turn on, run the code it needs to and then go back to sleep. You land up with some really nice sawtooth wave forms with this method and, as the acceleration on the vibrational energy harvester increases, the frequency of the sawtooth changes proportionally up to a point where the system is transmitting all the time.
She's got the catalog of beasts - maybe she can partner w/J.K. Rowling to tell us where to find them. =P

FYI, the Chinese stamp of her name had someone Cantonese phonetically put her name together, it doesn't like her name right when pronounced in Mandarin.
In about half of the examples, the methods are more user-friendly wrappers around underlying libraries - great! love it! In the other half of the examples, the niceness of the API is in fact due to the user-friendly design of the underlying PyQuery/Parse libraries. So I want to give credit to their good APIs, too.
“They give up more easily. They have quite avoidant coping tendencies when things can't be perfect.”
That, of course, hinders them from the very success that they want to achieve. In his 60-plus studies focusing on athletes, for example, Hill has found that the single biggest predictor of success in sports is simply practice. But if practice isn’t going well, perfectionists might stop.
It makes me think of my own childhood peppered with avoiding (or starting and quitting) almost every sport there was. If I wasn’t adept at something almost from the get-go, I didn’t want to continue – especially if there was an audience watching.

Ugh. Been there, done that. I remember skipping the first year of fast pitch baseball because I was sure I’d never be able to hit the ball. It simply wasn’t true and can only have set me back when rejoining the following year.

I assumed perfectionism was generational or at least cultural. It’s distressing to see it’s widespread and increasing. The studies put a fine focus on the need to get smarter and model healthier responses to mistakes for the next generation.
...I know you're trolling, but I seriously wonder where it would stop if we were to go down all that way.
I'd say there's good reasons to treat some layers as black boxes, but not as magic; you use abstractions precisely because mental space is limited, not because the underlying object is intrinsically non-understandable.

As I replied to another comment below, I wrote "is capable of doing", not "does".
Not sure what you are talking about.

You can use iPhones with PCs and Android phones with Macs.
Which programing language did you use to write it?
As an "old-school" sysadmin I have the opposite view: it's difficult to find jobs that don't require AWS these days.

I know perfectly well how to provision and scale a large infrastructure and can give you 99,999% availability in any application, BGP if needed.

Yet no one is interested in that. Sure I can write Ansible scripts and Terraform policies, but it's a miniscule part of my skillset and doing it on AWS is just boring compared to building the backend that powers it.
You are hallucinating here, please reread our exchange.

Your conflation of ETH and BTC is disingenuous.

What were your thoughts on the iPhone when it came out?
They do undermine one’s credibility.

At the same time, a cursory study of German, French, Hebrew, even Japanese would suggest that English spelling is needlessly complicated and ambiguous. Part of addressing this problem for future generations is a push for spelling reform.
Somebody had to say it!
Frank here. I didn't really need the paper to complete grad school. I thought it was a cool project to work on. That's all. There are a lot of solutions to a lot of problems. I'm not claiming it's the best one, just presenting a different way of thinking.
I did a code review for my manager where I reminded him to punctuate and capitalize every code comment. I wonder what review score I'm going to get this quarter.
I still remember how Symbian introduced the Web Runtime for web based mini-apps.

Just today I had to kill Chrome on my device for the WebGL demo that was posted earlier. Yet it does OpenGL 3.x just without sweating.
Are You Happy Doing What You Do?