skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that "real AI" (unsupervised general AI) will not be created by us. Instead if we arrive there, I think it be more by a loop something like:

0. goodness criteria = <Humans INSERT MOTIVE HERE>

1. we create dumb AI.

2. we create a bit less dumb AI.

3. for(some years) goto 1.

4. we figure out how to make the bit less dumb AI, create another dumb AI on its own, and assess the goodness of it.

5. run latest generated dumb AI to create a new AI based on goodness of the previous one.

6. if (goodness criteria not met) goto 5.

So the whole process needs "jump-started" kind of like a jet-engine.

You end up with an AI system, tuned by another AI, in order to meet human supplied goodness criteria. And in the end, nobody actually understands the fundamentals of why it works. But hey, it does. Kind of. Most if not all I have read regarding these systems, describes the what, not the why.

Not sure what would happen if you use another AI to supply the motives (goodness criteria). I'm sure someone somewhere is trying :)

I think we are currently in 2018 at step 2.5.
>general intelligence "smarter" than humans

I read a book recently called "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?"[1] Very fascinating thought that, in my mind, redefines what I think of as "intelligence". The book Superintelligence[2] gets a little bit into this as well.

Basically, if we define "smarter than humans" as "able to do everything humans do, in the manner humans do them, but faster", then we have no idea what intelligence actually means. AI will be another species (not just a better human) and its intelligence would have to be judged based on its own merits.

Perfectly modeling the human brain in computer form is one avenue that computer science is working on. Artificial intelligence is a completely different path, and does not have to model human intelligence in any way.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/03...

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategie...
it's often said that if a headline is posited as a question, the answer to that question is "no".

if that question begins with "how" or "why" however, the answer is better phrased as "it doesn't".

/rant

not very inspired analysis of Tesla's challenges, with a comparison to a just barely similar historical case.
> In our world. Let’s be honest, there has to be a category of people that still falls for them, otherwise people wouldn’t keep investing billions into this bullshit industry.

Not just in "our world." The average CTR is 0.06%, and that's from Google's figures [1], 60% of banner ad clicks are accidental, 54% of Internet users have never clicked one. 25% use ad blockers.

They persist because they're a) cheap, b) because everyone else does it, and c) because they may, tangentially, have some brand uplift though no-one can actually prove it. Some desperately dastardly mindfuck scheme they are not.

[1] http://www.richmediagallery.com/learn/benchmarks
It's a perceived lack of adherence to the Great Lakes Compact, which specifies how to manage the Great Lakes Basin's water supply.

Regulation of water withdrawal appears to be important as otherwise I don't see why the states would have gone through the effort of putting the regulations into place.
A Nobel Peace Prize for trying to bully a country into submission? I'm sure that's what Alfred Nobel intended.
Agree - also if you've ever used a gambling app, they will push notifications to you right before your team is about to play or a horse race is about to start because they know you're likely to bet on that if you remember.

Also banner ads are for gambling are more for impressions than clickthroughs, if you watch a football (soccer) game in the UK, the ad breaks are full to the brim with "BET IN PLAY, NOW" "BET BET BET" "NOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!" type ads which just put in the back of your mind. For a gambling addict it must be near impossible to resist.
How long would it take to notice, say, an inch decrease? Or whatever other small unit if it's not measurable to an inch.
Presumably you'd then just have to worry about memory consumption. You could send them to /dev/shm as well, but if there isn't anywhere to put them, there will still be problems.
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> It says something when tech-savvy people agree to sacrifice time and effort and probably profits to protect their users from their own software.

Nothing about the gdpr solves the problems of companies having insecure systems that _leak_ user data. I also don't believe that data about me is data I own. To me, the gdpr feels ineffective at the real issues causing me harm (leaked info) and also a giant burden on companies that fundamentally changes how the industry has worked, but in a way that quite frankly, doesn't make any sense to me. The data about my order isn't my data to control.
You're very naive about this situation. Just because the possibility legally exists already means that you're taking this into account when calculating risk.

Also, EU tax-law is one of the reasons that small digital businesses have suffered in recent years. The VAT fiasco was very poorly handled and it's still ongoing.
I'm sorry you're being downvoted, but this is the case for the vast majority of people. There are probably a variety of interventions you can try: therapy, meditative practice, adjustments to diet and exercise habits, and dietary supplements.
A developer wouldn’t have to install malware. A developer could create malware. Even if you have all of your deployments automated, any developer worth anything could sneak malicious code into the process.
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He just summarized general anxiety of new smart technologies that replace human. It's not about AI that smarter than human, AI is just part of it.
> I'm fully behind the GDPR. It might not be perfect, but I've read the law and it's surprisingly straightforward and sane.

Why is it sane to assume data I've sent to a service is my data to control?
> 15 months sounds excessive, but the fact the software could be downloaded by customers for free is not a mitigating factor in a guy attempting to make a profit making it look as much as possible like a paid for product sold by Dell/Microsoft...

I don't know if I would call it 'trying to make profit' when you make CDs in China, ship them to US and sell the CDs for 25 cent a piece.

According to himself he made no money off of this both because no one wanted to buy the CDs and the price didn't really allow for profit.
There's not many coal miners, don't worry about that. 50000 in usa, just pay them all to not work.
Try reading Buffett's Annual reports, you might like them.
Downvoted? Why? By people who defend the sovereign right to carry out war crimes?
But that's part of it: it's better to be safe than sorry. Having comments on your blog has very marginal benefits for you, but if you feel the risk is large, then just delete them. No single blog losing comments matters much, but in aggregate it can be a shift in culture to less discussion.
A few reasons, but the major one is the lack of money interested in actually doing something about pulling the CO2 out of the atmosphere.

I actually worked on a solution for the money problem too (I got a bit obsessed with doing something about climate change back in 2007). This I have written about if anyone is interested [0].

0. https://www.tillett.info/2015/12/13/preventing-global-climat...
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Bezos' role is to get everyone working toward the same vision. Stories go a long way toward articulating that vision. If you can write well (in your native language), it is typically a sign you can reason well.

Leaders who can't write well are also interesting. There is almost a cliche about dyslexic type-A personalities, where the adapted skill of misdirecting people from your reading and writing ability as a kid manifests as a glad handing sales and dealmaker personality later on.

Just as someone who doesn't write well probably doesn't reason too abstractly either, someone who writes exceptionally well can often be considered too intellectual and theoretical to lead, or lacking in the required adaptability and spontaneity.

It's great that this super-CEO can write, but it's also a signal that the company is still run by a technocrat, and that it is not mature and autonomous enough as a business to be operated by a mere chief dealmaker.
I find gallon and cubic feet to be on the same level hogsheads and cubic cubits in terms of applicability and usage. There's no trouble visualising a volume unit like a litre, particularly if you're used to working with such quantities. It is tough visualising unit that have no traction outside of one metrically-solopsist region though.

Also a "football field" isn't constant between football codes (Canadian, Association, Gaelic, Australian, American, etc.) nor even between different grounds in some cases. Not a great unit.
Water guns are far more dangerous than shotguns given the things you can put into them.
Because those "pennies" can and do matter when your monthly income is 500 euros otherwise.
It's great if it works, but there are many cases where you can't just take a Docker container and apply it to work in Singularity.

I even found this Blog Post this morning that went into some of it.

https://www.sylabs.io/2018/04/singularity-compatibility-with...
His point is we know how to keep a large part of the global population constantly touching their devices like well programmed guinea pigs the whole day, negatively effecting themselves and society in uncountable ways yet postively effecting our share price. Please protect us to exit the loop or we get lynched one way of the other by customers or shareholders!
Human carbon release rate is unprecedented in the past 66 million years of Earth's history [2016]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321123656.h...

Otherwise, I can't imagine what point you're trying to make.
> I've always felt that git is poorly designed for that reason. At the very least, there should be an "identity block" that commits etc point into, rather than embedding names, emails, and other identity information into immutable commits.

Misuse of git isn't a problem inherent to git.
It sounds like you are in the dip. See Seth Godin's book on this subject.

https://www.amazon.ca/dip-Seth-Godin/dp/1591841666

I was in a very similar situation for one of my startups, a Shopify clone. We grew it to 50+ paying customers but stalled.

I ended up giving up all my shares to the other founders and taking a 2 year trip to Asia. The company managed to survive and was sold.

I don't regret it. Move on, if the team is good, you will reconnect and build something even better eventually.
...unless you are using GNU/Linux (there are no 'secret chats' here).
That's the kind of thing that I feel "modern" times forgot. Tech allows for toying, so people optimize that thinking it's better when it's actually very very very relative.

I do believe part of my appreciation for that is due to nostalgia imprinted in my brain. But it's not all. There's a form of simplicity/intent ratio that is higher in older times. You didn't artificially inflate everything to make them pop more, you just let them emerge slowly.
If a well know VC is interested in your company and resorted to underhanded tactics to get your customer list you must be doing something right.

Lesson learned, you will not make that mistake again.

Move on and continue building and innovating.
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The problem is what happens if a legal firm or an agency targets you. Even if you adhered to the spirit of the law, they can dig up evidence that you didn't obey the letter of the law (since GDPR is quite loose and ambiguous).

They don't even need to dig up any possible violations - just the legal process alone is enough to kill any side project.

Or, "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride." For a small company or individual, even winning a GDPR case will be a Pyrrhic victory.
"He knew this, even in the horror with which he started from his first sleep, and threw up the window to dispel it by the presence of some object, beyond the room, which had not been, as it were, the witness of his dream." Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1840)

"Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning." Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote (1615)

"And at the wakening of your first sleepe You shall have a hott drinke made, And at the wakening of your next sleepe Your sorrowes will have a slake." Early English ballad, Old Robin of Portingale

The Tiv tribe in Nigeria employ the terms "first sleep" and "second sleep" to refer to specific periods of the night

Taken from (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783). The article references "At Day's Close", sure, but it also references many other sources.
I think if the goal is to be smarter than anything else the goal is already hopelessly failed to a bias. The goal is to achieve originality first. Smarter is something that can be qualified later.
Imagine you get that very feature during some interview and the feedback you get is that you failed :DDD Reminds me when I created a few jokes as a kid that got nation-wide popularity; it was difficult to explain I made them from the scratch and the only thing those attempts gave me was to be marked as an "asshole" and "liar" :D
There is none. Science is discovering what is possible. Technology is changing something from possible to doable. Once the possibility of something is made clear (if not the exact path toward it - the do-ability), people will start rushing for it - if only out of fear that someone else might have it while they themselves do not.

At least nuclear technology has the downside of being very expensive and large-scale (so few players) to produce, and being pretty obvious when it's actually used. Other things that are becoming increasingly possible (but still not doable) - like modified viruses that only target people with a specific DNA profile - will be a lot easier to hide, both their production and their usage. Same thing with AI.
So I assume then that FreeBSD has the perfect architecture, uses the perfect language and it's bug tracker is still empty waiting for the first bug to be opened?
Why not just move all the servers off the EU and reincorporate?
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You mean a world where women can decide what to do with their own bodies? You are advocating for a world where we have to take care of the poor downtrodden woman who just doesn't know any better. Instead of realizing that she likely knows her own needs much better than you do.

Perhaps it is the best way for her to get ahead and escape her current situation. People do it anyway and now they have almost no recourse when they are being manipulated. If it were legal, women would actually have more power in the situation.
According to what he says himself in an interview he was selling the CDs 25 cent a piece after paying for production in China and shipping to the US. I don't think you can get much meaningful profit from that.
Sometimes I wonder is there new research in the world of advertising and AI?

Tracking clicks via heatmaps, pageviews etc has been done for ages. So, has AI/ML provided better ways to convert those ads?
Debt possibly. I personally knew a few people that would spend money they don't have just to show off IRL before social media was a thing, and I can see doing it to a larger audience being much more efficient.
I'm working on GDPR compliance at the moment, as are many of my friends here in the UK. Even people in non-IT jobs have been involved or had training, so awareness is high.

The figures cited above are correct, but the consensus from people I've spoken to is that the maximum fines would only be for the most serious breach. It's hard to imagine a small non-profit being fined €20 million. That said, people are taking it seriously.

I can't help wondering if the owner of Streetlend has just decided it's not worth maintaining at a loss anymore and decided to take a swipe at GDPR. I can't know that of course. However what seems fairly inevitable is that technical, commercial and legal changes will come along now and then and it takes real work to adapt. I don't know of any company/organisation that is motivated to keep running but didn't try to comply with GDPR.
No one said that CO2 level increases are irreversible. Just that they're pretty much irreversible on the required time scales.
This first portion is known as Betteridge's law of headlines[0]. I don't have a source for the corollary.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%
"While I'm not certain that CO2 is the primary driver of climate change..."

The alternatives being methane, increased albedo, loss of biomass...?
Are these checklists updated?

The "Web Developer Checklist" was 5 years ago.

And the "quick website launch checklist" was 7 years.
``So one way to solve X is precisely to not make a big deal of it, and remove the anxiety component.``
Weight gain? Cancer? School shootings? Climate Change? Air Pollution?
Worrying all about that bad stuff is counter-productive and causes stress which makes it worse...
With this genius method they all can be solved by removing the 'anxiety component'(also known as reality), therefore making the problem go away..eventually, you just need to stop caring about the problem!
dot.tk has a melange of different free domains.

Hard to beat free.
Facebook don't sell data they sell access to customers based on data. Thats a very important distinction.
Heavy use of templates does that to you :(.
> [...] there is a big group of tech people that have no interest in dealing with legal matters more than the bare minimum, and overall deem them risky.

Then maybe those people shouldn't be opening side businesses? Running a business implies having to deal with business matters which include legal.

For example in Switzerland if I want to open a small cafe in the corner selling home made cheesecake, I'll have to first figure out what the exact regulations in my state are, obtain a permit for opening one, create a "Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points" concept and send it to the authorities, make somewhat sure I get accounting right, maybe getting a permit for infrastructure changes, etc.

I'm not talking about GDPR especially because I don't know enough about it yet. And in general I am sceptical of laws and regulations that don't seem absolutely necessary.

What I don't get is why anyone should care that some tech people running a business don't want do deal with legal like everyone else? What makes us so special?
> delete: delete from....

Ah yes, and then all of my data has holes in it that I need to deal with. "Hmm, we only have 5 orders for this, but we're missing 6". "hmmm, we charged this credit card, but there's no order for it and I'm not sure if we ever shipped anything?" "hmmm, how do I delete this tracking number from the postal systems' records?"
That sort of depends if you were complying with the UK Data Protection Act (1998), or any of the other European acts stemming from the 1995 directive, already. GDPR is only an incremental step from there. It would appear that lots of people considered the DPA as optional, yes GDPR is quite a bit of work for them.
Why? What I gathered from reading the article is that superior hardware is around the corner. I suspect the unstated conclusion in that is that faster computation will enable the rise of AI. That very well may be, but you still need to create AI regardless.
What method did you use to get your first job?
True. I'm thankful that Europe was nice enough to give my American company a strategic advantage over their own by complicating their taxes.
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How have Google and Facebook abused users data?

Users have been giving away data to google and facebook to use their services. What exactly do you mean have been abused about that.
Maybe we should start with solving OCR, before taking on artificial intelligence. OK, we have self driving cars, but they can't actually read road signs.
If you have an email address you can give users for privacy requests and a promised turnaround time (we will respond to all privacy messages in 7 days) you're OK.
There are improved models for segmenting customers, predicting next best actions etc. It's also a lot easier to run them now (e.g. handling terabytes of data isn't difficult, petabytes is increasingly common)

So it's improved a bit but not much more. The people selling this stuff are marketeers selling to other marketeers, so the sales pitches are getting better and better for sure.
An Olympic sized swimming pool is 2.5MM liters. That's roughly 660,000 gallons. So it's actually ~10 Olympic sized pools.
There are no profits from 'printing' money. Those are simply the profits of being a bank.

There are lots of regulation we should change about how banks work, but this proposal isn't one of them.
I’ve never clicked on a single billboard, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from destroying the view.
Not very good click bait as it’s clear from the headline the HN comments will be better than the article, so I usually skip the article and read the comments. :)
There are, but few of them are one man operations like me. There will be even less one person startups (or none) now.

The compliance tax burden for American companies varies by state. I'm lucky to live in one that isn't onerous.

Luck is a factor when starting a business, but regulatory capture is a bad kind of luck.
A preprint, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/24/167577
Not sure if clever satire.
Congratulations (btw, I really like the guy explaining it)! Now you should probably understand the need for it and why multiple clones are going to start to pop out around the world, not to mention that you know more about GDPR than 99% of people beeing negative about it.

Guilty... is really not something special, IRS anyone? ;) Did you catch something else? Something useful maybe? About borrowing a car for instance? :)

The GDPR is actually late, I have a few IoT devices and I verify them by isolating them on network and sniff out communication (mitm on wifi and old school 10 port hub (yeah, the one screaming everything to all ports) for wired. It is a sad sight, even if they have absolutely no need to contact outside servers (I would never have a device like Siri in my home) they still do, another case would be broadcom drivers on android calling home. Someone has to stop this madness.

I know a lot of people are pissed off due to GDPR, but I will gladly ask them again in 10 years. I think they will change their mind.
It's like 12 seconds of Niagara Falls (in tourist mode).