skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I don't see free will in a completely random universe OR a completely deterministic universe. In either case, something you have no control over is governing your behavior.
As with anything there is obviously some debate and disagreement. But growing inequality is basically the result of capital's share of income being higher than labor's share for the past several decades. When you look at where these consistent outsized returns for the wealthy are coming from, it turns out it's mostly housing [0].

You bring up a point about how can this be causing inequality across the nation. Well if you think about it there really isn't consistent inequality across the nation, wealthy people by and large tend to live in or around big expensive cities, where their returns are consistently driven higher than they would otherwise be thanks to housing prices. It's not only NY and SF that have housing issues, it's more pronounced in these places but lots of cities across the country are seeing housing costs increase quickly.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/deciphering-the-fall...
One person died from that accident. There are now at least 4 deaths where Tesla's autopilot was involved (most of the deaths in China don't get much publicity, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are more). And the statistics do not back up your claim that Tesla is safer (despite their attempts to spin it that way).
I would be really interested what you did with your kids'(if you have any) education.

Tell us what you practiced.
That ad is just deliberately deceptive. Not dishonest, it's misleading, and quite some work has been put in the wording, because it's nothing that anyone would ever say in a serious manner. Hardware alone has nothing to do with it, and anyone who's ever done some relevant bit of engineering understands that. If I shove four DSP boards and a laptop in my trunk, then hook them to the CAN bus and to four LIDAR sensors, my car would also have hardware that's fully capable of safe self-driving.

That's one level past dishonest. Honest advertising would just be "none of our cars have full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver".

But this is on another level. Have they ever actually ran software that does, indeed, have this capability? Or do they have a detailed enough specification of that software, so that they can verify that it will, indeed, run on that hardware once it's written?

It's probably a safe bet that they haven't, and they don't, and in fact there is no way to verify that the hardware is in fact capable of running such software. This is likely a good engineering bet (i.e. the hardware is probably enough to support their current software approach, and they'll hit the software's limitations before they hit the hardware's), but advertising engineering bets as safety-related selling points is really irresponsible. Bet with your own money all you want, but not with people's lives.
I think that consciousness is a collection of experiences and observations ('data'), nothing more. I am curious what lead you here:

> Caring about one's existence (or even having the notion of a self) isn't something that comes about from crunching large data sets. ML isn't going to result in existential feelings or consciousness.

My opinion is that 'consciousness' by the human definition will be a spontaneous and emergent property, when the computers become complex enough.

(and also: No, IBM is not there yet, lol!)
Suggesting that people and companies are independently and collectively spending 1 trillion dollars for zero results without any form of verification is absurd.

But, if you really want to go there. Plenty of companies only advertise online and 'magically' end up making money selling real products to real people.
My guess is that, in the spirit of all Ethereum Crapcoins, it's been coded with minimum attention to security and maximum attention to marketing.
What about "safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver" being the keyword?

Isn't Tesla's autopilot doing better than humans do in the same number of miles? We just all hear about it every time a Tesla is in a crash. If we heard about every human driver car accident, it would be overwhelming.

edit:

from this article: https://electrek.co/2018/03/30/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-d...

In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware. If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.
In this situation, I do wonder if the AI's (there will be many) will determine the best path is to fight for dominance or negotiate peace with other AI's.
Here are my 3 recent favorites:

Never Split the Difference, its about how to negotiate in life

The Pyramid Principle for learning how to structure your ideas and write logically.

Getting Things Done, the 2001 version on how to apply a simple workflow to managing all the tasks you have both personal and professional.
IE, unlimited data plans where unlimited is defined as de-prioritized after X GB per billing month.
I strongly agree. I'd like to see more honest conversation about the problems people face when building a business. I'd like to see more honesty about failure. I'd also like to see more transparency about the amount of personal conflict that tends to come up when building a business. This sums up my views:

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Recently, I exchanged some email with my friend Colin Steele, currently CTO of TypeZero and formerly CTO of RoomKey.com. We discussed another startup that had failed, and he wrote:

It’s sad and disheartening. I think few people understand how amazingly difficult it is to start a new business, and run it successfully. Drama, people, and personalities, seem to have an outsized role in how these things crash and burn. There needs to be some codification of best internal practices for creating startups, like Steve Blank’s book “4 Steps To The Epiphany,” but for the culture; a co-routine that runs alongside “customer development” — call it “culture development” or something.

I agree wholeheartedly, and would also add that more public discussion of the difficulties would help startup culture. I would make an analogy to the history of divorce in the United States. The divorce rate rose for much of the twentieth century, and it peaked in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then there has been more public discussion about what makes marriages strong. You can see the trend reflected on television shows: neither Leave It To Beaver nor the Brady Bunch mentioned the difficulties of marriage, and that was the era when the divorce rate was rising the most. Modern sitcoms talk endlessly about the difficulties of marriage. Couples still face drama and conflict and personality, but the public discussion seems to have granted people the vocabulary they need to address their problems, and the divorce rate has come down. Popular awareness helps. At the very least, books and movies can help explore the important reality that startups are not easy.

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
There is a sample stream which is supposed to be 1%, but then the keyword based filter streams are also theoretically up to 1% of tweets. You can setup streams for different words and broaden your coverage.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime...
That's unsustainable.
What do you mean by "not explained"? We sort of know how they work. The only arguments against that are mostly philosophical.
> more than happy to watch everyone else in the country dismiss it and look for the negative statistics

It's funny - this is exactly the opposite of how I feel about Detroit. I'm enormously skeptical of these turnaround stories, but it's not at all because I want the place to fail.

I grew up in a less-famous part of the rust belt, which like Detroit has been losing population since 1950. I've been hearing about the coming revitalization since I was 10, but without exception the result has been a huge, unrewarding investment to create one new shopping complex or clean up and develop a yuppie-friendly block of apartments and restaurants. It's an approach that gentrified Hell's Kitchen and the Combat Zone, but it's a complete loss without a desirable city encircling the spot under development.

I don't just want Detroit to succeed for it's own sake, although that's obviously a big deal to a lot of people. I want Detroit to be a flagship for Cleveland and Gary and Buffalo and Pittsburgh and all the other places that never seem to make good on their potential. And in the long run, for Japan, Serbia, Ukraine, and so on. This isn't a unique problem, and we need a plan for healthy shrinking of cities and countries.

I want so badly for Detroit to succeed. The downtown revitalizations are admirable, Hantz Woodlands is one of the coolest urban design projects I've seen in years, there's so much being tried. But when I read an article about how Detroit is reviving because housing prices are high, and the real turnaround will come when the population starts growing again? It sounds like my hometown, all willful blindness and attempts to dive straight back into the broken development patterns that got us here in the first place.

We need something better than that.
Great insights about improving the rust compiler performance! What else would you do to speed it up?
Can Handwriting Be Copyrighted?
Not only that but literally everyone in that region is already using that water.

Somehow this is punishment for the iphone. You can't just casually cause hundreds or thousands of suicides or whatever it was, for your stupid first world luxury toys, and not expect to suffer some kind of karma backlash.
To clarify, the people working by staring at computers are also seen as a cost to be repressed and not a service to be rewarded. Supply and demand has made the cost resistant to repression up til now, but the economic system is hard at work finding out how to change that.

One might even go so far as to postulate if the IT industries push to get more people into IT is so that labor supply goes up leading to labor costs going down.
>And if you refer to software that is for free as "free software", expect to be misundertood.

1. For the majority of the population, I will not be misunderstood. Only confusing for a certain crowd (FSF advocates). But that's a hole they dug themselves into, so my sympathies are wanting.

2. Let's be frank: Your statement applies more to people who use it the way you prefer, as opposed to my usage. If it weren't the case, then I wouldn't encounter so many people all over the Internet going out of their way to point out pseudo-clarifications.

Don't get me wrong - I'm an advocate of what you call free software, and am even a fan of the GPL. That doesn't mean I'll buy everything they push.
The idea of finding ways to make animal food products without the moral issues and environmental impact is pretty interesting.

But there’s a much simpler way to avoid the moral issues and environmental impact of eating animals and animal products... eat vegetarian foods. Or simply, make a larger proportion of your diet vegetarian.

And don’t waste time trying to simulate animal products (veggie burgers, faux-turkey, etc.) It’ll never measure up in the end and distract from the really good and tasty vegetarian (or mostly vegetarian) stuff.
firic: "[I'm ok with other people subsidizing my believe that ethical, two party consent should be imprisoned]"
Serious question: is there any reason dead code detection would be any faster at the syntax level than the generated code? I mean, I'm no compiler expert but in a straightforward SSA representation "dead code" is just a register that gets assigned but never used, all of which can be detected and dropped globally with just one pass over the data.

I suspect the real reason is going to turn out more complicated, no? Like, the code is really "dead" yet because we can't know if it will be used later without solving the halting problem.

Which, if you think about it, is pretty much exactly the situation C++ is in. All those expanded templates aren't "dead" yet at the point of expansion either, you just don't know if the code will use them. And in practice it won't, so you wasted a ton of cycles to find that out.
Lovely, I've always wanted to do something similar.
Some species of animals use celestial features to navigate or coordinate mating behavior. I think the most notable are sea turtles, whose hatchlings may be confused by artificial lights.

Somnologists also care about light pollution, particularly the colors. One hypothesis is that artificial lighting interferes with health sleep patterns and behaviors.

Bombardiers on nighttime missions do like to have lighted targets to aim at.

...it's not an issue that motivates many people, no.
If you’re compiling C++, chances are clang isn’t the one to blame. C++ can be inherently slow to compile, depending on the project.
Firehouse data is not the complete stream. It states this in their docs. It's curated.
They went to public schools where ever we lived.
They are not wrong though... Does Trump deserve a Nobel prize? No. However, I do not believe that Obama deserved a Nobel either.
Nothing's really changed with that recently. Still using a fork (though less divergent than it has been?), but it also builds fine with upstream.
It's a pretty open secret in the community that what IBM pitches that Watson can do, versus what it (or any state of the art system) really does is pretty much bunk. This author calls it fraud, but a more charitable interpretation would be extreme marketing. We've seen a lot of failures with Watson, particularly in the medical space - MD Anderson's Cancer work for example (https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/02/19/md-and...) where MD Anderson payed around $40 million (on a original contract deal somewhere near $4 million) and eventually abandoned it.

I do think Watson may be a fake it until you make it thing - in particular, they still have access to a incredible amount of data, and data determines destiny on a lot of AI.
That is just USA. Then we need to get China, India and Russia on board...
A clean build may take minutes, but with a good build system like cmake or meson with a ninja backend, it should be a rare occurrence.
It's not really about liability, but whether it's warranted to object. You can say whatever you want, but you can't expect others to not say what they want back unless what you are saying is measured. Objecting to what other people are saying isn't stifling of free speech, it is free speech itself.
Data Science Projects at Windfall
If the puddle is the sea and no one throws you a line and lets you drown what are you then?
FWIW, a not-quite-full moon can be visible in full daylight (late afternoon in summer) even in a major metro area (I've seen it in NYC). The key is that you can only see it if it's separated from the sun by a large angle.
The relevant PG essay on submarines: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The problem is that even internally, there is this notion of "sprinkling a little Watson to do the hard jobs" and then 'poof': problem solved. Marketing reflects internally, too.
Self driving cars that can dependably not run into things or people do not exist.
In a similar vein, I find a machine beating a grand master fairly boring. Show me a machine that can teach someone to become a master (or even a very good amateur) and we can talk.

That is, don’t beat the game, beat the opponent, understand why, and then model an adaptation strategy for the opponent (teach).
It’s a little more subtle than that AIUI - they’re only personal if you have a way of linking them to a user. E.g. if someone logs in with an email and you record that with the IP, or if you’re an ISP. I don’t think the IP is personal if you are just hosting a static site say.
I think you're being a bit dismissive of the PR departments of major companies who are paid big bucks specifically to be able to effectively communicate concepts around where the business is heading in an appropriate voice. Maybe Bezos has no intention of letting them anywhere near his shareholder messages, but they're certainly capable of emulating his style and communicating his bullet points for next year if they were asked to. Probably nobody has enjoyed more success as a result of distinctive writing about business than the media-friendly "business guru" turned POTUS, and he outsourced most of his published musings on business (which obviously don't particularly resemble Bezos' FWIW) to a journalist who didn't even like him.

Sure, I very much doubt Bezos outsourced writing in the late nineties, and he might write every single word now. My point was more that writing is probably the most replaceable part of his skillset, and he probably didn't even need to write well (or without assistance) at all to succeed. And many business bloggers who are not even trying to emulate what Bezos does or not succeeding can communicate about markets and business principles
Given that some of the usecases are to print books, and that this internally uses HTML and CSS< would there be an officially supported way to publish ePubs?
This title is misleading. By saying “Twitter also sold data access...” it implies that Facebook sold him data access. This of course is not the case. Facebook didn’t sell him anything, he produced an app and abused the platform.
Soylent is sold at Walmart now, so it seems they’re still around. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Soylent-Meal-Replacement-Drink-Ca...
>But do you seriously believe that the most successful founders' comments are represented in news.yc?

No, that's why I commented about how it was possible the community has diverged greatly from the incubator. I don't know what the overall principles of the majority of commenters/founders are, but I think the fact that the quote is (still) the first/most upvoted response in this thread hints that it's probably not an abnormal view of the community.
You're missing the qualifier of "production ready". While I'd argue that Ada was indeed "production ready" language wise, I'd say that it's not with respect to libraries, of which, OSS contributes a whole bunch.

For some people, a good library selection is essential to being "production ready".
Nvidia Tesla V100 on Google Cloud Platform
IBM hasn't been about the hardware for a long time, instead it has been about the consulting services contract. And when we, as a startup, first engaged with the Watson folks it was clearly a sales funnel for their consulting services.

That said, IBM has a tremendous amount of research they have done in AI over the years. It is not that they don't have a lot of interesting technology they can throw at different business problems, it seems like they are having a hard time getting invited to the party if they don't track the same hype buzz that the current ML/AI craze has embraced.
The problem is that all of this AI and ML is being used to target Ads better. You don't need AI and ML to do this, it is a solution looking for a problem.

Your example about routine elevator maintenance does't need AI at all. Whoever logs the elevator maintenance can just press a button to send a notification message. Hell, it can be wired up such that when you submit a notification notice, it automatically sends an email. They probably have condo management software that does this already.
Sounds like BS. Of course you indirectly observe consciousness, and ML and neural nets in particular are pretty good rough models of it.
Since shell languages invariably end up becoming scripting languages

We need to start paying attention to this phenomenon.
> But which will evolve faster in the future ?

Are you comparing Chrome and LaTeX? Chrome is certainly evolving faster overall, but features related to PDF printing have not changed much, or any at all.
Actually looks super useful, nice work!
People are moving from Ann Arbor to Detroit, really?
> The point is that there is more to consider than that one specific measurement.

So what are the other measurements to consider?
That rand.Shuffle interface looks pretty nice; why wasn't that used for sort?
oh, please.

if luck causes everything, we might as well call it circumstance.

as luck would have it, I thought the article was total garbage... it raises no questions and offers no valuable insights beyond: historic circumstances exist.
This should be renamed. Garbage ETH tokens are not cryptocurrency they are 'shittokens'.

This is 'Create your own (crap)token in 3 mins'. Not that its actually this hard -- copy paste ERC20 (and use a better version than this junk, maybe try SafeMath?).
Sorry, idk. I just went that route and then was like well, maybe this time I should simply return and rethink the choice of a language. Didn’t do much credit to an engineer, but honestly, I didn’t feel myself a mess cleaner that day.
Interesting project! Can this be used to potentially include JavaScript in resulting PDF files and use them to animate images in the PDF?

This would be useful for some presentations I think.
> Everyone in America doesn't want to stare at a computer, drink $5 latte's, and eat farm to table food.

From looking at my FB feed, I've mostly surmised that computer gaming is largely a passtime for people with blue collar lives.

So you're wrong on one of these.

And FWIW, even though I'm at ground zero for Boston's hipster influx, I'm still a short walk from a lot of places where you can drink cheap beer and yell at a TV showing sportsball.
For anyone interested in the technical side of things: the cubes are made of 3D printed full color sandstone and manufactured by Shapeways. This is way overkill but the resulting cubes are honestly really cool. Plus it's pretty neat that you can set up an almost completely automated store selling custom products with zero upfront investment
An alternative point of view would be that lab-grown 'animal' products and factory-farmed animal products alike are dehumanising, and that people should kill & butcher their own meat.

I'm a huntsman, and I can report that I feel most like I'm being true to my natural self when I'm stalking birds across a prairie. It's a communal effort: my friends are arrayed in a line to either side of me, and often we have a dog or two running back and forth before us. Each of us helps & supports the others, driving through the field, helping cross fencelines, contributing thoughts on how best to approach a particular stretch of land. And yet it's also intensely individualistic: you walk forward, gun in hand, eye halfway to the horizon & ears tuned to a few yards ahead, ready for the rustle which indicates there's a bird in the brush.

You think — or at least I think — that this must be how our primitive ancestors felt: together, and yet apart, each doing his own best and each supporting the others in the common cause of getting something to eat.

Compared to that, buying a piece of meat or a piece of pseudo-meat in the supermarket is nothing.
I love that book. Short anecdote: back in 2006 I was lucky to get an early copy through a high-flying management consultant. The book basically rips into everything that is wrong with management consulting — but for some reason this person was completely unaffected by this book and kept praising it. After talking for a few minutes, it dawned on me: this person hasn’t read the book! ha ha.

Anyway after reading the book I thought phil rosenzweig was a genius and this book ought to be more popular.
Clang has a profiler for why your C++ compiles slow. Last I saw templates were not responsible for much in a typical codebase.

For Rust, though, the answer is obvious - the borrow checker. The language is designed around the idea of the compiler proving whether or not the code is safe and inserting appropriate destructors where they should be. I think it's expected that this will be slower than a language that just doesn't do that.