skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think parent meant “rent a living space” far away cheaply, rather than renting a plane.
You are seeing it wrong. Many of hose marketing companies are selling to European advertisers. So of course they have paid European customers. I am their product, and what they do with my data is illegal.

How they'll be fined is another matter, of course. But let me say that as a EU citizen, I would not dare violate US law in any mayor way. And they do mention GDPR in their privacy statement (even if they lie about compliance) which is hopeful.
The previous AI winters were funded by speculative investments (both public research and industry) with the expectation that this might result in profitable technologies. And this didn't happen - yes, "the other previous AI which experience AI Winter (expert system, and whatever else) didn't produce useful enough technologies to have funding", the technologies developed didn't work sufficiently well to have widespread adoption in the industry; there were some use cases but the conclusion was "useful in theory but not in practice".

The current difference is that the technologies are actually useful right now. It's not about promised or expected technologies of tomorrow, but about what we have already researched, about known capabilities that need implementation, adoption, and lots of development work to apply it in lots and lots of particular use cases. If the core research hits a dead end tomorrow and stops producing any meaningful progress for the next 10 or 20 years, the obvious applications of neural-networks-as-we're-teaching-them-in-2018 work sufficiently well and are useful enough to deploy them in all kinds of industrial applications, and the demand is sufficient to employ every current ML practitioner and student even in absence of basic research funding, so a slump is not plausible.
You realize PDP-8/i was made in sixties? and would be happy to run Intel 8088 microcode if programmed correctly?
Agree, if you are not actively driving, your attention, and therefore reaction time, will inevitably deteriorate. In addition to that your reaction time is further reduced by the fact that even if you anticipated a problem looking at the road, you need to wait long enough after when you expected the car to react before realising that the car didn’t react and you need to take over, which further reduces your reaction time. Which is why I have some sympathy for the drivers of experimental self driving cars. Doesn’t excuse them playing with their smartphone at the wheel but they are tasked with a really hard exercise while being legally liable if things go wrong.
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Highly related: https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet

“(Going to be) A microkernel that implements a WebAssembly "usermode" that runs in Ring 0.”

It’s inspired by the Microsoft experiment Singularity OS.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is great. Walter Benjamin explored some related ideas in essay form in 1935, link below. There's probably some Platonic dialogues about related topics 2,300 years before both though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
I think he can see it, but the first seriously solid entrant into the space is going to have a huge advantage and so that drives their interest in Autopilot.

Eventually, you're not marketing to consumers but to fleet owners.

Outside of that, he's in the grey area where he can build product excitement and fall back onto the "Keep your hands on the wheel" type of fineprint. I agree with those saying that it's far from ideal.
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>Source ? This, to me, seems unlikely in the extreme. I mean this is strict enough that even I would agree they would regularly shoot themselves in the foot with such a policy.

General guidance policy and numerous court cases. Not all footage is 24 hours, most is however. Some exceptions go for 48 hours. [http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/list/2010/http://www.polize...]

Video surveillance, especially when in public spaces, is frowned upon and there is a long rat tail of court cases.

The law is very strict in when, what, who and how long video surveillance is allowed, including the 24 hour limits, though in case a crime is suspected the footage can be kept for 14 days until a crime is confirmed. [https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?anw_nr=2&gld_nr=2&u...]

>we both know the truth is that (some) EU cops simply get away with it.

Generally, they are reprimanded or even punished when such behaviour is discovered as it is a violation of various laws, including privacy.

>How else will you sue the police if it wasn't reasonable at all ? How will abuses be discovered ?

Generally, any evidence the police brings up in a court case requires that the police has an explanation on how they got to that evidence. That may have been illegal, in which case a second case might be brought up and the involved officers will be punished.

However, unless the evidence they collected is wrong due to the surveillance (the bar is very low on the police being guilty of forcing you to commit a crime), the evidence will be used regardless (a few edgecases but generally evidence is not poisoned if gained by wrong means like in the US IIRC).

>I doubt it's the only one. Call me when they change the law back so they can't legally do this

Already is, which is in part why the BND stopped this too.

The bar is high for someone tapping the phone or otherwise doing remote communication surveillance, [GzBBPF, Section 1, 2, 4 and 7]. Unless there is a very strong suspicious that you commited treason or commited a federal crime and there is absolutely no other way to prove you did it, they can't legally tap the phone.
I posted this a few days ago, but it bears repeating;

If insurance companies and employers use that information (as well as creditors) it become subject to the FCRA; as well as subject to state, local, and federal laws about lending, insurance underwriting, and employment. This information merely existing (for advertising purposes) doesn't suddenly make it legal to use it in specifically illegal ways.

For example, it's a standard practice to use a person's credit history and credit score during insurance underwriting - data shows people who are responsible with credit have less claims, so they have lower premiums. However, say you live in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts it's illegal for insurance companies to take your credit history and credit score into account when determining policy premiums. So insurance companies are not allowed to access your credit if you live in Massachusetts even though that information is widely available and used in other states.
At the end of the day the front-end is heavily tied to the visual design of the site. When the visual design changes drastically it makes sense to throw out the tightly coupled logic with it, and so front-end work is more ephemeral.

In this environment there is no incentive to make things last long term. Frameworks can make breaking changes version to version, and websites may change their technology completely in each iteration. It doesn't matter because you will just throw it out in relatively short periods of time.
The top post was talking about interstellar travel, not living on a planet.
> IANAL

I'm not here to judge. What you choose to do in your own time is none of our business :)
I think it's the start of something wonderful...
I only read about it something like 10 years ago, when lab-grown started to appear, and they already had the problem of being too pure. Making diamonds with impurities seems to be more costly than making them pure.

What may fool your intuition is that the process is not about refining, it is about growing a crystal. IIRC, the vaporize carbon in a very controlled atmosphere and let it grow.

Natural processes are much more messy and are made in the presence of a lot of other chemicals that need to be artificially introduced in the crystal growing atmosphere for it to be integrated.
Exactly, and I saw that when the Andromeda Galaxy collides with ours, it's unlikely many planets/systems will be colliding with one another.
Tesla advertises their cars as having full self driving... hardware. Even if this is true[1], it's pretty misleading to advertise their cars as having "full self driving capability" because they have the _hardware_ for it. The problem is clearly that the software isn't ready yet.

[1] I think it's pretty debatable, and as far as I know it's still something of an open question to determine the minimum amount of hardware required for a fully autonomous car
> You see, when you make any argument, you always omit the infinite number of things that don't support it and focus on the few things that do.

No. When I make an argument, I try to omit the infinite number of things I think are unlikely to be important, and focus on the few things that I think are most important whether they support my position or not.

Everyone's fallible, and I do my share of focusing too much on points that support my position over more important counter points, but I see that as a failing, not as the reasonable thing to do.
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This is so stupid, they are still infracting on European Citizens that just happen to not be in Europe. For example I can get to the page but I am in Switzerland which is not part of the EU yet smack in the middle of Europe.
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Open-source desktops are never perfect for anyone, but everyone expects them to be. For everyone who says they are too bloated, someone else says they are too spartan. That's probably why there are so many of them.

I would expect working on Gnome (or KDE or Cinnamon or Mate or XFCE or LXDE, the list goes on) to be a thankless task. You try to please everybody and yet please nobody. The imperfections of Linux desktops are more grating because of the knowledge that alternatives exist.

On Windows or Mac OS, you are stuck with the desktop you have, with little ability to do anything other than basic customizations. But people soldier on and get used to it because they have no choice.

I wonder whose users are truly more satisfied in the end.
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It takes one DIYer about 2-3 months to build CPU from scratch today. BMOW, Gigatron, Magic, a handful of 74 series TTL chips and some dedication is all you need.
>If time didn't exist, there wouldn't be a physical dimension for it, and everything would be at a fixed position in 3-dimensional space.

It's not necessarily the case. Maybe the universe is just an tangled graph of events. Maybe the dimensionality of spacetime only emerges as an asymptotic behavior of this graph and it breaks down in small scales. In this view time doesn't exist at a microscopic level.
Most places, where kidnappings happen often, have the same result: victims end up dead regardless of a paid ransom and not notifying police. The only place where most victims end up alive and unscathed once the victims' families pay the ransoms is the Philippines. Not totally sure why. Maybe it's because most of the kidnappers are professional soldiers instead of random gangs?
what about a large leaf?

it’s dangerous to stop in the middle of the road unexpectedly too
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Eh. This is reminding me of a law school friend bragging about how great lawyers are, giving the example of suing a firearms manufacturer for a 'faulty' safety. They'd done something insane, like pointing a loaded gun at a friend and pulling the trigger, thinking "haha the safety's on!" But lo and behold, the safety failed and someone was dead.

She was adamant that a safety was infallible, and any damage from failure was the manufacturer's responsibility. As someone who grew up with guns, I realized that only an idiot would put someone's life in the hands of a 'safety' mechanism.

If people have dumb, uninformed ideas about what words mean in context, they should probably educate themselves. Based on videos and articles I've seen, people are doing extremely stupid things that are clearly warned against by Tesla, like driving down a winding country road, or assuming it's going to somehow know about road work.
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Backseat drivers pay less attention than frontseat drivers, obviously.

Your characterization of autopilot as “just cruise control” is fundamentally incorrect. Mere cruise control still demands significant and continuous attention and manual control on your behalf (steering). Autosteer makes the leap to fully automatic, which opens the door to not paying attention for long stretches of time.
AI is already taking over humanity. The news you read, the products you buy, the advice you take, the friends you meet are all partially or fully supported by machine-learned algorithms.

Personally, I do not doubt AI-based methods are changing our language, our communication patterns and our transport infrastructure.

The problem with the statement "AI will take over humanity" is actually in:

- What exactly is AI? There are many definitions. Most researchers adopt the weakest forms, whereas the general public adopts the strongest form.

- What exactly is 'take-over'? Does this mean: in control? Like a dictator is in control over a country? Or: adopting us as slaves? As a gradual change, when does it 'take-over'? At 50%? Does this need to be a conscious action by an AI actor, or would an evolutionary transition suffice?

- What exactly is humanity? I would go for the definition: "the quality or state of being human", but most people probably read in it: "the human race". In the former case, technology is a part of the quality of being human. In Heideggerian fashion, we become the technology and the technology becomes us. Technology, and AI as part of it, has been taking over humanity since we started permanently adjusting our environments.
Well, it's not like anyone asked horse racing or poker enthusiasts if they're ready to sacrifice anything before their games were regulated.
Same question but more specific - what stops two teams from ganging up on the third? When I played 3SF with the "most goals wins" rule it quickly turned into "the two stronger teams take turns beating the weaker one" - I suspect that "fewest goals conceded" might help with that issue, but I've not considered it thoroughly enough to figure out if it solves it...
I believe this video of rsc explain some concerns about the Cargo's approach and lock file issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8nrpe0XWRg
The author is not credible - he posts almost every day and he doesn't understand half of it. It's just fluff.
> The real beauty of many stones is in the cut, not the base material.

If you can create the exact same rough/uncut synthetic diamond, and therefore can deterministically reproduce the same cut on each diamond, then the decision of how to cut that diamond becomes intellectual property and is potentially copywritable.

If de Beers really can't hold back the synthetic market, they'll find a way to take it over, and legally-enforced monopolies sure isn't a bad strategy.
I think for most people, the research interest in games of various sorts, is not simply a desire for a better and better game contraption, a better mousetrap. But rather the thinking is, "playing games takes intelligence, what can we learn about intelligence by building machines that play games?"

Most games are also closed systems, and conveniently grokkable systems, with enumerable search spaces. Which gives us easily produceable measures of the contraptions' abilities.

Whether this is the most effective path to understanding deeper questions about intelligence is an open question.

But I don't think it's fair to say that deeper questions and problems are being foregone simply to play games.

I think most 'games researchers' are pursuing these paths because they themselves and no one else has put forth any other suggestion that makes them think, "hmm, that's a really good idea, that seems like it might be viable and there is probably something interesting we could learn from it."

Do you have any suggestions?
Very impressive. But can you plug that to an alien space ship? independence day style.
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Sure, which is why I said we had no conclusive data. However, at the very least no red flags have popped up in the statistics. Think of it like flipping a coin 3 times and we got heads all three times. That is not nearly enough to judge whether the coin is fair, but we are probably getting close to concluding that the coin isn't weighted heavily in favor of tails. The sample size is still small but nothing in the statistics is screaming out that Autopilot is a big danger when compared with driving manually.
I have not enabled it for this reason. I suspect that Tesla might too otherwise they would probably just let people have a 1 month free trial of autopilot so people would pony up the cash.
I'd suggest flagging all articles posted here that prevent EU access. The content writers kinda have a right to deny you access, but we don't need to drive traffic in direction of those that refuse to handle your privacy well.
I guess there are reasons why researchers build chess programs: it is easy to compare performance between algorithms. When you can solve chess, you can solve a whole class of decision-making problems. Consider it as the perfect lab.
Strangely enough he didn’t speak at all about waymo self driving cars that are already hauling passengers without a safety driver. Given that he needs to hide the facts that go against his narrative I don’t really think that what he is convinced of will become reality.
I recently switched to Linux (from Windows 10 - forced upgrade took 45' in the middle of an extremely important moment)

Debian netinstall + Mate desktop (Gnome 2/3 extension?)

I expected to switch back within a week. Surprisingly, I love it. After a few tweaks and Nvidia drivers installed, it's way better than I expected. Super fast, minimal, and no annoyances.

Linux desktop really has improved in the last 20 years, since I last tried it.
Yeah this is a dumb article. Number of tweets by AndrewNg? Really? All those articles denying the reality of the revolution brought by AI have an emotional basis, but I don't understand what it is. Are they feeling threatened? Or is it an undergrad/early 20s thing, like a complete lack of understanding of the dynamics coupled with abnormally strong opinions?
Perhaps some major players in the programmatic ad clusterfuck have just thrown their hands up over GDPR.
Character encoding can be equally scary.
She has absolute evidence that she in fact suspects this.
It is being actively worked on, though: https://github.com/andlabs/libui/issues/310
Depends on the ambiguity. I would agree that they should remove the video unless they put a giant disclaimer on it right now.
How can Bayesian stuff be seen as a subset or superset of deep learning?
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> [..] regularly scheduled meeting time specifically to the UK or to the US

very funny things happen when there is a shared physical resource e.g. a booked meeting room, and you have a bunch of people schedule meetings with different reference time zones.

ah, and if you think this creates havoc only for a the few weeks while the TZs are out of sync, remember that in the southern hemisphere DST is applied in "reverse"
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I think servicebot does this kind of split pricing (?)
See: https://github.com/service-bot/servicebot
I'm pleasantly surprised this is used for good.
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> So not a big deal at all.

Er...a big problem that all JITted VMs share. For one, not permitted on iOS, and memory pressure from dirty pages is much bigger than from clean pages, exacerbated by the fact that they're not shared.
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My friends and I largely don't carry cash, and even though I typically carry a single 20 and a 100 dollar bill for emergencies, it's hard to split cash unless someone else can give you change, which requires them to carry a bunch of 5s 10s 1s (coins?).

Paypal fails like I said because of network effects. More people in my friend group have venmo than paypal (even though paypal owns both), so when it's time to pay, venmo is the default.

Nothing is inherently wrong with paypal, it's just that nobody in my group uses it. So, just plain old network effects.
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FTA it looks exactly like what you describe, a new model from a company already in the market. Is it disrupting the industry in a way that those of us less versed in the aircraft industry don't see?
>Also it got better than humans in those games from scratch in about 4 hours whereas humans have had 2000 years to study them so you can forgive it some resource usage.

Most humans don't live 2000 years. And realistically don't spend that much of their time or computing power on studying chess. Surely a computer can be more focused at this and the 4h are impressive. But this comparison seems flawed to me.
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Thank you. I didn't take any offense to Humpty Dumpty, I understand his point. I'm more surprised that somebody calling me a "smug pedant" led to me being banned for what seems a simple point, Tesla never said their car was fully self driving, and went to fairly great lengths to explain and notify that it isn't. (sans the video which I agree implies a lot too much).
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How do you propose they determine that you’re a part of the EU if not by IP address and if they can’t track members of the EU?
This post is very uninformed.

"It can see new complex patterns and objects instantly without learning them."

Except, it doesn't. It is clearly false. When animals grow up in an environment without certain patterns, they will be unable to see these patterns (or complex combinations of these) at a later stage. We see complex patterns as combinations of patterns we have seen before and semantically encode them as such. This is very similar to how neural networks work at the last fully connected layers.

"Besides, there are not enough neurons in the brain to learn every pattern we encounter in life."

There is a lot of self-similarity in our environment. Compression algorithms (and NN auto-encoders) are able to leverage this self-similarity to encode information in a very small number of data-points / neurons.

"The brain does not model the world. It learns to see it."

Except, it doesn't. Your brain continually makes abstractions of the world. When you 'see' the world you see a (lossy) compressed version of it, compressed towards utility. Similar to how MP3 compression works: the information gain of higher frequencies is low, so your brain can safely filter these out.
Quite the opposite, actually. At near lightspeed, a pea-sized rock will kill your spaceship just as dead as a planet. So you actually want your interstellar masses to be as concentrated as possible.
Oh, that's fun: "A change in the definition of a timezone has caused previously non-conflicting bookings to conflict."
What, no progress six months after achieving a goal thought impossible even just few years ago? Pack it up boys it’s all over but the crying.