skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One feature also is hardware capabilities (storage + processing), the human body/mind is extremely capable. It can store an unknown amount of data, it boggles my 'mind' at the amount that can be stored in such a small area compared to today's hdd's and sdd's, then how fast we can bring up those memories - yet we don't always have those memories in quick access points, sometimes we have to think real hard to remember something. We also don't remember EVERY single detail about something, only key characteristics, where I think a lot of AI tries to learn/store/remember everything about something.

The storing of that can take up precious resources, to create service droids that can do everything using AGI we need the computer that runs it to be essentially the size of a real human brain. Which we need to find ways to map AI tech more closely to biology.

There's also the fact that we are born with instincts built up over millenia, passed down. We also absorb random tidbits of data with no actual purpose. We watch the news and our toddler gets excited at the commercials, I don't know what he's learning from it, but getting him to turn his attention away from it is nigh impossible.

You can see the processing going on, it's amazing to watch him learn. I just think we need to think outside the current ai 'boxes' with dl/ml and consider their may be whole swath's of things we're missing, whole pieces of the puzzle before we get to AGI or the Singularity.
>here’s zero national economic gain from _any_ variation in law from state to state

Yes there is. States compete with each other and this prevents any one of them from having laws that are much crappier and more oppressive than average because when that happens businesses and people leave.
I definitely find that my days that start off productive typically end productive as well. The days where I "ease into it" or "warm up for the day" I blink, it's 8:30pm, and I haven't done a single worthwhile thing except maybe a load of dishes or something.

The flip side is the more productive my day is, typically the more tired I am, and the more likely I am to be moving slowly the next morning.
Maybe it's a bad idea to let people get really rich.
That's one conclusion you could make.

An alternative conclusion is that educated would-be entrepreneurs are now receiving higher wages in industry, resulting in the group shifting to industry. Less educated would-be entrepreneurs see wages lowering/stagnant in corporations and thus shift to entrepreneurship.

Income source: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2017/09/1...
> > the app not exiting if i need to restart the browser, the app not being affected by extensions I install (adblockers, etc).
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> I want to be able to modify web apps, and I want to restart all webapps when I receive a security update for Chrome.

You guys are sort of talking past each other here --- you both have something different that you want, and since Slack runs in both a standalone Electron shell and in the browser, it's giving you both what you asked for.

Why dismiss the things he likes in a standalone app as not addressing your needs for an in-browser webapp?
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And you have read it right. My mistake.
>Which one do you think I am able to avoid in the future?

We're talking about the terminally ill here. Most of the time they have no future.

>The government has real "power" over you, a con-artist only get's you once.

Again, this is the terminally ill. In this case the con-artist only needs to get you once and he's going to take everything you own.

>If you want the FDA to protect you, fine, then the laws should allow you to get protection. But they shouldn't be designed to "force" me to accept protection... that sounds like the local mafia.

It's about preventing new bottoms in society. Let's say we allow the poor to sell their kidneys. We could say: 'well it's purely optional, if you don't like it don't sell your kidney' but we're really ignoring all the externalities of creating a new market. Since those willing to breach this new bottom now have more cash, maybe payday loans will require kidneys as collateral, maybe rates will go up for those who don't want to sell their kidney. In that case you have definitely negatively affected all sorts of people who are making the choice not to sell their kidney. The collective decision of society, to allow this new bottom has transformed the circumstances of everyone in society, not just those who go to the new bottom. That's why we must look at that bottom and collectively evaluate whether the costs are worth it.

To bring it back to right-to-try, it seems that 'early access treatment' is probably going to be plagued by some of the same problems we see currently in 'early access gaming' - it's expensive and glitch-ridden, the landscape can change without notice and developers feel no rush to actually finish the game since they're getting paid anyways. Does that seem like a bottom we want to allow in healthcare? I say no.
They are going to pay sales tax for out of state sales soon.
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People don't want to live on top of one another. We have a huge country, and we enjoy having our own land. I understand most people in this world don't understand that rationalization, but it is what it is. Murica.
It was more for the aesthetic of the sentence, but if you have a spectrum including 'normalcy' that is infinite width and infinite height, with x being ability (a combined measurement of communication ability, sensitivities, etc) and y being level of function, it is possible to include 'normalcy' as it is defined at the farthest top right corner.

This could even have more dimensions to it, represented as 0-1 on each. If we're creating a diagnosis of a spectrum that directly affects function, does it not make sense for the general acceptance of normalcy to be represented as either all 1's or a number in-between? If being a savant gives someone greater individual knowledge, should this not be represented in a diagnosis of autism? Do they not instead become above that of normalcy by having this increased ability for specialized knowledge? This almost extends the idea of the spectrum into an extensive representation of a human's ability to function. With the idea of the spectrum being so wide, having a system to classify a human's ability to function over certain categories can aid in the ability to define normalcy and otherwise. The more pieces of information we have in this essentially matrix allows us to have a clear-cut understanding of what most people fall under. To limit this to 3-dimensional space helps as humans to visualize this, but to limit a tool to what we can visualize can hamper its ability.

(I am not a doctor)
Also getting rid of tons of bureaucracy/administrators in universities will help drive the cost down. Maybe better spread school endowments/donations around or have some sort of donation system that doesn't focus on 1) Schools with huge endowments, 2) alloted only for business schools, and 3) go primarily to sports
Out of curiosity how do you finance all this public transport when driving is so expensive you lose money with each tax increase?
It's not about me, it's about statistics. About how these situations are affecting steadily larger amount of people, and percentages of them are affected very badly. If you think that it won't eventually affect the midwest, you haven't checked your history. If you think industry won't treat us so badly for fear of revolution, you haven't checked your history.

I know it's pretty ridiculous for me to run out in the street and start chanting the end is nigh over a little change in our culture. But it's not just one little change. It's a sum of many changes which have added up over the last few decades and the trend that it represents. It's not about now, it's about where that trend is going in the near future. Believe it or not, things will not remain this good if we are apathetic about it. That is not the default state of society.

If you have read up on the history of what people have been through in this country and the world as a result of the first industrial revolution, you would also be wary of the second which is coming about right now due to automation. It's worth extreme vigilance.

For the record, I don't live in New York or California either. I'm in an industry which was once full of steady salaried jobs, but now it's entirely shifted over to gig-economy contracting. Getting insurance is a nightmare and eats up my margins. What was once a very livable job now hardly pays for an apartment. It's specialized work that requires technical skills. I work very long hours and practically every weekend. I am not proud of that, and I know I need a change of career, but once again--it's not about me, it's about statistics. It's naive to expect that everyone can change their career to whatever the best career is at the moment. You are being obtuse if you think everyone can get your job and be in your living situation, which I am happy for by the way. That's fantastic.

The United States was once a country about building physical things, manufacturing and construction and mining. People made a good, dignified living off that for a while. That time is obviously gone, and contrary to what certain political parties think, it just won't be coming back. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube as they say--or rather you could if you had a toothpaste packing machine, but they're on the other side of the world and they're automated now anyway, so it wouldn't matter if we did bring them back. That work is gone.

I think what people don't often consider is that making software, networks, apps, content, websites, etc. is our new labor. A huge portion of our society is now doing this, as everyone here knows. A few decades ago, it was super-specialized, highly educated, protected work. That is changing.

We are the new labor, and our work is the weft and warp of the middle class in several cities and communities in this country. But that shouldn't be taken for granted. We are soon going to be treated as laborers are traditionally treated if we don't take steps to secure a dignified living.
Sony is thinking long term. As is Microsoft. It's short-term to cater to a specific game that happens to be popular today.

In the long term, neither console maker wants cross-platform support. They want to create a situation where everyone has to have both the Sony device and the Microsoft device. That's an equilibrium that both companies are happy with. Pure cross-platform play ends in consumers not needing both devices and hence total sales will drop.

When the "pendulum swings" and Xbox has a dominant generation, expect Microsoft to reject cross-platform play.
This comment exhibits an increasingly common fallacy in discourse -- glorifying "data" in the spirit of overly naive empiricism.

Suppose I seek funding from the NSF for the following experiment: I'm going to smash peas into a wall (or collide peas traveling in opposite directions), and note down the splatter patterns. Using Advanced Machine Learning (TM) I shall extract correlations in that data, and make new discoveries!

It is only theory that can decide whether this experiment is worth pursuing or not, and unavoidably so. That's why I would be laughed off for wanting to perform the peas experiment, but we fund billions of dollars of experiments which do the same thing but with protons instead of peas!

One needs to have a theoretical framework which guides the experiments we perform and the way in which we interpret data. There is always this subtle symbiotic interplay between theory and experiment, where each one guides the next step of the other.

Wanting to get rid of theory and just do experiments is pointless and stupid. If anyone believes otherwise, I have a bridge to sell, cuz you know... empiricism is all about experiments... you can do experiments on the bridge to generate data... and data is awesome and will lead to discoveries! :-)
My mother is a school teacher. They have two bins, trash, and the blue recycling bin. At the end of the day, the janitor would just tip the recycling bins into their trash bucket. Everyone knew that.

This isn't the same as where I live and work now. We have extensive recycling programs.

It's hard to do anything good for the community in places that are so individualistic. If it helps someone other than them, even if it ALSO helps them, it's something to be avoided. "A rising tide lifts all boats" doesn't make sense to them because the only important thing is that their boat is lifted higher. They legitimately just do not care about others
That's the extreme end of things. It's like saying that no application can ever be decentralized because developers are involved. If you're looking for a perfect system then blockchain doesn't make sense. But in that case the internet doesn't make sense either and we should all go back to pen and paper.
Do you have a source for that? Which government/officials are you referring to?
"Death" or "Fall" of NYC?

Seems the author needs a reality check. Real estate prices and population - from illegal immigrants looking to work for cash to wealthy foreigners looking to park theirs - keep increasing.
it's not declining in Tokyo afaict. I believe that's because they privatised it?

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/10/why-tokyos-pr...
Unequal treatment in the workplace due to friendship is far, far, FAR more common than due to romance. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever worked at a company of more than a few people where it didn't happen.
I can see that being realistic. A quick search shows a University near me estimates it will cost someone just over $70 000 per year of undergrad at that school. Then you have four years of dental school. Another school near me lists tuition alone at about $270 000 for the four years if you're out of state. Then add 3 years of a specialty like orthodontics. Another search shows UPenn estimates that'll cost over $115 000 per year.

70k * 4 = 280k for undergrad
270k for tuition alone for dental school
$115k * 3 = 345k for a specialty

This gets us to just under $900k. That doesn't include any costs except tuition for the 4 years of dental school so we can assume the total will probably be higher. You can reduce some costs like the undergrad and if you're accepted to an in state school that might make dental school a bit cheaper but it is still an expensive undertaking.
> Do it for free

You're aware creating products costs money, right?
> Broadcom, EMC, drobo, Palo Alto Networks, Dell, citrix, and hundreds of tiny tech companies.

> google, facebook, linkedin, etc

Any of those qualify? That's what the parent post was talking about, and that's about a million people in the bay area alone that could skip a commute.

I did say some. The whole point is, for anyone who can telecommute, they should. As a matter of not just personal freedom but social responsibility.
That's true. 3D won't help with processors as much, because of heat dissipation issues, but storage will benefit.

However, the planar silicon scaling is what primarily enables cost reduction for production. I expect the (total device) density to continue to increase with the 3D tech, but cost will go up with capacity increases. Maybe not linearly though, because you don't have to pay for extra packaging.
What country are you in? Out of all the public transport complaints I'm familiar with, "the train is too hot and the engine gives me a headache" is not one I've heard before.
Show HN: Kairoi – Time-as-a-Service CLI
Oh, so this title is the reason why the current front page is too wide on mobile.
If I were to take public transportation to work Google maps says it would look like this:

2 min: Walk to bus stop

15 min: Bus to transit center

35 min: Bus to rail

20 min: Train 1 then switch

15 min: Train 2

45 min: Bus to transit center

20 min: Another bus

15 min: Another bus

3 min: Walk to work

Including wait times, we are at 3 hours 45 minutes. Compared to 1.5-2hrs by car depending on traffic. I don’t think more funding can realistically fix this. People are spread out and the USA is a big place.
Which is why the sales tax calculation algorithm should published and cryptographically signed by each state:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669
I would agree! I vaguely plan to shift to consulting out my experience and competence at age 60 or so, then do that on a part time basis until I topple over. No sense in vegging at home, and I expect have the time and network at that time to select roles I personally enjoy.
Quick OT question for css pros: how does one ultimately solve non-wrapping headers like this on mobile? I often see that long links or words brake the layout and it’s so ubiquitous... Is there a universal recipe like wrap-word-then-char like it is in desktop text engines?
Right, that's definitely a huge component, and one that is focused on in the original article. I bring up these other factors because they're not mentioned, including the fact that the rate of entrepreneurship has actually increased among the least formally educated.
I get that this is a different trending article in HN right now, but we're talking about paying employees and the taxes required for income here.. not talking about selling products.
So now we're doing numerology?
I'm Just wondering how long it will take to happen a data breach with all these tax info. what a headache.
"It’s not unrealistic to think that 80% of what doctors do will be replaced by algorithms and artificial intelligence. The idea, evangelized by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla two years ago, is that machines can more accurately diagnosis us — and that will reduce deadly medical errors and free doctors up to do other things."

So, we're not going to have AI doctors per se, just doctors will have many AI tools to aid them in CARING for people. That seems like a good thing to me, but the headline itself is not accurate based on the text.
Make your own battery pack
The Future Is Teaming, Not Leader-Centric Leadership
All issues can be fixed with more funding
I actually thought I did (it's Florida by the way)...

I want to be clear, that I don't blame the state in the slightest. I honestly feel that companies should have to pay taxes where they operate regardless of how many employees live there, but what sucks is that a lot of states have difficult tax codes, esoteric and difficult ways of sending taxes in, have varying laws that make it extremely hard to follow the law unless you are a lawyer familiar with that area, and often won't help you if you need it.

I also don't really blame the company. I still feel like I would have been more than worth the extra hassle, but they aren't sure. And if they can avoid having to pay taxes in that state by not hiring me, and that can provide them a material benefit, then I'd probably do the same as them if I were in their position.
Time to push those annual (vs monthly) SaaS plans I guess...
"Google" is still an awful key word for voice activation. To me, it seems far too prone to semantic satiation and mushy pronunciation from over-use.
You should be free to trust whomever you want, be that scientists or bureaucrats in the government.
>> I guess he can always go to Oracle

Why would a CEO of a microprocessor company be accepted at Oracle?
I rode the train in Boston in the subway in NYC a few times each and saw nothing odd at all.

I also rode the trains and subways in Tokyo for a week and a half and saw nothing odd, except the odd looks my wife got for wearing a shirt with the wrong date on it. (It was a shift from a marathon and just happened to coincide with Pearl Harbor Day, IIRC.)

I think you had a lot of bad luck in the US, and I don't think the percentage of craziness you experienced is the norm. I know it happens, and it absolutely discourages people from public transit, but I just don't think it happens that much.
Where did they move?
>web browser apps people don't get too excited.

I don't have a problem with Web Browser App, or JS App, or Web App or whatever the tech it is. I have a problem with its UX. And performance and resources is part of UX.

If they could slim down the whole thing by 50 to 80% it wouldn't so much a problem.
How does this work for virtual delivery of products? Do online SaaS companies have to ask for an address now as well?
Googling failed me. Is micro-todos a term you use to describe what you do, or is it a technique I can learn more about?
See [1]. Sales tax as a service is available from seven different providers. Shopping cart integration is available. You pay one bill, they handle the rest.

[1] http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/
Audi and Airbus' flying car gets thumbs-up for test
> The popular culture talks too much about Einstein but sadly doesn't understand and hardly even knows Michelson.

I'm not sure if that's true. At the very least, his story is given a lot of attention in my country's high school physics syllabus.
I think finding a way to quite literally build a 'brain' that mimics all aspects of the human brain including: Size, shape/areas/etc that is essentially a mechanically cloned brain like a mechanical heart or lung (Similar to the organs in Bicentennial man), may be the only way to get true AGI.

Simply put we need to work more on mirroring nature and biological brains to get computer brains that function like human brains. Even neuroscience still debates on what consciousness even is.
You do realize that through meters, licensing, registration, and gas taxes, that they are shouldering more of the burden, yes?
From all available evidence there is no need to add the qualifier “by contrast” to that statement. The problem is that it seems about half of the American electorate support the Koch’s and others like them for ideological reasons. As a non-American it’s a really strange thing to see. Dirt poor families from generations of bad education and dirt poor seem to think distant billionaires have their best interests at heart. They all seem to think they’re about to join the ranks of those billionaires any day now, and they’d hate the idea of hurting their prospects. It’s so weird...
This is an absolutely terrible idea, and really hurts the lower class, especially in sprawled out places like the US. Often times, housing that low-income people can afford are not near their jobs or places of business. Sometimes, owning a personal use automobile is the only reasonable way to get across town to their jobs, or back to their home in time for an evening with their kids. Raising the cost of driving artificially directly impacts the lower income groups at a far more impactful rate than the higher income groups.

Long story short, a flat toll is an incredibly regressive tax and directly damages lower income communities.
There is a threshold in the South Dakota bill for $100k in sales in the state. Small online sellers are not affected
I love public transportation and hate driving my own car to and from work. I stopped using public transportation for personal safety reasons. I am not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
No he's right, and that's what I was talking about too.

As far as I can tell (i'm not an accountant), a tax nexus mainly applies to sales made in that state, and sales tax that has to be collected and paid.

Income tax is a whole other beast, and I need to ensure I would be paying that if it was needed (Florida, my state, doesn't have any, so I don't need to worry about that).
> I don’t think more funding can realistically fix this

When public transit is built, residential and commercial properties spawn up around its stops. This is why my Manhattan commute is 15 minutes door to door.

TL; DR The lack of public transit, and public subsidies for parking and roads, drives density within America’s metropolitan areas.