skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly I didn't express myself well.

In the new shortcuts app, there's a pretty clear view of what siri can do. Basically any text editing you want (someone even made a C parser)

There's a fairly concise list of areas. With a 10 second skim, you can get a sense of "oh, Siri can be taught to do stuff in these areas"

In the same way you wouldn't necessarily know what a dog could do without a little outside research (per their theory of mind dog example)

Meanwhile, with ios 12 all apps will be able to add prominent "add to siri" shortcuts in their apps. So as you use an app, you'll see "ahh, Siri can be trained to work with this all in this way"

Then these can be chained together. So you can now get a fairly clear general idea of what may be possible.

You still need to learn details to do specific training, but this seems like a big step up, and closer to the dog example. You can at least form a theory of what Siri can likely be taught to do.

Not a PA yet, but to me this new iteration is at least graspable.
Global network consumes more energy than tiny, sparsely populated country. Hmm.
Php Class Datastore
"because we're not spending n*10e06 per month on hosting."
One has to wonder how expensive those expeditions were, comparatively speaking, to the average Angel or Series A.
The phrase "Imagenet moment" is generally used to refer to the success of deep learning in the ILSVRC 2012 competition, which used the Imagenet dataset. This is the case in this article.
The Elon hate brigade is way more out of control. It's a festering pile of clickbait, anti-intellectualism / nerd discrimination, misapplied social justice warriorism, financial speculators / incumbent economic cartel misinformation, and an out of control fourth estate with no ethics or conduct.
Is it really so bad that they fooled real people at the end? The people thought they were getting a world class meal. Their enjoyment of the experience is real.

And even if you did end up going to this "restaurant" and later found out that it was a fake restaurant that somehow made it to the top of TripAdvisor, then you end up with a story about being one of a dozen or so couples that got to have this experience.

It seems like a win either way.
Are there any ICOs which resulted in a successful product?
Please exclude crypto-exchanges like Binance.
Funny, I wanted to take a look at snark.ai to see if it can be used to run WebGL inside a browser.

For some reason, the snark.ai homepage brings my laptop to its knees though. Do I need a GPU cluster to see it?

Anyhow: Can I use snark.ai to run WebGL in a browser?
But if they don't know how to use the Chrome debugger then that probably correlates to not being able to do many other tasks. That few hours just teaching them how to use Chrome debugger turns into weeks of teaching them how to do lots of tasks.

I have nothing against teaching new hires but for some businesses it is a significant cost so it makes sense to weed out applicants that won't be able to get stuck in straight away without a holding hand.
> it does not include a way to get the same shuffled deck if you ask it a previous query.

You put the card back in the same place in the deck (just look at the card... don't take it out). You always get the same random card for the same "index" (where upper bound in infinite) or "key" or "query".
I think that analogy is a bit bogus, but if you want to make it, it's more like assuming access to a function that renders the 3D model from a variety of perspectives on command, not having access to the model itself.

(Because the RL algorithm doesn't have access to the rules by which the simulation is carried out, it only has access to the commands and the result.)

And frankly, that would be a perfectly fair and interesting classification problem, so I don't see your point.

Otherwise, how exactly do you propose learning to drive a simulation without access to the simulation? I really don't know what you're saying here.
Just for some perspective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/us/glider-trucks-loophole...

Reading that it looks to me as if VW should ask for their money back.

The double standard and hypocrisy incredible.

"One year’s worth of truck sales was estimated to release 13 times as much nitrogen oxide as all of the Volkswagen diesel cars with fraudulent emissions controls, a scheme that resulted in a criminal case against the company and more than $4 billion in fines."
I don't read them as looking for experience with one specific tool so much as a systematic approach vs shotgun just-print-out-everything-everywhere aimlessness.
I feel that their hegemony in the server market might be lost even faster: https://ashishb.net/tech/three-reasons-why-intel-might-lose-...
The ULMFiT, ELMO, and OpenAI Transformer papers are all quite readable and linked from the article. Sebastian and I also wrote an introduction to ULMFiT here: http://nlp.fast.ai/classification/2018/05/15/introducting-ul...
How awesome would miles-long slip'n'slides be in hilly San Francisco? Bay to Breakers would never be the same.
Original Boston College Paper that this article is based on: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3182169

Conclusion:

"We also show that there is a positive and convex relationship between (log) market cap and (log) number of Twitter users, that nearly all ICO capital
is raised by crypto-companies that continue to be active (on Twitter) after 120 days, and that daily Twitter intensity is associated with positive returns that day but negative returns in the future, suggesting overreaction and reversals. "

"It suggests that scams, while plentiful in number, are not as important in terms of stolen capital because investors are shrewd enough to spot (and underfund) them."
Indeed, ICOs offer a great alternative for entrepreneurs: the opportunity to be snubbing VC.

If I can raise money through an ICO without diluting, why would I waste my time with VCs and their beauty contests?

This is the new third way: bootstrap using your own money, they scale up with ICOs. I am not surprised the VC-funded startup world is so hostile to cryptocurrencies and ICOs: it is competition. It means a future where entrepreneurs can opt-out of VC and IPOs. That would be bad to the bottomline: no more preferred stocks with liquidation preferences!

ICOs are in their infancies, so there are a lot of scam, but the market will eventually evolve solutions like smart contracts (or just reputation!). If I was in VC, I would start worrying or lobbying for special treatment - like expending the "investor status" to cover IPOs.
(marginally) improving traffic (a bit) ≠ saving us from our transportation woes

Austin still has a long, long way to go.
GitHub given Windows 9x's awesome and so very modern look
Well among other things, these planes don't really cost much more than say a commercial liner.

Wikipedia says that 787s have a production cost of around $100 million per unit, and that the unit cost of purchasing one is somewhere between 200 and 300 million, and that Boeing expected breakeven at around 1000 units sold.

The unit cost of a F-35 is currently in the 100-150 million dollar range.

The 1.5 trillion dollar cost quoted is for the total program life - that's the cost purchasing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading a fleet of over 2000 aircraft over nearly 50 years. Of that, 1 trillion is in operating and sustainment costs. Total R&D and Test/Evaluation costs are estimated to finish up somewhere around 60 billion dollars, which compares favorably to the estimated 32 billion that Boeing spent before the first 787 order was completed.
I asked an expert in the beer trade about this recently and some of the big breweries (Molson Coors who make UK bestseller Carling, for instance) make their own CO2 for supply chain security.
> They just require "adults in the room."

You mean like regulators and trusted intermediaries? Due diligence conducted by independent third parties? Like the real financial system has always had?

So basically, we went through this whole ICO bubble to realize that things are the way they are for a reason.
There are plenty of viable investments; they just usually don't offer ludicrous rates of return. Just normal, decent ones.
Do you all have any idea what this is talking about? I've never heard of ICO and you're all using it as if it's some familiar and obvious thing with no explanation.
I think some sort of ethical component to the degree is required for ABET accreditation. My CE degree was retroactively accredited so I'm not sure if current students have to take a separate class, but one of the changes that was made while I was a student and the ABET process was happening was that we spent some amount of time in our project courses' lecture time (each semester has a 5-credit project course) covering ethical issues. ACM/IEEE membership (which itself, or at least "membership/sponsorship of a professional society by the school", might have been part of the accreditation requirements too since we all joined IEEE) may impose additional requirements like discussion on ethics.

I think the general point stands though that for everyone calling for ethics classes -- a lot of CS and CS related degrees like CE already have them. Furthermore many companies already have various code of conduct types of annual training. The solution has to be something else than "education".
They don't cost much more than a commercial airliner. The Boeing 777 costs around $300M. The most expensive F-35 (the STOVL B model) costs around $125M depending on how much accounting voodoo is performed.
If you consider being the beneficiary of a boom in what is effectively fraud a "good thing," sure. I can driver a Ferrari if I literally rob people, too, but most people would consider the people I've hurt in the process when evaluating the merits of my actions.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you seem to agree with me

I am disagreeing and saying that it is VC/PE vs. Presales and ICO the whole story.

> but if you really feel geography doesn't matter then please share your argument for this, I'm ready to learn!!

It is not an argument, it is a fact. For example, you will see a really important investment to an Argentina based company (outside top geographies) in a few months.
Forget money, I would like to know of one legit ICO. One single ICO that has a product. One.
The amount of foam in that beer makes me uncomfortable.
Why are you taking funding if you only have a vague idea?
It seems like the void left by a (hypothetically) decreasing advertising market coupled with Googles desire to actually grow might place a ton of stress on the societies that fall victim to this desperation. Obviously it will temporarily stimulate local economies in strange and sometimes positive ways, but a lot of their interest seems to focus on processes better handled by an elected committee. Google naturally has it’s eye on taking over government responsibilities. This is frightening to me. The incentives are no better aligned than they were with advertising. It sounds like a company that simply got way too big and now we will all pay the price.
I mean, in the strict formulation of "transistor counts doubling every 2 years" it's been dead since like 2015 if not earlier.

That said, the "death of Moore's law" is kind of this memetic doomsday device that doesn't really mean anything. We haven't had significantly faster single-threaded performance for years and we're developing ways to cope with that.

Intel's real problem is that they keep missing the boat on new markets for chips. ARM got smartphones. Nvidia got machine learning. (Xeon Phi is cool. Maybe someone will notice. Maybe they'll fix the instruction decoder so it can actually operate at full speed. Who knows.) Intel killed off Itanium and then we discovered that every modern CPU design except Itanium is horrifically vulnerable. IBM is rapidly encroaching on the server market with innovations like CAPI/BlueLink.

If Intel is "dead", it's not because of the death of Moore's Law, it's because they let everyone else eat their lunch.
But if you look at how it uses the demonstrations it's quite interesting. It uses them only as a series of starting points to start learning from. It doesn't actually use state-action pair examples at all, as far as I understand, which is quite different from the idea that comes to mind from the phrase "uses demonstration". It simply starts up the simulation at places that the one single demonstration it has access to got to. In other words, the examples it is learning from are nothing but "by this point in the game you could get here.." But nothing about "when you are here, you should do this.."

In a sense it's pretty similar to how you'd learn a game if you watched someone play it through once. (Except backwards, perhaps.)
I could no longer suppress the urge to troll on twitter. Before doing so, I read maybe 100 tweets on a thread. It was a political tweet, so the standard of truth was not that high.

Guess what I found? 100% of the tweets were not falsifiable. They were as reliable as tarot reading, probably less scientific than same, and certainly less entertaining.
Funny, Russia seems to be building its own stealth interceptor, and it's manned. (Sukhoi SU-57).
Reporter posted fake reviews on the Times website in return for travel perk
Yes, another source is here: http://www.rolldice.club/cryptokitties/

It's worth noting that at its peak when CryptoKitties transactions hogged the Ethereum network and made it barely useable, CryptoKitties had only 14k users.
You can probably always find a job if you're good enough, but there will be opportunities forever shut because of the lack of a degree. I feel this myself even though I have a B.S.
I appreciated the point that pure RL is insufficient for many tasks. But why also downplay the achievements of pure RL where it has matched or surpassed skilled humans?

Captioned chart:

The progression of AlphaGo Zero's skill. Note that it takes a whole day and thousands of lifetimes' worth of games to get to an ELO score of 0 (which even the weakest human can achieve easily).

I'm pretty sure that a one week old infant's ELO score will also fall short of 0. Sure, the AI did things that no human could do in order to match and then surpass human performance. Great! Half of the fun of following AI research is seeing it refute old intuitions about how human-like systems have to be to perform well on tasks previously considered to require human intelligence.

Whatever "general intelligence" or "human level intelligence" comes to mean by the 2050s, it looks like it's going to be a lot better pruned-by-counterexample than it was in the 1950s.
Teasing the public about upcoming cpus isnot boring ,
Is there a way to point it to a different Firefox installation path? It only looks at Program Files{x86} and then quits as it doesn't find the FF installation at Program Files.
DAPP Radar is not the authoritative source for all Ethereum applications. There are many like Augur, Golem, MakerDAI, etc that aren't even included on that list.

Depends on when "early days of internet" is defined? The internet could be seen as an evolution of ARPAnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET which was defined in the mid-1960s and took years to deploy and probably decades to evolve to the usefulness you describe.

ETH network is moving to a Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm which will reduce it's electricity impact: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQs

And meanwhile, there are other blockchains, like Qtum, that are already Proof-of-Stake and run Ethereum VM and create blocks on Raspberry Pis, for minimal energy consumption: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/wiki/Installing-Qtum-on-...
> A 256 bit key in ECC offers about the same security as 3072 bit key using RSA.

> This means that in systems with limited resources such as smartphones, embedded computers, cryptocurrency networks, it uses less than 10% of the hard disk space and bandwidth required using RSA.

What?

I could possibly understand CPU usage being significantly lower for an equivalent level of security, but how could disk space and bandwidth be affected to any significant measure?
How do you get there without having scooters or similar available everywhere instead?

Gotta solve the point-to-point problems of mass transit if you want to kill demand for cars.
Same. I couldn't figure out a working relation ID. This is too hard to use.
I thought the whole idea of an ICO was a joke from the comedy Silicon Valley. It seemed too ludicrous.
posters work for people who do not have smart phones.
I'm not sure that having a homogeneous population and seizing political power counts as healing racial and political divides...
‘No Jab, No Pay’. In Australia, no excuse accepted for unvaccinated kids
If that's the case, shouldn't you then align yourself with someone who does have a proven track record in doing these things?
Snake oil is actually very useful: https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/oils/snake-oil....

My superpower: Taking things literally. Still more useful than the last 10 ICOs. And my bad jokes aren't as bad for the environment. 10k joke-coins pre-ICO and 2 downvotes for that one for me!

We had three innovative ideas in the financial sector - certificate of debt, compounded interest and book money. And now the fourth - trolling idiots to risk their retirement money because they want to get rich "with that computer money my son told me about".
I see that knowledge about Chrome debugger probably correlates with knowledge about other tasks, but there has to be some false negatives, no?

And mostly I find it a bit dishonest. If you have a preferred way to solve a problem in a company you should state it up-front: "Find this bug by using the debugger, not console.log, because that's the way we do it here". If the method does not matter, you should let they solve it their own way and see how efficient they are.

> I have nothing against teaching new hires but for some businesses it is a significant cost so it makes sense to weed out applicants that won't be able to get stuck in straight away without a holding hand.

Right, and that will show when they use so much time adding console.log everywhere without finding the bug. Measure the time and understanding of the problem/code/solution, not the tool.
One promising example is SpankChain. It's a cryptocurrency specifically designed for the porn market.

Traditionally, it's hard to make money in porn due to fraud and chargebacks. Most payment processors also won't touch you. But crypto has no chargebacks, so it's a natural fit.

One could argue that if you have to dip down to the level of porn just to find some value, ICOs are worth dismissing. But I would say that it's a decent example of the future potential.
That's the web developer equivalent of being able to use a hammer as a carpenter, though. That's a bit of an exaggeration but only a bit. Would you hire a carpenter if he couldn't use a hammer effectively? Sure, you could spend a few hours teaching him and probably get him to be good enough to be useful. But would you really rather hire him over someone who knows how to use a hammer if that's the only differentiating factor between the two people?
I realize that in practice you're very unlikely to get money without having traction. But if we're talking about which companies are deserving of money, if such a category exists, then surely the ones that go on to succeed must (in most cases) make the cut. Especially when they succeed despite having not gotten the money.

I also get what you're saying though, in terms of the companies that deserve money are the ones that can convince investors that they deserve money.
Haha, jokingly we use GPUs on our landing page to rent out to others. :D On a side note, animations are slightly tough, need to optimize them.

Regarding WebGL, actually that is an interesting point, would like to know more about the use case.
I think it's both: right place at the right time, but so were a lot of other people. Some rose above the rest.

Woz was a hobbyist at a time when a hobbyist could get his hobby mainstream. There was only a year at most when you could do that with the "home computer".
Yeah, you're being very ungenerous. Just for example, it's not negative to say that startups have the power to make their own language choices.

I've never thought an accurate description of the current environment and the challenges around changing it are a pessimistic view of things. Nor optimistic. Just realistic. I prefer realism. Is that bad?

If you want to see it as negativity, I think that says something more about you than me.

One of the reason I described all of those things AND asked questions is because I was hoping someone would actually come back with some stories about how they have overcome those challenges.

Saying that Java is still the most popular programming language only because people haven't tried enough seems to me to be both inaccurate and dishonest, and does nothing to help change that. Clearly what we've done in the past has changed nothing. Time to look at what we missed and to try something other than "just do it".

If we really do want to use better programming languages and techniques (I'm pretty into TDD myself) then it's very important to understand what management thinks about those ideas and why, and how we might influence the real decision makers. I've tried the wrong way enough times in my career to to understand the right way. Selling an idea to upper management usually has to come with low risk and a guaranteed return on investment.

That's neither optimistic nor pessimistic, neither positive nor negative. It's just the simple truth. Don't kill the messenger.
I think Cassie Kozyrkov summed this up well https://becominghuman.ai/are-you-using-the-term-ai-incorrect... .

In industry we are converging on calling the types of models you train on known engineered features as ML. When you don't know what the features should be but just want a model that can be supervised on raw data its called AI.
> we went through this whole ICO bubble to realize that things are the way they are for a reason

That may be overly reductive. My views on several rules changed as a result of observing the ICO phenomenon.

For example, I used to be skeptical about accredited investor requirments. Turns out, they're super necessary! On the other hand, I think Regulation D could be massively simplified--from a required paperwork perspective--to lower the cost of selling unregistered securities.
A word is simply a shared reference to a concept. The consensus is around whether or not that reference is valid anymore.

Here’s a concrete example: “citizen” meant something completely different 100 years ago. At that time it meant “member of the set of landowners”, which resolved to “white male landowner”. Now the concept of citizen is much different and a lot more contentious.
When you were at $4M-$6M in revenue, but not growing, what was your retention like?

Were you adding new users but churning out so many that growth was flat?

Or were you not adding new users, but retaining the ones you already had?
Chasing those numbers can be a fools game. I've seen money going down the drain because stakeholders wanted to stroke their egos. Instead of staying lean, and since there was money in the company to burn, a big sum was spent on ads to keep new users pouring in. It was a horrible sight.
>Get lot of money with only doing a lousy whitepaper, drive ferrari and live luxury life rest of your life.

Sounds easy!
Decision Tables
There was that one on Silicon Valley where the coins represented credits on a distributed computing network. It sounded pretty legitimate to me, but of course it's just fiction.

Over in the real world, I haven't heard of any legitimate ICOs.
Replacing Instapaper
I presume the title is a typo. Prorgression? Even dictionary.com doesn't know what that is.

The actual title of the page is... um... well, it doesn't seem to have one.