skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> At the moment, it is very easy to suspect that it is only the economics of
training a neural net (hardware, specialist attention, data gathering an
processing) that is holding us back from AGI.

Neural nets have fundamental limitations, particularly their inability to
generalise outside a narrow band around their training set [1].

For instance- you will not find anything in the neural network bibliography
about learning such a fundamental concept as counting, in the sense of finding
the number n+1 that follows from a given number n, for arbitrary n. A neural
net can certainly be trained on that task for numbers in a range [k,n] - but,
given numbers outside this range its performance would "fall off a cliff".
That's because neural networks can't learn general rules such as "x > y → y =
x + k" etc.

Add to this the fact that neural nets, while very good at specific tasks, must
be trained anew for each new task- and you see that there is a big problem in
getting anything approaching "general intelligence" (which might involve any
number of wildly varying tasks) just with neural nets. For one thing- even if
you could train a neural net model for something like a million tasks, there
would remain the question of somehow stitching them all together in a coherent
whole capable of performing the right task at the right time or combining
decisions from multiple models.

Finally, note that nobody is even trying to train a neural net to learn
"general intelligence" end-to-end from examples; first of all, because we have
no idea what constitutes general intelligence and therefore how to collect its
examples.

So it's not a matter of scale. More of a matter that there isn't anyone living
today that has any idea how to get to AGI with any existing technique-
including neural nets.

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[1] https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize at the same moment he was editing his kill list. We live in strange times where the team you're on is more important than truth or reality.
clickable, http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
In low-entropy conditions (e.g. right after OS in VM has been installed) /dev/random is better but it might block (for minutes or hours). /dev/urandom is always issues some data, so your application won't hang because of it, but it might issue not very crypto strong bytes in those conditions. Best solution is to use hardware crypto or pass random data from host to VM or something like that. Also you might consider to use getrandom syscall. It's non-blocking if entropy pool has been initialized, otherwise it blocks (AFAIK the same as FreeBSD /dev/random). Probably the best of both worlds. That's how I understand the whole topic anyway.
Sweden: http://fruktkartan.se/

Fruit on public land.
I've used `enum Void { }` as a placeholder for opaque FFI managed types that I pass between APIs but never inspect myself. Like Windows handles (`*const Void`) or data structures that are queried using an API rather than directly.
It just hasn't been flagged hard enough yet, but give it time.
There are two basic ways to provide funding, either you force people to ask for it and deal with a long approval process, or you trust them with it in the beginning and subject them to an audit process. Approval processes suck because they take too long and the bureaucracy stunts your ability to react to changing conditions, which is why most private sector companies use audit processes internally.

And even though the public sector incurs real costs due to an approval process (you're not just paying the salaries of the overview bureaucrats, but also the salaries of the project workers who need to sit around and wait for funding to come in), it persists because it is viewed as more legitimate and more protective of legitimacy.

If you ask the public whether they would prefer for a public program to cost $100 million, including $20 million which ended up being embezzled into private pockets, or $150 million spent entirely legitimately, most members of the public would rather spend the $150 million for a legitimate program, even if you could show them how the additional taxes needed directly affected their personal bottom lines.

The reason why we don't give poor people cash directly is simple: even if 99%+ of beneficiaries will use the money responsibly, a tiny minority will not. That tiny minority will get written up in the press, and the perceived unfairness will politically doom the program. How public money is spent is, unfortunately, important.
for a good introduction to order and complexity (including intelligence) arising from nothing, read "the origins of order" by stuart kauffman.
True. If you're creating an app that will be used in production then of course you need to use npm, webpack and other tools.

But if you're new to a framework and just want to experiment then being able to create an html file with a couple of script tags and writing code removes many barriers to entry.

React, Vue and many others already offer this, I thought it was worth mentioning that Mithril does this too.
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> He was a charismatic diplomat, but an extremely ineffective and spineless leader, whose errors damaged the credibility of the UN and had a responsibility in millions of civilian deaths.

I have to agree with this. Although I think you will be 'pissing in the wind' with this binary good/bad internet.

He was a completely ineffective leader of his organization during the whole WMD affair and the resulting weeks before and after the second Iraq conflict.
Upvoted for "primogeniture home owner's association" which is lovely. I like the argument too, please make the rest available.
Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Saladin, Tamerlane, almost an endless list of greater military leaders than napoleon. People who actually won and built empires.

I'd even put george washington and Vo Nguyen Giap above napoleon.

The amount of undeserved praise napoleon gets irks me. He was handed the largest empire ( french empire ) with the greatest army and destroyed it in a few years. He is the architect of a few of the military history's greatest follies. The invasion of egypt, the invasion of russia, the continental blockade, amongst others. Every major military endeavor of his was a colossal failure.

Were it not for the artificial propaganda and myth around the guy, he'd be viewed as one of history's greatest military laughingstocks.

Napoleon's greatness wasn't in the military sphere. His genius was in the bureaucratic and legal spheres.
The phrase “being on the right side of history” comes to mind.
Your argument would be more persuasive if you didn't attempt to tar him for things his son did. He has no control over where his son banks, obviously.
I'm so excited about Kakoune! I hope it manages to achieve critical mass along with a booming plug-in ecosystem. As it is, things are pretty lonely.
The vast majority of canned goods I buy these days have tear tops. Is this not the norm in the USA?
Yellowing in paper is a combination of factors, primarily cellulose content, acidity, and exposure to light, heat, and air. Decent bond paper from the 1980s will generally look just fine if it's stored in a dry box. It has a low acidity and will normally have a higher dag content do will age more slowly.

Exposing it to sunlight and/or excessive heat will cause it to age. If it's high cellulose paper, like a newspaper, it will generally yellow quickly regardless of the storage because newspaper is cheap and acidic and not intended to last.
After the system has been running for a few minutes, there is no difference in security between the two.
As an aside, in order to be able to speculate about how close we are to AGI, with neural networks or any other technique, it is important to first unerstand the state of the art in AI.

As usual, I'll recommend the classic AI textbook, "AI - A modern approach" by Russel and Norvig:

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Leave the date off your degree. Leave out experience prior to date X, or leave dates off ancient history experience entries.

Or use a “functional” style resume.
But this is only Java 8, right? Or am I misreading?
Czech version
https://na-ovoce.cz/map/
Because half the American population supports a party that thinks public spending should be banned.

So you end up with the classic 'privatise the profits, socialise the costs' setup.

I don't understand why people can't see that some public spending is an economic force multiplier.

I mean US infrastructure is notoriously bad for a developed economy, you have thousands of bridges that need massive remedial work to make them safe by modern standards.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/15/us/structural-deficient-b...
Is that still a concern? It used to be a major health issue when I was a kid because of tetraethyl lead pollution, but now that leaded fuels have been banned long ago, the car emissions should be harmful only to breathing and climate change, without any poisonous residue on roadside plants.
Almost any NoSQL would fit your usecase.

For example, a mailbox matches the MongoDb Collection model well.. it's a file on a disk (so there is no outer index on username needed - filesystem will do it) and you can specify which inner index(es) you would like, probably time. Storing auto-assigns internal 128bit uuids that you can use to refer to a specific message.

If you're allergic to mongo you can do this in pretty much any document store. Hell you can do it in a simple SQL table but you will have to deal with outer index (which may or may not be a problem for you).
So what's in the requirements that prevents you from using a trivial implementation? Where trivial is: db table (from_id, to_id, time, read_flag, deleted_flag, body) with one page that lists them and another that allows you to write them?
While I agree with what you’re saying, I think it should be pointed out that the author clearly states that it’s a simplistic model and even mentions the multiple pools briefly (though I’m unsure if that was add post-comment, as author is on hn also).
> That's how I understand the whole topic anyway.

This suggests that you're not an expert. Therefore, it is wise to just stick to what the experts write, in articles such as this. That's what I do. Cryptography is a very complex subject; non-experts who give advice without knowing exactly why they are saying what they're saying are contributing to the problem, so please avoid doing that.
>Just go spot fruit trees on your own.

How would you know if you are allowed to pick the fruits? Not all private properties are fenced, so if you take your bugs and go hunting for fruits you could get face to face with the angry owner, his dog and who knows in some countries his gun.
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Somewhat offtopic, but (almost) all of these websites use Google Maps. This means they probably are going to get large bills with this extra HN traffic flood. :(

Since these are non-commerical tools, my company (in my bio) would be happy to provide free maps for these websites—as would many other OpenStreetMap-based providers.
Families in [3] are doing better than the individuals you use to calculate the multiple.

I guess it's still a whole number factor sort of thing.

I also wonder if those numbers are accounting for Medicare and Medicaid (which add costs to the private insurance system).
The examples are obviously in a terminal so you should expect it to not work on Windows.
You can never win versus a psychopath. In my experience dealing with several as a freelancer is to never give them any conceived power over you. Wether personal or professional. In the future they will use any ammo available to get what they want.

I see it as a game of chess dealing with this kind of person.
>> The tree climbers may well build a rocket and land on the moon anyhow.

Sticking with the OP's analogy, the number of people who think it is impossible to get to the mooon in any way is much, much smaller than the number of people who, misunderstanding how tree-climbing works, believe that is the way, that climbing to the moon is just a manner of climbing trees better than we presently do and that if everyone keeps climbing trees someone will reach the moon any time now.

The problem of course, is that there are no trees that reach all the way to the moon. We can keep climbing all we want and we'll never reach as high as the moon. To get to the moon, we need a radically different approach.

A rocket, perhaps- certainly! But, how long have people been climbing trees for, before the first rocket was made?

And where are the people proposing rocket designs, in modern AI research?
Actually, I’m speaking from the perspective of someone who is dying from starvation despite being surrounded by available food.

There is nothing special about wheat. All of the resources spent on growing wheat could be expended on many other crops which would provide equal or greater nutritional benefit. The reason wheat is a globally important crop is simply because people have made it that way for arbitrary reasons, like raising European cattle in North America.
RIP and shame on those who make tasteless jokes or baseless criticisms again this man.
Beneath the marketing, ML is a souped-up version of "draw a line through these points". Great for image recognition etc. But the line/curve/manifold won't just suddenly "wake up" once we add enough points.

There's something deeper missing (maybe something related to recursion or self-reflection?) and we don't even know what it is, much less how to add it. Yes maybe we'll make a breakthrough and build a rocket tomorrow but it won't be because of any insight we gained from tree-climbing.
No, the page hasn‘t been changed in quite some time. The last real change was the 4.8 change, long after 4.8 was out.
Yup. Oracle is trying to push everyone to their rapid releases of java 10, and 11.
This is most likely your best option. You can also get pretty fancy with this implementation with very little extra work.
Yes, I should have put pacman. The book is a great resource and despite my criticism has introduced me to julia.
although, for this implementation, you don't need to read out the chip anyway. you can just sniff the i2c bus to learn the keys.
The problems I am referring to are celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivity. There are at least a dozen other grains that provide the benefits of wheat without those disadvantages, and that is to what I am referring. Rice, corn, sorghum, buckwheat, millet, teff, quinoa, lentils, and and so on.
This is very kind of you! Thank you for supporting an open web!
Names are also a way to discriminate on ethnicity, although they're less reliable: names can be changed. Discrimination occurs in all manner of ways. In many countries, more casual labour the screening is done by a face-to-face interview. Clamping down on photos on a CV is not going to do much in those cases.

In the UK it seems it's perfectly alright to have a farm owner appear on a TV news station and be completely unchallenged as she is almost boastful about how she discards applications from one EU country's workers because another EU's countries workers are better and don't complain as much.

This is prima facie the very thing that equality legislation is there to prevent -- generalizations being applied to individuals based upon something beyond their control, such as nationality of birth.

If you found a way to survey small employers in a way they felt comfortable about answering truthfully, they will have notions about many nationalities. Some will be generalizations that on average apply poorly to the individual, some will apply better. Almost all will be based on a ridiculously unrepresentative sample size that is likely heavily biased towards a particular segment of the population. This is in spite of some of the most advanced equality legislation in the world.

The tech industry has some pretty poor generalizations about the work produced by certain nationalities.

For many employers equality starts and ends with an equal opportunities monitoring form stapled to the back of an application form that the applicant is to complete for a job that they already have no chance of getting. Even getting rid of names, education, past jobs and on CVs and application forms is not going to change that.
Art and architecture of Uzbekistan's underground
Decentralizing government would not have the effect of stopping power consolidation. It just means power gets accumulated by the megacorporations, which is an even worse outcome.
8-byte payloads are a necessary limitatuon of their system because of atomic operations.
No, wheat is not crucial in a way that people would starve if it were not available. There are dozens of other foods that could be grown which would provide equivalent nutritional benefit. It is not a unique or particularly advantageous source of any nutrition. It does not have any unique advantageous growing properties.

Additionally, while many people are not familiar with cereal grains other than the close wheat family, there is really nothing that different about their flavor or how they taste in cooking. The only useful, unique thing about wheat is that the protein provides a texture in baked goods and sauces that people find pleasant. When forced to explore alternative grains for a couple of years, and having eaten my mothers alternative grain cooking before that, I learned that the gluten-free foods often actually taste better. Wheat is necessary and flavorful like Windows is user friendly and required for your computer to function.

If you put my comment in context, I am not intending to advocate any sort of eradication program for wheat. I’m responding with mild hyperbole to the notion that it is particularly critical to preserve wheat. The main idea that I am promoting here is that there’s nothing special about wheat, other than that it is particularly harmful to some people.
Our company wouldn't be possible without the many, many others that built the dataset and keep it fresh. We owe them all a debt of gratitude.

The least we can do is help them find a little fresh fruit. ;)
You can't sell food stamps so easily anymore. They used to be paper currency, but they are in the form of a debit card now, still possible to sell, just requires some planning
Nota bene: I‘m not an expert, just quoting them. :-)

I used to be very confused, too, and after learning something about it, I wrote that page. Almost didn‘t finish and publish it when tptacek put his page up, but by that time I had already invested most of the effort, and I wanted to be less terse.
Drone attack the Syrian battlefield is staged “the simple version of the unmann
go get llvm.org/llvm/bindings/go/llvm

I'm actually using it for some things
Didn't find it in the readme: does anyone know what general "level" of microcontrollers are the project author(s) hoping to target? I suppose that because of the Go spec already, the minimum required architecture must be at least 32bit?
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I strongly disagree. In my opinion, the relationship between VC and rising inequality is indirect at most. The primary factors which contribute to inequality in a given country are related to the number of available jobs, the distribution of wages among various subsets of the working population, the robustness of social safety net programs, and the underlying distribution of political and economic power.

Our startup movement, more so than any other segment of the global economy, embodies the idea of the "American Dream" that if you work hard you can be successful and move up the social ladder. It's not perfect, and clearly it's not a pure meritocracy, but to claim that the VC world is "the most important driving force of rising inequality" is very inaccurate in my judgement.

It is true that silicon valley style tech companies are more and more becoming an important part of the economy, but the types of startups which are part of the tech startup eco system are creating jobs and are disrupting existing industries as part of a healthy capitalist process.

Here are two factors which I consider to have a much more significant influence than VC's on the global trend of rising inequality:

1) It is well understood that middle class families keep on average the majority of their wealth in the form of a house which they own. The housing crisis, which was fueled by wall street excess, wiped out an incredible amount of wealth from poor and middle class families and the bailout and shorting transferred this wealth to the top 0.1%

2) Approximately 3 trillion is collected by the US government every year in taxes, and approximately 1.5 trillion is borrowed by the government, for a total budget of approximately 4.5 trillion. This money is handed out by congress members to powerful banks and corporations from their state as a form of quid pro quo for campaign donations. The budget deficit is then used to justify a never ending cycle of cuts to social safety net programs.
By Mark 4, is he referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_IV or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARK_IV_(software) ?
This feels like a troll comment, in that it asks a back-handed question, to highlight the shortcomings of a comparable example, more than the question voices honest curiosity regarding the question as it may be superficially posed. Possibly in an effort to lead the loaded question down a negative path, such that responses will lend voice to an opinion one might read between the lines.

But first and foremost, no one from New York calls it “NYC Metro.” It’s The Subway, and it’s operated by the MTA. So, already your comment has the ring of someone who doesn’t live in New York. And to go one deeper, The Subway hasn’t smelled like that since the mid 1990’s. Most of the tourist stations “Disney-fied” by Giuliani get power washed every single night, after midnight, during the gravyard shift, to eliminate the smells of humanity.

It’s still very old, very dirty, very inefficient, slow, crowded, and peppered with tourists, homeless people, pickpockets and weirdos all at once.

New York has more going on than many other cities, and is as dense as it is diverse, and it’s been that way for at least 100 years (or at least the subway has), and that’s a somewhat conservative time frame, but

Other cities aren’t like that, and some of it is due to strict policing. Not always though. Some of it has to do with climate, sunlight and weather, or in social terms, the implicit understanding of the expectation of one’s peers.

In lively cities, when transplanted people lose a sense of expected behavior among strangers, behavior loosens up. Some cities have a specific reputation as being a destination for the specific reason to either lose or find one’s sense of self. New York is one of those places.
You could try to make GOPHAWK yourself.
An even smaller framework that doesn't have its own components (I use bootstrap with it): https://maquettejs.org/
I used Latex for several books and liked it. I once wrote a single book, but in Java and Common Lisp editions, and Latex worked really well for that.

Then I switched to Leanpub.com and never looked back. With Leanpub markdown you can still use Latex for formulas.

I love to write and Leanpub takes almost all of the hassle/overhead out of the process.
Mithril is far superior to and simpler than Aurelia.
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Ask HN: Have you ever used any admin/dashboard theme/template?
I have created an open source admin/dashboard template based on Bootstrap 4, Vali-Admin. I am want to ask some questions to decide what should be added further to the template. If you have used any admin/dashboard template in past for your projects provide some insights about your use case.

- What was your purpose of using the theme/dasshboard? For eg, E-commerce product dashboard or CMS Dashboard.

- What features did you like about the theme/template.

- What was missing in the theme/template that you required.

- Do you have any feature suggestion for Vali-Admin.