skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple months ago, I was on an NPR show trying very hard to refocus the discussion on real near-term threats caused by AI: possible job loss as well as enabling authoritarianism, predictive policing, and quashing of dissent. They wanted to talk about AI coming to get us all. (Evil) AGI seems to be a more exciting topic.
Funny that ultra-large-enterprise crap could be applied to Facebook and GraphQL?
Air pollution linked to autism: study
Awesome list of questions, btw.
Well timed by FB PR to release on the eve of one of the biggest news days of the past 2 years.

> In response to a question about the timing of the release of the report, Facebook said it had previously committed to publishing the report at this time.

What a great excuse!
Maybe people like the home button
Why Prediction Needs Unsupervised Learning
"Most people in Michigan who get in tech is to get a good paycheck, not to start a company or change the world for better."

This rubs me the wrong way. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. Not everyone can afford the risk of starting a business. And most tech companies are not changing the world for the better, they're just trying to make money, like every business. For most people, their job is just that, a job.
I have written HATEOAS APIs (not just “RESTish” APIs). I prefer writing GraphQL APIs by far.

If I have to write something that’s REST-ish, I’ll do my damnedest to make sure it’s HATEOAS, but in my experience, the number of developers who can consistently produce useful and consistent HATEOAS APIs is…vanishingly small.

I can learn more about an API from its GraphQL schema than most of the other API documentation (like OAS/Swagger or RAML) out there.
This somewhat exists in the Australian system. A candidate and their workers hand out "How to Vote" cards at the polling places, which tell voters "I want you to put me #1, my mate #2, and those evil <opposition party> #10. Oh, and put this guy you totally disagree with #4 because I made a deal with him to do the same for me. Oh and put this guy #5, he paid me a lot of money. etc etc"
Most people definitely become wiser with age. Maybe the results are skewed because millennials are a particularly wise generation which have to deal with increasingly complex social, economic and environmental problems and this forces them to think more and ask more questions. Also, the internet has given millenials a big advantage in terms of finding information. It's not fair to compare one generation with another completely different generation; we need to track people from the same generation over a long period of time in order to get meaningful results.
Realtime Ultraviolet Radiation Index
> I think you mean the "private EMS lobby". Individual EMTs are equally opposed to most of the legislation being pushed by big EMS companies (notably Prop 11, being voted on today, which is an attempt by AMR to avoid having to comply with meal break rules

Usually, when employees in an industry oppose an initiative, they actually file opposition to it; Prop. 11 was unusual in having no opposing argument filed, which usually only happens with non-controversial proposals.
I'm also from a Commonwealth country, and I've never detected a significant difference between the way people buy things at shops or order at restaurants.

Here (Australia) it's just rude people that say "Give me ..." and polite people who say "Can I please have ..." etc. - no clear split between male and female.

That's not to say your point is necessarily wrong, just that at least that particular example is highly region-specific.
Not all detectors were optical so if you found a moon made of, say, dry cleaning fluid, you'd still be good.
I hope this is a step in the right direction but the comments from the executive that are quoted in the article suggest that it is not.

He is very stoic about Facebook's role in all of this and describes the platform as "just a product". His claim that, in the absence of Facebook, some other platform would have been used to do the same thing is indefensible. Facebook makes sure that every Android phone in the world comes with Facebook pre-installed and ideally in such a way that it cannot be uninstalled. That is why this happened on Facebook instead of Reddit or any other social platform. Facebook moved fast and helped commit genocide. "Whoops, I guess we'll try to fix it." Is how the company responds to every lapse of judgement and good sense. In the company's view every daily active user is a win for Facebook and the users are not owed anything whatsoever.
Hm. I was trying to make the point that it's difficult to get to the top 1% of anything competitive. I was pointing out that just getting to the top 1% of income among all americans is pretty difficult; but I think you are looking at around $421,926 a year, according to the first few reasonable-looking hits.

which kinda blows my point up; I know a bunch of married couples who do better than that in software, (I think it's a per-capita number) and even a few single earners (though in my circle, that's pretty rare) It's just not that much money compared to here and now.

Of course, I also think that you can't be a software developer at that level without an IQ approaching two standard deviations above average, but I recognize that's a pretty controversial view and I don't have supporting evidence.
It's experience that matters. An elder person with less exposure to different situations may not be able to offer good advice in general, but ask them about their own specific niche on which they've spent a lot of time, and you'll be amazed at the wisdom there.
Oh, no no no. I totally agree with you.

My point was it's demonized and there's like a stigma to it. Like masturbating. I just always feel like whenever I talk to random new people about wood working, it's almost like I'm talking about masturbating to them with they way they act about it. Since it's not money producing. It's not like I give a shit. I had a supremely bad burn out years ago and different hobbies have kept me from ever going back to that burn out mental state.

I think hobbies are a highly underrated form of keeping good, solid mental health.
I can see this, but I feel like it would depend on the person. Some people constantly learn and improve as they grow older and those people become wise as their life goes on. Other people just do not ever learn, so why would they be wise when they are old?
I work on Stripe Atlas. We've gotten in touch with `browsercoin privately, but I wanted to provide some context for other founders here, since many people get this letter every year. I have to make the obligatory "I am not an accountant and I am not your accountant" disclaimer.

The state of Delaware has something called franchise taxes, which there are two ways to calculate. https://corp.delaware.gov/frtaxcalc/ Revenue is not a factor under either method; you can think of this more as a renewal fee than an income tax.

If a company does not file their franchise taxes, Delaware will send them a letter demanding taxes. To put a number on that letter, Delaware uses the Authorized Shares Method. This returns a different number than the Assumed Par Value Capital Method.

Since companies are allowed to pick whichever is in their interest when they file their taxes, companies receiving that letter will often not pay the number on it.

Stripe Atlas companies can calculate, file, and pay their Delaware franchise tax through our tax tool. Overwhelmingly, they pay the minimum tax when filing on time: $400. There is a minor additional charge for late filed taxes.

Since we are aware that the state of Delaware sends letters on this matter which are confusing to many founders if those founders fail to file their taxes, we aggressively get in touch with Atlas founders around tax time.
If it's truly fraud then that's not a company you probably should be doing business with...
This sounds exactly like a Larry Wall solution, especially the "use interchangeably" and "pick the one that works the best for you" parts.
It was a sarcastic attempt to point out that scattering the components of a computer into 3 or 4 units with separate power chords is an inferior design to the standard desktops we’re used to. I want a Mac desktop for under $3,000 that doesn’t require multiple accessories plugged in to behave like a desktop.
That only has a population of 40k so that means there are fewer than 10k voters
> Facebook makes sure that every Android phone in the world comes with Facebook pre-installed

I've never seen a phone with Facebook pre-installed. Are you just making this up?
Study from 1999.
The answer is that company is the tax collector, not the tax payer. IMHO it's mainly a semantic distinction, the result is practically the same.
I think it's because the wise live longer. Even if they are declining, the average tends to stay the same.

Wisdom is mostly about paying attention and adapting, not all about accumulating experience, as new things keep coming and rendering much of your experience (with things, not with people) irrelevant. It's complicated.
Thanks for sharing your concern but my pet bear exists in the same fantasy where I own so much mountainous land that I don't have to worry about that. Your move.
To be fair to the above it's a pretty central factoid that is mentioned more than a few times, but yes, I agree with you.
Huh, turns out you can measure wisdom.
Hetzner is now at about the same place where Digital Ocean was 1 year after launching.

The difference being they’ve already launched separate storage provisioning.
We've wised up since then.
Doesn’t BTT require enabling unsigned kernel extensions?
Aside from the technical obstacles currently barring us from realizing AIs capable of human competency, we should be seriously considering the social question of whether or not such a technology is something we really need or want.

The world is already saturated with technical systems and artifacts that have effectively flattened social relations, eradicated traditions, and generally reduced the field of humanitarian meaning and theory to nil. All our problems have become technical problems. We’ve even reached a point where we try to solve social problems with technical solutions, and when that doesn’t work we try to fix the boo-boo the naive and rampant application of technology has caused with, guess what, more technology.

The philosophy of technology is perhaps the most important discipline of our time—there’s little left in life that technics hasn’t in some way enveloped, either insidiously or openly.
I’ll admit I didn’t read much further than that, yeah. It’s possible it’s a good system and I’m just put off by the unfortunate comparison.

My issue with all of these point- and range-based voting systems is that when you see the results, you might want to tweak your scores.

Let’s say I’m range voting out of 10 and I give four candidates 1, 3, 8 and 10 points respectively. But the candidate I rated 3 wins, with the candidate I rated 8 a close second. Damn it! If I’d known that was going to happen, I would have voted 1, 1, 10, 10.

So with extra information, range voting boils down to approval voting, and I think it all ultimately becomes ranked voting. It’s hard to imagine any scenario where I would want to change my rankings, even if I have information about the results. If I like both candidates A and B, but A slightly more, I’ll always put them at the top of my list and in that order.

Now, it’s true that in IRV there are scenarios where I can get a better result for myself by voting for candidate ranks in a different order; but those are rare (I think) and definitely unintuitive. In the example above, if B were a real long shot candidate, it might be worth ranking them above A in case B gets eliminated early. But it’s unlikely to make a big difference because, you know, B is a long shot. And that’s just IRV; other ranked voting systems are much more robust.
Here you go, https://outline.com/wwhuDF :)
>Why do humans have such a large mutation load..

Modern technology?

https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/evolution-is-...
Hopefully they're using unique usernames and not using the same username all over the Internet. Or, worse, a variation of their real name as a username.
I guess I must be special then. I made lots of unwise decisions in my early 20s that I certainly would not make now in my early 30s.
> millennials are a particularly wise generation

that rubbed me the wrong way
this might be a more interesting, and much more recent overview of wisdom, measurements of wisdom, and what it all means ( including how it relates to demographics ) https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/73/8/13...
Not all.

But illegal business practices only have impact on economics. They don't change the fact that Intel had a technologically superior solution in the pipeline that would eventually trump AMD's offerings.

That would have resulted in Intel taking the economic crown anyway, irrespective of their illegal business practices.
First off

>What remains after the corporate income tax usually winds up taxed just as your income is

In the US at least, capital gains are taxed at a different, and lower, rate than individual income.

Secondly, how do the rest of your points not apply to individuals as well. Yes the company makes money and it's taxed, and then it's paid out to shareholders and they are taxed. When I buy food at the grocery it's not some special type of dollar that can't be taxed because I'm not a corporation.

Everyone I pay out money to gets taxed as well, including banks who I pay out for loans I was given, the same way investors are taxed on a corporations income.

The only difference is that companies get to pay less because they get to write off all their expenses, while individuals have a much smaller subset of items they can expense
I've seen a cheaper (not-flagship) Samsung phone with Facebook pre-installed a few years ago. The specific model number escapes me though.
How Smart Machines Think
I'd suggest taking a look at Buddhism, one of its key insights is that you cause yourself to suffer by wanting things to be different than they are.
Can someone summarize their definition of "wisdom"?
One big difference is that you could prove the ozone layers thining and so it was easy to get political backup, plus the solution was fairly simple. The climate debate is mostly political and there is no way to prove the effects only speculate. If just people would let scientists do science and not mix in political agendas we would have been much better of and money could have been spent for things we can actually do rather than being wasted on lofty political projects.
"Our team in Israel also has a laptop design that's based on the P3 core, which, we believe, will be great for the desktop as well."
If memory serves, it returns the number of deletes/inserts/edits. So what you mention can still be handled.
And now you have! Note that this takes up 350mb of space on my LG V30- good thing it's just a dev phone.

https://imgur.com/a/gbX4y14
> The pricing is not really justifiable especially given the most use cases of the Mac mini (Home Theater, NAS, Backup etc.) are better handled by other OSes.

I dont' know about "most", but pros who want quiet, small and fast (read: musician, audio engineers) will be all over this Mini.
> I'm arguing that mere truth is unknowable without faith

Does the infantry man's faith in ballistic charts affect where a mortar will land? Yes it turned out that Newtonian physics doesn't describe absolute truth, but it sure is useful if you need to blow that enemy up over on that hill.

> one of our priors must be that there is some probability that the very mind that is doing the thinking may be of a nature that is unable to effectively reason.

An interesting thought experiment, but what practical use can I apply it to?

btw I'm not implying that only lines of inquiry that result in practical uses are worthwhile, but, science for the most part is related to this.

I guess there is a distinction to be drawn between faith and blind faith. "Faith" in the atomic model allowed prediction of elements that had not yet been discovered. That faith was rewarded when the elements turned up exactly where expected (even though the orbital model of electrons turned out not to be the absolute truth). "Faith" in Einsteins theories required a belief in time dilation. Turns out we can't have GPS without accounting for it.

This is quite different to, for example, religious faith which so far has not had any of these predictive powers.
How do they quantify and measure "wisdom"? I can't tell from the abstract and that's all I can see from the provided link.
Here is a 2012 piece from the same author - 'The Impossible Dream? Why Renewables Won't Reduce CO2 Emissions by Much' - https://www.energycentral.com/c/pip/impossible-dream-why-ren...

Maybe it is just me, but I suspect he might just have a tiny little bit of bias.
Yeah, you have no idea what your talking about.

Examples of people making silly mistakes can be found in any engineering field.

A company I work with has a few Nest cameras with face recognition - the precision in a well lit office is 100%.
This mentality is exactly what hprotagonist is talking about. All signs currently point to AGI being far away - at least several breakthroughs in currently unknown unknowns away, in fact.

If the most you can say about the likelihood of something happening is that, "there's no telling what can happen in the next ten years!", then the only informed forecast is that it won't happen. We can likewise say we don't know if an extinction level event will happen due to a meteor (that we couldn't detect for some reason) hitting us in the next decade.

Every time someone makes a sobering statement grounded in reality about artificial intelligence, another comment pops up which reduces to, "but who knows!" It doesn't mean anything.
My Samsung Galaxy S7 came with Facebook pre-installed. There was a huge story in March about Facebook's Android app collecting call and text information from users and a quick Google search seems to indicate that every Android phone except Pixel and Nexus models come with Facebook installed but I can't find a good source for quick reference.

I am also reminded of the Hacker News guideline against posting "shallow dismissals" in comments. A quick Google search would have told you that Facebook come pre-installed on many Android phones.
Humans can learn from very few examples, in entirely unguided environments, and they don't face the same issues that existing algorithms suffer from. (for example humans have no big problem with rotational invariance, whereas ML vision algorithms do).

That's because, contrary to the zeitgeist, humans are not a blank slate. Our brains are the result of billions of years of evolution. They are extremely well adapted to modelling the natural environment and the behaviour of other beings around us. This is in stark contrast to computers which we start from nothing and force feed a huge amount of data without context and then expect results. The fact that this approach works at all for some tasks is staggering.
This is yet another example of what happens as a result of the "race to bottom" for wages and compensation for Uber/Lyft drivers.

These drivers are looking for any way that they can to make their work barely profitable, because just letting the algorithm "Manna[1]" them around a city ends up being barely break even after all costs are added in.

So that's why you get the calls asking where you're going so they can get long trips (especially around airports), the "oh not I got into an accident, can you cancel the trip?" calls, etc... Not to mention the drivers who are stuck with high interest loans on cars from Uber.

It's marginal labor inputs for a marginalized workforce - and an increasingly immigrant one, which is great generally but correlates to the easily exploitable. So while I don't condone this kind of behavior, I can see why they would feel pushed into doing it - especially if it's relatively retribution free.

[1]http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
They may be getting extra data, but it's what they DO with that data that matters.

Climate change and politics is enough to prove that experience alone counts for squat. :)
meet Jimbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4E9yrGczbk

Oh, he died this year :(
Wisdom is not something you get. It's something you learn.

I've met plenty of 75-year-olds+ that are just morons. Age is just a number for them.
The genetics of university success: study
Yeah, if you are writing HATEOAS APIs just by personal preference then you are using the wrong technology. You should write HATEOAS to make sure your API will be consistent, standard and automatically browsable on the long term.
With all due respect, I don't understand why anyone would start a corporation in a foreign country, forget about it for two years, and then act surprised when they get a bill.

When you incorporate, you are (quite literally) making a person. That is an incredible responsibility and frankly, I'm not sympathetic to anyone who takes such a drastic step without bothering to do any homework.

In terms of advice, you've missed two filing deadlines, so this is a lawyer situation. I'd ask about retroactively killing off that company as it had no assets, revenue or stream of business as of the last filing date.

And next time, seriously, it doesn't matter if someone else does the paperwork for you. You are still creating a person in a foreign country!!
Facebook's original post here https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/

HN Discussion about the above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387876
On the flip side, $150 is an insufficient cleaning fee. Driver loses all revenue for the rest of the day and the cost of professional detailing often exceeds that amount. It should be a minimum of $300.

It once took me 4 hours to clean my car after an incident that involved my sliding door mechanism. Cleaning quote for that exceeded $300.

And that smell... ugh!!!

Edit: vomit incident.
I wonder how the figures change if you require solar in the first place?

Presumably, if solar was required by planning regulations (where sane), for new-build or major roof repairs, the installation risk could then be nearly eliminated as an extra factor, given you are going to have the problem of putting a new roof on anyway.
... and far and away the most expensive in the long run.

How much offshore windpower could Japan have created with the billions it has already spent cleaning up Fukushima (now estimated to become $200billion)?

How much will safe waste storage for tens of centuries cost? We can't know until we figure out how to do that.

Right now, we don't have time to waste ... or money. There are clear, clean, much less expensive alternatives. Ask the investors.
I've definitely seen older folks who are so convinced that their specific experiences are the only valid ones that they are unwilling to entertain alternative (and sometimes better) experiences. I think experience is important, but knowing when/where to apply it, and being willing to admit that your experience may not be the best, is required.
"You should listen to people that are older than you are. Even if they're wrong, their wrong-ness is rooted in more information than you have."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPqFI5-yWM
haha, I have learned

I think just having a wide network and staying connected will give you opportunities

As I mentioned in the article, I think being an entrepreneur is a huge arb. That crypto fund alumni msgd me after seeing the article and agreed with that as a big arb
The most we could say (by just looking at statistics) is that there is a strong corollary.

Correlations without context are useless, though: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Your intuition is in fact correct. Balanski and Laraki have shown that a median based rating system, in the limit where all voters are rational and their utilities are maximized by electing their desired candidate, that the winner is always a Condorcet winner. This is one of the reasons that Majority Judgement (their name for this system) has so much going for it.