skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been telling people this for a while now, but I either fail to get my point across properly, or people think I am just making excuses.

Either way, I wholeheartedly agree with you!
Wouldn't post-scarcity mean that most things are essentially zero-cost? And yet we still pay for food, energy, clothing, transportation, etc. Yes, goods are mass produced cheaply and tons of food is grown, but it still has a cost. It's not like being able to tell the replicator to make you an Earl Gray tea. Instead, that tea has to be grown, shipped and sold.
Here's somebody with intelligence clearly above average making the same point: https://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2008/12/my-iq/
I still think Disney and others will make one more push for extension in 2023.
That's crazy. I find it hard to believe that any profoundly deaf person would refuse some technological device that would give them perfect hearing because 'They are quite happy in their own network.'

No matter whether they consider themselves disabled or not, hearing > not hearing, and anything they could do while deaf can still be done with 100% hearing restored.
>Here’s something that’ll bake your noodle: what if you’re not as clever as you think you are, and due to the DunkinDonuts-Keurig effect, you don’t know you’re one of the stupid ones?

This is actually something I'm constantly preoccupied with. I've assumed the "Assume you're one of the stupid ones until proven otherwise" position.

That said, if I had some objective statement that I was somehow below average that would largely suck.
Can we test this? Can we install an unpatched OS and observe the same performance penalty?

In the case of meltdown, it seems unlikely the CPU is maintaining its own shadow page table. How would it do that?
Also, the point of a luxury car is to show off that you can afford a luxury car, so a 3-year-old luxury car doesn't have the same cachet as a new one. The point of a "normal" car is transportation, which a 3-year-old car can do just as well as a new one.
You need to install a VPN before you go to China.

Then, once you're within China, you can use the VPN to access restricted sites and services -- including the various app stores.
Of course, the cereals without added sugar have always existed - plain Cheerios, plain corn flakes, plain Rice Krispies, etc.

Sure, they’re processed grains, and you’re eating them with milk, but it’s still a massive improvement over downing some Cinnamon Toast Crunch with a Pop Tart on the side.

The marketing reality is a big problem. We can’t keep with the status quo of kid’s TV channels filled with ads for sugar. It’s no different than having TV ads for cigarettes touting their benefits to your lifestyle and enjoyment.

A lot of parents think these foods are fine because the commercial said so. The reality is that it’s really no more difficult for a busy parent to serve some oatmeal with fruit or something of that sort.
You are thinking of conviction by a super majority. Clinton was impeached by the house but was later acquitted in the senate.
Correct dietary cholesterol is unrelated to high cholesterol in people. It’s a myth invented by...the sugar industry.
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"most deaf people ... nor do they want to join the hearing world with cochlear implants"

[Citation needed]
Tanya Khovanova on IQ and MENSA: https://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2008/12/my-iq/
Barock Möbel günstig kaufen :hearts: Italienische Luxus Möbel
When I've done meal prep, I usually have 1-2 meals that I leave in the fridge, and the rest in the freezer... The ones in the freezer are generally good for a month without freezer burn. I'd presume vacuum sealing would make them better for longer in the freezer. I'll usually pull out meals for the day after tomorrow each day.

After a few meal prep sessions there's usually a bit of variety this way... you have to do a lot the first week, but it gets easier.

These days I've been keeping keto macros and nearly carnivore... mostly meat, eggs, greens. I've cut dairy and nuts as both are easy to over do and I seem to have a very strong response to dairy in particular.
Land is not currently and in the foreseeable future a constrained resource: the whole world's population fits into land twice the size of Texas at Hong Kong levels of density.

Land is expensive / valuable only in a few locations (e.g. NY, SF, Tokyo ...), and in parts only due to legislation that presents density.
At one time? Go to cities in Europe or Japan and they still are!
>No, you're right, Well Actually Guy. It's not just used by emotional abusers. It's also used by socially tone deaf people who seek to belittle the experiences of others in order to score debate points, or force their way into a discussion that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

This seems much too assuming; sometimes technicalities are important to a good discussion, and of course this ties into the concept of sealioning[0] too, but revealing sealioning is a better tool to use against such people. Sealioning is where people don't recognise that you don't want to debate everything, so they continue to pester you. But once committed to a discussion, the tools of skepticism, doubt and rigor are all very useful. They may be useful (within some margin some of us might find agreeable or disagreeable) on a site almost expressly for interesting perspectives - Hacker News.

Often I'm happy that there's a "well actually" guy to provide nuance where it might be needed. Maybe it's not needed, but often it is. There is a time and place, and many of the author's examples are examples of the wrong time and place to "well actually". It doesn't mean the points are wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu, Breaking Record
You can opt for overnight oats. Takes 2 seconds to prepare. I usually include chia, banana and blueberries, then add natural peanut butter in the morning.
The section on dynamic programming is exceptionally clear.
can we advance far enough to get an understanding of our biology to augment it?

"AI" in its current form is like a child trying to make a car through imitation

I think we'll have to CRISPR ourselves smarter before we can really go full cybernetic augmentation
I don't really understand why, but the idea of somebody sitting behind a computer somewhere, controlling my vacuum is just really weird and unsettling. I also understand that this could help handicapped people or people in less fortunate countries earn a decent wage, but then again, it feels odd. Also, paying for a vacuum and then paying a fee to the person using it feels weird... Even though hiring a cleaning lady is pretty much the same thing.

Thanks for this, now I'll be thinking about this all day. And I'll probably have intense discussions with people about the ethics and their feelings toward this idea at parties... Because I know I'll bring it up.
Crazy people exist.
http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/News/83303/Do
It's pretty cowardly to accuse someone of urging "mothers to not vaccinate" and then delete the accusation by editing your comments after they've pointed out they've not done that.

You could've stood up and apologized, but you didn't. You slunk in and hid what you said and slunk away instead.
For $1000 you can get a perpetual Rhino license.
Guessing the direction of interest rates and speculation about supposed crimes the president did (for which at this point there has been no evidence of) is a pretty poor foundation to build predictions upon since there's a good chance rates stay flat in 2019 and Mueller comes up empty. In that scenario, the stock market still has downward pressure because of the insane valuations, but the storm clouds outlined here fade away for the most part.

One 2019 prediction I have is a resurgence of interest in VR with the release of Oculus Quest. A lot of people have been quietly building for 5 years waiting for this.

On politics I'll go out on a limb here and say that the FBI/DOJ will conclude a number of (under reported, multi-year) investigations and bring indictments for a large number of well-known politicians of both parties.
How is "Computers are embedded everywhere in the environment (inside of furniture, jewelry, walls, clothing, etc.)." a "definitely"?

How much of your furniture and clothing contain embedded computers? What computers do you have in your walls?

Depending on what "computer" means, we had some of those when he made the prediction.

How is "People experience 3-D virtual reality through glasses and contact lenses that beam images directly to their retinas (retinal display)." true?

Note also that in the 1990s we had people using HUD-type VR systems. Eg, Steven Mann's "WearComp". Wasn't Kurzweil's statement therefore true when it was made? Or, does it specifically require the ability to 'beam images directly to their retinas', in which case, which systems are you thinking of?

Similarly, consider "People communicate with their computers via two-way speech and gestures instead of with keyboards.". Mac OS 9 included two-way speech back in 2001. "Computer, what time is it?" So, what does "two-way speech" really mean? And, "different personalities"?

I don't think cellphone cameras are what is meant by "pinhead-sized". Something like http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/07/engineers-develop-le... is "pinhead sized", at "100th of a millimeter thick and one-half millimeter on each side". A cellphone camera is close to a pinhole camera or spy camera, which existed well before 1999. Do you think Kurzweil would also count the cellphone-type cameras of the early 2000s?

"Household robots are ubiquitous and reliable" depends very much on what a "robot" means. A thermostat can be a robot. A dishwasher can be a robot. You have to figure out what Kurzweil meant by "robot", in such a way that it wasn't true already when he made it.

Regarding computer driving, you wrote "Everything here is true", but it isn't true that "Computers do most of the vehicle driving". Computers do very little vehicle driving. And, what does it mean to take "control whenever the human drives recklessly"? The computer in my 1990s car with ABS took over braking on slippery surfaces because my braking method wasn't good enough. Does that count?

How does "Virtual artists—creative computers capable of making their own art and music—emerge in all fields of the arts." fall into the "definitely" category? That is, we had computers making art and music before 1999, so Kurzweil must mean something different than that in order to be called a prediction, yes?
It's strange how these discussions are framed in terms of the dehumanizing "importing people". Maybe it's a reflection in the minds of those who say it of the idea that people are only means to an end, commodities to be imported and exported.
> There is also a lot of hostility to technology in Ag.

There is? As a farmer myself, I find that agriculture runs at the forefront of technology. It is why I love agriculture as we get to play with the cool tech before the masses do.

There are pockets of people who are more interested in a homesteading lifestyle than farming, but any serious commercial operation will jump over any advantageous tech available to them. Of course, not all tech is advantageous; there has to be a compelling business case more than "that is really neat" to justify adoption.

> I also find that the farming community is allergic to money. I don’t know why.

It is a high risk, high reward business. I'm not sure that is the same as being allergic to money.

> I have been told that I don’t have a farmer’s work ethic because I want robots to do the work instead of ‘dirt under my nails’ or because I think food must be at least 4x more expensive given the manual work that goes into organic speciality foods. I also think standing in a farmers market and hawking tomatoes for $2/lb is an utter waste of my time.

Seems like you got caught in one of those homesteading pockets mentioned before. This is not how most farm businesses operate. Farming benefits from scale. Your tomatoes should be sold to a major buyer by the truckload if you're serious about farming and not just enjoying the lifestyle.
> Which suggests to me that prices do not reflect actual cost, but rather inflated profit margins.

There are lots of healthcare companies that are public. Healthcare insurance companies are amongst the lowest earnings of any insurance, contrary to the argumentational of Bernie Sanders.
Also, one of the biggest health insurance companies, blue cross, is a non-profit.

Furthermore, 60% of hospitals are non-profit. And hospitals are 30% of the national healthcare spending.

If we are theorizing at random on what changes could impact the cost-effectiveness of healthcare, it is the increase of profits, not the decrease, that would be a more significant change.
IQ tests measure ability to correctly guess what test creators meant. Many of those questions have multiple correct answers, especially the more "complex" ones.
Ask HN: Could we make a decision based on a random measured value?
Let's have a set of two actions { goLeftOpenDoor, goRightRiseFlag }, and a deterministic algorithm to pick one action given a completely random input.

Alice and Bob are both aware of this algorithm, but they are very far from each other.

Alice and Bob each receives one particle from an entangled pair (A,B).

Alice makes a measurement on her particle, and so does Bob.

They now both also share a meaningless random value.

But, since they previously agreed on a way to _do something_ based on a random input, Bob actually picks _goRight_ and he goes right, and raises the flag.

Could then Alice know that the flag has been raised ? If so, why isn't it considered as an actual information ?

Note : I think I'm really wrong somewhere here (and probably have "divided by zero" several times)... just correct me if/where it's the case.
Cooking two poached eggs takes 90 seconds in my microwave. Bacon can be cooked in quantity and eaten cold or warmed in the microwave.

So yes, the cereals are easier but the saving in time is really not more than about five minutes.
..by the Republican majority House of Representatives. It can be roughly equated to being charged with a crime. The Senate held a trial and voted for acquittal and therefore no action was taken. Two thirds of the Senate must vote to remove a President from office.
Same author's predictions from 2018: https://avc.com/2018/01/what-is-going-to-happen-in-2018/
Why are you expecting China to grow till it achieves per person GDP parity? What is the logic for that?

Do you realize that if China ppp rises that the very factors that makes China such a growing force such as cheaper manufacturing will erode away?
Then that human being has to actually travel to your house and do the entire job start to finish. The idea of a robot vac (or similar) that can do 80% of the job itself but ask for help from a trusted operator over the internet is really interesting.
A few years ago Google released a video about controlling Gmail with gestures, as an April Fool's joke...
(not the person you're replying to, but as someone with aphantasia I'll bite...)

I can imagine sounds extremely well. For songs I feel like I have a CD player in my head, remembering even surprisingly subtle nuances and bits of a song. No musical background at all - maybe I should have been one.

Dreams are sometimes extremely vivid - sometimes I wake up astonished and the colors and the imagery I saw, but the memory quickly fades. After finding out about aphantasia I'm frustrated to hear that others can do the same thing while awake.

Read tons and tons of SciFi for the last 40 years. No images through, it's like listening to a radio play. Maybe that's why I'm drawn to movies, TV, and comic books - for the supplied visual material.
you could also create a list of links to approved rosettacode examples
I don't want to get involved in long political discussions, so let's just quickly check up on some verifiable facts.

From wikipedia: The investigation has resulted in dozens of indictments for federal crimes, and at least eight guilty pleas or convictions

These include Trump's campaign manager, campaign adviser and personal lawyer. Plus, he has publicly appealed to Russia for help during the campaign, sided with Putin over the entire American intelligence community and admitted that he fired the Director of the FBI because of the investigation.

So no, your point doesn't stand.

edit: I'm deliberately not citing media outlets that can be biased or expressing any opinions in this post. If these facts (that you can check for yourself) aren't significant enough for you, I can only wish you a good day.
It's difficult to rent a specific car from most traditional car rental businesses. They generally take reservations for a class of car (economy, intermediate, full-size, etc.)
Can you substantiate your claim, for instance, when did NYTimes use this effect to create an association in support of false facts? It seems that Breitbart has a much higher rate of misleading or outright false information compared to WSJ, NYTimes, etc. and much more supportive of using various strategies to trick its readers into believing falsehoods.
Videos are super helpful when trying to convey the real value of a product to users. So many people skim sites however when it comes to video they become completely immersed.
Your wish has been granted. 2019 is the year of YAML as a serialization format and the return of CoffeeScript.

Disclaimer: I am a genie.
This program utilizes a powerful technique called raymarching, raytracing's big brother. Instead of tracing along each ray in tiny fragments and returning intersections, the ray is 'marched' in larger steps, vastly increasing render speed (the downfall of classical raytracers).

How do we 'march' rays without missing geometry? With the aid of signed distance functions, geometric equations which take an arbitrary point in 3space and evaluate to 0 if that point is on the 'shell' of the geometry. For example, the signed distance function for a sphere:

float sdfSphere(vec3 p, float r)
{
return length(p) - r;
}

This lets us do interesting things such as transform the point p to transform our object, take the minimum value of two spheres to produce a venn-diagram intersection shape, take the maximum of two spheres to 'cutout' a hole from one, etc. The logic is a bit backwards at first, but it clicks quite quickly and one can rapidly construct complex geometry without much optimization/shader magic. For example, this is a realtime capture of a 64k self-contained executable. No 3d models, no textures, no assets - just raymarching and math: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie4u2i_5OdE]

Approachable overview of raymarching & SDFs: [https://jamie-wong.com/2016/07/15/ray-marching-signed-distan...]

Learn more: [https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarchin...]
> the idea that this could become a weapon against disabled people

Possibly you're taking it a bit far there, but at least in England I could see that being the case. The lengths they go to to stop people getting benefits are ridiculous.

For example, Scotland now has devolved powers for benefits, and are being much more generous: Having a baby? Here's £300. Is it your first? Here's another £300. Twins? Another £300. Then they make sure you can apply for all this online.

In England they tried not to have an online presence because, "we don't want to make it too easy for people to apply."
Cooking techniques from tropical areas where food spoil quickly are useful here. It's one of the big reasons that spice is used in Indian cooking for example - historically not for flavour in particular but because food spoils extremely quickly (as in within a day or two) if not spiced.

If the palette suits you, it's something I'd suggest looking into. We prepare foods on the weekend (working parents) and they stay for about a week and a half in the fridge, and you can mix and match the different dishes over the week to break monotony.
I have found pre-trained models for language detection and Wikipedia word embeddings useful. Everything else I have to train from scratch. I have successfully done NER on search keywords where there were many examples of misspelled words or weird punctuation. I used Spacy but I had to train the model from scratch.
The magnesium mystery: The strange story of the Planet Satellite
I looked at each of the predictions and gave them a binary score. Of the 49 predictions on here 11 were in my estimation unambiguously right: 8, 12, 13, 16, 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 44. That's a 22% hit rate. I'm not sure if this is good or bad considering the predictions were made in 1999.

Most of the "correct" predictions are of the following nature, namely that they are not absolute in nature:

"Most people own more than one PC, though the concept of what a "computer" is has changed considerably: Computers are no longer limited in design to laptops or CPUs contained in a large box connected to a monitor. Instead, devices with computer capabilities come in all sorts of unexpected shapes and sizes"

I marked some correct because there are examples of it existing, but the wording didn't indicate it was absolute for everyone, such as:

"People with spinal cord injuries can walk and climb steps using computer-controlled nerve stimulation and exoskeletal robotic walkers."

I marked many wrong because wording was absolute such as:

"All students have access to computers."

If the prediction would have been "Most..." or something more granular I think we could agree this is probably true.

Many of the ones that are wrong are very wrong such as:

"Computers do most of the vehicle driving—-humans are in fact prohibited from driving on highways unassisted. Furthermore, when humans do take over the wheel, the onboard computer system constantly monitors their actions and takes control whenever the human drives recklessly. As a result, there are very few transportation accidents."
https://scitechafrica.com/2018/02/12/congo-is-to-electric-ve... he's looking to corner the market. China is busy building rails all leading into the Congo.
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> eh it's flashier and more fun to build something new than maintain something old. Not to mention people forget that building new stuff means needing to allocate budget to maintain it...

This statement may be true, but it's completely irrelevant to the specific problems facing the NYC transit system at the moment.
I think it's ok to end or lessen friendships that do not align with where you are going, as long as you commit and build new relationships that do align with your goals, which seems to be what you are doing :)

I haven't had to end friendships as I grew, as those that diverge tend to naturally fade away. But I always make sure to nourish new ones that are more in line with where I'm going, and it feels amazing to have that kind of control in your life.
Congo Is to Electric Vehicles What Saudi Arabia Is to Internal Combustion Engine
looks pretty close to the web components api. specifically "customized built-in elements" which use the `is` attribute on a regular element to add custom beavior.
Some. It depends on the target market. For academics, I've had far more success with text.
This is definitely a big factor, but when did it occur?

A long time ago I purchased Turbo C++, and then Watcom, but as soon as GCC got good enough I never paid for another compiler again.

I would love to make a great compiler, but how could I afford to when I'm competing with free?
The question of how to count operations is tricky, since a lot of it depends on what the actual problem you're trying to solve is. LINPACK is the favored benchmark for supercomputers, but that is more out of consistency with the past than for actual reliability of its metrics.

What the prediction was trying to gauge is how much a computer that is equivalent in computational power to a human brain would cost. I think a case could be made that the human brain's computational power is not equaled by the faster supercomputer today, at which point he was off by several orders of magnitude (in terms of price).