skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai

You're more or less correct in your understanding, we're trying to get to 80%, and are certainly not there yet.
The other thing to keep in mind is that there's a lot more than goes into developing software than just code.

We've already been able to automate problems such as selecting the optimal creators (developers, QAs, designers) for a given project from our capacity network, the ability to price out and estimate timelines for a project (something that takes our competitors 2-3 weeks), onboard and evaluate engineers on our platform, predict, arbitrage and scale cloud infrastructure for our client's projects, along with a bunch of other areas.

There's definitely a long way for us to go, however we have been able to show proven success on these problem areas already.
It’s a closed auction run on their own terms, that excludes entire classes of alternative search engines by design.

A “lot of gall” is a very generous interpretation.
yes, a long post defending neutrality. What I'm accusing them of is exactly what this post espouses: that they think that neutrality is de facto virtuous no matter the stakes and no matter who is endangered, so I don't see how this post is counter to my claim that they would be neutral in the face of Sauron.

> we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network.

This blog post essentially says "if Sauron wanted to set up shop to recruit and use our services, that would be fine unless Sauron said that we liked him, if we were under public pressure to drop him, or if it were literally illegal for us to front his network":

> The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.

It doesn't say "we would be opposed to Sauron using our services because he intends to enslave Middle-Earth and we don't think we should help him do that". I think that having no regard for the consequences of your actions reflects poorly on the tech industry.

I don't think that being neutral is values-agnostic, I think that neutrality benefits the oppressive and those already in power, and that adhering to neutrality at all costs is a form of fundamentalism.
The UPU shipped items haven't paid customs fees / duties (or typically have WAY understated the value)..it's an exception for samples/gifts/etc. If they know you're shipping quantities, they want their money.

This is why some items on AliExpress either won't let you order more than quantity 1, or switch to FedEx only shipping if you increase the quantity.
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> very optimistic about their chances, and about their ability

this is the very definition of due diligence...you don't take their opinions as fact. to answer how:

* meet with their senior engineers
* review code
* talk to former colleagues
* talk to former professors
* review any academic papers, blogs, github repos
* talk to customers or MVP users

If you don't have the first hand ability to directly evaluate their AI technology, or an extended network who can assist, you should not be investing in AI startups.
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."

Four years to go... will we make it?
I honestly thought fountain hooks were a legitimate part of the game, until they were removed. They're hard to pull off. You could also sabotage your team by teleporting members with Wisp/Io to the enemy fountain. Ahh, the worst of times.
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Goldman Sachs spends $350 for every Apple Card signup
Yep. That is what Deep Q Network does.
Yes, but it is so crippled that they might just as well show you a big "Fuck you" instead.

(Sorry)
Only a few of them are. Several other people are jumping in with fake Amazon FC accounts.
well if they aren't lying and the investors have an accurate picture of what the company is actually up to then there's no problem, that's how venture capital is supposed to work, VC investment is always risky.

But there's an increasingly large amount of companies that are purely selling snakeoil that is way beyond any sort of grey area. You just need to look at the infosec scene.
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One could argue that refraining from submitting low quality content is being part of the solution. Some people would rather this site have only a few submissions per day than be filled with low-quality content.
In defense of this user we have had a few system wide outages which have shut down major communications networks and news outlets.

Additionally they're less than friendly to users who strive for anonymity via forced captcha which further empowers google's massive machine learning/data classification efforts.

Cloudflare are big and competition is something they clearly lack.
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Exponential growth is unsustainable in a 3D universe with a finite speed of light. Space is not a magical savior
> Markets don't equilibrate at the value to the customer any more than they equilibrate at the cost of production. They compromise between the two.

No, they don't compromise between them, nor do they reflect one more than the other: the basic law of supply and demand is that markets clear at the quantity and price where the marginal cost to produce equals the marginal value to customers which also equals the sale price.
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People call Monzo a tech company.
Well that sounds.. intricate.

Wouldn't it be dramatically simpler to just build the app twice?
Added a note (*) that answers your question.
I wrote some details on why or why not VCs do tech DD:

https://medium.com/startup-grind/technology-due-diligence-or...

> please do the due.

In conclusion..it's not your money, so why do you care?
Not true, Zoom has developed and deployed very sophisticated malware which would be hard to replicate on purpose or through incompetence.
WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer
Another vouch for Bill here. He's also a great speaker at conferences!

There's a list of his publicly-available talks on the Ardan Labs training repo:

https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining#william-kennedy-goin...
Yes we will fuck it up no matter what, that's why we have laws, you can't run straight pipes on a car, you can't burn the furnitures you don't need anymore, you can't kill someone, you can't throw mining byproducts into rivers &c. Why couldn't we limit the amount of plane travel people are allowed for leisure ? Ban imports of unnecessary goods ? limit product cycles (Do we need 200 new models of phones per year ?) ? Prevent subsidisation schemes ?

Nobody expects the individual to care for the planet or to even to be interested in the topic, that's why we rely on higher authorities to enforce laws.

8bn isn't a problem in itself, the hard cap is at least 50% more. The problem is that we live like there is no problem and that we deify "technology" as if progress just happens by itself and will save us if we continue in that direction. It's a textbook definition of wishful thinking. Somehow anything short of the status quo became "getting back to the middle ages" ...
Yup, totally agree that Q-learning is not the right tool for classification problems. However, it is great for an agent that needs to act on its world where it can quickly get a reward/punishment for its choice (assuming a relatively limited pool of possible actions).

And of course, there's no such thing as the single perfect algorithm. My point is just that I'm surprised Q-learning isn't talked about more.
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Good lord, you're right. I constructed the C syntax off the top of my head, and I knew about the declaration-mimics-use, so I started constructing it as if I would use it... I just somehow mixed up the [4] and the ().

C's function pointer and array syntax does make sense when you understand it, but even for experts, it can be difficult to get it right on the first go.
Is anyone able to find an actual flight footage with unaltered audio. I'm curious to see how loud this is. Considering all the flight footages are either muted or edited with music, I assume the answer is very loud.
If I were using that company & found out after the fact that they were mostly people, I might feel a little misled, but I also kind of wouldn't care. AI is a hot buzzword, but what I really care about is can I input resources (time, money, unpolished diamonds, whatever) in one end of your black box and get predictable results out the other end. If the answer is yes, do whatever you want (in an ethical manner). Whatever you're building, whether it's powered by people, software, IBM Watson, or free range chickens pecking buttons for treats, I'm happy if it works at a price I care to pay.

Until we've truly built self-replicating machines, I just assume whatever you're selling me requires a lot of people to stay competitive anyway. There's no farm-to-table AI raised by AI farmers yet.
None of what you're describing really tracks for me, having written many thousands of lines of rust and interfacing with my third party crates.

"async/await doesn't solve much" like your whole post confuses me.

I think right now a lot of rust libraries are "hyper generic" because they're intended to be lower level and to be built on top of. Like hyper, as an example. I've never found it particularly hard to work with generic libraries though.
This looks pretty interesting. Feel like a lot of blockchain projects are really focused on the tech but less focused on how people are actually supposed to engage with the tech. Looks like a cool way to at least begin to bridge that gap.
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I don't really disagree with any of that. I was just making the point that there are tradeoffs and the nature of those tradeoffs are going to depend on the situation.

Obviously, access to a banking account should have a pretty high bar even if that means some people may well end up in difficult situations where they've lost access to their money and the bank can't/won't do anything about it based on a phone conversation.
I agree, I don't see how wework is a tech company other then the fact they probably service mostly tech companies. I was stationed at wework for a while, I liked it. But I don't see how tech is involved
What do you think about this? What should we call an account like this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397...
I never hear about nature catching up to us- its always defeated and in the corner, we remain dominant. But as soon as society crumbles, meet those creatures and plants we couldnt get rid off- hyper adapted to resist us. Plants to which we are extremely allergic, who are resilient to all herbizides and selective bred for maximum spread into our ecologic niche. Animals, who by virtue of surviving in information dense environments, are very stealthy- and very clever. Carrying out of knowledge or instinct diseases and allergic contagions, to drive us further back into domes.
Most of our companion animals/plants unable to dwell in the open in the overheated world we created.
All the resources we had for the first attempt gone- no easy to reach oil, the best mines old landfills and destroyed citys.

To return from such a dark age, seems unlikely.
You can't legally guarantee a return unless you actually guarantee a return
Sure, but do you have any idea how hard it is to convince the market of something that isn't true about a company the size of GE?
Yea, it didn't occur to me either - as implementers we'd be like "why would we want the responsibility of so much scale that we need to support without corresponding revenue," but in their position they can say "we need all the tooling for that scale anyways, why don't we leverage that into better bulk discounts with the interconnections!" And presumably they've run models that say that their bulk savings from interconnect make this far from just a loss leader.
There is some value to it, yes. But what I've experienced so far is that whiteboard > individual project + culture + experience + whatever else. Thus my hunch that they are not there to show something more on top of other things but rather be the most decisive factor of all.
I find this quote very powerful. I'm thinking I could re-use it. Is it yours or if it's sourced from somewhere could you share the source?
Then the snippet should just be used for voice search. And websites should opt in to the program.
This is what makes me so angry at all the hype and fraud in the AI space. It's causing people to throw the baby out with the bathwater by ignoring all the real world progress that has been made over the last decade. Particularly in NLP and CV. The problem is that when the general public thinks AI, they think HAL9000 and Skynet, not Facebook auto tagging or speech recognition on their phone or home assistant, and unfortunately there are far too many people out there making money selling science fiction as reality.
I think the bigger mistake is to think even if it was a good sample it could gauge people’s mood - incentives for posting to social media are either happy or outrage. You will never get a silent majority “just okay” or “neutral-low” by averaging between ecstatic and outraged.
Never heard of this before......this is, quite amazing.

I wonder what the scenario for this is. You couldn't fly these in urban centers unless it was similar to flying a helicopter, no?

Also, I wonder how fuel efficient they are.
The source-controlled (and somewhat out of date) folder for LLVM is about a gigabyte on my machine.
> Cloudflare is very difficult to duplicate.

Unless you're one of their many competitors, like, say, AWS. From the S-1:

"Our current and potential future competitors include a number of different types of companies, including:

• on-premise hardware network vendors, such as Cisco Systems Inc., F5 Networks, Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., FireEye, Inc., Imperva, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Juniper Networks, Inc., and Riverbed Technology, Inc.;

• point-cloud solution vendors, including cloud security vendors such as Zscaler, Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. through Umbrella (formerly known as OpenDNS), content delivery network vendors such as Akamai Technologies, Inc., Limelight Networks, Inc., Fastly, Inc., and Verizon Communications Inc. through Edgecast, domain name system vendors services such as Oracle Corporation through DYN, NeuStar, Inc., and UltraDNS Corporation, and cloud SD-WAN vendors; and

• traditional public cloud vendors, such as Amazon.com, Inc. through Amazon Web Services, Alphabet Inc. through Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Corporation through Azure, and Alibaba Group Holding Limited through Alibaba Cloud. "
> As my grandmother's Parkinson's progressed, she had to give up knitting.

> My point is that the elderly aren't necessarily hypocrites. They have a very different lifestyle than you do. The challenges they face are different, what they're capable of is different.

IMO the thread continued at the level of intensity from where it started.
The swarm mentality in the depth of posters would be indicative of a hive mentality at play. Borg is a most apt definition as they were once individuals, but are now part of the Amazon collective.

Who knew "resistance is futile, you will be fulfilled" was a thing, not even George Orwell saw that one coming.
If you look at the blacklists they're using, they're going to hit basically all news that even touches on politics. That's bad, because it'll prevent news companies from informing voters. When blacklists begin including words like "Brexit", "Trump", "Crash", "Accident", etc. it begins to have a real impact on outlets that are reporting on current events. This leads to crap like "The 10 retirement mistakes that Millenials are making!"
>If these allegations prove to be baseless then they will receive a hefty fine by the SEC which I'm sure will at the very least take away any profits they've incurred.

No they will not. There are no rules against exaggerating information about a company you don't operate. The SEC does not fine hyperbole as it's not covered by the exchange act.
Spotify didn’t go public until a few years ago, but sure, I get your point.

Here’s Delaval, privately owned maker of milking robots:

https://www.allabolag.se/5560123928/delaval-international-ab
The accounts that she is replying to are people literally paid to post pro-amazon things on social media.

Also there is something else very fishy about the accounts, check this out. What do you think about this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397...
WeWork can't crash and burn fast enough. Maybe it will be a trigger for the next crash, when people realize the other "tech" companies are not tech companies. Most "tech" companies are marketing.
You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. Rust was never simple. :)
Wasn't one of the main points with flutter having really good fps?
This is honestly one of my biggest fears with 5G: that this will become economical
Someone else said 3,823 search engine options are given in Firefox. (They still auction off the top 7 initially-on-screen options, apparently).

How many of those do you think are... even really usable?

I think it is not unreasonable to suggest that choosing randomly (for default, or for whatever X can show up initially on-screen without scrolling) is going to give many many non-expert users an unusable search experience, and an unusable Android experience to the extent that search is significant.
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Although I haven't quite cured cancer yet, I'm optimistic that if you give me a billion dollars I'll find a cure for cancer. So can I please have a billion dollars?
Not if this research is what causes the stock to drop and is what allows them to collect a reward. Then the merits of the accusations doesn't actually matter and they don't have to true for the people shorting the stock to profit from releasing them.

I have no idea if these accusations are true, but the accuser's short position on the stock has zero positive bearing on the validity of the accusations.
I'm more shocked that NET is still available!
Super neat! I will definitely be checking this lib out.
Or a bit of both - we'll wreck the environment thanks to AI being used as a political destabilizer (cf Cambridge Analytica).

Note this doesn't require AGI, just basic machine learning finding ways to push our buttons to make us click more buttons...
The radio version: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/749135286/episode-931-the-it-...

The climax of this story involves the belief that “Linux servers don’t just crash”.
Yeah that's a good example. Say for alpha go for instance. Without the DL network the q learner would be massive. And that's just for a board game. Imagine trying to do that for systems like moving human body parts. Every single body configuration would be a state and then you have every single possible action from each state.
Random selection would be extremely easy to abuse, and result in a garbage user experience. With random selection, creating new shell companies running some basic web search implementation and a ton of ads. With random selection and an unlimited supply of such entrepreneurs, the users would statistically always be forced to choose from one of four scammer search engines to proceed with the setup.
I saw bill shared this link on his twitter - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3-day-advanced-ultimate-go-trai...
I'm very curious how are you using AI to optimize software engineering. Do you have a linter that catches bugs? Do you have a system that generates code from a very high level language? I'm really curious what is the actual part of software development you guys managed to automate. Saying "we use AI and automation to optimize software development" doesn't make any sense if you can't explain exactly which problem you guys managed to solve. When you go to an aerospace engineer you don't say "Hey! I managed to optimize airplane building". You say "Hey! I made this software that given your jet engine, optimizes it for cost/safety/efficiency!"
So basically humanity loves new year?
How about Slack, PagerDuty, Zoom, Crowdstrike, or Pinterest? These were all in the last few months.
It is strongly advised that if you get a question you've already practiced then you should tell your interviewers. At least that's the supposed code of conduct. So, what you're suggesting is that the code of conduct is just words and this is all just a set of moves that we have to go through.
> The difference here is that Google owns Android and Google doesn't have to bid.

This is a nonsensical argument. What is the practical difference between Google bidding and Google automatically taking a place? If Google bids, that money goes to Google, so it's as if they didn't spend any money. In both cases, by Google taking a spot, Google loses revenue from the bidder who would have otherwise taken that spot.
Yes with some exceptions:

1. To use it in a closed-sourced application you have to keep the Qt libraries dynamically linked and bundled with the application. The license is fine as long as it is dynamically linked.

Example: https://github.com/gitahead/gitahead Used to be closed-source and uses Qt5. Now it is open-source and is under the MIT license.

2. Static linking however requires you to either purchase a commercial license or you release your source under GPL-3.0 and then you can statically link your app.

No. 1 is probably what you are after.
So, question:

Why is this fraud, but Uber isn't?

This company claims they're using humans to build apps while they develop an AI platform out of hand-wavium.

Uber claims they're using humans to drive cars while they develop self-driving cars out of hand-wavium.

Seems like the same model to me.
It is not clear how Vendr avoids the conflict of interest when negotiating.
Site owners can turn off the captcha by reducing the security level.
I understand why it exists, I just wish they didn't use a Google service for it...

The lack of competition probably shows the difficulty of the task. A global CDN is complicated and expensive (physical infrastructure, all the interconnect agreements) and a big technical challenge.
Interesting! Have you bought and sold between any two of your customers? For example, have you bought a GitHub enterprise license for InVision, and procured InVision for GitHub?
Unions have sued their own members for speaking with managers about grievances.

When someone did an end-run around the agreed-upon way of handling conflict, and thought they'd go leverage their personal friendship with the manager to get what they want? Yeah, I could how that might happen, that's one of things unions often try to prevent.
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Random is neither definable, auditable nor equal. It would be the absolute worst solution
There's a ton of tech involved in all kinds of companies: hotels, airlines, hospitals, insurance companies, anything really. None of them are "tech companies".

Neither is Uber/Lyft/Grab
For example, SAT Solvers, logic programming and theorem provers, classical planning, classical search, adversarial search (MCTS) etc are alll AI techniques that have nothing to do with "curve fitting".

None of those techniques are new, nor are they fueling the AI hype cycle.

I purposely conflated AI with "deep learning" because it is the source of the hype. And in reality, what most AI startups claim to be using.