skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do feel like that. From my past few years dealing with automotive clients, I haven't heard of a single company that was not completely obsessed with it.

All and every piece of electronics we did in the automotive sector had some lame "AI platform" attached somewhere, for no apparent reason.

The most blatant "AI washing" I saw was an "AI power steering" which was a plain PID, inferior on all fronts to purpose made systems already on the market.

Second to it was an "AI airbag," which was basically an OpenCV hello world that will trigger the airbag ahead of time. Terribly unreliable, and would've probably killed more people than saved.
I used Trello with relatively good results. The process was:

1. Create a board with a single “Dump” column

2. Create cards in the Dump column (or “share” to the column whenever I read something online)

3. Every week, categorise the card into new columns. Each column was a broad category like “Philosophy” and “Startup ideas”

4. When the board became unwieldy, with too many columns, I created a new board (Philosophy) and split the categories/columns again (Stoicism and Nihilism)

The act of reorganising the board was super useful for remembering everything, a bit like spaced repitition
There are explicit laws in NYC to allow this behaviour which is understandable given the power of the taxi lobby and history of the city.

Similar laws simply aren't present in most other cities. Stopping in the middle of the road to pick up passengers is illegal and drivers do it since the police are never there. Hence my point that Uber would never program this illegality into their self driving algorithm.
They should add a column for cost per record /s
I think the key metric for programming language popularity is something like “when someone makes a thing work, how easy is it for someone else a) to find out about it b) understand what’s happening, and c) shoehorn the solution into their own janky application”.
> There are a fair few jobs doing it, but they are relatively low level, have no "community", no real way to facilitate referrals

I’m only tangentially exposed to the biomedical field but I’m fairly sure this isn’t broadly true. I’m a member of a single cell RNA sequencing slack group whose members host a meetup twice a month. Most members work in wetlabs and many conduct research into the effects of various drugs on cancer.

The groups are probably harder to find (than programming meetups) but I doubt there are none of them.
A colleague of mine in chemistry gave his thoughts on AI for protein folding recently: “things keep getting better, but they’re nowhere close to being good”.

I think part of the issue at play here is the cost of confirming success, not simply the cost of generating a plausible solution. In most domains of AI that have shown success, the cost of confirmation is trivial (look at the image and check the label) whereas the cost of generating a plausible solution was high.

Like many AI fields, I believe that the real breakthrough will not be a direct approach, but an approach the solves the most pressing barrier to using AI in the first place.
Stats from the article:

- 4 digits takes 6.5 minutes to crack on average

- 6 digits takes 666 minutes to crack on average

- 10 digits takes 6665760 minutes to crack on average

All 3 of these work out to the same number: about 12.5 attempts per second.

So if you use a 5 character _alphanumeric_ passcode (62 character key space), then it would take 62^5 / 12.5 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 848 days to brute force in the worst case (and half that on average). With 6 characters it would take more than a century.
"Until someone builds a real self-driving car it is just an idea."

I think it's more than an idea when we have self driving cars, they just don't meet our standards for safety yet so they aren't legal on public roads.

I mean, we had airplane flight in 1903. Good chance you'd die if you went up in one for the first decade. But we did have powered flight.
Is there a reason not to consider apache airflow? https://airflow.apache.org/

You could run it on a digital ocean droplet so you don't have to worry about your laptop turning off. It covers retry and cron-style job kickoffs.
not at all. Every search engine I've tried has paled in comparison to Google's results.
Definitely not the Euro. Its not only not inflation proof infact because poorer country will need higher inflation that's exactly whats going to happen. It's not stable, Brexit, Greece, spain, italy have all gone through a lot of recessions. Not to mention they don't have a central bond market. The Euro can't really ever be a replacement.
Always great to hear there are companies out there thriving with these more powerful languages. The tired example I always turn to is Ocaml being the language for all the code at janestreet (~900 employees).

I've always been annoyed by the "there are no X coders" argument. Coding skills are broadly transferrable. My team's code base is all python, and we've had successful team members who'd previously worked only in javascript, Java, C#, etc. When we tell recruiters that any of these languages will do, they hate that. Oof.
> And as always, if income > fine. They will just pay the fine

Up until the point they are banned.

Everyone, especially lawmakers, are pretty sick of tech companies breaking the law in order to be "disruptive". As we've seen recently with all of the e-scooter bans.
Not so much an appeal to authority as this is a fact I am correct about
I don't know specifically, e.g. if there are any such pauses on Zen. Also, Zen doesn't yet support AVX-512 so a big possible source of variation is moot.

I don't know if any AMD chip has ever had different turbo speeds for any ISA. It should be noted that even without that, any chip can still run slower with heavier instructions because they hit some other limit: thermal, TDP, current, etc.

AMD has used an interesting "adaptive clocking" scheme since steamroller, and apparently this is still in effect in Zen:

https://www.realworldtech.com/steamroller-clocking/

This handles the same type of voltage droop worst case that Intel apparently handles by dispatch throttling. It would be interesting to test it, since the clock elongation should be visible when you measure instruction timing relative to a clock not affected by the adaptation.
Autopilot tends to be engaged on freeways / motorways where accidents are much lower than driving through town. If you do the stats properly Tesla's autopilot is probably more crash prone than just having a human drive.

There were some stats that if you compare model S deaths to other luxury cars in the same price range they are about 3x higher for the S. Death rates in luxury cars are much lower than the average vehicle.

I think self driving tech will cut roads deaths eventually but it needs more work.
This doesn't work for the most common issue with taxis: the smell.

And often that is the hardest thing to get rid of.
One of the key selling points of lisp is that it allows you to easily build a language that more closely maps to the problem you're trying to solve. In the 1970s, this was powerful because parsing was an active area of research.

Today, parsing is one of the least interesting problems in language design (unless you're C++ or based on natural language). Most of the effort of spinning up a new language is in the backend (optimization and error checking), where lisp doesn't offer a compelling advantage (well, writing folding rules in C is a total pain, but this is a recursive problem... I can just write a code generator).
Hi. Thanks for the interest!

1. Having left PayByPhone and the parking sector years ago, I don't think I'm one to comment intelligently on current innovators. Quick observation... I still see too much capital being spent on custom, vulnerable, armored, escalating, and gratuitous hardware solutions when simple solutions are already in hand. But that's the classic bias of a naive "software guy" looking at an old-thinking industry, isn't it? :-)

2. re/ parking lots ... Depending on the city, zoning, taxation, and its appetite for redevelopment, a parking lot may be a path for a landowner to pay property taxes and flow a bit of cash while the awaiting the right time to develop it into a new use. The new use may push the same parking, or more, underground. IMO automating parking into something ultradense in urban centres makes sense, but I can understand reluctance to pour capital improvements into land that may change form radically if it's in the path for commercial or residential redevelopment. This is part of the reason we found it easy to sell a low/no-capital solution to parking operators, compared to paystations and hardware solutions. Roaming driverless shared cars that are highly utilized and rarely need to park ... that's an attractive vision, I think. But maybe that starts to look a bit like public transit?

Me, I try to ride my bicycle, walk, and take transit everywhere. :-)
You might want to consider https://xkcd.com/1958/.
Costs will be very high.

Have you ever been to third world countries and wondered why their shopkeepers, barbers, regular service people don't live in houses with good materials?

Because its too expensive for them. That expensiveness will come here to the US
Doesn’t have to be, just have to disarm the world powers and create a one world government. I’m sure everyone will be fine with that.
Its python! The moment you need to measure precise execution time of functions is the moment you should be looking at rewrite to C, C++, Rust, maybe even Java.
Anybody else feel like they are on both sides of this? Do these people REALLY only end up supporting the products that end up failing?

The first time I tried a 1st gen iPod, I was amazed and had to have it. Then bought a Zune HD when it came out, and kept it long into when everyone else had moved on.

Windows Phone, yup, I was a supporter. But was also doing yoga, WHM, intermittent fasting, etc. I was "barefoot" running before Born to Run came out, I rode a single speed mountain bike which never really became a thing.

I didn't read the entire report because I don't have an account, but are the people who are supposedly the "Harbingers of Failure" just more likely to be early adopters who are more likely trying new things and therefore they end up liking and supporting things that end up failing?
I tried to apply for a in-between job at a large outdoor store. They wanted me to use the HireVue software. Unfortunately, there was no way to appeal; the email link they sent was one of those "noreply@contractcompany.com" deals.
We have enough of the endless wars AND endless sanctions. Framing it as a dichotomy between the two unnecessarily constrains the debate. Framing and constraining the realm of options is a very successful political strategy.
Thats not how global debt works.
Some combination of easy integration and a big ecosystem of active development? Makes a lot of sense to me.
> or 'purchased' by army/navy at a reverse discount to prop Boeing up.

What use would the military even have for such a plane? The only thing I can think of is ferrying personnel out to deployments, but I understand 737s are fairly short range planes and better, cheaper charter flights are probably available.
To be fair it just came to market too late.

Zip drives where already on the market for a couple of years with similar price and capacity and I remember them to be more popular.
I think the main immediately recognizable change would be a slide in dollar denominated assets— houses, stocks, bonds, etc, as countries and corporations and crime syndicates stop using the US as a safe place to invest their wealth. Though that may go along with inflation, so it might be hard to tell it’s happening right away.
I would say teaching LISP is more of a child abuse than teaching Swift or Java (FYI I am not a fan of Swift or Java either)
Why is becoming dependent on US-supplied liquefied natural gas any better? If Germany has two or more reliable suppliers of natural gas (Russia and US), neither one can extort them by threatening to flip the switch.
> Why would the United States be the one to decide if Germany is allowed to build a pipeline to Russia or not?

Because the US is the sole guarantor of German sovereignty. It's why the US has tens of thousands of troops in germany. It's why US decides if and how much oil/gas Japan or South Korea gets from Russia. It's why the US decides if the Dutch get to sell ASML semiconductor equipment to China. It's why the US dictates whether Canada arrests a chinese executive. Pax Americana. Protection doesn't come cheap. It certainly isn't free.

> Image if it was Germany that used sanctions to prevent the US from building a pipeline to Mexico. Would you be ok with that?

Of course not, but germany is in no position to dictate anything to the US. That's the point. If germany had tens of thousands of troops stationed in the US and provided safety to the US and mexico was germany's enemy, then germany would prevent the US from doing business with mexico.

I'm not saying it's right or moral. It's just basic geopolitics. If you depend on another nation for your safety and host tens of thousands of their troops in your country, you are really not a sovereign nation and hence don't have the luxury of making all the decisions on your own.
additional experts warned against the long-term effects (like increased risk of cardiovascular disease) keto might have on the body.

This is why (well, among other reasons) I'm categorizing this article in the "bullshit" category. Everything I've read on this subject (which is a fair amount), and everything I've heard from medical professionals (including my GP, my cardiologist, and a doctor who specializes in keto) suggests that keto is better from a cardiovascular health standpoint, as people on the keto diet routinely see an improved lipid profile, including more "healthy" cholesterol, and lower triglycerides.
and university press release this article seems based on: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/walking-with-atoms
You are wrong. And the "serious autonomous teams" are also wrong in not using AI (which is mostly true AFAIK, as long as we don't call basic image recognition to already be "AI").

But that's just because the AI we currently have - basically idiot-savants made of silicon - is mostly useless to them, since the kind of AI they would need for actual, 100%, no-compromise level 5 self driving capabilities hasn't been invented yet, nor does anyone have a promising idea as to how to invent one.

I am pretty sure that the only way to actually reach this goal requires a full-blown AGI. Because what we call "driving" and what is often misunderstood as a rather mundane and repetitive mechanical operation of machinery governed by a few simple ground rules is actually an insanely complex task that requires several higher-level capabilities of the human intelligence: besides pattern recognition, quick evaluations of situations with an unbounded number of variables and application of knowledge and concepts to an unlimited number of ever-new traffic situations it requires foresight, communication (of the difficult nonverbal kind) and sometimes even carefully dosed brazenness - to know when rules should better be ignored or bent instead of followed.
I find these arguments—about how a certain thing is arguably “impossible”—to be the most tiresome arguments on HN.

Everything that is possible today... used to be “impossible”.

If something appears “impossible” to you... there’s no information there about whether it is possible.
My average drive distance is under 10 miles. The expected number of miles for Waymo to disengage once is over 3 orders of magnitude higher. I'd have to take 1000 trips before Waymo would have disengaged.

That does not jive with your numbers (1 disengage per trip, roughly 10 miles), unless you're saying that Waymo's numbers are juiced by few city miles?
The thing is any currency that took over would be used for similar ends.
Not sure I would want to rely on New Zealand to be safe, Natural disasters will take you out well before any nuclear or zombie apocalypse. Wanaka is on the alpine fault line and overdue the big one.
Pretty sure Logo was originally implemented with a lisp, no?

Don't fall into the trap thinking lisp is just functional.
Call it what you want, its still a screwed up way to run things.
? Dirty money is welcome anywhere. The whole overpriced apartment ghost towns that spread in most popular american cities are basically storage for dirty money.
The first airplane that received CAT IIIc autoland certification was the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar back in 1970. It's far from a big deal 50 years later.
Plant patents date back to 1930, predating even the discovery that DNA is the genetic material.

In many crops the seeds planted are hybrids, which don't breed true either. That non-issue has been there since before you, and possibly your parents, were born.

What keeps the (gasp! shudder!) corporate ownership of these things from sinking us into a dystopian hellscape? Competition. You don't like one kind of hybrid? Buy a different kind. The seed makers compete fiercely for farmers' business. The same is true of GMOs.
Nope, not making enough to be worth the power drain and the noise anymore.
Forth is more low level, ie. there is no object memory/GC at what one would describe as implementation level. On the other hand all the Lisp Machines essentially are hardware implementations of something vaguely Forth-like with some level of hardware support for lisp-style tagged pointers.
I just built an MVP for a search engine that lets you use a whitelist or a blacklist for your searches. https://cowjar.com
So maybe other languages have finally beat lisp at its own game? Makes sense from the wave of functional language features becoming popular in the 2010s.
Quil is pretty cool for that: http://quil.info/

Also Clojure can use all of Java and JavaScript, so there's lots of tangible thing you can build. That said, here I'd mostly agree with you, the barrier to entry should be as small as possible, you just won't find the amount of tutorials and guides, and tooling that JS or Java would have on its own.
Logo basically was Lisp -- a small parser on top of MACLISP.

There were some later small implementations (e.g. for the Apple II) that were written from scratch and didn't need to implement all of Lisp (e.g. lambda, plists, etc).
One might not to want to teach LISP first, for the same reason I wouldn't teach explicit shot mechanics to a six year old playing basketball.
It does bloody work as is. People bloody say "bloody verb" all the bloody time.

Here's a bloody example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGWhjojt5dw
Until the food arrives, you don’t know how long it will take. When it arrives then you just... what, leave hungry?

I’m not paying just for food. I’m paying for the entire dining experience. I also probably have plans after the restaurant that are now delayed or a babysitter waiting at home for me to return. If you not only don’t deliver on a good dining experience but also inconvenience me I should get a refund. In my experience, restaurants generally understand that and I don’t even have to ask for the refund.
Most people don’t live in Japan.

There are no commuter trains Tasmania.
This is very cool.

Relatedly: I often run while listening to podcasts. When I do, I remember much more of the material. And when I revisit certain blocks around the neighborhood, I find myself recalling what I heard during the run.

The spacial encoding of memories seems very potent and under-investigated.
Why not just buy SPY? The expense ratio is only 0.09% and it's one security to track.

Given $1000 to invest, I can't fathom trying to individually own an average of $2 worth of each of 500 companies. And that doesn't even begin to cover it. Because the S&P 500 is market cap weighted, you would need to own $45.70 of AAPL, the top company. I don't know what the 500th stock is, but you'd probably need to own about $0.10 of it.

Even if trades themselves are "free", you still need to pay something like $0.13 per trade in SEC fees. So you are paying about a 100% commission on each of the smallest stocks you buy. And then another 100% commission when those stocks fall out of the index and you sell.

Just buy SPY. There are many good reasons that it has grown to $307 billion in net assets.
You'd have to have some way to enforce that people actually make the payments. And once you do that, it seems like an intermediary that just aggregates microtransactions and takes care of settlement at the end of the month or whatever would be a lot easier.
Let People Move to Jobs
They'll get hit and sheared off by plows and over-size loads, or just by drunks or idiots still driving dumb cars.

I do not think people have a solid grasp of how many millions of miles of road would need to be technified for self-driving cars to be widely viable.

Most likely, it's going to be a niche thing, tightly restricted to certain places that can afford to build and maintain the infrastructure.
There's https://dystroy.org/broot/

Are those fancy tree displays actually useful for anything or is just pretty?
A bit off topic, but what the hell does the word "Alpha" mean in their marketing? Are they just going to call every AI they create from now on "Alpha_"
The good connections' access to outstanding smart college kids would also be threatened. Which means these connections will have to find other, hopefully less dynasty-reinforcing ways to recruit.
DARPA and Deepmind program reads licensed plates around corners
This is a literal reciency bias. You did these things more reciently than the wd games. And the 2d games were more fanciful... did you play mario in 3d or was it some simulator???
Firefox has long supported multiple profiles. Network settings are per profile.
Monoculture is working just fine. If you disagree, try to compete with it. Good luck on that.
> but an approach the solves the most pressing barrier to using AI in the first place.

what do you think is the "most pressing barrier to using AI"?
21 was pitching IoT ASIC mining and it still looked like a waste of electricity.
Docklands Light Railway works quite well with 45 stations. Humans can take over if needed. Running since 1987 so fairly old tech.
Even if the death toll 1/100th ... the few dead will be paraded as examples. There will be outrage. There will be lawsuits. You are correct, it is not logical, but logic does not always prevail.
Mr. Hitzinger is saying that L5 cars will never happen. Most people feel that L5 is equivalent to artificial general intelligence, and it's pretty much a given that it may never happen. But now that Waymo and Cruise and everyone else have failed to hit their self-imposed milestones, the more pressing question to ask is whether geo-fenced only-in-good-weather autonomy will ever happen.
Eagerly waiting for CASP14 in 2020. CASP is a biennial competition. AlphaFold participated in CASP13 in 2018.
Curious what/how it does better with socks5. I'd assume it's the same code.
Sanctions are standoffish modern version of siege warfare.
I can't seem to find the "Download PDF" link, in "Open Access", I only have links to view on PubPub.

Are only some books available for download?
It's not necessarily that they beat lisp at its own game. I still think the tight integration story of lisp is unmatched nearly anywhere else, but, when viewed holistically, lisp's advantages have become less compelling over time for people who have already written software outside of the ecosystem. It suffers from a lot of the same problems as smalltalk.