skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Human level AI" is a tricky wording. Sure, we may never get a program we would trust to serve in a jury, convince us about existence of God or just have a casual conversation with. But ask Go players how is that resistance to machines going.

When I drive and there's a child walking on the sidewalk, I'm not analyzing the chances the child will jump onto the road. I'm just assuming the parents have succeeded at explaining how to not kill yourself, without that assumption I would go crazy with too much things to worry about. AI does not get crazy, nor even tired, with too much tasks. It might usually come up with the same result that I always apply - just drive slowly through roads with children on sidewalks. But it might do something I won't do - slow down even more if the child seems to be doing something suspect.

One of the problems with Google-designed self-driving is that it goes slow and refuses to go if uncertain. I imagine that's why those cute little cars without driving wheel were axed. Even if the system has driven a bajillion miles without inflicting any risky situation, it won't sell if it can't guarantee doing your commute in your usual time. But it can't assume the same risk you take every day, that if that child behaves extra stupid and law misfires, then you might find yourself traumatized and without a driving license. Because when AI loses that license, it's killing the whole business. So, the bar for safety must be higher, slowing you down to a fully-controllable crawl, or constraining to high-safety situations. Hence, you get all those highway-assist features all over the place.

Disclaimer: I work in Google, but have no insider information about Waymo. Just remember these marketing materials back from the Chaffeur days and still think that was the way to go.
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Presumably an AI recommendation algorithm would be incentivised to at least show videos that encouraged a depressed viewer to stay alive to keep viewing, otherwise they'd get less engagement. Similarly encouraging viewers of violent content to go out and commit violence (and probably be jailed) would result in less engagement, so ideally the AI would learn not to do that.
As a long time baseball fan, the "punishment" is a joke. This is one of the worst cheating scandals in baseball history and Rob Manfred (Commissioner of MLB) basically gave a slap on the wrist. Every team/player in the league would be willing to trade this "punishment" for a World Series title.
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A very nice introduction for mere mortals to J is here:

Fly Straight, Dammit!

http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2019/08/12/fly-straight-dammit...

and here:

A Shallow Introduction to the K Programming Language

https://web.archive.org/web/20130801233812/http://www.kuro5h...
Agreed, level 5 autonomy is an ever shrinking number of edge cases. Human drivers also have edge cases like being drunk or otherwise incapacitated by strokes, heart attacks, getting phone calls, old, tired, etc. We still allow them on the road despite this and the notion that those things are some of the root causes of the many deadly accidents each year. Once autonomous cars are obviously safer than that, it will become the norm. We're not that far off from that. First we'll see mass deployment of level 3 & 4 first with safety drivers and when it becomes clear that those are a liability at best, also without. From there to level 5 is a matter of semantics since we'll basically have vehicles driving themselves most of the time.
Ok, you could have come up with 100 examples. But the only one you give me is one from 2018, where Trump lifted sanctions on a Russian oligarch's companies. But Trump had imposed the sanctions himself some months before, he actually left the sanctions in place on the oligarch's assets and lifted those to his companies after he reduced his stakes in them.

PolitiFact explains well the context in this article:

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jan...

"most experts we spoke to said this is a case of the Trump administration’s clumsiness, not coziness.

Back in April, when the sanctions hit the aluminum giant Rusal, it sent shockwaves through the global aluminum markets. The price of aluminum soared over the following weeks. Europe, which relies heavily on Russia’s metals market, faced the prospect of plant closures and lost jobs. Even now, the European Union strongly supports the lifting of sanctions."

"according to experts, the Treasury discovered it had bitten off more than it could chew.

"They were done clumsily," Alina Polyakova, of the Brookings Institution, said of the sanctions. "It seems clear that the administration did not plan for the dramatic effects on aluminum markets and the knock-on effects on European businesses.""

So the only example you came up with in fact says nothing of the presumed friendliness of Trump towards Russia. Next one.
Drone bar tender :)
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Lots of things look like cults from the outside, for me at least the other HN thread from today about self-driving cars was a perfect example of that, it had lots and lots of commenters (I presume the big majority of them pretty smart people) saying things like “I believe” and dismissing those that didn’t “believe” (in the idea of self-driving cars, in that case).
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> Also, inflation. If the government does something that increases inflation (like printing money), then they're essentially taxing savings.

Not exactly, if the government prints money, then the value of the dollar will decrease, but it the value of other assets will increase to adjust for the lower dollar value. So while printing money can be thought of as a tax on cash savings, it's not a tax on all assets (e.g., stocks, property, etc.).
Why do the two photos at the top of that article look so weird? They look like 3D renders almost. Is that what it actually looks like to the eye too, if one looked at Saturn from a spacecraft orbiting around it?
If you're qualified to work for a team that's hiring, transfers are pretty easy. I work for GOOG outside CA and know a lot of coworkers who transferred teams within the company from out of state. Lateral mobility is something of a perk.
Hi there, I just wanted to pass along some quick thoughts.

First, as others have mentioned you absolutely have to provide some kind of usable live test so that people can interact with your tool. My suggestion for doing this with as little friction as possible is, instead of messing with limited accounts or trials, just provide a link to a live demo that is scanning a few interesting keywords. I recommend showing a household name like Apple alongside a much smaller company alongside the EFF, for example.

Second, I really respect that you're trying to keep the price low, but I have grave concerns that you are making the wrong assumption about where your paying clients' pain points are. Specifically, the issue that would make people use this service is that it works amazingly well, is reliable and user friendly. If you achieve these baselines, the typical customer is going to be willing to pay more for this service than the competitors, not less. To be clear, a huge number of people could end up using this tool everyday as the main part of their job. Do you really think that their employers are going to care that your per-seat cost is $7 instead of $300? If anything, your service is so cheap that you might lose enterprise customers because it appears to be too cheap and there can be very legit longevity concerns. The API is great news until you consider that the CTO's job is to consider a) is this the best product and b) how likely is it to disappear or otherwise fail? Jobs get lost over integrations with services that go bankrupt.

Long story short: I think that idea has amazing potential but you need to seriously reconsider your pricing because at best you're burning potential revenue and at worst you aren't charging enough to scale to be the company you could be.
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I don't even think level 5 at individual car level is needed. Tesla can operate their fleet like a Amazon does with their warehouse robots.
In the Clojure community we just got access to all of python http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/10/hugging-face-gp...

I think learning Clojure will continue to pay off the reach you can get with it in one language is insane
Climate change is like a religion now, anyone who disagress or questions it is automatically infidel.. oops I mean "denialist"
I was not trying to be snarky, it is just that one gets a feeling but no specifics.
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yes. very much this! it's harder to spot a fake domain when subdomains and browser shenanigans are involved when writing an email for example than when a game called "spot the fake" is played.
> if your product is a wedding cake, your MVP is a single layer

I rather prefer the analogy put forward by Intercom: try to cupcake it instead[0], have a finished mini-version of the product instead of just one layer of the full version.

I believe the idea is the same as Nikki’s, just the analogy possibly more apt.

[0] https://www.intercom.com/blog/start-with-a-cupcake/
The link says 2018, but this was published in 2014
> Furthermore, because you're an Iowa-denialist you probably should lose your job and never hold another job ever again.

Cancel Culture! Your attempt to silence my Iowa-denialism proves that the Iowa-exists researchers are a dissent squashing cabal hell bent on silencing any and all critics.

More clicks, more views, more money. The BS continues, and we are all worse off for it.
I get it the consulting on the integration but on the features, the first customers that request a particular feature would own the code for it.
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True, but humans can see a bunch of kids loitering on top of a bridge, get suspicious and change lane or slow down as a precaution
This is great for an atmospheric game. It's so easy to adapt things on the fly that it could provide a dynamic atmosphere to whatever is happening in-game.
Usually media will "deplatform" (even in the ages before social media) things that the consensus of society deems sufficiently harmful.

How these questions can be still honestly debated in the intellectual sense is a valid question and we should ensure there are good platforms for it, but "family tv" style media like youtube would have good grounds for adopting a policy against obvious denialism propaganda.

edit: not sure which point elicits the voter opposition, maybe the family-tv part since it's more opinionated? i'd like to flesh out the point: Youtube is rather selective about content it allows, it bans a lot of tame stuff, and it bans political speech like white supermacism. I guess this argument for banning more things can be viewed as a sort of whataboutism by people who would like youtube to be a free speech platform? That's a valid argument I guess, but not something I subscribe to - youtube is in the corporate curated ad-supported content category, despite the user-contributed content nature.
The parent is not making a legal argument, but a civic one. The argument is that our society will benefit from embracing free speech and suffer from censorship, regardless of legality.
Well, I obviously wouldn't do anything when they are staying in the apartment but once they check out, I would use that to turn off the lights, air conditioner and close the shutters.

My parents have an apartment they rent and it's happened that guests forget to turn off the air conditioner at the end of their stay... It's not cheap to pay for that for multiple days not to mention that it's bad for the environment
I'm surprised that people on HN accept this new era of scientific denialism. Regressing back to the era where scientists were prosecuted and jailed for saying things like 'geocentrism is wrong and the earth is not flat' is not a good idea.

And make no mistake, for all the complaints about the poor climate change deniers being censored, those same people are harassing scientists with the backing of the fossil fuel industry. But it seems people are more concerned about a teenage talking about climate change than they are the companies and conspiracy theorists harassing scientists.
Just to add to what others already said : You could also invest in making use of your time to create values in other, more 'social' but techy ways.

I also work in a bank, and started spending some of my idle time preparing to organise meetups, invite external speakers, and find ideas that would contribute to tech for everybody. Things like pushing for the start of a tech blog for example. This usually requires finding the right people, know how to convince, and other things you won't get blocked on, while staying on the tech side. Or even spend time writing one pagers on how your company could become more efficient.

Just another perspective. Not everything you can learn has to do with your computer. you could also spend more time with some of your business pips for example and learn more from their processes.

If you really just want to iterate fast and write code all day, maybe your current environment is not the best for you :).
What do you think of NANO, the cryptocurrency?
This needs a free trial.

No trial = no interest.

As important, the trial should not require a credit card, because this is just some random site with no established reputation that may or may not employ shady cancellation practices.
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I am not a lawyer too but, from what I know, the police do not prosecute crimes. They bring their reports to a DA who decides to charge or not. And the DAs, being an elected official and seeing what is the public opinion of these crimes from the prop 47, do not want to charge them. And if the DAs are not going to charge these crimes anyways there is no point for the police to catch the criminals.
> Are details of this publicly available?

Yes and no. No, there was never anything published about the Google biller encryption system. But yes, there is now a lot of information available about encryption. The state of the art has advanced a lot in 20 years.
I'd say some similar long-term chipping dynamics would apply (between river-stone and certain types of icy-water flow) and sphere is then just one of many smooth shapes that you can get out of such a system.
Carpentry?
So presumably every self-driving vehicle is going to be constantly streaming all sorts of information in their purview to a central hub?

That is a privacy nightmare without regulation on scrubbing extraneous information, done before upload: for example blocking out of pedestrian data; not just faces but clothing and gait, and probably also any data captured through windows.

It would be ideal to have a limited view of just the roads and signage, and have a retention plan that gradually keeps less and less historical data.

For accident review more of the data might be required, so vehicles should keep the last 24 hours of raw data.
You'll face roughly the same response from denying the Holocaust happened or for saying the earth is flat. I assume you don't think those are respectable positions that deserve serious consideration. If you do, then how about people who think they are vampires, and those who claim to be reborn pharaohs? Is there any limit where you just go "this is nonsense and I'm not gonna waste my time on it"? Are you part of a cult at that point?

The debate over climate denial boils down to what sort of respectability the position has, is it a serious contender, or is it a wacko idea?
One time I was interviewing at a pretty big media company for online publications in the Scandinavian region - has a bunch of magazines and the rights to distribute a lot of international magazines in the region. Probably their biggest magazines were home improvement interior design type stuff (so now people familiar can pinpoint what company it was)

Anyway, the guy in charge of tech was pretty young, early 20s, and at some point in selling myself I talked up my familiarity with wai and wcag and first off he needed explaining what they were and then he said "we don't have any disabled users" which I mean, if there is any company that would have an aging customer base with all that implies it was this company. I basically got a little hot headed and told him he was wrong (I was still polite though), anyway I didn't get the job (not necessarily for that reason bu t it did ruin the mood as it were)

Several years later I was consulting at a major Television company in Denmark (the one you would think of if you thought major Television company in Denmark) and he had recently been made the head of the development there.

Meandering anecdote done - change is supposed to come from the head of the beast, and it ain't coming.
I think the problem is not that the opposing views exist, but that the modern distribution channels make it very easy to serve to each his own. The result is not a productive (even if heated) debate in search of truth, but pools of opposing propaganda. When we lose the common ground for debate, we seem to lose the power of consensus. And I think that is something we can blame the social networks for.

As a journalist, I think a lot about what to publish and what not to. Not based on the opinions or world views held, but based on the validity of the arguments. The recommendation algorithms only care about maximizing views. When you add advertising money to the mix, the problem just amplifies, resulting in real damage for the society.
And I'm making an argument that this has already been considered in both the legal and civic spheres, weighing both the benefits of free speech with some of the problems that it brings. The question here (and in many other similar situations) is where to draw the line.
OP's tool looks great, and this is definitely _not_ a winner-takes-all kind of market. I agree that the lack of a free plan/trial makes it difficult to try out and assess.

Plug: if you're tentative to buy in to try it, though, I'm building another tool like this that's in private beta right now. Feel free to contact me (info on profile) if you'd like to try it out for free!
There are issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21997412
Well you pointed out one reason a in person school is better than the internet. I think having a face to face teacher is a big help, plus students you can easily interact with helps as well. And shoot isn't that the whole point of college, to have a discourse?
I think to many people attend college, and it is to expensive. But I don't think the internet has obviated the classroom.
Here's a good article explaining why centralization is unlikely to happen in NANO: https://medium.com/@clemahieu/emergent-centralization-due-to...
A few ideas :

* Sit together as a team, agree on 'best practises'. Summarize them in a written form and refer back to it. Avoids having the same discussions multiple times.

* Try to automate all that can be : For example using an auto formatter avoids the 'this method is too long, or the curly braces come here discussions'.

* If it is a specific problem with someone, talk about hoew you feel about the behaviour, not whether it's right or wrong. Explaining how you feel can help the person in front understand the facts without having to specifically agree. Feelings are irrational by nature.

In the end though : "Arguing with a DEVELOPER is like wrestling with a pig in the mud. After a few minutes you realize the pig likes it."
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It's totally fine to dip feet in the water without commiting to anything.

Clearly this is all just validation of a product. Will people use our product if it's free? Will they use if there is a small price? A business plan is easy when theres demand for a product established.
the point is that they don't.

they set up an organization with a charter that protects their well intentioned goals, and by having lot's of members they insure that no majority is ever able to change the goals.
Strong agree. I think there's also something to be said for non-enterprise customers, though, and I think they're an underserved market. Take folks like indie authors, journalists, and small startups. They want media monitoring for themselves/their product, but don't want to shell out as much $$$ for an enterprise-grade tool with enterprise-grade pricing.

Of course this is a smaller market than the enterprise one, but it's a niche that I think exists and could be catered to.

Full disclosure: I'm also working on a tool similar to Brandchirps that's in private beta, though I haven't launched it yet. Anyone who wants to try out the private beta can email me.
I think the complaint is that Google is "actively adjusting algorithms to control narrative" -- just in a direction that directly violates the overwhelming consensus of scientists in the field, common sense and any sense of self-preservation humanity might still exhibit.
It's no wonder. C++ is deeply and irreparably broken, yet instead of fixing anything they just pile up more features in an effort to compete with Rust and Go. Modern C++ is like a 19th century horse carriage with a big subwoofer (but you have to bring a bunch of 9V batteries), huge hot-rod wheels (but no amortization so don't even think about going above 20 kmh) and an airplane engine from Rolls-Royce (which is there for the sake of heating only).
I used to develop in C and C++, back then the software ran on a single machine, and the most common performance issues we faced were unintentionally introducing some O(N^2) complexity, usually within a deep call stack.

Today I develop mostly in Python on a web backend system. Now, the most common performance issues I see are making multiple network calls when one would suffice (e.g., not caching repeated database queries). I have no doubt that there are many hidden O(N^2) issues lurking in the python code, but because network calls are so expensive, they seem to dominate optimization efforts.

I suspect that I'm not alone here, as today, there are many I/O performance tools than there were in the past.
Ascribe it to my typical german worryguts.

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it's much older than that if you count NeXTStep history.
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This is rather uncanny timing as Youtube has been "suggesting" flat earth videos to me despite my never once having had any interest nor watched any videos about it or tangential topics. Something seems fishy.

And I mean, I find the notion that you could mathematically justify a flat earth by rebuilding a different system of geometry that made it "true" within that system and then seeing what all the other consequences of that system would be pretty entertaining (same with the heliocentric vs geocentric model, though that one's easier and even beautiful - Venus's orbit, for instance, makes a rosette sort of shape if you use Earth as your frame of reference rather than the sun). But still, it's not something I've ever looked at on YouTube (or Google more generally) so I have no idea why I'm now seeing videos about it while watching primarily music videos.
Go routines are a tiny subset of what coroutines allow in other languages, because Go doesn't have the concept of generators/continuations nor exposes the low level runtime management APIs.
I feel you. And I hope someone, somewhere is working on a search engine for personal websites only...