jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And TensorFlow for C# is alive and kicking: https://losttech.software/gradient.html

I guess this is sort of an ad.

Swift was a weird choice for statically typed TensorFlow, being only
popular on the platform, that does not have GPU/TPU support in TensorFlow,
which is, basically, a requirement for any serious work. The fact, that
they had to fork the compiler did not help either.

TensorFlow for C# is much like TensorFlow for Swift. There's a statically
typed binding to the core types with the rest of the TensorFlow API available
through an open source Python.NET project [1]. Unlike Swift version though,
that second part is also mostly statically typed, so you can get IDE
autocompletion hints. Also, .NET runtime has native support for dynamic
languages.

Like with Swift for TensorFlow, we ported all recent interesting
neural network architectures (and maybe even more): Transformers (GPT-2) [2],
CNNs (YOLOv4) [3], Q-learning (e.g. RL, actor-critic) [4], and even some
cool ones, that have lots of unexplored potential like Siren [5] (this one
uses sin/cos as activation functions).

Although we have not worked on automatic differentiation yet, unlike
Swift, it will not need compiler support. .NET (and Java) can inspect and
generate code at runtime, so autodiff can be implemented in a library.

We also have integration with Unity ML Agents for training robotic agents [4].

[1] https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/

[2] https://github.com/losttech/Gradient-Samples/tree/master/GPT...

[3] https://github.com/losttech/YOLOv4

[4] https://github.com/losttech/Gradient-Samples/tree/master/RL-...

[5] https://github.com/losttech/Siren https://vsitzmann.github.io/siren/
Likely you have a defective unit, which somehow breaks the force touch input.
Am I the only who gets blocked by the ad paywall due of nextcloud/pihole blocking it ?
I do wish people would not publicize cannonball runs. Racing on public streets is dangerous and should not be encouraged.

The Porsche Taycan looks worse than the high performance Tesla's based on published EPA numbers but it has some advantages the EPA numbers do not show. The Taycan can maintain high power output for longer before overheating.

This makes it good for racing, probably better than the Teslas, but please do your racing on proper race tracks.
What are your “envelopes”/accounts and what do you actually do with them?

For example if you have a groceries envelope. How does that change anything for you? Would you buy more or less food at some point? Would you rebalance it at the end of the year? Is there some calculation of I are too spent too much this week so we’re making food?

I ask because I have a reasonable I does what I spend money on and it’s not really any surprise. My mortgage is x, if I owned on a car it would be y, if I’m out I buy food for the week, etc.
> What policies he pushed you are not happy with?

Some top choices:

Nightmarish treatment of immigrants, both legal and illegal.

Absolute sabotage of any progress on climate change both through manipulation of the relevant departments and through rollbacks of regulation.

Tax cuts that disproportionately affect the rich.

Attempts to completely dismantle Obamacare without any sensible replacement.

Bigoted limitations on transgender people, especially in the military. And continued DoJ support for legal discrimination against gay people.
With advanced reprocessing as well as waste-burning containers, the question is about communicating it for ~200 years, not 50000 years. And it would also increase our efficiency in using the fuel to boot.
Also don't forget breeder reactors - those should make any existing fuel supply lust much longer if you can get them working at scale.
Just curious: which financial giants were NOT involved in the 2008 housing crash? Serious question.
Advancement in technology, just like a CD tops out at 650 MB but a Blu-ray disc can store 50 GB on the same-sized plastic disc.
Google has a real trust issue with me that's twofold.

One is that you can't trust them to stick with a product offering. They are driven by a throw things at the wall and see what sticks strategy rather than some deeper vision for the world. So I'm always suspicious that they will abandon anything they launch.

Two is that they don't believe in offering quality support. I had this issue with an Android app recently. It got flagged incorrectly for a compliance concern and I was not able to reach a knowledgable human under any circumstances, including getting it escalated by internal Google staff. I would have easily paid a support contract, $1k or more, to get access to a human. In the end, I had to guess at what their algorithm was flagging and just ended up tricking it through trial and error.
Is Blippi the son of Timmy Mallet?
I've had great success introducing my family to Sagrada. We have a high variance of skill levels and it still keeps everyone well entertained.

For a party style game, I'd recommend "A Fake Artist Goes to New York"
Varies wildly day to day.
Personally I'm not too worried about job loss atm, but am fearful for my SO getting laid off and the potential stress/financial burden it could put on us.

Also doesn't help that I've been planning on pulling the trigger on an engagement ring but now can't risk it. Have just barely enough savings that if one of us did lose our jobs we'd be ok until we find something else, but not much more than that.
Celsius would be good. It'd save me a manual conversion. And 98.6 is just a conversion from 37C anyway that ignored the rules of significant figures...
I found one!
https://instagram.com/p/03riqAsW_e/embed/?v=4
If it's an April Fools', think it'll be announced as such in a month? Willing to take $200 of my money risking only $20 of your own to put a stake in that belief?

If you won't even risk the price of four Starbucks coffees on your belief, do you really have it?
Did I miss some huge event when going out to buy an enveloped is being in a privileged position?
I've used both, I prefer IRC--but not strongly.

I like being able to use any client and not a web browser. Doing things like pulling in images/videos is cool, but most of our use of IRC is just communication & "logging" to a degree--bots reporting new deployments, for instance.
You would have to work with khan, who would host the online game and as people fulfilled study milestones they would get a period of game access. This game could be on the same iPad that the pupil studied on. Probably minimum game times of 20-30 minutes of play for whatever milestone the pupil reached.
Each course would need a game that suited the academic level of the pupil. I suspect game companies would be eager to fill this need, as long as some sort of monetization method could be setup? I know Khan Academy = free, but are there games fueled by advertising that would fit?

The idea of paying pupils to study is a very valid and worthwhile method of motivation of pupils. Toss out the judeo-christian crap that overlies our minds and we can see that rewards motivate people. Who works for free? Study is work - pay them
Looking forward to using this with multiple Python support!
Put another way, the right angles approximation as N->infinity puts a countable infinity of points exactly on the line.

The true line has an uncountable infinity of points on the line, and the difference between an uncountable infinity and a countable one is an uncountable infinity, so we're still way the hell off.
I got 99 bitches but backward propagation ain't one.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=236308

Previous thread on it.

In summary, my side business (macrumors.com) became successful enough that it made significantly more than my income as a doctor. Combine that with the lifestyle of being a doctor being bad, and wanting to spend more time with my young kids. It was still a hard decision at the time due to the sunk costs of becoming a doctor but on paper it was an easy decision.
It wasn't "discovered", the North Koreans showed it to a visiting nuclear scientist, who would know exactly what he's being shown. It's probably a negotiating tactic for more hard currency/aid for the regime.
"given the potential blow to the business of a restaurant famously known for said recipe?"

What difference should that make to whether it is theft or not?

Presenting the matter in terms of a trade secret, instead of bits that are otherwise legitimately available (albeit for a price) is an interesting twist (regardless of whatever financial impact it may have).

I still don't see it as "taking something away from someone else" theft, but (for reasons I haven't quite sorted out) it does seem different from making the latest released Kid Rock opus available on MediaFire.

Maybe it's the privacy aspect. If someone obtains my or your private medical records and posts them on Wikileaks I'd say it was immoral. Whether or not it's technically theft would not be the issue; it would be just as bad if my own doctor decided to do it.
"I can make a bunch of honest decisions in my studying for a class and then become dishonest by the dishonesty of a teacher"

The thing that I think you are missing is that it's all about mutual expectations.

It's the same thing if you take a picture of a TV and put it on eBay for $100. Then, someone buys it and you send them the picture of the TV rather than the TV itself. That's totally unethical of the seller, even if they never say that they are selling a TV explicitly. The buyer expects to receive a TV, and the seller knows that the buyer expects to receive a TV, and proceeds knowing that the buyer's expectation is flawed. Maybe the seller really likes photographing TVs as a form of art, and thinks that their work is worth $100 per print (honest so far); but that doesn't matter because they knew the buyer had other expectations, and did not inform them (dishonest now).

The fact that many students didn't have access to the test ahead of time, and that the students received the test surreptitiously (as another comment said) is evidence of the teacher's expectation, and of the students' knowledge of the teacher's expectation. The fact that students knew this expectation was flawed means that saying nothing is dishonest.
Additionally, things you or I may find easy are often difficult for large quantities of people who would be willing to pay for it. I've recently become more self-aware of this, after seeing lots of examples of successful companies created to solve problems I thought were easy to solve. I'm a sysadmin, so things like Git repository hosting seem easy to me, but are certainly seen as genius by GitHub's thousands of users.
IBM is a services company now, though, and Apple is a products company. Those two numbers aren't really, hmm, apples to apples comparable.
50% is a huge hit, particularly in low-margin high-volume businesses. Obviously anecdotal, but it's not hard to see 93% of consumers (FTA) using the deal and never returning.

That's why something like TheLevelUp (https://www.thelevelup.com/merchants) makes more sense to me - the ultimate goal is return business, it seems shortsighted to essentially pay people to come in the door and then hope they stay. The value comes from thinking about how to get people to visit a second and third time. Good service and product at a fair price works wonders, but I'm curious to see what happens when some of these services throw other incentives into the mix.
I hate how the British use single quotes. It's sometimes ambiguous and relatively hard to parse.
inspiring Q&A to really sit down and think through these pertinent issues...
You can do high availability deployments using AWS. AWS offers different availability zones within a region, and multiple regions if you're extra paranoid. Unfortunately the way reddit is using the available services is not ideal. IIRC they are using cassandra backed by EBS which is not a best practice. It's much better to run cassandra on local storage and have a backup system that's uploading incremental and full snapshots of your data to S3.

I agree with your overall point that having a business continuity plan is required. They should be able to answer questions like how do we minimize impact when we lose one cassandra node or two, ebs gets corrupted, a whole avail-zone disappears, etc. I'm just saying that AWS provides the building blocks for you to do that.
HN's founder, pg, has done something to promote this idea.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

"I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."

It is indeed a good idea for people who are trying to solve hard problems not to ask, "How good is my ability?" but rather to ask, "What use am I making of all my ability and all my other resources to solve this problem?"
This is pretty close to Mars Direct - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
I don't know if they inject ads, but they have the capability to do it. When I connect to an "xfinitywifi" SSID, the first HTTP page load I do will have a little "You're using XFINITY Wi-Fi. Isn't it totally awesomesauce?!"-style pop-up appear for a few seconds in the lower right corner of the browser window.
> Computer generated art tends to lack this trait, and this, I think, is why it feels less valid than human-made art.

I could not disagree with you more.

Most of traditional contemporary art for the past 100 years have been art pieces and products that are meta-critiques and meta-dialogues of the current understanding of Art, conversations between artists... These things attempt to explore what Art truly is. Some aspects of post modernism have taken it to the point where everything is absolutely meaningless, others as a caricature or commentary on post capitalist society.

Yves Klein painted things blue and this is art. Rothko painted squares, except more notable (to me, at least) were the namings of his paintings, most called "no. #" and such. Dali put drawers and pom poms on the breasts of classical Grecian figures, and let us not forget about Dada - whose chief goal was to destroy Art, only to become included under the category of artistic movements.

Aesthetics has been discussed for centuries, and at core, is a philosophical question. It shares many characteristics similar to computer code and classical logic, once you've abstracted layer on top of meta layer, until you really are scratching your head, wondering what the symbols you've generated actually mean.

As a painter for 20 years, and as software developer / computer scientist for 15, I rarely see anything besides an image of a thing when I walk into a museum. In computer code and mathematics, I see much, much more, and whatever it is that code communicates to me is infinite and entangled completely in my being and my nature.
Electric motors do have a constant power region and its ideal to operate there. I would expect teams to modify their transmissions to better fit their motor as more parts of the car are opened up for modification.
This is yet another example of how the Obama administration continues to undermine us. What happened to being the most "transparent" administration in history. Bullshit!
Please correct the title by including "Bing blogs"
His connection is probably throttled. This essentially doubles his throttled bandwidth.
Is the router really a likely bottleneck? From everything I've read, it's rare for even a $40 router not to achieve 70mbps, which is more than the average connection offers.

I just bought a TP-Link TL-WR841N and it has no problem maxing out my 30mbps connection, even with some extra LAN traffic.
See this issue: https://github.com/jtleek/datasharing/issues/217 .
Being a terrible CEO at Microsoft is being a hero in my book.

As someone noted below, "Microsoft used to control the future of computing". This was a very bad proposition, as we all know how evil they are in general, and incompetent whenever it comes to actually doing something new, as opposed to copycatting and driving out of business their competition.

I will always remember and be thankful to Ballmer for making MS a nonissue.
The title is sensationalist. The "coding method" is simply data flow programming. Many languages provide data flow facilities nowadays. The reason why graphical UIs for data flow languages have not become popular is that large programs become unwieldy to visualize and edit, whereas everyone know how to use text editors.
I love doing blind wine tasting, and I do it every time I can get enough people together who are down for it. That said, I think it's easy to draw a hasty conclusion from a very small sample of wines.

The thing with wine is that, regardless of price, there is a huge variation between wines at any price point, and a huge variation between individuals' palates. Until you know what you like, then you should expect that, with a set of randomly chosen wines, there will only be a mild correlation between price and enjoyment.

On the other hand, once you know that, for example, you like aged traditional Barolos and don't care much for Napa cabs, then it won't surprise you if you like the $40 Barolo more than the $150 cab.
> For one man, he sure has a lot of failures on his plate.

As do all successful people. If success were easy, everyone would be doing it.

For all the ways I disagree with Ballmer, this seems like a poor choice to point out.
Which law is this in reference to?
What sale? If a newsletter popup prevents you from actually looking at the site, you really need that time machine back to 1995.
Calculator is one of those applications that I set to floating in i3/awesome, so I'm not sure it should be "fixed". This is the sort of thing that users should be able to decide on the fly.
It's a fun exercise to work out the Gravitational Force between the Moon and the Earth and between the Moon and our Sun. It will surprise many that the Sun exerts more force on the Moon than the Earth does. So the Earth inflicts a strong perturbation on the motion of the Moon but it's not the dominant gravitational force on the Moon.
"the missing continent *that took 375 years to find" sounds better to me
Oh great. Just what we need. More tech companies exploiting network effects in order to help us consume media that tells us how great they are.

Apologies for the cynicism, but every time a conglomerate forms like this, user rights always get left in the dust at some point when industry interests outweigh the interests of the end user.
SHIROBAKO is well made anime that describe anime industry, strongly recommended.
Sure it is.

As more goods get made relative to bitcoin, and more people come to exist, the prices of goods & services must come down relative to bitcoin in order to avoid liquidity crises - especially since the number of bitcoin is set to be capped (while population and goods aren't). Bitcoin instead was designed to handle this problem via trading in fractions such as satoshi's.
Read Scott Adams Book on how to be successful , in a nutshell, be the only one who is in the top twenty percent of 5 to 10 disciplines and you’ll be absolutely unique and valuable and create something only you can create.
This is doublespeak - taken in its opposite (and the message it was intended to deliver), it means if you don't want law enforcement to have encryption backdoors, you're not patriotic.

Ya know - "either you're with us or you're with the terrorists." [0]

[0] http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/200...
A more accurate title for the slide deck might have been "Getting started _modifying_ Rust".

Only a single slide deals with "contributing" the changes made.

And I'm happier with the actual slides than the ones the title implies.
There's also lnav (http://lnav.org), the Logfile Navigator. It can do what 'tail -f' and 'less' do plus: syntax coloring, filtering, loading compressed files, interleaves log messages from multiple files, and more.

Many of the comments I see on here about using '-F' with tail instead of '-f', live searching, and so on are handled in lnav by default. I would really encourage folks to give it a try.
Buying a house with a mortgage is just a market transaction. There is no moral dimension, and it's naive to inject one. These people went into the transaction in good faith. Now, the law gives them the right to invoke the statute of limitations, and the banks knew that when they made the loans. There is nothing wrong with their invoking the legal rights they have. If the shoe were on the other foot, the banks would do exactly the same thing.
I use my credit card a lot for all sorts of things. In the past 3 years I can only remember my card being rejected once. An when this happened I immediately got an automated call that allowed me to confirm my transaction (so I was still able to use that card to pay).

My card was also stolen once (someone copied the magnetic stripe). Once this someone did a transaction on the other side of the country I immediatelly got a call from Amex which proceed to refund that transaction and to send me a new card. IIRC a replacement card arrived in the mail on the next day. In the mean time I just used my debit card to pay for things.
Thank you for replying i am also having same point of view that whole system should be in either Rails or Laravel
Some people at the Computer History Museum are trying to get this Fortran compiler operational on their 1401 computers. Meanwhile, someone else is writing a C compiler for the 1401, which is truly crazy - the 1401 violates a lot of the assumptions of C. For example, decimal addresses and arbitrary wordlengths are bad for C.

The Fortran compiler is 63 phases (not passes). Each phase contains an average of 150 instructions and a maximum of 300 instructions. Can you imagine that? Breaking a compiler into chunks of 300 instructions?

My favorite phase is #8: "Squoze", which squeezes out type-defining words to free up more space. Keep in mind that the compiler, the source, and the output need to fit in 8000 characters, so every character is precious. (Because of decimal addresses, it really is 8000 character, not 8192.)

The original paper is here: https://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/archive/CS153/lectures/IBM1401F...
The paper estimates that breaking the compiler into 63 phases slows it down under 30%, which is a lot less than I would have expected.
Carl Jung's flying saucers is a good read.

He discusses the idea that of technological society automatically assuming that visitors have a "far more advanced technology", and the idea of the saucer being a completion the incomplete mandala of the industrial age. Very interesting stuff.
The paper proposes a core of stealth weapons and a large number of non-stealth weapons as a way to save money because of the high cost of stealth weapons, unfortunately now you have two R+D programs to pay for instead of one, and lower economies of scale and the labor and logistics costs will be higher to maintain two separate platforms.

My guess is stealth astroturfing from the military industrial complex. Propose something with a higher overall system/platform cost, then sell it to the unknowing public as a cost cutting measure.

An optimized strategy for saving money while still enforcing imperial control over the colonies would be massive automation and economy of scale via drones for the front lines. Rather than making a survivable $500M bomber that will only maybe a hundred combat missions, ship 5000 $100K drones/cruise missiles that will net 5000 combat missions for the same price, even if 90% the drones are shot down you still come out ahead.
thanks for this !

I guess you dont have an SSL termination point in front. What I was thinking of was nginx -> varnish -> nginx.
You are wrong. 20v below the skin will kill.

And if this story is to be believed 9v has in fact killed: http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html