skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The i7 from 2010 still runs fine in my gaming PC. Unlike a Pentium 3 from 2000, there have been no major speed advances in the past 6 years. True, today's i7 can push 16 threads instead of 8, but even with a full screen game, YouTube, Twitch, Chrome, and 2 game servers, it barely uses 6 threads.

The devices aren't necessarily disappearing; we just don't need new ones anymore.
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BA vs. BS can be quite confusing in STEM fields. In the United States, there is no standard for how they differ. All of the following exist in the wild:

• BS only. (Caltech, for example. In fact, Caltech only offers BS for everything. Even English majors--and yes, there is an occasional English major at Caltech--end up with a BS).

• BA only. UC Berkeley is an example in this category for math and physics.

• Both are offered, with identical coursework and requirements. You can have whichever you want. Some will even for a small fee give you two diplomas, so you can use whichever seems appropriate for the situation.

• Both are offered, from the same department, with different in-major coursework and aims. One may be aimed toward students aiming to go into research, and one toward those aiming to go into teaching, for instance.

• Both are offered, from different departments. For example, UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Sciences offers a BA in chemistry, and the College of Chemistry offers a BS in chemistry. Computer science can be taken at Berkeley in the College of Letters and Science for a BA, or in the College of Engineering for a BS.

• Both are offered, with the same in-major coursework, but differ in out-of-major requirements. So, the BA and BS would require the exact same science and math courses, but the BA has specific breadth requirements to produce a well rounded education, whereas the BS lets you take pretty much what you want as long as you satisfy the math and science requirements and any general requirements of your school.

I generally just say that I have a bachelor's degree in mathematics. If someone thinks they need to know if it is a BA or a BS, I ask what they are really trying to figure out.
I am not seeing issues with these doing a quick scan but I will dig through the data in more detail to make sure.
>it fails to acknowledge what is known as the 30%-30%-30% jump

Known by who? Did you just respond to a peer-reviewed study with made-up pseudo-science? Also, I should point out that the psychiatric term is ADHD, not ADD.
This isn't about saving money per share, but using overseas money that many companies now avoid repatriating.
Hoon is mainly built on a fixed set of hardwired, built-in macros. This is how I can be so confident about not needing anything like gensyms (what eliminates gensyms is having a subject which is navigated geometrically, not symbolically).

The advantage of fixing the set of hardwired macros is that, when reading code, everyone knows exactly what every line is doing, without having to indirect through the local macro environment. Macros are the first step toward a DSL.

DSLs are always and everywhere a bad idea. They may make code slightly cleaner or better-looking. In exchange, they add a level of indirection to the task of trying to understand it. This is the source of the nickname "write-only code," a common failure mode in FP. Write-only code can also be created by extravagant and pointless use of higher-order or non-strict programming, both of which complicate the task of reading code.

For instance, Hoon has a rune (keyword or digraph) for a 2-tuple, a 3-tuple, a 4-tuple, but not for a 5-tuple or up. Why? The 4-tuple cons pulled its weight, the 5-tuple didn't. For every special form you add to Hoon's fixed, limited set, you're imposing a cost on anyone who has to learn Hoon.

I hope you can see the UI advantage to functional programming in an environment of controlled evaluation complexity. IMHO, too much of FP is a world in which every program is its own language.

Which one is right? Actually, I feel it's possible that the only real language is K, and the rest of us are just phonies.
British drone-freezing ray gets US airports trial
Like spending $8 MILLION in Austin just so they could upset the citizens and lose what should have been an easy battle....
Thanks, I am putting in a fix for flex right now. Parsing out the Frameworks is a challenge but I think it is interesting data to see.
So your opinion of an unrelated argument was driven by the association of this author's separate work which contains an idea that's associated with an ideology you oppose? That's like an (ad hominem)^3. On the face it doesn't appear unreasonable that a state should protect some aspects of a free economy - disagreement with that would imply disagreement with the fundamental capitalist economics of western nations.

"we also have to consider the observable phenomenon of decision fatigue"

Are we just talking about random things now?
Did you try it as a one off or have you bought a headset for long term use? I feel that as a one off it would be mind blowing but soon loses its appeal over a period of time.
some day, but by then it will be irrelevant
Tech is less and less the everyman/underdog and becoming the establishment. It's no surprise to me that it begins protecting itself and its interests. I actually think it's not a case of entrepreneurs becoming greedy and protective once they make it, but the flock of people from wall street and other "big businesses" into tech.
And here I was hoping to see links to published papers or God forbid the release of datasets for fellow researchers... Heck, even a trained model would be nice.

Seems like a PR stunt to attract talent.
I think you need to review your history. After WW2 people were literally so worried about nuclear annihilation of the planet they ran weekly air raid drills in schools. Then it was the economic recession and malaise of the 70s. Then it was the rise of the powerful Japanese economy and the threat of globalization. Before WW2, well.. shit was way, way worse for most people in the world, and it just got worse the farther back you go. I really don't think increasing activity in AI and VR are going to threaten our security or way of lives in as significant a way as fascism or nuclear weapons did.
Speech-to-text? Not really. There has been good gains from adding convolutional layers, particularly for noisy speech, but the big big breakthroughs have been deep fully-connected layers and more recently exotic recurrent designs (LSTMs and the like).
Only 5 results for assembly so not enough to make it on the pie chart/list.
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4x is not the ratio of the prices that I'm seeing from the fare estimator. Regardless, if you want to believe that I'm not normal, that's your prerogative, though I'm not sure what benefit you derive from insisting on this. Additionally I am highly suspect of your implicit claim that you're more "normal" than me if you regularly take Uber to and from the airport. I rarely even fly. If you fly more than twice a year and take Uber each time, you are spending more than me on rides to and from the airport.

Your choice of words is curious to me as well. For instance, you distinguish the limo service I use as being "private". What does that mean in this context, and how is Uber not private? You've misunderstood me if you think I have a personal chauffeur who exclusively works for me. That's not how towncar services work. It's basically just a guy and a few friends who have a tiny company where they drive people to and from the airport.

By the way, I want to point out that Uber's surge pricing could easily make UberX cost more than what I pay. And surge pricing is fairly likely to be in effect any time I'm trying to get to the airport.
awesome! glad to hear :D
Absolutely right. By the same qualifications, it's possible, but also completely infeasible, to create a flat map that approximates any function. Because it is obvious that it won't be useful, nobody will write home about it.
It would be really interesting to see this for the "Freelancer? Seeking Freelancers?" posts. From what I've seen, people seeking work outnumber those seeking freelancers by something like 10 to 1. As a result it would take some aggregation to get an idea of the buy side of the market.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814829
How to Herd Your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste Their Time (Part 3)
You're talking about one of the most successful companies in the history of business, in Google. Their speed to their present scale in terms of profit - from founding to now - is unprecedented. Add to that that they make most of their money from operating a hyper-margin software service in terms of costs (with nothing at all similar to Uber's drivers and regulatory problems), one that has been almost entirely unregulated (until now) and that also happens to be a quasi-monopoly. Using Google as the standard for what Uber could achieve, is extremely far fetched.
If you go to StackOverflow and click on any tag, then click on the "Info" tab, there is generally an excellent list of resources.
I was there for both. It wasn't particularly smooth. Backwards compatibility was... what's the word I'm looking for? Laughable. That's it.
There's little upside in thinking of yourself as a pro. The upside is in aspiring to be a pro: attention to detail, questioning your choices, actively seeking the edge of your field, putting in the time to practice, and so on. Those who aspire to be a pro are more likely to have these qualities, whereas pros tend to assume they do.
Remember when restaurants used to serve a chocolate mint with your bill? Andes Candies kept the restaurant industry afloat.
It's an axiomatic interpreter not based on the lambda calculus.

It matters because gensyms suck. More generally, if you are building a two-layered system in which a compiler targets the interpreter, symbols, functions, and scopes are concepts that belong in the high-level language, not the low-level interpreter. (I think Shen is one example of a typed Lisp that targets an untyped Lisp, but obviously I know nothing about Lisp.)

So the lambda calculus is a classic layer violation.

Where I went to school in operating systems, which was Brown and Berkeley, we were taught to avoid layer violations and always separate mechanism from policy. Not sure what Lisp people are or were taught -- honestly, there were not a lot of them left, even in the '90s -- but it never seemed to include this.

I always look at a stateful Lisp machine, or Emacs, or whatever, and see a giant structureless blob of symbols. That said, this is probably a totally unjustified prejudice on my part, and at this point I really have no excuse except lack of time for refusing to learn more.
This is a fun article about provigil - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/27/silicon-val...
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I love the last sentence, and want to expand on it. If ANNs are tools to help computers perceive, then they are analogous to components or layers in the nervous system. If we map the nervous system thoroughly enough and understand the inputs and outputs of each layer/region, then reproducing a human-like nervous system might not be all that complicated.
Silicon Valley’s eating up super Ritalin (2015)
>Routine use of amphetamines almost always causes people's mental conditions to worsen, eventually.

I've not heard this before..do you have a source? Quite interested.
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Recent Uber and Lyft drivers in SF have both told me that there are big incentives going out to drivers right now. I suppose it's conceivable that somehow the market is none-the-less profitable, but I don't really see how. They were saying like +$10 per ride if they hit the highest tier of payouts.
Perhaps I was too subtle. That was exactly my point.

(And if you discount my need to look smart, I think I got it across---you had exactly the thought I was intending to create in the reader.)
> I have a feeling that these platform-locked services like Uber and Lyft will not be able to compete with the scalability of an open auction network.

This is the non-profit I want to invest in.
If reproducing the human nervous system weren't that complicated, we could do drug design inside a computer. The ability to do that alone would be worth billions.
For my use-case(desktop PC), it shouldnt really matter much.
Access would be bursty so it shouldnt really heat up too much, plus there should be adequate ventilation.
I mean I probably don’t need the performance of a NVMe SSD at all, but I like to have the best.
I still think that data represents simply which countries found out first about sci-hub. There was a science article showing that it's used nearly everywhere now, because it's actually easier to use
I often just go for walks at this point in the afternoon.
It doesn't send code from the GitHub page to Sourcegraph; it actually only works if the repo is already mirrored on Sourcegraph (which obviously requires your explicit permission for private repos).

It will send the name of the repo (e.g., "google/golang" or "JodaOrg/joda-time"), so that Sourcegraph can see whether that repo is mirrored. If the names of your repositories alone are sensitive data and you don't want to trust us, then you shouldn't use the extension. (Repo names can leak to third parties via the HTTP referer header, even in an alternate universe where this extension never existed.)

The unpacked code is available at https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/-/tree/clien... if you want to poke around. And you can always check the Chrome network inspector to see the exact data structures.
I remember that commercial!

Exactly right. Just think of Urbit as the Information Super-Duperhighway, and you can't go wrong.
On a high level, sort() is a seq2seq function, I think throw LSTM/RNN will yield some interesting results to this problem.
Disclaimer: I work on etcd at CoreOS.

CockroachDB is built on top of etcd/raft package, not etcd itself.
This is an important topic, not only from the perspective of drug dependency and substance use disorders (SUDs) research, but also re: potentially misleading statements which may discourage use among people who could benefit from stimulant-class medication.

I have treated several hundred individuals with amphetamine, methylphenidate and related compounds, primarily for ADHD in adults and adolescents. Everyone should know that ADHD is a very common disorder, affecting >=4% of all adults. It is a disabling condition in many, perhaps the majority, of those who manifest its symptoms.

A troubling aspect is that only about 1/5 of sufferers seek treatment, and often treatment is suboptimal for a variety of reasons. Staying on topic, the most effective medication strategies remain the "stimulant" drugs.

The article contains errors re: drug effects and history. First of all amphetamine was synthesized well before 1929. What we now call amphetamine was created by a Romanian chemistry Ph.D. candidate, Lazăr Edeleanu, in Berlin, in 1887. It was rediscovered in 1927 by Gordon Alles who was unable to patent the compound because of Edeleanu's work 40 years earlier.

Amphetamine was initially marketed in the 1930's as Benzedrine. Significantly the remarkable efficacy of amphetamine in what's now call ADHD was described in 1937, and to this day no other class of drug has been demonstrated to be as effective as the stimulants.

As commented here, stimulant class medications have different effects in those who need them. At the optimal dose, ADHD patients are not "amped up", in fact typically feel calmer, thoughts and actions more controlled and deliberate. In people who don't have ADHD may indeed experience "stimulating" effects.

Furthermore, ADHD adults perform much better with appropriate treatment, whereas unaffected users experience a boost only with simple tasks. Stimulant use will cause decreased performance on cognitively demanding tasks. While college students are known to seek out amphetamines in order to "study better" for their final exams, in fact it's much more likely to decrement their results, myths notwithstanding.

Not to say that drug abuse is not a serious matter. Ethical practitioners prescribe stimulant class medications with great care to assure correct diagnoses and appropriate prescribing practices. No question that not everyone with a license is ethical. I firmly support taking steps to put those deliberately contributing to drug abuse out of business, and into jail.

It's imperative to avoid throwing babies out with the bathwater. Stimulant medications are an extremely useful tool when used along with due vigilance for misuse. Patients in my practice were carefully monitored, and were informed drug misuse could not be taken lightly. Over the years there were a few who were deemed too irresponsible to continue treatment with the medication.
> It's interesting that you mention Palantir.

I consider building software to purposefully enable dragnet surveillance one of the least moral things you can do.
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Interesting. How is battery life? Have you used other development tools aside from the ones mentioned?
They might be doing this to only a subset of their users, for example as part of an A/B test.
There are eight billion people in the world. There are 4 billion possible planets. What is your plan for when urbit takes off and reaches internet-scale?

BTW, ~bitret-worwyd here. ;)
I remember when the US captured and murdered Saddam, the violence and hypocrisy of it was something people are still trying to comprehend.

They sold it to the U.N., the world bought it and now look what the US has to show for it, smoking holes in the ground...
Google AI produces a melody that rivals the Casio keyboard concerts of our youth
Maybe this universe did select for intelligence.

How about all the other universes that never generated intelligence?

But going back to our own universe, how widespread is intelligence? It's pretty much microscopic, isn't it? I think our universe seems to be mostly geared toward generating empty space, and the rare areas that are not empty are certainly extremely hostile to intelligence.
On the contrary; it's a very GOOD idea to think of yourself as a pro.

A good professional takes pride in his work, and aspires to improve his craft.

False modesty gets you nowhere.
Maybe it's for vanity names?
> We now have Deep Neural Networks who will understand all the user requirements, write out code, and test it to be bug-free. The CEO preempitvely consoled you..

If we can have that, we can probably have an AI that can make strategic decisions for a company..
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It's really not that hard. Find a person who uses 500onRed (as a consumer). Ask them how satisfied they are with it.

They'll probably have no idea what you're talking about and once you explain that it's inserting the advertisements into Wikipedia and such they'll hate it.

In contrast, Facebook is completely honest about what they're doing: providing a free service in exchange for the ability to advertise to you. Hundreds of millions of people are happy with that trade.
Just to be clear:

If you spend $1B on actual physical vehicles or whatever (let's say... 500 $2M vehicles), then if you have 200 employees with an average pay of say $500k per year, then you could pay them all for a decade with another $1B, meaning that you'd have spent less than 1/6th of the funding they've taken to date, or still have $1.5B left of the Saudi Royal Family's hard earned money.

More briefly: no, obviously they are not spending their money on an autonomous driving program.
The Art of Condensing Whole Movies into Single Photographs
JSweet online compiler goes Open Source and uses NanoHttpd
Several of our applicants can be traced back to the Who's Hiring threads and I'm pretty sure at least one of our new hires in the last few months came from someone who found us via one of those threads. Not 100% sure; I'd have to ask the person on question if my assumption is correct.

But we only just started doing this a few months ago. Plus our hiring needs are pretty specific and aren't likely to align well with the majority of HN job seekers for a wide variety of reasons. As such we don't expect a flood of applicants from this venue. We don't need a huge amount of people though, so we're willing to be patient with it, keep posting our ad, and wait for the right handful of people to come along.

At the moment our highest ROI recruiting efforts are old-fashioned college recruiting events. We do a few different kinds at a handful of universities near us and found it to be a deep well of talented people eager to break into the field and we have a pretty solid training program to take entry level people and turn them into solidly productive engineers rather rapidly.