skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related question: If some other advanced civilization sent us one of these iPhone sized computers, do we have the technology to detect it before it zooms past our planet or burns up in our atmosphere?
Good will? That's why they have competitions based on country to beat each other with elevated podiums displaying they are better than the rest (gold, silver, bronze)? The good will is allowing every country to compete, the competition itself is not for goodwill.
Can we not look at the compiler source-code itself, rather than binaries generated by the compiler?
>> "If they were serious, they'd provide objective evidence for their claims."

Why do they need to? At the end of the day all that matters is that the products they ship are good and aren't lacking compared to competitors. The only reason they would provide evidence for what they claim other than that is to appease people calling bullshit and unless it's effecting sales no company should stoop to that.
Ha, this is amazing. Reminds me of movies using seemingly far-fetched premises at their time.

Sneakers - in the beginning when they're spying on Dr. Janek, the team can't see the entire password he types, but Whistler hears the missing keystroke.

And related to the original post, The Dark Knight has Batman using sonar from everyone's mobile phones to detect where the Joker's henchmen were and here we are with wifi routers (and potentially other 2.4 GHz devices).
Last I checked, most cameras can't see through walls.

"Something in the way? No problem. A pair of MIT researchers wrote in 2013 that they could use a router to detect the number of humans in a room and identify some basic arm gestures, even through a wall. They could tell how many people were in a room from behind a solid wooden door, a 6-inch hollow wall supported by steel beams, or an 8-inch concrete wall—and detect messages drawn in the air from a distance of five meters (but still in another room) with 100 percent accuracy.

(Using more precise sensors, the same MIT researchers went on to develop systems that can distinguish between different people standing behind walls, and remotely monitor breathing and heart rates with 99 percent accuracy."
I don't see what's "chilling" about it. The neural net looks for correlations among the data, and it noticed that cat faces have a correlation to each other.
Yeah, it just seems kind of odd being the one who is interviewed. They ask me if I have any questions, and the only question I can ask is "well what the hell will I be working on?" (obviously phrased in a much more diplomatic way).

I think a company like Apple could get away with this because their reputation in the space speaks for them, but this company hadn't ever launched a mobile app of any sort.

Perhaps the best thing in these sorts of interviews is to try and ask as many questions as I can so they have fewer chances to get information out of me.
Author of post here. I'd say most of the examples generated from the best model were good. However we chose examples that were not too gruesome, as news can be :)

We encourage you to try the code and see for yourself.
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I was invited for an interview with this company. I've heard nothing really positive. Apparently you get signed into an indentured contract for 2 years, where you get paid less working than at a McDonalds in exchange for "experience." I'm not sure what this "experience" entails. Is it app or tech support? Or will I get to actually do something worthwhile? I won't have problems with location, since I live right by NYC (~1 hour commute by subway).

Can anyone share their story? Should I hit the "emergency button", after being unemployed for 15 months as a CS grad?
> The question raised by most in the field isn't whether Apple use AI/ML internally, the real question is why they avoid the research community so strongly.

I'm not sure why this is a "big deal" or even much of anything. Apple has always done this. Even their work on WebKit they were not always "there" with the community. This is how Apple has always worked, why would it be any different with AI / ML?

> For me, the greatest thing about the ML/AI community is how open it is and how strong a sense of camaraderie there is between people across the entire field, regardless of whether they're from industry or academia.

You get this in every field but there are also a ton of players out there not going. Just like Apple there are plenty of companies hard at work on various AI initiatives who are also not going to said events.

I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill here. Does anyone really care Apple doesn't give away free time / knowledge to people?
Over the thirty plus years of developing software for various companies from small to very large I am sure I have seen all of your points in one place or another. I have never seen a list like yours that captures so much management experience in one place. Your attention to the details of management is excellent and will be a good refresher for those who have been around for several years and a good what not list for emerging new managers. Thank you for sharing your honest thoughts.
... are you sure?

There's one episode where they visit a colony established decades previous by a warp 1 or warp 2 ship, but they don't beat the colonists to the planet.
Taking that at face value that's amazing.
Why encourage technology lag and bad ISP behavior?
And, although the stories may be ancient, the translation is presumably not. Are these out of copyright?
But without the instant feedback and athleticism, which is why millennials aren't venture capitalists. That, and most don't have $500k.
But how well do cameras work through walls?

Like Bart Simpson said "No one suspects the butterfly." In this case, no one would suspect their router to be watching where they physically are. Imagine a SWAT team being able to detect where people are within a room before they enter the place - all by snooping through a router.
This isn't a counterfeit. It is a case of mistaken identity and a lot of money on the line. A Pete Doig did in fact paint the picture. The problem is that Pete Doig is not Peter Doig.
Fair enough. I to do that quite frequently :)
Today, Baltimore. Tomorrow, the world.
Perhaps passive investing in the US market is a bet on the overall health of the US market system. You wouldn't want to do the same in an alternative market judged to be less 'healthy' or 'functional'. The Japanese market economy is still recovering from a culture of inefficient capital allocation (allocation based on social network ties for example). Cultural changes take a long time.
I used it for some time, but it just keeps adding "crashed" sessions and it quickly goes out of control. I used it on my Chromebook and every shutdown or reboot meant me crashed session and other important sessions are left buried down.
I think the guy is hinting that you are a "Unicorn" too-good-to-be-true type of guy.

Raw intelligence at the IBM research is exceedingly rare. Raw athleticism to the point of professional tennis is exceedingly rare. The work ethic and dedication to accomplish either is exceedingly rare.

You're a genuinely accomplished person who has lived up to your potential in two disparate fields. This is so rare.
Why should Apple researchers contribute back to the AI community on their shareholders' dime? What makes AI special as opposed to any other field of computer science?
Check out the stanfard MOOC class taught by Andrew Ng... that's where most people (I know of) started.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Andrew+...

Web developer to ML? Doable but you may have to work harder than some other folks have a background in statistics, probability, signal processing etc. Plus, you don't have to be an algorithms developer... doing the backend, compute cluster is hugely valuable, too.
Debugging machine learning
HyperLogLog: Counting things efficiently
> On the other hand, it seems the other browsers saw the spec and rightfully disagreed with this behavior

The w3 spec almost certainly postdates the browser vendors decision on what they would implement (and probably the actual implementation -- all the meaningful work on HTML goes on in the WHATWG living standard, the W3 spec is a frozen backward-looking interpretation of that, but even the WHATWG spec is probably a result of the vendor's decision on what to implement, rather than the decisions being based on the spec.) It probably says what it says precisely because that is the level of commonality of behavior between major vendors, with non-Microsoft vendors also displaying the placeholder when the field is empty but focused.

EDIT: Note also that the WHATWG spec, at least, specifies additional behavior if the user agent does not normally display the value when focused ("If a user agent normally doesn't show this hint to the user when the control is focused, then the user agent should nonetheless show the hint for the control if it was focused as a result of the autofocus attribute, since in that case the user will not have had an opportunity to examine the control before focusing it.") [0]

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#attr-input...
up to 40%
> The main problem with running into an atom isn't the physical collision but rather the energy deposited in the spacecraft by the impact

Where is the difference? I don't see none except for level of detail.
Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for Text Entry on Mobile Devices
The "X martial art vs Y martial art" thing is quite common, but IMO the best is to just learn several and integrate what you like though sparring and competition.

Kung Fu has a bad reputation, mostly for beeing fake and not effective. Personally I think a lot of instructors _are_ fake, but there are some which really know their stuff. The thing is, most "americanized" kung fu is not nearly as good as "original" kung fu. And even "original" kung fu will lose when sparring with, say, a Muay Thai guy. A lot of videos you see of Kung Fu guys fighting on a ring, they seem to just do Sanda (which is basically chinese Kickboxing). So much for traditional martial arts!

I think the lack of sparring really hurts traditional Kung Fu, you can't just close yourself in your own little work and just do Chi Sau (Wing Chun) or Tuei Shou (Taiji) or whatever your style does. Sure, it's good to practice that, but learning a martial art without sparring with people of different styles is like reading about riding a bicicle and never actually ride it.

I've practiced Taekwondo (both ITF and WTF), MMA (Muay Thai + BJJ), some Wing Chun and now I'm doing Taijiquan (Yang). Out of all of them, MMA is by far the most effective, but it's not like my time with other martial arts was wasted. They give you some tools you can use to adapt to your own style. I think the most valuable thing I learned in MMA was sparring with guys with different backgrounds (Boxing, Karate, Kick Boxing, etc), you learn to be smart and adapt to your opponent, it gives you more tools.

I think devoting your whole life to a single style, it's nice if you want to just use it for health and as hobby, but not effective in a fight. I've never met a guy who practiced a single traditional martial arts style and was able to spar with Muay Thai, Kickboxing or Boxing guy, but I don't live in China, maybe there it's more common. Anyways, my point is that you need to actually fight to be proficient with any martial art, not just Kung Fu.
I totally agree. They're not going to use it if we make them work for it. Neither work hard or even lightly. Needs to be no harder than basic annotations but preferably closer to existing, static typing. Let them focus on functions instead of proofs.
...you are saying it as if it was a bad thing or something.
> Except that would require multiple web requests unless you were using an image sprite.

So … it can be made to work with a single request then.
I'm not sure what this "experience" entails. Is it app or tech support? Or will I get to actually do something worthwhile?

Most likely not. It might end up being negative experience in the sense that it just grinds your gears, kills you enthusiasm for tech, and stains your resume.

In which case you'd be better of working for Starbucks or Trader Joes, if the pay is really that bad.
How does receiving the assets of your parents after their death affect social mobility? By the time your parents die you are usually 50 years old which means your social environment is a far bigger factor. During the time the parents are alive the children benefit from their support directly, no inheritance needed. Even a 100% inheritance tax is not going to solve that.

What a lot of people seem to think is that an inheritance is undeserved because the person receiving it didn't do anything to earn it. Obviously the parents earned this through their income and decided to not spend everything and give what remained of their wealth to their children. Even if the parents merely received their wealth from another inheritance they still had to decide to not spend more than they add to the inheritance, otherwise it would dry up over multiple generations.

Why do we even care about billionaires anyway? Why should I care e.g. that Bill Gates' networth is $78 billion? Why not care about the people at the bottom? Why not give them the things they truly need like financial security instead of letting them worry that if they earn too much their income drops. Either you're poor and heavily depend on welfare or you earn enough to not need welfare in the first place. There is no middle ground and the gap between the two is very large.
Maybe there could be a kind of factory-ship that was built to be self-improving, so during those 1000 years it would improve itself and increase it's speed.
Why would a tidal lock imply no internal dynamo?
You seem to be assuming

1. I'm scraping the resized galleries.

2. I don't have the Hath perk that makes the galleries full sized.

3. I don't have a phash-based fuzzy image deduplication system on top of all this (see https://github.com/fake-name/IntraArchiveDeduplicator). It's main purpose is to deduplicate manga (https://github.com/fake-name/MangaCMS).
The new slides for AMD Zen say explicitly that it has hardware sha256 support.
<i> is not the "Italics tag":

In earlier versions of the HTML specification, the <i> tag was merely a presentational element used to display text in italics, much like the <b> tag was used to display text in bold letters. This is no longer true, as these tags now define semantics rather than typographic appearance.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/i
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I honestly don't get why the author reads the Bloomberg article as blaming the audience. To me it read as fairly factual reporting of numbers and potential reasons why the numbers aren't as good as NBC hoped.

The specific criticisms of the delivery form seem good though, and looking at them is relevant to find better ways & more viewers. Getting a slew of new services just for a bit of olympics coverage only works with hardcore fans, for all others it has to be as integrated and easy as possible to hand over money.
I see this as a necessary consequence of being human. Sometimes, a genius comes along and gets the design and implementation right for years to come. Most of the time, people try their best. But nobody can really see into the future.

I'm happy enough if people say "okay, we didn't get this quite right, but we learned and we've made it better". And if the new approach isn't compatible, well okay. The short-term pain is usually worth moving forward in the long-term.

And when this happens, it's usually not a technical issue anymore, but a communication issue, which is a way harder problem to solve. If your solution to the communication problem is technical, i.e. let's always maintain backwards compatibility, then there's still the issue of communicating what the new, preferred method is. So I feel that if you have great communication with the people who care, it shouldn't impact them badly in the first place.

The danger of backwards compatibility is maintenance cost, and stifling new ideas to solve an existing problem better - people won't bother, because the effort of making something new would be overshadowed by the effort to retro-fit old behaviour.

Still though, I get the point of changing stuff just for the sake of change is bad. I'll ignore the hyperbole about illumos though.
True, but usually the onus is on plaintiff to demonstrate the affirmative. The prison guard's story was very weak in demonstrating that "famous artist" Peter Doig was the same as "unknown prison artist" Pete Doige, especially given that Peter Doig had no incentive for disavowing a work he had already sold. "Embarrassment" caused by imprisonment or drug use are hardly motivators for artists. Some use those kinds of things as career enhancers.
FYI, their about section also spells out their algorithm: http://smmry.com/about
Adults from later, faster spacecrafts could raise the babies.
>> "Google's building models with billions of parameters that require much more than 200MB, and that are really, really good at scoring data. I have to believe either that a) Apple is not telling us everything, or b) they haven't figured out a way to bring their customers the most powerful AI yet. (And the answer could very well be c) that I don't understand what's going on...)"

The 200 MB figure quoted appears to refer only to the model stored locally on the phone. In my experience, 200 mb translates to a few million parameters in one or more sparse matrices.

The figure on the whiteboard in the background says "Hey Siri small". I take that to indicate the model that does feature extraction and prediction for some queries, such as "set a timer for 20 minutes", while there is a larger, more general model for other use cases in the cloud.
EvenOdd in Agda, Idris, Haskell, Scala
I've seen some research to indicate that a large part of the pay gap between men and women is explained by salary negotiation behavior. This is supported in part by the fact that the pay gap is largest for the high skill, high compensation jobs where negotiation is common.
Frank Ocean Exclusive: Apple should be investigated for antitrust
It wasn't just Apple hyperbole, PowerPC really did beat Intel at quite a few instances, and generally kept up until about 2004. AltiVec with photoshop was not just a tuned benchmark but a significant advantage on a common scenario. The Power chips also consumed significantly less power, enabling Apple to put far more powerful CPU's in laptops.
You must have never delved too much into science then. There are certain claims that have been well established for so long that citations are no longer needed. For example, we don't need citations to state the order of colours in a rainbow. Likewise, I don't need a citation to state that plant biomass increases with a greater concentration of CO2. That's basic science, it's unequivocal and not controversial. On the other hand, the previous dude made wild speculation about increased CO2 causing increased soil depletion. I'm sorry if you don't see the difference. Not everyone is suited to being a scientist.
+1. I quit my job at YouTube to travel around Latin America for half a year and just got back this month. One of the best decision ever.
I recommend you browse through some of the lecture videos of this (free) Medical Neuroscience course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

It's probably way too big a course for someone only casually interested, but it's probably the best (free, but maybe overall) course available on the Internet for an introduction into the subject. Mostly because the professor is great.

The TL;DW is that neuroscience is mostly about your "bio-electrical hardware". So nothing soft there at all. Do review it, this is such an interesting field. A good course for even more fundamental fundamentals is this (pretty big and still free) multimedia course from Harvard, which I'd say is aimed at high-school level students: https://www.mcb80x.org/

What you have to understand on the medical side is that there is not much they can do for brain conditions. Surgery is mostly about stopping bleedings and "cutting away stuff". I took a little clinical neuroscience course and it was mostly "we don't know where this comes from", "here we can only treat side-effects", and actually nothing about actually healing anything at least for the various disorders covered in that course. "Brain issues" have the disadvantages that it's harder to do anything since a) it's much more risky (compared to trying and failing fixing a skin condition), b) it's much harder to get drugs there, c) it's harder to do surgery in the brain.

So the science is pretty solid on the very low level, but on the scale of a full human brain there it gets way too complex. So the higher-level you go the more it's (interpretable) statistics, the lower you go the more it's (pretty solid) (cellular or molecular) biology, (bio-)chemistry and/or physics (electricity). They find new but essential things all the time even now, the field still feels "fresh" as in you have no difficulty finding things that need research and still are somewhat basic. The problem is that the really interesting stuff, the things that matter because it's needed for actually doing something about disease or malfunction, all are high-level, and knowing well what goes on in "a" (i.e. one) neuron (or even a group) does not help you that much in clinical practice.

So on a clinical level neuroscience is as much "science" as most of medicine as a whole.
Gambling is also strictly regulated in China, Japan, Muslim countries, Russia, and good chunks of Europe, and that's just the countries/regions I checked, I'm sure there are others. A local religion-based explanation is at best an incomplete picture of why people object to gambling. Like many aspects of civilization where the code happens to live in religion, it probably is corrosive to civilized behavior, because it seems like all successful civilizations put substantial regulations on it. (As cause and effect is hard to tease apart that's about all I can establish in an HN post.) Given the high frequency with which gambling is deregulated and then often very quickly reregulated (by the standards of government regulation motion, anyhow), it is hard to believe all of those cultures are reacting to irrational, unrealistic concerns.
To be clear, I have a pool of 800K theoretical UAs derived from the mechanism I use to generate them, not 800K clients.

Regarding costs, I really have no idea. It depends on how rapidly you cycle the UA, and how fast whatever you're scraping is.
I wish that it wasn't the exception to be ticketed for that. I see it all the time, as long as drivers get off with a warning (and not a fine) it will keep happening.
> So, it's irrational to ever launch anything...

Sounds like the interstellar version of Zeno's paradox.
So apple is choosing to play a prisoners dilemma game and defecting every time.
Unlike head, eyeballs rotate too fast.

Wikipedia says “the peak angular speed of the eye during a saccade reaches up to 900°/s in humans”.

For reality-like experience, you need to have sub-millisecond rendering latency. For a moderately-complex 3D scene, current GPUs can’t do anything close to that.
Thanks, English is not my native language. So what is correct, 50s or 50's?
If you use grep a lot over a code base, you should index it with "mkid" and use "lid" (gnu id-utils). Quasi-instant results.
World’s Largest Aircraft Crashes, Gently, in 2nd Test Flight
> In entire fairness, the evolution of language may well make this impossible, or nearly so, regardless of how you structure your content.

Are you aware that we're completely able to read documents from thousands of years ago? C.f. Caesar's Bellum Gallicum, which is about 2,050 years old.
There's a book called It Looked Good On Paper full of things a bit like that, albeit on a smaller scale.