skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question. (I am the first author on the "Floquet time crystals" paper referred to btw). The analogy is not perfect because what actually happens to a spin-1/2 particle under a 360 degree rotation is it comes back to the same configuration, but its wavefunction picks up a quantum phase factor of (-1), which is not observable. On the other hand, a Floquet time crystal does actually does go to an observably different state under a time shift. The best analogy is really to, for example, a magnet, which does go to an observably different state if you rotate it (because the north and south poles rotate).
Great resource.

If you're into it, make sure to check out the "The Algorithmic Beauty of..." series of books. There are three:

- The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants - this is the original one. Fascinating read - one of the authors creates a rule system (L-system, now fairly well known in the procedural generation world) that allows for the generation of plant like organisms. Other approaches are presented, the prose and illustrations are wonderful. This one is a must have - a beautiful example of what can be accomplished when mixing math, natural sciences, computation, art, and design.

- The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells - this one is very good too. If you've wondered how sea shells can have almost perfect checkerboard patterns and so on, this is the book for you. Highly recommended.

- The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges, and Corals. My least favorite of the three - some of the content overlaps from TABO Plants - but that's only because the other 2 are so good. If you have interest in the matter, you probably want to read it as well.
I was beginning to think it meant that the decision lookups of the algorithm were dynamically generated.
What part of my comment is "Not necessarily true"? Seems you did not know that the coup was lead by the British.

From the Wikipedia article you linked:

"Classified documents show that British intelligence officials played a pivotal role in initiating and planning the coup"
You are correct and this comments section (and it modding) demonstrates a fantastically shallow understanding of the Middle East that is easily addressed by airport bookstores.

Surely some of you know someone who has served in the US armed forces in the Middle East. Ask them who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are...
That's nice and all, but I vividly remember people dancing in the streets of Iran celebrating the attack. I will never have that image removed from my mind.

While I'm sure there are people who were upset at the attacks, there was a sizeable chunk of people who weren't. They were in fact happy. Enough to form crowds dancing in the streets holding signs and chanting. I'm old enough to remember that stuff pretty vividly (I was 22 years old on 9/11) so historical revisionism isn't going to work on me...
I know 2000 years ago was so different, let's see:

- China was run by the Han, and trade with China was very important for the West.

- Western Europe was part of a large power bloc, using the same money (with border struggles in Britannia).

- Judea was a gyre of instability that bedeviled the West and sucked them into middle east conflicts.

- Egypt had the strongest military in all of Africa.

Physical geography determines a lot of cultural geography; similar power dynamics replay over generations.
They could raise prices if they didn't mind the negative PR.
"Do airplanes fly?" They don't flap their wings or have feathers or eat bugs. But they do something similar to birds, and useful, so we call it "flying."

"Do submarines swim?" They don't propel themselves with their tails, or extract oxygen from the water with their gills. But they travel underwater, so... one could use that word.

"Do computers think?" They definitely won't "think" the same way humans do. But some day they will generate results that look more or less like thinking, at least in some useful areas, so...
Is it? I was under the assumption that credit history was based on actual payment amounts and the amount paid back, instead of just paying it back. From that I assumed the ~100 or so $4 purchases each I made wouldn't matter much.

EDIT: Huh, apparently I've been ill-informed about credit history [1]. Guess I've been a dumbo and one of today's lucky 10,000.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/188xmi/is_...
Wow, cool! I am the technical founder of PredPol and he uses a screenshot of the original version, which I wrote in my college dorm room in his article. Somehow the fact that somebody took so much time to criticize it somehow makes me feel special. (I don't work there an
There were many people who voted for Bush II the first time, believing his marketing of no "nation building" etc, and were then completely appalled at what he proceeded to do. Unfortunately, the number of blind war-cheerleaders was far greater - tell people they're under attack, and they fall into line. Furthermore, it's not as if with the other party now in power, USG has actually stopped attacking other countries.

I think another thing other nationalities (especially Europeans) need [0] to understand is that USians view the necessity of government differently. I believe you see the Democrats as being the reasonable bunch because their rhetoric is more compatible with what you generally expect from politicians. Whereas the Republicans' rhetoric is mainly opposed to the Democrats' version of "progress" rather than proposals of their own top-down solution. So you end up seeing it as progress vs anti-progress, while domestically we do not implicitly assume government structure is even needed.

(This is certainly not an endorsement of either party's actual actions after they take office, but only analysis of how their marketing is perceived)

[0] if you want to analyze US politics, that is.
That is hilarious.. I vaguely remember thinking, when I encountered this class of algorithms in college, that it was not particularly well named.
I don't know that they've made anything that important. I'm up for feedback from anyone on something irreplaceable and necessary for consumers or businesses everywhere. Those that did are really old, established firms that actually sell product for a profit. Different model. ;)
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No Saudi citizen I know hates America, heck they've embraced the American culture with awe and are the 4th largest student population in the US. American Fast food, American cars, etc are cherished and many American companies have flourished because of their establishments in Saudi Arabia.

Assumptions are harmful. Iranians on the other hand have a genuine reason to hate the US. Iran funds Hezbollah which have attached American interests in the past. It was Iranian-aligned militia that wrecked the American army in many battles in Iraq.
When you're responsible for everything, the weight of the world is on your shoulders at all times. When you're a cog in an accepted system, you aren't singled our for your inefficiencies . Perhaps less gratitude for being a baller, but a lot more comfort in knowing you aren't going to be wrongfully terminated because the CEO has a personality disorder.
Nice, but the rotate controls are a way too sensitive and spin the globe too fast. I recommend you look into arcball rotation [1]. It's perfect for a globe.

[1] http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorial/arcball_rotation/19003/

edit: Love the animated transition between the plate carrée projection and sphere!
That's not accurate. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became Shah in 1941, after his father was forced to abdicate by the British and Russians. The CIA certainly worked with the Shah to remove Mosaddegh from power (in 1953), but this didn't happen right after he became prime minister (he wasn't elected per se, but appointed by the Shah and approved by the legislature). Rather, this came about after a long and complex political struggle (both internal and external), the end of which saw Mosaddegh dissolving the legislature and gaining emergency powers including the power to personally create laws by fiat.
It is racist and hurtful in the same way calling US Southerners before the Civil War a bunch of slavers...intended to wound, but also based in fact.

Look at what was "Saudi Arabia" prior to the discovery of oil. These people were nomadic herders.
Apparently 69% of Americans in 2003 believed that Iraq was involved in 9/11: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-06-po...

In 2011, this belief persisted, with 38% believing that "the US has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al Qaeda" and 21% believing Iraq gave support to Al Qaeda: http://themoderatevoice.com/ten-years-later-belief-in-iraq-c...
In the university math department I heard this joke:

Q: How do you get a job with the NSA?

A: You call your mom and ask for an application form.
I always thought that making physics more complicated made physics potentially more wrong.

But then I read "Microsoft Station Q" in the article. Go figure. If there is "Microsoft" on it there is a flaw in everything.
Why No One Responds to Your Customer Success Managers
It's easier to see that Tesla are going to do something exciting and positive with the data.
Actually, many non-US countries had extremely high approval of GWB. http://www.pewglobal.org/2008/12/18/global-public-opinion-in...

Bush was very generous with food aid to Africa, for example, which won him a lot of support there.
and accelerate your learning/career path a bit. Big companies with big company politics tend not to reward talented 20y/rs like they should with promotion, raises, and bonuses. But being promoted or growing in a startup has a return when you job hop, at least when you're starting your career.
In California at least you can "security freeze" your credit reports so no one can apply for credit in your name. You have to temporarily "unfreeze" them (with a pin code) for someone to get a report. I was a victim of identity theft many years ago (from an employee in my company no less), and while I didn't loose any money, it was a huge hassle to straighten it out. If you don't regularly need services that require a credit report freezing them is much simpler than monitoring the credit agency. I did this many years ago and it really is a lot simpler solution in my opinion than constant monitoring.

Incidentally when I was an identity theft victim they didn't remove the incorrect information, they just said the fraudulent credit cards were "never late" and thus would not affect my score. I thought that was lame.

https://oag.ca.gov/idtheft/facts/freeze-your-credit
Good point - thanks. I get blind to things as I work on them. Astonishing how people find valid issues so quickly when you show it around a bit.
Confirmed: Mysterious ancient Maya book, Grolier Codex, is genuine
Autopilot will get better and it will be used more, and more people will die. At least until full autonomy. Think about all the weird edge cases that are encountered in distributed systems, and now attach a human life and a 5,000lb car to it. The question is if fewer people will die on a per-mile adjusted basis.

Sure, Autopilot is safe 'when used correctly,' but I wouldn't trust someone to maintain 100% attention on driving with it enabled. Maybe for a few cumulative hours. Not for hundreds or maybe thousands of hours. If I'm paying attention and I prevent Autopilot from getting me into an accident, why have it on in the first place? It's supposed to protect me from inattention! (e.g. automatic braking)

As it gets better at protecting people from inattention, people will be less attentive, and more will encounter the edge cases that the machine learning models will inevitably have.

Don't get me wrong, I love SDCs and the massive impact they will have, I just believe that partial autonomy is unsafe because of the human factor.
I think that even without the journaling, it could give some insight into social phobia, depression and malaise.
I think the problem is not what America and the West has done here, but that it will not stop repeating the same mistake over and over.

People in the West are not rational either, they vote based on enemy stereotypes, too. Socialism, islam, China, immigrants are some of them, "socialism" probably being the most abstract and religion-like one.
Yes, they are really that complex. The Office file formats are incredibly complex. Lots of moving parts, many different ways to express the same thing, lots of legacy stuff, endless obscure low-level bit shuffling. The OLE container is a small filesystem. The Word format includes its own heap.

What makes them fast is that they were designed to not require parsing at all. They are essentially a memory dump and can be loaded with a simple mmap. But if you want to "understand" what that data means, then you have a long and complex road ahead of you.
While I do agree that six month is not quite long, there's another issue: in the RFC PR, most of discussions took place before Mar 27, which is 10 days after when the RFC was submitted. Then there were a few comments on on Apr 28, and nothing really happened until Aug 4, when someone mentioned they were interested in the RFC, and there only has been minor discussions after that compared to the situation before Mar 27.

I might be wrong but judging from this, I felt like we might never reach a conclusion on this topic even in a considerably long enough time, since it did seem to me that the core team is not interested in this feature.

From this point of view, I don't think it matters too much when we debate if six month is long enough, even if we waited longer, I'm not sure if the situation is gonna change when interest in this feature stays low.
You assumed very, very wrong.

FICO is based on your credit utilization (amount owed vs credit limit), history of repayment, mix of types of accounts (this has a minimal impact), number of new accounts, number of credit inquiries (aka hard pulls, this is also minimal), and length of credit history.

You had credit available to you for four years and you manage it very, very well.

Other scoring algorithms besides FICO may weigh different things differently but FICO is currently used in most lending decisions so it's what matters for now.
The scary part is that previously they were supposed to be using the cameras as primary data whereas that requires cutting edge AI that does not exist yet (nVidia and some groups making progress) and even then is limited by not being elevated and not being able to see through solid things.

I would guess that Musk or someone declared that cameras would be the primary approach and the engineers below kind of had to go along with the idea on the surface, but in the actual implementation some of that really came down to what the radar was saying anyway.

If this is ever going to be 'level 4' it will probably be with both an enhanced deep learning visual system (doesn't exist quite yet) and an as-yet-non-existent inexpensive elevated LIDAR. The LIDAR might come down in price within the next two or three years.
I dont believe we (or aliens) require license for anything that has a net benefit for us/them. It seems morally acceptable (it would, imo, be morally unacceptable to hold animal life higher than the human's, except if they actually provided more value).
Not really for "microcontrollers" in general, more for top end chips.

I often wonder if there is a nice super portable OS for your more "average" microcontroller, something in the ballpark of 16bit, 32k program space, and 2k of RAM. Also an alternative to C for something in that ballpark would be fantastic.
Nationalism is a foreign policy. Bombing and wall building definitely are, too.
Oh my me too. Every time I come across the concept, I get bothered and feel like I must have missed a core concept of it, as the naming never made any amount of sense for me.

For some reason, this truly brings me some amount of peace. Both that the name was applied for non-obvious reasons, and that I'm not the only one to find the name misfitting.
And in 2012, the follow-up, "Ten Years of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity:"

http://bactra.org/weblog/915.html
Increases credit score, plus I wanted the sign up bonuses. That's only on 5 cards too, btw...

It increases your score because you have a lower credit utilization and you have more available to you (supposedly signaling how responsible you are).
> Maybe if you digitize the time-domain pulses using some kind of controlled nuclear reaction? Electronics are far too slow

Terahertz TDS already samples at frequencies beyond the capabilities of bare electronics (look at my other comment on this story).
The rate of discovery certainly is very high, every week something amazing pops up, but the more I read, the more I realize just how far we still are from human level intelligence. We don't yet even have a robotic body able to fold a shirt or walk about on its own (BD robots were remote controlled), or a chatbot able to pass as human. The good thing is that there is interest and funding. Maybe we still need two or three fundamental discoveries, could take anywhere between 5 and 50 years.
Same place you park your car for 8 or more hours a day.
A basic JIT is no different from a normal compiler. Just write output code to memory rather than to a file, and only compile each function as needed. It gets more complicated if you want to compete with the performance of V8 or something of course but the basics are the same.
Yes, 4192 files and 32MiB, quite minimal.
Subsequent to my MSMQ approach, I did a project with Aspose. It's a pretty good toolkit, and I would recommend it over the MSMQ/COM+ complexity - Unless you absolutely have to automate Office, which is sometimes true.

On more recent projects in last ~12 months, I have used OpenXML.
>>The Arabs had great/ancient civilizations too.

I disagree, the history of Saudi Arabia is `limited` compared to Persia. And certainly reflects on the culture of the region. While Iranian's can choose moderate parts of their history, with different interpretations of Islam, to be Saudi is come from a conservative Wahhabi mentality.

Consider, for example, the Al Saud takeover of the capital as a tribal scuffle involving less than 200 belligerents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Riyadh_(1902)
Why not uint_{least,fast}{8,16,32,64}_t ?
You seem to speak as though you do. Have I misgathered you here?
DrRacket can be used to run R6RS and R7RS (small) scheme via `#lang` directives, though conformance is not 100%.

See:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/r6rs/index.html

https://github.com/lexi-lambda/racket-r7rs
Things like metallurgy & fluid dynamics are notoriously difficult to simulate; this combines them in exciting ways.
Yet real system design is usually so complex that no single technique can cover it. I shudder when I hear TDD proponents claiming that this technique can even be used for emergent design. An amusing example is Ron Jeffries's Sudoku solver attempt:

http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
Another example of bureaucratically named concepts is one used heavily in FPGAs - what programmers would call a library or a package in FPGA-land is called an "IP core". I don't know where the naming comes from but it really smacks of some bureaucrat telling his bosses "We create IP! We create IP cores!". I guess to bosses it sounds more valuable and marketable than a library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_intellectual_pro...
Not that our military aren't intelligent and capable of cultivating their own opinions, but their training and ongoing survival in the arena of combat depends on identification of people as the enemy as 'will they put a bullet in you?' rather than the 'righteousness' of their beliefs or ideology.

This is a similarly shallow response.
Yep, totally assumed higher loans -> higher repayment -> better ability to repay -> better credit. Definitely not as simplistic as I thought, thank you (and thedufer!) for making me realize this. Yay for accidental good debt management!
If the parent had said "nomadic herders" would that lend a different tone than using the term camel herders?

Of course!

But hey, different words have different connotations. I am taking the meaning from actual words he used, not ones he could have used.
Are there any non-evolutionary training methods for neuromorphic networks?

Currently, fixed architecture ANNs can solve the cartpole problem very quickly already with Q-learning or policy gradient methods: https://gym.openai.com/envs/CartPole-v0

It seems like some kind of neuromorphic networks are going to be necessary for the long term AI 'dream', but there really needs to be something better then evolutionary algorithms for training, those just don't scale.
Will more people die than would have with AutoPilot?
The Humblifier: Humility as a Service
I missed Part 1 so I went back to Part 1 of this series and I have to say, I don't agree with this approach at all. By only writing the simplest/most naive solution to get your tests to pass maybe you are saving unnecessary work, but I feel like most of the time, and certainly in this example, you're just deferring work you know you're going to have to do. So instead of doing the work as you go through the tests you're pushing it all off to the end and then having to write the whole class in mostly one go.

If instead you wrote what's necessary to pass each test properly as you went, you'd be building the class incrementally, and importantly you'd have a series of commits which each have worthwhile code in them instead of a bunch of useless slop.
This makes absolutely no sense. You are using your own money when you swipe your debit card. You are using someone else's money when you swipe your credit card and you pinky swear you'll pay it back later.

You can't go into debt using a debit card because you are spending your own money you already have.
And regularly turning off power and fresh water to the entire territory, a territory that is surrounded by barbed wire and tanks? Regularly denying these people the right to travel, within their community or internationally, for no other reason other than arbitrary action or reaction?

Forgive many people for not finding that as great a deal as you seem to believe it.
There are two basic scenarios that credit card companies want to avoid with their customers. There's the scenario where the customer buys a bunch of stuff they can't afford and then can't pay their bill, and there's the scenario where the customer can pay their bill but just doesn't feel like it.

Both scenarios are fundamentally impossible with a debit card, so I really don't see how there's any relevance here. It's not the purchasing end that they're interested in, it's the paying-it-back part.
fwiw: twice now, I've successfully gotten a pip package linked with CUDA 8 & built Tensorflow from source — once for Python 2 and another for Python 3. Both on an Ubuntu 14.04 system
How'd you get started at the USPS? I always wonder about being a postal worker, sounds like you enjoy parts of it, whats it like?
What this has to do with freedom? He was free to express his point of view, others were free do disagree with him and tell him they don't like his point of view - or, on the contrary, like it a lot. I think it worked exactly as it should be.
Yes, but Apple and Google, they only have what their company cars bring in for road data. Tesla makes it clear every customer is also acquiring data for all their cars to make better decisions:

> Curve speed adaptation now uses fleet-learned roadway curvature

So they have an advantage over Google and Apple in that they have mass market cars full of sensors being driven for them for free.