skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems bizarre that Yahoo would use a post on tumblr.com to make such an important announcement. From what I've seen Tumblr has become mostly a wasteland of worthless garbage in the past few years and no one takes it seriously any more. Isn't this the sort of thing that ought to be on the yahoo.com home page from a PR crisis management standpoint?
Absolutely, and I'm glad you brought it up.

I skipped accuracy to observe that even correct profiling has problems, but it's hugely important to see that over-reliance on profiling is a threat to solving cases.
That's arguably a problem in almost every language that follows the IEEE 754 standard. It doesn't make much sense to pin that problem solely on Javascript.
Yes but my point was that this is very incomplete information to do engineering with. You're still going to look at the source to learn what side-effects are present or how your arguments are used.

Not taking these details into account will be the source of most bugs :)
Currently reading The Pixar Touch by David A. Price and they talk a lot about the types of software and standards for rendering they had to create over the years. Incredibly interesting looking back at what they were able to achieve. A talented crew for sure.

For those interested: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2632830-the-pixar-touch
For an answer to the headline, let's start with
a common definition of AI: A computer doing work that
was thought to require a human.

Okay, with this definition, we can count as AI
computer based applications of a large
fraction of the often fantastic
material in the QA section of a research
library.

E.g., we can drag out lots of applied math,
applied statistics, optimization,
operations research,
experimental design,
EE style signal processing,
optimal control theory,
etc. along with whatever we
can cook up that is new.
This bankruptcy means that companies shipping goods are no longer going to be able to treat shipping as a fungible commodity and instead are going to have to price in a risk component as well. That suggests that the largest and best financed players are likely to be able to command a premium which will accelerate losses at smaller players. This would increase the spreads further and create a viscous loop.

Does anybody have visibility into shipping rates to see if larger players are getting a bigger premium?
Larger probably just means they have embraced genetically modification more? (Unlike americans who place ridiculous premiums on "organic" produces)
> This required manual tuning in some cases, so we had an editor where we could manually adjust the "push-back" (i.e., bucket adjustment) for each object in real time while playing the game.

Sounds like one of those hacks where you're simultaneously laughing and shocked at how "kludgy yet it works" it is but relieved you've actually solved the problem in a way that meets the limitations and deadlines you have. Thanks for the replies, great to know this background information on a classic game!
We've worked with Kyle Mitchell. He's a smart guy.
I agree. It's tempting to jump to the natural conclusions about how bad all the people involved are, but this would lose a lot of its force if media gave up its game of shaving minutes or seconds off first publication and developed an ability to stick with a topic beyond one "news cycle", the very term of which implies the existence of the problem. It could be easier to fix the structural issues than the people issues.

Given how short a news cycle is becoming, perhaps this is not such a great thing to ask for anymore.

I like watching "Angry Joe's" reviews for video games, which I note can come out up to a month after the official release date. You may find his review style offputting and I don't always agree with his conclusions, but it's obvious that he actually puts the time in, whereas other journalists are, at times, clearly reviewing games on the basis of playing through the first couple of levels yesterday. I'd like to see this in more media.
And Gitlab Pages supports free CI for building your static HTML assets however you like, upon code push, without cluttering your repo with compiled assets. Run code through Metalsmith? No problem. Run through Jekyll? Can do. Anything that's Dockerized.

This is perhaps my favorite distinction between Github and Gitlab pages.
Convnets follow pretty naturally from multilayer perceptrons. Perhaps backpropagation was a breakthrough, enabling the training of ANNs on data, instead of hand-tuning.

But the idea of neural nets is very old, going back to Rosenblatt and connectionism.
>You have to acknowledge it, and then a) provide some form of solution (kinda contradicts its principles) or b) argue that it isn't as important compared to potential benefits of Bitcoin.

There is no solution to the specific problem of electronic cash making it easier to transfer money in exchange for an immoral product like child pornography, just like there's no solution to the specific problem of strong cryptography and the internet making it easier to disseminate child pornography.

I would argue, with plenty of rationale and evidence, that the economic freedom provided by these technologies, has the potential to massively improve the quality of life of the world's population, despite these unavoidable side effects.

If there were fewer poor and desperate families, there would be fewer parents who sell their children into the sex trade. Economic freedom facilitated by technologies that also make it harder for states to prevent trade in immoral goods reduces the number of desperate parents and we can reasonably assume reduces the problem of child exploitation as a result.
And Modernist Cuisine falls into the usual failings of western reductionism - if we can't measure it, it doesn't exist. That's nonsense.

It reminds me of back when I used to do homebrew hi-fi (influenced by the Japanese, naturally). Once you start really listening rather than measuring, you start seeing the flaws of a measurement-driven system. For example, hi-fi equipment is often marketed in terms of THD (total harmonic distortion). Is it actually relevant? No. But it is easy to measure. Measuring the harmonic content of a 1khz sine wave is even less musically relevant than measuring how well a car drives at exactly 60mph in a straight line. It doesn't take into account frequency range, balance, dynamics, phase shift, intermodulation, back EMF from speakers (think about it - a speaker is not only a motor, it's also an alternator, that absorbs mechanical sound energy in its suspension and spits it back down the line as AC energy greatly delayed and distorted from its original form, and the amp outputs have to absorb it), etc. THD is a nonsense measurement. But every manufacturer brags about their THD specs.

That's what happens when you use a measurement-driven, reductionist approach to perception. You value what you measure, whether or not what you measure explains what you observe.
Mhm, I used Sourceforge from time to time back then.

But I remember it as always clumsy (even before they got bought and started the ad craziness), and only a small subset of projects was on Sourceforge, in my experience at least.
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Perhaps the largest might have the most debt too. It should be priced based on CDS spreads on the shippers, no?
How so? He didn't take a plea bargain, so it seems like a poor example of defendants taking plea bargains.
yes but that is the major fear the docks have. No debt holder is going to repossess a ship at sea they are going to wait for them to dock then file a court order to prevent them from undocking until the repossession proceedings finish. This means they are stuck at the dock taking up space the dock owners want to use to unload other ships so they just ban these ships from their docks letting another dock deal with it and basically every dock yard does the same thing so there is no where for them to dock
Interesting! More interesting is that apparently the TS compiler itself uses no classes.

I just think jeremiep is conflating static typing with Java-style OOP and "design patterns".
Infocom has come up at least twice https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/search?q=infocom&r... There might be more if you search for specific title names.

Also, there are 2 more Infocom articles here: http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
> You don't ask anyone to lie (good reviews can still be totally sincere), but the gestalt is no longer natural.

What I'm seeing fairly often is "Review embargo: nth Month; Streaming embargo: n-7th Month". While there's an argument for it (reviewing a game takes time, but a stream can be done cold), I suspect it (in some cases at least) is a way to make sure good coverage comes out first - a streamer probably isn't going to be digging completely into the flaws of a game, and they are actively playing to an audience/trying to be entertaining, potentially making a mediocre game look better. It's not quite the same as controlling review content, but it definitely feels manipulative.
> If you have a single piece of exclusionary information, it's ludicrous to conduct a bunch of searches which are guaranteed to be worthless in the name of equality. (Leaving aside the accuracy of the tip for now.) And yet on a broader level, it's apparent that profiling can have all kinds of awful side effects.

The problem is that the main true benefit of the information is to exclude people, but that isn't how people use it.

Suppose there are 2 million people in an area and you know some demographic information about the perpetrator that will allow 95% of them to be excluded. That is useful information.

But the probability that a random person in the relevant demographic is the perpetrator is now 0.001%. The demographic contains 100,000 people and one perpetrator.

The fallacy is in assuming that just because not being in the relevant demographic is enough to exclude you, that being in the relevant demographic should by itself be enough to suspect you.
> If graphics system coders in the late 1980-ies and early 1990-ies would have bothered to just think [...] the APIs we're using today would expect colors in linear contact color space.

Nope. As you point out, if you use 8-bit integers to represent colors, you absolutely want to use a gamma-encoded color space. Otherwise you’re wasting most of your bits and your images will look like crap. In the 80s/90s, extra bits per pixel were expensive.

Linear encoding only starts to be reasonable with 12+ bit integers or a floating point representation.

> The most robust choice would have been CIE1931

RGB or XYZ doesn’t make any difference to “robustness”, if we’re just adding colors together. These are just linear transformations of each other.

> (the L component is linear as well) [...] from a image processing and manipulation point of view doing linear operations also on the ab components of Lab will actually yield the "expected" results.

This is not correct.

It is true that the errors you get from taking affine combinations of colors in CIELAB space are not quite as outrageous as the errors you get from doing the same in gamma-encoded RGB space.
At my work we migrated our codebase (a few hundred klines at the time, I think) with not too much effort. It helps that enabling the flag makes everything more restrictive, so the compiler only flags the places that you need to go back and add the |null bits.
It turns out a convolution can be thought of like a special type of matrix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toeplitz_matrix#Discrete_convo...
You could imagine do the backprop through the matrix multiply, and you are going to get several terms with the same coefficent, since the diagonals are the same - and you could just sum up all the gradients from the relevant terms and use that.
I wish people would stop projecting this relational databases are the only solution to storing data nonsense.

If you are storing a single customer view a document database is the best option since it is a single request per entity id. Likewise if you are storing highly nested data it sometimes is extremely cost to try to model that relationally.

It's akin to saying C++ is the best choice for ALL programming choices.
> No, it's closer to template expansion, "when" is "executed" (for lack of a better word) during compilation. Inactive "when" branches are ignored by the code generator (and type checker, thus they can contain code that's invalid for given instantiation). There's no type-switch in the resulting Go code.

I'm not sure I understand. Could you point to where you do this on Github?
What is holding people from Vancouver off to move to Portland?
I've had the exact same experience. Every time I boot up SM64 or OOT everything looks so blocky compared to how I remember it looking as a kid, it momentarily surprises me every time. In my memories the graphics are on par with AAA games now.

Picked up a Vive a few months ago--Valve created a program for it called Destinations where people can upload 3D environments with optional simple animation triggers, and you can teleport through the environment in VR. Somebody uploaded the exterior of Princess Peach's castle and the Shadow Temple boss area to it. Checking out Peach's castle in the headset was breathtaking, got that same kick to my chest and feeling of wonder I remember having as a kid and felt like I really recognized the environment in a way I didn't when I booted the games up in emulators. Being there in VR made the graphics look worse--the tiny textures originally meant to be viewed on a CRT get blown up across the several literal football fields and the polygons are huge sharp edges several feet across for the hills. I'm not sure why it provoked that emotional response in me. I would guess that I felt more immersed, and that immersion affected my perceptions as a kid.
Won't work super hot if you have 2 functions with the same name in 2 different modules and you want to rename one and all its usages but not the other.

It's quite impressive what VisualStudio + Resharper + plugins or IntelliJ with a few plugins can do in their respective first class languages.
That's really interesting. I haven't learned about the biofilm aspect of this disease before.

And, I guess the biofilm in this case is especially tough. From the abstract:

The mass and thickness of triple-species (C. tropicalis plus S. marcescens plus E. coli) biofilm were significantly greater than those of single- and double-species biofilms.

From: http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/5/e01250-16
Very desirable, but linear scalability is often a constraint of the business logic not a fundamental property of the database.

For instance, if you are Twitter where everything is an append-only insert then achieving linear scalability ought be easier than if you are Google Docs where every update effects many other dependent records. Most benchmarks (and this isn't a bad thing) assume the former.
> I thought the reason was going to be related to the increment of sea levels

It's still probably a good test-case for that soon-to-be-more-common situation.
If you want to learn about color, the best source on the web is http://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html

There are some (in my opinion) better explanations in books, but it’s hard to link people to books. :-)
Well, you don't have to write any declarations -- everything will just be typed as `any`, which isn't preferable but is exactly what you'd get if you weren't using typescript.
Glad to hear that! Examples for many static sites generators can be found on https://gitlab.com/groups/pages
If you dig this stuff then Real-Time Collision Detection[1] is solid gold. It's basically data structures for 3D along with a practical appreciate of what makes real world algorithms fast(data layout).

[1] http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/books/rtcd/
So your solution to sustainability is for everyone to just accept a lower quality of life? Yea, good luck with that.
Agreed. My sense is that if this happened to political heavyweights like Google or Facebook, we'd have serious diplomatic muscle on the case, as indeed we have already seen in the past with Google's China travails, or Obama's barely-hidden warnings to Europe about the antitrust fines.
To add some anecdotal evidence to the mix: a good friend of mine suffers from Crohn's disease and hasn't had a flair up since becoming vegan over 6 years ago.
Weird. My mother's maiden name is AjhuZ52nzFyDXDom4h8Vw01 and my school is 3zJi&MsGpSHf%z$GbDW!ngs7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559006
Central America here, can confirm.
They will just buy insurance, and the insurance companies will figure it out.
Yeah I keep hearing the same thing, but obviously it's at least worth around what Verizon paid for it. I think it's actually worth more, but there is so much hate for the company and its management team.
Thinking about behavior as a sequence of actions and operators to combine actions... It may not be all that different than speech generation. Speech is a behavior after all.
Does GitLab support setting custom response headers (e.g. X-Frame-Options) for static sites? I know GitHub doesn't but Netlify does for paid accounts.
> —The way Mario’s face moves is really great too. Like in the opening scene.

> Miyamoto: That actually came from a prototype for Mario Paint 3D (that we’re still going to release).

I wonder, was Miyamoto referring to Mario Artist?
No. And banks, insurance companies etc are moving rapidly to try and get away from Oracle, Teradata etc.
Neither, and both. Lets say you have a scene with a cup of coffee spilling onto a desk...

The overall description of the scene, where the desk is, the lights and materials etc, could be stored in a USD scene.

Some tool would read this and generate an intermediate file in RIB format. This would be what a RenderMan renderer actually reads.

For the fluid sim itself, the generated RIB file might contain a reference to a plugin which points to the baked Alembic data, which would be a directory with one alembic file per-frame of mesh data representing the fluid surface.
The hack was probably "take a copy of the DB, decrypt our targets' password offline", not some sophisticated online attack.
> I'd rather have tests than types.

They aren't mutually exclusive. I'd rather have both.
HIBP is still useful to me, at least, because it will let me find breaches for my entire domain, rather than just for specific email addresses. This is useful since I use a different email address per-site (username-somestring@domain), so just being able to search on my base email address on HEROIC isn't likely to turn much up...
Thanks for using GitLab! Can you maybe elaborate on how we can improve the documentation?
That particular study is pretty bad. Look at the contestants' faces. They might be failing at identifying facial features or not accounting for lighting, tilt, etc. It is obvious if you look at their estimated ages.
It also affects how the salt dissolves across various coarser solids and "sticky" liquids. That said, it's not hard to tell the difference in flavors of different salts in an A/B test.

At home, if it's just getting cooked into stuff, we use cheap kosher salt. If it's going on top of something, we're very picky and keep several different salts around (I'm personally fond of relatively inexpensive and widely available Maldon salt).
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdSupportedWebD...

> essentially all of the ad supported sites I visit are diversions.
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MD5 for password hashing? Seriously? That was even 2014 waaaaaaay outdated.
I recommend you watch this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100436/
I was going to link to the original comic on picturesforsadchildren.com, but ended up refreshing myself on exactly what happened to John. It's unfortunate that the whole thing ended in such a bizarre way, but hopefully she's happy now: https://killscreen.com/articles/how-disappear-completely-int...
Actually no IBM M has a >500mA inrush draw so

-Not all converters support it

-Some converters that support it, are disabled by the motherboard as the converter is exceeding spec.

but valarauca why don't you use an externally powered hub?

I've actually tired 4 different models, none have worked. I've just accepted that using a PS/2 plug on the motherboard is less of a head ache.

I do have a PS/2 -> USB converter that works, but only with 1 of my motherboards (a VIA). Except it knocks out the other USB port stacked above/below it. I don't plug anything into that port for the PS/2 -> USB converter, just that port will never recognize something is plugged into it. I think it is a power draw issue.
From my point of view, you're trading ease of editing but gaining speed, security and scalability. If the only thing on the site is static files behind a CDN, it's going to be fast and hard to hack.
The query optimizer takes some of the most insane, convoluted, gargantuan queries and somehow produces relatively good plans. I've messed with a variety of DBMS but I've never encountered one with such a forgiving optimizer. Unfortunately, that is also a downside, since it lets people get away with writing truly maddening T-SQL queries in the first place.
If you don't know, they own Tumblr, so maybe it's a "dogfooding" practice.
It's not just retail goods on those ships. There is also a great deal of parts that are needed by US manufacturing lines. That creates a ripple effect down the line as missed parts causes snags in the lines. Businesses have gotten pretty good with Just In Time building, so the loss of a few containers will put a snag into it. Some places may have predicted this and gotten alternative parts flows, but that puts a strain on the people making the goods to go into the containers to come here.

Third quarter reporting should be very interesting for the markets.
Counting dead people is terrible indicator of the extent of a catastrophe. Because one didn't die soon after the release of radiation doesn't mean that one wasn't hardly impacted and has to suffer health issues.

In the aftermath of Chernobyl, we were told official bullshit "don't worry we're safe, we're too far from Chernobyl". Turns out there was a radioactive cloud that know nothing about geopolitical borders and do not care about political stances.

My uncle is a farmer, he worked shirtless in the fields at the very time that cloud was said to never have hit us, a bit later he developed an uncommon red blood cell disease which he had to take medication and live with his entire life.

Medical advice says it is probable that exposure to radioactive dust caused or played a part in him getting this disease. It is impossible to prove any link, because the official version still is that the radioactive cloud didn't reach us so you can't get sick from a cloud that wasn't there.

There's much more than just counting how many people died and giving ourselves a pat on the back because there was no reported death.
I think the issue with CoffeeScript was that it didn't add anything beyond the arguably prettier syntax.

Have changes the syntax too, but it is also trying to fix things that often cause bugs in Go code, it adds generics, and there are a few other features on the way, too.
infinite8s is correct, you need to build a network. I've never actively looked for freelance projects on any kind of website or marketplace. Almost all of my freelance requests have been inbound from either (a) friends of friends, or (b) strangers who've seen things that I've built. So my best tip is to spend time building cool stuff, publicize it to get your name out there, and make lots of friends and acquaintances.
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