skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. If you are in a specific subreddit for example it is also biased. Even the "all" page is biased because reddit is reddit, but no one complains.

I assume also because people on reddit realize reddit is just a tool and not build their lives a round it which seems to be the case with a lot of facebook users.
> Yes, but in some cases the probability is too small to consider.

Thanks!

> What kind of communication is allowed?

Any kind. People are free to say whatever, whenever - the question is, whether or not you believe them.

In the game, each person takes a turn to select a 'squad' for a 'mission'. Then, everyone votes whether or not to accept the squad, and if the squad is accepted, it goes on a mission. The mission consists of the entire squad voting in secret whether the mission is a "failure" or a "success". Good people can vote only "success", evil can vote either "success" or "failure". The votes are tallied (without revealing who voted which way), and if there's one or more failures, the mission fails. The good team wins the game if 3 missions end with success, the evil team wins if 3 missions end with failure (or if the general vote fails to accept the squad five times in a row). The twist is, if good team wins, evil team has one last chance to guess which of the good players was "Merlin", i.e. one who knows who is in which team. If they guess correctly, the evil team wins.

The game consists mostly of the good players trying to guess who is good (to avoid taking evil players on missions), and the evil players trying to confuse everyone. Merlin, who knows who is good and who is evil, can't be too obvious about revealing his/her knowledge, lest he/she gets sniped at the end.

So my question is - how can Merlin pass his knowledge about the composition of two teams to everyone without revealing his/her own identity? We can assume that whatever protocol there is, at least half of the players (i.e. the good team) will be willing to follow it, and the rest might want to disrupt it or maliciously insert false information.

I've been thinking about it for quite a while, but I don't have much experience or knowledge of the area, so any pointers would be appreciated.
Nice video, but the jump from solving super simple 2d games, by feedback of binary win/lose conditions, to solving tasks in 3d open world simulations will require an un-imaginably gigantic leap in processing and knowledge. Additionally neural nets have already shown they are not sufficiently good enough at generalizing, and only work well at the specific tasks they were trained for. So the idea that an AI that can play GTA would also be able to 'solve' climate change is odd.
Exactly. Lets assume the onion is suddenly the main news source for a majority even thought they are open about beeing fake. Where is the problem? If people choose to live in their bubble its their choice.
The AirFiber backhaul radios are good, but the rest of their product line is not very reliable IME. Cambium is much better performing and more reliable.
Pretty surprised at this as well. But, given you know this requirement now, is it safe to assume that if you embed remote images in your notebooks in future and upload them you'll have no issue?

(i.e. it's not stripping them out and making you manually re-embed them each time if they aren't an Azure blob?)
Being CEO of an AI company doesn't mean he has a greater understanding of "social problems".
They aren't sure yet, there is solid information that 1 melted down completely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

It seems the fuel is still contained though.
Pretty interesting as a tool to learn Python or other things. I'm intrigued.

I'm doing something similar with exploit development learning, but with a javascript based terminal and linux containers, and a markdown writeup (https://exploit.courses for anyone interested). But the close interaction of code and text in Jupyter is much more advanced, and useful :-)
What Is Bitcoin? A Step-By-Step Guide for Beginners
Vienna's city center is car-free except for police and ambulances. It's a medieval city so it's much worse than Manhattan in regards to narrow streets and not having been designed for cars.

It does have AMAZING transportation which NY might lack though (haven't been in NY yet).

The main shopping street is car-free too. It's great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places
Sure, just define a good score function...
Methinks you could definitely get in touch with Google about this.

Product support may well actually do what it's supposed to do...

Alternatively, keep the tablet on cotton wool until you see someone mention in here they're from Google, check their profile for contact info and email them directly. Keep doing this until you get a reply back, and get them to poke your issue over to the right department. :P
for those on windows and don't mind dropping a little $, I've been relatively happy with CloudXPlorer http://clumsyleaf.com/products/cloudxplorer for browsing blobs. Has most of the features I care about

TableXPlorer (for Azure Table Storage is decent too)
Show HN: Mikado – A fully automated AWS setup for Wordpress deployments
Why python needs a compose function (but won't get it)
Flatpak is yet another dependency bundling tool, and dependency bundling always leads to unpatched security vulnerabilities for users.
Already done and has been for a while. Here is a quick wiki article on the subject/an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small,_sealed,_transportable,_...

Plenty more can be found if you have access to read actual articles and not just wikipedia
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How to Build Project Management Software Like Basecamp, Only Better
Virwire: https://virwire.com

Did a Show HN a few months ago, got very little 'comment' attention but still got a ton of new mobile users who have grown into a solid base. This was the only promotion to date.

Small bootstrapped team, Virwire is PoC of crowd curated news for millennials.
That paper was 10 months ago. There have been many RL papers in the meantime, but sparsity is only a problem with respect to reward, not state or action, from what I can see.
Looks like OpenAI set some standards. E.g. OpenAI Gym that encourage others like DeepMind to open-soure more training sets.

Also gaming seems to be driving a lot of innovation. In 1990s games drove CPU/GPU advances, while now they seems to be perfect training for future AI deep-learning algorithms.
Death Toll in Oakland, CA Warehouse Fire Rises Past 30 as Search Continues
PyDev of the Week: Alex Clark
I listened to a podcast about jupyter [1] some time ago, and remebered them talking about the separation between the kernel and the presentation in jupyter, and that in theory, it should be relatively easy to write your own frontend, that just sends to correct messages to the zmq :-)

Afaik, hydrogen plugin for atom does this [2]
And there is another plugin that just wraps the notebook to live inside of atom [3]

[1] https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/44/project-jupyter-and-i...
[2] https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
[3] https://github.com/jupyter/atom-notebook
What is spectacularly advanced about the police ramming me off the road as they chase another suspect?
Salesforce Draws A Step Closer to AWS
This feels spam-ish.

No datacenters on either coast is a deal breaker.
I would suggest finding a project that will allow you to focus upon a particular computer or (limited number of computers), then focus upon discussing those projects with others. There are plenty of online forums for vintage computers, while many excellent books on programming those computers are now freely available. Since you mentioned wanting to learn assembly language programming on those systems, that may help you tackle your acquisitions problem while helping to fulfill a dream.
But one has to make sure they subscribe to the paid plan, because Google offers free unlimited storage only if you let them resize/compress the photos. Which is something I refuse.

Anyway, Dropbox wins on the OS-level integration, which also doubles as a bullshit- and hassle-free way to transfer files between your devices.

But well, at this point I'm a paying customer of both Dropbox and Google because I run out of free-tier storage on both :).
Buying an internet enabled device for your home is like giving your house keys to the internet.
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There's a slight difference between rolling your own spinlocks and simply doing something like a CAS loop to change a variable. They’re usually both built using similar atomic primitives, but…

The difference is that in a true lockless algorithm, no thread "holds" the lock (because there is no lock). Therefore, if a thread gets scheduled out while in the middle of any operation, every other running thread can still continue working. That’s in contrast to a locking implementation where it’s very possible for a thread to get swapped out while holding a lock, thus causing every other thread to spin endlessly until the scheduler ends up swapping the original thread back in so it can release the lock.

This is one key advantage of using the OS supplied mutex facility rather than rolling your own spinlocks. The OS mutex has the ability to know that if a thread is blocking on the mutex and the thread which holds it is currently not running, it might as well start running the original thread again so that it can release the lock (as nothing else can get done until that happens anyway).

I believe this is why (in my personal experience) userspace spinlocks perform better than mutexes up until about the point of where you have many more threads than CPUs. My guess is that the probability of a thread getting scheduled out while holding the lock increases with both the number of threads as well as the overall contention for the lock.
https://deepmind.com/about/

Hassabis is CEO
Thanks! I don't see an API sample showing the removal of the scanner grey area. The auto cropping may work, but not all the images are the same size. I reached out to them and awaiting response.
I did a Show HN for Roll20 right after launching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4532754

We now have almost 2 million users and a small team working on it full-time. I definitely originally thought it would only be a side project...
I think the car analogy kind of falls apart at this point. Using a computer and writing programs for a computer are both interacting with software. Take spreadsheets, for example: is making a spreadsheet analogous to building a car or to driving one? What about drag-and-drop visual programming?
I am always wondering about Bitcoin and taxes. How does that work? And is it even taxable?
The fascinating thing about his answers is that he says nothing that wasn't already known 25 years ago. 'General AI' is a really vague term and means almost nothing.

It's well known in AI that common sense AI systems are incredibly hard to build and expert AI systems are relatively straight forward to model and build. Given that the most 'common sense' type products we see like Siri and Alexa still appear to be rules based systems (that have been enhanced with historical data no doubt), we all know the world is not suddenly going to become a common sense AI paradise unless a new Marvin Minsky makes some breakthroughs.

I find that the term 'AI' is frequently used when a company has taken an existing problem and enhanced the solution by using machine learning at one or more places. Nothing wrong with that fundamentally, but calling that AI is more of a marketing gimmick than anything else.

Google/Facebook do some of the best machine learning enhanced workflows that delight users. They usually refrain from branding it as AI.
> embracing established science as a religion

There's a deeper issue here, regarding information, legitimacy/authority and scope.

Science should be embraced, just some department (social sciences) aren't as scientific as assumed.
What's upcloud?
>To fix this, we need to increase the currently tiny number of people who are able to write, modify, combine and share software. We need a tool that makes writing software easy and fun, and accessible to everyone. A tool that enables software literacy.

Global access to niche knowledge doesn't seem like an effective use of the world's time to me. Let's look at this same idea, but replace "develop software" with "perform brain surgery."

> To fix this, we need to increase the currently tiny number of people who are able to perform brain surgery. We need a tool that makes performing brain surgery easy and fun, and accessible to everyone. A tool that enables neurosurgical literacy.

Just like Software Engineers don't need to know how to perform neurosurgery, accountants, marketers, burger flippers, and salespeople don't need to know how to write software. I'd rather the CEO of the company I work for spend time on growing the business, not learning how to write a "Hello, world!" program.
Uber starts new AI lab with acquisition of AI startup
My recommendation (not a doctor) is to makes it easy for them to engage, so it is almost accidental.

With burnout, at least in part, and depending on the person, there is a tendency to withdraw. Invite them to go do something already planned, that they don't have to pay for, that won't take too long and you know they enjoy. Then just be a friend without expectations.

I think advice and suggestions can make things worse because making a decision or taking action is often the thing that has them locked-up.
It will have to decentralize, because it is not possible to run one community with one set of rules at this size. The contradictions are already intense and only going to get worse, even before I consider Facebook's most psychologically-likely reactions, which generally involve the short-term trap of gathering more power and exerting more control in an endless spiral. To quote a famous philosopher, "The more you tighten your grip, [Facebook], the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

The fact that this will kill Facebook is irrelevant. The fact that decentralization is observably very difficult is irrelevant. The hardness of a task does not affect its necessity. There is no solution for Facebook that leaves Facebook recognizably like it is now. It's arguably a fluke of politics and culture that got Facebook to where it is now.

(When I say "decentralize", I don't necessarily mean full on Diaspora-style decentralization. Decentralizing into multiple social networks that are still architecturally centralized is viable, though those social networks will face the same pressures at scale.)
Registration and accreditation/verification are two different things. In Poland, the govrnment wanted to register websites, without fact-chekcing afaik
Someone else's computer.
> When you hire an intern, you pay them almost-entry-level rates because they are doing almost-entry-level work.

That's the way it works in tech, but that's probably because there's plenty of money sloshing around, and plenty of job openings. Jobs in publishing get paid pretty well, but there's more competition for jobs and less money around, so their internships are often completely unpaid.

It's surprising for someone coming from an industry where an internship is a money-losing chance to learn and network (like going to school), to see that tech internships are for making money.
Anyone who has spend time in AI or ML would know this is true. Currently, AI is very helpful to solve certain types of tasks. The recent advances in Deep Learning etc. is the improvement of AI to solve some of these specific tasks. A lot of people have confused this to assume there would be a master AI system that would solve general tasks. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
> We had some nasty one-off surprises. Last one was with an object that had 1700 or so revisions in couch and once it synced to PouchDB it would crash the Chrome tab in a matter of seconds. Due to the way PouchDB stores revision tree (lot's of nested arrays) Chrome would choke during JSON.parse() call and eat up memory until crash. We resolved this one by reducing the revision history limit that is kept.

I think I remember this issue (I was formally a heavily contributor to PouchDB) I think Nolan ended up writing a non recursive JSON parser to deal with this and there was some debate about whether it made sense to be used as it was significantly slower (though could handle deeply nested structures)
tl;dr no actual disruption evident, but aspirations to maybe disrupt something some time
The area directly surrounding Chernobyl is a lush green wildlife haven. Its paradise compared to say, Sydney CBD.
people don't spend more that a few minutes learning the interface of a car, everything else is learning how not to die or kill other people with it.
Lilium Aviation is going to make flying cars a reality
Going on a tangent for a moment, please don't take it as a comment on Facebook, Facebook's culpability, what Facebook should do, etc.

Say we have a Facebook alternative X which implements no filter, makes no effort to garner views and shares (let's elide financials for now). Say X, like Facebook, has news published on it, which users may subscribe to and receive. Is it not true that most users will more often follow news sources they're interested in, effectively self-filtering? Is it not true that news sources are financially motivated to appeal to said users by self-filtering, or even manifesting as multiple brands with different biases?

And finally, say there's no X, and each news source has its own separate channel to its users - like websites or newspapers. Are both of the above effects not still true?

Back to Facebook, we need to figure out what a solution looks like before we tell Facebook which direction to turn.
This is an awesome showcase for how all kinds of technology can be adapted and connected in new, unforeseen ways. Very inspiring, cool DIY project!
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist."

When they start carting people off, it might be too late.

I'll add, premature "panic" is also common among the left - every conservative candidate is framed as the next Hitler...
It is.

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that it is handled as a capital gains tax. So you buy some bitcoin, it fluctuates wildly over the course of a week, and you convert back to fiat. You then pay taxes on any earnings from that.

So if you bought 1 flubbercoin for 900 USD and sold it a week later for 1200 USD, you are liable for that 300 USD in gained capital.

Here is a marginally more technical description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax
I'd love to have a plugin that for every website visited tells me if they published any rumors that later proved to be incorrect.
Photorealistic facial texture inference using deep neural networks
You can create environments - it's coming! We'll be releasing many components over next few months.
As a Ghanaian, this is a pretty odd story for multiple reasons.
Gotta say, I'm Team Qualified Import. Use it all the time in my Clojure code. I want to know where things come from.
I guess it's too late now, but the solution to your Problem would have been to run an X server on your host and connect the gvim in your VM to that.
are you talking about Unifi Mesh - https://unifi-mesh.ubnt.com/ or the Unifi AC Pro Products(require Ethernet)
Clarify: you want to analyze newspaper data? Or you want to do a machine learning project that would make a good newspaper article? Or you want to write a how-to ML article that fits into your newspaper?
It becomes a problem if these people following the onion would affect the outcome of an election. Even a democratically elected leader can be a problem (e.g. Mussolini was democratically elected).

To function a democracy requires citizens to be well-informed and critical.
>ftp or any other file repository service

Dropbox is a success because millions of people don't know the meaning of the words you just wrote. This is even hinted at int he application itself: "Dropbox is kind of like taking the best elements of subversion, trac and rsync and making them "just work" for the average individual or team."
So there are two extremes to radioactive waste / leakage.

One extreme is the "ideal dispersal" leak, like the Fukushima leaks into the ocean. In this case, the radioactive material does not "clump up" enough to be dangerous -- it's not that some cubic meters of ocean are fine and some contain deadly, deadly poison, it's that each cubic meter of ocean contains the same minuscule amount of radioactive material, too low to be a threat.

The other extreme is the "immobile clump" of radioactive material, like the Elephant's Foot at the heart of Chernobyl. Here you have enough radioactivity to cause serious harm or death if you get too close for too long. It's scary, but it's also pretty stationary. It's scary like a hole in the ground. You stay away, you warn people not to fall in, but it's not going to creep up on you without warning, like a sinkhole in Florida.

The really scary kind of radioactive waste isn't either of these two extremes, but a dangerous middle-ground: radioactive waste which is clumpy enough to give off deadly amounts of radiation, but mobile enough to get everywhere. You occasionally get this from reactor leaks (that's the primary reason for the exclusion zone around Chernobyl; on the other hand, they could never find any evidence of this sort of leak after Three Mile Isle). You also see it in non-power-plant nuclear accidents, like the Goiânia Accident, which involved a radiation source used in medical imagine.

You also worry about it in coal ash, because the ash can be blown and scattered but is clumpy enough that the radioactive particulate doesn't disperse.
You don’t get to revise evolutionary theory, until you understand it
This.

I mean Schmidt, Ballmer or Scully, didn't seem to have much expertise in their field.
Good point.

Remember, one of the key aspects of OO is hiding implementation details because they shouldn't matter. This fascination with exposing them and forcing them on end users is absurd.

We have to accept that some tasks and jobs are not for everyone and that's okay. That could be due to aptitude, skill gaps, education gaps, interest, or dozens of other things, some due to education system, some due to abilities of the individual.. and that's still okay.
Dropbox replaced USB sticks for transporting miscellanious files for me. The less I need to do my own admin stuff the better (it's not productive, and it's not my core competence).
"Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can’t deal with them… But it’s a complicated matter: Science studies what’s at the edge of understanding, and what’s at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated." — Noam Chomsky
Bitcoin has rewards?
but at 1% efficiency how much background radiation does it absorb?
India takes a leaf out of China’s book: QR codes everywhere for mobile payments
Shocking and ironic. I still remember spending my high school years reading philosophy and other topics of interest in the internet of the 90s. I had the sentiment that people will be so knowledgeable--they'll learn everything. The reverse is clearly true and now all tech breeds is greed.
This is exactly why I use Dropbox. Backing up, sharing files with others may one day be handy sure.

Having files on all of my devices without the effort is why I pay them whatever their monthly fee is.