skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that's it? Maybe the shitty bikes I remember from my youth were actually just better than the equivalently priced bikes of today?

I sold my last bike for $50 after a decade of really hard city and trail riding, even taking a couple dives off the edge of a 20 foot fall and getting in a minor car accident.

That owner kept it for another decade and outside of normal part wear and repair, used it well for some pretty hardcore trail biking. It's now on at least it's 3rd owner and last I heard was going strong.

I bought that bike new in the late '80s for no more than $200 IIR, but the story of the bike sounds more like what I hear from modern $2k-$3k bikes...except without most of the fuss.

I feel like the market has really bifurcated into two segments:

a) what I'm willing to pay, but not made well

b) more than I'm willing to pay, and offers more performance than I'd ever conceivably use

I, and I'm sure many consumers, really would like some kind of middle ground.
Aha.

Awesome! thanks for the answers everyone. This looks very interesting.

However... I guess the "don't roll your own cryptography" still applies for this? I mean, I know better than trying to "design" my own algorithms. I even know that I shouldn't try to implement anything below what NaCL provides.

But how about this? Could I use this to deploy my own secure protocol for my own projects?

Obviously I have no formal cryptography training so I'm leaning towards "no, you are not qualified to implement anything", but just out of curiosity, is there some point at which we can build something securely without the need to either outsource this to a security team or getting actual training on security stuff?

Or, put in another way, what amount of security training/knowledge should I have to properly use this while avoiding doing something universally stupid? is it still "you need to be actually trained for this" or is it enough to have some idea and being able to follow some best practices?
I've observed ZWSes appearing in user input for an application I maintain. It appears in text pasted from either Outlook or OWA, I believe. In our case, it is necessary that the application handle them gracefully - indeed, the user has no reason to know anything is amiss.
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Two big forces, which are somewhat distinct:

1) exascale, e.g. large scale scientific compute for government and academic interests

2) hyperscale, e.g. large scale compute for industry, particularly machine learning and big data analytics

While some convergence is to be expected, it will be interesting to see how both evolve. Both sectors appear poised for growth, as ML explodes and DOE pushes against competition from China and Japan.
There's a demand, so there's a market.
The problem is other people buy stolen bikes. I would also call those thieves, even if they don't do the stealing by themselves. As long as one buys something without original papers, they support the guys who do the stealing itself.

PS: 2 of my bikes were stolen.
i actually tweeted an zero width space some time ago and it worked. The tweet contained no text though.
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It seems to me the author incorrectly assumes morality is the same as ethics. Morality is more individualistic whereas ethics are externally imposed rules from which one may derive their morality. A Biblical absolutist for instance uses the ethics of the Bible as a foundation for their moral code, but that still does not determine that one will lead to the other. As a society it may indeed behoove us to follow an ethical structure such as utilitarianism (an argument I have made specifically for democracies in the past) but the personal morality of the individuals within that society may vary greatly.
I've long since moved on from that position, and that company, so no worries there.

I'd be worried about this however:

>> I am head of development in my company. I make standards and learn others WHY. They soon all become groopies

It's easy to get people to agree to everything you say if you're their boss. It's good to keep that in mind, always. For myself, I've had the best experiences and learned the most when I had senior devs who listened and were willing to mentor, rather than impose their will.

Of course, up to a certain extent, if you set up processes in a certain way and then hire people to execute them, and they agree to come onboard, there's no issue of forcing them to do as you say. If they don't like it, they can go somewhere else.

Still, I think the best lesson I got from that job where people didn't want to listen to the junior dev (me) is that you should always be open to advice from all levels in the company hierarchy.
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They make dvds and brds that are supposed to last 1000 years

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Agreed, one of the reasons I considered my Hackintoshes to be toys more than machines for serious work. I don't put my real Apple ID on them. I've got one sitting around just for playing music and updating my iPod, though.
Agreed. You definitely have to do retargeting campaigns too so you can stay in front of them and help drive them to convert when they are in the consideration phase.

However, if you are bidding on keywords showing purchase intent (usually on Google Adwords), the user's should be more engaged. If the Google PPC traffic isn't engaging you may need to optimize your landing page and do some A/B testing.

Facebook is quite different because the user isn't expressing intent at the time they see your ad (usually interest/demographic based targeting) and are having to jump off FB to check your site out. So your landing page has to be really compelling and quicker to digest for that audience. You have to try and capture an email and drop a FB retargeting pixel for sure.

The strategies should be different based on those channels because of the context and frame of mind the user is in.
I've driven a lot of cars beyond that point where the chain guides don't exist... The sounds of a chain sloshing around are unmistakable :). If you're lucky it will skip a few teeth one day and give you a chance to fix it.

Unlucky, it skips a bunch of teeth and bends all the exhaust valves. I managed to salvage one of those too by driving around at high rpm until the valves had...Hammered themselves mostly straight again. Wouldn't recommend, usually you'll get an iffy cylinder or two after that that mysteriously only fire above 2000 rpm
> access the same files with native Windows tools

Er, about that: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...

DO NOT, under ANY circumstances, create and/or modify Linux files using Windows apps, tools, scripts, consoles, etc.

Edit: downvoting accurate information that was previously posted on HN? Really?
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I was so sure that Google had stopped developing and releasing Sketchup that I hadn't even thought to re-install it after I got my new computer.

Happily surprised to see it still exist!
In the case of NVIDIA, yes. Their GPUs need compositor support and the GNOME people ended up giving in and merging their patches.
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Again, how are you measuring this correlation? If it's not something that's measured, you don't have any numbers to correlate with.

You could equivalently say that scores in any particular subject in school don't correlate with success after school, which is usually true. But it doesn't follow that net success wouldn't change if that subject was taught better: not only would you be teaching different techniques than is measured in that correlation, but you also have network effects when more people are trained in something.

An easy example of this is the topic at hand: software development as part of a team, which many schools don't teach (or don't teach well), but is a skill picked up quickly (hopefully) when entering a job with more than a handful of developers. I'm not talking pair programming or anything specific, just generally being able to develop software with other people.

Here you have something that isn't measured at many schools and is important to success at many companies. So you'd find no correlation between the two, but better developed experience would undoubtedly help the worker and the team in that situation (whether or not that's a skill best learned in school vs on the job is a different question).

> At best during those drills children learn from teacher behaviour, not words

Your apparently data-based argument is wandering into gut feelings, but this is what I was talking about. If a teacher lionizes Albert Einstein for single-handedly saving humanity from 19th century luminiferous aethers and inventing the atomic bomb, the idea that progress is only made by hermit inventors is going to continue to propagate. People are born to be math geniuses, they don't have to work at it, etc.
Can we train a convnet to recognize departure vs landing and then analyze some of the layers to see what is being activated?
Is Nature still taken seriously? When they cover computer science or energy (especially batteries) the articles are heavy on hype. Don't know about life sciences.
I'm not even talking about the article per se. I'm more taken aback by people here saying that if after 10 years of marriage, with career and kids to contend with, you're not having sex every day you're somehow a failure and your relationship is doomed. Could it be that this is not all there is to life? Could it be that a marriage can be quite all right without much stereotypical "romance"? Could it be that people are just different and some of them are quite fine with having no romance or sex for that matter for months at a time? That's something that takes some time and life experience to absorb. In particular, it's not "sad" to be consumed by kids and/or career if that's something you both want. My wife and I have been married for 17 years and "consumed" by kids and careers for 15. We open a bottle of wine every Friday, we go out to a restaurant every now and then -- that's the extent of our "romance" at this point. And you know what? It's great for both of us.

Before someone jumps in with manufactured outrage, no, I don't suggest that you ignore your partner or tolerate the lack of "romance" from their side. If that's something you (or they) need in your life, by all means, hash it out and have a mutually agreeable relationship. Just realize that some people are quite happy in other circumstances.
This might be the case for illiterate people, but these days it's mandatory for Mainland Chinese citizens to complete at least 9 years of education. Different words with the same written form usually have different pronunciations, and different words with the same pronunciation usually have different written forms. It's rare for a word to carry different meanings solely depending on context.
Be honest, do you not go by journal title when you have to choose whether or not to read a paper? It's an imperfect metric, but it's the one we have. 25 years ago I attended a talk (by a representative from Pergamon) about the future of scientific publishing. It was out of control even then, and when in the Q & A session someone suggested ditching journals altogether this Pergamon (!) guy made the same remark: do you not read the journal title? Pergamon, whose best-known journal was Tetrahedron. Pergamon. Uttered by a Pergamon guy.

In some fields arXiv may have improved matters, but most fields still rely on journals.
It’s a consequence of the geometry of a pushbike: The centre of gravity of bike + rider is above the point about which the bike will rotate when braking (The front axle). This means that any braking load will put a torque on the bike that pushes down on the front wheel & lifts the back wheel up. This places a limit on how hard you can brake with the rear brake, i.e. the point at which the upward torque reduces the friction between the rear wheel and the road so that no greater braking force can be applied - at this point the wheel locks & just skids along the road surface.

When you use the front brake, you can brake harder because this torque is pushing the front wheel into the ground. Instead, the limit on front wheel braking is the torque required to toss the rider over the handlebars. This is a function of their weight & how far back behind the saddle they can get their backsides:)

(This second limit means that a car can significantly outbrake a cyclist. Bicycles need more stopping distance than cars do if they need to carry out an emergency stop.)
The benefit of these cross-field journals are somewhat limited, IMHO.

Complete isolation between disciplines doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. Cross-pollination can be useful in surprising ways.

Further, the point of science isn't to advance the careers of scientists, it's to increase human knowledge and capability. Collecting and distributing research from many disciplines furthers that purpose better than isolating disciplines.
Regarding your last point, I am renting my own server in a datacenter on a different continent. So basically I have total control over my data etc.
The author is wildly extrapolating limited results ("Nash Equilibrium outcomes achieved by agents trained using deep reinforcement learning") to the entire field. Just because in DRL agents approach nash equilibrium in limited set of games does not means that somehow using nash equilibrium is going to help design future algorithms. E.g. for several games such as Pong, Go on which we know that DRL outperforms traditional methods, there is no tractable Nash equilibrium.

Also let alone so many other problem which come under umbrella of deep learning such as recognition / detection/ Seq to Sequence prediction where there is no "Game theory" component.
1 and 3 aren't predictions, but post-hoc explanations.

There is an argument that game theory helped lead to 1, I suppose. But, in general, I think that is giving them more credit than they would even ask for. Mutually assured destruction is far from their central theorem.

2 could just as easily be explained by standard supply/demand scenarios. There is a very limited supply of that is auctioned off to telcos and they have a very vested interest in buying as much as they can. Even if they are not going to utilize it.
You can access your entire Windows filesystem freely from Linux, so that's not really an issue. Just keep your data in /mnt, or link it from there to other places.
I look to replace chains at about 1-2k miles in winter, or 2k+ in the summer. Ymmv.

Honestly, unless you're on a 11sp, chains are cheap compared to any of the other parts.
I'm guessing a lot of you have read Neuromancer; I liken generative-adversarial networks to be a lot like neuromancer-wintermute networks :)

Imagine Robert Axelrod's iterated artificial intelligence agents tournaments [0], reloaded; let's pit GANs with LSTM cells, deep-q-networks, style-transferring networks, random forest algos, MCMC algorithms, word2vec architectures, etc. against one another, if only to see possible new failure modes of tit-for-tat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat#Background
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I have a Samsung 32 inch 1440p monitor and a Dell 24 inch 1080p monitor aligned vertically. The Samsung is my main workspace, and I use a tiling WM as well. I use the vertical Dell for email and instant messaging, so they're always visible.

This setup is the most ergonomic I've found yet. I don't have as much "watching tennis" neck that you can get with dual large monitors.

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It's a damn shame that Swift got rid of message passing. As others have noted [0], it's a step back from Objective-C.

[0] http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/06/27/the-case-for-message-passi...
This is a perfect example of nerd sniping. (https://xkcd.com/356/)
They exist. I saw one in an issue of Popular Mechanics a few years ago. Forget the name though unfortunately. It was an e-bike with a NuVinci CVT and had these crazy wheels that had nothing but three massive spokes.
And then we arrive at the conclusion that, on a machine where any active object that's executing something can be partitioned to a single CPU core, implementations do not need to compromise anymore.
I don't remember where I found it but I use this for touch https://gist.github.com/golf1052/39603656500adcaef3e8fd3d210...

It acts like Linux touch where if the file already exists it just updates the last modified date
Whats is the Nash equilibrium of Pong? or Go? or Chess?

All the generalizations you cite are fancy economics methods which loose applicability at the first contact with complex real world scenarios.

Game Theory is like asking question such as "Is chess a win for white? [1]" Sure answering this question might be important theoretically but its of no use when designing an agent that plays and learns.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess
Reminded me of 'differentials' when I was a spectator in wage negotiations decades ago. Deals would get difficult if the smallest change to the differences between a labourer and a very semi-skilled occupation.
But if not knowledge then upon what is it based? Instinct? If so, then society would crumble into loose animalistic structures. Law? Then, to appeal to Hitler once more, would you still shelter a Jew against the ethics of the law? External supernatural force? We are then met with the old questions of "which one" along with the problem of interpretation (do we take Levitical restrictions on beard trimming literally, for example). It seems like knowledge is the only thing we can use to form good ethical structures...perhaps with enough data our ethics will become better.
I think the best phrase about humans could probably be taken from Mattis about Marines: No better friend, no worse enemy.
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That sounds like an exaggeration in order to make an unrelated point.

Why would people sell equity in their company except for cash, and why would you pay cash for ownership in a company except for the stream of income it represents and the secondary market for that ownership?

How come people decided it is illegal to trade ivory from an elephant killed a couple hundred years ago? Was it made illegal to possess child pornography that was already created only because it is morally toxic, or does said consumption also induce demand for additional victims?

Even though debt markets have a lot more to do with day to day financing of corporations, equity markets have a great influence on terms. Furthermore, the unavoidable importance of secondary markets for debt and their derivatives can be understood by considering the importance of secondary markets with respect to prices of homes, automobiles, or any other large consumer purchases.
That's a different aspect, I was merely challenging the notion that there were the "golden days of gaming with modding" that are now over.

If anything, now you can easily get a game engine for free so you don't have to mod a game to get one.

For now gaming communities have managed surprisingly well to keep old games alive, the biggest threat I see here is the growing move towards "always online" models and no provisions for local multiplayer in AAA titles.
Yeah, flaps decrease speed but also increase lift, so they're good for both takeoff and landing.
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This is just as applicable to any of the other tools to master multithreaded programming. Actors, as an example, are great so long as you are sensible and don't push your problems into your protocol too heavily. Unless, of course, you like complicated protocols.
Hm. Market potential is limited to upper-middle class (those having large work autonomy) or about 15% of the US population. Which may be plenty for your outlook, i'm no expert.

But I am a normal dude. And there is no way the remaining 85% of the population can check out of their real-world duties of getting kids ready for school, cooking, working, watching tv, etc to check-in to VR. No way.

VR's downfall IS its immersiveness. It's a serial activity that cannot be run in parallel with other life activities. With a phone, I can be texting, surfing ect and when my kid comes over, I can put the phone down and answer a question or continue cooking or whatever. VR-not so much. I'd have to first HEAR my kid come up to me, then unstrap the headset, put down my handset(s), etc...

If VR has large uptake as a technology, our interpersonal world, our family and social structures are fucked. Feels like the final checkmate in human history. Think I'll dig my heels in a bit and let you run over the cliff with that one.
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"At the moment we believe the subscription model is still the best way to provide [...] access to journals"

Well ... of course. But how about access to the research? Because that's what this is all about: the science. We don't need access to "journals," we need access to scientific research.
This is one reason to assume it's unremarkable. If Amazon were buying and offloading truckloads of BDXL disks and drives, someone would eventually notice. A good explanation is, therefore, that the technology is unremarkable and boring.
The point of the article was that there is so much extra parallel horsepower available that you would come out ahead even if overhead is something staggeringly ridiculous like 100x. That's what makes the idea interesting (though obviously not necessarily correct, it's just a thought-experiment).
> Programming can be social, though it often isn't. But the basic job is changing machines. While in law the task is to affect people.

You're looking at the two professions at two different levels. Changing machines is what the programmer does, but the end result is people communicating with each other. The end result of legal work is affecting people, but the actual job is down in the weeds of comma jockeying. Especially on the transactional side. There is nothing people oriented at any level about implementing obscure credit structures dreamed up by some finance nerd. But there is no shortage of women willing to do that work.

> I think the socially awkward guys on the spectrum who dominate the profession are not very attractive for women to be around.

That is not consistent with what I've heard from talking a lot of professional women. Women in finance aren't talking about how great the 85-15 ratio is just because Goldman hires a lot of frat guys.
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> So basically I have total control over my data etc.

How would you stop someone who gains physical access to your server?
You're taking this personally, which I think is clouding your view.

You don't need to lecture me on the history of Quebec, I'm well aware.

Harvard and Stanford are 'elite' schools.

U. Laval is not.

"Do you have any idea how big is the "circus"?" - it's somewhat less than $1 Billion revenue - which is not that huge.

Desjardins? Ha ... I use Desjardins as my main account - it's backwards and the most 'behind' of any major bank in Canada. I can't get a Visa Debit - among other things. Desjardins is '#1' in stability basically - because they are like a franchise and each branch is separate bank - they have extremely low lending leverage. This gives them a high degree of 'stability' (but also underperformance).

Don't be personal about it, I sense from your writing that you already know Montreal is not a 'winning city' and is not really moving in that direction.

Obviously I'm not 'anti Montreal' or I wouldn't chose to live here.

It's a great town, even a great town to build a startup in, but the people here have little interest in building industries, in the classical sense.