skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished reading these for the first time and am disappointed to learn that the 3rd book was at the finished manuscript stage 4 years ago, but still no 3rd book :[
>As for why this discrepancy exists, that's really a very different question, and it's one that I don't know the answer to.

That's caused by IQ distribution differences between males and females. On average men and women have an IQ of 100, but there are more men that are both smarter and dumber than women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...
Google "terms of service template"
Not all fake news is political. This looks a bit like a marketing stunt. Their Twitter update is "YouTube/Google shuts down largest climate science channel".

Notice that they don't say "our largest channel" or something less click baited.
>>How many have to be trying to change things before we stop labeling them all distracted, sleeping, over-amused sheeple?

3.5 percent, according to research.

https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboul...
But as long as you realise that and monitor your intake/diet accordingly, why is that problem? Are carbohydrates necessarily bad?
This is why MediaGoblin is such an important project. By all means, publish to YouTube, offload different codec/bitrate copies to BitTorrent, place a copy on the Internet Archive, but also run a MediaGoblin server.

[0] http://mediagoblin.org/
Concorde thread on pprune reorganised by subject
This a good example of the kind of computational tasks that have me staying on the top of the line of the latest generation of intel's desktop chips, and overclock them when I'm running compute intensive stuff.

If I want to try out something new like this and play around with it, I want it to be snappy.

I am vehemently opposed to the idea that PC's are "fast enough" -- more speed, less waiting!

The only compromise I make is avoiding the extreme versions of their chips, as they can almost $1,000 more. But in the future I might change my mind on that.

Time is the one thing you can't buy more of.
From loosely following chess over the past year it seems they normally play a random pool and whoever has the best score at the end wins the tournament.
This is a useful insight, but with caveats.

As an investor, my livelihood depends on my ability to consistently make sound decisions. And fortunately, decisions are not set in stone, so I have opportunities to negate poor ones.

I have thought a lot about how to improve my decision-making. One is what you are talking about, sharing my decisions and thought processes with others. An obvious conclusion (to me) is that doing so on the internet is horrible, as there is no real ability to filter opinions on my part, with no background knowledge of those giving feedback. Yet they can still sow seeds of self-doubt.

But even talking with friends can be tricky, as you have to account for their backgrounds and biases. Sometimes it's easy. For example, if I'm looking at real estate, something I know little about, I would heavily count the thoughts of my friend who is a REIT analyst. Other times it is not clear how much to weight their opinion. A Bayesian approach seems to work here.

Another idea which I find as effective, if not more, is constantly turning the decision over in my own mind. I am not the same person I was yesterday. My thought processes in the morning, after a cup of coffee, are different than Friday evening, after a few beers. It is definitely different after a period where the market is up ("I'm an invincible genius!") vs. down ("I'm a moron! Maybe I should go back to writing code...") By revisiting over a span of time, you can gather new insights solely based on where your head is at any given time.

And at the end of the day, you have to honestly evaluate the results of your decisions. If I discount the opinions of others and follow my own intuition, but consistently lose money, then well, I should revisit some part of the process. Surprisingly many are unable (unwilling?) to do this.
>now that government censorship seems to be becoming the norm

How is the US government censoring anything?
Entrepreneurism should skew toward ethics, not optics
Academia brings out the worst in people. It is a culture where the primary reward is ego, and this article is a testament to its noxious power.

Amos not crediting his student is unforgivable.
I stand up and point my finger again in the direction of decentralization. Here we have this massive societal infrastructure, a huge education tool and a hub for culture, and the whole thing is under the control of a single entity whose primary motive is exclusively profit.

The core infrastructure of the internet (search, social media, archives, etc.) should not be under the influence of single companies. The internet was supposed to be decentralized but we ended up with individual companies taking huge monopolies over our standard internet experiences.

I don't think there is any tech out there today that can properly replace YouTube. Especially things like the recommendation engine. But I also don't think it's that far out of reach. We should putting greater effort into decentralizing the core parts of the internet.

Money, search, email, data storage, social media, DNS, ISP, and I'm sure dozens of other things. We don't need to be vulnerable like this.
How did you know you wanted a Bluetooth speaker, or that such a thing exists?

In your specific case it's possible that you knew what speakers are, and you knew what Bluetooth is, and you extrapolated from there that the combination might exist and you went looking for one (carefully avoiding paid reviews in the process).

But it's also possible that you saw a post on techcrunch or HN years ago when Bluetooth speakers were first being developed that seeded the concept in your mind. Something changed between then and now such that you recently wanted to buy one, and that kicked off your ad-free research and purchasing process. Are you positive that no ads were involved in that original, long-past inception of the concept "Bluetooth speaker" in your mind? Or maybe one of those fellow consumers whose reviews you recently read originally bought their speaker because of an ad they saw.

If I make a better mousetrap, but then tell no one and never leave my farm, will the world beat a path to my door?

I think you might argue that there is a distinction between word of mouth flow of information and advertising, but the devil is in the details. Is publishing a peer-reviewed paper advertising? Is updating a blog about your project advertising? Is posting a limited number of access codes on a forum you don't own to a service you are launching advertising? Is cold calling advertising? Is sending unsolicited emails advertising?

What makes advertising advertising, and how is it different from telling people about this thing you made that they don't know about but might add value to their lives? I don't know, but I suspect it has something to do with fuzzy concepts like social capital.
There are bigger players trying to achive that (alas AMP).
also elevant XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/927/
Honestly for those of us in machine learning, I think something like XLA will likely win over both paradigms. (Disclaimer, I work on XLA.)

https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/experimental/xla/

XLA much more closely matches what you want for ML than CUDA/opencl. Which isn't a surprise; it was designed specifically for ML.

Kernel launches are expensive, so any fast CUDA system has to let you compose computations into a single kernel (e.g. multiply by 5 and then take tanh). It's possible to do this in CUDA, but it requires heoric C++ template metaprogramming. It's not uncommon to have files that take ten minutes to compile. Whereas in XLA kernel fusion is nbd, because it's a JIT.

Also, because XLA is generating GPU code after it's seen your model, it can specialize computations specifically to your model. In regular TensorFlow (and I presume other ML frameworks, although I'm not at all familiar with them), you have to compile all of your kernels upfront. This means that the framework probably doesn't have the ideal set of kernels for your model, because the framework's set of kernels needs to be generic. For example, the framework probably isn't going to have a "multiply by 5 and then take tanh" kernel -- if you're lucky, it might have a "multiply by X and then take tanh", but notice that this may be slower because X is now not a constant.

In contrast, not only can XLA specialize for your weird X==5 case, but it can also specialize all of the dimensions of your arrays. This is a really big advantage in many cases.

As just one example, it's common for kernels to do something like

int index = some computation based on threadIdx and blockIdx;
if (index < array_len) { ... }

But in XLA we know the size of the kernel, so we know the possible values for threadIdx and blockIdx, and we know the exact value of array_len. We can therefore often optimize out the if entirely.
Yes. The Google Play Store (the part where you can buy phones etc.) has actually good support. I think the only other area they have support is Google AdSense and maybe the paid Google Apps.
What? There are most certainly tools which provide jump-to-definition for vim/emacs.

With respect to vim, at the primitive end of the spectrum is ctags. At the opposite end there are things like the fabulous vim-go, which provides all the functionality that you'd expect in a traditional IDE. There are many similar plugins for other languages.

Regardless, I contest the idea that you have to use an IDE. I find traditional UNIX tools more than sufficient for programming in any language. I can find definitions with grep, use ctags and vim's chugger to manage definitions across many files in many directories. I'm also not limited to the scope of just one project. The tools I use and my expertise with them can then be applied to any language or problem. I use the same tools to write emails and commit messages.

Large legacy Java programs may be frustrating, but they're not all that bad, and certainly don't warrant requiring maintainers to learn and use an IDE.
What gives you the right to treat other people's hard work as some kind of treasure chest you can loot? How about I come to your house and start drinking your beer? There's not a lot of benefit to society for you to have beer in your fridge, after all. You could be feeding some orphans or helping some refugees instead of lazing around drinking beer.

If you want something, work for it. Don't steal it from others.
oh, OECD, tu quoque! After having been the lapdog to some economicist / reductionist vision of the world and having contributed to serious damage - are you waking up? It's too late. And you are still part of the problem, not of the solutions.
> YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science videos from the Internet

No, they did not. YouTube removed them from YouTube.

Don't trust others to host your things or provide you with access to other's things.
More likely it was rival climate channels that want their subscribers so are just going through the vids, finding something that looks copyright and spamming google with the license in hopes the channel is taken down. If you have any kind of popular channel you will experience this as there's money to be made by somebody else gaining all your views.
That's ridiculous you can't demand citations for basic and obvious points. What you need research to tell you that child porn is made by pedophiles and encouraging pedophilic fantasies means more child porn?
Since we're talking health outcomes here, how prudent is it to measure these outcomes based on respondents' self assessments of how healthy they are, as this study does, rather than empirically measuring those outcomes?
It did, and a lot of drl (deepmind in London), but the media loves jerking off the us.
> Production would be pointless without a way to distribute it.

This fact does not make distribution a crime.

For example, environment harmful production may be a crime, but it is not consumers or distributors who are criminals.
This is some really cool stuff O_o

what would really help if generated images are cached, as well as a debounce or a "run" button for when I'm typing in new images and old ones are getting regenerated on every keypress, that is kind of really very annoying.
One common story that is told is that men have more variance in outcomes than women; regardless of whether men are taller, the very tallest and shortest individuals are both male. So if you select for the people with the most board memory, the most pattern recognition, the most patience, and whatever other weird traits, you could have entirely equal representation if you take the top 50% or the top 10%, but the top 0.1% could be all male.
Is the ChromeOS / Android team like this because it really sounds like we're comparing Epeens.. i'd be surprised if android builds typically build world and do so in 10 minutes..
Right; Tensorflow is managed well, and working on it might lead to a job, while appleseed seems like yet another open-source time sink with few prospects.

Obviously money isn't everything, so maybe there's a better criteria for judging projects, but at least on the "lasting impact on the world" front appleseed seems to fall short...
You're assuming the deletion actually deletes stuff. I doubt it does.
Remember that if everyone has children in their early 20s, the kid's greatgrandparents will only be in their late 60s/early 70s.
It is not "censorship" if people decide they don't want to give you free bandwidth.
I mean, you stated it pretty clearly yourself. How would a recommendation system rivaling YouTube's work in a decentralized fashion?

There's also the fact that people spend a lot of time, effort, and money making these videos. How would they get paid by a decentralized system?

I want to decentralize too, absolutely. But I'm at a loss as to how we'd accomplish it in a way that ultimately benefits society instead of making an inferior product.
Who cares who is in the top 1%? You're all missing the point. We should strive to provide decency to all people, and decency doesn't require being rich. The best societies can be monarchies or even oligarchies. Stop obsessing over the super rich!
> Reminds me when Assad, early in the Syrian war

How persuasive is your example depends on which side the reader takes in this war. (I don't take either)
The fake part is that they are cherry picking facts from several unrelated things and putting them in the same article. The intent is clearly to give the impression to readers that they should think that their channel was somehow taken down do to government censorship when there is in fact zero evidence to suggest that. This is the _exact_ MO of all those sites people love to hate for fake news. The only real difference here is that because this fake story is about something that jives with a lot of peoples political opinions here they were primed to believe it w/o questioning.
Also recommended: Omega Tau's hour-long, detailed interview with an SR-71 pilot:

http://omegataupodcast.net/91-flying-the-sr-71/
> The system discourages everyone from the public to law enforcement from doing anything productive about child sexual abuse.

It does? Last I heard, law enforcement shut down this stuff regularly, and even have teams dedicated to it.
"Moderate drinking" is working class phenomena in the first place, especially in cold climates - cheap, easily available almost instant gratification (of being happy with oneself) and better than church socialization with fellow men for those who have very little spare time and money. And, of course, there are negative "health benefits" in the long run.
Moral of the story: Nicer person lives longer and bullish people get cancer.
> why don't we use this to justify banning any sort of media that people wish didn't exist about themselves?

I absolutely think we should. Secretly filmed or leaked sex videos are pretty messed up.
Yes, it's useful both in theory and practice.

Mind you, I would say that: full disclosure: I'm a committer on the Apache Isis framework. But over the last 5 years the framework has been developed based on the needs of real-world apps that I'm fully involved in building; we then factor out stuff as need be to develop the framework.

I'm always amazed at the abstraction level pretty much all the other frameworks out there... just so much hacking around with technical stuff rather than focusing on the domain. The Apache Isis framework pretty much forces the dev to work only in terms of the domain.

But judge for yourself: Estatio (http://github.com/estatio/estatio) is the real-world app (for invoicing) that we work on; there are also technical addons (http://isisaddons.org) and generic subdomain modules (http://catalog.incode.org) which we've also factored out.
"Opportunity is the probability distribution over outcomes."

No, it's not. You aren't accounting for choice at all. Some people choose happiness over wealth, some people choose short-term outcomes over long-term outcomes, and some people just make choices that result in a much greater struggle for whatever reason.
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Is anyone else wondering why they're selling domains like SpaceAlpha.com [1] or their own domain ClimateState.com [2]?

And that they're using clickbait titles like "YouTube/Google shuts down largest climate science channel" to say that their channel was shut down?

Doesn't it look a bit fishy?

[1] http://climatestate.com/product/domain-spacealpha-com/

[2] http://climatestate.com/product/domain-climatestate-com/

Edit: auto-correct typo
There can be a balance. One could introduce more mixing while still relying primarily on the current metrics. It's not a binary choice between one or the other.
> Btw it is non-consensual porn production which is harmful, not distribution. Distribution is a victimless crime that everyone stands up against due to copyright propaganda

Unrestricted distribution allows entities to profit from the production of child porn. Therefore, distribution incentivises harm in the form of new content with non-consensual victims.
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I think that idea is largely responsible for the decline of HP, IBM, etc.
> 2) Vimeo.com account

When I stopped using all things Google[1], I switched to Vimeo for any potential videos I might make. So far what I've seen is a more mature, professional, and technologically superior platform for video producers. Gone are the hordes of single-digit-IQ trolls and hate speech spewing masses, replaced with thoughtful commentary. Making money with your original content is straightforward and doesn't feel scummy like on YouTube.

The only thing I miss is the wide range of "how to" videos on YouTube; for all of its flaws, the service is a never ending fountain of hands-on knowledge.

[1] In the interest of full disclosure, I have yet to find a suitable replacement for the Nvidia Shield TV. There is simply nothing else on the market that comes close to it for our uses. I'll probably eventually replace it with a Roku 4 or similar device, but I'll keep the Shield and try to port Linux to it.
A guy playing very shitty chess here.

* Not sure if pro chess needs more women, men or computers spending their energy on it. I guess stuff like this is its own reward but being good at it comes at a price and competition guarantees that this price will be the highest people can possibly pay. I guess it should be kept legal but I don't see why encourage it.

* Judith Polgar, who ranked #10 among humans and #1 among women, had a crazy dad set out to prove that "any child can be raised to become a genius." Here I use "crazy" in colloquial terms but AFAIK men are more likely to experience mental illness in professional terms.

* Could it be that fewer women are crazy enough to devote their lives to chess than men? Is it really a problem? The societal benefits of chess are not obviously worth the opportunity cost, as someone with a potential as a chess player could probably do something most of us consider more productive.

None of this is in response to TFA (and I wish Hou Yifan success in everything she does), I'm only replying to your point about women being as "good" as men at competing at an inherently unproductive mental activity.
You mean US companies with international offices such as Geoff Hinton at Google Toronto and DeepMind owned by Alphabet in the UK? Not to mention Facebook AI Research in Paris. Yep. Canada and Europe sure are producing strong research for the US. Thanks for the talent!
I found my foolproof HTML in slim-lang.

It produces standards-compliant HTML and prevents me from writing code that is not well-formed.

The above is a nice side effect of its incredibly clean and terse syntax.

Now I feel cheated any time I need to write regular HTML.

https://github.com/slim-template/slim/blob/master/README.md

I used emmet for a while but slim improves on writing and reading code.
Why do you think he shouldn't?
> You hurt children

You are already mistaken, I don't.

Already mentioned, just repeating: http://www.euronews.com/2016/10/21/does-killing-drug-dealers...
What if it is not children, but "just" drug addicts. Do you believe you are free to harm drug dealers?
You are forgetting some really simple cases like:

1) My friend has one

2) I saw one at a party or work function

3) I was at the store a while back, browsing around (of my own volition), and learned about them

I could go on, but you get the idea. There are very many ways to learn about new things other than overt advertising. If we are being lenient, it's actually not too different from asking "how does culture spread and evolve?" Humans have been doing this stuff for thousands of years.

To address the second half of your post, I do agree 100% that it's impossible and unreasonable to draw a really hard line against all advertising. But I think we can certainly do way, way better than we do now.
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News equivalent for research papers?
The title sums it up. Basically, I'd like to know if there's a similar community or format to see the latest most popular research papers, published in free and open access?

Obviously we get a lot of these here already. But I'd be looking at something with a wider reach and encompassing more fields. Or separate communities for each field, as otherwise there'd be a skew in the favor of the biggest communities (as we get here for some languages for instance... but I digress).

I know HN is not always necessarily about "latest" or "current" content either, but you get the idea.

(Tricks to extract most popular articles from HN, Google Scholar or others are also welcome, of course ;))

Update: title fix, didn't know the etiquette.