skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much that was because of the sonic boom is a matter of some debate.

No, it's actually not a matter of debate at all. See FAR 91.817 [0]

No person may operate a civil aircraft in the United States at a true flight Mach number greater than 1

[0] http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part91-817-FAR.shtml
Adobe can claim one doesn't have a license to use PhotoShop. There is no reason for them to additionally claim they own the copyright to one's .PSDs.
> Can you elaborate a bit on what this actually means?

Sure - I'm highlighting the differences from DataScript/Datomic. My take is the 'inspiration' from each (especially DataScript) is quite loose.
I agree that it's unlikely but it is kinda possible. This laptop https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/acer-21x-nvidia-1080... is rated to draw up to 5 amps @ 120V, so a significant fraction of a 12-amp circuit's limit.
Cool, thanks, never heard about this - I guess I'll make a stop there when I am in the area next time.
Well... IP law has a pretty strong centralizing tendency. After all, it grants control, not cash, so those that have the ability to leverage that control benefit more. That's going to be true for any kind of state-granted monopoly, but it's particularly true where each instance (here: copying) is almost free, since each additional instance provides value at no cost - better to be large, then, and amortize the research costs. The commercial victor might not be those with the best technology, but instead those with the broadest sales network (and of course lots of other factors play a role, too).

More generally, the combination of incorporation and contract law also strongly encourages centralization: because negotiations are by mutual assent, those with better negotiating positions extract more of the added value from such agreements than those with weaker negotiating positions, and incorporation trivially allows bundling strengths with almost no downside.

Then there's the way the legal system is structured, which is extremely complicated: "red tape". That's a generalized barrier to entry; a kind of cost that doesn't scale with size. Given that legal costs are high, those that can't afford to take risks are going to be outcompeted by larger entities that can afford such gambles, assuming the merit is at least somewhat unclear. In extreme cases, even if a small company (or individual) wins a court case, they may nevertheless be the net loser because cases take long and cost of lot of attention and money - the opportunity cost of engaging is higher for small entities than it is for large entities (at least in general).

Some of those effects are probably intrinsic to any system of organization, but some of them are likely a historical quirk. I'm not sure which are which, though ;-).
Sure, old versions. Do they still open files from the latest version 100℅? (Honest question.)

For Mac at least, every yearly upgrade could mean they don't work anymore. Windows is a bit safer.
People don't change. Facebook sprang from a bad seed.

In a just world filled with righteous people, that chat log would have doomed Facebook to oblivion long ago.
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Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf]
Never thought about self-documenting the process - that's a good insight.

regular backups, like you and pryelluw have mentioned is i guess the ultimate solution on this - probably enforce this with a pre-commit hook so that it's always up-to-date, easy to get lazy.
Devil's advocate: there's also no evidence that Facebook is spotting users in airport selfies and targeting ads based on that data.

Even if there were laws, it would be impossible to show whether or not they are (or aren't) complying.

I guess my point is, how would such a law be crafted to be a) reasonably enforceable and b) not impede on the rights of users who want such services
I've found the when teaching, I sometimes work on an example program too much, producing what I think is elegant and compact code, but that the students find hard to understand. I suspect that the same may be true when I am collaborating with others on a program. There can be value in writing code in a straightforward, easy to comprehend style.
Thanks, we've done both. Url changed from http://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/china-factory-robo....
40% of users don't use any extensions at all. Of the remaining 60%, the vast majority only use an ad blocker. Of the extensions specifically mentioned in the petition, they have 113,898 users, 111,846 users, 29,940 users, and 1,371 users respectively. Even assuming that all of those are unique users, that's 257,055 users which is a very small percentage of the hundreds of millions of Firefox users. XUL was consistently the cause of most Firefox crashes and issues and maintenance of it was slowing down overall development.
For the types of problems the author is describing, NativeScript would not be there to support you. NativeScript surfaces the device API's across the JS bridge, and the serialization across this bridge and pressure on it will always lead to less performant code. You would have to drop to native modules all the same, and then what have you solved?
Those shirts cost way more than $6. Walmart gets corporate welfare from the government and your tax dollars. They are allowed to pay such low wages that employees are basically required to get government handouts and welfare to survive, which you pay for.

Not to mention they destroy local and small businesses, which is/was the biggest driver of middle class wealth. They are anti-union and anti-workers rights. They are everything wrong with the USA. Sell out your neighbors and fellow citizens, give an already far overreaching government more reasons to tax you, and to boot, prop up a communist government thousands of miles away that is completely destroying the environment.

Seems worth it for a $2 shirt to me. Maybe your child can grow up to be a factory worker making $2 shirts for other people in a polluted city and then they can reflect on the choices of their parents, such as yourselves.
They're not saying "size of the data set in bits", they're saying "number of items in the dataset". In speech and image recognition, it's normal to have more parameters than data points. This is a bit old, although it's still a very good architecture, but: GoogLeNet [0] has around 10M parameters, and was trained on 1.2M images.

In fact, the 2016 winner of a bunch of the ILSVRC challenges [1,2] was topologically basically the same as GoogLeNet.

EDIT: There's a perspective on machine learning which is basically just: "what if your model learns a hash-map". Check out Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension.

[0] https://www.cs.unc.edu/~wliu/papers/GoogLeNet.pdf
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.05150v2.pdf
[2] http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2016/results (CUImage)
> There are a lot of people out there just itching to find any excuse to blow millions of dollars deploying any open-source project touted by Google or Facebook

Sure, but I was counting commits and contributors, which I don't think can be attributed solely to shallow business decisions.

> Look at an independent guy's project. It's not even as active as some of Google's projects, and they're just one of the biggest companies in the world! Hah!" is really, really unfair, and doesn't say anything about anything.

They're not that big, only 60,000 people or so AFAICT, compared to e.g. Wal-mart's 2.1 million. And then it's only ~50 people who worked on Tensorflow directly: https://research.google.com/people/BrainTeam.html. Compared to Appleseed's 12: http://appleseedhq.net/about.html.

Is it really that unfair to compare a 12-person MIT-licensed C++ project on GitHub to a 50-person Apache-licensed C++ project on GitHub? Or to remind everyone that 98% of open source projects fail?

> KDE's Konqueror began as a custom web browser for their desktop environment and easily could've been classified "yet another open-source timesink". But its engine, KHTML, became the foundation for WebKit.

KDE started in 1996, they wrote an HTML library, they didn't like it, they wrote a second version with a better architecture and ~10 developers. Appleseed doesn't seem to have that reactionary style of development or even that much thought on its design. I think it's easy to distinguish the two cases.

> If someone is interested in making something interesting, there's no reason to begrudge it.

Right. But I do begrudge them calling it "modern", when they have "no formal roadmap" (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/appleseed-dev/wMA4oW...) and a long list of features to get to where SIGGRAPH was 5-10 years ago. If they took that one word out I wouldn't have such a problem.
Non-solid-state electron systems should be expected to have their own idiosyncracies, regardless of whether superstition is building up faster than it is being dissipated.

The regular ordinary procedure for cold-starting high-power vacuum tube systems is to switch on the unit while the tubes are in standby.

This will allow the cathodes to heat to their characteristic glow, fully developing the ability to deliver the current you will soon be demanding.

But no high voltage is applied to the anodes (there will be no sound from audio systems) until removed from standby.

A minute or two later is good.

If the cathodes are too cold when applying the high anode voltage, especially at high current demands, it can strip the cathodes of their ability to provide the full performance when you need it most in the future.

Small tubes, most preamp types, run on lower voltages and currents, don't suffer noticeably, and were cheap to begin with.

It's the bigger more expensive tubes that standby is for.

Shut down by switching to standby while the main unit is still powered on.

After no more than a minute or two, fully power off the unit unless you would otherwise have to cold-start unreasonaby soon afterward. This is about 10 to 20 minutes for popular audio units, or much more if there is a true need for instant-on over a longer term.

24 hour standby is not very good for the tubes either, best fully powered off to save hours, or idling at a reasonable fraction of their ratings.

On standby tubes are still more vibration sensitive than fully cold, so it's seldom a good idea to leave them on standby while there is a source of strong vibration from other sources.

Never leave a tube amp in direct sunlight unless fully powered off. Standby will not save you.
If it is allowed to heat up above ambient for any reason, let it cool back down to ambient before powering up.
Gear that can run continuously at ambient 100degF can die at 70degF in the sun.

Without the sun, different gear (including differing power bias settings on the same gear) will have different maximum ambient temperatures beyond which only short-term operation is advisable, even for units which are otherwise capable of continuous operation under slightly milder conditions.

For musicians it's the class of thick-cone reinforced speakers that can take 20 or 30 minutes (near their power rating) to break in every time, that can throw you off.
Speakers can not be "warmed up" silently, you have to make some noise.
After this cranked-up break in, reach into an open-back cab and you feel how hot the magnets are, they were made for this but not in the sun either, especially closed-back cabinets where you can't touch the magnets but you know they're even hotter.
But often it's not the warmth of the magnets (or the tubes) that makes a (beneficial) difference in the tone, it's the preflexing of the cones which makes them more articulate afterward.
Most amps themselves warm up way faster than that, and can do it silently.
sounds like solid backing. awesome.
That's why I ask my friends to tag themselves as me periodically and I tag myself as them.

The neural network is all confused and now it tries to tag the wrong people.
Google seems to have a pretty authoritative monopoly on search right now, which is not decentralized at all. We are safe in the sense of Google failing, as there are half a dozen other mostly decent search engines - that's not sufficient though. If Google starts censoring right-wing websites or favoriting their own political agenda in their search results, would we even know? We would not! There's no transparency into the system.

I guess really the term I am looking for is 'trustless'. I don't want to have to trust Google to do the right thing, I just want it to be manifest that there is no manipulation, and no single point of failure.
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That's an interesting idea. The code to select and resize the images are native third-party plugins so in this case I am not sure anything more could be done.

I thought maybe the problem was that the app had to switch to another app to select the image. I reimplemented the code using a pure JavaScript plugin based on React Native's CameraRoll API to avoid switching apps and it still crashed when the image was selected for processing.
Mankind has a historically short memory (unless stories are elevated to religious levels). Witness the recent Holocaust Remembrance statement from the White House.
Anti-particles and particles instantly annihilate each other on contact, so anti-particles cannot not exist in our world besides for brief moments.

There's a theory that half of the universe is made of anti-particles (and the other half composed of regular particles). So you could say that the half we inhibit has few anti-particles in it.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation
> some regions has tradition of alcohol consumption deep in their culture and even national identity

New Zealand is one of those places.

> nearly everyone consumes alcohol to various degrees.

That's the point of the study. Wealthy people consume alcohol in moderate amounts, the working class are likely:

1) Consuming it in much greater amounts, or

2) Abstaining from alcohol entirely. Perhaps because of previous problems with alcohol abuse, strict religious adherence, etc. You can think of multiple reasons that might explain seeing such a class disparity.
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Adversarial noise isn't specific to deep learning models. Most model working on high-dimensional input will confidently misclassify noise with high confidence if you construct the noise right.

The original "adversarial pixel" paper demonstrates this with logistic regression.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6572v3.pdf
There's also Blaze which is a nice haskell library to write templates or just plain HTML using combinators: https://jaspervdj.be/blaze/tutorial.html
Very interesting! Thanks for the ref. I wrote about my own efforts along these lines, using Lisp lists is certainly a natural, logical starting point. There are a number of parallel systems in Scheme which I used in prior applications.

I fully agree sexpr syntax is both beautiful and efficient. The fly in the ointment is that doing anything substantial quickly becomes complex and requires dealing with a complex programming model to accomplish the task. That can be a daunting hurdle even for experienced users to surmount. It speaks to appeal of simplified interfaces, which may help but I'm pretty sure won't mitigate the problem altogether.

Of course every bit helps, having more tools can be a very good thing if we know how to apply the right tool for the task at hand.
> you think it should be totally legal and completely victimless for people to distribute those videos?

It should be totally legal to distribute those videos, especially if it helps identifying the kidnapper. I think the case you presented here is even easier as those videos will not damage reputation of someone murdered, it is even more obvious it is not a mistake of murder victim than in a case of rape.

By the way, isn't it already legal? Parts of such videos (video footage of murderers performing their crimes and other evidence archives) were even put on TV.
Facebook had blocked peoples account if they have different opinions and thats just is big no no. I prefer services where I don't have to be thinking what facebook is thinking of my post.

People please get out of these internet ghettos where they restrict your "freedom of speech" to zero.

Facebook, so gone!
The answer is yes, you will be able to read it. According to https://twitter.com/copiousfreetime/status/67583454330408140...

SQLite will be supported for the life of the Airbus A350 frame. Airframe have lifetimes measured in multiple decades, so having it work in 30 years is a good bet.
It gets worse when you work in ops and are constantly needing to remote into servers and you regularly have tmux within a tmux within a tmux... Littering config files across the datacenter just isn't an option.
Don't use sqlite for that. Or any other application specific format that only one application can read.

There is no application that has a 30 years lifespan. Expect to already have massive issues in 10 years. If you depend on a single application, you're screwed.

You want a readable long term format, you use a good old txt/csv/xml. Whatever fancy computer may come up in 2050, it's guaranteed they will ship with applications to read that.

If needs be, gzip it to save space.
How is the guy analyzing his drinking, finding the problem (too much stress) and then reducing that not an example of using willpower? The author creates a selective definition of the word that does not make any sense. Telling people that "willpower is bad" seems like an extremely dumb idea.
What if you don't like exercise and like to eat?

That's me in a nutshell. There are lots of ways to get exercise without "exercising". Personally I tend to get off the bus a few stops early each morning and walk the last 30 minutes to work. Great way to some exercise in and a great way to start the morning. Another example, my closest food store is 1.5 km down the road. If I know I only need a few things I'll walk instead of taking the car.

On the food front I eat most of what I used to eat but less, compensating with getting higher quality products. I also started to get much more adventurous with my eating trying all kinds of different ingredients and cooking techniques, not because they where healthy, but for the love of food. It turned out that some of those things that where pretty delicious also had the side benefit of apparently being healthy as well (who knew). So I slowly started to phase those things more into my diet. Over the course of a handful of years I managed to greatly improve my diet without feeling like I was giving up on anything or denying myself anything I wanted.
You are already on the right path.
Communities like hackernews and product hunt are good for early adopters
Quora,FB groups and meetups are next.
Online SEO AdWords will get you some traffic.
Best would be have ambassadors/refferars
Communities in the real world that cater to your product or service are better for RoI
True but you don't train a neural network out of thin air; the data has to come from somewhere. I expect it would require radically new laws that target AI.
Ok so when will you be zipping up all your personal data and uploading it for me to examine?

And please also post your passwords to Facebook and bank accounts.

On a more serious note, are you potentially related to anybody Muslim or Jewish? Have you ever posted political comments or links? Are any of your acquaintances hardline left or right wingers? All sorts of seemingly harmless things today will get you on a list tomorrow.

It's impossible to say that you don't have anything to hide, because you don't even know yet today what you may need to hide tomorrow.
Another option is to write the tmux buffer to pbcopy on a Mac or xclip or something similar in Linux
This is extraordinarily well done and begs to be shared widely.

Once blockchain tech is understood by the masses, the sky (moon?) is truly the limit. As this video demonstrates, it's not actually that complicated.

It could be made better (perhaps) by clearly establishing at the begining what problem the blockchain attempts to solve. Otherwise, this is a phenominal "blockchain for idiots" introduction that even your grandmother would understand. That's not easy.
I wrote an essay in 2003, saying that all of this was 100% inevitable. No matter how many people thought it was creepy, didn't want it, raised privacy concerns, it was imminent all the same. Digital sense organs would continue to multiply all over the planet, and the digital nervous system would become ever more sophisticated and scary-smart all the time.

I argued that the one thing we had some limited hope of shaping was cultural attitudes and public policy towards this information and how it is applied.
Too bad the uncertainty of having a deranged president shooting down visas at random really makes the prospect of relocating to the US undesirable.
If you have friend well versed in law /lawyer get them to help.
For starting out legalzoom should help
Facebook, rogue money grabbing service.
If you have a lot of data that you're printing, choose a font that's easy to OCR, or consider using a 2D or 1D-stacked barcode symbology like QR Code or PDF417. PDF417, in particular, can be encoded with up to 50% redundancy and uses an open standard, plus its stacked nature makes it easy to scan with 1D and 2D scanners. It's likely to remain supported in a variety of devices for the foreseeable future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF417

Information density is much higher with barcode than it is with simple text printed on paper, although you'll need a lot of time and some pretty sharp eyes to decode them without electronics.
dang changed the article so now this comment thread is a little confusing. The original article incorrectly claimed that total production increased 250%.
The idea is not to query things from the persistent store. Instead you would keep all the data in memory. The persistent store is just there in case your server goes down. In case of OO, there would be one big object graph which you then navigate using the functionality available in your programming language. For example take a list of things, pass it through the filter function to pick what you want.

My feeling is that in traditional business apps you don't have so much needs to these random searches over huge amount of data. It's more about taking hold of one piece of the graph and then navigating to related objects (dummy example: search for customer, then start looking at that customers orders).

I'm not familiar with Smalltalk, but I'm sure there was some ideas related to persistence other than just ORM and relational database (but could be those ideas have been proven as bad over the years). I just find it a bit strange that we have been building these things pretty much the same way for the last 20+ years. Meanwhile the hardware has changed much. Even with quite small corporate hw budget you are looking at half a terabyte of RAM and tens of cores in a single server.
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From what I can see, Vedic Soma makes someone immortal and invulnerable.

Huxley's soma is some kind of narcotic haalucinogen. This is a list of quotes from the book that include the word "soma" in them, and it should give you an idea of the drug's effects and the characters' attitudes toward it: https://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html
> The fly in the ointment is that doing anything substantial quickly becomes complex and requires dealing with a complex programming model to accomplish the task.

Some problems are inherently complex, but whatever it is you want to do it will almost certainly be simpler in Lisp than any other language.

What sort of "substantial" thing did you have in mind?
What does that have to do with performance? You shouldn't serialize hi-rez bitmap and pack it in Intent.

Activities/Intents should at least force you to be careful and not to keep all data around in your memory, but only pass data you really need.
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