skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually know the answer but asked because i am curious how the well mannered, well spoken, well known OP would respond :)
Sigh. It's hard to know where to begin critiquing this.

I guess the TL;DR would be something like: "For constrained but not atypical data models (no N:M relationships, foreign keys explicit in the schema, etc), it's possible to have a more concise syntax than SQL, with less impedance mismatch."

But even that underwhelming statement is generous.

In the 1980s, the object database claim to fame was less impedance mismatch, and ODI's "coding by deletion", but at least ODBs coupled that with claims to superior performance for network data models.

Maybe it's just the grandiose title "LINQ beats SQL" that's so annoying. Simpler syntax would certainly be welcome for the relatively rare cases of humans generating SQL (I think most SQL is machine generated these days)... but only with a host of etceteris parabis conditions, prominently including performance.
So what features are those networks actually learning? What are thy looking for? They can not be much like features used by humans because the features used by humans are robust against such adversarial noise. I am also somewhat tempted to say that they can also not be to different from the features used by humans because otherwise, it seems, they would not generalize well. If they just learned some random accidental details in the trainings set, they would probably fail spectacularly in the validation phase with high probability but they don't. And we would of course have a contradiction with the former statement.

So it seems that there are features quite different from the features used by humans that are still similarly robust unless you specifically target them. And they also correlate well with features used by humans unless you specifically target them. Real world images are very unusual images in the sense that almost all possible images are random noise while real world images are [almost] never random noise. And here I get a bit stuck, I have this diffuse idea in my head that most possible images do not occur in the real world and that there are way more degrees of freedom into direction that just don't occur in the real world but this idea is just too diffuse so that I am currently unable to pin and write down.
Oh please. Enough with the changing the world BS.
Agreed. And that's the part that I take the blame for. When you're adrift in a culture, you should ask for help. In my (relative) immaturity, I thought asking questions would be considered annoying, rather than being a way to build bridges.
Or they'll just stop doing them.
That's true and I told the guy that he has to make a choice. Either he has to be willing to "settle" with being a corporate drone and enjoy a nice work life balance or come up with a great idea and go all in and execute. Very few if any of the well known startups get successful by doing it "on the side".
Dear MongoDB users, we welcome you in Azure DocumentDB
And I'm hearing from my Loonie friends who got laid off. They don't exactly spin this as a positive development.

Yes, being able to use stationary balloons means that the minimum viable project can be a lot smaller. And now it is.
This just feels like another click-bait article, from title to purely opinion based article.
"It must be a product from just another startup" is a very valid reason. At the end of the day, we only talk about mssql, mysql, postgres when it comes to rdbms.
It looks like a manuscript to me.
I can buy 10 lightly used Nissan Leafs for the price of a Tesla.
Or "could be dodgy" and "will be dodgy".
Right, the implication being that nothing especially impressive about CockroachDB stands out, and so we're going to stick with proven options. That's a technical discussion!

Why are the people in charge of deciding what database to use the sort of people who would allow their disgust toward an animal whose name is shared by a database to block discussion of its technical features?
I recently flew on Air Canada and Polish LOT, and they both had functioning screens and movies... maybe it's just your airline or region?
So... The Russians (or associates) leaked to Wikileaks a set of CIA operations that were spying on an election to distract from the Russians influencing an election?

Or is the allegation that the CIA used this information to influence the French election?

I find the similar-but-lesser-degree of this and the timing to be highly suspicious from Wikileaks, who seems to have taken a not-really-neutral tack as of late.
Ditto. It would be nice if the screens defaulted to off. Then I wouldn't have the glare from the row in front of me, and the person next to me, who I know aren't watching either, but either don't care to turn it off, or don't know how.
It's not blindingly obvious how to turn the screen off.
Friend, many of us carry this burden. Here's the technical term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resting_bitch_face
> Sounds like the author has personal problems they're mistakenly ascribing to their work.

I struggled socially in my early 20s and avoided dealing with it by drowning myself in work. Intentionally or not, it sounds like working nonstop meant he didn't have much time for personal development.
Or maybe it's to produce as much CO2 as possible.
Yes, but then you're asking countries to police themselves. If following the law is not in the countries best interest, they won't do it unless someone else forces them to.
It won't destroy the perturbation. There is a low dimensional manifold along which the cost function will decrease/increase. The adversarial perturbation lies on that manifold, but random white noise (which is a random high dimensional vector) will have close to zero length with high probability when projected onto the manifold and hence won't affect the cost function.
If many years ago, someone told me that a humongous company named Alphabet was thinking about deploying balloons all over the world, I'd have told you a thing or two about having a charming imagination.
If only there was some kind of list that enthusiasts could join to get notifications like this.
Hitman (2016) Released on Linux
My brother - who is a chef has - has already told me to hunt for the oldest beef I can find in the shelves.

Oh, and one of the largest grocery chains here has now started agressively pushing anything that is about to expire by cutting the price in half and put it on display in a designated fridge.

Market segmentation I guess but for those who care to check it is often lots of good food at a nice price.
Zuckerberg Cut Line on Monitoring 'Private Channels' from Facebook Manifesto
Ohhhh, I see. I'm not sure whether that would work. I would have to actually do the experiment. It may not work because this bizarro region of parameter space may be somewhat robust to perturbations, so in a sense you may have to travel out same way you travelled in. But, then again, maybe not.

Edit: I should add that these perturbations appear to be very robust to different architectures and datasets. So, the same adversarial perturbation will trick different NNs that were trained on different datasets. This suggests that it will probably be fairly robust to noise. But maybe not! I'm not aware of this experiment having been done.
So, you're such a good leader and all and you hire to your weaknesses, but you could not figure out you needed to have someone proofread your post. Got it.
What a waste of time. ReactOS is illegal anyway. Microsoft must have a million patents on Windows technology, no way you could re-implement Windows without violating them.

Fact is the moment ReactOS becomes a threat to Microsoft's business interests they will sue it out of existence.

Even if you ignore the patents issue, any re-implementation of Windows will inevitably be full of code looking similar to the Microsoft one, even if the authors never looked at the Microsoft code. And as the recent Oculus court case has shown, such a similarity is all Microsoft needs to successfully sue them.

I like the idea of project but I would never contribute to it because of the reality above.
Check out https://github.com/vattle/sqlboiler. I prefer the STD lib usually. Also, look at https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx for easier struct mapping.
Stripe Elements
Yes, he probably is an asshole. But at least he's self reflecting and attempting to modify his behaviour. That's a good first step.

And I continually hurt those around me — just by being myself-and it’s beyond heartbreaking. Somewhere along the way, money truly changed me for the worst.

Most assholes don't have that level of reflection so I'm not going to be too harsh
>When you roll up to someone’s house in a Tesla, how can they help but assume that you’re just a judgemental asshole?

This guy is projecting so hard he could be a movie theatre
Step-By-Step Guide: Become an Excellent Interaction Designer
Take the tour on their site. Check out gobyexample after that. Then read effective go.
Except no amount of specially crafted noise will trick a human. If it looks like an octagon and is red then a human will interpret it as a stop sign. That's because I'd hope as a human you have a better conceptual understanding of what a stop sign is and what its intent is. Whereas none of the current crop of AI can claim any kind of understanding or even yield any kind of explanatory model.

Deep neural nets should really be called "really complicated composition of differentiable functions" and all the training algorithms should really be called "really complicated function root finding" because that's all these things are at the end of the day, a rats nest of functions with a billion knobs.
Just the name is similar; these folks are just trying to rewrite Windows, no JS involved.
+1

To add to this, the screens are definitely buggy still and ~15 min reboots are not uncommon, but all of these are HARDWIRED. I'm scared of how bad it will be when everyone tries to connect to the wifi to stream the same content.

Managing the local streaming server is not going to be any easier either.
As other posters mentioned, it is a long and complicated story.

It is a pity they did not get traction 10 years ago, when they could have competed with Vista.

Good to see that they are still around, though.
The saying is you miss 100% of the (moon)shots you don't attempt.
Ashton Kutcher – Congressional Testimony on Human Trafficking and Slavery
In the current world of automated tolling with FastTrak, IPASS and EZ Pass I feel like we should have already put tolls up all over the place.
Change occurs in bursts and spurts. Perhaps we are seeing some backlash to the current wave of globalism. But do you really think the fundamental forces that push us towards globalism will stop?

As barriers to communication and travel continue to diminish over time, cultural diffusion will naturally increase, leading toward the major differences being smoothed over. We will become well acquainted.

Eventually, we will reach some point of "globalism saturation". But it seems to me that, currently, there is plenty of opportunity for continued melding of cultures and people groups. This is a natural process that is unfolding, an emergent dynamic resulting from our social nature and changing technological context.

We've barely begun, especially when considering future tech advances that will further reduce many of the artificial, anachronistic barriers between people groups. Most large differences in culture are just accidents of history and distance, not fixed, immovable characteristics.

Of course, we shouldn't blindly proceed. New, important concerns will spring up as the world gets smaller. Surveillance is one obvious example. There will be many more, and we will have to remain vigilant.
It would never be cheaper for you because you want a single low-utilization server that's available 24/7.

It's only cheaper for companies that have lots and lots of servers, but most of them aren't provisioned most of the time.
It shrinks the size of any recalls that may be required should something go wrong. (I don't know this for a fact, however.)
Straight Out of Sci-Fi, Shakey Was the First Mobile Robot Built with AI
The IEEE Milestone on Shakey can be found at [1]

[1] http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Shakey:_Th...
What viable alternatives are there to cars in large countries like the United States, where it is not feasible to create the infrastructure for public transportation?
Not Isocline, but yes, our chip will be impressive :)
No actual numbers. After registration fees, fuel taxes, et cetera, to what extent are drivers actually being subsidised?

Let us assume that roads need to exist anyway.
Bummer.

Virgin America had the coolest flight-safety video ever: https://youtu.be/DtyfiPIHsIg
We learned that higher gas prices, for example, had a large and sustained impact on driving behavior. After growing steadily for decades, vehicle miles traveled per person peaked and declined after 2005 (as gas prices shot up). This produced knock-on changes in housing markets, and helped accelerate the move back to cities.

It's too bad raising these prices intentionally using taxes is so difficult!
All the compiler construction and Scheme books from Nils Holm [0]

http://t3x.org/index.html
That's amazing.

My father had textile factories in South America. During the days of military regime it wasn't uncommon for him to receive visits from "the general" and a truck full of soldiers with automatic rifles. I was way too young to understand it, that's why I put it in quote. For all I know it could have been a mid-rank idiot but to me he looked like the general.

As my father tells tells the story, as power transitioned someone advised him to "evaporate". Since he had business in the US as well it wasn't that hard to pull-up anchor and legally emigrate for the last time. His businesses were usurped by whoever gained power and that was that. A lifetime of work gone "puff" virtually overnight.

These are aspects of life people in the US are not tuned into. We have a very linear environment when compared to some of what is daily life in other parts of the world.
In the 70s, when I was all bushy-tailed, I cornered Gerry Sussman at MIT to tell him about "this new relational data model and SQL language". About two minutes into the conversation I saw him looking at me like "God, why have you chosen to torture me with this idiot."

Or maybe it was the look you have when you are SURE that someone is telling you an elaborate joke and suddenly realize that no punch line is coming.

LINQ: I'm looking at YOU :-/
> makes easy things easy and difficult things indescribably hard or impossible

I've found that nearly every abstraction does this in some form. In general, the easier the easy things are, the harder the hard things are. The trick is finding a good balance for your project.
In my opinion, iluwatar's design pattern guide [1] provides more examples than this. It gives not only implementation examples but also a class diagram and use case for each design pattern. The examples were implemented in Java.

[1]: https://github.com/iluwatar/java-design-patterns
Own your DNS Data
For anyone who hasn't read this book, it's great, but very much an intro-to-programming book, at least for the first 6-or-so chapters.
CVEs also spent a lot of time shuttling aircraft out to the CVs. Being able to quickly replenish lost aircraft was no small advantage.
The N+1 problem is caused by lazy loading. It's when you have an entity, e.g. Customer which has a property Orders with a foreign key relationship to Customer. The property is not materialized until it's accessed, causing an extra (N+1) query to be run.

This can be avoided with something like e.g. EntityFramework which is based on the IQueryable interface and expression trees. In EF it would be

var query = DbContext.Customers.Include( c => c.Orders).Where( c => c.customer_name == "Fred");

The value of query is an expression until it is iterated or converted to e.g. .ToList(); The expression is built using the relationships defined in the mapping which allows EF to use a proper SQL join, avoiding two queries and the N+1 problem.
Found the answer: do nothing!

http://secondenumerations.blogspot.com/2017/02/episode-4-in-...

http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Pas...
Non-neuromorphic (analog) deep learning chip startup here. We're forecasting AT LEAST ~50 TOPS/watt for inference.
Stability tests are actually pretty expensive, and you need to demonstrate that your shelf life is valid across the shelf life you request - so usually 2-3 years is about the max companies request, but it's good enough, and they need to ship their drugs out as fast as possible. Sometimes you see drug shelf life extensions post-release, but that's not always really worth the effort.
Flight safety videos will probably still be shown on overhead monitors. Some kind of safety announcement is compulsory, and the video is a good branding opportunity.

I find that VX one pretty grating though, and will probably be seen as embarrassingly 2010s in a few years time. Some of the Air New Zealand ones are good though.
It sounds like you're commenting within the context of the worst excesses of US IP law, but the project seems to be most closely tied with Germany and Russia. It's definitely not illegal everywhere.

And even within the US, ReactOS in its current state is perfectly safe: Microsoft has nothing to gain by suing them, but they would risk an extremely harmful precedent should they go to trial with their precious IP. Microsoft's patents and copyright FUD are effective tools against corporations, but not loosely organized collections of free software users.
Yea, that's nuts. Our first 'adult' piece of furniture was a couch from Crate & Barrel which was pricier than the West Elm piece in the article, but sold to us as something that if we took care of we'd have it a very long time. (It's been about 5 years and has held up well.)

Furniture and clothing are all over the map though. Some of the most expensive shirts I've bought, for instance, pop buttons super easily – a problem I've never had with shirts from, say, J-Crew. And my experience with the ironically named Design Within Reach* gave me reservations about buying from them again.

* DWR's name apparently comes not from being affordable, but from making mid-century classics available to you.
FastTrak is a nightmare. The answer is gasoline/carbon taxes, since you are "consuming against the environment" on a per gallon basis, not a per mile/per toll road basis.
ORMs also increase the cost of change, thwarting code evolution / refactoring.
Mux (https://mux.com/) collects performance metrics for video delivery & playback on the websites & apps of our customers. These metrics feed into our real-time alerting system. If the error-rate for a customer property (site) or video-title is exceptionally high then an alert will be triggered. Mux customers can configure alert notifications to be sent to Slack & email, and view a history of alerts in the Mux web dashboard. We also offer the ability to view breakdowns of playback failures, video start-up times, and more through our dashboard. This can be helpful for diagnosing playback issues related to specific browsers, geographies, ISPs, and more.
ReactOS is the saddest thing.

Why would anyone do this? For 13 years? Why?
As much as the idea is nice I think it's just a political non-starter. Making this about "personal responsibility" is a pretty see-through cover. This is a stick and a stick wielded by "liberal elites who live in cities" against rural drivers and mega-commuters won't work in this environment.

People will move to cities and use roads less if cities are affordable. If we can lower rent in the city, automobile usage will go down on its own. This is where the fight should be pointed I believe.
And people explaining the problems with go allow potential future users to more accurately determine the value of using it.
I can appreciate that, but empirically we know from long experience that such comments lead to downward spirals. That's why the site guidelines are the way they are; it isn't to dampen conviction.
One is a serious, impressive undertaking and the other is a pile of javascript
Based solely on that sentence, no, you're not the the only one. But based on the entire piece, I don't think he paints a very good picture of himself.
Even homeopathic medicine is required to have an expiration date, if only for legal compliance.

Homeopathic medicine should be required to actually have an effect, if only for legal compliance.

http://hpathy.com/ask-homeopathy-doctors/do-homeopathic-medi...
> a lightweight wireless HMD with 8k per eye that requires no other device for full body tracking would tell a much more compelling story, but we are probably many many years away from that.

It doesn't need to be that fancy. Current resolution with perfect positional tracking on a mobile device with 2hr battery life, finger tracking, and photogrammetric passthrough could tell 90% of the "compelling story" your 8k device is for. And you could definitely make experiences in it worth a $400 price point.

We could be as little as 2-3 years from a device like that? At at a premium price point at least.

Remember that people had no problem staring at 320x240 screens, as long as you didn't make them jump around in a pukey way.
Your spirited defense of ORMs reminds me of JWZ's XML rant. Punchline: Now you have two problems.
so, no, you didn't.
> and will you please stop trying to be helpful and silently "upgrading" my drivers, Microsoft!

Or, I finally got it to appear to work. Details on how it really works, the documentation didn't really say. Why it works now, I don't really know. I never understood it well and, instead, just threw it against the wall in various ways until it appeared to stick.

Another point is, after such a remote Microsoft change, I no longer really know what went into my system or relevant boot partition or how to rebuild it starting with what I already have. That is, when I built the system, I took careful notes on just what I did so that I could retrace if necessary; with remote changes from Microsoft, my notes are now inaccurate. My system is no longer reproducible. So, if next week I make a change that ruins my boot partition, then I can't rebuild to just before the change -- unless I have backed up that boot partition with, say, NTBACKUP which I do use. Indeed, with the system I am building now, I'm planning a boot drive with several bootable partitions and a second drive with backups via NTBACKUP (if that is still the best approach on Windows) of various increments of the boot partitions.

That is, in general I very much want to know just what, and quite generally and in as much detail as possible, (A) the heck is on my system and (B) how to get back to some earlier state.

All this skeptical caution is a
special case of rules:

(1) If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

(2) If anything can go wrong, then it will.

(3) There is no independence; if you change one thing, then no telling what else may be affected.

(4) The fundamental perversity of material objects.

etc.

I very well remember, from when I was at IBM's Watson lab and we visited some high end customers, how when IBM came out with a fix, update, change, or new version, the site would run the change for months just on a test system before they permitted it on-line for production work. Part of this was, if the system crashed for an hour, then the CIO could lose his bonus. Two such in one year, and he could lose his job. They very much did not want systems that crashed. They were very clear about that.

Once, out of IBM, I visited the main NASDAQ site in Trumbull, CT: They were doing their core work on Non-Stop systems. IIRC, their attitude was that their Non-Stop systems didn't stop and didn't need updates.

Here is some irony: First the vendor sells their system as the greatest. Second, the vendor says they have an update.

Hmm .... If their greatest needs an update, then how about the update?

To borrow from the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, "Updates? What updates? We don't need no stink'n updates."