skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Seems as though the metaneeds exist in parallel, rather than in a hierarchy. I'm not sure what, if anything, that implies.
He should just drink the liberal koolaid?
> enforcing it would be almost impossible

It'd be about the same as GPL enforcement as is. I don't see any reason this would introduce a special circumstance.
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Agreed... upgraded to an i7-4790K about 2 years ago, and really, other than software (x265) video encoding, I've been extremely happy... getting a big boost in performance for about the same price (for the cpu) as I paid 2 years ago would make me relatively happy.

Now, just need a refresh on the GTX 1080, so that 4K gaming can be consistent at >= 60fps.

ASIDE: I've been using nvenc with vbr2 for h.265 with very good results (but about 10-15% larger than roughly equivalent x265).
Thank you, had not seen that one :-)
> but kind of like TCP, in that it's reliable and implements congestion control

DCCP implements congestion control but is not reliable.
The vast majority of acquisitions are uneventful and added positive value to the acquirer.

How many add positive value to the acquired?
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> ... hired a police force to handle the issue and built a jail to throw all the poors into

Violates NAP. Cant Happen.

But the state police does have constitution-granted right to confine you for repeatedly violating NAP such as by breaking into people's homes.
"... I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time..."
Explosives that are powerfull enough to cause serious damage in quantities small enough to be carried by an off the shelf drone are much harder to acquire than ammonium nitrate.

Also buying the large quantities of DIY explosive components needed to build large bombs will raise red flags.
I've been doing concurrent programming for 17 years, it's been pretty much the same game, at least with Java/C/C#/C++ which is my experience. The abstractions are helpful, but clearly no panacea. The most common problems I see today are with Tasks w/lambdas and Parallel.ForEach, where synchronization is either completely missing or misused, or unnecessary (i.e. a better design would have been to remove all shared state to begin with). The next main problem I run into, folks tend to sprinkle in concurrent code in an ad-hoc fashion, even using the understandable abstractions. That works fine, until it doesn't, with the "not working" state being rather difficult to detect.
Retailers Are Hurting, but Tech Isn’t the Only Culprit
But aliens would make space great again!
Coming from someone who is "used to" this idea for a long time, I'm not sure how helpful my explanation would be to a learner, but I decided to take a shot at it, just in case it helps someone. That said, in my experience, a significant part of "understanding" involves getting used to things and expanding the scope of what you consider "natural".

--

Suppose you wish to walk from 0 to 1. You'll have to walk half the distance. Then half of the remaining half. Then half of the remaining quarter. Then half of the remaining eighth. If you keep doing this "asymptotically", you will get very very close to 1 and (almost) reach there. That's the basic idea.

This is also known as Zeno's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Paradoxes_o...

Instead of halving step sizes on each iteration, you could reduced by a different fraction. In general, this is called a geometric series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series

When the ratio is (2/3), after two steps you overshoot 1. (You can see that (2/3) = 0.66, (2/3)^2 = 0.44 )
> Researchers also offer alternatives to the color-blindness discourse. Reason and Evans call for people to become "racially cognizant", that is they need to acknowledge the role that race plays in their everyday lives. Being racially cognizant also demands a continuous examination and reinterpretation of race and how it affects our lives. It is also important to balance looking at a person as an individual and acknowledging the role their membership to a social group plays in their daily lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness_(race)_in_the_...

As to how someone could call them black... "it's not the color of your skin, it's the race of your kin"
Really? I find ebooks side by side a terminal a much more efficient way of going through a text like this
> Vienna (CH)

Er, are you referring to Vienna (AT)?
I think that's a bit pedantic. If you plan on working in almost any field (maybe except farming) English is spoken.
I think the server chip (Naples, up to 32 cores!) based on Zen may have more impact than the desktop chip. The servers chips are a smaller market, but it's growing faster than desktop, and I assume has larger margins.

Depends, I suppose, on how much AMD chooses to undercut on pricing.
Vistor on your site
Just pre-ordered mine...:D (newegg)
Many streamers perform these marathons frequently with no problem. Many people drop dead of x condition at all ages. There is zero reason to believe there is any correlation at this time.
There are not many efforts to get rid of distinctions.

People mostly work to get rid of unfair discrimination that is based on an arbitrary distinction.
I didn't see it anywhere, but does the print version come with the PDF version too?
I agree, but sometimes it's nice to unplug and just look through books.
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> Cloud computing is the mainframe model.

It really, really isn't. It shares one characteristic (computation done on behalf of one client by another remote client), but pretty much nothing else. The need to pigeonhole all developments in terms of historical patterns is just revisionism.
And I don't understand why, with such alarming, metronomic regularity, is there always someone who pops up and says that race is a non-issue and that we shouldn't mention it. Or even in this case, that we shouldn't recognize his blackness. I mean really - would you go and tell him he wasn't black to his face because his skin wasn't dark enough?

The guy's race matters because it's important that people from minorities see that people that look like them and sound like them can succeed. The guy's race matters because in the past history has been rewritten to give prominence to white faces even when black faces have carried out exactly the same roles [1]. It matters because they've had to overcome, in many instances, a system that is structurally biased against their success. And it matters because middle aged, white, heterosexual men, who completely coincidentally stand to gain the most from things staying as they are, are the ones who argue the loudest that we shouldn't recognize these structural biases. It matters because in order to succeed they have had to overcome obstacles that you haven't.

If you think that we are somehow overcompensating by even recognizing the color of someone's skin, perhaps you can also tell me why there were two BAME people in my year of four thousand people at Oxford. One of whom went to Eton.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole
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Strong AI Isn’t Here Yet
> The alt-right's embrace of racism and sexism

The scope of these terms has been expanded significantly. I no longer care what anyone considers to be 'racist' or 'sexist'; I care what their values are, and if I consider them of worth.

EDIT: 'alt-right' may have changed too. Some seem to thing it just means 'alternate right', others 'code-name for racists'.
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Yes and no. (snipped... long scifi rant about StarWars navigation that explains distance as a measurement of time and why linear distance between bodies is not relevant.)
Iron Beam is an already commercialized laser system, an alternative to Iron Dome missile defense against rockets and UAVs:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Iron_Beam

This sounds much better than eagles. One issue with eagles is that they have to be taken care of, fed, and deployed when needed.

This is like the old mechanization vs cavalry debate. Machines have many more benefits than just how they function at a specific task (ie, they dont get tired).
> I understand the sentiment, but I also understand that if you truly want to get rid of racial bias, gender bias, whatever else bias completely, then not paying it mention in any sphere is how you get there.

We lived in a world where racism exists, regardless of your own personal attitude. This is just like global climate change - simply because you personally are carbon neutral doesn't mean we don't have a systematic crisis on our hands. You are far, far too willing to wash your hands of the whole topic, and it is very naive. The fact of the matter is that advantages and disadvantages are built into your socioeconomic class, and race is a very strong indicator of your class affiliation. On top of this, like or it not, there are a huge number of racists of all types, ranging from people who proudly burn crosses to much more subtle or unintentional racism. Denying that people's attitudes is something that must be taken into consideration is just... staggering. To put it quite simply: the fact that you, an enlightened individual, do not take race into your moral consideration is laudable but it in no way affects the fact that hundreds of millions of people are already racist and you are willfully putting blinders on to this fact. The most concerning part is that many of these actively (or passively) racist people are in positions of power. Ignoring that is just childish. [There is a strong analogy to this comic by XKCD about the ridiculous beliefs of US Senators.](https://xkcd.com/154/)

> And if you can't accept that people view this issue differently and think there are different solutions, you are part of the problem.

Pot, meet kettle.
Another fun fact: those dorms were specifically designed for easy conversion into a prison. Apparently the athletes were not super thrilled.
How many face difficulty in getting leads?
How many of you guys face difficulty in getting new leads?

I had discussions with a few startup CEO's and Marketing heads who try out their hands in outbound and end up purchasing leads for $1000 getting no ROI.

Does any one of you here face a similar problem?
With stakes that high, you can always put an explosive payload on the eagle.
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Not a strawman; you took an extreme position: no credence to ancient folk wisdom.
From what I recall of their recent marketing material, it seemed like like they are looking to corner the market on 64bit ARM servers and also have some hybrid amd64/ARM chip plans to help people wanting to take advantage of ARM in datacenters migrate.. but I'm no expert and this is based on a recollection of marketing materials from a few months back - 64bit arm could be a huge thing in large scale light-duty computing centers (e.g. web/cloud datacenters) because of the cooling/horizontal scale out and also mobile/IOT/industrial so this isn't quite as crazy as it sounds.
A paid-for ticket to solve from their real codebase. Best interview question for me. No bull, no gotchas, just "Will you be able to do the work?"
You can find examples here: https://github.com/mljar/mljar-examples
You have one API (for many ML algorithms), in which you just select algorithms and call 'fit' to train and tune them. Training and tuning run in the cloud on multiple machines (which makes it fast). Everything is logged on your MLJAR account, so you can check models with browser.
Account recovery is a shitshow everywhere, either it's almost useless or it's a huge vulnerability with no good middle ground I've seen.

For a moment I thought this would be a good use case for federated authentication, but who would you even trust to run that securely?
And bar entry to valid green card holders (permanent residents).
Ah yes, if you truly want to get rid of bugs in your software, then not mentioning them is the best way to get there. Start acting like your code has no bugs now!

The status quo doesn't change if people don't talk about, analyse and challenge it.
Ooh, I hadn't considered monetizing the non-customer support. It's a long shot, but maybe worth an experiment. Thanks for the idea!
They had me at "telomere" <3
Author here. Sadly, I can't offer digital+print bundles. I sell the digital version through Gumroad and the paperback through createspace, so I don't have to worry about printing/shipping. That makes it very easy for me to sell a paperback version, but also that much harder to offer discounts or bundles or anything, if you already purchased the eBook.
There is a BSP based layout[1] in xmonad-contrib. You can resize it using the mouse or the keyboard (with appropriate configuration).

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs...
To clarify, I understand that George Tenet said that IQT was completely seperate from the company, but I doubt anyone really beleives that. If you really think there is such a seperation I would like to know what indicates that seperation to you. (for example, I could imagine one argument being the prism documents showing resistence to tapping from google) Hence, I think it's a relevant issue to bring up that Google and Facebook and others may have had CIA-inside from the start, which could explain some of the privacy-eroding feature-creep and mass-cognitive influence that has happened since both of their inceptions. You can bury your head in the sand all you want, but think of the implications if I am even partially correct about that.
Come on, zero reason?
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But it's almost certainly a config/training problem rather than a software problem.

We can probably boil this analysis down a little bit, right? What's Jira's default UX for new installations/projects, does it _easily suck_ by default?
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Do you say this as someone from a member of a minority? Because I am a "minority" and I certainly don't care about going out of my way to find this kind of identification.
One could say that almost every article caters specifically to white people.
I just have to say, I really hope that this is real. AMD has burned a lot of trust a few times in overzealously stating performance marks in their prior generations of CPUs. I ran AMD for several years until the Core-2 came out from Intel (currently very happy with an i7-4790K).

If these comparisons are real, my next build may be AMD again.
It's irresponsible to mention quotas and affirmative action, but not the systemic (and legal) racism and sexism that made those programs necessary in the first place.
I would have thought that it would have been more powerful for the article not to mention race, as it really doesn't except in the title, and just have the picture of the guy.

Why? Because then the article isn't trying to claim that one of the most notable things about him (notable enough to be in the title of the article) is his race. Young black people would see him being lauded for his work, regardless of any other aspect about him.

Otherwise, you end up with the idea that the article is saying "Hey look! A black person actually did something notable in tech!" Not the message you want to get across.
> London didnt see much

Part of it is on the verge of being converted into a cement factory (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/11/olympic-park...)

Honestly believe a world without the Olympic games is a better world, if London can't find much use for them and Rio is already letting them fall into disrepair. What on earth is the point in this.
Ask HN: Is socket.io down?
I've been unable to access the website for a day now and uptime tracking services report that it is down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/socket.io , http://isitdownorjust.me/socket-io/ . I also can't find any reported outages on their social media accounts. Is it down for everyone?
Hacker News is full of alt-right people and trump supporters, which you'll see any time anything vaguely immigration, race or gender related gets posted. Just by nature of the subject matter, middle-aged white male libertarian types are going to be over-represented.
> Loved the peers

I wholeheartedly agree!
You could have said the first part of the sentence, without the mockery and insult of the second part.
I disagree with your assessment.

It is widely understood that shipping containers are responsible for more global trade than any other factor, which has lowered the prices of goods around the world at a scale never seen before. The unprecedented demand for trade necessitated their adoption, but they are essentially a metal box on top of other metal boxes on top of a flat surface.

Shipping containers were a tremendous innovation but they required absolutely no new or novel technology to produce or deploy.

Another example: insulation. Energy costs are higher to heat in the winter than cool in the summer, but an extraordinary amount of energy is wasted due to insufficient insulation. Solving this problem would decrease energy costs, increase quality of life, and would require no new technology whatsoever.

I fear we in the tech sphere are sometimes too addicted to the lure of the future to imagine what we could do with what we already have.

I mean, shit, literally, could be solved by better toilets. Last I checked India had more cell phones than flushing toilets. Proper sanitation saves on health care costs later on. This is another very old technology that can prevent us from even needing high technology to solve the problem caused by insufficient sanitation and toilet access.

Shit happens, but it doesn't always have to.
We read emotions based on how the eye sees
I think the low TDPs have to be the scariest thing for Intel. Really interested to see what they can do in the 15-25W range for notebooks and their server stuff.
Ignoring whether it's forbidden, I'm not sure it's useful. I don't remember having some identity tied to being "white" as a child. I think white children are more likely to identify as being "Catholic" or "of French ancestry" or "poor" or "from Philly" or some other dimension apart from race.
I was thinking, people proclaim that Google and internet search (like yahoo) in general precipitated the dawn of the internet, but what use is search if there's nothing to search for? Or at least no one knows what exists to search for?
Ask your parents for a trip to Europe as a graduation present.
That is of cause what I was referring to, you would certainly not attempt to get rid of different skin colors, sexes or sexual orientations to achieve equal treatment for all.
Thank you for writing this, it adds a lot of clarity to thoughts that have been percolating in the back of my mind for a while. I always attributed the relative antagonism to innovation of the Left in the US to its Puritanical foundations, which people seem to have either never learned about or conveniently forget.
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> it was all features and no bloat.

Isn't Status a feature?
> Either that or the world class athletes would relocate to a wealthy nation, sending yet another blow to their home country.

This already happens but for other reasons. Some athletes will move to a country that underperforms in the Olympics for their sport so they can qualify easier.
He wasn't just sitting for 24 hours, he had been pulling multiple 20+ hour marathons in the same week. Twitch doesn't need to be a parent, but it takes very little effort to send notifications reminding people to go to sleep.
If I see a resume with any GPA but a 4.0, I generally laugh.

If you got a 4.0, sure put it on resume. But a 3.2 or a 3.6? Silly, leave it off.

Source: Graduated longer than 2 years ago. Never been asked for a transcript.
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Still no DPDK support....
Especially ironic considering that they had promised that they won't venture beyond SMS when they were bought by FB, they backtracked on each promise I guess.
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On "...clearly wouldn't be used for real speech synthesis" - I think it depends what language you are looking at. For languages with many years of linguistic research (e.g. English), it will be hard to beat a good parametric TTS or even a well-engineered concatenative system that encodes years and years of linguistic knowledge/features, and also has the ability for engineers to add pronunciation rules for words which are wrong. But for languages which are not as focused on, there are some gains to be made in my opinion.

See some early work on Romanian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwnDjq33uMs), and compare to Google Translate TTS (the second to last, robotic example). The existing TTS systems out there in the research community are also pretty good (last example), but I think we are at least competitive which is interesting, given that we are far from TTS experts especially in all the NLP processing that normally happens in building these systems (https://github.com/CSTR-Edinburgh/merlin/blob/master/misc/qu... for example).

At very least the Edinburgh system (http://romaniantts.com/new/) should be the baseline across companies for Romanian - but one of the things we also want to show is that one architecture/approach can generalize easily across several languages. By and large the approach for all our languages is identical, including nearly all hyperparameters (we change one setting for attention default step size, and I think that is it).

There are tons of languages which have poor existing systems, and having something that is basically - record a speaker for a while, write down whatever sentences they are saying, train a big model, and do pretty well - could be very useful. We are still exploring what languages this approach works for, but have had a good success rate so far if we can find a good openly available dataset. It also opens the door to using existing sentence level ASR datasets "in reverse", since we don't need timing/alignment information.

There is also a lot of potential for personalized sound/speakers using speaker interpolation (see the alternate speaker examples in the youtube video) that we have not explored yet, as well as applications to related sequence generation tasks. I think some of our training tricks are useful for training sequence generation models in general.

Some great videos that help put our work in context [1][2].

[0] early Romanian Demo of our approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwnDjq33uMs

[1] Alex Graves, Generating Sequences with Recurrent Neural Networks (see ~36m in for speech demo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yX1SYeDHbg

[2] Heiga Zen, Generative Model-Based TTS Synthesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsrSrYtKkT8
I think that the solution lies in shining a light on, and whenever possible, celebrating differences, not ignoring them. Maybe some far off day we will be 'one people', after a few (dozen) generations of widespread interracial coupling, but that mostly misses the point.

There are real divisions between people, socially constructed ones. That will likely always persist, and discussing categorical representation (or lack thereof) is an important part of making genuine strides toward diversity (in the workplace, in culture, etc). The goal is not to have everybody be the same, it's to make the 'thing' representative of the the diverse people that make up the 'thing'.

Do you not agree that a young black kid deserves black heroes that she can relate her own story to? Why ignore that aspect of the story?
It makes me really happy to read that. Not because you want to buy two editions, but because you apparently enjoyed the book a lot :)