skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how about having a specific written signoff procedure in place, where all supplies must be checked before purchase by a trained expert who knows the difference between organic and inorganic / clay vs wheat, signed off in writing against a checklist developed by experts, then checked again by a separate trained expert when delivered with another signoff, then checked again by a third export when actually used.

Multiple inspection is a known failure point. A thinks any errors they make will be caught by B and C. B thinks A knows what s/he's doing, and thinks any errors that slip by B will be caught by C. C thinks A and B know what they're doing and so no errors will have reached C.

The boss that recruited A, B, and C to their position pulled the most accurate workers from the shop floor - because you need the inspectors to be better than the shop floor.

Thus quality of product supplied to inspection is reduced; the inspectors are now very busy; and that leads them to shift product through (someone else will catch it; someone else has already caught the problems).

What you need is to give an accurate instruction, and to give people to halt if they're unclear what's meant.
Is it overhyped? I feel so. Every startup seems to have a machine learning engineering position available and for what? I have friends hired just to do data analysis (which is necessary for machine learning because you need a clean dataset that can be consumed for training purpose), but beyond a couple simple rules, he's not doing the kind of machine learning the cool kids are celebrating. So the hype is everywhere, but everyone's job is different, a lot of people don't do the "cool" AI stuff.

Most importantly, AI and machine learnings are not synonym at all. People should regard AI as the overall goal, wanting computer to do something really smart on its own, very little to no instruction.

Going back 5-7 years ago when Siri first came out, it was quite a noise. But I honestly never found a compelling reason to use Siri until I started driving and I needed to call somebody. The problem is that I have some accent and I have a lazy tongue so I blur on words, so Siri does not always understand what I want to say. I am surprised the voice-to-text feature in Message is quite accurate (it can auto-correct by learning the next phrase and understands pauses so it waits for you to speak again), but Siri doesn't. So while I appreciate virtual assistant, their capabilities are very limited to a set of commands.

I do feel the AI community has made some good progress, from beating Mario game, beating top Go players, to self-driving car, the technologies supporting these initiatives are getting more sophisticated than ever (and I feel the tooling too is getting too competitive, too many choices). I am working on some simple home automation involving NLP (for speaking to the program), image recognition (who's in the house), and a couple self-execution routines such as make sure all nights are off if no one is in the house or reminds me doctor appointment every Wednesday. That's not AI, it doesn't do anything else beyond what I programmed it to do, it doesn't try to survive or better itself.
The Intel program pops a weird license when you download it, but the files themselves, to my surprise, are not proprietary: they are dual-licensed under the BSD license and GPLv2 license.
That makes sense. Thank you for explaining.
>Yet nobody would disagree that labour varies in quality, so should it not follow that labour is compensated according to its quality?

Yes, labor should be compensated according to it's quality. You appear to be saying that, by and large, it is not. Yet if management and labor are one in the same, then who is setting the compensation rates for labor except labor itself? By that same logic, capital is only deferred consumption derived from labor -- meaning everything is labor. Meaning labor is extracting surplus from itself... At which point the attempt to moralize labor as deserving and capital as non-deserving collapses upon itself. The system is a process. It goes round and round. People who are talented get bigger shares because they produce more. Anyone who saves to create capital gets compensated for that as well. Where is the surplus?

>it is not the combination that creates value, the inputs to the process give a value

I'm not sure this is a meaningful distinction. Where is a surplus created in this process?

>My point is that your argument for good direction requiring, for whatever reason, the surplus extracted from workers, would also seem to apply to good labour requiring surplus, which it clearly does not, as there is good labour while the workers are not rewarded with the surplus extracted from them.

I was trying to speak to you on your terms. Remember I lead by saying the 'surplus', as you're defining it, doesn't exist. What is 'good labor' and what is 'not rewarded'? You're resting your entire argument on normative, non-falsifiable judgments.
I would add Baidu as well
You can't have a nuclear bomb either. Are they unimpressive?
why not use llvm as virtual machine instead of JVM assuming backward compatibility is not an issue.
Until this[1] is fixed I'm not sure that Firebase would meet my needs for many projects. It's such a fundamental requirement to be able to query multiple fields without creating a mess of permutations of each field.

[1] - https://youtu.be/sKFLI5FOOHs?t=541
No, HI is Brady Haran and CGP Grey, though I suspect Brady may have collaborated with Tom.
Didn't the NYT just get done suggesting that Trump fired Comey to stop this investigation?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/comey-russia-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/opinion/donald-trumps-fir...

I'm starting to think there is something to what all those trumpsters have been saying... I simply cannot keep up with the 180 narrative flips going on in the media right now.
A single chip is only 45 TFLOPS.
It is 180 TFLOPs per module (4x TPU chips):
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/googl...
> No one needs plants to survive either

Completely wrong, and frankly a pretty stupid thing to say. Plants provide the basis for all life on this planet. Without plants, there would be no complete proteins, there would be no essential fatty acids, there would be no sustainable nutrition for humans nor any other being on this planet. What you're saying is straight up silly. Stop.
> Do you truly consider this scenario oppressive?

Yes, because you have violated the free agency of animals and their own right to exist unmolested by humans. It's the treatment of sentient creatures as mere commodities, justifying the means for an end, that's the source of great calamity and suffering. Non-human persons aren't on this planet for the satisfaction of humans. To think so is to basically be stuck in Christian-inspired attitudes which are old and deprecated.
Lack of updates from OEMs, and a general lack of attention to security on the part of the same, at least on Android. Many devices still haven't received the patch for last month's Broadcom vulnerability, for example.
Right, but I'm saying once they actually hit commercially useful breakthroughs (e.g. AI game changer/black swan) they certainly won't be sharing them any longer.

Or put another way, they could currently be holding back 90% of their current research and only releasing 10%.

I'm not saying that is the case, it's just I think private research into some fields is much more opaque than folks (myself) realize. Relying on Google (or any other private company) to publish findings is likely not a path for long-term success.
Oreos are probably a trademark, so I wouldn't bet on that. How about Sundae?
The title pays homage to "As We May Think" (1945) by Vannevar Bush.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/technology/google-europe-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/google-faces...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2501282/internet/critic...

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/20/475015260/eu-charges-google-fo...

How many sources do you need?
Yes. They are in the "Embrace" phase of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Sure they are helpful. Have to be (considering the API drift between the Tensorflow releases and how late they were - Theano is the same exact idea and great implementation, only first released in 2009-ish).

But it's pretty easy to look a bit into the future, and predict what we would see during "Extend and Extinguish" phases of TensorFlow project.
"seeds from the tomatoes themselves produce fruits that taste differently."

That's interesting, do you happen to know why that is? My wife and I just started a little garden, partially based on growing seeds from peppers and squash that we've bought at farmer's markets, and now I'm curious to see if anything ends up tasting substantially different.
Backwards compatibility is an issue when 50% of users aren't even using Lollipop yet. Also LLVM is no longer an actual VM.
Did you click the link? The article refers to former FBI Director Robert Mueller, not Comey.
To be fair, Kitkat was a trademark too :)
JSON is in fact defined in (at least) six different places, as described in the piece 'Parsing JSON is a Minefield' [1] (HN: [2]).

The problem is perhaps not as egregious as with "CSV" -- which is more of a "technique" rather than a format, despite after 30 years of customary usage, someone retroactively having written a spec; but it does manifest in various edge cases like we're debating.

[1] http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12796556
Amusing story. It wouldn't particularly bother me if they were that convincing and I ended up calling them by their new pronoun without realizing they were trans.
reading article content is hard
perhaps go to your neighborhood ssi office and file for unemployment?
The shelf life of _android_ phones is low, and it's strikingly different on iOS which receive updates for 5+ years.
I read: I suggest purchasing a scanf :(
Two thoughts. First, I also thought Android programming was horrible at first, but have since come to see it as no worse on average than iOS programming. The only really sucky thing about it IMO is the lack of ability to pass an object to another activity without serializing it (or maybe there is one I don't know about.) But since everything is done with fragments now that's moot anyway.

Second, I tried Kotlin and liked it a lot, but found it so much like Swift that my brain kept thinking it was Swift, so I ended up making mistakes and getting frustrated. That would probably go away with experience though.
Why exactly would that be evil? Everything you're talking about is public information.

And how on earth would you measure IQ? By some proxy measure? That seems like it would introduce unnecessary noise. It's not clear to me that any proxy for IQ would be a good predictor of outsized returns.

It seems like the best bet is just to filter on powerful Republican Senators:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2712297
Trump DID fire Comey to stop an investigation. Turns out that you can actually have multiple investigations ongoing, including ones done by Congress that Trump can't just fire away.

>I simply cannot keep up with the 180 narrative flips going on in the media right now.

It's almost like the real world is a complicated place where there are many different versions of a story
There is a technological solution: plausible deniability. Devices/apps need two passwords: one unlocks your normal and secret files, and the other only unlocks your normal files. Agents asking for your passwords would see evidence of normal use only. Sort of a "can't prove a negative" defense.

The problem is that HN-types want to assert cryptographic power over agents of governments, ie I won't show you my files and you can't make me so I win.
Thanks for this, my employer (a large bank) blocks .ai
We'll have to agree to disagree here, because I don't find dictionary definitions all that useful for communication and most people don't operate under strict dictionary definitions.

By definition a pilot doesn't need to successfully fly - only operate the controls. So a drone pilot could crash every drone and still be a "pilot" by definition. Nobody would recognize them as a drone pilot because there is an implied "successfully" that isn't found in the definition.

Yes - there is an implicit "at least to some level of success" in my definition. "Professionals" meet that criteria by being good enough to be paid for what they do. Amateurs come at many different levels but I don't call myself a photographer just because I've taken a few (hundred) photos. This is where we disagree - because you would consider me a photographer for having taken any photos.
Large commercial electrolyzers from a decade ago reached ~70% (efficiency)."

That's good to know. No "breakthrough" can improve the process by more than another 30%. NREL says the best commercial systems are at 73% today.[1] There's also an additional energy cost for compressing the hydrogen.

That's pretty good. Getting any chemical or electrochemical process up to 73% efficiency is a good result.

[1] http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/36705.pdf
checkout minideb as well https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/minideb/
I've been using "SpaceSniffer" which is similarly faster than WinDirStat.
So, what happens if this investigation under Mueller, who was FBI Director under the Bush (43) and Obama administrations.... ultimately finds that no laws were broken?

Because in a truly impartial investigation, this is a possible outcome.

Will these results be accepted, or are we off for another round of whatever the last 6+ months of daily outrage can be called?
It's interesting that they're still using the default ORM. Stranger still they're letting the ORM scaffold tables (?!?) now they're at this size?
Scala isn't so much a mishmash as it is fertile ground for people to do all kinds of weird stuff that looks like part of the language. Very much like C++, with the same potential for committing atrocities. And like C++ was, it's great from a programmer perspective (long lever, you get what you want/deserve) but bad from a corporate perspective. (Somehow C++ acquired an aura of corporate respectability, but in retrospect it's surprising, considering it has the same problems as Scala: a difficult and sometimes esoteric language, hard to hire for, amplifies programmers instead of smoothing them out, easy to misuse with tragic results, might walk by a developer's desk and see them consulting a book instead of pounding out LOC, etc.)

I'm thrilled that Google is supporting Kotlin, though. Official support for Scala was never going to happen, and Kotlin sounds like a huge step up. I regret sinking so much time into struggling with Scala on Android.
I'm sure it will be followed the next time a post reaches the front of HN
Interesting. Wouldn't it be much more appropriate to argue a false dilemma in this situation?

You suggested gradual elimination, which is an elimination process. I would argue that neither fallacy apply.

I wonder what proportion of animals would chose non-existence over existence if they could understand such concepts. That's quite the decision to make for them.
You stand disproven by the Eisenhower Interstate System and the Rural Electrification Project.

When the government invests in something to make access universal, it tends to be a good investment for the country.

When the government interferes in markets, it tends to be a bad investment for the country.
Is there a particularly egregious example that we can link to (since the book is on line)? Or maybe someone has an annotated version which has better references to prior work?

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
Can you not get them to upgrade? It's a losing battle sticking with XP.
With fill dirt the way the market works is if some Owner has an unbalanced site where there's more cut than fill, then the fill dirt is a bargain because the Owner would otherwise have to pay to haul the dirt away. On the other hand, if tho Owner needing fill dirt heads down to his local dirt mine, the proprietor can stick to their asking price because the dirt in the dirt mine doesn't go bad.

My suspicion is that someone was sitting on a big pile of wheat waste, which unlike fill dirt is organic and probably goes bad and probably needs to be moved off the wheat processing lot for next week/month/year's wheat harvest...and the wheat waste (unlike fill dirt) probably needs to be disposed of properly in a sanitary landfill and that's some more expense.

I mean at some point, someone is probably paying to have the wheat waste hauled away, whereas zeolite and other clay minerals are typically mined deliberately.
> there might still be a backdoor in your hardware

But, at least, not in the software. That's a large part of the attack surface that just isn't there.
"Cycles" don't really make any sense here, but you can get some estimates of costs and efficiencies here:

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

Lithium ion batteries for grid storage typically use an NMC chemistry, and standard warranties are for 10 years of daily cycling.
How about:

<rec type="currency" unit="euro" amount="10" />

I don't think your problem is with the syntax, necessarily. It seems more like you prefer name/value pairs over semantic markup.
Gaslighting example above.
rust-http2: HTTP/2 implementation in Rust/tokio
In nominal terms ignoring the ~15% inflation.

PS: Inflation only shows up once as "The household debt figures are not adjusted for inflation" but that still renders the headline meaningless.
> Eventually what happened was the company issued more shares, effectively diluting my holdings to nothing.

And you're still friends with these people? It's certainly their prerogative and legal right to do so, but it sounds like a shitty thing to do to a friend.

Dilution is inevitable, and faster if you leave and return unvested stock, but it sounds like this was a deliberate action by the remaining founders?
Prices of Illegal Goods and Services
This is a garbage review.
To balance out my other comment, check out Indica Labs. It's one guy in New Mexico: http://www.indicalab.com/
Global+Glyoxal+Market+Present+Scenario+and+Growth+Prospects+2016-2021
I know this is not tech related but I really wish it would surface to the HN front page. HN is by far the most intelligible and thoughtful comment section for news I've come across. There is a gaping hole in moderated discussions for these topics.
I know of one startup working on a TPU killer and there must be others. Amazon is probably either already working on a deep learning ASIC or scouting startups to buy. Apple is probably poaching people from Google/Nvidia to build their deep learning core.
I think there so reason to be competent, whatever you mean it, to complain about C.

What I learned about C is that you can never be competent enough for it. And that's the problem. A technology which isn't designed to get under control by humans under a reasonable amount of time is bad.

C is an old language, designed with the knowledge in the 70 and influenced by the needs of the later decades. At its time it was revolutionary, but today it's not fulfilling our needs.

I'm not talking about theoretic problems of C. C vulnerabilities are hunting us from day to day. Everyone is knowing that, but people still find it cool to code in C, want to be competent in C or dare to write security-critical applications in C, as though nothing had happened.

I don't want to be competent in C, because it's overly complex and it's error prone for humans to write safe, secure and readable C code. And every good software developer should know that's wise to don't use overly sophisticated technologies.
A fourth question obviously isn't going to help. Make them enter "erase my drive" into a text box, that might get them to pause for a moment.
Its Mueller, not Comey, who is a staunch Republican who was appointed by Bush. And then offered to fall on his sword for Bush during various domestic wiretapping scandals.

Personally, I wouldn't trust anyone that partisan to investigate Republicans. Honestly, I fully expect him to come back with a handful of middlemen + Flynn and nothing touches any elected Republicans. Not because its true, but because its his marching orders.
Record labels are pushing Apple Music to have fewer exclusives
For those who just read the title, the cause of this new high is ballooning student debt, not mortgages. Housing debt is still mostly declining.
You clearly have never read any political comments on this site. Just look at the Chelsea Manning comments for a look at how "intelligible" and "thoughtful" the community is
Also, "per capita"?
Serious Eats review: best backyard pizza ovens
Did you read the first line of the post?
Well, quit with apologies. "Due to circumstances outside my control, I'm unable to join at this time. I'm very sorry."

The sooner you get back to them the sooner they can find one of their other candidates.
Why didn't Twitter make this money a long time ago? All those tweets scrolling across TV for free...
Background: I'm a decentralization researcher, I quit my job at Twitch to report on decentralized web initiatives full-time, and I'm tracking 200+ projects and protocols like this attempting to remake the web. Urbit is near the top of the list of ones I think will work.

Urbit has the most coherent vision for why decentralized computing is necessary across all other initiatives in this space. They understand the history behind topics of trust, identity, and governance in building new software platforms, in ways that other initiatives (especially blockchain-based communities) sorely lack, or are unable to communicate effectively.

Compare to Ethereum, which has a similar scale of ambition, but with a far less trustworthy and transparent leadership team, who has (despite these problems) still managed to raise huge interest in a currency with a several-billion-dollar market cap. If you just spend time reading Urbit docs vs Ethereum docs, I believe the difference in clarity of vision will become apparent to you.

I bought two stars and am considering buying a third.
> You're new to this HN thing?

No, not really.

> Steve Yegge is kind well known around this here parts...

Well, I haven't noticed.

> Also you seem to be responding to the (meant as joke) title, not TFA.

Actually, to TFA as well. His arguments are trivial generics without much
substance. Such articles irritate me greatly.
Edited out (posted in a wrong thread)
The whole point is that you can run your own algorithms; that's why it's on Google Compute Engine. As far as I can tell you should be able to avoid TensorFlow even, although I suspect that'll be a pain.
Five Minutes to Monoid
> If science can't fully explain how and why that process can happen, how can psychiatry or psychology be so confident that they can determine how to cure or treat psychopathy at 3-or-4 years old?

The answer is right there in TFA: they aren't confident and they can't "cure" them (that's a really weird word to use here, btw). They only found that some things seem to make these kids less aggressive and reduce recidivism in the first few years. They even went as far as openly admitting lack of knowledge about long-term results.

> Even take it further, there is no process, procedure, or prescription you can write or execute to immediately mend a broken heart other than time and personal consideration.

Oh c'mon, you certainly can't explain how the heart works so why are you so confident about time and personal consideration? :p

And, btw, this one wasn't about drugs and simple routine procedures.
Also no mention of "share of GDP".

Basically, the article is rubbish.
I have. Compare that discussion to any comment section on WSJ, NYT, WaPo, Politico, Fox News etc.
> Will these results be accepted, or are we off for another round of whatever the last 6+ months of daily outrage can be called?

Mueller is a partisan who offered to fall on his sword to provide Bush Jr political cover during a scandal.

They needed to appoint someone genuinely neutral instead of someone like that. Lol.