skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused; what would it mean for that statement to be false? It sounds equivalent to "If everything non-genetic that can raise intelligence is present and everything non-genetic that can lower intelligence is absent, then the part that's left, the non-non-genetic component, is 100% genetic."
I haven't forgotten. Automation isn't the reason manufacturing was shipped to Asia in the 70's, though. It's not why manufacturing was shipped to Mexico in the 90's. The cheap labor is the reason.
Disclosure: My incentives compete with google cloud. We have had enormous cost savings with on premise customers.
I think one thing that isn't being said here is: Most enterprise customers can't actually leverage that much GPU capacity anyways. We have found incremental addition of GPUs to hadoop clusters (yes this is a thing) to be great.

It's cheaper, allows gradual adoption of deep learning and is a familiar toolset for folks already doing some sort of machine learning.

I won't comment on research (not our domain). Depreciation on hardware is pretty standard - that being said it also comes with established SKUs from dell,hp,cisco,.. with proper support.

Analytics clusters (while hard to manage) are fairly robust already to job failures. The cost savings just makes a ton more sense when you are doing continuous workloads for different use cases.
I believe that predated digital compositing being used. However electronic analog compositing is still much easier than film compositing (like what was used to combine passes for Star Wars). For instance, blue and green screen was originally for video. You would do it using an Ultimate brand device that was completely analog. That device launched in 1976, but it's creator had been building a analog compositing devices since at least 1964 when he won an Oscar for it. If you are curious about how it worked, I would imagine patents can be found and read. Ultimatte just generate an alpha channel (then called a key and it was actually a separate b/w video signal). Other devices would act in the key to combine the foreground and background together, etc.
I work at a SaaS company in the energy industry, 4 of our engineers including myself (3 electrical, 1 chemical) have gone though the certification for solutions architect associate. We did this as we all transitioned to working on our SaaS product from our previous engineering disciplines. It's fairly useful but served more to verify that our web infrastructure is correctly implemented rather than teaching us new paradigms. I think you'll probably come close to certification level through usage of the docs and implementing real-world solutions - as we have. I think the professional level courses will probably be more challenging and useful.

Also worth mentioning that these courses tend to propose AWS products as solutions to common problems in infrastructure design, keeping a critical eye for these problems allows you to learn what's actually happening and why you "need" to use the correct AWS product. If you do this you won't feel as locked in to AWS as a provider and will be able to transition to GCE or similar if needed.
It's analogous to when you're using C to write a bootloader or OS or something. Yes, it's restricting, but that's typically the nature of those environments. The cool thing about Rust is that at least you have powerful abstractions you can use.

But the cool thing is that you can conveniently compose other no_std crates into your stuff. No more futzing about with m4 or global namespace collisions or did-they-leverage-some-weird-dependency-that-I-can't-build-here.
Stop exploiting white male retired coal miners living on welfare in trailer parks for your own attacks on middle-class women. Please refrain from using white male retired coal miners living on welfare in trailer parks as rhetorical hit points until you've don't something, anything, that strives to improve the condition of white male retired coal miners living on welfare in trailer parks
Angular + Flask is my go to. Still haven't jumped to Angular2 though.
Vowpal wabbit is approx. 4-8x faster than gensim but the accuracy will be less compared to gensim.
Whatever happened to says-it.com?
There used to be a really nifty site called says-it.com which would let you make realistic looking pictures of billboards, restaurant marquees, and similar. It was there for years then one day it stopped loading and soon after the domain expired. I've often hoped that the author might surface on Hacker News, Reddit, github, a blog, or an on-line resume but they never have. Does anyone here know who the author was and if they can be contacted?
Man, that burn was orbital.

Comments like these are why I come to HN
Are you new to the human race?
Your parent's explicit usecase is "sometimes people make ad-hoc plans with me through messenger", and ignoring those for weeks on end sort of defeats the purpose and encourages those folks to not make plans with them...
Try the wayback machine?
How can "blockchain" save the environment when it requires an exponentially increasing amount of power to create it?
Optimal usage of an automated testing tool: calling test from another test
Have smartboards improved? I've had nothing but bad luck with them
Mine would be worthless trying to assist it. The motor drives it at 20mph and pedalling it at 3mph is horribly exhausting after even 100 metres. (Mine weighs 180 pounds ...)

Personally I don't see much value in electric assist. If I am looking to exercise, I just use my non-electric carbon fiber road bike. And the same amount of exertion translates to a LOT more speed on that road bike than the same amount of exertion assisting a 50-200 pound e-bike. If I'm riding an e-bike, it's usually specifically because I don't want to be exerting myself (e.g. hills, commuting to work, hot days, tired, carrying groceries).

I'd much rather e-bikes just came with insane amounts of battery that rival the range of gas scooters rather than trying to be this weird mish-mash of hey-it's-electric-but-you-still-have-to-pedal-because-we-are-being-cheap-and-only-putting-a-tiny-little-motor-and-inadequate-battery.
It's more 'lets not research it too much further so no-one tries to exterminate an entire race again, only this time with scientific justification'.
The whole site was protected by robots.txt unfortunately.
i see it update today
Bologna.

The assertions center on two obscure websites, palmerreport.com and patribotics.blog. Neither are even remotely comparable to breitbart.com, let alone foxnews.com. (May as well add vox.com into that lineup, I guess.)

Wake me when dailykos.com or slate.com start putting their weight behind conspiracy theories.
I suspect 'coloring the two extremes' involves something more like 'wiring the luminance signal up to the chroma'. Again, try not to think digital. This isn't photoshop, this is signal processing.
It's an approximation, of course, but a surprisingly good one: loads of predictive value, very strong correlations with things people care about, and so on. For some quality pondering on the epistemology here, see

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/11/does-the-glasgow-coma-s...
>As an engineer that is just about more than my mind can handle.

Why? It's just engineering to optimize for a bigger system. Set your system boundary too small and you risk damaging the whole. Making a perfect trap is something like premature optimization.
> but if there's a paycheck in exchange for essentially useless work, it's just welfare in disguise

How many devs out there writing framework (or insert your idea of re-inventing the tech wheel again here) of the week at a job only because VCs are willing to burn up their capital for that lottery ticket?

"Useless" is highly subjective.
Can you explain your math? A K80 on GCE is $.7/hr x 730 => $511/month if you were really 24x7. A K80 (and really we sell them by the die not the board) is more than $1000.

I don't disagree that a consumer board is about that price, but they're not apples to apples. (Either in memory size, reliability or both). I'm fine with that being the real complaint: (major) cloud providers only sell the Tesla class boards, and they're really expensive ;).
$1MM is nothing. At current prices that is ~500 BTC. Looking at just the Bitfinex order book[1], you could sell this in one trade with <5% slippage. If you split it out in say 10 trades over 24 hours you would probably not move the market at all.

Most other exchanges also publish their complete order book so you can fairly easily view their liquidity and answer this question.

[1] https://www.bitfinex.com/order_book
They don't have an implementation of in-place convolutions AFAIK. The im2col trick may be too slow in practice (read x2.5-10 slower) to make any difference in terms of adoption. We already see this with Caffe and cl-Torch.
Having done this many times, this list is a bit of overkill until a later stage financing. But it's still useful to read to get an idea of what you'll be getting into.
Could you explain this like I'm fifteen?
In Wreckage of the Fyre Festival, Fury, Lawsuits and an Inquiry
> Whats the difference between a master class and a master race

In the US and many places, with hard work and determination you can change your class. You can't however change your race.

That's the difference.
Is downforeveryoneorjustme.com down for everyone or just me?
It's fine, it really is. Just stick to what you are being productive with and enjoy actually building something useful.
Gemini specifically auctions to avoid slippage.
They were just two that I could easily remember driving through and with easy-to-Google names for anyone who wanted to see. We were driving through 25 states in two months with a couple of toddlers, so details are all over the place. Obviously as a visitor, you are taking in a whole range of things - ruinporn, state of urban areas (footpaths, cleanliness), retail, etc - rather than relying on data.
Still very much a work in progress, and far from a full replacement; but it's an open, distributed and secure start:

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
The big problem with that is that if a language is decidable it can't be Turing complete. That means that a large number of useful programs are just not going to be expressible. That said for something g like this it's a perfect fit to have it be decidable.
I just got my AWS CSA Professional certificate a couple weeks ago. It was definitely an intense experience and the 3 hour test was a fun challenge but through the process of studying I was able to pick up quite a few lessons that I applied to my SaaS deployment. It also gave me a good excuse to go in depth on a bunch of AWS features that I don't use day to day in my AWS deployment such as Direct Connect and Storage Gateway.
Manchester Arena explosion: 19 dead and 50 injured at Ariana Grande gig
There's this dude whose results are already about as good as this new dude's plus this other dude is gonna come out with a totally rad new set of results so you should just wait for those bro.
Video Series – 25 Design gurus around the world [15/25]
Yes zero. As zero as zero can possibly be, measuring with the most precise instruments possible. There's an infinitely better chance of both of us being struck by lightning and imagining you found such a number randomly.

It wouldn't be zero in certain math worlds. It is zero in the real universe.
Because imagine this[1] applied to a topic that can be used to encourage eugenics and institutionalized racism.

1: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
The trouble with getting Pascal now is that the card may end up depreciating very very sharply in a year, when Volta with its Tensor unit comes out.
Virtual teardown of a Samsung Galaxy S8
What are some non-speculative use cases for ethereum that wouldn't be better served by just using aws?
Except buying hardware isn't a 24-36 month investment, you could buy new hardware every 3 months or so and it would still be cheaper than renting. Renting only makes sense when you need to scale horizontally, but for most people's use cases having an in-house machine is sufficient.
>they use principal components to successfully control away population structure

This sounds really interesting, how does that work exactly?
I came here to say something similar.

I've become genuinely disturbed at how substandard generic peripherals have become. What's especially disturbing to me is that the problem often seems to be drifting from spec standards, adhering to specs just enough to be functional for most products for just long enough.

I have a audio system that I went through like 4 generic cables on. I was just about to get a replacement system when I saw Anker enthusiastically recommended somewhere, and thought I'd give it a last-ditch chance. It's worked beautifully, no problems.

I've seen similar issues with other types of cables. The scope of the problem is astonishing to me--it's like the manufacturing standards at 85% of producers just suddenly went out the window over the last 5 years or so. I suspect there's a good newsstory somewhere there.
> I've been very disheartened by what has been an obvious attempt at the Western upper classes to redirect money attention away from the needy and towards themselves.

Don't ascribe motive. Everyone gets a voice, and everyone can use it however they want. Sometimes people have high-minded ideals and they write about them. Sometimes gross shit happens to them and they write about that too.

Besides, just because bad things are happening doesn't mean we can't talk about trivial things. If that were really the case we'd never be able to talk about anything.
Intelligence is essentially what separates humans from other animals, and why we believe human lives to be more morally significant than the lives of other animals. To acknowledge that some people are smarter than others is essentially to acknowledge that their lives are worth more under humanity's current moral system.
While it's easy enough to add GPUs to a Hadoop/Spark cluster (and we did so too via Dataproc [1]) are you just saying that means you assume closer to 100% utilization due to sharing?

If so, that's fine-ish, but then people have to wait (you're either full and people are waiting or you're at less than 100%). My preference is to run for XX minutes per job on-demand (per person). If you have tons of non-overlapping users, you can absolutely aggregate them. But how many do you buy and how quickly do you upgrade to newer hardware?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/gpu-clusters
The best analogy is with general athletic ability. Yes of course, athletic ability is a multi-faceted thing; yes you can be good in different ways; yes, being the very best as baseball does not make the you very best at football; etc. Nonetheless, athletic-ness is a robust, real concept, which is very heritable, predictive of athletic success. Importantly, it encodes the empirical fact that if you are good at X compared to the general population, you are more likely to be good at Y, where X and Y can be almost any athletic activity.
As you say, it's not a purely scientific article and doesn't limit itself to scientific claims.

But talking about the disturbing ways misleading scientific claims get used is on-topic. They do talk about the science since that's essential to making their argument.
Nope. We get maine lobsters in the NY area and the price has increased in the last few years. Haven't had lobsters because I refuse to pay extortion prices.
I disagree, most people tend to unknowing overwork or having excessive intake. There are situations when someone tried to add artificial sweetness, the gadget are there to inform you in time rather than months.

Hostpitals has been participating in health research because they want to make these accessible for you 24 hours.
Nothing that special. You take the SNPs, extract the first 7 or whatever principal components, and include them in the regression. To the extent that there's some population structure and subgroups are smarter/richer, it'll get controlled away. No guarantee that it'll work, but it apparently does (probably because most of the structure is in the first few components and including PCs beyond that is harmless).
Blockchain’s Triumph in the EU Parliament
Some are owner/operators, many are not. I don't know the breakdown, but many people who drive trucks for a living do not have the financial resources or credit score to be able to buy their own truck (generally a purchase between $150,000 - $200,000 or more, with that much again in annual operating costs).
Regarding this: "Founders typically receive common stock, i.e. a class of stock with no special rights or preferences. Although there have been efforts by various organizations to promote the issuance of special classes of stock for founders that contain “super voting” rights or similar protective provisions, in practice, those provisions hardly ever survive the first round of outside investment. In the vast majority of cases, we recommend sticking to the K.I.S.S. principal and issuing common stock to the founders."

I completely disagree:

1) There are other functions of special classes of stock for founders, other than "super voting" or protective provisions. Founder stock can be structured to facilitate early liquidity without adversely impacting the company's 409A valuation and with potentially better tax treatment than common stock repurchases by the company (the typical alternative). This latter function can serve its purpose regardless of whether it survives the first funding round because it's in a funding round that such stock gets purchased (and, thus, provides early liquidity).

2) If you don't build in special rights at the beginning, you are unlikely to ever get them. You may have more leverage in a funding round than you may think. So, what's the downside of trying?

3) What if you never get VC funding, but end up growing based on revenues? Won't you then regret not having built-in special protections for yourself at the outset? Without a VC forcing you to ditch those protections, they could survive indefinitely.

4) Assuming your lawyer knows what he or she is doing at the outset, marginal cost of eliminating these rights in a VC round is basically $0. Everyone knows this. So, having a special class of stock at incorporation is not a deterrent to financing. If the VC insists and you don't have the leverage, you just get rid of it.

I'm actually writing something about this that I'll post eventually. But I do not understand this point of view in the startup community at all. It's the one area of the world I interact with where a party (the startup founders) pre-negotiates against itself before a negotiation.
"Since you seem to be purporting to have those qualifications" - which qualifications did I purport to have? Googling to verify that research does indeed exist?

We all, by merit of commenting here and having access to the Internet, have these qualifications.
"…they had identified 52 genes linked to intelligence in nearly 80,000 people. These genes do not determine intelligence, however."
Yeah, being a poor white person sucks.

You know what's worse? Being a poor black person.

Wanna know how you can tell? Go ask those coal miners, if they could swap their skin color, would they?
My comment was a little rude and I apologize for that. I feel like I should expand a bit on my reasoning.

The tools you've described in your post are unambiguously manipulative (sparking emotions, associating mental states with a product independently of its qualities etc.). Based on this I'm wondering whether there are any marketing frameworks that don't directly rely on one aspect of human psychological weakness instead of simply telling a customer what the product does. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in this regard.

Of course, it's hard to blame advertisers for doing this, because the incentives are there. It works tremendously well, and I am deeply vulnerable to it myself. Despite this, I can't help but feel distress that the working life of so many smart people is dedicated to inserting needs in other's minds. The acronyms are the cherry on top: the manipulation is so routine that it is parceled with buzzwords, as the other poster noticed.

On a more global scale, it highlights a deeper problem. The practices of advertising today are already lightly dystopian if contrasted with people's expectations of the world a few decades past: massive data-gathering, extremely advanced and detailed A/B testing and optimization, devices providing identification info at all times and in all places, psychological experiments such as those tested by Facebook... etc. Based on these developments and on the precedent of technology often being applied in a deeply unethical way, it's no longer impossible to imagine that it will get worse, possibly even unimaginably worse. Heck, if there were a way for people to insert ads directly into a person's mind should the opportunity I have no doubt that it would become an acceptable practice after a while. We already have people reduced to selling their plasma. Of course, this is all very speculative and it maybe won't work out this way, but I'm not holding my breath.

I do agree that marketing is not the only culprit here, just the one most likely to evoke an epidermic reaction.
I can't think of one that doesn't involve flouting regulations. Though we have truly awful regulations. Prediction markets are the only reason I am interested.
English language version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HL5nppBnM
Scott Aaranson thought the experience went pretty well for him:

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-for-you-to-be-widely-...

"destroy his life" is comical hyberbole, and shows the same absurd provincialism that Aaronson initially showed when he claimed that "nerdy men are in fact among the least privileged men out there", blissfully ignorant of the people who weren't raised in upper-middle-class households or get invited to special schools for the gifted.
"Useless" is highly subjective when you don't have enough information to render accurate judgment. But this is not the case that we're talking about.

Consider this simplified case. I hire you to sweep the floors in my apartment, and I pay you by the hour. I have a vacuum cleaner, but I don't offer it to you, because then you'd have done the job much sooner, and would be paid less - and I want to pay you more.

Do you see the absurdity in this arrangement? I hope it's fairly obvious. The moral choice in this case is, of course, to let you use the vacuum cleaner, but pay you the same amount as for manual sweeping (minus any amortization costs for the cleaner). I don't lose anything this way, since I've parted with the same amount of money. You have gained, because you've got the same money for less back-breaking work - and now you can either enjoy some extra rest, or perhaps go clean someone else's house and earn more money.

The difference in amount of work you performed in the first case vs the second case is the "useless work" here - and there's nothing subjective about it.

The difference in amount of money paid for a manual sweep and for vacuuming, if you were paid at the same rate for both, is the welfare, because I didn't have to pay you more than the market price of the hour of your work.

Note, I do not consider the term "welfare" to be in any way negative. I just wish we recognized it for what it is, and consciously designed our economic policies around it, instead of pretending that it's something else - in this case, by forcing people to do useless work for it just to satisfy our sense of "propriety" (that they shouldn't "get it for free").
These are all standard security concerns. Anyone who brings you something similar and does not have a long list like this is in marketing or sales.
Why not just gpg-encrypt and ascii-armor your text for the recipient(s), and put it in an ordinary pastebin?
Might be true? This doesn't specify whether they worked on the same cases, though. Also seeing articles on Vice & Ars Technica, but neither mention. http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2008/03/judge-w...