skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Kyle, we didn't try anything more advanced than next-step sampling. You probably have a better sense than I do how much improvement such techniques are likely to yield. My unfounded suspicion is that we're close to the limit of generation quality from this dataset, and so I'm most interested in trying to gather 10-100x more skilled performances, one way or another.

There's also no consensus on whether the high- or low-temperature samples sound better. I've heard both opinions from several people.

Sageev did the final rendering, not sure what he used but I'm pretty sure it was nothing too fancy.
I don't think you can prove that assertion. The personal physician to the King of Olde would not know about Germ Theory, nor about the importance of basic hygiene and cleanliness. A modern poor person at least has a chance to learn about such things, and there is a significant number of people who provide medical care for free to those in need.
No, it doesn't work this way.

CPU has various modes that are typically switched when booting. It could allow to control it before the system boot without forgoing security.

Unless... that "security" is from the users that own it.
6000 chess players took part in our beauty contest
Neither we nor our politicians should adjudicate scientific results and pick and choose what makes sense to us. We are not qualified. Scientists have a process as well as peer review which determines valid vs invalid results.

I subscribe to 'Science' magazine which is one of the most respected publications among scientists (along with 'Nature' magazine). The consensus among scientists is settled: ACC is real. ACC deniers do not get published in respected science magazines because their peers do not respect their results.

Scientific results should be settled by the peer group of scientists, not by politicians or the general public (see vaccine conspiracies for example).
Well, lawyers got to earn their pay...
Ask HN: How does Twitter implement following and followers between users?
I have always been curious as to how twitter implemented this in their user model. How do they keep track of who the user is following and who is following the user?
You must be one of those vim users.
Few questions:
The people that are "mining" are using their computing power to seal other people's transactions?

Also, what happens when there are no more bitcoins to be rewarded. (When mining is no longer profitable by any means)

Thanks
Now, look over here! And not at Cancer study controversies!
I'd be more optimistic if Pruitt hadn't flat out said his plan was to discredit everything...
You'd probably did KEXP, out of Seattle, as well.
So, Scott originally accumulated all those miles working for ThinkProgress? How does that work? You buy the flights and expense them back to the company, pocketing the miles?
>With the exception of wealthy purists (read: just Radiohead), that vinyl you're listening to is actually the digital recording pressed onto vinyl, not an analog recording pressed to vinyl.

I'm not even sure Radiohead do AAA. Even the new OKNOTOK is supposedly sourced and remastered from digital. Not that there's a thing wrong with it, supposing it's done well.
Kubernetes is a community project, not directly tied to GKE release dates [0]

K8s 1.6 was released on March 28 and GKE made that version available on April 4. I would expect a similar wait time to 1.7.

0 - https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/release-notes#supp...
I agree. The stack exchange is a place I whitelist in my adblocker. They seem to take ads and ad quality seriously, they provided very useful and interesting content, and they employ a pretty excellent team. I don't see the problem. It seems like what you'd hope for from the situation.
Critiquing a hypothesis is part of the scientific process, not "anti-science". If the science is sound, it will withstand scrutiny.

I have followed this debate closely, and I haven't seen anyone on either side put forth detailed policy proposals other than voluntary carbon caps. In my opinion, advanced technology will solve this problem before any major policy changes are needed.
> what he really cares about: the wallets of people who own lots of things

He only cares if those people pay him off, like the fossil fuel industry did: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
If they did the same for their health care proposals, tax cuts, increase in defense spending and other stuff I would be totally onboard.
> In what sense? If you need to update your data on the JS side from the DOM you have to use events. There's v-model, but this is just syntax sugar for binding an event on input to update the value prop.

Which is why calling two-way data binding in js a "bug" is so weird (for lack of a better word). In angular, two-way data binding is, ultimately, also syntactic sugar over DOM events.

For that matter, everything every frontend framework provides is syntactic sugar over vanilla javascript.
I tried to google that without much success. What is that?
Fully agree with you.

There is a bunch of tech that I bash all the time, but if that is what makes the customer happy, then that is what I would use.

These posts seem like people self assuring they have made the right decision to use whatever technology stack.
Imperialism is timeless.

The weirdest part of it all is how these folks are now on the sharp end of capitalism. They're rapidly being dismantled at a more local level by on-site generation, which simply needs less global infrastructure to meet demand.

So now we have these folks with massive empires largely based on the promise of future capital, with heavily leveraged current holdings. They have incentive to act against efficiency and the market to preserve the investments they made. In any other scenario folks would probably say that they "deserve to lose".
Yes, that is how it works at most companies AFAIK.
The worst legacy of Trump will be his denying of climate change. USA is the greatest polluter of the world. Their carbon output per capita is ten times greater than everybody. The country always stopped every tentative to slow climate change. Now with Trump they will accelerate it.
As someone who started collecting vinyl about 3 years ago, it's about the difference between passive and active involvement in music. So much of our music consumption these days is a largely passive activity. We have music in our headphones while we work. We have music on in our cars while we drive. We have music on in the background of social events. While modern digital formats have given us true ubiquity of music (seriously, thanks to Spotify and Apple Music and LTE connections, even the old "1000 songs in your pocket" claim from the first iPod could be regarded as "quaint") they've driven the trend further and further away from active involvement in music.

Contrast that with vinyl. The act of putting on a record indicates a desire to do more than put on music in the background. Walking across the room, thumbing through your collection, pulling the record from its sleeve, etc.--the ritual of it all changes one's frame of mind in approaching the music: it's by definition a more active involvement.

When I want to have music on, I reach for my iPhone and Apple Music. When I want to listen to music I grab a record.
Google's thing can't even figure out my wife's Italian name most of the time. It's quite frustrating.
CIA Contractors Fired After Hacking Vending Machines
Exactly. This is like the people who said it was impossible to attribute the DNC email hack. Then they attributed it via classic human intelligence sources.

We forget there's more to attribution than what can be determined from the bits.
Yes. This happens in pretty much every company, even if the company has a corporate card. Employees rather buy the tickets themselves and expense the costs.
X is his job. Y is a question of science that he is working on right now, as the article shows.
Maybe it depends on the genres you listen to, but I haven't found this to be true at all. My discover weekly playlist is frequently full of bands I've never heard of with monthly listen numbers in the 2,000-50,000 range - I don't think those bands have marketing budgets.
To your first question: yes, that is exactly what they're doing.

To your second: there is a fee associated with every transaction. You can set the fee to something incredibly small (like 0.00001 cent), but miners will take the higher-fee transactions first, so you'll be waiting a long time.

So even after the block reward drops to zero, theoretically miners will still have an incentive to keep processing transactions.
I don't do this with vinyl, but I do with films. Something about having a tangible physical object is very attractive.
Kubernetes Extensibility in 1.7: TPR Is Dead. Long Live the CRD
Well, doesn't your 2nd point invalidate the first? My take is good business acumen != good governance acumen.

It's almost like saying a good singer can be a good pianist. Hey, they're both about making music, right?

Well maybe not...
Same boat - I just got into it in the last 18 months or thereabouts.

I got rid of my CD collection 10 years ago to get rid of clutter. I had a great collection curated on grooveshark, but since that was shut down I've mainly listened to streaming radio.

I've found buying vinyl second hand in antiques stores or used record shops to be an interesting way to discover music. Often the price is cheap enough to be able to take a chance on something that looks intriguing. I probably have 100 records now, with production dates from 1932->2016, with lots of interesting albums that probably aren't even digitized (or at least readily available.)
This is why smart watches are actually pretty great.
Data Meaning: Analytics vs. Data Mining
Since when does science require public belief to sustain itself?
For me it works so well because there are 0 distractions, just the necessary functionality on top of the high-quality community and content. But the 2nd part is the key, value goes first.
Pruitt is bought by the fossil fuel industry: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
For instance, you could own or have inherited (or even work for) a business that generates you $1 million in income every year - this puts you in the 99% income percentile. You certainly don't have a massive fortune saved up, just a modest $300 million. By all means you are "super rich" compared to the average human but you're not a billionaire.

Debating definitions is bad, can we not?

TL;DR figurative language sometimes doesn't follow definitions exactly
> [citation needed]. Seriously, this is one of those things that keeps being repeated, without anyone stopping to go see if it's true before they parrot it elsewhere. It's a safe bet, right? It makes one sound clever, and enough people say it, it's probably true, right?

> It's not.

I am inclined to believe this rebuttal, but only because I've seen lots of people say it, which is no better a reason than for believing the original statement. Without doubting your statement, I hope I may ask non-snarkily if you have a citation (though I know we're in "proving a negative" territory" here).
Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming
Ensemble for the win, I suspect that they can perform better than the combined individual best when sharing training resources and models.
As much fun as this test is, it dodges the most interesting question of all: "Are these machines supposed to be talking search engines?"

I'm increasingly believing that the answer is: "No." These machines (especially Alexa) are rapidly gaining popularity while still providing pretty ragged answers to search queries. So we should start asking: "Are they taking on a different function that didn't match our early expectations?"

In a word, yeah. Alexa is a really nifty jukebox for those of us that don't have the good sense to create formal playlists. It's a handy kitchen timer, especially if you've got multiple pots doing different things. It's a better alarm clock and a better purveyor of soothing bedtime sounds. (If you're asking: Good god, how many people really want or need that, think: Fussing infants.)

Smartphones already provide pretty excellent search results on the fly. I'm not sure voice-powered assistants will re-solve that problem with great success. But there are a surprising number of rudimentary needs around the house for which a voice-enabled device becomes quite handy.
How is consensus settled, when there are renowned scientists out there who object the CAGW hypothesis? Roy Spencer, Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, Freeman Dyson - are they all bought and paid for by oil industry?
Are you referring to this article? http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_suck...
Show HN: I've been building this thing
...it's an image proxy that does on-the-fly image processing for animated GIFs.

This is the site: https://www.gifsonic.com

And here are docs with examples:

• https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/

• https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=width

• https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=height

• https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=reverse

• https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=background_color

• https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=meme_top_text (my favorite)

• etc. etc.

What do you guys think about the whole thing? I would love some feedback before I open it to signups.

Does it look OK? Would you ever use such a service? What could I improve?
And the IRS is totally OK with it, since 2002: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/a-02-18.pdf
The parent never said that the US is #1. He just implied that they're not "left in the dust" yet, whatever that might mean.
There is not much difference, though digital can represent a wider range of frequencies than vinyl (higher highs and lower lows) so it can be said that it is generally higher quality. For more information, I think this is a fairly good objective comparison: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4303
Do you have AD(H)D? Caffeine-induced sleepiness (or non-stimulation) is a pretty distinctive sign of that. If so, I'd discount all caffeine-related tips from people who don't.

But in any event: if the coffee has affected you, you're already too late. The idea is to sleep immediately after consuming your caffeine, then wake up as/before it starts to affect you. If caffeine makes you sleepy instead of wakeful, that's probably going to be less pleasant because you won't wake up refreshed.

Finally: I suspect the sleep is helping but feeling useless. Adenosine is one chemical that makes you feel sleepy, and levels are reduced while you sleep. But caffeine is an adenosine blocker, so it's going to stop you feeling that adenosine sleepiness without disposing of it. Good sleep while caffeinated is probably hard to get, but if you succeeded I expect you would lower adenosine levels, but not feel the difference until the caffeine wore off.
If ACC doesn't exist, the future is much scarier. It suggest that the climate is changing, but that human kind isn't causing it, suggesting that it's much harder for us to revert, suggesting that we are much more likely to be screwed.

Of the data we have, climate change being human caused is MUCH more preferable. The alternative is that the climate is changing and we aren't responsible.
Because it was sold as something better. When siri first came out it was billed as something revolutionary and that it would continuously improve as more people used it. Did that even happen? Outside of the "happy path" sort of questions, I find it rather disappointing with pre-canned responses, or just showing me search results most of the time. Now I really only use it for setting reminders or alarms.
Kubernetes is getting a number of extensibility features in this release. The net new one is "API Aggregation" which enables the addition/registration of API servers behind the primary API server. And there is sort of a toolkit for building these new API servers emerging[1].

The second major one is "third-party resources" which has now been renamed to custom resource definitions. These power a number of software systems[2] today and the changes are explained in this blog post[3].

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/apiserver-builder

[2]: https://github.com/coreos/awesome-kubernetes-extensions

[3]: https://coreos.com/blog/custom-resource-kubernetes-v17
User1 follows User2

User1 follows User3

User3 follows User1

User3 follows User5

...
Self-powered system makes smart windows smarter
The transformer fails in a "ball of flame". The "flame" only lasts for a second (probably just a spark?), but it is visible for miles.

I don't know how much redundancy they have. I know that my power went out for a few hours a couple months ago when a substation failed. I've seen the "ball of flame" (probably just a spark, it only lasted a second) that knocked out power for a small city.
How in the world is listening to climate scientists an "appeal to authority" fallacy? How are people supposed to get information about anything if this is your argument? Most of our knowledge comes from experts and specialists...
You see this issue with Google Map searches. Over time it seems to have relied more and more on structured data and less on algorithmic results. But it still returns bad results when the software obviously lacks the data. Better to just say "nothing found" sometimes.
I find it interesting that Google couldn't get the Bill Murray one. No matter what combination of "did bill murray run for president" I search for, I get a rich snippet on the results page from snopes.com which says

"Claim: Comedian Bill Murray is running for president and proclaimed religion to be "the worst enemy of mankind."
Claimed by: Internet
Fact check by Snopes.com: FALSE"

It would seem they are reasonably close but this is more of a product integration failure than a recognition failure.
The ‘Busy’ Trap
It's pretty variable, but this is still the case for some releases. The opposite is also true as well, particularly with electronic music releases from small labels, with a low quality masters becoming the source material for the pressing. Music on Vinyl [1] is held in high regard for the quality of their masters/presses.

[1] http://www.musiconvinyl.com/
We're not even in the top 10 once you take into account weather and GDP: http://grist.org/climate-change/some-like-it-hot-or-cold-how....
It is simple but not simpler. The voting system has its issues, but compared to other sites, it works pretty well.
of course - equality under the law. People like to act like equality of outcome is a natural extension from legal equality but it simply isn't.

I know we don't keep people out of poverty right now, and that's something that needs to be fixed. But if you think equality of outcome (i.e. eliminating economic disparity) is the solution to that then you may want to read up on the USSR and Maoist China. Capitalism is pretty good at raising the living standard of the whole population, even if it does end up creating billionaires at the same time.
From Ransomware to Wiperware: The Politics of Analyzing a Cyberattack
You assert that both sides have a profit motive, but there is a huge disparity in the quantity of profit. The fossil fuel energy companies profit to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. The academic lobby grants 1) are minuscule in comparison and 2) most of the concerned academics have plenty of other things they'd rather be studying - climate change is what they choose now because of its existential nature.
> UX designer sessions

You must be kidding.
Create a Forum Engine in 15 Minutes Using Meteor and AngularJS
The beefy Dell Precision 7520 DE can out-muscle a growing Linux laptop field
Kyle Bass: Our relationship with China has taken 'major step' for the worse
I've kind of lost faith in the peer review process after the reproduction crisis in psychology field broke, and it is quite believable that any study that arrives at the "wrong" (read: not acceptable politically) result will result in the paper not getting published, or worse.

And it's not like this is some conspiracy theory. Unspoken social consequences don't require people getting together and stroking their goatees cartoon-villain style.

The "consensus among scientists", looking at the psychology thing, can and has been wrong, so holding the concept up as if it makes error impossible doesn't seem to wash.
> I don't say that that to disparage the author, because stuff like this is nothing new. Programmers have divided themselves into warring tribes for almost as long have there have been programmers. You used to see C programmers saying that Pascal is for idiots, and Pascal programmers saying that C is for neckbeards. Or similar arguments between C++ and Visual Basic camps or C vs asembler. And there are dozens (probably hundreds or more, actually) of other examples.

I don't interpret this article like this. I understand the observation that people have different opinions, but with JS frameworks, there's so many developers who sunk their teeth into a framework to be productive just to lose their edge 6 months later.

It's substantive for a developer, a team of developers, a whole community to invest their time into a framework that gets thrown out every 2 years.

It's painful to constantly pursue a moving target with JavaScript changing. Meanwhile, web frameworks like Django and Rails remained stable for over a decade.

> At this point, I don't think it's especially likely that a project will fail because you chose Angular over React, or vice versa.

That sentiment feels rather just-worldish in light that becoming productive at a framework (not just doing small tweaks) is a chore in itself. I recognize that people have their own opinions and philosophies of the framework they pick, but the article also factors in the timeline of these frameworks.

When I read through that article, I felt sharp remembrance of being on the roller coaster of continually rebuilding my skills from scratch with the new framework where the action is at.

> Pick what works best for you and your team, and don't worry about what the chattering bloggers say you should be using. :)

While I do recognize there is also a cargo-cult fanaticism that comes with JS frameworks, the amount of upstream contributions and extensions these frameworks receive back is considerable. The effects are also felt on QA websites like StackOverflow and so on.

I don't see the same behavior for every framework in software development. Like for instance, SDL2/allegro/SFML, I don't feel attachment and the API's are somewhat less of a moving target.

Potentially, because it's safe to say you can just pin NPM packages and your old Backbone code will build. But will people hire you for that Angular 2.0 position if you're not top tier in that framework? They could pass you up for someone who's already ready for to take up the job. There's economic ramification for workers on what framework they pick.
I am. React is nice for consumer product development, but I think Web Components and Polymer will be much more effective for line-of-business and back office applications.
New Draft of Reinforcement Learning Book by Sutton&Barto [pdf]
Maybe, but for the same expense I'd rather go to (non-profit) Harvard than (for-profit) Trump University.

All the best universities are non-profit, for the obvious reason that it allows them to keep massive endowments, which are spent on better education instead of being paid out to investors.
Not unless I could find a place that would pay better for my posts.
Ryzen, Ryzen Threadripper and Epyc are all the exact same chip, the latter just use MCMs with 2 and 4 dies respectively.

Epyc being for for the datacentre, it needs good Linux compatibility, so AMD have already submitted the necessary kernel patches. I imagine that means Ryzen will work well too, at least for the portion of the chipset inside the CPU.
Well, that is an issue of freedom.

A rich person can buy a BMW with their money, so why shouldn't they also be able to buy expensive education?