skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for things like these is why I abandoned 1Password, LastPass and any similar services and just decided to roll my own solution.

KeePass has quite a few Android apps (this [1] being my favorite) and even though it might not be as widely used as these more centralized services, I own my data and I know where and when my database gets uploaded. In my case, I use SyncThing [2] as well, which keeps my database neatly synchronized across devices. It's not perfect and certainly has a difficulty curve (Babysitting SyncThing to make sure it's actually running when it should. Oh! Also, try telling Android where to sync and actually save the database outside a few select folders, for example!) but it's not that terribly hard for anyone moderately computer-savvy.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...

[2] https://syncthing.net/
Dawkins mentions this, or maybe indirectly acknowledges it, in The Selfish Gene. Organisms that can pass their ability to adapt on to fast acting nervous centers or even better: large brains, eventually gain a huge advantage.

The Great Filter on the other hand, relies on assuming
the steps from evolved intelligence (now) to solar system colonization/FTL travel are not only possible, but just a matter of a few millennia or so. Which is a huge assumption.
At this point, the velocity is too great to stop AI before it can solve most of the problems listed in this post (which are, from today's vantage point, relatively low-hanging fruit).

I can see an argument that we might not make it to super-intelligence but we'll still solve a bunch of problems on the way. Weird post.
Yeah, but it seems manufacturing is not that popular in AI research. Maybe this is because getting the desired data and performing the entire research process is much slower for this domain.
I'm kind of used to New Scientist misreporting my own and others research. If someone has a link to the original study I'd be interested in taking a look.

Overall, is it really useful to compare Ravens and human children for their long term planning ability? Human children are still under the care of their parents. There's no real pressure on them to store food tokens...
Maybe we can let the prior assumption, that there are more geological features than cities on the seabed, do some work?
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Considering dereferencing a pointer after doing some arithmetic on it can only be done within unsafe blocks, I would say you are at least warned about it. But it will happily compile.
Part of the problem is comparing bleeding edge 1940 with average 1870, and average 2010 with bleeding edge 1940.

Most of the world in 1940 wasn't that different from 1870. Industrialization only touched a few countries. Still most people were farmers, and farming was similar to 1870. There were many innovations, mainly cheap artifical fertilizers thanks to Bosh-Faber process, but it wasn't widespread yet.

Nowadays as well we have pockets of sci-fi level technology (fusion, genetic engineering, space stuff, nanomaterials), but the widespread stuff is not on that level.

Don't compare a car in 1940 to mobile phone in 2010, because almost nobody had a car in 1940 when you look at the whole world.
>substantially different than what researchers were focusing on in the 80s.

??

Weren't the neural network stuff and evolutionary algos all hip in mid-eighties?
Do generics really add much compilation time? They sure do in C++ but that is because type checking C++ generics is based on substitution into the method body, which can have other generic calls inside of, which can lead to an exponential cascade and therefore exponential time compilation. Modern generics do not do that: a generic method invocation can be checked based on the type signature of the method alone.

For code generation you can do what Java does and erase generics (i.e. ignore them), in which case it will be no slower than code generation for manually erased code, which is what programmers have to write now. For good run-time performance you'd want to do specialisation, which may take longer but not much longer if the compiler is clever enough not to recompile the same method many times. C# does that and its implementation is actually fast enough for a JIT, let alone ahead of time compilation.
Partial hardware failures exist. The wrong values start going through the system. A bit flip is easiest example. NonStop has been countering both partial and total HW failures in their design a long time now.
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> 60M$ of _manual_ tuning before it's NOT useful

Pedantic but important - the final product wasn't usable even after spending an obscene amount of money customizing it to the task
The key here is "truly value" and how much. Intel pricing forces you to think about whether you value what's in your ram.

If you are only gaming on a Xeon you should have put that money on the gpu. If you are doing databases, cad etc without ECC then the converse is true: should have put more money towards ECC.
Can't see the controversy in recommending Non-ECC for Intel buyers based on the workload in question.
And this is what we call Vendor Lock-In. </sarcasm>
One of the most common questions in US small talk is rude in much of the world
From my perspective (not having a dog in this fight either), it's exactly the other way around. People are hurling undifferentiated abuse at IBM. IBM employee shows up, offering to engage. People are hurling personal abuse at them, refuse to offer specific criticism of the product.

Not exactly a display of maturity from this community.

> You need to figure that out on your own

Even IF an employee has a pretty clear idea themselves what needs to be improved, having a citable CUSTOMER opinion to that effect is going to vastly improve the chances of management listening.
I had a pet magpie as a child and in the short time we had it it was clear it was such an intelligent creature.

Its nest had fallen from a tree in a storm - we found it a day or so later in a not great state. But within a day of feeding it was hand tame and happily came to live in the house. By the end of the summer though it learnt the skills it needed and flew off.

While it lived with us it quickly learnt the places we were happy for it to be in the house, where its 'bed' was and when we would feed it. It continually picked up small toys to play with and would delight in dropping things off the table for us to fetch and return for it.

In some ways I was so sad when it left, and as a child regretted not clipping its wings - but I'm pleased we didn't and was hopeful it went off to lead a normal magpie life ;)
> doing dumb things quickly

AlphaGo's policy (what moves should I look into) and value (how good is this board position) networks aren't dumb-but-fast. The rollouts are though.

Recent image successes (classifying images) aren't dumb-but-fast.
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This is exactly the playbook my country S. Korea used, enabling the "miracle on the Han". The "free trade" mantra is bullshit, it is literally kicking away the ladder that every developed nation climbed to get to the top.
Note the "pronounceable" caveat in the original message. Still important to note, but the implementation above is not at risk.
Why will UBI and automation lead to properly managed capitalism? And what do you mean by "properly managed capitalism"?
Go supports that today. Slice is a generic collection. Map will need to become for loops, but that's minor.
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To contribute.
Facebook can’t decide how much VR should cost
Figuring out how to use the tool is harder than proving the theorems.
As a rookie trying to get into the field myself, I think there are quite a few ways to start about it.

The programming part with R, python, julia etc., seems to get the most attention here. I think the most important part here is to learn how to load datasets into your system of choice and work with them to get some nice plots out. The book "R for data science"[1] seems like a good intro for this with R and tidyverse.

Somewhat more overlooked here, are the statistical models. I second the recommendation of "Introduction to Statistical Learning"[2], possibly supplemented with it's big brother "Elements of Statistical Learning"[3] if you're more mathematically inclined and want more details. I like their emphasis on starting with simple models and working your way up. I also found their discussion on how to go from data to a mathematical model very lucid.

[1] http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

[2] http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

[3] http://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/
I'm on my fourth full-time job. I've been asked for references 2 out of 4 times. My references have been contacted from just one of my past employers.

As an aside, it seems to me like it's always worth asking for and contacting someone's references (but only as the final step before giving an offer... as a candidate, I don't appreciate employers calling my references unless they are serious about hiring me). To me, it's a red flag if someone can't find 2 people to say good things about them. But in practice, many employers don't seem to put in the effort to call references.
Cool - but since Torque can present that data for a whole range of ODB2 dongles, it must be achievable? Maybe reach out to those guys or reverse engineer their app?
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Have you seen old sci-fi? If that's the definition of singularity then we've been there for some time.
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I like drinking from time to time, but the hangovers put me off, which is nature's way of saying, leave off.
If I have more than four drinks I have to spend the next day in bed. I simply can't function.
I know a couple of alcoholics and neither suffer from hangovers (or ever have done).
When I read "functional alcoholic" I think of someone who doesn't suffer from hangovers.
Lavanda raises €1.1M with the goal to revolutionize the London rental market
This made my day:

> If AdSense became sentient, it would upload itself into a self-driving car and go drive off a cliff.
1Password: Standalone vaults aren’t being removed
Why are you posting not publicly accesible links? Am I now supposed to register at linkedin to read news here?
The OLAP "Analytics DB" looks interesting https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/analytic-db

Wonder what OLAP features it providers above the managed & massively-parallel SQL like in BigQuery
Thanks for the feedback!

Definitely one of the first obvious seeming flaws with the idea (part of why I dropped it, it seems to inherently wrong to most) -- but a sufficiently long password (essentially, a "passphrase") with some randomness thrown in is enough (to at least force a brute-forcer to try the whole space, obviously not just dictionary words), when it comes to password strength.

Assuming that's true, the big problem with this approach is how to make sure people use long-enough and sufficiently random passphrases, and I think encouraging hints helps that. If I have a hint like "elementary school cheer w1th 0nes and second crush's name with how you feel" -- I think that's very hard for someone to either brute force, and hard for them to figure out without access to that information (and my own personal inner thoughts), and should be pretty long.

I still think that the safest place for passwords is inside your head (and a close second is a sufficiently physically secure sticky note). If you think I'm wrong please tell me, I'd love to hear why I'm wrong, I'm not a newcomer to the security space but am by no means an expert. Lastpass and Onepass have never been "breached" per say but a pessimistic view would suggest that it's only a matter of time.
Happily. Who needs hyperloop when airline tickets are this cheap?
They didn't feel like they needed those 2 bytes and, hey, why waste space?

Also, was a "byte" standardized at the time? Didn't they still have systems working in not-8-bit "byte", nibbles, byte, and 2-byte boundaries?
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Thanks so much for pointing it out! fixed it
Everywhere?

First provider I checked has a multiple server offerings with quadcore i7-6700 and 64Gb DDR4 RAM for 39€/month [1].

1: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex41s?country=g...
I guess this comment means you consider making good recomendations a simple problem? Or maybe not real A.I?
Step 1: UBI you can chase your dreams

Step2: well you can't afford real dreams you're on UBI so chase your dreams in VR. plus the clicks will help pay for UBI.

Step 3: eat Soylent it's less expensive and you don't need much nutrition your always in VR anyways. besides the system can get more clicks the more time your in VR.

Step 4: you can get a more enriched experience if we attach cables to you. besides the system can get more clicks the more time your in VR.

Step 5: The system decided to make VR more like real life and add constraints and problems to your life. besides the system can get more clicks the more time your in VR.

Shit we ended up in the Matrix....except it turned out to be a giant click farm.
The argument for trade hinges on competitive advantage. Each country should produce what it is most efficient at producing based on its resources.

In this way China has indeed rode the wave of globalization because its bountiful cheap labor made it suited to manufacturing small goods for richer economies.

The capital accumulated through these activities were reinvested so that Chinese companies could move into more value added industries like electronics, automobiles, aerospace, and services, which is possible because China has a deep well of human capital (i.e. people) who have a strong work ethic and are eager to learn new skills.

Moreover, because China has both a gigantic internal market and vast human resources, it's possible that Chinese suppliers can have a competitive advantage in virtually every industry, making the benefits of external trade less obvious. (This was China's attitude towards Europeans during colonial times too - that trade was unnecessary because they had nothing of value to China).

Or if Chinese suppliers currently don't have a competitive advantage in terms of price or quality, the government can use protectionist policies to shield those industries until they do have an advantage.

You might say that China has played all the right cards in the game of globalization. Donald Trump had been saying it for a long time.
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I like that some people dare to challenge AI and get upvoted.

There were def some achievements in AI the last decades but when I look how the brain works--or to be more precise: Nobody has a clue how our brain works, we only know that it seems to be so different to a semiconductor and before we do not know more about the brain how should achieve real AI?
I'd imagine each one of the planets would have an artificial gravity generator itself able to correct for gravitational disturbances
This is all very neat, but I think Go could do all of this too, except that "query compile time" would happen on application init or on the first query or some such. Still, very cool and good work to the diesel team!
Malaysia is due to protectionism gone too far, rather than opening up gradually.
My take is he means that trying to move to another planet isn't a good survival strategy as a species, because of the high probability that such an endeavour would end in failure.
I never deal with such low level issues, so I don't have to read this, but... reading these posts by antirez is such a joy. He makes this topic so clear and understandable, he doesn't assume much, he doesn't use overly complex explanations, he just "says it like it is" :-)

Thanks!
And I've never heard of any Thai auto manufacturers either. Yet S. Korea, another SE Asian country which went full on gov't interventionist/protectionist from the 60s through the 80s, is home to Samsung and Hyundai etc. These conglomerates would never have survived in direct competition, nascent industries require protectionism until they can compete. Completely "free trade" means each country focuses on industries where they have comparative advantage--S. Korea would still be weaving linen.
Ask HN: What do you use to build data pipelines and what is you experience?
The one of the obvious choice is python. I'm more interested in knowing about your experiences if you have use any of these: Go, Scala or Kotlin?
Wow, good job! The CheerpJ Chrome Extension to run old Java Applets actually works, eg http://dogfeathers.com/java/octicos.html
The fact that you don't get hangovers is part of the problem. If you did, you wouldn't be able to drink and function the next day.
Did you ever get hangovers?
I think faster convergence is the answer. Also, I like the geometric argument in the post. But you're right, bracketing is pretty obvious, and it's the way I approximate square roots in my head.
We frequently request account limit increases to 1000-2000 instance limits and get the same canned response. Though I bet in the earlier days capacity allowances for GPUs was probably more sensitive.
Very cool, but that's not "because of generics" then. Not to denigrate the feat.
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No. It is not so simple as that. Some developers don't like mindfuck with cryptic lines all the time. But as with placement of curly braces, the coding convention battle rages on. Btw the old symmetric C-style is the only right way ;)
Just leave a comment here :)
It sounds like a lot but really isn't when you look at where else the money is going, even just within the research community. For example, that is about one year's worth of pointless medical research (the final reports are of no use to anyone due to bad design, terse descriptions, etc):

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/01/14/paul-glasziou-and-iain-c...
Exactly. I've actually been giving this a fair amount of thought, as it also relates to "GC for everything", another obstacle for real time programming (soft or hard). I like many things about the FP approach, especially in terms of reasoning about the code. I just think the computer science community needs to focus on basically what you're advocating, immutable recycling alongside of garbage collection.

It seems to me that this is a fairly easy problem really, and things should move to more of a mixed memory handling model, where one could use one or more of manual memory management, recycling, or GC as needed. FP language scala-native is providing both manual management and GC already, for instance...
I find the colors in the results images consistently worse than in the original images.
I'll go as far to say that it didn't matter if we had the secret software algorithm to intelligence in the 80s, we couldn't execute it on the necessary hardware. The only examples of learning/intelligence we have are executed on massively parallel systems (brains). Only in the past 5 years or so do we have systems on the necessary scale (GPU/ASIC).
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I was also surprised (and sent it around to our team internally last night). We're skipping Maxwell entirely as you can see from my previous comment threads.

For display it's still a fine part. The P100 is also a beast, so its overkill for most people just doing Remote Desktop. So perhaps the M60 (like with Azure) fills this market segment for them, and they don't mind the hardware diversity.

[Edit: Too sleepy. A post down below reminds us that these are G-series and G is for Graphics. So yeah, I assume they just didn't want to wait for enough P4 parts in volume or will quickly make another such announcement about the Pascals].

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
> money is a human-made construct

Like the alphabet, and just a useful.
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I have seen a jackdaw play a combination of hide and seek and tag with a 3 year old child.

The child was chasing it, and the jackdaw used hedges and toys to hide behind, and whenever the tiny human came close, the jackdaw would run to the next thing and hide.

When the child got bored, the jackdaw would run back to the child to get it to chase again.

It was clear that they were both enjoying the game, and the parents didn't even realise that this had happened because they were meters away fumbling with a grill.

When I was a child we also nurtured a jackdaw back to health, his name was Klaus and he learned to talk, he understood the concept of "Hello" and would use it correctly when you entered the house, and if he wanted you to leave him alone or we got stuck in a "Hello" greeting-loop, he would say "Go away".
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China's GDP per capita is still somewhere between #70 and #80 in the world[1]. It just happens to be a big country with lots of people.

If the US or most other western countries had same number of people is China, they would be doing much better. Also to go out on a limb a bit, you could probably draw a graph which shows a correlation between China relaxing its protectionism and its GDP increasing at a faster rate as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
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Ethernet was invented in 1973 and the first 32-bit processors were available in 1979.

While you've got the time machine, can you fix it so that "network byte order" and Intel endianness are the same too?
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Could well be the case. I remember when the media suddenly discovered yuppies ca. 1981, and the Washington City Paper ran an article about the "cookie people", people who would line up to buy expensive chocolate chip cookies at trendy stores.
...The second slice also has avocado on it. As in, $4 per avocado toast slice. Not $8 as the article would have you think.
Would it be easier to have one giant planet in the habitable zone with 416 moons?
I don't think so - I was involved in AI research from about '89 to '95 and the field was pretty much dominated by symbolic/logical approaches at that time although these were arguably running out of steam (I left the field because I blundered into the web in '92 and founded a startup in '95).
Hmmm.... I'm gonna go back through all my extensions and remove the ones I don't use.
The algorithm does do cropping from panoramas, though.