skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's been described as being like a reverse WINE, hence everyone replying 'Not an Emulator' at you. :)

WINE originally stood for "WINdows Emulator". It was several years later that it became "WINE Is Not an Emulator". The change was for marketing reasons, not technical reasons, since nothing had actually changed in how WINE worked.

The first time anyone suggested "WINE Is Not an Emulator", as far as I've been able to track down, was late August, 1993, over concern that Microsoft might win its trademark case over "Windows" and come after WINE. Someone suggested WINE become WAW, for "WINE Ain't Windows", and someone else responded to that suggesting "Wine Is Not an Emulator".

Soon fear of the trademark issues abated and nothing happened for quite a while.

By 1997, the "not an emulator" usage had become an acceptable alternative. The Wine FAQ late that year said:

> The word Wine stands for one of two things: WINdows Emulator, or Wine Is Not an Emulator. Both are right. Use whichever one you like best.

The dropping of saying WINE was an emulator came in late 1998. The 981108 release notes said:

> This is release 981108 of Wine, the MS Windows emulator.

The 981211 release notes said:

> This is release 981211 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

From what I was able to find, it seems there were a couple reasons for dropping calling it an emulator.

One was that it could be used for more than just running a Windows binary on Unix via emulation. It could also be used as a library that you could link with code compiled on Unix. This provided a way to provide a native port of you Windows program to Unix instead of running the Windows binary in emulation.

Calling it an emulator unnecessarily pigeon holed it.

Another was that emulators that emulated hardware were getting popular. People were making emulators that emulated x86 hardware on RISC systems. They were making emulators that emulated older personal computers, like C64 and Apple II. They were making emulators that emulated console gaming systems like NES.

One thing all of those emulators had in common was that they were very slow, in the sense that emulating one instruction of the emulated machine took many instructions on the host machine. For emulating the old gaming consoles, or the old 8-bit personal computers, where the host machine was running two or three orders of magnitude faster, that was not a problem--the emulation could run as fast or faster than the original machine actually ran. But when emulating something more contemporary, such as emulating an x86 PC at the hardware level to run Windows on it, they were very slow.

Since hardware emulators like these were the only kinds of emulators most people encountered, people tended to see "emulator" and read "ridiculously slow". If they kept calling WINE an emulator, many people would think that means it is ridiculously slow and avoid it, so they stopped calling it an emulator.
Sometimes people make these as copycat posts, which is not the best kind of post, but I figure HN can handle a lot of wasabi.
Yes exactly. We really hope to see this effort made. It's a fixable problem, but often in history great inequality is only fixed by violent revolution, which I don't want to see happen in my (or my daughter's) time!
Oh no, I get that. The OP was making the assertion that open source doesn't need win32 portability.

That's a huge pain in the ass for those of us who work in things that are tied to win32(graphics, gamedev tools, etc) we happily contribute back but ripping out a working port just seems petty.
Because some of us prefer Windows to Linux on the desktop.
one thing I'd miss from Apple is service. Being ablr to walk into a store where they can fix simple things immediately is AFAIK unheard of with windows PCs.. maybe with MS Stores, but these are incredibly rare outside the US.
Me neither. Devops is a hat I wasn't interested in wearing.

Which is why I tried Gigalixir[1] and never looked back. It's sort of like Heroku for Phoenix/Elixir, but without the daily restarts and with hot upgrades and the ability to run a BEAM cluster. Jes (owner) has been super responsive and deploys are trivial... just like I like it.

Also got Postgres running in google cloud (a new offering!) and that's worked great as well.

Sparkpost for an email API and Timber.io for cloud logs have also been stellar. Sweet dashboards.

You get a lot at the free tier on these.

[1] https://www.gigalixir.com
Aren't they roughly the same price as Macbooks?
Thats really neat...gonna check it out. Thanks for sharing. Here is the link for anyone else: https://github.com/johnhamelink/exrm_deb
Of course I don't want to throw the studies out. I'm suggesting the conclusions are too strong and not necessarily justified.
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This problem is well studied - there are ways to make a neural net explain what parts of the input most influenced the decision.

Another solution would be to use autoencoders or GANs to create a latent code from the input image. By construction, these codes need to carry the most important features about the input, because otherwise they couldn't reconstruct it.

And regarding analysis - a lot of groups are attempting the leap from mapping "X -> y" to reasoning based on typed entities and relations. Reasoning would be more like a simulator coupled with a MCMC system that tries out various scenarios in its 'imagination' before acting out.

There are many formulations: relational neural nets, graph based convolutional networks, physical simulators based on neural nets, text reasoning tasks based on multiple attention heads and/or memory. It's very exciting, we're closing in on reasoning.
If you stick to the boring Thinkpads (T series and P series) they're fairly safe bets. Some of Dell's business grade laptops are also built like tanks. Neither company's consumer grade (read: cheap) I'd touch.

Microsoft makes good hardware, but you'll pay borderline "Apple Prices" for it.

Only big mistake Microsoft has made is trying to ship the Surface Laptop starting at $999 and topping out at $2199, with Windows 10 S, which you'll be able to "upgrade" "free" for a "limited time only." Meaning, when that promo runs out you may need to pay a $50 fee on your $999 Surface Laptop to get a full copy of Windows 10. To say that annoys me would be a huge understatement.
They are comparing QML with AngularJS. HTML5 doesn't even have a chance
I kind of agree, but feel a need to point out that the "absurd cash piles" are a byproduct of tax rules, not of (alleged) timidity on the part of Cook et al.
> the personal decision to use hard or addicting drugs is something of a moral failing.

Watch the documentary I mentioned above. Also try this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4079250/ Addiction is a mental health issue before it becomes a debilitating physical health issue ... one that (very often) leads to suicide or death. To suggest that unwell people have the strength to fight it on their own with the strength of "morals" is really damaging to your argument.

Besides: the healthy environment you want to "give people" is totally subjective. Who decides what is "healthy" for whom? Now you're back to policing and criminalizing ... these things do not work to improve the mental health of sick people.
Just don't tell the service people if your car is still under warranty -- most North American non-truck vehicles are not rated for towing _at all_ even when their European counterparts are. This includes most so-called "crossovers" and small SUVs. Something as big as a Chevy Equinox (which is larger than the Isuzu Trooper we had in the 80s, which my family thought was massive for the time) is not rated for towing until you go up to the biggest engine and AWD.

Americans seem to love^H^H^H^Hdemand huge vehicles, but those huge vehicles rarely have the clearance and towing capacity to actually be "utility" despite being advertised that way :-(
And yes, financial decisions are financial. But to tie the decision to stop improving a minor product line to "we must appease Wall Street" is quite the stretch.
For me, reading and writing works, but I have major performance issues on /mnt/. `git status` for example is unreasonably slow on any directory under /mnt/.

I tried to adapt to this by instead of writing to the Windows file system from Linux; to instead write to the Linux file system from Windows. After corrupting my profile 3x and having to reinstall WSL each time, I went back to vagrant[1].

[1] vagrant is also really slow on Windows.
Is there a web UI?
You don't have to censor it! You just have to categorize it! Use all the fancy recommendation algorithms to let the scholars scholar, and the trolls happily troll with other trolls. Users get a birds eye view of everything, and can zoom in on the content they are looking for. You don't even need an algorithm, you can crowdsource this stuff with simple moderation tools, just a little more sophisticated than an up/down button, and don't notify me for content that i dont appreciate.
By 'random', he means evolutionary search. It's not really random, and is just a slower method for policy gradient. Here's the OpenAI blog post: https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/
Most big companies have specific recruiting for new college hires,f calling them something like NCG or emerging talent.
Typically company recruiters will visit university campuses during the school year and interview students.
Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/jobs/locations/unite...
Google: https://careers.google.com/students/
Apple: https://www.apple.com/jobs/us/students.html
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/careers/university/
Microsoft: https://careers.microsoft.com/students

Or use any job search site with "NCG" or "new Grad", etc.

Your university probably has a Career Center office that helps students find jobs. At Stanford: https://beam.stanford.edu/
Phoenix works well on Heroku: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/heroku.html

I also want to try gigalixir which has a free tier:
https://gigalixir.com/
Isn’t there a way to get a free beta version? I got an image once for Virtual Box.
Pretty sad for something called a "Land Rover."

Re: what you said about wagons, I think the Subaru Outback is actually the most practical ICE vehicle out there. Pretty high clearance, very powerful engine, great towing capacity, good roof rack options, ample trunk space, and low centre of gravity.

I just wish they made one with an electric motor and a plug.
I believe you got it inverted. You cannot write on the WSL file system from Windows, but the other way (writing on windows from bash) is ok.
> Why should I be worried if Amazon knows the distance between my couch and coffee table?

The only reason I can think of is that square footage can be an indicator of income class.
There's nothing hard to understand about RL. I'm not sure where you get that idea - if you find it hard, perhaps you just need to look at some different way. Karpathy summarizes the differences with regular supervised learning in his policy gradient post:

> Policy gradients is exactly the same as supervised learning with two minor differences: 1) We don’t have the correct labels yi so as a “fake label” we substitute the action we happened to sample from the policy when it saw xi, and 2) We modulate the loss for each example multiplicatively based on the eventual outcome, since we want to increase the log probability for actions that worked and decrease it for those that didn’t.

(from http://karpathy.github.io/2016/05/31/rl/ )
My beef with that line is how can I trust a news source that gets something basic like climate change totally wrong?

I'll happily read a conservative news story that understands facts but many ignore/lie about them to drive their political agenda.
I'm Portuguese and I grew up watching the heroin epidemic we had in Portugal. It was horrible, like the article mentions 1% of the population was addicted to heroin.
Curiously I now live in Sweden, but I lived in Portugal for the first 11 years of the decriminalization. And the solution actually started years before, in the early 90s.
It's a bit like you said, it was an huge investment in public health - the first success was that you could get a kit to inject heroin for free in any pharmacy, paid by the state, no questions asked! It was a huge win against the spread of HIV.

The biggest difference I see comparing the Portuguese reality to the Swedish one is the lack of social stigma regarding drugs. Drugs are just openly discussed in Portugal and addicts are well integrated in society. I have friends whose parents are heroin addicts and for the most part they are a normal family with jobs and responsabilities. Sometimes they relapse but it's not a big deal because they have a network and feel safe to get help quickly and the state sponsors replacement therapies in the meanwhile.

These are people that started doing heroin in the late 80s and for the most part still raised a family and are good parents and neighbors.

It's just a disease like any other and Portuguese people see addiction that way.
Seems like you have a reason to be defensive, throwaway account. I'm suspicious of any billionaire who buys a newspaper, for reasons I've been arguing in this thread - the very real potential for bad behavior.
Im a product manager at Wasabi and your math is accurate!

Of note we are not cold storage: you can get your data back instantly whenever you want it.
It also increases the built area of Brisbane.
That would be at the top of my list. And then there's nuclear attacks/disaster, asteroid hitting the earth, superbugs and biological weapons gone awry, physics experiment gone awry creating a black hole... I put superintelligent AI down towards alien invasion on my personal list of humanity-ending risks.
Note that Heroku has some drawbacks with regards to Elixir:

1) Daily restarts, which kill any app-side state such as a cache or ETS table

2) Can't take advantage of any clustering

3) Can't do hot upgrades
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I hate the idea that just because it's fuzzy to define what constitutes unwanted behaviour online that we must allow all behaviour. That we'll be censors destroying free speech if we ban trolls.

That's just not how society works. All of our laws are fuzzy and open to interpretation. Everything is uncertain. But just because we can't robotically and unambiguously define all undesirable behaviour doesn't meant that we have to allow all of it. We don't have to let everyone do whatever they want in the comments section of every website online. We should do with online undesirables the same thing with do with any other kind of undesirable: shun them and remove them from polite society.

Automatic moderation won't be perfect, but neither will human moderation. I, for one, would be super happy if the bottom half of the internet were readable again.
Looks like a Series III Land Rover from
The 70's. The steering column, analog dials, front end and light placement are very similar.
The same idea has worked for a lot of things for me. I often get told I'm a unique snowflake in what I like, but it turns out that's not true at all.
Potential, sure, but that is a potential with any newspaper. You don't need to own one to buy it off. Why not just critique amazon directly for what they're doing? What ARE they doing again that requires coverage?
"The Middle East Forum (MEF) is an American conservative[2] think tank founded in 1990 by Daniel Pipes, who serves as its president.[3] MEF became an independent non-profit organization in 1994. It publishes a journal, the Middle East Quarterly." [0]

A quote, emphasis mine:

"Both these groups are designated terrorist organizations in the United Arab Emirates". So the UAE doesn't like them. Why should we care that the UAE doesn't like them? Why specifically the UAE and just them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Forum
Maybe not open source, but an open hardware project.
The particular problem for SpaceX is that a lot of the IP is covered by ITAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
See this FAQ entry:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/faq/company#wiki_what_p...

But in theory it's possible, e.g. Facebook's Open Compute Project, it just needs the right kind of funding model.
Decentralized services is the only way to have the public discourse owned by the public. We should take the matter into our own hands, use technology to solve this issue and stop entrusting these big corporations to defend our free speech rights because it's clear they're more worried about profits for the next quarter than supporting the environment that allowed their rise in the first place.
What electrics have a "big problem with heating" and what are the other vehicles are in the class of "this one, with no insulation"?

Also what is your off-road experience, that you can say "you'll cut yourself on the door handles." _citation needed_
I just did an jupyter notebook on Naive Bayes for Siraj Ravel's Math of Intelligence YouTube course.

https://github.com/NoahLidell/math-of-intelligence/blob/mast...

I used naive bayes to classify raps from Biggie and 2pac.
God that's an atrocious name.
CEF goes to great pains to export a stable C ABI, not a C++ one, from the DLL. So I think you'll be fine.
The scikit-learn flowchart recommends it for text data with less than 100k samples when linear SVC doesn't work: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map...

AFAIK it's by far the fastest machine learning method and one of the only ones that can be learned "online". I.e. it can just update the model each time it gets a datapoint, and then throw it away without saving it for future training. These are nice properties if you are doing something at a very large scale or in an environment with very limited resources.

And if your data happens to actually meet the naive bayes assumptions (that all the features are conditionally independent) then it's literally mathematically optimal and you can't do any better than it. It seems to work fairly well even when that isn't the case though.
I hacked a remote controlled car and connected it to the Twitch chat so it can be controlled through chat commands.

It can also stream the video back to my computer so people on the stream can see where the car is going.

https://fullstack.network/i-built-a-car-that-is-being-contro...
hexpm the package manager website is open source:

https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm

Firestorm is another:

https://github.com/dailydrip/firestorm
For those that don't do videos, here's a text link:

https://github.com/zetavm/zetavm/blob/master/README.md

The Github owner's main page has a link to blog and other publications too.
Oh look more Daniel Pipes nonsense. As in, conservative idiots complaining that their desperate attempts at gaslighting, distraction and vilification don't work so well in a world where their agenda is on full display to anyone who cares to pay attention.

It's not censorship to ignore efforts to mislead the public. And I'm not at all sensitive to exhortations from such people that their message is t making it out.
It does. You may also need to upgrade your mix dependencies, I'm sure many of their authors are busy fixing the deprecation warnings as I type
Scientists Have Captured Chimpanzees Performing a Bizarre Ritual
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Try substituting in "wealth accumulation regardless of adverse effects" for paperclips.

Some humans have adopted that goal. If I understand your view, it should be a goal that an AGI could run with.

I think 'killer robots' might present more subtle dangers than a universe of paperclips.
Most will argue that categorizing out of the default is still hiding content. You can go to reddit and browse the negative posts but who does? It's really a battle for default display under the correct assumption that the user base doesn't look any further. It's about whether you're part of the public dialogue or whether you're relegated to some back alley
I can confirm that EMS/LE services will be very busy. I know some people in the local ham group there who are helping and it sounds like it's going to be pretty crazy.
I highly recommend Samsung ATIV Book 9. In my opinion they are better than macbooks.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X19MJZZ/ref=psdc_13896615011_t3...
Nope. Zoning codes that existed when NIMBYS bought are no protection against opposition to housing.
> the trolls happily troll with other trolls

I'm pretty sure even that's a bad solution. That's how we got 4chan and T_D and eventually Trump.

https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-...
I really like the Surface Pro. It's a very nice combo of a tablet & a laptop with lots of power like a laptop.
I've used Dell's XPS & Inspiron models. They've last quite long. Their hardware does fail after 4+ years, but acceptable and replaceable and they're inexpensive to replace. I do own a Windows desktop with Xeon core, and it's very powerful PC. Its price is probably 1/4 of the Mac Pro.
Definitely not HPs, they're bad computers, both laptops and desktop.
Thinkpads are good, but I've never tried one after Lenovo took over.
I think there is a serious conversation to be had about the implications of this sort of technology but this article reads more like a lazy propaganda piece.

My understanding is that this tech is meant to be used on a website forum/comments/etc to organize comments. I find the text that the author tested against particularly bizarre. Does he disagree with the assessment these are "toxic" statements? I would love to see an online conversation where these comments did not lead the thread into flames.
The day we will invent a self-replicating factory that only uses cheap local raw materials, the current economic system will end. We could say the whole of the economy is a self replicating system, but we need to shrink that to a small size and make it not dependent on rare or contested materials. Humans, genes, and the ecosystem are self replicators as well. Self replication might be a different kind of singularity that we reach even before AGI.

Basically, in order to make a self replicating factory we need advanced 3d-printing, robotics and a large library of schematics. Then, a "physical compiler" could assemble the desired object by orchestrating the various tools and the movement of parts inside the assembly line. If this automated factory can create its own parts, then we have a self replicator. If you make it all open source and ship seed factories around the world, soon everyone will have their own stack to rely on.
Jump in, the more the merrier!
Wear your goddamn seatbelt.

You are an edge case.
Verifying and discrediting are notably different activities.
>You missed my point: Speed does not kill.

No, we're agreeing on that.

I'm saying that most of the benefit in a typical racing situation comes from seats and restraints. Look at some of the wrecks from the cup series race last weekend at Indianapolis. They're not walking away because the wreck took a long time. They're walking away because they weren't bouncing around inside.

The human body can survive plenty of G forces.

http://www.ejectionsite.com/stapp.htm

"Stapp'd endured 25 Gs. It was the equivalent of a Mach 1.6 ejection at 40,000 feet, a jolt in excess of that experienced by a driver who crashes into a red brick wall at over 120 miles per hour. Only it had lasted perhaps nine times longer. And it had burst nearly every capillary in Stapp's eyeballs. "

"Stapp had already proven what he'd set out to prove: that a pilot, if adequately protected, could survive a high speed, high altitude ejection"
That's what Tezos is doing, using OCaml for their smart contracts.
I was just playing Diep, great game, thanks for making it! Glad you finally fixed the bug that was making the game crash my whole machine on OSX!