skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:o) well, due to the wavelength of light a photonic cpu has to be 50->100 times the size of a current gen electronic one.

When I were a young 'un we had one core, and it ran at 25Mhz and about 130 of us shared it. Now I have 50,000 cores that run at 2 Ghz and five people share it. Things aren't quite directly comparable but the speed up is at least 100,000x I am overwhelmed by this, things that would have taken 1000 days; approximately 3 years, can be achieved in ten or twenty minutes. In reality the use of these infrastructures has enabled (in neural net land) the development of techniques that improve performance by several more orders of magnitude - so things that would have taken several years are now done in a minute or so. I believe that there is plenty more headroom to be had.
The Tesla will probably feel a lot quicker even with similar 0-60 times because the EV drivetrain is so much more responsive.

I have a Model S 85, with a 0-60 time similar to what Tesla is claiming for the Model 3. A couple of months ago I had a Cadillac ATS rental which also has a similar 0-60 time. It was a decent car overall, but it felt like an absolute snail compared to my S. Floor the accelerator in the S and you go. Floor it in the ATS and Stuff begins to Happen, and Eventually the car begins to Move. I assume they have similar numbers because the ATS makes up for it with better acceleration as you get closer to 60, but most acceleration I do isn't a pure 0-60 run, but 0-30, or 10-40, or whatever.
A wrapper around DB protocols? Requiring a third-party Java server to communicate with the database?
Some quite interesting "opinions" on that ones comment history.
You can purchase a managed VPS that runs cPanel and run dozens of marketing sites on it. My server cost $120ish and I collected $300ish - it was an extra $2500 a year in my pocket. I rarely had issues, and if I did, I contacted support to assist me.

However, I started another business and no longer wanted to be in the web hosting game. Migrating clients to new hosting was a nightmare and it ate into my profits. It's very hard to charge for a migration when you initiate it. Getting them to sign up for new hosting, handling DNS switchovers, etc.

YMMV. Another option is become an affiliate of a couple of your favorite providers. Learn their set up really well and refer businesses to them.

As for ongoing maintenance (security updates, content tweaks, form testing), HELL YES. Small recurring contracts are awesome. They make for better websites since they're being tended to, and it's a nice little stream for you once you have several of them going.
I live in SF, I understand the cost of real estate. I'm not arguing that lifestyle expectations are very different between cities. So given you move to SF and understand you'll be in a smaller house because that is the market norm, the COLA still is only on what you spend.
I almost feel like there are two factions. I'm pretty similar to you. I have clicked on ads a handful of times, but it's very rare. However, I have worked in jobs where I had visibility into the metrics, and I have seen internet ads be EXTREMELY effective. Not in terms of clicks (which could easily be accidental or fraudulent), but in terms of people clicking and then purchasing. People aren't going to "accidentally" click and then give us money. And I've seen many campaigns where we were getting huge ROI in terms of actual dollars. So there are clearly lots of people out there who do click on ads and take action. I think the problem comes when you're using an intermediate metric like clicks or impressions to measure success. You have to measure the actual outcome you are trying to drive, like purchases or subscriptions. Of course, with CPG, that's a lot harder to do. And I'm not convinced that pure brand advertising is any easier to measure online than it is offline.
Why was this bumped from the front page?
Jeff Bezos Escapes Scrutiny from His Own Paper–and Its Rivals
Bigot and maggot, social justice when in benefits him and his shaftmates, censorship for others.
Then it should not have taken you 800 attempts?
Authory wants to help journalists raise their voices
They could stop operating in Saudi Arabia to show their support for gay rights. But again, there's money to be made. Much easier to just slam Trump or whoever.
Ahh I got it. Understood, definitely worth clarifying, will update. Thanks.
That's not a particularly meaningful comparison - qsort and std::sort aren't necessarily the same algorithm, moving elements is done differently, etc. So you're going to get very different results either way. If you wanted to compare you'd need to use an indirect function call with std::sort to compare - not hard to arrange...
Hmm, any peer reviewed papers or something that demonstrates conclusions ? Seems very interesting.
My understanding is that you still need a developer certificate from apple which has a limited lifetime. So you're not given permanent control over your device in the sense of unshackling you from the manufacturer, which is a requirement for repairability.

They're merely handing out breadcrumbs to give the appearance of a way out which they can retract at any time.
Your concern about "the right way to approach it" is getting closer to the real conflict which is not in the "way" but in what "it" is. In your mind, what is the desired goal or outcome for AI R&D?

If your objectives are in medicine, cognitive science or philosophy of the mind, you might want simulations which are isomorphic to biological minds. You probably hope that AI work will provide illumination into how the mind works, or why it sometimes fails, or how to improve it.

If your goals are in computing and product engineering, you want predictable, reproducible, and adaptive methods for making smarter tools on time and on budget. You may want the product to have behaviors compatible with humans (as a product feature) but you shouldn't care whether the implementation technique in any way resembles an actual human mind. Behaviorism is all that matters for a product evaluation. The design and marketing teams can take care of imbuing the product with intangible properties imagined by consumers.

And honestly, if you want a biological mind, we already have techniques to build them: go find a mate, procreate, and raise your offspring. Nobody tasked to deliver a commercial AI product is actually going to want a solution that behaves like real human minds, where individual units off the same assembly line may require psychotherapy, develop self-destructive habits, or worse slip through QA with an undetected sociopathy or psychopathy which creates a manufacturer liability.

Some of us old school engineering types may harbor a disdain for the current neural net renaissance because it feels a little too black box to us. Deep down, we'd prefer a tool-building tool that had more directly visible logic and rules in it, because we tend to believe (rightfully or not) that such a method is more amenable to engineering practices and iterative designs. But, the risk in this mindset is in forgetting that even complex, logical systems can exhibit emergent properties and chaotic behavior. We probably need to engage in more statistical methods whether we like it or not...
Cool looking bubble and paint apps. I would seriously consider buying if the iTunes listing had a video preview.

By buying I mean pay the $0.99, not buy the rights to app from you. ;)

Like a couple of the reviews, my kids are obsessed with bubbles and love colorful paint apps.
Where is that estimate coming from? I mean year there has been progress by why do you think photonic would be even better?
That's mostly a choice for high income earners, and much of that discretionary spend costs similar amounts no matter where you live.

Vacation costs, Amazon splurges, etc, don't change between Akron and SF.
Teslas are just about the least efficient EVs you can buy today. See: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=noform...

The only thing worse than the Teslas are the Mercedes B250E and BYD e6.

This should be no surprise. Teslas are big, heavy, spacious cars, whereas other EVs tend to be small. Efficiency isn't a priority, and there's no reason to expect a 4,500lb Model S to be as efficient as a 3,300lb LEAF.

Tesla doesn't fudge range. They list EPA range in the US (and NEDC range in European countries). I think they may be required to.
Interested, how do you come to these prices?
Excellent, thanks for sharing!

"THE B1 IS SO ANTI-TECH IT HAS AN ANALOG BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR ON THE DASH"

LOL.
For learning Swift, we made an interactive map of all the best resources :

https://learn-anything.xyz/programming/programming-languages...
> ... digital ads are easier to track ... whereas "traditional" ads are not.

digital ads are not always easy to track. a lot of malware is dedicated to filling your cookies with visits so that if you happen to buy something, they can claim you saw the ad prior and take credit. in many cases, a digital add campaign creates such a tiny blip in sales its hard to differentiate from randomness, were as a TV ad shows floods of sales.

> The best thing for ad industry is if traditional media dies and goes away and then they could focus their attention on "digital" rather than traditional/print.

traditional advertising, namely TV, is still the most successful way to increase sales for many companies. since digital ads leads to so few sales, even the platforms have often moved away from 'advertise to produce sales' to advertise for brand management.
>Guess what, no one, not even the most optimistic person, would predict it will beat the best human player in 10 years.

This is what I call living in a bubble, dear sir/madam.

I grew in a small town in Eastern Europe (~100k population) and me plus the local 50 or so programmers (using Apple II and 8086-based computers), in 1996, while we were in our teenage years, were painfully aware that games like chess and Go are brute-force-able with some elements of recognizing and memorizing viable strategies (and throwing out the unviable ones early on). And that was what, 15-19 year old late teenagers, and we knew it. So be sure that many people knew it -- they just never chose that area of expertise specifically.

This also says a lot about the quality of the average professors and textbooks, but let's not go off-topic, plus it's a huge discussion area.
> If you don't agree to their rules you don't play in their sandbox.

And if you make choices they have consequences. Those consequences include that people in the west will lose respect for your company, complain about it, patronize competitors, propose laws to punish it, etc.

If that puts the company in a bind, good. They're a multi-billion dollar international corporation. They have to choose between morals and profits a thousand times a day. It should be as hard as possible for them to make the immoral choice. And if they make it anyway, it should cost them something.
The efficiency difference is pretty small, something like 2%. The main reason Teslas are less efficient is that they're big and heavy.
I agree that AI is hyped, but I believe the problem is that we absolutely don't care about 50 years of neuroscience research. We know so little about the brain, but already much more than back when "artificial neurons" were modeled. The only company that I believe is on the right track is Numenta, they focus on reverse-engineering the neocortex. They have a living theory that is updated every time there is a research breakthrough.
Germany Confronts the Forgotten Story of Its Other Genocide
It seems like the MediaWiki process is decent. For non-technical people, an installer that generates a config file you then upload seems like a reasonable alternative. It ensures you know the correct DB details and such as you generate the config file and that you have write permissions to the server when uploading. As a bonus, the web app doesn't need write access to make this system work. That is a huge security whole itself.
My hukou is registered to the Jing'an district in Shanghai and I have been in the "system" for decades. ;)

You basically got misled by what you was told. To just name one simple example - rural hukou is better because every single one of those households was recently given land for FREE. CCP confirmed a few years back that the land given to those families back in the 70s/80s will permanently stay under the name of the current owning family without any further tax/levy. Next time when someone complains about the unfair rural hukou treatment, please don't forget to ask them how much land was given to them for free. Those living in the cities (e.g. me) never ever got that stuff. I'd happily trade my non-rural hukou for a rural one to get my fair share of those free rural land.

Be prepared when they explain to you about nonsense stuff like "oh, land is owned by the country, we were just given permanent right to use the land tax free".
In the end, any and all rights, inalienable or otherwise, are arrived at by consensus, not extracted from the binding fibers of the universe.
>Bonds and stock market are considered as casinos.

Which is correct, except that with bonds and stocks you win on average, while in a casino you lose on average. This equivalence of risk=losing with no regard for expected return is pretty common in many countries. I wonder why that is? A history of scams?
sales data?
But it is an open question of incrementality -- did you just cannibalize a sale from a different, possibly cheaper, channel? How much lift did you actually get?

That's the problem I've seen in the digital ad space -- lift is either hard to measure, or ignored completely. Causality to the sale is assumed on the ad.
Is it a practice thing? My mom tricked me when I was a kid. I really liked omlettes. She plopped the Julia book and the tools and ingredients in front of me and I basically cooked omlettes for 2 hours till I got good at it and ate them. She did that for several other meals letting me perfect my technique.

Since then I've always been good at cooking as it holds no fear for me and makes sense.
Why we built our own tech for Future Unfolding (2015)
You jest but minivans (and pickups) can be fairly quick when they aren't loaded with passengers, bags, and towing stuff.
Just a note; you SSL cert is either expired or invalid. So when I visit the link you posted, and get redirected to the https version, I'm greated with a big chrome warning page.
Main reason not to use Linux is because there’s no Microsoft Office support
Exercise unilateral control of government policy. Chinese political power is vested through the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. Although Jinping is first among equals, his exercise of political power is constrained by the other six committee members, all of whom exercise real political power themselves, and it is the Politburo, not Jinping himself, which controls China. Although Jinping has been consolidating power quite successfully, this does not qualify him to be a dictator quite yet.
Google's phones aren't made in China? And is Google Play not in China? With Google I always wonder where the PR ends and the reality begins.
Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models
Snow tires help much, much more with snow and ice.
There's only so long that can last though. If nobody is buying at the high prices then the agents who refuse to list lower won't earn any commissions and they'll eventually decide to lower their threshold.
The point is that this approach is general and scales to tougher safes, since they too must open to the correct combination, whereas the hand tools and steel wire approach doesn't scale up.
i bought my friends kid a backpack that looked like an owl. i got advertisements for the it for a few weeks after, which was strange to me. I bought the backpack on amazon, and the advertisements were amazon. didn't they know I bought it already? didn't they know I probably didn't need 2 of them?
Is Tasmania that bad? This sounds like Detroit
Can I thank you or is it too late? :)
Perhaps we should make a list of increasingly difficult problems to solve. Image recognition is at the front of the list, and we can cross it off. What is next?
Designers Are Forgetting One Major Element of the Design Process
Without hyperbole stories are not as fun.
So far, most of my comments regarding those "criticizing/questioning" China stuff are mostly about the censorship/GFW, because I strongly believe the GFW is a protectionism tool to protect and grew the Chinese Internet sector.

Am I allowed to have my own opinion on that matter when I am a Chinese living in China working in that sector? Maybe your definition of freedom/free speech is a pretty censored one?
We've asked you many times not to post uncivilly like this, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll post within the guidelines in the future.

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You really think the mature thing to do is to cut off an entire country because you disagree with their political system? That seems very extreme to me.
I think there's a correlation between being able to explain something and fully understanding it. Being able to think clearly and communicate clearly are interconnected -- if you're programming by instinct then you're not thinking critically about the problems you're solving.
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Agreed. I have a lock on the work bike lockers I use. Everyone seems to do this. Means you can have a very hefty lock but not carry it. Speaking of we moved buildings I need to snag it.
Can you elaborate on the reset trick? It's new to me.
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I didn't read this article for the simple reason that NY Times is not the place to learn any insight about AI like this. They are article churning machine that serves political propaganda and useful local news and analysis. Anything science based, not really their thing.
> To my understanding, it's because deep learning is fundamentally aimed at pattern-recognition, but makes no attempt to have a model of "reality" underlying that recognition.

Isn't that just the issue that you're essentially making a crude analog of the first layers of the visual cortex and then overtrain them to only recognize specific patterns while ignoring the rest of reality because you simply don't have the higher-order facilities in current networks?

In other words doesn't the critique boil down that ANNs are orders of magnitude simpler than the human brain and thus can only fulfill far more narrow task then many combined abstraction layers?

New techniques are getting developed only as hardware advances in capability to actually run more complex networks.
Another way to look at it is saving time and effort to do it right at the start. Learning how to use emacs without paredit and then learning again with paredit is twice the work of just learning once with paredit. Ditto projectile (with projectile-helm)

If you get used to smacking tab a zillion times while opening files to autocomplete, upgrading to helm find files after the tab habit is deeply ingrained will be painful (tab in helm find files is the help key, not the autocomplete key, helm is conceptually like "always on autocomplete" times a million sorta)

Also with the ecosystem of modes, meta-e usually does the right thing in all the modes unless you're editing something that doesn't have the right mode installed by default, then you get used to not using the keystroke M-e, possibly all the time in all files, which is really bad because M-e will work if you simply install that file's mode package. Obviously this extends way beyond one keystroke which multiplies the impact.

Its possible to use emacs at least two levels. Theres low level where the editor helps you navigate and format, if you permit it by adding file type packages. Then there's the high level where magit or org mode are nice CLI applications almost stand alone. So if you start out at a high level emacs with "my vim-alike can also run magit, so to me emacs is just a vi that can run magit" you're going to miss out on the substantial performance gains of low level emacs like navigation keystrokes.

Maybe a good programming analogy is its much simpler to start noob programming students on msbasic.exe, but everyone seems to think almost anything else as a first language is better in the long run, even if almost everything else is harder to use for the first fifteen minutes.
DMARC – Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance
Interesting - it seems that the more measured (privacy) advice should be: "don't use BitTorrent unless you know that your client implements the protocol in a privacy-protecting way". It seems that the protocol itself is not to blame, but the way it is implemented in many (most? all?) clients leaks significant identifying information. See here: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go...
Does this use libvirt? It doesn't look like it. Why not? libvirt already provides almost all the functionality you need, you just need to layer a distribution mechanism for configuration across multiple hosts on top.
To elaborate a bit, most of the excerpts I've heard have to do with the availability of sensors.

E.g. Task: grasp an egg without cracking it

Physical platform 1: actuators, no pressure sensors

Physical platform 2: actuators, pressure sensors where egg contacts robot

Inarguably, the simplest successful implementation of the task in driving code will be much more concise for platform 2 than platform 1.

... Now generalize the same idea to trying to teach disembodied AI to be human.
For 1000 possible combinations, wouldn't you expect to have to try ~500 combinations on average to find solutions? Since you found it in 800 attempts, this suggests that whatever method you used may have actually made your odds of success worst.
You also have to consider China is a sovereign country with their own laws and culture. Who is Apple (or the US for that matter) to dictate what those laws or cultures are? Consider the US has many laws and practices that are considered human rights abuses domestically, much less abroad. Among these is the practice of solitary confinement, police allowed to withhold evidence during interrogation, overreaching sentencing, privacy abuses, etc.

All I'm saying I guess is don't make Apple out to be a bad guy because they can't wade through that mess. I wouldn't expect them to. One thing is they seem to care more about secure devices than any other tech company I'm aware of. They aren't perfect by any means, but they've shown that they are willing to put their neck out with the San Bernandino thing and others.
Yes all of these things are extreme from a leftist perspective, but until there are talks of establishing an ethnostate or abolishing the Federal Reserve, they are not extreme right, it would do the left good to find subtler methods of communicating their concerns to the right wing with methods other than calling any policy solidly right of center "extreme".

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015...
the numbers are byte-swapped to be endian agnostic

Regardless of how fast it is, it seems wasteful to do all this byte-swapping when the vast majority of systems today, outside of more specialised applications, are little-endian.
>> half-digit tolerance

I assume you mean <0.5digit tolerance.

There is a big difference between 0.55digit tolerance (might be able to try two numbers at once with enough mechanical precision to the solver) and 0.45digit tolerance.
This is asking out of honest ignorance, but what makes PowerShell so much better than other shells?
Awesome work Chris, thanks for everything you and the team are doing!