skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Adobe in those days and AFAIK this is correct. The Flash player includes a bunch of codecs (mp3, on2, nellymoser, sparc, and I think others), and I believe there's a variety of other licensed code but I don't remember the details.
I find the updates for Bunnie's eoma68 fascinating, like how things like a micro-hdmi connector can be a problem:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/274...

(Starting at: "The issue that is of more concern is the JAE DC3 mid-mount Micro-HDMI connector."(...))
Real adult activities and hacking are extremely opposed endeavors.

One can make time for both, but the prior probability is quite low that a person with a real adult life will also be on the cutting edge of technology.
As with almost all things machine learning, python libraries are where you will find most of the action.

I can recommend https://spacy.io for a low fuss solution to get you up and running quickly.

Oversimplifying quite a bit, if spacy focuses on syntax, then gensim focuses on semantics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributional_semantics). Gensim has an active community and is well documented.

https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/

If you have the data, can spend a few days experimenting and if you want something that can be orders of magnitude faster than deep learning to train, there's vowpal wabbit. Prediction speed is blazing. Results can be nearly state of the art but with a cost that's a great deal less. It's C++ but with bindings for many languages. It's very poorly documented.

https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/Learning%...

I've never taken a gander at Facebook's fastText.
I just ran the DS version on my DS lite, it looks pretty good - definitely comparable to games on the system, and the models seems more detailed then most of what you see on the system. The screenshots just make it look horrible because it's a fairly low-res screen, when you blow it up that big it looks a lot worse then you'd expect. The monkey shadow is definitely iffy looking, but I don't think any games ever did 3D shadows that detailed - there's probably a reason for that. It is worth keeping in mind that the original DS is weak (especial 3D wise), but it's not really that bad considering the low resolution it has to render for. That low resolution is the main reason why it looks so bad in the screenshot though.

The GBA version also looks pretty good on my DS lite (compared to games on the system). You can't rotate the camera though, so the dragon doesn't rotate. The monkey-head rotates on it's own though and looks pretty good. You're right that there are a few games that do 3D on the GBA, but I can't imagine it's fun coding wise since it the hardware support is basically zero in that regard. But there are some weird ones out there - Banjo Pilot comes to mind, which is a weird mode-7 3Dish flying game. Not exactly a great game, but pretty cool to see. Even with that game though, they have to sacrifice basically all terrain to be able to render the other characters at a decent speed IIRC, so the entire game is just flat.

And if you want to get really obscure, there is Faceball 2000 on the GB, which is a "FPS" and is 3D (And runs at like 15 FPS IIRC). There's no way you could render this scene on it though besides just pre-rendered sprites like was done with the GBA.
The analogy is necessarily inexact,ICOs are a new beast. But they don't have to be owners. Too many bond holders can make you public as well. If the tokens are securities and the sponsor/inventor/whatever is considered the issuer, lots of token holders is a problem for the issuer.
So once they realize they are securities this applies?

The main question is, are the exchanges considered foreign if the ICO is of a foreign company? How do you trade stuff if the securities are not transferrable?

Perhaps the ICOs don't pass the Howey test!
> Cotton gin

Better clothing for soldiers, tents, and more clothing for them.
Plenty more I'm sure. Early war planes used canvas instead of metal as outside cover as they went out to fight each other.

> Hypodermic needle

Enhancement of battlefield medicine. Fix them faster so they can continue to fight.

> Fracking

Cheaper and continued source of fuel for war machinery

> Solar

Spy satellites, power for field communications. It's only the beginning.

Nuclear power is a perfect example of the dangers of technology. The world powers have decided to limit its spread because it's so dangerous to let everyone have it. If nuclear bomb tech was free to run its course they would be small, cheap and every country would have some. And most would not hesitate to use them.
I'm working in Go right now, but probably will end up with a mix of various things. What's nice about Go is that it's very portable, faster than Python, nicer RAM/storage usage than Node (not needing a JIT and all), and I can cross compile binaries and distribute them to Raspberry Pis or whatever.
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Thanks. I'll start looking into algebraic geometry and abstract algebra.

https://www.amazon.com/Algebraic-Scientists-Engineers-Mathem...

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Abstract-Algebra-Second-Mathemat...
The economics for some of these labs is also pretty different from what you'd normally expect. There are numerous semi-private organizations in the defense space ( such as Boston Dynamics ) and similarly in the pharmaceutical space. Which may only produce commercially viable technology after a decade or more. For many of these entities, the funding dynamics are dependent on the overall scope of the problem along with the quality of the team rather than any direct foreseeable economic outcome.
That's it? That tells me the same thing I saw when I attended a Vicarious researcher's talk at MIT CSAIL: they're basically reinventing stuff the Bayesian generative modelers in cognitive science have been doing for years, throwing some video-game playing at it, and calling it AI instead of cognitive science.

Give me $50mil and I could do a good deal more than that, just because I bother to look stuff up!
From the article:

> Lua is a simple language with very few concepts to understand and a clear and readable syntax. You can be proficient with it in a matter of hours.
we do ( http://outpostcentral.com / http://www.mywildeye.com/wildeye/ ) GSM based monitoring. We had mesh tech at one stage, but pretty much stick to GSM these days. LTE IoT bands are starting to be viable as it gets rolled out. Our battery tech can get quite a number of years. SIM costs are tiny these days ( for us at least ).
Hence, multiple windows (and because windows UX is broken, multiple browsers)

And what'll you do for a large task thats interrupted by a small task? Wipe out the large and replace it with the small, then work up towards the large again? Obviously not; you stick it up with the large task's tabs, and just note which tab marks the differentiation between tasks (not literally... you mentally know a tab is associated with which task, unless both tasks are extremely similar)

And multiple small tasks interrupting each other? (Often a redult of each one being extremely boring). Obviously, more tab sequences.

The natural thing to do is accumulate tabs until it becomes unsustainable, and then garbage collect

You choose instead to artificially constrain yourself for some arbitrary notion of cleansliness (One window, one tab sequence, I bet !) and then attack those of the One True Way with your spatulas and eggs. Google is your organization? Either you have an amazing memory of arbitrary websites...or you dont have any memory of them (artificial or otherwise)
Thanks , I was just thinking the load sensor one today in my office to lock my computer when I get out of chair and set slack to offline status as I always forget to do that . You should really start a blog or do a write up in hackster.io . Also looks like they announced hass.io to auto update and manage home assistant a breeze
Anything looks horrible if your analysis includes all costs and excludes all benefits.
> Saying "it has other uses than profit" is not sufficient (does not address all 4 criteria) and you do not back it up with evidence (what are the actual uses that investors are getting out of it?)

This true, but the 4 criteria are an AND, not an OR.
I'm not sure why you think that, but private industry did not make slavery in America. Large royal charters and monopolies granted by the crown created huge estates and large tracts of low value farmland that could only become valuable by the use of slave labor. Sure, it was private individuals who were granted this favor and given access to cheap forms of labor, but it was not a natural outgrowth of private industry. At best it was unfortunate side-effect of the state's benevolence, and at worst, a conspiracy by the state to create wealth at the expense of an exploited class of people.

At any rate, I think you misunderstand my stance, I'm not looking to cut labor laws or lower minimum wage. I'm looking to free the worker from the shackles of the system that the state has created for them. In the meantime, if we're looking to ease the pain and suffering of those forced to live and die in that system, I think we should consider it, but think long and hard about how and if it will actually bring relief, or will it have unforeseen consequences that will make the situation even worse? That's what we should focus on.

BTW, definitely not a republican, so I think the rest of your comment can be fairly ignored by me. :)
"Making clothes for soldiers" is reaching. You're expanding "use technology for war" to the point of nonsense and diluting the point. I can just as easily say that the cotton gin enhanced every thing ever because it allowed every human involved in every endeavor to wear clothes.

Furthermore, to circle back to your original point: even if we accept that the cotton gin is a technology "used for war", it most certainly was not the first nor the primary use of that technology (the first use was clothing).
I hated it when someone called my startup stupid
Just from reading the intro, it all seems to mesh so well into engineering decisions.
I think I posted a little too late. A good reminder of how much is left to chance in a launch :)
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Why is one of the examples called "Unity"? Doesn't Unity just use the lower level rendering APIs or am I missing something?[1][2][3]

[1] https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UsingDX11GL3Features.html

[2] https://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/09/29/introducing-the-vulkan-...

[3] https://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/02/19/unity-4-6-3-metal-rende...
This is amazing, do you plan to release the engine for this? I'd love to play around with the code.
How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me
I'm definitely interested in this.
I've worked at least one place that did Microservice as a trendy tech salad. How do you write microservices without lots of lock in?
Interesting article.

> First, I never cook. I am all for self-reliance but repeating the same labor over and over for the sake of existence is the realm of robots

I often notice people move the labor outside their sphere (outsource, if you will) and then claim how awesome some technology is (in this case, how a single panel is enough). It IS awesome but that's a bit like fooling oneself.
> Lets not kid ourselves, hiding lambda's is one of the primary uses of macros in Lisp (obviously not the only). Yes, you're hiding the "how", we don't disagree there, but my point was that such syntactic abstraction is only necessary in Lisp because it's so ugly to directly use lambda. Compare to Smalltalk which uses naked lambda's everywhere because they're nice looking as is and don't need to be hidden away by special forms in order to feel idiomatic.

Hiding lambdas with macros isn't really that common in my experience. The "how" being hidden is much more often (ultimately) IF, LET, BLOCK, and GO. Of course, higher order functions could often be used instead, but they're generally not.
I'm normally a huge fan of Elon Musk, but that tweet comes across as pretty hostile to me. Neither party seems to have critically backed up their beliefs, but I didn't get the sense that Zuckerberg was attempting to single out any individual for a lack of understanding.
This is appealing as a way for testing contracts without paying the rediculously high gas price. However is there any advantage of this over the test Etherium network?
This is a relatively new business model for me and I'm really hoping it works. (The big motivation though is that I use it for my other projects[1]). Suet is just around a month so I'm keenly just seeing how it goes for now. Depending on that, I guess I can always change pricing moving forward.

How has it been with trackingco.de? Thought of increasing price?

[1]: https://thefeed.press
Segregation and service discovery. How to avoid multiple jumps between networks that separate Microservices. Also distributed transactions. Reliability is a huge problem with network separated Microservices.
I agree with you. Obviously I'm against manipulative, deceptive and obnoxious advertising but it's beneficial to consumers and companies for consumers to find out about new products through ads that will save them time, save them money, be enjoyable etc.

It doesn't seem realistic at all to me that someone would invest piles of money into a product that solved a problem people didn't know they have or significantly improves on an existing product where you're only route to communicate this with customers would be to ask for reviews, hope that your target market actively looks for reviews and hope word of mouth spreads.

Don't we hear all the time on hackernews about how building a great product isn't enough if you don't have a marketing strategy?

I find it hard how you can disagree with ads for entertainment especially. Why would you be against knowing a sequel to a movie or game you like but don't actively follow just came out?

There must be some happy middle ground between obnoxious privacy invading ads and no ads at all.
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The problem is that companies can tangibly prove the benefit, even if it's minuscule (imagine if 1:10000 car ads will generate a sell at best, that's still better than no advertising), but the citizenry have a hard time proving the opposite - that having a sanctuary from advertising is actually a good thing. And because of that, I fully suspect ads to continue infiltrating our American (and British, and Australian) lives.

Even privacy is easier to advocate for than the intangible peace of mind an ad-free space offers. Even if studies end up proving that advertising rots the brain and keeps us too engaged, even if it is elucidated as one of the causes of obesity and poor sleep hygiene and attention deficit syndromes... companies will simply argue it's too big of a hit to their bottom line to quit, and that will be the end of the discussion.

...and people wonder why AdBlocking continues to grow online.
I'm struggling to understand your point, because it just sounds like FUD. I mean that sincerely - you're not really backing up your concerns here, other than to (essentially) say the technology is new. Yes, emerging technologies can be risky. But as you just said, a programming language is also capable of a lot of harm.

So what exactly are you proposing, and what precisely is your grievance? You're going to have to "think about a Level 5 autonomous vehicle" if you want to convince opponents of your position, because you'll need to come up with a more convincing argument than, "I don't want to think about how dangerous it could be."
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How does this compare to mpd, the Music Player Daemon?

https://www.musicpd.org/
I'm curious, how does this differ from what mpd tries to achieve?
I am very curious to see how this pans out - I badly want something like this to succeed. It will be so much more better for someone like me who works in this domain. Google has the weight to pull this off- and it looks like the SoM approach might be the right way forward (Particle, Electric Imp are good examples of managed hardware+software)

Having said that, there's a bigger market for micro controllers imo - which probably doesn't fit in to this strategy at all. There used to be Weave (RIP- which also makes one cautious about Android Things) - and there's Zephyr (kinda similar, but not really) - but no clear winners here yet.
WebGL is ultimately translated into OpenGL calls. OpenGL calls are ultimately translated into bytes sent over the bus to the graphics card. It takes a lot of level descending before you reach the ground floor :-)

Unity is there, I imagine, because it's interesting to see how it translates code that expresses high level concepts like "meshes" and "materials" into code for to the backend, compared to the hand-written OpenGL or DX or Metal or whatever calls.
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True, but the comment I'm replying to says

I'd be interested to hear the author explain what "regular violations of nearby Laos and Cambodia" actually means.

The same bombing campaign hit both countries similarly. Laos seems to have been slightly worse off, but the concept applies to both countries. The information at the museum in Cambodia will broadly inform the Laos situation. Besides if there is a similar resource in Laos I'm unaware of it.
It's a common fallacy that people think "I'm good at X, so I must also be good at Y" It seems to afflict techies the most, somehow we think just because we can understand computers, we must therefore be skilled in other domains too, like investments...
The term token is a generalized term to talk about the tradable asset on a blockchain. Bitcoin is the token on the Bitcoin blockchain. Ether is a token on the Ethereum blockchain, currently at a lower level than any of the ERC20 smart contract based tokens, but it's still referred to as a token.
> "I'd love to have AS3 now as a language of useful programming."

You still have Adobe AIR to target desktop and mobile GUI apps.

And you have a also the open source project Redtamarin

https://github.com/Corsaair/redtamarin

for shell scripts, command-line tools, server-side, etc.
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Check out flow-runtime [0] [1]. I've only poked around with it, but it seemed solid.

It supports pragmas so you can turn off assertions in production everywhere except in critical files.

[0] https://github.com/codemix/flow-runtime

[1] https://codemix.github.io/flow-runtime/
If I'm comfortable using command line tools, should I just use FreeBSD and ZFS directly to build a NAS, or should I go with FreeNAS?

I assume that using version 11.1 is the way to go? No point in using the 10.x branch?
I actually agree with the position that dangers of artificial intelligence are vastly overstated; that said, this is cherrypicking and doesn't really help the cause of reducing FUD, because it can be refuted with counter examples.
This article deserves more attention.
I'm not so sure that's the analogy you're after. You'd have a much, much better chance of winning with the guns, unless you're fighting on a perfectly flat field (in which case you're toast either way). I don't think I've ever seen a realistic example of somebody managing to take out two people at once in a sword fight, let alone 10.
He’s tired of surveillance so he posts publicly on a site hosted on AWS.

He’s just some disgruntled employee, clearly just trolling for attention (why post on The Donald otherwise).
I ... go out to eat when craving company or flavor.

I buy my staple food online

I buy with Saucey ...

None of which represents "giving up" the grid as much as offloading related guilt to somebody else.

I take Uber ... (most of them are Priuses which use DC motors so I’m good there).

Magical DC motors that don't consume fuel from an infrastructure that is completely reliant on the grid, apparently.
I don't think people like Musk or the others that he gets some of these ideas from, such as Kurzweil, are actually saying we shouldn't pursue advanced AI. Are they? I mean Musk helped fund OpenAI right?

He is just saying that it is actually an existential threat or will be soon enough that we need to consider the problem seriously.

I think the point of him mentioning that besides just worrying about it, is to motivate efforts like Neuralink that will allow for high-bandwidth communication between the brain and AIs.

There is some misunderstanding on the part of Zuckerberg and others that saying that AI is an existential risk is the same thing as saying 'we should suppress AI research'. You would not think that was the implication if you understood from the perspective of Kurzweil/Musk/other people who have read Kurzweil's/Bostrom's book(s) or think the same. The idea is that we cannot possibly stop advanced human-like and then human-surpassing AI from developing. No matter how hard we try to slow down AI development.

So when they say that AI can be dangerous, they do not mean that we should try to stop developing AI, since that is impossible. What they mean is that we should try to mitigate the risks to some degree. One way, which Musk and others are pursuing, is to try to create strong but friendly AI before some less friendly but equally potent variant becomes dominant. But if we do not develop some kind of high bandwidth interface with computers and AI that we control, eventually we should expect computer-based intelligence to significantly surpass our capabilities, to the point where we become irrelevant.

If you disagree that there is any possibility of strong AI or any existential threat, what harm is there in pursuing strong but friendly AI, or in developing the BCIs (brain-computer interfaces)? The only 'harm' I can see is if this gets oversimplified as it has been to the idea of "AIs could be bad, we must stop AI" -- which they are not trying to say.
Very interested in this as I've tried every terminal music player under the sun. As others have mentioned, how does this differentiate itself from the main players .... mpd and cmus??
Check out aria2 next time.

https://aria2.github.io/
+1 for the BBB
Considering how much the community here loves ads, I'm betting not much.
https://nanobox.io/why-nanobox/nanobox-vs-heroku/
Argh, sorry phone auto-corrected Webkit to Website.
I'm interested in what people think. For me, I'd be inclined to go FreeBSD as I perceive it to be more standard. If you're actually using either branch you had better be great at the cli.
Yeah it's a loose definition, but I think the point is Musk does not develop or research AI directly. He owns a company that is developing AI.
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I think this is really nice :)

Nice UI and UX, lightweight and straightforward, will try it out for a bit!
Thank you for this great answer. It gave me a lot to think about.
I have a dream to open a bar (or hostel) that is a massive Faraday cage so that phones and laptops on wifi simply don't work.

I'd call it "The Stone Age" or some similar pun.

(Yes, I would put up a sign to that effect notifying people - if they don't like it they can go elsewhere)
I think it's relevant because it seems like the media treat Musk as some sort of authority on AI.
Indeed, very good book.
If you would enjoy playing with this[1], with getting paid to play as a bonus, email me. I want to pay you to do what you enjoy.

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1. And/or things like this.
... not sure why 'video game development' is in Science and Technology rather than Digital Art. Good on 'em though, hope it flourishes.
Having been in this exact role (turn a prototype into a product as a contractor), I have no end of love for my R&S entry level MSO. 2 channels analog, 8 channels digital, and it's just a pleasure to use compared to the cheaper scopes. I had originally ordered a Rigol, but my supplier couldn't get any units for 6-8 weeks (backorder) and they had the R&S in stock. It cost 2-3x as much, but... time crunch. Couldn't be happier!