skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The optimization techniques required to actually fit models are almost all powered by some form of gradient descent, and integration is usually required in truly probabilistic models to go from a density function to predictions.
> When the sun is completely blocked by the moon (which appeared about 3% larger than the sun during this particular eclipse), the total power delivered becomes 0% for a while, which is -infinity dB

The total power delivered during a total solar eclipse is obviously not zero. The author even admits a few paragraphs down that the corona is visible - and it's what people enjoy viewing during an eclipse. This one numerically inaccurate phrase spoiled my enjoyment of the article, unfortunately.
I would have liked the author to include references to the particular Derrida texts they were referring to. I'm not familiar with him in particular and I'd like to get more context. Especially since Derrida entered philosophy right after World War 2-- pretty compelling evidence (by no means eurocentric, either) that the world is ultimately ruled by violence.
The other day, I came within two feet of a crash because the other driver completely disregarded a red light.

It's pretty clear that if a human can't even pay attention to a light directly pointed at them, we have a very long time to go before humans can safely drive cars without a computer to intervene when needed.
I use https://wakatime.com to automatically show how long I worked on each project. The invoicing tool is in private beta right now, but it's basically an easy way to create a PDF for sending to clients.
I think it's kinda pointless. By definition, false news generate some kind of shock feeling that urge people to comment and share the link, creating a viral loop of people (a digital angry mob) fueling the false content as real.

Blocking it to be advertised might - just might - slow its viral expansion. Is that the best FB can do about this?
I was about to colour the company all sorts of sceptical until I read about these two founders.
A lot of work + very young.

Very well done indeed.
Most of ML is fitting models to data. To fit a model you minimise some error measure as a function of its real valued parameters, e.g. the weights of the connections in a neural network. The algorithms to do the minimisation are based on gradient descent, which depends on derivatives, i.e. differential calculus.

If you're doing Bayesian inference you're going to need integral calculus because Bayes' law gives the posterior distribution as an integral.

For ML you just need Calculus 1 and 2. The curl/div and Stokes is Calculus 3 which a physics thing. You don't need that for ML.

You may need the basics of functional analysis in certain areas of ML, which is arguably Calculus 4.
I deliberately and ironically linked to the UK Daily Mail - the largest online 'newspaper' on the planet- and their Snopes story as an example of a 'credible' news site (despite all the click bait Taboola style 'stories' on it).

You don't have to look far to find troubling criticism of Snopes and their ad agency owners online

example
https://foodbabe.com/2017/02/24/do-you-trust-snopes-you-wont...

The fact that they are a fundamental information filter for FB seems very off to me...
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Yes CERT is great, my immediate family are all CERT members and I'd suggest it for anyone.
Thanks and yes, at least, I hope so. You ever know what you thought you thunked up or what you actually heard from somewhere else.

Also, no downvotes guys, it was a simple question and totally in line with HN guidelines.
Does anyone have concrete evidence on an over-under date for something commercial, e.g., availability of self-driving (or at least a self-delivering) taxi? The most specific hint at a number I've seen recently was in the neighborhood of 2022, which comes from a recent Morgan Stanley report on Waymo: "The analysts believe Waymo can get to an operating profit by 2022 and reach 8% margins by 2030."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2017/06/12/self-driv...
That's not correct. If the scanned string doesn't contain any of the search string's characters, strcspn will behave like strlen, and the snippet ends up doing effectively nothing.

However, the statement is inefficient in what it does (and even then, not the most obvious way to achieve that, which your comment also highlights in a roundabout way).
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Rate limiting (incr with timeout), counting, async resource locking.
When I was a kid (started the project when I was 9 and finished when I was 12 or 13 years old) I developed an actual operating system for an old Pentium2 computer in Assembler and Pascal. I don't even know where the computer (with complete source code) is now. :-/
> I doubt very much you could cram that much in 6 months.

No, you cannot cram an entire degree into six months. Hence the second paragraph under my second point.

But the core CS sequence? 4-5 courses is a rough semester, but it is a semester!

And if you already have some mathematics or especially some programming background, the sequencing that causes those courses to stretch into 1.5 years is already resolved.
Porn is 90% about visual input - hence acceptance hinges on the graphical resolution which is currently lacking.
Anything not politically correct and anything that doesn't contribute to manufacturing consent will be labeled as "fake" news.

Scary times ahead. It's straight out of 1984.
Lucky you, most of my peers in college had no formal programming experience from hs coming in. I did, but we barely even grazed oop, and I come from a pretty decent highschool. Be careful with anecdotes, your personal experience doesn't represent the general population
I wish the article would have gone into more detail about the tracking on the controllers. My biggest concern with those is that they might not work well in games where you have to reach and grab something not currently in your field of view, like guns holstered on your back or at your hips.
Holy moly that's fast. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/902039243601485824

Can you imagine traveling that way?

Sorry for the fluff comment, but wow!
Ha I think this is one of the few cases where survivorship bias might not be a bias.
That is pretty much standard term for processor features that are not supported by Intel. The main selling point of the whole Intel's x86 platform is that when something is supported and documented it will either behave the same way on newewr processors or newer processors would include some mechanism to emulate the old behavior. Intel tends to go especially overboard with this approach and even support feature combinations that are not useful in any way.

Recent example is that original AMD's x86_64 CPUs did not support certain descriptor formats in long mode and didn't support x87 FPU ISA for 64b code. Intel's EMT64 supports both of these things. Usefulnes of first is somewhat questionable as only real user of that is dosemu, another would be if somebody would want to modify some Concurrent DOS/FlexOS derived OS to be 64b aware (there actually might be some small bussiness case for doing so). Microsoft solved this by droping support for 16b and DOS applications in 64b builds. And for the second limitation it is pretty obvious that there cannot be any code that would be broken by that.

Older examples are the whole A20M# business and then there is LOADALL, which was never officially documented, has three diferrent encodings and behaviors depending on CPU generation but got used by Microsoft and thus the 386 encoding and behavior is somewhat semi-documented and semi-supported even 30 years later.
I believe Telegram owes its popularity to its rich feature set and first class treatment of its desktop clients (Qt5 + Cocoa).

It doesn't help that not everybody uses Chrome as their primary browser (I don't), making it somewhat silly to keep open for a single thing. Spinning Signal Desktop out into an Electron wrapper would be preferable but is still far beyond ideal...
Or you know, we like to read sentences without getting cerebral SEGFAULTs
> problems that don't really affect them?

Perhaps because:

> And it wastes the coroners time.

means it does affect them (the tax payers)?

Personally, I think as few things as possible should be banned/restricted. If things directly impact other peoples lives, then sure, but if its indirect or minimal, then perhaps not. Its a difficult balance though (but in general, I'm in the "the less government involvement in the peoples lives the better" camp).
This is pretty interesting and sounds promising. I found it kind of odd the emphasis on "dropping out" of Stanford and USC respectively. These guys have clearly been busting their tails to get things done, why even mention that? Am I missing something?
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This will probably have a chilling effect on VCs investing in this space. Maybe not White Walker chilling but it can't be seen as enthusiasm coming from the world's largest car manufacturer. I worked for a router company and our likely exit scenario Cisco leaned ever so slightly in the other direction and the VCs pulled our funding. Poof.
From the article:

"Beyond the matter of convenience, if Athelas doesn’t integrate seamlessly into existing electronic medical-record systems, most doctors would reject it because they don’t want to deal with separate software[...]"

Devices, FDA, and insurance reimbursement aside, is $3.7MM enough capital to try to start addressing even this task?
I love VR car racing, and it's way cheaper when I make a mistake and spin or go into a wall, but it's just not the same as an actual track day (not racing, just a standard "high performance driving event") in my boring daily driver. I'm not sure it will ever be.
two things from iterm I really use a ton are the cmd+tab number to jump to a specific tab instead of cycling, and the copy paste history
Do you think we will tolerate autonomous cars operating at speeds that create those situations?
It should be noted the California bullet train is planned to run at 220mph for its fastest leg, so this is within spitting distance already.

If you pump the (vast majority of the) air out, no reason you couldn't get supersonic. That's much faster than any non-rocket-propelled train has ever gone.

The fastest train in service is around 270mph, more experimental maglevs have reached 375mph. Supersonic is 767mph, so over twice the fastest maglev.
Hololens, Meta and the others are only Dev kits with general consensus for a consumer version in 2019.
I would like to see any reliable source for your Magic Leap statement.
As far as I know the rumours currently put a Magic Leap dev kit announcement by the end of this year.
And there is already a product equivalent that has been successfully demoed to the board on February.
And as for your first point you can do VR with an AR device, you can't do the opposite.
And the AR part is the most important experience that will permit you to bring your device everywhere.
With VR you will be confined to a room without any movement possibilities in an uncontrolled environment.
On a related note, I wish Youtube had an option to play a video faster than 2X (other then downloading the video to play in a local viewer like VLC).

Even as a sighted individual, listening to conference talks at high speed is convenient (and you can still pause if you want to look deeper into something).
I'm not blind but I also hate side by side diffs. When resolving conflicts, I prefer opening the raw text file with the conflict segments and manually delete and copy paste stuff; it's so much faster and more flexible.
I wonder how do that. I'm building a language that truly will benefit for a REPL (is for database development) but also do it compiled simplified other things.

Is done on .NET/F#. I wonder how architect the thing so I can have a good repl yet compiled... but how?
I worked with a blind dev for years and he mostly used the command line.

He said, this is the only real accessible interface where you get 100% control.
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I see a lot of comments on satire links that clearly demonstrate that large numbers of people can’t always spot satire. That possibly says more about the current cultural and political climate than it does about people’s gullibility though.
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This is a migration problem. A network of only self driving cars is effectively a more complex train without tracks. This does not require an AI, just a very reliable and coordinated state machine. A mixed set of AI and human drivers is much more complex. There is a possible future where towns, countries , certain highways, etc adapt to the needs/demands of humans such that the vehicles and rules of the road combined create the desired environment for autonomous vehicles to thrive. Everyone assumes technology will adapt to us, but history shows that humans do just as much if not more adapting (see: suburbs/highways, industrial revolution, tech addiction, tinder, uber, etc). In many cases this is powerful humans leveraging tech to bend the will and change lives of the masses. Not saying this or good or bad. Just saying... Futurists are generally wrong and overly optimistic (and/or just really good marketers).
Google voice isn't perfect, but it hears better than I do.
The Sixth Sense comes to mind as an example of such a combination.

More recently, Arrival, which I like even better has a similar effect.
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Not sure. The knowledge of fake risk ("you're being shot at, yes, but it's just paint-filled balls - painful yet nonlethal") diminishes the fight-or-flight reaction.
This all depends on where you are. In the US, you have to provide KYC information to get bitcoins so there will be a wallet tied to your personal identity. From there, you can follow the transactions on the blockchain and see where it leads. It isn't as easy as a subpoena to get information from a single company but it isn't like there is actual privacy either.
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I would guess the "handler" is short-lived, in order to maintain agility in updating the "function", so more like CGI than FastCGI?
In my experience the best installation of Windows I've used is a VirtualBox VM on a MacBook Pro. So my answer would be "Apple". Windows just seems to run better in a VM on a Mac.
To engage with the substance of his argument a bit more, his argument is that perfection is a long way away:

> “Historically human beings have shown zero tolerance for injury or death caused by flaws in a machine,” Pratt said. “As wonderful as AI is, AI systems are inevitably flawed… We’re not even close to Level 5. It’ll take many years and many more miles, in simulated and real world testing, to achieve the perfection required for level 5 autonomy.”

I can believe that, but I also disagree that we need to be there for it to be useful. Level 4 is enough for large scale deployments.
It’s the “Entrepreneur drops out of expensive university to change world” trope. It’s what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur didn’t ya know?
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It's amusing how hostile they are to power users.
Sadly transaction costs in established crypto are quite high for small (<$10)transactions. Microtransactions are not viable at the moment.

There would have to be a solid(likely with some sort of central authority) proof of stake crypto for inexpensive microtransaction models to work.

Of course the alternative is doing it off chain but that pretty much gets us back to trusting some sort of central authority.
"We" who? Is rehab effective if nonvoluntary? (Available data seems to say "no")
"Fake news" appears to be "news I don't like" and has no correlation with the accuracy of the content. Conveniently, Facebook seems to agree with many major media outlets about what news they don't like, so they can present their arbitrary definition of "fake" as objective and conveniently no one can break through the bubble to prove otherwise.
Long story short: Document everything in step-by-step guides, then delegate to other people. No earth-shattering advice here. The author also wants to convince you to use Pipefy for that, apparently a Trello for company processes.
You backed up your point with a website that is staunchly pro pseudo-science and fear mongering, which contains multiple sources from the Daily Mail yet again to make their point.

Of course you won't have to go far to find circular sources in an echo chamber, but finding qualified sources for your point seems to be difficult.
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That'll take a few years to come by. Right now (and in the last few years), many content providers/producers have actually been focusing on having their own streaming services to get more control on their assets and earn a bigger piece of the pie. The users end up paying a lot more separately to each one, and so this cannot be sustained for long.

I see some sort of reverse consolidation happening in the next few years. Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple and probably Facebook would lead this aggregation, as they have been doing (or trying/planning to do, as the case may be).
Not counting Monero and a few others, most cryptocurrencies are only pseudo-anonymous.
To avoid being another Theranos they simply have to be able to publicly demonstrate their products work and do what they claim. When they start making excuses and withholding that, run.
I don't understand what you mean. You can get the Adobe Creative Suite with Photoshop, Lightroom, some other stuff I don't remember (don't use), for $10/month.

Is that too much?
John Leonard at MIT is one long-time (going back to 2007 DARPA challenge) researcher who is very skeptical.

e.g. http://searchcio.techtarget.com/blog/TotalCIO/Driverless-car...

"I think that driving exposes fundamental issues in intelligence, fundamental issues in how the brain works. And we might be a very long way away.”
I like the sentiment, but I wish there were more of a suggestion of what a self-discovery system would look like.

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to try a lot of different things and a lot of different jobs and eventually finding something that "clicked", but I don't see my path working particularly well at scale.
> it is weird why facebook would be getting into the realm of censoring things at all.

Not really. The entire Valley is beside themselves over Trump being elected and Twitter, Facebook, etc. feel partially responsible because Trump and his supporters were able to use the platforms to their advantage. To be outplayed by Republicans through the use of technology was previously thought impossible, so they're going to "fix the glitch" that made such tactics possible.
I kind of thought that, but then second guessed myself thinking that is such an old and tired trope that there is no way that could be what they were aiming for. I guess some tropes never die.
The phenomenon we're talking about here isn't one that causes profound ontological and ethical questions. We're talking about simple, obvious bullshit.
The lying isn't new, none of the dynamics are new, it's just the sheer velocity it all happens at. You lie about something 100 years ago and the press talks about that lie for weeks or months because information moves so slowly. You lie today and there's another tweet to cover in an hour and people forget about it (like you said).

The funny thing is Zuckerberg has repeatedly used the line that "Facebook isn't a media company" which is either delusional and naive or Littlefinger doublespeak.
There's a chrome plugin called video speed controller that can speed up any html5 video (including YouTube, vimeo, etc) to whatever speed you want. It's great!
I find it interesting that these sorts of stacks have tons of moving parts. Maybe it's the nature of highly scalable systems? Or does it come from starting with one particular technology and then having to drag in lots of other things to make it work?
FAA flight plan plus an IFR clearance is basically a script. Before autopilots, the pilot followed that script, without radar, with waypoint and next fix ETA reporting by radio. And it has a fallback in place for lost communications, the flight is expected to fly and land at its destination per it's clearance (or most recently amended version of it). And the fallback also includes the possibility of being unable to land at the destination, and instead having to go to the specified alternate in the flight plan.
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DCA is just the way of periodically buying some bitcoin at the fixed dollar amount.
thanks for letting me know the difference. I updated the repo :)
That's not to say that voice dictation is good enough to trust your life to (as in autonomous driving), just that mobile typing is even worse.
As an example: a sitting Congressman thought The Onion's "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex" was a believable headline. https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/sideshow/congressman-though...
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While Expedia's website is fast and works well (and I've used them a lot for finding cheap flights), their customer service is probably the worst that I've ever experienced.

Trying to do something like getting the return leg of a ticket changed, resulted in multiple dropped calls, talking to people with poor English skills (all their support is outsourced) and even getting told that all their computers crashed so they can't do anything. Then when I finally did get through to someone, I was quoted $2,500 to change the date of a $400 ticket.

A simple Google search of Expedia customer service complaints reveals that I'm not even close to being alone.

I suppose their CEO calculated that the savings from having dirt cheap customer service exceeds the losses they suffer from alienating customers with miserable support. That might be true, but I still don't think it's a good way to run a company. We'll see what it entails for Uber.
> throwing money to stupid start-ups peddling this nonsense

And this is why god invented short-selling. If startups were openly traded instead of privately funded, I think we'd see a lot of technologists setting up massive bets against "full automation" and "solve everything with AI" projects.

It's not easy to get people (especially politicians) to listen to bad news, no matter how loudly you shout it. But in a lot of markets, downward pressure comes from the ability of cynics to enter the market and get payouts from guessing (or knowing) that some promise is impossible.

In the meantime, I suppose we'll all keep yelling. But when trigger-happy investors and unaccountable state funding are shaping the market, I'm not sure how much good it'll do.