skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it is based on an aggregation of publications. The executive summary is approved line-by-line by all of the governments in the UN so it's much tamer than the report would suggest, but the synthesis of global data and studies is quite reliable.

It's all data-driven rather than opinion and while it paints a dark future, there is strong agreement in the scientific community that we have not yet triggered unavoidable positive feedback on a catastrophic scale. Even if we stopped emissions dead right now the future wouldn't be roses and perfume but it's not a nightmare. For the near and medium term the most important factor is still the amount of CO2 we emit, which far outweighs the current feedback loops and the ones that are likely to activate soon.

For instance siberian/canadian permafrost, clathrates and arctic albedo have all been triggered to some extent, but the releases have been outpaced by anthropogenic emissions. This will change, first with arctic sea ice, but at this point we are reasonably certain they won't pick up exponentially until we expect them to.
Well, so first of all, it wasn't a rant, it was a joke and a bit of a jab, and you gotta admit these days there's good reason for people to be... uhh... skeptical about yet-another-JS-library.

Second, that reaction isn't about not wanting to "make decisions"... that simplifies a rather complex set of thoughts and beliefs that are driven by the often-comical Javascript world, which appears to favour extreme complexity, constant churn and obsolescence, a near-complete absence of standards or best practices, duplication of effort, and fragmentation. Of course, the flipside of this is rapid evolution, competition in a marketplace of ideas, etc, etc.

Third, if you don't want people to see this effort as yet-another-UI-framework, it'd probably be a good idea to position the project as something other than "everyone else's good ideas, but smaller and faster" (lightly paraphrasing from the project landing page)!
> For gravity all the "charges" are positive so there is no dipole formation.

I'm no physicist, but couldn't lack of matter in some region otherwise filled with particles play the part of "virtual" negative matter?
Fortunately, computer science still literally means just that - it's an exploration of the properties of computers. As to humans developing computer based systems, yes, scientific rigor is not mandatory, just as you don't require understanding classical mechanics to build an abode. As to the psychology at play with humans developing and using computer based systems, rigorous psychology is eminently suited to your concerns.
I assume that wasn't free food he's talking about
A long journey to reproducible results
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I don't agree teaching students experimental high-level languages in lieu of proven industry standards just because those standards are archaic and/or un-intuitive. It's a great academic endeavor but the FPGA (and ASIC) landscape is driven by industry not by academia.

If you're aiming for an FPGA job after school you'll need to be proficient in verilog or vhdl (ideally both), there's no shortcut. The sooner you learn how to deal with their quirks and pitfalls (I agree they have a lot), the better. Sprinkle some good-ol' TCL in there and you're good to go. Yes python is better and more feature/library rich but the industry is still using TCL (which is not bad, just not modern).

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see a standardized higher level approach to hardware description, but unless the vendors agree and support it there's very little chance it will be useful. The current trend in high level synthesis is non-portable vendor specific tools. The only way I see the trend changing is when FPGAs become more mainstream (already happening in the server/deep learning sectors) and there's a critical mass of customers that ask for FPGA tools in par with software tools (ie. high level languages, open source, etc.)

PS. You forgot the python based myHDL :)
I really wanted to like PBS SpaceTime. So many interesting subjects and I love physics videos on YouTube. But there's something about Matt O'Dowd that makes them unwatchable for me. Something about the pacing, I just can't stay focused.

Another great channel is looking Glass Universe - https://youtu.be/r0plv_nIzsQ

And Udiprod doesn't have a habit of making physics vids, but this is my all time favorite physics videos on YouTube which explains quantum waves better than anything else I've seen - https://youtu.be/p7bzE1E5PMY
I would like you to cite some papers, which claims it makes language X better/worse without any explanation.
Fossil, by the one and only D. Richard Hipp, is a superb, dependable, easily deployable tool. I use it for all sorts of projects.
The executable is one file, the repo is another (an sqlite one). Things really don't come any easier than that.
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How many technically challenging products have been overnight successes?

One thing that is really confounding about all the anti-blockchain rhetoric on HN is that people seem to expect these products to be finished instantaneously. Building great products takes years.
It's been resolved for many years.
When you understand that it’s based on checks, it makes perfect sense. Not that checks are a good system, but if the alternative is a check then it’s the same downside.
Is that a thing that actually exists with actual demonstrated outcomes or are you just guessing?
Having been through the "hassle to host your own email server" experience, several years ago, I was very skeptical about doing the mailinabox.email setup.

I was very pleasantly surprised, and have been hosting email for one of my domains on it for almost 4 years now. It was very easy to set up, and has been very easy to maintain.

Highly recommended.
When should you submit your paper?
I don't see why "understanding" is equivalent to mere pattern recognition. Even using this word "recognition", what does that mean? It's another word like "understand". These algorithms are just pattern patterning. They don't even know they are patterning, that is a meta-property assigned in (or by) a context.
You are right, farming could be more sustainable and less destructive (see vertical farm, aeroponics etc).

But it's been proven that producing meat requires more resources than producing plant based foods. So if we truly care about feeding 7+ billion people, then we would reduce our meat consumption or move to a plant based diet completely. This is one thing each of us can directly do something about - by simply buying different foods. You should watch that presentation by Beyond Meat founder Ethan Brown.

Also, when talking about moral reasons, this is not just about minimising the suffering of animals. What do you think seeing animals being killed, sliced open alive etc day in day out does to the human psyche - you can find out here: http://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2157... - also see this quote [1].

If you couldn't get any other job other than working in a slaughterhouse or food prep shop and they both pay the same - which job would you pick? Would you want to kill animals every day or rather wash, cut, peel fruits and veg every day?

Our buying choices do matter.

[1] "The worst thing, worse than the physical danger is the emotional toll. If you work
in that stick pit for any period of time, you develop an attitude that lets you kill
things, but doesn’t let you care. You may look a hog in the eye that’s walking
around down in the blood pit with you and think, God, that really isn’t a badlooking
animal. You may want to pet it. Pigs down on the kill floor have come
up and nuzzled me like a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them-beat them
to death with a pipe. I can’t care (Dillard, p. 398, 2008). "
Searle's Chinese Room Argument was specifically aimed at people claiming an algorithm could understand something because of its behaviour.

It applies to Deep Learning as much as it does Schank and Ableson's script understanding system.
On one hand, I sort of agree with you. On the other hand, what you are saying feels a little bit like saying that humans aren't impressive, because we are just atoms.

Sometimes interesting things arise from many small, simple parts.
Yeah, I was just saying my thoughts against the hate towards new JS frameworks in general. While this reaction was a joke, there are tons of people that would have been ranting about another Javascript framework.

I am by no means trying to force people to use Moon. Instead, I am trying to show something that you might want to consider if you use and like Vue, as it is smaller and faster.

I agree I might need to reposition this project and state a little more. But I've already clarified why I made this in an article I wrote[1].

[1] https://hackernoon.com/introducing-moon-1d44a99635f0
Who has your back in crypto?
Almost all crypto market action is in China. And the ICO market there is so pathological that it's the exchanges asking for regulation.

http://news.8btc.com/okcoin-ceo-host-non-public-ico-regulati...
That's got to be one of the most concise but still complete descriptions of deep learning that I've seen so far.

The question that it implicitly raises (at least, with me) is how can we tell the difference between 'understanding' and 'deep learning' if the end results are the same?

To me 'reasoning' is a slow, conscious process, and understanding is a part of that. But classification problems , especially when done by humans when they try to work fast have no room for such conscious decision making, we go much faster than that and outsource the job to our subconscious. Predictably, the error rate goes up and in those kind of situations deep learning can today already outperform humans on the same tasks.

The weird thing is that deep learning solutions can get simple cases completely wrong, where a human would never err, and yet get some of the hardest cases - where a human would be very likely to make an error - right. It's baffling.
The meta-analysis linked above [1] claims that deliberate practice explains only 1% of variance in performance for professions (programmers are in this category in the article)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15101548
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BareDOM is a proof of concept, the code is not very clean, but I'm sure you can get the ideas.

Since Moon has a specific way of using the DOM, you might be able to cut down on the number of array positions per node (currently 8).
So moon is the alternative to vue which is the alternative to angular(ui engine)/react... Oh dear... How those frameworks want to get used in a wider manner when they place themselves in a 10% of 10% of 30% of the market segment?
Good to hear, thanks for the input.
(Caution: Pedantry ahead.)

Gravitational waves are believed to travel at C, the theory says they should travel at C, and we're slowly narrowing in on C in measurements, but our ability to measure gravity waves is poor enough that we aren't yet quite sure.

Which is one thing this observation would fix, assuming it's real.
> The other kind of person is (like me, so bias) the type who register domains with a project in mind but time or resources don't get funnelled to the project so the domain may as well be released back into the wild

The third type of person is one who comes up with - at the time - a hilarious sounding joke, registers http://www.cannedgoat.com, and then continues to renew it year-after-year for sentimental reasons.

Besides, who's going to buy cannedgoat.com off me? Might as well keep it from being a GoDaddy banner site.
>It doesn't have much with the actual innate quality of understanding

That was his entire point.
DNS spec doesn't support CNAME on the Apex record (ex your domain sans www). Alias isn't commonly supported by a lot of services yet either.
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> Given enough examples, computers can understand what is letter "A" and what is letter "B".

Meh.

Given enough examples, computers now can distinguish letter A and B but distinguishing is not understanding. You could argue that after learning the Network just uses an instruction set and from the outside that may leave the impression of understanding but it really does not. Isn't that basically the Chinese room thing?
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well by logical extension the theorem provides that at least one of these frameworks should end up being Shakespeare..so at least we have that going for us?
This sounds like you still expect colleagues to be available for immediate, unscheduled interruption unless otherwise noted. I think the idea is to reverse that.

We should be accountable to getting the work done, not to being available for unscheduled communication.
What would they be running? Which other OS supports all thousands of models of SoCs, with the necessary drivers to do everything described?
Yes all of you are correct, but a larger issue is at the least there needs to be some working process in place. Ones we know that a working process is in place, then we can look into it and see how to take next steps however complicated they may be. I see here there are questions about few steps but you think the overall steps make any sense or no?
Depends on your model of quantum physics.

In none of them can information travel faster than light, but that isn't a satisfactory answer, since one half of an entangled pair still has to "know" what happens to the other in order to give the right result from measurements, even though that doesn't let you send information.

In hidden-variable models, you can argue that the experiment outcome is defined "up-front". In the many-worlds model, both sides have both outcomes but the inconsistent ones "cancel out" as they meet, and pilot-wave interpretations are just many-worlds with one configuration picked out as "real".

But in most of the rest, yes, something travels faster than light. That's a common argument against e.g. collapse interpretations.
Nice little write-up! Thanks!

And, I should just point out: the original commenter, and myself, may have our... let's call it lack of patience with the JS community. But don't be discouraged by a little bitterness... as you mention in your blog post, there's definitely javascript library fatigue out there, and for good reason. But if the work is good, it'll speak for itself! Everything else is just marketing, and if you're not interested in pushing the project toward broader adoption, just keep on keeping on! Either people will use it or they won't, and either way you'll have learned a lot along the way, and there's nothing wrong with that.
> history may remember her as some grand civil rights leader, but that wasn't her intent she was just a tired black woman going home from work who refused to give up her seat to a white person

STOP. SPREADING. LIES.

Parks herself:

> People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true
Normally, the scientific community is pretty careful about not revealing results before they're fully baked (press notwithstanding). Seeing how that control has broken down for this incident, is it correct to infer that astronomers have pretty much lost their minds over the possibility of capturing a neutron star merger?

Edit: calm down, people, I'm excited too.
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What is your take on the morally of eating plants. Plants are living creatures some would say sentient beings. Recent research is showing they feel pain, communicate with other plants. Do they deserve the same protection?
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A good domain name is a scarce good, like a piece of land. How else do you want to solve the problem of distribution?
There is a wrong link to http://asic-world/verilog/veritut.html . It seems Firefox automatically fixes it to http://www.asic-world.com/verilog/veritut.html . Does anybody else find this behavior surprising?
True, but if you visit a site like http://sia.tech/ , in my opinion it gives the impression of a product ready to use today. Though if you look at their roadmap https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap , you get another (more realistic) picture.
"..you have to ask yourself, is it OK for sentient beings to horribly suffer for us, so we can experience some pleasure that could be easily achieved by consuming alternative foods and shifting our perception"

One can readily see that the answer to this question is "yes" even when the suffering is that of humans, much less animals.

Many people readily consume products that are created in sweatshops, that are the product or cause of wars and/or environmental damage that has severe (and often deadly) consequences on other humans. Most people don't really care enough to change their consumption habits.

Out of sight, out of mind is a maxim many live by both when they eat and when they buy. Few people want to look in to the proverbial sausage factory or slaughterhouse to find out how their food is made, or in sweatshops to find out how their clothes are made. May if they did they'd change their consumption habits, but most don't really want to. They'd rather bury their head in the sand and enjoy their life. As long as they or their loved ones don't directly suffer the consequences, they effectively couldn't care less how their pleasure was got.
Interestingly, you can treat the NN as a black box (ie, not look at individual weights or even the architecture) and still derive adversarial cases:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02697
Basically to establish time a measure has to be taken. Either by a human with our units for time, or by interaction with some force or object to establish that "this happened then".

We commonly think of time in the linear time line sense.

It's more accurate to think of it as a big mesh of points of interaction.

Think more Cartesian space than left->right
People didn't leave the Internet because of the dot com bubble burst. If blockchain has an advantage over more centralized approaches, it will bounce back as well.
Now I am not a lawyer, but I think by analogy the FSFs interpretation would also be needed to enforce the CreativeCommons NoDerivatives licenses. Imagine someone creates an interview-based documentary video series on a controversial scientific topic say global warming and releases it under a NoDerivatives license because they are afraid that a clever edit of their videos would present the topic incorrectly and they have made promises to the scientists about how they will and will not present them.

Now imagine that I rather than edit the video files themself create a playlist, in a (fictive?) format which has the ability to play subsequences of the linked files, and then creates a version of the series which presents the complete opposite message of the original. Would a court find this to be a derivative work of the original videos? What if in my need to edit the video I want to insert certain new short sequences, and thus I distribute a second video along with the playlist, but this video is useless in itself since it just contains a number of short clips in sequence. Would this video be considered a derivative work of the original - remember it serves no purpose in itself except along with the playlist and the original? To me it is not clear, but if they are not derivatives, then this will practically render the concept moot. Since most derivatives could potentially be formulated as the original + a diff. Now I would expect in this case that the combination of the playlist + my video file + original series be considered a derivative work, remember that in the arts transferring a work from one format to another (a dramatization for example) is considered to be a derivative work, even if all the actors would be seen on stage to read from the original book.

As I read it, this is the center of the FSFs argument. Now whether this would apply equally to software I do not know. But I have a hard time imagining that copyright is not as easily circumvented as you seem to indicate.
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closeparan is exactly right. If you're saying you can't work because the other person is on an unannounced break, that means you'd be interrupting their work otherwise.

Coordination means finding a time appropriate for both, not having to pre-announce one's availability so that others can barge in whenever they feel like.
You are forgetting local protein-based computations observed in biological neurons we have no clue about...
The mysticism around ‘Emergence’ is just a modeling error where people only abstract in one way (say, down to cells) and don’t include something important like the interaction between cells in their reductionist model of the system. It’s like creating a graph without the edges. And so when those effects have manifest consequences at a higher level, it feels like they appeared as if by magic.
Was there a specific reason you chose to do a rewrite rather than to improve vue.js?
How many businesses are one back-up failure away from losing all their customers?

So many people don't even TEST them until it's needed, and just hope they've done it correctly.
I made this this week: https://coinbin.org/

In a similar vein.
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