skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems reasonable to doubt that a company who have never publicly demo'd their product and who are facing an increasingly crowded marketplace with big name competitors (e.g. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, Valve) and who have been in stealth mode for several years, actually have a chance of justifying their valuation...
It's further advancement of reinforcement learning which is notoriously difficult to train into usefulness.
Amazing how many times this post has gotten flagged. #methinksthebrosprotesttoomuch
It's a bet that a super intelligent brain will be far more capable than a primate brain.

Edit: In other words, how could it fail to grasp and obtain our very basic level of consciousness?
yes its the chargeout rate that makes it cost in, at my first job we considered a charter a plane to take some senior engineers up north for ran on site experiment as our OH rate was 600% the cost of driving vs flying was substantial.

All the gear would have been put in a transit and driven up by one of the technicians
What did I just read? "Any noise or unintended observation of them can cause data loss." Unintended observation?
This isn't about hetero-male. This is about all offenders for both straight and homosexuals.
The "killer app" for Python was NumPy. Ruby and Perl have nothing even close.
You're right about the ribbons, but toolbars on top of toolbars isn't really any better.
It's my understanding Siri came from SRI Labs and who sold the technology to Apple.
If your design is resilient enough to work between arbitrary peers, then you've essentially reinvented OT or a CRDT and your central server is vestigial, no? Basically, if peers are collaborating amongst themselves while disconnected from the central server (as in the case of offline devices working on the same file), they have to figure out how to resolve conflicts between each other anyway. CRDTs simply make this process deterministic.

Also, it should be noted that Google's OT does not actually let you work offline for very long. Hence, "apply operations out-of-order just a little bit".

As for your example:

There are two things that algorithms for eventual consistency have to deal with. First, causality. This is your add/remove vertex example. Obviously, a vertex can't be removed before it's added. Any "remove" has to causally follow the "add". Causality, however, is usually dealt with on the transport layer via causal delivery, i.e. it's not really part of the CRDT. The "hard" CRDT/OT case is a set of concurrent operations without any causal order.

In terms of your example, you picked a data structure which is essentially a pair of sets — an easy case. Consider instead an array. Array operations that are not commutative are not necessarily dependent, such as three peers simultaneously adding an item to the same index. There is no causal "order in which they were applied". CRDTs allow you to tiebreak this case, often by deterministically ordering concurrent operations via their causal timestamp and owner UUID. These bits of info are not really part of the data, but they're still necessary to derive a total order. Thus, they tend to be included as part of each CRDT op, ballooning its size. I believe what the paper proposes is separating out this metadata from the operations, then clearing it out to save space when it's no longer necessary. (That is, when all clients have merged past the spot of contention.)

And yes, a central server could perform this tiebreaking step. But in the meantime, the peers talking amongst themselves could be building on their locally-resolved conflicts and find themselves rudely interrupted when the server decides that no, the "truth" they've been assuming for the past minute/hour/day/month is actually the wrong one. (Remember, our goal is arbitrarily long periods of local/P2P/offline communication.)
Not completely surprised.

not exactly the same, but in rats young blood makes older rats more healthy and the younger ones less so due to stem cells:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-h...

(making the assumption more pregnancies = higher age)
I'm still hesitant to agree that we caused the mammoth extinction. There just weren't enough people at the time to do it with the technology we had, especially in places that lack enough cliffs.
From the Deepmind blog post: https://deepmind.com/documents/119/agz_unformatted_nature.pd...
they also don't have to be profitable...
I've heard this from many developers. I love technowave for that reason.
I bought a house four years ago. When I got in the only thing left standing was the microwave, and the stove. I needed a clean sweep of all the appliances. I went through the reviews, and went to a number of appliance stores. What I found to be the best tell of a good appliance. Was after market parts. I made sure everything I bought had readily available parts. I spent just about 200, and stocked up on spare parts for all my appliances. I went to the appliance stores again, and said notify me of any scratch and dent, clearance etc. of these models. This worked rather well.

The only appliance I had issues with was the dishwasher. While I had parts for washer, dryer, fridge, stove, and dishwasher. The dishwasher had a gasket just under the pump at the bottom of the unit. Every several months it would rupture due to being cheap plastic. I just grabbed one from my shelf and switched it out.

This model also applied to my family. when recommending a unit with more readily available parts. The repairs were less expensive. Are these the best units, not by a long shot. But I know I can repair it at least.
Even using GCC it could be a problem. Aix would want a different type for this function call, Solaris for that function call, Linux for this other function call. We had #ifdefs around a lot of variable declarations.

Fortunately, we were at least all ANSI.
Chomsky has written quite a bit about how this is the norm, and about how the media (including the New York Times) is usually complicit. I recommend his book Manufacturing Consent.

It paints a vivid picture of the media consistently doing the government's* bidding by painting our mass murdering allies as heroes, while massively amplifying minor crimes committed by those we consider enemies (e.g. Communists). And they do this knowingly, too, by ignoring or outright silencing dissenting voices (like Chomsky's).

Really opened my eyes to how propaganda actually works.

It's not the overt stuff you see from the early 20th century. Instead it's subtle but pervasive omission and exaggeration of facts.

* They do the same for advertisers, too, not just the government. Which is why people like Harvey Weinstein can call up the NYT and get a disparaging story erased.
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Pretty much all of those pro-illegal immigration arguments boil down to "economic output is higher with illegal immigrants, also illegal immigrants buy stuff, therefore everyone wins!" To me, that fails to consider where the increased economic output goes. Seeing how corporate profits are higher than ever while wages are stagnant, it's incredibly tough for me to see how it would be a positive for the lower class that need to compete with those illegal immigrants.

edit: Oh, come on, Hacker News. Don't be an echo chamber. I'm not being an asshole, merely stating my viewpoint. Don't downvote me for disagreeing with me, I'm trying to contribute to the conversation.
You said that recursive and iterative computations are fundamentally different. I pointed out a class of recursive and iterative algorithms that are equivalent to each other. That class disproves your statement.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at...
"But new research shows that it may not be the sound itself that distracts us…it may be who is making it."

For me, the absolute perfect background noise is people talking in a language I don't understand. If you're in a big city, there are almost certainly cafes with customers mainly from some linguistic minority -- I've found them to be great places to work.

[on roughly the same principle, I sometimes listen to foreign-language pop music while working, so the vocal aspect becomes just another instrument rather than a source of distraction]
I get you. Neither was I. But at a certain level, words are arbitrary and imperfect anyway. In your own example, "cloud" is often regarded as a bad term, because it tends to abstract away too much that it's just "somebody else's computer", as it's often defined.

Lots of discussions have been had on how many people think "the cloud" is a sorta-magical thing, which "is just there". Just more recently some interesting aspects of "using the cloud" have been more thoroughly discussed (e.g. the jurisdiction it's hosted in, data breaches, etc). If the concept was described in a less abstract way, would these discussions have happened sooner? Later? Would it have become less of a "buzzword" amongst executives?

So, is "cloud" really a better term than "serverless"?
https://sci-hub.cc/https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v55...
It sounds like that's what they are going for. Minimal tuning, generally adaptable. Very interesting.
They started with it built into search. This was probably a compromise solution to some competing internal concerns.
plus mercedes and porsche museums
Don't forget travel and trying new restaurants!
The bus scene in Speed used a 50-foot practical jump from a ramp. CGI was used to remove the road that beneath the jump, not to lengthen the jump itself. I guess you could call that a “tiny hop” if you're measuring vertical distance from ground; not if you're measuring distance from road, or length.

Sources: I remember this from Cinefex, which is not online; Wikipedia repeats the description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_(1994_film)#Filming
That's a very old story with a good, old solution: The girl/woman carries a hat pin, quite sharp, about 6 inches long, has ready access to it, and is willing and able to use it.
https://blog.openai.com/

I believe their DotA 2 AI uses that approach
How I wish Marvin Minsky would have stayed alive for one more year and seen this. He would have been so happy!
It is (kind of) our biological offspring, we'll just create it using our brain fluids instead of our reproductive fluids ;-)

Your limited primate brain is the reason you want primate offspring. This bias is in our DNA and part of our evolution. It's a limitation that your super AI offspring would not have.
Will the women all have lipstick like in the female scientist set?
It says it doesn’t try to help with anonymity. Is there some unadvertised ad blocker hiding in there?
Their references to use cases from an article sounds funny "Migration from MySQL to TiDB to handle tens of millions of rows of data per day".

Come on, even Excel can handle tens of millions of rows of data per day.
Its fascinating that someone at CMU would have this issue.

If it's (allegedly) a problem at CMU, where isn't it a problem?
>Once it's the open, someone will take advantage of it, and then others would only put themselves at a disadvantage by not doing it too.

The answer to that problem in every other industry is regulation, either self imposed or more commonly through government intervention. But folks in the tech community, rightly or wrongly, don't take too kindly to the idea of regulating the Internet.
Well it's happening again in Myanmar, and the most important thing we have to talk about in the US is what our doofus 'leaders' have tweeted last.
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good point. I’ve used pm2 to manage node apps and like how clear it makes what’s running on what.
It looks like they reinstated the account: https://www.facebook.com/limorfriedadafruit
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I'm making a (perhaps reflexive) statement about economic cycles, that they are effectively defined as a period of growth followed by a shock. Without growth, there is no shock. Our current cycle has been characterized by very low growth. It is also much longer than typical, but I think this simply follows from the fact that we haven't had a lot of growth. Growth seems to be picking up, though, and I think over the entire period of the cycle will soon be "enough" to trigger the next cycle.
I'd much prefer the offender being afraid of complete societal ostracization.
Yes, but if one interpretation is deterministic and one probabilistic doesn't it mean that the mechanics will change, and what we currently think is how quantum computers could work, will potentially make them faster/slower/impossible?
If they only used it in their own devices, it would probably be too expensive. If they sold those devices to other manufacturers, they could probably get enough volume to at least avoid taking big losses. It's less about making money from selling the chips, and more about keeping the hardware behind the Android ecosystem competitive.
To be fair, the exceptions are growing as media is less and less beholden to e.g. government sources for major stories. I can't recall seeing even a single tweet in favor of America's involvement in Yemen, journalists or no. It's not the world, but it's something.
Parent thought you believe W3Schools is related to W3C because you keep calling it "W3C Schools" (it's W3Schools).
I hope your severity doesn't get your comment downvoted, because I was hoping there'd be some discussion on that chart.

It's trying to do a lot of things with ranking within a metric and comparing across metrics. A big problem I see is that the intervals aren't equal even for metrics with the same units. If I want to compare how far apart Family Dollar and Dollar General are in terms of customer unemployment or bachelors' percentage, well graphically it's pretty much useless. There's more spatial difference across the entire Unemployed line than there is between a (presumably) equal distance in the Bachelor's line.

Even if it's only designed to allow me to rank these stores across numerous metrics, the alignment of the legend with the first row of colored points confused me for a minute: I was reading the legend not as referring to color, but to column.

I'd be curious to see what Kaiser Fung at Junk Charts [0] has to say about it.

[0] http://junkcharts.typepad.com/
The first step is to be able to compile it. Just clone and compile it. There are usually hidden dependencies, secret configuration, a few missing technical details, ... You will be busy at least for a week until you can compile and run the original version without modifications. (You may have to ask in the mailing list of forum of the project to get some help with the details.)

Once you have the original version running, ask again.
> prelude before political grandstanding

What are you talking about, and did you watch the whole thing? It seemed to mostly be about the potential future of CGI as art and its place in contemporary/future culture.
U.S. Bombed Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia in 2016
It's the author here. There's a lot of feedback and I appreciate it all. A few things to note:

1) I'm not rich and I'm not yet successful (not by my own definition anyway). I am pretty much self-sufficient.

2) To the people who are complaining about poor people not having the same opportunity... My target audience are people who have access to the internet. If you can access the internet, you have access to wealth. That's my opinion, anyway.

3) Work hard, play hard. It's good, as long as it's not you working hard and somebody else playing harder because of it.

4) I haven't come from a rich background, I'm not university educated. You can't complain about me coming across as generalizing and then assume I'm a privileged white male.

5) There's plenty of tone in the article that suggests generalization. I appreciate the feedback and I apologise if it seems way too over-generalised but opinions in this area are quite hard to condense into a few words.

6) I still stand by the "if you truly want to have money, you will". If you're reading this, you're on the internet. If you're on the internet then you have access to free education and skills for you to build your own success.

Thanks
Expense on company dime monitor privacy screens. Helps with another open office issue too - sunlight hitting the monitor.
I've wasted a lot of time learning that "owner" vs. "employee" is the wrong distinction. It's a hold-over from the industrial-era mindset of union/employee vs. management.

In today's economy, many employees out-earn "owners". Employees even get stock at many places. And even if you start the place, you're going to have to give up a lot along the way if you want outside capital or good talent.

Stop wasting time thinking about being "an owner" and start thinking about, how can I deliver the most value to the greatest number of other people, as THEY define "value", in the shortest amount of time? That's a better approach.
Yes, if you observer the system, it gets disturbed. It's like opening Schrodinger's box to see the cat.
Ehh, I think it is the opposite. The un-repenting abusers who engage in repeated abuse, are only getting away because the people around them are letting it happen.

An abusers might be able to get away with something unnoticed a couple times, but sooner or later word gets around, and it becomes an open secret that this person is an abuser.

And if everyone around them knows that this person is an abusers then they need to start doing something about it, and everyone needs to stop enabling the serial abuser.

Obviously education doesn't work on the abuser, but it works on everyone around them, so that they know what to look for, and can stop them before things get out of hand.
Integrity on steroids!
The project is interesting... But I don't understand your point about JSON vs JS.

1. You can store JS anywhere (all DBMS support text).

2. You can send it over the Internet... Like everything else nowadays.

3. You can compose JS easily.

4. You can validate JS using linters.

5. etc.

Besides... Aren't you only disguising functions in strings? You can eval strings anyway.
Most beginners have no idea what W3C is or why they should care.
> "The only concept people struggle with is pointers, but even that is a very simple concept. "

The concept of pointers is simple, but their implementation has all sorts of subtle layers:

- interactions and apparent fungibility between pointers, arrays and strings

- how about: ( * (void( * )())0)();

- what about: * (p++) vs ( * p)++ or "++ * p", "* p++" and "* ++p" (Quotes for display reasons only)

- & vs * and various combinations of these

- pointers to pointers

- pointers to arrays of strings

- pointers to allocated memory that is/are not in scope anymore.

- Null pointer

- Many others!
Yeah. I agree 100%. I can't focus in a Coffee Shop. But I sure as hell can't focus in an open office space.
Network/Filesystem/Memory are not expensive resources? It's a lot of overhead. If you're going to claim that you can share memory between containers than arguably you don't have multiple containers but rather a single one.

This is way more overhead than threads which can share all of those resources.
A few years ago when first moving to Seattle I bought a Queen spring mattress which has a thin memory foam pillowtop layer (effectively equivalent to a mattress pad). Less than $300. I've found it to be much better than the pure foam or pure spring beds I've experienced in hotels. I haven't had any overheating problems, except for when I briefly tried adding a plasticky bed bug prevention mattress cover which would have heated up any bed.

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Harbor Freight doesn't sell "good tools". They sell cheap tools. Often it's good enough to work with, but nothing they sell is anything you'd want to rely on for daily use.
Look what I found. FlixTor has more Movies and Episodes than any on other site
None of those were examples of companies buying their way into markets late with me-too strategies financed by dominant war chests.
Yeah, MDN is akin to Unix man pages, W3Schools is more to the point.

They've corrected most of the bad sample code.
It seems like YC could gain a competitive advantage by reducing the risk of accidentally funding those likely to become sexual harassment liabilities by keeping an internal list of who flags stories like this. Interesting opportunity.
There's still a lie by omission with the Yemen story though.
You don't hear news outlets saying the truth which is that the Saudis are bombing Yemen with U.S weapons that we sold them knowing full well what they would be used to do.
Life, uh, finds a way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
The core technique of AlphaGo is using tree search as a "policy improvement operator". Tree search doesn't work on most real-world tasks: the "game state" is too complex, there are too many choices, it's hard to predict the full effect of any choice you might make, and there often isn't even a "win" or "lose" state which would let you stop your self-play.
I mean, if you are so certain of the way forward in Myanmar, please tell us all how we are supposed to maintain all of our tense, fragile security positions in the rest of the world while invading Myanmar and somehow coming out without having committed heinous acts of some sort or bungling the whole thing.

I, for one, think that the Myanmar situation is going to play out as it is, regardless of foreign involvement.
Games are a joke compare with real life. The number of variables and rules is well defined in games, while in real life it is not. That is why AGI is not coming anytime soon.
aha... right :D
Exactly as author mentions the risks and the focus in the article. Future, especially in IT and ecommerce, is unknown and next month some mamoth competitor or smart copycat can step into his market.
Most girls I've found are really into the ghosts and ghouls sets. Actually, even among adult women I've noticed a heightened interest/enjoyment in talking about paranormal/scary phenomena. I have no idea why.
Time constraints, a rather visceral disagreement with the premise, and bouncing ogres on chairs (so avant-garde!) have postponed completion of the video for me.
When I need to change a car's oil, I don't need a complete, detailed overview of the entire lubrication system. There is a place for all kinds of documentation, but exhaustive explanation is often less preferable to a quick "how do I do this."
Excel can not handle more than 1048576 rows

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-specification...
While this is promising, there's a long way to go between this and the other things you mentioned. Go is very well-defined, has an unequivocal objective scoring system that can be run very quickly, and can be simulated in such a way that the system can go through many, many iterations very quickly.

There's no way to train an AI like this for, say, health: We cannot simulate the human body to the level of detail that's required, and we definitely aren't going to be able to do it at the speed required for a system like this for a very long time. Producing a definitive, objective score for a paper clip collection is very difficult if not impossible.

AlphaGo/DeepMind represents a very strong approach to a certain set of well-defined problems, but most of the problems required for a general AI aren't well-defined.
It's surprisingly easy to set up an always-on phone VPN.

Get a VPS, install OpenVPN on it, install "OpenVPN for Android" on your phone, and click through the settings.

DigitalOcean have a good writeup of the VPS side of things: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
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Why don't use the same approach for chess?

It's very interesting to see if it is able to handle much more advanced and tuned engines that exist for chess, game with considerable much more complicated rules?
This version explicitly does not use tree search.
That's probably part of why your friend has lots of money in the bank.