skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most recent thing I did after getting a macbook was write a python script that went through interfacelift.com and downloaded all of the desktop images for my specific screen resolution. They sell them all in a zip for like $40 but it felt better getting them for free.(almost free, took about 30 minutes to write the script)
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Do you mean like that? Empty quotes and it would not be read?
True except these are display ads and cost $1000, which would be 10x more effective if spent on another channel. I suppose 0.0001% of advertisers might use this.
For me it's the jarring noise. A coffeeshop tends to have consistent levels of muddied noise, whereas the office might be quiet and then suddenly a clear, loud voice starts, and another couple of clear, loud voices arrive - jarring. Also, office lights are too bright, they switch me off somehow. Then the erratic temperature - freezing for a couple of hours, then tropical for a few, then back to icy. The office is, ironically, the worst possible environment for getting any work done.
Time to be ashamed of my not-west-coast salary again.
Your use of the present tense is odd in a conversation about what happened in the 1960s.
Killing a cumulative 100,000,000 hardly constitutes "minor crimes".
I disagree, the bigger is the plane, the easier is the refueling
I must be a shit hacker, as I certainly found the post interesting. It discusses human behavior in the context of hackers gathering together, and strategies on improving those behaviors. How can you possibly get more on-topic?
No problem. Keep up the good work, I would really like this to work well :-)
They are actually useful for other things besides representing value of course. Given the frequency of GRBs this isn't a 'rare' occurrence in the universe, and if these materials are in 'jets' then the number of rocky bodies that have been hit by a jet of this material have a high probability of existing[1]. So it might be reasonable to postulate planets with massive amounts of these metals. And certainly there are asteroids in our own solar system that Planetary Resources seeks to recover. I think once we're reasonably good as interplanetary travel we'll see a lot more of this material being made available.

[1] Where even a small probability of a collision event is overwhelmed by the sheer age of the universe and the number of events.
Slight nit, but I don't think it's accurate to say that Go has an "officially supported and stable release of an Intellij IDE". While Gogland is excellent (I use it as my main Go editor at work), I think it's still technically in pre-release.

On a more unrelated note, is Groovy widely used? As someone who doesn't really ever use JVM languages, my impression was that it didn't have the similar usage to Kotlin and Scala, although I might be mistaken.
The quote directly addresses your point. What should U.S. citizens do about the crimes of other governments? By contrast, what should U.S. citizens do about crimes that are the doing of their own government, regardless of what proportion they are of the total state-level crimes in the world?

This is what he means by ethical value of these judgments.
> So the mainstream languages are...: C/C++, C#, F#, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, SQL, Swift, VB.NET

Of those 18 languages, only 13 are in the TIOBE top 50. Two of them (Apache Groovy and TypeScript) don't appear in the TIOBE top 50 so it's pushing credibility to call them "mainstream" languages -- the Java-ecosystem bias is more than "only slight".
Do shell and Perl really have a "small ecosystem" compared to something like Groovy?
The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to show cocoa is good
Where did I mention halide?

My question is why do you care about opencv when benchmarking neural network performance on various hardware?
Anyone know why they trained on TPUs? My understanding is that the main benefit of a TPU is inference. Is this not true?
Google's Deep KWS paper [1] is kind of similar, although they don't use an HMM.

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Understanding perspective requires understanding geometry and optics. Euclid was one of the first in creating a working framework for this in his work Optics. Euclid's work was introduced in Europe during the Latin translations of the 12th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th...
I'm talking about API calls where you make a few database queries, not local or batched.

Java/Go with pretty much any database can manage about 50,000 individual queries+REST calls a second.
Oh that's funny. I just saw it in "Highlights from the Chrome 61 update" and came here to correct myself.
From memory: you fire a laser at a frequency that is only absorbed if relatvistically shifted the way an electron that goes towards the laser would observe. This, the laser delivers momentum only to atoms coming towards it, and is invisible to those at rest or going away. Do from multiple directions and you’ve reduced absolute momentum in every direction.

Claude Cohen danucci received a nobel and a wolf for this (and other things)
Learn Haskell for the right reasons
>I am probably upper middle class (whatever that means)

It means upper class
What Myanmar situation? Saudi-backed Rohingya militants being pushed out by the military? You do know there's been an ongoing jihad for the last 60 years, right? And that the Rohingya at one point tried to secede and have Rakhine state annexed by East Pakistan?
> Evidence: $PERSON_YOU_HATE is very intelligent.

In every case I can think of, I think the person's lack of intelligence is the reason I dislike them. That they do not understand my ethical problem with them is the problem. Or their calculus is off, which also seems to be a lack of intelligence from my POV.

> ...they will not have humanoid motivations...

That's probably a good thing. We should want them to be better than us, which is probably necessarily unlike us in many ways. The important thing is that they're ethical, even if we're incapable of comprehending or recognizing it.
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I don't know about any actual silencing myself (I'm not well-read), but the efforts to impeach Chomsky's mental stability and character [1] unquestionably have that as the goal

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-c...
There is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-w3school...
Hence the "supposedly", although I suppose it's silly to think I could avoid the famous HN pedantry.
Seems to be scraping public documentation pages

https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/#scraper
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They should be understood in context. The US was engaged in a war against dictatorial USSR style communism for nearly 50 years. History has shown the US to be on the right side of that conflict.

Is people being killed ever a good thing? Almost never. Human life is inherently valuable. But is it at least more understandable when it is done in the name of trying to rid the world of a dangerous and destructive ideology? Yes it is.
Most "modern" (as in, late 80s on) BASIC dialects let you REDIM or ERASE an array.
Major study shows mind still works after the body shows no signs of life
he looked like a wax figure from madame tussauds that was animate
Best Practices for Node.js in Production
Are you suggesting most Germans didn't know about holocaust or that it didn't happen?
Did the Go implementation of the ranked feed use the algorithm optimizations discovered while optimizing the Python implementation?
Yep. Luckily I left before the acquisition. Every single person in my (ex) 11 person team left for other opportunities, including managers. And it was a pretty awesome team :(.

Even the best recruiters left. I mean come on.

They're trying to be a support company for other cloud providers. I'm sure there is a market for that kind of service but not sure how much margin there is to be made.

I keep saying this but: if your company has been acquired by private equity firms, consider moving asap. Most of these firms will strip the company bare, cut expenses to the bone and try to sell the company to someone else for a profit. While this strategy may work very well for traditional manufacturing firms, I'm highly skeptical of software/tech companies.

Its a real shame. Rackspace had some of the best systems engineers I had worked with...
I obviously also feel you have no idea what you are talking about and so far you have provided no supporting evidence or justification to your argument. Nor did you elaborate on your experience on the topic.

I don't care enough about you or this argument to pursue it further. Please, do your own research..
Looks like the performance improvement comes from two key ingredients:

1) Using Residual networks instead of normal convolutional layers

2) Using a smarter policy training loss that uses the full information from a MCTS at each move. In the previous version, I believe they just ran the policy network to the end of the game and used a very weak {0, 1} reinforcement signal over all of the moves played. Here, it looks like they use each run of MCTS to provide a fully supervised signal over all moves it explores.
We've marked the existing ones off-topic. That makes them rank lower on the page.
90% of what you build won't work
This recommendation would be fine 20 years ago. You should not have any decorative images in your markup, they belong to CSS.
Posting uncivilly and unsubstantively like this on Hacker News will get your account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
W3Schools tends to have a usable piece of example code at the very top of the page, while MDN gives an introduction and broader idea. Compare the display property page at the top of W3Schools vs MDN:
W3Schools: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_display_visibility.asp
MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/d...

Combine this and the higher Google rankings (My usual front-end searches display W3Schools, then StackOverflow, then sometimes JQuery or another library, then MDN), and you can understand where the problem lies.
The previous generation MacBook Pros are still sold new on the Apple Store. Scroll down a bit: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch
Interesting write-up on the additional work of almost implementing a spreadsheet in the back-end! I'm curious as to what kinds of functions exactly are these.

In the article, you mention that "We chose to compute asynchronously in case computation takes too long or runs into a fatal error" -- coming from Excel, how do you handle errors? And how long exactly do these formulas potentially take? (As someone without a lifesci background, it's hard to wrap my head around the concrete parts)
No, but I don't have any frame of reference other than this. I treat every investment as a potential total loss, at least in this area. So, I don't really pressure or tell people what to do. So far, it's barely profitable.
It does for individual societies like ant colonies.
This comment breaks the HN guideline which asks: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." There's a plausible (indeed obvious) interpretation of csallen's comment that doesn't say anything like that.

I know this is a highly charged topic, but that makes it more important to follow the guidelines, not less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I assume that an understanding will lead to a capability, because that's the history of humanity's progress. First we understand a phenomenon, then we master it.

If humans ourselves understood human consciousness, we could probably replicate it in software today. This might end up being one of the ways a super intelligence comes into being.
"What kind of evidence is there against #1?"

All intelligence produced to date has had nothing like "morality" from anything I've seen, not even the basic seeds of it we can see in simple animals in the wild. There's even been some hand-wringing articles about it about AI-based approaches locking minorities out of loans and such, for instance. Certainly the military has not reported any problems to date with their AI research declining to kill people because they have moral problems with it, nor have any of the self-driving car teams reported that their job has been eased by the fact that the self-driving car AIs have spontaneously generated a sense of morality that makes them strive to not hit people.

Heck, the very idea that this would happen sounds downright silly when I say it.

I still say you're basically arguing from incredulity. You can't imagine an intelligence that isn't intrinsically human, therefore they can not exist. Plenty of the rest of us can imagine intelligences that aren't human. I say there's even some we live with, such as bureaucracies, that are super-intelligences composed of humans that still manage to have inhuman behaviors and pathologies; how much moreso an intelligence composed not of humans.
I also recommend Java Spark for a minimalist framework. I would say that is quite similar to Flask in Python. But unlike Flask, Spark does not have a templating language. FOr something simple, I would recommend freemarker..
Native American tribe holding patents sues Amazon and Microsoft
This misses the point, because the people standing up for Weinstein would be more like people in his own state in Chomsky's example. They were close enough to do something about it.
Here's a link to the actual research paper that the article summarizes: https://adint.cs.washington.edu/ADINT.pdf
A Dollar General store opened this spring in my small rural town. Before it opened there was only a Ray's grocery store with a huge markup. I, and everybody with time and a car, used to drive 45+ minutes into town. I'm very price conscious and I've seen some items at DG cheaper than at Winco. Most items are about the same or only slightly higher. So now I buy perishable items (bread, ice cream, etc) at Dollar General and don't need to drive into town as often.
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I'd have thought that putting tracking dots on a person's face could have solved some of these things.
The key part from the paper:

> To assess the merits of self-play reinforcement learning, compared to learning from human data, we trained a second neural network (using the same architecture) to predict expert moves in the KGS Server data­ set; this achieved state-of-the-art prediction accuracy compared to pre­
vious work 12,30–33 (see Extended Data Tables 1 and 2 for current and previous results, respectively). Supervised learning achieved a better initial performance, and was better at predicting human professional moves (Fig. 3). Notably, although supervised learning achieved higher move prediction accuracy, the self-learned player performed much better overall, defeating the human-trained player within the first 24 h of training. This suggests that AlphaGo Zero may be learning a strategy that is qualitatively different to human play.
> But if I was, it'd be hard to think of groups like OpenAI as working on the same side.

How so?
Well I think the US was more justified than Pol Pot, Stalin et. al. when it engaged in violence.
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And "good enough" is just that - good enough.

Same with Northern Tool & Supply: some things just don't matter where you get them.

Wrote about it 6+ years ago - https://antipaucity.com/2011/02/24/how-much-does-quality-mat...
The first generation TPUs were focused on inference. Second generation TPUs are focused on both training and inference.

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-off...
They did a 360 with xbox
Ask HN: What is your preferred tech stack for web apps?
Some information why you chose particular stack would be interesting as well.
If he was close enough for her to stab him deeply with a six inch hat pin, then that is evidence that he was too close, and the obvious reason was that he was attacking her.

Typically a six inch hat pin stab will be more effective than a woman's punch in the face.

According to Mom, the hat pin solution is what was common and effective. I'm sure they thought of alternatives.

The attacker would be reluctant to take a hat pin stabbing to the police because the woman might file charges of the attack.

Of course, now a woman can carry a voice recorder of some kind where she screams "No. Stop". Then if the police get involved, she wins. If she gets fired, then with the recording she has a wrongful termination suit.
OP didn't "dismiss" the complaint. Rather, they prioritized it according to proximity
Sorry, I don't understand the overriding sentiment here..

Are we now asking Google et al to be the gatekeepers of what is deemed correct and useful because they have a preferred alternative that fits with our view on the world?

W3Schools may not have the best historic reputation, but it still has a place in relevant search results.

I have personally used MDN extensively over the years, and love it for what it is.
Yes, for hints like "how do I", but for JS ref like "methods on a Set" I use it all the time. Problem with SO is that often the anwsers are quite old (<=ES5).
Library has a few problems:

Too quiet.

Bad internet. Gigabit, but they filter/firewall the heck out of it.

No coffee/snacks allowed

Bad hours. Some days they open at noon, some days they close at 6p, never open after 8p or before 10a
> Most of these firms will strip the company bare, cut expenses to the bone and try to sell the company to someone else for a profit. While this strategy may work very well for traditional manufacturing firms, I'm highly skeptical of software/tech companies.

I don't think it works well for any industry. My understanding is private equity has a really bad track record of ruining the long term future of the business it touches. They're just skilled at getting the cash out and selling the business to a chump before things get bad.
I hear that again and again as the reason we needed to oppose the fall of countries to communism, but it never seemed to me that communism was the root cause, but Soviet instigated revolutions and power plays that was more the issue.
We're here to learn something, not to engage in tedious back-and-forth ideological scrimmage, so the guidelines ask you to please not post like this:

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why I work remotely: A European perspective
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People didn't stay quiet about HW because of some general difficulty of denouncing atrocities, they did so because he wielded significant influence and they didn't want their careers to suffer. This is sadly true of the victims as well: more than one of them has said that they wanted to go loud and public with it but were afraid that it would completely wreck their career through being blackballed, etc (and some of them have said that this _is_ what happened as a result of coming out with allegations).

That doesn't apply at all to the US failing to denounce e.g. Indonesia.
Places like this have always been big in rural areas. I'm from Maine, and there's two local chain stores, Reny's and Marden's that have been around for a long time, and have always been stocked with weird brands, consignment stuff, closeout items, and such, and the whole appeal is that it's cheap(er) stuff than you'd usually find, and you never quite know what you might find in stock.

Plus, incredibly terrible local TV commercials

Renys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNCjsz9ob8

Marden's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_iM2jrLGU
Only at a distance. Failure to extend research into vector textures over bit textures in the 80s now means 3D objects look blurred when close up. A big deal in VR and AR applications.
I think this is meant to be taken with a pinch of salt!

I'll bite though:

What if a person is technically guilty but they have convinced themselves that they are not? Be it ignorance of the law, or just arrogance? They'll get let off.

Conversely what if someone who is easily brainwashed has been convinced they are guilty and given false memories?

However, the effect mentioned does play in modern life:

* People who did park illegally won't bother to contest their parking ticket.
* People who get sued for doing something wrong would settle if they actually did (although a lot of people will settle due to the cost of fighting, so it isn't perfect?)
This is the link to the Discover blog post text:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/fire-in-the-mind/2013/04/2...

The issue with Watson's original account is here in the Johnson's text:

After negotiations between both labs, papers by Wilkins and by Franklin and Gosling appeared in the same issue of Nature along with the one by Watson and Crick. (They can all be found on a website at Nature, and an annotated version of the Watson-Crick paper is at the Exploratorium’s site.) Toward the end of their paper, they flatly state that “We were not aware of the details of the results presented [by the King’s scientists] when we devised our structure, which rests mainly though not entirely on published experimental data and stereochemical arguments.” Yet they go on to write in an acknowledgment, three paragraphs later: “We have also been stimulated by a knowledge of the general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr. R. E. Franklin and their co-workers at King’s College, London.”

The sentences seem to contradict each other, and in any case Watson made a point, in his book The Double Helix, to describe the pivotal moment when he saw Photo 51.

So the controversy continues. Was it ethical for Wilkins to show Watson his colleague’s work without asking her first? Should she have been invited to be a coauthor on the historic paper? Watson hardly helped his case with his belittling comments about Franklin in The Double Helix.

The bigger issue from the original Hacker News post is Watson and also Feynman's portrayal of their work as highly independent of their colleagues: "disregarding" others.
> We're not actually seeking photorealism, we're seeking the hyperstimulus version of it that obeys cartoon physics more than real physics.

On a much higher level, this is what art has done since the dawn of time.

Presenting a version of reality that's subtly altered to make a point and convey a message.

Now we can finally do it easily at the low purely graphic level for motion pictures.
The more I study deep learning the less I’m worried about emergent general intelligence. I do see advances in robotics and training AIs to learn repetitive tasks that are too difficult to write in code. I also see killer autonomous drones but I don’t see reasoning systems as yet being effective. You might call this generalization or polymorphic behaviors where the system can operate over new types it’s never seen before. You’d have to write some pre input translater to map the NN from one domain to another or figure out how to convert the NN into a set of rules which could accept different data types.
Orthogonal is exaggerating, I'll agree that the angle may not be exactly 90 degrees, but it's nearer that than 0.

>Empirically, it seems like smarter humans are more ethical.
"Seems" deserves some emphasis. Who is more likely to wind up in handcuffs, a smart thief, or a dumb one?

>Same seems true of high intelligence vs low intelligence animals too.

It's not exactly clear what constitutes ethics in animals. Applying typical human ethics; Chimpanzees have murdered their social rivals, and dolphins sometimes enjoy tormenting other animals.