skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what CA needs... more laws.

Lawyers: what are the chances this goes to the Supreme Court? I suspect next to none, since it's just CA, and employers don't care enough about free speech to fight it.

Silver lining: Another straw in the pile to split CA.
His fund, AlphaSimplex ($5AUM), has had very poor returns since inception.
He's arguing that if you want to develop some custom word embeddings (trained on whatever data set you have specific to task at hand), the SVD approach is often much faster and almost as effective. If you're willing to make that trade, go with SVD is the argument. If you're willing to use a pre-built library, that's certainly fastest of all!
10%???
No, because you usually have to maintain programs, add features later on, rewrite/refactor parts of the program. Do you write only one-off scripts?
Better yet, don't use a smartphone when you care about your location being tracked.
Here's a better checklist: Run a W3 validator on your HTML, fix the red stuff that isn't too annoying to fix. Launch. Deal with all that other stuff later.
I had at one time thought something similar, but in review, I think the weakest point is that such things become background noise to the initial reaction and join "References" as the newest proof of validity that never get properly vetted, as we often see with think-pieces that want to take on an air of authority. It's very simple to convince people right now with a reference to an article every other word, regardless of how reliable or even relevant each of the references actually is. The effect though is that the piece attains a state of legitimacy because "boy look at all those references", and disproving such a piece is far more difficult than writing one, with the research to break it down taking far longer, and with attention spans being more interested in whatever the piece is trying to push.

I fear that when we try to use thinks like Checksums, Pub/Private Keys, Blockchain, they're not going to be applied in a reasonable measure, nor will they be explained to audiences in an honest way, but instead simply be tacked on as a badge of legitimacy for the content, not as simply a validation of the source/transaction history.
this is extremely wasteful

automated gardening would be far more productive, and make significantly more progress
You can probably automate this actually. There are several domains you can subdomain on afraid (or better yet the router manufacturer / nas manufacturer / camera company etc should be providing a subdomained address per device) and then get issued a cert for (letsencrypt uses the public suffix list to remove rate limiting from some of the afraid domains mentioned before, and any company interested should get their catchall domain added to that list).

Then it just comes down to doing the same redirects / hsts policy for insecure connections, but I believe they would have to be done at the root domain level, again going back to manufacturers providing them.

The letsencrypt part itself is the easy part, the hard bit is getting the domain name to register under. All the good open source router firmware today already supports Dynamic DNS.

All that being said, every Internet of Things device made is a security nightmare and none of the manufacturers give a damn, so they will never see a reasonable expectation of security or do anything like this. They cannot even produce a common OS amongst themselves to keep their firmware up to date and free of security vulnerabilities.
That's true, that's true. However to other randos reading HN who may read your comment and take your word for how Tezos' ICO is different than the rest: it's not. Please do your due diligence and ask yourself if you actually want to send money to a couple that has no track record, no product, who is fighting with its development foundation, and whose plan is to re-implement an idea that isn't even proven to be useful yet ("decentralized turing-complete smart contracts").

Typically with securities, there is a bar of quality to meet before you are allowed to sell it, but in this case there is not. So we all need to be as honest and helpful as possible so that investors who don't know any better don't get scammed by those who are claiming to change the world.
When I first joined, I was working on a decent-sized project that required interfacing with other teams. My mode of development has always been to ask lots of questions, even if they're "dumb". I like "dumb" questions because it gets everyone on the same page, and it narrows the conversation. It's worked out really well in the past; I really believe in communicating early and often.

During my first week, I started down this path. I made comments in our chat, and was quickly told by my manager to take it offline. I was told that I shouldn't be "opening cans of worms" with other teams. So I had to be more discrete about understanding my new role, and figuring out Where the Bodies Were Buried in more round-a-bout ways.

That's the only direct feedback I've gotten from above; this is dysfunctional right?
It tends to be more reliable if it's not lang=en. The cargo culting nature of web development makes some things a bit painful.

FWIW, Chrome's translate feature does care about lang=. Or at least it did last time I checked.

It's one of the things that has no downside, and a small upside. If you leave it out, your site isn't horribly broken. People will always get the content, but tools that process the content might be wrong.
I wish there was a way to make it popular for people to let their yard grow wild and make it taboo to mow your lawn.
Damn, I'm an avid user of both fzf (super useful, recommended) and rg (yes, it's really faster than ag!) and I never thought of combining them... gotta try
With cuts to funding at all levels and an increase in vouchers and for-profit charter schools, I am starting to think that it isn't short-sighted at all. I am starting to think that maybe it is a plan to keep the masses uneducated.
>Over the last year, reading the news had made me more passive and worried.

Serious question: Did you only get serious with news reading in the last year or so?
If the burritos are extinct, you are definitely out of foie gras. First they came for PB&J, but I didn't complain, I ate lobster bisque.
Maxim seems to have quietly EOL'd most if not all of them.
Indeed. These studies need to be done by independent researchers multiple times and published in a number of independent venues in which the publishers (who clearly have reason to tamper) have no control over the content nor the peer review selection process (again, to be performed independently).
Actually, South Park just made an episode about this. Everyone was freaking out about North Korea while others were getting run over from distracted drivers without anyone noticing.
If you could introduce a bias in implementations to generate primes of the form more often than random then it could be useful, right?

I'm not wearing my tin foil hat so I realize that in order to do that in the first place you'd probably already have enough influence to do much more than this. But just for the sake of a hypothetical...
I love the http://webdevchecklist.com/ site.
It isn't clear to me. Your links only show that student debt and tuition costs are correlated. I think that costs cause debt rather than vice versa.
Indeed: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_window...

Insistence on DRM ironically is causing the opposite effect - wider piracy of DRM-free versions.
I guess I'm a professor at the wrong school then. I'm not complaining about my pay but it will still be several years before I will have made enough to pay off my student loans.
I would be interested on more reading on these topics (collapse, human migration, global inequality, defense, survival etc.)
> They claim they had a large team working on the project for 4-5 years full-time.

https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/Tezos_Overview.pdf cites development began in 2014 and with a full staff of 10 core developers. I suppose I misread and was wrongly under the impression that they always had those numbers. But it doesn't change that Arthur and the gang modified their LinkedIn pages after the fact to remove full time employment at their day jobs and replace it with full time employment at Tezos.

> IMO they have no intention of delivering anything...

>> The commits on Github prove that isn't true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tezos/comments/7791ex/the_path_forw...

Yes development continues, but they've downsized the now unnecessary development team to from 10 to 4 and instead are relying on 3 outsourcing shops. They more or less have to spend the money they raised that belongs to the foundation, which requires significant public auditing and transparency while reducing their own involvement and spending their own windfalls as they please. The entire team except the leadership is gone. And now they are removing the head of the foundation.

> They weren't rude.

You're wrong. Arthur made everything conversation personal and used 4chan style name-calling all the time. Really obscene insults flowed from him almost everytime I heard him speak. He used memes to respond to questions he was probably admittedly tired of answering. But the content was ludicrous. They were Shkreli-like get rich or die trying memes. It might have been tounge-in-cheek, but its impossible to tell with him because he couldn't handle a normal conversation.
Python does not really have a "build" step. _That_ is the problem.

I think Heroku also played a role in prolifirating the idea that you can just push your code (from a git repo) to a server, and the server will take care of deploying it. Which usually means the server will install all the dependencies from pip during the process.
Also related: https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ examples of where, due to abstraction or otherwise, a quadratic or even worse algorithm emerges, and is not obvious from a quick glance since the multiple nested loops are separated out from each other.
Stockton, California, was bankrupt. Now it's trying out a basic income
That’s not entirely clear. Certainly even in the US it’s more “efficient” if tech were anywhere but SF, but that’s not the case. Trade happens when countries agree to it, according to local taxes imposed, etc. China and Mexico did not have the manufacturing might they do now before trade deals allowed that flow, combined with a cultural trend in management to “outsource” everything and local in China and Mexico strategy to be that source (by doing things like heavily subsidizing energy, shipping, etc.)
If you leave the back open and climate control running with a gas engine vehicle you're a)going to run out of gas overnight and b) will get exhaust fumes where you're sleeping.
I just discovered this. Very cool!
Its actually the other way around.

Since you are standing, its easier for you to look at them. Its very likely most of your colleagues find that creepy.
Everyone calls it Jai. I haven't watched the whole video series yet. Do you know why he uses the jai extension?
I was thinking some combination of carpenter ant, a beetle and a mantis. It would nice if it had wings so it could spread faster, the ant and the mantis are intelligent. It would be nice if it could live off leavings of a 25-35 year old yuppie, so unused airtime minutes and a mixture of dried latte foam and eco-plastic.

I wonder if we could infuse it with some Octopus brain matter? Also, I'd like it to have the ability to remember across generations, but Octopus probably already do this.
>An m4.2xlarge on AWS EC2 provides 8 cores and 32 gig of RAM for 40 cents/hour. That'd be $288/month

used ThinkPad W540 with same config goes for ~1.5 months of your AWS rent.
Nah, I don't think she has an axe to grind, except maybe to chop down bad arguments in general.

Anyway, her argument about 1 in that particular case is afaiu simply that it's rather preposterous to assume a specific (essentially impossible to know) iv. and then massage the theory around it until the results fit the observations.

In data science it would be like determining the model parameters by gut feeling, and then start searching for some kind of model with those parameters that actually fit the data. Almost exactly the opposite of how an parameter search/optimization is usually done. I tend to start with some model and see what parameters that fit instead of randomly deciding one parameter is 1 and then go look for a model that might fit my data with that arbitrarily fixed parameter.

I'm no astrophysicist, or anything even remotely close to the authors competence, so I'll refrain from commenting on those points, but I really see no reason to critique her arguments in general because somebody pointed out some possible weakness of one a sub argument. Rather the opposite, if you would only have one counter comment on a physics related blog, then you are probably correct, nobody has read it yet, or the comment function is broken.
> This seems pretty dangerous.

It sounds pretty much like the Internet as a whole.
I left my EV accidentally on all day at my office during the day with AC running. Lost a like 5% of battery. I hear Teslas are even better.
I was skeptical about the claim in the title of the article to begin with. Point three and four in the article makes me even more uncomfrotable (for reasons that others have explained much better), and the article leaves a lot to be desired.

A quick Google Scholar of "difference between screen and print in learning" gave me two results that immediately stand out. The first article[1] (2013, n = 72, 10th grade students, reading comprehension of texts between 1400-2000 words, print vs. PDF on computer screens) that the BI article seems to corroborate. The second article[2] (2013, n = 538, university students, textbooks that are learning material for exams, print vs. digital but device type and format available from the abstract) suggests that there is no statistically significant difference between print and screen.

Digging deeper, I found another one[3] article (2015, review/opinion based on existing research), which questions format, design, country and culture amongst other things—some of which have already been questioned in the comments.

The first thing that I find disturbing aboutthis article is that I'm not even trained in the field of education and I could find a lot of information in the literature that seems to suggest that the BI article is highgly opinionated and underpowered.

The second thing that I find disturbing is that the authors of the paper in question themselves wrote that BI article and make sensational assertions with such confidence that is, in my opinion, obviosuly flawed. It's already hard to forgive a reporter sensationalising research results that are not the whole picture, for the authors themselves to do it seems so casually and carelessly seems to be a step up and is, unfortunately, increasingly popular.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035512...
[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131512...
[3] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01207678
We might be at the point where we should to agree to disagree. It's interesting to debate a point, particularly since it forces me to justify my viewpoint to myself as well as to you, but I think the discussion may have run its course. :)
> Hinton is not a neuroscientist...

It's not like neuroscientists know that either.
> Ethereum is a good example

How? I have yet to see anything useful built with it. Except for more ICOs whose use for now is moot, what problem does Ethereum successfully solve today that makes you say it delivered on its promises?
So, I didn't know what it is, found these videos:

[3 min promo] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AWhsBNU1jU

[talk] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTT_3DhTMI8
> Things like electricity, the automobile, air travel and the internet went from nonexistent to universal in developed countries in phenomenally short time spans

Oh, hey, thats about the same "phenomenally short time span" that everything started going to shit.
This is so dumb. Employers can research candidate history without any chance of getting caught, and it's an obvious goal of most ethical (1st amendment respecting) hackers to make sure it stays that way.
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Again, nobody is claiming that Waxman had a story that "proved" Weinstein was a sexual predator. But she does claim to have a story that was much more significant than the one that ran, and for you to say that didn't exist is simply your word versus hers.

You have your reasons for believing that she's lying, including that "she would not have the easiest time" convincing her bosses to fund a trip, that her editor claimed not to remember a conversation, that she injected Damon and Crowe into the story to add drama, etc. I do not find these reasons at all persuasive enough to conclude that she is lying. But it doesn't matter, because it's speculation on both of our parts anyway.

If you're trying to use this particular instance to in any way judge Chomsky's book, then you're at a loss. At one extreme, Waxman made up her entire story and I was duped, in which case the conclusion is merely that this is not an example of an advertiser manipulating the media, and says nothing of Chomsky's evidence. At the other extreme, Waxman was telling the truth and Weinstein's role as an advertiser did allow him to get the story gutted. In that case, it's still insufficient to prove Chomsky's thesis. Which it was never meant to do in the first place, as it was merely presented as an illustrative example.

A pointless discussion either way.

You could probably read the relevant parts of Chomsky's book in the time we've spent here going back and forth on Waxman's believability.
Aren’t there local ordinances in some jurisdictions, requiring an orderly yard about the house? For sure, in many places there are laws regulating tree count and what you can and can’t chop down. I swear I’ve heard of fines for unmowed lawns too.
A bit of trivia: Chase was founded by Aaron Burr.
HN says what?
Why the Brazilian and Argentinian Bitcoin Communities Oppose SegWit2x
Retro gaming history is being distorted (and ways to fix it)
Here's the view from sources other than people trying to sell you something.

https://msu.edu/~ciofujac/

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/01/29/how-can-y...
Actually they trace their lineage directly to the PIII. The original Atom was based on the Stealey line, which in turn was based on Pentium M, which in turn was based on the PIII design. Later Atom revisions left that legacy behind and became their own distinct process.
It makes a much better sci-fi story if the future is an extrapolation of the present. We're not in this moment collapsing into a theocracy so torturing a brain in a jar isn't so punchy.

Instead, imagine that a company pays for your revival by writing extreme brand-loyalty onto your psyche.
Still requires Java to build.
How USA Today Uses Hidden Websites to Ripoff Advertisers
So people who can't afford a car should give up whatever housing they have outside a city and buy a Tesla, then move into the city and live in the car?

Like, I guess I don't understand how nobody is seeing the dystopian future where you have to live in a goddamn car because you can't afford proper shelter. I know it's a thing elsewhere in the world, but people are try to get out of that, not into it.
Well, sure. If I'm ever going to go murder someone, I'll try to remember to leave it at home.

But I care some about it being tracked even when I'm not doing anything bad.
Animations should never cause delays that the user wouldn’t encounter otherwise. If an app legitimately takes 0.2 seconds to launch and animation makes it feel nicer, maybe fine. If however the OS is arbitrarily preventing me from interacting with the home screen until animation is done, someone should be fired.
>The best place for undergrads to get a top-notch education is where they have the opportunity to work with or even around top-notch researchers and people at the top of their fields.

As someone who has spent time in both a low ranked university and a top 5 one, I cannot agree.

The curriculum is more demanding in the top 5 one, so if you get through it, you'd be more educated.

The quality of the instruction, though, was poorer.

What really does make a difference, though, is having highly motivated peers. They'll make a bigger difference in driving you to do your best than top faculty members will.
I believe it. Learning how to operate a machine to control what gets displayed is such a distraction, in and of itself. Endless diversions and digressions, even if the devic has no internet. Procrastination just explodes exponentially.
I generally browse text-heavy sites with basic web fonts, and I do so at 120% (two taps of Ctrl-+ in Firefox on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, or macOS).

When I wear contact lenses instead of my glasses, I browse at normal magnification.
Are you willing to have millions of people move into your city and sleep in cars in the name of having some of the more talented ones nearby? At that point, why even bother with cars? Coffin hotels are a thing, let's just cover SF in those. We could charge $3-5k/month per coffin!
What were your biggest concerns, and what made you finally decide to go through with it?
I can't live without my vim bindings now, it's incredibly jarring anytime I have to use someone else's editor. The muscle-memory is just too strong, and configuring vim with a bunch of plugins is extremely easy to do and provides me a lot of value for no downside afaict.

I started configuring vim years ago and have only tweaked it here and there over time, adding a plugin for this or that as I felt the need. I don't really see anything wrong with that :)
Are you serious? In my subfield of physics, we tend to be fairly skeptical of published results.
I've heard Bob May say the thing to do is to start off thinking about the problem yourself to see how far you can get before doing the reading. But the reading has to be done.
You don't even need to produce an AGI for this kind of intelligence to be frightening.

At some point, a military is going to develop autonomous weapons that are vastly superior to human beings on the battle field, with no risk of losing human lives, and there is going to be a blitzkrieg sort of situation as the relative power of nations shifts dramatically.

If we have two such countries we could have massive drone and cyberwars being fought faster than people even can comprehend what's happening.

Right now most countries insist on maintaining human control over the machinery of death. But that will only last for as long as autonomous death machines don't dominate the battlefield.

It's a fun challenge right now to build a machine that can win in Starcraft, but it's really a hop skip and a jump from there to winning actual wars.
Hey, we tried (your) numberbatch vectors (great work, BTW) for a multilingual task, and we had issues because the "words" are conceptnet node names (eg http://conceptnet.io/c/en/natural_language). I understand why it is like this, but is there an approach others are using if they want to use it more like traditional Word2Vec vectors?
The evidence is this: try to name one private corporation that either internally or externally funds basic research that is guaranteed​ to have no application in the next 10 years at the very least.

You most probably can't. The reason is that private corporations have a very short-term outlook and are (understandably) looking for short-term returns.
I'm also looking for something like this as well.
I've seen this paper enough to warrant a comment. The paper makes no reduction that the market is computing in P, so it's unclear to me how this conclusion of P=NP iff EMH is warranted by the paper.

Perhaps more clearly showing the connection between 'complexity' in the general sense and EMH is this paper[0], showing that even (eps, eps)-weak (or approximate) Nash equilibria are communication-hard (exponential in the number of players), would be the first that has convinced me that markets are highly unlikely to be efficient.

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[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06580.pdf