skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The further we get into the future, the more I think, what if our data-crunching approach to AI is simply the best thing there is?

Hofstadter said in GEB (in 1979) that the only program that could be capable of beating the best humans at chess would need to be a general and human intelligence... human enough to decline your suggestion to play chess, and suggest you talk about poetry instead.

It seems that people today are still engaging in the same sort of fallacy. I keep hearing that deep learning is too hyper-specialized, that it's a tool and not an intelligence, that we're still waiting for a revolution of general intelligence, where intelligences will have sophisticated logic and make their decisions without billions of data points, just like humans do.

My counter-hypothesis is this: Computers, compared to humans, will always be more data-hungry (i.e. worse at making general decisions without huge amounts of data) and more data-capable (i.e. better at making decisions with it). And this isn't really a bad thing. We will still see revolutions allowing more and more general problems to be solved, revolutions allowing more and more general data to be considered, and revolutions giving more and more usable interfaces for inputing data and specifying problems. We'll still see data-driven intelligent assistants and data-driven board members making critical decisions like in everyone's utopian dreams/dystopian nightmares.

But these foretold "general" intelligences, who don't need excessive data, the intelligences who beat the Turing test, the intelligences who "want" things and "feel" things, who attempt to solve the problem of replicating humans... those come unimaginably far in the future. And when they do arrive, they won't really solve any problems that the data-crunchers haven't already solved better.
OpenGL doesn't do raytracing where you have a ray origin and direction though, so you wouldn't have seen it there.

Using the full terms or shortening them to Dir and Orig are more conventional in my experience.

It gets even more fun when you get to evaluating BSDFs for materials and you have variables like wi, wo, and different people use them in different ways :)
I have been using the web interface on Android without installing anything. Home Assistant leverages web app manifest (essentially, creates an icon in apps list/homescreen which opens the web interface in a full-screen web browser).
Reaper IOT botnet has infected a million networks
I've heard this happens a lot. Plus, if the person is really adamant about getting whatever drug, the doctor knows that it's possible the patient will find a new doctor to prescribe it anyway.
The largest hormonal change we experience isn't puberty - it's night, under the aegis of the master hormone melatonin. Almost every hormone changes.

I was overweight and had an appetite out of control a couple decades ago. For other health reasons, I adopted a natural night (real dark, can't see you hand in front of your face) and exactly the same lights on and lights off time. My extra weight vanished. My appetite didn't just lower, it changed away from salt fat and sugar (exactly what you want when starving) towards veggies and salads.

(Ten hour nights recommended as your sleep will bifurcate.)

Recommended. Nature ain't all wrong, it turns out.
The only meaningfull way to use it is with your own domain so you can change the hosters easyly without loosing your whole network of followers/friends. You can self host for sure but it would be nice to be able to just use your domain with one of the hosters for starters, is there such a possibility?
why not just toss the corpse into a volcano?
Many top achieving people end up in positions that largely are fraudulent or don't actually creat much value..

We live in a society where we are doing lots of stuff but much of it isn't actually helping achieve the result we want and often actively prevents that result.

Consider:
Finance
Psychiatry
Education
Non-Acute Medicine
Politics
I definitely don't wanna play devils advocate for these scumbags, but can't you apply your logic to basically any product? I mean, Coca-Cola. Its at best product of dubious value, and at worst produced for the need for sugar by tens of thousands of people.
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/26/inenglish/1506413477_99...

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/25/inenglish/1506323273_06...

https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2017/10/20/aixo_va_de_d...

El Pais & Co. are heavily pushing this lie that there's somehow a very significant amount of "fake news" on the other side.

I believe that they are purposefully overstating the significance of the "fake news" on the pro-independence side, and are simply trying to use the slightest indication of such to discredit the pro-independence side as a whole.

Where their theory really falls apart the most is the fact that all the "fake news" they speak of are in English. It feels fundamentally strange that "fake news" on small English language blogs would significantly affect the political sentiments in Catalonia.
Gold can also go to zero over time. Mining asteroids can do it very quickly.
What is most important thing in your life?
A better comparison may be, (a) $100M for a museum named after the donor, versus (b) Elon Musk spending his last $100M on SpaceX.

Donor (a) seems long on ego, short on imagination and ability.

We wouldn’t have the same view of the person donating a dollar to the same museum.
This sounds very wooey. Do you have anything to show this isn't the result of you wanting to change, changing habits, and your excitement at attempting change carrying through to produce some kind of placebo effect?

I get similarly suspicious when people talk about how going on keto radically changed how they felt. Maybe it is true, but in an sea of anecdotes, it's really hard to figure out what is real. Do you notice how almost all of these turn into "this is how nature actually works"? That similar belief has led people to not get cancer treatments and then die horribly, so there's gotta be more than "this is how nature works".

Congrats on your weight loss, regardless.
Please rename this. This is not a pg-based blockchain or anything like that, just a Bitcoin extension to pg. And guess what Bitcoin is not the only blockchain out there...
Also kratom
I'm not equating the harms, or attempting to distract from this serious issue.

But, if we feel clear outrage about another industry, we should consider applying the same standards to our own.

Most everyone who works in opioid marketing probably thinks they are a good person too.
Good candidates don't think of writing code as torture. Talking about code is a necessity but not the best demonstration of skill.
I feel like the push to TV advertising and advertising to patients started after regulations slowing drug companies from taking doctors on vacations (think country clubs, hotels, cruises, golf) and working on them directly.

I remember when all sorts of pens, mugs, and all that would be given out with drug names on it, and then my doctor would end up giving it to me.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/for-doctors-no-mor...

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/New-rules-ba...

The purpose and the money don't go away, the means just move around.
What do you think a 'carb free' diet excludes? What does it include? I'm asking, because I'm genuinely confused by the fact that all plant (veggies, fruits, seeds/grains, all of it) matter contains sugars. Do a lot of folks really sustain themselves on meat alone? Hell, not even my 100lb german shepherd can live on only meat (IIRC carnivores frequently eat stomach contents of herbivores they kill/find to get nutrients [hint: it would include sugars])
> capable of making decisions without billions of data points, just like humans do.

Doesn't this ignore transfer learning? Humans have orders of magnitude more than billions of data points over their lifetimes.
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Not a lawyer.
My company’s legal advice was that the TN work permit is in a separate legal treaty from NAFTA so it would take congress and additional time (and warning) for the work permit to be revoked, even if NAFTA was repealed today.
If the way a creature died reduced the fitness of relatives, it could definitely be selected against.
I know what you mean, but I am pretty sure that you're going to see those numbers go higher. It looks like some of the non-independence options that a person might have preferred in those polls are being explicitly taken off the table by the Spanish government.
The demos that come with embree do simple stuff like this in real time, which would be about 450 times faster, so I wouldn't call this 'reasonably speedy'.
Copper CMS – Apache Based CMIS Implementation
We have released our OSS version of the CMIS 1.1 specification,
https://pogeyanoss.github.io/copper-cmsdocs/ [Website link]
https://github.com/PogeyanOSS/copper-cms/

This has wide variety of usages in domain model based systems, handling document management, versioning etc.,

It’s been on and off work from past 1 year with more of our internal projects using it, and now we have polished and finalized most of the core specification features. We thought the core server implementation could be open-sourced for wider adoption. The first version works only with MongoDB as we initially wanted only to support NoSQL data store, but recently we are getting requests for SQL based backends as well. We want to integrate Apache Calcite for the Query service support and likewise make the backend generic.
Why not just us json for scene description?
People on the west side forget about the east side in general lol.
This is our first set of OSS projects, still in the learning curve here, So any feedback to make it even better OSS project is welcome!! :-)
Something that helped me was remapping the caps lock key to ctrl.
Jesus didn't talk about eating pork or not though.
I gave up bothering to try to follow it.

Maybe that was their goal? To present the data in such a way to make people go somewhere else?
Keep in mind the war was enacted by a democratically elected government. There's no diminished responsibility.

Very few folks decided to return their passports and emigrate. People liked to blame the Army but everything that happened was in the name of the American people and by their leave.

"I didn't know" and "I thought it was a bakery" are poor excuses.
It's not clear that Coca Cola is just "any product". I think the "at worst" part of your characterization of it is actually right on. It can be argued that the damage inflicted on society by excessive sugar consumption, of which Coca Cola is a most prominent promoter and beneficiary, is much larger than that caused by opioids (which is already huge).
I'm not even sure testing always scales better -- it depends on your formal tool -- but it's definitely different. For example, some properties -- especially of concurrent/distributed systems -- are nearly impossible to test.

Also, the level of confidence offered by formal methods is often configurable to lower costs. Some formal methods can affordably scale to very large systems, with the tradeoff that the confidence is lowered, as it only covers the general algorithm design rather than actual code.
If there are any designers on HN interested in multilingual design, I recommend the book "Type Hybrid: Typography in Multilingual Design".

https://www.amazon.com/Type-Hybrid-Typography-Multilingual-D...
Not necessarily. It just means that ML based approach may be better than whatever it is we humans do in enough tasks to make the humans irrelevant.

Think calligraphy Vs. the printing press.
It's as if when considering a supersonic jet airplane, we were to ask, "When will it be able to power itself by catching fuel in flight?"

After all, some birds can do that, so we know it must be possible.
The primality test uses Fermat's Little Theorem, but I thought it was not 100% perfect. (Or perhaps it is for left-truncatable primes?)

I didn't know about the third parameter in pow(), either. Quite interesting.
This becomes useless if you have a common name. Was it me, or the famous author with my name, or the person who worked on visual studio Google recruiters think they're emailing when they email me?

The screen actors guild fixes this problem by requiring all members to adopt unique names, but there is no such organization in our field.
I thought it was Buffet that helped bring Bill Gates around to charity rather than vice versa, with Melinda the primary driver in the Gates' philanthropy.
I may not have used the best phrasing:

For a given tunnel length and ground composition, the cost is proportional to the area of the cross section.
”This is literally impossible.”

That’s a direct quote. It is exactly what you said and it was exactly the first thing you said.

Accusing me of “strawman interpretations” is just dishonest, but quite in keeping with the rest of your comments here.
I'd very much like to be feedstock for magic mushrooms which my friends and family could use to commune with me.
I'm not sure why that's an argument. Why can't you expect?

Its like saying WordPress users should not setup a database. There is a transactional usecase for this - having a high performance, ACID datastore.

And you are mistaken: here's a comment by achow101 of Bitcoin Core - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1394020.msg14159449#...

LevelDB being stupid is one of the major reasons that people have to reindex on Bitcoin Core crashes. There have been proposals to replace it but so far there are no plans on doing so. However people are working on using different databases in Bitcoin Core and those are being implemented and tested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6z776p/breaking_bi...

What doesn't help this is LevelDB's transaction format: when you update the utxo set, you want to do this atomically (otherwise you may end up with a corrupted state). To do so, you start a DB transaction (do not confuse this with Bitcoin tx, this is just how you build a change set before pushing it to disk), update the change set then commit the tx. With LevelDB, as long as the transaction is live, the entire changeset will remain in RAM (usually a DB engine writes the changes on disk as you provide them, then updates internal pointers at commit time to apply the change), basically double dipping on the RAM hogging and I/O inefficiency
It's not strictly speaking a "scene description language", it just looks like that at first glance.

It's a fully capable compiled programming language, which I happen to have written a raytracer in. Check out the "pathtrace" tab.

The advantage is if there's some issue with the raytracer, you can fix it yourself. And you can use arbitrary scripts for making scenes. (Though the scene in memory must not exceed 32MB, which may limit you somewhat.)
Introducing C# in Godot
We are using a ReSpeaker, and we made a blog post to benchmark some microphones at https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-r...
https://github.com/kudkudak/word-embeddings-benchmarks has a pretty nice evaluation of existing embedding methods. Notably missing from this article is GloVe ( https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/) and LexVec ( https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec ) both which tend to outperform word2vec in both intrinsic and extrinsic tasks. Also of interest are methods which perform retrofitting, improving already trained embeddings. Morph fitting (ACL 2017) is a good example. Hashimoto et al (2016) sheds some interesting insight on how embeddings methods are performing metric recovery. Lots of exciting stuff in this area.
What is a jit?

Why would you want one?

Can it help you write in a jot?

Can it help you write in a dot?

Why do I feel like I’m trapped in The Land of Doctor Seuss?
Until they tap into your mind directly and threaten to turn off your life support unless you speak up
I did not intend to be disrespectful in any way. I am - as I wrote - judging this with my limited knowledge of the matter, which is probably more or less on the same level of other Europeans watching things unfold right now. Not more, not less.

Thus, no, my question was absolutely not rhetorical. Happy to hear which problem their trying to solve.
Coca Cola and its business associates are involved in actually killing people with guns so you can add that to their 'passive body counts.

http://killercoke.org/
The simple answer is no, but unless there is an error the rays will at least be traced from the reflection angle. All light you see bouncing off of hard surfaces is some sort of reflection and even for sharp reflections there are a lot of details.

One is fresnel falloff towards edges, which is simple. Another is depth of field carrying into reflections, which is more difficult and not common (yet).
What are the chances a will like this could be successfully challenged in court by your descendants? I'm not a lawyer, but I wouldn't trust that purpose to stay protected. (No idea about blockchain contracts either, though, much less the price future of cryptocurrencies...)
Yes, but their business model is still to get and sell your data to advertiser

We do a 100% on-device platform, where your data never leaves the platform, and we want to power the next generation of private-by-design smart IoT devices
Google actually doesn't use their PageSpeed score -at all- in search rankings. They may factor in speed, but it's not the PageSpeed score. Moz did a study with this a year or two ago and could find no correlation. There was a correlation with TTFB though.
Keep in mind everything is online now. In the olden days you didn't need things like patches or firmware updates. Once a console was hacked you were golden.
I remember 1980 and it's not clear to me that the popularity of "eat less, exercise more" as advice has increased or decreased; it seems comparable (but less justifiable since it's been so ineffective in the face of obesity taking off while exercise has increased). "Fad diets" were very much seen as such well before then. By contrast, I don't remember "fat acceptance" as a thing at all back then.
Only if "whatever you want" means lounging on a beach or a yacht. Most of the people on that list had aspirations to impact the world as much as possible, and there isn't a limit to the wealth you can use to do that.

You couldn't start Social Capital on $10M, for example.
We have many methods, but mostly voice and text can be trained offline and we refine it online with methods that can train on the device
Still amazed that US doctors prescribe oxycontin to patients that aren't suffering from late stage cancer pain and other conditions where addiction isn't really an issue.
Additionally, we have absurd amounts of information baked into our genes that give us big head starts on network architectures, motion, vision, etc.
> each for one word

Not necessarily just "one word" as western language speakers would understand it, since each kanji usually has at least two readings and potentially many more, often with different meanings. (Other people have even compared them to morphemes because the same kanji can be used with related meanings in different multi-kanji words.)
I never said that writing code is torture. CS trivia, whiteboard coding, unpaid homework assignments, and "hacker" online tests all have nothing to do with the job itself. Talking about code is the best way to demonstrate skill in a limited amount of time, such as an interview. I gain much more information about a person talking with them about development than I would through any of the above methods.
We have a few open-source repositories now, but we will start open-sourcing more during next year
Readme has instructions for building on Linux so it's not limited to OS X.
But your perceptions of real and non-real objects (and hence your perception of time) comes from the same source: the pattern of neurons firing in your brain. It ultimately doesn't matter whether those neuron firings are caused by external stimuli from real objects or internal stimuli from imaginary ones. The nest result is the same: your perception of the passage of time runs in one direction because your mental states form a totally ordered sequence of accreting memories. Decoherence insures that those memories remain self-consistent with each other and with the "real world".
The accuracy is actually very good, and will improve a lot with the new models in the next release you can test them for yourself by downloading the platform which is free!
It seems reasonable to me to believe that there are multiple ways to be "intelligent", and that different kinds of intelligences will excel at different tasks. When we think of "general intelligence" I think we default to thinking about "human intelligence" simply because it's the best example of any kind of general intelligence that we have access to. But I don't see any reason, in principle, to think that "machine intelligence", perhaps in the "data-cruncher" style, can't ultimately exceed human style intelligence.

I mean, we already know machines can be "smarter" than humans in narrow domains (Chess, Go, Checkers, calculating square roots, calculating integrals, etc.) so if we find a way to combine that with some kind of "generality", Bob's yer uncle.
Google Unveils Job Training Initiative with $1B Pledge
Is anyone else here completely confused at how much hype there is around automated light management systems? I don’t get it. Is it really that hard to turn on and off lights manually that people really need all this stuff? What am I not getting?
And gdax only accounts for 4.25% of the volume. Bitfinex has the largest volume, and does about $352,758,000 in 24 hours.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/volume/24-hour/
A colleague was hard-pressing me about which advantages could Postgres have in relation to M(ySQL|ariaDB), these extensions (not this particular extension, but the concept of) seems to be a definitive advantage.
Two reasons : ACID and single node scalability. Postgresql is production tested with terabytes of Ram and disk usage on a single node.

It has the jsonb column that can easily replicate the exact data model that you would use in leveldb.

However there's another significant reason - devops if you are looking to do anything serious with blockchain. There is really no good way to build a meaningful production application on the blockchain without serious devops because of leveldb.
What is funny is that everyone who wants to do something on the blockchain first pulls the data into postgresql and then runs something on it.

Why have this problem in the first place? It just adds a few minutes to setup if you use postgresql instead of leveldb and get so so much more. And suddenly you can leverage all cloud hosted DB (rds, etc) and not have to focus on devops
It's good enough for smallish primes, especially when you use multiple bases. There aren't many Carmichael numbers, and the early ones all have a small factor. So the test is certainly adequate in this range.
Thanks for your advice, will look into it. And yes, most entertaining toys are those outside.
So, I feel like you haven't seen the movie. It's being posed by an investigator to a man who has committed murder, who is engaged in fraud and worse, who is conspiring to have dozens of farmers go bankrupt and lose their livelihoods. It's not a question of perspective. It's a question of, what kind of a person are you and why?
But why has obesity not been such a problem in the past, despite sugar being available?

One point to make from the article, though: "They suggested that the physician-authors were trying to con the obese with the fraudulent argument that they could become lean without doing the hard work of curbing their perverted appetites."

If you want to really confuse what's going on, turn to moralism. Desire to judge and to avoid being judged completely messes with incentives and people will line up to the "hard working" side while avoiding the "lazy" side, regardless of what is actually true.