skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apache Groovy's used for scripting on the JVM, like Bash and Perl on Linux. It's OK for glue code, mock testing, and 10-line build scripts in Gradle. But 5 years ago, some of Groovy's backers tried to re-purpose it as a competitor to statically typed languages like Java, Kotlin, and Scala, which is when things went awry. If it had stuck to its knitting, it could have been used widely for scripting classes written in Kotlin and Scala as well as Java. But it didn't even keep up with Java -- it doesn't even have Java 8's lambdas on the eve of Java 9's release.
Awesome list, I always forget about several things on here it's going to be nice to have a reference to prevent that from happening.
Their comment seemed to be partially in jest... I don't imagine they believe never pregnant = virgin.
> The space race undermined the Tu-144 programme by shifting the Soviet focus towards long-range rocketry and high-altitude missiles, and away from supersonic bombers, effectively forcing the Soviets to develop the Tu-144 as a standalone civil aircraft programme.

This is the key to understand this plane. Soviet goverment considered bombers to be obsolete by rockets. Designers had to pull many tricks to keep supersonic bomber program running.

One way was to develop civil/cargo plane. Other was to call it 'rocket carrier' (long range missile launcher).
The Computer Engineering program at UT Austin teaches assembly (and architecture basics) for an academic RISC machine, then ARM assembly, and then C, in that order.
So it's not no one, even if it's not as common anymore.
It definitely makes C make more sense as an abstraction of asm.
I believe the CS school starts on Java.
Adguard android app does full-device ad blocking including __native apps__ by setting up a local VPN. It's a proprietary app, and there are some open source alternatives such as MinMinGuard or DNS66, but the difference is that Adguard inserts their js into html, effectively running a browser extension.
"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."

That's a category error, in that it doesn't even answer the question I asked. By what mechanism does an understanding of human consciousness by an AI necessarily and inevitably lead to moral behavior? As opposed to, for instance, using that understanding to accomplish its own immoral (or even merely non-moral) goals? Especially in light of the fact that it is very unlikely that you consider all humans to be moral, and that all such humans all provide existence proofs of intelligences that understand something, but for which that understanding did not necessarily and inevitably lead to moral behavior.

You appear to be proposing the certain (and rather ill-defined) existence of mechanisms that lead to morality that don't even work in humans.

On a similar note, by what mechanisms does an understanding of human consciousness by an AI necessarily and inevitably lead to moral behavior, when that AI is owned by an evil human? What mechanism, precisely, do you expect to save us when President Trump Jr., or Clinton II, or whatever other human you currently believe to be extremely evil, orders the AI to work out the most effective plan to exterminate whoever they consider their enemies this week? Which, since I asked you to fill in whom you consider evil, includes you in the target list. What, exactly, is going to save you in that case? By what mechanism is the AI going to go "Oh, no, not staunch, I can't kill staunch, that would be immoral."

If you don't have an answer to that... and you don't... some caution may be warranted in AI research.
System modularity allows me to be self reliant when it comes to my hardware conking out a day outside the warranty period. I simply will not be beholden to a third party for servicing. I will get the component next day delivered to me, or I will pull something out of my parts bin.

I'm grateful for the fact that if my motherboard kicks the bucket I can just unplug my SSD and read it in another computer, my data isn't lost.

This rat race of planned obsolescence and software bloat lighting a fire under consumers asses is getting very old. A piece of hardware is obsolete when I decide it is, not the manufacturer.
> Business class was not originally lay-flat

You're 100% correct--my bad.
Ethereum Down 8%, Ripple 12%, Bitcoin 6%: Cryptocurrencies Suffer Correction
For a 100% success rate, it would have to be of the size of the minimal BDD.
If you can allow for some errors, this becomes an interesting problem.
As a guess, a follow up study should maybe consider that chimerism is a factor. IIRC, a woman remains a chimera for about 27 (or 27.5?) years after giving birth (ie her blood contains DNA from the child she carried). So, you could look at data for female blood donors whose last pregnancy was more than 27 years ago and those whose last pregnancy was less than 27 years ago.
Hopefully that will push the ranking up for MDN articles.
mdn.com is of course a 90s directory site for Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. last updated by the looks of it in early 2016... maybe they'll relinquish the vanity domain?
Since I'm a bag-of-mostly-water, I disagree with your goal of handing the future off to something non-human, and I disagree that it's objectively a good thing.
Yeah it's not clear to me why temporal difference learning all of a sudden works so well here? Is it the case that nobody had really tried it for learning a policy for Go with a strong NN architecture? In the Methods they mention TD learning for value functions but I don't see anything about policies.

edit: OK, they're calling it policy iteration as opposed to TD learning. I guess I don't get the difference.
Excellent-- thank you for the correction!
Well, one way to pull this off is to have 2+ woman agree that he has attacked them. Then chase this up the management chain to the BoD, to HR, or if he owns the company, to some lawyers. There are a lot of lawyers looking for work, now including a lot of women.

Get the guy on record as an attacker, and then he will have to be really dumb to do it again, even dumber than to do it the first time, which was pretty dumb.
https://duckduckgo.com
> I was also surprised to learn that the cryo systems that get things down to a fraction of a kelvin are only the size of 50-gallon drums. I was picturing something much larger for anything that low. Now I know!

Contrast that to the cooling D-Wave uses. It's not all cooling but it gives you an idea of the cooling apparatus: https://youtu.be/zDotDiK2UuY?t=50
I have yet to see a movie that tries to mimic what our eyes really see (with all the weird diffraction effect we have with our pupil and eyebrows, and some particles moving in the liquid in front of our eyes)
With the iPhone 8 Siri is finally as useful as my Google Home speaker in terms of reliability and utility. Like to find your iphone say "hey siri, where are you," or talking to Siri in the car for changing songs or asking her to play similar songs. She finally understands almost every command I send her.
What about back-end? Should be nice have one
Small bits of Wood get eaten by any number of organisms and much faster when wet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_rot So, it's probably a poor choice for building blocks if you don't want the robots eaten especially if you want the to move around..
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Same here. I left a few months before the acquisition. I found out about the acquisition through a news article, probably on Reddit, and I contacted a friend of mine still working in Support there about it. I had heard about it before he did, which is a strong indication of how bad (and, IMO, propagandistic) communication had become between the grunts, the revolving door of upper management, and the fat waistband of middle management.
You conveniently elided the preceding part and where he suggested devoting time instead of money. No matter your selective citation his tone was still that of a critique or complaint.
> 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

Not to normalize the atrocities but I think you can generalize and say that we should expect any government to be doing the same. The issue with the US is purely the hypocrisy.
What makes you think smarter humans are more ethical? It certainly not always the case. There are smart sociopaths and criminals. Smart people made a world with thousands of nukes in it.
Have you watched the film The Act of Killing?
I'm no fan of open offices but your workplace sounds like it has more issues than just the floor plan.
Hmmm...Energy company builds something that produces energy: what a surprise!

Seriously, though, there's a lot of pretty interesting tech onboard these buggers - combining a slew of things not combined before (at least in this way)

Good for them
> Fallacy of relative privation ("not as bad as")

At no point was the initial argument or complaint dismissed. Also, it was never claimed that there are more important problems in the world than the initial problem... You are applying a fallacy to a comment that does not merit that label.
My favorite fitness app, Caledos Runner, is Postcardware! Unfortunately, even though it's a fitness app, I've been too lazy to send the postcard. Maybe I'll do that sometime soon.

https://api.caledos.com/
https://i.imgur.com/oxAWU2j.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_cooling
Nah. The landscape and plants were too shiny and high contrast. Everything looked plastic.

There were some convincing ones in the video though, such as Avengers and the truck demo.
To me, this has always been a matter of my attention filter. If I'm in an environment where my attention is being pulled to various snatches of conversation, all of which have some tiny detail that I notice, my focus will invariably suffer.

In a coffeeshop, almost nobody says anything that triggers that filter, thereby letting me block out that noise more effectively.
A look inside Leica's factory in Wetzlar
Fair enough. It would seem that a feedback loop exists where managers who promote staff to be managers because they are bad at their jobs, would create more managers who are likely to promote staff to be managers because they are bad at their jobs, which would create...
Why should he have to have a solution to point out an atrocity or something that's wrong?
For everyone complaining about how they taught themselves pointers while in diapers so why can't college freshmen already do this stuff...

1st: Restricting the set of students who can succeed in CS 101 to those who have already done extensive programming is one way to make sure the field never diversifies.

2nd: Computer science is not (supposed to be) about programming. Let's teach them how to think before we teach them how to be language lawyers.
The problem is that basically Qualcomm is strangling the entire cellphone space. So what if you built a completely new, much faster, much better-in-every-way SoC... if you still have to pay Qualcomm for the entire chipset because they refuse to sell you just the modem without you paying the full bill.

Multiple designers could run circles around Qualcomm, but the marginal cost of doing so combined with the number of CPUs you'd have to mint to do so makes it a losing proposition. Apple's in the unique position of being able to leverage Intel to bend Qualcomm over a barrel, and Qualcomm fires back with a gazillion lawsuits and New York Times articles that cry "woe is me, Apple is eating my lunch!"

On a different topic, benchmark navalgazing is probably not going to help anyone. Every company that's been designing CPUs from the mid 80s on has been writing benchmark defeating code, and I'm 100% certain PA SEMI/Apple is no different; they certainly have the silicon space to waste writing Application-specific-accelerators for acing benchmarking tasks, especially on a platform with as much opacity as Apple holds over the iPhone.
The 'x' in 'Alexander' is (typically) voiced, where that in 'Alexa' is not. I can see that making a substantial difference for speakers of languages where those phonemes are differently composed.
also, that jump went way further than expected IIRC
So you're advocating creating a hidden blacklist to interfere with people's careers with marginal evidence, by justifying that finding a thread like this off topic makes you more likely to assault people?

I find this mindset its own sort of worrying for the future of discourse, and the fact that you'd even suggest the above should explain the (additionally sad) fact that I need to post this on a throwaway.

When anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly back you is "the opposition" and the modus-operandi when interacting with "the opposition" is to attack their very livelihood, it shouldn't be surprising that there is a push-back.
Alibaba, JD tackle China’s fake goods problem with blockchain
This looks very similar to the concurrency and isolation patterns of the Dart VM.

"Use Isolates for secure, concurrent apps. Spawn an isolate to run Dart functions and libraries in an isolated heap, and take advantage of multiple CPU cores." -- https://dart-lang.github.io/server/server.html
That layoff happened a couple months after upper management claimed there would be no layoffs.
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>History has shown the US to be on the right side of that conflict.

That depends on who wrote the history book you're reading. By the accounts of the millions of innocents slaughtered by both sides, neither side was in "the right".
Leaving aside uncharitable readings of the parent comment, I don't think that killing 100,000,000 is included in the minor crimes that he claims are emphasized.

Or to put it another way, he's claiming that minor crimes are emphasized for enemies, which doesn't preclude major crimes being committed as well.
This is a very common move by food companies right? Curious as to what can be done to stop it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...
But why the preference for super AI and not super cockroaches? I'm thinking our primate DNA biases us toward intelligence over insectile qualities.

Personally, I think super octopuses are the way to go. They can make better use of both land and sea, and all the cool aliens look like that.
Exactly. Every img element should have an alt attribute; those with visual content should have explanatory text in it.
Apartment Rental Network to Accept Bitcoin and Ethereum
Thanks! I'll check it out - my $100 Ikea queen being near half a decade old and none too comfy even when new, it's pretty far past time I replaced it with something. This'll be a good place to start looking!
Possibly a dumb q, but is ‘self play’ in any way related to ‘adversarial’ learning? I don’t see it mentioned in the article, but it reminds me of the principle.
I don't think the parent comment disagrees with you on the effect private equity has on the targeted company.

I think the question they were asking was whether a primarily tech company can produce the profits the private equity wants from destroying the company, since tech companies don't have the kinds of assets that, say, a manufacturer does (factories, tools, etc.).
> excused by a higher body count

From 1939-1945, we sent tons and tons of weapons, cars, and rolling stock to Stalin. Were we justified in supporting him?

If you say yes, then how do you decide which murderous dictators to be willing to support? Those who will oppose more powerful murderous dictators.
Yes, that's only about half of what I've noticed so far because I didn't want to write a novel on HN.
I think a lot of us here are engineers who came from unrelated disciplines, or some even with no formal education at all beyond HS.

Other fields could be the same way, if they could get over the cultural and authoritarian bureaucracies. Architecture has less scientific foundations, but it's nearly impossible to do without the prestige of an academic institution.

Medicine is one of the most difficult fields, but I still think if you can demonstrate the same ability, you should be able to go to a residency program.

Academia has an unfair grip on modern credentials, and I think that is one of the great things about tech. For example, some of the very most brilliant modern innovators abandoned academia, Musk, Gates and Newell come to mind.
And it's an aggregating effect. I did not realize this was a problem until 4-5 months into my first job in an open office. It takes a toll on productivity for sure. I notice I work way more relaxed and get more done when the people near me are out of the office or if I work from home.
What about the inverse of your question? That our inaction in Indonesia (and action in various other places, such as Vietnam) means that we should be relatively undisturbed by the thousands "killed in the streets of Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, etc"? I'm guessing that's what you don't mean but it's absurd to think that the U.S. government, even in the same year, is a single entity, and that all issues dealing with death are the same.
As a dumb, uninformed, US Citizen. What part of discussing a Plan B to having their visa terminated be against immigration law?
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Because video-games is still the one place where Mac and Linux are lagging behind, and they have DirectX to thank a lot for that.
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MDN already has compatibility tables for lots of things; if they're missing from a particular article, it's not because they're unsupported, it's because nobody has done the research and filled in the information (it's a wiki! You can add things!).
I just wish someone could make our bozo-in-chief understand that.
Yes. At the other end of Indiana there are small towns continuing to do well due to the RV industry (which only seems to grow). At least in the town I'm from the DG is always busy.

OTOH in Indianapolis we also have dollar stores but not everyone uses them.
Iron is still using sync IO, and while Ruby isn't great at parallel stuff, it at least does async IO, IIRC. That's going to be a huge difference.
Wow, that was a really deep and enjoyable Wikipedia rabbit hole journey. I hadn't heard of Temporal Difference before (though I was familiar with Q-learning).

It was interesting to note that TD-Gammon improved with expert designed features. I wonder if this was simply related to the technology of the field as it stood over 20 years ago or some underlying categorization or complexity associated with the games themselves (backgammon being more favorable to human comprehension than Go in this case).

> Even though TD-Gammon discovered insightful features on its own, Tesauro wondered if its play could be improved by using hand-designed features like Neurogammon's. Indeed, the self-training TD-Gammon with expert-designed features soon surpassed all previous computer backgammon programs. It stopped improving after about 1,500,000 games (self-play) using 80 hidden units.

For others: Richard Sutton, one of the pioneers of TD makes his Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction textbook available for free on his website: http://incompleteideas.net/sutton/ (MIT Press also links to it)
I really don't see how you can get that idea from the GP post.

Hypothetically, if 95% of a country was 'evil', does that excuse killing the nice 5%?

Further, as an American I recognize America historically committed genocide, that does not mean everyone in that time period was evil.
My apologies if it confused you. The present tense was in response to the article written in 2017, not the event in the 1960s.
Federated content is hard.
Déjà vu. Previously (checks email …almost exactly 5 years ago?! Christ, it was a long time ago), the web powers that be announced they were going to collaborate on a new web docs wiki.[0] I don't think it went anywhere because, well, MDN already existed.

I'm glad they finally just surrendered to MDN, even if it was many years late.

[0] https://www.w3.org/2012/10/webplatform.html.en
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Yes, I'm sure Chomsky would say Pol Pot's genocide was overblown and Pinochet's was undercounted, because he's no better than those he rails against.
For me, I think, the primary reason an open office often doesn't work (I say 'often' because sometimes it does) is that being physically and visibly present seems to signal that you are available for answering sporadic queries from others. Interruptions are hard to entertain when your work demands focused time-chunks. No one knows me (enough to disturb me) at a coffee-shop.

I can tune out conversations, even if the participants are people I know. A good headset comes in handy too.

I agree with the article in that some noise level helps. In fact I'd go so far as to say occasional human interactions help - it has the effect of drawing your mind out of the details of a problem and drop it back in from a high altitude (when you re-engage after the interaction), which is a process that aids problem-solving.

Fun anecdotal "evidence": there was this exam I was preparing for, for months, and then my brother informed me that he will be coming down for a month-long visit. I told myself immediately that the duration of his stay is going to be all about damage-control; we're going to spend a lot of time together, so I won't be able to put in a lot of hours, which of course means my productivity would drop. A couple of months later after the visit, when I was assessing how much I got done in which month - guess which one ended up at the top - the month my brother visited! While the no of hrs had dropped, the "density" of work had gone up.
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Google already overrides ranking to put its own preferred things first in your results. The time to complain about Google being a "gatekeeper of what is deemed correct and useful" was years ago; now it's far too late.
I was eating a chocolate bar recently and I had this exact thought. Don't trust articles that say "X is good for you" when X is a commonly advertised commodity. Which is most things.
That seems impossible given that they introduce new types, like string. Maybe there's a src/src translator or set of macros though?
> Linux runs really well on Windows/WSL

I know that some people don't realise/don't care that Linux is the kernel, the one thing that specifically isn't Linux in a WSL environment, but I find it weird that Microsoft are making the same mistake - their claim of a potential conversation doesn't even make sense when you consider the true meaning.
Networking and behavioral analysis will probably render such obfuscation useless for most subjects.
Of course not.

But I'd feel a lot better about saying that if I didn't expect that this isn't just a rhetorical gateway to turn around and ignore the high-body count crimes in favor of the politically-fashionable ones again, since "of course not" is the only dialectal response possible.
My phone (Android/LineageOS) blocks native ads too. There's adaway that does this nicely. Client-side protection exists.
Society either has to fund more researchers with more money and accept the ramifications of that or accept companies funding their own interests. The same applies to campaign funding.
In the open office environment I used to work in I got quite good at ignoring coworkers discussions about stuff they were working on. But as they crammed more and more people into the building, the probability of being within earshot of multiple discussions at once went up. I could sit in my chair getting angry when there was only two. When it got to three concurrent discussions I found I had to leave the vicinity. Some people could ignore it all. Impressive.