skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
Hi, CTO of Netlify here,

let us know if you need any help moving out docs, websites or any other web property from there, we'll be super happy to help. Projects like Kubernetes, Docker and React are already using our free offering for Open Source.
Well constantly putting leaders who resulted in deaths into one basket, and naming one political ideology as an assimilated "source of evil" or "axis of evil" is one problem.

I mean by that logic people will believe Marx belongs to the realm of evil thinkers because history proves that a political theory is "dangerous".

History and politics is built on nuance and precise facts, not some broad idea of how to define an ideology. Ideology can be shaped in any form and is subject to interpretation, that's why it belongs to the realm of propaganda.

I'm not defending communism nor those leaders, but saying "communism is evil because mao and stalin were murderers" is just poor argumentation.
With a stopwatch and notepad
There is a bit of an arms race between get a few $/c extra CPM by spoofing the geo location (the app needs to ask for this, and have reason to from App Store perspective, so not always available), and the data aggregators detecting said spoofing (all clients having the same geo / patterns in geo etc).

Reverse engineering will get you a PoC, but you can buy the cleansed data fairly easily (apparently..)
Deep reinforcement learning is interesting and has plenty of potential. But highlighting AlphaGo as an example of reinforcement learning is like undermining the concepts of reinforcement learning.
"Why isn't China helping". Hah... 1st, this was the 60's. 2nd, the Indonesian president back then was actually closer to Communist China than to the west, which scared the USA because as another replier to your comment said, what countries want in the world is influence, and they will use violence to keep that influence, and call that "peace-keeping". This is also why the US didn't do anything when the butchering happened in Indonesia, because, hey, the correct sort of people (in the view of the Americans) were being killed (actually there were a lot of innocent bystanders who got labelled Commmunist and were killed).
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PSA: The new edition of Sutton/Barto has a nice discussion of (the original) AlphaGo in the back.

http://incompleteideas.net/sutton/book/the-book-2nd.html
There are a ton of different directions that you can head in and focus on. I encourage you to start/look at stuff that you're genuinely interested in and excited about.

I've written a "Getting Started" guide for security researchers that people have said is helpful. I hope it helps you out :) https://blog.bugcrowd.com/getting-started-bug-bounty-hunter-...
Got family/people I know at home who can distract me. I love them. Which is why they're going to talk to me at some point in the middle of a hard problem.
Are you sure the new version is not using MCTS ? I saw it mentioned in the new paper
> Cadbury Jr.’s newest confection loaded just about every buzzy health trend into a fresh green-and-white package: vegan, ethically sourced, organic dark chocolate and creamy, superfood avocado.

Hardly incompatible with it being candy. Avocado is super fat, chocolate is super fat. What did you expect? Also fat and even "candy" are not synonymous with unhealthy.

Sidebar: my first thought upon seeing the title: there isn't even that much chocolate in a Mars bar.
This is just one reason I don't grant random apps access to my location. Unless there's an obvious reason an app needs to know where I am, or a non-obvious reason is explained before I'm prompted (for example my bank recently added the ability to use my phone location to help detect credit card fraud), then you don't get my location.
So, MS isn't new, it's same old MS, and their good behavior happens only when they already lost their monopolistic grip. Q.E.D.?
Why stop there? There's tons of progressive bias as well. I don't know if it's a matter of progressive influence from the inside or fear of becoming the newest target of a progressive revolt that causes the major media outlets to toe the progressive line, but progressive bias seems at least as strong as pro-USG or pro-corporate bias. Maybe my vantage point is distorted/limited?
He's referring to Germany after WWI, not generalizing or referring to America as you do. What other way is there to read his comment?
Also, unsupervised. Also, no rollouts. They got rid of a lot of complexity. At this point it looks like a reasonable challenge to write a superhuman Go AI in 500 lines of unobfuscated python.
> most of the problems required for a general AI aren't well-defined.

Do you care to give an example? Are they more or less well defined than find-the-cat-in-the-picture problem?

> Producing a definitive, objective score for a paper clip collection is very difficult if not impossible.

Erm, producing of objective comparison of relative values of Go board positions is still not possible.
That missing comma in the title made me think it was $10 000 instead of $1 000. I was unhappily surprised when reading the article. Could we edit that back in?
Stop perpetuating the cultural idea that 'anything white collar is OK as long as you do it for money.' The corrupt researchers should be left without a job, just as, say, a food truck worker who plotted to intentionally profit from selling expired products would be fired and criminally charged. In both cases the actors are unethically profiting from your misfortune.
> The differences are pretty clear

No, they are not, they are only a matter of definition and framing. You defined who's worse by the number of people killed, that's one way to do it but not the only one, it also leaves a lot of wiggle room with "indirect people killed", that's where all objectivity breaks down.

Case in point: Your local hardcore communist would argue that the global capitalistic system is not just killing magnitudes of more people every year, it's keeping the remaining ones literally enslaved for life.

The moment you think it's as clear-cut like that, that's the moment you should question your position because the reality is never as clear-cut or convenient as that. It's naive to assume that the reality in which we live is the "good one" where always and only "the good guys" win and that's why we can talk about the bad guys being the bad guys, but that's exactly what you did there with your allusive "Raegen presided and encouraged the advance of human civilization and these other guys did just want to see the world burn".

Like it's something that could only happen because of Raegan and all alternative outcomes, not involving Raegan, are automatically assumed to be worse or not possible at all.
I for one can imagine a number of alternate realities where Raegan would never have been the president, where the US lost the cold war, and we'd still be sitting here arguing just like this but in a slightly different setting, but "human civilization" could have advanced nonetheless.

Some of these alternative realities could be "worse", others could be "better", but I'd say the vast majority of them would be rated as "normal" for people living in said realities because without being able to experience these alternative outcomes it's pretty much impossible to build a frame of reference which ones of them are actually the "best" or the "worst".
Amazing results, though I am somewhat frightened by how generic this model is and how it achieved such amazing results. I can't help but think that these same techniques can be used to learn how humans react in certain situaties and how they can be, very subtely, be worked to think in a certain way - one that fits the agenda of whatever party is behind it.

With the mass surveillance that is Google it's quite doable to test for human reactions on certain things. They got the tools to execute a certain plan and evaluate the effectiveness. Ofcourse it can also go in a benelovent way: like what kind of policy will benefit the most people? (semantics of 'benefiting' aside)

I atleast certainly hope these kinds of generic algorithms will be used to generate effective, meaningful policies that truly help the people. Still a far away future but one that gets closer by the day.
Earlier this year on vacation in Florida I recalled seeing a Dollar General right behind a Dollar Tree in Haines City. The Dollar General is closed and property for sale. The Dollar Tree was open. Both are across the street from Walmart.

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.1248173,-81.6377691,3a,87.1y...

To see Walmart turn 180 degrees.
Q: Why does the guy with a Black Amex shop in a Walmart?
A: Because he is the guy with a Black Amex
I'd like to see Go adopt Ada-style generics. They are a bit more cumbersome to use than templates in C++, but they allow for reuse of code across instantiations of the same generic that have the same actuals, thus shortening compilation times.
>It may be that chocolate eaters are wealthier or have other characteristics, aside from their chocolate-eating habit, that protect them from disease.

May be the main key to take away from this. Correlation != causation etc. etc.

Cant deny though: biting into a square of 90% cacao dark chocolate(make sure it has more fiber than sugar) is an exquisitely divine experience.
Think political campaigns, global product pushes etc.

If you can bulk push near-individual custom ads tailored to highly specific target groups, you potentially gain much more than just blanket advertisement
Yeah, but I've also read what people like Rodney Brooks have to say on the matter.

And I take tech hype from the media with a healthy dose of salt.
I would strongly advocate against working under the influence. Employers may be allowed to do random drug tests, and even if they're not, accident insurance might refuse payment e.g. if you slip on a staircase, end up injured and CBD showing up in your blood works.
Saying things like "it is important to maintain the stability by fighting rebels" suggests that you haven't learned anything from it, and certainly won't be able to keep it from happening again. That may sound harsh, but it's true. If you see people with different views from your own about something like property rights or how taxes are spent or whether the government should concentrate on helping people or building weaponry, etc, as a threat to some mythical "stability" which can be a bugbear pointed to any time a need to justify violence comes up... you will never know peace. People can work together, and they can reach common ground. It's in the opposite direction of labelling those who disagree 'rebels' and impossible to reach through fighting.
I recently pondered the possibility that this is happening in the vegetable industry right now. There are seemingly endless documentaries on Netflix at the moment promoting better health through vegetables (What the Health, Forks vs. Knives, etc). They have some compelling evidence towards their claims, but also towards possible corruptions within foundations such as the AHA and the Beef, Pork and poultry industries.

Sure, it sounds like something a conspiracist would think up, but it'd just be the same tactics that these groups claim the meat industry et. al. have done to us for years, right?
Isn't Arima used for forecasting?
Pardon me I'm not very informed about it but how is Arima used for smoothing?
Andrew Ng Has a Chatbot That Can Help with Depression
That's an interesting point. If you're sitting in your office, the ability to hold meetings and communicate isn't really all that different from what it was in 1985. You could email documents, presentations, and have conference calls (at least in many organizations though not all). Today isn't really all that different.

But traveling? In 1985, you could somewhat stay in touch by telephone (but generally not cell phone) though it was easier if you had a dedicated assistant and international long distance was rather variable. And sending documents probably involved faxes. While meetings/flights/time zones mean I may not always be reachable when traveling on business today, it's a lot easier than it was 30 years ago.
Another interesting piece of news this week is that it seems that even 56-qubits can now be simulated, so the 49-quabit quantum computer Google planned to release this year likely won't achieve "quantum supremacy" anymore. To be really sure, we may have to wait for the 100-qubit one first, before declaring quantum supremacy.

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-quantum-computingbreaking-qubi...
How does pilot wave theory make violating conservation of momentum possible?
While Venus could have an atmosphere capable of supporting life at one time, Venus' hydrogen is believe to have been ejected into space by solar winds due to a lack of a magnetosphere capable of countering them.
> User's of an IRC server deserve to know whether their operator has started recording messages, added or removed security features, or otherwise be free to review said code.

I don't understand how this is related - it's probably easier to tap messages outside of the software via packet capture or something than to modify the software to record them.

Also, someone who's interested in recording messages without user consent is probably also totally fine with violating the license.
You know in movies where the villain rich kid goes to a nice upper middle class home and calls the place a dump? That's what the global poor (as in virtually everyone on the planet) see when western "poor people" complain. It's really tone deaf and quite frankly it only takes a few minutes thought to realize all the talk of "fairness" and "equality" is window dressing and all they are purposing is the .1%'s wealth being redistributed to the .2% - .8%, ignoring the 99.2% of human beings who are actually poor and suffer on a scale that no westerner will ever experience.

If 99% of the world would swap places with you economically speaking how on earth do you get to call yourself poor?
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Yup! Removes are where a lot of these things get tricky. The typical strategy is as you say, removes take precedence over adds, so if one client adds vertices/edges onto a vertex that gets removed by another client, when the DAGs converge, the remove gets precedence and "drops" all edges/vertices attached. It seems like we're basically saying the same thing.

Removes are also tricky because if you're just transmitting the remove operation itself, you have to ensure that updates appear to the client in order, or else removes and adds could conflict, causing inconsistent state.
> “Dark chocolate probably has some beneficial properties to it,” said Salt Sugar Fat author Michael Moss, “but generally you have to eat so much of it to get any benefit that it’s kind of daunting, or something else in the product counteracts the benefits. In the case of chocolate, it’s probably going to be sugar.”

Interestingly, the chart just below this quotation shows that it takes ~70 calories of straight cocoa powder to get a "heart healthy" dose of flavanols. With dark chocolate, which has less sugar as the cocoa percentage goes up, they don't distinguish the type but you need 750 calories. That's quite a bit.

70% cocoa dark chocolate is somewhat (not entirely) palatable to most people, but getting up to 85% becomes a distinguished taste even for dark chocolate lovers.

Jives with my first thoughts after reading the submitted headline: that even if they could show cocoa was good for you, there is no way that translates into the standard Mars chocolate bars. I can totally see how it benefits Mars though - I've seen people give way more twisted justifications for eating junk food than "cocoa is good for you" as an excuse when eating a chocolate bar.
After a year or so it's ok: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Or if the story hasn't had major attention yet.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+cpu+macbook+pro+TDP. Don’t see anything in the first three pages...
#HYPERREALCG
https://medium.com/lift-and-drag/youre-too-cheap-to-fly-fast...

The major pressure has been to make aviation cheaper, not faster.
And yet, if you ask Siri for directions to your next appointment, she's still clueless! It's one of the only things that I would actually use Siri for, and for the last three releases of iOS I've hoped for it. How in the world does this not work?!?!

She knows my next appointment, and she knows how to give directions, but she refuses to give me directions to my next appointment. If I could throttle her for her stubborn insubordination, I would. lol
I disagree, both are valuable. It all depends on what you need in the moment.
Yeah wow thanks! This is great
What do you mean by progressive bias? corporate vs. normal people is orthogonal the progressive vs. conservative.

Think of it as a separate axis.
Ignored or silently blacklisted is probably a more apt description.
If your two options are overpriced, what is stopping a newcomer from opening up shop?
> But didn't that all happen during the Industrial Revolution as well?

Arguably.

> Why is this any different?

Even if it wasn't, massive changes to politico-economic systems to redistribute gains were needed to mitigate the adverse distributional effects of the industrial revolution, so...
Where is the outcry about all the other countries that "stood by as Indonesia killed a half-million people"?

Seems like this is just more psychological warfare against the USA through marxist/communist inspired ideological subversive manipulation. Maybe it is our fault we didn't draft Liberals and drop them into Indonesia to solve the problem.
We've turned off the flags, but we all need to take extra care to comment civilly and substantively so that we have a chance to discuss the actual issue. Users often flag stories like this because they're anticipating flamewars and not at all because they disagree with the content of the article.
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Have you heard the paperclip maximizer thought experiment? Here is a good video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdVC4e6EV4
I think they already did? Highly unlikely this chip is ahead of Volta. And Nvidia has already teased much higher performance than Volta with its next-generation, at least for inference (320 TOPS at 30W).
Dollar General is a real estate holding company.
> Saudi-backed

Wasn't the current Saudi regime put in place by the US?

> And that the Rohingya at one point tried to secede and have Rakhine state annexed by East Pakistan?

Absent other information, I tend to assume that when a population (especially one with identifiably distinct culture) wants to secede, they probably should secede, and refusal to let them secede is a violation of their human right to self-government. Of course this isn't always the case, especially if there are other populations on the land who won't have rights to self-government under the separate government, but it is a good default.
It seems most nutritional advice is somehow skewed by commercial interests. The fat vs sugar discussion was influenced by industry and the sugar industry just had better lobbyists.
Yeah that's exactly what the article says two sentences later.
And who taught you those things? The "official" curriculum, sanctioned by Suharto? If the communist ideology had won, the capitalist ideology would've been considered the enemy, no? Something like "After Independence, Western Capitalism tried very hard to capture Indonesia, but Sukarno managed to fight and keep the country free.". Maybe the country would now be as modern/rich as China, instead of 30 years of corrupt government, whose people still have so much power.
It depends what you're doing. If you're running a ruby web app server and talking to the database, all the io you're doing is most likely synchronous. In the one-server-per-cpu model, anyway.
daiso is more akin to dollar tree, in that their products are generally priced at $1.50 (they carry more expensive stuff, and some $1 snacks). dollar general seems to just be a convenience store
IMO, this kind of pressure only works when a) it's coming from their boss, or b) they're the kind to be motivated by morals.

And, again IMO, if they're motivated by morals, they aren't serial abusers; the reasoning being that once informed that they're crossing the line that isn't acceptable, they stop.

But given the ~1% rate of sociopaths in society at large, I have no problems believing there's a large overlap in the Venn diagram between sociopaths, those in power, and serial abusers.
I'm not sure that there are generic numbers. Some things I will wait in line for, other things like gasoline at the filling station I won't because I can get it somewhere else. The same is true with ecommerce, it depends on what I am buying and where else I can get it.
Awesome job dude, this is shockingly similar to something I built (although yours has way better UX!) and I also had the same feeling that spurred you to build this in the first place. I track everything I watch through my profile on my site (http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt)

We even used the same API (thank you based TVMaze).

I'm going to check yours out in more depth later on today.
But should a language based on C -- of all things, be taught?

I suspect they do this to transition students to real C later... Won't that give them bad habits later down the line?

Seems like a lot of work just to avoid going with Java or Go. With Java, eschew inheritance (not a bad habit at all) and wildcards at first, and you're fine.
No, the issue with the US (and other western countries) is not an absolute one (the level of hypocrisy). It's a more personal one: we are the targets of their propaganda, and we believe at least some of it.

Looking at a distant country denying its crimes when they're denounced daily from the pages of our newspapers might be unnerving, but doesn't affect us. Knowing that part of what we actually believe, or our own news sources tell us, is propaganda, is much more enraging.
> corporate vs. normal people is orthogonal the progressive vs. conservative.

No, it's not. Both are about flattening of power distribution vs. concentration of power distribution.
Duckduckgo is the way to go. Priorities MDN and Stack Overflow, really good search engine.
I tend to agree, but our society incentivizes political inaction from our leaders. Doing something good and hard that could be cast in an unethical light (i.e., virtually anything) can be damning. Of course a good leader would sacrifice his career to do the right thing, but our political system largely weeds out most such leaders before they rise to national office.
It does not surprise me, no... but I don't see the killings in Indonesia and our inaction there as related to the gang wars in Chicago or domestic killings in other places. In the US we have the ability to fix the conditions which give rise to the domestic violence, but not the will. With Indonesia, simple non-involvement of the CIA in Indonesia probably would have prevented bloodshed, but that's not the issue in Chicago, Detroit, etc.

In Indonesia there was the growth of a population of people negatively disposed to the US and positively disposed toward Communism. Either case draws the CIA like flies, and you get coups and puppets or tyrants installed who can be relied upon to take "aid" bribes and leave the country accessible to US (and allies) businesses. In the USA, economic disparity leads to violence. There has never been a society with great economic disparity which did not produce high levels of violent crime, and there likely never will be. But the US, both the public and the leaders, are not willing to even consider doing anything about such disparity, and thus violence and suffering will increase.