skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>why is it dark?

I doubt the training data/AI will be accountable or visible to the citizens (yes, the analyst gets fired/van'd, but someone else takes his place).

So we're trusting the intel agencies, but they're trusting an AI to some extent. They're plainly not dumb enough to let the AI drive, but it still plays a part.

I'm not worried about an AI being able to sift data given a training set to some degree of accuracy. I'm more worried about the training set as a dark way of generating actionable intelligence, for good or bad purposes.
GLTF is too new to be adopted en masse and too many systems support collada/obj out of the box already to make people switch.

That said, I think it's a great implementation. There are technical roadblocks - most notably that 3D authoring tools (3DSMAX, Cinema4D etc...) don't support export of GLTF natively yet.
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You don’t need to go deep: `{"name": "Bob", "hobbies": ["soccer", "cinema", "music"]}`. That’s 3 tables in SQL(ite): one for the people; one for the hobbies; and one to join both.
Counterpoint, on the thermodynamics of PoW: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf
they post every month and always the same sort of comments; their ad is bordering on spam imho
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> They designed a system of checks and balances that gives the individual the best chances at success in such a world

In which loopholes have been found and exploited to such a degree that these checks and balances now gives the individuals with enough moral terpitude the best chance at success at the expense of most individuals.
Been out for a couple months:

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I do reply to most of them. Can you please email me?
Just because they used the old way doesn’t mean they are easily able to translate it to new systems .
Sounds like modern day journalism.

"After all, if every opinion of what happened is valid and correct (because muh feels), why bother spending any time investigating what actually happened and reporting just the facts?"
It's insane to have a 47% net profit margin.
The new thermodynamics: how quantum physics is bending the rules
that site publishes the same 'tesla is doomed/overvalued' article every week as far back as 2012
... which is explicitly okey-dokey with the MIT license, but not the GPL.
This is marked as dupe, could somebody post link to the original?
> Backward incompatible is a bright line.

Only as bright as the line between public API and private implementation details that are allowed and expected to change between semver minors. This is not always very clear.
Conventional wisdom has that dense matrix-matrix multiply is generally faster if you use some cache-aware scheme instead of the textbook 3 nested for loops.

Is there a similar story for sparse matrices ever?
What is the advantage, other than you can run it yourself?
Go fake news!
Poor Americans, fed the same junk each day that they start to believe it.
I think the worst case scenario is that they can't muster the money to continue on in the face of seemingly endless losses and setbacks.

Many companies think that the economics will work out for them once they've achieved a certain scale or years of efficiencies. It doesn't work out for all of them. The worst case scenario is that Tesla keeps losing money, investors lose faith in the company, they spend what money they have left, no one will give them more funding, and they close up shop selling the assets to another.

A more likely scenario is that the tech is years away, they spend a lot of money before the tech is ready, and then someone else who is better at manufacturing and distribution swoops in once the tech is ready and cleans their clock.

Right now Tesla has no competition and doesn't have to negotiate and compete on price; when they do, their margins will suffer and holes in their efficiency hurt them.

In the future, self-driving cars will decimate the market for vehicles. If we didn't have to worry about the issues around sharing cars, we might need a tenth of the vehicles we currently have. Even if Tesla becomes the Toyota of that era, it's 1/10th of what Toyota is today and it shrinks to less than half its market cap. Plus, with fewer sales, maybe they can't make themselves profitable, they fold up shop, etc.

Maybe self-driving vehicles will create really great mass-transit systems where you can hop on and off ad-hoc routes with well-appointed 10-20 passenger vehicles and get picked up and dropped off conveniently with little added time - probably a lot less time than our current situation with traffic.

This isn't to say that Tesla won't achieve its goals, just to point out that many things could happen to impact Tesla's future. It's not just about making an electric vehicle - Tesla has done that. It's about being able to effectively compete with a market that isn't going to stand still. If Tesla can't manufacture with the efficiency that other auto-makers can, they'll fail over the long run. Heck, GM had a lot of trouble keeping up with Toyota. Will Tesla become efficient enough to compete? Will the auto market dry up as autonomous vehicles come into play? Will we just get transportation from A to B via a transit network rather than owning a vehicle?

Again, this isn't to say that Tesla can't succeed. This is merely to point out that it's far from assured. If electric vehicle economics improve, competitors will come in and fight for those dollars which will drive down prices and profits. If autonomous vehicle technology becomes a reality, Uber, Lyft, and others will be ready to make the case that you shouldn't even own a vehicle and they'll be able to transport the same number of people with a fraction the number of vehicles.
Evaluation code against MS COCO is included in the repository, both for bounding boxes and segmentation masks so it should be easy to run (but takes a long time).

We should publish more details, though. Thanks for bringing it up. Our implementation deviates a bit from the paper (as mentioned in the documentation), and optimizing for COCO was a 'nice to have' rather than being the main objective. We got pretty close to the reported numbers (within 3 to 4 percentage points) but that was with half the training steps compared to the paper. We'll try to add more details over the next few days.
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it has some bugs, when my answer is right but i changed letters position in the puzzle without sending them back to the start it does not show me the win window, bad english, hope you understand
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seeking alpha is a user contributed site. they don't predict anything. their authors do. and most off them have terrible track record and are trying to push their newsletters , funds, and other crud on an dwindling supply of dumb mom & pop investors who read the site
i loved it tho, i love sudoku and this surely caught my eye
I suppose some might not be comfortable without your signature on file.
>It's really that easy

It's really not. Neither git, OOP, nor nice folder structures are a panacea (nothing is, of course). I've seen beautiful C in Source Safe and I've seen awful, overly engineered class happy crap in git repos.

Writing good, non-trivial systems requires experience and skills in many areas. No design pattern or source control system will save you from yourself if you're just not at that level yet.
Yeah, OK. I was initially going to say "everyone suspects". Which is why the grammar error.
> - most importantly, Elon has moved his desk to the giga factory as that is where the largest bottleneck is.

apparently he sleeps there sometimes too:

https://www.gearbrain.com/elon-musk-sleep-tesla-factory-2502...
I get what you're saying, but at the same time I don't understand how you'd implement the class and why.

class Temperature {
public final double celcius, kelvins;

Temperature(int celcius, int kelvins) {
this.celcius = celcius;
this.kelvins = kelvins;
}

public static Temperature fromCelcius(int c) {
return new Celcius(c, c - 273.15);
}
}

What's wrong with that approach, and how would you do it?
I literally just got an email, stating that production would take longer than initially estimated. I’m supposed to be able to log in tomorrow to see the new timeline. I bought on the first day of preorders.
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Can’t we just use AOP to generate the boilerplate code if we are ok with Kotlin style data types? Toss an annotation on the class like @Data. After that everything should get generated at compile time.
I actually started that thread about Prolog :)

Recently, I've been looking at Mercury and Eve. I really thing logic programming is underrated.
The flavor is Buddhist, no?
Then I'd change it to a property and recompile. If it's value comes from the database or a web service then nothing has to change, whatever is calling the service will invoke the constructor as always.

The only exception here is for public APIs, but that's a minority of projects.
That's not a crypotocurrency though. That's called "having a database".
That was the reason for the FSF's assignment of ownership.
I think it is beyond partition rebalancing. There is a fact that people didn't realize of making message broker `stateless`. It is actually much better on reacting to failures or shifting traffic, which is critical when running a messaging bus for online services. because it doesn't have to wait for copying the data of a whole partition when error occurs.
In many parts of the world (and particularly the United States), electrical power is generated through ways that are rather unfriendly to the environment, especially when load is unexpectedly higher. Causing higher demand and, thus, more pollution, is a negative externality that the miner is pushing off onto the rest of the public.

(Yes, some exceptions apply, like buying power from system operators that are primarily based around hydro or wind power.)
Fair enough - I did fail to give Toyota credit, where credit is definitely due.

But I would say it is more a case of "necessary, but not sufficient."

Toyota unarguably pushed electric into the unsexy, mass production, mass consumption mainstream. This was a necessary step.

But Tesla showed that electric COULD be luxury, performance, etc - not necessary for mass market - but the related headlines generated arguably were.

But also that _pure electric_ could be delivered with _more than enough_ range to eliminate range anxiety, even with "notably better than a Prius" levels of performance. And it could at least appear to be "mass manufactured" (even if, on Toyota/Chevy/Nissan scale, or if you will, BMW/Mercedes/Lexus/etc they really weren't). This WAS necessary, and did cause a tipping point that, IMHO led to the Chevy Bolt.

The Prius led to the Bolt evolutionarily.

The Model 3 led to the Bolt "by Marketing force."

And now we have a Bolt.. and basically no Model 3.

We'll see what happens in the next couple of years.
Rubbish! Exercise does barely anything for weight loss. And NYTimes is blatant fake news, they publish any rubbish as long as they are paid well. Sugar is the culprit , cut sugar and your body will return to normal state.
We currently compile to C code and use the system Compiler to compile it further. For dense loop nests it does a good job of auto-vectorizing, but we believe there’s good opportunities for doing something custom, knowing the high-level algebraic structure.

taco does not target GPUs yet, and we want to work on it this spring. It’s clearly needed, for example for neural networks
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I'm pretty sure I read some of the same lines on SeekingAlpha a few days ago.
"Tesla is talking about burst builds that last for a week".

Was that in the call? Their statement says "Several manufacturing lines [...] have demonstrated a manufacturing ability in excess of 1,000 units
per week during burst builds of short duration. Other lines, [...] have demonstrated
burst builds of about 500 units per week...". AFAIK, "short duration" != "a week".
> Unfortunately, we could not fit the model into the GPU we have and there is some ambiguity in the paper as well, so we decided to stop the project and wait until the official code being released.
I looked at your careers page, and it seems you are only looking for senior positions?
You can do this, but routes-per-page with parameters and working back/forward buttons with no serious deps is literally something like 15 lines of code. I think more people should just hack their own router together before introducing a dep for it.
> I actually really want to know how Discord does it.

I tried asking them on Twitter and the reply was ‘magic’.
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As always, it depends on whose ox is getting gored. And how likely it is that you will be confused with that ox.
Of course individuals have the option to use whatever system best suits them. I am thinking more about how far blockchain can actually scale.

Technical people assume that a system without trusted intermediaries is a universal good because it is logically superior (I have certainly thought this myself) but that does not jibe with how most people feel and act.

The majority of people value trust to the extent that they will trust in things that seem absurd objectively simply because it makes them feel good. For them a system without trust is a negative.

If the key feature of blockchain is a negative for the majority of the population that does not bode well for widespread adoption.
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The one with the most utility (connected services, ability to spend, and other infrastructure).
hey cia, we know bin laden’s worldview and don’t need to see his diary, gym playlist, or favorite movies.

we need info about las vegas. the police blotter that night tells a different story from what we hear on the news. the local police have reports of multiple shooters. what was on the hard drive and camera the main shooter had in his room? where is security footage of the shooter around the hotel? why does the airport report a helicopter stopping on the mandalay roof at 10:25pm that night? why was no light shone on the hotel while the shooting occurred? what’s the full story?
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I can think of one alternative interpretation: maybe some folks are better at finding the truth in a statement. E.g. with the statement 'Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty,' which is a machine-generated statement. Bullshit, according to the authors. Certainly, though, the statement 'hidden meaning transforms [the unhidden] beauty [of the object being beheld]' is both true and somewhat profound (imagine, say, a piece of art which is itself beautiful but which contains references to something a beholder finds distasteful — say, a beautiful state of a Confederate general on a horse: a beholder might love the statue until he's told what it represents). The only real garbage word in the original statement is 'unparalleled' — but that is basically a flavouring particle in speech, meaning not much at all.

An unintelligent person might make nothing of the 'bullshit' statement; and intelligent person might find a meaning for it which makes sense, and thus finds it profound.
then the stock should be at $3 instead of $300 if insolvency is such an issue. obviously there is more than meets the eye here. or this is the short of the decade, more than even 2008.
We’ve tried to engineer it to emit clean code, but seems we left in some unused variables.

The C compilers dead code elimination should remove those though.
FWIW, I've been writing software professionally for more than 15 years, and I've literally never come across this problem. It feels contrived to me.

However, there are many different types of programming, so I'll concede it the technique could be useful in domains I'm not familiar with. But if there any such situations, then I don't think they explain the wide popularity of getters and setters.

I rarely use getters and setters and it's never been a problem. I also don't use public fields unless the class is only public fields (and the language doesn't have some kind of record/tuple type), as another commenter mentioned.
Whether or not that's true, I literally have code sitting on the shelf waiting for it be cheap enough to run on ETH, and I think PoS will make it cheap enough.
What would they do?
They’ve brilliantly managed to multiply the sources of, and volume of, noise.
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I see. I ask because there's a common observation that a human (and perhaps an AGI) would never really even run the risk of confusing say a turtle with a riffle, which I tend to agree with.

Part of it is mistaking the forest for the trees. It may be just an artifact from the requirements we place on image classifiers (which are very lax) and the way we train them, not anything fundamental.

Indeed I believe we tend to think with more solid logic, specially when the decision becomes difficult. A DNN will look at the statistics of a feature set and make judgement upon that. A human can categorically reject certain hypothesis from definition requirements: a Riffle is a weapon. It must have a barrel to guide the projectile, and a muzzle for it to exit. It must have some firing mechanism (usually a trigger). Even if at a glance we get confused by exactly what an image is picturing, we can make quick logical judgements on sub-features to make epsilon-misclassifications almost impossible.

A network that would act that way would need some recursive behavior (to implement the varialble-time classification efficiently), a recursive "logic module" or "language module" plugged into the end of naive feature classification.
Yes, no doubt.

But on the other hand, since the parent comment was posted, Bitcoin price has increased 10%. And I'm pretty sure that I could sell before it drops 90%.
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This looks like it might be nice, but regular coupled cluster doesn't really have very many sparse matrices so mapping things into Blas3 is fine. Also if you go the reduced scaling route and use PNOs or OSVs everything is mapped into matrix matrix for CCSD anyways.
yes, but it's not useful in someway outside of the blockchain, which was the thrust of GP's argument.
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For our users and customers nothing changes. It will be the same product with the same license backed by the same entity. See the analysis link in the blog post for details.
Probably to avoid making 'data' a reserved word and breaking a ton of code that used 'data' as a variable name. Prior to Java 5, 'enum' was a very popular variable name too.
Why don't you just use plain fields, and if you need to change it later, delete the field and go fix all compile errors? That's an easy way to find all usages.

Or are you not talking about a statically-typed language which would find the errors when you temporarily delete a field?
> - Create a digital token system that can be exchanged and accounted freely via a centralized server.

This is a database

> - Give it a name. Don't even call it a currency, let people use it as money if they want to.

A token that is used as currency is currency

> - Give a limited amount to any citizen who wants some. Or maybe sell it, whatever. Just figure out a way people can get some. It can't be so hard.

How will the token have value if everyone receives it for free?

> - Promise there will never be more than some fixed amount in total.

No one will fall for this again. Governments always print money to fund its own projects

> Only governments could do something like that because despite everything, most people trust them about money.

Bitcoin's price goes up because people don't want to trust government with money
This is a bit abstract to me. I don't tend to write mutable classes. And if I do mutate fields, it's for a "reason" (and I'll name the method after that reason).

If you feel like it, write out how you'd implement the class and why. I posted a fairly strong opinion, but I'm happy to have my mind changed.
``Lainon" is a term for a user of Lainchan, a 4chan-alike for programmers. It could be that someone in that community wrote that paper or found it interesting.
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