skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, Karpathy is a heck of a lot more than the "Tesla AI guy".

Second, he's describing a pretty radical implementation of what amounts to a new form of fuzzy constraint programming using exactly the technique I described: brute-force optimization on a very sophisticated objective function. It's fundamentally statistical, and it's still fundamentally an optimization problem. Neural networks happen to be modular compared to other optimization techniques, and they happen to do a miraculous job at capturing latent higher-order structure in these optimization problems.

The real innovation he's describing is that we now have powerful enough optimizers that it's cheaper, easier, faster, and sometimes more reliable to just fuzzy-optimize problems instead of coding bespoke solutions for them. That's pretty amazing, but suggests absolutely nothing.

Now, a self-modifying neural network might be interesting, that can monitor its own performance and decide when to retrain part of itself, mutate its own architecture, or request new training data. But we definitely are not there yet.

With all that said, there's a much more down-to-earth version of your idea that neural networks can have their own ontology and experiences: that's just an anthropomorphization the latent structure that they capture. This isn't unique to NNs -- it's something researchers have been exploiting for decades. It's only a small stretch to argue that that's what fitting a decision tree or a principal components model is. This is reflected directly in the jargon that these models "learn" a representation of the data. You can extract new representations of reality right now by running HDBSCAN on a data set of your choice. Neural networks just let us scale that up to richer, higher-dimensional problems.

Maybe that's all "experience" really is, consuming data from the world and encoding various representations of that data. But when it comes to generating truly novel ideas, instead of incremental improvements on existing ideas, I'm bearish on how far our current neural network technology can go. Maybe AlphaGo, which apparently invented new Go strategies that no human player had ever thought of, is a counterexample. Or it's the exception that proves the rule. I guess we'll see as computation power continues to improve.
Seems like James Damore has almost nothing to do with this scenario, not least because in his case he voluntarily shared his manifesto publicly.
I like how a lot of these are just cubicles. The rest are just private spaces but not enough for every worker, so workers will basically compete for them. I worked in several offices that had the "phone booth" concept and they were very hard to get. Some people would basically squat in them and who could blame them, really.
Better privacy? Non-profit? More open source? Cheerful community? Pick one or more :)
The 1990s Telecom Bubble. What Can We Learn?
You can't discharge student debt in bankruptcy so no one has done it
It might be, then again I see a lot of wheel reinvention in tech / NIH syndrome.

I'm the kind of hacker who if a service runs out of memory every 2 hours, writes a crontab to restart it every hour after X random minutes so they don't all restart at the same time. It gets a lot of eye rolls from the other engineers searching for perfection, but it tends to produce services quickly that are highly reliable.

And look now the engineers who like chaos monkey don't even have to set that up. It's built in.

It looks like most of the savings were in switching from pillow to opencv, something that thumbor already does. https://github.com/thumbor/opencv-engine
The event is massive, something like 180,000 total attendees. They actually shut down Howard St. between 4th and 3rd and roll out astro turf and put up fake rock formations and stages.

There are tons of different badge types depending on your role in the ecosystem (developer, admin, marketing, sales, partner, sponsor, speaker, etc.). For the expo, Monday and Tuesday are for Full Pass people only (min of ~$1,000 per pass). Wednesday and Thursday allows in anyone that registered for the free Expo pass ahead of time.

The demographics skew to middle age people. Racially, mostly white, but many east asian and indian attendees. Certainly all groups were represented. I met many people coming from Australia, Europe and India.

Because of the expense of the passes, most of the attendees are decision makers within the business which I think is why it skewed older. I would understand if the group described in the article felt like they stood out in the crowd because of the racial and age difference. Also, Monday was crazy. Lots of very confused people trying to figure out where they should be going between the 3 different massive buildings the event was held in.
I think it only takes a small amount of experience working with or in charities and nonprofits to discover that offering noncompetitive salaries makes it near impossible for nonprofits to succeed in many sectors.

Nonprofits need experienced and skilled people to be successful, and experienced and skilled people demand high salaries. To take the stance (which I disagree with) that nonprofit administrators should be willing to sacrifice their salary to work in the nonprofit sector (consider that this means, basically, asking them to donate the difference in salary) just doesn't seem to work out well for technical employees in particular, with just about every nonprofit I've worked with seriously struggling with high turnover and low skill level amongst technical staff.
Introducing {Set} Protocol – A Specification for a Basket of Tokens
Yeah, Firefox on desktop has always just had a badge on private windows, with everything else being the same. I think mobile uses different colors, though.
It is in UWP.

10 years ago everyone was resiting Windows 7, any XP was the best OS on Earth.

Now 10 years later, it is the same song with Windows 10 and Windows 7 as protagonists.
There are also lots of confounding variables to account for - for example, power plants (of all kinds) commonly have higher amounts of road freight than would otherwise be the case, thus greater air pollution etc. Inhabitants of areas around power plants move in and out of the area. Some people that live in the area work at the plant, whereas others do not. Prevailing weather and topography may affect how any emissions from a plant disperse. Spatial stats is hard!
It wouldn't. But convincing people may be easy. Just wait for the next bomb to go off or something, then say they were using encryption in their communication.
Terra is the SI unit for 10^12. One Terrawatt-hour is the electrical energy equivalent to 1,000,000,000,000 watts, generated in one hour.
>most countries around the world, including the US, have engaged or are engaging in terrorism

1. You are saying that at least 98 counties in the world are killing civilians to pursuit its political aims. That's bold assertion. Can you elaborate?

2. Hillary Clinton, a former United States presidential candidate, asked to send a drone to kill Julian Assange [0]. Do you consider this terrorism? I do.

3. The use of nuclear weapon in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a war crime and i hope some day the guilty will be punished. Otherwise, expect North Korea to land a nuke on US territories without any consequences(for North Korea).

[0] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562?lang...

Edit: actually i just found what it is, it is called State Terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terror...
You may be reading the causality backwards. My guess is that Reddit's recent changes to policy and crackdowns on abusive communities are to avoid the kinds of controversies that would be damaging for a publicly-traded company.
I've found a way to move the tabs below the address bar here: https://github.com/Isaac-Newt/userChrome-styles
I definitely isolated myself as a kid and poured myself into tech. I much preferred to hang out on IRC rather than face to face. At least on IRC I could say what I wanted without pouring a great deal of energy into saying it. I know what you mean, part of me wishes I didn't have the stutter at all, but because of it I have a great career.
That is a great point. It could still be feasible to cache the image on the client, and have it do the resize. Although I probably wouldn't accept it as a client, especially if my internet cuts out halfway through.
Declining Complexity in CSS
You're right, I'm also sure you don't drive a car because of how unsafe they were 50 years ago as well, nor do you fly planes, because why trust them now when they lied before?

> And every time we saw that it's not true.

Every time? That seems a bit excessive does it not?
I'm more concerned about CPU time on mobile devices - rendering SVGs then blurring them is surely more intensive than other options.

Not saying it isn't worth it, but AFAIK no-one has profiled this.
There probably are that many worth reading in all, but remember I read in medicine as a whole with one particular disease as a touchstone and as stated, I read the abracts of 400,000 and took notes on over 100,000; so there were some worth reading, by no means all! It's amazing how much is published, and how no-one is paid to just go read and wander through them. If you decide to just accept the standard consensus view of any moment in time, that will of course be a remarkably narrow view compared to the actual empirical evidence and might be covered in a day, starting with Wikipedia 'cause stereotypes are like that. I was reading, of course, in order to avoid just that problem. Look at everything published in a month or week on a fairly narrow medical subject and lots of tangents from and to that, and your eyes will likely open wider, too.

Very important studies are usually unexpected - that's part of what makes them important so we're verging on a tautology, there. So it's a matter of hindsight, in every field which contemporary articles are in fact "the classics." Your certainty and trust in current authorities broad knowledge and open-mindedness is a product of not knuckling down to read the abstracts of a few hundred thousand unrecommended journal articles - as well as a profound ignorance about the history of medicine.

That history more than suggests that if you want quality>authority (of contemporary publications) you'd better start reading, and reading nearly everything.
One of the sticking points holding up the bankruptcy process is the outstanding CoinLabs lawsuit[1]. There's not much room for Karpeles to maneuver due to the cascading bankruptcy proceedings against both MtGox and Tibanne.

A small number of MtGox ex-customers cottoned on quickly to the possibility that any excess surplus might accrue to the shareholders and filed claims directly against Tibanne. The rest of the claimants have been left to organize amongst themselves. One such effort recently organized is MtGoxLegal[2].

The current sentiment is to try to convince the Japense court trustee that the principle of unjust enrichment[3] should apply, but nobody knows if this will hold under Japanese bankruptcy law in this situation.

Fun times abound.

[1] https://themerkle.com/mtgox-phoenix-rises/

[2] https://www.mtgoxlegal.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unjust_enrichment
Part of that anti-intellectualism is viewing people as anti-"real/hard work". If your job disappears because it's outsourced, automated, or you throw out your back, you are going to be more successful in finding satisfying new work if you didn't stop learning.

What I'm talking about applies to all people, including blue collar workers. I have a blue collar background, and I've worked labor intensive jobs. I grew up in a red part of the country, but it applies there as well.

I'm not debating if people should go to college or trade school. Mike Rowe has a dog in that fight but I don't. He claims that there is a shortage of people in the trades. If that's true, why don't companies raise wages and signal that there is a need?
While there are some similarities in the UI I don't think the photon design system is a chrome ripoff. http://design.firefox.com/photon/welcome.html
Yes. Or we can aim for a software FM synth with analog feel in sound of Synclavier and versatility of FS1r :)

By the way, Yamaha FS1r is the only hardware FM synth that I currently have. Several years ago I've implemented singing synthesis after reading Yamaha's patent on FS1r. The synthesis was implemented on a specialized multicore chip and we even showed the result to Yamaha representatives. They liked the sound, but they were not interested in the chip. Anyway, it's a different story :)
I wonder, how many users here know about progressive jpeg, and about the trick with partially loading progressive jpeg file?
You'll need a custom userChrome.css

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

/* to hide the native tabs */
#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse;
}

/* to hide the sidebar header */
#sidebar-header {
visibility: collapse;
}

You probably want to enable the menu bar if you do this, to stop the minimize/maximize/close buttons from overlapping the menu & other buttons on the right top corner.
The more capable the browser gets the more people will turn off these capabilities. I love JS and the web, yet I have JS off by default! Mostly because it gets rid of a lot of crap, but I also don't trust every single web site I visit.
Not only that, but it also raises awareness of private search engines with the general audience.
I’m crawling around 80-120M per month and the price for me fits my needs. But I suggest that you contact them if you have special needs or requirements.

Also you have to consider the amount of work, time and money that you will save by not maintaining your own system to avoid blocks and bans from the websites you are trying to crawl. With them you just call an API endpoint and you don't have to care about all that
Thanks for the note - working on that. https://developer.twitter.com/en/pricing should work.

There's free sandbox access, and then tiered pricing for increased access and additional features like counts and the enrichments.
Nobody naturally sounds like Totalbiscuit. It's a learned, affected style of speech.
Not entirely true anymore. If you select eg "Quantum Reference (Windows, browser, x64)" and look at the Breakdown list, you'll see a couple of browser benchmarks that look at responsiveness and rendering. Speedometer and Unity WebGL, for example. But yeah, it's mainly all about JS.

Since the Quantum effort started, the JS team has prioritized perf work higher, so quite a bit of perf-related improvements have been made in Spidermonkey for 57 as well. (And Quantum DOM needed some rearchitecting to re-multithread the engine in a limited way.)

(Source: I work on Spidermonkey.)
Lab mice's ancestral ‘Eve’ gets her genome sequenced
> What are Terrawatts?

1 terawatt (TW) = 10e12 watts. Then 1 watt-hour (Wh) is 3600 joules.

Or maybe you meant to say they misspelled the word? But then you would have just said it was a misspelling, so I assumed you asked about the unit itself.
> Is it impossible to support window or otherwise chrome-level event listeners and also e10s?

Yes, because those things are now running in different processes, which means it requires IPC, and allowing extensions to communicate over IPC with the chome throws all the benefits of e10s out the window.
Armin's first Python/Rust post in Oct 2016 motivated me to give Rust a try, and I did. Learning Rust wasn't easy but the community on irc (#rust-beginners) were patient and exceedingly helpful. My "month of Rust" finished with this: http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials/

Give Rust a try!
There's as much here that's cultural as economic. There's no ceiling on how much I'd have to earn before I'd pay somebody to do that kind of work for me, because (for someone with my working-class background, at least) hiring someone to do that for you feels degrading and emasculating.

It's a simple task you can and should do yourself. Money has very little to do with it.
For example, by logging all of your keystrokes / input actions and storing them. (edit: this is why people are so concerned about things like Intel ME)
It's great, until you go to stream a video. Then the fans kick on, the computer gets too hot to hold... Been this way forever, hope Firefox can address this at some point in a future release.
> browser support for FLIF make this kind of thing irrelevant

I'm not sure it would. The nice thing about a lot of these SVG options (or even the smaller images as well), is that they can be embedded into pages. So not only do you see the image faster, you also reduce the number of remote file fetches. FLIF sounds like you'd still have to hit another server to see anything, even if the thing you see would display before it finishes loading.
Naw, the DOM is fairly small. Go here for a summary http://prettydiff.com/guide/unrelated_dom.xhtml

HTML is far larger than the DOM. Like comparing an ant to Jupiter.
Forgetting about the speed for a moment (which is great), I like the direction they are taking the user interface. Recent versions of FireFox had terribly clunky and frustratingly bizarre UI elements, 57 is a huge improvement.
Could you explain, in detail, that difference?
A New Era of SSRF – Exploiting URL Parser in Trending Programming Languages [pdf]
the webhook-based Account Activity API is in beta now and on the roadmap for general availability.
> You can't discharge student debt in bankruptcy

Yes, you can, it's just more difficult than other unsecured debt. This is a distressing popular myth which leads people to fail to explore their options.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancell...
This is supported by GNOME Shell 3.26 which I'm currently running under Ubuntu 17.10.
About ten years, all in, fulltime - because I read a lot of full articles and took notes on many; I have notes with keywords for over 100,000 articles. (Edit: Actually ten years probably got me to 250,000+, the rest since that time when I could devote all my time to that one task.)
Anarchist Profits And Socialized Losses
and yet it was the only browser that really opposed EME, and only backed down once not only every browser had implemented the extension, but many major media providers too. Basically once the browser became useless for media consumption because of it.
I was responding in the context of:

> As someone who goes as long as possible without performing updates

I take that to mean without updating the apps either, not just the os. I've seen people reject any kind of upgrades.
Our efforts to help protect journalists online
Is “declarative SVG animation scripting” really a primitive API you need the browser to support directly? “Rewriting a big part of Actionscript functionality” seems like the job of a JS animation framework, not the browser. Like the ones that animation tools that previously compiled to Flash (e.g. Adobe Animate itself) use.
Why Do So Many Startups Fail?
Are you sure? I thought they didn't do this.
I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.
I didn't mean to refer to blurred images, but the unblurred outline SVGs in this article. I think the blurred ones are somewhat pointless too. The unblurred versions give you actual information as to what the image is. For instance, the sneakers image; if I didn't care about sneakers, I'd be likely to just scroll past it. In the blurred version, I might not be able to tell that they're sneakers.
Scheme has it's roots in the classroom, that much is true, however that doesn't make what I stated previously any less true, nor does it automatically mean that Racket is a better vehicle for improving the code quality of its students over other languages outside a programmer's comfort zone.

In other words, learning Racket can make you a better programmer, but so can learning Smalltalk, Forth, Coq, an assembly language, etc... All languages outside your comfort zone that are designed for practical purposes (i.e. not languages like Brainfk, Malbolge, etc...) are potentially rich sources of information. Putting Racket at the top of the pile doesn't seem appropriate.
The Sandbox is real live Twitter data, free access, but a smaller number of requests, no counts endpoint, and no enrichments.
> How much does a hack of all your data and/or a major outage cost?

seems to vary wildly. for some, it's not that expensive.
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Try Tree-Style Tabs. It totally replaced tab groups for me, it's far more capable.
So every package author understands each of their dependencies and all of their respective sub-dependencies, recursively on down?

This is probably the best bit of programming humor I've read all morning.
Edsger W. Dijkstra Archive

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

Classics and very good reading. Some of the papers are hand written.
I don't see how ignoring async is going to turn out well for this project.
What kind of worldview sees taking money from corporations through a contract as stealing? That's how corporations act and they should be treated the same way. It's not like it's some mom and pop store that didn't have the legal or financial resources and got backed into a shitty deal
Marvel API and Vuepack (Vue and Vuex)
"Tera" is an SI prefix and "Watt" is the SI unit of power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_SI_prefi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
There are a number of problems with this argument, but the biggest one is that most such calls will not actually be tail-recursive. The very specific `adjoin` example that has been provided only works with `contains` not being in a tail position because `or` is assumed to use short-circuit evaluation, and because the author is apparently willing to live with a set membership test that has linear time complexity. We can see that the `contains` method for `UnionObject` is not tail-recursive, for example, no matter how you cut it.

The primes example effectively constructs a linked list with 78,498 elements; any unsuccessful search will iterate over all those elements, and successful searches will (depending on how the search arguments are distributed) also easily traverse tens of thousands of elements. Handwaving performance issues away with "we know lots of ways this code can be optimized, but let us please focus on the behavior of the constructed set" is wrong, simply because efficient and actually usable implementations may exhibit totally different requirements w.r.t. tail recursion and what should be in an interface.
I think the bigger problem is that it exposes the grid from the word go.

I myself though i had to enable each sub-set individually until i took a closer look at the behavior when clicking certain ui elements (that as i recall were unlabeled).

Noscript on the other hand only present a list of domains, though one can enable sub-domain granularity in the options (never felt the need).
Under no circumstances would I use WinForms for something I have to release to the public in 2017. It was a great API upon release. It's an awful call today, when DPI scaling and similar "this was written with something past Windows XP in mind" concerns are at the forefront.

And, unlike something like Electron.NET (which I wouldn't use either, because I'm not scared of TypeScript, but whatever, I get the reasoning), you're bolted to Windows and Windows alone. Maybe you have no MacOS users, but most folks would like to have those users. If only because they tend to spend more money on software.
In other news, water is wet. Of course they're considering an IPO eventually; they took $200m in funding just a few months back. I suspect people upvoting the article didn't actually read it, or else they would have seen the quote from Steve saying "the time frame is pretty far out".