skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because progress is hard to measure when you have no goal to compare it against, and therefore no metric. Most disciplines don't try to measure it and largely avoid making grandiose claims [1]. But some in machine learning, for some reason, choose to measure progress in terms of AI, and by that measure I don't think anyone can point to any substantial progress, let alone to major breakthroughs. But even by any other measure, I don't think there has been a major theoretical breakthrough in machine learning in decades, unlike, say, breakthroughs in complexity theory, distributed systems, and other CS disciplines. In any event, marketers can use the term AI to refer to Quicksort for all I care, but I would suggest that machine learning people avoid that term, which is loaded, ill-defined and with a lot of embarrassing historical baggage of failed promises. Instead, they should be pleased that the discipline has finally produced workable practices that are proving useful in some important domains.

[1]: Not all, sadly, but machine learning is certainly among the worst offenders when it comes to claims vs. reality, although programming language theory is occasionally a close contender.
interesting observation :)
Intelligent and releasing within our immediate galactic vicinity.

I don't understand why the aliens would waste power beaming directed and powerful signals into space.

Do you think the BBC bothers broadcasting enough signal for the Martians to listen to their radio? I don't think that's a very profitable business model.
When you specialize an instance in Rust, by definition it already has a valid instance that covers that type. So implementing a single method is fine - the other ones are provided by the instance you are specializing.

Newtypes also exist in Rust but this is an alternative that is not the same as the overlapping instances extension.
WSJ seems to be privileged in that regard. Others get flagged down fast, WSJ stays up.
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It may be less interesting to highly intelligent people, but finance employs an enormous number of them regardless. I assure you that plenty of highly intelligent people care just as much as anyone else about being rich. Your implication - that highly intelligent people are more likely to care about "useful and fundamental" scientific results than money - seems very naive.
Personally I love Russian imperial stouts but I'm also happy with everything other than sours.

My fear is that one day only sours will be available and that I'll be forced to drink cider :P
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Did you find a job after?
Why is Akamai blocking me?
https://community.akamai.com/community/cloud-security/blog/2...

Found by searching "akamai remove from block list". Second hit.
Wow, that's good to know. Hope you won't have to go through that again.
Archived copy, which can be read with JS disabled:

https://archive.is/hlFg1
It isn't piracy, all the publishers (in my experience & field of study) allow for free third-party hosting. Still agree with your second sentence though.
You've found a good competitor to Google search?
Yeah, but those numbers don't have adjustments for area you live in ($100k is very different in Silicon Valley vs many places in the rural midwest), number of people in the family, etc. I think we would be closer to middle middle class. All of our neighbors are mailmen, receptionists, paramedics, non-profit fundraisers, elementary school teachers, paralegals (though, she got busted on a DUI and is out of work now), etc.
Why does your definition of an "ulterior" motive require commercial benefit?

Are you suggesting that, if this man had a secret reason for going after Google, and that reason was that it was part of his plan to boost his popularity and name recognition with local conservatives by shitting on "liberal" companies in order to boost his chances of winning a seat in the Senate, it would somehow not count as an "ulterior motive"?

Mind you, I'm not saying that this is the case. Maybe he's just going after a big company for a good reason. But your suggestion that an ulterior motive could not even theoretical exist because he's not engaged in commerce seems ridiculous.
Based on what I've read, and I'm fully willing to admit it's all hearsay, Steve, while having achieved great things, has a history of abusing his power and treating founders poorly. This does not feel like bad news.
That doesn't really make any sense. Destiny is a AAA console game franchise. Some people love it, some people like it, some people hated it.

But with both Destiny 1 and 2, the problem was not that it was beta quality and riddled with bugs. It was deliberate design decisions that missed the mark for some players. But that's not different than the vast majority of games since the dawn of gaming.

Yes, if you bought all of the DLC on launch day over 3 years, you would've spent well over $100. Even that is not outrageous considering that console games have remained at $60 since the early aughts even though AAA game development is a A LOT more costly now. If people don't like the base game, they don't buy the DLC. Pretty simple.

Where things get into sketchy territory is when games start to intentionally gimp the core gameplay experience to goad players into microtransactions. Destiny 2 has started to dip into that cesspool with some of the changes they made from D1.
Wow. That guy's forward-thinking probably saved dozens of lives. Hats off to him.
Either people are normal or they are not.

If you have a chip on your shoulder, always have something to prove or want 'revenge' on an unnamed whole because you were bullied in school you are unlikely to work well with others and are going to be a liability in every single context.

Either you are brilliant or you are a jerk. Being able to respect and work well with others is a basic life skill.

Linus for instance respects and works well with thousands of people. Let's have the same transparency that someone like Linus works under for other CEOs before feeding into tabloid level sensationalist journalism that singles out one in tens of thousands of interactions.

Just being able to write a software program or doing what you were trained to do does not make anyone a genius and the vast majority of software is mundane.
Blade Runner and the Synthetic Panopticon
Boston Dynamics’ latest robot dog is slightly less terrifying
As an avid “Destiny” player for over two years, I was so excited to pick up “Destiny 2”. After three weeks, I’d reached a point where there were no motivating factors to keep me logging in. I haven’t even finished the raid...which, as a pretty heavy gamer, would be at the top of my aspirations when playing.

The single-player campaign had so many moments where they hit high notes. But ultimately it was too short, fell into cliches, or hinted at a blended universe (first mission), but then took it away.

I really wanted PvP to be the glue that held things together until D2.1 comes out in December. But with the horrid netcode inherited from “Destiny,” and the changes to formats and player counts, they neutered the one aspect that offers replay-ability.

For a team with the experience they have, I’m perplexed with the apparent tone-deaf touch they’ve guided the game with. For their sake, I hope that it is the publishers fault :/
A lot of people say that in the abstract, but I vividly recall a bunch of specific examples from my junior high school days in northern California.

It was always a relief when certain older troublemakers that were regulars on the scene showed up at a party high on weed, rather than Coors, because they would tend to sit around and laugh, or at least goof around harmlessly, rather than starting fights and driving their large trucks recklessly and endangering nearby people and property.

It's very hard to quantify, but alcohol definitely "brings out the asshole" in people way more than weed does.
> In our system, the landowner profits from this, not the government.

This however misses one important point. They build it using taxpayers' money. So, if I give you money and tell you "please build me a shed" and then benefit from the shed, of course I keep all the benefits - after all, this shed was built for me with my own money!

> The primary reason why some land is more valuable than other land is due to the government.

This is probably not true either. The primary reason why some land is valuable, usually, is location, location, location. It can be close to natural things or to things built by people (e.g. a house within 10min drive of Google campus is probably more valuable than a similar one which has 2hr commute to the closest source of employment). Government-built infrastructure is important too, but usually secondary - nobody would build schools or transit systems in place where nobody wants to live, and people rarely move somewhere just because of sewer and transit system.
Well, you don't need to fall back on hearsay. The code is on github. It is a good read.

Micropython is, in fact, extremely parsimonious with memory in it's native state, and you have reasonable options to get even tighter if you like, at the expense of portability.

As it is, most of Micropython's portability quirks come from trading off 100% CPython compatibility to achieve a small SRAM footprint.

Micropython byte code is not particularly fast in an absolute sense, but is very good all things considered in the context of a microcontroller. I find for really performance critical stuff a few lines of inline asm (which Micropython supports natively) often is sufficient. And for the rest, a C module is always an option.
Now I'm curious, how much data would that be with the latest dump?
In my experience few places even have a single sour on tap, so I think world domination is a ways off.
> Monopolies are inherently bad

Yeah but is Tesla a tiny car company or a monopoly electric car company?
seems to me that google cultivates a relationship with whoever they see has influence. same as everyone.
Here's the thing: tolerance to alcohol does not increase to nearly the same extent as weed. Compare two people of the same weight and gender with different tolerances to alcohol: the one with a higher tolerance (e.g. someone who drinks an average of four drinks per day) only needs 1.5-2x as much as the first person to reach the same level of desired intoxication. Even an extreme alcoholic probably needs < 4x as much as someone who rarely drinks to feel a similar level of intoxication.

With weed, someone who never smokes might get insanely high off of a single hit (say, 1/6th of a bowl) from a bong. Someone who smokes a few times a week might need to smoke an entire bowl for similar effects. Someone who smokes almost every day might need to smoke 2-4 bowls to get to that level, and if someone smokes multiple times every day, they may need to smoke an entire joint or turn to concentrates to get there. So in this case the heavy smoker wants 20x what the non-smoker wants due to the difference in tolerance. What could get a novice uncomfortably high could be unnoticeable to a heavy smoker.

With regard to " bag of something (bitter orange chips?) that kids won't eat outright, that comes in low/variable dosages just enough to chill with, that will allow you to drive your kids to the hospital should the need arise", in my opinion this product already exists. If you use a vaporizer the intake is so slow that you can simply stop inhaling when you reach however high you want to be. Even with other methods, you can simply smoke a single "hit", wait ~5-10 minutes, see if you want to smoke more, then repeat. And there are definitely low-dose edibles out there in the form of gummies/lollipops that are analogous to your example, except that they're not always bitter. The problem with edibles is that you can't "titrate" them like with other RoA's because the onset is too delayed.
Wow, brings back memories. I remember it was cool to have an all lowercase or 3 letter or less screen name on AOL.
Another consideration is the pollution you're breathing when walking or deeply breathing while running. Particulate matter, ozone, and carbon monoxide could very well cancel out the benefits of receiving that Vitamin D production you get in some months.
HPE and Rackspace Deliver Industry’s First Pay-As-You-Go OpenStack Private Cloud
Feel free to add up the subscriptions paid by the libraries of the 100 top universities if you feel that figure would be less disingenuous. I'm thinking it's going to be a vastly greater number of dollars for researchers to access research paid for by the public purse, but I haven't done the research to back that.
Some of this can be read as Wikileaks fishing for information from the Trump campaign, and saying what they need to get it. The Pandering and trying to make Assange sound good is a bit off-putting, and strengthens my impression that Wikileaks really is a mouthpiece for Assange in all but name, but it definitely doesn't look good for Wikileaks in general.

Edit: This seems to be suppressed on HN as of right now (not in the first four pages of submissions), likely due to their automated systems that tramp down things likely to turn into political flame-wars. Hopefully it somehow hits a threshold to get out of that or gets moderator approval/boost, as this seems like news worth discussing to me. Then again, I'm sure there are plenty of people that would be happy to see it skip the front page entirely because they don't like these kind of articles.
This may get downvotes, but the speed with which careers are being destroyed based on mere allegations of sexual misconduct these days is frightening. While the allegations in this case may or may not be true, it is actually possible for a woman to make a false allegation of sexual misconduct. There are myriad reasons that someone would make make such a false allegation against a powerful VC. Yet in today’s environment, even if he ultimately proves himself to be innocent through the lawsuit he claims he is going to file against his accuser, a career death sentence has already been carried out by a virtual lynch mob. That is wrong.
Eh, I mean fair enough. Somebody else goes to use the browser and notices the bookmarks, what else would they expect?
I’m saying that in Rome, slaves/servants were used the way we use machines and conveniences. A lot of their impressive
“Tech” amounted to The Turk... brute force and a person working it all. They had hot baths because they had genuinely impressive concrete and because they had humans tending fires to heat them. There was no drive to move past that, there was no cotton gin, no real science to work with either.
> My only regret was not leaning harder into it when I bought it at $4 CAD / BTC.

In another universe, you're commenting on HN, saying "investing in bitcoin was a complete waste of money, after it was abandoned en masse in 2015".

Hindsight is 20/20, that goes both for missing opportunities, and for losing money.

For every example of someone like you that says "it's easy, just time the market, and you'll make a bunch of money", there's several people that tried, and failed.

In the end day trading and timing the market are gambling. It's no different to betting on the result of a sports match, you have information and odds, but in the end, there is the random element. For every person that strikes it rich betting on horses, there's a lot of people who lose a lot of money.
Is every company having a HR department not enough?
It's been abundantly obvious for a very long time that regardless of the noble motivations of some people who have been involved in the project, Assange is a partisan hack who's about as well-intentioned as weev and probably surprisingly similar in his politics.

Though even I'm amazed his hubris actually went as far as asking to be appointed as a foreign ambassador, and can't help but love the implication that he or one of his closest confidants managed to talk Donald Trump Jr into tweeting out incriminating emails. Not to mention the irony of Wikileaks' being leaked against and its founder tweeting about not keeping any records of the conversations...

We could probably still do with an impartial international clearing house for leaked memos that isn't run by somebody who rejects the Surkov leaks because it might deflect from him tweeting polls about the Presidential candidates' heath or the remarkable insight that the Economist has a Rothschild on the board.
Which isn't to say Cinelerra was perfect. I guess I'm asking what issues you had that were better handled elsewhere.

Pros:

* open and free software

* good tools for color grading and perspective correction

Cons:

* getting multiple sources in sync could have been easier

* I don't know if I ever tried to edit HD

* I got tripped up by the Linux color space (gamma?), resulting in dark videos
I am amazed to see how far this project has come. Things are looking really good. Congratulations on this latest release!
Square alert!
If it were of public knowledge that when a company IPO's, employees in total collect less than 10% of the gains, the public outrage would soon ban the practices that we see everyday.

Today we have a lottery where we dont know the winners and so they are protected. I dont have animosity against investors for protecting their gains, that is fine (for them, ofc, but they are reacting to their incentives).

The main reason cap tables are hidden is because the only person that can buy shares is an accredited investor, which means the company has to cater to them, not to capital.

If you as an employee were able to buy and sell the shares with liberty, companies would almost immediately make cap tables public to get cheaper funding from the general public. Suddenly, investors capacity to ask for things like privacy and preferred shares would dissipate: there are millions of employees in the bay area alone that would pour considerable money into it.

Increased capital means less concentrated gains, larger absolute gains, considerable increase in wages and overall greater investing efficiency.
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I saw a few bars along the frontrange this last summer doing just that. 5 sours and 1 stout, all in tulips. It was hot, I got a sour, it was still beer.
AI can help Apple Watch predict high blood pressure, sleep apnea
The GTD book gets into this very directly. It talks a lot about the principal borrowed from martial arts of having a "mind like water." When a pebble disturbs the water, the water responds instantly with exactly the right amount of force and then returns to stillness. GTD is big on the idea of responding to emails, ideas, projects, new work items, etc, with exactly the right amount of response and then letting the problem slip out of your mind once you're confident that the thing to be done is filed and therefore will get done.

The trick to making the whole thing work is that you need to have confidence that, once something is on the list, it will get done. That's what allows you to stop fretting about the stuff on the list. But to get that confidence, you need to regularly do the stuff on the list.
It's neither? It has more market power than, say, Chevrolet, but less than AT&T. Receiving ~1.25Bn from the taxpayer where smaller companies wouldn't get anything is more a function of its size and institutional failure on behalf of the individual states.
Has anyone read a good book on why the Industrial Revolution did happen? What were the necessary precursors, politically, economically, technologically, scientifically, culturally, before you start trying to automate all the things?
Show HN: django-subadmin – Nest ModelAdmin within another modelAdmin
I use bookmark keywords [1] to register new search engines.

[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches
I got to try a weed cigar rolled in a palm leaf. Although it was more potent than my body knew what to with, the act of smoking it was as satisfying as you'd imagine.
Cool project. I first saw Aubrey de Grey's TED Talk "A Roadmap to End Aging" [1] when it was first released online and it really impacted the way I think about mortality in a similar way.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_a...
Why my Ubuntu container doesn't execute profile scripts?
I've heard that some micro-brewers are sick of making IPAs, but they have to make what sells.
Maybe. Beer-dom is moving about still, try getting a ticket the GABF next year. You'll find some pretty crazy stuff. Also, I think the IPA craze is already over, it peaked in 2014 or so. Now it's all sours and martzens. Nearly every brewer I see is doing something with a German brewery or ageing in some whiskey barrel or another.
Or just "-P" if you want to be concise :)
Silicon Valley is trying to stop the U.S. Senate from taxing employees’ stocks
This is a myth. This might be a possibility in a tightly enclosed space with poor ventilation, but under realistic circumstances a "contact high" is pretty close to impossible.
Could such advances have been possible if fueled by an extremely wealthy family? It only takes one person w/ resources & ambition to say "I want <something>" to kickstart a movement.

Say Marcus Licinius Crassus [1], Roman bajillionaire, dreams of a steam-powered engine in 73 BC, 20-ish years before his death. And instead of duking it out with Spartacus, Crassus decides to make building a steam engine his singular focus in life. In the best of cases, could he have meaningfully invested in R&D that would make meaningful progress towards building a steam engine? Was R&D even a thing in that era?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
It's made tougher because it's p2p, which is a massive negative for players[1]. But it saves them hosting costs.

1: DOS attacks are a very real way that players cheat at these games, to the extent that many highly competitive shooters like CSGO go to great lengths to avoid leaking anyone's IP to anyone else. Everything, including voice chat on the same team, is bounced off of dedicated servers. Overwatch still sees some of this problem as voice chat on PS4 is peer2peer (controlled by Sony, so blizzard can't really fix it), so with some social engineering and fat fingering players can dos the enemy team. So Destiny 2 still doing p2p for crucible is pretty dumb, and if you're a PC player it's a complete crapshoot if you hit some annoying brat that's going to dos you in return.
It can be worth checking if a regional health provider has their own donation network. The Red Cross does blood drives here but there is also a location in one of the local clinics that makes appointments. Much more convenient than a blood drive.

The Red Cross has every day donation centers in larger cities, just not in as many places as health providers.
I'm primarily a Firefox user, but I've been using Chromium for certain sites due to rendering performance. This page in particular was rendering slowly enough in Firefox that switching browsers was worth the trouble:

http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code

I'm happy to report that Firefox 57 renders that page much more smoothly than before. Thanks! FF 57 does blank the page temporarily when I scroll quickly, though. Chromium seems to render it with no gaps at all.

Anyone else have a favorite page that Firefox doesn't like?
Australia's Economy Is a House of Cards
Sailboat weather-routing that has been fully automated for years. I see nothing new here apart from some hand wavy neural network stuff.

https://www.fastseas.com/ is a neat web app that even has an API. Just set start and finish, hit route and you get an optimized route for your sailboats characteristics.
1) Outlaw slavery

2) There is no step two
No matter how you view Wikileaks, they are more than technically able and would have known Twitter DM's are essentially public to USG. Adds an interesting angle.
>Yet in today’s environment, even if he ultimately proves himself to be innocent through the lawsuit he claims he is going to file against his accuser, a career death sentence has already been carried out by a virtual lynch mob. That is wrong.

Has this ever actually happened?