skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15695114
> That's interesting to me, because a situation where the workers whose labor was applied to the means of production retain complete control seems like private property to me.

How? Within the socialist personal/social/private typology, not the capitalist public/private typology? The two are completely unrelated systems of categorization, which unfortunately share a name (but not the meaning denoted by the name.)
This optimization changes factorial from:

5 * (4 * (3 * (2 * 1)))

to:

(((1 * 5) * 4) * 3) * 2

It relies on the commutative and associative nature of integer multiplication.

This means it's quite a brittle optimization -- it shouldn't really work for floats, for example, which aren't associative at multiplication. And it wouldn't work on any operation for which the compiler does not know the associativity.

So while it seems general -- it's quite specific and not widely applicable.
Do neighborhood kids go door to door offering to shovel driveways for $ still?
Southern California's apartment boom: “Developers still aren’t building enough.”
We run ES on G1GC, have been doing this for the last 3 years. With heaps of more than 20gb in size and a lot of churn CMS just doesn’t cut it. What helps is a high number of replicas to help with any potential corruptions, and that we never treat ES as a primary store.
De gustibus non est disputandum

The idea that someone else can know what another wants better than the other person is absurd. Your arguments might be valid for defaults, but they must be configurable defaults, because taste is subjective, arbitrary, and, despite what some believe, never in error.

I know what UX I want better than anyone else. Nobody can gainsay my personal taste.
> Even at the end of the prediction, you still have to prove your result by getting an actual crystal which is not always easy.

From my experience, this might be the largest hurdle. At least in biology, beyond proving your result, a lot of the experimentalists that you're talking to likely think that "all of this simulation stuff is complete bullshit." That might be a generational thing, though.
There's a world of difference. For Mozilla to sell out on user's privacy it would mean game over. They simply can't afford to do so, even if they wanted to (which I believe they don't). Google on the other hand? That's their main business, they are an advertising agency. Sure they make nice products too but make no mistake where their profit is coming from.
Odd...

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/249414/hatreon-a-crowdfundin...
So you want to make them more rare so that people have a strong incentive to harvest from the wild? If you legalize home growing you'll create a larger supply.

You should look at the history of Chestnut blight in the US. Due to the blight the US government directed people to chop down chestnut trees by the millions. If instead, they had allowed the blighted trees to continue to live, we may have discovered some genetic mutations that would have allowed the species to survive. Proactive regulation is not always the best move.
> Isn't this true for pretty much any science done ever?

Maybe, but when it comes to a commercial entity I'm more suspicious.

> How would you judge a neuroscience paper importance?

I wouldn't; I'd let a neuroscientist judge. It's just that I believe most of us would hear of a major breakthrough in neuroscience.

> what would convince you that a program displays the learning and reasoning abilities of some advanced invertebrates?

It's hard to say precisely (largely because we don't know what intelligence is, let alone have a good quantitative measure for it), but if you read about insect behavior it's very clear that we're nowhere near that (just as it's clear people are more intelligent than spiders even though there are probably mental tasks that spiders can perform better/faster than humans). So ask me again when the question becomes harder to answer :)
California has been underbuilding for decades; for reasons I describe in more detail here: http://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-f..., it's going to take a lot to have a serious impact on prices.

This Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar... also explains it's virtually impossible to build anything but "luxury" housing in L.A.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there are plenty of people who don't want more of their currency printed but still think theft is wrong.
Yes to your first question, from the article: ”As you may know, TensorFlow already supports mobile and embedded deployment of models through the TensorFlow Mobile API. Going forward, TensorFlow Lite should be seen as the evolution of TensorFlow Mobile, and as it matures it will become the recommended solution for deploying models on mobile and embedded devices.”

Also check out this post for more info and examples: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/11/on-device-conversati...
This is really fast.
Yeah, you occasionally hear stories about people hurting themselves by trying to pole vault over a quarter or something because they thought it was the size of a fence. Or people being 'too small' to walk up the stairs.
> For 2019, Kurzweil predicted virtual reality glasses being in “routine” use. That does not look like it will happen.

What? At the most charitable and even holding it to 2019 strictly instead of allowing a few years, you're going to have to parse 'routine' to mean very large numbers, otherwise this is obviously going to be true.

Sales of the best-known top-end VR headsets (Oculus+Vive+PSVR) are already around 1m; throw in Gear, Daydream, Cardboard, and the various other Chinese, Microsoft, and miscellaneous projects, and it's at least double that. The last time I walked through a Best Buy, I saw a Oculus demo; the last time I walked through a mall, I saw a Vive demo. And 2017 is not over yet, leaving 2 full years. (For comparison, the Vive & Rift haven't even been out for 2 years.) The cost of the headsets has been dropping rapidly and capabilities improving, with Rift and Touch going for ~$350 in Black Friday sales and the last Nvidia/AMD GPU generation also cut hundreds of dollars off the price of entry. On top of that, everyone expects considerable improvements: untethered/wireless will soon be feasible, the screens are expanding, and tracking is going inside-out. Something like Oculus Go but higher-quality is closer to what you should expect in 2019/2020.

Even assuming no growth in sales due to the cost continuously decreasing & quality improving or the buildup of respectable software libraries, that still implies several million top-end VR headsets in use. How is that not 'routine'?
There's geopolitics involved as well: I believe Europe gets most of its natural gas from Russia, and they would rather move away from that if they could for strategic reasons.
Tesla Is a 'Hotbed for Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims in Suit
Classifying Japanese characters from the Edo period
Correct URL: http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/249414/hatreon-a-crowdfundin...
Heh, thank you, I liked that.
Can you post a link? I have looked at their site and all current builds, including dev say that they are not 57 compatible.
The snark is totally unnecessary, since the vast majority of people deploy ELK to do reporting. Full term search is achievable with grep; what does ES give you for your non-reporting use case, since troubleshooting is an extremely low frequency event? Are you primarily leaning on its clustering and replication? Genuinely curious.

The overhead per log record, building multiple indexes at log line rate, there’s just so many reasons not to do your use case in ES that I don’t even think about it. I think it’s a poorer fit than reporting, to be honest.
When I was in the hospital for an eating disorder a plastic container was fitted on the toilet with measurements, and my fluid "prescription" would be adjusted. The nurses would also use this to monitor whether or not I was actually drinking the water they gave me, and there was a nurse present in the room, with the door open.

This process felt extremely invasive. I would have killed for a toilet like what you describe, and I feel as though my physical/medical treatment would have been more successful.

(Somewhat tangentially, the food given at hospitals doesn't make sense for someone who has been nutritionally deficient for years).
And people might slip these mushrooms into strangers' food out of some misguided belief that "mind expansion" is a positive good, and that anyone who isn't taking hallucinogens is just closed-minded. Or slipping it into friends' food as a prank, because some people are assholes like that.
Perhaps, but I think you can compress current-day phone images considerably without losing any actual image fidelity (because the sensor pitch significantly exceeds the lens resolution, and .. noise).
You could set up a nice backup and restore system in less than 3 hours to make sure that software upgrade issues never affect your professional work work. I have that for my personal hobby work even though 6 years Arch have made me appreciate the most stable and predictable system I ever used.
I can't even begin to grasp how racist and/or privileged this comment is.
How does this compare to using XLA for AOT compilation?
Exactly. Apple needs to separate UI and security releases until they can work out the bugs. So many issues with new updates and UI glitches.
"We exercised our contractual right to terminate our agreement with Yahoo! based on a number of factors including doing what’s best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search, and the broader content experience for our users. We believe there are opportunities to work with Oath and Verizon outside of search," Mozilla Chief Business and Legal Officer Denelle Dixon said in a statement.
This is probably as close as you're going to get at this moment in time to what you're saying. This was posted here a few months ago, haven't checked back in to see how it's going for them a season later.

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2017/02/the_...
Well, I guess that depends on the content of whatever you are viewing. I tried the same on my 5-year old rMacBook Pro:

youtube.com: Firefox ~6%, Safari ~0%

news.ycombinator.com: 0%, ~0%

amazon.com: ~2%, ~2%
What about using XLA to compile libraries for mobile deployment fusing only the operations needed by the model?
It is legal as long as they tell you upfront. They cannot take your order, prepare it, give it to you, and then force you to use some unexpected method of payment.
I don't even think it's that great (the specific PUBG implementation). I love the tension of running around, exploring, and being careful with your team. I hate how much focus and RNG revolves around looting. Maybe an initial gear set while looting fancier upgrades.

The other downside is you spend a very long amount of time looting and exploring only to have it all come down to about 2-3 seconds of gunplay. In those 2-3 seconds you experience perhaps the worst gun combat ever designed. It's very inaccurate, buggy, and frustrating.

The game desperately needs polish. In fact the genre deserves the AAA experience because it is down right exhilarating.
That's a very easily refutable claim.
"We remember the pop songs can came from those times. We forget the broken bones and twisted ankles."

Yes, there certainly were many negative consequences of drug abuse during that era. They still continue, and I don't want to minimize that at all. It's critically important that we help people to use these substances constructively and knowledgeably, rather than ignorantly, irresponsibly, and destructively.

I do have some hope that it'll turn out better this time because the means of communication and distributing useful information is so much more effective these days than it was in the 60's and 70's. We now have the internet and resources like erowid to help, not to mention NGO's like Dance Safe that do drug testing at concerts. Much more could and should still be done, though, to make drug use safer and more constructive.

On the other hand, we shouldn't let the negative, destructive aspects of drug abuse blind us to the positive potential of constructive drug use. Many of the cultural, social, and political things we value today came from or were greatly influenced by psychedelics.

You talk about communing with nature -- yes, there's that, but that's not the empty, navel-gazing activity that many offhandedly discard it as. From communing with nature comes a higher regard and value of nature, the desire to be free from pollution, for eating healthy food, a greater concern with one's environment and a greater care for plants and animals. These are all positive things that we desperately need more of to counteract the forces within our society which are destroying the environment, polluting our food and water, and destroying bidiversity.

Such concern with the environment, which is relatively mainstream today, was considered kooky and weird in the 70's when it took root, and it was influenced by just such a "communing with nature" that psychedelics opened people up to.

That's just one, political example, where psychedelics had a positive effect on the world. Odds are that most of the music we listen to was greatly influenced by psychedelics and other drugs, as were many of the books we read and movies we watch. The internet and technology was influenced by psychedelics.

If we expand this to non-psychedelic drugs, the influence is even greater, as much of the history of the world is the history of humanity's encounter with plants and other substances which we would consider drugs. It's such a huge part of who we are, and the abject failure of prohibition shows that it's nearly impossible to deny access to these substances without massively negative social consequences -- ones I would argue that greatly outweigh the negative consequences of drug abuse itself.
The best liars believe their own lie.
Scammers know the older generation is ripe for exploitation. One of my older relatives, who I'll call Bill, has had a few hacking incidences. Most recently they had their email compromised. The perpetrator must have dug through it quickly because hours later they called up Bill's financial advisor and requested 90k be transferred from his 401k. The financial advisor later told Bill that the reason he didn't do the transfer was because he realized that the voice calling him wasn't Bill's.
I am not a doctor, but if I saw you starting to get dizzy and you were sitting next to me at work or in a coffee shop I would be very concerned for you and ask if you need medical assistance. I would recommend talking to your doctor about that, it is not normal to get dizzy when scrolling. There could be an underlying problem that you have not had diagnosed yet, but it is best for the doctor to test you out.
Will this leverage the Pixel Visual Core SoC on a Pixel 2 device?
Materialists got religion.
Agreed! Using something like elasticsearch-dsl for Python [1] makes writing queries a little more bearable, but it's not a good fit for manual ad-hoc querying (e.g. some analysis I'd be doing from Kibana).

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py
“It is never a compiler error”
Pretty cool visualization. Single molecule work like that is challenging to do properly - but when done properly gives a kind of visual proof to a hypothesis that is hard to controvert. Wild-type Cas9 cuts genomic DNA, and when it does, the strand can go flying - with repair a possibility rather than an inevitability.

Cas9 (and similar proteins) have 2 basic functions:

1) to bind to specific DNA (by means of complementing a specifically-bound RNA)

2) to cut the DNA that is has bound.

Only one of these functions is actually desirable or unique to Cas9 - that of binding to a sequence-specific part of DNA. The 'cutting' function is how the CRISPR system naturally destroys foreign DNA in Cas9's normal environment, but is generally not desirable in these synthetic biology or therapeutic applications. For genetic engineering purposes we really have better tools than Cas9 to cut, modify, or otherwise affect DNA - but Cas9 is clearly a fantastic tool to localize to particular sequences. That this paper so clearly demonstrates the terrifying damage that cleavage can do to genomic DNA only reinforces that Cas9 is a useful scaffold upon which to engineer further tools, but in its wild-type form is kind of scary.

Recent papers from the Liu lab at Harvard [1] (among many others) show how you can edit DNA using a modified Cas9 that has been modified to not have that second cutting function, while retaining the ability to bind to a specific DNA sequence. The synthetic "BaseEditor" protein has been further modified to have more complicated DNA modification capabilities, rather than whole-sale slicing of DNA [2]. Though this designed protein with Cas9 at its core is complicated, it should not cleave and let dangle genomic DNA as we see it here visualized. I'd be curious to see how the BaseEditors behave under a similar visualization.

[1] Kim et al. 2017: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3803

[2] BaseEditor v4: https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/sabe4gam/
Yes.. Suggesting one should contribute to organizations funding education for women in poverty-stricken African countries is super racist... /s
Remember folks, weather isn't climate unless it fits our narrative.
Not sure there is a bar for valid proof - at least in the MSM - at this point. The word of the moment seems to be allocations, and that's enough to take someone down. Add in the fact that "harassment" is defined by the receiver and the accused has no recourse but to disappear.

I'm not naive. Dirty shit happens. But the current trend seems to be: guilty til proven...oh no need for proof.
> a wilful mischaracterisation of his position

Perhaps you could present some evidence?

I paraphrased what he said accurately; 'he misspoke' is baseless and an insufficient explanation. His policy is America First, a term that purposely revived from nativists and isolationists of an earlier era. The President and his administration has advocated it over and over, in multiple forums. His national security advisor and (secretary of state or another high official) wrote an editorial asserting that there is no "community of nations", and that the U.S. will serve itself without significant regard to others' interests. They've also asserted, repeatedly, that the U.S. has no interest in democracy or the rights of others.

The parent's claims regarding Xi's speech are also baseless. Like Xi's predecessors and peers the world over for generations, Trump being the notable exception, he appears to understand that all benefit from the free trade regime and that the powerful nations, including China and the U.S., benefit most.
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[video] Can These Revolutionary Body Hacks Beat Aging in Our Lifetimes?
This is one of my fav papers:
How (not) to train your spider: successful and unsuccessful methods for studying learning
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03014223.2015.112...

Because it has all the failed methods for training them that never got published. Some of them are unintentionally hilarious too.
> In our laboratory, we also used sprays of water as an aversive stimulus—spiders that moved into one side of an arena received a spray of water. In pilot trials, there was no evidence of learning: spiders ran wildly when sprayed and then stopped to groom themselves. If accidentally sprayed too heavily, they became trapped by the water droplet.

I think more papers like this should exist.
I'm on mobile right now and therefore it is difficult to look at source but wouldn't the JavaScript be cached in most scenarios while the images would be unique per page? On a side note I have no JavaScripts on my own blogs.
Very cool. How does the roadmap for this compare to similar minimal implementations like ktor?
That's clever, banking his future predictions on the one thing he knows for sure: he'll die unless his other predictions come true.
Yeah, the CEOs who enter the Chinese market are long gone when the company pulls back.

I remember a conversation I had in the late 1990s with the owner of an Indian textiles company (father of a friend). He said Western companies investing in China were idiotic. He was upset because Chinese mills were selling textiles for cheaper than the raw inputs. His point was that anybody who thinks they can "compete" in such a market is stupid. The Chinese government (buoyed by dumb Western money) can support their producers for longer than any non-Chinese company can stay solvent. That will remain true for the foreseeable future.

The only winning strategy is to use this state of affairs to your advantage, which mostly means exploiting Chinese labour and investments to bolster your position in foreign markets. But trying to compete directly in the Chinese market is just dumb. The government isn't stupid. Long-term they know that they'll need every penny of their consumer market to prevent the financial collapse of their producers. And even if the collapse comes, that makes it all the more important to capture that value.

Better to wait it out until the Chinese market matures. You'll end up no worse than someone who entered prematurely, and probably better off.
Sure, go ahead and pretend not to have read that the main point of the comment is decreasing fertility rate in sub-saharian Africa.

Let's focus on the single decent point (education) in the whole post and shame on me. It's fun.
Yes, exactly.

The toll roads in Illinois aren't actually cash-only. They just don't accept credit cards at the toll booth because of the long transaction times.

If you want to pay by credit card, just go through the toll booth. You get 7 days to pay via credit card or personal check with no penalty!

[1] https://www.illinoistollway.com/tolling-information/unpaid-t...
This is not my understanding of how to triage in MCI. ATLS definitely does teach the importance of deprioritizing people that will be hard or impossible to resuscitate in favor of prioritizing people that leads to a roughly utilitarian greatest good.

That said, I have never heard "black tag = not breathing = don't try to help"[1]. I know for a fact that the boundary for who to try to save immediately and who to deprioritize is very grey in many cases (it is why you should have an experienced doctor doing it). A common example why that equivalency is not taught in ATLS is the case of a boat capsizing in frozen waters. There may be many frozen victims who are not breathing but could still be very salvageable medically. If you chose to not help those who are not breathing in that case you would plausibly be found negligent without some extraordinary situation to justify yourself with.

Another example would be mass overdose on fentanyl, many are saveable but none would be breathing when you first see them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage#Conventional_classifica...
The general idea is that you better off reading review papers, they are more approachable: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-science-review/mo...

Or you could start with something you already knew, but in the form of a research paper to see if you could figure that out with just reading the paper. It's reading from the source: You understand the quirks and the intent of the original author.

For example, the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm should be something you already knew -- try reading the original paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00222836709...
I think Chrome and its DevTools has positive overall effect on the world.
Is there a particularly good book that you could recommend on learning OpenCV? I have been wanting to try this for a while now, but have unfortunately never found the time.