skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work has multiple parts. Some work is done alone, some in pairs, and some in a public group. The public group part has value and importance: for example, getting more variety of criticism and other feedback such as what people don't understand. Work done in a public group also helps others learn, so that's good.

If, hypothetically, you should join the group, in what way could you find that out? What would change your mind?

Example of Fallible Ideas thinking: http://fallibleideas.com/taking-children-seriously
In addition to planned towns and cities, there are many planned developments that exist within larger cities, such as Battery Park City in New York and Stapleton in Denver.
I'd call it "smart," but not in the technical sense.

First, the Central Arizona Project borders to the north,
providing good access to water before it reaches
Phoenix.

Second, it would have access to some of the best solar
energy concentrations per meter squared of anywhere on
the planet including the Sahara Desert. Agua Caliente
is just to the southwest, north of I-8.

Third, close proximity to 345-500 kva transmission
lines just to its west and presumably access to
the main natural gas pipelines that run through
on their way to Phoenix.

Fourth, open access to I-10 running from L.A. to
Jacksonville, FL. and the added bonus of the
I-11 corridor which is just getting started
to the east (the 303) intending to run from
Mexico to Canada.

Fifth, a clean slate land-wise to build whatever
you'd like.

This is a carefully crafted, well researched, and
for anyone who's been to the west valley lately,
easily envisioned, project to be completed over the
next fifteen years.

Interesting idea Bill.
Direct Github-Link: https://github.com/Terark/terarkdb
China is no longer a contender - It's the true looming power of the East. And depending on how internal politics play out, it will be interesting to see where exactly China stands in as little as 10-20 years in the future.

Exactly that:

https://i.imgur.com/kjF57Sy.png

https://i.imgur.com/OkOQWkj.png
> A decision analysis of revenue vs readers yields an acceptable damage of ~3% total traffic loss. Power analysis of historical ... traffic data demonstrates that the high autocorrelation yields very low statistical power with standard tests & regressions but acceptable power with ARIMA models.

Was all that math worth your time, or would you have made more money selling tamales on the corner?
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Yes, and there are many researchers outside of companies, that publish in the open. The field will not be locked up to the first arrival.
That's hard as I haven't read too many. The recent deepmind papers (the ones about imagination) were good. The papers were pretty standard but they came along with explanatory blogpost[1] and some videos covered them too[2][3][4]. This supplementary content is what made them accessible for me.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/agents-imagine-and-plan/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-YOPcjkFw
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agXIYMCICcc
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56GW1IlWgMg
Based on your post, I highly recommend taking a year or two off to focus on math only. You can get the equivalent of a bachelors and masters in pure math in just two years (if that's all you're doing with your time), and it would be enough to fix all the issues you're experiencing. Just take the pure math courses instead of computational math, as abstract and difficult as possible, it will generalize much better :).

I got into math for exactly the same reasons while doing research in computer vision as an undergrad, and taking the requisite time off to learn advanced math (actually going overboard on it) has been an incredible boon to my AI career.
I'm curious if any ad networks or SSPs are differentiating based on load times. I wouldn't think so because big sites that drive lots of impressions tend to load slower and aren't as concerned with page speed as someone like OP.

I'd also be curious to see his user to patreon donator conversion rate, and if removed ads and 'gaining' 10% of traffic would be worth it from a revenue stand point.
I think they're referring to cryptographic codes which makes it sound less awkward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_(cryptography)
Agreed that boat wasn't loaded down to that waterline, no way, and anyway the curve is all wrong. The beaching explanation seems reasonable but its also hard to credit that these two beached a 50' boat and got it off again. I've never done it, and wouldn't unless in extreme need, but I know it's not that easy and it takes a specific sort of beach to manage it without tearing the boat up.
Good question. Even if it does not load, it should still show the adsense code in the html. But looking at some random post, I don't see it:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150304235943/http://www.gwern.n...

Adsense is usually a script loaded from googlesyndication.com which is not in the source here.

Maybe archive.org rewrote the html so much that it is not there anymore?
There seems to be a natural arc to the process we keep reading about: Get investors & users with your cool design. Burn cash. Have an IPO. Flail as you try to monetize.

But, they're at least succeeding at something that Google couldn't do if their life depended on it, which is make a social thing people want to use.

What I don't get is why Google doesn't just swoop in either at the early stage or at flailing-and-monetization stage, buy them and stick them in their back pocket.
Microservices, Observabity and Groundhogs Day
Was curious and tried the others and still not following. Can you explain what is wrong with the results?
I’m not even peripherally involved in the IC but I think this is being used to refer to e.g. cryptographic protocols, rather than source code.
This is an enormous exercise in trying to prove that, despite reality, China doesn't matter in research and related areas. It is futile. The results of scientific production are a lagging indicator, and China nowadays produces almost as much research as the US. China is a growing society, with growing life standards, while the US life standards are stagnating. I was once a China doubter, these days are over however. While the US is constantly worried about supporting its oligarchy, China is using all its resources to invest in a better society. While this battle is not completely lost to the US, it seems more and more like the situation that lead the UK to its downfall.
Trump.

Whether you like the guy or you believe he is a scoundrel who should be impeached, it's a little strange to put anything on him for this, considering the dates involved and how far removed the situation is from him.

> Mr. Obama did not act on the advice, in part because Admiral Rogers’ agency was at the center of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who again on Saturday disputed his intelligence agencies’ findings on Russia and the election, extended the admiral’s time in office. Some former intelligence officials say they are flabbergasted that he has been able to hold on to his job.

In other words "Obama couldn't take care of business because of the Russia investigation, and Trump kept the guy around, to the chagrin of other intelligence people."
So what is the answer to the question how a German Newspaper became the go-to place for leaks like the Paradise Papers? The article doesn't explain anything. It just states what happened as a list of totally unrelated things.
A replication study still needs to publish a paper, that is a separate issue.
So the brain has its own adversarial examples, it's not just GANs that can be fooled.
I drink tea now, but I used to drink coffee. I'm a T1D (Type 1 Diabetic), so I get blood-work done quite regularly, BP measurements, etc. I was surprised to see my BP drop significantly with my switch to mostly black tea (118/78 -> 100/60). I also notice less fluctuations in fasting blood sugars; my A1C is always between 4.8 and 5.2 FWIW. I feel more hydrated, I'm significantly less tired and I'm calmer. I have a cup of coffee every now and then, and I'm amazed at its impact, it's a very intense drink. I believe tea is the healthier beverage, but that's just me. I drink a lot of tea to compensate for the caffeine loss (4-6) cups (8oz) a day.
I don't think quantity of research is an important thing to measure
I don't think it's exactly right to say they should have focused on defense. The first mistake was focusing on installing a surveillance apparatus and using fear mongering to sell it politically while giving short thrift to the actual principles justifying the decision. In doing so they lost the moral high ground and opened the door for Snowdens and worse. I'm not saying the NSA has ever been a paragon of ethics, but you've got to have some standards or no amount of vetting is going to be sufficient to suppress everyone's conscience.
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And it's not like in 2017 anybody stores their contacts in their SIM
This is the biggest problem I have with Adsense. Most of the time it seems like they couldn't find an ad that fits me but their system decided to just throw me a random ad for Forex Trading or whatever. This turns their supposedly sophisticated ad system into a random generator as far as I'm concerned.

They could fix this by:

1. Just showing blanks if they can't get something targeted to my preferences

2. Not allowing advertisers to be too general in their targeting if they are doing performance campaigns(CPC and CPA). Only allow CPM advertisers to target broad categories.
Sure it is. The human race :)
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If quantity were the thing, then Kim Jong Il was the greatest author of all time, assuming you discount forum posting, in which case probably some on David Icke's forums takes the prize.
I was thinking about this the other day at work (at Amazon) - there would be such an incredible array of opportunities by starting to build a city from scratch. I think it would be really different from cities that we know today and there would be a big opportunity to experiment with urban planning.

But anyways - I doubt this is even minutely likely. Cool thought experiment nonetheless.
Just my two cents: I'm currently building an app on the Shoutem platform, and have been required to extend one of the Shoutem extensions to do so. I have been in direct communication with the Shoutem team throughout this proces, and have gotten to know the platform intimately.

A month into it, I can honestly say I can't recommend using the platform (yet). While the idea is an interesting one, it's bloated, buggy, slow, and doesn't offer much over optimizing a website for mobile devices. That said, the team behind the platform is great, and I'm confident they'll work out the kinks over the coming months to make it more user/developer friendly.
Looks like it's going to be available in Firefox 58 behind a pref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1415481
Root Cause Analysis as Storytelling
This is something I have been wondering about: how did both the CIA and NSA have their toolkits leaked within months of each other?

Either one of these agencies suffering such a major security breach would be extraordinary but both at the same time is unprecedented.
Modern Technology for an Ancient Contest
It can run Ubuntu-MATE 16.04, OpenBSD, MorphOS and more.

It's barely usable for web browsing. Even with upgraded hardware (1.25GB RAM and a CF card instead of hard drive) Firefox on Ubuntu and TenFourFox on Mac OS X Tiger are really damn slow. OWB (WebKit) on MorphOS is a bit better, but still not what I'd use for everyday work.
"catching up" and "falling behind"

Within the context of this article, the thing gained or lost is capacity for Scientific Research, and the article suggests renaming an NSF report.

It is not a statement about "things in general" around the world.
> Focusing on one of them doesn't automatically benefit your efforts on the other.

Uh, yeah. It isn't saying, "why did defense fail to automatically follow from offense?" It's literally just saying they failed to protect their own network, whether technically or organizationally.
> The biggest question is if VR can bridge the "uncanny valley" of video chat and other current technologies

If they hit uncanny valley they’ve already put too much realism in. Realism isn’t the issue... video chat fully photorealistic already and it doesn’t work.

The issue is conversational cues. You need to be able to see where other people are looking. You need to be able to hear their breath and the non-word mouth sounds they make. You need to see gestures and posture changes. And you need to be able to see them for every person in the meeting simultaneously in 3D space.

These are all well documented tells that we need in order to carry on a group conversation. The science on this subject is thoroughly studied.

Getting an MVP in place doesn’t require photo realism. It probably does require full body tracking, more like Leap motion than Oculus Touch. It probably does require mics and headphones that are calibrated together and it probably does require specifically tuned audio codecs. It probably requires eye and face tracking equivalent to what Apple has on the iPhone X.

But I doubt the uncanny valley will come into play. Animal heads like Apple already has might already be enough. None of the announced headsets will be able to do VR conferencing well, but I doubt we’re more than 5 years away from one that can. It’s mostly an integration problem at this point. With a lot of iterative design until people are like “yeah, that was a comfortable conversation! Weird but comfortable.”
In some terminals, python buffers the output until it has enough and then dumps it to the console. IIRC it is like this because the console can be pretty slow, so by buffering you can do more calculations instead of always waiting for the console.
You aren't familiar with Amazon, apparently.
I can hear this ringing all the time, even during a conversation or on the street. I tend to not be aware of it, but when I am, it is ringing loud and clear.

I too tried to describe it - like a waterfall, like the sound of the cathode ray TV set, like the sound of pressured gas escaping from a hole, or just pure sonic pressure. The location of the sound is not in any of the ears but inside the head. When I yawn or when I breath out slowly on the mouth it becomes more intense.

I find it comforting and don't mind it. I even used it as support in meditation (it's called the "nada resonance" in yoga). It's just with me, and has always been. When I found out that not everyone hears it, I was quite surprised.
External PS/2 isn't dead either, by the way. Haven't seen in laptops, but I have two modern desktop motherboards and both have a PS/2 port.
Alexa doesn’t have the attention span to eavesdrop on your conversations
Filter the articles based on the rules you define: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
One thing that is not talked about enough with NSA is that if they are capable of leaking some of their most sensitive and powerful tools, then they are also capable of leaking the most sensitive and private information they collect on people. Perhaps this has not yet happened, or perhaps it has (someone will no doubt point out any known incidents here if there are any) but the idea is unnerving.

Maybe my wording is not perfect "they are capable of leaking" well you could argue that NSA didn't leak, it was possibly hacked by an outside actor. I don't think the distinction matters much though in this case. The main point is that they can no longer say "trust us" with a straight face.
The rise of a generation that believes that scientific output is not important, even in a technical field like ours, is an indicator that makes me bearish on the future of the American society.
Luck plays a role, but it's not the difference between some guy being Jeff Bezos and working at McDonalds. It's probably more of the difference between being successful in a way that many are - maybe owning a local company or something like that - and having something that blows up like Amazon has.
The premise of this headline is that the USA is indisputably in the lead and that the winner is whoever catches up the USA. After spending years in Asia, my impression is that there is another game being played entirely, and the USA is merely a player whose ability to interfere in the outcome is being carefully managed. (And the same is true about Russia, incidentally.) I won't be at all surprised if Asia rules the world by the time I'm an old man.
I'm impressed C64 Basic had floating point!
I don't think I see it that way.

If you have the best then you should test your systems against being exploited by the best. And then harden from there. If you have the knowledge - knowing you're a prome target- why not double its value?

As it is, their approach strikes me as one of arrogance, or (ironically) lack of intelligence about foreign threats, or worse...both.

Both is not what we're paying them for.
I'm aware of those results, but I assumed that they weren't an issue because I was using the best-practices 'async'/background loading AdSense JS snippets. The ads never block the rendering or loading of the rest of the page, they pop in a second or two later.
SailfishOS developers were dragging it along, but after Mozilla dropped support for IPC Embedlite[1] (they never even accepted it officially), I think they got stuck with outdated Gecko. No idea what they are doing about it.

1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/IPCLiteAPI
Yeah, but installing a browser is easy, compared to setting up depends for other environments.
At its best, the New Yorker presents well thought-out pieces with an artistic flair. At the worst, you get this kind of "action painting with words" nonsense which adds up to nothing and goes nowhere. I wouldn't mind if they at least added a link at the bottom to some actual information, with a a little note saying, "Oops, sorry we disappeared up our own bungs again!"

Since they won't do it...

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/paradise-and-panama-papers...

It's not perfect, but it's a place to start.
The same thing was said about Japan.
"... remember that the purpose of DNS is to be public."

DNS records, e.g. zone files, are supposed to be public information.

As such, ICANN requires gTLD registries to provide users with access to them.[FN1]

However, various ccTLDs at various times refused to comply, and most still try to pretend their zone files are private.

Obviously, as the blog post shows, users can still get a large quantity of the data freely from other sources.

Google search results for ccTLD zone files are dominated by individuals who have done so and are selling this data. IMO, this sale of public data is unnecessary, not to mention annoying.

Last year .se and .nu started making their zone files public.

https://www.iis.se/english/press/pressreleases/iis-releases-...

https://zonedata.iis.se

They were also the first to try their hand at DNSSEC. As the blog post shows, DNSSEC makes it easier to get contents of a zone.

FN1. "About Zone File Access

Registry operators must provide to ICANN bulk access to the zone files of the Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) at least on a daily basis. For gTLDs, a zone file contains information about domain names that are active in that gTLD. In general, Internet users may be able to access and download zone file data at no cost for certain purposes.

This contractual obligation does not apply to any ccTLD (such as .us, .de, or .uk). If you have a complaint about gTLD zone file access, please submit a Zone File Access Complaint Form."

source: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/zfa-2013-06-28-en
Relativistic mass is the one that is equivalent to energy, so if no one speaks of it, they'll perpetuate the legacy sloppiness I referred to.
Guessing you'd feel differently if it was you, or a family member, who had their identity breached along with information about every bad situation in your life.

And no, the costs aren't high to change it. The code to do it has been done for a long time. It got mired in political grandstanding, and that's it.
>If you can't get a real name for that SIM then you're 100% sure you're being watched by people a bit more powerful and dangerous than your suspicious wife

If you conveniently "forget" or show heavy reluctance to give your info and papers when buying a new phone, you can get an unregistered SIM. Just promise them you'll give the info "later". The salespeople don't like the hassle and just want to secure the sale.

You can also easily give fake info and "forget" your ID card, since it's not verified, but that's dangerous if you get caught.

Simple social engineering.
> I have been tinkering around the same idea for a while, thinking that the state of a country's democracy matters way more than its research output.

While I agree with democracy as a whole, I think

0. A thorough understanding of the state of China is needed. In order for democracy to actually work, you need a population that is educated enough to make the right choices for the country. You also need to fight corruption first, or else people will take advantage of the democratic system. In the past 40 years there have been a lot of much higher priority things to the average Chinese citizen than having a fully democratic system. The last thing people want is another period of socioeconomic upheaval and chaos. Stability is the first priority of many. Democracy will come with time and I'm sure everyone wants it, but most people don't want to lose well-being on the road to get there.

1. Democracy isn't the biggest driver of scientific advancement. It's kind of irrelevant. Rather, you need:

- capitalism to distribute money to things that people want (China has a booming VC and startup ecosystem now)

- government funding for longer-term scientific research that has not yet identified a business model, and a system to distribute that funding to people that are worthy of it (funding is there in China; the distribution system needs improvement)

- education that trains the individual to self-learn and nurtures self-exploration rather than rote memorization (work is needed here in China and throughout Asia); education should encourage taking side projects and research seriously, if not more seriously, than classes

- good universities with skilled faculty (there are a few world-class institutions in China, but far too few good universities for China's population -- hence the competition)

Another issue is what defines progress. We have defined it thus far as GDP. But in the future we need new methods of defining progress. The world cannot just grow indefinitely, and we are hitting environmental and resource constraints in a number of ways already.
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How to shift cloud metrics to measuring agility
Play any online game and see that a frames of lag (and much more) is perfectly acceptable. As long as your own head movement is low latency its fine.
I am a math double major doing a research masters in ML/CV right now, and I know plenty of pure CS majors who are doing just fine. The math that 95% of ML scientists use is not that hard to grasp. Sure, when they encounter functional analysis stuff, they start to cry inside a little, but that doesn't happen very often.