skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that “being software developers we should all know that there” is no way “to fix these things” reliably.

I can understand non-technical people buying bullshit about so-called “secure” software, but anyone having an idea of what software looks like should know that there is no such thing and feel responsible for teaching people about it.

Plus, voting machines in use so far have been so blatantly insecure (eg. requirement to use a well known insecure old version of Java-in-the-browser for French people abroad at the French elections of 2012) that it's just impossible to trust people currently working on these matters.
There is exactly one place where you might want to catch an NPE: top level global exception handler for logging and debugging.
No, it could end up like China, Cuba, Vietnam, or Cambodia.
Awesome, I would love to read more about your systems. Do you have blog posts or something?
People are always talking about spot pricing when GPU compute comes up which is valid but not for the ML use-case (which this article is discussing). Spot is 100% incompatible with ML training. You need to be guaranteed that your many hour/multiple day job is going to complete which is antithetical to spot. At Paperspace, our goal is to provide a steady state low price that you can depend on because our primary audience is ML. Spot would be more ideal from an efficiency perspective but it’s just not viable in this context.
For me it's at ~/.mozilla/firefox-trunk/047mvdpd.default/chrome/userChrome.css (your profile id will be different, and it'll be firefox instead of firefox-trunk if you're not running nightly).
If you can afford do both.
Specialists have a bigger toolset with these things to help. Their advice is independent from a friend or family relationship. But hanging with them 1-2 hours every day as you might with a good friend can get expensive...
Both types of support are useful in different ways.
Lightning (http://lightning-viz.org/) is a pretty cool interactive visualization server, with clients that work across multiple languages/environments. I've used it with R and Python and it's pretty slick.
I do agree, but only if we emphasize the cross-platform requirement and a single monolithic code base.

I’d much rather write a lightweight desktop app in any of the native toolkits, but especially Cocoa/Swift, and do the heavy lifting parts outside of the GUI application. But you’ll still have to write a native Linux one, and QT is my front runner there. But I do recommend looking at the Xamarin stuff too. Depends on your needs and where you’re coming from as a dev.
Or it could end up like Sweden or Denmark. (Referring to socialism as the article does, not communism as the comment does. It's Denmark that Bernie & his supporters want to emulate, not communism)
Well, there is very little data here, but let's guess from it.

You say your job is easy, but feel miserably, so it looks like your body is telling you it needs something you are not providing him.

Let's review the basics:
-Do you sleep well?
-Do you eat well?
-Do you exercise regularly? You answer that question, no.
-Do you have friends, wife, partner or children?
-Do you spend too much time in front of a computer?
-Do you spend too much time sit down?
-Do you see the light of the day every single day or work in the dark?

Normally someone will postpone a job that is tedious or hard or makes you suffer(mental). If that is not the case, odds are that it is just a physical thing.

When I started working at home I had to be in front of a computer 8-10 hours per day, but I could not be more than 1 or 2. So I bought a stool, put my screens at eye level while standing up and started going out in sunny Madrid every single day to exercise.

After one year of doing that(it took training of my muscles to be able to work standing up) I could work for more than 8 hours in front of a computer without issues.

There are things like the lymphatic system that needs movement of the body in order to work. If you do not move your body will alert you into stopping whatever you are doing to fix this issue first.
Roughly 1000x slower? GPUs nowadays have 5000+ "cores" inside.
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1) If your roads are being overused you can easily ration that by raising the dollar price.

2) What is wrong with wealth accumulation? If credit recipients would rather do that than drive on roads they should be able to do so. They's how they get less poor!

3) If they credits are transferable then you are effectively giving people money. Just in an ass-backwards and overly confusing way.
Site appears to be hugged to death again.
What kind of nuclear attack would be legal?
Next generation or the one after will likely use RISC-V.
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A dear friend of mine was a lobbyist in Washington, DC for 40 years. When he retired I was tasked with helping him export his Outlook contacts. IIRC it came to around 40,000 contacts which to was astonishing. Senators, Diplomats, lobbyists, the works. It's amazing the contacts you can collect over a career.
If you click through, they explain what's going on. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

"Wait, transition is used only 0% of the time? That can't be right.
This data is for a CSS shorthand (eg: background) which is normally expanded to the appropriate longhands by the browser's engine and placed into the CSS Object Model. In some instances this can not be done, such as when a site uses custom properties. This results in confusingly low numbers, but the data for the shorthand is actually in its appropriate longhand. Click the link below to see the data for all of the longhands that map to this shorthand."
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Yes. Or worse. Human nature exists and it doesn’t change. Ignoring the Invisible Hand is to ignore what it means to be human.

Read the book Animal Farm if you haven’t already. That captures the psychology of communism perfectly and demonstrates why it never, ever works.
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There is one. It's called communism. HTH
Hold up. Comparing uops/sec between CPU architectures is not meaningful.
Great conversation:

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-nature-of-conscio...
Theorem proving in intuitionistic logic is a two-player game and maps perfectly to the kind of Monte-Carlo Tree Search that's employed here. Except that it is far more difficult than Chess/Go/etc., since the branching factor is essentially unbounded.
That's where IOTA and/or Stellar Lumen come into play.
I think the capacity for suffering increases dramatically with the advent of AI. This was referenced in passing in this article, but underplayed. We've talked about "virtual hell" stuff on HN before. I say let's not even create it. I wouldn't know how to stop it if it were created. Then again I don't know how to "stop the progress of science" either (other than, say, ending humanity altogether). I'm uncomfortable even working at a company that uses machine learning.
Its the best means of managing resource scarcity, unfortunately our best isn't very good for many people. In the very distant future when we can eliminate scarcity, we will be able to move away from capitalism.
"The secret to success is being smart enough to play the game well but not so smart you figure the game out."

I've heard many variations on that saying. The most popular contexts I've heard it with are Wall St. and the financial industry and politics. People like the Wolf of Wall St., Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, etc. would be people who were just smart enough but not too smart. People who are too smart make their money and leave or don't play at all.

Stuff like this makes me wonder if it applies at the evolutionary scale. Add it to your queue of potential Fermi paradox answers. Maybe there aren't any super-intelligent aliens visiting other stars because super-intelligent aliens realize evolution is a meat grinder and opt out.

Personally I don't buy it.

For a long time I've incubated what I call the "uncanny valley hypothesis" about this kind of nihilism. The idea is that between the standard issue human intellect guided by myth (religion, political myth, etc.) and something beyond there is an uncanny valley of nihilism. This would also be called a fitness valley in evolutionary and learning theory terms. Local maxima in fitness landscapes are very often separated by valleys that must be crossed. Things have to get worse before they can reach the other peak.

Secularism repeatedly fails at the civilizational scale because it gets stuck in this valley. Societies try abandoning religion but find themselves denuded of "why" and "ought," eventually retreating back to mythology as a virtual motivator.

What's beyond the uncanny valley? Perhaps something rational, logical, realistic, and with the positive motivation of an ecstatic religious guru. It would be a motivation rooted in some kind of understanding that eludes us, not in raw myth, though I suspect our myths contain little seeds of that understanding here and there.

There have been notions like "extropianism" in the fringe sci-fi space that have attempted to construct such a thing, but they always devolve into woo woo fluff or culty stuff. Makes me think this fitness valley is tougher and deeper than merely recasting myth in terms of science. There is either a missing fundamental understanding or a missing cognitive ability. There's something we don't have that religious and other myths sort of act as brain hacks to lend us or simulate.

I also think Nietzsche saw this but I think he was wrong about how to overcome it. It's not a matter of mere will. Will without "why" and "ought" devolves into robotic non-sentience or psychopathy.

Edit: going back to the Fermi paradox I suppose this fitness valley could be one of the "great filters."
You could also install the WSL and a nice terminal emulator of your choice. Though if you need to SSH from a Windows box only on rare occasions, the phone might be enough.
There isn't one communist country in our history that I would ever want to live in. Even a modern communist country like China would be a terrible place to live.
Most people understand that the choice is not between Ayn Rand style capitalism or Soviet style communism. Between these two extremes is quite a large space. There are examples of successful capitalist economies with good social programs.
Benetar argues death is often worse than life. It is non-existence that is better than both.
There are quite a few attempts at communism that have failed very severely when it comes to human rights. The risk of becoming like the Soviet Union is a great one. To know the extents of how people thought about their government, there is an example from the Gulag Archipelago...

A woman was accused of saying things against the state and was sentenced to death. She lied to her daughter and told her daughter of her guilt, so that her daughter would not think bad thoughts against the state, the same state that was going to falsely execute her.

They used to bury people in mass graves, alive. Burying them alive was not out of cruelty, but convenience. They found that live bodies were easier to take from the carts into the graves than if they had to lift dead bodies.

The worst thing about capitalism is so much better than the worst thing about communism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
The difference in Bitcoin is that it is relatively insulated from other securities. A bitcoin crash would have little to no impact on anything but other coins, and even then the impact would likely be minimal for more stable coins.
> report without bias

That isn't possible. Everything contains bias. The simple choice to report a particular story instead is a bias against the other stories left unreported. The duty of a journalist is to disclose their bias when it might affect the story, so people can interpret their report with the proper context.

Reporters are not mere stenographers that repeat official statements and press releases. They choose what they feel is important enough to report on and give their interpretation of the facts as well as their opinion about the facts (which should be properly labeled as op-ed).

> presenting the Echo as a terrible idea when two weeks ago the author was touting the same thing as amazing in a review.

People can change their mind about a product. Maybe the author learned about the risks from comments made on the review.

> Best case it means that the author is intentionally being provocative

You're seeing what you want to see, not the best case which is simply that the author learned more and change their recommendation. (however, it would be good to clearly state that this change in the beginning on the article)
In these incredibly nihilistic worldviews, what is the framework by which a logical case can be made that something like “suffering” is even to be avoided? Who cares? An individual organism (whatever that even means) may minimize its own suffering, but why should it care about anyone else’s?
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That is still an EU payment system, which has improved a lot since the start of Bitcoin. I just need to transfer money to strange places and banks are pretty often crappy at that stuff, best solution I have is to send my credit card around the world.
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Fair. I still view those countries as capitalist though, its still how most of their markets operate. They are just huge welfare states with a vast social safety net. Not disagreeing with what they do, just my 2 cents on what they actually are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_semantics
That's the point. On the GPU side they use all the 5000+ cores to parallelize the algorithm (they use the hardware to its full potential). On the CPU side they use just one core (at least there is no mention around the cores used on the CPU). It's like saying a Camry beat a Ferrari in maximum speed, but you don't mention that the Ferrari was only in the first gear for that specific race.
Well, Nordic countries are usually called Social Democracies, though Americans usually don't make the distinction.
I got about 10 minutes into it yesterday and gave up, poorly thought out nonsense imho.
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It could get there even with far fewer transactions, right? If people keep buying bitcoin just to hold it, then the lack of sellers could drive the price to insane levels without much transaction activity.
All the data looks plausible other than a few very popular properties at the bottom.

My guess would be that the scale only goes up to 99.x% and any values of 100 are being shown as zero.

Edit: ... and I was wrong. @blatherard has explained it.
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Excellent summary of 2017!
Those are very homogeneous cultures. America is perhaps one of the least homogeneous cultures. Everyone does not value the same things, so having a state enforce that everyone values the same things would only be the result of too much force.
His dev post with a LOT of detail is linked: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/latest/blosxom/mozilla/extension/tr...

Any other if one can donate to him?
Doesn't seem that bad, I just checked inside both and the content does look identical other than the visual style and some examples added in the 3rd.
>And the ancient supercomputers are now in our pockets

Actually, my cheap smartphone is orders of magnitude faster than the ancient supercomputers.
interesting idea but i feel like this is an extreme end of a spectrum to a solution of suffering. There are plenty more solutions like giving those who suffer an easy and painless and dogma free way to exit. I think that even knowing that you have an option to leave would be an instant boost to ones psyche. Sort of like running a marathon with an option to quit, vs running a marathon with no options but death. Probably infinite solutions exists in this space if we got rid of dogma.
How many videos are found is said catalog?
If that's what you took away from the book then I'm afraid you did a shallow reading of it. Animal Farm was specifically a critique of Stalin and the USSR, and how Stalin hijacked the revolutionary vanguard and turned it into a fiefdom for the loyal party members.

Orwell himself was a left anarchist and staunch antifascist and anticapitalist. His critique is that of authoritarianism. If you take away from Orwell that he supports capitalism in any form then you may have missed his point.
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>The Earth would be much healthier, there would be no suffering, the "Universe" wouldn't care.

No human suffering, perhaps. More drastic measures would be needed to end all suffering altogether, at which point it might need more evidence to prove the claim that the Earth would still be “healthier”, or that the healthiness of a rocky planet really matters (you can't really leave it to the hands of evolution not the create more suffering by leaving “it” an easy way, can you?)
Lack of skin in the game is killing capitalism.

We've had 20-30 years of ever escalating bailouts. Heads: you win. Tails: the public looses.

"Capitalism", or rather the free market, works by moving from failure to failure. Without "Tails: you get taken to the woodshed", failure doesn't lead to learning and improvement. No amount of regulation will change that.

Quite the opposite: most modern regulation is so complex that lawyers can't get enough of it. Not to mention the revolving doors between regulators and their targets.

Same thing put differently: we already have socialism. It's just socialism for the rich.
> 8895 IU/d

This is double what I'm taking. The US RDA is 1/10th of this amount.
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This is negative utilitarianism, right? For instance, if you could press a button and wipe out humanity without (much) suffering, would you do it? Personally I'd have a quick reminisce then all slam it.

But practically, this isn't an option (yet). Nor is voluntary extinction. The people susceptible to this message or any such message (better for environment; your group of people is bad and shouldn't continue; life is more fun without kids) are more likely to be the kind of people that would contribute to a positive next generation.

The bulk of growth that'll receive and cause suffering is from people that won't ever listen or heed such a message. Hence anti natalism will only increase suffering in the world.
As I look at how the US, China, Russia, and Japan run themselves and their economies; I start to think that the distinctions aren't what we think they are. The life of a Japanese salaryman sounds like a communist distopia, even though Japan is fiercely capitalistic. China is a single-party "communist" state, but their economy looks and acts like capitalism.
Are you sure all of your work is fun? When you have trouble to get started with something i‘d assum There must be something about it you don’t like.

At least for me that is when i an in a similar state as you describe. It happens every 1-4 months depending what im doing. If i see no sense in my work, have ugly code bases to work with abd colleagues who don’t bother to think crappy code, processes and communication could be a problem, i get into that state... i can then try to change my attitude about it, try to improve the situation, or leave if both don’t work.
Not in the diesel market though. No US manufacturer sells a diesel passenger car in the USA.
> What passes for lambda expressions in R is clunky.

Is that really the case, though? It seems like `function (args) body` is about as simple as it gets, and just as simple as in many other languages.
It's the kind of site that was probably really hard to build for no redeeming value. Exactly what I'd expect from a FE dev conference. So, I'll give it a pass.
pandas is absolutely terrible compared to the dplyr, data.table, or even base R for data manipulation. And while you would have been right about Python being better for machine learning a couple of years ago, these days basically every popular machine learning library in Python (Tensorflow, keras, etc.) now has an API in R.

I also don't know why you are separating "traditional statistics", "predictive analytics", and "data analysis". They often are the exact same thing. In fact, it makes me wonder how much experience you have with statistics if you are under the impression that it is somehow different from data analysis "or any other variant thereof".

You are right on exactly one count: Python is superior for putting data analytics into production. And that isn't an insignificant advantage. A lot of data science today involves packaging an analysis into some larger program or product, and Python is absolutely better suited to that task.

But in virtually every other case (including lots of machine learning problems), R is either as good if not greatly superior to Python.
I stand corrected. Thanks for letting me know!
Modern China isn't communist.
I'm not sure if a country as large as the US can faithfully emulate Denmark.
The takeaway of Mao, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, etc. is not that communism is bad but rather that concentrating too much power in too few hands is bad. For instance Hitler, Shah of a Iran, etc. Especially when the leaders have simplistic notions. For example, Idi Amin, Maduro, Baby Doc Duvalle, etc.
Am I the only one? or do some people just have way to much time on their hands for thinking shit like this up. I'd rather live my life than not exist.
While I wouldn't exclude possible breakthrough, it's definitely a different case. Go was feared because of an enormous number of possible states, but AlphaGo circumvented the issue by not caring about it. It didn't "solve" Go, it just plays it better than humans.

Starcraft 2 state is much bigger than Go's and requires real time action. Also, actions have to be performed in parallel in real time, which probably requires different techniques and probably puts a way lower bound on number of iterations doable in given time.
Sorry to not understand exactly what you mean by those two statements. Would you please clarify?

I of course realize that people are not perfect (along any axis at all), but I think the importance of this work is highlighting:

(1) software must evolve in order to continue being useful (is this the "cultural" part of your comment?), and

(2) that there are some unavoidable limitations of human capability to achieve that (is this the "people being shit" part of your comment?), particularly in dealing with complexity. And that complexity is an increasing function of lines-of-code count.

So, the obvious conclusion to draw (for me, anyways), is we should work to minimize SLOC by various means: DSLs, &/or expressive/powerful languages.
With the wild price swings, Bitcoin has practically no value as anything other than a speculative investment.

Are any of these people downloading Coinbase and buying coins really interested in transacting in Bitcoin or are they just buying Beanie Babies?

Although, as someone who thought the bubble would burst at $1,000, I'm quite impressed at how much interest it has garnered. I just don't seeing it end well for many people.
yeah there are probably not many 'jail' exploits specifically targeted for getting out of jail/exploiting jail primitives. but people just use normal kernel exploits to get out of jail/zones. i would say jails/zones are about as secure as linux containers. ie: about as secure as the linux kernel is.
Is it a little disingenuous to say the Vue is one of the 3 "main" JS frameworks?
I was assuming that AZ is using a tree search strategy similar to conventional chess engines but with a neural network as a more sophisticated board evaluation function. If true (is it?) you can tell how many positions it evaluates per unit of time.